In the morning, the warm winter sun shines on the earth.

The Mandarin District is across the street from the downtown library.

The entrance of Mingguang Hotel.

A group of old people, or in groups, groups of three, five, five, and five, laughing and talking, or walking alone, and then, constantly being warmly greeted by other groups, gradually, also merged into a small group, as if they had found the old people's organization, and also joined the ranks of laughter.

And among this group of old men and women with an average age of seventy or eighty years old, there is a group of young men and women walking through it, adding a lot of youthful vitality to this group of people who exude an ancient atmosphere from the inside out.

Occasionally help to help, pull, and get along quite well.

On the thirteenth and fourteenth floors of the hotel, the huge space originally used for banquets has been reorganized.

The walls are deliberately mottled and old, with the breath of time, but they are not the kind of elegant old, rough, shabby, and stiff.

The items inside, whether it is tables, chairs, cups and saucers, or other utensils, all adhere to an aesthetic style, silly, large, black, and coarse.

The paintings in those exhibitions did not have advanced or pretended to be sophisticated techniques, and they did not pay attention to exquisite composition, color palette, and lines...... It's like a propaganda poster, or the style of a few decades ago, square, hard, straight, even the faces of the characters, including the faces of women, are all like this kind of appearance as if muscle bumps are piled up, if the color is expressed, it is also direct and crisp, red and purple, at a glance, gaudy, earthy.

But in the eyes of those old people, it couldn't be more kind.

The authors of these paintings are the old men themselves.

More than 70 percent of the content in the painting is labor, labor, and labor.

The remaining twenty or thirty percent are basically records of various collective activities, playing ball together, playing games together, tea parties together, bonfires together, and commendation meetings together......

Luo Wei and others entered the exhibition hall, and at first, when she saw those paintings that were several eras behind the current aesthetics, she really couldn't find any bright spots.

I don't think there is anything attractive about it, and the reason why those old grandfathers and old ladies are so excited and fascinated is probably because the content of these paintings evokes memories of their youth.

She believed that not only her, but also the other companions around her were similar.

However, as she looked at the dozens of paintings, she gradually became a little fascinated.

From those paintings, she felt a peculiar atmosphere.

Happy.

Simple and raw pleasure.

The joy of labor, labor is equal to happiness.

Most of the paintings are paintings that depict labor scenes, and each one, each person's face, is filled with a simple, clean, and pure happiness.

Even in some pictures, no one is laughing, they are gritting their teeth and working hard, but that kind of energy is in one place, and the heart is thinking in one place, the strength of one person, the strength of ten people, and the strength of hundreds of people...... Together, it is the great power of destroying mountains and rocks and changing rivers and routes, and behind that, there is an extremely optimistic happiness.

That kind of experience seems good.

It's not bad, it's ...... Superb.

Gradually, Luo Wei became a little fascinated, and she really had the urge to devote herself to it and experience it.

Like her, most of the other people who came with a mission mentality were also attracted by such a peculiar atmosphere, and gradually became a little fascinated.

That's when it happened.

"Whoa—"

A uniform violent shattering sound sounded in the ears and overhead, and everyone in the hall was instantly stunned.

The old men and old ladies who reacted a little slower, some of them were holding trembling crutches and looking around.

The others, who have turned into wooden people, stared blankly at the hall more than five meters high, and on the glass walls around them, they were broken by armed men in camouflage armed uniforms, combat boots, steel helmets, and swords and guns on their backs, kicking out holes one by one, holding the zipline hanging from an unknown height, their legs slightly bent, and their bodies slightly straightened, so they entered the hall space along the holes, and released the zipline when they were one or two meters above the ground, and stood firmly on the ground.

As soon as the people landed, they did not stop for a moment, some teams went upstairs along the stairway, and some people went downstairs along the stairway.

"Boom-boom-boom-"

A group of people who went downstairs, the front one only reached the staircase, but they each took out a special grenade and threw it in one after another, but the explosion sounded almost at the same moment, in every space on the floor below.

