On the morning of April 14th, Weiran returned to Inta with full harvest.
Ji Ma, who had been waiting at the airport for a long time, was relieved when he saw that he had arrived as promised, and shouted at him to get on the plane.
In less than ten minutes, before dawn, he began to wait for his An-2 aircraft to take off lightly and fly directly to the abandoned military base at the eastern foot of the Ural Mountains.
After the plane landed, Weiran was surprised to find that not only Teacher Dalia and Mr. Culp had arrived, but there was also an An-2 with a red flag forest farm painting on the open space. airplane.
Wei Ran rubbed his eyes. He was indeed right. The pattern painted on the plane was an aerial view of the Hongqi Forest Farm!
"Jima, what's going on?" Wei Ran asked dully.
“How do I know?!” Jima’s eyes also widened, “When Alili and I sent supplies here three days ago, there was no such plane.
"Ms. Dalia bought it."
Alili didn't give the answer until this moment. "Ever since you left here half a month ago, Teacher Dalia asked me to help you from the mine." Field bought the plane and painted it to her specifications. But because she tipped so much, I can only keep it a secret from you. "
"Jima, do you think we will learn to fly a plane or learn to skydive? "Wei Ran asked nervously. It would be fine if it was flying a plane, but it would be too exciting if it was skydiving.
"It's best not to skydive."
Ji Ma replied with a pale face, "Although I didn't jump, I know that jumping from such a high place in such a ghost place is definitely not a pleasant experience. "
The two were about to say something more when Culp came over with a smile and said, "Since you are here, the class will start now. Now follow me to get the things. "
Wei Ran and Jima looked at each other, shut their mouths honestly, and followed Culp and Teacher Dalia who had turned around into the building with all the windows exposed.< /p>
In just half a month, this building has been cleaned extremely clean. The huge space on the first floor that was originally used to park armored vehicles is also covered with thick pine needles. Several fat and strong reindeer are sitting there. He stood there obediently and licked the salt bricks hanging above his head.
He followed the two teachers to an empty conference room on the second floor with only two chairs. He was the first to enter. Teacher Dalia lit a cigarette and asked with a smile, "Give you two a chance to choose, should you learn to fly a fixed-wing aircraft first or learn to skydive first? ”
“Plane piloting! "Wei Ran and Ji Ma gave the same answer without any hesitation.
"Pa! "Dalia snapped her fingers and said happily, "Then let's start with skydiving! "
"Teacher Dalia, didn't you give us a chance to choose? "Jima asked with a sad face.
"Just give it to me.You have the opportunity to choose, but you are not given the right to make a decision. ”
Teacher Dalia patted the luggage bag placed on the table, “This class is a temporary addition outside the original plan, so in the next half month, you two will not only carry out daily Apart from physical training, the only thing you need to learn is skydiving. If there is no doubt, go to the two rooms opposite now and put on your clothes. ”
Do Wei Ran and Ji Ma have any doubts? Besides, even if they do, do they still expect Dalia or Karp to consider their ideas?
That’s right. Before the other party finished speaking, the two of them quickly picked up the luggage bags with their respective names on them and left the conference room. They each chose an office that had also been vacated, and put on the polar camouflage uniforms of unknown origin in the luggage bags.
This camouflage uniform is fully equipped, from underwear and socks to thermal underwear, to trousers, jackets, tops and overalls for cold protection, and even cotton hats, masks, boots and gloves. Everything is available.
In addition to clothes, this luggage bag also contains a tactical vest with the same camouflage pattern, a Glock pistol fixed to the tactical vest and two matching spare ammunition loaded with bullets.
He carefully disassembled the pistol that had been dismantled countless times at the Hongqi Forest Farm and checked it. After confirming that there was no problem, Wei Ran patiently took out the bullets in the three magazines. He took them all apart, randomly took three bullets from the middle and pressed them into the magazine. He opened the window and pulled the trigger at an abandoned vehicle outside.
Wei Ran was satisfied with three crisp gunshots in succession. He closed the window, pressed all the bullets back into the magazine, then opened the door and returned to the conference room opposite.
"Let's go outside," Culp pointed after Jima came in. Pointing to the parachute bag on the table, they slowly walked out of the conference room.
The two of them carried the parachute bag honestly under the guidance of Teacher Dalia, and then hurried downstairs and went straight to the place where they were already. Culp is waiting next to the An-2 aircraft painted in the Hongqi Forestry Farm.
“I will only demonstrate it once to each of you.”
