It was raining heavily outside the window, and the entire interior of the room was covered in an extremely gloomy color. Bai Jingyan felt bored, so he went out for a walk.

The hall on the first floor of the guest house is dilapidated, and it seems to have changed a hundred years from its own room. The old janitor sat against the wall, and a seemingly shabby pad stood on a table with the news on it.

There is no entertainment in this world, and the news is either about war, or about what new technology has been developed where. The rain outside was dripping, and the old man was so sleepy that he snored, and he woke up when Bai Jingyan came over.

"It's you." The old man recognized him. He knew that Bai Jingyan was arranged here by Director Xue, and occasionally he would come out for a walk, and at this time, the old man would greet him.

Bai Jingyan sat on the empty seat next to the old man, he was bored, so he could only find the old man to relieve his boredom. The old man's surname is Jin, and Bai Jingyan calls him Jin Lao on weekdays.

Jin is nearly eighty years old and was born in the nineties of the 21st century. It can be regarded as an old man who has crossed the century. Bai Jingyan always likes to listen to him talk about some things about the era when he was young, although even so, that era is a hundred years later than his own era, but listening to Bai Jingyan's ears, it always seems to be able to find a trace of the shadow of the past.

For Bai Jingyan, Jin Lao was also very curious. In this era, it is rare to see young people of his age who do not have a job, and he always likes to ask himself about things that are very old, which always makes people feel that he is like a student of history, with a hint of inexplicable antiquity.

"Xiaobai, what exactly do you do?" Jin Lao saw that he had nothing to do every day and lived here, so he was very curious about his identity.

"I'm from out of town, and Director Xue will help me find a job." Bai Jingyan smiled. "It's just that so many days have passed, and Director Xue hasn't looked for me, so he should be too busy."

"Director Xue, he's really busy." Jin Lao nodded, and immediately glanced at the screen of the pad, which was broadcasting the disappearance of a reconnaissance team in the snow-capped mountains north of Madrid a few days ago.

"It's been a time of turmoil again." Jin Lao narrowed his eyes and shook his head.

Boom! The system prompt sound came suddenly, and Bai Jingyan realized that someone had sent him a message, and he turned on the screen projection on his wrist, which was sent by Xue Lai.

"How are you doing, the new phase of service started this afternoon, and I helped you sign up." Xue said.

"Okay, I'm suffocating every day." Bai Jingyan replied, "What should I do now?" ”

"I have a few meetings here, and I don't have time to pick you up. I sent you the location, you follow the navigation and it's not too far from where you live. Xue said, "Remember to arrive before 2:15." ”

Then Bai Jingyan received the address, he clicked on the map and checked it, and it only took about fifteen minutes to walk, which was indeed not far.

Jin Lao saw that the haze on Bai Jingyan's face swept away, glanced at the projection information in his hand, and said, "Director Xue helped you find a job!" ”

"yes, it's going to be over in the afternoon." Bai Jingyan glanced at the time, twelve o'clock, time flies so fast.

There are still more than two hours before Xue said, Bai Jingyan is not impatient, he still wants to sit with Jin Lao for a while, only on his body, Bai Jingyan can feel a trace of incompatibility with the current era.

"Express, Express, cold air from the north of Madrid is heading south, four hours from reaching the city, click here for details."

A message push,Appeared on Jin Lao's pad screen,Jin Lao clicked on it,Then the white page slid out,Three big words "loading" appeared in the middle。

Will the computers of the future also lag? Bai Jingyan muttered in his heart.

The video of the page is opened, and the weather is broadcast by a Cristina-like artificial intelligence. Their voices are very similar, they just look different.

"In the next five hours, an extremely strong cold air stream will be coming to Madrid, so everyone in the city is asked to prepare for the extreme cold." The announcer said, "The Meteorological Bureau has issued a special cold warning, and the temperature is expected to drop to minus 30 degrees. ”

"Thirty degrees below zero? Tsk" Jin Lao shook his head with a smile, "This group of guys is mistaken, this kind of nonsense can be said." ”

Bai Jingyan also smiled, no matter what, he was also on the earth. Madrid, if he remembers correctly, it is a subtropical climate, and now it is early autumn, how can there be a low temperature of minus 30 degrees?

