On the way from the assembly point to the classroom, Xia Chujian pretended to tie her shoelaces, letting her roommates go ahead to save seats. She lagged behind, secretly sending a message to Meng Guanghui.
[Xia Chujian]: Chief, what's my military rank?
Meng Guanghui must have been busy with something, because he didn't reply until she was almost at the classroom.
[Meng Guanghui]: Second Lieutenant, isn't it written on your dorm door? If you weren't a Second Lieutenant, do you think you could participate in the flight training there?
Xia Chujian: "..."
[Xia Chujian]: I'm serious, isn't that identity fake? Can a military rank be real too?
[Meng Guanghui]: Do you misunderstand our system? In a place like this, other things can be faked, but military ranks can't. Don't you think…
[Xia Chujian]: Ah?! I'm really a Second Lieutenant?! Isn't that something only college students get?
Then came a GIF of a cat happily spinning around.
[Meng Guanghui]: That's right. High school students who join the army usually only get Sergeant status at best. But you're lucky. You've performed meritorious service several times, and Marshal Huo reported it to the Military. Your Second Lieutenant rank was approved before you went to the base for special training.
[Xia Chujian]: Really? What are the benefits of being a Second Lieutenant? For example, can I get an extra box of Advanced Nutrient Solution every month?
Meng Guanghui, who was typing a message, paused.
Damn it, he forgot about that...
He replied calmly.
[Meng Guanghui]: Second Lieutenants have their own quotas, and the Special Security Bureau also has special subsidies. You do get two boxes of Advanced Nutrient Solution a month, but you're not even home. Why are you in such a hurry? There's plenty of Advanced Nutrient Solution at the Flight Training Base!
[Xia Chujian]: Never mind whether I'm there or not. Please issue my benefits on time. Don't let us frontline soldiers shed blood and tears.
Meng Guanghui: "..."
Give her an inch, and she'll take a mile! A little girl who just graduated from high school thinks she's a real frontline soldier just because she has a fake identity?!
So dramatic! If Xia Chujian were in front of him right now, Meng Guanghui would really want to punch her! He couldn't help but show Xia Chujian's message to Huo Yushen, saying, "Marshal Huo, look, this soldier is hard to manage!"
Huo Yushen glanced at it and said coldly, "A Colonel who can't lead soldiers will be automatically demoted."
Meng Guanghui: "!!!"
Marshal Huo, you've changed! I'm no longer your most favored subordinate!
You're actually going against your most loyal subordinate for an outsider! You'll lose me, your loyal subordinate, if you keep this up!
But Meng Guanghui was also good at self-adjustment.
He thought about it from a different angle and decided that since Huo Yushen was protective, he should be too.
No matter how angry Xia Chujian made him, she was still his soldier, and he had to take good care of her, even if he had to do it on his knees!
[Meng Guanghui]: Understood, don't make a mountain out of a molehill. The Advanced Nutrient Solution will be sent to your home, and all other benefits will be issued together.
Then he started urging Xia Chujian again.
[Meng Guanghui]: This special training is said to have unprecedented opportunities. You must train hard and not embarrass us, understand?
[Meng Guanghui]: You have to beat those young masters and soldiers from the Interstellar Fleet to a pulp! Bring out the energy you put into learning about mechanical mecha. Whoever dares to challenge you, you *KILL THEM ALL*!
Xia Chujian was also fired up by Meng Guanghui's words and immediately replied.
[Xia Chujian]: Roger! Will definitely complete the mission!
Meng Guanghui laughed heartily, finally feeling a sense of accomplishment from having brought out a "good seedling."
Huo Yushen glanced at his chat history with Xia Chujian, and his eyes twitched.
...
At eight o'clock, in the Flight Training Base, everyone sat in the theoretical study classroom on time, and no one was late anymore.
Even those students from noble backgrounds no longer had the carelessness they showed during the morning assembly.
Xia Chujian sat with Mao Yonggui, Sang Yadi, and Chu Qingjuan, watching the four Noble Ladies in front of them sitting upright. She clicked her tongue, thinking that Chief Instructor Pei really had some skills.
She whispered, "Are the Nobles also competing with us commoners? Isn't it a piece of cake for them to be promoted to Colonel-Ranked Officer?"
Chu Qingjuan said seriously, "It's not like that. In the Interstellar Fleet, it's very difficult to be promoted to Colonel-Ranked Officer or higher, even for Nobles now."
Mao Yonggui whispered, "That's right. In the past, Nobles occupied 90% of the Colonel-Ranked Officer or higher positions in the Interstellar Fleet."
"But since Marshal Huo entered the Interstellar Fleet, leading the Fifth Interstellar Fleet, he fought several major battles, taking the initiative to attack. The Noble officer masters were so frightened that a large number of them retired, freeing up many positions for officers from commoner and citizen backgrounds to be promoted."
"Later, in that one battle, the Fifth Interstellar Fleet was reduced to only three people, so even more Noble officers retired from other Interstellar Fleets."
"They came to seize power, not to risk their lives."
"It can be said that half of the Noble officers below the rank of General in the five Interstellar Fleets have left!"
"Because of Marshal Huo, the Interstellar Fleet changed its promotion rules. Now, in the Interstellar Fleet, there is only one hard standard to be promoted to a Colonel-Ranked Officer, and that is military merit. Background, seniority, and even education are no longer important."
"So even Nobles have to show real military merit, otherwise they will be stuck at the Second Lieutenant level forever."
Chu Qingjuan said sarcastically, "This is going to kill those Noble sons and Noble Ladies... These Nobles in the Interstellar Fleet used to be 'you go to war, I take the credit'... Now, hah! Dream on!"
