March 2685, Ceres.

Tong Ling finished a day's training and was taking the underwater shuttle passage to leave the No. 3 Pilot Training Ground of the Ceresstar Branch of the Xingfeng Research Institute, heading to her residence thirty kilometers away.

Ceres, also known as Ceres, is the smallest planet in the solar system and the only dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt.

In the solar system, Ceres attracted attention as early as the 21st century because of its special structure.

Its surface contains a large amount of water-containing minerals, and there is a large amount of ice water in the earth's mantle.

As early as the middle of the 22nd century, humanity has taken root and multiplied on the planet Ceres.

After hundreds of years of transformation, the rocky Ceres has long since become green.

Bound by a force field shield, Ceres has an atmosphere almost identical to Earth's.

Humans implanted a gravity device in the core of the planet, and the simulated gravity environment was just 1G.

Otherwise, with the gravitational conditions of Ceres, you can jump into space with a little force.

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In the residential building No. 37851 in the intermediate residential area.

Tong Ling's parents arrived home at about the same time as her.

Both are senior employees of the Ceres-Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant.

As natives of Ceres, the Tong couple, who are now in their eighties, are very mediocre, growing up in obscurity, going to work in obscurity, and when they are in their sixties, fate makes the two meet, and they hit it off on a whim, and decide to raise a descendant.

This decision changed the lives of both men.

At the age of nine, Tong Ling showed her talent in mechanical manufacturing and debugging early, and was selected to enter the Ceresstar Branch of the Xingfeng Research Institute.

Before I knew it, three years had passed now, and Tong Ling, who was only twelve years old, had become a senior student of the Ceresstar Branch, and was about to graduate and take up her post.

"Xiaoling, what is your evaluation of the graduation assessment of the pilot's functional training?"

At the dinner table, Tong Ling's mother asked a little nervously.

Tong Ling's little head was raised, her chin was slightly raised, and she said proudly: "The comprehensive index is evaluated as A, and the potential index is evaluated as SS." ”

The mother's expression stiffened slightly, and her face was a little gloomy that could not be concealed.

Instead, the father bumped his wife's arm on the table, signaling her not to be too obvious.

"Congratulations. Our Xiaoling will definitely be able to enter the factory, at least as a technical leader. ”

The child's mother smiled reluctantly, and then said.

Tong Ling looked at her mother in confusion, "Mom, you don't seem to be very happy?" ”

"No. No, of course we are happy to see that everything is going well with you. ”

Tong Ling's father defended his wife.

But how could Tong Ling, who is a small ghost, be hidden.

The atmosphere at the dinner table became inexplicably depressing.

Since 2675, with the opening of the first fleet capable of navigating 200 times the speed of light in the space of secondary curvature, a full-scale human counterattack has begun in advance, and similar conversations have taken place in many homes.

Every couple hopes that their children will become dragons and phoenixes, but in their bones, they hope that future generations will have a safe life.

As parents, they would rather go to the battlefield by themselves, and hope that their children can live in peace and security for the rest of their lives.

However, with the continuous progress of human science and technology, the gap between people at different levels of ability is getting wider and wider.

If mediocre parents give birth to gifted children, they will helplessly fall into this dilemma of watching their children fly away.

They can't even stop their children.

It was also contrary to the wartime laws of the Empire.

After eating, the family of three gathered together first and remotely checked the condition of dozens of other children.

Some of the children are still just embryos, while others are two or three years old.

The dozens of children are in an infant and toddler training center more than 20 kilometers away from residential building 37851.

Since Tong Ling showed her talent, cultivating new offspring has become a matter for the two.

In recent years, the couple has raised dozens of offspring with a high frequency.

The two usually go to the training center on average every three days, while Tong Ling can only find one day a month to visit her younger siblings because of her busy academic schedule.

The army's requisition order for new graduates is very urgent, and the distribution results will be released tonight, and then Tong Ling immediately has to pack her bags and go to the front line.

Tong Ling didn't have the opportunity to go to the training center anymore, so she could only meet her younger siblings at home through the holographic network.

In fact, after she gets on the transportation spaceship, she can communicate remotely, but the distance is far away, and the feeling will always be a little different.

The huge family has been chattering on the Internet for a long time.

An hour later, the communication time ended, and the family of three returned to seriousness.

In five minutes, the assignment report will be issued, and Tong Ling will know where she is going and what position she will hold.

The mother folded her hands and prayed silently, hoping that Tong Ling would not be assigned to the front line.

It is better to work in a research institute in the rear, which is both stable and not easy to be sent to the battlefield.

But Tong Ling was a little excited and expectant, and said very quickly: "I heard that the frontline Veto Galaxy has completed a new type of weapon called Forgai Armor, which uses a virtual energy tunneling circuit and a new pulse supercurved engine, and also uses a double-fold jump system. And loaded with semi-intelligent artificial intelligence. I'd love to go to the Viten Galaxy and see just how powerful this legendary Forgai armor is that is ten times ahead of the current mainstream equipment. It would be great if I could become a debugging pilot for Forgai's armor. ”

The virtual tunneling circuit was one of several conjectures left by Sergei on his deathbed, which was later realized.

According to Sergei's idea, humans could use virtual energy to build a small interwoven network of pipe-type force fields similar to the characteristics of the solar dome.

As the electron flows through these interwoven webs change shape, they become a purer oscillating frequency energy, no longer in the form of intact electrons, and can flow at twenty times the speed of light.

