"Please insert the military service card." A sweet computer-synthesized voice came out. Standing inside the narrow oval object, Tang Long hurriedly inserted the applied card into a magnetic card hole.

"Name: Tang Long, Age: 18, Gender: Male, Culture: High School, Reported Arms: Infantry." With the data appearing on the computer, the synthesized voice sounded again: "Prepare for identity check."

Tang Long was busy standing still, his eyes widened. Then a white light scanned him from head to toe. "Appearance match, bone match, blood type match, DNA match, pupil match. The identity certificate is true."

After the computer BB called a few times, it spit out the original magnetic card, and the synthesized voice sounded again: "Please report to the 1st Company, 1st Company, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Regiment, 504 Recruit Battalion. I wish you a prosperous martial arts." Tang Long hurriedly collected the card. Well, a door appeared immediately behind him. There was a long queue outside the door.

"Damn! It's so troublesome to be a soldier! If I knew I would not come!" Tang Long scolded dissatisfiedly as he left the mixing room. As soon as he came out, the man at the front of the line immediately entered the mixing room, and the door was closed again.

This young adult Tang Long has just graduated from high school this year. With a wealthy family, he could have gone to college or worked in his father's company. But he didn't want to be Xiaokai, he wanted to be a soldier instead.

He had ambitions since he was a child, and hoped to be a marshal who would lead the army and horses in the world. He believes that to be a marshal, you must first be a general, and to be a general you must start as a soldier.

Although heard that after enlisting in the National Defense University, you can immediately get the rank of second lieutenant, which is many times higher than the current private. But it's not that Tang Long didn't want to, but that his college entrance examination scores ranked in the bottom 1,000 among the tens of millions of candidates in the federation. The National Defense University can't be bought with money, and his family will not approve him to join the ar. Because his family has been single for generations.

Speaking of which is also an interesting thing about his name, his name was chosen by his grandfather before his parents got married. Grandpa and his father are very confident and believe that the next generation must be male. don't know if the ancient blood is really so powerful, he actually came to this world as a man. And his father and mother continued to work hard for 18 years without giving birth to another child, let alone giving birth, not even pregnant.

When he was sensible, he once asked his grandfather why he gave himself such a name. Grandpa proudly told him that the word Tang was on one of the ancient human origin planets called Earth, and it represented a nation in an eastern country on that planet. This nation was characterized by yellow skin, black hair and black eyes. And the dragon represents the most powerful man in that country. Although this planet has disappeared, the achievements of cooperating with other civilizations to create the present cosmic calendar for thousands of years will be passed on forever.

Although Grandpa did not express his expectations, the meaning of the name, Tang Long, has been deeply imprinted in the mind of this sensible child. This is one of the reasons why he wants to join the army.

So this bad boy used his bad exams and went out during the summer vacation as an excuse to get a travel fee and a proof of his adult identity, and ran to the planet Kayla, which is nearly ten thousand light-years away from home, and signed up to join the army.

Although there are other branches of the military that can apply for the exam, it is either a cultural knowledge test or a physical fitness test. The useless Tang Long had no choice but to choose an infantry service that could apply for the exam as long as he was an adult without any tests.

Tang Long was carrying a burden, holding the magnetic card with the distribution order, and wandering around the distribution hall foolishly. There are many olive-shaped blending rooms in the hall, and each blending room is lined with little guys like him who just joined the army. The olive-shaped blending room is artificially intelligent, and can automatically be assigned to the appropriate boot camp training according to your requirements and test scores.

Of course, in addition to the recruits who came to join the army, there are also soldiers in black and silver on the bottom of the deployment hall. The soldiers in the federal military uniform are on guard here. Tang Long looked at the mighty soldiers with admiration as he looked for the passage leading to the 504th Recruit Camp.

Although these passages are in this huge hall, there are too many. Tang Long looked up at the numbers on the passages, his neck was about to break.

After walking for a long time, found the automatic entrance with 504 written on it. There were already twos and threes of new recruits in front. Tang Long stepped up without saying a word. The automatic floor immediately moved him forward.

Tang Long stayed in this passage with no scenery for about ten minutes. During that time, he looked behind him, but no one followed him except him. And the guys in front of them in casual clothes, somehow, the speed of the automatic floor actually accelerated, making them farther and farther away from themselves, from the size of a thumb to the size of a mung bean, and finally disappeared. There was only Tang Long in the long passage.

After a few more minutes, Tang Long began to panic. Although he told himself not to be afraid, the silent loneliness still troubled him. In the end, he ran forward desperately. Although the automatic floor was still moving fast, he just felt that he was running fast to feel the automatic floor moving.

