"Please insert your military identification card." A sweet computer-synthesized voice is heard. Tang Long, who was standing inside the narrow oval object, hurriedly inserted the applied card into a magnetic card hole.

"Name: Tang Long, Age: 18, Surname: Male, Culture: High School, Registered Troops: Infantry." With the data appearing on the computer, the synthesized voice sounded again: "Prepare for identity check." ”

Tang Long stood still and his eyes widened. A white light swept him from head to toe. "The appearance matches, the bones match, the blood type matches, the DNA matches, the pupils match. Proof of identity. ”

After the computer BB screamed a few times, it spit out the original magnetic card, and the synthesized voice sounded again: "Please report to the 1st Company and 1st Squad of the 3rd Battalion of the 23rd Regiment of the 504 Recruit Battalion." I wish you good luck. Tang Long hurriedly put away the magnetic card, and a door immediately appeared behind him. There's a long queue outside the door.

"! It's so troublesome to be a soldier! I knew that Lao Tzu would not come! Tang Long scolded dissatisfiedly as he left the blending room. As soon as he walked out, the man at the head of the line immediately entered the mixing room, and the door closed again.

This Tang Long, who has just come of age, has just graduated from high school this year, and his wealthy family could have studied in college or worked in his father's company. But he didn't want to be a Xiaokai, but wanted to be a soldier.

He has had ambitions since he was a child, hoping to be a marshal who commands the world's soldiers and horses. He believed that to be a marshal, he must first become a general, and to be a general, he had to start from a small soldier.

Although I heard that after enlisting in the army after studying at the National Defense University, I can immediately obtain the rank of second lieutenant, which is many times higher than that of the current private. But it's not that Tang Long doesn't want to, but his score in the college entrance examination ranks in the bottom 1,000 among tens of millions of candidates in the Federation. The National Defense University was not something that money could buy to study, and his family would not approve of him joining the army. Because his family has been single for generations.

Speaking of which, there is also an interesting fact about his name, which was chosen by his grandfather before his parents were married. Both Grandpa and his father were very confident and believed that the next generation must be male. I don't know if the ancient bloodline is really so powerful, he really came to this world as a man. And his father and mother continued to work hard for 18 years without giving birth to another child, let alone giving birth, not even getting pregnant.

When he was sensible, he once asked his grandfather why he chose such a name for himself. Grandpa proudly told him that the word Tang was on one of the ancient human origin planets called the earth, representing a nation of an oriental country on that planet, which was characterized by yellow skin, black hair and black eyes. And the dragon represents the most powerful man in that country. Although this planet is gone, the achievements of uniting other civilizations to create the current thousand-year-old cosmic calendar will be passed on forever.

Although Grandpa did not say his expectations, the meaning of this name, Tang Long, has been deeply imprinted in the mind of this sensible child. This is one of the reasons why he wants to join the army.

So this bad boy used the excuse that he didn't do well in the exam and went out for a walk during the summer vacation, obtained a travel fee and his adult identity certificate, ran to the planet Kayla, which was nearly 10,000 light-years away from home, and signed up for the army first.

Although there are other branches of the military that can be examined, either a cultural knowledge test or a physical fitness test is required. Tang Long, who was useless, had no choice but to choose an infantry branch that could apply for the exam as long as he was an adult and did not have any tests.

Tang Long carried the baggage, took the magnetic card with the distribution order, and stupidly wandered around this allocation hall. There were many olive-shaped mixing rooms in the hall, and each mixing room was lined up with little ones who had just joined the army like him. The olive-shaped blending room is AI-powered and can automatically arrange you to the right boot camp for training based on your requirements and test scores.

Of course, in addition to the recruits who came to join the army, there were also soldiers wearing black and silver on the side, and the soldiers in the federal military uniforms were on guard here. Tang Long looked at those mighty soldiers with envious eyes while looking for the passage to the 504 recruit camp.

