Chapter 200: New Blood
After receiving 1,432 points of grace this month, Gu Hang’s current total grace points are 1,440.
Even if all these gift points were invested in the phoenix, at the limit, about seven phoenixes could be produced.
Of course, this is unlikely in reality, as we have to consider the losses in the middle.
No matter how optimistic Gu Hang is, it is impossible for him to get all seven correct.
What's more, before that, we have to screen suitable personnel for training.
The selection method is actually quite simple.
First of all, in the past month, Gu Hang has selected 150 teenagers between the ages of 16 and 18 from all over the alliance. There are some requirements, such as background, past experience, physical fitness, and psychological state and willpower...
In short, there are a lot of various requirements.
These requirements were not something Gu Hang came up with out of thin air. Instead, he took the advice of Martins and Rizzo and created a scoring table from various aspects. Each item had a different weight, and this was used to evaluate the 150 people selected.
Under this premise, these 150 people have actually gone through a round of screening.
Now, Gu Hang has enough grace points, and the second round and subsequent rounds of screening will begin soon.
First, everyone was trained to T4 level.
This cost Gu Hang a total of seventeen points of grace.
Then, when they wanted to train them all to T3, they became untrainable.
This is normal, which means that some of them do not have the potential to reach this level.
Then divide it into 15 groups and upgrade them one by one. There are 6 groups that cannot be upgraded, so divide them again... Although this is not the most efficient way, it doesn't matter. Gu Hang doesn't have to focus on extreme efficiency.
In the end, 9 people were eliminated, and the rest were all promoted to T3 level.
This costs 141 boons.
To be honest, this ratio is quite high, maybe they did make good choices during the selection stage.
However, when it came to the T2 stage, the elimination rate suddenly became very high, and only 47 people were successfully promoted in the end.
For their promotion, Gu Hang spent 470 points of grace.
In the end, Gu Hang saw that there were only three people left who were qualified to be promoted to the T1 level.
This ratio really made Gu Hang sigh that it is really difficult to find someone who is qualified to become a space warrior.
Among the 150 young men selected from the best, only three could be trained to the T1 level.
No wonder, all three operations performed by Phoenix himself failed.
In total they found four or five hundred teenagers for training.
Not to mention that the Phoenix did not have enough time to train those teenagers, even if they were really given enough time to train and their gene seeds remained fully active, Gu Hang was not optimistic that they could succeed.
Phoenix didn't have any cheats, so it was impossible for them to easily select the best candidates like Gu Hang did. They could only observe the level of those teenagers through about half a year of training and "guess" the best three. There were probably only ten people among the five hundred who actually had this qualification, and many of them were just "potential" and might not be able to fully realize it in training...
No wonder, those mature warbands need an entire planet to provide soldiers, and a considerable number of warbands will carry out brutal elimination when selecting new recruits, and even resort to tactics such as battle royale and fighting each other.
They just need a large number of young people to participate in this conscription operation and carry out the most severe elimination. Compared with the preciousness of gene seeds, the lives of some mortal teenagers are not worth mentioning.
Low tolerance for error? Then select ten from 100,000 people. In the fierce competition and harsh elimination, if you want to win all the way, you will be forced to use your potential.
The Space Marines would not feel sorry if those who failed to realize their potential died or were eliminated.
No matter how advanced or backward and cruel the Space Marines' method of selecting recruits is, it is definitely not as good as that of cheaters.
Gu Hang didn't expect that his [Soldier Card] system would be useful in this way.
Although the success rate of surgery on T2 level teenagers is actually quite good, Gu Hang does not intend to waste it on them.
Instead of that, it would be better to give the precious gene seeds, which are only available once every 100 points, to the three best ones.
Gu Hang raised all these three guys to T1 level.
This cost 300 points of grace.
Then, Gu Hang spent another 300 gifts and exchanged for three gene seeds.
All the preparations have come to an end now, and all that remains is to go to the operating table.
The entire process, if we add the training of their special military unit [Political Commissar], the total cost will reach 1,369 points of grace.
The number of gift points in Gu Hang's hand returned to double digits.
It seems like a lot, but on average each Space Marine candidate will spend more than 400 points of grace, which is twice as much as expected.
But the account cannot be calculated in this way.
First of all, none of those precious young people with outstanding potential died in the screening process.
Secondly, even those that are eliminated still have their uses.
Even for those 9 guys who couldn't even get into T3, Gu Hang was too lazy to give them the political commissar training and directly sent them to the regular recruit camp.
But even so, these nine worst boys should perform relatively well in the recruit camp and will be the ones that each unit will scramble to get when replenishing its troops.
After all, even those who had undergone the [Soldier Card] system training in the new recruit camp were generally only at the T5 level. The nine of them had at least made it to T4.
The remaining 141 people will all be added to the special operations brigade.
Before this, the special operations brigade had only about a hundred people and was in urgent need of manpower.
The 141 additional people are at least T3 level, which is the same level as the existing special forces members; and 47 of them have reached T2 level, which is much stronger than ordinary special forces members.
At this point, the special operations brigade's strength had been supplemented to about 230 people, and two special operations battalions had been formed.
It was also because of the consideration that the eliminated teenagers could be put to use immediately, so when Gu Hang asked his subordinates to screen the teenagers, he chose the age range of 16-18 years old.
Although, boys of this age group still have room to grow, if they are thrown into the army, they will still be young soldiers and will be called child soldiers.
Just don't be a real Boy Scout.
Of course, the other teenagers in this group are just interludes, and the most important thing is the three selected children.
Gu Hang is now very much looking forward to their future.
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Peretus Anato was from the Green Valley region, the son of a serf.
As a teenager, he was well-nourished, mainly because his mother was somewhat pretty and had some special relationship with the plantation owner's family.
