July is the season when white flowers wither.

The white petals with faint red threads fell in the wind, fell on the shoulders and heads of the young people, and spread on the ground at their feet.

That's really a beautiful sight.

However, not many of them went to appreciate the beautiful scenery. At this moment, their eyes were all focused on the magic light screen that only displayed the adaptation value.

"Adaptation value, 64, passed." The officer wearing a camouflage uniform and large sunglasses said in a cold and calm tone the score of the boy who took the test. When the boy heard the word "passed", his face changed.

He showed an excited expression.[

In the long queue at the back, several teenagers showed envious expressions.

"Fitness value, 51, unqualified."

"Adaptation value, 73, qualified!"

"Adaptation value, 86! Oh my god, qualified!"

As an officer exclaimed, the eyes of hundreds of teenagers in the square were all focused on the teenager on the test machine in the fourth testing area.

The young man glanced around proudly, the pride on his face arousing the envy and jealousy of others.

"In a town like ours, there are actually talents with a fitness value of 86?" A senior officer sitting in a military RV nearby poked his head out of the car in surprise and looked at the young man.

"What a genius." Shen Zheng, like the other teenagers, looked at the man on the instrument from a distance, with an expression of envy in his eyes.

"If I can... no, don't have unrealistic fantasies." Shen Zheng thought, secretly shaking his head. "As long as my fitness value can reach 60, then I can join the army and become a soldier. I will

Work hard to achieve several military achievements, and then Xiaoying will be able to live a good life..."

While he was thinking, he secretly clenched his fists. The firmness in his eyes made him look nothing like a boy who had just turned nineteen.

The flow of people for the test kept moving forward, and finally it was Shen Zheng's turn. When this young man with black hair, dark eyes, neither tall nor short, and a slightly thin body stood on the tester and let the test needle pierce his wrist,

On the magic screen next to the tester, the values ​​​​jumped rapidly, starting from "00", scrolling up and down rapidly, and did not stop until 98.

"98!?"

The crowd was excited. Everyone ignored military discipline and couldn't help but scream.

"How is it possible?" "Is the tester broken?" "No one can achieve this value, not even the greatest hero in history!" people shouted.

"A miracle!" In the RV, the senior officer suddenly stood up, his face turning red and white, and he couldn't help but gasp with excitement. "I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"This..." The officer in charge of the test was also stunned. He looked at the magic screen and didn't know what to say.

Shen Zheng turned his head and was shocked when he saw the values ​​​​on the magic screen. He instinctively thought: "Is this instrument broken?"

"Sorry." After a long time, the test officer waved his hand to him, "This has never happened before. Can you please try another tester?"

"Okay." Shen Zheng was a little embarrassed. He was worried that in the next test, his value would drop below 60, and all his dreams would be over.[

He came to the platform of another tester and let another testing needle pierce his other wrist.

"98! Still 98!"

The crowd screamed again, and the test officer blushed with excitement.

"Genius, peerless genius!" The senior officer in the RV was so excited that he broke the pen in his hand with excessive force and rushed out of the RV to the tester where Shen Zheng was standing.

"Young man!" he said excitedly, "You are qualified! Welcome to join the White Wolf Star Langya Town Combat Legion! If there are no accidents, you will be my new comrade in three days. Congratulations!"

"Thank you!" Shen Zheng replied in a daze. This luck came so violently that he couldn't calm down and felt like he was in a dream.

As he looked at others with envy or jealousy, and walked off the tester in disbelief, a fully armed army was gathering in a military base in White Wolf Star.

"Quick, quick!" the officer leading the team shouted loudly while standing in the rain, "This mission is very important and urgent. You are all the best special forces soldiers in our team. Don't embarrass me!"

"Formation leader." His adjutant stood aside, holding an umbrella for him, and asked in a low voice: "What exactly are we required to transport this time? Why do we need to use our most elite special forces?"

