By dinner time, the soldiers sitting at the table next to the star class were no longer shy, and finally dared to talk to them. Two people came to ask for autographs from Wu Rui and Chu Yinlong, and they were finally brought back by their team lead to be scolded.
“These soldiers are too cute.” Wu Rui laughed. “They are quite childish in private.”
“They aren’t very old.” Chu Yinlong said. “They are all around college age, of course, they’ll also be naughty and playful.”
After dinner, the star class had some solo interviews that could be edited into the program later.
At the same time, the guests who were not interviewed can move freely – it can be seen from this that their schedules and military training are still completely different. As long as the cameras are not turned on, they can do whatever they want within a limited range without disturbing the normal life of the recruits.
Seeing the soldiers start their evening training from a distance, Jiang Dao found the instructor and asked, “Can I go to the playground to run with them at night?”
“I’m not exercising for the camera. If I can’t go to the playground, I can only run around the basketball court.”
The instructor thought for a moment and said, “How many of you are running? I’ll take you over in a while.”
Five minutes later, Jiang Dao and Chu Yinlong came to the outside of the camp. The instructor glanced at them, but didn’t say anything. He got up and bade them to follow, and went to the playground.
After the five-kilometer evening training with the team, the instructor looked at Jiang Dao, who was tired and out of breath, and smiled. “You still have to practice more. You see, Chu Yinlong is much better than you… Uh, you actors don’t need to train like soldiers though. You’ve trained for a day, and coming out to train more in the evening is already quite good.”
On the way back to the camp, they encountered the program team staff pulling a pile of things westward. Jiang Dao glanced curiously and guessed that this was probably going to install some props for tomorrow’s competition.
“There is a shooting range over there. It’s very close to the tactical field, and happens to be a big open space. This time our recruits must not lose, we must make adequate preparations.”
…
The next day, the morning run for the star class was lowered to three kilometers.
After finishing the run, they just made it in time for breakfast, and didn’t have to make do with pickles and steamed buns.
Then, morning training began. The star class was pulled to the tactical action training venue, and the instructor gave each of them an assault rifle without a magazine.
As soon as they touched the gun, several male artists were immediately excited.
Cheng Zhiyi fondly touched the cold metal lump in his arms, and said with a smile, “I never thought I would be able to touch a real gun in my life!”
On the other side, Lin Chu and Yuwen Feiyang were more familiar with each other, and raised their guns with a smile. Jiang Dao quickly grabbed the gun belt and snatched the gun away.
“What are you doing!” Having his gun taken away by Jiang Dao, Lin Chu’s face suddenly turned ugly. “Is there someone like you who grabs things like this?”
“Is there someone who pointed a gun at a comrade-in-arms like this?” Jiang Dao choked back.
“Comrade-in-arms?” Lin Chu grabbed the gun back. “Are you too involved in the show, Jiang Dao? Besides, there are no bullets in this gun. When shooting a movie, isn’t the muzzle pointing at someone?”
“Is a prop the same as a real gun?” Jiang Dao was speechless.
“What’s the difference, there’s no bullets?” Lin Chu didn’t give in.
At this time, Chu Yinlong quickly interposed between the two: “Okay, don’t make trouble.”
Yuwen Feiyang also quickly smoothed out: “It’s okay, it’s a joke, stop arguing. Jiang Dao, don’t be angry.”
Jiang Dao let out a short breath, mocking himself.
He also blamed his conditioned reflex. With a real gun with a heavy sense of weight in his hand, he subconsciously became serious. When he saw someone actually pointing a gun at his own people, his first reaction was to stop it. After calming down, he had indeed overreacted just now.
But he didn’t want to apologize to Lin Chu either. He had his own reasons, and he didn’t want to compromise on some things.
“Jiang Dao is right.” The instructor suddenly interjected, with a serious tone. “Regardless of whether there are bullets in the gun, whether it’s playing or practicing, our guns can’t be pointed at our comrades. This is not only Lin Chu, but all of you. Remember, if someone does this again, they will be punished.”
After speaking, he glanced at Jiang Dao approvingly, and continued: “Okay, now line up. The tactics instructor will demonstrate the tactics to be learned next.”
Chu Yinlong patted Jiang Dao’s shoulder lightly and turned back to the leader of the team.
Pouting, Lin Chu carried his gun, and returned to his position behind Jiang Dao in line unhappily.
The tactical instructor didn’t see anything, and seriously taught the essentials of holding a gun, retracting a gun, lying down, and standing up several times, and asked the students to follow along.
As a result, it only took a few times of aiming and retracting before the female stars could not stand it. Even without bullets a real rifle still weighs more than three kilograms1it’s less than 10lbs; seriously, they’re that weak?. People who don’t usually practice arm strength will inevitably have sore arms after repeating a few times.
The lead instructor saw that the female guests could not stand it, so he stopped them in time and arranged for them to rest.
