March 17, 2025.

Dome Base.

A group of newly added students to the Hunter Academy are taking a tour of the Shattered Dome base under the guidance of an instructor.

The crowd looked up and down the vast Hunter's Bay, at the majestic mech hunters standing in front of them, and at the thirty-story gate that released these mechs to go out into battle.

The vast majority of hunter trainees have certainly never seen the inside of the Shattered Dome, of course, they may have seen pictures and videos, but when a person actually stands at the feet of a mecha hunter more than a hundred meters high, he can truly appreciate the huge scale of the Shattered Dome - such a huge Shattered Dome base can only accommodate six mecha hunters.

In front of the mecha hunters, all humans are so small, even the tall back of Marshal Panticost doesn't seem so majestic, and the difference in size between adults and children doesn't seem to be worth mentioning.

Dizad thought to himself.

He is a black mixed-race boy from Chile, his parents were once pilots of the mecha hunter "Dark Interceptor", belonging to the Lima strike group, the branch of the PPDC responsible for defending the South American continent, they died while guarding the Peruvian coast, and rightfully so, Dizad chose to join the PPDC's hunter academy when he grew up.

Everyone, including Dizad, is a mecha hunter cadet. They were about the same age, teenagers in their midteens, and they shared a dream of one day piloting these metal giants to save the world.

Most of the students arrived at the Broken Dome a day early, but one person arrived late - a girl named "Zofia", who was said to be from North America.

I have to say that she is really beautiful, she is also very tall, with fair skin, cute freckles, and neat short flaxen-colored hair, standing out from the crowd of students, and the eyes of several male students are almost glued.

Just in time for the introduction of the Dome to begin, they first entered a conference room, turned in all their personal electronics, received their PPDC licensing badges, and listened to the administrators reiterate all the rules and requirements regarding the PPDC Force and MechHunter Academy, even though all the cadets and their parents had signed to agree to them.

After going through all the procedures, two active drivers will take you on a tour of the Shattered Dome base.

"Don't expect to be as laid-back as you are now."

One of the drivers said to them:

"You'll have to go through trials and challenges to pilot these Mech Hunters. Some people never get a chance. After today, we'll be going to start the basic training – Combat Sync Training, where you will be assessed for your fitness for sync with basic Ponsia training – and you'll be in a mock test for virtual battles. If all goes well, you'll have the opportunity to fly the Eden Assassins, but only within the base, of course. ”

Hunter's Bay is a huge circular structure, with all the mechs standing in huge holes in the wall. The Eden Assassin is a third-generation mech belonging to Russia, and despite its excellent role in guarding it, it is still facing the problem of decommissioning it in the face of budget cuts, and the PPDC has moved it from the Vladivostok Shattered Dome here as a training mech in line with the principle of waste utilization.

"As you can see, the head of the 'Garden of Eden Assassin' is not yet attached."

Another driver said:

"It's there, look up."

He pointed to the top of a hole in the wall, close to the ceiling of the dome, where there were cranes, sidewalks, scaffolding, head girdles, and other messy things, so dimly lit that everyone could not see the control pod of the "Eden Assassins", only a shadow.

His companion took over:

"Now let's take the elevator to the control module of the Eden Assassin, where you all know that the pilot controls the mech. You can go into the control compartment in pairs. Even though all important facilities have been disconnected from power, you are still not allowed to touch any of the on/off buttons. ”

"Mechs aren't toys, and they're not kindergartens here. The purpose of bringing you into the Control Pod is to give you a taste of what it's like to be inside a Mech Hunter, and to make sure you're fully prepared to fight whatever the situation. Hunter training is hard, and you're bound to have the idea of giving up from time to time. But I hope that when you feel like giving up, this experience will sustain you to continue. ”

The group took the elevator to the top of the dome, where the mech's head corset was set up, which could free the head control pod of the "Eden Assassin" and allow it to fall vertically and connect to the torso.

A group of trainees waited in place and took turns to enter.

Dizad leaned over to Zofia's side and asked:

"Hey, aren't you curious about what's inside?"

Zofia gave the black boy a strange look:

"Isn't this going in soon?"

Dizad smiled mysteriously and said:

"I know what's inside, my parents used to fly the 'Dark Interceptor', and they described to me the inside of the head cockpit, of course, the special model of the 'ChernoAlpha' cockpit with a chest seat may not be the same, but the other mechs are all the same."

