"Are you Gu Ji?"

A crisp and decisive voice came from inside the Mitsubishi off-road vehicle.

The car door swung fully open, and a middle-aged man stepped out, dressed in a desert sand-colored training uniform, holding a stopwatch in his hand. He had small eyes and ordinary features, but carried an air of sharp and efficient competence.

Gu Ji subtly twitched his eyelids.

Instinct told him this was a soldier, and a seasoned one at that.

"You were in charge of this operation?"

"Yes."

Hearing the response, the middle-aged man raised his hand with the stopwatch, nodding at him, "Not bad, Mr. Xiao, how about yours?"

"Quick reaction, pulled the trigger the moment the concussion bomb was thrown."

The strong man held by Wu Kang responded.

"Wow, looks like Li Ruilin has honed his skills over the years and actually trained some sharp hands, not bad, progress!"

The middle-aged man was slightly surprised.

Wu Kang had not realized that all his actions had been observed and noted.

In fact, his instinctive reaction when he heard Gao Bo’s warning was to dodge, but after his trip to Japan, he instinctively recalled Gu Ji’s combat style, which was to deal with high-risk targets first in the event of an emergency to prevent them from counter-attacking and seizing weapons.

What surprised the group even more was the slightly teasing tone with which the man referred to Li Ruilin.

Could it be that their relationship is unusual?

"Compared to you, your reactions were much slower; I saw some of you fumbling. Are you special forces or socially anxious? Is this how a SWAT officer should behave? You might as well quit and go home early!"

The middle-aged man pointed at the other SWAT officers, bluntly scolding them.

Some lowered their heads in shame, but a few could not help but retort.

"Should we call you instructor? Instructor, it’s not that we were slow to react; it’s mainly that we stayed on the mountain last night, and the altitude was too high, we are not used to it, our hearts still feel uncomfortable."

"Yeah! And every SWAT officer has different strengths; some are skilled at handling emergencies, some excel in assaults, and others are excellent marksmen."

"So, what are you best at?"

"I..."

The middle-aged man asked just one question, rendering the SWAT officer speechless, "You’re not going to say you’re good at eating, are you?"

Gao Bo almost couldn’t help but laugh at this comment.

"You haven’t learned much skill, but you sure have plenty of excuses," the middle-aged man said with a reluctance to argue further, suddenly raising his voice, "Everyone, get in the vehicles. Mr. Xiong, you’re in charge of watching this bunch of kids."

"No problem, Mr. Qiu."

The scruffy man grinned, motioning with a large hand, "Hurry up, don’t just stand there, get in the vehicle quickly."

Once on the bus, some SWAT officers, curious about the content of the training, kept pressing the scruffy man for information.

After a bit of casual chat, everyone learned his name was Xiong Changyuan, the deputy captain of the SWAT Special Operations Brigade in the Bian Ga region, and that "Mr. Qiu," full name Qiu Junrong, was an instructor specially brought from a specific Special Ops Brigade in Bian Ga to organize this training.

The goal was to improve their professional fitness and enhance their ability to engage in diverse combat scenarios.

"Active military personnel serving as instructors?" Gao Bo mumbled in curiosity.

Normally, SWAT training instructors come from elite police forces, and some are outstanding veterans from the armed police or army, rarely active military personnel, as the military and police are completely different systems.

Gu Ji wasn’t particularly interested in whether the instructor was active duty; he was more intrigued by the Special Ops Brigade.

If he remembered correctly, the most famous one in the Bian Ga Special Ops Brigade is 69270, the mysterious Snowy Owl Special Forces, primarily targeting counter-terrorism operations, excelling in rapid deployment, akin to the CIF Special Contingency Unit in the U.S. Green Berets.

Due to the Xia Kingdom’s emphasis on the secrecy of violent agencies, especially the military.

So hardly anyone, even ordinary people domestically, knows about these special forces’ combat capabilities.

But the combat ability of this unit is indisputable.

They specialize in counter-terrorism operations in border regions, combat and eliminate terrorists, and handle riot terrorism activities. Their operational frequency and duration are unmatched by other units, ranking them among the strongest special forces in the Xia Kingdom!

Although military counter-terrorism and SWAT counter-terrorism have many differences.

Having such an experienced unit commander train them, Gu Ji was genuinely looking forward to it.

"How do you stay quick and calm in such tense and complex situations?" Li Yanan suddenly came up and asked.

"Just experience it a few more times," Gu Ji’s thoughts returned to reality.

"Gu Ji, among young SWAT officers I’ve met, is the most battle-hardened, bar none," Zhou Yang suddenly interjected, "They just got back from an overseas mission in Japan not long ago."

"An overseas mission in Japan?" Li Yanan instinctively asked.

It’s understandable she didn’t know about this mission; in fact, aside from the Ningzhou SWAT circle, other SWAT teams within Wu Province also weren’t in the loop.

"At the funeral conflict of the Yijuan Association and the Tokyo Subway shooting incident, the main agents in these events were Gu Ji and his team of three."

Zhou Yang’s words left Li Yanan visibly shocked.

Even the nearby SWAT officers were wide-eyed.

The Tokyo Subway shooting incident aside, the funeral conflict of the Yijuan Association was a massive violent event that shocked the world. The news-reported casualties alone reflect the severity and its chaos, let alone the scene at the event itself.