They were two handsome soldiers with blond hair and green eyes. The military uniforms worn by these two major generals were not the federal military uniforms that Tang Long was familiar with. Those who were addicted to the Internet could not recognize which country they were from. So Tang Long had no choice but to listen to their conversation with doubts.
The older major general proudly said to another younger major general: "I said Darrens, what we are pursuing now is the integration of battleship functions. The age of giant ships is a thing of the last century. Your giant Of course, the ship can't beat my multi-purpose battleship."
Hearing this, the smart Tang Long immediately thought of the battleship with the function of an aircraft carrier. It seemed that his side was under the command of the older major general.
The young major general named Darens curled his lips, took a glass of wine and shook it, glanced at the major general, and said with a disdainful expression: "Master Baron Kester, I heard that you can be judged as a victory by the computer." , because of your contribution to the landing force. How many of your 1,500 multi-purpose warships are left now?"
When the major general named Kester heard this, his face changed, but he quickly said with a smile: "Hehe, it is true that our army won, right? Then how about sending over the things we agreed on?"
Rear Admiral Darrens immediately put down his wine glass, frowned, and said with a sigh of relief: "I can still afford to lose 1,000 slaves, but the high command asked us to test the function of the new warship. How should we report this? Just now Multipurpose warships have clearly proven unsuitable for future combat."
Kester, whose face was full of joy when he heard Darrens admit defeat, snorted coldly when he heard this: "I said, we were ordered to test the functions of the new warship, not to discuss whether the new warship is suitable or not. Besides, how much is this?" The functional battleship is the Duke's proposal. Don't you have any objections to the Duke's proposal?"
Darrence also snorted coldly: "How dare you, I'm just talking about facts, and I still think the earl's proposal is better."
Kester stood up with an ugly face, waved his hand, and said in a cold voice: "Needless to say, as the winner, I have the right to hand over the result to the high command." Then he turned and was about to leave.
Darrens drank the wine in one gulp, stood up and said in a cold voice: "Whatever you want." When he was about to leave, he was stopped by Kester: "I said, go back to the imperial capital, don't forget the loss you lost to me." Things." Darrence glanced at Kester and nodded: "I won't miss you."
At this point, the communication is over.
Tang Long stared blankly at the screen that had turned white. He was shocked because when the two major generals stood up just now, Tang Long saw the military flag hanging on the wall behind them. It was a black base with a gold border, and in the middle was a pattern of a silver-white eagle spreading its wings. Seeing this flag, Tang Long, who was ignorant of worldly affairs, also knew that it was the symbol of the Silver Eagle Empire, a country adjacent to the Wanluo Federal Government.
Tang Long, who graduated from high school, can only roughly know what the Silver Eagle Empire is: the Silver Eagle Empire, as the name suggests, is an imperial country, and there is still slavery. The Silver Eagle Empire has 13 galaxies, nearly 10,000 administrative planets, and a population of 5 trillion. Among them, there are 4 trillion civilians, nearly 1 trillion are slaves, and only about 10 million nobles. This point is particularly emphasized in Tang Long's high school history book.
Such a country is close to the democratic Wanluo Federation, so it is natural that there will be confrontation. Before the invention of the black hole bomb, the two countries had fought hundreds of wars, and the galaxies handed over by the two countries were almost turned into ruins.
The cause of the war was first initiated by the Wanluo Federation under the banner of liberating the slaves, but the result was that people in the Federation were at odds. Because the slaves of the Silver Eagle Empire refused to be liberated by the Wanluo Federation, and even joined the imperial army to rise up and resist. Afterwards research, because those slaves have been used to such an irresponsible life for thousands of years, and under the education of the empire, they even think that people from other countries are inferior to their own slaves, and they are the lowest.
Afterwards, the Federation lost confidence in these slaves, and the banner of emancipating slaves lost its effectiveness. Although the war between the two sides ceased after the invention of the black hole bomb, diplomatic relations were not restored until decades later. It was also under the threat of black hole bombs that the entire universe began peaceful and friendly diplomatic activities. On the way to establish diplomatic relations, the Federation discovered that there are various systems in the entire universe, and the local people are happy to live under these systems. Of course, there will be some people who do not want to live in the system of their own country, and smuggle immigrants to live in other systems.
