October 3, 2999.
At the age of 21, Ding Hu finally completed his basic studies at the third earth Military Academy of the solar system with qualified results and became a fresh lieutenant.
Ding Hu has two employment options in front of him.
First, enlist on the spot and join the solar system defense force. Start with a combatant team leader, train with godadan, be ready to meet the incoming enemy at any time, and slowly hone your ability in the general environment of regional peace.
Second, go to the front battlefield located in the cantilever of Sagittarius, join in the dangerous battlefield, and either grow rapidly or sacrifice under the test of blood and fire.
According to Ding Hu's own ideas, he is more inclined to choose the second road.
But his family and friends don't agree.
After all, he is too mediocre.
Going back to 2978, Ding Hu received amazing support from social resources when he was just born, and his growth rate in the early stage was not slow.
Unfortunately, when Ding Hu was about twelve years old, he had reached the upper limit of his ability as a fighter.
His talent was so ordinary that he tried his best and could only barely cross the level B boundary at the age of 18.
Since then, each potential evaluation system has put a deeper mark on him, indicating the limit of his life, that is, level B.
No matter how many trials he has experienced on the battlefield, no matter how many times he walks around life and death, he can not change this determination. At most, he can only change from a fresh B-level player to an experienced B-level veteran.
On the battlefield, he can never afford to undertake the key tasks that are enough to control the war situation. He can only follow the big army and do what he can. It may be an insignificant miscellaneous fish in the great battle, or some leftover conventional troops against ordinary enemies, or a garrison that sticks to a place with its life and finds some enemy raid information.
Ding Hu is not dissatisfied with these comments.
As a firm practitioner of the fate pact and a fanatical fan of the sage, Ding Hu enshrined a sentence in the sage's quotations as a Scripture.
"Every insignificant screw has its value that can not be ignored."
He was willing to be that screw and worked hard for it until he graduated suddenly and had to face new choices.
At the moment of graduation, the goal he had been striving for became unreal.
Ding Hu knew he shouldn't have such absurd and wavering ideas. He just couldn't make up his mind for a while.
There are still more than 20 days left for him to consider. He only needs to make a decision before 12:00 on the night of October 31.
Ding Hu spent many days discussing with many people, including family and friends, some successful celebrities, and many public welfare consulting institutions.
He even went to the Academy of Social Sciences of Xingfeng Research Institute and talked for a long time with some well-known old scholars who helped others plan their lives.
Ding hu wants to find a way to give full play to his self-worth.
Running around for two weeks, Ding Hu asked hundreds of people and entered the starry consulting Library of the brain. Ding Hu was empty handed and couldn't get the answer he wanted.
With some lingering confusion, Ding Hu drove a single shuttle to the foot of the snow mountain on the earth.
There is a memorial hall for the sage here to commemorate the growth of the sage Chen Feng in many nihilistic histories.
There are many data-based historical materials in the memorial hall, which record how Chen Feng changed from an ordinary man to human hope step by step in this ordinary training base.
Ding Hu likes this history very much. Whenever he feels tired, he will come here. He can not only temper his mind in history, but also see the beautiful snow mountains to cultivate his sentiment.
The snow mountain memorial hall is the unique "privilege" of human beings in the solar system. It can always get a certain degree of spiritual stability when needed.
And what is unique is that Ding Hu, who is ordinary, feels particularly peaceful and clear when he steps on the land of the snow mountain Memorial Hall.
However, in the historical materials Ding Hu saw, except the face of the sage himself was very clear, the faces of others were very vague, as if they had been deliberately dealt with to cover up their looks.
Ding Hu once asked the history teacher about it.
The teacher told him that this was indeed a deliberate act of the Institute of sages. The purpose was to protect the people around the sages and avoid interference in their growth.
After walking around the exhibition hall of the memorial hall, Ding Hu quickly stepped up the snow mountain.
More than half an hour later, he put his hands in his pockets and crunched his feet on the snow.
The icy wind blew across his face and was a little cold, but it didn't hurt him.
On the hillside, the newly evolved snow-white goshawk is flying slowly, as if hunting.
Ding Hu looked at the goshawk with envy. Sometimes he envied these animals on the earth. Without wisdom, there would be no worry, let alone trouble. He was born in ignorance and died in ignorance.
