Breakfast was over within ten minutes.
The children once again put on the anti-epidemic clothes that were said to be able to isolate bacteria, viruses and demons.
They gathered in class units and prepared to enter the devastated town again and surrounded by demons.
This was also the first time that Li Yao saw the "purification troops" stationed next to the camp through Thangka's eyes.
He saw groups of heavily armed soldiers wearing crystal armor, as well as supersonic missiles whizzing past overhead from time to time.
The battle shuttle and a floating battle fortress like a black mountain floated above the camp.
The black barrels and crackling magnetic rails monitored and suppressed the entire ruins of the city.
At the same time, Li Yao also sensed the slightly rapid breathing and uneven heartbeats of many of the thousands of children.
"I feel more and more that there is something wrong with this 'ultimate test'."
Li Yao said calmly, "Last night you told me that because we had just occupied the Black Fort planet and there was a serious shortage of troops, you, the 'student soldiers', were allowed to go into actual combat and take the graduation exam at the same time - this is consistent with the information I had received before. , according to my information, your military strength is indeed extremely scarce.
"However, with such a shortage of troops, a large-scale purification force was stationed nearby to watch you with nothing to do for seven days.
This would be too...a waste of precious troops, right?
"You know, the Imperial Army has occupied the Thick Earth Realm for several years.
It is a transportation hub on the front line.
The Imperial people have spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build the Black Fort Star.
There are crisscrossing bunkers, secret passages and military arsenals underground.
Even if You have occupied all star ports and important ground facilities.
Who can guarantee that Are there not sporadic imperial resistance elements hidden underground?
At this critical moment, every soldier wants to be broken in half and used.
There is no reason for such a powerful purification force not to invest in search and strangulation. , but I play boring games with you little guys in the safe zone.
"Even if the commander of the purification unit wants to select new personnel, there is no need to station the entire unit here.
It is enough to send some unit chief officers and company and platoon-level grassroots commanders.
"So, if this purification force is not just a 'watcher', then they must be guarding or guarding against something, right?"
Thangka glanced at the murderous sword and halberd jungle where the purification troops were stationed, and said doubtfully: "The entire thick soil realm has returned to the embrace of the gods.
It is impossible for the Imperials to attack in a short while.
Even if After attacking, there seems to be nothing particularly valuable here that is worthy of mobilizing troops to protect and guard!"
"That's right.
After thinking about it, I don't think this purification force is guarding against the Imperial Army.
There seems to be only one answer."
Li Yao said calmly, "The one they are guarding against and wary of is you."
"Me, us?"
Thangka couldn't believe it and even felt extremely aggrieved, "Why?
We are the purifiers of the future.
I dream of becoming one of them!"
"I'm afraid that's the problem."
Li Yao sighed and said, "Because as far as I know, ordinary Holy Alliance people rarely 'dream', and the requirements of Purifiers are only higher than ordinary Holy Alliance people.
How can we allow people to dream randomly?"
Stabilizing factors seep in?”
"This, this is the professional requirement of a purifier!"
Thangka's emotions were once again like a stormy sea, about to make waves, "We must have certain emotions and thoughts, that is, the ability to dream, in order to identify dangerous goods!"
"No, you are wrong.
As long as there is a sufficiently detailed list of dangerous goods and a description of the dangerous goods, 99% of the dangerous goods can be identified by cold procedures."
Li Yao said coldly, "Purifiers don't need to know what 'art' is at all.
As long as they see 'a group of colorful pictures', they will destroy it.
Isn't it very convenient and reliable?
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To say the least, it's very convenient and reliable." , even if you really need what you call "purifiers with delicate emotions and sharp thinking", the number does not need to be too many.
Such high-level arms only need to be responsible for 1% of dangerous goods that are difficult to identify, which is enough.
"There are thousands of you here.
I believe they will not be the only batch of graduates from the 'Holy Light Academy' to undergo the ultimate test.
There must be similar tests elsewhere, right?
There are too many.
Without this necessary."
Even though he had just practiced emotional control all night last night, Thangka's breathing still quickened unconsciously, and two groups of flames seemed to appear in front of his eyes that were gradually dimming.
"What do you want to say?"
Thangka murmured, "What on earth do you mean?
This is not our graduation exam.
This is not the purification force selecting new members, so what is it!"
"I don't know, more information is needed to proceed further."
Li Yao said, "I only know that most of the thousands of children here are like you, with strong emotions like fire and sharp thoughts like electricity.
Even if they are dormant in your body, I can feel that they are different from ordinary holy alliances."
People are different.
If ordinary Covenant people are like a frozen lake, then the ice in your brain is making a "click-click" sound.
"Not just you, but all the children, the 'ice' in your brains has cracked, and something is surging out uncontrollably, like a bud that breaks through when the flowers bloom in spring, Your...humanity is awakening, at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"It's not surprising when you think about it - for the past ten years or so, you have been living on a boring starship, facing the four silver-white walls, receiving the most rigorous training, compressing all your desires and thoughts to the limit, and just Like a spring compressed to its limit.
"But, suddenly one day, you were dropped on a habitable planet, facing an... empire town with relatively rich supplies.
Although this town was invaded by war, your number is not large after all, and the remaining The supplies are enough for you to unleash your nature and play unscrupulously and happily for seven days and seven nights.
"During these seven days and seven nights, you are the masters of this city.
You can do whatever little things you want.
