Chapter 1
"Base No. 23, Lin Yu." "Here!" "
General Zhang." "Here!"
"..."
In the passenger cabin of the spaceship, the officer standing in the front row was calling the roll. The people who were called kept standing up and walked out of the line. They quickly packed their luggage and belongings, came to the front and saluted the officer, and then stood aside and waited in an orderly manner.
In the last row of the passenger cabin, a thin figure sat by the window. He closed his eyes slightly, and a few black bangs fell in front of his forehead, turning into clear amber in the sunlight.
Unlike other companions who were waiting nervously in the passenger cabin, because of his presence, this corner seemed comfortable and relaxed, which was somewhat out of tune with the tense atmosphere around him.
The officer who called the roll also noticed this corner, but he only frowned and didn't say much.
Finally, all the recruits from the previous base were taken away by the leader, and he started a new round of roll call.
"Base No. 24, Su Ci." He shouted.
"Su Ci?"
"Su Ci from Base No. 24, isn't he here?"
-Su
Ci woke up from a dark dream, and he heard someone yelling in his ear, buzzing.
He frowned and opened his eyes unhappily.
The moment he opened his eyes, a cold golden color appeared in his black pupils, but when he saw the surrounding scenery clearly, the golden color faded away quietly and returned to the original warm and harmless black.
Su Ci looked at the unfamiliar environment around him blankly.
Passenger cabin.
Such a concept emerged in his mind-he was in the passenger cabin of a spaceship.
"Trainee breeder Su Ci, step out!"
The voice that woke him up just now was raised again, this time with a much higher volume, and Su Ci finally heard his name clearly.
Trainee breeder? What is this?
Before the explanation of this term emerged in his mind, someone poked his arm.
Su Ci looked sideways and saw a brown-haired young man with a buzz cut sitting next to him. He lowered his voice and said, "Are you sleepy? The commander is calling you, what are you doing?"
Commander?
A job title in the human army?
Su Ci frowned slightly and glanced at the so-called cabin of the spaceship again. Before he could figure out the situation, the young man next to him had already grabbed his arm and helped him lift it up.
There were many people in the cabin whispering to each other, discussing who this Su Ci was and how he dared to make his superior angry. At this time, noticing Su Ci raising his hand, everyone turned their heads to look at him.
Su Ci just looked at the young man's palm holding his forearm, then looked at his own hand, with a look of surprise.
The brown-haired young man had already stood up swiftly, pulled him to the aisle, and then took a backpack from the shelf above his head and stuffed it into his arms.
He grinned, revealing a row of white teeth, "Go quickly, I'm at Base 26, let's contact each other later."
Su Ci restrained his expression, nodded hesitantly, and then, under his push, he walked to the front of the passenger cabin with his backpack.
The new recruits along the way followed him all the way, and none of them failed to salute him.
There was no way, the more than 100 people left in the passenger cabin, who was not a well-trained young soldier with a strong body and dark skin? Even the female soldiers looked strong and tough.
The trainee breeder who just stood up was not only slender, but also had delicate and beautiful facial features. Even his skin was white and transparent. You could vaguely see the blood vessels under his skin. He looked so white that he seemed to glow.
This scene was like a little sheep walking among wolves and being stared at by the hungry wolves.
"A breeder? Is he the kind who breeds cubs?"
Someone whispered in the audience.
"That should be the case. Isn't there a nursery on our Hell Planet?"
"Tsk tsk, look at his skinny arms and legs... Can he take care of those cubs? It's a physically demanding job."
"Who said it wasn't?" The new recruit next to him looked frightened. "My parents hid the fact that they had another cub from me, and they left the cub to me to take care of when I went home on vacation. They made me so upset."
"Alas, those cubs are really a worry."
After talking about the cubs for a few words, the topic quickly turned back to Su Ci.
"Looking at his appearance and temperament, he should be providing psychological counseling to the cubs, right?"
"Yes, yes, I've heard before that everyone who comes to serve in Hell Planet has to receive psychological counseling after returning, and some even go crazy and cannot be cured..."
A group of people showed surprised expressions, but when they wanted to gossip more -
"Ahem!"
The officer who called the roll coughed forcefully, and the people who were whispering suddenly quieted down, looked at their noses and hearts, sat upright, and dared not speak again.
The officer looked at Su Ci who came in front of him, and scanned the electronic board in his hand several times.
Name: Su Ci
Age: 23
Base: No. 24
Institution: Cub Breeding Center
Position: Trainee Breeder
After confirming that there was no mistake, he ticked Su Ci's form and looked at a man in an orange uniform next to him.
The man was about 27 or 28 years old, with a buzz cut, but a little older than the brown-haired young man just now. He had handsome
features, but the deep dark circles under his eyes made him look a little unspirited. He was tall and had bulging muscles under his uniform. Standing in front of him, Su Ci looked even thinner and frailer.
