When you're in the Wolf Pack, your ability to obey orders becomes stronger.

Chapter 179 Double Jump?!
Inside the simulator, Xu Ge, carrying a parachute, sat on benches on either side of the others.

Xu Can checked the parachute pouches on everyone's chest one by one. After checking each person, he would pat the pouch on the person's chest and then give a thumbs up: "Good!"

The person being inspected responded loudly in return.

"Okay, now we'll proceed to the final step: disembarkation!"

Xu Can stood outside the simulator door and said, "When you jump down, everyone has to count from 00001 to 00006. Is that clear?"

"clear!"

"Li Dongshui, can you explain why we need to count these six numbers?"

"Report: If the main parachute does not open after 6 seconds, be prepared to manually deploy the reserve parachute!"

"That's right! Everyone must remember, each number has four zeros, no more and no less!" Xu Can turned around and connected the simulation cabin to the elevated simulation tower. "Everyone, step forward one by one!"

The crowd got up and lined up, walking one by one to the diving platform in front of the tower.

drop!drop!drop!
On the bulkhead, the indicator lights turned yellow, and everyone began to bend over and queuing to walk towards the control tower.

Xu Ge took two deep breaths in the group and slowly cleared his mind.

The next simulated jump is the closest to the actual jump on the ground. If I can pass this stage, I should have no problem with the actual jump.

One by one, the soldiers entered the tower and jumped down.

Some veterans even turned to each other and laughed, saying, "We can bungee jump again!"

Li Dongshui was ahead of Xu Ge in line, and it was soon his turn.

Xu Ge overheard Li Dongshui talking to Guo Yuanshuai, who was in charge of training: "Squad leader, this is too high, can I slow down... Oh my god!"

Guo Yuanshuai kicked Li Dongshui away: "Count loudly!"

"0001, 0002..."

"Damn it, I didn't know I missed a zero!"

Amid Guo Yuanshuai's grumbling, Xu Ge stepped onto the elevated tower.

pat!

Guo Yuanshuai fastened the lock to Xu Ge's back: "Keep moving forward!"

The elevated simulation tower is 15 meters above the ground, and two cableways run through it.

Xu Ge arrived at the diving platform, glanced down, and saw several veterans providing protection on both sides of the platform.

He felt this was no different from the pathetic version of bungee jumping he had experienced in his previous life.

"Do you want me to lend you a hand?" Guo Yuanshuai asked as he came up behind Xu Ge.

"Squad leader, we don't need that!"

Xu Ge hugged his spare parachute tightly, closed his eyes, and jumped out.

hum!
A sudden feeling of weightlessness washed over him, and Xu Ge felt his mind go blank. He instinctively shouted, "00001, 00002, 00003..."

tom!
A sudden, powerful pull came from his back, slowing his descent; the parachute was beginning to deploy.

Xu Ge quickly adjusted his posture in the air and opened his eyes, only to find himself already rapidly descending along the cableway.

At the end of the grass, Li Dongshui was lying on the grass, not knowing what she was doing. When she saw Xu Ge coming, she quickly rolled to the side.

"Watch out for landing!" Luo Shan shouted a warning from the side.

Xu Ge quickly squatted down with his legs together, seized the opportunity, and released the pull ring in his hand with a snap!

Landed smoothly!

"Pretty!"

Luo Shan turned around and gave Li Dongshui a disdainful look. "Look at her, and then look at you, all face down!"

Li Dongshui: ...

Xu Ge was also thrilled: Holy crap! It worked!
I'm awesome! I'm the coolest paratrooper ever!

On the elevated platform dozens of meters away, Xu Can and Guo Yuanshuai were both looking in this direction.

"Squad Leader Guo, I feel these two recruits should be fine. Xu Ge goes without saying, and Li Dongshui is alright except for his slightly unstable landing. It seems like he won't crash," Xu Can said with a smile.

Guo Yuanshuai also breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. I hope everything goes smoothly tomorrow!"

Xu Can nodded vigorously: "Yes! Don't worry, Deputy Squad Leader Guo, everything will go smoothly!"

. . .

. . .

The next morning, everyone carried their parachutes and gathered at the adjacent Minggang Airport.

Four transport planes are already in position on the runway.

