Chapter 4: Captain, don't shoot, it's me!

  As for the Chinese special forces, the time-traveling military merchants, and the Eighth Route Army, perhaps there is no connection between them. However, fate has brought them together. When everyone pushed Wei Yuankun out to scout ahead, Wang Fangyuan, feeling guilty, also followed him out, making all the men present feel a little jealous: "It's not like that, but this Wei guy really has some charm with women." In reality, Wang Fangyuan was only doing this because she felt extremely guilty. After all, it was her who broke the time machine and pushed all the blame onto Wei Yuankun's head. In this unknown world, Wei Yuankun, a man with combat skills slightly inferior to a newly recruited militia, might be killed by some unknown entity. Moreover, he is someone she has known since childhood, growing up in the same compound, and even though he never acted like an older brother, always playing pranks on her, putting gum in her hair, placing mice in her school bag or desk drawer, tying firecrackers to her chair, burning her stockings with a lighter, or tying a rope to her backpack when she was leaving school. However, overall, Wei Yuankun is a good person, a kind-hearted person - at least he has never robbed, killed, or raped anyone, and every time the men in their team went out for group activities after gatherings, he would not join them because he found alcohol more attractive than women, always ending up drunk and asleep. In Wang Fangyuan's eyes, this was enough to prove that he is a good person, as she believed that a drunkard has higher moral standards than a womanizer. Moreover, during their arms-trading actions, although Wei Yuankun would always take the largest share of the spoils, when faced with danger, he would charge forward first, and during negotiations, he would often haggle over a single copper coin for several days (assuming that everyone spoke modern Mandarin Chinese). Overall, letting such a good person go out alone made Wang Fangyuan feel a little unbearable.

  Although Wang Fangyuan couldn't bear it, others were extremely tolerant. Everyone was on edge, and someone had to be the scapegoat. Moreover, more than one person had a despicable thought in their mind: if something unexpected happened to Comrade Wei Yuankun, they might be able to get an extra share. Of course, these thoughts existed only in their subconscious.

  After a long time of silence, it seemed that there was no immediate danger around them. Many boys even started thinking that if things didn't work out, they could become Robinson Crusoe in this space-time continuum. More importantly, the current situation clearly had more girls than boys, and the boyfriends of the school flowers from back then were not present - "perhaps this is an opportunity." Some guys who had previously tried to steal a chicken but ended up losing a handful of rice began to plot again.

  After receiving Wei Yuankun's message that there seemed to be a village from very long ago, many people even had thoughts of conquering the world - "I have guns, cannons, tanks, and the aura of a king; what can't I do in this space-time?" As for the girls' thoughts, apart from being able to confirm that there were many, nothing else could be said. It's just that you can't guess the thoughts of girls, no matter how hard you try.

  In short, everyone had their own ulterior motives.

  As the news brought back by Wei Yuankun got better and better, everyone's fantasy of being called king or overlord was shattered, but because they were worried about not being able to return home, their hanging hearts also let go. However, just as everyone was relaxing, many people were taking it easy and having a good time, when suddenly, bad news came from Wei Yuankun's side: he had encountered the Japanese devils! This made everyone extremely tense, and soon after several scattered gunshots, the sound of gunfire spread like popping beans. The first thought that came to everyone's mind was: Wei Yuankun is definitely done for, because the last sound that came from the walkie-talkie was the explosive sound of him being shot, and judging from the gunfire, the enemy had at least twenty or more people. Although Wei Yuankun was carrying an AK and wearing a heavy-duty bulletproof vest, it didn't mean he could really take a bullet to the head and be invincible; at least, wearing those things made it impossible for him to run fast.

  Since Wei Yuankun's life or death is temporarily not a concern, what everyone should do now is to pay attention to their own safety. Some things don't need to be said, and as soon as people hear the sound of gunfire, they'll know what's going on. Therefore, within two minutes, everyone returned to the assembly point, including several men and women who were halfway through relieving themselves but immediately pulled up their pants and rushed back upon hearing the gunshots. In the chaos, no one noticed where Wang Fangyuan went.

  "Are we going to save Wei Yuankun or not?!" Han Peng asked, sitting on the leading T-72 tank.

  "Of course we have to save him!" Wang He and Zhang Xin were Wei Yuan-kun's sworn brothers, through thick and thin they showed their true colors. At the critical moment, these two guys who grew up with him since childhood still showed their heroic nature. The first one picked up his weapon "Brothers, we can't just stand by and do nothing!" Wang He said this while looking around at the people nearby.

  "Right, we should save him! The gunshots are still echoing, which means the kid is still alive!" The others, especially the boys, all chimed in, but each person's expression said it all - "I'll take the blame, you go die". To be fair, Wei Yuankun's classmates were pretty decent people. After calming down a bit and struggling with their consciences, especially after Wang He mentioned that Wei Yuankun had stashed away a large sum of private money - a diamond twice as big as the one on the British Queen's crown was in his backpack - they all agreed to save him. After all, they had been through thick and thin together, sharing food, loot, and even prostitutes (although Wei Yuankun always ended up footing the bill). If they didn't have this camaraderie, that would be too heartless. So, looking at it from another angle, for the sake of that diamond, they should save him.

  "But who's going to stay behind and guard the house?" a girl asked, after all girls are timid, in such a dangerous environment if there is no boy accompanying them the consequences would be unthinkable. However, this sentence had an equally unthinkable consequence for Wei Yuankun, many boys who heard this sentence had the idea of staying behind to guard the house. But soon everyone discovered that the nearby canvas was shaking violently, it was clear that a large number of people and horses were approaching from three directions, everyone's nerves suddenly became tense, everywhere was the sound of guns being cocked - although more than half of the people forgot to release the safety catch on their guns due to excessive tension.

  The first to come into contact with the crowd were those who emerged from the rear, and when these soldiers wearing worn-out gray military uniforms and carrying all sorts of old rifles with big knives on their backs emerged, they almost came under a hail of gunfire - fortunately, no one in the back opened fire.

  "We are the Eighth Route Army, which part are you from?" Currently, the situation is that the travelers recognize the Eighth Route Army, but the Eighth Route Army does not recognize the travelers. Seeing so many cars in front of them that are several times larger than those of the devils, and a super "turtle shell" that is even bigger than the devil's armored vehicle, the commander of the Eighth Route Army regiment, who was holding a box cannon, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat all over his body.

  "One of us!" said Shen Jian, who was in charge of the rear, and then led by example to lower his gun. These words and actions put the Eighth Route Army at ease, no matter what they wore, as long as they didn't shoot their own kind.

  At this moment, people also emerged from the green silk tent on the right side. Five 21st-century standard Chinese special forces dressed men aimed the muzzle of their 95-style rifles at several girls there, and under the sudden attack, the girls were frightened and shouted "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

  In this situation, it's still up to the man to stabilize the situation. Kong De Ying immediately stepped forward and said "Captain, don't shoot, it's me!", while the person next to him felt that this kid saying this at this time was a bit off, so someone else added: "We are Chinese, what about you?"

  "I am from the 'Northeast Tiger' Special Forces Brigade of the People's Liberation Army!"

  "We are from the 3rd Battalion of the Jidong Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army!"

  At this moment, the front canvas screen shook violently, and then a group of short soldiers with 90 iron hats and earth-yellow military uniforms holding Type 38 rifles came out. When the word "Hakka Road" came out of the mouth of the person in the front, the three people didn't even exchange eye contact, and shouted together: "Devils!" Then the weapons of both sides swept past each other at the same time.

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