Culp’s teaching is even better than that of Teacher Dalia. Simply, before the two of them figured out what to demonstrate, the former had already opened the door of the An-2 aircraft, pulled out a not-so-large but extremely thick sponge mat from the inside and spread it outside the door, and then half-crouched in the cabin. At the door, he began to explain in detail the essentials of parachuting out of the cabin and landing.
After he demonstrated it twice, this rather handsome old man actually took out two eye masks from his pocket and gave them to him. Wei Ran and Jima then hung the handlebars in the cabin, and then said with a smile, "It's 10 noon now. Before five o'clock in the afternoon, you two only need to practice the postures you just made. I will be upstairs." Watching you through binoculars. Remember to wear a blindfold when jumping down, this will help you overcome your fear. "
Watching Culp strolling back to the building not far away, Wei Ran and Ji Ma looked at each other and said in unison, "You jump first! ”
"Forget it, come in line, you can't hide."
Wei Ran sighed and checked the Glock pistol on his chest one last time to make sure there was no bullet in the chamber. Then he climbed into the cabin and put on the eye mask honestly.
Perhaps it was the white light that occupied his sight when he was sent back to the battlefield by metal notebooks several times before that made him adapt to this situation of temporarily losing his vision, so he did not hesitate at all and simply imitated what he had just done. He bent down and hugged his knees in the posture taught by Culp and fell forward. By the time he reacted, he had already sunk into the thick sponge cushion.
At the same time, on the balcony on the second floor, Teacher Dalia, who had been holding a telescope, showed a trace of surprise on her face. At the same time, she muttered to herself that she was the only one. If you can hear clearly.
After Wei Ran jumped down, it was Ji Ma’s turn that he was in trouble. After putting on a blindfold, he held his strength at the hatch for a long time and just couldn’t let his body fall forward. In the end, Wei Ran couldn't stand it anymore and kicked him in the butt, causing him to leave the cabin, which was half a meter above the ground.
After the beginning, the rest is naturally much simpler and boring. As the two fell down from the hatch again and again, they climbed up again and again, and from time to time they could hear Karl on the console. As Pu corrected their respective movements, time also passed by one second. After the short daylight blocked the sun in the Ural Mountains to the west, it soon entered a long night.
But the study of the two did not end. After a simple dinner prepared by Alili, Culp took them back to the empty conference room on the second floor.
Under the dazzling LED light, a parachute was unfolded and laid flat on the floor. Culp, Wei Ran and Ji Ma practiced the process of folding the parachute bag over and over again, while not forgetting Explain some corresponding handling methods when encountering emergencies.
Compared to the half-day training in the afternoon, although this stack of umbrella bags is more boring, at least it is much warmer in this building, and Culp has always been on the chair next to the two of them. Sitting on the ground to supervise, they could only work hard and fold the limp parachute over and over again as if they were practicing skydiving.
This kind of practice lasted until 9:30 in the evening. After Teacher Dalia made a surprise inspection of the explosion theory knowledge they had learned a month ago, they were allowed to go to the room opposite the conference room. Rest inside.
If the first day of study and training was just boring, then from 6:30 on the next morning, besides the boring, there would be another option of "torture".
Although there is no swimming pool in this damn place, there is snow all over the place. Forced by the submachine gun in Culp’s hand that could shoot out rubber bullets at any time, Wei Ran and Jima grinned and sprayed all over the ground. The snow covered the whole body until it turned red, and then each of them got a breakfast with astonishing calories.
Not long after breakfast, they were taken to an abandoned truck by Culpedge.
"You guys can jump from here today!"
Culp stacked two thick sponge mats under the truck, "It just adds some height, nothing else." Change."
Jima glanced at the plane that was flying away in the distance, and then asked, "Mr. Culp, when will we jump today?"
"Keep it until I'm satisfied." Culp left an ambiguous answer and slowly walked back to the building not far away again.
"Victor, do you think this is useful?" Jima asked in a low voice as he climbed into the snow-covered truck compartment.
"Whether it's useful or not doesn't matter." Wei Ran pointed to the top of his head, "We will know when we actually jump from an altitude of several thousand meters."
Ji Ma, who was still a little reluctant, changed his face when he heard this, but Wei Ran had already put on a blindfold and jumped down.
In the following days, the two kept practicing their skydiving postures in the morning, stacking parachutes in the afternoon, and completing teacher Dalia's spot checks on various subjects they had learned in the evening, day after day. He was doing boring training every day.
Of course, you can’t escape by taking a shower every morning with the snow that can be found everywhere. And Culp has become more and more strict with them. Whether it is the movements of skydiving or the time of folding parachutes, if there is any irregularity, he will be pulled out to take care of them alone.
After only ten days of such high-load training, as Alili flew the plane to land at the abandoned military base, it was time for Weiran and Jima to be tested.