After the simulated battle, all personnel gathered in the large briefing room in the logistics center of the training base.
On the rostrum, Wang Ping'an proudly boasted to Diao Youming: "Look! A 14% casualty rate!"
Diao Youming stared at Wang Ping'an with a gloomy face: "You are quite proud. I asked you to hack into the base's main computer and adjust the preset warning radar parameters?"
Wang Ping'an: "That's right. Our scenario is that an undercover agent who has been lurking among pirates for a long time helps us. This undercover agent is Comrade Pasbala!"
Pasbala saluted: "I didn't have a choice before, now I want to be a good person. Cantonese brackets."
Diao Youming: "Really? What did the undercover agent do to change the radar parameters?"
"He didn't do anything. This is the setting. The actual realization is by invading the host of the training base..."
The Space Marine colonel at the training base interrupted Wang Ping'an: "How on earth did you invade the base host? There are people on all the terminals connected to the base host."
Wang Ping'an: "Through the terminal on the automatic beverage machine. That terminal is also connected to the Internet. Don't you...don't you know that is connected to the base host?"
The Marine Corps colonel looked stunned, turned around and asked: "Is that connected to the Internet?"
A captain wearing a red uniform from the Engineering Department raised his hand: "To save trouble, I connected it to the Internet so that the drinks I order can be delivered by drone instead of going there myself..."
The colonel looked serious: "I want to hand you over to the military police. You have committed a serious dereliction of duty! In addition, Lieutenant Wang Pingan who invaded the terminal, you destroyed the assets of the Space Force!"
Wang Ping'an: "No, I didn't do any damage. The working mode of the warning radar can be adjusted. This is to allow those training here to practice responses to various situations.
"That's how it was designed, I didn't change a single line of code.
"In addition, I was able to bypass the secret key because someone wrote the daily password on a sticky note and stuck it under his monitor."
As soon as he finished speaking, an engineer in a Red Army uniform tore off the sticky notes from under the monitor.
The colonel stared at the engineer.
Diao Youming sneered: "Not bad, the observation is very detailed."
"Thank you for the compliment."
"And he also took advantage of loopholes in military regulations so that he could get away with it even if he went to a military court."
"Ah, this is just practice makes perfect..."
"But, even so, you are violating discipline. I finally understand why you have so many disciplinary records. The Space Force can keep you because it values your talents and hopes that one day you can shine.
Instead of taking these sideways.
"You should be lucky that the space force's psychology experts have certain discretion in dealing with personnel. You should know this, so you have been taking advantage of it. Guess when I checked your file through the channels of the psychology department
What did you see?"
Wang Ping'an asked in confusion: "What?"
Diao Youming took out his personal terminal, operated it for a while, pulled out a document, and recited: "'Although Lieutenant Wang Ping'an has many flaws in his character, as a professional master of psychology, I think he has played an important role in opening up the space for human activities.
His ideals are extremely firm, and he has an unparalleled sincerity.
"'I think his joining will do more good than harm to the Centaur project. The light of his ideals may become a beacon to illuminate the long voyage.'
"This is the evaluation given to you by the instructor of the recovery training brigade on the Brave before you left the Brave. He wrote a special report to recommend you to the Centaur Project.
"Psychological experts have been kind enough to you. They have always been pampering you, and of course you are taking advantage of this kindness. You are still complacent. This is one of the reasons why you have not made any progress.
"
Wang Ping'an fell silent.
Diao Youming: "Aren't you very good at speaking? Now tell me your thoughts."
"I want to ask, are there any other reasons why I can't make progress?"
"That's a lot. You have always been the focus of the psychology department. There is a lot of information about you in the psychology department's files. But this is not important. What is important is your extraordinary behavior today.
.Why do we need to use this method to win?”
Wang Pingan answered seriously: "In order to achieve a casualty rate of less than 15%. After rational analysis, I thought it was impossible to achieve it under normal conditions. So I 'incited' a defensive player - the Bagpipe Demon.
, and then formulated a plan to invade the base host and change the radar settings.
"When the warning radar switches to long-distance warning, heavy combat space suits are not used, but light clothing is used for infiltration operations.
