"From the moment you left with me and boarded this plane, you were officially joining PPDC."

Zhang Yang and Jeff glanced at each other, understanding that the other party still had something to say, and then heard Colonel Jones continue:

"Since you have joined the PPDC, then you are even soldiers, although the PPDC is different from the US military, but some basic regulations still have to be followed, this is a confidential manual, you need to understand the content before getting off the plane."

Jones handed Zhang Yang a booklet for each of them, which was not too thick, Zhang Yang looked through it, some basic regulations are no different from the army, after all, PPDC is equivalent to the joint forces of dozens of countries, some niche regulations have been canceled, and only the most general ones have been retained, except for these, the rest are mainly confidentiality regulations, which occupy half of the content of the booklet.

Because of the particularity of the mecha, the secrecy process is very high, which refers to some of the experiences within the PPDC force, which cannot be disclosed to the ordinary people outside at will without permission, and the two are candidates for mecha pilots who are about to be trained, and they are in contact with the core information related to the mecha, so the confidentiality management is very strict.

"You can read the manual later, let's talk about the next itinerary first."

Colonel Jones had been watching the two of them look at their expressions, and saw them flip through the pamphlet, take a sip of their drink, and then knock on the table, pulling their thoughts back.

"The next qiē I am talking about, and the one qiē that you will experience later, will be kept secret. Regardless of whether you succeed in training or not, you will not be able to reveal anything you have experienced until the lockdown is officially lifted. ”

Zhang Yang and Jeff nodded. Colonel Jones's words also gave the two of them a sense of military strictness.

Colonel Jones looked at the two and said, "Next, we will go to the PPDC headquarters in Hong Kong, where someone will train you, and the training time will vary according to the actual situation, until you become a qualified mech pilot, and you will have plenty of time to read this manual on the way." ”

Hong Kong?

Zhang Yang and Jeff were stunned for a moment, they didn't expect their next stop. It flew directly across the Pacific Ocean and from the United States to Hong Kong.

Zhang Yang was not surprised to learn in the movie that PPDC's headquarters had moved to Hong Kong. Zhang Yang has never been to Hong Kong in his life, and Jeff is not to mention that he is an authentic American, and he feels a little excited to hear that he is going to Hong Kong. As a world-famous metropolis. He'd wanted to go shopping for a long time.

As if sensing the thoughts of the two, Colonel Jones lightly warned: "There is time to go to Hong Kong to play, and your only goal at the moment is to do your best to train and become a qualified mecha pilot!" Don't let the mess delay you from doing business, if you don't achieve anything, you will still be expelled and go back to where you were. ”

"We understand."

Zhang Yang and Jeff nodded hurriedly. It's okay before joining PPDC, even if the other party's identity is good. I don't have a dime to do with myself, but I joined the PPDC at this moment, and Colonel Jones in front of me immediately became my commander, although I don't know if my training has anything to do with the other party, but he is also a real colonel, and the corruption of the army is not as strict as the political aspect, since the other party is a colonel, it must be outstanding.

After knocking on Zhang Yang and the two, Colonel Jones changed his smile and talked with Zhang Yang occasionally, and Zhang Yang also heard some news little by little.

This Colonel Jones, who previously belonged to the U.S. Air Force, is a veteran fighter pilot, joined the PPDC in 2016, and currently serves as the captain of the third group of the first wing, still in charge of the Air Force, in charge of the transportation of mechas, such as the transfer arrangement of Chinook helicopters, in addition to the transport squadron, there is also a fighter squadron, which is used to assist the mechs to destroy monsters, and he is in charge.

Such a position with real power, and he is in a special war period, and he has repeatedly fought with monsters, although he is not a mecha pilot, but in the past few years, he has climbed from lieutenant colonel to the current colonel, and maybe it won't take a few years to become a major general.

Don't forget, it may be difficult to get promoted in peacetime, but in wartime promotions are a regular occurrence, and even if the PPDC is disbanded and Jones returns to the U.S. Air Force, the rank of colonel is still valid.

For such a powerful officer, Zhang Yang and Jeff rolled their eyes slippery, thinking about getting closer to each other to see if they could get some training information, but the Colonel Jones looked harmless, but the temptation of the two was watertight, and he looked like a battle-hardened man.

"Colonel, after we participate in the PPDC, will we also have a military rank?"

Jeff suddenly raised a question that caused Colonel Jones to open his closed eyes.

