Chapter 13 Sense of Ritual

Two months passed in a flash.

In the elevator leading to the 647th floor, Long Yuehong, who was wearing a polyester shirt, looked at herself reflected on the metal wall of the elevator, and made a gesture of squeezing her chest muscles:

"This kind of high-intensity training really works. I think I can beat my fresh-graduate self by five, no, three."

And the figure has become quite good, and the temperament has become much more masculine.

Shang Jianyao looked at the crack in the elevator door and said:

"Hey, I'm only 1.75 meters tall after undergoing genetic modification, and my looks are average, and my grades are average..."

"..." Long Yuehong didn't know what expression to use to respond.

He took a deep breath and exhaled 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 stepped out of the elevator and skillfully turned into room 14.

They still don't know what to train this morning, and they can't decide whether to change into the uniform of the security department or wear clothes that are more suitable for fighting, so they can only report to Jiang Baimian first, and then go to the bathhouse locker room.

At this time, both Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen had arrived, gathered around the brown-red desk belonging to the former, watching something seriously.

"Good morning, team leader!" Both 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 Jiang Baimian's brown-red painted desk with a very low-accuracy map spread out.

Jiang Baimian clenched his fist and lightly thumped the map, then said with a smile:

"Today's training program is:

"Training in the wild!"

"Ah?" Long Yuehong exclaimed.

He knew that the field training would come sooner or later, but he never thought that there would be no signs at all, and he would not give himself time to prepare!

Shang Jianyao didn't speak, but he couldn't hide the smile on his face.

Jiang Baimian looked around and said:

"I originally planned to start again in two days, but it just so happened that the higher-ups gave me a small task, and I needed to go to a homeless settlement in the wilderness to deliver water purification device filter chips, so let's start today.

"Bai Chen, tell them about the final destination and the approximate route."

Bai Chen, who was still wearing a dusty scarf, supported the edge of the table with one hand, tapped a certain place 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 will be no danger in the middle. We will take turns driving and we can get there within a day. Unfortunately, there is no perfect road in the Black Marsh Wilderness .Maybe, there is a small section of road from the old world in the middle that is not badly preserved, but there are a lot of weeds and the road surface has some cracks, but that is just an example."

Both Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong knew that "Black Marsh Wilderness" referred to the dangerous area outside the company.

It covers a very large area, the northernmost part is connected to the ice field, the northeast is bordered by the "Salvation Army", and the east is the sphere of influence of the "White Knights". If you go southeast for a long time, you will enter the "First City".

To the south, another wilderness and a few mountains.

Bai Chen continued to explain:

"You should have seen that there is a 'big swamp' between us and Qifeng Town, and many places are marked with high-risk symbols. According to my experience, these places either have no roads at all, are pure swamps, or have distortions and terrible Monsters or groups of monsters are entrenched, or there are ruins of the old world, the kind that can't come back once they go.

"Crossing out the heavily polluted areas, we can choose not many routes, and we have to exclude the two commonly used by the company, with outposts, otherwise the purpose of field training will not be achieved.

"Based on the above conditions and the geographical situation of the Great Swamp, I have planned two routes: they both need to be interspersed back and forth in the Great Swamp, and the time spent is similar. It will take a week or even two weeks to reach Qifeng Town, depending on the details. weather conditions.

"Which route do you prefer? Or, want to go around the big swamp from the outside? It will take longer, and the degree of danger is not necessarily much lower.

"Well, I don't know too much about the Great Swamp. I haven't been to many places. You can provide other opinions."

Before Jiang Baimian could speak, Shang Jianyao took a step forward, pointed to one of the routes and said:

"This one is good."

"Why?" Bai Chen subconsciously asked.

Then, she regretted deeply and felt that she should not have asked.

"The lines are smooth and the shape is beautiful." Shang Jian Yao looked sincere.

Bai Chen looked sideways at the team leader, hoping she would "uphold 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, I must choose the better-looking one.

"It's such a happy decision!"

After finishing speaking, she looked at Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong, pointed to her electronic watch and said:

"You have 15 minutes to prepare."

"Only 15 minutes?" Long Yuehong's face almost wrinkled.

"14 minutes and 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 the nearby bathhouse and opened their own lockers.

Because they sweat profusely from training every day, they put a lot of clothes here for easy replacement.

——In the company, because there is no sunshine and it is very cold at night, employees can’t dry their clothes. The “Training and Security Department” sends people to take them away, clean them, dry them, and send them back (small personal items) You can hang it on the top of your own sink, or put a basin below to catch the falling water droplets).

Shang Jianyao took out a standard camouflage backpack provided by the Ministry of Security, unzipped the zipper, and stuffed one of the uniforms into it.

Then, he put the distributed yellow soap for washing hair and body into a small plastic bag and threw it into his backpack.

After putting away toothpaste, toothbrush, personal accessories and other scattered items, Shang Jianyao quickly took off his clothes and threw them into the cabinet.

Wearing only a pair of underpants, he immediately took out the remaining gray uniform and quickly put it on.

After bending over to fasten the straps of the leather boots, Shang Jianyao straightened his body, walked to the half-length mirror, and straightened his coat.

