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The planet of Seleone as seen from outer space is a yellow-brown sphere. The planet's surface ocean area is only 30%, and the atmospheric water content is less than 25% on average. On this planet, the most common place is the barren Gobi, where the occasional wooded area is concentrated in the rainfall zone.

Humanity's base on the planet of Seleone is not next to those wooded areas, but on an earthy yellow wilderness that contains some of the most valuable crystal mines in the universe.

It's been a month since Li De came to this place. He looked at the gray-black sky and spat out a smoke ring. Watching the gray smoke rings in the air slowly drift away and fade, the young man's black eyes flashed with a hint of aura, revealing a satisfied look.

"The break is over~~!" A loud roar came from the headset around his neck, and he knew that it was time to start work again.

For the next 6 hours, the tedious SCV mining robot shuttled through the crystal mines. Buttons, buttons, fluctuation adjustment levers, slide control buttons, and put down minerals are all extremely skilled, and it is not at all obvious that he is a novice who has only been in the army for less than a month. And Li De himself didn't care much about it, because he had already memorized these operations.

When Li De was only 5 years old, the one-armed old guy who had been growing up with him didn't know where to find a SCV operating manual. The tattered paper book here became the only teaching material for little Li De when he was a child. In this era, paper books were extremely rare, and Li De had always wondered why the old guy didn't exchange the book for money to buy wine and drink.

The young man stared straight into the empty field in the distance. His heart had already flown out of the mine at this time, and he didn't know where to go.

After six hours of continuous work, a shift was finally over. As night fell, Li De went to the only bar in the base as usual. Now it's not as good as before, it's a person with a military salary! In the past, being able to buy a bottle of wine was like a festival, and you had to secretly hide it from the old guy when you drank it, otherwise you would definitely be robbed.

After ordering a glass of ale, Li De leaned on the bar, drank half a glass in one go, and whispered with emotion: "It's really cool!" Then he leaned back in his chair and observed the rest of the people in the bar.

"Two days ago, our team went to the front, and the fortifications over there were almost finished, and they basically made up for what they lost last time." Said a Marine beside him.

"I've heard my brother say this before, the last insect tide was amazing! It looks like there are tens of thousands of bugs! ”

"Tens of thousands? It's hundreds of thousands! And it wasn't our first firefight in Seleone, and I don't know how those bugs knew, but there was a big swarm of TM waiting for us everywhere we went. ”

"So the bugs already know we're here? Why didn't TM kill them all? ”

"I don't know, I'm not a bug!" Haha laughed for a while, and then saw that Li De didn't seem to be speaking here, so he began to lower his voice again, as if he was discussing some topics of female soldiers.

"I know you're depressed, a young man shouldn't come to this place just to mine." A glass of fruit wine was placed in front of Li De, and the young man raised his head and looked at each other. It was a white-haired bartender, in his fifties, with a sturdy body and a round waist, but two wheels below the waist. A blue pupil in a deep eye socket with a single-rimmed spectacle on it.

From the first time he saw him, Li De felt panicked for no reason, especially the uncoordinated eyes, which made people afraid for no reason.

But from the second day after coming here, Li De will come to the bar every day, because this bartender will give a free glass of fruit wine every time he comes, so Li De will not leave immediately. Slowly, Li De also felt that he was very similar to the old guy who snatched his own wine.

"I've been digging for a month, and I feel okay, at least it's much more comfortable than when I used to pick up garbage." Li De said as if comforting himself.

"Oh? I don't believe you're ambitious. Why did I say why did you come to join the army? ”

"I grew up at a garbage dump on a small colonized planet and didn't do anything but pick up trash and fight. But when I first saw the recruitment advertisement, I felt like a sense of mission was calling me. ”

"You young people are really funny, if you were watching a recruitment advertisement, why didn't you go to the Marine Corps? You just blow it! The bartender said with some disdain.

Most of those who join the military actually watch recruitment advertisements. The propaganda and recruitment advertisements everywhere in the Federation are brainwashing propaganda, and the blood and passion depicted in them attract many young people.

The bartender said to himself: "Those hateful bugs, they made me lose the lower half of my body, and I didn't leave the front line base, just so that one day I could know for the first time how many of those crumbs you have killed!" There was a hint of cruelty in the bartender's one-eyed eye.

