Chapter 17 The Price of Growth on
Ten days later, Sue was standing at the top of the hill, looking down below. It was a huge city that had been partially restored, the sky was gray, many buildings were lit up, the newly renovated roads were constantly seen with cars passing through, and on the edge of the city, there were large areas of brightly lit factories, and trucks full of trucks drove in and out from time to time. Crucially, judging by the few shining lights in the city, the city has a huge supply of electricity.
As far as the eye can see, there is an endless sea.
The low-hanging clouds in the sky revealed a gap, just enough to show the low-hanging sun. The golden sunlight shone down, dyeing not only the sea with broken gold, but also the entire seaward side of the city with a deep golden red. But behind the intense gold, there is a deep shadow, almost like eternal night.
Sue's side was Persephone in a shirt and pencil skirt. She carried a delicate canvas satchel in her right hand, and pointed to the sea shining with billions of golden lights with her left hand, and said, "The headquarters of the Dark Dragoon is there." β
Following her fingertips, Sue saw the old-fashioned seven-story building. Despite the distance, Sue could still see the narrow, tall entrance of the building. Because it was backed by the sun, the inside of the gate was dark, and it seemed to swallow everyone who dared to enter.
Click...... The sound of crisp high heels hitting the ground echoed in front of the centuries-old Dark Dragoon Headquarters building, and the guards on both sides of the door shook their bodies, immediately straightening their already tall bodies. When that sound rings out, it can only mean one thing: Persephone is coming.
Sure enough, Persephone appeared like a ghost, walked the long staircase, and walked proudly into the door of the Dark Dragoon. As soon as she appeared, the two guards gave a military salute of the most standard, and their eyes were full of awe, excitement, and a little hidden desire.
Persephone walked swayingly, but her face was full of undisguised indifference and arrogance. She walked along the center line of the hall and straight down the scarlet-carpeted staircase. The empty hall was filled with the crisp sound of tapping, and the bronze dragon head on the opposite wall was all focused on Persephone!
The people who came and went in and out of the lobby all stopped, looking at Persephone as she returned from her mission, and all the dragoons who happened to be standing in her path hurriedly flashed to the side.
In the days since Persephone was gone, almost everyone was speculating about what kind of mission it was that required the youngest, most powerful, most cunning, and most beautiful and sexy major general of the Dark Dragoon to come out in person. Who was the man who was following her, out of place here?
Sue's pupils were full of indifference, and her gaze only fell on Persephone's rhythmically swinging waist, and she didn't look to the side at all. His steps were in perfect shape and frequency with Persephone, as if he were one with her. The distance between the two is always 1.5 meters, no more, no less.
Countless eyes fell on Su's body, jealousy, hatred, curiosity, eagerness, contempt, greed, surprise, doubt, and even fiery desire, these eyes almost contained a positive or negative feeling, piercing Su like a needle.
Many men's eyes ended up on Barrett, who was wrapped in camouflage cloth, surprised, contemptuous, and angry. In the Dark Dragoon, which has fully popularized the intelligent firearms of the new era, the simple mechanical weapons of the old era are almost extinct. Those who dare to use this weapon are almost always fierce men. In the Dark Dragoon, the quasi-spell and fighting domains almost dominate the world, and even if the major psionic domain is majoring, there are very few that focus on all kinds of firearms, after all, it is really difficult to say which is weaker or stronger between low-level weapon mastery and electronic intelligence.
There were also quite a few women in the lobby, distinguished by their clothing, most of them were ordinary people who did some secretarial file work, and of course there were a few female dragoons. Their eyes almost stayed on Sue's face, occasionally glancing at Persephone, and some of them couldn't hide their jealousy or envy.
Sue walked through countless eyes with the same pace, and followed Persephone up to the sixth floor.
When entering the Dark Dragoon headquarters, Sue had no bandages on her face.
Back in the Dark Dragoon, Persephone is unscrupulous and flamboyant. Wherever she went, the crisp tapping of high heels rang out. But Sue attracted more attention than her.
As soon as Persephone reached the sixth floor, the handsome and sunny male adjutant who received the news was already standing in front of the office and opening the office door for her.
As Persephone sat down behind her desk, Sue stood silently at the desk, causing a flash of surprise in the adjutant's eyes. The lieutenant was determined, and years of following him made it clear to him the consequences of losing his temper in front of Persephone. He restrained himself from letting his gaze drift to Sue's body, and placed a few copies of the text in his hand in front of Persephone.