In the mirror, he has straight eyebrows, bright brown eyes, neat black hair, and a deep and rigid face.

Coupled with the uniform of the Ministry of Security with a sense of design and military temperament, Shang Jianyao looks 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 is based on red, with four golden gray characters on the surface:

"Pangeon".

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After leaving the dressing room, Shang Jianyao waited for two minutes until Long Yuehong was done, and then returned to room 14 together.

Long Yuehong glanced at Shang Jianyao, then again, and finally couldn't help but said:

"Don't you think I'm different?"

Shang Jian Yao gave him a sideways glance, but didn't speak.

Long Yuehong raised her arm and said:

"I'm not nervous! Don't you see that I'm not nervous?

"If it was before, I must have been scared and pessimistic, but now, it's just a field training, and I think I can handle it.

"These two months of training have really helped."

Shang Jian Yao slowed down and looked Long Yuehong up and down.

Suddenly, he smiled:

"Your legs are shaking."

"..." Long Yuehong's expression suddenly collapsed.

Shang Jianyao ignored him and walked towards Room 14.

Long Yuehong came back to her senses, looked down at her legs, and shouted:

"No shaking! No shaking!"

With such an interruption, he felt that he was really not nervous at all.

The two quickly returned to Room 14. Jiang Baimian glanced 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 an action at the company level.

"Moreover, when the number of people is small, the nameplate will only bring danger. The robbers and vagrants on the dust don't care if they are big forces. Sometimes, if they can't grab something, they may not even survive today. , It is meaningless to consider whether attacking members of major forces will have serious consequences."

Shang Jian Yao nodded slightly, and said loudly:

"Sense of ceremony!"

"...Take it off when you leave the company, let's go now." Jiang Baimian rubbed his forehead and said.

Shang Jianyao, Bai Chen, and Long Yuehong, carrying the same style of camouflage bags, followed her to the elevator area.

After entering the elevator, Jiang Baimian took out his electronic card and swiped it, pressing the number "650" to light up.

In just a few seconds, the elevator ended its upward movement and opened the car door and hall door.

The 650th floor is the closest floor to the ground of the "Pangaea" underground building. There are almost no free-moving figures here, only walls made of silver-white metal, aisles separated by heavy doors, and security departments with weapons standing guard. Employees exist.

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 corridor to the other side of the 650th floor.

During this process, several doors will scan the iris and body of the cardholder to confirm whether it is a counterfeit. At the last door, there is even a link to enter the 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 button corresponding to the "surface area".

The elevator went up slowly, and what Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong and others saw was a wide square with a metal dome and steel brackets above it.

"Parking lot." Jiang Baimian introduced with a smile.

There are not only all kinds of cars parked here, but also tanks and missile vehicles. They are arranged neatly and orderly, one by one, row by row, 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 big wheels, very imposing.

Jiang Baimian then opened the trunk, pointed to the left and said:

"This is the weapon for this field training. The company's standard 9mm bullet pistol, named 'Ice Moss', is an imitation of the 'Red River' gun from 'Original City'. This type of bullet is the most common and easy to supply. "

The "Ice Moss" pistol is silver-white in color, with non-slip patterns on the handle.

Jiang Baimian continued:

"One for each person, and, 'United 202', also one for each person.

"These two are assault rifles, you know, the company's 'Berserker', they use 5.56mm bullets...

"This is the 'Orange' rifle, which can be used as a sniper rifle with a scope...

"This is a grenade gun, nicknamed 'Tyrant'...

"Here are all the weapons, and the bullets are also here. Put your pistols on your body first, and bring a few magazines with you."

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong had been used to various weapons during this time, and they were extremely familiar with them. They calmly picked up "Ice Moss" and "United 202", and hung them on their belts around their waists.

Jiang Baimian pointed to the cardboard box on the right again:

"Military cans, energy bars, compressed biscuits, that's what we supply.

"Hehe, they will definitely not be able to support us to reach Qifeng Town. The rest needs to be obtained in the wild by ourselves. This is part of the training."

"Yes, team leader!" Bai Chen, Shang Jianyao and the others were not surprised at all.

"Okay, get in the car." Jiang Baimian waved his hands quite proudly.

Because Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong didn't know how to drive yet, the two ladies sat in the front row and prepared to take turns driving.

They planned to let the two men learn in a more open area.

In the simulated sound waves, Jiang Baimian started the four-door jeep, allowing it to pass through checkpoints and separation gates one after another in the parking lot.

After a while, Jiang Baimian pointed forward with his chin:

"The last door."

It was a silver-white door that opened in opposite directions, and there were nearly twenty employees of the security department guarding it along the way.

After accepting the last review, Jiang Baimian drove the jeep towards the metal gate.

At this time, Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong became nervous uncontrollably and held their breath.

This is the first time they have traveled to the surface since their birth.

As the jeep approached, the opposite silver-white door opened back a little bit.

A golden light shone in, neither as white as fluorescent lamps nor as yellow as candle flames.

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong shrank their bodies at the same time, raised their right hands, and blocked them.

The light was a little dazzling.