Chapter 59 Unfortunate Betty
After almost telling the "truth" of the world, Betty began to introduce the place they were.
The training ground number 1001 is a venue specially designed for the Imperial Military Academy. It is aimed at several disciplines in the command department, driving department and combat department. Betty is a student of the driving department.
"The students will be sent to the central area of the training ground. After leaving basic equipment, the students will need to leave the training ground within a certain period of time. As long as they can reach the 'final point' smoothly, even if they pass, the specific results will be calculated based on the time spent."
Ethan nodded, which did not make him difficult to understand, and he also knew why the world had obvious 'hierarchical division'.
The peaceful sea environment at the beginning was relatively peaceful, and students could adapt to this place and then set sail to strike the next area of sea, which is the area where Ethan is currently in.
Here they can accumulate some strength (mainly for ship upgrades), and then enter the route after the equipment reaches certain requirements, pass through the second storm sea, and arrive at the outermost sea of miracles.
The increasingly complex sea conditions along the way also have corresponding requirements for combat capabilities in addition to testing the students' driving and command capabilities.
"Are you all teamed up with several students to participate in the assessment?"
Betty didn't expect Ethan to notice this, but there was nothing to hide. She nodded directly: "This is also a reference standard for calculating the final score. Before starting the assessment, it will be determined whether the students will conduct the work in teams or individuals."
Individuals will receive higher comprehensive evaluations than team formation. Basically, students who get high scores will complete the exam individually, because this means that the student has no obvious shortcomings in driving and combat.
However, if a student in the command department wants to get high scores, he must choose to form a team, otherwise no matter how good he completes alone, he can only get a passing score, because a reference standard for testing the command ability of a student in the command department is the speed of the team completing the assessment and the status of the team members.
If the team members die and get injured, the results will not be very good; if the team dies and the commander is left alone, not only will he not get qualified results, but he will even be held accountable. At the least, he will be dropped out of school and then he will be taken to the military court.
Ethan just listened to these things. He was not very interested in these details, and he cared about another thing.
"Is there an energy field at the outermost perimeter of this training ground?"
"certainly."
There is an energy field outside the training ground, which plays the effect of part of the atmosphere. In addition, there are many other functions, such as making the sky look more like a real sky; it can also ensure that people inside will not leave this place casually, and that people outside cannot enter here casually.
"The energy field can also create corresponding weather conditions."
This is why the covers in the sky are almost at the same height as the clouds, because various weather effects are created by these energy fields.
Ethan thought about it and asked another more important question.
“What about the exit?”
Since it is a training ground, it will not be a completely closed facility, at least there must be a passage for inlet and exit.
When Betty heard this question, she looked at Ethan in surprise. She didn't expect Ethan to think about it. The thought in her mind was, "Does this person want to escape from this place? Does he understand what the universe means?"
It’s no wonder Betty had such an idea. In her impression, the indigenous people in this world were controlled to a very backward level of civilization. With the level of civilization mastered by the indigenous people, they could not even conquer a planet, even if there is no higher-level civilization on this planet.
That's the kind of person who actually tried to leave this training ground? Betty felt that Ethan was thinking a little too much.
"Using a dedicated controller, you can open a temporary channel at a specific location on that energy field, from where I came in."
Ethan nodded. In fact, it doesn't matter whether he has an exit or not. At worst, he can just open a portal on the energy field and drive the spacecraft to teleport outside.
For Ethan, who has mastered more and more abilities, a mere energy layer cannot stop him.
"How are you trapped here?"
When she mentioned this, Betty seemed very depressed, but she still briefly told about her experience.
The story is nothing special. In fact, Betty and his classmates conducted the assessment together. As a result, their team was very unlucky and the progress was very unsuccessful. Even the reduction in staff was not long after they set off.
The most terrifying thing is not the reduction of personnel, but the first one to die was the commander.
This matter is so weird that no one has heard of this kind of precedent. Betty and his companions are at a loss and don’t know what to do next.
Some even proposed to give up this assessment and wait for the arrival of the rescue team.
Instead of giving up the exam, Betty and her companions continued to move forward with a tough start and finally successfully arrived on the route, as if only the difficulty of the storm waters not far ahead was left.
As for the various monsters on the route, as long as they are careful and dodged in time, they don’t have to worry too much. Even if they occasionally run into each other, there are combat trainees with good strength in the team.
For Betty's team, the biggest trouble is still the lack of a commander. When encountering things, everyone does their own way. Everyone has their own ideas and often quarrels over trivial matters.
This caused the team to never move forward faster, so they quarreled again when they arrived at the island.
"This island is actually a resting point in front of the storm waters, but it is also a test."
"test?"
After Betty's story, Ethan realized that although the island had no spiritual interference, the entire island was deliberately designed to make people feel comfortable.
The beaches, grasslands, mountains, woods, and the passage of time is almost impossible to feel, it is easy for people to have a longer idea of living comfortably in this place.
If you accidentally waste too much time here, then the assessment will easily fail because it wastes more time.
There is another option here, that is, choose to give up the subsequent exam on this island. Although this exam will be judged to fail, you will get an additional chance of making up for the exam.
So when we arrived at the island, Betty's team had an argument. The result of the argument was that the team was split and even a force conflict almost broke out.
Betty looked at the increasingly tense classmates and lost confidence in completing the exam, so she chose to stay here and give up the exam.
This time, Betty became the target of the students' concentrated attack. Not only did these companions not leave anything for her, they even wanted to steal all the equipment she carried. Although they were finally stopped by another student who had a good relationship with her and failed, Betty completely lost trust in these companions.
Betty escaped the team while everyone was resting in the evening, then found a secret cave, sent out a signal for help, and then quietly waited for the arrival of the rescue team.
In the following days, she secretly observed her classmates from a distance: they did not look for themselves and quickly left by boat, and Betty stayed on the island and waited for rescue.
Because the rescue was waiting for a long time and had to find ways to find food every day, Betty finally chose to hibernate.
The Empire's dormant sleeping chamber technology is very advanced. You only need to carry a nano device about the size of a finger on it. Such a small thing can become a huge dormant sleeping chamber after opening it - when necessary, it can also be used as a single-person survival device in space for rescue.
However, once it is unfolded, it will be completely fixed and cannot be retracted as small as a nano-device.
“This island doesn’t sink into the sea like other islands?”
Ethan had more questions in his mind. Since this island would not sink, why did the so-called guild not develop this island into another base without sinking island? Considering that it is next to the storm waters, it seems to be a transit station for two seas?
"This island will stay on the sea and is said to have used some very special technology to ensure that the environment on the island is always in a good state."
Ethan was a little interested in this so-called special technology, but unfortunately Betty didn't know much about this technology. She was just a student who came to take the exam. She knew a name for many technologies mastered by the Empire, and she had never even heard of many advanced technologies.
She didn't know about the magical technique of keeping the island in a beautiful state for many years before, and she only heard about it when she took this exam, but she didn't know what was going on.
"Since this island has been on the sea and is still so beautiful, why don't the 'indigenous people' come to live on the island?"
Betty knows this because before taking the assessment, there are detailed explanations for various situations.
"Not-student ships can't get close to this island. First of all, there will often be floating and sinking islands on the periphery of the island for a long time. If there is no special positioning device for students, the island pointer used by ordinary sailors will only lead them to other islands."
This time Ethan just moved forward in a straight line and did not use the island pointer to find the floating island, so he accidentally discovered this place.
"When a ship without a special identification device approaches this island, it will be subjected to lightning, storms or blizzards, huge whirlpools, etc. But these facilities may have lost their effect, otherwise you will not be able to get close to this place at all."
Chapter completed!