Chapter 1115: The Shock of the Recruits, the First Test Mission!

‘Hello, volunteers from Pingtan Shelter.

‘When you stand here and see these prompts, it means that you have left the dangerous wilderness and truly come to the control of Tianyuan Territory. ’

‘If nothing unexpected happens, you will spend the second half of your life here. ’

‘However, Tianyuan Territory never supports idle people, nor will it accept a group of elderly people to come for retirement. ’

‘So show your performance, the next week is the time for you to show your self-worth. ’

‘The more outstanding your performance, the higher your treatment will be in the future. But if you fail to perform, I’m sorry. If someone wants to go back to Pingtan Shelter, you can boldly try this method. ’

‘From now on, you have half a day to prepare for rest. ’

‘We have prepared a rich welcome meal for each recruit. Please follow the instructions to go to the recruit canteen for dinner. ’

‘After dinner, you can go to the recruits’ supplies to store your luggage. We will have someone responsible for delivering your luggage to your accommodation. ’

‘Of course, don’t forget to report and don’t lose your identity card, where you will receive a test mission. ’

“Then, let’s get started.”

Taking into full consideration the possibility that these two thousand veterans are illiterate, the central government’s instructions were written very straightforwardly.

However, there are still a group of illiterate people who can only rely on others’ interpretation to understand.

When they heard that the treatment was linked to the subsequent performance, there was a commotion in the crowd in front of the notice board.

Some people had obvious surprise in their eyes.

If they participated in an external battle, it would be understandable to issue rewards based on performance after the end.

In the past, when Hunting Tiger led them to fight, as long as they won, everyone could get a good reward.

But after returning to the shelter, whether it was a squad leader, an ordinary soldier, or a commander.

Everyone was treated exactly the same, and no one would receive more supplies than others because of their high status.

"I heard that the economy of Tianyuan Territory is booming, and everyone who works gets paid, and can buy supplies or food at will. Is this what our treatment means?"

"It's possible. If you perform well, you may get more salary. This is a good opportunity!"

"Goodbye, we are all old. Can we really perform better than those young people?"

"Then you plan to not work hard and go back to Pingtan? And be sent back?"

"Hehe, even if you want to go back, Jinguqiao may not be willing. You really think that Pingtan can leave and come back whenever you want."

"Yeah, I think we should prepare quickly. Even if the salary doesn't increase, just don't be sent back."

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The crowd was discussing.

Don't listen to what Wang Qian said before he left. Pingtan Shelter is everyone's eternal home. You can go back when you miss home.

In fact, everyone of them knew that Liehu asked them to pack their bags and leave, which was a "goodbye forever".

Go back?

The rooms in the underground shelter have long been allocated to no one, so where is their living space?

Let's find a way to survive the next test.

Yu Ran touched his increasingly uncomfortable stomach, and silently pushed the luggage towards the supplies for the new recruits.

Having arrived at the other party's territory, he was not worried that these broken luggage would be taken away by others.

Let's store it first, otherwise it would be too troublesome.

Following the direction of the sign, he walked inside and soon came to a three-story building that had been built not long ago.

There was a table facing the road at the gate, and several staff members were busy.

They didn't expect that this group of veterans would bring so many sundries, and some even brought a broken bowl, saying that it was for eating.

Oh my God, aren't these people the mole guys in the shelter? How come they live even poorer than the vagrants.

Seeing Yu Ran approaching with a wheelbarrow, someone came up to greet him.

"Store the luggage?"

"Yes."

"ID card?"

"Here, here." He quickly took out a small card from his pocket and handed it over.

Yu Ran wiped the sweat from his palms on his clothes, somewhat at a loss.

As the staff member took it and swiped it, the machine automatically popped out a small white card.

After sticking it on the wheelbarrow, the other party raised his head and smiled:

"Okay, Yu Ran, you can go now."

"We will deliver your luggage to your dormitory at that time."

"Ah? OK"

Watching the wheelbarrow being pushed away by the staff, Yu Ran was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses.

He pursed his lips and began to retreat along the way he came without saying a word.

This Tianyuan territory is too strange, all the procedures are styles they have never seen before.

Even this luggage storage does not look simple.

But someone can help them deliver their luggage, which is really a big help.