This was the work that Persephone had left behind, and it had to be signed off by herself. At the moment, Persephone was not interested in dealing with these so-called important matters, she quickly flipped through the text, occasionally stopped to glance at it a few times, and then signed her opinion, and the three documents took her a total of five minutes.
"Are there any basic training camps recently?" Persephone asked as she wrestled with Wen JiΓ n.
"Yes, the latest basic training camp started yesterday, this is the complete tutorial, this training camp is composed of Ben. Captain Curtis presided over the meeting, and there are currently 31 members in training. The latest intensive training camp does not start until seven days later. The male lieutenant replied without thinking, as if he also had a database in his head.
"Is it Curtis training camp? Good luck. Persephone raised her head, pointed the pencil in her hand at Sue, and said, "Go and tell SΓΉ Kotis that there is one more person to be added to this training camp, and that is him." β
The adjutant was taken aback and said, "I'm afraid it's going to be difficult." You know the temper of Captain Curtis, he never accepts the half-way of a Lucas. And your orders are a bit inconsistent with the rules, it seems that he has not gone through any formalities to join the Dark Dragoon, and this training camp is set up to select new Dragoons. β
Persephone's gaze grew colder and colder, and she said, "I don't seem to have given you the right to question my orders, Lieutenant!" Don't forget who you are, just do your part! Go and tell SΓΉ Kotis that I am very serious about this matter, and there is no room for discussion! If he dares to defy me with a decree, or if he wants to talk about his own stinking rules, I'll go to his house tonight and smash all his wine!" Tell him what I said, and don't change a word! β
"Yes! Checkmate! The adjutant straightened his already straight waist and replied crisply and neatly in the loudest voice he could, carefully concealing the shock in his heart.
Persephone looked at Sue again and said, "Go with him, and he will tell you what you need to do." β
Before following the lieutenant out of the office, Sue suddenly saw Persephone gesture to him, the black pencil lightly slashing across the air.
Sue, who had been with Persephone for nearly half a month, knew that she was asking him to knock all the opponents in the training camp over.
Sue nodded almost imperceptibly. Persephone couldn't have made him do anything meaningless, and he knew a little bit about the point of doing so.
The adjutant led Su directly out of the building, personally drove a four-wheel drive SUV painted with a demon pattern, pulled Su up, and sped away.
The road was long, and along the way, the adjutant cautiously inquired about Su's origins, interests, and possible information. It could be seen that he couldn't suppress his curiosity a little. But Sue, who was sitting in the passenger seat, held his Barrett in his arms and didn't say a word.
The adjutant's handsome face flushed faintly, and he was angry, but out of fear of Persephone and ignorance of Su's background, he didn't choose to turn his face or do it directly.
Off-road vehicles roared and galloped, leaving behind roads and buildings. The windshield could not stop the strong wind that was blowing in his face, blowing the lieutenant's short blonde hair straight back.
After driving for nearly an hour, the SUV approached a very rudimentary-looking barracks at the foot of the mountain, and the guards at the gate of the camp checked the adjutant's ID and let the SUV go.
The adjutant and Sue waited for an hour. Captain Curtis returned to the camp with his team members who had gone out for training. There was a bang, and the door of the barracks where the two were kicked open, and Captain Curtis walked in with a hideous face. The captain was a black man, and his already vicious face was strewn with scars. He wasn't tall, just a few centimeters taller than Su, but his body was almost twice as wide and thick as Su! When he entered, he even had to turn slightly sideways to squeeze into the standard camp gate.
Beneath the uniform, which was apparently custom-made, was full of muscles full of explosive power, with knotted muscles under the high-pulled cuffs, crawling with throbbing green tendons, and a shiny black skin glistening with an oily glow.
"Let me see what kind of goods are going to cut in line halfway, is it a soft egg that can hit with one punch!" Root. As soon as Curtis entered, he said with a sinister smile. His left and right hands kept holding each other, and the joints of his whole body crackled.
The adjutant stood up and introduced, "This is Sue." On the orders of General Persephone, I came to join this training camp. β
"Persephone? What madness is that woman going on! Sue her, this training camp is full, if he must come in, wait until next year! "If anyone who is familiar with the captain hears it, they will be surprised, because the captain has always called a woman only one, girl.
"Attention, Captain, this is an order!" The adjutant's attitude was very tough.