"I don't know." The officer shook his head. "As far as I know, the regiment commander doesn't know either, so he has to transport it to the military district headquarters and ask them to make a final appraisal."

"In other words... maybe it's not an important thing?" the adjutant asked.

"No." The officer shook his head again. "It must be something important. You know, it was found in the most important sealed compartment in the wreckage of a galaxy-class battleship that crashed in our defense zone. If it's not something important, On what planet would people use galaxy-class battleships to transport them?”

"I'm really curious, what exactly is it?" The adjutant looked curious.

"You don't need to know what you shouldn't know," the officer said. "A soldier's bounden duty is to perfectly fulfill the orders of his superiors."

At this moment, on the White Wolf Star, outside the test site of Langya Town, Shen Zheng was rushing out with excitement.

98! The highest fitness value ever seen on the White Wolf Star!

He really couldn't believe it was true, but the recruit registration card personally issued to him by the senior officer who presided over the test actually stopped in his hand, and little bits of light flowed from the delicate gaps on the card from time to time.

After carefully putting away the registration card, Shen Zheng ran towards home excitedly.

Home... In that small apartment, in a small room with a monthly rent of 80 yuan, lived his only relative, the sister he cared about most, Shen Ying. It was with her that that simple small room, It is his home where there is warmth.

At this moment, he wanted to tell his sister the good news as soon as possible, letting her know that from now on they would no longer have to worry about not being able to pay the rent and being kicked out by the landlord. He wanted to share this joy and happiness with his sister.

Of course, there is another kind of happiness that he cannot share with his sister. It is his own secret, a secret that saves him from losing his sister, and it is also the main reason why he joins the army.

Langya Town is not big, but it is not small either. Rich people with huge assets live in tall buildings. Their luxurious cars are parked downstairs. In the business district are bustling shopping malls and luxury stores for their consumption. Entertainment venues...[

This is another world that Shen Zheng dare not expect.

Those apartment buildings that stand as densely as ant nests in slums, those grocery stores that sell everything from work gloves to insect rickshaws, are the world that Shen Zheng is familiar with. His greatest wish is just to live in such apartments Inside the building, you have a house that truly belongs to you.

I live an ordinary life with my sister, and occasionally have some spare money to buy some beautiful dresses for my sister. I will find an upright boyfriend for her in the future, hold her hand, and send her to another happy home. .

What a wonderful life that would be!

In the past, it was a luxury wish, but now this kind of life is about to come true.

In his excitement, Shen Zheng couldn't help but think of the history he had learned in the past -

The civilization history of White Wolf Star is more than a thousand years ago. More than a thousand years ago, the pioneers of White Wolf Star who fled from the distant earth due to the insect plague flew here in ancient spaceships and began their entrepreneurial journey. In a thousand years, they carried forward the "insect technology" they brought from the earth and formed the splendid White Wolf Star civilization.

Nowadays, the scientific and technological civilization based on "worms" has grown to a considerable extent. From daily necessities in daily life to large spacecrafts capable of space travel, they have all been produced under the influence of "worm technology".

So far, no one knows where "worms" came from and why they can spread all over the universe. People only know that it is written in the history books that one day more than a thousand years ago, countless "worms" entered their ancient world. The homeland, the Earth, destroyed the civilization of our ancestors.

The tenacious human beings continued to fight against the "insects" in the disaster, and finally won a glimmer of hope for themselves, and developed a new civilization - "Insect Civilization" in a hundred years of fighting.

There are many kinds of "worms", not just the small, powerful things known to humans, but monsters ranging from the size of ants to as large as space battleships, with various abilities, shapes, and characteristics. They are There are all kinds of strange creatures with different abilities, but after the initial failure of being caught off guard, smart humans finally used their wisdom to find a way to defeat them. They used the emerging science of "insect bionics" to create various tools based on the abilities of insects. Strengthen yourself, have the power to fight against insects, and rebuild human civilization.