Although these passages are in this huge hall, there are too many. Tang Long looked up at the numbers on the passages one by one, and his neck was about to break.

After walking for a long time, I found the automatic passage with 504 written on it, and there were already recruits in front of me, so Tang Long stepped up without saying a word. The automatic floor immediately moved forward with him.

Tang Long stayed in this passage with no scenery for about ten minutes, during which he looked behind him, and there was no one else who followed him except him. And the guys in civilian clothes in front of them, somehow, the speed of the automatic floor will actually increase, making them farther and farther away from themselves, from the size of their thumbs to the size of mung beans, and finally they are gone. Tang Long was the only one in the long passage.

After staying for a few more minutes, Tang Long began to panic, although he told himself not to be afraid, but the silent loneliness still haunted him. In the end, he ran forward as hard as he could, and although the automatic floor was still moving fast, he felt that he could only feel the automatic floor moving when he was running fast.

After a while, Tang Long was tired, and he squatted on the ground panting like a dog. He hasn't exercised much since middle school, and although he reads books and plays with computers all day, he reads doll books and plays computer games. Exhausted, he had long forgotten the inexplicable sense of fear, and only thought that taking a break was the most important thing.

Suddenly, he noticed that the floor had stopped, looked up curiously, and found that he was squatting at the exit, and when he stood up, he found a sign posted on the exit, which read: "The whole journey takes 30 minutes." ”

"Idiot!" He knocked himself on the head hard, and it took him more than 20 minutes to get to the exit, which was really wronged. Because I was afraid of running so hard. It was his longest run in 18 years.

Walking out of the exit, there was a huge airport, and Tang Long hurriedly inserted the magnetic card with the distribution order into the verification machine at the exit. After a while, a computer-synthesized voice came out: "Please go to the entrance of passage 23 and take the spaceship." ”

Tang Long retrieved the magnetic card and walked towards the passage with No. 23 written on it. This time, it only took 30 seconds for him to get on a spaceship.

He looked at the ship in disbelief, it was a small ship that could only carry 10 people, and he was the only passenger in the entire cabin.

At this time, a sweet voice came from the ship's horn: "Ready to take off, please fasten your seat belts." Tang Long hurriedly found a seat and sat down and fastened his seat belt. At this time, he looked through the window and saw a huge spaceship taking off outside.

"Wouldn't it? Why am I so small? I won't be the only one going to the 23rd regiment, right? What about the recruits you just saw? Aren't they from the 23rd regiment? Tang Long felt that inexplicable terrifying feeling again, so he decided to talk to himself to reduce his terrifying feeling.

There was a roar, and Tang Long immediately felt a pressure and pressed himself against his seat. However, this pressure lasted just over a minute before it disappeared. Tang Long knew that the spaceship had already left the atmosphere, and when he turned his head to look out the window, there were countless stars shining in the darkness. Although I have come to space and seen it countless times, I am unconsciously attracted to it every time.

Tang Long, who came back to his senses, suddenly unbuckled his seat belt and pounced on the spaceship control room like a tiger. He was going to ask the captain where he was going. In fact, he mainly wanted to find someone to talk to, and it was too scary to be alone.

The cabin, which was supposed to be locked, was opened by Tang Long as soon as he pushed it. There's no one in there! Tang Long was stunned for a moment, he knew that such a small spaceship was generally controlled by computers, flying according to a fixed route, and it was normal to have no captain, so there was no need to waste manpower.

Because of this, Tang Long knew that it was not very far from the destination, so he sat in the cab unceremoniously, looking at the landscape of the universe here, and the angle was really good. Tang Long couldn't help but be secretly happy, although he had taken a spaceship for an unknown number of times, he had never sat in the cockpit to watch space. This time, I didn't expect that being a soldier could also enjoy the service of a private plane. As soon as Tang Long was proud, he immediately forgot the fear of loneliness.

