40,000 Years of Cultivation

The breakfast ended within ten minutes. The children again put on anti-epidemic suits that are said to be able to isolate bacteria, viruses, and demon attacks. They assembled in class units and prepared to enter the devastated and demon-stricken town again.

This was also the first time that Li Yao saw the "purification troops" stationed next to the camp through Thangka's eyes, and saw a group of heavily armed soldiers wearing crystal armor, and supersonic speeds whizzing past his head from time to time. The Battle Shuttle, there is also a black mountain-like floating battle fort, floating above the camp, black hole gun barrels and crackling magnetic tracks, monitoring and suppressing the entire city ruins.

At the same time, Li Yao also sensed that among the thousands of children, many of them were breathing slightly quickly and their heartbeats were uneven.

"I feel more and more that there is a problem with this'ultimate test'."

Li Yao said calmly, "Last night you told me that because of the serious shortage of troops when you just occupied the Black Fort, you let these'student soldiers' go to the actual combat and take the graduation exam by the way-this is consistent with the information I got before. In my intelligence, your military strength is indeed extremely scarce.

"However, with such a shortage of troops, there is a purification unit of such a scale stationed next to you, and you have been idly watching you for seven days. This is too...a waste of precious troops, right?

"You know, the imperial army has occupied the thick soil realm for several years. This is a front-line transportation hub. The imperial people have spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build the Black Fortress. The underground is full of criss-crossed dark fortresses, secret roads and military arsenals. You have occupied all the Star Harbor and important ground facilities. Who can guarantee that there are no scattered imperial resistance elements hidden under the ground? At this critical time, every soldier would like to break it in half and use it. The fighting force is quite powerful, and there is no reason not to invest in search and strangulation, but to accompany you little guys to play boring games in the safe zone.

"Even if the commander of the purification unit chooses new recruits, there is no need to station the entire unit here. It is enough to send some unit chiefs plus basic-level commanders at the company and platoon level.

"So, if this purification unit is not just a mere'surrounding', then they must be guarding or alerting something, right?"

Tangka looked at the murderous sword and halberd jungle, the place of the purification troops, and said in doubt: "The entire thick earth world has returned to the embrace of the gods. It is impossible for the empires to attack for a while, even if It seems that there is nothing particularly valuable here. It is worth mobilizing people to protect and alert!"

"Yes, I think about it, and I don't think this purification unit is defending the imperial army. There seems to be only one answer."

Li Yao calmly said, "They are on guard and vigilance-you are."

"Me, us?"

Thangka couldn't believe it, and even felt aggrieved, "Why? We are the purifiers of the future. I dream of becoming one of them!"

"This is probably the problem."

Li Yao sighed, "Because as far as I know, ordinary holy ally people seldom "dream", and the purifier's requirements are only higher than ordinary holy ally, how can we allow people who can dream randomly? Stabilizing factors permeate in?"

"This, this is the professional requirement of the Purifier!"

Thangka’s emotions once again resembled a sea swept by a violent wind, about to set off waves, "We must have certain emotions and thoughts, that is, the ability to dream, in order to recognize dangerous goods!"

"No, you are wrong. As long as there is a sufficiently detailed list of dangerous goods and a description of dangerous goods, 99% of dangerous goods can be identified by the cold procedure."

Li Yao coldly said, "The purifier doesn't need to know what'art' is. As long as they see'a group of colorful pictures', it will be destroyed. Isn't it convenient and reliable? Take a 10,000 step back. , Even if you really need your so-called purifiers with delicate emotions and sharp thinking, the number is not too much. For such a high-level unit, it is enough to be responsible for 1% of the dangerous goods that are difficult to identify.

"You have thousands of people here. I believe they will not be the only batch of graduates of the'Holy Light Academy' who have undergone the ultimate test. There must be similar tests elsewhere, right, there are too many, there is no such thing. necessary."

Even though he had only practiced his emotional control all night last night, Thangka's breathing was still unconsciously rushing, as if two groups of flames were gradually dimming in front of him.

"What do you want to say?"

Tangka murmured, "What do you mean, this is not our graduation exam, it is not that the purification unit is selecting newcomers, then what is it!"

"I don't know, more information is needed to proceed with the next analysis."

Li Yao said, "I only know that most of the thousands of children here, just like you, have strong emotions and sharp thoughts. Even if they dormant in your body, I can feel them and ordinary holy alliances. People are different, if ordinary Saint Alliance people are like a frozen lake, then the ice layer in your brain is making a bang.

"It's not just you, but all the children. The'ice' in your brain is cracked. Something is surging out uncontrollably, and it's like a bud that broke through when the spring flowers bloom. Your...humanity is awakening, at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It's not surprising to think about it-for the past ten years, you have been living on a monotonous starship, facing the silver-white walls, receiving the harshest training, and compressing all desires and thoughts to the limit. It's like a spring compressed to its limit.

"But, one day, you were thrown onto a habitable planet, facing an imperial town... which was fairly rich in materials. Although this town was invaded by war, your population was not large after all. The materials are enough for you to release your nature to your heart's content, play unscrupulously and happily for seven days and seven nights.