However, humans on earth may have been defeated because insect civilization started too late and the level was too low. Therefore, more than a thousand years ago, several humans were forced to flee their hometowns and wander around the universe until they found another place to live. .

But it seems that there is no planet without insects in the universe.

The creators of the White Wolf Star Civilization soon discovered that several species of insects also lived on this planet, so they fought against the insects while strengthening themselves, and finally established the immortal White Wolf Star Civilization.

To this day, the struggle against insects is still going on. The expansion of the Langya Town Legion is to cope with the coming insect tide - tens of thousands of giant insects, attacking the human world like a tide. , is the "insect tide".

Soldiers are honorable because they are supermen who can carry out "phytozoa" - integrating the power of powerful insects into their bodies; they are brave men who can defend the dignity of ordinary human lives. Therefore, their treatment is also extremely high, the most common The monthly income of soldiers is also higher than that of white-collar workers in large companies.

Therefore, for ordinary people who do not have the opportunity to go to college and squeeze into large companies, becoming a soldier is undoubtedly a smooth road to success.

Shen Zheng dropped out of high school when he was in the first grade of high school. He worked as a cleaner, porter, waiter... He did almost any job that could make money to support his family.

But his destiny will not change because of his diligence.

But this time is different, his destiny will be changed because of his genius.

He was happy for it and jumped for joy. Like a cheerful bird, he rushed all the way to the sixth floor of the old apartment and opened the rusty iron door.

"Xiaoying!" he shouted excitedly, "guess what I brought back?"

"What is it?" A beautiful girl with long hair walked out of the room, holding the embroidery work she was doing. Her hair was as black as the mysterious night; her skin was as fair as Snowflakes in winter.

"Why are you embroidering these things again?" Shen Zheng was a little unhappy, "It hurts my eyes too much. What should I do if my eyes are exhausted?"

"It's nothing." The girl stuck out her tongue mischievously, showing an irresistible cuteness. "It's the holiday anyway, and I have nothing to do when I'm free. I can supplement the household income by selling some of the embroidery, so that you can be less tired. ."

"Don't worry about this anymore." Shen Zheng smiled, took out the report card and stuffed it into the hands of his sister, Shen Ying.

"This is..." Shen Ying looked at the glowing card in his hand and looked at it in surprise. "The army's registration card? Brother, have you signed up to join the army?"

"Yes." Shen Zheng patted his chest proudly, "You won't believe it, but I am the most..."

"Brother!" Shen Ying interrupted Shen Zheng's words with her tears.

"What's going on?" Shen Zheng panicked and hurriedly comforted his sister. "Xiaoying, this is a good thing! The military's salary is so high, not only can you study with peace of mind, but you no longer have to worry about the landlord demanding rent. When we wait in the future If you save more money, you can buy your own house. How great is this!"

"But soldiers are risking their lives!" Shen Ying cried. "I would rather not study, I would rather live on the streets, than receive pensions from the army...Brother, don't go, I don't study. I have to find a job and we can work together to maintain this family!"

Shen Zheng looked at his sister and was silent. What should he say? He couldn't say anything at this moment. He didn't want to tell his sister that the reason why he risked his life was not just for the house that belonged to him and the ordinary and happy life. Life.

There was also the bad news he got from the doctor after his sister Duan collapsed a month ago - cancer.

The doctor said that Shen Ying only had about two years left to live.

After that, Shen Zheng thought of various ways, including finding black marketeers and selling some of his organs.

But fortunately, with this military expansion, if I can join the army and work hard to achieve a few military exploits, I can get help from the soldier fund and borrow money from the army to treat my sister's illness.

In this era, cancer is not a disease. As long as it is treated with certain insect technology medical equipment, it can be cured in about half a year. If the best equipment is used, cancer can even be cured within a month.

But the premise is a large amount of medical expenses.

Shen Zheng had no choice but to join the army and perform meritorious service and seek help from the soldier fund.
To be continued...