Chapter 13 Ritual Sense
Two months have passed in a flash.
In the elevator leading to the 647th floor, Long Yuehong, wearing a polyester shirt, looked at herself reflected on the metal wall of the elevator and made a gesture of squeezing her pectoral muscles:
"This kind of high-intensity training really works, I think I can beat my self when I first graduated five, no, three."
And his figure has become quite good, and his temperament has become much more masculine.
Shang Jianyao looked at the seam of the elevator door and said:
"Hey, I am only 1.75 meters tall after genetic improvement, I look average, and my grades are average......"
"......" Long Yuehong didn't know what kind of expression to use to deal with it for a while.
He took a deep breath and spat out heavily:
"Really, I have been eating meat every day for the past two months, why haven't I grown a centimeter taller?"
While talking, the two walked out of the elevator and skillfully turned into room 14.
They didn't know what to train this morning, and they couldn't decide whether to change into the uniform of the Ministry of Safety or wear clothes that were more convenient for fighting, so they could only report to Jiang Baimian first, and then go to the bathhouse locker room.
At this time, Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen had already arrived, gathering around the brownish-red desk belonging to the former, watching something seriously.
"Good morning, team leader!" Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong were used to shouting.
Jiang Baimian raised his head and waved:
"Come here, I have something to tell you."
Long Yuehong glanced at Shang Jianyao and found that he didn't seem to know what was going on.
The two walked over and saw a very low-precision map spread out on Jiang Baimian's brown-red painted desk.
Jiang Baimian clenched his fist and tapped the map lightly, and said with a smile:
"Today's training program is:
"Field training!"
"Huh?" Long Yuehong exclaimed.
He knew that field training would come sooner or later, but he didn't expect that there would be no signs at all, and he didn't give himself time to prepare!
Shang Jianyao didn't speak, but the smile on his face couldn't be hidden.
Jiang Baimian looked around and said:
"I originally planned to start again in two days, but it just so happened that I was given a small task to go to a certain wilderness wanderer settlement to deliver water purification device filtration chips, so let's just set off today.
"Bai Chen, tell them about the final destination and general route."
Bai Chen, who was still wearing a gray scarf, supported the edge of the table with one hand, tapped somewhere on the map with the other and said:
"This is Qifeng Town, about 300 kilometers away from the company, if there is a repaired road, there is no danger in the middle, we will take turns driving, and we can get there within a day. Unfortunately, there is no intact road on the Kuronuma Wilderness. Perhaps, there is a small section of the road originating from the old world that is well preserved, but there are many weeds growing and the road surface is cracked to a certain extent, but that is just an example."
Both Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong knew that the "Black Marsh Wilderness" referred to the dangerous area outside the company.
It occupies a wide area, the northernmost part is connected to the ice field, the northeast is bordered by the "Salvation Army", and the east is the "White Knights" sphere of influence.
As for the south, there is another wilderness and several mountains.
Bai Chen continued to explain:
"You should see that we are separated from Qifeng Town by the 'Everglades', and many places are marked with high-risk symbols. In my experience, these places either have no roads at all, are pure swamps, or are inhabited by aberrations, terrible monsters or hordes of monsters, or there are ruins of the old world, the kind that you can't come back to.
"If we delineate the heavily polluted areas, we don't have many routes to choose from, and we have to eliminate the two posts commonly used by the company, otherwise we will not be able to achieve the purpose of field training.
"Based on the above conditions and the geography of the Everglades, I planned two routes: they both need to be interspersed in the Everglades, and it takes about the same time, and it takes a week or even two to reach Qifeng Town, depending on the weather conditions.
"Which route do you prefer? Or, want to surround the Everglades from the outside? It will take longer, and the danger level may not be much lower.
"Well, I don't know much about the Everglades, I haven't been to many places, you can give me other opinions."
Without waiting for Jiang Baimian to speak, Shang Jianyao took a step forward, pointed to one of the routes and said:
"This is good."
"Why?" Bai Chen asked subconsciously.
Then, she deeply regretted it and felt that she should not have asked.
"Smooth lines and beautiful shapes." Shang Jianyao looked sincere.
Bai Chen looked sideways at the team leader, hoping that she could "administer justice".
Jiang Baimian rubbed his chin and said:
"I agree with Shang Jianyao's choice, since there is no essential difference between the two routes, then I will definitely choose the one that looks better.
"I decided to do it happily!"
After saying that, she looked at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong, pointed to her electronic watch and said:
"You have 15 minutes to prepare."
"It's only 15 minutes?" Long Yuehong's face was almost wrinkled.
"14 minutes 55 seconds." Jiang Baimian looked at the electronic watch and responded without raising his head.
Long Yuehong immediately turned around and followed Shang Jianyao's back:
"Hey, wait for me!"
The two quickly entered the dressing room of a nearby bathhouse and opened their own cabinets.
Because they train profusely every day, they put a lot of clothes here for easy changing.
——Inside the company, due to the lack of sunlight and the cold at night, employees cannot dry their clothes, so they are sent by the "Training and Security Department" to collect, clean, dry, and return (small items can be hung on top of your own washbasin, or put a basin below to catch the fallen water droplets).
Shang Jianyao took out a camouflage backpack standard with the security department, unzipped it, and stuffed one of the uniforms into it.
Then, he put the two-in-one Huang Chengcheng soap for washing his hair and body into a plastic pouch and threw it into his backpack.
After putting away toothpaste, toothbrushes, small personal items and other loose items, Shang Jianyao quickly took off his clothes and threw them into the cabinet.
Wearing only a pair of pants, he immediately took out the remaining gray uniform and quickly put it on his body.
After bending down and fastening the straps of his leather boots, Shang Jianyao straightened up, walked to the half-length mirror, and tidied up his shirt.