After reiterating the precautions to take during the parachute jump, Chief Instructor Zhu Haiguang pointed upwards and looked at everyone, saying, "The time required for a freefall from 800 meters to the ground is 19 seconds!"

"How was this time determined? It was measured at the cost of blood and lives!"

"Skydiving is not a game; it can kill you!"

The veterans were fine after hearing this, but the new recruits all looked uneasy.

Zhu Haiguang continued, "Of course, as long as each of you fully complies with all regulations and acts according to orders, there will definitely be no problems, and you will land safely!"

"Do you understand everything?"

"Clear! Clear! Clear!"

“Get ready to board!”

Each battalion began organizing boarding. Guo Yuanshuai drove his electric cart to the Sixth Company and found Xu Ge and Li Dongshui: "I'll direct you from down here. Don't be afraid when you get up there!"

"Ok!"

"Xu Ge, I have nothing to remind you, Ah Shui, just try to find a soft spot to jump before you land."

"I'll try my best, Deputy Squad Leader." Li Dongshui looked so pitiful, almost like a little dog whimpering.

Guo Yuanshuai hesitated for a long time before finally whispering, "If you really can't stop, remember not to lean forward or backward. It's better to fall on your butt, okay?"

"Ok!"

"Alright, let's go up!"

"Yes!"

The five students from Class 9 were the last to enter the cabin and sat in the innermost seats.

After counting the number of people, Xu Can gave the signal that the plane was ready for takeoff. The cabin doors slowly closed, and the plane began to accelerate on the runway.

The next moment, the nose of the plane lifted up and soared into the sky.

After a feeling of weightlessness that lasted for several tens of seconds, the plane leveled off, and everyone in the cabin relaxed.

Xu Can pulled out a megaphone from somewhere and shouted, "Listen up, everyone! We'll fly around twice in the sky, and we'll jump on the second loop. Understand?"

"understand!"

Are you all feeling nervous right now?

"not nervous!"

"Okay, since you're so nervous, how about we sing a song?" Everyone: ...

Xu Can handed the megaphone to Xu Ge next to him: "Come on, Xu Ge, you start!"

Xu Ge took the megaphone and blew on it: "Hey! Hey! The cold wind blows and the leaves fall, get ready to sing..."

"Forget it, forget it, I'm not singing anymore!"

Xu Can snatched the megaphone back and glared at Xu Ge, annoyed. "You can't sing this song while skydiving!"

The veterans all stared at Xu Ge as he began to curse.

"Damn it, singing this is such an unlucky thing to do!"

"The very first line is 'Falling Leaves,' we're going skydiving, bro!"

Xu Ge shrugged: "I was just trying to lighten the mood. See, are you guys less nervous now?"

"I wasn't nervous at all!"

"Okay, I was just nervous," Xu Ge thought to himself.

He didn't know why, but the closer it got to the jump, the faster his heart pounded.

In contrast, Li Dongshui was already idly picking at his fingernails.

Suddenly, the fuselage tilted to one side, and the transport plane entered its second orbit.

drop!drop!
The yellow indicator light is on.

Xu Can began to check everyone's spare parachute pack from beginning to end, and then helped everyone attach the pull cord.

Just like in the simulation training, Xu Can would pat each person after checking them and give them a thumbs up, and the other person would respond with a similar sound.

Soon, Xu Can arrived in front of Xu Ge, and after checking him over, he patted him hard on the chest and gave him a thumbs up: "Good!"

Xu Ge opened his mouth: "Ouch!"

He then realized that his voice had cracked due to nervousness!
drop!drop!
The green indicator light is on.

The cabin door slowly opened, and in an instant, a gust of wind accompanied by noise rushed into the cabin.

For the next while, Xu Ge's mind was in a daze, and he mechanically stood up with the others.

His sniffing skills seemed to fail at this moment; his prized senses of smell, hearing, and sight all became dull.

On the other side of the hatch, soldiers jumped out one by one, and every now and then someone would let out an excited shout.

Soon, Xu Ge was pushed to the front by Li Dongshui behind him.

Kaiyuki, standing in front of him, turned around, grinned, and said, "Go for it!"

He then gracefully jumped out.

Suddenly, the view opened up before Xu Ge, and a bright sky unfolded before his eyes.