But he didn't have long to be complacent, and the computer-synthesized voice appeared again: "Please fasten your seatbelts and wear safety helmets." This ship is about to perform a space jump. ”

Tang Long immediately screamed: "Space jump? No way? Does such a small ship have a function? Where the hell is the 23rd regiment? "Originally, space jumping was a function only for giant spaceships, and small spaceships couldn't withstand the tearing force of space jumps at all. And it is necessary to be at least 1000 light-years away to make a space jump.

Although Tang Long screamed, he still fastened his seat belt neatly, and then put on the helmet that automatically fell off the top of the plane. This helmet is used to minimize the tear on the head when jumping in space, and all window screens turn black with no information. This will save you from damage to your eyes.

After Tang Long was ready, his body began to tingle. He knew he had made a space jump. He recited all the gods of the civilization he knew. He had never heard that a small spaceship could perform space jumps, and Tang Long, who was already riding on the back of a tiger, could only beg the gods to bless the space jump successfully.

The space jump time was very short, only a few tens of seconds, and the voice sounded again: "The space jump is complete, and there are still 30 minutes to reach the destination." ”

The helmet automatically detached and took it back, Tang Long looked around curiously, he was very strange, if he could really reach his destination in 30 minutes, then how could he not see the planet around in front of him? Why did you encounter so many inexplicable things when you were a soldier? Tang Long could only sigh. Anyway, it will be there in 30 minutes, no matter him. Tang Long fastened his seat belt and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

"There are still 10 seconds to land, 10, 9, 8 ......" Tang Long, who was awakened by this voice, hurriedly opened his eyes and found that there was a meteorite almost a kilometer in front of the spacecraft, and the meteorite cracked a crack. Seeing the light exposed inside the gap, Tang Long knew that the inside of the meteorite was actually a small base. So this meteorite is the 504 regiment of the 23 recruit battalion?

This time, it was a gravity-free descent, so there was no pressure. Tang Long could already see the conning tower through the screen, and the strange thing was that although the conning tower emitted a command light, there was no one inside.

After waiting for the conveyor port to connect to the hatch, Tang Long couldn't wait to run out. Sure enough, there was no one in the entire conning tower.

After Tang Long was stunned for a while, he felt that the surroundings were super quiet, and he could hardly hear any sound except for his own breathing. Tang Long, who was starting to be scared again, hurriedly turned around and wanted to run back to the spaceship. However, the connector was disengaged, and the protective shield separated him from the ship. Immediately after that, the ship's fuel interface was also disengaged. The ship began to slowly retreat, and it seemed that it was about to return home on its own.

Tang Long watched the spacecraft leave in a daze, until the gate closed, and he could no longer see the scenery of space. Tang Long shouted in a panic: "Is there anyone? I'm Private Tang Long! Report to the Chief! He walked up to the automatic floor in fear, shouting loudly as he nervously hugged the package and looked around.

After a while, he came to a circular building several thousand square meters wide, and there was nothing around him except the passage where he was staying. Coming here, Tang Long breathed a sigh of relief, he had seen it from the stereoscopic TV, this was the base of the training camp. Despite the fact that it is white now, the circular ceiling can be projected in three ways to create scenery from all over the world. The seemingly smooth and flat ground will have various obstacles due to the need, and this hall is the training venue. The smooth walls around it will lead to doors, and inside are well-equipped rooms, which are places for soldiers and instructors to rest, entertain and eat.

Wait for Tang Long to see the golden number 23 on the ceiling. The whole person was relieved, and this is the 23rd regiment. But why is the whole regiment so small? It stands to reason that such a large place can only be used by the company level? , and how is it that no one trains? Won't they all sleep? Probably not, it's only two o'clock in the afternoon. Although Tang Long was strange, he still shouted loudly: "Private Tang Long report for duty!" ”

After waiting for a while, Tang Long didn't listen to other voices, and couldn't help but take a breath and prepare to shout louder. Suddenly, an indifferent voice came from behind him: "You are Tang Long?" ”

Tang Long was overjoyed, and hurriedly turned around to salute, and shouted loudly: "Private Tang Long, ...... to the commander" The two words of reporting did not come out, but turned into a miserable scream, which was a particularly poignant one.

