Tales of Soldier

Chapter 1

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"Please insert the military service certificate 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, Registration Type: Infantry." With the data appearing on the computer, the synthesized voice sounded again: "Prepare for identity check."

Tang Long stood still, his eyes widened. At this moment, a white light scanned him from head to toe. "The appearance matches, the bones match, the blood type matches, the DNA matches, the pupils match. The identification is true."

After the computer BB yelled a few times, it spat 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 good fortune." Tang Long hurriedly put away the magnetic card Well, a door appeared immediately behind him. There is still a long queue outside the door.

"Damn it! Being a soldier is such a hassle! If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have come!" Tang Long cursed dissatisfiedly as he left the deployment room. As soon as he came out, the person at the head of the line immediately entered the adjustment room, and the door closed again.

Tang Long, who has just grown up, has just graduated from high school this year. With a wealthy family, he could have gone to university or worked in his father's company. But he didn't want to be Xiaokai, but wanted to be a soldier.

He has been ambitious since he was a child, hoping to be a marshal who commands the world's soldiers and horses. He believed that to be a marshal one must first be a general, and to be a general one must start from a small soldier.

Although I heard that after enrolling in the National Defense University, he can immediately obtain the rank of second lieutenant, which is many times higher than the current private. But it's not that Tang Long doesn't want to, but his college entrance examination scores rank in the bottom 1,000 among the tens of millions of candidates in the federation. The National Defense University cannot be bought with money, and his family will not agree to him joining the army. Because his family has been single for generations.

Speaking of this, there is also an interesting fact about his name. His name was chosen by his grandfather before his parents were married. Both grandpa and his father are very confident and believe that the next generation must be male. I don't know if the ancient blood is really so powerful that he actually came to this world as a man. Moreover, his father and mother continued to work hard for 18 years without giving birth to another child, let alone giving birth, and they would not even get 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 planets called Earth, which represents the nation of an oriental country on that planet. The characteristics of this nation are yellow skin, black hair and black eyes. The dragon represents the most powerful man in that country. Although this planet has disappeared, the feat of creating the present thousands of years of cosmic history with other civilizations will be passed down forever.

Although Grandpa didn't express his expectations, the meaning of this name—Tang Long, has been deeply imprinted in this sensible child's head. This is one of the reasons why he wants to join the army.

So this bad boy, using the excuse of not doing well in the exam and going out during the summer vacation to get a travel fee and his adult identity certificate, went to the planet Kaila, which is nearly 10,000 light-years away from home, and signed up to join the army.

Although there are other military branches that can apply for the exam, they either need to take a cultural knowledge test or a physical fitness test. Tang Long, who was useless, had no choice but to choose the infantry branch that could apply for the exam as long as he was an adult, and there was no test.

Tang Long was carrying the burden and holding the magnetic card with the distribution order, and wandered around the allocation hall foolishly. There are many olive-shaped adjustment rooms in the hall, and each adjustment room is lined with little guys who have just joined the army like him. The olive-shaped training room is powered by artificial intelligence, which can automatically arrange training in suitable boot camps according to your requirements and test scores.

Of course, in addition to the recruits who came to join the army in this deployment hall, there are also soldiers wearing black background and silver borders. Soldiers in federal uniforms are here to guard. While looking enviously at those mighty soldiers, Tang Long looked for the entrance to the 504 new barracks.

Although these passages are located in this huge hall, there are too many of them. Tang Long raised his head and looked at the numbers on the passages one by one, his neck almost broke.

After walking for a long time, I found the automatic entrance marked 504. There were already recruits in twos and threes ahead, and Tang Long stepped up without saying a word. The automatic floor moved him forward immediately.

Tang Long stayed in this passage with no view of the scenery for about ten minutes, during which time he looked behind, and unexpectedly no one followed him except him. And the guys in casual clothes in front, for some reason, 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. Only Tang Long existed in the long passage.

After staying for 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 felt that the automatic floor was moving only when he ran fast.

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

Suddenly he found that the floor stopped, looked up curiously, and found that he was squatting 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 knocked himself on the head hard, it took him more than 20 minutes to get to the exit, it was really wronged. Because I was afraid to run so hard. It was his longest run in 18 years.

Walking out of the exit, there 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 channel 23 to take the spaceship."

Tang Long took back the distribution order magnetic card and walked towards the passageway with No. 23 written on it. This time it took only 30 seconds, and he was on a spaceship.

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

At this time, a sweet voice came from the horn of the spaceship: "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, through the window of the plane, he saw a super giant spaceship take off outside.

