High School Soldier
30. Catching monkeys off
April 16, 2321, at 10:42 WIB.
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All the members of Squad 3 had arrived at the place where the injured young man had been standing guard. The western area of Kwangsan Village is directly adjacent to the neighboring sub-district. A bridge becomes a barrier between two villages and two sub-districts.
In this place is also overgrown with teak trees so that the residents of Kwangsan Village call this place as teak forest.
Squad 3 did not immediately search for the enemy soldiers who attacked, and they actually saw some residents lying in the middle of the road with various circumstances.
The number of people guarding the western part of the village was 13, with one person killed by another world soldier.
The rest were moderately to severely injured in various parts of the body, and the injuries were caused by the sabetage of sharp weapons. It was obvious because the enemy was still using weapons like swords and arrows.
4 female soldiers who have the ability in the medical field immediately approached the sprawled citizens and many splashes of blood around them.
“Report to the coach if the residents report there are 3 enemy soldiers attacking!” nio commands the member who carries the communication tools.
“Siap,” answered him who then turned on the communication tool in his backpack.
The sound of the soon-to-be-connected radio channel was heard and the members that Nio ordered to report to the coach began to communicate using military coded language.
“How?” asked Nio when the members he ordered to report had finished communicating.
“They said we should solve this problem,” he replied with an anxious face.
Nio rolled his eyeballs to think about the next thing. Since he is the Commander of this Squad, it means that he must be responsible for all its members and matters of strategy.
Although he had once been a Squad Commander, yet it was not in a direct battle. Because when fighting the dragon rider army he just chase and kill an enemy soldier.
He could only devise a strategy if there had been prior preparation. But the thing faced now is different because the enemy is wandering around this village.
And a soldier from the special forces is required to be able to assemble a strategy quickly and effectively in the most difficult circumstances.
Nio called his 10 members to come closer and then said, “You guys go back to where the citizens gathered and stand guard there!”
“Ready!” answer the 10 men in unison and then run away from this place.
Nio turned to the remaining 20 members of Team 3 and was ready to be given orders.4 female members had also finished first aid to the injured residents.
Injured residents were seen to be able to be asked questions because of his improved condition.
Nio approached one of the citizens with the best circumstances to be questioned, “Enemy ran in which direction uncle?”
“They were there..,” replied the male citizen who pointed towards the teak forest and he with the condition that part of his right hand was wrapped in bandages.
Meanwhile some of the members of Squad 3 who were from Company 302 were talking about Nio while whispering. Of course their talk sounded uncluttered to the person they were talking about if that person heard it, namely Nio.
“What is he reliable?”
“I don't want to die under his orders.”
“He's like doing the job as he pleases.”
“I've seen him speak for himself.”
There were still a lot of things they talked about about bad things and their distrust of Nio.
But their conversation sounded Rio and Sima who happened to be near the group of people talking about Nio.
Although it is in one Squad and comes from different Units, but that does not mean that not all members of the Squad believe in Nio.
“It looks like the person they are talking about is Nio,” Rio said.
“I feel they will not pass in training,” Sima continued.
Meanwhile Arista and the soldiers from the 406 Company glanced at Nio with amazed gazes.
“Can he make a strategy to catch the enemy?” ask Ika who happens to be curious about Nio and ask the person who is a company with him.
“Don't know, but he's pretty great, even though his face is like a slacker. Especially when he is serious,” replied Arista.
“Indeed he ever did what?”
“Thanks to his proposal, our Company together with Company 32 managed to repel the enemy dragon rider troops.”
“While I don't see the truth, it seems like he can indeed be relied upon to lead this Squad even though we don't necessarily qualify in this training.”
“Yes, at least we have tried our hardest to become this special forces.”
A while later Nio returned to his members who were already waiting to be ordered.
He looked like he was thinking about something hard enough to occasionally press his head.
The member who didn't ‘likes’ Nio smiled cynically at Nio as he looked like he couldn't think of a strategy at all.
However Nio returned to his usual face and took out a novel that was given by the coach as a fantasy science material for soldiers who took training.
He found the page he had marked by folding it and gave it a few words above the page.
