Chapter 1

In 3207 AD, with the continuous emergence of various geniuses and the deepening of contact between humans on Earth and highly developed countries on the alien planet, the scientific and technological level of humans has made rapid progress, and the number of colonized planets has also increased. In just less than a thousand years, the colonized planets affiliated to the Great Confederacy of Earth have developed from the original three to the current 325.

Patrick, although this planet is also one of many colonial stars, it does not have real residents. One reason is that the environment of this planet is not suitable for human survival, and the other reason is that this planet is in the name of the Great Federation, but it is owned by the Zongli Church, which is now almost known as the Great Federation.

As the only religion that humans believe in today, Zonglihui has transcendent power in some aspects, and even surpasses the Great Federation. It should be noted that when the Great Star War broke out four hundred years ago, the Great Star Wars broke out and the Great Federation fleet was defeated and was defeated by the human-made forces and lost thirty-six colonial stars, Zonglihui stepped forward and sent thousands of religious people with level six of physical skills and mental power to drive advanced warships introduced by the Great Federation from a highly civilized country to recover the lost ground, and eventually killed the human-made forces in the Milihui where the war originated.

After this, the Lord's Church established its first and its only religious status as an unshakable one. Even the presidents of the Great Federation would go to the Pope every three years to receive the baptism of the Lord's Church.

There is a base built in a deep valley in the central area of ​​Patrick Star. Whether from the inside or outside, this base covering an area of ​​more than 100% is built according to the highest standards of planet development. If we ignore the hundreds of children in the base, this base is a bit stronger than the scale of the third-level military base.

Almost half of the building facilities in the base are all kinds of training rooms, whether it is physical skills training or mental training. I believe that with the help of these high-end training facilities, even ordinary humans are expected to reach the second level of physical skills or mental training in three years.

In the double gravity training room, nearly a hundred children aged from ten to fourteen were training desperately, without any instructor supervision and no surveillance facilities. However, these children were all practicing hard as if they were crazy, as if they would never give up without squeezing the last bit of strength in their bodies.

"Xiao Can, it's time to rest. I'll go to Crafts to mine tomorrow. Now I've exhausted my energy, but I'll have no food for a month."

A child who seems to be twelve or three years old but who has an adult may not have a strong physique, said to him, who is constantly doing push-ups in front of him.

The child called Xiao Can did not stop because of this, but instead did it faster and faster. Although he was almost at the verge of losing strength, his veins were exposed on both arms and his forehead was sweating like rain.

"Nine hundred and thirty-two...nine hundred and sixty-three...one thousand..."

He stood up swayingly, Fang Can's handsome face flashed a little pale, and Tian Tian's lips said, "Aman, you just go to the Crater mining tomorrow, I have other arrangements."

Aman's pair of small eyes blinked a few times in confusion, "Xiao Can, my physical skills have reached the fourth level. If I just go to the crater below 3,000 meters to collect source fire crystals, it would be a problem for me to collect two ores. Then you can rest at the base tomorrow. Don't worry, we are friends, and I won't let you go hungry."

Fang Can shook his head, "I have an arrangement myself, you don't have to think about it for me."

After pausing, Fang Can finally made a decision and said ruthlessly: "Also, don't treat me too well in the future. We are not friends. The last time I helped you, I just wanted to teach a few people a lesson because I was in a bad mood. It happened to hit those guys who were beating you. They were so sluggish that I took action..." After saying that, Fang Can ignored him and stood there in a daze, and staggered out of the training room.

In this base, each child has a room that belongs only to them, and even the tutors in the foundation do not have the right to enter their room.

At this moment, Fang Can was sorting out his backpack and counting the number of bottles of nutrient solution stuffed into the backpack in an orderly manner.

"Thirty-two and a half bottles.... It's been two years. I have finally collected enough foods needed for the plan after only half full every day for two years."

The opposition training base of Patrick is one of more than ten training bases built by the Parliament on major colonial stars. These bases only accommodate children aged eight to fifteen, and are mostly opened on barren planets with scarce resources.

As for Patrick, the gravity of this planet is 1.5 times that of the earth, and the oxygen content in the air is only 10% and the frost and snow are continuous all year round. Calculated by the years on the earth, more than eleven months of the year are severe weather with blizzards and strong winds. Almost all living things on the planet are extinct. Although there are many green plants, 99% of them are highly toxic due to Patrick's soil relationship.

