The National New Year ceremony is held in Donghai City, which is located on the eastern coast of China.

Because this year's New Year's conference involves the customization of personal portable mecha of the three teams of the champion, runner-up and third runner-up, the martial arts that are usually held in the Beijing-Tianjin area of the capital in previous years have also made some changes.

It was changed to the technology provider of portable mecha assembly technology, which is the location of Tokai Heavy Industries, in the Pujiang area of Tokai Sea.

As in previous years, the National New Year Conference will be held on December 24.

But TD arranged a trip for them as early as December 5, the third day everyone learned of the news, and they took a private flight to Tokai City.

Originally, as the leader of the special operations team, Lei Hao was ready to go with them.

However, due to some urgent matters, he could only wait until after the conference began to arrive in the East China Sea.

Therefore, in the days leading up to the 24th, they will arrange their own group activities and training.

Donghai is one of the most economically developed regions in China, and it is also one of the few regions with a regional-level establishment like Beijing and Tianjin.

Unlike Beijing and Tianjin, which focus on the comprehensive development of the three major industries, the ideological strategy of going hand in hand,

From the geographical and historical factors, it is determined that the tertiary industry, that is, the service industry, is extremely developed.

Even as one of the country's leading technology industry giants, the predecessor of Donghai Heavy Industry was once a leading enterprise in the tertiary industry, Donghai Network Information Technology Company.

It's just that Donghai Network Information Technology Co., Ltd. undertook the task of national mecha research and development in the process of scientific and technological transformation and development in 2060 and reorganized.

As the city guard undertaking company of Donghai City, Donghai Heavy Industry is naturally the venue provider and co-organizer of the National New Year Conference.

In addition to the National Competition Association, another co-organizer of this year's competition is the East Coastal Defense District of the Military Department.

When Li Lingqi and the others arrived, these two parties jointly sent people to greet them.

Ye Xingyan and Shi Yuanzheng were the people sent by the two parties to receive them, and they were also one of the contestants of the two sides of this National New Year's Conference.

Among them, Ye Xingyan is from Donghai Heavy Industry and is the deputy captain of Donghai Heavy Industry.

And Shi Yuanzheng is from the East Coastal Defense Region, and he is the captain of the East Coastal Defense District who is responsible for leading the team this time.

Seeing the two people holding signs at the airport, Ling Qianhan waved at them and led everyone over.

And Ye Xingyan and Shi Yuanzheng, who had seen a few people, were also engaged in this short but rapid exchange.

"The girl walking in front is Ling Qianhan? Is it Hai Xu next to her? How is Hai Xu different from the rumor?" Ye Xingyan said as he looked at Ling Qianhan and Li Lingqi, who was beside her.

"I'll take a look," Shi Yuanzheng said while waving his hand in response to Ling Qianhan's confirmation, while opening his personal terminal and glancing at the list of TD companies,

"That stunned guy is called Li Lingqi, he wasn't famous before, and the information is nothing special, so he should be a substitute. ”

"Hai Xu is the one who walked behind him," Shi Yuanzheng said and couldn't help but look at Hai Xu twice, he really had the demeanor of the first person in the military academy.

"Oh, I see it. I'm a little interested in him, let me tell you, don't rob me!" Ye Xingyan glanced at Hai Xu, who was sunny and handsome and had the demeanor of a general, and said.

“......”

Shi Yuanzheng didn't speak, but looking at the saliva he swallowed slightly, Ye Xingyan felt that he needed to strike first.

"Hello! This is Captain Ling Qianhan Ling, right? In the Lower East Coastal Defense District, Shi Yuanzheng is next to me Ye Xingyan of Donghai Heavy Industry!" Shi Yuanzheng saw them walk to the exit and hurriedly stepped forward to introduce himself.

"Hello, I'm Ling Qianhan, and these are the members of our TD company who participated in the competition this time. Ling Qianhan answered tepidly, and he didn't lose his politeness, but he was not very enthusiastic.

"Hello," Shi Yuanzheng had already understood Ling Qianhan's personality and didn't care too much, and nodded to the others before saying to Ling Qianhan,

"We've got a vehicle to the hotel outside the airport, so let's talk as we go?"

