Heidelberg, a newly developed planet in the far reaches of the Empire, spins around a binary star system that was discovered by humans more than a hundred years ago. Unlike the watery planets, where there are no forests, no green grass, no lakes, and as far as the eye can see, there are yellow sand dunes as far as the eye can see, and the dazzling white light released by the two stars is painful, and sandstorms at speeds of up to 500 miles per hour are frequent, destroying anything that dares to stand in her way, whether natural or man-made. Here, cheap clean water on other planets has become a luxury as precious as gold.

Not long after the discovery of this planet by humans, although it was surprising that there was still an atmosphere for humans to breathe, the harsh natural environment made the investigators quickly conclude that the planet was not suitable for human habitation.

However, in an accidental spaceship crash, people unexpectedly discovered that the surface of this planet is actually rich in this highly strategically valuable six-lithium alloy ore, which is purified and concentrated by a special process, which is not only an extremely useful source of ship power, but also can play a very important role in weapons manufacturing and other fields, and even has a wide range of uses in the civilian field. As a result, although the planet was uninhabitable to humans, it quickly became an important mining base for the Empire, and several mining companies opened several mining bases here for ore mining.

Of course, working here is definitely not an easy task, because most of the alloy ore is deep underground, and in order to avoid the damage of sandstorms, all mining bases are set up underground, and the ore produced is regularly transported by large interstellar cargo ships to the refining plants of other planets for further processing, and the miners are desperately working for the prosperity of the empire all year round in the underground where no sunlight is seen, there is little entertainment here, there are no living facilities, and overseers and guards with weapons and leather whips are everywhere, No one likes it here, no one wants to come to such a place to work as coolies, no matter how much money they give, most of the people who come here are forced to come here to work as coolies, many of them are political prisoners or traitors, and they come here to serve their sentences; There is also a small group of people who do not belong to the previous category, they belong to the group of people who have been scammed, who have been deceived by the rhetoric and high salaries of recruitment companies. Nigaul was one of those people.

Rissen. Born in New London to a commoner family, Nigaul was raised by his grandparents, who were born in a shipwreck, when his parents were killed in a spaceship crash at a young age. But God always seems to want to go against him, when Risen was a sophomore in high school, another disaster followed, the kind grandfather died of a serious illness, the sad grandmother also died of lovesickness a few months later, little Risen became an orphan, the two old people were already poor, and the only little savings in the family were spent in the treatment and funeral, and there was not much money left, after the death of the two elders, Little Risen who had no financial ability had to drop out of school and enter the social melting pot in advance.

It is conceivable that Risson, who has no ability, cannot find any good job, and he can only take on some lowest, lowest-paid, and hardest jobs. Therefore, when he saw the job posting and the high salary, his heart was moved.

"Anyway, the work I'm doing now is already so hard, the working hours are long, and the money I get is small, so it's better to try this, it should be very hard, but even if this job is twice as hard as it is now, but the salary is not only doubled, but more than 20 times, although the contract time is a little longer than five years, but the most important thing is not to require a high degree of education, where can I find this kind of job that does not require education and high salary." Damn, every restaurant waiter is at least a high school graduate now......." Risen made a stupid decision.

Things went unexpectedly well, and the staff of the recruitment office were still having a headache because there was no one to apply for the job and they could not complete the tasks assigned by the superiors, and they were naturally overjoyed to see someone come to the door automatically. The recruiter immediately unfolded his mouthpiece comparable to that of a politician, and his tongue was like a lotus flower, saying that this job was simply rare in heaven and unique in the world, and he made little Risen with little social experience dizzy, and signed his name on the contract without carefully reading the terms of the contract.

When he arrived in Heidelberg, young Risen realized that he had made a big mistake: the work here was twice as hard as the previous one. There is no vacation, and the working hours are more than ten hours a day, and the intensity is very high, and I am so tired that I don't want to move after work. And it's just that the work is hard, the working environment is also extremely bad, often every once in a while someone becomes a corpse and is carried out, Xiao Ruisen's group is signed to come, so those overseers and guards treat them a little more politely, and the other part of the political prisoners and rape criminals who are serving sentences are not so lucky, the guards and overseers with loaded guns treat them very roughly, punching and kicking at the slightest disagreement, serving with electric batons, if it weren't for the fact that they still have to save their lives to work, Maybe a bullet would have been awarded to them a long time ago.

