"No one knows," David shook his head slightly. "The human galaxy spans more than 100,000 light-years. In the four thousand years of galactic development, there have been as many superpower families as there are stars in the sky. The only existing superpowers association is the There are more than 3,000 officially registered families, and the remaining self-styled new nobles who have not yet been recognized are even more numerous. Families are dying every moment, and new families are born every moment. And every family, no matter how big or small, strong or weak, is Self-proclaimed or conferred, the reason why it can be called a family must at least have a planet and a training camp first."
"A medium-sized training camp planet generally has about fifteen to thirty slave camps. Large training camps maintain the scale of more than forty slave oases all year round. Some families of the great nobles of the Acropolis own training camps. There is even more than one planet. No family will register the number and specifications of their training camps with the association, and no family will announce the slaves in their training camps to the outside world. Currently, there is only one estimated data, which comes from the temple. The Liberator Organization believes that half of all human beings with superpowers are in slave camps." David couldn't help but have a sarcastic look on his face, "Look at this sandbank, Hanhan. I remember when I first arrived at Gray Star Years ago, there were thirty-eight oasis here. After leaving two years later, he became thirty-two. But now, they are almost the same generation——"
"I counted, David." Gu Hanhan interrupted him in a cryptic tone, "There are now seventy-three oases on this sandbank."
"Oh, really, that's more than double. Look, Hanhan, this is my 'great achievement' in the past ten years. Just because of my accidental appearance, just because I accidentally had the surname Dulan, I even have nothing There is no need to do it. As long as it still exists, the slave camp here will expand as if it was blown by air. And the universe will never lack accidents like mine..."
"But there are seventy-three oases here. The Duran family has seventy-three slave camps on Gray Star alone. You have at least 10,950 super-powered slaves, David." Gu Hanhan Looking at David, he felt a little excited.
"That's not mine, Hanhan, that's from the Dulan family."
"Then how many do you have?" Gu Hanhan was dominated by an irrational emotion and refused to give David a chance to dodge. He immediately asked, "No one else but yourself."
David was silent for a moment, and then said bitterly: "I don't know, Hanhan, I really don't know. We have to ask Hebrews for the specific number. But maybe Hebrews can't accurately tell a number, because there is no way There is no way to completely separate the slaves from the vassals from the family - this number may only be heard when I die and lie in the coffin to distribute the inheritance. I only know that the number of the seventh level cannot exceed three in any case. Number of digits…”
"So you are right, Hanhan, this is indeed my sin," he said. "When I was a slave more than ten years ago, I never stayed in the slave camp for even one day. More than ten years later, I have I have become the same kind of person as the superpower noble who brought all this. I am not qualified to sympathize with anyone here, let alone laugh at or despise them, because I am also such a despicable and ugly person in essence..."
"David..." Gu Hanhan hugged him, feeling extremely guilty and sad. She didn't know what was wrong with her. What right did she have to accuse David here? Just because he was once a victim, he had to become a saint, an unyielding fighter against the entire world. If he couldn't do that, would it be a crime? What kind of gangster logic is this? !
"I'm sorry, David, I'm sorry, I'm just emotional..." she said repeatedly, "That's not the case, you can't say that about yourself. You are not a bad guy, never have been, I have never seen anyone with good character. Nobility can surpass yours..."
David shook his head and whispered: "Don't comfort me, Hanhan, I know very well in my heart what an ugly person I am..."
Gu Hanhan simply didn't know how to comfort him, let alone regret. But soon, David recovered from this self-loathing and self-denial mood and became cheerful again. He kissed Gu Hanhan and then held her hand: "Let's go and take a look inside the base. Behind the high tower of the management center is the military camp for potential candidates. I lived there back then."
"Preparatory potential ones?"
"Yes, preparing potentials is also called the new training camp, slave reserves," David said. "The training camp is accustomed to calling all people who have no confirmed potential as potentials, completely ignoring that at least 99% of them In the end, people cannot develop any potential. It is a kind of beautiful self-deception."
He held Gu Hanhan's hand and walked down the hillside: "I lived there the longest during the two years I was in Gray Star. I don't know what it has become now, or whether the room is still there..."
"It's impossible to demolish it," Gu Hanhan said. "According to my usual experience, the house you lived in before will most likely be covered with a transparent cover, and then there will be a shiny golden sign on the side that says 'xxx's former residence' or something like that - —Don’t worry, you’ll definitely see her when you go…”
"Former residence?" David laughed dumbly, "You are so cute, Hanhan."
"Let's have some fun. You look so pretty when you smile."
