Chapter 29 Chapter 29 Enrollment Ceremony

Every year I participate in the induction ceremony of the altruistic school, except this year.It's a quiet ceremony.They undergo thirty days of community service before becoming full members.At this point, the freshmen should be sitting shoulder to shoulder on the bench.Listen to an older member read the faction manifesto, a short passage about forgetting yourself and how dangerous it is to be self-centered.Next, all the old members wash the newborn's feet, and then they share a meal, and each person has to take the meal for the person on his left. Dauntless wouldn't do that. The new arrivals plunged the entire Dauntless base into madness and chaos.There were people everywhere, and by noon most of them were already drunk.I squeezed my way among them before I got myself a plate of lunch to take back to my dorm.On the way back, I saw someone fall down the trail in the deep pit of the base. Judging from his screams and the way he grabbed his leg, he should have broken a bone.

Fortunately, the dormitory is relatively quiet.I stared at the food on the plate. At that time, I grabbed a food that looked good. Now I took a closer look and realized that I chose a very ordinary one: chicken breast, a spoonful of peas, and a piece of black bread .This is food for the disinterested. I sigh.Disinterestedness seeps into my bones.As soon as I do something without thinking about it, the selfless nature emerges.This is what I look like when I'm testing, and it's what I look like when I'm brave.Am I really in the wrong camp? My hands trembled at the thought of Selflessness.I have to warn my family that the Erudites are instigating war and don't know what to do.Something has to be done, but not today.Today I'm going to focus on what's next.Concentrate on one thing at a time.

I ate like a robot, a bite of chicken breast, a bite of peas, a bite of brown bread, and then I took turns.I seem to understand a truth, it doesn't matter which faction I really belong to, two hours later, I will enter the "Fear Space" room with other freshmen, experience my own "Fear Space", and become a real fearless person, now It was too late to turn back. After eating and drinking, I buried my face in the pillow. I didn't want to sleep, but fell asleep after a while.It was Christina who woke me up by shaking her shoulders. "Time to go." She looked pale.

I rubbed my eyes, trying to get rid of sleepiness. I have already put on my shoes, and the freshmen in the dormitory are still busy tying their shoes, buttoning their buttons, and smiling at the people around them as if nothing had happened.I put my hair in a bun and put on a black jacket, zipped up to my chin.The torture will be over soon, but can we forget about the simulations?Can we sleep soundly with memories of fear in our heads?Or is it that one day we will forget the fear we experienced today, as it should? Walking to the deep pit of the base, we climbed up along the path leading to the glass building.I looked up at the glass ceiling but couldn't see daylight because the soles of our shoes covered every inch of glass above our heads.For a moment, I thought I heard glass breaking, but that was really just my imagination.Christina and I walked up the stairs with the crowd in front of us.

I was too short, and my vision was completely blocked by the crowd, so I could only stare at Will's back and follow behind him.Surrounded by so many people, the heat made it hard for me to breathe, and beads of sweat came out of my forehead.From the gaps in the crowd, I finally saw the center of everyone's surroundings: a row of large screens hanging on the wall on the left. I heard a burst of cheers, so I stopped and looked at the screen.On the left screen there is a girl in black, she is in the "fear space" room - Marlene.I watched her every move, her eyes were wide open, but I couldn't tell what kind of fear she was facing.Thankfully, at least people outside can't see what my fear is, at most they can only see my reaction.

The screen in the middle shows that her heart rate fluctuates, speeding up and dropping suddenly.When her heart rate reached normal, the big screen flashed green, and the Dauntless cheered.The screen on the right shows her final time. I took my eyes off the screen and turned and ran, catching up to Will and Christina.Tobias is standing in a door to the left of this room, which I didn't notice the last time I was here, it's right next to the Fear Space room.I walked past him as if nothing had happened, without even looking at him. That room is very big, and there is a big screen inside, which is very similar to the screen outside.A row of people sits on chairs in front of the screen.Eric was one of them, so was Max, and the others looked older.Judging from the wires attached to their heads and the blank stares in their eyes, they should be watching a simulation.

There is a row of chairs behind them, and they are all full now. I was the last one to come in, so there is no seat. "Hello, Triss!" Uriah called to me from across the room.He was sitting with the other freshmen of the faction, the four of them remaining, the others having passed through the Fear Zone.He patted his thigh and shouted, "You can sit on my lap if you want." "It's very tempting." I smiled and shouted at him, "It's okay, I want to stand for a while." I don't want Tobias seeing me sitting on someone's lap. The lights in the "Fear Space" room came on, and Marlene squatted there with tears on her face.Max, Eric, and a few others shook off the confusion while watching the simulation, stood up and walked out.Seconds later, they appeared on the big screen, congratulating her on completing the test.

"The transfer freshmen are in place. The order of the final test depends on your ranking," Tobias said, "so Drew is the first and Triss is the last." In other words, there will be five people who will test first before me. I was standing at the back of the room, a few meters away from Tobias.Tobias and I exchanged knowing glances as Eric shoved the needle into Drew's body, sending him into the Fear Zone.When it's my turn, I can see how other people are behaving, so I know what I need to do to beat them. Watching "Fear Room" outside is no fun.Can see Drew moving, but what he's fighting against, I don't know.After a few minutes, I closed my eyes, didn't want to look any more, and tried not to think about anything.At this moment, there is no use in guessing what fears to face, and how many there are.I just have to remember that I have the experience and the ability to handle all the simulations.

Molly is next.Although it took half as long as Drew, she still ran into trouble.She spent too much time gasping for breath and controlling her panic, even screaming at the top of her lungs at one point. I'm amazed at how easy it is to block everything else out - all thoughts of the Altruism Wars, Tobias, Caleb, parents, friends, and new factions.Now I have only one thing to do: break through this level. Then there would be Christina, then Will "plays," and then Pete.I didn't watch their process, I just remember the time they took, which were twelve minutes, ten minutes, and fifteen minutes.Then my name was called.

"Tracey." I opened my eyes and walked to the front of the observation room.Eric stood there, holding a syringe filled with orange serum.When the needle went into my neck, I barely felt it.Erik pushed the plunger down, and I barely looked at his hole-pocketed face.I pictured it as a tube of orange-colored liquid adrenaline rushing through my veins, making me stronger. "Ready?" he asked.