Puppeteer [Interstellar]

The puppet master training base, also known as the puppet master academy, is a dream school in the eyes of the general public of the alliance. It is said that as long as you enter this school, you will be able to become a powerful puppet master in the future, with countless fame and fortune, and a good reputation.

Many people's admiration for this school has brought the Puppet Master Academy to a peak, but as the saying goes, things are always reversed, and some things are too high-end, but they are extreme on another level. Although many people praise and praise Puppet Master The college is so beautiful, but there are also some people who think that the school is not as glamorous as it looks on the surface.

About last year or the year before, a father posted a post on a public forum with a virtual account on the Internet. He claimed in the post that the puppet master academy swallowed up his child's life.

About two years ago, the father's son was selected for spiritual power at the age of 15 and went to the puppet master school, but after that, he was never able to contact his son again.

Without any contact information or means, at first he thought it was the reason why the college was a fully closed education. He thought that the children would be able to come back after the summer vacation during the Chinese New Year period, but within a year, he received the government's compassionate pension, At the same time, he got news of his son's accidental death from government officials.

The father felt very painful and puzzled. He asked the relevant departments for the truth many times. He wanted to know the real cause of his son's death, but the government department never responded. Not only did he never respond, when he asked the relevant departments to When the son's body was retrieved, the government actually gave such an answer - since entering the Puppet Master Academy, all members of the academy, whether dead or alive, belong to the government.

So this father can't even see the dead body of his own child. He has to face the reality that the child has passed away, and he has to face the sad situation of a white-haired man sending a black-haired man.

If this father can think about it, maybe he has been sad for a while, and after a long time, he will forget these things.

But the problem is, this father can't think about it, he only has such a child, the only one, he values ​​and wants to protect him more than anyone else, so this father who can't think about it started a campaign against the puppet master academy, against the magic Couple related investigations.

He posted his investigation report and findings in his post, which listed and calculated the mentally qualified teenagers recruited by the government within ten years, and contacted these young children one by one parents and guardians.

According to his report, children selected from various parts of the alliance, including some remote colonial galaxies, enter this academy at most thirty or forty young children each year, at least twenty or even less, but every year In the end, there were less than ten children who could come out of this academy.

Where have all the other children gone?

The father traveled all over the world to collect information, and interviewed those parents whose children were also selected as puppet masters. Their situation was the same as that of the father. information.

But the government gave nothing but money, no news, no corpses, not even relics.

Some parents felt unacceptable and looked everywhere for ways to get specific information about their children. Some of them even firmly believed that the government had lied to them and that their children were not dead.

But the power of the government is strong, and no one dares to oppose the alliance. The parents of these children have nowhere to go, and they can’t find any place where they can get justice for themselves. So one day, this father decided to stand up However, by exposing these things on the Internet, he hopes that his actions can arouse the vigilance of the masses and let them know that this so-called puppet master academy is not such a beautiful place as people imagined.

The father's post caused a storm at the time, and his actions did attract some people's attention, but soon, the father's post was deleted, not only deleted, but also his virtual account and ID They all disappeared overnight.

What is even more strange is that after his post was deleted, many enthusiastic netizens quickly discovered this anomaly. Many people thought that people from relevant departments deliberately covered up the facts and wanted to bury the truth, so they deleted it in such a hurry The post even deleted people's account IDs, but the condemnation of these enthusiastic netizens was quickly drowned out.

The Internet was suddenly swiped by a celebrity scandal that day, a meaningless scandal, but it attracted the attention of the public, so all the controversial voices about the deletion of the father's post were swiped Go on, and then, no one will pay attention to that father or the various things of the Puppet Master Academy.

But not paying attention does not mean being forgotten.

To this day, there are still a small number of people on the Internet who are still speaking out, hoping that people will not blindly believe the beautiful rumors about the puppet master, and not easily send their children to the academy that devours the lives of young people, but these people Too few, and their appeals go unheard and thus have little effect.

Nowadays, the masses still regard this academy as a dream, and try their best to get in even if their heads are broken.

At this moment, Lyle is standing in front of the gate of this academy.

The Puppet Master Academy located on a distant star is almost surrounded by icebergs and frozen soil. The environment on the planet is extremely cold and barren. It is almost in the dark all year round and there is no sunlight. This place is very quiet, so quiet that it can only Can hear the howling wind.

The academy spaceship that Lyle and other freshmen took landed on the landing pad on this planet. Indoors, it felt very cold, too.

The freshmen who had just arrived at the college were obviously at a loss. They huddled together and rubbed their arms involuntarily because of the cold.

They all showed varying degrees of doubts, probably because this college is not the same as they imagined, there is no sunny college playground, no youthful seniors coming and going, no noisy but happy the sound of.

In front of these young children, there is only a passage built with cold gray walls. A huge iron gate can be vaguely seen deep in the passage, which looks like the gate of a prison where certain serious criminals are held.