"No problem, then trouble Captain Shi!"

"It should be, it should be. How to say that this time the martial arts meeting was also held by our Donghai City, and it is normal for our local team to be responsible for entertaining. "Shi Yuanzheng looks like a person who has been in the company for a few years, and these polite words are also familiar.

Just when Shi Yuanzheng led the members of TD Company towards the exit, Ye Xingyan, who planned to strike first, had already secretly started to act.

I saw her wrist tremble, and with a bang, a white card flew from her hand towards Haixu behind her.

Syllable!

Hai Xu saw Ye Xingyan, the deputy captain of Donghai Heavy Industries, who had a competitive relationship with TD in front of him, throwing a hidden weapon towards him, and naturally instinctively dodged it slightly sideways.

The thing that was thrown out by Ye Xingyan suddenly hit Li Lingqi, who was looking around behind him.

"Oops!"

I only heard Li Lingqi covering his chest with his palms and screaming in pain, and Yu Beisheng, the hand-picked nanny of the Ling team on the side, hurriedly asked,

"What's wrong?!"

"Someone hit me with something," Li Lingqi said as he spread out his palms and revealed the white card thrown by Ye Xingyan.

Yu Beisheng snatched the white card and glanced at it, and said with a strange expression,

"Who hit you?"

"I don't know, the thing flew from the front. ”

"Front ......"

Yu Beisheng looked up at Ye Xingyan, who was walking in front, smiled, threw the things in his hand back to Li Lingqi and said,

"Boy, you're out of luck!"

"Don't worry, buddy will help you hide from Team Ling, it's up to you whether we can win easily!"

"Say what?"

Li Lingqi pushed away Yu Beisheng, who was smiling strangely, with a puzzled expression.

Then he flipped through the white card with 02303 written on the back and looked at it.

On the front of the card it is written,

Welcome to Donghai International Hotel!

"Uh......"

Li Lingqi was also stunned when he saw this line of words, and then he also became a little strange.

House...... Key card?!

It is certain that this card must have been thrown by the people who walked in front.

Hai Xu and Ling Qianhan just got off the plane, of course, it was impossible for them to have the hotel's room card, so it must belong to either Ye Xingyan or Shi Yuanzheng.

glanced at Ye Xingyan, who had nothing to say to Ling Qianhan, her position was just a gap between him and Haixu, it shouldn't be.

So...... This card is from the Stone Expedition?!

Thinking of this, Li Lingqi only felt that his hands holding the card became trembling.

On the way here, everyone went through all the information they could get at this stage.

Since the schedule will not be announced until a week before the start of the competition, they actually focused on the teams sent by each competitor this year.

Among them, the East Coastal Defense Zone, which is one of the two hosts, is naturally also the focus of everyone's research.

There's a little bit of gossip among them.

It is rumored that Shi Yuanzheng, the captain of the East Coastal Defense District, seems to like to thread needles and drink big red robes!

To be honest, it's human nature to thread the needle or drink anything alone, but the two together can't help but remind people of an Oriental sect leader who is very famous in the history of martial arts novels.

This one also loves to thread needles, as for whether he drinks the big red robe, he doesn't know, anyway, he loves to wear the big red robe.

Li Lingqi silently put the white card in his pocket, glanced at Yu Beisheng's shy, but did not speak, just rubbed his relatively soft watermelon head vigorously to make himself look a little vicissitudes.

Yu Beisheng was afraid that he thought that this card was thrown by Ye Xingyan, and there was a misunderstanding.

Standing in Yu Beisheng's position, he couldn't find that there was actually Haixu between the two.

But if you misunderstand, you misunderstand!

Li Lingqi thought for a moment about the consequences if Yu Beisheng knew that the card was thrown by Shi Yuanzheng, and decided to remain silent.

And Hai Xu, who was walking in front, didn't care even though he heard the noise of the two people behind him.

I didn't expect it to be because of the white hidden weapon he dodged, which made the two behind suddenly become active and excited.

