"Jiang Chen, do you want to join a club? Our drama club is recruiting..."
"Student Jiang Chen, I read your paper. I don't understand something about your image processing system. Can I ask you now?"
"God Jiang, can you give me your contact information?"
All the way to the dormitory, the following gazes, the conversations that took place at every opportunity, and the omnipresent seniors made Shen Xu, who had been fully prepared and ready to enjoy it, back off at the last minute. He left Jiang Chen behind and ran away without hesitation. Jiang Chen, who was left behind, talked to classmates and seniors he didn't know all the way, and his voice was a little hoarse when he arrived at the dormitory.
After closing the dormitory door, Jiang Chen let out a long breath. He suddenly had a bad feeling about the military training that would start tomorrow.
"Hello!" The boy who was sleeping next to the door walked up to Jiang Chen, stretched out his hand and greeted him enthusiastically: "My name is Li Gang. When I looked at the dormitory list just now, I thought we had the same name. I didn't expect that I would actually share a dormitory with you, the great master. It's an honor."
Jiang Chen shook hands with him, and seeing that he was the only one in the dormitory, he asked curiously, "Has everyone else not arrived yet?"
"Zhao Feng, the one on the bed opposite me, he went shopping with his girlfriend, the other one hasn't arrived yet." Li Gang glanced at Jiang Chen's suitcase and said, "You only brought such a small suitcase. When we go to the army, we won't be able to buy anything."
Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Aren't all the military training stuff distributed?"
"That's right." Li Gang turned around and took out the things he had prepared from his suitcase one by one: "Sunscreen, toilet water, water cup, Lao Gan Ma, insoles... I told you that you must bring insoles. You will rely on them to survive for half a month. Did you bring them?"
Jiang Chen picked up his light suitcase which only contained a few sets of clothes and toiletries and fell silent.
"You didn't bring it?" Li Gang guessed it from his expression and stood up and said, "It's okay, I'll take you to buy it."
Jiang Chen thought for a moment and asked, "Can you bring these things into the army?"
"Of course you can." Li Gang said confidently, "Our seniors bring them in like this every year. How can it be that we can't do it? That's so unfair."
The result is so unfair.
On the train to the troop, Li Gang held his bag, which had gone from bulging to empty, and felt extremely sad: "How could they treat us like this... It's so inhumane. How am I going to survive for the next half month? How am I going to get through this?"
Jiang Chen sat next to him and smiled to comfort him, "Didn't you leave your insoles and toilet water behind?"
"But there is only one pair!" Li Gang said angrily, "I brought 14 pairs of insoles for easy replacement! He actually only left one pair for me. Military training is tiring, and the feet of grown men stink when they sweat. He wouldn't let me change my insoles, nor would he let anyone else. He's really raising a poison!"
Jiang Chen was drinking water and nearly spit it out when he heard that. He swallowed the water in his mouth, wiped the corners of his mouth, and looked up to see the instructor who was following the car standing next to their seats.
"Raising Gu?" The dark-skinned instructor sneered, "That's a pretty accurate description. Since we're raising Gu, there must be a King of Gu in the end. Do you and your roommate want to be the King of Gu?"
Li Gang coughed twice and said, "Instructor, you heard me wrong. I didn't say raising poisonous insects. I meant storytelling. It's about everyone taking off their shoes and telling stories together, in a very harmonious way."
"Tell us a story?" The instructor said with a smile, "Then tell us a story?"
Li Gang looked at Jiang Chen, and Jiang Chen looked out the window.
“Hehehe…”
When Li Gang tried to get away with it with a silly smile and the instructor left with a sneer, Jiang Chen knew that this military training might not be easy.
As it turned out, he was not wrong.
"One! Two!" The belt hit his leg: "Can you straighten your calf?"
Li Gang made a bitter face and straightened his leg which was about to cramp.
"Not bad." The instructor passed by Jiang Chen and said, "The posture is standard. Come up and show everyone."
Jiang Chen: “Yes!”
He looked ahead where the sunlight was the brightest and walked over helplessly.
This kind of scene has been repeated since the first day of military training. Li Gang is always the one who gets hit, while Jiang Chen is always the one who steps forward to demonstrate.
But no one envied him. Instead, after the initial curiosity and excitement, they all felt extremely sympathetic towards him.
Every time the instructor chooses a training ground, it is sunny. But there are two types of sunshine: general sunshine and special sunshine. Every time the instructor stands, that is, where the model soldier demonstrates, it is always the sunnyest place.
And that's not all. Since he is a model soldier, it would be a big mistake if he made a mistake and led the whole class astray. In order to avoid making mistakes, he had to practice more. When his classmates were finishing their training, he still had to work with the instructors on the training ground. The first two days were obstacle exercises on the sand field. Most of the students could not lift their arms or legs after practicing for an afternoon, but Jiang Chen practiced until nine in the evening.
