By the time Rosen finished breakfast and arrived at the official pilot training room on the first floor of the Shatterdome, sunlight had only just begun to spread across the earth.
Pilots, reserve pilots, pilot candidates, official trainees, and reserve trainees—the responsibilities of these five ranks differed. The Shatterdome was not overly strict with the latter three ranks. They only needed to attend theoretical classes on the second floor every morning and afternoon, then complete the corresponding physical and technical assessments. This was why Rosen had once enjoyed so much free time.
Life was much stricter for pilots and reserve pilots. They had to gather at designated locations at specified times and complete all assigned tasks for the day. They bore the burden of saving the world, as well as the hopeful, eager gazes of countless citizens. Therefore, every action taken by a pilot had to conform to regulations and be flawless.
At that moment, nearly all the pilots had arrived in the training room. They wore neat green short-sleeved uniforms. Among them were Lin Yin, Angie Beckett, Su Luoxia, Seti Andrews, Zhang Wenhu, Zhou Tianhao, Tang Jia, and three other pilots Rosen did not know well—Ji Ye, pilot of "Luoyang"; Hu Jiu, pilot of "Taihang"; and Liu Chengliang, pilot of "Hengduan."
Ji Ye was a woman from Tianjin. She was not tall, but she had a slender figure and fair skin. Her features carried a confident, generous smile, unlike Lin Yin's usual calmness. Her long, ink-black hair fell past her shoulders and was tied into a ponytail behind her back. Graceful and dignified, she possessed the classic beauty of a woman from China's Central Plains. Rosen also secretly noticed that the locks of hair at her temples, pressed close to either side of her face, had been dyed pale