Chapter 26
Yi Yan and Gu Liangyi stood under the tank and looked up at him, their expressions indescribable.
It is said that one should look at a man with new eyes after three days of absence - but your evolution is too fast!
Yan Beichen jumped off the tank with a smile, and patted the iron thing that was baked hot by the sun with pride: "How about it, Principal Zong asked us to drive this to pick you up, isn't it impressive enough!"
"Enough, enough," Jin Xuan immediately became excited after the initial shock, returning to her trouble-making nature without even a hint of discomfort, "But there's only so much space in the tank, how are we going to get in?"
"It's okay, just learn how to play Curry Country and hang out there." Yan Beichen waved his hand, "We need to adapt to the circumstances and be flexible."
Jin Xuan said "Oh" and then asked, "In a sense, this should also be considered half-hook, right?"
"Uh... you can understand it that way."
Yan Beichen scratched his head.
Several people stood in the desert and studied how to hang themselves up. After the positions were assigned, Yi Yan put the gun in his hand to his waist, supported the tank with one hand and quickly climbed up. Then he turned around and stretched out his hand to Gu Liang below:
"Come up, I'll pull you up."
Gu Liang felt a little embarrassed because he saw that everyone else around him climbed up on their own, but he really had no strength left at the moment, so he pretended to be indifferent and shamelessly grabbed Yi Yan's hand and asked him to help him.
After all, it was a tank, and there was not much space for people to stand on it. After it started moving, Gu Liangyi almost lost his balance and fell down. Yi Yan quickly grabbed the back of his collar with one hand, and he was able to stabilize his body.
"If Instructor Jiao saw you like this," he sighed imperceptibly, one hand still tightly grasping Gu Liangyi's collar, "you'll be finished when you go back."
Gu Liangyi made a bitter face: "Thank you for reminding me, I also know that I am finished."
Additional training is definitely inevitable, since his physical fitness is so poor.
Yan Beichen's voice came from the tank: "Speaking of Instructor Jiao, do you know about the establishment of the Second Special Action Team?"
"Know."
The people clinging to the tank nodded one after another. This news had been confirmed before they left school. People like them who followed Gu Liangyi into the city to protect him all belonged to Team One. Team Two was said to expand its recruitment scope, but the specific candidates had not been announced before they left.
"I'm from the second team," Yan Beichen said proudly, "You can ask me anything. I'm much more informed than Zhuge. He still hasn't managed to keep the weeds on the balcony alive."
Gu Liangyi lit a candle in his heart for Zhuge Xiao who was fighting with Yangcao, and asked curiously: "How many people are there in your second team? Who is the captain?"
The leader of the team entering the fortress this time is Jin Xuan, but strictly speaking, Yi Yan is the captain of the team. Although he is a freshman who just enrolled this year, Instructor Jiao never looks at age when selecting people, but only at ability.
"A little more than you, about 30 people. As for the captain... Tsk," Yan Beichen's voice suddenly became a little unhappy, "The captain is a sophomore named Wang Zichen. I forgot what his major is, but I heard he was on the school basketball team before. He's pretty capable, but he's a little crazy."
"You have a problem with him?"
When Gu Liang heard his tone, he seemed very unhappy.
"Not really. He's usually quite polite to others," Yan Beichen hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't know how to tell him, "It's mainly because of you, Gu Liang. He seems to particularly dislike you. I don't know why."
Gu Liang was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes and fell silent.
Jin Xuan and he had developed feelings for each other over the past few days. Seeing Gu Liang's depressed look, she immediately asked, "Then how did he become the captain? Did Instructor Jiao allow it?"
The biggest mission of these members of the special operations team is to protect Gu Liangyi. Now they have let a student who hates Gu Liang be the team leader. Are Instructor Jiao and the psychological assessment experts at the command center blind?
"I don't know if Instructor Jiao knows about this," Yan Beichen said, "I just felt it. Wang Zichen didn't actually say it publicly... Maybe I'm just too sensitive. Anyway, Gu Liang, you just need to be careful."
Gu Liang nodded: "I understand."
"Don't be discouraged, you still have us!" Jin Xuan nudged him with her elbow. "Everyone in our team is your solid backing, right, captain? It seems that you are the only one in our team who has not joined the Savior Support Group. Do you want me to give you an application form?"
Gu Liang suddenly started coughing. Yi Yan thought he had choked on sand, so he loosened his hand that was holding his collar and patted his back. He said to Jin Xuan, "No need. Second brother, can this tank go any faster?"