After all, there are times when Yu Beisheng suddenly becomes perverted for a few minutes every day, but it is just in public today.

"Captain Shi, how many teams have come here now?"

When he arrived at the car, Ling Qianhan also began to ask questions that everyone was more concerned about.

Although Lao Lei provided them with some information, he only picked some teams that were more prominent in the past.

There are dozens of cities in the country that are qualified to recruit city guards, and the number of defense districts is about the same.

Combined, there are 167 teams participating in each year.

Not to mention that many of the 167 teams and 1,670 people are unknown, even if the old thunder god has obtained all the information of these more than 1,000 people, they are afraid that they will not be able to read it in just half a month.

Even those who have already given the information, just looking at the information is afraid that they will not really be impressed by the previous meeting.

So asking who's coming, it's important to have a selective conversation.

"Speaking of which, there are a lot of people here. ”

Shi Yuanzheng called up the statistics and sent them to them,

"Donghai International Hotel has been chartered by our two companies during the Huiwu period. The 2nd to 17th floors are the residences of our team members."

"Now there are 860 people, which means that there are 86 team members. ”

"Now half of the second floor has been occupied, and three of our top ten teams from last year have already moved in!"

"Oh?" Ling Qianhan said as he flipped through the information from Shi Yuanzheng, "The North China Defense Region and the Southeast Defense Region actually arrived before us, aren't they still in the arming period?"

"Everyone knows the current situation, since there is a plan above, then these recruits are dispensable. ”

"Including our defense area, the pressure has been weakened a lot in the past few months, and the frequency of harassment at sea has also been reduced by more than half. ”

Ling Qianhan nodded, she also knew the recent situation, the battle situation in the remote defense area was tense, and even many city guards in the southwest and northwest regions were always on standby.

On the contrary, the southeast and northeast have changed from the original main war zones to a situation dominated by small-scale restrained exchanges of fire and harassment.

"By the way, which city is the other company here? Why don't you have their information yet?" Ling Qianhan flipped through the list of eighty-six teams, but did not find the third team in the top ten that should have appeared.

Last year's top 10 included six companies and four defense zones.

Among them, the defense zones are North China, Southeast China, East China Sea, and Southwest China, of which North China, Southeast China, and East China Sea are all old main theater defense areas, and the southwest defense area is also an area where the exchange of fire has been very fierce in recent years.

The six companies are large companies that have received urban guard quotas in the six cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Donghai, Shuangqing, Xilin, Beijiang and southern Tibet.

At this time, among the top ten, the four defense districts have reached three, and the southwest is frequent, and I am afraid that it will be a few days before we have the opportunity to send people to send their teams over.

The remaining team in the top 10 of the previous session should naturally be one of the companies in charge of the six places.

Excluding TD and Donghai Heavy Industries, the remaining four companies that achieved the top 10 results in the last session are Shuangqing's Fantasy Technology, Xilin's Energy Group, Beijiang Huamei Holdings and Ssangyong Pharmaceutical in southern Tibet.

And the names of these companies are not in the list of these 86 teams!

"You mean the team that should have belonged to Huamei Holdings, right?" Ye Xingyan said as he flipped through the occupancy records on the second floor.

Because the hotel and the event venue are arranged by Donghai Heavy Industry, although Shi Yuanzheng from the Donghai Defense District introduced the situation along the way, the specific questions were answered by Ye Xingyan when it came to check in to the team.

"When the participating teams were included this time, Huamei Holding Group had just carried out a series of mergers and acquisitions, and they are now participating in the merger with a new name after the merger. ”

"Look at the team in the forty-third column, Xinghua Investment Group, it's them. ”

Hearing this, Ling Qianhan clicked on the team information of Xinghua Investment Group, and then said with a slight frown,

"They're also a 'pure newcomer' team?"

"No, it's not! Their five main players are all from the previous competition, and the substitutes are newcomers. It's kind of an old with a new. Shi Yuanzheng on the side said with a smile,

"I'm afraid that even if you TD has deep pockets and doesn't care about the latest technology licensing fees every year, we don't dare to send pure newcomers to the game. ”

"Do you know how much the license fee you gave us for the defense zone at half price last year? 300 billion yuan, which is enough to account for 16 percent of the entire cost of our defense zone!"

