【472】Newcomer Selection (2nd Update)
The final selection location for Sky Wolf was a secret training camp in Daybreak, where Kane had been training for a year when he was still a rookie, in a hidden place not far from the outskirts of East City.
On the surface, there is no special place around, but in fact, the training ground is surrounded by various mechanisms placed by Daybreak, and if you are not careful, you may lose your life here, which can be said to be a very dangerous place.
The people who participated in the selection this time were all brought by the people of the dawn themselves, and if they were allowed to enter it by themselves, I don't know how many people would be broken in the middle.
After their selection is over, the initial training of newcomers will also be carried out here, and being selected during the selection does not mean that they can become a member of the dawn, at most they can only be regarded as a reserve member, and only if they can persist for a year in the later training, they can be regarded as truly becoming an official member.
And the training method of Dawn is notoriously cruel in the mercenary world, and after the preliminary selection in previous years, there are not a few people who give up halfway during training.
This is also the reason why the core members of the core group have a dozen or twenty participants who think they are quite good, but they say that there are less than five people who may be able to stay in the end.
Because the elimination rate during training is really high, even if there are 20 people left in the end, it would be good to have a quarter of them last for a year!
The people who came to participate in the selection were all gathered in a small open-air training ground in the training camp, according to visual observations, there must be at least 500 people, and a mercenary group with a total of only 100 people can recruit so many people in a very short period of time after sending out the news, I have to say that the appeal of Dawn is quite strong!
It is impossible for a mercenary group of ordinary people to do such a fierce act.
It would be good to have one or two mercenaries occasionally haunt Dongcheng Pingsuri, where there will be a scene of hundreds of people gathering in one breath.
Bai Si had expected that the selection of newcomers at dawn would be very lively, but he didn't get any specific news about how many people participated in the selection before, and he thought it would be the same as last year, with about 300 people, it would be spectacular, but he didn't expect that this year there were nearly 200 more people than yesterday!
Choose a maximum of ten people among the five hundred or so people, and it is almost the same to say that it is one in a hundred.
Ten minutes before the selection began, the core members thought that Qin Shuang and Ah Chen would not come, but suddenly someone was shocked, pointed not far away and said, "Two more people are here!" ”
The core team members turned their heads to look over in unison, with a look of surprise on their faces that could not be hidden.
Kane's eyes widened and he asked Hakuji, "Are those two people?" ”
Bai Si also looked at the two people in amazement, "That's them." ”
"Tsk, did you really come in on your own? Seeing that there is not a trace of wolf bèi on them, could it be that they have avoided all those mechanisms? Venus exclaimed, looking at the two men who were still among the others, and a hint of alarm flashed in her pretty eyes.
"Being able to come in means that they really have real skills! Hey! Now this newcomer selection is interesting! Kane laughed treacherously twice, and stretched out his hand to the others by the way: "I am willing to lose the bet, but people have come in smoothly, don't forget to give me and Xiao the money when the time comes." ”
"You're still afraid that we're going to pay off, what's the matter?" Venus rolled her eyes, "But that man is so handsome!" It's still long hair! Looking at that body shape, you also know that the explosive power must be very strong! Bai Si really didn't deceive people, these two people looked at it not simple, but it's a pity that the other party actually had someone in his heart, otherwise I would have to snatch someone over! ”
The atmosphere between Ah Chen and Qin Shuang that is difficult for others to get into, just one glance can let people know the indestructible relationship between the two, although Venus likes beautiful men, but it is not like being a junior and intervening in other people's feelings.
Besides, the man, her intuition as a woman told her that she couldn't control that man at all, just as she couldn't take down the wolf.
These people seemed to be just gossiping, but in fact, the moment they saw Qin Shuang and Ah Chen, they quickly looked at them, and they were secretly frightened in their hearts!
Although these two people could see that they had tried their best to hide the momentum on their bodies, they could still feel that these two people were very strong! So far, they have rarely encountered someone who can give them such a sense of oppression, and obviously they have not shown any hostility to them, and it has made their hair stand on end instinctively, and they unconsciously tense their bodies, and their vigilance is rushing upwards!
But what's even more strange is that they feel that these two people are dangerous and may threaten their lives, they really don't think so, and their intuition tells them that these two people really have no ill will towards them, and their physical reaction or psychological vigilance is just a conditioned reflex that they have developed from a long-term life of licking blood from the knife edge.
