High School Soldier
Mines are much more dangerous

On the territory of the United States, the command center is located under the Rocky Mountains, which was built to direct the United States Armed Forces in the event of a nuclear war.

In a novel or film, such a place would have a dark interior, with illumination from a giant main screen light and dozens of smaller points of light, with sightings of target icons and travel paths throughout the screen.

In fact, the interior of the Navy TNI Fleet Command scattered throughout the oceans on earth is also like that, as well as the Karanganyar Underground Observation Room.

However, unlike the two above, the Underground Student Army Command Center, more commonly referred to as the Observation Room-is more akin to a film studio for political planning. There is a video editing room in one corner of the room with a brightly lit monitor screen, and the system is filled with monitor screens for the staff of this room. In addition, this spacious basement is filled with daily uniformed TNI AD staff who continuously replace the display icons on the giant monitor screen in response to changing situations every second.

Currently, the 4-meter display shows three Chinese fighter jets flying towards the Natuna Islands, Riau Islands Province, as well as the positions of six TNI AU fighter jets that have been sent to intercept it. In addition, the location of an unidentified unmanned submarine near the Natuna Islands is shown with a red square icon, as well as the Indonesian South China Sea Fleet shown with a blue square icon.

There are scenes in the action film about some things that will not happen in the Observation Room, but the modern Observation Room has now been connected to the events in real time. To help improve the decision-making capabilities of personnel on the ground, who are engaged in action and have a limited field of view, then special forces, are, aka the personnel in the back line will work with a cool head that has access and a wide view to the image to give commands and support.

The Presidential Special Staff in charge of every other world-related thing, and someone who ‘batal’ became the Indonesian ambassador to the Luan Empire, Raditya Nurdjito, stepped into this room. Two Defence Ministry staff and a member of the House of Representatives who supported the delivery of the Peacekeeping Forces were present.

“Good Night, Mr. Radit.”

The location is active 24 hours a day, with people working in it all the time, but regardless of what the clock shows, practice should still be “Good Night”. It was indeed as the morning news roporter had said, but it lightened the serious military atmosphere and allowed people to relax.

Radit raised his hand and replied, “Good Night”. Then he was taken to a temporary place for her in the command center, and he sat there.

“I am the commander of the Observation Room, Major Chess. Nice to meet you.”

The staff of this place, who was wearing daily uniforms appeared in front of Radit and introduced himself.

“To be honest, I didn't expect this to happen. Do they intend to do a modern war with us?”

After saying that, Radit took off his suit, and placed it on the shelf. Although a female staff member offered to help him put down his suit, Radit did it himself and let the female staff continue their work.

“True, Sir. Many people might think of war as in the movies, or the battle between the Expeditionary Forces and the Alliance. Where two great powers clashed for days. However, in today's warfare can be divided into two main types. The first is guerrilla fighting. Then, the second one is like the Gulf War, where you prepare everything before the battle and do a reconnaissance of the enemy's weaknesses, then after the battle begins, after the battle begins, you defeat the enemy's weakness in a single attack and destroy his ability to fight. I think the only place you find a medieval war style in the movie or another world.”

Chess takes the example of United States forces in the Middle East as an example.

In the past, guerrilla warfare took place in the forest, where both sides could barely see their hands stretched out in front of them while going through the thickets. In this densely forested environment, they hide themselves and launch a ‘ shoot attack then lari’, or ambush the enemy. However, today war is no longer like this. Enemies will hide among innocent civilians and wear suits or plain clothes to hide identity before opening fire, or they will blow up cars, he said, and sometimes they even put bombs in vests and turn themselves into suicide bombers. Sometimes this is called a suicide attack, but it is not like an actual suicide attack, because suicide bombers do not usually target military facilities, and blow themselves up more often among civilians, their alias is just plain te***is.

To deal with this kind of situation, there must be a way to tell the enemy if there are innocent civilians. Then they must destroy the enemy completely. As an assumption can be drawn cancer as an example. Among healthy cells, there are some cancer cells, but leaving a cancer cell is not an option.