Violent tremors, as if an earthquake was coming.

The tables and chairs swayed, and the paintings on the wall that had been carefully drawn and framed by the old people fell to the ground in a mess, and the sound of shattering seemed to be the sound of the old people's heartbreak.

There was also one person who remained in the hall and did not leave, neither going upstairs nor going down.

He was born with a slightly chubby face that was charitable and easy-going, and if he didn't smile, he seemed to be smiling, calming the people in the hall who were completely unaware of the situation and were frightened by this sudden change.

"Don't panic, don't panic, this is an armed exercise, in order to strive for vividness, it may have caused some small frightens to you, and I will compensate you in advance here. ”

At this moment, there were firearms from upstairs and downstairs, swords fighting, screams of injuries and so on.

And at this moment, some pungent, spicy-eyed, dry throat, and stuffy chest gas seemed to pass through the air from upstairs and downstairs, and many people felt uncomfortable.

Some of the people who reacted quickly quickly thought that many of the grenades that exploded just now should have been doped with special "chemical weapons", and they were spicy and pungent...... How exciting how to come.

This is...... Armed exercises?

What about ghosts, or fools?

The crowd just stared at him blankly. Even the old man with a little back of his ears had burning eyes, as if he was about to burn out scars on his body.

The man's smile did not decrease, but he did not continue to explain, but looked at a young man in the crowd and said, "Zhang Ziyang, you come to tell everyone." ”

A young man standing quietly beside several old men, tall and swordsman-eyed, took a step forward when he heard this.

This person is one of the strongest clubs in Luo Wei's university, Zhang Ziyang, the curator of the Kendo Hall, was originally just a group of old men and old ladies who gathered together to talk about friendship and reminisce about youth, because of his "care", a group of young people were forced to come in.

An old man next to him looked at him with some confusion: "Ziyang?" He is Zhang Ziyang's grandfather.

Zhang Ziyang looked at him, nodded slightly, gave a reassuring look, and then looked around the hall and said, "Please rest assured, this is indeed an armed exercise, but it is too realistic, and I have been notified beforehand...... The reason why I didn't tell you in advance is because the more people know, the less real everyone's reaction will be, and the more the results of the exercise will not be taken seriously. ”

"Xiao Yang already knew, it seems to be a drill. ”

"But are the drills all real now? I don't say hello at all, it's so intense, you don't know, I'm so scared that I almost went into cardiac arrest. ”

"yes, that grenade, that shockwave vibrating...... It's too real. ”

"I don't know what the situation is upstairs and downstairs, is it really killing? It's so bad, it's like it's real. ”

"Really kill?haha,I remembered my feelings after watching a drama when I was a child.,There were too many dead people in that play.,And they all died too heroically.,I thought.,How can there be so many people in the base city to play the dead.,Play one dead one.,Pure consumables.,And,Where are you looking for this?,It's not enough to push out all the death row prisoners in the base city.,I thought.,I'm afraid they're not going to carry whoever is like catching a strong man, right? I almost got depressed thinking about it, because I was afraid that I would be the unlucky one chosen. ”

"Ha, hahaha......"

Some people really believed in the explanation that Zhang Ziyang cooperated with their own people, but some people saw the strangeness, but they all chose to remain silent and had no intention of digging deeper into this issue.

After about half an hour, there was less movement upstairs and downstairs.

Then, I saw that some of the armed men were wounded, and they came down from the upper floor and went downstairs one after another, and they were basically holding a "prisoner", with their hands tied behind their backs, and their mouths were stuffed with all kinds of messy things to prevent them from making a sound, and the injuries on their bodies were more serious than those of the armed men.

When passing by, most of them were dejected, without any signs of struggle, and followed step by step, but there were also a few bloody ferocities still there, turning their heads and looking at them viciously, as if regretting that they could not eat a mouthful of fat that was close to their mouths.

Almost at the same time, just across the street from the Mingguang Hotel, Bilan Garden, a membership-based high-end club, also had a "drill" coming to an end.