Xia Chujian's expression was slightly strange.
Because she thought of the argument she had with Meng Guanghui before coming here.
At that time, Meng Guanghui looked like he was about to hit her.
Despite this, Meng Guanghui had to admit that the Royal Family and the Four Great Noble Families could still become parachuted high-level officers in the Military.
However, Xia Chujian expressed her understanding, saying that it would be a problem if they couldn't parachute.
Because the Royal Family and the Four Great Noble Families had a very special position in this country, even Xia Chujian, who was raised by Xia Yuanfang with the concept of "equality for all," recognized their privileged status.
But other Nobles, hah, go play somewhere else!
Xia Chujian was now slightly inflated, with a feeling of "everyone below the Four Great Noble Families is an ant."
Although she also knew that she herself was not even as good as an ant...
Her eyes glanced over Ji Nabi in the front row, and Xia Chujian pursed her lips.
Withdrawing her gaze, she focused on the electronic notebook in front of her.
In order to know herself and her enemy, she connected to the base's official website from the electronic notebook to get a general understanding of the current students.
There were a total of two hundred students in this class, all of whom were Chief elite pilots.
One hundred and sixty were male, and forty were female, mainly from the First Interstellar Fleet and the Fifth Interstellar Fleet, because these two fleets accounted for 70% of the students, a total of one hundred and forty people.
Then the Second and Third Interstellar Fleets divided the remaining fifty-nine places.
The last place was given to Xia Chujian, representing the Fourth Interstellar Fleet.
A true lone seedling.
Xia Chujian didn't care, and thought it was quite good.
In fact, if there was anyone from the Fourth Interstellar Fleet here, Xia Chujian would be exposed.
It could be seen that Huo Yushen and Meng Guanghui had put a lot of thought into getting her this opportunity.
According to her current understanding, among these two hundred students, there were ten Nobles, and the rest were civilians or citizens.
Gene Evolvers accounted for 80%, but there were also 20% ordinary people.
In addition, three female students had been expelled in the morning, so they now only had one hundred and ninety-seven people.
The forty girls had already been "reduced" to thirty-seven.
Xia Chujian discovered that one of the girls was now living in a dormitory by herself.
What a great treatment.
...
As the class bell rang, Xia Chujian regained her thoughts and looked forward.
Their classroom for theoretical lessons was a large lecture hall with tiered seating.
Each classroom could seat five hundred people, and the two hundred of them only filled the front rows.
In this classroom called Room Four, Xia Chujian, Chu Qingjuan, Mao Yonggui, and Sang Yadi sat side by side.
While she was curiously browsing the base's official website, Mao Yonggui, Sang Yadi, and Chu Qingjuan had already started looking at the provided materials on their electronic notebooks.
Xia Chujian glanced at them and found that they were looking at Structural Analysis of X-Style Ground Fighter, Driving Outline of X-Style Ground Fighter, Operation Essentials of Thunder-Class Starry Sky Fighter, and Aurora-Class Starry Sky Fighter Repair Manual.
Xia Chujian: "..."
She then remembered that her identity was the Chief Pilot of the Ghost-Class Starry Sky Fighter! She quickly exited the base's official website, took out her electronic notebook, and began to study Warplanes.
Chief Instructor Pei had said in the morning that they would be learning about two types of Warplanes, Ground Fighters and Starry Sky Fighters.
Through systematic study, she learned that Ground Fighters could only fly and fight within the atmosphere of each planet, meaning that they were the armed forces of each planet's government.
And Starry Sky Fighters are detached from the atmosphere, carried into space by Interstellar Spaceships, and used to fight other countries in the boundless universe, hence the name Starry Sky Fighters.
There are many types of Ground Fighters, from Harrier-type to Eagle-Style, all are Ground Fighters.
But there is a type of Warplane, although named Bat-style Fighter Jet, it is neither a Ground Fighter nor a Starry Sky Fighter.
Judging from its technical specifications and appearance, the Bat-style Fighter Jet is no different from a Starry Sky Battleship!
And a Starry Sky Battleship is a higher-level existence than a Starry Sky Cruiser! Xia Chujian looked at the appearance of the Bat-style Fighter Jet displayed on the electronic notebook, and without looking at the markings behind it, she knew that this wasn't Huo Yushen's Warplane?!
She had even been on it!
Although every time she was "escorted" on.
Just thinking about it made her feel stifled.
But this Bat-style Fighter Jet looks really damn cool from the outside!
Xia Chujian couldn't help but tap the electronic notebook, pulling up a small virtual display screen.
A three-dimensional holographic image of the Bat-style Fighter Jet appeared on the virtual display screen.
Xia Chujian could stretch it with her fingers to view the detailed structure of each side of the Bat-style Fighter Jet.
Seeing this, Chu Qingjuan said with emotion: "Such a good Warplane, what a pity..."
"What a pity?"
"Because it is not in the Interstellar Fleet series, although it has space jump capability, it can only cruise between the planets belonging to the Beichen Empire, and cannot go to outer space to fight."
Xia Chujian said frankly: "Garbage Warplane, what's the point of having space jump if it can't go to outer space to fight?"
Chu Qingjuan hurriedly covered her mouth: "My little ancestor! How dare you say anything! Marshal Huo is now in charge of the Special Security Bureau, don't you know how many Special Security Bureau spies are among us! If you dare to say that their Inspector's Warplane is garbage, they will fire you in minutes, understand?!"
Xia Chujian's expression became even more strange.
She wanted to say, Sister Chu, the person you are covering the mouth of is coincidentally a "spy" from the Special Security Bureau...
This is the second update. There will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
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