"Down here is the base of the Tulan family training camp. It is about the size of a state on the Lighthouse Star. It is completely covered in an ecological cover, and the internal environment is exactly the same as the Earth. Because it is impossible for ordinary people to stay in the original environment of the Gray Star for a long time. However, if it is modified, it will lose the most important prerequisite for stimulating potential and training superpowers. So in the end, we used the methods of the ancestors in the Great Voyage Era to establish an independent ecosystem on the planet. All training camps are This way, superpower trainers are separated from ordinary people, and motivation and survival are combined into one.”
David pointed to the Tower of Babel: "That's the management center. It's the heart of the entire training camp, like a busy hive. Various institutions, offices, testing centers, tens of thousands of clerks, The stewards, chief deacons, as well as technical advisors and trainers, most of them are ordinary people without any superpowers. I remember the top person in charge here-" He thought for a moment, and then said uncertainly : "Probably a supervisory attendant, he can barely be counted among the ranks of high-level attendants."
"But this little guy who is not even a high-ranking attendant and the ordinary people under him who have a lower status than him, rule thousands of superpowers and millions of potential people in Gray Star. The universe is approaching Half of those with superpowers had the experience of being absolutely dominated by them in their childhood." David couldn't help but shake his head, "Sometimes, I really think this is a very interesting thing. Whether it is the temple system or the entire human society... …”
"The first place I went to Gray Star was this management center. There is a space elevator at the top of the Tower of Babel, which can directly connect to the slave ship. Unlike other planets inhabited by humans in the universe, this place is not built in a planetary orbit. In the space port on the planet, the only channel for external communication is the Tower of Babel in the center of the ecological dome. Even in critical moments, the entire ecological dome turns into a spaceship. The space method of environmental protection is completely ineffective here, and the spacecraft can directly enter the planet's atmosphere - —If that thin layer of things is counted as an atmosphere, but after staying here for nearly two years, I have never seen the entire planet once. From the space elevator to a section a few astronomical units away from the planet, the slave transport The outer walls of the ship and the training ship are always fully closed. It was not until I left here that I looked down at the Gray Star from space for the first time, with a completely new perspective."
"We were herded into the space elevator one formation after another. It was like a huge capsule, with a state of total weightlessness inside. Our companions were floating everywhere, shoulder to shoulder, like stirred oatmeal. I remember that I was very confused at the time, and Philip kept complaining. It made people even more dizzy. I think it must be because he was so complaining. I actually forgot about being nervous and scared at that time..."
"We fell downward with the space elevator in a weightless state for more than half an hour. Then we arrived at the circular square." David pointed to the largest diameter tower in the middle of the Tower of Babel to Gu Hanhan, "right in the middle, The biggest one.”
"We were asked to line up in the square, and then the 'Emperor' who ruled this planet, the supervisory attendant, appeared majestically on the high platform in the center and gave a welcome speech. His speech was brief and put all politicians to shame. , only two sentences. The first sentence is 'This is purgatory on earth, one road leads to heaven, and the other falls to hell.' The second sentence is 'I am waiting for you to leave.' After that, he left. From the appearance It took less than five minutes to leave, and then he never showed up again. I didn't see him again until I left Gray Star, and I saw him twice in total."
"——To be honest, we probably have never met each other. The stage was really high, and there was no projection to broadcast it. When you raised your head, you could only see a blurry figure. And then that time——" David He shook his head, as if to throw something disgusting out of his mind. He said, "I didn't see what his face looked like."
"After the welcome speech of only two sentences, it was time for us slave children who had been together all the way to officially part ways. The first people to be taken away were those children who had already determined on the ship that they could not have super powers. The people who took them away were the Shinsengumi. The New Servant Selection Group, that seems to be the name, is an organization affiliated with the Slave Procurement Department, but they stay in the training camp. The three uppermost towers of the Tower of Babel belong to them Territory. They stay in the place closest to heaven, but they do the same things as the devils in hell."
"After they bring back these children who were eliminated in the superpower screening, they will immediately conduct a second round of screening on them to select those who they think are useful and can add value. Those with extremely high IQs and extremely fast reactions , those with extraordinary talents and special abilities, or even those who are beautiful enough..."
"The screening ratio is about one percent, one percent above the screen, and ninety-nine percent below. The one percent above the screen is considered to be the essence, and has the value to be cultivated into an elite. Every one who passes There will be a special slave ship in Yue City to send the one percent of the selected elites to the family's training school. After ten or eight years of education and cultivation there, they can start to contribute to the family as The lowest level of attendant or servant.”
