Chapter 153: 153: Leveling services available, gameplay set to default upgrade.

Lin Yue followed Li Yan into the combat command center.

Also known as the broadcast studio.

Here, one could see the entire combat process through covert surveillance cameras set up in the jungle.

And these images were remotely synchronized and transmitted to headquarters.

Seeing Gu Feng in Area A along with the Fourth Military Region enter the scene, Lin Yue felt a small surge of excitement and couldn’t help cheering for him internally.

She knew that Gu Feng had retired from service, and seeing him don the combat uniform after such a long time made her think he looked really cool.

In the broadcast studio, the instructor from the Third Military Region, Ren Yao, stood with his arms folded, watching Gu Feng from the Fourth Military Region team enter in Area A. He turned to Li Yan and asked, "Who is this guy?"

Li Yan, hands propped on the tactical board and observing the many individual video feeds, replied with a mysterious smile, "A specially invited instructor."

"What instructor could be more convincing than you?" Instructor Ren Yao from the Third Military Region grew even more curious.

Li Yan: "When I was with Dragon Thorn, I was mainly good at reconnaissance as an observer. This guy is a bit more all-rounded than me."

When Ren Yao realized the other didn’t want to disclose more, he didn’t press on, but couldn’t help reminding, "This must be his first time at the Fourth Military Region, right? Do you think he can fully grasp the terrain advantages in such a short time?"

Having often battled each other, both armies were very familiar with the terrain, which was indeed a disadvantage for Gu Feng.

But Li Yan wasn’t worried about it at all.

Because every mission they had abroad was in an unfamiliar environment, and it was always their captain leading them as they fought their way out.

Entrance to Area A.

The Fourth Military Region team consisted of 10 people, all of whom were adjusting their equipment.

Team leader Kuang Xiao looked at Gu Feng and asked, "Bro, how should we address you?"

These men were all around twenty-four or twenty-five, in the prime years of a soldier.

Gu Feng zipped up and responded, "Blood Blade."

They all wore combat Bluetooth headsets to facilitate communication within the team.

And their conversations could be heard by the referees in the broadcast studio.

This was to facilitate the scoring of their on-the-spot decisions through their actions and spoken commands.

Of course, this was one-way communication; no one outside the field could contact those inside based on surveillance feeds.

Those outside, including instructors and the tactical think-tank, could only observe their actions and conversations to note down which aspects they had faltered in for a later debrief.

"Blood Blade?" Ren Yao was curious. "I’ve never heard of this code name before."

Li Yan laughed, "It’s a very old code name, and very few people remember it now."

He was one of the few who knew the nickname ’Blood Blade,’ having trained with Gu Feng in the Fourth Military Region before fighting their way into the Dragon Thorn squad.

It was Gu Feng’s service code name back in the early days at the Fourth Military Region.

But after joining Dragon Thorn, for secrecy reasons, he changed it to a new code name, ’Thorn’!

[Notice!]

[Due to the intervention of senior leaders, the current combat difficulty will be upgraded. The mode will change from both sides’ survival combat to a ’seizure of Area C’ with third-party involvement.]

In the broadcast studio, as well as the ears of all the soldiers in preparation, came the abrupt notice.

The rules were changed from the simple mode of survival combat to a mode involving the capture of a third-party area.

In other words, there was now a third-party force involved, and both sides had to attack towards Area C from Areas A and B.

The defending soldier scale in Area C camp: 100 men!

Not only would AB sides have to deal with each other, but they also had to figure out how to handle the defenders of the third-party camp in Area C during the assault to complete the final capture.

Furthermore, the environmental condition index on the field would also be upgraded.

Random invisible mines, laid by the forces in Area C, would be deployed along the various routes leading to Area C!

At the same time, all surveillance feeds of Area C from within the forest would be granted to the forces in the Area C camp.

And the Area C camp would also have the capability to control drone warfare equipment.

Simply put, once they entered Area C, they would be known to the teams from AB areas through all their assault routes!

"Damn it!" Kuang Xiao, who was just casually greeting Gu Feng a second ago, had his eyes widen in shock upon hearing the new rules through his headset.

And it wasn’t just them – back in Area B, Su Yuan and his Third Military Region team were also exclaiming ’insane’!

It seemed as if there was no intention to allow any soldier to complete the mission.

"Are we really playing it this way? Who can complete the mission?" said Ren Yao from the Third Military Region in the broadcast studio, his eyes wide. "Isn’t this standard too high?"

Li Yan appeared very calm.

Because Gu Dadong and he had agreed on this plan from the moment Gu Feng visited the military region; they were prepared for it at any time.

He chuckled lightly, "Just imagine a professional is gaming, and the system has automatically decided to level up!"

"Who?"

Ren Yao caught onto Li Yan’s meaning. His eyes narrowing, he quickly turned to gaze at Gu Feng on the screen from Area A, sitting in silence.

Upon hearing about the new rules through his earpiece, Gu Feng immediately sensed the intention behind them.

His gaze shifted to the concealed surveillance cameras.

This movement was precisely viewable by everyone in both the broadcast studio and headquarters.

Gu Feng’s look seemed to tell them that their plan had been seen through.

"With these conditions, Area C camp has total transparency of the terrain; how do we attack?" Su Yuan’s team felt the task setup was incredibly difficult!

With just 10 people, they had to deal not only with the opposing camp’s forces but also the third-party Area C’s 100 defending soldiers. The key issue was that these 100 defenders had total transparency of the terrain and free combat rights within the region.

Once inside Area C, the 100 defenders, being privy to the surveillance layout, could launch a breakout against you!

Forget about breaking in; they figured they’d be ambushed at the edge of the area!