All the adults, mentors, officers and soldiers are far away from you, just observing silently from the side - this is nothing, this is simply It's like throwing a person who has been hungry for three days and three nights into a steaming cafeteria and letting him do whatever he wants!
"If this is the way to test Purifiers, I have to say that such testing is too wasteful and complicated."
Thangka was silent for a long time.
"I……" He sobbed silently, "I want to be a Purifier, even in my dreams!"
"Don't get excited.
The more excited you are, the further away you will be from the Purifier's dream."
Li Yao released a stream of warmth to soothe the boy's trembling nerves, "The only good news is that you are not the most excited, excited, and 'abnormal' among the thousands of children.
In fact, after practicing, I will teach you After using the little tricks, you still behaved quite calmly, while others were more miserable than you!
"I originally thought that you were the only 'other' who had such rich thoughts and delicate emotions, but I happened to bump into it.
Now it seems that everyone is the same.
There are thousands of you, and it is very likely that you are Screened according to certain criteria, or..."
"Or what?"
Thangka asked.
"Nothing, let's go and take a look before we talk."
Li Yao originally wanted to say that these thousands of children with rich thoughts and delicate emotions that did not look like Holy Alliance people might have been "produced" according to a certain standard.
After thinking about it, it is better not to say such nonsense without conclusive evidence, so as not to disturb the little guy's mind and make him even more lost.
Under the leadership of the squad leader, the children of the thangka class once again rode the crystal chariot driven by their instructor to the edge of the town and entered their own purification area on foot.
I don't know if it was because of Li Yao's psychological suggestion, but Thangka did feel that everyone was a little weird today, different from yesterday.
When they entered the city yesterday, most of them looked like cold machines, just performing purification tasks according to the steps.
But today, their eyes, their breathing, the trembling of their facial muscles, their rather unnatural gait...
Thangka thought for a long time before he knew how to describe the weirdness of his classmates.
Everyone is the same as them, looking forward to the town in front of them, but also fearing the town in front of them, or themselves in their hearts.
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Stepping over the dancing statue that was shattered into pieces yesterday, they re-established a deeper assembly point.
This is a colorful three-story building with a small and exquisite yard.
There is a rotating statue in the yard.
Trojan horses and slides.
"here it is……"
Thangka's eyes were like glue, tightly clinging to everything he saw, "A kindergarten, a place where the Imperial people cultivate their offspring, is it the same as our nursery?"
"Yes."
Li Yao said, “This is the ‘palm tree’, where all the children covered their hands with colorful paint and pressed them against the white wall, just like the leaves of a big tree.
"That's a merry-go-round.
After the children sit on it, the teacher slowly pushes it beside them.
Ah, this carousel seems to be able to sing.
"This bag can hold the children's feet inside, and then the children will jump around with the bag in hand, competing to see who can jump farther and faster."
"……I do not understand."
Thangka said, "What ability can be trained with such poor training?"
"No ability to train."
Li Yao said, "Just looking for fun."
"They seemed, really, happy."
Thangka's gaze passes through the empty kindergarten and is projected onto the opposite wall.
There are hundreds of children's paintings on the wall.
They use the most gorgeous colors and the clumsiest techniques to capture the happiest moments and the most childish moments. hope.
"Yeah, I think they have reason to be happy."
Li Yao explained, "Most of the first batch of colonists who traveled thousands of miles to the front line to participate in the reconstruction of the planet were bankrupts or even slaves who were desperate in their hometowns.
They were at the bottom of the original society, and their children were naturally incompetent and unqualified.
What kind of kindergarten do you go to?
"Only by taking the risk to come here, in a new paradise full of waste and hope, can their children have the opportunity to live a life they never dreamed of, and be as happy as you see.
I think this is colonization.
Is this the reason why the reporter named this city 'Xinle City'?
"It's a pity that these colonists didn't consider the risks, or they had no choice.
This is the only place of hope.
"Now, where are the children in this kindergarten?"
"I, I don't know."
Thangka suddenly didn't dare to look at everything around him, especially the colorful trees of hope that the children took pictures of with their palms.
He said, "There was no large-scale firefight in the city.
The children should be fine.
They were just sent to the hospital."
Go to the back—" "Going to be purified?"
Li Yao asked.
Somehow, Thangka didn't even have the courage to answer "yes".
The word "purify", flowing with magma and venom, severely burned his soul.
The thangka was silent, and Li Yao was silent.
In the silence, he could hear the rapid breathing and heavy heartbeats of the teenagers around him - or rather, the older children.
"Level 1 dangerous area!"
The squad leader shouted at the top of his lungs, "This is the nest where demons breed.
Purify this place immediately and completely!"
No one moved, and all the "Children of the Holy Light" stood silently, looking at everything around them in a trance, deep thought, or confusion, and at another human lifestyle.
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"What are you still doing?
Did you hear everything?"
The squad leader raised his voice and his cry became more harsh, "Purify, purify, purify everything here!"
"ah!"
Deputy squad leader Liao Meng roared, white beads of sweat rolled down his dark face, and his expression was extremely ferocious.
He picked up a flamethrower and fired at the children's palm paintings, toys and merry-go-rounds.
"Ahhhhhhhh!"
All the "Children of the Holy Light" pulled the trigger hard, destroying everything in sight.
Soon, the colorful kindergarten was plunged into a sea of fire and thick smoke.