under the tower

Qu Chenyuan immediately retracted his neck cowardly, shook his head, and made a movement of zipping his mouth, expressing that he could not speak.

Ji Xi still wanted to ask again, Yan Yi threw a piece of white fish into Ji Xi's bowl, even the tiny fishbone was cleaned.

Ji Xi rolled her eyes and closed her mouth in satisfaction.

After eating, Ji Xi became paralyzed.

He lay lazily on the bed, his eyelids fluttering, as if he was about to fall asleep.

In the entire dormitory, only Qu Chenyuan tried to talk to them as if he had been spat out, Ji Xi ignored him, and the only person Qu Chenyuan chatted with was Qin Zheng, a boring gourd.

"Brother Qin." Qu Chenyuan called out affectionately, "Where did you come from?"

Qin Zheng just glanced at him indifferently, without saying a word.

Qu Chenyuan asked again: "Are you an officer? Your surname is Qin. I haven't heard of this name before."

Qin Zheng finally spoke, and only said a few words dryly: "You don't need to ask, I won't say it."

Qu Chenyuan showed displeasure: "Ah? I just asked casually. We are all roommates. Why do you need to look down on me like this? Your nostrils are almost up to the sky."

Qin Zheng turned his head: "..."

Seeing that he had no intention of opening his mouth at all, Qu Chenyuan closed his mouth embarrassingly, and muttered in a low voice: "If you don't say it, then don't say it, it's like who cares about it."

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the military training mission of several weeks was drawing to a close.

Ji Xi spent three weeks in extreme pain, but fortunately he still had Yan Yi at his disposal, otherwise he would have died countless times prematurely.

During this period, Ji Xi gradually figured out the reward and punishment rules of the scoring system.

——In fact, the rules are very simple. All participants have a base score of [-] at the beginning. During the training process, they will be awarded points at the discretion of the officer. Points will be deducted if they perform poorly or do something that clearly violates discipline.

Generally speaking, the range of score changes is very small. For example, the top three students in a shooting test can get three, two, and one extra points in turn.

In short, the performance of the first three weeks will be converted into a final score, and the purpose of this score will be clear to Ji Xi later.

It will be used in the distribution of materials at the beginning of the screening game.

That's why, almost everyone is trying their best to keep earning points.

The higher the score, the more advanced weapons and other resources you can get, and the greater the chance of survival.

According to incomplete statistics, among the winners of the "plan" in the past three years, at least half of the students started with a score above 80, so 80 is considered the default safety line.

Of course, this is a winning theory advocated by most people nowadays, and they are vividly called "sub-control".

In contrast, a small number of people are called "retailers".

The extreme case of "retailers" is to enter the arena with zero points. When the benchmark score drops to zero, the participants can only get the most crude whiteboard equipment. It is said that eight years ago, God of War entered the arena with zero points, but in the end it was amazing I became the only survivor. Of course, after so many years of the "plan", the extreme retailers have almost become extinct. There is no other reason, and the lack of equipment is extremely harmful to the participants' own combat and survivability. A big test, not everyone can withstand that kind of pressure.

The so-called retailer now refers to keeping one's benchmark score below the average level. The reason for doing so is related to a rule.

——After surviving for seven days in the screening competition, the ranking will be settled according to the final points at 23:59:59 on the seventh day, and the corresponding military rank will be awarded.

This is the only sentence in the official printed rulebook that mentions the winning clause.

Therefore, everyone will tend to eliminate opponents with higher scores and earn higher military ranks, while "retailers" are often neglected because of insufficient oil and water at the beginning, and few people will take the initiative to provoke them.

But on the contrary, due to backward equipment, the strength gap between them and high scorers will become wider and wider, and they will fall into an extremely passive situation.

Therefore, unless a player is particularly timid or extremely confident enough to think that he can turn the tide in the later stage, no one will choose the "retailer" path from the beginning.

Ji Xi prides himself on being neither of the two, and he is completely forced to do so.

Since the ten points had already been deducted, he didn't regret it, and he didn't even bother to argue with the officer, so he might as well just take it calmly.

In the subsequent training, he tried his best not to deduct points from himself. After three weeks, his total score was 55, still at the bottom of the list among all the players.

Before entering the arena, each of them got an electronic watch with a location tracking chip inside, which also recorded the student number and current score.

On the last night, they moved out of the dormitory one after another under the arrangement of the staff. The army took a special car and sent them to the designated places one by one.

At the moment when zero arrives, this seven-day and seven-night survival and survival battle officially kicked off.

Ji Xi and Yan Yi were tied together and loaded into a car, just like when they arrived, their eyes were covered with black cloth belts.

The car sped away, and after a long time, Ji Xi felt being pushed for a few steps, entered a place similar to a room, and then was pushed to sit on a cold and hard chair.

A cold breath rushed up from the ground, his vision was blinded, his hands were tightly tied behind his back, Ji Xi trembled unconsciously, and he began to get a little uncontrollably nervous.

For a moment, it seemed that he was the only one breathing and heartbeating in the entire confined space.

Ji Xi couldn't help shouting: "...Yan Yi."

His voice echoed in the cold air without echo.

Ji Xi froze for a moment, and shouted again: "Yan Yi!"

Still no reply.

Yan Yi is his bodyguard, it is reasonable to say that the two are completely bound, could they be separated?

His vision was pitch black, a few drops of cold sweat appeared on Ji Xi's forehead, he struggled twice, and the hemp rope on his wrist immediately stinged his skin.

Ji Xi took a few deep breaths, and the damp and slightly musty smell in the air entered his nostrils. Ji Xi immediately determined that the place he was in should be a basement.

