Wang Fugui knew this was a rare opportunity, so he did not hesitate to exempt Li Xiaoyu and the others from doing labor first.
He went back and told Ren Xiaosu about this. Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, "It's good enough that we can exempt them from doing labor. When the time comes, you can bring everyone to live in town. That way, we'll be able to gather everyone if we need to escape someday."
Currently, only ten people in the group would have to serve in the military. Chen Wudi, Ren Xiaosu, and eight male students would be allowed to live in town for the time being.
Who could have their way in troubled times? This was already a pretty good outcome.
After the private troops received the bribe, they set off again. An hour later, they arrived outside Stronghold 108. To Ren Xiaosu's surprise, the town outside the stronghold was livelier than any of the towns he had seen before.
Large construction vehicles were shuttling back and forth, and there was even a vast military camp stationed outside the town. It was as though the Li Consortium had gathered a lot of troops outside Stronghold 108.
Although it was early in the morning, it was extremely lively outside the stronghold.
Ren Xiaosu was puzzled. Even if Stronghold 108 was the closest to Stronghold 109, where the Experimentals were located, there shouldn't be a need to gather so many troops here, right?
After getting out of the vehicles, the officer in charge of escorting them immediately instructed the people who had paid the bribe to run into town through a small path to avoid the labor force. Meanwhile, the others remained where they were and awaited further orders.
The officer chuckled and said, "Let me introduce myself first. My name is Li Qingzheng, and I'm here to bring you all to the conscription office for a physical examination. I'll secretly tell you some good news. As long as you pass one of the tests, you might have a chance of returning to the stronghold. In any case, I, Li Qingzheng, won't be able to do so, so it's all up to your luck."
When Ren Xiaosu heard this, he was a little puzzled. Was this a normal physical examination? How could it determine whether one was a refugee or a stronghold resident?
They followed Li Qingzheng to a huge military tent. At this moment, a group of people came out of the tent. One of them said excitedly, "I can enter the stronghold now! I can live in the stronghold now! "
Li Qingzheng smacked his lips when he saw the excited look on that person's face. "What a lucky guy. A refugee has gotten a meteoric rise."
He looked at Ren Xiaosu and the others and explained, "He used to be a refugee from outside Stronghold 107. But after he was sent here for a checkup, he actually became a stronghold resident. Isn't that interesting?"
Ren Xiaosu stood outside the tent and looked at the man's back. He suddenly felt that this physical examination might have something to do with the Li Consortium's new technology.
Everyone lined up and entered the tents. At this moment, there were more than a dozen tents in the military camp that were undergoing medical examinations at the same time. Not only were the refugees undergoing medical examinations, but even the Li Consortium's active-duty soldiers were undergoing medical examinations again!
Ren Xiaosu walked into the tent. The inside of the tent was different from what he had imagined. There were only a few people in white coats standing in front of an instrument. The person who was undergoing the physical examination had to sit on a stool in front of the instrument and wear an iron ring on his head that was connected to an electric wire.
The man in the white coat looked at the data and said, "Synchronization at 3%. Give up."
After that, the staff member beside him dismissed the person who was undergoing the physical examination. "You failed."
Ren Xiaosu slowly moved to the back of the line. He felt that something was not quite right about this. Li Qingzheng chuckled and said, "Why? Don't you want to go back to the stronghold? I heard that y 'all used to be stronghold residents. "
Ren Xiaosu looked at him. "Weren't you a stronghold resident?"
"No, I only became the platoon commander because the private army had just expanded. I was also a refugee in the past," Li Qingzheng said with a smile.
So the Li Consortium's military expansion was comprehensive. Even the refugees had been recruited into the private army.
At this moment, someone in a white coat suddenly said, "Synchronization at 81%. Pass. Record the personnel's file."
Ren Xiaosu asked, "What does' synchronization 'mean?"
"I don't know either," Li Qingzheng said. In any case, those who passed could enter the stronghold, while those who failed would become his soldiers.
The person who passed was one of the escapees who had traveled together with Ren Xiaosu and the others. He asked the doctor in disbelief, "Can I enter the stronghold now?!"
The doctor in the white coat glanced at him and said calmly, "Congratulations, what's your name?"
"Hahaha, I can enter the stronghold now!" the escapee said excitedly.
The doctor said impatiently, "Your name?"
"Lin Qi! My name is Lin Qi! "the escapee said excitedly.
Right after, someone led him away. The people in the line went up one by one to be examined. The eight male students' synchronization rates were basically between 40% and 60%. However, the standard for passing seemed to be even higher.
When it was Chen Wudi's turn, the doctor frowned and said, "Synchronization at 1%? Why is it so low?"
Meanwhile, Chen Wudi looked like it had nothing to do with him. When the doctor asked him to leave, he whispered to Ren Xiaosu, "Master, why do I only have a synchronization rate of 1%? It's much lower than theirs."
"Maybe it's a test of your brain." Ren Xiaosu hesitated for a moment before answering, "Because there's something wrong with your brain, it's only 1%."
At this moment, the doctor urged Ren Xiaosu to go forward for a check-up. At some point, he thought his synchronization rate might be surprisingly high.
But what if he got selected to enter the stronghold? After all, he did not want to enter the stronghold at all!
The moment he put on the metal hoop, Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt as though there were faint threads trying to communicate with his brain. It felt like they were real, but before those threads could come into contact with the palace in his mind, they broke apart!
A moment later, the doctor on the other end exclaimed, "Synchronization at 0%?! How is that possible? "
Next to him, Chen Wudi looked like it hurt his eyes. "Master, don't be too upset."
Hur hur …
Ren Xiaosu was puzzled. Was it because of the palace that his synchronization rate was zero?
The doctor said, "Record, the neural connection has failed completely." Then he said to the person behind Ren Xiaosu, "Next."
If Ren Xiaosu had not said those words to Chen Wudi, he would have gladly accepted this result. But now, he was a little unconvinced.
Although he did not want to pass this test, he still had to score higher than Chen Wudi!
"Doctor," Ren Xiaosu said in seriousness, "I think I can still be resuscitated. There must be something wrong with the device. Otherwise, how could my synchronization rate be so low?"
The doctor glanced at him. "Don't waste the stronghold's resources. Next."
Ren Xiaosu was dragged out of the tent by Li Qingzheng and the others. He shouted, "Doctor, give me another chance!"
The doctor in the tent sneered at the doctor. "I've seen too many people like him. It's the same no matter how many times they try. Useless."
But when the next person sat on the device, the doctor was stunned. "Why isn't there any response? It's not displaying any data."
"Could the device be broken?" someone whispered.
The doctor keyed in a 16-digit password on the device and opened the refrigerator in the middle of the device. There was a bottle of liquid-like silver substance inside.
Puzzled, the doctor replaced the bottle of liquid and placed it inside. The device immediately returned to normal.
He handed the bottle of liquid to his assistant. "Send it back to the stronghold for inspection. There might be something wrong with this bottle of nanomachines."
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