Chapter 001: The Strongest Ever

July is the season when white lilies wither.

The white petals with a hint of red drifted with the wind, falling on the shoulders and heads of the teenagers and on the ground under their feet.

It was a beautiful sight.

However, not many of them appreciated the beauty. At this moment, their eyes were focused on the phantom screens showing the fitness values.

"Fitness value, 64, qualified." The officer wearing camouflage uniform and big sunglasses read the test results of the teenager in a cold and calm tone. When the teenager heard the word "qualified", his face showed excitement. [

In the long queue behind, several teenagers showed envious expressions.

"Fitness value, 51, unqualified."

"Fitness value, 73, qualified!"

"Fitness value, 86! Oh my god, qualified!"

With the exclamation of an officer, the eyes of hundreds of teenagers in the square were all focused on the teenager on the tester in the fourth test area.

The boy looked around proudly, and the pride on his face aroused the envy and jealousy of others.

"In a town like ours, there are actually talents with an adaptability value of 86?" The senior officer sitting in the military RV next to him poked his head out of the car in surprise and looked at the boy.

"What a genius." Shen Zheng, like other teenagers, looked at the person on the instrument from a distance, with an envious expression in his eyes.

"If I can... No, don't have unrealistic fantasies." Shen Zheng thought while secretly shaking his head. "As long as my adaptability value can reach 60, I can join the army and become a soldier. I will work hard to make several military merits, and then Xiaoying can live a good life..."

As he thought, he secretly clenched his fists, and the firmness in his eyes made him look nothing like a boy who had just turned 19.

The flow of people taking the test kept moving forward, and it was finally Shen Zheng's turn. When this black-haired, black-eyed, medium-sized, slightly thin boy stood on the tester and let the test needle pierce his wrist, the value on the phantom screen next to the tester jumped rapidly, starting from "00" and quickly turning up until 98.

"98!?"

The crowd was boiling, and everyone couldn't help but exclaimed regardless of military discipline.

"How is it possible?" "Is the tester broken?" "No one can reach this value, not even the greatest hero in history!" People shouted.

"Miracle!" In the RV, the senior officer stood up with a whoosh, his face turned red and white, and he couldn't help but gasp for breath with excitement. "Isn't I dreaming?"

"This..." The officer in charge of the test was also stunned, looking at the phantom screen, not knowing what to say for a while.

Shen Zheng turned his head and was also shocked when he saw the value on the phantom screen. He instinctively thought: "Is this instrument broken?"

"Sorry." After a long time, the test officer waved his hand at him, "This situation has never happened before. Can you please try another tester?"

"Okay." Shen Zheng was a little embarrassed. He was worried that in the next test, his value would drop below 60, and then all his dreams would end. [

He came to the platform of another tester and let another test needle pierce his other wrist.

"98! Still 98!"

The crowd screamed again, and the test officer's face flushed with excitement.

"Genius, peerless genius!" The senior officer in the RV was too excited and broke the pen in his hand with excessive force. He ran out of the RV and came to the tester where Shen Zheng was standing.

"Young man!" He said excitedly, "You passed! Welcome to join the White Wolf Star Wolf Fang Town Combat Corps! If there is no accident, you will be my new comrade in three days. Congratulations!"

"Thank you!" Shen Zheng answered a little dazedly. This luck came too fast, so fast that he couldn't recover, and felt like he was in a dream.

As he looked at the envious or jealous eyes of others and walked down the tester in disbelief, a fully armed army was gathering in a military base on White Wolf.

"Quick, quick!" The leading officer shouted loudly in the rain, "This mission is very important and urgent. You are all the best special forces in our team. Don't lose my face!"

"Captain." His adjutant stood aside, holding an umbrella for him, and whispered: "What exactly is it that we are asked to transport this time? Why do we have to use our most elite special forces?"

"I don't know." The officer shook his head. "As far as I know, the corps commander doesn't know either, so he has to transport it to the military district headquarters and ask them to make the final appraisal."

"In other words...it may not be an important thing?" asked the adjutant.

"No." The officer shook his head again. "It must be something important. You know, it was found in the most important sealed cabin in the wreckage of a galaxy-class battleship that crashed in our defense zone. If it wasn't something important, what planet would use a galaxy-class battleship to transport it?"

"I'm really curious, what exactly is it?" The adjutant looked curious.

"You don't need to know what you shouldn't know." The officer said, "The duty of a soldier is to perfectly complete the orders of his superiors."

At this moment, outside the test site of Langya Town on White Wolf Star, Shen Zheng was running out with excitement.

98! The highest adaptation value ever seen on White Wolf Star!

He really couldn't believe it was true, but the new recruit registration card personally handed to him by the senior officer who presided over the test stopped in his hand more than real, and a little light flowed from the delicate gaps on the card from time to time.

