Since Angeli asked, Wang Ping'an introduced: "This is my junior at the Space Flight Academy. He is one grade below me. His name is Zhai Dengshan."
Angele frowned slightly: "Mountain climbing?"
Wang Ping'an: "Zhai, curling his tongue. But we do usually call him 'climbing the mountain'."
Angele deliberately curled her tongue, trying to pronounce "Zhai", but accidentally turned into a French tongue flick.
This made everyone laugh.
The Scotsman, who had not yet announced his home, picked up his bagpipe and played a few portamentos, making the scene even funnier.
Wang Ping'an: "Zhai, but it doesn't matter if you really can't pronounce it. Just call him climbing a mountain. That's what we all call him."
The edges of Angele's ears were slightly red, but she controlled herself and moved the topic away: "Look at you, my junior is now a captain."
Wang Ping'an: "I want to explain this. He was also ranked first that year, so he graduated as a lieutenant. In fact, he was only promoted once more than me."
Zhai Dengshan nodded: "Yes, I am actually promoted at the regular speed. Senior Qin Qiong is the real rocket promotion, almost one level every three years, which is really fast. But I heard that senior can no longer fly?"
Wang Ping'an's face darkened: "Yes. In order to save a newbie, I walked around in front of Instructor Ma. At that time, we were cleaning up the debris of the disintegrated spacecraft."
"It was the time you got the Silver Star, right? Although we all came from novices, I still can't help but say, novices are really harmful to people. When will memory transplantation be practical?"
Angele coughed, and after attracting attention, she said, "Don't just talk about old times on your own, we haven't finished the introduction yet."
"Ah? Haven't you finished talking about it?"
"You haven't introduced me yet."
Wang Ping'an said "Oh".
Zhai Shanshan joked: "I understand, the trouble is that we don't want to introduce it, we want to keep it to ourselves."
"This is Angérie from Lyon. As you can see, she is French. And she is natural. She only adjusted her hair. She is short-sighted so she wears glasses."
"Hello." Angele extended her hand generously.
Zhai Dengshan glanced at Wang Ping'an: "I won't get beaten if I shake hands, right?"
Wang Ping'an: "No, just hold it."
Zhai Dengshan shook his hand gently.
Angele: "Shouldn't your name mean mountaineer? Why did you become a space force?"
"I call it mountaineering because my father participated in the climb of Naroda Peak and lost many brothers there. He goes to the airborne landing field to pay homage to his brothers every Qingming Festival." Zhai Dengshan sighed, "The war shaped the character of my father's generation.
A whole generation.”
Wang Ping'an nodded empathetically: "Yes. A whole generation."
Angele hesitated to speak, but finally chose silence. After all, France had slipped through two consecutive wars, sitting back and watching others fight to the death while singing and dancing to achieve peace.
After mentioning his name, Zhai Dengshan turned the topic back to Qin Qiong: "I had just finished my vacation on Mars when I got the news. The timing was not coincidental. If it had happened before my vacation, I could have chosen to take a vacation on Earth.
Then meet Qin Qiong."
Wang Ping'an: "He will be happy if you go."
As soon as he finished speaking, the hatch at the entrance to the atrium opened again, and Diao Youming led two officers in.
Diao Youming has a shining gold star on his chest.
Seeing the Venus, Wang Ping'an subconsciously stood up straighter. This medal has such an effect, because people who can win this medal generally do things that exceed human limits.
Just like the name of the medal: Medal of Hymn to Humanity, it is an honor that can only be obtained by those who compose a new hymn for the human race.
Most people reacted the same way as Wang Pingan.
Diao Youming glanced at the entire atrium and said, "Tell me a little bit."
Because the army has not yet been formed, there is naturally no army commander who can shout commands. Several captains looked at each other, and finally Zhai Shanshan was the first to speak: "Stand at attention!"
The uniform sound of heels echoing in the atrium.
Diao Youming: "Take a break."
There was another uniform sound of kicking out.
Diao Youming: "Welcome to Ceres - I originally wanted to say this, but the asteroid belt is not a good place, not even as good as Titan or the deep space watch stations in the Kuiper Belt.
“What you have to fight in those places is just the harsh natural environment or the loneliness brought by deep space, but in the asteroid belt, what you have to fight is human beings.
"The propaganda of the asteroid belt has always been biased. It seems that we have a crushing equipment advantage over the pirates, but it is only because the asteroid belt is too vast that we cannot destroy the pirates.
"This is wrong. In fact, pirates have always been able to obtain equipment similar to ours. Although the overall situation of the pirate ship is far inferior to ours, the pirates have no disadvantage when it comes to the performance of a single piece of equipment.
"For example, pirates will have plasma weapons similar to ours, and they will also have phased laser arrays similar to ours, but they generally do not maintain them as well as we do.
"However, the plasma emitted by even a poorly maintained plasma weapon can vaporize equipment and people on the spacecraft."
Diao Youming scanned the audience again and said word by word: "You'd better give up the idea that you can rely on equipment advantages to crush the pirates after reaching the asteroid belt. Of course, overall we have equipment advantages, but it is not enough to crush them!
"
Wang Pingan raised his hand.