Jin Lao snapped and closed the pad, "These people are becoming more and more unreliable, just like them, the Zerg will not be able to be destroyed in a few hundred years." ”

Bai Jingyan saw that he lost his temper inexplicably, and he didn't dare to stay any longer, so he went upstairs in a gloomy manner.

He glanced at the time, twelve twenty o'clock, as soon as he entered the door, he heard Cristina ask what he wanted to eat, he ordered a few random dishes, and then lay down on the bed at once, thinking that it was impossible to achieve minus thirty degrees.

Probably because of the cloudy weather, he was a little sleepy. I fell asleep in a daze, and when I woke up again, it was already half past one.

"You're awake!" Cristina said, and then the powerful robotic arm pusher moved to the side of Shirai Yan with the pulley table.

"I'll help you heat it up again, the dishes are cold." Cristina said.

Bai Jingyan didn't know when he fell asleep, looked at the time and realized that it was not too late, turned his head to look at Cristina, and thought to himself that artificial intelligence was really considerate.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He scratched his head, even though he didn't need to apologize for anything.

Cristina put the heated dish on the table and said, "There is a special cold warning in the afternoon, if you go out, I can provide you with cotton clothes." ”

Shirai Yan didn't expect Cristina to remind him of this, and said, "I heard about it, but minus 30 degrees is a bit exaggerated, could it be a false alarm." ”

"That's right, the cause of the extremely cold air flow has been found to be related to the new insect nest that has appeared in the snow-capped mountains in the north." "The nest hasn't been named yet, but it's clear that there are powerful Zerg that affect the climate. ”

Bai Jingyan sighed in his heart, feeling that this was not good news. He finished his meal quickly, asked Cristina for two cotton clothes, and quickly ran downstairs.

He wanted to tell Jin Lao that the news was true, and it was not groundless. By the way, I gave him a cotton coat. Although he had known this old man for a few days, Bai Jingyan had a lot of feelings for him, he didn't want Elder Jin to encounter any accidents in this extreme cold, and he felt inexplicably sorry for him in his heart.

It's just that after running downstairs, Jin Lao, who had been there all along, disappeared, and only an empty table was left in the guard's room, with a thin layer of dust in it, as if no one had been here for several days.

"Where's Old Man Kim?" Bai Jingyan searched again and again, and found that Jin Lao had almost nothing left. Bai Jingyan was wearing a thick cotton coat and carrying an identical dress in his hand, standing on the steps of the door, looking at the snowflakes floating in the sky, a little distracted.

"This old man, he should have taken refuge, he said he didn't believe it, but he actually believed it." Bai Jingyan thought left and right, and could only draw such an inference, which he felt was more logical, so he returned to the room.

Seeing him come back dejected, Cristina was a little curious and asked, "What are you doing with your clothes?" ”

"I'm going to send it to Jin Lao downstairs, and just now when I was chatting with him below, I saw this news about cooling down. At first, we didn't believe it. Bai Jingyan said, "Later, you told me that this was true, I think he was an old man with no clothes to wear, and he would freeze to death at minus 30 degrees." ”

Cristina was stunned for a second, then asked rhetorically, "Who are you talking about?" ”

"Jin Lao!" Bai Jingyan said: "Jin Lao downstairs! ”

"Haven't heard of this person." Cristina said for no reason.

"How is that possible!?" Bai Jingyan was taken aback, "You are an artificial intelligence, you know astronomy and geography, but you don't know that there is an old man who guards the door downstairs?" ”

"No, why does today's society need a janitor?" Cristina said, "You don't have to worry about thieves, I'm watching every corner of this building, are you not there for me?" It's you, you've been sitting alone downstairs these days, and I wonder what you're doing? ”

Bai Jingyan opened his mouth wide, completely speechless. Funny, right? Could it be his own hallucination, imagining a doorman out of thin air?

But this is impossible, if you think about it, how can you predict what is about to cool down!? He suddenly felt that his mind was very messy, and the chaos made him unable to sort it out for a while, like countless wires entangled, making it difficult to distinguish.

