Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is three months later.

It's winter in Scarborough Shoal.

The manic sandstorm outside the dome, rolling up yellow sand and gravel, slammed into the reinforced fiber shield day and night, making an avalanche-like sound.

Sunlight can't penetrate the city through the cold sandstorms.

Even at noon, when the sun was at its highest, the sky in Scarborough Shoal was as dark as a cloud.

Bad weather also affected people's moods, and low-end bars dedicated to miners were filled with drunk people from morning to night.

No one likes the boring winters of Huangyan City, except for the dusty women who run the leather and meat business.

People want to vent when they are depressed, so every winter is the best time for their business.

Some of the Dust Girls would come to Scarborough Shoal in the fall on a passenger ship from other colonies in order to harvest the miners' wallets, and leave the following spring, when business was light.

During this winter, Jiang Xia and Old Joan's lives have changed dramatically.

The number of food orders has more than doubled from twice a week to four times a week, and almost five kilograms of various red meat or fish are consumed every day.

Although Old Qiao An felt pain in the increasingly high cost of food, he was still quite happy to see Jiang Xia's figure getting stronger day by day.

He would rather drink two less bottles of whiskey than grieve Jiang Xia's stomach.

People are emotional animals, Jiang Xia and Lao Qiao An have been together day and night for more than eight years, although they occasionally quarrel, but the relationship between the two of them is actually much deeper than outsiders imagine.

Extreme training is extremely physically demanding, and in the beginning, Jiang Xia could only train twice a day, at most two minutes each time.

With the passage of time and the cooperation of diet, Jiang Xia's body became stronger and stronger.

In the winter, he only wears a thin T-shirt and does not feel cold, and the obvious muscles are like the roots of an old tree, intertwined and wrapped around his body.

Now Jiang Xia can already practice three times in the morning, noon and evening, each time lasting nearly ten minutes.

That's a huge improvement over the past.

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In the outer orbit of Beta, in the dark starry sky, a Kunlun-class cruiser manufactured by Jiangnan Heavy Industry, the Amsterdam, is slowly approaching.

In a beta star that is not a war zone, and is mainly mining and smelting, such a scene is rare.

The Scarborough Shoal authorities only have a small fleet of four Viking-class frigates.

Although large Federation warships regularly patrol the vicinity of Beta, they do not land on the planet, but only circle a few times before leaving.

And this Kunlun-class standard cruiser looks like it is going to land in Huangyan City.

In the command room of the battleship, three men in the dark blue uniforms of the Federation Army lined up along the floor-to-ceiling portholes, they were not only officers, but also warriors.

At present, there are nine main legions under the banner of the Federal Army, namely the Guardian Legion, the Exploration Legion, the Expeditionary Legion, the Frontier Legion, the Hidden Star Legion, the Himalayan Legion, the Alpine Legion, the Andean Legion, and the Kilimanjaro Legion.

At present, these three warriors and the cruiser Amsterdam are guarded by one of the nine main legions of the Federation.

Ay~

With short blond hair, the youngest martial artist of the three, Jovi, sighed and said: "This ghost place is really bad, I have never seen such a strong sandstorm, you see, the whole planet is surrounded by sandstorms, flying sand and rocks, the sun and moon are not shining, we can all feel how bad this ghost weather is in space." ”

The big nose with black hair and many freckles on his face Jacques nodded and said, "Yes, it is not easy for immigrants to live here, it is said that such a sandstorm will last for four whole months." ”

Jovi pursed his lips, "I don't know how many young people in Huangyan City have the potential to be martial artists?" Let's come all the way here, don't let us go home empty-handed. ”

Jacques shrugged his shoulders and said, "According to the information, there are not many potential seedlings in Huangyan City, after all, the martial arts profession pays attention to inheritance, and most of the people who live in Beta Star are the descendants of miners, and it is difficult for them to afford a combat-type light brain."

Although in the initial stage of training, the gap between the civilian optical brain and the combat optical brain is not very large, but at a high level, when large-scale data needs to be processed every second, the gap between the civilian optical brain and the combat optical brain will gradually widen. ”

"The data shows that there are currently 270,000 school-age youths in Huangyan City, but less than 500 of them are equipped with combat-type optical brains, and the number of local martial arts halls is not enough, only three.

Jovi nodded frequently, he also felt that there was little hope of discovering genius martial artists in a small place like Huangyan City.

At this time, Mu Linsen, the only one of the three who had the qualifications of a high-level martial artist and was the oldest, suddenly spoke.

"Jacques, you still like to study data models so much?"

Jacques nodded, and said quite confidently: "Data never lies, everything in the world is related to data, as long as the amount of data you have is enough, you can make scientific deductions and prejudge the results." ”

Mu Linsen was noncommittal, narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the sandstorm raging Beta Star and said, "Do you know why this time the governor ordered us to visit all the colonies under the Federation's banner? ”

"I don't know." Jovi shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know, but it's not hard to see from the data deduction that a large-scale operation like ours will waste a lot of time, and the results will not be much better than the selection of various colonies." Jacques replied with his usual data-based analysis.

Mu Linsen chuckled lightly and said lightly: "Some things are not necessarily able to be handled with data, we all know that although the battleship is the most powerful weapon in this era, the battleship is too precious, it takes huge resources and a long construction period to manufacture, and we, as well as many small and medium-sized countries, cannot afford the loss of a fleet battle." ”

"Once the fleet is wiped out, those guys around who have long been eyeing us will immediately rush up and eat our corpses like vultures, so now although the galaxy is constantly smoking, it is rare to hear the news of large-scale starship bombardment, and the most explosive is ground warfare, relying on warriors and warriors to charge into battle."

"In such a situation, the more warriors and warriors of the Earth Federation, the better, so the chief decided to conduct a large-scale investigation, not only to find geniuses, but also to know how many young people with potential there are in our Earth Federation, and when the war breaks out, what is our extreme mobilization ability."

The young martial artist Jovi nodded again and again, he touched his chin and said: "It makes sense, it makes sense, if it is selected by the colony itself, they will only recommend seedlings who are qualified enough, but a large-scale field investigation like ours can figure out the number of young people who are still a little bit away from the qualification line, and if necessary, these young people with poor potential can also be trained as martial artists, so as to expand the martial arts base of the Federation." ”

Jacques was a little worried and said: "It takes a lot of money to train a warrior, and it is not at the same level as training a warrior, is it really dangerous for the Federation to the extent that it needs to train warriors on a large scale at all costs?" ”

Mu Linsen was noncommittal, "I don't know if the current situation of the Federation is very dangerous, I only know that now the Earth Federation is no longer an obscure and remote small country, and the galactic powers have begun to notice our development, and being noticed by the great powers is not a good thing in any case." ”

"After all, how many years has our earth only developed? Those powers, long before the earth was discovered, were already a hegemon, the federation has now reached a key position, sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, it seems that the current federation is much stronger than dozens of centuries ago, but the enemies and potential enemies we are facing now are also unprecedentedly powerful. ”

Mu Linsen's words made both Jovi and Jacques fall into deep thought.

There is no doubt that the established powers will not allow an emerging country like Earth to grow.

The stronger the Earth Federation, the more enemies there will be.

Jovi sighed, stared at the beta star in front of him with raging yellow sand, and said in a deep voice: "Let's take one step at a time, it is said that the more difficult the conditions on the planet, the more tenacious the character of the warrior born, and I don't know if it's true or false?" ”