In a sense, Patrick is simply a planet that is not suitable for human survival, let alone leaving a group of young children here to survive.

However, these are also one of the reasons why the Lord of the Republic chose this place as a training base for the Pope to supplement new blood. Only in extremely harsh environments can humans force their potential. The four words "survival of the fittest" have always been words that Lord of the Lord of the Lord of the Republic have spoken.

Fang Can has been sent to Patrick Star for two years and three months. When he came, Fang Can was nine years old. When he came, he was just an innocent child who liked to be tired of his mother's arms. However, since his mother died of illness and he suddenly learned that he was the illegitimate son of Senator Fang Kunlun of the Great Federal, his fate underwent a huge change that he could not imagine.

After his mother passed away, Fang Can was taken home by Fang Kunlun, a politician who seemed to be his father. After only three days, Fang Can was sent to Patrick Star. At that time, he had no idea why all this was. Even now, he was unwilling to think about the reason...

In order to survive, Fang Can grew up quickly from an ignorant child, with the second level of physical skills and the third level of mental power. This is the achievement that Fang Can achieved in two years. Although it is far from comparable to the middle and high-end players of the oscillator base, it is also considered to be at the mid-level level.

Especially Fang Can has only been here for two years and has practiced both systems. Such talent is already considered excellent. You should know that in the Great Federation, even military soldiers can only reach the fourth level of physical skills or the fourth level of mental power after one year of training for recruits, and few fellow practitioners in the two systems can succeed.

Of course, Fang Can's strength has never been shown in front of others. In the eyes of other children, he is just a coward who will be sent back to the earth sooner or later when he reaches the bottom line of the age limit.

You should know that children sent to the base of Zongli have an opportunity to take the ability test once a year. As long as they can pass the test, they will be accepted by Zongli and sent to a higher-end training base to cultivate the elites of Zongli.

Of course, the probability of this selection is extremely low. Nearly 100 children are sent to the oscarpment base every year, but it is a blessing that more than ten children who take the ability test every year can meet the standards.

As for those children who have reached the age limit of sixteen and have never met the standard, they will be sent back to the planet they originally came from.

The worst thing about Patrick is not the blizzard winds that call on the planet all year round, nor is it the 1.5 times the gravity or the oxygen content of the ground, but how to fill your stomach.

There are only three tutors in the amphibian base, but there are more than 1,500 children. These three tutors are not sent to train these children. They are only responsible for teaching the systematic exercise methods of physical skills and mental power to the newcomers after giving them once a year, and they will not care about other things.

And the reason why these more than a thousand children train so hard is to obtain valuable food to provide them with their continued survival.

Whether it is Patrick or Osteostar base, you will definitely not find any food at all. Except when you first arrive, the tutor will send a month-long nutrient solution to each new child. If you need food in the future, you can only exchange it with minerals.

There is a towering crater in the central area of ​​Patrick, which contains extremely rich and distinct minerals. However, due to the harsh environment of Patrick and the extremely hard iron rock of the crater, it makes it very difficult to mine these minerals.

Not only that, the Octavia base does not provide any tools for mining minerals. The trained children must rely on their hands to mine ores for food. The reality is so cruel. But in order to survive, all children silently accept this fate. In fact, they have no room for resistance. Most of them even came here voluntarily.

After all, once you can stand out and join the Zongli Society, your success is just around the corner. You should know that an ordinary priest from the Zongli Society has all the treatments equivalent to the regional executive officer. Therefore, when the Zongli Society goes to major colonial stars to select children to be trained, many parents often feel depressed because their children are too inferior in qualifications and fail to be included in the training list.

Chapter 2

A titanium steel shovel, a standard saber, two strong light flashlights, two sets of changing clothes, and thirty-two bottles of half-nutrition solution were stuffed into Fang Can's backpack. The things inside were all his accumulations in the past two years, and they were only accumulated after suffering countless hardships.

"Crater...I'm going to conquer you this time..."

After leaving the oscillator base, many children who are comparable to Fang Can have advanced toward the crater five miles south of the base. Most people walk together. After all, in the harsh natural environment, the power of unity is often greater at some point, not to mention that they must prevent them from being robbed halfway through the road to take away their hard work.