They walked along the edge of the ecological shield into the city - it was almost the same as a modern city. Shopping malls, restaurants, various entertainment venues, as well as schools, hospitals, parks... all the buildings that a city should have are available, distributed around the Babel Tower. In the more peripheral areas, there are large-scale residential buildings.
Gu Hanhan held David's arm and walked on the clean and wide streets of the city. He saw that the place was full of people in a hurry, wearing various work uniforms, rushing to work. David told Gu Hanhan that not counting the slaves and handymen, there were at least 100,000 staff maintaining the daily operations of the Gray Planet and the training camp, mainly from the low-level servants and garrison troops of the Dulan family. This city was made for them. Established.
Behind the Tower of Babel, there is a wide avenue that can accommodate a large airship to land directly. There was not a single pedestrian on the road, which led straight to an endless military camp in the distance with no end in sight on three sides.
"That's where the new training camp is located." David recalled, "We followed this road to get to the new training camp."
"After the Shinsengumi and the slave battalion took away their people, it was our turn at last. It was a whole army that came to hand over, more than two thousand people in total. They asked a thousand of us to line up in a square formation, We walked all the way to the camp. The road was really long to walk on foot, and we could only walk from morning to evening, and we were already exhausted."
"In the large playground of the new training camp, we finally met the camp's highest officer, a lieutenant general from the Dulan family's private army - of course not a guard, but a security force composed of superpowers and ordinary soldiers. He His speech was very special. In the entire Gray Star, he was the only one who did not emphasize hierarchical order but openly opposed any form of class hierarchy. He said: 'Little bastards, no matter who you were before, you are still the same when you get here! Whether you are a noble young master or a beggar slave, once you enter this camp, you will be my little soldier! 'Remember, I have no control over what happened before, and I can't control what happens after that, but as long as you are still training One day in camp and this will never change!”
"He is right. Everyone in the new training camp, including the trainers and female secretaries, wears military uniforms, including us of course. That night, each of us got a set of military uniforms, which were metal suits, but I can finally get rid of the annoying brown robe on the slave ship - in fact, the new training camp was originally one of the residences of the family security group, so you can completely regard it as a military camp, only more strict. A way out.”
Beyond the guard gate, outside the military camp, and in the security army's dormitory, soldiers had just gotten up, washed, had meals, and lined up for morning exercises. Loud slogans were heard one after another. The first ray of sunshine in the morning illuminated the noisy military camp, making it appear full of life.
Walking further into the center of the camp, where the door sign says "New Training Camp" is located, but there is silence inside. There are rows of tall buildings with no end in sight. They all have their doors open, and no one can be seen inside. Walking through the criss-crossing paths between the buildings is like walking through a lost town that has been enchanted.
"The standard work and rest time of the new training camp is from five in the morning to nine in the evening. Most of the stimulation training is done outside the ecological cover, sometimes in outer space. The camp is actually just a place to sleep." He said, " I remember one time during survival training, I didn’t touch the bed for two weeks, and I didn’t go back to camp.”
But this place clearly held David's fond memories. He walked through those dormitories familiarly, and finally walked into a dormitory in the same building. There is no elevator on the ninth floor, so climbing up with your feet is exhausting and breathless. The dormitory is a large room with a toilet, a washroom and a storage room. There are twelve bunk beds outside, neatly arranged.
David walked to the bed by the window, held on to the bed frame, and said with emotion: "The room is still there, but the bed has been changed. Too many years have passed..."
"Phillip and I lived in this place back then. He had the upper bunk and the lower bunk." David said to Gu Hanhan, "After entering the new training camp, the previous formations on the spacecraft will not count. The first night They reorganized us into groups of 3,600 people, living in the same dormitory. Philip and I were not originally in the same group, but he kicked the officer in charge of the group, broke into the battalion commander's office, and was beaten After being beaten hard, he was thrown into our group."
"He insisted on living on the highest floor, and he had to have the window seat in the room with the best location on the floor. No one argued with him about the former request, but for the latter request, the two of us fought with everyone on the floor. Fight - the most irritating thing is that this guy is covered in wounds and has no fighting ability at all. He shouts loudly, but in the end I am the one who gets beaten and fights mainly!"
"In fact, this is not necessary at all. Every time the new training camp completes a cycle of stimulation training, there will be a potential test. After each potential test, the new training camp will have nearly one-third fewer people, and some people will go to the new training camp. Groups, some people went to the slave camp. Many beds will be vacant in the dormitories of the new training camp, and the dormitories must be reorganized. People who come in from the same group will bump into each other as long as they stay in the training camp. And more than half a year later, we joined Team 13 together."
