Since Angri asked, Wang Ping'an introduced: "This is my junior in the Space Flight Academy, one grade below me, called Zhai Dengshan." ”

Angli frowned slightly: "Mountaineering? ”

Wang Ping'an: "Zhai, roll your tongue." But we do generally call him 'climbing'. ”

Angli deliberately curled her tongue up, trying to pronounce the sound of "Zhai", but she didn't pay attention to it and turned into a French tongue.

This amused everyone.

The Scotsman, who had not yet reported his home, picked up his bagpipes and blew a few glissandos to make the scene even more amusing.

Wang Ping'an: "Zhai, but it doesn't matter if you really can't make it, just ask him to climb the mountain, we all call it that." ”

The edges of Angri's ears were slightly red, but she controlled herself and pulled the topic away: "Look at you, the juniors are all captains." ”

Wang Ping'an: "I want to explain this, he was also the first in that year, so he graduated as a lieutenant, and he was actually only promoted once more than me." ”

Zhai Dengshan nodded: "That's right, I'm actually a regular promotion speed, Qin Qiong's predecessor is a real rocket promotion, almost three years first, it's really fast." But I heard that the seniors can't fly anymore? ”

Wang Ping'an's face darkened: "Yes." In order to save a novice, I walked around in front of Mentor Ma while we were cleaning up the debris of the ship's disintegration. ”

"It's the time you took the silver star, right, although we all came from novices, but I still can't help but say, novices are really harmful, when will memory transplantation be put into practice?"

Angeli coughed and attracted attention before she said, "Don't just talk about the old days, you haven't finished the introduction." ”

"Huh? Isn't it all said and done? ”

"You haven't introduced me yet."

Wang Ping'an let out an "oh".

Zhai Dengshan joked: "I understand, the scourge is not to be introduced, but to be exclusive." ”

"This is Angri from Lyon, as you can see is a Frenchman, and she is a natural person, only with her hair trimmed, and she wears glasses because she is short-sighted."

"Hello." Angeli stretched out her hand generously.

Zhai Dengshan glanced at Wang Ping'an: "I won't be beaten if I shake hands, right?" ”

Wang Ping'an: "No, you can just hold it." ”

Zhai Dengshan shook his hand gently.

Angli: "Shouldn't your name be a mountaineer?" Why did you become a Space Force? ”

"My name is mountaineering, because my father participated in the operation to climb Naroda Peak, where he lost many brothers, and he has to go to the airborne field every Qingming to pay tribute to his brothers." Zhai Dengshan sighed, "War has shaped an entire generation of my father's generation. ”

Wang Ping'an nodded sympathetically: "Yes." A whole generation. ”

Angli wanted to speak and stopped, but finally chose to remain silent. After all, France slipped past two wars in a row, sat back and watched others fight for life and death, and sang and danced to peace.

After talking about his name, Zhai Dengshan turned the topic back to Qin Qiong: "I just finished my vacation on Mars when I got the news, the timing is not coincidental, if it is just before my vacation, I can choose to go to Earth for a vacation and then meet Qin Qiong." ”

Wang Ping'an: "He will be happy if you go." ”

As soon as the words fell, the hatch at the entrance of the atrium opened again, and Diao Youming led the two officers in.

Diao Youming had a gold star shining on his chest.

Seeing Venus, Wang Ping'an subconsciously stood up straighter, this medal has such an effect, because people who can obtain this medal generally do things that exceed the limits of human beings.

Just like the name of the medal: the Order of Praise to Humanity, it is an honor that can only be obtained by those who compose a new hymn to the human race.

Most people reacted the same way as Wang Ping'an.

Diao Youming glanced at the entire atrium and said, "Talk about it." ”

Because the troops have not yet been formed, and naturally there is no commander to shout orders, several captains glanced at each other, and finally Zhai Dengshan spoke first: "Lizheng!" ”

The atrium resounded with the sound of a uniform heel movement.

Diao Youming: "Take a break." ”

It's the sound of a uniform kick out again.

Diao Youming: "Welcome to Ceres—I would have said that, but the asteroid belt is not a good place to go, not even as good as the deep space watch stations of Titan or Kuiper Belt.

"Where you go there you're fighting only with the harsh nature or the loneliness of deep space, and in the asteroid belt, you're fighting against humanity.

"The propaganda about the asteroid belt has always been skewed, as if we have a crushing equipment advantage over the pirates, but we are forced to destroy the pirates because the asteroid belt is too vast.

"That's wrong, in fact, pirates have always been able to get similar equipment to us, although the overall situation of the pirate ship is far inferior to ours, but only compared to the performance of individual equipment, pirates are not disadvantaged.

"For example, pirates will have plasma weapons similar to ours, and they will have phase-laser arrays similar to ours, but they generally don't have as good maintenance as we do.

"But even poorly maintained plasma weapons can vaporize the equipment and people on the ship."

Diao Youming glanced at the audience again and said word by word: "You'd better give up the idea that you can rely on your equipment advantage to crush the pirates after you reach the asteroid belt." Of course, we have the advantage of equipment overall, but it's not enough to crush! ”

Wang Ping'an raised his hand.