The purpose of the reconnaissance activity is to find where each cancer cell is hiding. On the other hand, military forces will remove this part of the cancer surgically. For example, if a person suffers from some type of cancer in his hands, amputating the whole hand is an option, but such insanity is no longer allowed in this day and age.

To avoid healthy parts of the body, extreme accuracy is needed. The United States military has gone all-out in the Middle East war, but the situation there shows no sign of abating. Simply put, they underestimated the reconnaissance part too much, and did little of the work. If one were to start the operation without knowing what was going on and just swing a knife, the Middle East would not be cured of the war, like a dying end-stage cancer sufferer. And if excessive force is used to reduce the enemy here and there, they will be condemned for engaging innocent civilians in military operations.

“So, in that sense, what we are dealing with now as the second type of modern war, that is, a war by facing the enemy directly_ah, I'm sorry, I was so engrossed in talking that I forgot to display the situation on the screen.”

The staff who kept the manganggik operation running, and clicked his mouse a few times.

A map of the Forbidden Area and the surrounding area appeared on the main screen. It began on a scale of 100,000:1, but was later enlarged from 50,000:1 to 10,000:1 and beyond. And at the same time, the tailed on the map became clearer, eventually the entire main screen display was dominated by an image of one of the wide streets that served as the entrance of the Forbidden Area.

“This ordinary looking road will soon turn into a stage show tonight. The rules are very simple: protect all guests from the other world, and prevent enemy troops from approaching and attacking. Our best people are already in his place.”

The TNI sent 6 Kopassus soldiers who were shown hiding in the safest place in the area around the road that had been emptied of civilians. Several icons appear on the trees and other terrain features around the road, each icon representing the position of the personnel. The circle icon represents the enlisted level soldier, while the box icon represents the officer.

Around the road to the Forbidden Area, there are several buildings 15 to 30 meters high, which are suitable as sniper positions.6 field personnel are sent, 1 of which is a sniper. He was in one of the buildings that was expected to be difficult to detect by enemy devices. At least, TNI snipers get standard equipment in the form of invisibility cloak technology, which allows the sniper's body to blend with the surrounding, such as mimicry abilities in the chameleon.

“Then, what about the safety of the guests? Are there any special units set up there?”

“Around the inns and hotels of guests from other worlds, there are our best soldiers. Then in the hotels inhabited by Expeditionary Force soldiers, some of them armed and supported a company Karanganyar Garrison. At least, some of the Expeditionary Force soldiers are Special Student Forces.”

“Oh, isn't Peltu Nio also a member of that special forces?”

Nio was the first person in Radit's memory when he heard about the special unit of the Student Army, including the incident where the young man protected him from assassins who were after him and the event when Nio beat up the commander of the Luan Empire who was now serving Yekirnovo until almost dying.

“True, Sir. But, he has now been ranked First Lieutenant of the Student Army.”

“Interesting!”

“They are young people who have the equivalent ability of intel. Of course most of them were guerrilla fighting specialists or something. But some of them were chosen because of their special skills which were other than others. For example, some of them are computer experts, locksmiths, even race car drivers. Some are even medical experts or familiar with deadly poisons, and they may be experts at correcting or damaging psychology and experts at calming the heart and mind.”

“Is Nio like that too?”

“Iya. He is good at hiding or hiding things from danger or things that he does not like. Actually Special Student Forces do an exercise called ‘hunt kutu’, with prospective members as targets. And, Nio made his coaches upset because it was too hard to find him.”

“That's a little different from the data I read. From what I read, he's much better than that.”

After hearing Radit's words, some of the staff couldn't help but laugh, while a few more held their bellies and tried their best not to join this conversation.

“Pak, is such data provided to you by someone through unofficial channels? If it was obtained in an illegal manner, please burn it or throw it in the trash. Then, let us know how you can obtain this information so that we can close the leak in the security of our defense data.”

“What's with all this?”

“Personal information about members of the TNI special forces can only be obtained through illegal means, for example through hacking or piracy. But, usually the TNI will add false information to the profile of special forces members if the enemy captures them. In short, the data regarding the personal profile of TNI special forces members is a national secret.”