"Yes, he's here, take him away."
The officer handed the electronic board to the man.
The man didn't say anything, but signed his name on the electronic board neatly - Shi Yjiang, and then looked at Su Ci.
Looking at the young man's appearance, especially his thin figure, he had a look of surprise, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he introduced himself: "I'm Shi Yjiang, come with me, let's go back to the base."
Then, he was the first to leave the passenger cabin.
Su Ci paused, and looked back at the cabin behind him. The brown-haired young man was waving at him, and kept pointing at something on his wrist.
He lowered his head and found that he also had something similar on his wrist - a communicator. The corresponding concept explanation emerged in his mind again.
In addition to being used for communication, this thing also has functions such as surfing the Internet and showing identity.
But what is surfing the Internet?
"Su Ci, follow me." Shi Yjiang in front turned around and urged him.
Even though he had many doubts in his heart, Su Ci did not continue to struggle. After retracting his gaze, he followed him out of the cabin.
In front of him was a long corridor, with silver-white metal walls on both sides, inlaid with bright snow-white wall lamps. It was an architectural style that Su Ci had never seen before.
With a thoughtful look in his eyes, he followed Shi Yijiang all the way to the outside of the spaceship.
The space outside was brighter than inside the spaceship.
The sky was covered by a huge metal dome. Under the hemispherical dome, dozens of spaceships and starships of different models were docked, and the metal hulls were slightly shining under the light.
Countless robots of all sizes were busy moving goods. There were teams of them in the sky and on the ground. The scene was spectacular, yet orderly.
Su Ci was already able to confirm that this was a civilization he had never seen before, and that he had gained a new identity in this civilization after waking up.
In his long life, this situation has never happened before.
Interesting!
He couldn't remember how many years it had been since he had such expectations and interest in the face of the unknown. Su Ci was not panicked at all. He decided to play his new role first to get more information. Anyway
, he had done this many times when he traveled in the human world before.
"Our spaceship is here." Shi Yjiang's voice rang out.
Su Ci followed him with a backpack in his arms. They walked forward until they came to the most remote corner under the dome.
There was also a spaceship docked here, with the number: 245h written on the hull.
Along the way, this spaceship was the smallest and most shabby. Compared with other exquisite and beautiful spaceships, this one looked a bit poor.
Robots were constantly moving boxes of goods to the side of the spaceship. A beam of light shone down from the spaceship. Every time the beam swept past, the goods on the ground would disappear.
When Shi Yjiang and Su Ci approached, the robots had just finished moving the last batch of goods.
"Ding ding--"
A virtual screen popped up in front of Shi Yjiang, and an electronic synthesized sound rang out at the same time, "The supplies for Base No. 24 have been delivered. Please check."
After signing to confirm, he took Su Ci to the spaceship. The beam swept past them, and the two disappeared on the spot.
Su Ci only felt a flash in front of his eyes, and the next second, they had arrived inside the spaceship.
The human race's teleportation array? He glanced at the round platform under his feet, and it didn't seem like it.
"It takes about two hours to get from the supply station to the base. We should be able to get back before dark." Shi Yjiang led him to the spaceship control room, "You sit here."
Su Ci sat down as he was told, and a seat belt automatically popped out and fastened around his waist.
Shi Yjiang started the spaceship into automatic driving mode. As the spaceship took off, the dome above slowly opened a passage.
When Su Ci saw the scene outside, he was stunned.
Unlike the blue sky and white clouds imagined, the sky was filled with reddish mist, giving people a suffocating feeling of depression.
Looking down from the spaceship, one could vaguely see gullies crisscrossing the land in the mist, like a dry riverbed, dry, empty, and lifeless.
Looking around, the world was shrouded in despair and dead silence. Su Ci seemed to hear the earth wailing and accusing, and his eyes suddenly sank.
"Earth..."
Su Ci finally spoke, saying the first sentence after waking up, "Why did it become like this?"
His voice was the same as his personality, sounding gentle and light, but the slowed-down speech speed did not sound soft, but instead gave people a sense of oppression, as if a storm was about to come.
Shi Yjiang, who had been tense since leaving the supply station, thought that he might be too nervous, which led to such an illusion.
How could this new breeder, who was so weak, give him such a strong sense of crisis?
He exhaled slowly and whispered, "This is the environment of Hell Star... Don't worry, as long as we return to the base before dark, there will be no problem."
Su Ci did not speak. He kept looking at the ground below, frowning deeply.
Why did the ground become like this? Could it be related to his new identity?
Su Ci barely suppressed the restlessness in his heart, because he also knew that the human beside him could not give him an answer. He wanted to know what happened during his sleep, so he could only explore it himself.
-The
spaceship flew smoothly all the way, and after about two hours, they arrived at Base 24 smoothly.