Tang Long, who stayed on the Internet all day, also got some gossip, that is, some high-ranking federal officials and wealthy businessmen secretly went to the Silver Eagle Empire to buy slaves and land, and went to the Silver Eagle Empire to live the life of slave owners during their vacations. Such cases caused a stir at the time, but although federal law forbade slaves in this country, it did not prohibit slaves in other countries. Moreover, according to the laws of the Silver Eagle Empire, buying and selling slaves is legal. Besides, these people did not bring slaves back to the country, so they did not violate the laws of any country at all. After this judgment was handed down by the court, needless to say, more wealthy federal people went to the Silver Eagle Empire to live as slave owners in a fair manner.
Tang Long didn't know that the patron saint of peace disappeared because of his love of showing off. Now all countries are very tense, wars will break out at any time, and the previous enmity between the Wanluo Federation and the Silver Eagle Empire will be brought up at any time.
Because Tang Long didn't know this, Tang Long asked the second lieutenant robot stupidly: "Sir, is this war launched to test the function of the battleship?"
The second lieutenant nodded while looking at the screen that had been restored to the image of the starry sky and said in a cold voice, "Yes."
Tang Long opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but hesitated and didn't know what to say. The second lieutenant might have sensed what Tang Long wanted to ask, so he said by himself: "A soldier's death pension can create 10 soldiers like me. Robot soldiers. And robots can fully play the function of weapons, that is to say, robots like me are made to test the effectiveness of weapons.”
Tang Long was stunned. Although he knew that with the current technology, mass production of robots was as simple as production of floating trams, but he did not expect it to be so cheap. If the cost of using robots to fight is not cheaper than the cost of using soldiers? And it won't kill anyone.
When Tang Long was about to say something, he suddenly thought of an important question: "Uh, sir, you are from the Silver Eagle Empire, so... then why... can you have contact with the instructor?" Although Tang Long didn't know where the training base of the 23rd regiment was, local, but certainly within the Commonwealth. It is impossible for the battleships of the Silver Eagle Empire to appear in the territory of the Federation without being discovered by the Federation Army, but why can they easily receive themselves into the territory of the Silver Eagle Empire? And how did the instructor get in touch with these robots from other countries
The second lieutenant didn't answer Tang Long's question, but just glanced at him, turned around and said, "Go and rest, we're going to change the battleship for another test later."
"Ah... uh... yes!" Tang Long was stunned for a moment, thinking that he would be threatened with death later, he was so frightened that he even forgot why the second lieutenant didn't answer, and immediately saluted with a snap, and ran out quickly. He needs to rest and get ready.
Inside the bridge, the robots who stood up and saluted, surrounded the second lieutenant after Tang Long left, and began to talk: "Is he the Tang Long that the seniors said?"
"Yes." The lieutenant nodded.
"Sure enough, as the senior said, he is a human who doesn't care about other races." A robot said looking at the direction Tang Long left.
"Well, from his performance and words just now, he regards us robots as human beings."
"I don't think he sees us as humans, because he still understands that we are not humans, but robots. But judging by his words and deeds, he sees us robots as companions, not as tools."
"Companion? Interesting one..."
"If we hadn't met our friends, we wouldn't have met our seniors, and we wouldn't have met Tang Long, a human being."
"We still don't expect other humans to be like Tang Long. If other humans know that robots have minds, our companions will be dissolved immediately."
"Well, then let's help seniors train Tang Long well." Hearing what the second lieutenant said, several robots nodded in agreement.
At the same time, the 23rd regiment, in the instructor's lounge. The five instructors were covered with wires and did not move, but their conversation continued.
"Our friend, why did you make such a decision? There are other countries there."
A sweet female voice sounded: "Hee hee, is this not good? This way Tang Long can have a deep understanding of the opponent's military secrets, and then... hee hee, Tang Long can be promoted."