"In these seven days and seven nights, you are the masters of this city. You can do any small actions you want. All the adults, the instructors, and the officers and soldiers are far away from you, just watching silently from the side—what is this, this is nothing. It was throwing a person who was hungry for three days and three nights into a steaming cafeteria and let him do whatever he wanted!

"If this is the way to test the purifier, I have to say that such a test is too wasteful and too complicated."

Thangka was silent for a long time.

"I……"

He whimpered silently, "I want to be a purifier, I want to dream!"

"Don't get excited, the more excited you are, the further away from the purifier's dream."

Li Yao released a warm current to soothe the trembling nerves of the teenager, "The only good news is that you are not the most excited, excited, and most'abnormal' among thousands of children. In fact, after practicing, I will teach you. After the tips, your performance is quite calm, and others are even more unbearable than you!

"I originally thought that you were the only'alien', who had such rich thoughts and delicate emotions, but I happened to run into it. Now it seems that everyone is the same. Thousands of you are most likely to be Screened according to a certain standard, or..."

"Or what?"

Thangka asked.

"It's nothing, let's go, take a look and talk about it."

Li Yao originally wanted to say that these thousands of children with rich thoughts and so delicate emotions that they did not resemble those of Saint Allied people might have been "produced" by a certain standard.

After thinking about it, before there is no conclusive evidence, don't talk nonsense about this, so as not to disturb the little guy's mind and make him even more lost.

Under the leadership of the squad leader, the children of Thangka’s class once again took the spar chariot controlled by the instructor to the edge of the town and walked into their own purification area.

I don't know if it was because of Li Yao's psychological hint, Thangka did feel that everyone today is a little weird, different from yesterday.

When they entered the city yesterday, most of them looked like cold machines, just following the steps to perform purification tasks.

But today, their eyes, their breathing, the trembling of their facial muscles, their rather unnatural gait...

Thangka thought for a long time before she knew how to describe the weirdness of the students.

Everyone is just like them, looking forward to the town in front of them, and fearing the town in front of them, or in their hearts.

Across the dancing statue that was shattered into pieces yesterday, they reset a deeper assembly point. This is a colorful three-story building with a small and exquisite yard with a rotating yard. Trojan horses and slides.

"here it is……"

Thangka's eyes are like glue, sticking tightly to everything he sees, "A kindergarten, where the imperial people cultivate their descendants, is the same as our nursery school?"

"Yes it is."

Li Yao said, "This is a'palm tree', that is, all the children have their hands covered with colorful paint and press them on the snow-white wall, like the leaves of a big tree.

"That's a merry-go-round. After the children sit on it, the teacher slowly pushes around. Ah, this merry-go-round seems to be able to sing.

"This cloth bag can hold the children's feet in it, and then the children will carry the cloth bag to jump and jump, and whoever jumps farther and faster in the competition."

"……I do not understand."

Thangka said, "What kind of ability can be trained with such a poor training?"

"No ability to train."

Li Yao said, "It's just to be happy."

"They seem to be really happy."

Thangka’s eyes passed through the empty kindergarten and projected onto the opposite wall. There were hundreds of children’s paintings on the wall. Using the most brilliant colors and the most awkward methods, they captured the happiest moments and the most childish. Hope.

"Yeah, I think they have a reason to be happy."

Li Yao explained, “The first colonists who rushed to the front lines to participate in planet reconstruction were mostly bankrupts or even slaves who were desperate in their hometowns. They were at the bottom of the original society, and their children were naturally incapable and unqualified. What kindergarten did you go to?

"Only by taking risks to come here, on a new and hopeful land full of waste and hope, will their children have the opportunity to live a life that they never dreamed of, so happy as you have seen, I think this is colonization. Why did you name this city "Xinle City"?

"It's a pity that these colonists have not considered the risks, or they have no choice. This is the only place of hope.

"Now, where are the children in this kindergarten?"

"I, I don't know."

Suddenly Thangka didn’t dare to see everything around him, especially the colorful tree of hope that the children took indiscriminately with their palms. He said, “There was no large-scale firefight in the city. The children should be fine. They were just sent. Go back—"

"Go to receive purification?"

Li Yao asked.

Somehow, Thangka didn't even have the courage to answer a "yes", the word "purification", flowing lava and venom, severely hurt his soul.

Thangka was silent, and Li Yao was silent. In the silence, he heard the young people around--or the older children's rapid gasping and heavy heartbeats.

"First-level danger zone!"

The squad leader yelled, "This is the nest where the demon breeds. Purify this place immediately and thoroughly!"

No one moved, all the "Children of the Holy Light" stood silently, looking at everything around them in a trance, thinking, or confusion, and another human way of life.

"What are you doing in a daze, have you heard it all?"

The squad leader raised his voice, his cry became more and more harsh, "purify, purify, purify everything here!"

"what!"

The deputy squad leader Liao Meng let out a loud roar, with pale sweat rolling down his dark face, his expression savage to the extreme, he held up the flamethrower and shot at the children's palm paintings, toys and carousel.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

All the "children of the holy light" squeezed the trigger fiercely and destroyed everything they could see. Suddenly, the colorful kindergarten fell into a sea of ​​fire and smoke.