"The plan is perfect, isn't it? It almost exceeded the deadline set by you, but in the end it was only a little bit close. With a casualty rate of 14%, the battle was successful. I met your requirements."
Diao Youming: "Then if there is no such internal response on the real battlefield, what are you going to do?"
"I will not initiate this operation." Wang Ping'an replied, "I will install an engine on another asteroid, and then let the special mission fleet cover the asteroid to crash into the pirate base."
Diao Youming: "There will always be a time when you have to attack by force. What will you do then?"
"If there is really a reason to attack by force, then I will arrange an attack. But before the attack, I will try my best to find a way to reduce casualties just like I found an off-board move this time. Until the last moment, I will
I will never give up my efforts to outwit you."
Diao Youming said nothing, but looked at Wang Ping'an with sharp eyes.
Wang Ping'an also responded without timidity.
After a full ten seconds, Diao Youming said: "Well, this answer counts as your passing. You have successfully achieved the goal of less than 15% casualties, and you will get your points."
Someone immediately shouted: "Report, I question this decision!"
It's Fu Zhilong.
Diao Youming: "Say."
"He clearly violated discipline and cheated by using extra moves, so why can he be considered a pass? Without a reasonable explanation, I don't think everyone will agree!"
Zhai Dengshan looked like "Don't take me with you", but as a model officer, he didn't say anything.
Diao Youming: "Yes, I can explain it to you. This is my job after all. Although he used unruly means, he did find a way to achieve his goal with lower casualties.
"The task I gave Wang Ping'an is an impossible task. As long as you have basic military knowledge and have fought simulated battles against space structures, you will know that a 15% casualty rate is impossible to achieve.
"But Wang Ping'an still found a way. Even though this method was against the rules, even though this method added another violation record to his resume and made it more difficult for him to be promoted, the result was that he found a way.
"This is not a result-only theory. In fact, what I really value is the process of finding a way out, the persistence in making the impossible possible. Even if he does not achieve a 15% casualty rate, I will give him points.
"Actually, I am very, very satisfied with the current result! I thought he would use unconventional means to achieve his goal. In my idea, he should use his influence to truly instigate several 'pirates'
.”
Wang Ping'an was shocked: "Ah? Is this okay? You should have told me earlier!"
Diao Youming: "Of course you can, and in my opinion, this is the real standard answer, because in the text of the task assignment, I only wrote that the task of Team B is to play pirates. I didn't mention that they have to defend the space station, let alone
Pirates cannot rebel."
Everyone turned to look at the mission written on the big screen in the briefing room. Sure enough, the mission of Team B was to play pirates...
"Actually, pirates often mutiny, stay in trouble with friendly forces, and even attack each other. I originally thought you would read the question, discover the question, and then formulate your plan. But you didn't."
After Diao Youming finished speaking, Prabas raised his hand: "I have it! I found it!"
"Okay, someone else discovered it. But Lieutenant Wang Ping'an didn't. However, he still completed the mission in his own way, which I didn't expect. So I gave him points. As for the rest of you, the computer will
Ratings will be based on performance in the battle. Now take a break and wait to see the total score. Dismissed."
After speaking, Diao Youming walked towards the colonel of the Marine Corps.
The astronauts relaxed and started chatting.
Angele ran over and whispered to Wang Ping'an: "I can't believe I actually got points."
"How did you, a psychology expert, fail to analyze Lao Diao's psychology?" Wang Ping'an complained.
Angele: "How do you analyze this? You are making things so difficult for me."
As he spoke, the current score ranking began to appear on the big screen.
Zhai Dengshan topped the list with five points, followed by Abdul and Prabas with five points.
Further down is Wang Pingan, who scored four points.
Looking at this result, Wang Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief. It was unlikely that his score would be revoked because he failed the test.
The last test remains tomorrow: a simulated confrontation between cruiser-class battleships.
After passing this - in fact, not passing is probably not a big problem for Wang Ping'an now.
After passing it, it’s time to take the psychological test.
Wang Pingan shook off the thoughts in his mind and decided to think about tomorrow's cruiser simulation battle first.