There was no shortage of ostentatious elements in his tone.

Was it a second-generation driver?

Zofia tugged at the corners of her mouth and said perfunctorily:

"yes, you seem to be proud."

Looking at the disapproving look on the girl's face.

Dizad felt as if he had said the wrong thing.

……

"Pacific Rim Joint Military Defense Force Personnel Files"

Name: Zofia Bolesław

Affiliation: Hunter Academy

ID ID: R-RBEC 122.21-B

Date of enlistment: March 17, 2025

Current Service Status: Trained

Biography:

Born on December 11, 2008, he is 17 years old in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the second of three siblings. In 2017, the monster "Shanlan" invaded the city of Los Angeles and was successfully annihilated by the mecha "Dangerous Wanderer", and Zofia's parents and siblings died in the monster invasion.

Assess:

Strong-willed, experienced in martial arts, and skilled in driving, but he has not found a suitable synaesthesia synchronization object for the time being.

Remark:

Shaw Industries recommends trainees.

Additional Notes:

Whether or not to obtain a driver's qualification is subject to further consideration.

– September 12, 2025.

……

Martial arts training today.

The driver took them to the martial arts training room, where they spent an hour walking through a brief practice before pairing them up.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

What Dizad didn't expect was that the person he paired with for the first time turned out to be Zofia.

The students had never been to a martial arts training room before, but they had heard many stories about it, and it was like a gym or a Japanese dojo where students and drivers perfected their martial arts skills.

After all, a mech can't fight better than its pilot, and if the driver can't throw a nice uppercut or pull off a perfect over-the-shoulder throw, the mech can't do it.

"I'm going to test you guys today."

The driver said:

"Of course, I've seen your test results, but I'd like to examine you for myself. Starting with unarmed combat, you can use any fighting move or a free combination of moves. I want to see brilliant, practical tricks, and I want to see your self-control. I don't want to see someone with a painted nose, a missing tooth, or a broken bone. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, sir." They replied in unison.

"Good. Hoyazi and Doris, start with the two of you. I ......" the driver suddenly clapped his hands and reminded the cadets to pay attention, "Marshal, good morning." ”

"Good morning, driver. Good morning, students. ”

Zhongqi's majestic voice sounded.

Everyone stood in silence, and no one spoke.

Everyone just stared at the marshal.

That is Field Marshal Stark Pantycoster, the current commander of the PPDC, who once piloted the second-level mecha "Tango Wolf" alone in Tokyo, Japan, to kill the third-level monster "Demon Witch".

Dizzard's parents had made a name for themselves in the Monster Wars, but even so, when he saw Pantycoster in person, he still had the feeling of seeing a star.

"Why are you here in person?"

The driver asked.

"I'm just coming to see," said Marshal Panticoster, "please go on, just as I'm not here." ”

How is this possible?

The two trainees ordered by the driver began to fight - at first the two were in a stalemate, and after the boy's first victory, the girl also began to show her skills, and the girl saw that the other party had learned a little bit of Songtaoliu karate and boxing, and had a bit of fighting skills. So when she threw a high kick, she grabbed his foot with one hand and punched him in the face with the other—not really in the face, of course, but almost in the face.

Then there is another group of cadets to fight.

In the end, it was Dizard's turn.

Zofia was menacing, and Dizad secretly complained, he blocked several punches in quick succession, but then there was no time to care about her legs, she stepped on the ball of his forefoot, causing him to lose his balance, and then took the opportunity to choke him by the neck.

The driver shouted to stop.

The two returned to their original positions and had another round.

Dizad tiptoed and jumped forward in small steps, narrowing the distance between her and Zofia, but she was still standing, and he punched, which was only a feint, but was caught, and Zofia twisted his arm and gave him a slap on the other side of the face, which made Dizade's eyes glaze out with a "snap".

"It's a heavy deal." Dizad thought to himself.

"Stop." Panticost said.

His voice wasn't loud, but everyone could hear it.

Panticoster looked at Zofia.

"Your name is Zofia Bolesław, isn't it?"

"Yes, Commander."

Zofia replied with her chest held up and looked up.

Pantycoster held out his hand.

"Attack me." "Full speed, but not touching me, just making me feel the flow of air," he said. ”

Zofia stared at Panticoster for a moment, posed, and then made a move.