At the same time, the Heavenly Wolf had a very strange feeling towards Qin Shuang and Ah Chen, strictly speaking, when he inadvertently met Qin Shuang's eyes, his heart jumped suddenly, and he didn't know why he was a little panicked.
This feeling of not being able to control her emotions was very bad, and the wolf didn't notice that something was wrong, so his eyes instinctively became sharper and sharper, and a pair of dark brown pupils stared at Qin Shuang deadly, as if he was wondering if she had done something, or by looking at her, he figured out the reason why she made herself so abnormal.
However, Qin Shuang only glanced at him and then directly looked away and whispered to Ah Chen, as if he didn't have any special thoughts about him, which made the Heavenly Wolf inexplicably a little frustrated.
Qin Shuang and Ah Chen didn't notice the attention of the people who broke the dawn on them, as well as the tightness of their bodies, with Qin Shuang's understanding of them, they could roughly guess their thoughts just by their little expressions.
After so many years, there was still one day to see them, Qin Shuang's mood was not ordinarily good, but she couldn't recognize them, and it was not good to attract more attention before she really got in touch, so she could only focus on the people around her who came to participate in the selection like them.
Others are wary of each other because they are competitors, however, they both have different opinions.
They were purely from the perspective of Daybreak to see how many of these people were qualified to enter Daybreak.
With Xiao Qi here, they can scan everyone first and check their physical qualities, so as to preliminarily judge the basic level of these people.
Of course, just the physical essence does not represent a qiē, just like Vivi, his hacking level is indeed very high, but in terms of physical fitness, he can barely compare with the ordinary members of the Dawn, maybe it will be a little worse, but no one dares to underestimate him in the entire Dawn.
Because he is not only good at computers, but also good at machinery, most of the various mechanisms in many places of dawn are from him, who dares to provoke him, and he is crying and crying for his mother.
Therefore, these people have to see if they have any other specialties, and if there is a technology like Vivi that can be valued, it is not impossible to be admitted.
Xiao Qi easily got all the information about the participants that Dawn had, so Qin Shuang and Ah Chen were just matching the information with themselves at this time.
In the end, the people who can be paid attention to as reserve members are basically the same as the ideas of the core members, but they themselves are counted in it.
All the people who participated in the selection were all there, and Dawn didn't talk nonsense, and directly said the selection rules and let them start the assessment immediately.
An excellent mercenary can't not only have excellent skills but also have a brain that wants to match, so the assessment should also test everyone's wisdom, such as how to deal with emergencies when going out on a mission, in case you find that there is a traitor among your companions, how to pull people out without startling the snake, etc., all belong to the assessment content.
But this is not a college entrance examination student, of course, it is impossible to let them take a written test, and even if it is a written test, it is also different from the reaction they will have when they are really faced with that situation.
Dawn just arranged a series of review items for the answers they wanted to know, and asked all the participants to draw lots to decide on the group, each group of ten people, a total of fifty groups, and each other got a task slip, and in this task slip, there would definitely be a mole among the members of each group.
Others need to find out the mole, and the mole needs to get the content of the other person's task out of the other person's mouth without anyone noticing.
Other regiments will put people in Dawn, and Dawn can also send people to other regiments, so they need both kinds of talents.
Before the end of the assessment, of course, Dawn did not clearly state what this assessment was specifically about, otherwise these people would be on their own, and the effect would be completely different, it should be to understand their ability to adapt when they are unsuspecting.
In addition to testing everyone's brain power, the task itself assigned by the individual will also be based on the individual's skill adjustment in the information provided to Dawn, the test of marksmanship that is good at marksmanship, and the test of fighting that is good at fighting, in short, most people's abilities can be verified.
A small number of people who can use electronics, such as computer technology, can only arrange several corresponding small assessments to score comprehensively after the assessment starts because they cannot bring any electronic equipment.
After this assessment is over, in addition to what they are good at, the remaining people will also have to take the basic test of Dawn separately, most of them are some of the most basic abilities that should be mastered as a mercenary, and they don't expect everyone's level to reach above the standard line, but at least they have to show their extremely high talents, so that the people of Dawn feel that they can cultivate.