Tang Long's feet were weak, and he was paralyzed on the ground, and he moved back desperately, what did he see? A skull man in a military uniform.

Tang Long had lost the function of sound, and he desperately crawled towards the passage just now, but as soon as he turned his head, he found that the passage had disappeared, and he remembered that the recruit camp was a closed training.

Just as Tang Long found that there was no way to escape, and he was about to lose consciousness in panic, the skull man stepped forward and grabbed Tang Long's clothes, put the skull head against Tang Long's forehead, and shouted angrily: "Are you Tang Long?" ”

The frightened Tang Long suddenly regained his senses, because he found that the bones of this skull soldier were made of metal, and at such a close distance, the metal wire of the skull soldier's neck and the small horn inside his mouth could be found. Tang Long knew that the terrifying skull soldier in front of him turned out to be a robot.

It stands to reason that there were no robot soldiers thousands of years ago, and in addition to dangerous work, there were a small number of robots, and robots were not widely used in the entire universe. This is because the robots created by humans thousands of years ago suddenly possessed intelligence and launched a war to destroy humanity, but fortunately, they were saved by human ingenuity. Since then, although the widespread use of robots has been banned, some countries have still created robotic soldiers.

Hundreds of years ago, the country that made the robot soldier was used by a hostile country to destroy the control system of the robot soldier using a computer virus. This makes these robot soldiers go crazy, and when they see any living creature with heat energy, they will destroy it mercilessly. Although the crisis was quickly brought down, a planet was destroyed as a result. In this way, human society recognizes that intelligent robots are unstable and dangerous. Since then, the development of intelligent humanoid robots has been banned throughout the world, and whoever develops them is the enemy of all mankind.

Before Tang Long could figure out why there was a robot in the 23rd Regiment of the 504 Recruit Battalion, he was thrown to the ground by the robot, and at the same time, an angry voice came out of his mouth: "Are you Tang Long?!" "Equipped with a green machine eye, it seems that he wants to gnaw Tang Long alive.

Tang Long was startled, and hurriedly stood up and shouted, "Private Tang Long reports to the commander!" ”

The robot spread its legs, put its hands behind its waist, straightened its waist, looked ahead, and said in a cold voice, "I can't hear." ”

Tang Long was stunned for a moment, but he had seen too much on TV, and when the recruits came, the instructors would come to this trick, so he hurriedly took a breath and shouted at the maximum volume: "Private Tang Long reports to the commander!! ”

The robot may be satisfied and stretch out its hand. Of course, Tang Long knew what to do, and hurriedly handed over the magnetic card with the distribution order.

The robot put it away casually, then put its legs together and snapped a salute: "I accept your registration!" ”

When Tang Long heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, now he is a soldier. When the robot saw that he was stunned, he couldn't help but say viciously, "Listen! That's your room, that's the dining hall. Training starts at 4 p.m.! He gestured to the two doors that popped out of the wall. Then he turned and walked away.

Tang Long watched the robot leave, only to see a door suddenly pop out of the wall where he went, and it immediately returned to its original state after he entered. When Tang Long looked at his room, he found that the door was gone, and he couldn't help but run over in a hurry.

When he came there, the door suddenly appeared, Tang Long saw that it was dark inside, hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and walked in. As soon as I stepped through the door, there was a light inside. Tang Long couldn't help but be happy when he saw the scene in front of him, the room had more than ten square meters, a bed, a desk, a chair, and a wardrobe. There is also a small bathroom with all toiletries. This is an officer's suite.

