On the day Chen Zhu joined the team as a freshman, the team's recruitment poster was posted in the most inconspicuous corner of the activity center - A3 printing paper, in black and white, and even the team logo was blurry. In the laboratory, an infantry chassis was lying on its back, with four Mecanum wheels still buzzing and idling; a projectile was stuck in the launching mechanism and could not be pulled out. In the first round of the regional competition last season, the air conditioner in the laboratory broke down for two months, leaving only five veteran players in the team.
Everyone thought this team wouldn't survive next season. Until Chen Zhu squatted down and said something to the firing mechanism of the jammed bullet: "The assembly gap of the bullet supply chain guard is not calibrated - it is off by a few tenths of a millimeter, and the bullet will tilt when it enters the chamber."
From that day on, the machine that was falling apart began to snap back into place. There is no genius operator, no halo of the protagonist, just a group of ordinary people who twist screws until the early morning: the sultry captain who failed the college entrance examination, the provincial shooting runner-up whose hands tremble when he is nervous, the silent sentry who uses a soldering iron as a weapon after retiring from the army, the electronic control team leader who is always drinking coffee, and the logistics genius who can pry away the opponent's gold mine with the jaws of an engineering vehicle. They went all the way from the conference to the top eight in the country, not because of talent, but because every time they lost, there were still people who stayed, took apart the mistakes frame by frame, and said - they won't do it again next time.
There is a saying in the RM circle: 98% of people are defeated here, but 100% of people grow here. When Feipo Toujia successfully played for the first time in the national competition, and when the captain of the four-time champion came over in person after the game and asked, "How much can you control your landing deviation?", This group of people who had been on the verge of disbanding could finally tell everyone - we are not here to accompany you.
