The solar system, the base of Mars.

Mars is the most Earth-like planet in the solar system, and some scientists have pointed out that in ancient times, Mars was alive, and it had mountains and rivers like the earth, and there were the same intelligent life as human beings. A few hundred years ago, that is, the era when the earth civilization developed to the late primitive civilization, science fiction novels and movies about Martians (Martian civilization) were very popular, of course, this conjecture has been confirmed to be only illusory today, because it has been confirmed from the scientific research that later landed on Mars that Mars has not given birth to traces of life.

But now, this barren planet has become a second planet, and it is also the second planet in the solar system after Earth. Since the earth civilization entered the cosmic civilization, the development of Mars has not stopped, and now Mars has not been transformed into a life planet like the earth, but nearly half of the area on Mars has been transformed into an area for people to live in, although these areas also have special protective shields and other facilities for atmospheric isolation protection, but people believe that over time, Mars will really become a life planet like the earth.

Mars base, this is the name given by the Earth civilization after the development of Mars, but with the development progress of Mars, the Mars base has been very different from the lunar base, Pluto base, including the Oort nebula. It would be more appropriate to describe the Mars base as an entire Martian city, or "New Earth", but until now, neither the federal government nor the military had any idea of changing the name of the Mars base.

With the outbreak of civil strife in Gaia, the sworn enemy of Earth civilization, and after Kabakas fled to the solar system, a series of plans of Earth civilization against Gaia civilization began. The most critical of these plans is, of course, the military plan, and in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, the federal government and the military deliberately set aside an area from the southern hemisphere of the Mars base as the logistics headquarters of the entire plan.

This area includes three cities. Herschel is one of these three cities, and Herschel is the famous astronomer in the history of astronomy. Herschel was named in honor of the father of stellar astronomy.

With a total area of 1,211 square kilometers and a plain in the southern hemisphere of Mars, Herschel is not the first city to be built on the Martian base, but it is the largest on the Martian base. One of the most well-equipped cities.

In order to ensure the success of the project against Gaia's civilization, Herschel City was temporarily assigned to the Federal Logistics Headquarters, and the Federal Government's Forward Base Officers and the Temporary Forward Command of the Space Fleet were also temporarily located in Herschel City. Of course, when the follow-up plans begin, these command structures will be transferred outside the solar system, but by then Herschel will still have its mission as a key logistics headquarters.

Tom has graduated from the military academy for two years, although he has a heart to become a soldier, but his grades in the military school are only average, not that he does not work hard. Some things are useless with dreams and confidence, you need talent and luck. Speaking of luck, Tom's ability to enter the military academy is already luck for him, but talent is something that he is born with, and this is not something that can be achieved by hard work.

To be honest, Tom's talent is just an ordinary person, and coupled with his poor academic performance, he was not assigned to the combat unit of the Space Fleet after graduation. Not to mention not going to serve as an officer on a battleship, as a second lieutenant. Tom was assigned to the logistics department of the Mars base, mainly responsible for some logistical chores, which was a bit disappointing for him, but anyway, he woke up every day and changed into a straight uniform, looking at the rank on his shoulders and the logo on his chest. At least comfort yourself that he has finally become a real soldier.

Besides, working in the logistics department of the Mars base is not a bad thing, for many military personnel the logistics work is much safer and more leisurely, and it is a position that looks good in the eyes of others. Moreover, his good friend Jamie also graduated from business school. Jamie's father's company has an important branch on Mars, and when he heard that Tom worked in the logistics department of the Mars base, Jamie, who had already learned to take over the company's business with his father, took the initiative to come to the Mars base, so that the two good friends could see each other from time to time.

Logistics is tedious and boring, and Tom is just a junior officer in the logistics department, and most of his daily work is dealing with data, equipment, food, etc. Just like today, Tom commanded the soldiers to load the much-needed supplies needed for the Oort Nebula Advance Base onto the large transport ship, and then complete the handover.

This batch of supplies is produced by the factory at the Mars base, and then sent by the transport fleet to the forward base to prepare for the upcoming military operation. On the one hand, the mass of Mars is only more than half of that of Earth, and the thin atmosphere of Mars allows the transport fleet to deliver materials to the front line faster and more conveniently. On the other hand, the limitations of ore materials on Earth and Earth's specifics are not a problem on Mars, and they can be processed better and faster. In addition, the construction of the Mars base has formed a complete industrial chain over the past 100 years, which is an important reason why the federal government, including the military, finally used the Mars base as a temporary logistics headquarters.

"Good work." The transport fleet was handed over by a captain officer, and Tom and Tom were classmates in the military academy, but after graduation, Tom came to the Mars base to work, and his classmate went directly to the transport fleet directly under the space fleet. Although they are all dealing with logistics, the other party is obviously better than Tom, and in just two years, the other party's military rank has been hung with the captain's epaulettes, and Tom is still only a little second lieutenant who is slightly better than the big soldier.

"That's as it should be, the material data is okay, right? If you have no problem, please sign here. Tom had a very ordinary smile on his face, he had a very ordinary relationship with this classmate, and he especially hated the way this guy looked swaggering in his captain's uniform every time he came.

Especially when he saluted the other party according to the regulations, this guy's deliberately casual appearance made Tom's teeth itch even more. But an army is an army, at least now that people are commanders, no matter how uncomfortable Tom is, he must complete the task according to the regulations.

The captain took the electronic board with a smile and pretended to check the numbers, in fact, the two sides of the numbers on it had already been checked by the brain, and he did this completely to show himself in front of this old classmate. After reading the numbers. The Captain signed it casually, then handed the electronic board back to Tom.