"I didn't expect that robot instructor to be quite a good person." Tang Long whistled and opened the wardrobe, and saw that there were 3 sets of federal military uniforms and 3 pairs of military boots inside, in short, there were three sets of matching clothes for soldiers, but these were all combat uniforms. Tang Long immediately threw away the package and anxiously took out a set of military uniforms to try on.

When I got dressed, I ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror, and I suddenly felt that I was very imposing. The uniform fits perfectly on the body. This is because my data is detailed in my own data, which is why these things are so suitable.

The only fly in the ointment that Tang Long felt was the silver bar on his shoulder, which represented the rank of private.

After some self-absorption, Tang Long felt hungry, so he ran out. Came to the restaurant next door to him, although the lights were on

Tang Long, who was bright, but there was no one and felt a little scared, hurriedly took a food box and a bottle of drink from the counter, and hurriedly ran back to his room.

While eating artificial food, he was cranky. What I think about the most is that this base seems to be the only living person. What the hell is going on? Why would you be like this when you were an infantryman?

Tang Long didn't know that he had made a huge mistake when choosing his troops. It is now the year 3432 of the cosmic calendar, and the arms of the army have long been canceled infantry, because the current wars are all battles between space warships and bombardments, although there are also hand-to-hand combat and landing combat arms, but that is called space soldiers.

So why do infantry units still exist? This is because the 23rd Marshal of the Federal Army hundreds of years ago was born in the infantry, and after he became a marshal, although he realized that the infantry should be eliminated, he was not at all tolerant. So when he eliminated the infantry branches, he left behind the only infantry training battalion in the whole army, that is, the 23rd Regiment.

At that time, it was the time when robots were widely used, and he used his power to build the base of the 23rd regiment in the middle of nowhere, while leaving several instructor robots. He also knew that no one would apply for the infantry exam in the future, and this base would soon be forgotten, just to leave a place of remembrance for the infantry troops.

But he didn't expect that hundreds of years after his death, the base was still running. Mainly not long after his death, all the military system's operating systems were replaced with intelligent computers. At that time, humans eliminated humanoid intelligent robots, but they were reluctant to eliminate intelligent computers. After all, human beings who are used to convenience are not willing to give up such a convenient tool.

The military intelligent computer obtained the original computer data and incorporated the 23rd Regiment, the only infantry training base, into the system. Although no one has applied for the exam, the route to the base continues. Some officers also discovered this base, which was equal to waste, and also wanted to destroy it, but when they found out that it was a little sentiment of the 23rd marshal, they were moved and ignored it. None of them knew that the instructors at the base were robots, and thought they were some hapless instructors who had been assigned there by the computer. At that time, the 23rd marshal secretly arranged robots.

Of course, because of this, the fixed route was maintained, and although there were no students there, there were instructors. However, when these officers who knew about the existence of the 23rd Regiment also died, the 23rd Regiment gradually became forgotten.

Since that base is self-sufficient, the Federation only needs to maintain the route ships. And these maintenance costs are just a drop in the ocean for the huge federal budget, and there will be no burden. And because no one applied for the exam, the spaceship of the route will become a small spaceship with 10 seats. This is specifically for the transportation of instructors.

Tang Long, who was useless, only found this infantry class without any requirements after searching all the arms. I was so happy that I forgot that this class was last in line, and I thought I had found a treasure.

Tang Long, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by a bucket of ice water, jumped up and was about to scold, but when he saw the robot instructor looking at him viciously, those dirty words were immediately stuffed back into his stomach.

"Hello sir!" Tang Long immediately gave a military salute that was not very qualified.

"! Say that you are training at 4 o'clock, you dare to be 1 second late? Go out and run ten laps around the training ground! The robot said viciously.

Tang Long knew that he was going to be unlucky, because robots are the most sensitive to time, and he is the one who will forget time the most. It seems that he will be punished every day in the future.

Seeing that Tang Long was stunned, the robot couldn't help but walk behind Tang Long and kick him out of the room. With a scream, Tang Long flew into the hall.