"Sure!" Yan Beichen said loudly, "It's just that the wind and sand along the way are a bit strong, remember to wear a mask--"
"We're going to start racing tanks!!!"
As soon as the accelerator was stepped on, the desert tank, which had been moving at a constant speed, immediately accelerated. A strong sense of being pushed back made everyone hold on to the fixed objects around them, for fear that they would be thrown off by this tank that was like a runaway bull.
Different from the stereotype in movies and TV shows that a tank can be caught in a trap by being surrounded by a few soldiers and moves as slowly as a turtle on the battlefield, this fourth-generation desert main battle tank can reach a maximum speed of 80km/h. Its body is composed of ultra-high-hardness armored steel plates, and it has both ultra-long-range and ultra-high attack and close-range defense capabilities.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is a mobile super arsenal.
Moreover, it can easily cross various complex terrains and is equipped with a 48-caliber 125mm smoothbore gun as its main firepower. As for its power...it is not convenient to demonstrate it for the time being because it is too advanced.
The two red suns in the sky were slowly sinking into the horizon, dyeing the vast sea of clouds into an orange-red blazing color. Except for them, the surrounding environment was empty and lonely. The yellow sand in the sky was raising waves on the sand dunes in the evening breeze. Apart from the whistling sound of the wind, the only sound that could be heard for a while was the rumbling sound of the tank engine.
Seeing this, Jin Xuan couldn't help but feel inspired to write poetry: "Although there is no solitary smoke in the desert, it can still be regarded as the setting sun over the long river. It would be a shame if we don't sing a song at this moment. My fellow driver, do you have a playlist in the main control system of your tank? Play a song of Wild Wolf Disco for us!"
Gu Liangyi: “…………”
Whenever he calmed down, Jin Xuan would always say something that made him feel dizzy.
"Shouldn't we sing Desert Camel in this kind of environment?" Yan Beichen said, then he remembered the real point to complain about, "And you're thinking of a tank as a G-Class? How can there be such a thing as a playlist!"
"No?" Jin Xuan still looked very disappointed.
Gu Liangyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately not.
Otherwise, the thought of them standing on a tank and speeding through the desert, with the dynamic Wild Wolf disco music ringing in their ears, and then suddenly braking and stopping in front of Principal Zong who came to greet them at the school gate...
The picture is so beautiful that I can’t bear to imagine it.
"But I brought my cell phone with me," Yan Beichen said immediately, "I can't connect to the Internet here, and the only local music I have is the school song of our Moda University. Do you want to listen to it?"
The engine noise was too loud, and Gu Liangyi couldn't help but raise his voice and asked, "Brother Yan, why did you save the school song to the local music?"
"Isn't this for the freshman party? We talked about it in the group before school started," Yan Beichen also answered him in a hoarse voice in the cockpit, "and then we traveled through time, and the party was ruined."
"That's not necessarily true," Jin Xuan said with a smile. She accidentally choked on a mouthful of sand when she opened her mouth to speak. "Once we've completely adapted to life here, we can actually ask Principal Zong to organize some activities on campus. I think everyone must have been feeling very pent up during this period of time."
With the "vehicle", the originally exhausted people finally had time to rest and their spirits were restored a lot.
However, their location was not far from the school. Before they had talked for long, they could already see the shadow of the campus faintly in the distance.
It has been a week since I left school. Although Gu Liang had only been in MoDU for a short time, when he saw the familiar school gate, he couldn't help but feel a sense of relaxation that "I'm finally home".
“Welcome back!”
As expected, Zong Qinyuan was standing at the school gate waiting for them early. He did not look down on these students who jumped off the tanks and were covered in dust. He walked up to them and gave them a big hug one by one.
Gu Liangyi was the last one. When Zong Qinyuan walked up to him, he couldn't even control his nervousness and hurriedly patted the yellow sand on his robe, but Zong Qinyuan just smiled and patted his back.
"Thank you for your hard work, kids."
After saying that, he turned to the other school leaders who had also come to greet them and instructed: "In the cafeteria, remember to make some sumptuous dishes tonight and send them to the dormitory. We can talk about anything tomorrow. Let them have a good rest today."
"That's great," Jin Xuan said, rubbing her stomach, with lingering fear, "I didn't dare eat their food in the city these past few days. I had to rely on dry food, instant noodles, and self-heating hot pot to survive. I'm almost getting a sore throat."
