The First Volume: Reborn from the Fire Chapter 2: NB's Military Inspection

  The warm sunshine on a winter day feels very comfortable, and it's natural to feel drowsy under such sunlight. Usually at this time, I'd be holding a cigarette, lying down in some secluded spot, feeling like an immortal.

  Today, I'm not that happy. I never thought it's already the sixth day of physical examination. Our armed forces department entrance is still crowded with people. I was even lucky to hear that our city only recruited 98 people this time, but looking at the current situation, even if they want to recruit more than 600 people, it won't be enough.

  I'm sweating all over my forehead, looking left and right, everyone is drenched in sweat, they all look so majestic and extraordinary. As someone who's only 172cm tall, I really don't stand out, plus I'm not old enough, I think I might have to say goodbye to the great Liberation Army uncles.

  Under the arrangement of the staff in the armed forces department, we who were going to take the physical examination were separated from our parents and divided into groups of ten. After waiting for about an hour, I was almost numb in my feet while standing inside the armed forces department, before it was finally our group's turn.

  Checking my eyesight, hearing, weight, dialysis... after going through all these tests, I was left feeling dizzy and overwhelmed. At first, it felt novel and a bit intimidating, but after several rounds of testing, I actually started to feel more at ease. Whatever the results are, they are what they are; since I've made it this far, there's no use worrying about it anymore.

  Our group is very interesting, there are all kinds of people, tall and short, fat and thin, it's really a wonderful scene. What I remember as being particularly funny is that our group has a super fat person.

  His father had inquired from his comrades-in-arms before, and this time the recruits were going to Beijing. It was said that it was still the army, but which unit they would be assigned to was of course a secret that no one knew. However, according to the requirements for new recruits' physical examination, the army required a minimum height of 162 cm and a weight not exceeding 54 kg.

  What about this guy?

  His body is so fat, the flesh on his body is like a bamboo section, and his arm is almost as thick as my thigh. Maybe that's all right, after all, this proves that this brother is strong and healthy. As long as he undergoes three months of training in the army, he will definitely lose weight. Everyone knows that new recruits are not human for three months.

  But this guy is particularly short, standing there at most to my shoulder, looking far away he's walking towards me, oh no! That whole bucket of water is rushing towards me, it really makes my heart surge, I really don't dare to compliment him.

  He stepped onto the scale, and with a "clunk" sound, the staff from the armed forces department turned pale, hastily finding a few weights that they never thought would be used to finally determine this young man's weight. This young man was really something else - 158 centimeters tall, but his weight? A full 72 kilograms!

  Arrived at the surgical examination, ten people stripped naked, making me break out in cold sweat. This guy actually still had **development, and his gender was not very clear. The staff were staring at this man, it was simply a direct slap in the face. How dare someone like this come to participate in the military inspection?

  Logically speaking, a person of this caliber should have been eliminated in the weight category alone, but strangely enough, this kid actually followed us all the way through, not falling behind at any checkpoint, which really makes me very depressed.

  There's also a guy with a pretty boy face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, with two dimples when he smiles, cute to the extreme. If I say his age is only 16, it seems a bit young, but at least his Adam's apple has grown out, so he looks like a man somehow.

  But he, his throat is still flat, and when he speaks, it's still a bit sharp. If he's eighteen years old, then I'm at least twenty-one or older. This guy is clearly underage, if he gets caught working outside, he might even be accused of being a child laborer, and his boss will have to explain why he hired an underage worker.

  This is the smiling, tender-skinned child who actually passed all the checkpoints with us. Looking at him and that fat kid after the physical examination, they only made a note of the unqualified places without filling in whether they were qualified or not, while I was fully qualified and checked through one by one, and it wasn't until then that I felt something was off.

  Looking at the chubby girl and little kid walking among our group of people, laughing and playing, they didn't take their unlikely passing as a big deal. Moreover, the staff members looked at them with a knowing expression, and our group of ten passed the security check one by one, all green lights, and surprisingly, everyone passed the security check.

  After all the soldiers had finished their inspection, when we ten people walked out together, I saw my father and his comrade, the deputy director of the armed forces department, standing together with several uncles chatting happily. That fat guy and little kid actually walked over to join them too. Seeing several uncles calling "Dad" and "Grandpa", my heart was bleeding silently.

  It wasn't until then that I suddenly realized, our entire group was actually all related, the list of 98 new recruits, no matter what our political review and physical examination were like, we were all predetermined, not one less, my reluctance to join the army died completely at that moment.

  I didn't understand everything until the very end. Logically, it should be difficult to join the army in economically backward and underdeveloped areas or rural areas. Joining the army can be a stepping stone and an opportunity to see the world. Those with good qualifications can learn some skills in the army and even stay on for career development, take military school exams, and become officers. Therefore, various means such as giving gifts, building relationships, and bribery are endless.

  In the city, compared to rural children, there are many more opportunities. Being a soldier is bitter and, apart from taking the military academy exam, there's basically no other way out, so those willing to become soldiers were originally few.

  It was during those years that the military service system reform took place, and all city soldiers who retired from the army could be assigned to their parents' work units according to national regulations. Suddenly, joining the army became a sought-after thing in cities as well.

  Many young people who are not diligent in their studies or do not have good connections and cannot find a good job, plus their parents having a good work unit, the army is the best place to be, so now even city residents want to join the army and need to pull strings and go through the back door.

  Unfortunately, my parents' comrade-in-arms was also the deputy director of the armed forces department here. Moreover, although I didn't do well in school and spent all day fooling around outside, I had also trained a good physique. As my father's comrade-in-arms said, what does age matter? Can't you just go to the public security bureau and change your age? With these conditions, I was qualified to be a special forces soldier, not to mention that I also had connections.

  From then on, the door of wearing military uniform was completely opened to me. I had no choice but to walk on this road that would turn me into a real man.

  I remember at that time I was still thinking that Father's words were unreasonable, with this appearance of mine walking over there, why didn't the MM blush and steal a few glances at me? Why wasn't it a real man?

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