Tang Long, who was about to rub his buttocks, suddenly found that he had a pair of boots in front of him, and when he looked up, he was startled, and the robot instructor was staring at him and spit out deep words from his mouth: "Don't run yet!" ”

"Yes,...... Yes! Tang Long, who got up, immediately found that there were five identical robot instructors standing in the training ground.

Seeing that he was still not running, the robot instructor who was standing at the front couldn't help but pull out a pistol from his waist, loaded it, pulled the trigger, and a laser shot next to Tang Long, and a small hole in the floor appeared with smoke.

Tang Long looked at the robot instructor in surprise, and an emotionless voice came from his ears: "I'm a captain!" You have the right to execute any of your subordinates who don't obey orders, and if you don't start running, the next shot will hit you in the head! ”

Tang Long then remembered that he was already a soldier, and the chief was a robot with no surname, if he was not clever, he would definitely die. Thinking of this, I shuddered, and immediately jumped up and ran around the training ground.

Except for the robot who was carrying a pistol to monitor Tang Long, the other four robots stood motionless. Tang Long found that they all had a three-star captain rank on their shoulders, and he sighed in his heart that all robots could get the rank of captain, but he still ran desperately. Because if you slow down, there will be a few lasers chasing after you. The scorching horror made him forget his tiredness, and he actually ran ten laps for him.

Tang Long, who was tired to death after running, just wanted to squat down, and a leather whip was whipped on the floor beside him. Frightened, Tang Long immediately stood up. The instructor took back the whip and patted it in the palm of his hand: "A soldier must maintain a soldier's demeanor on any occasion!" Now stand upright! Hold your chest up and look ahead! Stick your hands together on both sides of your thighs! ”

The robot demonstrated as he spoke. When he saw that Tang Long was wrong, he first whipped him, and then pointed out what was wrong. Tang Long gave him a dozen strokes before he took a standard stance. I don't know where those robots learned to whip people, they can whip people, they can make people hurt, but they won't beat people to their stomachs.

After Tang Long was asked to maintain this position, the white surroundings of the training ground suddenly turned into a desert environment where the sun was shining. This was not just a desert image, the temperature around him rose at the same time, and Tang Long immediately felt that he was standing under the sun. It only took a while for sweat to get soaked in the uniform.

After only ten minutes, my head felt dizzy, and my eyes were a little glazed. Tang Long accidentally moved away, and was immediately whipped by the leather whip. The pain and the electric shock that went straight to the brain made Tang Long wake up and maintain his original standing posture again.

Under such stimulation, Tang Long actually stood for an hour. But Tang Long's physical strength really couldn't support it, and the whole person kept a standing posture and fell, the instructor suddenly ran over to check Tang Long, and then stood up and said in a cold voice: "Fainted." ”

With his words, the image of the desert vanished, returning to its original practice range. The four robots still maintained their original posture and did not move, but the words still came out of their mouths: "This little guy is not physically strong. "Yes, you must train him severely!" "After the physical exercise, is it my turn to teach him how to fight warships?" "Is there any mistake? He fainted, and besides, it was my turn to teach him strategy. ”

If Tang Long was still sober and heard these human-like conversations, coming out of the robot's mouth, he would definitely be shocked. Because these words represent their ability to read and think about problems. When humanoid robots can read and think about problems, then they are intelligent robots!

The reason why robots rebelled thousands of years ago was because robots gained human intelligence and could read and think. If the federal political axe knew that the 23rd Regiment training camp had robots and evolved to intelligent robots, they would definitely send troops to destroy this base.

The robot that was inspecting Tang Long stood up and said, "Our energy is running out, we must train this only student in our 456 years within a year!" ”

The four robots hurriedly saluted with their legs: "Yes! We will definitely train him to be the most outstanding soldier and live up to the name of our machine instructor! ”

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