Breakfast consists of bacon bits and cinnamon bread cubes with fruit juice, pea soup and tuna salad, standard Apollo-era astronaut meals.
Mainly dehydrated and semi-moist foods, plus some heated foods and natural foods (mainly nuts), there is no nutritional problem, but the taste can only be said to be just okay.
Thanks to advances in food preservation technology, space food has been greatly improved in later generations. By Zhang Heng’s era, NASA would provide astronauts with more than 180 kinds of physical objects and drinks, and you could even eat chocolate ice cream on the International Space Station ( Of course, a luxury even now), it also helps the astronauts stay emotionally stable for longer.
But for now, Zhang Heng and the others obviously don't have such good treatment.
The storage room of the service module contains food that can last three astronauts for eleven days. If the mission goes without incident, excluding the time of landing on the moon and returning to the earth, the remaining food can last for six to seven days. It was enough for the astronauts to wait until NASA's rescue team arrived.
However, considering the damage to the communication equipment and the possibility of various situations, this training requires Zhang Heng and the others not to stay where they are and wait for rescue.
So after breakfast, the three of them made a simple positioning, distributed food and water, and then started walking in the wild again, carrying the supplies on their backs and moving to the next target location.
——This is also the hardest part of the entire wilderness survival training.
The target location is 80 kilometers away. Even if we walk non-stop, it will take about 20 hours at the fastest to reach it.
What's more, it's summer now, and the temperature in the desert exceeds 40 degrees Celsius during the day.
Under the scorching sun, the body loses water very quickly. If it is not replenished in time, it is easy to enter a dehydration state. Fortunately, after this period of devil training, even the fat man with the most average physique does not look like he is falling behind. , as for Zhang Heng, he has the strongest physical strength among the three, and has experienced more than one worse situation than this. He also has lv2 wild survival skills. The current situation does not pose a big challenge to him. .
In fact, the emergency backpacks and supplies in the service module provided by NASA have saved a lot of trouble for desert survival. After all, NASA is not training wild survival experts. Under normal circumstances, this training only requires astronauts to follow emergency instructions Follow the steps in the manual, make good use of what you have on hand, allocate your physical strength reasonably, and then complete the task within the specified time.
It's more just physical exertion.
However, after walking in the desert for a while, everyone's emotions inevitably fluctuated.
The hot and dry environment is not only a torture and test for the body, but also affects everyone's emotions to a certain extent, especially when the three of them are hiding their worries.
On the surface, the three of them are facing the same situation, all competing for the last spot. But in fact, even if Zhang Heng does nothing, as long as he ensures that he can survive the training and relies on his outstanding results, he will still be able to win. Can successfully board Apollo 11.
On the contrary, Bruno and Jia Lai were more passive, especially Jia Lai. Because of his previous strategy, his ranking was at the bottom of the three. He needed to use this last training to kill both of them.
But Jia Lai didn't know what Zhang Heng was thinking. Did the latter want to successfully survive this wild survival training and use his performance advantage to board Apollo 11, or was he prepared to take a certain risk to deal with him and Bruno? this threat.
After all, the quarantine period is still a week away, so safety cannot be completely guaranteed.
The main problem is that Jia Lai doesn't know what kind of person Zhang Heng is. During this more than a month, he has not only been playing weak to make people relax their vigilance against him, but also secretly observing him. for everyone,
The amount of energy he spends on each person is different. Jia Lai doesn't bother to study the strong men and high school students. Among them, the one who spends the most attention on is Zhang Heng.
But to this day, he still doesn't know enough about Zhang Heng. The former is the most mysterious being among the players in this round. He lives alone. He can't tell from Zhang Heng his career, past, or even career in the real world. Even the age cannot be determined, and it is difficult to read from Zhang Heng's face what he is thinking.
This is the most difficult part for Jialai, because without knowing the type of opponent, it is difficult to choose the next action strategy.
When there were three clearing quotas, he tended to maintain a good relationship with Zhang Heng, but now he was unavoidable and had to find a way to effectively deal with the opponent.
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In the endless desert, there were only three lonely figures moving slowly on the sand dunes. Bruno pulled his collar. This was the first time he had opened his water bag and drank water. However, the anxiety in his heart could not be relieved. .
He raised his head and glanced at Zhang Heng, who was walking in front. From the moment he set off until now, the latter's pace had almost always maintained at the same frequency, and he seemed not to be affected by the environment at all.
In addition, the silent fat man behind him also put a lot of pressure on him. After breakfast, the team was enveloped in an atmosphere that something was about to happen. However, nothing happened along the way. , this feeling of neither getting up nor down is more depressing than the hot weather.
The three of them found a rock wall that could take shelter from the cold in the afternoon. After having lunch there, Zhang Heng used stones to leave arrows on the ground. This was also part of the training, in order to indicate their progress to the rescue team behind them. direction.
After that, the three of them rested for half an hour and hit the road again.
At dusk, Jialai and Bruno's breathing became obviously heavier than before. Their clothes were soaked with sweat, and the exposed skin was reddened by the sun. Despite taking many protective measures, There is still a lot of sand poured into the clothes, which constantly rubs against the skin when walking, making people feel even more uncomfortable.
The ten-hour long journey caused their physical strength to decline quickly. As the captain of the team, Zhang Heng decided to pause their progress after seeing this situation and find a suitable place on the spot to prepare for the night.
He collected some dead branches and dry bushes, and built a bonfire, which could be used to heat the heated food collected from the service cabin, and also gave the three of them a hot dinner.
This also aroused doubts in Jia Lai's mind. So far, Zhang Heng has been conducting wilderness survival training in accordance with the captain's requirements. Does he really intend to get the last spot based on his results?