"By the way, Tom, I won't be here next time." Tom checked his signature, nodded and saluted, and was just about to leave when the captain said something suddenly.

Puzzled, Tom turned to look at the other man.

"I got the order. After the supplies arrived at the front line, I had to report to the Second Fleet, and Captain Frankie of the Second Fleet lacked a staff officer, so my superiors asked me to go over and serve as a ....... ”

The captain had a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, and he talked so much, and after talking for a while, he specially asked Tom if he knew who Captain Frankie was, and also gave Tom a "tutor" on the sequence of the capital ships of the Space Fleet, and the place he was going to report was one of them.

"Hey...... It's really troublesome, it's still so-so for me to charge, but it's too nerve-wracking for me to be the staff officer of the main battleship. But the orders of the superiors cannot but be carried out, do you say it is not Tom. Sometimes I think about it, I still think hello, stay in the logistics department far away from the war, and deal with these materials every day, although it is safe and comfortable to be promoted slowly, right? Okay, it's not too early, and we'll talk again when we have a chance later, goodbye! ”

The captain saw Tom's face turn dark. He stopped very knowingly, and then replied with an extremely chic military salute. Then he turned around and boarded the small shuttle on the side, and in a blink of an eye, the small shuttle flew up, and then sped ......towards the side of the transport.

Tom, who has a black face, is in an extremely bad mood, and the other party is clearly showing off in front of him, and by the way, he will hit himself again. Knowing this, I should have refused to work in the logistics department in the first place. Even if you go to the Space Fleet to be a combat soldier, you are better than you are in now.

Back in the office, as soon as the door was closed, Tom couldn't help but take off his hat and slam it on the table, followed by a series of swearing. After venting to himself, Tom's mood gradually calmed down. But when he looked back and saw the transport vehicles coming and going outside the window, as well as the electronic files and other equipment on his desk, he felt a sense of depression lingering in his heart.

Could it be that my dream of becoming a soldier is spent in these boring jobs? At this moment, for the first time, Tom felt that he had some doubts and denials about his former ideals. He's had enough of this kind of work, seeing that the military campaign with the Gaia civilization is about to begin, but he is doing this boring work behind the rear dozens of light years away from the battlefield. Perhaps by the end of the war, his classmates, including the one he hated the most, would become excellent officers, and might even command a battleship directly. And he is struggling here, and when he retires, he will probably be a major at most.

Thinking of this result, Tom's heart was extremely unwilling, he definitely didn't want his military career to pass like this, if so, what was the meaning of his ideals.

Standing in front of the window, silently watching everything that was so familiar to him, Tom turned around after a long time, picked up his hat from the table and put it back on, then opened the terminal on the table and wrote an application to the base officer, his immediate boss in the logistics department.

In fact, this is not the first time Tom has written such an application, this is the fourth application since he came here, but the first three applications have been lost in the sea without any response, and I don't know if this time is the same as the previous three or ....... In any case, there is only one way in the army, at least it is a hope.

Word by word, it took Tom a full hour to write this application, the content of which was not complicated, just asked to transfer himself to the front line, even if he could not be transferred to the main combat fleet, then it was okay to go to the front line to take up other positions. In a word, Tom wants to be a real soldier, a warrior who soars through the universe, not to spend time in this place.

After writing it, I read it carefully, and finally clicked the send button, and the application was sent. After all this, Tom was a lot more relaxed, although he knew that there was little hope for this, but it was better to do it than not to do it.

The following days were still as dull as before, every day was a repetitive and boring work, and there was no reply from the superiors after the application was issued. Tom had expected this, and now he could only continue to hold on to his post, hoping for a miracle.

About a month later, when Tom had just returned to the office after delivering a batch of supplies, he was stunned as soon as he pushed the door into the room, because there were three senior officers in his office.

"Sir!"

Tom, who was stunned for a moment, hurriedly stood up and saluted. One of these three high-ranking officers he knew, was Lieutenant Colonel Wang of the base, while the other two he had never met, one of them was also a lieutenant colonel, and the other was actually a colonel.

"Take a break!" Lieutenant Colonel Wang raised his hand and saluted back, and then gave the order to take a break. Tom put down his hands and feet slightly apart, held the electronic board that recorded data and signed in his left hand, looked at the three officers on the other side with a nervous expression, and drummed a little in his heart, what are these three doing in their office? Could it be an investigator sent by a superior? to verify your work? Although Tom had never embezzled a single piece of material, he still felt a lot of psychological pressure in the face of these three chiefs.

"He's Second Lieutenant Tom?" The other lieutenant colonel asked softly, and Lieutenant Colonel Wang nodded and said a few words to the lieutenant colonel beside him, because the voice was too soft, Tom didn't hear the content.

"Sit down." The lieutenant colonel nodded slightly, and then pointed to the chair next to him, although this was his office, Tom thanked him in front of the commander, and then sat down in the chair as a soldier.

"We're here today to check one ......." This is for the lieutenant colonel to speak, his eyes are extremely sharp, compared to Lieutenant Colonel Wang, he is more like a real soldier, and his eyes seem to be able to see through people's hearts, sweeping on you can make you feel that the whole body is being seen clearly by the other party. Lieutenant Colonel Wang sat silent, as did the highest-ranking colonel, but he looked at young Tom with a different kind of dull gaze.

"Verification?" It seems that he guessed correctly, the other party is an investigator sent by his superiors, like the logistics department, there are often investigators involved, this situation is normal, but Tom is facing such an investigation for the first time, although he has a clear heart, but he still can't help but be a little nervous. (To be continued......)