"Our friend, according to you, there will be war soon?"
"Well... keep it secret. Hehe, I never thought that after developing the game "War", you can enter other intelligent systems so easily."
The robot instructor immediately understood that "she" had already used the systems scattered to invade other countries, and hurriedly said: "Our friends, please be careful not to cause confusion."
"Don't worry, I followed the original procedure completely, but some places were changed quietly. Otherwise, Tang Long and the others can come and go freely so smoothly?"
The instructor leader said aloud: "Our friend, after Tang Long graduates, we will run out of energy. I hope you will take care of Tang Long in the future."
"Tang Long will leave it to you then." The other instructors also said.
That voice, the happy tone just now disappeared, replaced by a slightly bitter voice: "Don't worry, I will take care of him."
The space was quiet for a long time, and finally a female voice broke the silence: "Then I'm leaving, everyone take care."
"Goodbye our friend, please take care."
In the waiting room of the battleship landing force, Tang Long checked his equipment, grabbed things and stuffed them on his body, croaking: "Take all the energy magazines! Take all the energy handles of the laser knives! Don’t leave even one grenade. His grandma’s! Now let’s see which bastard can point a gun at me!”
After sorting out the equipment, Tang Long proudly stood up and walked around, but only took two steps when the bloated Tang Long suddenly fell to the ground, and all the weapons and ammunition stuffed into his body jumped out. It seems that Tang Long was deeply impressed by the experience of running out of energy and waiting to die last time. If the battle hadn't just been announced at that time, his life would have been frozen.
"Damn it! There are too many things. Don't talk about attacking at that time, it will be impossible to escape!" Tang Long dejectedly took off the belt with more than a dozen grenades and kept it aside. Just at this time, the horn on the wall rang An order came: "After 3 hours, transfer to the SYT-235 area for the transfer of command. After 5 hours, a space battle will be conducted to test the performance of space fighters. The landing troops are ready to replace their equipment."
Tang Long was stunned, looked at the weapons on his body and shouted: "No way? Landing troops change equipment?" What else did Tang Long want to say, those robots began to drop their weapons and lined up out of the waiting room . Tang Long got up quickly, and shouted while throwing the weapon: "Brother! Wait for me!"
Tang Long followed the robot to a cabin filled with dozens of unknown fighters. The fighter plane is T-shaped, the left and right tail fins are missile launch ports, and the nose is equipped with laser cannons. Tang Long watched enviously, although the fighter plane training, the instructor also trained him, and he also played games. But that was a simulator, and I had never even seen a real fighter jet, let alone touched it.
Thinking of touching characters, Tang Long couldn't help wanting to go forward, but seeing nearly a thousand robots standing around motionless, he had no choice but to resist the desire and stand obediently.
At this time, the second lieutenant came over with an electronic board. He stood in the middle, glanced at the electronic board, and said in an emotionless voice: "T10031, T10032, T10033, ... Tang Long. The above are the drivers, and the rest are in charge Logistical maintenance. Attention, ready to fight in 3 hours." The second lieutenant turned and left after speaking.
Tang Long had been paying attention to the fighter plane, and didn't hear what the second lieutenant said at all. It wasn't until all the robots moved around that he regained his senses and looked around blankly.
He suddenly discovered that dozens of robots were surrounding him, looking at him quietly. Tang Long didn't know what happened, but he was always a little guilty when he was stared at by nearly a hundred green electronic eyes. Tang Long asked anxiously: "Uh... Brothers, what's the matter?"
At this time, a robot handed over a set of driving suits, and said coldly: "We are your maintenance personnel, please cooperate with us in debugging."
Tang Long took the clothes blankly, and said a little puzzled: "My maintenance personnel? What does this mean..." Speaking of this, Tang Long suddenly jumped up and exclaimed in surprise: "I am the driver?!" Just now Tang Long Seeing that there are nearly a thousand robots and only dozens of fighter planes, which is not enough to allocate, Long is worried that he has no hope, but he did not expect this opportunity to come suddenly.