After finding a space, the tactics instructor asked quietly, “What’s the matter? Why are you so soft-hearted today?”
The instructor glanced at the camera. When he confirmed that no cameras were aimed at him, he lowered his voice and said, “The program crew came over last night – that Yi Bailu’s manager said some big words. Wasn’t the intensity of morning training also decreased in the morning?”
The tactics instructor smiled. “If you want me to say, it’s better to go directly to the military training base.”
The instructor shook his head. “How can the military training base deal with so many projects, it’s not a big deal. Forget it, it’s just a group of little stars. I don’t expect them to be able to go to the battlefield in the future.”
“Hey, I can’t say that.” The tactics instructor replied. “I think there are still a few good ones, at least they’re serious. That Chu Yinlong, Jiang Dao, Cheng Zhiyi are all good. And Wu Rui, although she’s a woman, at least she is practicing seriously.”
“They’re all actors, so they should’ve come to experience the military camp. It might be useful for filming or something in the future.” The instructor curled his lips dismissively. “The other few are just… oh, put in a few shots and they’re done.”
After resting for more than ten minutes, the instructor glanced at his watch and called everyone up to continue training.
After practicing aiming and retracting, they moved onto lying down with a gun, standing up, and crawling forward. After the tactical instructor demonstrated the movements, then patiently instructed the star class on various essentials.
Although none of them are real soldiers, as actors, singers, or dancers, their ability to imitate movements is actually not bad. They were able to do it in a decent manner after a few repetitions, but the speed of crawling was somewhat insufficient…
However, it was precisely because they were too slow that as soon as the competition started, the soldier class who came to challenge them knew that they were going to win.
The entertainment game was at the shooting range.
Many small stakes were erected in the open space in the middle of the shooting range. The stakes were interlaced with iron wires and woven into a huge net, and twenty colored balloons were strewn throughout.
The game is simple. Each member wears a helmet with a plastic needle on their head, crawls into the net, and bursts the balloons of their team’s color as soon as possible. The team that bursts all the balloons first wins.
“God, can we just admit defeat?” Cheng Zhiyi joked. “I’m a little scared just seeing their eyes!”
The recruits lost two games to the star class yesterday, and the news spread quickly. The losing teams were teased a lot, so the recruits’ fighting spirit was roused, and they were waiting to make a comeback.
The program team quickly issued special helmets, and everyone quickly put them on. Then the instructor gave an order, and the contestants quickly entered the field and began to compete.
The result, of course, was not unexpected – the recruits led the way by a huge advantage and won the game effortlessly.
Jiang Dao climbed out from under the net, disregarding the dirt on his body, and smiled helplessly. “It’s not wrong to lose, the soldiers in this class are really good at low-profile scrambling.”
Zhang Xiaoyuan echoed: “Yes, yes, I feel like they crawled faster than geckos!”
Chu Yinlong raised his eyebrows at Jiang Dao. “You’re also quite good, you just got five balloons in a row, and the MVP here.”
Jiang Dao immediately humbled himself. “No, no, Teacher Chu is more powerful. He trapped the fighters just now to assist the MVP.”
Cheng Zhiyi couldn’t take it anymore, and said with a smile, “I say, you two stop praising each other, okay? We lost, and have to do push-ups!”
Because they were used to recording variety shows, the star class didn’t really care about winning or losing. At least this time, it wasn’t a prearranged script for them to lose.
In the afternoon, they first watched the soldier class complete an obstacle course, and then they began their own obstacle course training.
As a result, when they were climbing over a two-meter-five-high wall, Yi Bailu climbed on top of the wall, sat on it and refused to jump down.
“This is too high, I’m afraid! Teacher Chu, can you help me?”
This request was a bit excessive. All the guests knew it well as they looked at Chu Yinlong, who was standing farthest from the wall.
Chu Yinlong frowned. “Jump by yourself! This is training. Do you really think that this show is for you to play around? Zhang Xiaoyuan, Sun Qi, Wu Rui can all do it. Sun Qi even bruised her arm, why are you so squeamish?”
Yi Bailu’s expression suddenly froze.
Chu Yinlong’s tone became more severe as he finally released his temper: “This is a national defense program. It’s intended to let you experience how hard a military camp is! Look at you, not only daring to complain to your manager, but also putting pressure on the instructor to reduce the training intensity, and acting squeamish… Why did you come to this show if you can’t endure hardship?”
Jiang Dao chuckled and looked at Chu Yinlong.
This was the stinky temper he was familiar with. In just two days, Yi Bailu couldn’t help but force out his temper.
Yay, she finally gets put in her place. Was getting annoying for me
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The type of exercises they’re doing aren’t as simple as you think. Even with only ten pounds of weight if you continuously hold something without moving it will cause muscle fatigue and strain. If you’re curious (and not used to working out), try picking up a five pound weight and hold it away from your body without moving for as long as you can. You’d be surprised by how difficult it is. This kind of training is different from strength training or aerobic training in that it can push muscles to a limit without providing a lot of benefit in a short amount of time. It requires long time training for it to show results.