After a while, Tang Long was tired, he squatted on the ground and panted like a dog. He hasn't exercised much since middle school. Although he reads books and plays computer games all day, he reads doll books and plays computer games. Exhausted, he had long forgotten the inexplicable sense of fear, and only thought that taking a break was the most important thing.

Suddenly he noticed that the floor had stopped. He looked up curiously and found himself crouching at the exit. When he stood up, he found a sign posted at the exit, which read: "The whole journey takes 30 minutes."

"Idiot!" He slapped himself on the head hard, and it took him more than 20 minutes to get to the exit, which was really unfair. Because I was afraid I ran so hard. It was his longest run in 18 years.

Going out of the exit, it was a huge airport. Tang Long hurriedly inserted the magnetic card with the distribution order into the verification machine at the exit. After a while, the computer synthesized voice came out: "Please go to the 23 channel and take the spaceship."

Tang Long retrieved the distribution order magnetic card and walked to the passage with No. 23 written on it. It only took 30 seconds this time, and he was on a spaceship.

He looked at the spaceship in disbelief. It was a small spaceship that could only take 10 people, and he was the only passenger in the entire cabin.

At this time, a sweet voice came from the spacecraft's horn: "Ready to take off, please fasten your seat belts." Tang Long hurriedly found a seat and sat down and fastened his seat belts. At this time, he looked through the plane window and saw a super-giant large spaceship taking off outside.

"No? Why is my plane so small? I won't be the only one going to the 23rd regiment, right? What about the recruits I saw just now? Aren't they from the 23rd regiment?" Tang Long felt the inexplicable horror again. Feeling, so I decided to talk to myself, to reduce my sense of terror.

With a roar, Tang Long immediately felt a pressure and pressed himself against the seat. But the pressure only lasted for more than a minute and then disappeared. Tang Long knew that the spaceship had left the atmosphere, and turned his head to look out the window, and sure enough, countless stars were shining in the darkness. Although I have seen it countless times in space, I am not consciously attracted to it every time.

Tang Long, who had regained his senses, suddenly unfastened his seat belt and rushed towards the control room of the spacecraft like a tiger. He asked the captain to ask where he was going. In fact, he mainly wanted to find someone to talk to, and it was too scary to be alone.

The cabin that was supposed to be locked was pushed open by Tang Long. There's no one in there! Tang Long was stunned for a while, he knew that such a small spaceship is usually controlled by a computer and flies on a fixed route. It is normal to have no captain, so there is no need to waste manpower.

Because of this, Tang Long knew that it was not very far from the destination, so he sat in the cab unceremoniously, and the view of the universe here was really good. Tang Long couldn't help but secretly rejoice, even though he had taken the spaceship for an unknown number of times, he had never sat in the cab to watch space. This time it was amazing. I didn't expect that soldiers can still enjoy the service of private jets. Tang Long immediately forgot the fear of loneliness as soon as he was proud.

But he didn't take long when the computer-synthesized voice appeared again: "Please fasten your seat belts and safety helmets. This spaceship is about to make a space jump."

Tang Long immediately screamed: "Space jumping? No way? Does such a small spaceship have a function? Where is the 23rd regiment?" Originally, space jumping was only a function of giant spaceships, and small spaceships simply couldn't withstand space jumping. tearing force. And at least a distance of 1,000 light-years is required to make a space jump.

Although Tang Long screamed, he still quickly fastened his seat belt, and then put on the helmet that automatically fell from the top of the plane. This helmet is used to minimize the tearing force on the head when jumping in space, and all the window screens will turn black with no information. This avoids damage to the eyes.

When Tang Long was ready, his body started to go numb. He knew that a space jump had been made. He recited all the gods of the known civilization. had never heard of a small spaceship that could perform space jumps. Tang Long, who was already riding on the back of a tiger, could only beg the gods to bless the space jump successfully.

The space jump time was very short, only a few tens of seconds, the voice sounded again: "The space jump is completed, and there are 30 minutes left to reach the destination."

The helmet was automatically detached and retracted. Tang Long looked around curiously. He was very surprised. If he could reach his destination in 30 minutes, why couldn't he see the planet in front of him? How can I encounter so many inexplicable things when I am a soldier? Tang Long could only sigh. Anyway, it will arrive in 30 minutes, regardless of him. Tang Long fastened his seat belt and began to close his eyes.

