Zhuo Yang said: "Rui Jiming once said, probably because I have been separated from normal human society since I was a child and followed the ** line of beasts that eat the jungle, even after his upbringing, there is still a part of my brain that is different from the structure of people. He pointed to his head, "I have a beast here." ”

Lu Ying raised his head suddenly: "It's not like this......"

Zhuo Yang waved his hand and motioned for Lu Ying to listen to him continue. He poured himself another glass of wine, holding it in his hand and shaking it playfully, the clear liquor was quite crystal bright because of the refraction of the glass facet. He said: "At the beginning, I didn't think that I had returned to human society for seven or eight years anyway, and I learned how to be a qualified soldier in the army, and with the help of Sister Wen Xiu, I felt that I could be more like an ordinary teenager in my teens, but in the selection of the Qianlong Army, I found that all of this was useless." Zhuo Yang drank the glass of wine, looked at the wine glass as if he was distracted, he said, "At that time, I didn't even know that this was the selection of the hidden dragon, I still thought it was the selection of the dragon, and the task that our chosen people were going to perform was to protect those important people......"

In Zhuo Yang's narrative, time is pulled back eleven years ago.

Eleven years ago, in the second year after he left the army, Zhuo Yang, who was only 18 years old, received a notice on a sunny spring day that he was scheduled to hold an elite talent selection competition at the Armed Police Corps of Province K on April 15, 2005, and invited Comrade Zhuo Yang, a first-class soldier of the Fourth Armed Police Frontier Force of Zhenning County, to attend on the same day.

Because the army often holds some martial arts training events every once in a while, so Zhuo Yang himself didn't take this too seriously, he thought it was the same as some previous municipal and provincial competitions, going, participating, fighting, winning or not awarding, and then coming back, he thought it was such a simple thing, but he didn't expect to leave Zhenning County for a full ten years, and his life trajectory has embarked on a dangerous and unpredictable road. If you ask him now, you look back and don't hate Rui Jiming who sent you up, Zhuo Yang still can't answer. Although without Rui Jiming, he would not have those inhuman days he lived later, but without this incident, he may never be able to face his flaws, and he will never meet Lu Yingyi.

Zhuo Yang still remembered that Rui Jiming rarely put on the military uniform he always wore improperly that day, buttoned every button one by one, and then handed the notice to him personally, at that time he said: "It's a dragon or a Jiao, it's time for God to test." But when Zhuo Yang received the notice, he suddenly lost his shape again, and collapsed back into his old broken rattan chair, crossed one leg, babbling in the sun while drinking and singing, "Drink the celebration wine today, and the ambition is not rewarded......"

In Rui Jiming's ridiculous singing, Zhuo Yang left his "home" in Zhenning County and came to the Armed Police Corps of K Province alone, and arrived with him with a total of 67 top soldiers selected by the armed police force and the People's Liberation Army from all over the country. Among the military branches of country C, there are often civilian comparisons about whether the armed police are more powerful or the army is more powerful, and even within the army, but this time the elite talent selection competition is like a sharp guillotine, which elevates this competition to a life-and-death level.

At the beginning, everyone didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and they still carried out regular martial arts competitions such as weight-bearing field running, armed swimming, shooting, sanda, and comprehensive skills and tactics. Taking the armed run as an example, the training assessment index of the general army is 15 kilograms for 5 kilometers and 26 minutes for the passing line, but in this competition, everyone must carry 24 kilograms and run 10 kilometers, but the passing line is only 60 minutes, and the road conditions are extremely complicated. In such a round of high-limit regular events, people are constantly falling and quitting, and unlike in the past, every time someone falls is immediately asked out of the playing field, not allowed to come back, and they are not even allowed to pack their bags. watched one figure after another go away, and when all the regular items were compared, the final number of people left was 16.

These sixteen top soldiers are undoubtedly the elite of the elite, and each of them has pride written on their faces, because after the last round of elimination, they have been told that this competition is not a simple technical training, but a special force Tenglong talent selection competition, as long as they can pass the subsequent competition, then they will be directly transferred from the local to the center, and play an important role around the most core part of the country, the most core figures. For a soldier, this is undoubtedly the crowning glory!

Sixteen soldiers were in high spirits, they lined up in two lines, ready to be further tested, Zhuo Yang was young but not the youngest in the group, and there was a junior from Province H who was two months younger than him. At that time, most of the soldiers had gradually built trust and friendship during the long and arduous competition, even if they were rivals, and everyone was stunned when they waited with bated breath for the next order from the examiner.

"There are so many people that we have to remove half of them. The examiner said coldly, "Each of you now has a military badge on you, and then you will be taken to a nameless desert island, and in a month's time, those who can ensure that their military badge is not lost and grab at least one military badge from others will be able to stay." In addition, small bombs are hidden in the military plate, and they will not explode until a living human sign is detected, in other words, the military plate cannot be separated from the body. ”

Surviving on a desert island is not a problem, nor is it a problem to snatch someone else's military card. Bombs were planted in the military plaque...... There are already some questions, and the bigger question is, why does it take a month when that's the case?

Lu Ying raised his head sharply and looked at Zhuo Yang in disbelief: "Battle Royale?"

Zhuo Yang nodded.