People are different. They live in the collective from birth. Although they can enjoy resources that non intelligent creatures can never imagine, they have to face the worries that non intelligent creatures will never produce.
The more you know, the more fear you have, and the more you have to overcome fear.
"You... Are you ding Hu?"
A woman's voice suddenly came from behind.
Ding Hu looks back.
A vigorous woman in blue gray technical staff clothes stood below and looked up at herself.
The woman has shoulder length short hair, looks neat, and has a curious and nervous look on her face.
Ding Hu turned back and walked down two steps, closer, "yes, are you?"
The woman suddenly looked a little nervous and said, "my name is Liu Weiwei. I'm a heavy nuclear collection technician."
"Oh, Hello, Liu Weiwei. How can you know me?"
Ding Hu wondered.
"That... That..." Liu Weiwei said something.
After a long time, she said, "we are neighbors. My house is downstairs. We often met upstairs and downstairs when we were young."
Ding Hu thought for a while, his eyes gradually brightened, "little fat girl."
"Yes!"
Ding Hu was happy. "I can't believe you are so beautiful now. By the way, how did you come here?"
"I... I'll come and relax." Liu Weiwei lied.
After all, she is not a professional agent, let alone an actor. She can't act under tension.
But she can't admit that a day ago, she was working on regenerating Saturn's rings and building a heavy nuclear fast cycle station, and received a message. The news told her that her little brother Ding Hu, who had peeked at countless eyes when she was a child, had successfully graduated and could get married.
She didn't think so much, so she took a personal leave, took the solar system transportation network fast shuttle back to the earth, and just stopped Ding Hu here.
She came to get married. But after all, she is a girl with a thin skin. She can't speak for a while.
Pure straight male Ding Hu didn't understand Liu Weiwei's mind at all. He just saw that the other party was young as a child, so he warmly invited him and said, "how about we go shopping together?"
"OK."
One person's walk became two, and Ding Hu's attention was distracted.
While walking, they talked for most of the day. They talked about some interesting things from childhood, their current work and their prospects for the future.
"Is the collector hard?"
"Fortunately, most of the time I sit in the space office and cooperate with artificial intelligence to deal with some accidents. It must be much easier than you soldiers."
"Hey! There is no distinction between high and low work and high and low dedication."
"Brother Ding Hu, you really like to quote sages."
"Cough, I have no culture. I carry something to fill the big tail wolf."
"Hahaha, you are so funny. I didn't dare to talk to you when I was a child. I was always worried that you were very serious and thought you were excellent. I was nervous when I saw you."
"Ah? Well, you flatter me too much. Maybe only you think I'm excellent in the world now. I've worked so hard, I'm just a class B fighter."
"There are many people who can only be level C. like me, the fighter talent evaluation is level D. you know, I am not qualified to join the army, so I can only be a collector."
Ding Hu: "it's OK. The collector is also a very important post. Just work hard."
"You too."
"Yes."
"What is brother Ding Hu going to do next? Have you chosen it?"
"I want to go to the front line, but my family don't agree. They're not afraid of my sacrifice, but they think it's meaningless for me to go to the front line at this level. They tend to let me stay in school and say I'm quite talented in taking recruits."
"Is that so?" Liu Weiwei secretly rejoiced. Since he didn't go, the two people should be able to do it.
"I agree. Since brother Ding Hu's talent is in this area, it's better to strengthen it. Stay."
"But I'm... Not reconciled. I think instructors who have not passed the battlefield test are just talking on paper, which is irresponsible to students. And I always think..."
"What do you think?"
Ding Hu suddenly gave a meal and said slowly, "I think someone in the distance needs me and is calling me."
"Ah?"
"I can't tell how this feeling came about. It may be my illusion. It may also be that I am too pretentious. I always feel that fate has arrangements for me. This arrangement may make me die early, but if I don't finish it and try, I may be restless all my life, and living is a walking corpse."
Liu Weiwei didn't know how to answer this, "but... But..."
"But I'm too weak to bear any heavy burden, right? Ha ha, I know. I know myself very well."
"So are you still going to the front?"
"I don't know."
The two were talking when Ding Hu's communicator rang.
This is a global broadcast message.
He opened it and looked, his face slightly changed.
The third option appears.