Zong Qinyuan smiled and said, "Okay, let the canteen prepare some heat-clearing and fire-reducing dishes for you. Also, what are you all doing standing at the school gate? Come in quickly!"
The school gate slowly opened, and Yan Beichen and another driver drove the tank to another road. Gu Liangyi watched them go away, and heard Zong Qinyuan say beside him: "By the way, Instructor Jiao asked me to tell you to come to the special action team's training ground at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and he will take you to recognize the people of the second team."
Gu Liang nodded, and then heard Zong Qinyuan say with a smile:
"He also said that it's only been a week and all the training has gone to waste. The headquarters has told him everything. His instructor's instructor in the army, your ancestor, scolded him in the letter and told you to be prepared. He will teach you a lesson before returning to the city."
Gu Liangyi's expression fell instantly.
But Zong Qinyuan spread his hands without any teacher-student affection, indicating that he could do nothing to help and could only pat him on the shoulder to show encouragement.
Gu Liangyi silently turned his head to the other side.
"Brother Yi, save me..."
Looking at the black-haired young man's big watery eyes that were sparkling with tears... Well, not yet, but looking at Gu Liangyi's pitiful appearance, Yi Yan couldn't help but cough lightly, looking away and said lightly: "It just so happens that I also want to go and see it tomorrow, let's go together."
"Oh, Brother Yi, you are so nice. I like you the most~"
Before Gu Liangyi could say anything, an extremely artificial dubbing sounded behind him, which was enough to make one's ears boil.
Jin Xuan immediately showed an expression that looked like she was about to vomit.
The corner of Gu Liangyi's mouth twitched. He and Yi Yan were both very familiar with this voice - who else except Zhuge Xiao could do such a shameless thing?
"You're here too?"
But Gu Liang didn't care about this, and there was still a hint of surprise in his tone when he saw him.
The young man who had been hiding behind Gu Liangyi and trying to flirt with Yi Yan stood up straight. Relying on his height, he smiled and stretched out his long arms to hook Gu Liangyi's neck, pressing him against his chest and kneading him: "Not bad, not bad, you two look in good shape! Daddy is very pleased!"
Gu Liangyi's hair was rubbed into straw by him, and even the glasses on his nose were crooked. He finally straightened his glasses, stood up with difficulty and asked, "Why... did you only rub me?"
Isn’t Yi Yan still over there!
It was obvious that Zhuge Xiao was looking down on the person. He glanced at Yi Yan and met Yi Yan's cold gaze. He immediately laughed dryly and unconsciously loosened his arms around Gu Liangyi's neck.
"Well, forget it, Brother Yi."
He doesn't want to die young just yet.
"...You are bullying the weak and afraid of the strong."
Gu Liangyi protested with his eyes wide open, although it had no deterrent effect at all.
"This is the first time I've heard someone voluntarily admit that he's weak," Zhuge Xiao deliberately misinterpreted his meaning, "But let me tell you, a lot of things happened in school this week when you were away! Let me tell you one by one when I get back to the dormitory..."
After putting down their luggage and saying goodbye to the school leaders, Gu Liangyi and the others went back to the dormitory to rest. Zong Qinyuan stood there, silent for a moment, and asked his secretary: "Has the headquarters sent any message about the last words left by the prophet to mankind?"
"Not yet," the secretary shook his head, "I guess they are still under discussion."
Zong Qinyuan sighed.
"I understand. This matter is indeed of great importance," he said. "In fact, I have always been confused, and my confusion has only increased since Gu Liang and the others entered Morton City. Since this is a showdown between civilizations, why do the people of this world seem to be completely unaware of this matter? Who exactly are our opponents?"
The secretary asked in confusion: "But we still don't know anything."
Zong Qinyuan shook his head.
He already had a vague guess in his mind, but on the surface, Zong Qinyuan still said: "Let's wait for the headquarters to decide. This is a serious matter, and it's difficult for me to make a decision alone."
Earth Command, in the meeting room.
Lu Lang twirled the pen in his hand as he listened to the experts below split into several factions, arguing with each other without giving in.
The crux of their argument was the hidden meaning behind that last words.
Lu Lang then looked down at his watch and yawned secretly, knowing that they would probably continue to argue for a while. He sat in his seat, but his thoughts could not help but start to wander -
What did Gu Liangyi think of this sentence?
Does he agree with your own ideas?
"Minister Lu..."
"Minister Lu!"
The repeated calls finally pulled Lu Lang back from his wandering thoughts. He sat up straight and asked seriously, "What's the matter?"
