Lying on the bed, despite the several layers of cushions, you can still feel the coldness of the metal bed, it has been raining in Hong Kong for the past few days, and even through the thick metal walls, you can still smell the dampness.

7:20 a.m.

Glancing at the alarm clock next to him, Zhang Yang turned over and got out of bed, went to the next door to wake up Jeff, and then took his identity card to the cafeteria to prepare to fill the temple of the five organs, along the way I could see that many people had begun to get busy, and everyone knew that today was the day to choose a driver.

"Dangerous Wanderer" and "Iron Fist", these two mechs have been completely repaired, and they are eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their new masters.

"Zhang Yang, do you have confidence in yourself?"

Jeff grabbed an empty seat on the table next to him with his plate, and slurred a piece of chicken thigh.

"So-so."

Zhang Yang thought about it. Jeff couldn't help but roll his eyes, and this answer was equivalent to saying nothing.

I have to say that the treatment of mecha pilots is still very good, although they are still candidates, but they have been treated according to half of the official pilots, such as salary, rooms, etc., and in the base canteen, the food provided to the drivers is more abundant, and the price is cheaper.

The chefs of the canteen come from all over the world, and they are proficient in all kinds of dishes from the East and the West, but because of the reduction of PPDC funds, some of the luxury dishes in the past are much less, but out of the base is Hong Kong, and there are many kinds of shops, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can still enjoy these.

In Jeff's words, he can't be an official driver. If you can get your current salary, you can be regarded as finding a job, and you can finally get rid of the status of a jobless vagrant for the time being, and Zhang Yang secretly sympathizes with this guy. It won't be long before the mecha pilot loses his job.

The assessment time was 8:30, Zhang Yang and Jeff finished eating, walked around the outside of the base, digested the food by the way, and from the outside of the base, you can clearly see several islands in Hong Kong, which are shrouded in drizzle at the moment. It looks a little blurry.

It was raining for several days in a row, taking into account the possibility of corrosion and rust on mechanical equipment such as aircraft, so in addition to the serial personnel who were on a mission. Most of the rest of the equipment was pulled back to the warehouses to store tanks, and the open field for helicopters looked bare at the moment, with only patrols in raincoats. is still sticking to his post.

Zhang Yang looked up at the entrance of the base behind him. There is a special clock that shows that 9 days have passed, which is not the usual perpetual calendar, this special clock is called the "war clock", and every time the monster attacks will be reset to zero, and the time will be counted again, which is used to remind people of the little peace time left.

"According to Dr. Herman's prediction, the monster will most likely land in 4 days. We don't have much time left. ”

Jeff looked at the war clock and frowned as the time for the monster invasion approached. The selection of mecha pilots is also imminent, and there will be a period of cooperation training after the selection is decided, so the rest of the time is very tight.

"What about you, how are you preparing for today's test?"

Zhang Yang asked about Jeff's results, today's test 10 candidates will compete at the same time, the excellent results are directly selected as official drivers, while the others are still as candidates, continue to train to enhance their strength.

"I still haven't memorized the content of the twelfth lecture of Section 9 of the Mecha Combat Manual, but my recent combat training results are very good, at least I am confident that I will not be at the bottom."

Zhang Yang raised a middle finger at Jeff with disdain: "Among the 10 candidates this time, two of them are women, and two of them are civilians, you are too spineless if you dare to be at the bottom." ”

"Hey, hey, hey."

Jeff smiled obscenely with a mouthful of white teeth, and didn't feel embarrassed, Haote is also a former professional basketball player, and he is still very good in terms of physical fitness, after a period of systematic training, some skills can be mastered with a little effort.

In addition to the Australian female candidate Marper, there is also a young figure skater from the United States, Sarah. Hathaway, a 21-year-old young girl, counts the Jamaican track and field athlete Usaine Anderson. A. Lange & Söhne, two of the candidates are athletes, and the odds are higher than the previous ones.

Counting this little girl Sara, together with Zhang Yang and others, she occupies the top six places in the physical fitness test, and the remaining four are all mental workers, with excellent theoretical performance, but poor physical fitness, Mason teacher from Cambridge, England, NASA aviation expert Campbellton, German Hank Mechanics CCP's science and engineering man, developer Morton Mo, and clothing designer Marpel, these four physical performance firmly occupy the bottom four.

