Steel steam and flame

The assembly area is an open-air space for stacking goods. It was not used during the heavy snowstorm. Lifting facilities and handling machines covered with snow were left standing around the site. Some were covered with tarpaulins and had now become white earth bags.

The ground is made of mountain rock and concrete, and the texture is extremely hard. The suitcase's rollers rattled on it for several minutes. Until the people from the Thorny Bird Training Ground appeared, the only sound left was the roar of a heavy snowstorm.

The loudspeaker made a harsh sound, which was later replaced by the thick voice of a middle-aged man.

This venue faces the mountainside. More than a dozen members of the Thorn Bird Training Ground are uniformly wearing waterproof cold-proof clothing, always brown and gray, which can blend in with the snow clouds and the mountains behind them at any time. It started with a textbook welcome routine of more than one minute, which was exactly according to the script. After that, he talked about other things, about the history of the Thorny Bird Training Ground. Finally, from the loudspeaker came the information that many members around him wanted to know.

",,,Everyone who came here from various training grounds and tribal families should also know that this time is a temporary decision to recruit personnel. In order to ensure the quality of the Thorny Bird Training Ground itself, here, I first declare that most of you What matters most.”

"First point, you are indeed students at the Thorny Bird Training Ground, and you will receive more reliable and higher-quality learning and training here in the future. All information has been entered into the Thorny Bird's information archives, and can be found in these Behind the information, you have not gotten rid of the word 'candidate'."

"To put it simply, you think you are already a member of the Thorn Birds, but the Thorn Birds have not yet fully accepted you. Now, you have a period of six months to one year to prove that you can get rid of the word 'candidate'. The time limit is one After the year, if there are still some of you who have not done this..."

"Of course, there must be some of you who are extremely confident in your own strength. Don't worry, there are too many places and tasks in Thorn Birds for you to show this kind of confidence. And these confidences will also be something you can get rid of beyond time.' One of the things you rely on as a candidate. Three high-level missions, as well as results that exceed the standard in routine assessments, are the best passes for you to become a true newcomer among the Thorny Birds."

"Second point, as long as you enter the Thorny Birds, everyone will have half a month as their own adaptation period. Please remember that this will be your last leisure moment. During this period, you need to understand the details of the Thorny Birds training ground. The location and functions of various structures and building facilities. This is related to your respective training and learning in the future, so please make good use of it."

"Third point, the clock will start from 0:00 tonight, when the half-month adaptation period is over. All the members who came to Thorn Birds on the special airship this time will be reasonably combined and arranged into teams to go Each region of the alliance is conducting outing missions. Please remember that this mission is related to their overall performance!"

"Finally, except for things like ID tags, password cards, and bank cards, all your luggage is not allowed to be brought into the Thorn Birds. Behind this training ground is a place for stacking luggage, and we will destroy it uniformly. !”

The last request of the Thorny Bird members attracted the opinions of some surrounding members. The discussion was only heard before it was extinguished by the violent aura released by one of the dozen people in front.

"This is what a formal training ground should be like." After experiencing the scent of an unknown woman, and Cassia was awake now, Sisia didn't feel anything. Cassia finally made a comment. The dozen or so people who came to greet them all had a certain level of strength and would definitely not meet the standards of the military school. But at least in the Thorn Birds, he could save a little on Xisia's training. Some energy, no need to pay attention all the time.

What he is focusing on now is the half-month adaptation period and the outing mission that will come after that. From the collected information and experience, Cassia reminded Xicia that there will be a "newcomer assessment" after arriving at the Thorny Bird Training Ground. As expected, there wasn't much discussion between the two on this point.

Among the luggage, there were only two pistols bought from the black market, some books and clothes, and Sicia did not feel it was a pity. After the Thorny Bird personnel finished speaking, the people gathered here were separated from various roads and went to their dormitories according to their respective numbers.

There was still a long way to go from the dormitory. On the way there, the two of them got to know this excellent training ground with a history of nearly four hundred years for the first time. The dormitory is halfway down the mountainside, and most of the buildings in the Thorn Bird are built into the mountain, leaving only a few corners outside.

The intensity of the heavy snowstorm was close to closing the mountain. During the first half of the journey to the dormitory, the only newcomers who came to Thornbird were around. Heading towards the mountainside, after walking thousands of meters, there are gradually more and more ancient trees blocking the snowstorm. Dome-like shelters began to appear around some buildings, and many closed corridors with entrances and exits came into view. Here, Sisia saw other people at the Thorny Bird Training Ground, and Cassia also gave his evaluation in due course.

"It is rated as an excellent training ground. I think the Thorn Bird students you just met are fully qualified to serve as cannon fodder on the battlefield. There were 372 people encountered in total, and about a dozen of them were one level higher than cannon fodder. , with proper training, they are the basic members of a team. This training ground is indeed much better than the training ground we left."

The dormitory where Xisiya is located is on the sixth floor of a building half of which is sunk into the mountain. Standing at one end of the corridor, you can see the doors made of alloys are lined up one by one for a long distance. A rough calculation shows that there are close to hundreds of individual rooms on this floor.

It is still a house without windows, but the air circulation system keeps the house from feeling dull. The configuration is very simple, with a single bed, a wardrobe filled with various clothes, a desk and chairs, as well as a shower room and toilet.

Several different types of information were placed on the desk in advance. After the alloy door blocked the sound of the wind and snow outside, Cassia said: "After reading all the information tonight, during the adaptation period, the Thorn Birds should not be familiar with it. You conduct training and teaching. We need to collect all kinds of information as soon as possible, find what we need from it, and try to speed up the pace."

"Don't you have to worry about the outing mission after the adaptation period?" Xicia asked, sitting at the desk and flipping through the information. "It's the newcomer assessment. I think its evaluation results will definitely have a decisive impact on most things in the future."

"About this, I will give you the answer in the last few days of the adaptation period. But the main reason is that many of the required resources cannot be provided by the Spiny Bird Training Ground. Before the answer comes out, I need your cooperation to conduct a few small experiments. , if it succeeds, no matter what happens, it will go very smoothly."

"You need to remember that the Thorn Bird is just a jumping platform. You must not have the idea that you can settle down after coming here. The students at the training ground not long ago were not even qualified to be cannon fodder. And here, too It just means that you are in the same training ground with the cannon fodder, that's the only meaning. Other than that, I don't think there is a big difference between this place and the previous training ground."

After Sisia concentrated on the data, Cassia in the spiritual world put down the microphone connected to the analysis machine and went to a huge ravine on the ground. The green fluorescence representing radiation is like magma overflowing from the ground. It seems to be distorting the air in the spiritual world with heat.

Cassia now exposed his right arm, and the skin was chapped, as if every piece of skin was glued to it. His entire right arm was covered with lacerated wounds, but there was not bright red muscle tissue under the wound, but green fluorescence emitted just like the huge ravine in front of him.

Standing in front of the ravine, Cassia thought about it again, and after recalling all the details and processes, she used her right hand to touch the air distorted by green fluorescence in front of her.