**

Meanwhile, Nio and Arunika return after seeing their new home, the clock has now shown at 23:03. Late nights are the cause of reduced motorists on the road, and make Nio can spur rental cars at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour.

However, Nio looks unable to look at Arunika's face freely and only focus on the street in front of him, and looks pretty scary facial expression according to Nio. Then, on Nio's forehead it looked blue, like being hit by a blunt object. Nio was even seen keeping a distance with Arunika, and making up her mind not to make her brother go berserk again.

It began when they both looked around the condition of the new house, and Nio advised Arunika to determine the rooms in the house and she waited outside the house on the grounds of looking for fresh air.

This two-story house was indeed a medium size, but it was much wider than their previous residence. Arunika is actually quite satisfied with a small residence like their first boarding house that can be rented at a price of 300,000 rupiah per month. At that time, before the war, and Arunika worked as a math teacher where Nio attended school with a salary of 2,000,000 rupiah per month. Once Nio said he wanted to help the economy of both of them by working part-time, but Arunika forbade him, and eventually ended up in a quarrel between the two of them.

With 2,000,000 rupiah per month, at least Arunika can meet various monthly bills, and because Nio is his family which means he is a family of teachers, he can get a little discount on the monthly cost of school. Then, the cost of basic food is quite cheap, and they can still live without eating expensive food. Thanks to the generous government does not often raise staple foods, although once the price rises it becomes unreasonable.

Then, after becoming a soldier and achieving various achievements, Nio's savings were far more than his. Even Nio's salary as First Lieutenant was greater than his salary when he was still a teacher.

When the war with the other world is over, and the country's economy begins to improve, the defense budget automatically rises rather than during the war. That means, the salaries of soldiers increased after the post-war development problems were completed.

After determining the room in each place of this house, Arunika headed outside the house to meet Nio again. He then saw Nio squatting on the porch, as they had yet to buy any home supplies. However, there was a small smoke billowing from the middle and index fingers of the young man who was seen flanking something.

Then, Nio was caught by Arunika smoking a cigarette while crouching down and staring at the crescent moon in the sky. That was the cause of Nio's forehead turning blue, and made Nio resolve not to smoke when with Arunika.

“Since when did you smoke?”

Although Arunika's tone sounded ordinary, it was, but Nio who had felt the stone throw from Arunika and hit his forehead felt that it was a much more dangerous threat than being trapped in the middle of a landmine field. To be exact, he had stepped on a much more dangerous mine.

He could only stand still when Arunika broke one cigarette at a time to the smallest pieces, and threw them out of the car window. It caused the smell of tobacco to spread inside the car, and Arunika was uncomfortable with the smell. Even so, it was his own fault doing so while still in the car.

The scene Nio saw was much worse when his trainer trampled on a plastic bag containing his instant noodles to the point of being crushed. Arunika gave off a much more frightening expression than when she was ordinary angry, although that expression was more flat. However, Arunika's flat gaze towards him made Nio goosebumps and resigned to what would happen next. Nio realized that it was better to stay still and focus on the streets, and tried not to do what Arunika thought was wrong and despicable.

Arunika charged the answer to her previous question, yet it made Nio's left hand tremble and cold sweat came out like a grain of rice on his forehead.

“Since work..”.

Nio could not imagine if Arunika knew if she smoked while still in school, and had not worked as she is now. He gave up on defending himself, and let Arunika lecture him.

**

After they detected unknown people near one of the entrances to the Forbidden Area, the modern battle began.

The central Observation Room view shows the progress of the battle around the area. Some analysts are sending information popping up on the commander's monitor screen as they sort through information from spy satellites and disguise aerial drones.

“There are several heat sources, in the north and east, they are scattered in the housing. One, they total 10 to 12.”

“This One, Target sighted.”

“Do procedure number 5, understand?”

“Understanding.”

The group was formed in a short period of time, and they had to handle this low-intensity and unconventional operation. After a series of trials and exercises to form a special group of guests safety from another world, this unit chose the system ‘’ remote control. In other words, a guest security unit from another world would pair an operator in the rear echelon (Controller) with personnel on direct duty in combat (controlled person).