The armed personnel who participated in the "exercise" also frightened some people when they appeared on the stage, and the number of these frightened people was not as large as that of the Mingguang Hotel, but the level was higher, and it was even more difficult to fool them; it was clear that the exercise had ended, and it was clear that they had already arranged for the auxiliary personnel to cooperate with them in advance, but when the "prisoners" were withdrawn, they were still pestered and questioned by several people, with a posture that if you don't reveal the truth of the matter, you don't want to leave.

It makes the people who carry out the task anxious.

Dealing with these people is more tiring than fighting a visible enemy with a sword.

If we expand our horizons to the central urban area of the base, and even the entire urban area of the base city, and even the farming areas adjacent to the urban area, all kinds of incidents broke out on December 5th.

Even the beast tide with a scale of more than 100,000 had three waves, which launched a sprint towards the iron fence defense line from the north, west, and southwest directions of the base city.

The original iron fence of iron walls seems to have suddenly become a big hole that leaks everywhere and needs to be mended everywhere.

The garrisons of each of the Iron Forts were "sufficiently" mobilized.

What others don't know is that not only the garrison is directly under the combat force, but the deeper forces it has mastered have also been fully mobilized.

......

in an office.

The Force and Chen Nan sat on the chairs on one side, quietly listening to the adjutant report to Chen Yiqi.

"We have mobilized all the forces that can be mobilized, including a large number of but weak civilian joint defense teams, including a team composed of trustworthy and well-known Black Iron Realm and Bronze Realm monks, among them, there is also a team led by the Silver Realm Scattered Monks, and the strength of the members is a powerful team on the overall bronze. ”

"In addition, there are intramural and even inter-school clubs composed of practitioners in various institutions of higher learning in university towns, as well as practitioners' clubs, practice houses, and battle halls that have always had a clearer preference for us. ”

Chen Yiqi listened, and said: "In just a few days, we have to ensure that we are hidden enough not to startle the snake, we can mobilize a force of such a scale, and we have almost passed the 'instructions' to the end of every node, and the success or failure of the rest can only depend on the will of heaven." ”

When the adjutant heard this, he did not correct it, but added:

"One side just wants to destroy, and then take the opportunity to make a move, fight, but the other side wants to protect all this, the so-called unity, in the overall momentum, we have no doubt, is a total victory.

On the other hand, although the enemy is likely to be hidden in all corners of the base city, and there are various identities and disguises on weekdays, until the moment of unveiling, it is impossible to determine the specific forces, let alone individuals. However, the total base city is so large, and the circle of cultivators is even smaller, they can hide one or two, and it is impossible to hide ten hundred, so the scale of the team's strength is almost predictable...... And in this regard, our side is clearly superior to those sneaky people who hide in the shadows.

How can all this be said to be handed over to Providence? ”

Chen Yiqi glanced at the adjutant slightly, with some intention of apology and forgiveness.

In his heart, he muttered, how to get higher and higher as the position under his ass became higher and higher, but this well-trained adjutant became more and more interested in developing towards "friends".

Is this to find a role for yourself in advance?

He didn't dwell on this topic, but asked, "What have you found about these three beast tides that broke out at the same time today?"

The adjutant replied:

"There are indeed discoveries...... On the way of these three waves of beast tides, we have discovered the existence of a variety of special potions, and we can only identify some of them now.

Their medicinal effects are either extremely aphrodisiac properties, causing infected monsters to fall into a state of rage that cannot be courted;

In addition, there are potions that carry special pheromones and have great damage to some specific monsters;

A potion that has a magical guiding effect on some monsters......

In addition, there are many kinds that we have not been able to identify. It's all a new breed that is unfamiliar to us.

However, no matter what, one thing we can be sure of is that there were indeed people behind the scenes, prompting the birth of these three waves of beast tides. ”

Chen Yiqi bowed his head and said: "Now it is enough to be sure of this, you can study the rest slowly, don't be in a hurry." ”