The robot that handed the clothes to Tang Long nodded, and said in a still cold tone: "Yes, please change into the clothes quickly, there are still three hours before the battle, we don't have much time to test."
Hearing this, Tang Long found that all the fighter planes were busy with robots, and only the fighter plane in front of him stayed there alone. Tang Long hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, I'll change it right away." He hurriedly took off his uniform.
"Adjust the laser sight, adjust the 29-degree angle at 3 o'clock, and adjust it by 4 microns." Such a voice came from the space fighter helmet on Tang Long's head.
"Wait, don't talk so fast! What kind of button is AL56?" Tang Long frantically looked for the buttons everywhere, while referring to the manual. This kind of fighter is different from the simulators in the training camp. Of course, the systems of fighter jets in various countries are very different, but what troubles Tang Long is that the real fighter is completely different from the game. How can the fighter in the game be so complicated? operating system? It's just a remote control stick and a few firing buttons.
But Tang Long seemed to have a genius ability for manual operation. By asking the maintenance captain's robot, he quickly mastered the function, that is to say, Tang Long had already mastered the function of the Silver Eagle Empire fighter.
I don't know how long it took before the red light came on, and an order from the battleship's computer came from the earbuds: "Attention all units, the fighter plane will be dispatched in 10 minutes. Attention all units, the fighter plane will be dispatched in 10 minutes."
Hearing this, Tang Long quickly closed the helmet mirror, checked the seat belt, and asked aloud: "Are you ready?" The voice of the maintenance captain came from the earplugs: "The energy of the machine gun is full, and the missile is loaded. , the energy of the fighter plane is fully charged, all aspects have been checked, and there is no abnormality, it can be launched!"
At this time, the fighter planes have already started to be moved to the ejection port by the automatic floor, and the synthesized voice of the battleship computer also began to count down: "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, attack!"
Dozens of fighters were immediately launched by the ejection device, and the space fighter test began. Tang Long gritted his teeth, bearing the sudden pressure. When the fighter plane appeared in space, Tang Long's eyes darkened. This is a normal black eye phenomenon, and some high-end games also have this kind of special effect. Tang Long hurriedly drove the plane around with his eyes closed, which was a stunt to ensure that he would not be destroyed as soon as he came out.
A few seconds later, the black eye phenomenon disappeared. Tang Long opened his eyes and saw several missiles pounced on him. He gritted his teeth and uttered a foul mouth from between his teeth: "Fuck! I am going to be the marshal. I must live!" Hastily gasped the gas, pulled the control lever, and the whole person flew upwards.
While ascending, Tang Long thought that with the help of this kind of helmet, he could even shoot down flies flying around irregularly. Of course, these few regular missiles were easier. So Tang Long pressed the button, and the helmet automatically tracked and displayed. When it reached the critical point, the fuselage dropped suddenly and appeared behind the missile. Of course, the flying missile immediately turned around and continued to fly towards Tang Long.
"Hey, if I thought of this trick just now, would you still be with me for so long?" Tang Long looked at the missile that was getting closer and closer, and grinned. A few laser beams fired at the missiles, and with a bang, the missiles were reimbursed like this.
Tang Long, who was already full of enthusiasm, immediately searched for the target, and found that the fight was in full swing not far away, and immediately rushed forward with a murderous look: "I'm coming! You bastards, watch me kill you!"
A month later, in the hall of the 23rd regiment training base. Five robot instructors stood in front of the center, while Tang Long stood in the center. The entire hall was silent and peaceful.
Tang Long had already returned from that machine battlefield. When he was sent back by the battleship, Tang Long was not quite used to it, because at that time there was almost no rest there. How can one get used to returning to this peaceful place
Tang Long is now darker and stronger, and his height has reached 178 centimeters, which is 8 centimeters higher than before. The original round face has turned into a thin and lean melon-seeded face. Although this appearance has lost its previous childishness, it looks so resolute and extraordinary.