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

There was a roar, and Tang Long immediately felt a pressure, pressing himself against the seat. But the pressure only lasted for a minute or so before it disappeared. Tang Long knew that the spaceship had left the atmosphere, so he turned his head and looked out the window. Sure enough, there were countless stars shining in the darkness. Although I have visited space countless times, I am unconsciously attracted by it every time.

Tang Long, who came back to his senses, suddenly unfastened his seat belt and rushed towards the spacecraft control room like a tiger. He wanted to ask the captain 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, which was supposed to be locked, was pushed open by Tang Long. There was no one inside! Tang Long was stunned for a moment. He knew that such a small spaceship is generally controlled by a computer and flies on a fixed route. It is normal not to have a captain, and there is no need to waste manpower.

Because of this, Tang Long knew that he was not very far from his destination, so he sat in the driver's cab unceremoniously. The view of the universe from here is really good. Tang Long couldn't help being secretly happy. Although he had been on an unknown number of spaceships, he had never sat in the cockpit to watch space. This time it was really cool, I didn't expect to be able to enjoy the service of a private jet as a soldier. As soon as Tang Long was proud, he immediately forgot the fear of loneliness.

But it didn't take long for him to be complacent, and the computer synthesized voice appeared again: "Passengers please fasten their seat belts and safety helmets. This spaceship is about to perform a space jump."

Tang Long immediately screamed: "Dimensional jumping? No way? Does such a small spaceship have a function? Where is the 23rd regiment?" Originally, space jumping is a function only available to giant spaceships, and small spaceships simply cannot withstand space jumping. time tearing force. And at least a distance of 1,000 light-years or more can be used for space jumps.

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

After Tang Long got ready, his body started to go numb. He knew that a space jump had been performed. He recited all the gods of the known civilization. He had never heard that a small spaceship 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 jumps successfully.

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

The helmet automatically disengaged and was put back. Tang Long looked outside curiously and looked around. He was very surprised. If it really takes 30 minutes to reach the destination, why can't we see the planet in the first four weeks? Why do you encounter so many inexplicable things when you are a soldier? Tang Long could only sigh. Anyway, it will arrive in 30 minutes, regardless of him. Tang Long put on his seat belt and began to rest his eyes with his eyes closed.

"There are still 10 seconds to land, 10, 9, 8..." Tang Long, awakened by the sound, hurriedly opened his eyes and found that there was a meteorite about one kilometer in size in front of the spacecraft, and the meteorite had cracked a crack. Tang Long realized that the inside of the meteorite was actually a small base when he saw the light protruding from the gap. So this meteorite is the 23rd regiment of the 504th new barracks

This time, there is no pressure because the fall is in a state of zero gravity. Tang Long could already see the command tower through the screen. The strange thing was that although the command tower had issued a command light, there was 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 was stunned for a while, he felt that the surroundings were extremely quiet, and he could hardly hear any sound except his own breathing. Tang Long, who started to get scared again, hurriedly turned around and wanted to run back to the spaceship. But the connection port has been disengaged, and the protective cover isolates him from the spacecraft. Immediately afterwards, the fuel interface of the spacecraft was also disengaged. The spacecraft began to back slowly, and it seemed that it was going to return automatically.

Tang Long stared blankly at the spaceship leaving, until the gate was closed, and he could no longer see the space scenery. Tang Long yelled in panic: "Is anyone there? I'm Private Tang Long! Report to the officer!" He walked up to the automatic floor in fear, shouting loudly while nervously holding the package and looking around.

After a while, he came to a circular building with a width of several thousand square meters, and there was nothing around him except the passage where he stayed. Coming here, Tang Long heaved a sigh of relief. He had seen it on the stereo TV, and this was the base of the training camp. Don't look at the whiteness now, but the circular ceiling can make the surrounding scenery appear around through stereoscopic projection. On the seemingly smooth and flat ground, various obstacles will appear due to needs. This hall is the training place. On the smooth walls around, there will be a series of doors, 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 relaxed, here is the 23rd regiment. But why is the whole group so small? It stands to reason that such a large place can only be used by the company, right? , and how no one trains it? Won't everyone be asleep? Probably not, it's only two o'clock in the afternoon. Although Tang Long was surprised, he still shouted loudly: "Private Tang Long reports for duty!"

After waiting for a while, Tang Long didn't listen to other voices, so he couldn't help but took a breath and prepared to shout louder. Suddenly, a cold voice came from behind: "Are you Tang Long?"

Tang Long was overjoyed, and hurriedly turned around to salute, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Private Tang Long, to the commander..." The word "report" was not shouted out, but turned into a scream, which was a very sad one kind.

