Big Shark, standing next to Li Jinnian, saw him smile slightly, he joked: “Doesn’t it feel like being a dad? Finally, you managed to raise a bunch of children, right? You must be happy.”
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This kind of metaphor and joke about Li Jinnian was a bit annoying. None of the comrades in the team seemed to have any talent in speaking, and their lieutenant was no exception.
But he was right about one thing. They indeed felt happy.
“If you are here today, that means you belong to the one in a million. We can finally change our camp.” Li Jinnian stared at the water rippled continuously and said, “After the National Day Ceremony in October, we will have a confrontation with the army special forces led by Xia Jinyuan. They also needed to go to have this confrontation with us when their soldiers were selected into the Army. Our training needs to be more compact, Big Shark.”
The military department had agreed to the application for the confrontation jointly proposed by the navy and the Army. It would start immediately after the National Day celebration. It was mid-August now, which meant that the confrontation was in less than two months.
Big Shark said with a cold expression, “Time is really tight, what about Ye Jian? She probably… can’t participate.”
“She will participate.”
“She will participate?” Big Shark delayed to react, then, he immediately asked, “Which camp does she belong to? Us navy? Or the Army?”
To dive underwater at night, they would require diving equipment exchange training. The training involved two soldiers entering the water in masks to exchange the diving equipment. It was 6:50 p.m., and there were still ten minutes before the end of the training.
The activities of the frogmen underwater made the waves even bigger. In the undulating waves, two soldiers that were preparing the diving equipment emerged from the water. Li Jinnian looked at the Time, “Ye Jian, Liu Zhen, first. She belongs to our military camp.”
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“Our soldier? She will be changing from a land soldier to a navy soldier? Devil King, you’re not joking, are you?” Big Shark’s attention was not affected by the Devil King’s thinking; his focus was still on which camp Ye Jian belonged to, “She was sent here by Xia Jinyuan. And now you want her to be on our side? Devil King, we can’t have such wishful thinking.”
Ye Jian, who had changed her SCUBA equipment in the water, swam to the side of the reef that was covered with barnacles, and when she emerged from the water, she clapped and celebrated with her teammate.
They couldn’t remove the breathing mask equipment at once, so they expressed their joy with a high five.
“Three minutes in advance.” Ye Jian looked at her waterproof watch, gestured “three” with her fingers, and gave a thumbs up.
The soldier pointed to the reef and climbed up first, then he pulled Ye Jian up together.
Their equipment weighed up to eight kilograms. When they reached the bottom, the equipment increased their weight quickly and allowed them to dive deep. When they reached the shore, their movement would be somewhat affected. That was why the daily weight training was necessary.
With more than ten kilograms of equipment on them, they had to be accustomed to the weight so that they would be able to adapt even when they were back on the shore. The effort of being a member of the Storm Amphibious Frogmen Commando was beyond ordinary soldiers.
Seeing Ye Jian coming up, Li Jinnian left the reef. He stepped down from the reefs and said to Big Shark: “Now she’s here in the navy, so she naturally belongs to the navy.”
“Furthermore, the Army needs to see its performance. The confrontation would let the Army have a look at Ye Jian’s performance.”
His explanation made Big Shark couldn’t help laughing, “That’s interesting. Ye Jian is Xia Jinyuan’s people. We have a comrade in our team who knows the enemy and us. She has a little advantage in the match, don’t you think so?”