"I think you're too tired to cross over and need to rest." "You don't have to worry about anything, people are hallucinating when they're overworked. And for you who have traveled through the time tunnel, you may have some kind of brain damage. ”

Bai Jingyan calmed down for a while, thinking that it might make sense. He looked at his watch, and it was already ten o'clock, when he suddenly jumped out of bed and ran out the door.

He's late!

......

Bai Jingyan panted and rushed to the address sent to him by Xue Lai, which was an office building, and the place where he served in the military was on the twelfth floor of this building.

Fortunately, there is a free elevator downstairs, Bai Jingyan secretly rejoiced, and hurriedly looked at the time, Xue Lai asked him to arrive before two and fifteen, and it was already thirty o'clock. Fifteen minutes late, I don't know what kind of punishment there will be, and I guess the instructor is angry.

The hallway was empty, and he took a deep breath to calm down when he got out of the elevator.

It's so quiet that you can even hear a leaking faucet in the toilet.

It took him a long time to realize that the toilet was next to him, no wonder he could hear the sound of water dropping.

He walks briskly, making noises that break the silence as he runs. Along the way, I found the door of my room, and my eyes drooped to the doorknob.

Wooden doorknobs, which are really rare in the future.

Knock knock. He knocked on the door, and there was a voice from inside, "Please come in!" "Push it away.

This is a classroom, the classroom is full, only an empty seat in the back row, obviously reserved for him, Bai Jingyan's face turned red, and after seeing that the instructor standing on the podium was a long-legged blonde girl wearing white silk, his face turned even redder.

"White... Jing Yan!? The instructor first glanced at the list, and then looked at him very seriously, "You're late, hurry up and sit back in your place, our class has just begun." ”

Bai Jingyan sat down on the vacant seat left for him with a disgraced face, he was very glad that he was not punished, of course, such a beautiful instructor looked like a very gentle girl, Bai Jingyan breathed a sigh of relief.

He quietly looked around, boys and girls, all of the same age as him, wearing only thick clothes like a padded jacket, as if he was the only one.

"I repeat my name, my name is White Rose." The young female instructor said that her name could not help but associate with her long-legged white lace.

"All of you here are graduates of intermediate schools, and you must have reached the required stage of service in martial arts." "We're going to have a test and we're going to play it in pairs. Her eyes froze, "There are thirty-two people in our classroom, but today, half of them will be eliminated." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, it caused a burst of whispering in the classroom, and everyone present was not calm. Knock out half? Group in pairs? White Rose's words are a bit informative.

That is, thirty-two people will be divided into sixteen groups and then fight against each other. Eight of the sixteen groups will be eliminated, and as for what will happen after elimination, someone has already stood up and asked White Rose.

"After elimination? Of course, I will send him back to middle school for further study, and I will continue next year. White Rose winked at the questioner, a hint of a wink.

"Is this your decision?" The man seemed a little unwilling, "I heard that there are no such regulations for service, and although you have the right to screen your own students, instructor, you can't make such harsh requirements, right?" ”

He was right, and many people nodded along with him. Many people are aware of the rules for conducting military service before they enter service. In the beginning, recruits have their own instructor and pass a test to determine whether or not they are successful in the army. Generally speaking, as long as the results of martial arts are not too bad, they will be successfully hired, after all, the population base is small in this era, and the more combat power the better.

Generally speaking, instructors will not be particularly strict with the assessment, although they will eliminate students who are not suitable for service at all, but it is extremely rare for half of the number of people to be eliminated directly like White Rose. That's why that student will directly stand up and question White Rose and go back to middle school for a year? This condition is inevitably too harsh.

White Rose raised her head proudly, her fair, pointed chin looking particularly eye-catching. "After passing the test, you are my subordinates, and I am responsible for my subordinates. Because you never know how cruel the battlefield is, I don't want you to be the tail of the crane, and the students who are screened in this way will inevitably be more responsible. Speaking of this, her blue eyes stared at the student who asked the question, "If you don't have confidence in yourself, just give up." ”

The student was so stunned by her that he had nothing to say, so he could only sit down. White Rose said, "Give you five minutes to find your teammates." ”