(olog note: similar to the anime Fate series that uses the Master-Servant system)

Currently, there are six couples in this group, codenamed One, Two and so on up to Six. The naming scheme was influenced by ‘tamu uninvited’ which caused this group to have to do a sudden battle, so this unit did not have time to give the name of their personnel operations with a cool nickname.

“Three, switch to the third point.”

“It Three, understand.”

“Five, do the second procedure. Two move from the third point to the fourth point. Hold the shot.”

“It's Three, I'm mired in the mud (gutter). May be late 1 second to fourth point.”

“Quick move!”

(olog note: stamped to the war ditch.).

The battle flow quickly sided with the safety group of guests from another world.

The group personnel used the latest equipment, which could easily find the enemy position, so they did not have to worry about the number of enemies.

With the enemy unable to sense their presence, they quickly incapacitated the enemy one by one.

The effective way this group personnel do is to carry out skillfully and purposefully deployed combination attacks. However, while there were three enemy groups in this area, the three acted independently, as if they were from different origins.

Even an amateur about the military like Radit could tell from the screen that from his movements, the enemy looked very confused, and he turned to Chess to discuss the enemy's objectives.

“What do enemies think? They look really messy. They should know how tight security is in this Forbidden Area.”

An unknown enemy group was attacked without being able to retaliate, and then another group moved forward. The way they advanced was as if they had no idea that the first group had just been attacked.

“Logically, it's possible that the enemy doesn't expect us to not have a strong defense. Thus, they have made a big mistake. Another possibility is that they are trying to estimate our combat strength, and they want to complete their goal regardless of any losses they receive.”

“The first enemy group left 10 people, they lost two people.”

“The second group of enemies has just retreated to rearrange, an attack from them that is actually imminent.”

“The third group of enemies does not move, they are still preparing themselves.”

“So their number is more than expected. Could the three enemy groups be at odds with each other?”

While they discuss this, Radit wonders if the enemy's actions are political. War is a form of politics, and there is no war in this world that is not related to politics. Victory in battle is determined on a political level. There are times when a battle that ends in defeat can lead to political victory. However, even if guessing the enemy's objective with it, the enemy's actions seemed to be completely useless. After all, the enemy should know that the troops of this region are ready to face them. However, they almost blatantly showed themselves, it was like breaking an egg with a mortar.

The government cannot be separated from the military, because the truth is, political and military problems are two sides of the same currency, but one side blames the other.

“What can you investigate about the identity of the enemy, I have a bad feeling about this battle.”

Radit's request made Chess frown.

“If the enemy decides to retreat, it is a possible thing. But the battle is not yet fully finished.”

“But there's still a way, right? For example the origin race of the enemy, because it is a thing that cannot be disguised.”

Countries like China and Japan are very nationalist. To prove absolute loyalty to their operations, they will not use people from other countries. If they are Malaysians, they will very easily blend in with Indonesians, as there are rarely any physical Indonesians like Chinese or Japanese.

“Mayor, One is near two enemy bodies that were snuffed out. Please allow us to go forward and verify.”

After receiving the advice of one of his subordinates, Chess ordered the personnel with the code name ‘Satu’ to come forward and inspect the bodies.

“Pak, if you may know, what do you think?”

“Ah. Anyway, I am a politician.”

“Please sorry. But, what does that have to do with investigating the enemy's corpse?”

“This One. I just checked the enemy's corpse. There is something strange here, permission to use the lamp.”

Radit instantly snatched a communication device to talk to One.

“What do you mean by weird?”

“Seeing from the shape of the enemy's face, they look like East Asians.”

The moment Radit heard this, a chill crept down his spine.

“Sorry, but please verify the identity of each enemy corpse. It is very important for us to know the origin of the enemy.”

Chess quickly retrieved the communication tool from Radit, but after a while, she spoke again.

“One, you get permission to use the lamp. But work quickly, once done, immediately join the others.”

After 2 seconds of waiting, One finally spoke, “It's One, the enemy is a black person and the person with narrowed eyes!”

If the enemy were China or another East Asian country, there was no way they would mix blacks and whites into combat units. When he heard the report, Radit called the Secretary of Defense.