Special Recruitment 005

  "Take a look at these two photos!" Zhang Jun said, handing me the two photos.

  Under the moonlight, I took a closer look at the photos. I found that one of them was my photo, but I didn't remember taking it before. Another one was someone I didn't know, and he looked like no good guy anyway.

  "How did you get my photo?" I asked in puzzlement.

  "Take another look." Zhang Ju pointed at the photo.

  I squinted my eyes and took another look, only to discover that the person wasn't me at all, but someone who looked very similar to me. He was wearing a camouflage uniform and holding an assault rifle in his arms, with a wide grin on his face.

  "Who is he?"

  "He's my younger brother, Zhang Long. He enlisted in the special forces selection five years ago... later became a special forces soldier and finally died at the border..." Zhang Jun said, bursting into tears again.

  I patted him on the shoulder, and now I finally understand.

  "You're treating me like your younger brother, aren't you? You're afraid I won't come back either, so you hit me and don't want me to go, right?"

  "Yes, don't you think I'm selfish? When I saw you, I felt like it was heaven's gift to me. I lost my younger brother, but then heaven sent me someone who looks so similar, with the same surname Zhang, looking just like twins, even your way of doing things is alike. I feel like my life has come alive again."

  "My brother and I grew up without parents from a young age, relying on the charity of our village to survive. The old village chief was a teacher who supported us in our studies, just like our own parents would have. In the end, my brother died in battle, and the old village chief fell ill and eventually passed away."

  "When I saw you, I took you as my younger brother, and I took extra care of you. The brothers all knew about me, they were very understanding, you're not a bad person either, they all liked you too. Maybe this is your fate, you actually want to participate in the special forces selection, although I don't know what this selection is like. But it will definitely be no better than the special forces, and absolutely more dangerous than the special troops."

  I smiled, "Who am I? I'm Zhang Hao. I'm not alone, I carry the care of so many brothers on my back. I don't want to leave this world so early yet. I'm Zhang Long reborn, I'm indestructible, Zhang Long will protect me."

  "I know your decision is hard to change, but I just want to say that you must live on, no matter where you are, remember, you will never be alone, you will always be my brother, Zhang Jun."

  "You will always be my brother, Zhang Hao."

  "Who is this person?" I asked, holding up another photo.

  "He's a drug lord, my brother and his team were sent to the border to capture them during a transaction, but he personally shot and killed them with a sniper rifle. He must have been a special forces operative, as he single-handedly took down eight members of their 12-man squad that time. Nobody knows his real name, only his codename - Akairo, people usually call him Caesar. He's like a ghost, following and shooting his prey, because nobody would think that a drug lord would be so skilled with his hands, better than any of his underlings."

  I gazed intently at the man known as Akao, his most striking feature being a scar on his neck, accompanied by a brown scorpion pendant.

  "I have been thinking about it day and night, after all these years, he still hasn't been caught, I can only wait like this, waiting for the day when he will be brought to justice..."

  That night, we all got drunk and drank till dawn, the sky was almost bright when we returned to our dormitory, fell asleep as soon as we lay down, slept for a whole day. Our class vice president helped us deal with everything. He is a pretty good class vice president, except that he occasionally says something outrageous.

  A few days later, I set foot on the road to the future, a military green big truck, loaded with several cars, each of which can hold twenty people, we squeezed in the small compartment of the truck, sitting face to face.

  Zhang Jun brought all the brothers from the cooking class to see me off. I knew they would be punished when they got back, so I held back my tears and didn't let them fall. At that moment, I finally understood what it means to have a pure brotherly love. They say men don't easily shed tears, but I was still moved to the point where my eyes were brimming with tears. Zhang Jun only said one sentence to me: "Live on, you will always be my younger brother."

  I smiled and said: "You will always be my brother."

  Blood is thicker than water, but water can also be thicker than blood.

  At this time, the sky was already very hot. I am a northerner and the southern weather is simply torture for me. My head is sweating profusely, my clothes are sticking to my body, it's particularly unbearable. The truck drove for a long time before entering the vast mountains.

  The car sped along the yellow gravel road between two mountains, with last year's withered wild grass and newly grown wild grass intertwined in a yellow and green hue. In the distance, unknown birds flew in the forest, while rabbits startled from the roadside bushes darted into the depths of the thicket.

  No one in the carriage was willing to say another word, this scorching weather was driving people a bit crazy, the driver's cab had cool air conditioning, but our carriage didn't have such good treatment, except for the wind blowing by when the vehicle was speeding, not a bit of coolness could be found.

  The cars drove to the point where there were no more roads, and then they just rolled over the wild grass. You could see the blades of grass bent down by the trucks, and you could feel the green juice of the grass all over the tires.

  When we arrived at the entrance of the military camp, we didn't see those stern and straight-standing soldiers, but rather some sloppy sentries standing at the gate. They took a casual look at our documents and let us in. It's true that this place is generally hard to find for ordinary people, and the inspection was just a formality. This area has already been completely blocked off from signals, only specific signals can be used here, and on the way here, we saw signs of military restricted areas far away, so it's absolutely impossible for a group of careless people to rush in.

  Seven or eight trucks drove in, and we gathered at the entrance of the military camp, standing upright. Here is located deep in the mountains, surrounded by trees that can alleviate a lot of heat, so it's not that hot anymore.

  Here is the translation:

  "This is a man carrying a sniper rifle walking over, with an impatient tone: "Hello everyone, my name is Zhang Guang. First of all, welcome everyone to come here, thank you for being able to attend this selection. You are all good, just arrived. Now I announce the first subject of this selection, you have a choice, three minutes to consider..."

  "You can now choose to leave or participate in this selection. If you leave, you will continue to live in your original unit. If you stay and pass the selection, you may receive the best treatment and become one of the most powerful soldiers. Remember, it's just a possibility. In the new battlefield, another kind of battle is about to begin. If you don't pass, you'll return to your original unit life, but you'll be deprived of military merit for three years, even if you sacrifice yourself, there will be no military merit. If you are currently a battalion commander, company commander, colonel, or lieutenant colonel, you will all lose these positions and become lifelong privates. Remember, it's a lifelong private. This means your military career will end at this position. Of course, if you go back now, no one will laugh at you, because anyone would choose to leave. Leaving is your best choice. Here, you are being abused, and no one will cherish you. Alright, the selection begins..."

  Another family, as the saying goes, people with the same surname are relatives!