Because of the great height above the ground, his pupils could not focus, and with nothing in his field of vision, Xu Ge was instantly enveloped by a tremendous sense of emptiness, and boundless fear began to spread in his heart.

"Damn it! It's broken!"

Xu Ge shouted in his heart, and the next moment he felt his legs go weak and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Xu Can noticed Xu Ge's unusual behavior and quickly moved closer, patting his helmet: "What's wrong? Why is your face so pale?"

Xu Ge gripped the armrests tightly in the cabin, struggling to say, "I...I really can't go on!"

Xu Can frowned and looked at Xu Ge for two seconds, then decisively removed the rope hook from his back: "Sit down and rest for a bit!"

"Next!"

Li Dongshui staggered to the cabin door, glanced at Xu Ge and then outside, then suddenly closed his eyes and jumped out, his shouts still echoing in the cabin.

"Oh my god! Sergeant! You have to catch me..."

After everyone had finished dancing, Xu Can came to Xu Ge's side and saw him muttering something to himself. He squatted down and listened carefully for a while.

"Altitude 850 meters, no wind, gravitational acceleration 9.8 m/s², T equals the square root of 1700 divided by g, landing in 13 seconds..."

Xu Can was so angry he almost laughed: "You still have the mind to memorize formulas at a time like this?"

Xu Ge looked up at Xu Can, his voice trembling with tears: "Xu Can, I can't go to Hidden Wolf!"

Xu Can felt a shiver run through her as she looked into the eyes of the young man in front of her, and blurted out, "Don't talk nonsense, it's definitely possible!"

. . .

. . .

One hour later, at Ming Kong Airport.

The transport plane landed slowly, and the queue waiting to board the second batch of passengers began to line up.

The hatch opened, and Xu Ge followed Xu Can out with his head down.

He felt the surprised or strange gazes directed at him from all around, making his face burn.

Guo Yuanshuai, Liu Guoping, Luo Shan, and Lao Wang all came over from the side.

Xu Ge looked at Guo Yuanshuai, his face extremely grim: "Deputy Squad Leader, I..."

"Get on the vehicle first, we'll talk about it later. Don't delay their boarding!" Guo Yuanshuai pointed to the back of his electric scooter.

"Yes!"

After pulling everyone to a corner, Guo Yuanshuai called Xu Can aside and began to question him.

Xu Ge sat in the car, and although the others were speaking very softly, it still reached his ears.

"Your training was going really well, so how did it turn out like this?" Guo Yuanshuai frowned.

Luo Shan: "Yeah, I think he's even more steady than the veterans during simulation training!"

Xu Can said softly, "I felt that Xu Ge behaved strangely after boarding the plane. When it was time to parachute, his hands and feet were ice cold, his face was pale, and he was sweating profusely!"

"This shouldn't be related to training; it's psychological," Old Wang said. "Is Xu Ge afraid of heights?"

Everyone looked at Guo Yuanshuai, who nodded: "My classmates told me about it, but I didn't expect it to be this serious."

"If it doesn't work, try jumping again!" Old Wang said.

Liu Guoping, who had been silent until now, spoke up: "I know a bit about people with severe acrophobia. If they don't dare to jump the first time, they'll only get more and more afraid afterward!"

Old Wang: "Then let's forcefully push him down!"

Guo Yanshuai immediately became furious and raised his hand to slap him, but Liu Guoping and Luo Shan hurriedly grabbed him.

"Wang Lai, do you fucking want to die?" Guo Yuanshuai cursed. "Xu Ge is my soldier, what the hell does it have to do with you? What kind of bullshit are you spouting here?"

Old Wang was speechless: "Squad leader, I'm doing this for his own good. If he doesn't pass this test, he can't come to Sky Wolf, let alone join Hidden Wolf..."

"Then we won't let him in! I didn't want him to go in the first place, and who knows what kind of behavior he'll get if he goes..."

"Squad leader, I'm willing to jump again!"

Xu Ge clenched his fists and stood up. "This time, I'm definitely going to jump!"

Liu Guoping frowned: "Xu Ge, you might faint in the air in this condition, it's too dangerous!"

Xu Can suddenly stepped forward: "We can do a tandem jump first!"

(End of this chapter)