Diao Youming: "I haven't asked you to ask questions yet." Hmph, Wang Ping'an, I know you, you took the initiative to ask to go to Ceres, I thought you were such a good soldier. As a result, when I looked at the resume, it was a piece of at all, with no bright spots except for the silver star.

"You like to interrupt your superiors so unscrupulously, don't you? And a few jokes to liven up the atmosphere, right? Someone with a performative personality like you will die very quickly in Ceres. ”

Wang Ping'an: "Then I have to ask more clearly, where did the pirate's weapons come from?" ”

"It's not something we at the Ceres garrison have to figure out. Both the gendarmerie and the anti-speculator bureau are trying to track down arms smuggling.

"But space is too empty, and even in the busy earth fire circle, there are too many places that cannot be taken care of.

"The smuggling ship has been painted with a matte of black paint, and after the initial acceleration, it has remained silent, how hard it is to find that you should know better than I am."

Most of the people present were astronauts, and everyone knew how difficult it was to spot a silent, black-painted smuggling ship.

On Earth, radar can easily monitor every corner. However, in space, even with a large transmitting power and a large transmitting antenna array, the active radar system can only monitor tens of thousands of kilometers.

Tens of thousands of kilometers in the universe are basically a fraction, and the range of any interplanetary cargo spacecraft far exceeds this number.

In space, it mainly relies on passive detection means to discover long-distance targets, receives weak signals through huge antenna arrays, and then relies on computers to separate them from the cosmic background radiation, which is the mainstream surveillance means now.

This method is simply looking for a needle in a haystack for those spaceships that deliberately cover up their radiation.

Diao Youming looked around the atrium and looked at the faces of the silent astronauts one by one: "Okay, very good, it seems that your professional skills are very good."

"You know that it is very difficult to catch such smuggling boats, but you also know that these can only be traced by the gendarmerie and the anti-opportunistic bureau in other, simpler ways, to catch these lawbreakers who sell weapons at the source.

"As you should know, this is not our mission. Our mission is to rid the pirates who already have their equivalents, to protect the main mines in the asteroid belt, and to protect the cargo ships bound for Jupiter and Saturn that will surely pass through the asteroid belt.

"Don't ask why pirates have good weapons, and don't ask why pirates never finish fighting, they will always have manpower. If you can find material in the middle of the battle that can point to the black hand behind the pirates, then I thank you on behalf of the entire Space Force.

"At the moment, it seems that this is a war with no end. You will be in the asteroid belt for three years, but a significant number of you will not survive to finish your service.

"Wang Ping'an, what do you have to ask?"

Wang Ping'an: "I still have a little more than two years left to perform front-line duty, do I have to work for three years?" ”

Diao Youming had an expression of wanting to devour Wang Ping'an alive, but he controlled himself: "Yes, you also have to stay for three years." Originally, the provision of ten-year front-line service is an implicit regulation, and you can't find it in any of the drill codes.

"It's the embodiment of the humanization of space soldiers. But apparently there are some people, the Space Force is too human to him. Do you know who I'm referring to, Wang Ping'an? ”

Wang Ping'an replied categorically: "No! Know! Road! ”

"It's you!" Diao Youming said angrily, but his tone quickly softened, "But I hope that I will change this mind in the future." You gave me a good impression at first, although you were frivolous, but you felt like a good seedling. So even though your resume is a piece of, I choose to trust my eyesight. I hope you don't make me regret it. ”

Diao Youming looked around the entire atrium again and continued: "As for the others, most of them are excellent Space Force soldiers, but fighting this thing, just being excellent is not enough. So I deliberately picked some people who were more self-motivated.

"Most of them are thorns in the troops, with their own mavericks. Abdul, for example, is a mystic who tells fortunes all day long, using that kind of magical tarot card. I don't even know how you got into the materialist Sky Air Force.

Another example is the Englishman Palacas, who fiddles with his bagpipes all day and tries to keep a Scottish broadsword in his possession.

"There's a lot more, you're a bunch of neurotics, but you all have a track record of solving problems with wit and maverick on your resume.

"Now, I want to try to see if your maverick and subjective kinetic energy can still work when you get to Ceres. Of course, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work, because I have recruited so many qualified, excellent Space Force fighters. ”

Diao Youming turned to the group of Space Force soldiers led by Zhai Dengshan.

"You all have very beautiful resumes, and all of them are excellent. Even if the freaks can't complete the mission, you will do it, but the casualties may be a bit large.

"Of course, you should try to prove that you are better than the freaks, that you are the backbone of the Space Force."

Zhai Mountaineer shouted on behalf of everyone: "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

"I can't hear you!"

The next moment, all the Space Force soldiers shouted together: "Guaranteed to complete the mission!" ”

And the people who were named "freaks" looked at each other.

Angri muttered quietly, "Establish competition, common tactics." ”

Diao Youming nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, that's the spirit." These two officers will assign you a room, and we will have a week to test your professional skills. Those who can't pass will be brushed off and rolled back to their original units.

"Those who pass the test will join me on the Torch Cruiser 'Burning of Short Life', along with the fast transport ship that transports supplies, to Ceres."