There was no sign at all that he was openly distracted just now.
The person who called him was very angry, but for the sake of Lu Lang's status, he still suppressed his anger and asked, "Minister Lu, did you hear our discussion just now? Whose guess do you think is correct?"
"Whether it is correct or not... I can't make a final conclusion. Because we are not sure how much truth there is in the old orc's words."
Lu Lang smiled and did not fall into his trap, but instead made an ambiguous remark.
But then he changed the subject:
"However, if we assume that everything he said is true, and that the prophet Antonio is indeed a philanthropic and tolerant sage, and that the object of this tolerance is 'all the creatures on the continent of Ansel', then this means a very bad reality for mankind."
His tone gradually became serious: "Our opponents may not be truly 'alive' beings."
"——I think that last words may be telling us that the real demon god Seris is still alive."
Coincidentally, after returning to the dormitory, Gu Liangyi also expressed similar speculation during the discussion.
"No way... a thousand-year-old monster?" Zhuge Xiao turned around and sat on his chair, resting his chin on his arm and said in amazement, "So if we want to win, we have to find the person first, right? But who knows where he is sealed, we can't just dig up his grave all over the continent."
"Yes, that's why it's very troublesome," Gu Liangyi sighed, "Magic crystals will also slowly lose energy over time. No wonder I can only feel a small part of them. They should all be high-level magic crystals handed down from the Seris period, representing the glory of an era of civilization."
"It seems that even the method of slowly spending time to collect civilization points will hardly work in this case." Yan Beichen frowned, and suddenly he was shocked, "Wait a minute, didn't they also add some civilization points at the beginning? So, could it be that the demon god has broken the seal and resurrected!?"
Gu Liangyi: "Based on the current situation, it is very likely."
As for where his real body is, only the demon himself knows.
"Then you guys are using his name to scam people in the city, won't get into trouble?"
“In fact, at the beginning, everyone thought that the representative of civilization in this world might be the city lord who never shows up in public,” Gu Liangyi leaned against the table and said thoughtfully, “Now the headquarters may have changed their minds, but in fact, we did not make a wrong move... The overall direction is correct. If we change our thinking and lure out the demon god, we should only need to slightly adjust some details...”
Zhuge Xiao and Yan Beichen exchanged glances.
Zhuge Xiao asked with exaggerated lip movements: No, the fourth brother has only been away from school for a few days, how come his personality has changed?
I felt suddenly calm and reliable.
Yan Beichen thought to himself that Gu Liang has always been like this, especially when contrasted with your unreliability.
But he also felt that Gu Liang seemed to have changed a little, so he carefully observed Gu Liang for a long time, and suddenly pointed at his forehead and asked: "Old Four, is that a scar on your forehead? Or a birthmark?"
Gu Liangyi's voice of talking to himself suddenly stopped.
He subconsciously raised his hand to cover his scar, his eyes flickering and evasive, and explained in a panic: "I...this...I accidentally fell when I was a child."
Noticing that his face was pale and his expression was not right, Zhuge Xiao interrupted him: "Isn't that what you focus on every day, Yan Laoer? Is this what I asked you to ask?"
Yan Beichen kicked his chair and said, "Who cares about you? Ask yourself!"
Seeing that they were no longer focusing on his scars, Gu Liang breathed a sigh of relief.
He slowly put down his hand, but noticed Yi Yan's gaze out of the corner of his eye. He couldn't help but look up, but because of the expression on Yi Yan's face, he slowly revealed a look of confusion.
Yi Yan had just finished blow-drying his hair, and his fluffy curls framed his thin cheeks. He leaned against the wall with his arms folded, as if listening to their discussion, but his deep eyes were staring at him without blinking.
I don't know how long he has been staring at me, but a shallow wrinkle has appeared between his brows, and his thin lips, which have been pursed to the point of turning pale, reveal an unconcealable gloomy temperament.
...very different from his usual cold yet considerate self.
"Brother Yi? Are you okay?"
He asked tentatively, but Yi Yan remained silent for several seconds. Then, as if he had finally come out of his memories, he turned around and said calmly, "It's okay. I'll go get some water."
Sure enough, he still has something on his mind, Gu Liang thought.
Although he never slacks off when exercising, Yi Yan is actually a very inactive person in real life. Even Gu Liangyi, who is used to the cramped indoor environment, occasionally feels bored and goes for a walk on campus.
But he never did.