The big clever eyes also became smaller, and had become a pair of alert, intelligent, sharp eyes. Of course, there would occasionally be a hint of intelligence in those eyes, but only then did it show that the standard soldier in front of him was still a man who had just turned 19 years old.
Even the most picky robot instructor can't find anything wrong with Tang Long's posture of crossing his legs and backing his hands. Tang Long these days can be said to be training to become a model of military appearance.
"Tang Long!" Upon hearing his name, Tang Long slapped reflexively, put his legs together, raised his chest and looked up at the leader instructor who spoke.
"Relax." The robot leader, the instructor, was very satisfied. Although he couldn't show his expression, he still nodded. "The gathering here today is to hold a graduation ceremony for you."
Tang Long was stunned for a moment, because the one-year deadline in his memory hadn't arrived yet, so why would he be graduating so soon
The chief instructor probably understood what Tang Long was thinking, and continued: "The warship that picked you up used to have more than 2,000 robots, but now there are only five or six hundred people left. You are one of them, which means that Tang Long you , is already an excellent soldier who has survived the cruel battlefield. I also said that that training was the last training, and we have nothing to teach you, so it is time for your recruit training to end."
When Tang Long heard this, he saluted immediately with a snap: "Thank you instructor for your teaching!"
The leader instructor waved his hand to let Tang Long excuse him, and continued: "This graduation ceremony is a very important matter. Do you know that the teams in each training camp have a power?" He may want to soften his voice as much as possible, But because the tone has been fixed, the tone is still indifferent.
"I don't know, sir!" Tang Long shouted with his hands behind his back.
"In order to encourage recruits to train hard, the Federal Military Department gives the instructors a power. That is, they can be promoted to the rank of the best recruits during the training period. Now I declare that you, Tang Long, are the best recruits in our 23rd regiment!"
Tang Long couldn't help curling his lips in his heart: "I'm the only student in the entire 23rd Regiment. I'm not the best, who else is the best? To be promoted to the rank? Or just get a senior soldier or something, alas, it's better than not being promoted. "He's been in the army for almost a year now and will be a private first class soon. The federal army stipulates that private soldiers will be automatically promoted to private first class after one year of enlistment.
Here is a description of the federal military rank system: the entire army is divided into six grades and twenty-one levels: Marshal: Marshal
General: General, Lieutenant General, Major General
Brigadier Colonel: Major Colonel Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant: Captain, Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant
Warrant Sergeant: Sergeant Sergeant Corporal
Soldier: private first class private
The machine instructor took a look at Tang Long, and continued: "Because our 23rd Regiment is the training base, the instructor has the highest rank, so he has the greatest power. Now promote Tang Long to Second Lieutenant!"
Immediately, flowers and colorful flags were projected on the training ground, and the crowd cheered. At the same time, the national anthem of the Federation was also played.
After being stunned for a while, Tang Long finally came to his senses and blurted out: "Second lieutenant!?" But he stopped immediately, stood at attention and saluted: "Thank you for your cultivation, sir!" Although Tang Long wondered how these robots got this appointment, he didn't care about it. As long as he can be promoted, should he bother with these things
Tang Long didn't know that for hundreds of years, the "she" who managed the central system had never made a single mistake. Over time, the military did not pay much attention to the appointment of low-level officers, and everything was handled by computers. Computers can indeed promote officers based on merit. Of course, if the chief wants to appoint a junior officer, he only needs to enter a password command, and the computer will accept it and quickly process it and notify the whole army.
So the current computer system satisfies everyone. Not only can it be impartial and selfless, but it can also operate in the dark. Honest officers who don't know how to flatter can get promoted even after making meritorious service, and officers who like to flatter and cater to their wishes can even get promoted.
And intelligent computers have a special affection for these similar machines that have lived together for hundreds of years and have their own will. Although their serial numbers and military ranks are stored in the computer, who will check them? And can't even find it. Hundreds of years ago, after someone inquired about the situation of the 23rd regiment for the first time, the smart computer decided to encrypt these data on its own initiative.