The captain smirked, suddenly reached out and lifted the adjutant over, and said in a low voice in his ear: "Fuck the order, this order is not compliant, I refuse!" β
Although the adjutant was also tall and strong, he was as thin as a bamboo pole compared to the captain. And somehow, as soon as it fell into the hands of the captain, the adjutant immediately lost all his strength, and his hands hung limply at his sides. His face was a little pale, but he still insisted on saying loudly: "The general said, this time she is very serious, and there is no room for negotiation!" If you don't do her bidding, then she'll come to your house tonight and smash all the wine! β
The captain was stunned for a moment, and then roared! The adjutant only felt like a bombshell had exploded in his ears, and he was dizzy. His body flew backwards and fell back into the couch where he had been sitting.
Root. Curtis turned his head, looked at Sue, smiled, and showed a mouthful of white shiny teeth: "Your name is Sue?" Your luck looks good. Everyone knows that the two things I hate the most are anything that's too pretty, and it's a schedule that's disrupted. You've got both, and you're in luck! I'm going to make your stay very enjoyable! β
Su stood quietly, meeting the captain's knife-like gaze, his gaze not wavering in the slightest. The captain looked at his blue eyes, and then at Barrett behind him, and his face was slightly soothed.
Namely, the present. Captain Curtis had already accepted Sue, and the adjutant refused to stay any longer, and hurried out of the devil-ridden barracks. Although Curtis was only a captain, he had never heard of a school officer who would want to provoke him. The captain's temperament and habits are known to almost everyone, and Sue has almost committed his taboos, and it seems that this training camp is lively.
So when the adjutant returned, he was in a very happy mood, and the anger that had been completely ignored on the way had completely subsided.
The next day, before dawn, a short shrill whistle sounded in the barracks. Before the whistle sounded, the doors of the rows of improvised barracks were opened, and dozens of people rushed to the playground at a speed of 100 meters, standing in a chaotic group.
Captain Curtis stood like a steel ingot, standing in the middle of the playground. He held his hands behind his back, and a rubber stick kept beating in his palm.
In 10 seconds, all the people were standing in front of him. Counting Sue, there are a total of 32 trainees in this training camp, including 5 women. Unlike ordinary military training, the captain never conducts platoon training, he lets everyone stand at will, and naturally, the small group of cadets is inadvertently displayed.
Sue was naturally alone, there were 4 women standing alone like Sue, the largest small group had 9 people, and the man in the middle who was very strong in appearance and about thirty years old was the leader, and his beard was very neatly trimmed, and it could be seen that this man was very fond of his beard.
When everyone arrived, the captain was silent for a full five minutes. For five minutes, there was silence in the barracks, no one moved, no one spoke, and no one even made a second movement outside of the stand.
"Excellent! It seems that you are all smart people who did not take my warnings as air. The captain finally spoke, and the rubber stick in his hand pointed at Su Yi and said, "And you, you are smarter than them!" You didn't know my warnings, but you didn't break my rules. β
Su immediately felt a lot more hostility in the gaze cast at her.
"I gave you 15 seconds, but the softest eggs among you were in front of me in 10 seconds! This makes me have to say: what the fuck! The captain continued his lecture, and his bear-like gaze swept over the 32 cadets in front of him: "It looks like your eggs are a little hard, so I'll give you a chance: this training camp will only produce one official member of the dragoon!" β
With a coax, the faces of the cadets changed greatly, and the impact of this news on them for a while exceeded the fear of the captain, and those who knew each other began to whisper among themselves. The training camp hosted by Curtis produced a different number of dragoons each time, and no one knows what standard is used to set the elimination rate, but one thing is well known, the smaller the number, the higher the rank when it comes out. If only one dragoon is produced, then it means that the dragoon is a second lieutenant when he leaves the camp.
However, there is only one opportunity. The students' eyes began to look at each other, and something strange was already starting to appear.
The captain suddenly raised his voice: "Now, who will tell me, what is the first creed of the Dark Dragoon?" β
Silent.
Of course, Sue didn't know what the creed of the so-called Dark Dragoon was, and everyone else seemed to know, but no one wanted to answer first. Being ahead of the curve means attracting everyone's attention, and in a training camp that can only produce one dragoon, it's certainly not a good thing to get attention from the start.
Curtis was not in a hurry, he waited quietly, and the longer he waited, the more hideous the smile on his lips became.
Finally, the boss of the group of nine spat out and said, "The first creed of the Dark Dragoon is strength!" β