Black Fox recalled when he started following Officer P5092.
He was 17 years old and about to graduate from high school.
In the stronghold controlled by the Pyro Company, all schools above junior high school were completely sealed off. Students were only allowed to return home once every three weeks for a day and a half each time.
When they were in school, they would wake up at 5: 45 a.m. to run 1,800 meters before doing morning readings.
They would have breakfast at 7 a.m., lunch at 12 p.m., and dinner at 6 p.m. Each meal would only last for half an hour. Class would end at 9: 40 p.m. and lights out at 10: 20 p.m.
After lights out, there would be Pyro Company soldiers patrolling the dormitories. The doors of the dormitories were all installed with small windows that resembled prison cells. The soldiers in charge of patrolling could open the windows from the outside to check if the students had gone to bed on time.
During the process of their education, they were constantly subjected to militarized management. The rules and self-discipline were deeply ingrained in their bones.
Here, they were told how fragile humans were in the face of the world. Meanwhile, they had to fight for the survival of humanity by hook or by crook.
This was the glory of the Pyro Company.
At that time, Black Fox and the others thought all the students in the world lived such a life. Later, when they grew up, they realized they were the only ones who were miserable. Only their school in the Pyro Company's Stronghold had soldiers with loaded guns patrolling the dormitories.
In the school, all the students had to undergo intense study and training. In the end, there was only one thing that awaited them: the college entrance examination.
The college entrance examination in the Pyro Company's Stronghold was divided into two sections. One was literacy, and the other was physical fitness.
From this day onward, the fates of all the students would diverge drastically.
Those who did well in their literacy classes would consider entering a scientific research university or a military university depending on the circumstances. For example, P5092 and Black Fox had entered a military academy.
After they entered a military academy, they would become true reserve officers of the Pyro Company. Everyone's serial number would start with the letter "P".
In other words, they would be the so-called line of command.
As for the physical fitness test, in addition to the intense tests, everyone would also have to undergo a genetic test.
If they passed the test and met the requirements for genetic modification, they would continue to advance as soldiers in the military. They would receive real military training while undergoing gradual genetic modification.
Actually, at this point, whether you were a T2 or T5 combatant was already determined.
The T2 combatants would enter the T2 recruit camp, while the T5 combatants would enter the T5 recruit camp. The subjects they would receive were completely different.
For example, the T2 combatants might receive firearms, combat, and other training. But the T5 combatants would receive more subjects, such as assassination, reconnaissance, infiltration, rock climbing, driving, and so on.
At this time, there were still a large number of high school students who could not get good grades in their literacy classes. As they did not have the potential for genetic modification, they would leave the school on their own to find themselves.
Some of these people became workers, while others became small businessmen. But to the Pyro Company, some became.
But there were also some differences. In the Pyro Company, there was a kind of "advance approval" for students. Half a year before graduation, many of the powerful P5 commanders would come to the school to select the students they liked.
These students who were chosen would directly enter the P5 commander's military unit. Usually, these students who were chosen in advance would be seen by their peers as the P5 commander's' students'. They would be bound together for good or bad with the P5 commander.
Of course, the advantage was that these advanced approval students were always promoted very quickly.
Black Fox remembered suddenly receiving a notification from his guidance counselor one afternoon. "A P5 commander has seen your resume and results and is very interested in you. Go for an interview. He'll be waiting for you in Office 155 at the Red Sun Tower."
Black Fox was stunned. Office 155 at the Red Sun Tower was the most mysterious place in the military academy. It was not that it was highly confidential, but that all the advanced approval seniors had completed their interviews there.
Some people walked out of Office 155 with a happy look on their faces because they had been selected by a P5 commander.
Others walked out of Office 155 with a depressed look on their faces because they had been eliminated by a P5 commander.
Only the truly outstanding people could enter that place.
Black Fox had heard that the Red Sun Tower was named after the rising red sun, which meant great light. This quote came from a certain sage's "Ode to Young China": "The rising red sun brings great light. The future is like the sea, and the days ahead are long. "
And the following quote was: "My beautiful young China will never grow old with the heavens! My strong young China will never grow old with the country! "
Therefore, it went without saying what the person who named the Red Sun Tower had in mind.
Black Fox walked through the long corridor of the Red Sun Tower. He stood outside Office 155 and said loudly, "Level-213 Student P. 13922, reporting for duty, sir."
The year 213 was calculated from the Day of The Cataclysm, and it was already 223 years since then.
A calm voice came from inside the room. "Come in."
The calm voice was like the water in an ancient well, without any subjective emotions.
Black Fox slowly pushed open the dilapidated wooden door of Office 155. Then he saw that the curtains in the classroom had been drawn. P5092 was quietly sitting in a chair across from him, flipping through a resume.