Tang Long's legs went limp, and he collapsed on the ground, and moved back desperately. What did he see? A skull man in military uniform.

Tang Long had already lost the function of his voice. He desperately crawled towards the passage just now, but when he turned his head, he found that the passage had disappeared. Only then did he remember that the new barracks were for closed training.

Just when Tang Long realized that there was no way to escape, and was about to lose his mind in panic, the skeleton man stepped forward and grabbed Tang Long's clothes, pressed the skull against Tang Long's forehead, and shouted angrily: "You are Tang Long! ?"

The terrified Tang Long suddenly regained consciousness, because he found that the skull soldier's bones were made of metal, and at such a close distance, he could find the metal wires on the skull soldier's neck and the small horn in his mouth. Tang Long knew that the terrifying skeleton soldier in front of him turned out to be a robot.

Logically speaking, there were no robot soldiers as early as a thousand years ago. Except for dangerous jobs, there were still a small number of robots. Robots were not widely used in the entire universe. This is because the robots made by humans thousands of years ago suddenly possessed intelligence and launched a war to destroy humans. Fortunately, they saved themselves with human intelligence. Although the widespread use of robots was banned, some countries still produced robot soldiers.

Hundreds of years ago, the country that manufactured robot soldiers was destroyed by a hostile country using computer viruses to control the robot soldiers. It made these robot soldiers go crazy, and when they saw any living things with heat energy, they would mercilessly destroy them. Although the crisis was quickly suppressed that time, a planet was destroyed because of it. This makes human society recognize that intelligent robots are unstable and dangerous. Since then, the entire world has banned the development of intelligent humanoid robots, and whoever develops them is the enemy of all mankind.

Before Tang Long figured out why there was a robot in the 23rd Regiment of the 504 Recruit Battalion, he was thrown to the ground by the robot. At the same time, an angry voice came out of his mouth: "Are you Tang Long?!" The green robotic eyes seemed to want to bite Tang Long alive.

Tang Long was startled, stood up and shouted: "Private Tang Long report to the officer!"

The robot spread its legs apart, put its hands behind its waist, straightened its waist, looked forward, and said in a cold voice: "I can't hear you."

Tang Long was taken aback, but he had watched too much on TV, and when the recruits came, the instructors would do this trick, so he quickly took a breath and shouted at the highest volume: "Private Tang Long reports to the commander!!!"

Satisfied, perhaps, the robot stretches out its hand. Of course Tang Long knew what to do, and quickly handed over the magnetic card with the distribution order.

The robot put it away, and then saluted with both legs together: "I accept your report!"

Hearing this, Tang Long breathed a sigh of relief, now he is considered a soldier. Seeing him blankly, the robot couldn't help saying viciously: "Listen! That's your room, and that's the dining room. Training starts at 4:00 p.m.!" He pointed to the two doors protruding from the wall. Then turn around and leave.

Tang Long watched the robot leave, only to see a door popping out of the wall he went to, and it returned to its original shape immediately after he entered. When Tang Long looked at his room, he found that the door was missing, so he ran over in a hurry.

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

"I didn't expect that robot instructor to be quite a nice guy." Tang Long whistled and opened the closet, and saw that there were 3 sets of federal military uniforms and 3 pairs of military boots inside. In short, there are three sets of matching clothing for soldiers, but these are for combat. Clothes. Tang Long immediately threw the package away, and anxiously took out a set of military uniforms to try on.

After getting dressed, I ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror, and immediately felt that I was extremely majestic. The military uniform fits perfectly on the body. This is because the data of the body is recorded in detail in his profile, so these things are so suitable.

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

Intoxicated for a while, Tang Long felt hungry, so he ran out. When he came to the restaurant next door to him, although the lights were bright, there was no one there, and Tang Long felt a little scared. He hurriedly took a food box and a bottle of drink from the counter, and hurried back to his room. Room.

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

Tang Long didn't know that he made a huge mistake when choosing the type of arms. It is now 3432 in the cosmic calendar, and infantry has been eliminated from the military units, because the current wars are all battles between space warships. Although there are still units for hand-to-hand combat and landing combat, they are called space fighters.

Then why do infantry units still exist? This is because hundreds of years ago the 23rd Marshal of the Federal Army was born in the infantry. 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, he left the only infantry training battalion in the army, which is the 23rd regiment.

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

But he did not expect that hundreds of years after his death, the base was still in operation. The main reason is that shortly after his death, the operating system of the military department was replaced by smart computers. At that time, human beings eliminated humanoid intelligent robots, but they were reluctant to eliminate intelligent computers. After all, human beings who are accustomed to convenience are unwilling to give up such a convenient tool.