Generally speaking, most children in the base choose to go to the Craft Mountain mining at the end of the month, ranging from one day to one week, with outstanding abilities or good luck, and encountering a rich mine, the amount of mining in one day is enough for them to exchange for the next month's ration.

Similarly, for those children with bad luck or lack of strength, a week can be said to be the limit for them to stay in the crater. On the one hand, because the harsh climate of the crater is too difficult to bear, the raging blizzard is mixed with bean-sized ice particles constantly attacking for 24 hours. Even adults cannot withstand such tossing.

Second, it is when the end of the month, it is almost time to lose food. If you force yourself to stay in the Craft Mountain and not leave, your strength will be greatly reduced under the torture of hunger, and you may not even be able to bring back the ore you have already mined. After all, it is much better to exchange insufficient minerals for half a month's food ration than starving to death in the Craft Mountain, and anyone can calculate this.

With Fang Can's second-level physical skills, although he was rushing to the road under 1.5 times the gravity, he could quickly adapt. The five-mile journey took him fifteen minutes to reach the journey.

Fang Can did not follow the big army, but walked two miles forward and stopped at a few-known mountaineering point. This time the plan was formulated by Fang Can after three months of coming to Patrick Star.

At that time, he was only at the first level of physical skills and the first level of mental power. He accidentally discovered this mountain climbing point. He originally planned to collect enough minerals for one month to get food and go home. Unexpectedly, due to the sudden outbreak of the mountain torrent, Fang Can was trapped on the crater. Although for the crater that was unknown to tens of thousands of meters high, Fang Can was trapped at the foot of the mountain, his strength and physical strength at that time did not have the ability to go down the mountain torrent.

After two days of hard work, the storm stopped and actually ushered in a sunny weather that only had dozens of days a year. At the same time, Fang Can discovered a path leading to the craterside.

Although this "trail" is not enough to be called a road, it is much easier to walk than the original cliff of the forest. Fang Can took two days to take the risk and extend the path to a height he never dared to imagine that he could climb.

There, Fang Can mined minerals that are much higher than those below 3,000 meters. There are few high-quality source fire crystals with a height below 3,000 meters. Here, it only takes a few hours to harvest several kilograms, and there are even source blue crystals that can be exchanged for half a month of ration for one kilogram.

This trip to the crater gave Fang Can a great harvest, and he received two months of nutrient solution.

However, his good luck was limited to this. When he continued to follow the route of climbing the crater mountainside, he could not find the winding path. Patrick's bad weather made him lose his direction. After several consecutive searches failed, at the same time last year, Fang Can found the "path" again. What surprised Fang Can was that on the same month and the same day, the same mountain torrent broke out for two days, and the sky was clear...

With another success, Fang Can finally affirmed that this "trail" leading to a higher crater will only appear on this special day. Although he could not explain the reason for this phenomenon, he knew clearly that it meant that when he was prepared for the coming year, he could make a lot of money.

Isn’t it too sorry that the minerals that can only be mined at one time can be exchanged for two or three months of food? This is the only chance to be once a year? When the four words "Once and Forever" flashed into Fang Can’s mind, he had already confirmed his trip today.

Although two suns can be seen on Patrick, and even in the storm and snow, the Gemini sun will still hang high in the sky, the night here is very long, about twice the time of day.

After climbing the 3,000-meter height that he had been to many times, Fang Can found a molten hole that could only accommodate three or five people in the size of a person. He looked up at the Gemini Sun, which was gradually sinking in the sky. Fang Can took half a bottle of nutrient solution, took a sip carefully, and quickly covered the lid and put it back.

A bottle of nutrient solution can provide adults with three days of energy. If it is converted to a child who is only eleven years old like Fang Can, a bottle of nutrient solution will be enough for him to maintain his physical fitness for a week.

In the ostehas base, if you want to exchange for a bottle of nutrient solution, you must take out ten kilograms of source fire crystals. Putting aside the consumption of finding source fire crystals ore and climbing the crater's height of three thousand meters, it does not count. In the case of only crude tools, even a child of third-level physical skills will take five hours to mine ten kilograms of source fire crystals.