In his spare time, Yi Yan's only hobby is to lean on the bed at night, holding his copy of "Chu Ci", quietly flipping through it page by page from beginning to end.
Gu Liangyi was thinking while casually browsing the forum on his mobile phone.
There was also wifi in the store, so there wasn't much to see, and Gu Liangyi wasn't too interested in the gossip. He thought about Yi Yan's gloomy expression when he left, and suddenly, his eyes fixed on a post on a forum.
The title was about a person he had just heard about from Yan Beichen:
《Help: Does anyone know Wang Zichen from the school basketball team? I have a sister who wants to meet him! 》
For some unknown reason, he clicked on this post.
1L: As the title says, does anyone know him?
2L: Are you sure it's your sister who knows him and not you who want to know him? (squinting eyes.jpg) This guy is a big shot in our school. Even though I'm not from the same school, I know him. He's very handsome and has good grades.
3L: He shouldn’t be recruited through sports, right?
4L: Oh? No, why do you say that?
5L: Isn't he the captain of the second team of the special forces group? I thought he was a sports student like those people in the first team, but after all this time, I found out that he is not.
5L: Any photos? rwkk!
7L: When he first entered school, he was on the school confession wall for a long time. It’s not a good idea to put a photo of his face, but I have a group photo of the basketball team, and he is the second from the left in the first row.
8L: A buzz cut? And he looks a bit like the male lead in that popular military drama online. It's OK. There are very few guys who can hold this hairstyle. Many handsome guys with a sense of atmosphere can't do it. It seems that he is really good-looking. But this kind of guy should have a girlfriend, right?
9L: Not now. I think I dated someone in high school but we broke up? I’m not sure. He and I are from the same hometown but different schools.
10L: OK, since Yi Yan, there is another handsome guy in Gu Liang's imperial guard team. Damn it, why am I not a representative of civilization! Throw me into the training ground and I will never make a sound!
11L: Stop talking so disgustingly. If you didn’t want to finish early and go home, who would be willing to work for such a hypocritical person for no reason? Haha.
12L:? No way? Is it me who is upstairs?
When he saw this, Gu Liangyi was also stunned.
Although the discussion topic of the entire building went off track and the ID account 11L "Submit to Me" did not appear again for several pages, Gu Liangyi did not continue reading.
He silently put his cell phone on the table, stared at the wall of the dormitory for a while, then lowered his head and continued to do other things.
It was just that Gu Liangyi could not help but care, but others who saw this scene during the live broadcast could not help but care for him.
"What's going on with this prince minister?"
Lu Lang, who had just finished a meeting and was on duty in the monitoring hall, saw this scene and couldn't help but frown and asked: "They actually let this kind of person be the captain of the second team? Ridiculous!"
"Several experts believe that, considering the unexpected situations that may occur in the future, Gu Liangyi's ability to communicate and cooperate with others should be trained a little. Wang Zichen is a good candidate. He is a student of Mo Da and he is also quite capable."
"But ability is not the first priority, character is!"
Although Lu Lang was dissatisfied, he did not strongly object. He just asked, "Have they figured out why Wang Zichen hated Gu Liang and wanted to join the special action team?"
"The reason is very simple," the subordinate replied. "He comes from a single-parent family. His family is very poor. His father died in an accident on the construction site, and his mother had a stroke and can only travel in a wheelchair. He is admitted to the University of Mo with government subsidies. When he enrolled, Principal Zong specially approved a rental house next to the school for him to live in for free for four years. This way, he can bring his mother to school and it is convenient for him to take care of her on a daily basis."
Lu Lang raised his eyebrows: "So he just wants to save face in front of Gu Liangyi so that we can send someone to take care of his mother?"
“It should be.”
"He is a filial son." Lu Lang affirmed, "But I still have reservations about the choice of the experts. Let's wait and see. Anyway, even if the candidates for the second team are temporarily decided, there is still a period of probation."
The subordinate couldn't help but ask curiously: "From what you said, do you already have your own captain in mind?"
"That's not the case," Lu Lang said lazily, "After all, they are just a group of students. In my opinion, none of them are qualified. Only the kid named Yi is pretty good... So it seems that the bastard Old Fu died early, but he gave birth to a good son."
He said the last half of the sentence in a voice that only he could hear.
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"The maximum speed can reach...", "It can easily cross various complex terrains..." Excerpts from the encyclopedia introduction of the domestically produced Type 95 main battle tank, with some modifications and deletions.
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