After telling the 'truth' about the world, Betty began to introduce the place they were in.

The training ground numbered 1001 is a special place for the Imperial Military Academy to conduct assessments, and Betty is a cadet of the driving department for several disciplines such as the command department, the driving department and the combat department.

"The trainees will be sent to the central area of the training ground, and after leaving the basic equipment, the trainees need to leave the training ground for a certain period of time, as long as they can reach the 'end' smoothly, they will be considered qualified, and the specific results will be calculated according to the time spent. ”

Ethan nodded, this did not make him feel incomprehensible, and he knew why there was a clear 'hierarchy' in this world.

At first, the calm sea environment was relatively peaceful, and the students could adapt to this place, and then set sail to attack the next sea, which is the area where Ethan is currently located.

Here they can build up some strength (mainly for ship upgrades), and then enter the sea route after the equipment meets certain requirements, passing through the second stormy sea to reach the outermost sea of wonders.

The increasingly complex sea conditions along the way not only test the driving and command ability of the cadets, but also have corresponding requirements for combat ability.

"Are you all several students teaming up to take part in the assessment?"

Betty didn't expect Ethan to notice this, but there was nothing to hide, so she nodded directly: "This is also a reference standard for calculating the final score, and before starting the assessment, it will be determined whether the students will be conducted in teams or individually." ”

Individuals will get a higher overall evaluation than teamwork, and basically the students who get high scores complete the test individually, because it means that the student has no obvious shortcomings in driving and combat.

However, if a student of the command department wants to get a high score, he must choose to form a team, otherwise he can only get a passing score no matter how well he completes it alone, because a reference standard for testing the command ability of the students of the command department is the speed at which the team completes the assessment and the status of the team members.

If there are casualties among the team members, the results will not be very good, and if the team dies and the commander is left alone, not only will he not get a passing grade, but he will even be held accountable, and he will drop out of school or go to court-martial.

Ethan had just heard about these things, he was not very interested in these details, he cared about another thing.

"Is there a layer of energy field on the outermost part of this training ground?"

"Of course. ”

Outside of the training ground is a layer of energy field, which acts as part of the atmosphere, and many other functions, such as making the sky look more like a real sky, and ensuring that people inside will not leave the place casually, and that people outside will not be able to enter it casually.

"Energy fields can also create weather conditions. ”

This is why the lids and clouds in the sky are almost at the same height, because all kinds of weather effects are created by these energy fields.

Ethan thought for a moment and asked a more important question.

"And what about the exit?"

Since it is a training ground, it will not be a completely closed facility, at least there must be a passage in and out.

Hearing this, Betty looked at Ethan in surprise, as if she didn't expect Ethan to be worried, and the thought in her head now was, 'Does this person want to escape from this place?'

No wonder Betty has such thoughts, in her impression, the aborigines of this world are controlled at a rather backward level of civilization, and with the level of civilization mastered by the aborigines, they can't even conquer a planet, even if there is no higher-level civilization on this planet.

Is this the kind of person who wants to leave this training ground? Betty thinks Ethan is thinking too much.

"With a dedicated controller, you can open a temporary channel at a specific location on that energy field, and that's where I got in. ”

Ethan nodded, in fact, it didn't matter to him whether there was an exit or not, it was a big deal to directly open a portal on the energy field and drive the spaceship to the outside.

For Ethan, who has mastered more and more abilities, a mere energy layer can't stop him at all.

"How did you get stuck here?"

Betty was depressed at the mention of this, but she gave a brief account of her experience.

The story is nothing special, in fact, Betty and her classmates conducted an assessment together, but their team was very unlucky, the progress was very unsmooth, and there was even a reduction in staff not long after they set off.

The most terrible thing is not the attrition, but the first to hang up is actually the commander.

It was so strange that no one had ever heard of such a precedent, and Betty and her companions were a little overwhelmed and didn't know what to do next.

Some people even proposed to give up this assessment and wait for the arrival of the rescue team.

Betty and her companions did not choose to give up the exam, but continued to forge ahead, and finally succeeded in this voyage, and it seemed that only the difficulty of the stormy sea was not far ahead.

As for the various monsters on the way, as long as they are careful and dodge in time, they don't have to worry too much, even if they occasionally bump into them, there are also combat students with good strength in the team.

For Betty's team, the biggest trouble is still the lack of a commander, when it comes to things, everyone goes their own way, everyone has their own ideas, and often quarrels over small things.

As a result, the team never moved forward, and a quarrel broke out again when they arrived on the island.

"The island is a resting spot before stormy seas, but it's also a test. ”

"Test?"

After Betty's story, Ethan learns that although there are no mental disturbances on this island, the whole island is deliberately designed to make people feel comfortable.

Beaches, meadows, mountains, woods, and almost imperceptibly the passage of time make it easy to think about living a longer and more comfortable life in this place.

If you accidentally waste too much time here, then it is easy to fail the assessment because you have wasted more time.

Another option here is to choose to forfeit the next exam on this island, so that although you will be judged to fail this exam, you will get an additional chance to retake it.

So when they arrived on the island, Betty's team had a quarrel, and the result of the quarrel was that the team split up, and even almost broke out into an armed conflict.

Betty looked at her classmates who were getting strained and lost confidence in completing the exam, so she chose to stay here and give up the exam.

This time, Betty became the target of her classmates' concentrated attacks, not only did these companions not leave her anything, but even tried to snatch all the equipment she carried, although she was finally stopped by another classmate who had a good relationship with her, but it also made Betty completely lose trust in these companions.

Betty escaped from the group during the night's rest, then found a hidden cave, sent a distress signal inside, and waited quietly for the rescue team to arrive.

For the next few days, she secretly observed her classmates from a distance: they did not look for her, and soon sailed away, leaving Betty on the island to wait for rescue.

Due to the delay in waiting for help and the need to find food every day, Betty finally chose to hibernate.

The Empire's hibernation chamber is so advanced that it only requires a nanodevice about the size of a finger to be carried on one's body, and such a small thing can be turned into a giant hibernation chamber when opened - and can also be used as a one-man life-support device in space to wait for rescue when necessary.

It's just that once it is unfolded, it will be completely finalized, and it can no longer be turned back into such a small nanodevice and retracted.

"This island doesn't sink into the sea like other islands?"

More questions appeared in Ethan's mind, since this island would not sink, then why didn't the so-called guild develop this island into another unsinkable island base?

"The island stays on the surface of the sea, and it is said that a very special technique is used to ensure that the environment on the island is always in good condition. ”

Ethan is a little interested in this so-called special technology, but unfortunately Betty doesn't know much about this technology, she is just a student who has come to take the exam, and she knows a lot of the technology mastered by the empire, and she has never even heard of many advanced technologies.

She didn't know about the magical technology that kept the island in a good state for many years, and she only heard about it when she took this exam, but she didn't know exactly what it was.

"If this island has always been on the surface of the sea and is so beautiful, why don't 'aborigines' come to live on the island?"

Betty knows this, because there are detailed explanations for various situations before taking the test.

"Non-trainee ships can't get close to this island, first of all, there are often floating and sinking islands on the periphery of the island, and without the special positioning device for students, the island pointers used by ordinary navigators will only lead them to other islands. ”

Ethan only went straight this time, and didn't use the island pointer to find the floating island, so he accidentally found this place.

"When a ship without a special identification device approaches the island, it will be subjected to things like lightning, storms or blizzards, huge whirlpools, and so on...... But these facilities may have lost their effectiveness, otherwise you wouldn't be able to get close to it. ”

Ethan touched his chin, he wanted to tell Betty now: he was the one who rushed through the blizzard and the countless maelstroms!