The real front line sent back intelligence. The Tiandong portal in the Yunding star domain of the sharp knife theater has been running stably for two years. A large number of human fleets in the forward position have successively crossed the Tiandong channel and entered the Yunding star domain to join the most fierce battle between humans and the compound eye.
Human beings need to face extremely powerful compound eye forces there. The war situation is very fierce. In order to prevent the reserve forces from keeping up with the consumption of the front line, the CHENFENG Empire has opened a large-scale conscription involving the whole empire in advance.
From now on, all soldiers in the garrison of the rear galaxy can choose whether to sign up for the selection. The soldiers who pass the selection will enter the front-line reserve, go to the folding star gate that leads to the Tiandong star gate, and receive intensive training at the same time.
Once the front line needs it, this part of the reserve will be put into the battlefield immediately.
Recruits who have just graduated from the military academy are also eligible to apply, including Ding Hu.
Ding Hu was suddenly stunned.
His heart began to beat faster.
There is no doubt that among all the battlefields of mankind, Yunding theater is the most important.
Even ordinary soldiers with very low access to information can know with a little brain that as long as the cloud top star domain does not fall, the safety factor of the rear Empire headquarters will be much higher.
But is Ding Hu qualified to participate in this level of battlefield?
Certainly not. I'm afraid I don't even have a chance to be elected.
But why do I have a lingering strong sense of destiny when I think of that place?
"Brother Ding Hu, what's the matter with you?"
"No, nothing."
"You have something on your mind. Let me see what the news is. Eh, you're going to Yunding star region! My God!" Liu Weiwei was surprised.
Ding Hu shook his head awkwardly, "just think about it. I'm afraid I can't choose."
Liu Weiwei didn't understand, "why? Isn't it very dangerous there? It's a near death!"
Ding Hu asked: "But now we still have hundreds of billions of comrades in arms who are insisting there. Including the original expeditionary fleet, those predecessors didn't want to come back when they set out. The soldiers in the added fleet now know that they will die, but they all went there. It can't be said that they won't do it because they think they will die. If every soldier thinks so, there are still human beings What hope? "
Liu Weiwei lowered his head in shame, "I'm sorry."
"It's all right. I don't blame you. Isn't the job of collector dangerous? Aren't you still doing it?"
"Yes."
After a long time, Ding Hu said slowly.
"The sage once said that the compound eye is not our ultimate enemy. Behind the compound eye, there must be a powerful behind the scenes agent beyond our imagination. So sooner or later, we will all have to face strange and more powerful enemies. The human struggle is not a short-term war that can easily see the results. This war will be protracted, extremely difficult and inevitable There will be countless bloodshed. "
"But the sage also said that human beings have the ultimate potential beyond the limits of the universe. As long as human beings can unite and struggle generation after generation, everyone will remember that they are part of the tide of this era and will not stay out of it. Everyone is not afraid of sacrifice and will perfect their work in their respective jobs, moving forward like a fool moving a mountain, bit by bit If we give full play to our potential and raise our limits, the relationship between the enemy and the weak will certainly shift. "
"When the transfer of this strong and weak relationship reaches a certain critical point, human resistance will be irresistible. Human beings will one day, and now. The existence of Yunding star domain represents the transformation of the strong and weak relationship between us and the compound eye, which has reached a certain limit."
"This is an unprecedented major node. As long as we win the Yunding battle, we will gain the freedom of civilization at different stages that we could not imagine in the past. The global calling order represents that the imperial leadership has realized this. Although I Ding Hu is humble and small, I am eager to go to the most dangerous battlefield, participate in the most dangerous tasks and make my greatest personal contribution. No matter what If I can go there, whether as a soldier or as a recruit instructor, I will die without regret. "
He is no longer lost.
After just two weeks of wandering and searching, Ding Hu found his final choice.
Liu Weiwei looked at this man. When he saw him as a child, he felt that he was destined to be a man, and his heart beat faster.
She suddenly hugged Ding Hu. "Then you have to leave a child for your parents first. Let's get married! Brother tiger! I like you! For many years!"
Brother Hu's face suddenly turned red.
Ding Hu did not expect that a group of scholars in the sage plan were staring at him and Liu Weiwei.
The scholars sighed.
Worthy of being the enlightenment instructor of the sage, he gathered two pieces of silk thread of destiny at one time.
One is his destined wife and the other is the destined instructor of the sage.
The power of time and destiny is incredible.