Pale yellow pickup trucks drive on wide, asphalt roads with few vehicles, moving along complicated and winding routes. The houses on both sides retreat backwards at a slow pace, and the steady flow of pedestrians is distributed on the road and the clean sidewalks where there are no hungry people, and the different storefronts are colorful, and you can see the faces of people in a good mood through the doors. Together, they embellish a small urban scene that is not monotonous.

Wu Qi sat in the slightly shaky car, his eyes cast out of the window with changeable scenery, and the roar of the engine continued to echo in his ears. After about 10 minutes, the sound of the engine suddenly became quieter, and the pickup truck slowly slowed down and stopped. Wu Qi looked ahead, and in front of the front window was a gray road 25 meters wide, and there were two rows of verdant and straight street trees on both sides of the road, and the lush canopy of the trees was quietly rhythmic in the gentle breeze. At the end of the road 50 meters later is a towering building, and at the height of the car window, you can only see the entrance to the first floor of the building.

"Wu Qi, let's go." Wang Sheng shouted, opened the car door, threw the door and got out of the car.

Yang Dongchen got out of the car from the left side and got into the cab to take over Wang Sheng's driver's seat. He turned his head sideways and smiled lightly at Wu Qi, who was still sitting in the co-pilot: "What, isn't it because you're worried about your little fox?" Rest assured, your luggage and pets are right in the car. When you and Wang Sheng are over, I will wait for you in the car. ”

Wu Qi nodded, and glanced back at Qiyue, who was obediently squatting in the back seat, its bulging black eyes seemed to have a human spirituality. After looking at each other for a second, Wu Qi opened the car door with confidence and sent his right leg out first.

Stepping on the gray asphalt road, Wu Qi felt a different touch through the thick soles of his boots, stable and straight, which is not the touch of a rugged town street or muddy and damp forest soil. There is no wild smell in the breeze blowing from the west side, and it is so pure and clean that there is no smell.

Standing in such an area, Wu Qi rarely gained a sense of security.

Wang Sheng stretched out his hand and shrugged the shoulder of the leather jacket, then walked to Wu Qi's side, stood half a step away from him, and led him forward. Wu Qi looked up all the way, his gaze followed the towering buildings above sixty meters to the sky where the gray clouds were thickening. The tone of the building is gray, and every area of the exterior is a mechanical repetition, like a behemoth pieced together from one piece after another of identical templates, giving people an unreal visual feeling.

The top floor of the building does not have dark blue repeating windows, but instead there are seven dark gray square steel characters - Sirius Mercenary Group. There is also a steel emblem at the front end of the word "sky", which is a sideways wolf head full of wild flavor, the giant wolf holds its head high, facing to the left, the border of the wolf head is bright white, the interior is dark and transparent like a quiet universe, and a bright blue light as a star dots in the center of the emblem, just like Sirius and its universe.

Wu Qi followed Wang Sheng up the five-step white jade mixed with variegated wide and long stairs, all the way to the main gate that was three meters high and more than four meters wide. The door on the first floor is made of bulletproof glass and is full of the style of the civilized era. On either side of the main entrance were four group guards of the Sirius Corporation, all dressed in dark gray group uniforms, two rows of six white round buttons that stood out on the slender uniforms, and the left shoulder of the uniforms had the emblem of the Sirius Group.

The guards of the group are all young people, and they are two men and two women. They were not equipped with rifles or other weapons, but Wu Qi could feel the faint smell of danger emanating from their bodies through the slender uniforms of the group guards, which was seven or eight points similar to Wang Sheng's, the smell of genetically strengthened soldiers.

Wang Sheng showed his second-level mercenary card, and the four group guards did not come forward to stop him, standing quietly on both sides of the front. Wu Qi followed Wang Sheng into the hall of the building. The entrance alone is more than 200 square meters in size, and the floor of the hall is covered with cool white tiles, surrounded by snow-white walls and ceilings. A dark grey "modern" oval desk from the era of civilization sits in the center of the hall, and the desk is large, with three or four staff members also in uniform sitting.

"Hey, Brother Xiang, see you again!" Wang Sheng whistled and greeted an ordinary-looking man in his early thirties at the consultation desk.

Zhang Xiang stood up and said enthusiastically: "Hey, I'm back." Yo, this kid next to you is the one you like? ”

Zhang Xiang looked at Wu Qi beside Wang Sheng. Wu Qi's whole body is dressed in black, and his style is also very ordinary, and in the era of civilization, he was thrown into the sea of people and couldn't find a stone. In his right hand, he held a long knife wrapped in animal skin, which could only be seen as a long strip from the outside. However, his face made Zhang Xiang look at it a few more times.

