Chapter 3 New Recruits Report for Duty

  After five minutes of silence, Lei finally couldn't resist his curiosity. He gently opened the box and first saw a slightly yellowed envelope. Lei opened the envelope and two photos fell out. He picked them up and looked at them. The scenery in the photos seemed to be from around here. The person in the photo looked very similar to Lei, but appeared to be about ten years younger than him. From the rosy cheeks, it could be seen that he was a young man who had just graduated from school.

  Lei reached out and touched the whiskers on his face: "Maybe this is what I looked like when I was young, it seems that I am much stronger than I used to be." Yes, now Lei can take down dozens of thugs by himself, with muscles full of power all over his body, while the boy in the photo had a layer of fat, looking even fatter than Lei.

  Lei picked up the second photo and took a look, a faint smile appeared on his face. He then touched the military sword beside him: "No wonder I had a familiar feeling about the military sword, no wonder I was much stronger than the boy in the photo. It turns out that I really did serve as a soldier."

  The second photo and the first one should have been taken in the same place, only with completely different clothing on people in two photos. Moreover, the boy in the second photo looks very excited, maybe because of his clothes. He was wearing a big military uniform, with a military cap without a badge on his head, which looked bigger than his head, making his body look a bit out of proportion. A large red flower was pinned to his chest, and under it, two characters "Glory" could be vaguely seen.

  Lei looked at the photo and smiled foolishly: "So I used to be a soldier, I was a soldier!" At this time, memories from the depths of Lei's mind also began to emerge.

  A voice full of absolute majesty was there, loudly scolding: "You think you're a soldier just because you've arrived here? No! You're not even a qualified soldier yet! You're just trash in the troops! Trash! Do you understand? If you do, quickly respond with one voice, so I know I'm not wasting my breath. Quickly answer me loudly, you trash!"

  "I understand!" Dozens of people responded in unison, but their voices seemed even less loud than the scolding voice just now.

  Among the dozens of people in that conversation, there was Lei. At that time, Lei had just arrived at the troops, and this place was completely different from what he had imagined. I remembered that when recruiting soldiers, there were three types of soldiers: one was the Southern Navy, one was the Northern Air Force, and the other was the Capital Infantry. At that time, because I thought I could walk on the capital avenue to admire beautiful women, Lei signed up for the infantry. But where is the spacious avenue of the capital? Where are the beauties? Where are the high-rise buildings? What's here is only the icy mountains and those countless stones, and it's said that there are no human habitation within dozens of miles around.

  The snowflakes that had been falling from the sky stopped on Lei's face and quickly melted into ice water, while the accumulated snow on his shoulders was already one centimeter thick. However, he didn't have the courage to brush off the snow because he was listening to the leader's speech.

  The man who was yelling at Lei and the others was a man in his thirties, wearing thick cotton clothing, but still exuding an aura of powerful muscles, even on his face. He shouted again: "My name is Lu Tian, from today I am your platoon leader! I know my name is hard to remember, so you don't need to remember what I'm called, just remember that I'm your platoon leader! Here, what I say is absolute command, and I won't repeat the same sentence twice. Do you understand, you trash?"

  "Understood, sir!" Lei and the other new recruits replied loudly.

  "What? I can't hear! You bunch of trash, speak louder!" Lian Chang shouted angrily.

  Lei and the others, with renewed vigor, shouted again: "Understood! Commander!", this time their voices were noticeably louder than before, they all had red faces from exerting themselves too much, even the snow on their shoulders fell off due to their loud voices.

  Lian Chang nodded slightly, he was still relatively satisfied with this answer, but he sternly shouted: "You trash don't be afraid, have you seen that bell over there? If anyone can't take it, then go ring that bell, I'll throw you back to the filthy city you came from like trash!"

  Lei's gaze leaped over the long body and looked at the clock 100 meters behind him. That clock was so big, just like the big clock in the Shaolin Temple on TV. It was really incomprehensible why there would be such a large clock here (later heard that Lian Chang was an orphan since childhood, he was raised by monks in the Shaolin Temple, and this clock was specially built to commemorate the monks of the Shaolin Temple). Lei stared at the big clock, disdainfully thinking: "Hmph, since I've come here, how can I go back like trash?"

  Perhaps it was because Lei's disdainful psychology showed on his face, that Lian Zhang walked right up to him and loudly shouted: "You piece of trash, what kind of expression was that just now? Do you think this big bell is beneath you?"

  Lei didn't expect Lian Chang's eyes would be so sharp, he hastily replied: "It's not like that."

  With a loud "thud", Lei's abdomen was kicked, and for someone who had never undergone any training, this kick was really too heavy. His body retreated five meters before falling to the ground. Lei's eyes narrowed, silently cursing in his heart, "Damn it, I'll remember this kick."

  Lian Chang yelled at Lei: "You piece of trash, is there a beauty holding you on the ground? Get up for me quickly, damn it!"

  "What's up? Lei felt that he would not be on the ground for more than two seconds, and he immediately got up with his hands supporting his body, ignoring the pain in his abdomen. He quickly ran back to his original position and shouted loudly: "Nothing!"

  With a "thud", Lei's abdomen was kicked again, and he fell back to the place where he had just fallen. Suddenly, Lian Chang roared in anger: "Are you looking down on me? Or do you have a problem with your brain? Don't you know that when answering, you should add the two words 'Lian Chang'?"

  The problem was that Lei felt it wasn't worth the two kicks he had taken for himself, so he hastily scrambled to his feet and ran back to his own position, shouting loudly: "Sorry, I'll remember next time! Commander!"

  Lian Zhang glared at Lei for a moment, then turned to the others and shouted: "You bunch of trash, did you all understand? When answering my questions, add 'Commander Lian' after your response!"

  "Understood! Carry on!" Lei replied in a slightly louder voice than others.