So Zhang Yang heard that Jeff claimed that he would not be the first to last, so he gave the other party a disdainful middle finger.

After walking around the base and seeing that the time was almost up, Zhang Yang and Jeff went to the test site, and several other candidates had already arrived and were warming up.

"Hey, Zhang Yang, if I run into you in a challenge, I must release water!"

Campbellton, an aviation expert at NASA, is in his early thirties this year, and he is a self-cooked, completely different from those rumored dull old antique scientists, Zhang Yang rolled his eyes helplessly.

"Don't worry, I'll let you hold on for 30 seconds!"

The other people saw the two coming, and they also greeted each other, and they were selected from all over the world together, and they may fight side by side together at any time in the future, and it is still very important to have a good relationship with each other, if you go to sea with a comrade-in-arms who has a very poor relationship to "fish", once you encounter danger, the other party only needs to deliberately slow down for a short time, which is enough for the monster to scoop himself and the mecha.

This kind of thing is not without precedent, in 2017, a mecha pilot from Japan, for the Russian pilot who encountered danger in the mission together, deliberately delayed time, because the two sides had some conflicts in training, which made the Japanese pilot resentful, and finally the Russian second-generation mecha "Horizon" was destroyed by a monster, and two pilots died, which caused an extremely bad impact.

At the critical moment, he was stabbed in the back by his own people, which caused a huge uproar, and they blamed the Japanese driver, PPDC canceled the identity of the other driver, and permanently banned any contact with PPDC, and on the way back to his hometown, the Japanese driver was killed in a car accident.

After the car accident, there were people who gloated, there were doubters, and there were supporters, but the strange thing is that the Japanese government only reported the driver's death without pain, and then there was no follow-up news, so that the wishes of the good people who were waiting to see the two countries fight were disappointed. It is rumored that the Russian government has privately made a deal with the Japanese government to save face for the country, although it is not known whether this so-called deal is true or not, and the person involved in this matter has died, and the matter has been settled subsequently.

But this incident has reminded everyone at PPDC that the danger may come from the outside, and it is more likely to come from the inside, and even more so than the danger from the outside.

As a result, the PPDC has raised the profile of the driver's personal relationship, and in the event of a bad relationship, the two parties will be banned from performing tasks or staggered attendance, preventing similar tragedies from happening. Now these candidates seem to be on good terms, which makes Pantcoster relieved.

"Wow, Sarah, you look so beautiful today!"

A young white girl with a bumpy figure, long blond hair, and beautiful facial features walked in front of her. Hathaway, the little girl is a beauty in her own right, she caused a huge sensation when she first came to PPDC, and she has a very cheerful personality, and almost everyone has a good impression of this little girl.

"Thank you for the compliment, Zhang Yang, it would be better if you and Thomas could release water today."

Sara blinked her azure eyes, obviously hearing Campbellton's conversation just now, and looked at the corner of her mouth twitching, which suddenly caused the people around her to burst into laughter.

"That's right! Zhang Yang, don't you Huaxia pay attention to pity and cherish jade! It's okay to put some water in it! ”

"That's it, can't you bear to do it to a little beauty like Sara!"

A group of people were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so they moved Zhang Yang next to him, Zhang Yang shook his fist and snorted coldly.

"Of course I will, but you're not a woman, if you're a man, who will play with me the game of "it's a man and it lasts for 30 seconds"! There is no one! ”

was intimidated by Zhang Yang like this, and the people who were originally making trouble immediately shut up honestly, joking, the top three guys in physical fitness are more perverted than the other, and fools will challenge each other, and they will definitely be abused and can't find the north.

The first place Thomas, is a black market boxer, that is a guy who has killed people, the third place is a major of the Russian Army, a military fighting technique has long made everyone eat enough pants, maybe when will be sneaked by this guy, with a dagger to touch the back and wipe the neck, and the only one who looks harmless to humans and animals, his own physical strength Cheng Dù is smack-smacked, although he has not received systematic training, but in the face of Thomas and Ivanov's attacks did not fall behind.

"Zhang Yang, every time you flash your fist, no one speaks, when will you teach me?"

Mason, a professor at Cambridge University with an envious face, was originally discussing some academic issues with the German polytechnic man, and couldn't help but be envious when he saw Zhang Yang telling everyone to shut up obediently. (To be continued......)