The office was dark, and the afternoon sun shone in through the curtains, leaving only a faint glow. Black Fox could not even see P5092's face clearly.
Black Fox stood at the door. Before he could even close it, P5092 started asking, "Why did you bring your subordinates to Position 881 to die during the 2.21 exercise?"
Black Fox was stunned. This was a sore point for him, and it was also because of this command error that led to an extremely low score at the end of the exercise.
He whispered to P5092, "During the simulation exercise, the Blue Army occupied Position 881. If we wanted to ensure that the troops at the rear could pass through at the designated time, we had to sacrifice ourselves in exchange for Position 881. This position had to be in our hands for us to win the war."
"Why did we have to seize Position 881?" P5092 asked.
Black Fox thought for a moment and said, "At that time, I thought there was also a main force of the Blue Army behind Position 881. If we didn't seize it back, our troops would be exposed to the enemy's artillery fire. It was only after the exercise ended that we found out there wasn't …"
"Do you think you did something wrong?" P5092 looked up at Black Fox.
Black Fox stammered and did not know what to say. In the end, he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Sir, I don't think I did anything wrong."
"Are you speaking so cautiously because you're not sure if your choice was right or wrong?" P5092 asked calmly.
"… Yes," Black Fox said softly.
"Be more resolute next time." P5092 put down his resume and said calmly, "They gave you a low score because they had God's perspective and knew there were no main enemy forces behind Position 881, but you didn't. Therefore, what the teachers taught might not be right either. If you were really on the battlefield, you'd really have to risk your life to figure out what's behind Position 881. "
Black Fox was stunned. Over the past few months, he had been criticized several times because of this decision during the exercise. At some point, he also wondered if he was wrong.
But at this moment, someone suddenly called him over and told him that he was not wrong.
Although the other party's tone was extremely calm, Black Fox felt extremely warm and excited.
At this moment, P5092 stood up and said, "If you were asked to go back to that exercise and face Position 881, would you still charge forward and throw your life away?"
Black Fox said with certainty this time, "Yes!"
P5092 walked out of the door. When he passed by Black Fox, he said, "Report to the 3rd Division next month. I'll resolve your transfer order …. Remember the choice you made today."
After that, P5092 left without looking back, leaving Black Fox standing alone in Office 155 of the Red Sun Tower in a daze. No one knew what he was thinking about.
Later on, Black Fox became a qualified grass-roots officer of the Pyro Company's 3rd Division. In just a few years, he rose through the ranks and eventually became the deputy division commander of the 3rd Division.
But all these years, Black Fox felt he had never seen Officer P5092 smile happily before.
Now that he was looking at P5092, who was being pulled by Wang Yun and Ji Zi 'ang, he suddenly felt it was quite good to be like this.
P5092 shouted, "Black Fox, hurry up and pull those two away!"
However, Black Fox exchanged looks with the other staff officers around him and suddenly surrounded P5092. Everyone threw P5092 into the air with all their might.
They dropped him and threw him up.
They dropped him again and threw him up again.
No matter what P5092 said, no one had any intention of letting him go.
Everyone knew very well that P5092 was not the main contributor to this war.
However, Black Fox and the others still felt quite excited to have a chance to openly throw a cold commander like P5092 into the air.
In any case, they did not have this opportunity when they were still in the Pyro Company's 3rd Division.
At this moment, Ren Xiaosu was watching Chen Jiu and the others walk towards him from the battlefield. Little Xia and Little Mei were also in the Sanctuary.
"I'm leaving," Ren Xiaosu said to Little Mei as he looked at her.
Little Mei was taken aback. "Where are you going?"
"Back to Fortress 178," Ren Xiaosu replied.
"Then will you come back to the Warlock Nation again?" Little Mei was a little disappointed, and her voice softened.
"Yes." Ren Xiaosu nodded with a smile. "Of course I'll come back. It only took me 10 hours to get here from Fortress 178."
Initially, Ren Xiaosu wanted to leave the Door of the Key here. But after thinking about it carefully, he decided it was better not to leave it in the hands of others.
If someone deliberately destroyed it, Ren Xiaosu's once-in-a-lifetime chance to open the Door of the Key would be gone.
If anything happened in the Warlock Nation, he could just use the steam locomotive to make another trip there.
This was a means by which the Northwest Army could directly attack the stronghold, so he naturally could not let anyone else keep it.
At this moment, some of the soldiers of the 6th Field Combat Division came out of the battlefield with the Eyes of Truth.
There were more Eyes of Truth dropped on the battlefield than they had expected. Chen Jiu, Little Xia, and Little Mei were all stunned by the number!
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