Chapter Seventy-Three: Subtle Changes

  "Not bad" in the nursing home, Captain Meng brought Meng Dan to see Lin Sheng, "Didn't lose face for the Southwest Military Region."

  "Thank you, Uncle." Seeing the two of them, Lin's depressed mood lifted. Although Hei Mei Gui deserved to die, her entanglement with him could no longer be explained clearly.

  "Thanks to what you sent me, otherwise I would have died several times already."

  "Useless!" Captain Meng laughed: "Equipment is dead, talent is alive. If you're not resourceful enough, even the best equipment in your hands won't be of any use. Tomorrow you'll be taking part in the Leopard Assault Team's assessment, do you have confidence?"

  "There is ~ is there ~" Originally wanted to firmly answer that there was, but when seeing Meng Dan's melancholy eyes, Lin Sheng suddenly became stuttering.

  "Hah, you two go first!" Captain Meng was so clever that he immediately saw through the thoughts of the two young people. "I'll go pay a visit to my old comrade."

  "Are you alright?" Captain Meng retreated and went out, while Meng Dan walked to the bedside and asked with concern.

  "It's okay," Lin Sheng gently stroked Meng Dan's hand and said, "These IV drips are to enhance physical strength. Don't believe me? Touch me, I haven't lost a single piece of flesh."

  "You're really bad" Lin Sheng suddenly became cheerful and Meng Dan Yun said with a sunny tone: "Seeing you slowly changing, I'm very happy in my heart."

  "No way," Lin said gloomily. "I'm still the same me, nothing has changed at all." After that, he also gave Meng Dandan a peck on her small mouth.

  "Still saying nothing!" Meng Dan pouted and said: "In the past, you never dared to take my hand actively, now even kissing is daring. Honestly, is there something hidden from me?!"

  "Dandan, don't get me wrong!" Lin said with a guilty conscience: "Nothing's going on, you're so beautiful, how could I bear to deceive you?" Although the thing between Ah Hong and Hei Mei was beyond their control, after all, there was already a relationship, and it was impossible to completely ignore it.

  "Even your mouth has become sweeter, you used to never know how to make girls happy."

  "I, this..." Looking at Meng Dan's unsettled expression, Lin Sheng knew that he would never be able to surpass her in this lifetime. "If you don't want me to continue staying in the army, I'll immediately apply for a transfer and stay by your side forever."

  "I never thought of that" Meng Dan buried her head in Lin Sheng's arms, "Although I miss you very much, but I have never thought of letting you leave the army, that would be too unfilial to your father. Do you remember what I said to you last time? No matter what happens, I will always support you, and the person I love most in my heart is forever you."

  "Remember" Lin Sheng gently held the beauty, unaware that the beauty had already shed tears.

  "You're so nice!"

  "What's going on! You're in!" The plot is developing to a high point, the head nurse comes in with an unromantic tone, "This is a hospital room, no flirting allowed here!"

  After turning bright red, Meng Dan sat down properly on one side. Lin Sheng immediately let out a loud cry like a slaughtered pig. This guy is quite strange, not afraid of being shot but afraid of being pricked by a needle.

  Captain Meng and his team left the next morning. As soon as Meng Dan was gone, Lin Sheng felt as if something had been scooped out of his heart. This meeting made him feel that both he and Meng Dan had undergone many subtle changes, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what those changes were.

  ……

  "Are you ready, kid?" From the sanatorium, Lin Sheng was taken directly to the Cheetah Strike Team's base in Rongshan, 300 kilometers away from the city. The mountain lived up to its name, with its vast peaks embracing countless lives, all that was good and evil, right and wrong, like a vast green ocean swallowing up countless stories that had already happened or were about to happen.

  "No problem," Lin Sheng smiled and saluted Wu Hai, "Please inspect, Commander." Although the Leopard Strike Team was only a battalion-level unit, Battalion Commander Wu Hua was a senior colonel, so Lin Sheng addressing him as "Commander" was correct.

  "Good job!" Wu Hua patted Lin Sheng's shoulder and said, "I completely believe in your strength, but the rules have already been set, everyone must..."

  "Headmaster doesn't need to explain," Lin Sheng said seriously: "I accept any form of test, but I don't accept any form of special treatment."

  "Good." Wu Hai said with a pleased face: "I like your kind of tough guy, if you want to come, just come openly and honestly, no one dares to look down on you. The Leopard Squad's entrance exam is not fancy, as long as you use half a month's time, within the area circled on the map, escape from the pursuit of the Leopard Squad members and complete the mission to knock them out, that's all."

  "It doesn't sound difficult" Lin Sheng took over the map and said: "How many leopard assault team members will deal with me?"

  "Wu Haiyin smiled slightly, completely gone was the good brotherly demeanor from just now, 'A hundred or so, roughly a company's worth of troops...'"

  Lin Sheng held the map with a helpless bitter smile.

  The assessment area is a dense jungle, covering an area of approximately 500 hectares. It's not difficult to evade tracking, but the challenge lies in how to kill the target protected by the cheetah assault team.

  "The sniper location is set here" Wu Hai seemed to have seen Lin Sheng's concerns, and pointed at the map saying: "This is one of our Cheetah Strike Team's outdoor shooting training ranges, with a depth of over 2 kilometers in all directions. Your 100 team members are already stationed inside, your sniper target is a scarecrow."

  "Understood." Although he knew it was extremely difficult, Lin Sheng still decided to go all out.

  "I completely trust you" Wu Hai pointed to a distant tent and said: "Go there to receive your equipment, an hour later the fifty leopard assault team members under your command will come out of the shooting range, and you also need to enter the assessment area from here. You only have to think of ways to get rid of these fifty team members, penetrate into the shooting range, in order to have a chance to take down the target from under the eyelids of the remaining fifty team members."

  "I guarantee completion of the task." With a bow, Lin Sheng firmly went to receive his equipment.

  "KUB88 sniper rifle, one!" This gun is the world's first to use small-caliber bullets on a sniper rifle. The bullet flies at high speed, with an effective range of 800 meters, and can penetrate 3mm thick A3 steel plate at a distance of 1,000 meters, with stronger penetration than the Type 85 sniper rifle. It has a structure design without a stock, handle, or cheek pad, making the entire gun lighter and reducing recoil. Additionally, it has a low failure rate and is safe to use. Most importantly, it comes equipped with a state-of-the-art white light scope that can continuously zoom in from 3-9 times, with internal markings for precise aiming, easy adjustment, and quick targeting. Lin Sheng plans to snipe his target from long range this time, so naturally, he chooses this gun.

  "Three shots" as usual, Lin Sheng only had three chances, and if he missed all three shots, the mission would be considered a failure.

  A set of digital camouflage; A 92-style new pistol, with 15 rounds of ammunition, mainly used for defense against wild animals; An opening mountain knife and a field combat knife each; A canteen; Enough single soldier dry rations for half a month.

  "Come on, young man!" After sending out all the equipment, Old He, who was in charge of equipment management, encouraged Lin Sheng: "I have high hopes for you."

  "Thank you," Lin said with a bow before walking resolutely into the forest.