She moved extremely fast and, as Panticoster had instructed, did not touch him.

"Good."

Panticoster says:

"Now do it again, hit my hand hard, with all my might, and I want to feel it hit my heart."

Zofia hesitated:

"Command ......"

"Do it."

Zofia lowered her body, posed, gathered enough strength, and then gave Sempanticoster a punch to the palm of his hand, making a "bang" sound, and it hurt to listen to it.

However, the marshal did not blink at all.

"So, you know the difference between the two."

Panticost said lightly.

Zofia lowered her head, her face shy.

"Remember, when I ask you to control......"

Panticoster said word for word:

"You're going to show control, understand?"

"Understood, Commander!"

Zofia said loudly.

"I'm sure you've heard that before."

Pantycoster's tone softened slightly.

Several of the other students covered their mouths and snickered.

"Yes, sir."

Zofia admitted.

"Sit down."

The marshal said casually, and when the cadets and drivers had all sat down, he turned and said to all the cadets:

"Training in a fighting room serves two purposes. The first is to make sure you have the necessary abilities to win battles. It's also important to be able to adapt to someone else who might be able to synchronize with you in the future, whether you have the opportunity to do so or not. You'll learn martial arts techniques, and you'll train for them. But when you fight other students, don't treat them as opponents, but as partners. ”

Zofia fully understood what Panticost meant, and gladly accepted that the existing "Air Martial Arts" training system and evaluation methods, as well as other effective mecha hunter training models, were created by Pantycoster.

If you want to get ahead in the PPDC evaluation system, you naturally have to follow the training model of Panticoster.

At this time, Dizad also understood what the commander wanted to express, and some of the students seemed to be a little confused.

The Hunter Cadets spent the rest of the day in the fighting training room, training for more than seven hours.

Martial arts training was finally over, and Dizzard was sore, tired, and sleepy, barely able to walk back to the dorm alone.

A group of students dressed in training suits, drooping their heads, exhausted, and listless, walked towards the dormitory of the Hunter Academy with a broken dome, and at the same time, in the same passage, another team of scientific researchers in white coats hurriedly walked towards them.

Then Dizad saw what made him ...... It also made many male students feel a mixed scene:

Zofia, who was also tired, saw a man in the team of scientific researchers in front of him, suddenly jumped up as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, walked quickly to the man's side, took his arm, and chattered about today's training process.

Like a happy little sparrow.

……

"Pacific Rim Joint Military Defense Force Personnel Files"

Name: Fu Shan (Ph.D.)

Department: K-Science Department

ID Number: S-NGEI_100.11-Y

Date of enlistment: March 17, 2025

Current Service Status: Active Duty

Biography:

Born on January 19, 1998 in Toronto, Canada, he is an only child to both parents who are workers. He graduated from Stanford University and has completed six PhDs as of 2022. From 2022 to 2023, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later worked at Shaw Industries. Leader-type personality with excellent communicative skills and good communication skills. He is proficient in materials science, energy dynamics, biochemistry, mechanical engineering and other disciplines.

Remark:

The records have been transferred from Shore Industries to PPDC.

……

After a period of training, the trainees of the Hunter Academy have gradually become familiar with the Xiangjiang Broken Dome Base.

In addition to the Hunter Academy, Dizad also visited other departments of the Shattered Dome -

Lawson Command Center:

Also known as the command center. It was here that the top of the PPDC gave operational instructions and strategic directions to the drivers. It is also the location of the mecha terminal system, and after the debugging is completed, the technicians activate the "synaesthesia system" to connect the driver and the mecha, and at the same time monitor the mecha's actions and the driver's physical and mental conditions in real time. Cai Tiantong, a well-known technical expert, is a member of the Lawson command center.

K-Science Laboratory:

Biochemical Research Laboratory. After the monster was annihilated, body fragments were transported here under layers of protection for scientists to dissect and study. Newton Geisler and Herman Gottlieb are the directors here, deciphering the monsters' biological information based on their toxicity and radioactivity. Newton is responsible for studying the structure and properties of monsters, while Herman is dedicated to discovering monsters' attack patterns and genetic information. The two doctors' research was aimed at figuring out how often and where the monster would attack, and on the other hand, to find out the monster's weakness.

Here, Dizad also met Dr. Fu Shan.

