Chapter 207 Learn to skydive in half a month (Part 1)
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On the morning of April 14th, Wei Ran returned to Inta with full harvest.
Ji Ma, who had been waiting at the airport for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he had arrived as promised, and shouted for him to get on the plane quickly.
In less than ten minutes, before dawn, he started waiting for his An-2 plane to take off lightly and fly straight 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 here, but there was also an An-2 aircraft painted in the red flag forest farm in the open space.
Wei Ran rubbed his eyes. He had indeed seen it right. The pattern spray-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, "Since you left here half a month ago, Teacher Dalia asked me to help buy this plane from the mine and paint it according to her requirements. However,
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. If it was flying a plane, it would be fine, but if it was parachuting, it would be too exciting.
“Better not skydiving”
Ji Ma replied with a pale face, "Although I haven't jumped, 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 Ji Ma looked at each other, shut their mouths obediently, and followed Culp and Teacher Dalia who had turned around and got into the building with all the windows exposed.
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 has been covered with thick pine needles. Several fat and strong reindeer are standing there obediently.
Inside, he licked the salt bricks hanging above his head.
Following the two teachers to an empty conference room with only two chairs on the second floor, Teacher Dalia, who was the first to enter, lit a cigarette and asked with a smile, "I'll give you two a chance to choose."
, should you learn to fly a fixed-wing aircraft first or learn to skydive first?”
"Plane piloting!" Weiran and Jima gave the same answer without any hesitation.
"Pah!" 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.
"I just give you the opportunity to choose, but I don't give you the right to make a decision."
Teacher Dalia patted the luggage bag placed on the table, "This course is a temporary addition outside the original plan, so in the next half month, in addition to daily physical training, the only thing you two need to learn is
It’s skydiving. If there is no doubt, go to the two rooms opposite and put on your clothes now.”
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?
So 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 was also vacated, and put the polar camouflage suit of unknown origin in the luggage bag.
The clothes are on.
This camouflage uniform is fully equipped, from underwear and socks to thermal underwear, to trouser jackets, outermost tops and overalls for cold protection, and even cotton hats, masks, boots and gloves.
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 magazines filled with bullets.
He carefully disassembled the pistol that had been disassembled countless times at the Hongqi Forest Farm and inspected it. After confirming that there were no problems, Weiran patiently removed all the bullets from the three magazines and randomly picked them from the middle.
He pressed three bullets into the magazine, opened the window and pulled the trigger towards an abandoned vehicle outside.
After three crisp gunshots in a row, Wei Ran closed the window with satisfaction, pressed all the bullets back into the magazine, then opened the door and returned to the conference room opposite.
"Let's go outside." Culp waited for Jima to come in, pointed to the parachute bag on the table, and walked out of the conference room slowly.
The two of them carried their umbrella bags conscientiously under the guidance of Teacher Dalia, and then hurried downstairs and went straight to Culp, who was already waiting beside the An-2 aircraft painted in the Hongqi Forestry Farm.
"I'll only demonstrate it to one of you once."
Culp's teaching was more straightforward than that of Teacher Dalia. Before the two of them could figure out what to demonstrate, the former had already opened the door of the An-2 aircraft and pulled out a sponge cushion that was not too big but was extremely thick.
He laid it outside the cabin door, then half squatted at the cabin door, and 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 Wei Ran and Ji Ma, then hung the handstand in the cabin, and then said with a smile, "Now it's
At 10 noon, before 5 pm, you two only need to practice the postures you just performed. I will watch you with a telescope upstairs. Remember to wear a blindfold when you jump down, which will help you overcome your fear.
psychology."
Watching Culp stroll 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, just line up and come, 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 blindfold honestly.
Perhaps it was the white light that occupied his vision when he was sent back to the battlefield by metal books several times before that made him adapt to this temporary loss of vision, so he didn't hesitate at all and simply learned the posture Culp taught him just now and bent down.
He hugged his knees 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, had a slightly surprised expression on her face, and at the same time she muttered something to herself that only she could hear clearly.
After Wei Ran jumped down, Ji Ma had a problem when it was his turn. He put on a blindfold and held it in the hatch for a long time. He just couldn't let his body fall forward. In the end, Wei Ran really looked at it.
However, a kick on his butt made him leave the cabin, which was half a meter above the ground.
After the beginning, the rest is naturally much simpler and boring. The two of them fell down from the hatch again and climbed up again and again, and from time to time they could hear Culp correcting their respective movements on the handheld console.
In the middle of the day, time passed by one second. After the short daylight blocked the sun in the Ural Mountains on the west side, it soon entered the 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 lights, a parachute was unfolded and spread out on the floor. Culp, Wei Ran and Ji Ma practiced the process of folding parachutes and packing them over and over again. At the same time, he did not forget to explain some emergency situations.
corresponding processing method.
Compared with 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. In addition, Culp has been sitting on the chair next to the two of them to supervise.
So they could only work hard and fold the limp parachute over and over again like 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 rest in the room opposite the conference room.
If the first day of study and training was just boring, then starting at 6:30 in the morning of the next day, in addition to the boring, there would be another option of "torture".
Although there is no swimming pool in this damn place, there is snow everywhere. Forced by the submachine gun in Culp's hand that could shoot out rubber bullets at any time, Wei Ran and Jima grinned and rubbed their bodies with the snow on the ground.
They were all red, and then they each got a portion of the surprisingly caloric breakfast.
Not long after having breakfast, they were brought to an abandoned truck by Culp.
"Just jump from here today!"
Culp stacked two thick sponge mats under the truck, "It just increased some height, and the rest remained the same."
Ji Ma secretly glanced at the plane that had flown away under the control of Alili 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?" Ji Ma climbed into the snow-covered truck compartment and asked in a low voice.
"Whether it's useful or not doesn't matter." Wei Ran pointed to the top of his head, "We'll know when we actually jump from an altitude of several thousand meters."
Ji Ma, who was still a little reluctant at first, 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 maintained their routine of practicing 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. They carried out boring training day after day.
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Of course, there is no way to escape from 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 skydiving movements or the time of stacking the parachutes, if there is a slight irregularity,
Then he would pull her out and take care of her alone.
After only ten days of such high-load training, as Alili piloted the plane to land at the abandoned military base, it was time for Weiran and Jima to be put to the test.