"It doesn't matter if you can't use up the 'elite' families you cultivated. They can be sold for a good price on the auction block of the high-end slave market, which is enough to offset their worth and years of investment in them. As far as I know, Many families whose power is shrinking or declining rely on this business to make a living, so you see, the super-powered aristocrats are the biggest slave traders in the universe."
"As for the ninety-nine percent of children with mediocre qualifications who are screened out, they are complete scum in the eyes of the slave purchasing department. There may be oil stars, but they are not worth extracting, so they are all packaged and dealt with by the slave company. It is easy to lose money. Every time a superpower noble purchases a large amount of child slaves, he has a mandatory buy-back contract with the slave company. The buy-back price often depends on the power of the family and the degree of bribery of the purchasing butler, but it will never be only 5 yuan. The noble thinks that ordinary people The slaves were not worth their exploitation, so they chose to exploit the slave trading companies.”
"So, you see, Hanhan, the ecology of our universe is oligarchy. The Matthew effect is everywhere. The strong get stronger and the weak get weaker. The superpower family is like a huge black hole, sucking away everything that is beneficial to them. Everything, better talents, more valuable resources, and then it is others' turn to fight for and bite them when they don't like what they throw out. He is a behemoth that is accelerating expansion, overlooking the sky above. People below the clouds. It’s hard to fight it, and it’s getting harder — Mr. Lin is a romantic, and I envy him and admire him, but I think he must have never been to training camp.”
"——The next ones to be taken away were the confirmed superpower awakeners or potential ones. There were only a small number of them, and a combination of a trainer, a superpower warrior and several servants picked them up. "
"Can you see some mountains over there, Hanhan, right on the sandbar."
Gu Hanhan followed the direction of David's finger and saw the edge of the ecosphere. There were some large and small oases dotted in the center of the ash desert. They were formed by the exchange of factors such as temperature, pressure, moisture, and other factors between the ecosphere and the outside world. The oases are covered with vegetation, with natural precipitation and rivers. Each oases has hilly peaks, and the foot of the mountain extends to the edge of the oasis into the lava ash. Going up the mountain, there are houses along the way. And the further you go to the top of the mountain, the larger and more elaborate the houses become. At the foot of the mountain it can only be described as a shack facing the desert, but at the top of the mountain it can be called a luxurious villa with a garden.
"That's the slave camp." David said, "The common standard for slave camps is that there are one hundred and fifty potentials per camp. Each camp will have its own name and flag, and will occupy an oasis alone. For example, the slave camp The guard camp is called Red Scorpion."
David pointed to the nearest oasis, Gu Hanhan mobilized the energy field, and sure enough he saw a flag flying high on the mountain peak, with a red scorpion painted on it. "
"Each slave camp is equipped with two senior trainers, four intermediate trainers, eight ordinary trainers, eight training officers, one affairs officer, six secretaries, and a patrol team led by a quasi-senior superpower. , and nearly five thousand servants, stewards, and servants.”
"Children whose potential levels are determined will be sent to slave camps, and then trained and domesticated until they are trained into qualified superpower slaves. Before high-level potentials touch the high-level barrier, middle- and low-level potentials You have to stay there until you reach the limit of your potential." He said, "The slave camp is a place that can implement the hierarchical order of the superpower world better than the Acropolis. There are only two rules there, one is the hierarchical order, and the other is the hierarchical order. It is loyalty and tameness to the master.”
"Low-level ability users must obey and serve higher-level ability users, and all people, regardless of high or low, must obey the training officer, because he represents the master. Every potential person who has just awakened and has not broken through the low-level barriers enters the slave system. The soldiers in the camp are all naked, living in a humid and hot shack at the foot of the mountain, eating nutritional paste that tastes like toothpaste, and their clothes can only cover their bodies. As the level of superpowers increases, they can get better Accommodation, more exquisite and delicious food, more high-end clothing, and more slaves. In the slave camp, the top superpower is Level 5, so those who work hard to reach Level 5 can occupy the big house on the top of the mountain. , live like a noble, except you still have to obey the correctional officer."
"The slave camp is such a place. All survival materials are graded here, including dignity and personality. They use all means to squeeze your potential and urge you to break through and upgrade until you reach your limit. . In the slave camp, it takes ten to fifteen years at most to allow a slave with junior and intermediate potential to break through to the limit of his or her potential."
"This is unimaginable!" Gu Hanhan looked at the oases on the sandbank in shock and muttered to himself, "How many slave camps are there in the universe."