For example, if someone obtains someone else's military card by his own strength at the beginning of the exam, then he must continue to avoid the pursuit of others including those who have been robbed of his military license for the next month, due to the information exposure of his multiple military cards, the burden of this person will be much greater than that of those who do not hold military cards or only hold their own military cards. It may be that a person who has barely escaped the attacks of all sides for nearly a month, but because of this overwork, he was robbed of all his military cards at the last pass, and he lost too unjustly. However, in order to avoid this from happening, there is a way to make the person who has lost his military card no longer have the ability to regain his military card, and that is to completely abolish the person's combat effectiveness and even life!

When they understood what the examiner had just said, almost all of them's faces changed, and two young soldiers looked at each other, obviously complaining about it, and one of them stood up and said, "Sir, I think this method of selection is against the law and meaningless. ”

Another said: "I agree that although obedience is a soldier's duty, this order is fundamentally a violation of human rights." ”

The examiner glanced at them, and then said, "Those who are unwilling to accept the next competition can take the initiative to withdraw." ”

Soldiers, look at me, I look at you, in addition to the two just now, three more people came forward one after another. The examiner looked at them in turn and said, "Very well, now you can go." ”

The five saluted in unison, and then left without saying a word.

They walked out of the examination room one after another, the door slowly opened and closed slowly, almost at the same time as the door closed, the people in the door heard several gunshots from outside, the people who had just walked out let out a mournful scream, and there was a sporadic sound of fist and flesh fighting, but it was immediately covered by the sound of the assault gun, accompanied by the heavy sound of the human body falling to the ground, and soon fell silent. Then the examiner took out a notebook, a pen, and slowly but firmly crossed out five names.

"Obedience is the first principle. The examiner raised his head after marking the name, "Do you still have any objections?"

After hesitating for a moment, the remaining eleven stood up straight and replied in unison, "No." ”

"They were killed?" Lu Ying asked.

Zhuo Yang was noncommittal: "Maybe someone died, maybe not, maybe only partially." When I went out, there was blood and bullet holes on the ground, but there was a subtle difference between the amount of blood and the number of people. ”

Lu Ying thought for a moment and said, "They may also be bait." ”

"Maybe. Zhuo Yang said.

Maybe from the beginning, those five people were not selected reserve talents, they were the ones who had a special mission to sneak in and give these "new recruits" a bad fight, or maybe they really died, no one knows.

Zhuo Yang said: "The remaining eleven of us were quickly taken to that K-island to begin a month-long life-and-death struggle. ”

On the one hand, you must overcome the difficulty of surviving on a desert island and meet your own survival needs, and on the other hand, you must try your best to defeat or even kill your opponent while escaping the pursuit of others. Lu Ying guessed that at the beginning, the remaining eleven people might not necessarily want to kill their opponents, although they were engaged in training that could kill people every day, fighting, shooting, and the use of cold weapons, these soldiers were always taught to point their fists at outsiders, not at their own people.

"At the beginning, there was a proposal to reach a peaceful confrontation regulation, that is, to act in small teams of five people, snatch each other's military cards, and end the confrontation with the sign that all the military cards of one side are snatched by the other side, after which the other side must not take any further action, so as to ensure that enough candidates are selected and the other side will not be threatened with their lives. "This is a very typical method of training for confrontation within the troops.

Lu Ying thought for a moment, but said: "Eleven people have removed ten, and there is one more, this person's storage is very delicate." He continued to think for a while, "In addition to the five who seemed to have been shot at first, I suspect that there should be someone among you who is responsible for directing the situation in order to prevent a similar agreement from taking effect, and the number eleven is by no means unintentional. ”

Zhuo Yang nodded: "In retrospect, yes." ”

The young soldier Ge Zhuangwu, who claimed to be two months younger than Zhuo Yang, Zhuo Yang had never met him again after leaving K Island, but in retrospect a few years later, he found that all the actions left in his impression by this person had spontaneously threaded into a line, and he suspected that this person was also a member of some secret unit, but he never had the opportunity to see him again in his life.

Zhuo Yang said: "In the middle of the way, I suddenly found an order in my military card, which told me that among the eleven people on the island, spies from abroad had been mixed in, intending to spy on the secrets of our army, and this escape order was just a test, and I needed to find that person and kill him." ”

"I'm afraid you're not the only one who has received such an order, this ...... This is terrible!" Lu Yingyi said, unable to imagine the scene on K Island at that time.

Survival, confrontation, snatching military cards, killing spies, complex terrain, harsh living environment, struggling with peace agreements and cooperative relations on the edge of the cliff, rampant intrigue and lies, conspiracy and conspiracy, everyone is struggling to choose, choose to believe or doubt, attack or defend, group or individual, order or strength...... Everyone may think that they are righteous, but the reality is not. This is the most typical characteristic of a warrior shrouded in the "Hidden Dragon", these people who are responsible for those disgraceful tasks, although they have great strength, need to walk alone in the dark area for the rest of their lives, have no friends and relatives when they are alive, and may not be remembered or even recognized after they die, and if they lack firm faith, they may collapse in the next second.

Lu Yingyi couldn't imagine what would have been the result if he had been on K Island at that time, he was from an orthodox family of dart masters, in a certain way, they were a group of conservative people, abiding by the principles of loyalty, bravery, benevolence, righteousness, and faith, in this environment, the probability of his defeat was very high, not because he was not smart enough, but because he was too disciplined.

Lu Ying looked at Zhuo Yang, the man put down the wine glass, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he was looking far away through him and through the wall of the room. Lu Yingyi suddenly felt that he shouldn't listen to it anymore, Zhuo Yang's past, those pasts he didn't want to mention, he said: "Ah Yang......"

Zhuo Yang stretched out three fingers: "I, ah, I killed three people at that time." ”