Colonel Jones is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, and his eyes are naturally very vicious, and he knows how to deal with things, and the reason why he personally went to receive the selected driver is that on the one hand, he happened to be in the United States, and PPDC sent the task to him, and on the other hand, he also had the intention of making friends with the two, which may come in handy in the future.

He is very aware of the importance of mecha pilots, although Zhang Yang and the two of them are now only one of the candidates who are ready to train, but once they pass the training and become the pilots on the plane, they will automatically be classified into the camp of the core personnel of the PPDC.

Befriend the two pilots, and when they participate in the battle in the future, they will naturally be given priority to the task, and the battle with the monster is mainly a matter of mecha, and the plane used to be completely a role of auxiliary mixed credit, Jones plans to climb to the position of a one-star major general before he is forty years old, otherwise he will become a colonel in the future until he dies, and he doesn't want to rise a step.

In peacetime, it is not so easy to be promoted, Jones knows this truth better than anyone else, so he has his own little calculation in his heart, there are not many qualified people in this batch, since his side has been assigned two, then he must seize this opportunity, and just use a plane belonging to his own camp to personally send the other party to Hong Kong.

Originally, the one who received Zhang Yang and the two should have been a captain, but they were directly replaced by Jones, and the captain also dared to be angry and dare not speak, and Zhang Yang and the two became famous in the future, so he also received the two of them back then, and it was easier to find an excuse when pulling the relationship.

Although he didn't come specifically to publicize them, since he had this opportunity, Jones didn't mind getting closer to the two by the way, so he quickly answered Jeff's question.

"You are now considered a candidate student, and there is no official position, so there is no military rank for the time being, and when you pass guò, you will get the rank accordingly according to the occupational distribution, the driver should start as a second lieutenant, if you are assigned to the technical department or other combat units, it will be awarded according to the situation, in short, the more military merits, the higher the rank, and the easiest to make meritorious service is the mecha pilot."

"Second lieutenant."

Jeff felt quite satisfied, the second lieutenant is a small officer, it is much higher than slowly getting up from an ordinary soldier, and the second lieutenant is not surprising to the mecha pilot, they have a high probability of meritorious service in combat, but the number of Cheng dù who encounters dangerous accidents is also multiplied, not to mention that the opponent is not a human at all, but a powerful monster from another world, and the rank of second lieutenant is only low or high.

If it weren't for the fear that the driver would be promoted too quickly, the high-level officials of various countries were worried about breaking the normal laws of the army, so they ordered to deliberately suppress the driver's promotion, but in this way, the mecha pilot is still one of the fastest promoted professions at the moment.

In addition to mecha pilots, it is the Air Force and technical departments that are promoted the fastest, of course, aerospace is a special department, and it is also promoted in the line of fire, and the promotion is also very fast.

Zhang Yang's military rank is not as important as Jeff's view, he thinks about when he will be able to board the mecha, and the gorilla mecha he saw last time really gave Zhang Yang a great impact.

In the bottom of any man's heart, there is a hidden factor of violence, for cars, guns and other love Cheng dù, just like a woman is born with no resistance to cosmetics and shopping, and the mecha undoubtedly greatly satisfies the man's hobby, it is estimated that in the whole world, there is no more expensive toy than the skua mecha.

The basic cost of a Skua mecha is 60 billion US dollars, the cost of an F22 is 120 million US dollars, the basic cost of a conventional nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the United States is only about 1.2 billion US dollars, the Nimitz-class is about 2 billion US dollars, and the most expensive one is only 5 billion, even if the development cost is added, it is only a little more than 30 billion US dollars, which is not enough to build half a mecha.

If the mecha is broken, replace it with another one, if it weren't for the fact that the production of new mechs has been stopped, then mecha pilots are definitely the most fashionable profession in the world, and there is no one.

It takes about 12 hours to fly directly from San Francisco to Hong Kong, so they have plenty of time to understand what is next, and the things in the booklet are memorized by the two of them, mainly some places and key points that may be leaked, and the rest can be understood, and there is no need to completely memorize them.

The plane flew smoothly above the clouds, and there was hardly any sound to be heard except for the loud roar of the engines, and due to the time difference between the two countries, they took off from 9 a.m. and arrived in Hong Kong at noon, so in the afternoon both of them seized the time to rest and rewind the painful jet lag. (To be continued......)