Diao Youming: "I haven't let you ask questions yet. Humph, Wang Ping'an, I know you, and you took the initiative to ask to go to Ceres. I thought you were such an excellent soldier. But when I looked at my resume, it was just a piece of shit, except for that
There is no bright spot beyond the Silver Star.
"You like to interrupt your superiors' lectures unscrupulously, right? You also tell a few jokes to liven up the atmosphere, right? A person with a performance personality like you will die very quickly on Ceres."
Wang Ping'an: "Then I have to ask more clearly, where do pirates' weapons come from?"
"This is not something we at Ceres Garrison are trying to figure out. Both the Military Police and the Anti-Opportunist Bureau are working hard to track down arms smuggling.
"But space is too empty. Even in the busy circle of fire, there are too many places that cannot be taken into consideration.
"The smuggling ship is painted with a layer of matte black paint, and after the initial acceleration, it keeps drifting silently. How difficult it is to spot it, you should know better than me, a psychologist like me."
Most of the people present were astronauts, and everyone knew how difficult it was to find a silent, black-painted smuggling ship.
On the earth, radar can easily monitor every corner. But in space, even with extremely large transmission power and an extremely large transmitting antenna array, the active radar system can only monitor thousands of kilometers.
Thousands of thousands of kilometers in the universe are basically just a fraction, and the range of any interplanetary cargo spacecraft far exceeds this number.
In space, passive detection methods are mainly used to detect long-distance targets. Weak signals are received through huge antenna arrays, and then separated from cosmic background radiation by computers. This is now the mainstream surveillance method.
For those spacecraft that deliberately cover up their own radiation, this method is basically like finding a needle in a haystack.
Diao Youming looked around the atrium and looked at the faces of the silent astronauts one by one: "Okay, very good. It seems that your professional skills are very good.
"You know that it is difficult to catch such smuggling ships, so you also know that we can only rely on the military police and anti-speculators to track them down through other, simpler ways and catch the criminals who sell weapons from the source.
"You should also know that this is not our mission. Our mission is to eliminate pirates who already possess equivalent weapons, protect the main mining areas in the asteroid belt, and the ships bound for Jupiter and Saturn that will definitely pass through the asteroid belt.
Cargo ship.
"Don't ask why the pirates have good weapons, and don't ask why the pirates will never be finished fighting. There will always be manpower. If during the battle, you can find materials that can point to the black hands behind the pirates, then on behalf of the entire Space Force, thank you.
"At present, it seems that this is a war that will never end. You will stay in the asteroid belt for three years, but a considerable number of you will not survive until the end of your service.
"Wang Pingan, what else do you want to ask?"
Wang Ping'an: "I have a little more than two years left to perform front-line duties. Do I have to work for three years?"
Diao Youming looked like he wanted to eat Wang Ping'an alive, but he controlled himself: "Yes, you have to stay for three years too. Originally, the provision of ten years of front-line service is an implicit provision. You can find it in any code of conduct.
Less than.
"This is a reflection of the humanity of the Space Force. But obviously for some people, the Space Force is too humane for them. Do you know who I am referring to, Wang Pingan?"
Wang Ping'an answered resolutely: "No! I know! I know!"
"It's you!" Diao Youming said angrily, but his tone quickly softened, "But I hope that I will change this idea in the future. You gave me a good impression at the beginning. Although you were very frivolous, I felt that you were a good prospect. So although you
My resume is a piece of shit, I still choose to believe in my own eyesight. I hope you won’t make me regret it.”
Diao Youming looked around the entire atrium again and continued: "As for the others, most of them are excellent space force soldiers. However, in war, excellence is not enough. So I deliberately selected some people with strong subjective initiative.
"Most of them are thorns in the army and have their own unique characteristics. For example, Abdul is a mystic who tells fortunes all day long and uses magical tarot cards. He doesn't even know who you are.
How did you get into the materialistic Space Force?
"Another example is the Englishman Prabas, who played with his bagpipes all day long and also tried to hide a Scottish two-handed broadsword.
"There are many more. You are just a bunch of lunatics, but in your resumes, you all have records of solving problems because of your wit and uniqueness.
"Now, I just want to try to see if your uniqueness and subjective kinetic energy can still work when we get to Ceres. Of course, it doesn't matter even if it doesn't work, because I have recruited so many qualified and outstanding people.
Space Force Warrior."
Diao Youming turned to the group of Space Force soldiers headed by Zhai Shanshan.
"You all have very beautiful resumes, and each of them is excellent. Even if the freaks can't complete the mission, you will complete it, but the casualties may be a bit high.
"Of course, you should work hard to prove that you are stronger than the freaks and prove that you are the mainstay of the Space Force."
Zhai Shanshan shouted on behalf of everyone: "Make sure to complete the task!"
"I can not hear!"
The next moment, all the Space Force soldiers shouted together: "Make sure to complete the mission!"
The people who were named "freaks" looked at each other.
Angele muttered in a low voice: "Establishing competition is a common method."
Diao Youming nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, that's the spirit. These two officers will assign rooms to you, and we have a week to test your professional skills. Those who fail will be kicked out and returned to their original units.
.
"Those who pass the test will board the Torch Cruiser 'Short Life Brilliant Burning' with me, together with the fast transport ship transporting supplies, to Ceres."