Carefully putting away the registration card, Shen Zheng excitedly ran towards home.

Home... In that small apartment, in a small room that costs 80 yuan a month, lives his only relative, his most caring sister Shen Ying. It is because of her that the simple little room is his home and warm.

At this moment, he wants to tell his sister this good news as soon as possible, so that his sister will know that they will no longer have to worry about being kicked out by the landlord for not being able to pay the rent. He wants to share this joy and happiness with his sister.

Of course, there is another kind of happiness that he cannot share with his sister. That is his secret, a secret that prevents him from losing his sister, and is also the main reason why he joined the army.

Langya Town is not big, but it is not small either. Rich people with huge assets live in the towering buildings, and their luxury cars are parked downstairs. In the commercial district, there are prosperous shopping malls, luxury stores, entertainment venues for their consumption... [

This is another world that Shen Zheng dare not hope for.

Those apartment buildings that stand densely in the slums like ant nests, and those grocery stores that sell everything from work gloves to bug-rickshaws are the world Shen Zheng is familiar with. His biggest wish is to have a house that truly belongs to him in such an apartment building.

He and his sister live an ordinary life, and occasionally have some spare money to buy some beautiful skirts for his sister, find an upright boyfriend for her in the future, hold her hand, and send her to another happy home.

What a wonderful life that will be!

In the past, that was a luxury, but now this kind of life is about to come true.

In his excitement, Shen Zheng couldn't help but think of the history he had learned in the past-

The civilization history of White Wolf has been more than a thousand years. More than a thousand years ago, the pioneers of White Wolf who fled from the distant Earth due to insect disasters flew here on an old spaceship and began their entrepreneurial journey. In a thousand years, they carried forward the "insect technology" brought from Earth and formed the brilliant White Wolf civilization.

Today, the technological civilization based on "insects" has grown to a considerable extent. From daily necessities in daily life to large spaceships that can travel in space, they are all produced under the influence of "insect technology".

To this day, no one knows where "insects" come from and why they can spread throughout the universe. People only know that it is written in history books that one day more than a thousand years ago, countless "insects" killed their ancient hometown-the Earth, and destroyed the civilization of their ancestors.

And the tenacious human beings, who fought against the "insects" in the disaster, finally won a ray of hope for themselves, and developed a new civilization-"insect civilization" in a hundred years of fighting.

There are many kinds of "insects". They are not just the small and powerful things known to humans, but monsters ranging from the size of ants to the size of space battleships with various abilities, appearances, and characteristics. They are all kinds of strange and have different abilities. After the initial failure of being caught off guard, the smart humans finally found a way to defeat them with wisdom. They used the emerging "insect bionics" to create various tools based on the abilities of insects, strengthened themselves with the power of insects, and had the power to fight against insects and rebuild human civilization.

However, perhaps because the insect civilization started too late and was too low in level, the humans on Earth still lost. So more than a thousand years ago, several humans were forced to flee their hometowns and drift in the universe until they found another place to live.

But there seems to be no planet without insects in the universe.

The creators of the White Wolf civilization soon discovered that there were also several kinds of insects living on this planet, so they fought with the insects while strengthening themselves, and finally established the immortal White Wolf civilization.

And to this day, the struggle with insects continues. The purpose of this expansion of the Langya Town Corps is to deal with the upcoming insect tide - thousands of giant insects, like a tide, are rushing towards the human world, which is the "insect tide".

Soldiers are glorious because they can "plant insects" - supermen who integrate the powerful power of insects into their bodies; they are brave men who can protect the dignity of ordinary human life. Therefore, their treatment is also extremely high. The monthly income of the most ordinary soldiers is higher than that of white-collar workers in large companies.

Therefore, for ordinary people who have no chance to go to college and squeeze into large companies, being a soldier is a road to success.

Shen Zheng dropped out of school in the first year of high school. He worked as a cleaner, a porter, a waiter... He has done almost everything that can make money to support his family.

But fate will not change because of his diligence.

But this time is different, fate will change because of his genius.

He was happy and excited, like a cheerful bird, he rushed all the way to the sixth floor of the old apartment and opened the rusty iron door.

"Xiaoying!" he shouted excitedly, "Guess what I brought back?"

"What is it?" A beautiful long-haired girl came out of the room, holding the embroidery she was doing. Her hair was so black, like the mysterious night; her skin was so fair, like snowflakes in winter.

"Why are you embroidering these things again?" Shen Zheng was a little unhappy, "It hurts my eyes too much, what if I get tired of my eyes?"

"It's nothing." The girl stuck out her tongue mischievously, showing irresistible cuteness. "It's vacation anyway, I have nothing to do when I'm idle. If I embroider and sell it, I can supplement some of the family expenses and let you suffer less."