"Hehe," Ling Qianhan smiled and didn't speak, Lao Lei had also told them about this kind of thing before he came.

Don't look at this nominally as a license fee, in fact, because the production capacity of most areas is limited, it is a directly required finished product, especially in each defense area, and even the transportation is borne by TD, so there will naturally be a lot of consumption.

"But then again, this year's format is probably not possible if you want to be like the one ten years ago!"

"Portable mecha installation is an imperative technology for all defense areas, and I don't think your company will be without ideas about this. ”

"Of course, TD dared to send you here because even if your company didn't have a top 10 name, it would be easy to buy a license. ”

"Our defense areas are different from the company, this conference is still according to the usual licensing system, the first three are free, the first ten are half price, and the next twenty are added to one percent until the full amount is not fake. ”

"But this time, the technical valuation is 1.5 trillion yuan, and I'm afraid whoever buys the full amount will have to break their bones. But if you really say that everyone can eat the resources of free technology subsidies, who is willing?"

"Who's soldier has more mecha than one mecha is a little more security, let alone such a new technological innovation?"

Saying that, Shi Yuanzheng also glanced at Ye Xingyan, who was the team of Donghai Heavy Industries, the provider of this technology.

Ye Xingyan saw him looking at himself like a vampire and hurriedly said,

"Don't look at us like that, one by one can't look down on that little bit of technical subsidies, and who is less than 170 companies?"

"There are so many production lines and assembly lines in our company, where are we busy with the innovation of millions of mobile suits across the country?"

"In the end, you don't have to come a little bit? If you are too expensive, like them, you simply buy the technology yourself and go back to production, and it will be a tenth of the price. ”

"Okay, okay, don't be like a cat with its tail stepped on. I'm saying, who doesn't know that you technology providers are really thankless?" Shi Yuanzheng said with a smile.

"It's good that you know, but I've heard that several defense zones have a lot of opinions about the technology license fee this time. How do they know about our suffering?" Ye Xingyan replied angrily.

"We only see our own soldiers shedding blood, we are not the same as accepting peacekeeping missions to fight abroad? Not to mention that the cost is here, what can we do every year?"

"Alright, you two don't say a word. I haven't said anything yet, but you're arguing yourself. ”

Ling Qianhan saw that the two of them from different teams and companies could get along harmoniously, and his tone became softer.

For a long time, although she has been the president of the student union of North China Military University, the exchanges between schools, especially between military schools, are mainly confrontational, which is also an inevitable requirement to maintain the fighting spirit of military academy students.

Therefore, she is also accustomed to maintaining a serious attitude to face this National New Year's Congress.

After all, it was also the first time she had participated in such a big competition in which all the armed forces and groups from all over the country participated.

I am afraid that the country that is the organizer also takes into account the fact that most of the participants are newcomers who have graduated for one or two years, so there is a tradition of early participation.

The members of the team who were selected by the company and the defense region to participate in the National New Year meeting are undoubtedly the new forces that are favored by various countries.

They maintain a state of both competition and familiarity, just like Lei Hao divided them into two groups of assessments, all for the purpose of facing the enemy together in the future and working together to pave the way for external efforts.

As for why you don't have a winter camp, you don't need to say more about the reason why everyone eats, drinks and has fun together.

As a soldier, if you don't grow up in an environment of struggle, you will face a group of "student soldiers" and "child soldiers" on the battlefield in the future, and that is irresponsible for life!

"Let's get back to business. You're the hosts, and you've been in contact with these teams for a long time, is there anyone who needs to be paid attention to to remind us of the newcomers? Of course, if there's anything to keep secrets, forget it. Ling Qianhan said to the two captains.

"What's the matter of secrecy, Captain Ling said with a smile. Shi Yuanzheng grinned habitually,

"Since Captain Ling wants to hear it, Captain Ye and I will talk about our opinions, right?" he asked Ye Xingyan in a soliciting tone.