"Those bugs? Have you seen them? Li De drank the fruit wine in the cup, glanced at the bartender with hazy eyes, and asked in a low voice. Actually, if it weren't for that old man's troublemaker, I'd be a Marine by now! ”

The bartender looked at Li De puzzled, "What are you talking about, old man, aren't you in charge of joining the army?" ”

"It's the old man who picked up the trash with me, and I guess he must have helped me change my military form. Otherwise, how could the marines I originally wrote about be assigned to the miners? ”

"Oh? I said Li De, what's wrong with being a miner? It's a little hard, but every day in a safe area, you don't have to risk your life! A bearded man dressed in a miner's uniform came from behind, patted Li De on the shoulder and said.

"I hope to be able to go to the battlefield, even if I only kill a few aliens or bugs, this life is worth it!"

"You're not afraid of death?" The bartender asked.

"Afraid! But death has to be worth it. In this way, after two days of mining, I got tired of it. Of course, I can't be a miner here, my goal is to be a general of the Federation and command the army to fight against aliens! ”

"You! You want to be a general like that? A stout male soldier slapped Li De's head from behind, and Li De was holding the cup to his mouth, and this slap made Li De's lips collide with the cup.

"What are you doing?" Li De was already in a bad mood, and immediately said angrily after being beaten.

"What? You're a Chinese kid, aren't you? People like you shouldn't be in the army! I don't know what the Federal Military Department thinks of sending you pigs to the frontline planet. The strong male soldier obviously drank too much and yelled at Li De.

Li De clenched his fists with both hands, stood up, and said to the big man who accused him of a head without showing weakness. "You're a pig! You can come if you are uneducated, why can't I come? ”

"Yo he! Dare to talk back? The big man patted Li De's head again, looked at Li De's miner uniform, and said, "Isn't it just a miner, and you dragged it up?" ”

"Damn! At such a young age, it is really unproductive to go to work as a miner. Another male soldier behind him said.

"If you have the ability, go kill the insects and kill the Purdo. It's a shame to mine here. ”

Several marines were full of alcohol, and they surrounded Li De in the middle with hideous faces, and they looked like they had drunk too much and came to find trouble. A few people in miner uniforms on the side hid away like mice seeing cats.

"Vasily, let's teach this kid a lesson!" A skinny Marine with a sharp mouth said to the strong man who was the first to shoot Li De.

"This kid just owes a beating! And came here to drink! The strong man named Vasily stared at Li De with round eyes.

Several soldiers said one by one, and the more they talked, the more excessive, and at the same time, their hands began to move, pushing Li De.

Li De was already depressed in his heart, and he was ridiculed like this, he couldn't bear it anymore, and punched that Vasily.

The punch was so fast and so sudden that Vasily didn't even manage to dodge it, and hit him right on the nose, knocking it out with blood.

Vasily took a step back, furious, and made a gesture, and the two marines quickly sprang out, hugging Lid's arm from both sides.

Li De twisted his arms, trying to break free from the restraints of the two. While struggling, Vasily kicked Lide in the stomach. The steel-clad Marine boots slammed into Li De's abdomen, making him shiver in pain and almost vomiting the contents of his stomach.

"MD, you're still arrogant as a miner! Let your Chinese pig dare to beat Lao Tzu! Vasily scolded viciously, wiping the blood from his nose and kicking Li De twice.

The two Marines who grabbed Leed's arms let go of their hands, and Ledd collapsed to the ground in severe pain. The bartender was trying to stop the qiē when he was pinned down by two other soldiers on the bar.

Next, not only that Vasily, but also several other soldiers began to kick Li De in the back, arms, thighs and other places that fell to the ground. They deliberately avoid some parts of the body that are prone to fractures and injuries, and focus on the weak parts of the body to fight.

Holding his head and stomach, Li De curled up on the floor, enduring the punch and kick. He clenched his teeth, neither begging for mercy nor making a **.

"Almost, don't beat him up!" One of the soldiers next to Vasily said, "He has to switch to work tomorrow, and if he gets hurt, he will definitely trouble us." ”

"It's okay, give him a breath. Now that medical care is so advanced, this kid will be cured. Vasily said indifferently.

"I don't think it's too hard. If you don't get angry, after a while, when he recovers, we'll beat him up again!" Said a small soldier next to Vasily.

Vasily was about to say something, I don't know who shouted: "The gendarmes are coming!" ”