Not only did the door look like the door of a cell, but there were also many soldiers in Union uniforms guarding the door, just like prison guards guarding the cell, all of them were fully armed and held weapons. They even gradually surrounded them and pointed their guns at these poor young people.

This made these bewildered but very keen children immediately tense up. They gathered together, chattering and wondering, until the senior named Moite came to the front of the line and shouted: "Freshmen line up in two lines, and I'll take you to the front hall."

Moite's tone was no longer as gentle and friendly as it was when he spoke on the academy spaceship.

His tone became harsh and even ruthless, and he started to shout loudly with a blank face: "Those who don't obey orders, run around, and leave the team will be caught by the guards here and locked up for three days. If If the circumstances are serious, those who strongly resist will be killed on the spot."

"It's not fair!" A few radical kids in the freshman team immediately shouted, "You can't treat us like this!"

"Whoever dares to say one more word, the soldiers here will immediately throw you out." Moette turned his head and looked at the freshmen who spoke with an extremely cold gaze. Shivering, Moite continued, "The temperature outside the training base is about minus 56 degrees. Ordinary people can't survive even a minute. If you want to try, you can come and challenge it."

Moaite's words were uneven, and his tone was not turbulent, appearing extremely indifferent.

However, because of this indifferent sentence, everyone shut their mouths.

Seeing that the scene became quiet, Moaite sneered and was quite satisfied. He turned around and walked forward with his puppet, regardless of whether the people behind could keep up.

The few freshmen behind peeped at each other, hesitating whether to follow. For a while, no one took the first step, but the soldiers next to them were still holding guns, and a group surrounded them, making these poor freshmen feel a sense of crisis.

At this time, Lyle made a move. He had a premonition of this situation, so he was not surprised, so he calmly pulled Ska forward. As soon as he moved forward, Arista followed instinctively. , Someone took the first step, and the people behind began to follow one after another. No one wanted to stay here with those ferocious soldiers.

A group of people lined up in a messy line and followed Moaite's buttocks. In fact, there were not many people at all. This group of freshmen only looked like twenty or so, because there were not many people, and everyone didn't talk. The aisle seemed even more empty, leaving only scattered footsteps echoing in the aisle.

The passage was not long, and they quickly came to the huge iron door, and then under Moite's operation, the door was quickly opened.

Entering the door is the front hall, which is actually a very huge auditorium. There are several rows of long tables that can seat about a hundred people. At the end of the front hall is a high platform with several people standing on it.

After walking past those long tables, Moite led the freshman to the front of the high platform, and looked up at the few people standing on the high platform.

"Hello, freshmen." Among the few people, the one who was obviously the leader spoke. This is a tall and thin man, he looks about 30 years old, handsome, but there is a scar on the left eye of his face. If you look carefully, you will find that his left eye is actually a mechanical prosthetic eye, and there are traces of scars in the corner of the eye.

The prosthetic eye is different from the real human eye. It is a kind of mechanical eye. The iris color is sky blue.In fact, the functions of the prosthetic eye are many and very subtle, perhaps stronger than the human eye, but it is a mechanical product after all, and there are many inconveniences.

With the advanced medical technology in modern society, it is not a problem to regenerate an eyeball, so few people use prosthetic eyes. It is unbelievable that the tall and thin man in front of him would actually use such a prosthetic eye.

"I am the administrator of this academy, or it can be said to be the principal. My name is Gaia. I will spend a long time with you in this academy in the future, so I hope you will remember me. "This man, that is, Gaia, began to talk to the freshmen. His tone and Moite's prosthetic eyes also seemed very indifferent. He stood there condescendingly, using his prosthetic eyes to look at the anxious students below. them.

Then Gaia began to smile, but also very coldly, and he began to introduce a golem standing beside him to the new students.

Lyle found that all the puppets basically have very good conditions in appearance. They are all good-looking and well-proportioned. When the Alliance Research Institute makes these puppets, they basically select excellent humans. And I am afraid that on the basis of its excellence, these human genes have been optimized.

So Gaia's puppet is also very good. Lyle noticed it. He found that Gaia's puppet is the same as Arnold's. It should be a second-generation puppet. Interestingly, this puppet also has a scar on the corner of its left eye. , and the scar looks a little new, but the eye socket is not filled with prosthetic eyes.

"This is my puppet, I call him Gerald." Gaia continued, "I used to be a student in this academy just like you. About a few years ago, I successfully graduated from here and became a An officer in the Union, and at the same time began to serve as the principal of this school."

Gaia spoke slowly and in a drawn-out tone, but it made the freshmen below feel a subtle sense of anxiety.

Gaia said: "As the principal, first of all, I would like to welcome you to the puppet master training base; secondly, I want to tell you that this is not the beautiful academy you imagined. I believe some of you should know that the puppet master academy is called It’s a military academy, and here, your every move must strictly comply with the rules and regulations of the academy, and you will be severely punished for violating the rules or fleeing without permission.”