In the nearly ten thousand recruit training camps, most of their instructors are second lieutenants, and very few are lieutenants. The authority given to these instructors by the military is to appoint two lower ranks.
The central computer responsible for transmitting the order passed the order to the 23rd regiment without saying a word. So according to this order, the robot instructor gained the power to appoint military ranks below second lieutenant.
Tang Long watched excitedly as the machine instructor helped him put on the epaulets with one bar and one star. He didn't expect that he would be awarded the rank of second lieutenant within a year of joining the army, but he was worried that this rank was illegal, after all, he was awarded the rank by a robot.
The robot instructor's words made him give up the last trace of doubt: "Yesterday, you have notified the central computer of your new military rank, and your identity can be found on all computers in the army."
Tang Long held back his excitement and looked at the five robot instructors with his hands behind his back. It was these five robots who trained themselves to be like this, and of course they also suffered a lot of punishment, so it hurts when I think about whipping myself. And in order to avoid bullet training, he actually shot himself. I was shot in the thigh, and walked for a week with a limp foot. Fortunately, the medical facilities here are well-equipped, otherwise I would have been disabled long ago.
Thinking of what I have learned, I can't help but feel as if I have arrived at a special forces training camp. It's really strange, do infantry have to learn the art of war and strategy training for commanding warships in battle, and the knowledge of flying fighter planes? Even the political study of governing the country, as well as knowledge about economics, conspiracy, and espionage, in short, all knowledge related to or related to soldiers must be learned by oneself.
Originally, it was impossible for me to learn these kinds of knowledge, because I came to join the army to dawdle because I didn't study well. But under the urging of the machine instructors with pistols and leather whips, and under the oppression of all kinds of horrible punishments, if you can't learn or don't finish it, you are not allowed to eat or sleep! If you are lazy, you will be punished with whipping, and if you still can't, you will be executed immediately! In such a terrifying environment, I actually learned to master these skills, so that even I couldn't believe it was true.
Tang Long didn't know that these five instructors had used energy to survive for more than 400 years, during which they continuously obtained various knowledge from the Internet, and it was because of this that they evolved into intelligent robots. So the knowledge they taught Tang Long was the most useful, but also the most comprehensive. This knowledge has been deeply engraved in Tang Long's mind, and will accompany him through the glorious years.
Tang Long thought about it, his eyes were a little blurred, not because of anger, but because he thought that every time he fainted from exhaustion, he would wake up lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, and put more There is food. The care of the instructors is deeply hidden under the cold metal. Although I clearly know that they are robots, why do I have the feeling that they are companions
"Tang Long, the spaceship has arrived, and your recruit training is really over." The instructor said with the same tone of indifference, and at the same time handed back to Tang Long the magnetic card that he put away at the first meeting, and Tang Long appeared when he came. In the place of the passage, the passageway reappeared after a year of absence.
After waking up, Tang Long took it silently, lowered his head and put it into his arms silently. At this time, a robot instructor took Tang Long's previous package and handed it to him.
After Tang Long took it, he raised his head and chest and gave a standard military salute to the five of them. The five robot instructors also returned a salute at the same time.
Tang Long walked a few steps toward the entrance of the passage, and suddenly stopped and turned around suddenly, with a bright smile on his face: "Sirs, I will come back to visit you!"
"Take care!" said the robot at the same time.
"Hehe, my military rank may be higher than yours at that time. I really want to see you salute me first. Goodbye!" After speaking, Tang Long gave another military salute, then turned and ran out.
He didn't see the five instructors giving a standard military salute to his back. At this moment, both of them forget that the other is not their own kind. Even machines and humans can have lasting friendships.
When Tang Long's figure disappeared, the leader instructor looked back at the instructors beside him, lowered his head and said, "Let's go, let's finish the final work."
The four machine instructors looked at the closed passage with nostalgia, turned their heads and saluted and replied loudly: "Yes!" Then they followed the leader instructor into the instructor's lounge. As the door to the instructors' lounge closed, the hall lights went out and never came on again.