Yi Chen felt that everyone in Team C was in a very low mood and comforted him: "Cheer up, everyone. Anyway, we have defeated the monsters and accumulated military merits. When we are assigned to the field troops soon, we can get a satisfactory military rank!"
Keen said naively: "Well, I killed three small Bam fish and a blue-winged sea monster. I don't know how much merit points can be converted into! Hehe, it would be great if I could reach the rank of First Class Private!"
Yi Chen couldn't help but look at Keen. He was such a blessed general. He was always at the bottom of the 7th company but managed to survive the battle time and time again.
At this moment, there was an obvious fist-sized dent on the right shoulder of Keen's GR10 Lander power armor. If it went deeper, it would probably cause the function of his power armor to fail.
In the awarding of imperial military ranks, merit points are an important reference standard. As the military rank increases, the salary will increase accordingly.
As long as newly recruited interstellar airborne troops pass basic training such as physical fitness, courage, and willpower, and receive the GR10 lander power armor, they will become official soldiers of the empire and will be awarded the rank of private.
Private is also the lowest military rank in the Kabasi Empire. All soldiers in the current 7th company have this rank.
After the second-class private is the first-class private. It is not easy to obtain the rank of first-class private. It requires 150 merit points. So far, only four people, Yi Chen, Feng Yuan, Tom and Nangong Yi, meet the conditions.
The merit points of the three of them were mainly obtained in the last monster attack on the base of the 11th regiment.
Since Yi Chen was detained in the Soul Prison for 28 days, he did not have the opportunity to participate in field live-fire training, so his merit score remained unchanged from the original 1763.
Feng Yuan has been serving as the temporary company commander of the 7th company for the past month, leading everyone to more or less eliminate some monsters, and his merit points have increased significantly, from 205 to 370.
Tom and Nangong Yi both increased accordingly, from 190 to 260 and from 130 to 190 respectively.
Although the Keen people are a little clumsy, fortunately they are hard-working and diligent. After slowly accumulating over this period of time, their merit points have increased from 25 to 75, which is considered a huge progress, so they want to get the rank of first-class private.
Thinking of this, Yi Chen had to admit that Keen was stupid and had good fortune, relying on his tenacity to slowly catch up with the others. Maybe in a while, when everyone leaves the boot camp, Keane may actually get the rank of private first class.
The saying on earth, 'Diligence makes up for weakness', could not be more appropriate for Keane now!
Comparatively speaking, Li Feng was in a miserable state. He was quite repulsive to being an interstellar airborne trooper, and he couldn't stand Feng Yuan becoming the temporary company commander of the 7th company. He was passive and sabotaged when participating in field live-fire training, and his merit points only increased by 15. , from 130 to 145.
Yi Chen encouraged: "Kien, believe in yourself! With your current rate of progress, when we are assigned to the front-line field troops, you will definitely be able to obtain the rank of first-class private!"
Keen was very happy and received Yi Chen's approval: "Hey, thank you, company commander. Don't worry, I will definitely work harder!"
Li Feng said: "Keene, the first-class soldier is useless, and he will be nothing more than cannon fodder for the empire! Look at you, why were you fighting monsters so hard just now? You were almost hit by a little Bam. Die. If you hadn't been lucky enough to turn around and use your right shoulder to offset the attack, the little bam would have hit your helmet, and now you would have become a corpse there. I advise you, when fighting in the future Be careful, don't just kill enemies without thinking!" As he said this, he pointed at the dozens of corpses on the steel platform.
Keen said cheerfully: "Okay, I understand!"
Yi Chen shook his head helplessly. Li Feng was not very good at talking sometimes, and he seemed to be hurting others when he cared about them. He now knows that when he was imprisoned in the soul prison, Li Feng helped Keen a lot for him.
After looking around for a while, Yi Chen didn't find Feng Yuan in the XY303 ore warehouse. He remembered very clearly that Feng Yuan left from the maintenance cabin first, why he hadn't come back yet!
Tom asked: "Captain, what are you looking for?"
Yi Chen said casually: "Company Commander Feng Yuan, didn't you see him?"
Tom explained: "Captain Feng went after the escaped red-eyed wizard. He refused to let everyone follow and wanted to kill the monster alone. Haha, maybe he wanted to accumulate merit points quickly. After all, his merit points are still far behind yours. !”
Yi Chen didn't expect Tom to view Feng Yuan like this. I guess many people in the 7th company had the same idea as him, so Feng Yuan dared to blatantly chase monsters alone every time without fear of others' suspicion.
Suddenly, Yi Chen asked strangely: "Tom, is the red-eyed wizard the only one who escaped? Are there other monsters?"
Tom said: "There is another one, but no one knows her name. She is half human and half fish. Her attack power is very weak and her body is small and pitiful. She is not worth mentioning. During the battle, she has been hiding behind the red-eyed wizard, which is a bit... ridiculous!"
Yi Chen recalled the scene when Feng Yuan was fighting in the maintenance cabin. The death mermaid's attack was really as insignificant as Tom said. No wonder no one took her seriously, and no one thought about Feng Yuan's attack. The core purpose will be to capture the dead mermaid.
Originally, the purpose of Yi Chen asking Tom was to confirm from his mouth that the one caught by Feng Yuan was the Death Mermaid. This would confirm that Yi Chen's guess was correct. He never thought that no one knew the Death Mermaid.
Now Yi Chen is not sure whether his guess is correct, but this does not prevent Yi Chen from understanding that Feng Yuan is keen on exploring the sea for purely selfish reasons!
"Captain Feng!" Daxton.
"Captain Feng is back after destroying the red-eyed wizard. Everyone, hurry up and get far away," Trond said.
"..."
The XY303 mineral warehouse suddenly rang out with the continuous shouts of members of the supervising team.
Li Feng cursed: "Flattery!"
Yi Chen patted his shoulder: "Li Feng, be patient, we have to avoid Feng Yuan's grandson for the time being!"
Li Feng said nothing and nodded to agree with Yi Chen's persuasion.
Everyone greeted Feng Yuan mechanically and didn't speak. They waited silently for his instructions. The atmosphere was depressing!
Feng Yuan also knew the reason. The battle loss rate was almost over half. It was a blessing that the 7th company did not collapse. What else could he think of!
In fact, he doesn't care about the thoughts and status of the soldiers of the 7th Company. Once he completes the task of capturing the Death Mermaid, he will leave immediately and never come back.
Now two-thirds of the mission is completed. As long as the last one is captured, it doesn't matter if all 7 companies die.