Putting the ID card back in his pocket, Yu Ran touched his stomach and began to look for the sign of the cafeteria.

I always hear people in the shelter who have been to Tianyuan bragging about how delicious the food here is.

He had originally thought that he would wait until things were stable, then find an opportunity to go there and have a satisfying meal.

But now the new recruits actually had a free meal, which was really good news that made people excited.

Soon, Yu Ran saw the huge signboard erected on the ground.

The huge words "Recruit Canteen" were like a beacon in the dark night, especially for those who had not eaten since yesterday afternoon.

Yu Ran immediately quickened his pace. After about five minutes, he saw a huge fence at the end of his sight.

Inside the fence, there were large and small stalls on the hardened cement floor.

"This is"

It was different from the small window in the shelter, where all the same nutritious meals were delivered from inside.

Yu Ran widened his eyes and found it hard to believe what he saw.

But what surprised him even more, and even made him exclaim, was the smell in the air.

Those were all kinds of flavors that he had never tasted since he was born.

Now mixed together, it actually made people have an unbearable appetite.

"Swipe the card, enter, as long as you don't come out, you can eat whatever you want, and it doesn't cost money."

The guard standing guard at the door kept explaining.

Yu Ran was a little flustered when he approached, but he relaxed a lot after hearing the three words "eat whatever you want".

He took out his ID card and put it on the gate at the door.

A beeping sound was heard.

The small door blocking the entrance automatically shrank, revealing a passage for one person to pass through.

And when he entered, the small door automatically opened again, blocking the person behind him again.

"Amazing, really amazing!"

Having never experienced such a thing before, Yu Ran himself forgot how many times he was amazed in just half a day.

And for a group of old soldiers.

Even they themselves did not realize that their mentality had instantly become much younger after coming here.

As if putting down a heavy burden, a group of middle-aged people once again showed the curiosity they had when they were young, and kept walking around in front of the stall.

It was said that everything was free, but the habit they had developed over a long period of time also made them dare not waste.

If you choose something that doesn't taste good, it will be bad, even if you pinch your nose and swallow it.

Yu Ran struggled for a long time, and finally stopped at the ramen stall with the most people at the moment.

There are about two hundred people in the fenced canteen now, and more than eighty of them are gathered in front of the ramen stall.

It's not because the ramen smells tempting, but because the ramen chef's craftsmanship is like art.

The round white lumps, it's not clear what he did.

After a few hammerings, and then swinging his sleeves and pressing hard a few times, the lumps turned into thick white strips.

He pinched the ends of the thick strips and swung them back and forth in the air a few times.

Dong.

Dong.

Every time the strips touched the chopping board, it was like thunder exploding in the sky.

Some white powder fell from the air, just like the drizzling rain on a rainy night.

Gradually, the thick strips began to become thinner, and there were more branches.

Suddenly, the ramen chef swung his hand, and all the white thin strips fell into the pot and began to float back and forth in the boiling water.

"Sir, a bowl of vegetarian ramen."

Someone couldn't help swallowing his saliva, setting an example for the others who were still watching.

"Okay, just call me Lao Ma, or call me Ramen Juice."

Ma Haoge bared his white teeth.

After the pot boiled three times, he took out a brand new porcelain bowl.

First, he took out three chopsticks of noodles and put them into the bowl, and then opened the soup pot next to it and scooped out a ladle of thick soup.

After pouring it like this, sprinkled some chopped green onions and coriander, and a bowl of vegetarian ramen was ready.

The nervous old soldier took it, not caring about the burn.

He squatted on the ground and blew on the edge of the bowl, and took a mouthful of the thick soup first.

Hiss.

It's so hot!

This was the old soldier's first feeling, but then, the taste of every second from the taste buds on the tip of his tongue instantly made him forget the burn.

Another mouthful.

"My God, this taste is amazing!"

Unlike the tasteless nutritious meal, the taste of this soup is light, but it has an indescribable mellow feeling.

Pick out a mouthful of noodles and bite it gently.

Some of them were springy, and they were very chewy noodles.

For the veterans who were used to eating liquid nutritious meals, it was like opening the door to a new world.

Seeing him eat so gulply.

Suddenly, the other people who were still watching couldn't help it and asked for it.

Yu Ran also mixed in and asked for a bowl of "vegetarian ramen".