His father must have known this a long time ago but kept silent about it; he himself didn't know it for a long time.
Occasionally he would hear some rumors, but he would just treat them as nonsense and insults said by others during a fight or play between teenagers - at least that was what he always told himself.
But this year, disaster struck and the plantation was broken up. His father decided to flee north with his family of five - he also had two younger sisters.
Their family was lucky. When they arrived in the Beiqinggu area, the refugee camp had just been established and infectious diseases had not spread there. They only stayed in the refugee camp for a short time before they were relocated to the Central Province and settled in Weixing City.
During this process, he heard a quarrel between his parents.
The content was about his mother complaining about the hardship of life and why she didn't follow the master's family, and was scolded by his father for being shameless. Then, his mother scolded him fiercely, saying that if it weren't for her, how could he support the family by relying on his father to farm and eat the little reward given by the master's family...
Anato no longer wanted to think about those things.
In short, although his parents have not parted ways, the family atmosphere has become very bad since then.
Both of his parents received E5 rating and entered two different factories; he and his two sisters also received E2 and E3 ratings respectively, and had the opportunity to go to school.
Family life has improved a lot. At least we have a place to live, enough food and clothes to eat, and more hope for the future.
He didn't understand why, after his life got better, his parents, who had never mentioned these things in the past, suddenly had such a quarrel one day?
He spent more than two months in the cold war between his parents, until someone wearing a red hat came to the school to select the "most promising teenager", and he couldn't wait to sign up.
On the one hand, this was cool; on the other hand, he wanted to get away from home.
He didn't know how to resolve family conflicts, but not facing them was an easier option.
Many of his classmates were eliminated after taking a simple test, and only a few passed, but he was one of them.
After being selected, Red Hat visited his home. When his mother heard that her child was going to be taken away, she burst into tears and didn't want it to happen. His father also had shaking hands and forced a smile to ask if he could not go and if there was any other way.
They didn't know what would happen to their child after he left, and they instinctively didn't want Anato to leave the family after their lives got better.
According to his father's plan, after a few more months of study, Anato, who is already 17 years old this year, will be able to join him in the military factory to produce cannons. Although the work is hard, he will be a stable E5 level once he enters, and he can continue to be promoted in the future as he accumulates years of service, so he has a stable future.
This is the first visible path, what's wrong with that?
His mother shared the same opinion.
To be honest, when he saw his parents, who had been in a cold war for two or three months and had not spoken to each other for a long time, snuggling together and holding the same opinion, he became more and more certain of his decision.
It would be great if his departure could improve the relationship between his parents.
But if staying would be better, then that's fine...
Oh, I can't stay.
He heard the conversation between the man in the red hat and his parents.
The Red Hats stated in a very stern attitude that this was the Alliance's conscription, and failure to follow the Alliance's conscription policy was a serious violation of the law and would be severely punished.
Then, he softened his tone and spoke softly about the alliance's policies, saying that being a soldier was different from being captured by landowners or other settlements as a conscript. Being a soldier had ranks, benefits, and allowances, and was even better than that of ordinary workers, and had a future.
Moreover, little Anatole was going to enter a special training class specially set up by the Governor. The places were limited and the prospects were bright. He would definitely have a bright future, even more promising than him.
First hit with a stick, then feed the carrot, then draw the pie...
After a round of tricks, his parents were convinced.
Little Anatole himself was persuaded and did not want to stay.
Apart from family trivialities, how can young people not be interested in the unknown but vast world?
Then, he left home amid his mother's tears and his father's reluctant embrace, and was taken to a monastery on the outskirts of Weixing City?
He had heard of this place. According to the people in the city, the Emperor's angels lived here, and it was an area that mortals could not enter. There were special regulations for this, and violators would be arrested and punished, with labor service, deduction of allowances, or even demotion. The latter was a very scary punishment in the Alliance system.
Could it be possible that I could become an angel?
It is normal for young people to love dreaming.
He nervously and restrainedly waited for his fate, but what happened next was very confusing to his little head.
He first underwent a week of training, the content of which was relatively novel, something he had never seen before, but it was said to be a common training method in the military, nothing special.
But during this week of training, his companions were constantly divided into different groups. Some were sent away within two days, while the rest persisted a little longer but were also constantly divided into different groups. After a week, only three people, including him, were still in the same group.
Moreover, during this period of time, he clearly felt that he had undergone tremendous changes.
His physical fitness has greatly improved. His physical fitness, strength, agility and other abilities were only above average among his peers, but within a week, he had reached a level far more exaggerated than that of a normal adult.
He mastered many military skills, most of which he had been trained in, but only practiced once or twice at most. However, he felt that each skill had become his instinct and could be used at will.
A lot of military knowledge also appeared in his mind. He only read those knowledge once in the books distributed at night according to the training requirements, but now it is deeply engraved in his mind. It is not just memorized, but also understood, as if he has actually applied this knowledge many times, and it is deeply integrated with practice...
These things surprised him.
Then, he and his companions were taken to Fuxing City, a place called Zhongsi Academy, and underwent a week of training.
During this period of training, he gained a lot of knowledge, and he even saw the legendary Governor in person during the first class!
In the following lessons, he seemed to understand that his rapid growth in the previous cycle was due to the blessing of the Emperor and the gift of the Governor.
The idea of loyalty was firmly engraved in his mind.
After the course at Zhongsi Academy was completed, most of his classmates were sent to the recruit camp. It was heard that they would join the special operations brigade and become a glorious special operations pioneer, also known as stormtroopers.
He and two other members of the same group were taken back to the monastery.
Then he was told that he would have to undergo an operation the next day.
He will have the opportunity to become the Emperor's angel and the most elite warrior under the Governor!
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I finished writing last night and forgot the timer...
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