Along the way, except for one or two bases that looked like cities occasionally, there was only empty and desolate land, and almost no active creatures could be seen.
Base 24 is obviously much smaller than other bases with densely packed buildings, and it exudes an air of poverty.
After getting off the spaceship, they went directly to the interior of a building. After passing the detection of the intelligent core, they went forward and entered a hall.
"This is the first floor of the logistics department."
Shi Yjiang led Su Ci to a window, "Where is your ID card?"
ID card? Su Ci tentatively reached into his coat pocket, and indeed took out a card and a small button-like object from it.
"The latest space button? You are quite rich."
Shi Yjiang couldn't help but sigh. He took the card and swiped it on the card slot next to the window, and Su Ci's name appeared on the display above.
[Identity verification passed: Trainee keeper Su Ci at the cub nursery]
[Supplies are being prepared for you]
[Supplies completed]
The closed window opened and a pile of clothes was sent out.
"This is your uniform, two sets in total. If you get damaged, you can go to our logistics department to exchange it, but it costs points, which is expensive, so you'd better be careful."
Unlike Shi Yjiang's orange-yellow uniform, his uniform is gray-blue, with a nameplate on the top, engraved with the two characters "Su Ci".
In addition to the uniform, there is also a box.
"This box contains nutrient solution, three sticks a day, a total of one week's supply."
Shi Yjiang patted the box, "You can come to our logistics department to pick it up once a week, and swipe your ID card like this time. Of course, you can also let the intelligent robot deliver it, but it costs one point each time."
Su Ci blinked, staring at the box, and said the second sentence after waking up.
"Nutrient solution? Food?"
The obvious excitement in his voice made Shi Yjiang look at him for a second time, and then nodded: "Yes, you put the things away first, and then come with me to the administrative office to start work."
Hearing that it was indeed food, Su Ci's eyes brightened a little.
He glanced at the space button in his hand.
How to put it away? As soon as this question came up in his mind, the use of the space button emerged in his mind.
It is quite similar to a soul storage bag.
He put his hand on the uniform, and with a thought, the uniform disappeared on the windowsill. He did the same thing again, putting the box of nutrient solution and his backpack into the space button.
-The
administrative office is in another building. Shi Yjiang took Su Ci to the place and left.
The person who handled Su Ci's employment procedures was a woman named Guo Hui, who wore black glasses and had her hair neatly combed. She had a serious expression and frowned noticeably when she saw Su Ci.
"Su Ci, right?"
She flipped through the information on the electronic board and said, "Your resume and physical fitness do not meet our recruitment requirements, but we decided to give you a chance because you graduated from a military academy and have relevant certificates in cub psychology."
"In terms of welfare benefits, the conditions offered by our cub breeding center are also among the best in the alliance."
"After the probation period, the salary will increase, and there will be a bonus at the end of the year based on your performance. I hope you can cherish this job."
Su Ci listened absent-mindedly, and when she finished, he nodded to show that he understood, but his mind was actually on the box of nutrient solution in the space button.
He was a little hungry and wanted to eat.
Fortunately, Guo Hui did not make things difficult for him. She quickly helped him with the onboarding procedures, told him some precautions, and finally handed him a book that was about as thick as a thumb.
Su Ci took it and scanned it. On the cover of the book were written: "Keeper's Work Manual" in large characters.
The material of the book was not the paper in his memory. It felt softer and more resilient. He did not care and put it into the space button.
"There is an assessment at the end of every month." Guo Hui said, "The first assessment is a written test. The questions will be from this manual. You must remember the contents of the manual and raise the cubs according to the instructions in the manual. Do you understand?"
Su Ci nodded.
Guo Hui paused and continued, "We are short of manpower at the base. You are the only trainee keeper in the nursery. Please work harder."
As she spoke, she operated the electronic board and a robot floated in from outside. The robot was suspended in the air and moved very fast.
"Nanny robot No. 4586 is at your service!"
The voice of the nanny robot was very real, sounding gentle, cheerful and energetic.
"This is the nanny robot of the brooding house. It will help you take care of the cubs and provide you with on-the-job training. You can ask it if you have any questions."
"I hope you will do your job well. During the probation period, the supervisor will always pay attention to your behavior, which will affect your final assessment results."
"Then, I wish you good luck in your future work."
After the woman said this, she waved her hand and let the robot take Su Ci to the brooding house.
After Su Ci and the robot left, the colleague sitting next to the woman said, "The nursery has scrapped more than 40 nanny robots this year, right? These little monsters really treat the nanny robots as toys."
"Yeah."
The woman rubbed her brows with a headache, "I hope this Su Ci can hold on for a few more days."
Since the establishment of the Hell Star Nursery, no keeper has successfully passed the three-month probation period. I hope he can hold on a little longer.
At least, hold on until they recruit the next keeper.