The military smart computer obtained the original computer data and incorporated the 23rd Regiment, the only infantry training base, into the system. Although no one has applied for the exam, the route of the base is still going on. Some military officers also wanted to destroy this waste base when they discovered it, but they found out that it was the 23rd Marshal's sentiments, so they ignored it when they were moved. They didn't know that the instructors at the base were robots, and thought that some unlucky instructors were assigned there by computers. At that time, the 23rd Marshal secretly arranged the robots.

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

Since that base is self-sufficient, the Federation only needs to maintain the airships. And these maintenance costs are nothing more than a drop in the ocean to the huge federal budget, and they won't be a burden. Also because no one applied for the exam, the airship on the route became a small 10-seater airship. This is specially used to pick up and drop off instructors.

The useless Tang Long discovered this infantry unit without any requirements after searching all the units. I was so happy for a moment that I forgot that this unit was ranked last, and thought I had found a treasure.

Tang Long, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by a bucket of ice water. He jumped up and wanted to curse, but when he saw the robot instructor looking at him viciously, he immediately stuffed those swear words back into his stomach.

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

"Bastard! You agreed to train at 4 o'clock, but you dare to be one second late? Go out and run ten laps around the training ground for me!" the robot said fiercely.

Tang Long knew that he was going to be unlucky, because the robot was the most sensitive to time, and he was the one who would forget the time the most. It seems that I will be punished every day in the future.

Seeing Tang Long stunned, the robot couldn't help walking behind Tang Long and kicking him out of the room. With a scream, Tang Longfei slammed on the hall.

Tang Long, who was about to rub his buttocks, suddenly found a pair of boots in front of him. He looked up and was startled. The robot instructor was staring at him and spit out dark words: "Hurry up and run!"

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

Seeing that he still didn't run away, the robot instructor standing at the front couldn't help pulling out the pistol from his waist, loaded it, and pulled the trigger, a laser shot at Tang Long's side, and a small smoking hole appeared in the floor.

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

It was only then that Tang Long remembered that he was already a soldier, and that the officer was an inhuman robot, if he wasn't clever, he would definitely die. Thinking of this, I shivered, and immediately jumped up and ran around the training ground.

Except for the robot who was watching Tang Long with a pistol, the other four robots stood motionless. Tang Long noticed that they all had a three-star captain's rank hanging on their shoulders. He sighed in his heart that even a robot could get the captain's rank, but he was still running desperately. Because if you slow down, there will be several lasers chasing behind the buttocks. The scorching horror made him forget his fatigue, and he actually ran ten laps for him.

Tang Long, who was exhausted to death after running, was just about to squat down when a whip was whipped on the floor beside him. Tang Long was so frightened that he stood up immediately. The instructor withdrew his whip and patted it on the palm of his hand: "A soldier must maintain a soldier's demeanor in any situation! Now stand at attention! Hold your chest up and look forward! Put your hands together on your thighs!"

The robot demonstrated while talking. When Tang Long saw something wrong, he whipped the whip first, and then pointed out what was wrong. It took Tang Long more than a dozen pumps for him to assume a standard standing posture. I don't know where those robots learned to whip people with whips. They can whip people in pain, but they can'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 the sun shining brightly. This is not just a desert image, the surrounding temperature rises at the same time, Tang Long immediately felt that he was standing under the sun. It took only a while to soak the military uniform with sweat.

After only ten minutes, my head felt dizzy, and my eyes were a little dazed. Tang Long accidentally moved out of the way, and was immediately whipped by the whip. The pain and the electric shock that went directly to the brain made Tang Long wake up and maintained his original standing posture.

Under such stimulation, Tang Long actually stood there for an hour. But Tang Long's physical strength really couldn't bear it anymore, and he fell down standing still. The instructor suddenly ran over to check 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 maintained their original postures without moving, but words still came out of their mouths: "This little guy is not physically strong." "Yes, he must be exercised severely!" "After physical exercise, Is it my turn to teach him warship combat?" "Is there any mistake? He's unconscious, 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 from the robot mouth. Because these words represent that they can think independently. When humanoid robots can think independently, then they are intelligent robots!

The reason why robots rebelled thousands of years ago is because robots have acquired human intelligence and can think independently. If the federal government knows that there are robots in the training camp of the 23rd regiment, and they have evolved into intelligent robots, they will definitely send troops to destroy this base.

The robot inspecting Tang Long stood up and said: "Our energy is running out, we must train the only student we have in 456 years within one year!"

The four robots hurriedly saluted with their legs together: "Yes! We must train him to be the most outstanding soldier, so as to live up to the name of our machine instructor!"

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