CHAPTER XXXI

Thor Charnes was recalled by the army, because of the attacks in the past few days, the army began to show a shortage of manpower, a large number of veterans returned, a large number of anti-aircraft guns were placed around Washington, Patriot missile launchers were hidden in Washington, with Washington as the center, and the area with a diameter of one mile was closed to traffic. In order to prevent the enemy from using an enhanced version of the electronic pulse jamming transmission system, the military not only installed a signal protection net on the launch vehicle, but also placed a large number of individual self-aiming rocketeers in the city, Thor was on the outskirts of the city, armed with M72A rocket launchers and an M17 pistol.

The WDE openly clamored that it was going to blow up Washington, and I don't know what weapons would be used, no matter how it attacked, Thor felt that the WDE would not succeed, there were thousands of rocketeers scattered in the city, and the streets outside Washington were all anti-aircraft vehicles, and even two phalanxes were moved! The "Phalanx" consists of a specially designed and manufactured 6-barreled 20mm M61A1 Gatling gun, namely the MK15 "Vulcan" Phalanx system, a warning radar, a tracking radar, artillery, an electronic computer and a control panel. If the enemy uses air strikes, these melee guns can completely block all air attacks.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye, nothing major happened, the bandage on Rick's head was removed, and the doctor said that he could be discharged from the hospital, and he only needed to pay attention to rest when he went back, and it was basically nothing serious. Lilian originally asked Rick to live in the villa, but Rick didn't think about it and decided to go back first, and he couldn't say that he would live in someone else's house, just live in someone else's house.

Rick took a taxi back to the apartment, and found that Roo and the two old men were not at home, probably going to attend a big study, Rick lay on the bed, carefully recalled the experience of this time, and found that the world is really not as peaceful as before.

In the evening, Rick waited until ten o'clock, Luo Ou had not come back, Rick called Luo Ou, Luo Ou said that he had just come out, he didn't understand today's class at all, and in the evening test, he didn't get a single credit, and he was left in class.

After about ten minutes, Luo Ou came back, and now it's really ridiculous, Luo Ou and the two old men are carrying school bags together, which is very picturesque. The Great Study makes it mandatory for all unemployed people to go, and during the week of his recuperation in the hospital, Rick learns that the credits seem to be unimportant now, but they are the only way to enter outer space in the future. Sooner or later, human beings will be all over the solar system, and satellites will be established on each planet for human beings to survive, and these credits are the credentials for entering outer space, once you leave the earth, you can't survive if you don't know something, and most of the upper echelons and elites of society will leave the earth, which is destined, people like Lilian who are in the upper echelons of society, even if they don't have to save enough credits, can successfully graduate from this big family of human nature.

Roo and the two old men had already had dinner in the university building, Roo came back and made some dinner for Rick first, Rick went back to his room after eating, he hadn't called Sam for a long time, Rick decided to think of this, so he dialed Sam.

"Sam, how is this time going?"

"Rick? Are you back? I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm almost exhausted during this time, and I have to stay in church every night, it's too difficult for me. ”

"Tell me about what's happening! I'm going to class tomorrow too. ”

"The knowledge level of the new professors in our school is too high, we can't understand it at all, and he can't explain it to us, anyway, it feels like the IQ has been crushed."

"What's going on?"

"It's just the feeling, what he thinks is the simplest thing is far beyond our cognition, they don't make us feel like they're on the same channel in class, I feel like they're not physics professors, they're physicists! They speak like machine language, so professional, you know when you come. It's so hard! Every night I have to stay in class, get up early in the morning and rush to school, just so that I can review more of what I talked about the day before, if you don't review this subject in time, you can't understand what is being said later! By the way, the school is now starting to recruit the Space Force, those who are willing can sign up, there are three selection links, the first is height, weight, this is the first link, the second link is the psychological test, the third is into the centrifuge, the longer you insist, the easier it is to pass, there is no time limit, only according to the number of participants in the top 100, the school only recruits 100 people in tens of thousands of people, this is only the first batch of enrollment, there will be in the future, now the initial is to recruit once a year, and may be recruited once a half year in the future, There is also the possibility of recruiting once a quarter. You can try it, I'll forget it, and I'll be passed directly in the first link! ”

"Is there any attraction to this, and is there a lot of people signing up?"

"It's not attractive, but the number of applicants has exceeded 10,000, and I don't know why, joining the Space Force may automatically be promoted to extraterrestrial citizens, I also heard people say, I don't know very well, the word extraterrestrial citizens has become more popular recently."

"Then I'll try it!"

The next morning, Rick got up and went to school, because he was a college student, and Luo Ou belonged to society, so the place of study was different.

When I came to the school gate, I saw a banner that said, "Come on! Join the Space Force, the Earth needs you! "There's a registration desk right in front of the door, and now there's a crowd of people queuing up to sign autographs, which seems to be very popular. Rick also walked over, waited in line for more than ten minutes, filled in some personal information, and it was over. The next thing is to wait for the interview to be announced.

Rick waited on the road for a while, Sam hadn't arrived at the school yet, after Sam came to the school, Rick followed Sam into the classroom, which was already full, and Rick and Sam managed to find two places in the last row.

A bald head walked into the classroom, he was muscular, like a boxer, with a burly and tall figure. He picked up a textbook, and didn't say too much greetings, so he started lecturing directly, as soon as he started class, Sam kept scratching his head, it seemed difficult to understand, Rick felt okay, now he is talking about optoelectronics, these Rick once learned from his father, and the role of optoelectronics on the battlefield is very great, Nursery once said that there are many countries that are researching meteorological weapons, and once the weather becomes a weapon, the power will definitely be a landslide.

The morning passed quickly, and Rick was still immersed in the edification of the bald man, and as soon as class ended, Rick received a phone call informing him that he was going to an interview. Sam and Rick came to the school gymnasium together, at the entrance of the gymnasium are more than a dozen green military tents, there are more than a dozen staff members who conduct the first link screening, Rick walked to a tent with a small number of people in line, watched the staff busy, after Rick's turn, Rick reported his social security number, followed the instructions of the staff, took off his shoes and stood on a small rectangular machine, in just a few seconds, the data was transferred to the computer.

"Rick, one meter eighty-three, weighing sixty-nine kilograms, qualified." The voice of the computer rings.

"Please come to the gymnasium for the second session." A security guard opened a narrow passage that could only accommodate one person. Sam couldn't get in, so he had to wait outside.

After walking in, there was a pile of white tents, more than one person high to the fence to form a zigzag passage, and at the end there were several soldiers with guns, the soldier stuffed Rick with a number plate, and asked Rick to go to the place on the number plate for a mental test, the number plate was the seventh battalion, and Rick looked for a long time to find the tent marked seven. As soon as he entered, the tent was suddenly sealed, it was dark inside, a headlight was on, Rick saw several white robots, one of them was holding a VR glasses, Rick took it and put it on, and found himself in the cockpit of a spaceship, outside was the boundless universe, starry, starry. Soon the horror came, the spaceship was disintegrating little by little, Rick felt that he was getting closer and closer to the vacuum, this suppressed fear, so that Rick could not bear it, Rick blinked hard, he had become a real astronaut, floating in space in a spacesuit.