In the mirror, he has straight eyebrows, bright brown eyes, clean black hair, and a deep and rigid face line.
Coupled with the uniform of the Ministry of Security with a very well-designed and military temperament, Shang Jianyao's whole person looks both sunny and powerful.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Shang Jianyao slowly took out a nameplate from his pocket and put it on his left chest.
The nameplate has a red background, and four golden gray clay characters stand out on the surface:
"Pangu Creatures".
…………
After leaving the dressing room, Shang Jianyao waited for two minutes, waited until Long Yuehong was ready, and returned to room 14 together.
Long Yuehong glanced at Shang Jianyao, then at another look, and finally couldn't help but speak:
"Don't you think I'm different?"
Shang Jianyao glanced at him and said nothing.
Long Yuehong raised her arm and said:
"I'm not nervous! Didn't you notice that I wasn't nervous either?
"If it were before, I would definitely be scared and pessimistic, but now, it's just a field training, I think I can handle it.
"These two months of training are really useful."
Shang saw Yao slowing down and looked up and down at Long Yuehong.
Suddenly, he smiled:
"Your legs are shaking."
"......" Long Yuehong's expression suddenly collapsed.
Shang Jianyao ignored him and walked to room 14.
Long Yuehong came back to her senses, looked down at her legs, and shouted:
"Don't shake! No shaking!"
After such an interruption, he felt that he was really not nervous at all.
The two quickly returned to room 14, Jiang Baimian's eyes swept over and landed on Shang Jianyao's left chest.
She raised her eyebrows slightly and said:
"There is no need to wear a nameplate, and it is not a company-level action.
"Moreover, when the number of people is small, the nameplate only brings danger. Those robbers and wanderers on the gray earth don't care if they are big forces at all. Sometimes, if they can't grab something, they may not even survive today, and it is meaningless to consider whether attacking members of a major force will have serious consequences."
Shang Jianyao nodded lightly and said loudly:
"Sense of ceremony!"
「…… Take it off when you leave the company, let's set off now." Jiang Baimian rubbed the corner of his forehead and said.
Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen, and Long Yuehong carried the same camouflage bag on their backs, followed her, and walked to the elevator area.
Entering the elevator, Jiang Baimian took out his electronic card and swiped it, and pressed the number "650".
In just a few seconds, the elevator ended its upward journey and opened the sedan door and hall door.
The 650th floor is the closest floor to the ground in the underground building of "Pangu Biology", where there are almost no free figures, only walls made of silver and white metal, aisles separated by heavy doors, and security guard employees with weapons.
Jiang Baimian swiped his electronic card again and again, and opened one heavy metal door after another.
She led Shang Jianyao and others through the long aisle to the other side of the 650th floor.
During this process, several doors will scan the cardholder's iris and body to confirm whether they are impersonators, and at the end, there is even a link to enter a password.
At the end of the aisle is a row of elevators, Jiang Baimian chose one at random, swiped his card and pressed the metal key corresponding to the "surface area".
The elevator slowly went up, and what appeared in front of Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and others was a wide square with a metal dome and steel brackets above.
"Parking lot." Jiang Baimian introduced with a smile.
There were not only various cars parked here, but also tanks and missile vehicles, which were arranged neatly and orderly, one by one, line by line, with no end in sight, which deeply shocked Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and others.
Jiang Baimian quickly found the car assigned to him:
It was a gray-green four-seater jeep with a high chassis and large wheels, very imposing.
Jiang Baimian immediately opened the trunk, pointed to the left and said:
"This is the weapon trained in the field this time, the company's standard 9mm bullet pistol, the name is 'Ice Moss', it imitates the 'Red River' gun of 'First City', this kind of bullet is the most common and easiest to supply."
The "Ice Moss" pistol is silver-white in color and has a non-slip pattern on the grip.
Jiang Baimian continued:
"One for each person, and for 'United 202', it is also one for each person.
"These two are assault rifles, you know, the company-style 'Berserker', which uses 5.56mm bullets......
"This is an 'orange' rifle, which can be used as a sniper rifle with a scope......
"This is a grenade gun, nicknamed 'Tyrant'......
"These are all the weapons, the bullets are also here, you put the pistol on your body first, and bring a few magazines each."
Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong were already accustomed to seeing various weapons during this time, and they were no longer familiar with them, so they calmly picked up the "Ice Moss" and "United 202" and hung them on the armament belt around their waists.
Jiang Baimian pointed to the cardboard box on the right:
"Military cans, energy bars, compressed cookies, that's our supply.
"Hehe, they definitely won't be able to support us to reach Qifeng Town, and the rest needs to be obtained in the wild by ourselves, which is part of the training."
"Yes, team leader!" Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao and others were not surprised at all.
"Okay, get in the car." Jiang Baimian waved his hand quite proudly.
Because Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong couldn't drive yet, the two ladies sat in the front row and prepared to take turns driving.
They planned to go to a more open area and let the two men study.
In the simulated sound, Jiang Baimian started the four-door jeep and let it pass one inspection post after another and the dividing gate in the parking lot.
After a while, Jiang Baimian pointed forward with his chin:
"The last door."
It was a silver-white gate that opened opposite, guarded by nearly twenty security department employees along the way.
After the last review, Jiang Baimian drove the jeep and rushed to the metal gate.
At this time, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong became uncontrollably nervous and held their breath.
This is the first time they have traveled to the surface since their birth.
As the jeep approached, the silver-white door opened backwards little by little.
The golden light suddenly shone in, neither as white as a fluorescent lamp nor as yellow as the candle fire.
Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong shrank their bodies at the same time, raised their right hands, and blocked them in front of them.
The light was a bit dazzling.
(End of this chapter)