All of his classmates who saw him that day felt extremely sorry for him. He was covered in sand and mud and looked extremely miserable. When Jiang Chen went to the bathhouse, no matter which class or camp he was from, they all let him cut in line and take a bath directly.
"Stand at attention!" The instructor gave the order, and the students who were kicking put down their feet as if they had been pardoned. Their backs were straight, like little poplars, "Stand at attention."
"That's about it for today's morning training." The instructor said, "Gather on time this afternoon and disband."
After the students applauded, most of them left in groups of two or three, while some just sat down on the steps to replenish their energy on the spot.
"Instructor." Li Gang sat next to Jiang Chen and asked, "Can Jiang Chen leave too?"
"He can't." The instructor said calmly: "Do you want to accompany him?"
"Of course. After all, he is also in my company... the same company. We are good brothers who are in the same class and dormitory. We share the good and the bad."
"Okay, you can practice with us." The instructor pointed to Jiang Chen's side and said, "We just need a substitute."
Li Gang said "Ah?" and stood beside Jiang Chen with a bitter face.
Jiang Chen glanced at him with amusement, but his movements were not at all chaotic.
The current amount of training may seem huge to others, but it is nothing to him. In his previous life, he was in the most rigorous and powerful army in the entire galaxy, and the amount of training was self-evident. Jiang Chen was in it, and although he did not need to train with the troops all the time, the daily training was also very strict. The training he received at that time might be difficult for even ordinary soldiers to complete.
Now that he is back in this body, although it is not as strong and agile as the specially trained body in his previous life, he has improved a lot through his usual deliberate training. At least now the amount of military training is not a problem for him.
And even though many classmates called their instructors devils behind his back because they sympathized with him, he could feel that the instructors in their class were really training them seriously. Every time they kept him behind for special training, it was because they really thought he could continue and they had no intention of making things difficult for him.
Jiang Chen explained this many times to other students including Li Gang. They believed him at first. But ever since that day when he sparred with the instructor on the battlefield and rolled back in the mud several times, no one believed what he said anymore.
And later, no matter how he explained, his classmates would look at him with an "I understand, I understand" look, and the sympathy and heartache contained in that look left him speechless.
"Let's do a set of military boxing." The instructor said, "After we finish the training, the students will have finished their meals. Let's go to the cafeteria."
Jiang Chen nodded, and Li Gang's face became even more bitter. It was bad enough that he had to drag them to train, but he also let them eat leftovers as a matter of course. It was simply too cruel.
After arriving at the cafeteria, it only took a second for Li Gang's expression to change from tired and resentful to radiant.
He stared at the self-service food pick-up area in front of him with wide eyes, and turned to ask Jiang Chen in disbelief: "Is this still the cafeteria where we eat?"
Jiang Chen took a plate as usual and nodded, "The instructors have their own recipes, so they usually don't eat with the students. Each of them needs different nutrients, so they can take what they need."
Li Gang closed his mouth and nodded, then suddenly turned his head and asked, "You think you have been eating here since the military training?"
Jiang Chen picked up a piece of corn and put it on the plate, smiling and saying, "I've said before that I eat lunch every day, and it's a buffet."
"I, I, we thought you were just making up excuses and putting on a fake smile to hold back your grievances!" Li Gang ordered a chicken drumstick and a steak, slurping his saliva while scanning the other dishes frantically: "If I had known this would happen, I would have been willing to train more. It would be okay for me to train until twelve o'clock every day!"
"That's what you said."
"I said so!"
Jiang Chen turned around and said to the instructor: "Look, I said he would agree."
The instructor looked at Li Gang with disdain, crossed his arms and said, "Alright."
Li Gang finished his meal happily and was about to take a nap when he heard the instructor say, "You go to training with us."
Li Gang: “Ah?”
"Didn't you say that if you can eat these every day, you are willing to train until twelve o'clock?" The instructor snorted coldly: "You don't have to train until twelve o'clock, just until ten o'clock every night."
Li Gang: “Ah?!”
Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I have some work to do at the research institute, so I may have to leave early and won't be able to attend the parade. So I suggested to the instructor that you take my place."
"Ah?!" Li Gang quickly refused: "I can't!"
"You can do it." Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I believe you."
Li Gang: "But I don't believe in myself!"
Jiang Chen: "Just trust the instructor."
Li Gang: …
Li Gang: No, I don’t want to believe instructor at all. Now I don’t even believe you.
Seeing that he looked extremely miserable, Jiang Chen suppressed a smile and consoled him, "If I'm making fast progress, I'll try to come back as soon as I can. Don't worry too much. I might be back in two days."
Li Gang forced a smile: "Hahaha."
The instructor glanced at him and asked, "Can we practice?"
Li Gang: "Can you say no?"
Instructor: “No.”
…
When Jiang Chen came out of the military training unit, he saw an off-road vehicle parked outside. Qian Yi was still driving the vehicle, but he didn't expect that there was someone else inside.
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