In fact, there was also meat ramen on the sign, which was also free.

But because he had seen some indescribable scenes when clearing out an unknown homeless camp a few years ago, he had a natural aversion to any meat products whose sources were unclear.

There were also many people in the field who were similar to Yu Ran, and they all asked for a bowl of vegetarian ramen that looked like it would not go wrong.

Although Ramen Juice was curious, it didn't ask much.

After all, no matter what kind of ramen it was, the experience given in the end was exactly the same.

As long as these people were satisfied, it didn't matter even if they only drank the noodle soup.

Soon, bowls of ramen came out of the pot and were distributed to the people waiting in line in order.

Hungry Yu Ran just took it and drank the soup first, just like the veteran who ate crabs first.

Hmm, it's really good!

The unprecedented warmth rushed back and forth in the mouth, making people feel full of happiness.

With a few chopped green onions that leaked in, it was like a green meadow after the rain.

Rich, yet light.

"This is so delicious. I have never eaten such a strange-looking food, but the taste is so intoxicating!"

"Is this noodles? I've only seen descriptions of them in old books, but I never thought I'd be able to eat them one day!"

"I heard that the raw materials for these noodles are grown in the ground."

"It's incredible. This kind of food is a hundred times, no, a thousand times, tastier than nutritious meals!"

"I've even begun to believe that we're here to welcome a new life!"

Ma Haoge's stall was quickly filled, and many people simply squatted on the ground or sat in the corner slurping noodles.

Exaggerated and surprised conversations came one after another, and the envied stall owner's eyes widened.

No need to think, just listening to this exaggerated evaluation, you know how much experience points the game will reward.

But soon, they smiled more.

As more and more veterans came after depositing their supplies, the market was already crowded with thousands of people.

Basically, every stall had people, and the sounds of satisfaction from tasting different foods were heard from time to time.

Mixed in the crowd, Yu Ran ate three bowls of vegetarian ramen in a row, and found a tofu pudding shop and drank five bowls of tofu pudding.

Only when his swollen stomach kept protesting did he walk out of the canteen marked by the fence with a chuckle.

In fact, there are many kinds of food in the field, roughly counting forty or fifty kinds.

But he is not a greedy person, and still remembers the tips he saw on the notice board before.

Only if you perform well can you get better treatment and have the opportunity to stay.

Perhaps someone was recording their performance just when they were eating.

Once you waste food, you will probably be deducted a lot of points.

"There is still a long time to go. As long as you can stay, there will be plenty of opportunities to eat these foods in the future!"

He kept reminding himself in his heart until he arrived at the registration office according to the instructions.

Yu Ran put away all his thoughts and looked at the big screen flashing in front of the building.

There were a few lines of words written on it in Blue Star language, announcing the first test task of the recruits.

Go to the military camp.

It sounds simple, but when he saw the description below, he couldn't help but frown.

The location of the military camp is 115 kilometers southwest of the warning wall.

If we go directly, it is not a difficult task without luggage and without paying attention to safety.

Even if we set off at 4 pm, we can arrive tomorrow morning at the latest.

But the test mission is obviously not that simple, especially for veterans like them who have combat experience.

According to the mission description, everyone will receive a random location after reporting.

You must go there first to get the token for reporting, and then go to the military camp.

The faster this process is completed, the higher the score.

If it is not completed by 4 pm tomorrow, it will be eliminated by default.

"There is no supply, not even a bottle of water, and the mission time is exactly one day"

"If you want to get a high score, I'm afraid you have to speed up the search for the token."

"But there will be random obstacles in this search process. If you are unlucky"

Yu Ran silently read all the prompts and simply analyzed the difficulties and key points in his mind.

In addition to the special forces, the most elite of the Pingtan Army are the scouts like them.

It is understandable that those assaulters and firepower hands are worried.

As a former scout team leader, finding things is not a difficult task for Ran.

If there is no time limit, he can easily complete it.

However, in order to get a ranking in the process, you must have an outstanding performance.

It has been a long time since I competed like this. Inexplicable tension arises spontaneously, filling every corner of the registration office.

Looking at the other people around who are thoughtful.

Yu Ran tightened his collar, and the competitive spirit that had disappeared for who knows how many years also surged up.

"Sir, report!"