Wu Qi's skin was more delicate than everyone in the hall, even fairer than the two female staff members around Zhang Xiang, his facial features were exquisite, and his eyes were as bright as obsidian like stars that never went out in the night sky. The slight flush on his cheeks and lips indicates that he is very healthy, and his broad, solid arms support ordinary clothes, and the overall figure can be described as strong and well-proportioned.

Zhang Xiang, as the group's front-desk consultant, has watched people for eight or nine years, and what he looks at is not the external physique, but the temperament of the eyebrows, and there are few things that are not accurate. Wang Sheng is now enthusiastic and cheerful in the face of acquaintances, but his eyebrows reveal the iron-blooded coldness that has been baptized by war. Wu Qi's temperament between his eyebrows gives Zhang Xiang a very clean and refreshing feeling, with the flower-like face growing in the greenhouse, at first glance people think that he is a young man who has never been in the world, but the charm behind this cleanliness is too calm, which makes people unable to associate with a leaf of duckweed that goes with the flow.

For the first time, Zhang Xiang couldn't determine the temperament and appearance of a young man, or the answer he got based on experience made him a little unbelievable. However, Zhang Xiang was not surprised at all, because he believed that as long as Wu Qi went through the registration test, everything would surface.

Zhang Xiang smiled: "It's a good seedling, can you take the registration test now?" ”

Wu Qi and Wang Sheng glanced at each other, and Wang Sheng said for Wu Qi: "Well, right now." I'm tired of Brother Xiang. ”

"Don't bother, let's go." Zhang Xiang walked out of the side door of the information desk and gave Wu Qi and the two a gesture to follow.

Wu Qi and Wang Sheng followed Zhang Xiang all the way out of the reception hall of the Sirius Group, walking in the corridor with complicated routes. The walls on both sides of the corridor are whitewashed, and at intervals of 10 meters, there are realistic landscape paintings, or portraits and quotes of celebrities from the era of civilization and the age of night.

Wu Qi took a closer look at a chic portrait of a celebrity, in which he was a lean old man with a wrinkled face but no age spots, and he looked like he was in his early sixties. The old man faced to the left, wore a loose white coat, had long smooth and shiny silver hair, and had a short silver-white beard. He wore a pair of black, square-rimmed glasses, and the eyes behind the glasses had the cloudiness of time, but they could not hide the sparkle of wisdom like stars.

Unlike the previous portraits of celebrities, the end of a bar in the year of birth and death below this portrait is a "? This is a surviving celebrity. The old man's experience spans the age of civilization and the age of darkness, and he is now the branch director of the Western Branch of the Academia Sinica. He used the active cells of the pioneers as the main material, combined with countless chemical and biological materials more than 30,000 experiments, and finally invented the "gene enhancement drug" for pure human injection, and is an epoch-making top biological scientist - Greg Moses, known as "Mendel in the last days".

"Pure humanity is by no means a race abandoned by this age of evolution." Wu Qimo recited Grego's famous quote, and this plain sentence combined with the portrait of the silver-haired old man had a particularly strong spiritual impact, because it rebellious the logic of the entire era and made him remember it deeply.

Wu Qi retracted his gaze and continued to follow Wang Sheng and Zhang Xiang towards the front of the corridor. After walking for more than ten meters, the corridor finally came to an end, with an upward staircase on the left half and a gray high-tech identification door on the right half.

Zhang Yang took out his work card and swiped it on the identifier, and after the "drip" sound, the gray door clicked open, revealing a staircase passage leading to the underground. The passage was dimly lit, and as the door opened, the interior lit up with pure white light.

The three of them walked all the way down and soon reached the basement level. There are stairs below the basement level, but they don't have to go down. Their destination is the multi-purpose training ground on the basement level, which is also the exam venue for this registration test.

Step into the incandescent light of the underground multi-purpose training ground, which is extremely spacious, with white partition walls with excellent sound insulation between A and F zones, each with an area of at least 200 square meters and a ceiling height of about five meters. The floor is made of special black iron, which can withstand the impact of the third level of strength enhancement without damage. Each area has different equipment and roads for users to train, and there are complete facilities for common training directions such as hand-to-hand combat, firearms practice, movement skills, and ability tests.

Wu Qi and the others walked into Area B of the underground training ground, and there was no one in the wide training area. In the melee training area on the black floor, there are 4 blue C-class entity puppet targets, the chassis of which is locked to the mechanism on the floor, and they are permanent models. The strength of a C-level puppet target is equivalent to the defense power of the first-level ability "skin hardening" or two-level defense enhancement, and the cost is 1000 yuan, if the mercenary damages the puppet target during training, it must be paid in full, and the price is as low as 10% of the cost if it is rented out.

Zhang Xiang stood in the middle of the training ground and said, "Boy, without further ado, let's start." ”