This greatly improves the energy operation efficiency of human equipment, and makes some ultra-high performance that was previously unattainable from theory into reality.

The effect of the Pulse Super Warp Engine is to allow small units to enter the second curvature space, and the overall flight speed can reach 200 times the speed of light.

In the case of the double hop system, two hop engines of the same size and efficiency are alternated to get twice the hop distance and a shorter stiff time.

As for the energy system of the Forgai armor, it uses a classic composite system of antimatter, dark energy and high-energy biological batteries, and the energy reserve is extremely large.

As a small combat unit, it is designed to cruise at a high speed of thousands of light years, and the economic cruising range at 20 times the speed of light is almost infinite.

The theoretical stable operation period of the equipment is one million years, so the Forgai Warframe can fly a full 20 million light-years in space.

It is the first small unit ever made that can travel such long distances.

Nor did the forty-first century in the previous timeline.

The design idea uses a lot of virtual energy, the unified rules of the universe of the previous generation, and the physical laws revealed in the dome.

"Shut up! Do you know what you're talking about? How could this new type of equipment not be on the battlefield? Now that the war on the front line is so tight, you really have to become a pilot in Forgai's armor, and I'm afraid you will have to start military literacy training tomorrow. ”

When the child's mother heard this, she finally couldn't hold back her anger.

Her tone was heavy and hurried.

Tong Ling was stunned for a moment, and then immediately showed a crying appearance.

She has grown so big since she was sensible, and this is the first time she has been scolded by her mother.

Seeing this, the boy's father hurriedly became a peacemaker.

I didn't think that the child's mother didn't eat this, and said angrily: "You still help her talk." Didn't you hear her tone? She said so, and she must have filled in her intention on the assignment of volunteers. ”

The boy's father was shocked, turned his head and asked, "Is it true?" Xiaoling. ”

Tong Ling lowered her head slightly and nodded, "Yes." ”

Hiss!

In the large and bright living room, there was a dead silence in an instant.

With Tong Ling's SS-level potential index, coupled with her fame in Ceres, she really had to fill in the tendentious volunteer, and the probability of being selected by the Viten Galaxy was at least more than 90%.

After a long time, it was the child's mother who adjusted her emotions first.

She sighed, "Okay, since it's already like this, wait for the results." ”

A few minutes later, Tong Ling's personal information system received a prompt.

Her wish came true.

She was selected for the Second Special Operations Squadron of the Veto Galaxy Intelligent Warframe.

Although her position was not clearly indicated in the order, the second squadron, which had just been established for less than half a year, could be named a special operations squadron, which must have its own special features, and it is very likely that it is really a combat squadron that controls Forgai's armor.

The corners of Tong Ling's mouth grinned, as if she wanted to laugh happily, but she looked at her mother with a weak heart and didn't dare to laugh.

The child's mother lay on the sofa weakly, staring blankly at the ceiling, "You're only twelve years old!" You're just a kid, ......"

Tong Ling defended: "Mom, I will take the latest two-hundred-fold light speed shuttle to reach the Viten Galaxy, and it will take fifteen years at the earliest. By then, I would be twenty-seven, and I would no longer be a child. ”

Mother Tong: "......"

After another moment, Tong's mother finally slowed down her face and held Tong Ling's hand tightly, "Forget it." Now that you've been chosen, there's no point in me saying anything more frustrating. I can't stand the soldiers who fought bloody battles on the front line. Now that you're gone, you have to do your job. ”

"At my level, I do not have the authority to know the specific parameters of the Folgai armor. But I think that thing must be especially important to the warriors. I hope that you can become the most reliable support of your comrades-in-arms together with your armor. Xiaoling, I believe you can do it, you have this potential. ”

"You have been well protected by us since you were a child, and your temperament is relatively weak, but you must remember that the front line is a battlefield, and others will not tolerate your little temperament of crying and crying at every turn like us."

"You have to learn to be strong, but you have to learn to be considerate of others. Finally, you have to keep in mind the mission of the warrior. If you are given a task, even if it is death, hold your ground. Among the ancestors of our family, there were third-level examiners. So whether we can prove our value again or not is actually up to you. ”

Tong Ling nodded heavily.

"Hmm!"

Since the liberation of the solar system, most of the third-level examiners who had undergone the transformation of the colonization have left the solar system one after another.

Someone dies of old age alone in the universe.

Some people are still continuing their own aimless voyages.

Others found an uninhabited planet and lived in seclusion on their own.

Of course, there are also people who follow the instructions of the information and try to go to those alien planets that look similar to their own life forms.

Although they do not hold out hope, they also want to find their own kind.

This part of the people is destined to become an eternal regret and scar in the hearts of humans in the solar system.

We couldn't save them.

We even took advantage of them.

They did their best to help the solar system, but they also clearly realized that they were no longer human beings and could no longer integrate into human society.

When they are free, their will to leave is even stronger than that of the low-level alien civilizations.

Some of these people chose to leave offspring before the colonization and transformation.

Both of Tong Ling's parents are related by blood from the third-level assessor.

Alien to their surroundings and sad for the fate of their parents, this is the reason why their parents chose to leave Earth early and settle on Ceres.

Forty-five minutes later, a small shuttle carrying dozens of new graduates from various majors took off from Ceres and headed straight for the large dock suspended in the Kuiper asteroid belt.

There, Tong Ling and her classmates will transfer to a large fast spaceship that can reach 200 times the speed of light, and fly straight to the border between the Sagittarius Spiral Arm and the Orion Arm, which is the front line of the war.