“Aquorts like them if in a very desperate situation will hurt citizens as a threat. It seems like that is also what the enemy will be looking for, because their base is quite far from this village and less familiar with the path.
But the teak forest seemed to be quite vast, so maybe they were still within the forest area. But they seem quite ingenious because they leave very little trace.”, said Nio who momentarily focused only on his novel.
Nio actually just muttered to himself because he felt his opinion was still incomplete. But his murmur was heard by all the members who were seen just silently sculpting, including some people who talked about Nio earlier.
“Why you guys?” tanya Nio who saw all the remaining members to do the chase looked just silent as after listening to an expert speak according to his expertise.
The entire members just shook their heads which made Nio even more clueless about their behavior.
But there is something more important than asking why its members look only ‘melongo’.
“Alright, we will do a monkey chase loose. Without the need for the help of the coaches, we can definitely catch them,” said Nio confidently.
Rio and Sima both held back laughter due to Nio's orders being interspersed with insults towards the enemy.
Nio noticed the two comrades were holding back a laugh and then approached the two of them.
“Why are you guys seen laughing at me?” asked Nio with an annoyed face.
“No no, it seems like you really deserve to be the Commander of the combat-ready Squad,” replied Sima who was accompanied by a nod agreeing with Rio.
Nio smiled and said, “Thank you, but actually I don't want to be Commander.”
“Then you want to be a Company Commander? Or maybe Battalion?”
“Not both, gaining member trust is very hard to know!”
“Let's just relax, you can start by gaining my trust,” Rio said with a smile full of confidence towards Nio.
“I also,” connect Sima.
“Then we must pass this training first.”
As the three of them were having a conversation, the other members of the Squad could only quietly wait.
“When did it leave? Ntar's enemies hunted far.”
**
Meanwhile, in the coach room, Sugeng looks calm. Although a while ago there was a debate between Sugeng and other coaches and finally the coaches can be calmed by him.
But some coaches are still not calm. Even they have prepared combat equipment if at any time something bad happens to Squad 3.
“Are you sure they can catch the enemy, Major?” ask one of the coaches.
“Calm down, after all in the Squad there is one person who makes me interested,” Sugeng replied while showing one of the files on the results of psychological tests and general lessons belonging to a soldier named Nio.
One of the coaches received the file and read it with his three colleagues.
“She, almost got a perfect score on the general exam when working on math problems. In addition he got more grades than set in the psychology exam ” said one coach with a amazed face.
Although some of Nio's test scores are only on average.
“Ah, I know him. He almost shot me in the head when he was about to do a vigilance test,” said one of the trainers whose heads was hit by a rifle because he thought he was an intruder.
Everyone in this room simultaneously laughed at the coach whose head had been held by a rifle by Nio.
“Why didn't he shoot you in the head?” ask one of the other trainers with a laugh.
While grinning he said, “That maybe he still let me to ‘torture’ the soldiers while doing the survival test.”
**
In a room that was quite large and there were 5 people who were in front of the meeting table.
When viewed from the ornaments displayed in this room looks like illustrations on novels and fantasy comics belonging to Special Student Forces training soldiers.
Because this place is indeed behind the Gate, precisely one of the kingdoms ‘ in the other world’.
Everyone in this room is having a conversation about the course of the war with their other world, the Earth. Of course they use the language of this kingdom.
In front of them was already a map of the Earth's world the spoils of the previous war and sent to this world.
“While it took me years to rule over all the countries of the world, I believe we can slowly defeat all the countries of the world,” said one of the people wearing typical medieval royal clothes.
“Do we already control the island?” ask the person next to him who wears almost similar clothes but different colors while pointing to Java Island.
“The island consists of many regions and is not a whole region. Our troops have only taken control of some areas on the island.”
“What areas are successfully controlled have many resources?”
“Seems not. It is likely that resources in the region have been taken first to strengthen the country's military,” said another person while pointing to Indonesia's first territory.
“What is the world's army getting stronger?”
“It looks like so. They have also created a new weapon that can penetrate that upgraded armor.”
“It looks interesting, but who will win remains our kingdom.”
“Yes. We will rule that world and soon call ‘Sang King of the World’.”