To tell the truth, Dr. Fu Shan is indeed very handsome, with black-framed glasses, a white shirt, a printed tie, and a white coat that looks polite and polite, with a tall and outstanding temperament when he puts his hands in his pockets, and a soft and extraordinary tone when he speaks.

But his tall and burly figure, as well as the explosive muscles that his suit and white coat can't hide, always give people an illusion...... Isn't he really a super soldier, a homicidal maniac, or something terrible?

Dizard thought in his heart.

A qualified mecha hunter not only has to learn fighting skills and driving skills, but also monster knowledge and mecha knowledge, although the latter two are updated very quickly, monsters are constantly updated, and mecha is constantly innovating, as if it is an arms race between the earth and the "otherworldly" planet - this sentence is said by Dr. Fu Shan.

But that's not a reason to give up studying, is it?

Today, Cai Tiantong is here to teach the students.

About the core technology of Mecha Hunter——

"Synaesthesia."

蔡天童 says:

"What is synaesthesia?"

Without waiting for anyone else to answer, he narrated:

"Connecting the nervous systems of all mech pilots to achieve 'two into one' is synaesthesia. At first, the mecha was set to be piloted by a single person, but experiments found that driving a mecha alone was too mentally overloaded and was not an ideal mode of operation, so the current synaesthesia system was born. ”

"Next, let's talk about the synchronization process of synaesthesia."

"It's a mind-fusing technique where two drivers share memories, feelings, emotions and even instincts with each other. In layman's terms, it is to truly 'merge into one', to 'merge two people into one'. Of the two drivers, one acts as the left hemisphere and the other as the right hemisphere. All thought movements and action instructions are done synchronously. ”

"Achieving synchronization is by no means easy for two drivers, not just any two can become partners, there must be a high degree of tacit understanding between drivers, that is, the synchronization rate, and the range of driver partners is as follows."

"First of all, blood relations."

"It's the best option and it's the least difficult to sync. Partners can be fathers and sons, siblings or close relatives, and the closer the blood relationship, the higher the synchronization rate. In the case of twins, the telepathic ability between them can greatly increase the success rate of synaesthesia. ”

"Secondly, long-term tacit understanding."

"The difficulty of synchronization is slightly greater than that of a related partner, but there is a wider range of options, such as harmonious couples and friends who have a good relationship. After a long run-in, this kind of partner has a very similar temperament, temperament, thinking, and interests, and the synchronization rate is also very high. ”

"Finally, volunteering together."

"It's the smallest choice of pairings, but if you don't have either of the above, it's an option. The 'common will' of the two must be large enough to transcend their respective personalities and instincts, such as two people who do not know each other and the same person who have a grudge against their father. This common desire must be very strong in order to increase the synchronization rate, but for a variety of unpredictable reasons, this coordination is very prone to danger. ”

"It is important to note that no matter which of the above methods is used, the selected drivers must be in harmony with each other, both physically and mentally. Physical and mental qualities can be cultivated, which is also the content of the 'Fighting Training Room', which allows partners to cultivate similar physical and mental attributes. ”

Cai Tiantong's lecture style is concise and straightforward.

Unlike many ignorant students, Dizzard has a very early understanding of synaesthesia.

His parents met and eventually came together because of synaesthesia, and the tacit understanding between the two once made Dizad feel superfluous, dispensable in this family, and there are countless similar husband and wife partners - the Kaidanovsky couple who drove the "Chernoalpha", and the Ouyang couple who drove the "Shaolin Ranger".

At the same time, this can also happen between twins or brothers, and the Beckett brothers, who drive the "Dangerous Wanderers", will still maintain a strange state of "heart-to-heart" after leaving the synaesthesia: what one thinks in his heart, the other can immediately guess - the two used this trick to go to the bar to pick up girls, said by the employees in the Broken Dome base.

Thinking of this, Dizad couldn't help but set her eyes on Zofia, the girl leaned back in the chair with her hands on her chest, and listened carefully to Cai Tiantong's introduction.

Her side face is so beautiful.

But would she be my partner?

Dizzard was in distress.

To Dizadeh's surprise, Dr. Fu Shan was actually in the classroom, sitting in the last row, holding a notebook and a ballpoint pen in his hand, crossing Erlang's legs, and bowing his head to take notes.

He also seems to be interested in synaesthesia.

But didn't he learn to be rich and five cars a long time ago?

…………

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