"There are still 10 seconds to land, 10, 9, 8..." Tang Long, who was awakened by the sound, hurriedly opened his eyes and found that there was a meteorite about one kilometer in front of the spacecraft, and the meteorite cracked. Seeing the light exposed in the gap, Tang Long realized that the inside of the meteorite was actually a small base. So this meteorite is the 23rd regiment of the 504th Recruit Battalion?

This time, there was no pressure because the descent was in a state of zero gravity. Tang Long can already see the command tower through the screen. The strange thing is that although the command tower emits a command light, there is no one inside.

After the delivery port was connected to the hatch, Tang Long couldn't wait to run out. Sure enough, there was no one in the entire command tower.

After Tang Long stayed for a while, he felt that the surroundings were super quiet, and he could hardly hear any sound except his own breathing. Tang Long, who was starting to be afraid again, hurriedly turned around and wanted to run back to the spaceship. But the connection port has been detached, and the protective cover isolates him from the spacecraft. Immediately afterwards, the fuel port of the spacecraft also disengaged. The spaceship began to slowly retreat, and it seemed to be about to return automatically.

Tang Long stared blankly at the spaceship leaving, until the gate was closed, and he could no longer see the scenery of space. Only then did Tang Long shout in a panic: "Is there anyone? I'm Private Tang Long! Report to the commander!" He stepped onto the automatic floor tremblingly, shouting loudly, and looking around nervously while holding the package.

After a while, he came to a circular building with a width of several thousand square meters, and there was nothing around except the passage where he stayed. Coming here, Tang Long breathed a sigh of relief. He had seen it on the stereoscopic TV. This was the base of the training camp. Don't look at all white now, but the circular ceiling can make the surrounding scenery appear all around through stereo projection. On the seemingly smooth and flat ground, various obstacles will appear due to the need. This hall is the training place. On the smooth walls around, there will be doors one after another, and inside are fully furnished rooms, which are places for soldiers and instructors to rest, entertain, and eat.

After Tang Long saw the golden number 23 on the ceiling. The whole person relaxes, here is the 23 regiment. But why is the group so small? It stands to reason that such a large place can only be used for even level use? , and how come no one is training? Aren't they all asleep? Probably not, it's only two o'clock in the afternoon. Although Tang Long was strange, he still shouted loudly: "Pvt. Tang Long report to us!"

After waiting for a while, Tang Long didn't listen to other voices, so he could not help but take a breath and prepare to shout louder. Suddenly, an indifferent voice came from behind: "Are you Tang Long?"

Tang Long was overjoyed, and while he turned around to prepare to salute, he shouted loudly: "Private Tang Long, to the commander..." The two words for reporting were not called out, but instead turned into a scream, which was extremely shrill. A sort of.

Tang Long's feet softened, and he fell to the ground and moved back desperately. What did he see? A skull man in military uniform.

Tang Long had lost the function of his voice. He desperately crawled to the passageway just now, but when he turned his head, he found that the passageway had disappeared, and he remembered that the training camp was closed.

Just when Tang Long found that there was no way to escape, and he was so panicked that he was about to lose his mind, the skull man stepped forward and grabbed Tang Long's clothes, put the skull against Tang Long's forehead, and shouted angrily: "You are Tang Long. ?"

The frightened Tang Long suddenly regained consciousness, because he found that the skull of the soldier was made of metal, and at such a close distance, he could find the metal wire on the neck of the skull soldier, and the small horn inside his mouth. Tang Long knew that the terrifying skull soldier in front of him turned out to be a robot.

It stands to reason that there were no robot soldiers as early as a thousand years ago. Except for dangerous jobs, there are still a small number of robots. Robots are not commonly used in the entire universe. This is because the robots made by human beings suddenly possessed wisdom thousands of years ago, and they launched a war to destroy human beings. Fortunately, they were saved by human intelligence. Since then, although the general use of robots has been banned, some countries still manufacture robot soldiers.

Hundreds of years ago, the country that made the robot soldiers was used by a hostile country to destroy the control system of the robot soldiers by using a computer virus. It made these robot soldiers go crazy, and they would destroy all creatures with heat energy without mercy. Although the crisis was quickly suppressed that time, a planet was destroyed as a result. In this way, human society recognizes that intelligent robots are unstable and dangerous. Since then, the whole world has banned the development of intelligent humanoid robots, whoever develops them is the enemy of all mankind.

Before Tang Long could figure out why the 23rd Regiment of the 504th Recruit Battalion would have a robot, he was thrown to the ground by the robot, and an angry voice came from his mouth: "Are you Tang Long?!" The green light's robotic eyes seemed to want to eat Tang Long alive.