"That's good, because it's mainly our people who are receiving them these days, so I'll talk about my opinion first, and then Captain Shi will add. Sister Ling, what do you think?" After talking for a while, Ye Xingyan saw that Ling Qianhan was not so difficult to communicate as in the information, so he called it a little more casual.

"Then I'll do whatever I want?" Sister Youyan has the final say!" Ling Qianhan replied.

Some people may be surprised, this Ye Xingyan is bigger than Ling Qianhan, why do you call her Sister Ling?

This is the same as when young people nowadays see that no matter how big or small, they are all this brother, and calling her Sister Ling is just an honorific title, and there is no meaning of who is big and who is small.

Ye Xingyan saw that although Ling Qianhan had just graduated from the military academy with a hint of arrogance, he was not young and naïve in his actions and conversations, and his heart couldn't help but evaluate her a little higher.

Even if you are a warrior, you don't have to be strong to be king.

The role of one person on the battlefield is limited, and a planet-level mobile suit as strong as the starry world will also die in the war.

Therefore, talents like Ling Qianhan, who are strong, talented, and easy to communicate with others, are not self-sustaining, and have a better future.

Of course, if Ling Qianhan was like an old fritter like Shi Yuanzheng, it would make her look down on her.

They are warriors after all, and it is good that the communication will not produce problems with each other, just like Ling Qianhan and himself have one or two honorific names for each other.

If you really flatter each other and praise each other a few times back and forth, it is putting the cart before the horse.

"Hmmm......"

Ye Xingyan seemed to have thought a lot, but it was just a moment of thought, only to see that she listened to Ling Qianhan's reply and paused slightly, and after a little organization, she said,

"Then I'll start with three of the top 10 teams!"

"Our two families want to come, you already know something on the way here, I won't go into details, just talk about the two defense regions in North China and Southeast China and the three teams of Xinghua Investment Group, I feel that they are more eye-catching!"

"Ren Fusheng of the North China Defense Region is also the deputy captain of the North China Defense Region this time, and I think Hai Xu of your team should be more familiar than me. Saying that, Ye Xingyan and Haixu also threw a hidden wink.

It's a pity that Hai Xu, the straight man of steel, didn't receive Ye Xingyan's signal, but just nodded sincerely and said,

"Well, my senior. I wasn't as good as him when he was in school. ”

Of course, Hai Xu just said that Ren Fusheng was in school, and did not mention the present, that is, subconsciously saying that it is unknown who will win and who will lose when the two are fighting now.

"And then there's their captain, Li Xian. The second son of General Li Beiwang. I heard that his younger brother is in your TD, so you can also pay more attention to his situation yourself. ”

"Anyway, about this Li Xian, he was the captain of the North China Defense Region last year, and he led the team all the way to the top ten, and he should be stronger this year. ”

"As for the rest of the people, except for the three newcomers, they are all old members of the previous session, and you should have a lot of gains when you go to look at the information of the previous session. ”

"In the southeast defense region, their captain and vice captain in the last session have been more than three years, so this year's blood change is also a relatively large team. They should have had more contact with Brother Shi, so let him come and talk to you!"

Ye Xingyan handed over the conversation to Shi Yuanzheng and asked him to introduce the team of the Southeast Defense Region adjacent to the East Coast Defense Area.

"Southeast Defense Zone......" Shi Yuanzheng said after thinking about their candidates for this competition,

"Their captain Huang Ming, I have some impressions, the performance of the last session should be decent, and he should just lead the team. ”

"Vice Captain Peng Yugang needs to pay more attention, this is one of the key training in the Southeast Defense Region in the past two years, he is extremely good at locking and controlling, and he is very difficult. ”

"In addition, there are a few newcomers in their team, you may wish to pay more attention, I heard that in the past two years, the Southeast Defense Region has poached a lot of young people in order to prepare for the arms race, and they are likely to be several of them. ”

Chirping~

The brakes of the vehicle sounded, and it turned out that they had arrived at the door of the Donghai International Hotel where they were staying, Ye Xingyan said when he saw this,

"Let's go in first, let's talk while we eat!"