Yes, the salaries here are indeed very good, but what is the use of having more money in this bird place where there are no vacations, no entertainment, and nothing? As for whether he can survive and leave here with a good salary after five years, Risen gradually lost confidence after watching the people around him fall one by one, his current luck is not bad, half a year, the same group of miners have died four, he was only left with a long scar on his right hand by the ore, but no one can say when it will be his turn.

The contract is not allowed to be terminated in advance, and it is impossible to escape here in default, the endless desert on the planet is enough to make any fugitive quickly become a dry corpse, and the contact with the outside world is a regular interstellar cargo ship every week, but the inspection is very strict, in order to prevent the prisoners from escaping, there are troops stationed in the orbit, and the large cargo ships entering and leaving the planet are strictly inspected, and no one can hide in front of the biological scanners equipped on the battleship.

Just when Little Risen was gradually a little desperate, he unexpectedly received a conscription notice from the military department, which meant that he could leave this terrible place in advance with his generous salary. Is this really exciting? The chubby mine supervisor who told him to pack his bags and prepare to leave was so cute at the moment that I really wanted to give him an intimate bear hug......

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Anderson Spaceport on the planet of New London.

Risen looked around blankly, although the boy who was only eighteen years old looked a little tired due to the journey, he still couldn't hide the joy of returning home revealed by his black eyes. Because he has not been exposed to the sun for a long time, his original yellow skin is a little pale, but the lines on his face are resolute and powerful, faintly a little frosty, and his short black hair is scattered on his forehead, which makes him look quite stylish.

Anderson Cosmoport was the same as when he went to Heidelberg, but the effects of the war here were noticeably worse than before he left, and there were Imperial soldiers and officers in uniforms everywhere, and he smiled self-deprecatingly, anyway, it was back to the familiar environment, back to civilization. The Imperial Army's conscription notice stipulated that he would report to the Lodhien barracks in the western suburbs of New London within seven days, and with two days to go, he decided to go home first......

The door creaked and squeaked as it slowly opened, and everything remained the same as when Risen left, except for a thick layer of dust. It was the only property his parents had left him, and Risen did not intend to sell it or rent it out, he tried to keep it as it had been, as if nothing had changed, that everything was still the same as before, that it was the same as it had been before his grandparents had left.

Two bean-sized tears flowed down his cheeks, and now the scene is still the same, but the laughter of the two old men can no longer be heard......

Two days later, Risen took one last look at the clean, brightly lit room and closed the door. I don't know how long it will be before I come back again, although all the doors and windows are closed properly, Risen knows that the next time I come back, this place will once again be a world of dust and dust, and the small garden outside, which was once full of countless bright tulips, will also become a world of weeds. ，

"Goodbye, grandfather and grandmother, wait for me, I'll come back to see you again."

After tidying up the backpack behind his back, Little Risen was ruthless, and strode away without looking back, the imperial military law is strict, and those who have not reported to the specified time will be treated as deserters, and Risen does not want to go back to hell on earth like Heidelberg again to experience purgatory again.

Although Risen reported on the location of the Lodheon Barracks in New London, as a military stronghold, he didn't just go there if he wanted to, so he rushed over recklessly, and it was still light to be bombed out, and if he didn't do it, he was arrested and interrogated as a federal spy; The conscription notice has been clearly written, first go to the recruiting station in the district to assemble, and the recruiting station will send a unified vehicle to transport the recruit to the barracks, in the Lodhian barracks, Risen will stay there as a recruit for six months, and then be assigned to serve in various units of the empire according to the results of training.

"Rise. Nigaul? ”

"It's me."

A tall imperial sergeant squinted at Ressen, compared his appearance with the image on the registration form in his hand, and after confirming that it was correct, he nodded, ticked a box under Risson's name, and said without raising his head: "The third car." ”

After getting in the car, Little Risen found that the car was almost full, all of them were some young people about the same age as him, there were dozens of people, although all of them were from this district, but Risen didn't recognize any of them, and after finding an empty spot casually, Risen finally sat down.

"Hey, buddy, maybe we'll train together in the future, my name is Crawford, what about you?" A young man sitting beside him extended his hand in a friendly manner, with a handsome face and a pair of piercing eyes, which at first glance gave a good impression.

"Rise. Nigaul, just call me Risson, it's nice to meet you. Ressen took the young man's outstretched hand.

In this way, Risen met his first friend in the Imperial Army.