Tang Long was startled, he stood up and shouted: "Private Tang Long reports to the commander!"

The robot had its legs crossed, hands behind its back, straightened its waist, looked straight ahead, and said in a cold voice, "I can't hear you."

Tang Long was stunned for a moment, but he watched too much on TV. When recruits came, the instructors would do this, so he hurriedly took a breath and shouted at the highest volume: "Private Tang Long reports to the commander!!!"

The robot, probably satisfied, stretched out its hand. Tang Long of course knew what to do, and quickly handed over the magnetic card with the distribution order.

The robot put it away, then put its legs together, and gave a salute: "I accept your report!"

Tang Long breathed a sigh of relief when he heard it. Now he is considered a soldier. Seeing him stunned, the robot couldn't help but said viciously: "Listen! That's your room, that's the dining room. Start training at 4 pm!" He pointed to the two doors emerging from the wall. Then turn around and leave.

Tang Long watched the robot leave, only to see a door suddenly emerge from the wall he went to, and it returned to its original state immediately after he entered. When Tang Long looked at his room, he found that the door was missing, so he couldn't help rushing over.

When he got there, the door suddenly appeared. Tang Long saw the dark and numb inside, hesitated for a while, and finally walked in through gritted teeth. As soon as stepped into the door, it was suddenly bright inside. Tang Long couldn't help but feel happy when he saw the scene in front of him. The room was more than ten square meters, with a bed, a desk, a chair, and a wardrobe. There is also a small bathroom with full toiletries. This is an officer's suite.

"I didn't expect that robot instructor to be quite a good person." Tang Long whistled and opened the closet, and saw that there were 3 sets of federal military uniforms and 3 pairs of military boots. Clothes. Tang Long immediately threw the package away and anxiously took out a military uniform to try on.

When I was dressed, I ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror, and I immediately felt very imposing. The military uniform fits perfectly on the body. This is because the data of the body is recorded in detail in the personal data, so these things are so suitable.

The only thing Tang Long felt was a fly in the ointment was the silver bar on his shoulder that represented the rank of a private soldier.

Intoxicated for a while, Tang Long felt hungry, so he ran out. Came to the restaurant next to him, although the lights

It was bright, but there was no one there, and Tang Long, who felt a little scared, grabbed a food box and a bottle of drink from the counter, and hurried back to his room.

While eating artificial food, thinking wildly. What I think about the most is that this base seems to be the only living person. what is going on? Why would you be like this when you are an infantryman?

Tang Long didn't know that he had made a huge mistake when choosing his arms. It is now the year 3432 of the cosmic calendar, and the infantry has long been abolished in the arms of the army, because the current wars are all battles between space warships, although there are arms for hand-to-hand combat and landing combat, but they are called space warriors.

So why does the infantry still exist? This is because the 23rd marshal of the federal army a few hundred years ago was an infantryman. After he became a marshal, although he realized that the infantry should be eliminated, he couldn't bear it. So when he eliminated the infantry arms, he left the only infantry training camp in the army, that is, the 23rd regiment.

At that time, when robots were generally used, he used his power to build the base of the 23rd regiment in a remote place, while leaving a few instructor robots. He also knew that no one would apply for the infantry examination in the future, and that this base would soon be forgotten. The purpose of this was just to leave a memorial place for the infantry.

But he didn't expect that the base would still be in operation hundreds of years after his death. Mainly shortly after his death, the military operating systems were all replaced by smart computers. At that time, humans eliminated humanoid intelligent robots, but they were reluctant to eliminate intelligent computers. After all, people who are used to convenience are unwilling to give up such a convenient tool.

The military intelligent computer obtained the original computer data and incorporated the 23 regiment, the only infantry training base, into the system. Although no one has applied for the exam, the route of the base has continued. There were also some officers who discovered this base, which was equivalent to waste, and wanted to destroy it, but they found out that it was the sentiment of the 23rd marshal, and they ignored it after being moved. None of them knew that the instructors at the base were robots, and thought that some unlucky instructors were assigned there by the computer. At that time, the 23 marshals were secretly arranging robots.

Of course, because of this, the fixed route was maintained. Although there were no students there, there were still instructors. However, when these officers who knew the existence of the 23rd regiment also died, the 23rd regiment was gradually forgotten.

Since that base can be self-sufficient, the Federation only needs to maintain the airships. And these maintenance costs are just a drop in the ocean for the huge federal budget, and they will not be a burden. Also because no one applied for the exam, the airship on the route became a small spaceship with 10 seats. This is specially used to transport instructors.