"--anyone there?"

There was only his own echo in the room.

Damn, is this the beginning?

Ji Xi gritted her teeth, stood up from the chair in a twisted posture with her hands bound, and then walked forward slowly step by step until she touched a hard object.

This is a square object with sharp water chestnuts, about as tall as me, it should be a table.

Ji Xi bent down, he couldn't see, he could only use his body to feel the general shape of the thing and the room furnishings.

With a "bang--", something hit the ground, making a rattling sound.

Listening to the sound, it seems to be a pen holder.

Ji Xi's eyes lit up, she immediately squatted down, and followed the sound to look for things that fell on the ground.

"Bang."

He kicked the thing.

Ji Xi fell on the ground and groped with his bound hands behind him. Immediately after, he found several slender pen holders and a pair of scissors.

He held the scissors in his backhand, and immediately stabbed the hemp rope in his hand unceremoniously.

After tossing and tossing for a long time, Ji Xi finally untied the rope profusely in sweat. The first thing he did after his hands were free was to take off the cloth in front of him.

The whole room was pitch black. Ji Xi's eyes had been modified to have weak night vision ability. He looked around and found the light switch on the wall without hindrance.

With a bang, the light turned on.

The incandescent lamp illuminated the whole room extremely pale, and the chill was overwhelming.

Ji Xi noticed that the layout of this basement seemed to be a rather crude office.

Facing the door, at his hand was a desk and a chair, and against the wall was a single bed covered with thick dust, and the ground was empty, except for a striking black shoulder. Backpack.

Ji Xi picked up the backpack and opened it. There were two bottles of water and three small bags of compressed dry food in it, enough for two people to feed for a day. In addition, the weapons in the bag were only a semi-rusty knife and two smoke bombs. , an empty pistol.

Ji Xi: "..."

He immediately understood that these were the so-called pre-war supplies prepared by the base for them.

55 points, is this the only treatment?

Ji Xi put away the backpack and carried it with her, without touching the supplies inside.

He glanced around, except for the tables and chairs, there was also a piece of paper that looked like a schedule on the wall.

The piece of paper was glued on with tape, and it was already peeling off. Ji Xi saw that there were several circled dates on it, and the most eye-catching time was drawn with a red pen - 2092.12.12.

Ji Xi's fingers paused. He remembered that it was No. 30 two years after the apocalypse broke out, and nearly ten years had passed.

Some plausible characters were written on this date with a pen.

Ji Xi carefully identified the scribbled handwriting, and found that it was a string of messages mixed with words and numbers.

[Experiment 07 reports abnormality]

Ji Xi went back to the desk. Apart from a folder, there was also an old computer on the desk, which was already full of dust. In his hand was a three-drawer chest, which was not locked.

Ji Xi found an object similar to an identity card, which was a card strung with a blue lanyard.

On it was a photo of the upper body of a middle-aged man wearing glasses, as well as a few lines of typography.

Junior experimenter at Mohe Base

Name: Chen Wei

Job number: 9dnaxnro9

There is a brand-new book attached to the side of the badge, which was artificially put in later.

Ji Xi flipped through it and realized that he was sent to the site of an abandoned base.

After the outbreak of the doomsday, after experiencing the darkest melee period, a considerable number of bases, large and small, have sprung up all over the world, among which the Mohe base is a large fortress near the extreme north. The low temperature and harsh climate are not conducive to human survival. Therefore, the number of surviving people in the Mohe base is very small, the supplies are scarce, and the scale of the entire base is not large.

Even so, the Mohe base has remained strong for nearly 20 years since its establishment. Until about ten years ago, it was attacked by a wave of abnormal people unique in history. The Mohe base lost all news after tenacious resistance for three months. .

The Mohe base is about [-] kilometers away from Beicheng in a straight line. The two sides have maintained close communication for many years. Buried underground.

In the second year of spring after the Mohe base was destroyed, as the activities of the abnormal people stabilized, the Beicheng base sent another elite force to carry out a simple cleanup, rescue scientific research materials, and bury the bodies of the victims in the suburbs. Now it is destroyed. Afterwards, there is only a piece of wreckage left in the Mohe base.

Ji Xi put Chen Wei's ID badge in his pocket, and he experimentally pressed the start button under the computer's display screen, and the bulky old machine turned on tremblingly.

Ji Xi took the opportunity to flip through the plastic folder on the desktop, and found that there were sheets of duty records inside.

This low-level experimenter named Chen Wei works on the night shift. He will fill in the signature on the form every night from 10:00 p.m. to 05:30 the next day. The data indicators of the experimental body, and record them truthfully.

Inside the grid was written a long list of numbers that Ji Xi couldn't understand.

After a while, a password bar was displayed on the blue screen, and Ji Xi tried to enter Chen Wei's job number and successfully entered.

What came into view was a screen with blue sky and white clouds. Ji Xi was shocked by the ancient resolution, and then manipulated the mouse beside him strangely.

Perhaps because of the harsh conditions and manpower shortage, the technology at the Mohe base is not well developed, and many equipments are still at the level of decades ago.

The screen is clean, with only a gray chart and an English description below: 21LabMonitor

It should mean the surveillance device of Lab 21.

Ji Xi clicked on the icon, and after the screen loaded for a long time, a picture popped up.

The picture is shot down from the upper corner, facing a huge glass tank in the laboratory, next to it is a test bench connected to wires, and various experimental instruments and prepared test tube solutions are placed in the cabinet against the wall.

Ji Xi was fine if he didn't look at it, but he was really shocked when he saw it.

There is a person locked in that huge glass jar, judging by his figure, isn't it his bodyguard Yan Yi!