Although there are still two hours left, enough for Fang Can to mine three kilograms of fire crystals in the nearby mine source, he did not do that, but instead rested his head on his backpack and fell asleep comfortably.

"If everything is as expected, tomorrow will be the day when the mountain torrent breaks out, and the day after tomorrow will clear up. Before that, you must adjust your condition to the best. Two days later, when the 'trail' appears, it is the real moment for you to fight..."

After the past two years of training, Fang Can remained and highly vigilant even during bedtime. At midnight, he suddenly heard a few dull sounds suspected to be from the ground. Fang Can suddenly woke up and sat up, and then seemed to hear the sound of thousands of troops galloping - a mountain torrent broke out.

Chapter XX

There was no whistling wind or ice particles that made people's skin hurt. The Gemini sun hangs high in the sky, shining on a soft light. After packing up, Fang Can's mouth, which came out of the molten hole, showed a rare smile. Heaven follows people's wishes, and he did not make any mistakes.

After passing through several valleys that had been washed away by mountain torrents, a winding path appeared in front of Fang Can. The young man's mind was undoubtedly revealed at this moment. Fang Can turned around twice excitedly and quickly stepped upwards.

The Craft Mountain can be said to be a very strange existence. Not only is the steep and towering mountain, but it is also covered by snowstorms all year round. However, in such a harsh environment, the plants on the mountain grow extremely lush and contain inestimable minerals.

When Fang Can accidentally got the secret of the "trail". After returning to the base, he immediately searched the information in the library and found a series of introductions about the Crater. Although these explanations on the Crater were not very in-depth, they also gave Fang Can a firm determination to implement this plan.

"The crater is circular, with the highest peak at an altitude of 33,000 meters. For every three thousand meters increase in height, the quality of the minerals contained in it will be improved by one level, and there are minerals proprietary to this altitude."

"There are many fire crystals produced at a height of three thousand meters, the produce of blue crystals produced at a height of six thousand meters, the produce of amethyst produced at a height of nine thousand meters, the produce of black crystals produced at a height of two thousand meters, the produce of black crystals produced at a height of five thousand meters, the produce of red crystals produced at a height of eighteen thousand meters, and the produce of black crystals produced at a height of twenty thousand meters, and the produce of a height of more than 21 thousand meters is unknown..."

The above is the information Fang Can found on the Crater from the library, and his target this time is Wujing at a height of 18,000 meters.

Last year, a guy who was very lucky in the ostehas base accidentally picked up a piece of black crystal. It was probably because of a mountain torrent that was washed down by a crushed ore. In the end, this guy used this piece of black crystal, which was about two kilograms, to exchange it for the nutrient solution that he had enough for half a year to eat from the coach.

Fang Can was deeply touched by this incident. He thought that he would still have to stay at the ostehashi base for at least four years, so Fang Can positioned the mining target on Wujing without hesitation.

As the days passed day by day, Fang Can seemed to never do anything else except climbing up the winding path. Even the exposed source blue crystals and even the source amethyst ore veins next to the path could not arouse his slight interest.

"Before reaching the predetermined destination, you must not leave this trail half a step, otherwise if it disappears, my two years of hard work will be wasted..."

Before he knew it, Fang Can almost regarded the "small path" he stepped on as a living thing. He would not leave the winding path when he was thirsty. When he was thirsty, he stuffed the snow into his mouth. When he was hungry, he would take nutrient solution to satisfy his hunger. When the Gemini sun sets, he stopped moving forward and sat cross-legged on the spot to keep the cold with his physical skills.

"There are only twenty-two bottles of nutrient solution left, but it has only been less than one and a half months..."

"Due to the harsh environment and the thinning of oxygen, the consumption during climbing is also increasing day by day. The consumption of physical energy has exceeded the original estimate. Three bottles of nutrient solution were consumed in ten days, which has increased the supply consumption exponentially... The physical energy consumption down the mountain may be less, but at least fifteen bottles of nutrient solution need to be left as a supplement..."

Due to the cold, Fang Can wore all the two sets of clothes he carried in his backpack, but even so, he was still trembling with coldness. At this moment, he began to calculate the consumption he had to keep down the mountain, and fixed his eyes on an exposed mine vein dozens of meters away in front of him.
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