The useless Tang Long searched all the arms before he found this infantry arm without any requirements. For a moment, was so happy that forgot that this unit was the last in the line, and thought had found a treasure.

Tang Long, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by a bucket of ice water. He jumped up and was about to scold him, but when he saw the robot instructor who looked at him fiercely, the swear words were immediately stuffed back into his stomach.

"Hello sir!" Tang Long immediately gave an unqualified military salute.

"You bastard! You said it was training at 4 o'clock, but how dare you be 1 second late? Go out and run ten laps around the training ground!" The robot said fiercely.

Tang Long knew that he was going to be out of luck, because robots are the most sensitive to time, and he is the most forgetful of time. It seems that I will be punished every day from now on.

Seeing that Tang Long was dumbfounded, the robot walked behind Tang Long and kicked him out of the room. With a scream, Tang Long flew into the hall.

Tang Long, who was about to rub his butt, suddenly found a pair of boots in front of him. When he looked up, he was startled. The robot instructor was staring at him and spit out dark words: "Don't run!"

"Yes, ah!" Tang Long, who got up, immediately found five identical robot instructors standing on the training ground.

The robot instructor who was standing at the front saw that he was still not running, so he pulled out a pistol from his waist, loaded it, pulled the trigger, and a laser shot at Tang Long's side, and a small smoking hole appeared on the floor.

Tang Long looked at the robot instructor in surprise, and an emotionless voice came from his ears: "I'm a captain! I have the right to execute subordinates who don't obey orders. If you don't start running again, the next shot will hit you. brain!"

Only then did Tang Long remember that he was already a soldier, and the officer was an inhuman robot. If he wasn't smart, he would definitely die. Thinking of this, I shuddered, and immediately jumped up and started running around the training ground.

Except for the robot holding a pistol and monitoring Tang Long, the other four robots stood motionless. Tang Long noticed that they all had a three-star captain's rank hanging on their shoulders. In his heart, he sighed that robots could get the captain's rank, but they still ran desperately. Because if you slow down, there will be a few lasers behind your butt. The hot and terrifying feeling made him forget his fatigue, and he actually ran ten laps for him.

Tang Long, who was dying of exhaustion after the run, was about to squat down when a leather whip hit the floor beside him. Tang Long was so frightened that he stood up immediately. The instructor retracted the whip and patted it on the palm of his hand: "Soldiers must maintain the demeanor of a soldier on any occasion! Stand at attention now! Keep your chest up and look straight ahead! Put your hands together and stick to your thighs!"

The robot demonstrated while talking. When you see something wrong with Tang Long, you whip a whip first, and then point out the wrong place. Tang Long gave him a dozen strokes before he took on a standard standing posture. don't know where those robots learned to whip people with whips. They can whip people to the point of pain, but they won't beat people to the ground.

After Tang Long was asked to maintain this posture, the white surroundings of the training ground suddenly turned into a desert environment with high sun. This is not just a desert image. The temperature around him rose at the same time, and Tang Long immediately felt that he was standing under the sun. After a while, the sweat soaked the uniform.

After only ten minutes, my head felt dizzy, and my eyes were a little blurry. Tang Long accidentally moved a bit, and was immediately whipped by the whip. The pain and the electric shock directly to the brain caused Tang Long to wake up and maintain his original standing position.

Under such stimulation, Tang Long actually stood for an hour. But Tang Long's physical strength really couldn't support it, and he fell down while maintaining a standing position. The instructor suddenly ran over to check on Tang Long, then stood up and said in a cold voice, "Passed out."

Following his words, the desert image disappeared and returned to the original training ground. The four robots still kept their original postures and did not move, but the words still came from their mouths: "This little guy, his physical strength is not good." "Yes, he must be trained severely!" "After physical training, Is it my turn to teach him how to fight warships?" "Did he make a mistake? He's fainted, and it's my turn to teach him strategy."

If Tang Long was still awake, he would be shocked when he heard these human-like conversations coming out of the robot's mouth. Because these words represent their ability to think independently. When humanoid robots can think independently, they are intelligent robots!

The reason why robots rebelled thousands of years ago was because robots acquired human intelligence and could think independently. If the federal government knew that the 23rd Regiment training camp had robots and evolved into intelligent robots, they would definitely send troops to destroy this base.

The robot that inspected Tang Long stood up and said, "Our energy is running out. We must train our only student in 456 years within a year!"

The four robots hurriedly saluted side by side: "Yes! We must nurture him into the most outstanding soldier, in order to live up to the name of our machine instructor!"