Many of them looked like Tu Ran and the other two, exhausted.

Opposite them are the new generation of pioneers wearing brand new and neat combat uniforms and with their hair combed meticulously.

They are all around eighteen or nineteen years old.

In her world, it was just the time to graduate from high school and take the college entrance examination.

Each of them has hope and vision for the future, as well as the ambition to become famous throughout the federation.

The banquet hall was converted from a training ground.

The lights shine brightly as if it were day.

Tu Ran and the other two found the seats specially arranged for previous pioneers and sat down.

This area had seats for about 500 people, but only a small half of them were seated. Half remained within the threshold, and some were assigned to other states and could not return. Those who were present now were all from neighboring states.

The crowd was scattered.

Compared with the bustling and packed scene in the area where today's protagonists are, it seems very lonely and desolate.

Sitting on the high platform and luxurious chairs in the training ground are leaders.

There were men and women, each of them was dressed brightly and had a radiant face.

Looking at the pioneers in the audience, there was a smile of joy on his face that came from the bottom of his heart.

How can I not laugh? Tu Ran thought secretly.

There are so many more people willing to work for them.

If it were her, she would wake up with a smile even when she was asleep.

Tu Ran saw Xie Zhao among the row of people.

He sat in the middle.

After all, he is the commander-in-chief of the pioneer team. He is the one who single-handedly pushed the pioneer team from proposal to establishment to formal operation and achieved results. It is not an exaggeration for him to sit in the main seat.

At this moment, the host of the party is inviting him to give a speech.

No matter which world you are in, there will always be this kind of nonsense process.

Fortunately, they arrived more than half an hour late, and Xie Zhao was the last person to speak, and was the last to appear.

The training ground fell silent.

There was no more restlessness as when the previous few people were speaking.

Everyone sat quietly.

Everyone still respects Xie Zhao, the commander-in-chief.

"The previous instructors have said a lot to boost everyone's morale. I won't repeat what they said. I want to say something different."

He paused and looked towards the seats of the first batch of pioneers where Tu Ran and the other two were.

There were only a few people there.

"Not many pioneers came last time." He suddenly said, as if talking to himself.

As he said this, the second batch of pioneers all looked over here.

Only then did I notice these seniors who all looked exhausted.

"Does anyone know why so few people came?" Xie Zhao shifted his gaze back to the eighteen or nineteen-year-old boys and girls in front of him.

"No time?" a teenager in the audience answered loudly.

Xie Zhao chuckled, "That's one of the reasons. They are really busy."

"Don't bother to come back?" A girl stood up.

Her words resonated with others.

Indeed, it’s just a graduation party, there’s nothing interesting about it.

When they become official pioneers and leave the training base, there will be no rules to constrain them. They can go wherever they want to play during their free time. Who wants to waste time coming back to attend the graduation party? "This reason... may also exist," Xie Zhao's voice became quiet, "but it's not the main reason."

"What is the main reason?" someone asked curiously.

"In the past five years, the instructors have exposed you to positive energy and given you endless hope. They have made you trust your profession, believe that the title of pioneer will bring you supreme glory, and believe that your future is bright."

"But we never told you how the last batch of pioneers are doing now."

"What is your most vivid memory of the last batch of pioneers?" Xie Zhao looked at everyone in the audience.

"It is their unattainable achievement, the best record that you can never reach even after countless trainings. It is the longest distance of 3,460 meters for long-range sniping, the superb fighting skills of a single person who could not be defeated in a 35-minute duel with all the fighting instructors, the longest time record of an AR alien hiding and escaping for 27 days, the shortest time record of a 40-kilometer heavy-loaded sprint, and many more."

The venue was quiet, and everyone was listening attentively, immersed in Xie Zhao's slow voice, and also immersed in every detail of the five years of training.

"There are some records you have surpassed, and there are some records you have not yet touched."

"In addition to the data you know, there are some data that you have never heard of, which I have concealed."

Xie Zhao lowered his eyes and picked up the electronic screen that had been placed in the center of the table.

Everyone in the audience stared at him and unconsciously clenched their hands. Although they didn't know what the commander-in-chief would say next, the excitement and nervousness about the unknown made them all look forward to Xie Zhao to continue speaking.

"The number of graduates of the first pioneer class is 2,261."

"As of today, the day the second batch of pioneers graduated, the number of remaining personnel is confirmed to be 576."

"Confirmed death toll: 134."

"The number of people who have not left the threshold twice is 1021."

Xie Zhao raised his head and said, "Everyone should know what it means to fail to come out of the Threshold more than twice."

This means the mortality rate is 95%.

There was dead silence in the audience.

So, in this entire year, nearly half of the seniors from the previous class died.

They were so outstanding, and so many people died, so what about them?

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

Xie Zhao didn't stop.

"The number of people who are seriously injured and unconscious and have no signs of waking up is 16."

"The 514 people not included in the calculation just entered the threshold yesterday. Their lives or deaths are unknown. We need to wait for them to come back before we can update the data."

"There is another set of data, which is a statistical table of the visits of our pioneers to the medical department over the past year."

"Let me read you some simple statistics."

"The average person uses the nutrition cabin three times."

"You may not know much about the nutrition cabin," Xie Zhao raised his head and explained, "The use of the nutrition cabin is expensive. In most cases, the medical department will only recommend the use of the nutrition cabin when the injury is life-threatening or when there are more important things to deal with and the wound needs to be repaired quickly."

Hearing this, Tu Ran narrowed her eyes. Is this true?

She had used the nutrition chamber a few times recently purely because of the quick recovery, plus she had one year of free usage rights, so she went with this mentality, why not use it?

But the first time she used the nutrition capsule was actually because the doctor in the medical department recommended it to her.

She had nothing urgent to deal with at the time.

That can only be because of the serious injury.

She hit the back of her head.

She remembered that it was only slightly painful.

I didn't expect it to be so serious.

Xie Zhao was still reading out the data.

(End of this chapter)