As someone who works out, ten pounds is not much for me to pick up and move around with for an hour. But I’d still be tired after doing continuous and repetitive movements for an hour, even with that little weight. This part is pretty good about highlighting the difficulty of the task while showing that the only people who are in the “wrong” are the ones who don’t even want to try and constantly complain. Everyone’s level of fitness is different here. I like CYL even more for his attitude, lol.
Also, having been in the military this part seems decently researched. I’m surprised by how close to reality it is. I’m also surprised the author hasn’t put in a lot of nationalism against other countries in their story despite the heavy themes of military and war. Plus, their depictions of PTSD are pretty good even if they aren’t perfect. Not gonna lie, I’ve been pleasantly surprised a lot by this story.
Good to know. I agree it’ll be difficult to hold weights for a long time, but I’m not sure they did that for the shooting training. Perhaps I’m wrong.
I also noticed this, i’m currently in the army now and while not 100% correct (maybe becuase different countries train differently) it’s still very close to reality. A lot better than other stories who push the nationalism really hard. The only complaint I have is the female stars keep being shown as weak, i guess maybe because they are not real soldiers and are civilains, but as a female in the army i don’t like the portrayal the author is going with. Maybe it is cultural norms or bias the author has but when i was in training i did everything the males did and wasn’t given any slack, some even pushed us harder becuase we where female. Anyways, sorry for the long ramble, i love this story and so far it’s been an amazing read :]
First, I actually agree with your points, but I thought I’d share a different perspective that’s also a possibility:
We all know different countries can have different beauty cultures, and China is one where all the female idols I’ve seen have to be fair, skinny, and ‘soft’. By ‘soft’, I mean no muscles. I’ve come across a few idol videos and I noticed that female dance moves are more about hand/leg waving and body placement and male idols are the only ones who have explosive moves like backflips/somersaults. Even then, it depends on the idol and I assume they have to plan for long shows anyways.
Stuff like that requires muscles. I fully expect all the idols to have above adequate stamina considering their shows, but muscles are a different ball game. If I’m not wrong, their diet and training might even be targeted so they /don’t/ gain muscles, just look shapely.
TLDR: In the average person comparison, it’s like someone running often to keep healthy eventually gaining the stamina to do above average runs, but has never hit the gym weights in their life and struggles to do basics for a straight 30 mins?
Just to counter your complaint a bit, I think the author is actually being very fair. There is one female idol who is actually doing quite well (wu right?) and they’ve mentioned how typically, female and male soldier recruits have similar training requirements. So I’m inclined to agree with Magical Pyromaniac’s hypothesis that the author is just imagining how a typical female Asian idol, who probably primarily trains for weight loss, would probably not be able to handle long periods of physical activity. Also, I think it’s still typical for female idols in Asia to act cute and helpless, so that might also play a role in why they’re acting weak here – there’s no benefit for them to show strength.
Came to comments to say just this! I’ve done exercises, even when I was at pretty good physical fitness, that involved repetitive arm movements with low weights and it’s actually really hard. I often overestimate how much I can do, but from experience, a pop song’s length of arm exercises with 10lbs can be pretty exhausting to my arms. And it seems like they’re doing much longer than 5-6 minutes of lifting and aiming the gun. From the description too, it doesn’t sound like they’re working with small pistols? Anyways, lesson is, don’t scoff at the poor stars who can’t keep up, these are probably deceptively hard tasks – that’s why it requires training after all.
I’m glad the author at least touched on the vague concept of firearm safety – which should have been required for them ALL to learn before they were allowed to touch a rifle. The most basic and fundamental rule of firearm safety is… ALWAYS treat every firearm as though it were loaded, and never aim it at anything you’re not willing to shoot. Second is always check any firearm you pick up, to confirm that it’s not loaded. Don’t trust the guy that handed it to you. Check it yourself. The first rule still trumps that – even if you just checked, you should still treat it as loaded with regards to where you aim it. Failure to do this has actually led to several ‘accidents’ in filming, where people were shot by supposedly empty firearms, those that were supposed to be loaded with blanks, or those that were supposedly unable to fire. Actors have died. Actors that handle firearms, even ‘disarmed’ ones, should have taken a firearm safety course and know that.
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For real, why sign up for a skill based show?
Also, most starlets (esp, in Asia) are underweight, so them not fainting is already a surprise.
ikr 😅 at least push the complaints down. i remember the participants applied by their own consent. if you can’t do it, then just participate in another fun, celebrity oriented variety shows.
i don’t have a say for other female stars, at least they keep it to themselves. but this yi bailu is clearly chasing chu laoshi here.