Chapter 1

When the reform policy for the national college entrance examination's physical education component was first announced, the vast majority of people didn't believe it.

Testing cultural subjects was one thing, but why should high school students be required to master firearms shooting, firearms maintenance, integrated combat, and armed fighting? Wasn't this absurd? What if there were injuries or deaths?

However, the higher-ups' determination to promote the reform of the physical education component was unwavering, and they were determined to implement it thoroughly.

They specially selected a group of elite soldiers from the military, who were top-notch in terms of political, intellectual, moral, psychological, physiological, and action qualities. After training, they were assigned to major universities as instructors.

As an international financial, trade, shipping, and technological innovation hub, Yin City would be the first to pilot this beneficial policy.

And Yin City Experimental High School, as a key secondary school, naturally became one of the first pilot schools.

In the afternoon, after math class, the eager students of Experimental High School stood on the playground, listening to the leader's mobilization speech on the militarized physical education course.

"Respected leaders, instructors, teachers, students, and parents, hello! According to the requirements of the Ministry of Education, our school will launch a militarized physical education course project..."

"...To achieve the grand goals of a strong and prosperous motherland, a prosperous people, and the rejuvenation of the nation, we need to vigorously strengthen national defense while adhering to economic construction as the center..."

"Now I would like to make three requests to the students. First, we must..."

The boring speech made most of the students unenthusiastic.

Apart from a few dangerous elements who were excited about being able to touch real qiang, the vast majority of students felt quite a headache.

According to the documents previously issued by the school, this course, although named physical education, was actually two hours of military training every evening.

First, there would be strength training such as weighted squats, push-ups, and barbells,

Speed training such as sprints and rope skipping,

Anaerobic endurance training such as interval runs and repeated runs,

Flexibility and coordination training such as stretching,

After drinking some functional beverages issued by the education department, there would be military training such as queue training and qiang shooting,

And finally, there would be motor vehicle driving training, as well as integrated combat and armed fighting training.

The two-hour physical education class was jam-packed with projects and took place every evening. It was feared that it would exhaust people to death.

Other students' eyes were filled with complaints, while Li Ang, standing in the queue, was lost in thought.

There were also many neimu (insider) messages on the player luntan (forum) regarding the reform of the physical education component.

For example, the instructors would record the overall performance of all students in each "physical education class" and enter it into their personal files.

These data would affect the students' final college entrance examination scores, thereby increasing the enthusiasm of the students.

It would also be recorded in the Special Affairs Bureau's backend system, to select talents with excellent overall qualities from among the students in advance.

In addition, the relevant departments also planned to massively reduce tuition fees, stipulate that school canteens should not be outsourced, and that the education department should undertake the unified provision of breakfast, lunch, and dinner free of charge, to achieve balanced nutrition, color, aroma, and taste.

They also mixed in a special drug that could subtly enhance the human body's physique—this drug was also in the functional beverages issued by the education department.

These drugs were naturally the harvest that the Special Affairs Bureau had obtained from a modern background script mission half a year ago.

After layers of research and testing by the National Academy of Sciences, and confirmation that it was harmless, it was promoted on a large scale.

Apart from a few domestic factories, other countries could not produce it at all, and could not even imitate it.

After the speech, each class returned to the classroom, and a small number of classes were left to participate in the first "militarized physical education course."

On the first day of the new type of physical education class, there were naturally countless leaders, school leaders, and parent representatives to watch,

Unfortunately, the students were not very cooperative. When they did interval runs and repeated runs, countless people were already exhausted and collapsed on the lawn, pale, sweating on their foreheads, and unable to get up.

The parent representatives' hearts were in a mess. The instructors did not scold or beat them, but directly asked the school medical team on standby to check the students who had collapsed.

After finding that there were no major problems, the school doctors brought several large bottles of functional beverages and poured them into the lying students, and immediately these students' faces improved. Many people stood up directly from the ground, looking like they were full of energy.

Li Ang mingled in the student group. He found that the instructor team assigned to Yin City Experimental High School had a lean military temperament similar to that of Xing Hechou.

In order to avoid exposure, he had been slacking off, keeping his various physical test scores within the range of neither good nor bad.

Seeing that the functional beverage seemed to be quite effective, he, who had been squatting on the track to rest, immediately pretended to be physically exhausted and lay down, groaning.

The school doctor on standby immediately rushed over, ready to check Li Ang's pupils, heartbeat, and pulse.

As soon as he approached a few steps, the thirty-something-year-old school doctor named Cang Xiu saw that the one who had fallen was Li Ang, and he immediately felt regret, regretting why he had run over so quickly.

Cang Xiu was also considered an old acquaintance of Li Ang. When he was a freshman, Li Ang would run to the school hospital every now and then, asking Cang Xiu about the difficulties he encountered in self-studying medicine.

"F***, why does it still hurt so much when I eat ten painkillers and fight someone?"

"Student Li, I'm the school doctor, can you call me Doctor Cang? It will still hurt no matter how many painkillers you eat to fight."

"Okay, f***. You said that the rat family living in my wall has been constipated recently. Do I need to prescribe them some rat poison?"

"No need. By the way, Student Li, don't you have classes, why are you so free? And can you not call me f***."

"F***, I calculated the calorie content of different parts of the human body by calculating the protein and fat content of different parts of the human body. After adding up the values, I found that an adult male can provide about 120,000 calories."

"...So?"

"If you exclude the inedible parts, an adult male can only provide 30 kilograms of effective muscle, of which 4.5 kilograms are protein, providing a total of 180,000 calories, which can provide 60 people with a day's worth of protein intake, which is not as good as a quarter of a horse.

If you, f***, are interested, we can publish a paper on the nutritional status of cannibal tribes."

"No need, Student Li, I suggest you see a psychologist."

"Then are you willing to get me a cadaver? I feel that my anatomical skills have improved a lot, almost comparable to the quick-knife doctor Robert Liston."