Qin Shuang and Ah Chen came together, so they had to be arranged separately when drawing lots, and they would definitely not be in the same group.
The two have no objections, anyway, even if they are separated, they have a systematic connection, and they can still contact if they want to.
Everyone drew lots and divided into groups, and at dawn they were given a pistol filled with empty cartridges, and all the qiē items they were carrying, including communication equipment, were temporarily put away, and they were returned to them after they returned from completing the assessment.
When the preparations are all over, everyone will go to the assessment area with each group without hesitation.
The assessment time is three days, in fact, the time is quite sufficient, but after a long time, food has become a problem, Dawn did not provide any food, and said that there is almost no food to be found in the assessment area, such as fish and shrimp, or pheasants and ducks or something, of course, if someone is willing to dig earthworms from the ground, insects or something to fill their stomachs, Dawn will not stop them.
Being able to eat those things also means that the endurance is amazing, you can endure hardship, eat nothing, and three days can also test people's physical fitness and willpower, which is good for the assessment of dawn anyway.
The hundreds of people who came to participate in the assessment were not all mercenaries, some were outlaws, and a small number of people were ordinary people who were desperate.
Let's say that there are some who have reached the level of entering the dawn, and there are not a few weak chickens who are not as good as ordinary people who are usually more fit and fit.
Qin Shuang and Ah Chen's respective groups have this kind of dragging their feet.
These people's expressions were distorted when they learned the rules of Dawn, with an unbearable expression, and a bit of regret in their expressions, which made them feel ridiculous.
It's really fun to be a mercenary, what's wrong? Without amazing endurance and willpower, extraordinary skills, just by an impulse to think that you can walk shit and transport into the group? This kind of thing can happen to some small mercenary groups, and it is a pipe dream to expect this to happen at dawn!
Moreover, Dawn didn't say that you weren't allowed to kill people.
Those outlaws may not be afraid of the dawn, so they will not do black hands to others, there are so many competitors, it is completely possible to use some dark thoughts to kill the opponent to increase the chance of success.
In fact, every year when the dawn of the new talent is selected, there are always some people who die.
When participating in the assessment, Dawn will also make it clear to everyone that they will not be responsible for the lives of the participants, the mercenary industry is a dangerous industry that can kill at any time, and if you want to make a lot of money, you naturally have to take risks, if you don't even have this determination, you can just get out of the way, and you don't need to continue the assessment.
At that time, of course, everyone said that they were not afraid of death, but some naïve people would inevitably think that Dawn was just trying them, and it was impossible to really let their lives be threatened, and then, these naïve people were always the first to die during the assessment.
As for asking the stupid question of how to kill people with only empty cartridges in the pistol in his hand, the people who will have this kind of question are probably laymen.
Although a mercenary is not a killer, he can kill people with a random gadget, but if he wants to kill a person, he doesn't have to have a weapon such as a pistol or dagger in his hand to get his hands on it.
If you have good skills, it's not impossible to beat people to death directly, in short, there are ways to kill a person, it depends on whether you have that heart.
For Qin Shuang and Ah Chen, this assessment is almost universal with their eyes closed, whether it is marksmanship or disguise, they can easily prove to Dawn that what they said is true.
Even if it is food and water, there are hidden cameras arranged in advance of dawn everywhere in the assessment area to observe, so that Xiao Qi can help block the signal a little, and they can take out all kinds of hot and fresh food from their backpacks to solve the problem of hunger, and they don't have to suffer like everyone else.
It's not that they can't afford to sin, but since they have the conditions to enjoy it, why do they have to abuse themselves? When faced with a lack of food and water, they can live better than anyone else.
For three days, the dawn people were not idle, they would observe the expressions of those in the assessment in the camp every day, there were 'accidental' deaths, even if they knew who did it, they would not hold each other responsible, this world is originally about the weak and the strong, and the dead can only blame themselves for being too weak.
Of course, it is clear that the other party is not a traitor, but he deliberately said that the other party was a traitor, and killed the other party and said that it was a despicable person who was to protect other people, and he was directly crossed out by dawn and not admitted.
Although the core members of Dawn had not discussed it in advance, they all tacitly focused some of their attention on Qin Shuang and Ah Chen, and in the past three days, the expressions of these two people have also shocked them quite a bit.
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