The First Book: Reborn from the Fire Chapter 48 A Request

  "Company Commander, wow! So many military vehicles, what a big formation! What are the leaders doing?"

  As I walked out of the dormitory and arrived at our training ground, two military helicopters thundered overhead just above our camp gate. I clicked my tongue and walked to the side of Lieutenant Colonel Kuang who was standing on the high platform in the square, asking with some surprise.

  "Hehe, it's probably a mission!"

  He didn't even need to turn his head, these past ten or so days he's been with me almost every day, familiar to the point of being inseparable. Now when he hears my footsteps, he knows who it is. The corners of his mouth curve up in a hint of a smile, and he says with a seemingly pleased and amused tone:

  "These guys have been idle for several months, now suddenly, three military vehicles with a single character on them and three armed helicopters show up. What the heck! This mission is going to be tough for them! They're actually mobilizing over a dozen people!"

  "What's with the military vehicle?" I looked at Lianchang's smile, which hid a lot of sinister intentions, and couldn't help but feel puzzled.

  "It's the special train of the military district chief!"

  Kuang Lian glanced at me with a hint of disdain, as if looking down on this country bumpkin, and continued to explain: "In situations like this, it's certain that the military district chief has arrived, but there are also government officials inside, looks like we've got another tricky matter to deal with!"

  "Commander, how did you know they haven't done anything for several months?"

  I narrowed my eyes and looked at Lianzhang, always feeling that Comrade Lianzhang had many secrets hidden in his heart. As for him knowing the 400-meter obstacle crossing method of the Military Region's Special Reconnaissance Brigade, but not being willing to explain anything to us, I often used this scrutinizing gaze to look at him, hoping to find some answers I wanted to know from his face.

  Ignoring my gaze again, he glanced at me for a long time and said nonchalantly:

  "Because I know that as long as there is a mission, armed helicopters will definitely come to pick them up, and this place is their must-pass route. I remember the last time they made two sorties, but it was already four months ago!"

  I gazed up at the three armed helicopters in the sky with some excitement, and I could vaguely see a few people sitting on them. Underneath the cockpit seemed to be hanging a missile launcher. Thinking that the guys sitting up there looked down on me like little ants, my heart couldn't help but feel envious.

  "Actually, it's going to require the Military Region Special Reconnaissance Brigade to take action. What kind of thorny situation is this?"

  I couldn't help but ask out loud as I thought about these special groups that could be called mysterious.

  "Many, basically the army's reconnaissance troops, local national security bureaus, and even foreign anti-reconnaissance organizations can't handle bigger problems, they will all be handed over to the military region's special reconnaissance brigade!"

  A faint glimmer of surprise flashed across his eyes, and Kuang Lianchang seemed to deliberately control his calm tone, keeping it at a volume that wasn't too loud for others to hear. He smiled slightly as he looked at me and said:

  "But this is generally a national top secret, ordinary people won't know about it. If you want to understand the situation inside, can't you just go in and find out yourself?"

  "I was thinking about it, but they are so formidable, making you sound like Superman?"

  I spat out my tongue and muttered a few words under my breath, then chuckled and said, "Even if I wanted to go, who knows if others would want me to?"

  "Haha, impressive? If it's not impressive, how can it become a special armed force under the Beijing Military Region, or even the capital's organs?"

  Looking at my eyes flashing back and forth, my gaze was tightly fixed on those armed helicopters. Huang Lianchang seemed to know that my heart had been hooked away by them, and he scolded me with a smile:

  "But you little brat, don't think about slacking off. I don't care if the military district's special reconnaissance battalion wants you or not. This time, you must get first place in the division and then represent the division as a new recruit to participate in the military district's military assessment. Bring back a top three ranking. Otherwise, you little brat will be waiting for your return, I'll send you to the breeding farm to find a pig wife to accompany you for three years, and then roll your egg back home!"

  "Isn't that right? I protest, didn't you say last time that as long as I could add points to the group army's martial arts competition, it would be fine? And the ranking only needs to be in the top ten! How come you're going back on your word now?"

  Just then, I took off the leg wraps, waistband and vest on my feet, ran a 400-meter hurdle easily, accidentally broke into one minute twenty-seven seconds, and practiced single-bar exercises for ten large circles. After turning fifty laps in one breath, I saw that Coach Lian's face couldn't hide his joy. He ran to the team for an hour, and when he came back, he always kept a mysterious smile on me. Looking at that warm tone, I knew something was wrong. Now his fox tail has finally come out!

  I have a strong contempt for the comrade in front of me who confuses the Military Region with the Group Army, and I couldn't help but loudly protest. Don't you know that they are two completely different concepts?

  For our garrison troops, my current achievements should be considered top-notch. However, there are still two ace troops in our military region, the XX Army and the XX Army. I heard that the soldiers of those two troops are incredibly abnormal, and any one of them can enter the national weightlifting team or gymnastics team. They play with equipment as if it's flying, can I surpass them?

  "Protests are useless, this time it's an order from the military district. Because of the troop reductions in recent years, the military competitions within the group armies have been cancelled, so the military assessment will become a competition among the various group armies within the entire military district. You know that only old soldiers could enjoy such treatment in previous years! You're lucky to have this opportunity as soon as you arrive, and if you really get a prize, the benefits won't be small..."

  When I see his long smiling face, I absolutely know what it means to be hypocritical or have a sweet mouth and a treacherous heart. He lured me into saying:

  "For example, if you're given a third-class merit in the regiment, it's definitely not going to be less. If the opportunity is good, even if you can't get into the military region's special reconnaissance team, you can still get promoted after a year of mixing around. Who knows, you might even meet the military region's commander-in-chief and get praised by him for a couple of sentences. Then you'll be able to get a second-class merit, isn't that what you want?"

  "I don't care, I have only one request, will you give it or not?"

  I'm not buying what he's selling, I smiled at him with a "who, me?" expression, adopting an air of "dead pigs aren't afraid of boiling water", my eyes slightly mocking him.