"Don't worry about it anymore." Shen Zheng smiled, took out the report card and stuffed it into his sister Shen Ying's hand.

"This is..." Shen Ying looked at the glowing card in her hand and looked at it in surprise. "Military registration card? Brother, have you signed up for the army?"

"Yes." Shen Zheng patted his chest proudly, "You won't believe it, but I am the most..."

"Brother!" Shen Ying interrupted Shen Zheng with her tears.

"What's wrong?" Shen Zheng panicked and hurried to comfort his sister. "Xiaoying, this is a good thing! Soldiers have such high salaries, which not only allows you to study with peace of mind, but also no longer have to worry about the landlord urging you to pay the rent. When we save more money in the future, we can also buy our own house. How great is that!"

"But soldiers are taking risks with their lives!" Shen Ying cried. "I would rather not study, sleep on the streets, than receive the pension from the army... Brother, don't go, I won't study anymore, and I will find a job, and we will work together to maintain this family!"

Shen Zheng looked at his sister, silent. What to say? At this moment, he couldn't say anything. He didn't want to tell his sister that the reason he took risks with his life was not just for his own house and ordinary and happy life.

A month ago, after his sister Duan fainted, he received a bad news from the doctor - cancer.

The doctor said that Shen Ying only had about two years left to live.

After that, Shen Zheng thought of various ways, even including finding black market dealers to sell some of his organs.

But fortunately, there was this military expansion. If he could join the army and work hard to make a few military achievements, he could get help from the soldier fund and borrow money from the army to treat his sister's illness.

In this era, cancer is not a big disease. As long as it is treated with some insect technology medical equipment, it can be cured in about half a year, and if the best equipment is used, cancer can even be cured within a month.

But the premise is a lot of medical expenses.

In addition to joining the army to make meritorious service and seeking help from the soldier fund, Shen Zheng has no other way.

But can this be told to Shen Ying?

"Silly girl." Shen Zheng looked at his sister and smiled and wiped the tears from her face. "Becoming a soldier is my dream, you should support me. Besides, I am so lucky that no matter how dangerous the battlefield is, it will not kill me. Don't be childish. How can you not study? Only by going to a good university can you have a good job. I don't want you to be like me, covered in mud and sweat all day long."

"I know you are doing this for me." Shen Ying said with tears, "Brother, I am a burden to you."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Shen Zheng ran to the kitchen, "Tell me, what do you want to eat tonight? I will cook it for you!"

"Let me do it." Shen Ying hurried over. After the brother and sister fought for the kitchen utensils in the kitchen for a while, Shen Zheng finally won and won the right to cook dinner.

Looking at her brother busy in the kitchen, Shen Ying quietly wiped away her tears.

She remembered the scene when she was five years old and married into this family with her mother. At that time, she was timid and panicked, resisting her stepfather and the brother who was two years older than her next to her stepfather.

At that time, the brother looked at himself hiding in the corner and didn't say much. He just went back to the room, took out all his toys and delicious food, and put them in front of him.

"Don't be afraid." He said at that time, "Brother will take care of you."

"Brother will take care of you." This sentence came from the mouth of a seven-year-old child, but it became a true and unchanging promise for a lifetime. When their parents were unfortunately involved in a car accident when Shen Zheng was in the first year of high school, Shen Zheng proved with practical actions how solid his childhood promise was.

"Brother, what can I give you in return?" Shen Ying thought. "No matter what, no matter what price, one day in the future, I will definitely let you live the best life!"

"I won't die on the battlefield." Shen Zheng was also thinking while busy. "Otherwise, what will you do? I will survive strongly and see with my own eyes that you have a happy destination..."

He couldn't help but think of his childhood. On that day, his father held him in his arms and solemnly told him that there was a woman who had been caring for him and taking care of him with all her enthusiasm after he lost his wife, and promised to treat Shen Zheng like his biological mother, so he planned to marry her. Starting tomorrow, Shen Zheng will have a younger sister, a weak girl.

"You are the older brother, you have to take good care of her." said the father.

"Don't worry." Shen Zheng nodded, "I will."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn his head, and what he saw was his sister's gentle eyes.

The brother and sister smiled at each other.

Poverty has become a so-called situation at this time, and they don't care. In each other's hearts, caring for each other and loving each other is enough for them.

Time passed quickly, and it was the day of registration in a blink of an eye. And this day happened to be Shen Ying's first day of school.

Shen Zheng sent Shen Ying to the school gate, waved and left, and Shen Ying kept watching his back until she could no longer see him.

"God, please bless my brother." She prayed secretly in her heart.

With his sister's blessing in the dark, Shen Zheng walked into the Langya Town Legion Base and handed in the registration card. He looked at the young soldiers around him who reported with him, thinking about the highest adaptation value he had obtained before, and his heart was more excited. In his opinion, his legend will begin from now on.