"Don’t go too hard; the attackers are just mock fighters!" Gu Ji, standing to the side, had just pulled the trigger twice when he noticed Li Yanan attempting to put the bearded man in a chokehold and hurriedly stopped her.

"Huh?"

"Alright, the exercise is over, you passed." The attacker held by Liu Weijun suddenly spoke up.

Li Yanan finally released her grip.

Gao Bo and Zhou Yang stood up from the ground looking bewildered, and the SWAT officers behind the car came out one by one, equally unsure.

The bearded man clutched his neck, coughed twice, his eyes bloodshot, showing how tightly he had been choked. He gasped for air and looked at Gu Ji, who was holding a Type 79 submachine gun, "Cough, cough... when did you realize we were just impersonators?"

"When I knocked you down just now, I saw a shell casing that fell under the car’s hood, it was a blank shell casing."

"Sharp observation, so you stood so firm against the attackers knowing it was an exercise. If this had been real, do you know the consequences of enraging a group of desperate criminals? Weren’t you afraid they’d get agitated and shoot everyone?"

Facing the bearded man’s questioning.

Gu Ji, without any panic, calmly replied:

"No, my firm stance was based on my tactical analysis of the enemy’s and our situation on site. The attackers were using three standard pistols and two fully automatic submachine guns. When we had obtained two of their pistols and one submachine gun, we had already gained a firepower advantage, at which point we should quickly evacuate the innocents to minimize the danger when a firefight occurs."

"Secondly, the attackers’ objective was the people. They didn’t choose to open fire at the bus on the roadside nor after stopping it, which could only indicate that they needed the people inside temporarily alive, or perhaps they couldn’t randomly kill without confirming the HVT’s identity."

"Lastly, when all SWAT officers took shelter in the bus, I was leading the team to retreat to the back of the bus. The front windshield of the Mitsubishi off-road vehicle would form a semi-obstruction, hindering the gunman’s line of sight. He could only choose to reposition, and I had confidence in suppressing the opponent with firepower or taking him down during his repositioning!"

The bearded man, deep in thought, nodded and pointed at the short-haired woman.

"What about her?"

"I trust my teammate would promptly handle the situation."

Just as Gu Ji finished speaking,

the man being held by Liu Weijun grinned, "That’s right, the moment the concussion bomb was thrown during training, the kid behind me had already aimed at Lan Ying and then shot at me. If there were real bullets, you’d both be dead by now."

Only at this moment did everyone realize that the guns were loaded with dummy bullets.

Anyone from a police academy or shooting range knows that apart from powder bullets and blanks, there are also dummy bullets used for training. These bullets look identical to real bullets, made of plastic or metal, without primers, used for instructional demonstrations or simulating loading and reloading.

No wonder only the bearded man fired a warning shot; aside from those two blanks, everyone else’s guns were loaded with dummy bullets.

After all, although blanks don’t have a bullet head, they still possess some lethality at short range.

Because at the moment of firing, the small amount of gunpowder inside the blanks explodes, producing high-temperature, high-pressure gas that bursts out of the muzzle, potentially causing significant damage to flesh.

The exercise was not previously announced to them.

If any SWAT officer had really fired, accidental injury could have easily occurred.

The bearded man listened to the full explanation, his eyes suddenly sharp and intense, like a hawk’s, fixating with interest on Gu Ji, "What’s your name, which unit are you from?"

"Gu Ji, Ningjiang District SWAT Unit of Ningzhou City."