Li Jinnian, who saw their reaction, gave no further explanation. He was also wearing a rubber diving suit, revealing his slender limbs, which looked like they had the power of the sea. He raised his arm, “Now it is 7:15 p.m., and the patrol ship will leave at 7:40 p.m. Disband.”
“…Captain, we’re really having a holiday?”
“CaptainCaptain, you’re really giving us a holiday! What other tricks do you have for us on your sleeves?”
No one dared to leave; the holiday felt too unreal.
They didn’t even have a day off after months of training. Now suddenly, they were given three days off, then they were afraid to accept it.
Li Jinnian never reflected on how brutal his training had left the soldiers who were about to become official members. His face was as cold as the rising moon on the sea, he uttered three words coldly, “You don’t believe?”
Having said that, his eyes turned to Ye Jian with a faint look. The handsome young major asked the only female soldier in the team, “Ye Jian, you don’t believe it either?”
“It’s not that I don’t believe it. Surely there’ll be a holiday for us, but I don’t really believe that as the Devil King, you’ll let us have a relaxed holiday.” Ye Jian spoke in a clear voice, which sounded like the clear town stream. Facing the other party’s cold, sharp gaze that could dissect a person’s soul, she calmly answered. “We believe there’ll be a holiday for us, but we don’t believe in leaving smoothly. That’s all.”
She was the only female in the team, and she was also the only one who was not afraid of the Devil King’s training. Her words were the aspirations for the other eight male soldiers.
Li Jinnian had always known that Ye Jian was not afraid of him, unlike the male soldiers, but he really didn’t expect that she would dare to question him directly. He didn’t answer her for some time.
The air was a bit dignified, and everyone’s breathing was tight as they waited for Devil King to speak again.
“Navy, you still have twenty-four minutes.” Big Shark couldn’t bear to look at the situation anymore; he rubbed his forehead, smiled, and sighed: “It is true that we are giving you all three days off. The paperwork of your original unit has arrived at the port. Everyone needs to go through the file transfer procedures. So you’ll have to do some things on the first day, while the other two days, you all may rest.”
As the Lieutenant of the team and part-time instructor, one could feel his warmth after experiencing the coolness from Demon King Li. Just like now, his gentle voice broke the coldness in the air, he spoke slowly: “There are no hidden intentions for your holidays this time. Although our CaptainCaptain is code-named “Devil King” he is indeed strict with you during normal days, but when you become one of our frogmen, you will feel his warmth, it is just like the spring breeze.”
Warm like the spring breeze?
Li Jinnian raised his eyes slightly and glanced at the Lieutenant, who spoke of him nicely. With a blank expression on his face, he said coldly: “I only carry the coldness in spring, not the warmth in spring. You want warmth? You can look for our Lieutenant, code-named “Big Shark.””
Devil King, Big Shark. This was the first time the remaining soldiers heard of their powerful frogmen’s code names.
The beach was very quiet. The disbanded members glanced at each other, then they looked at Devil King… Did the Devil King just make a joke?
The veteran at the back row laughed loudly and exclaimed: “Devil King, your cold joke is quite incomprehensible. Look at the good things you have done. You’ve scared them so much that they can’t believe that you’re giving them a holiday.”
“Don’t laugh at them, didn’t we also not believe it back then? We were afraid that someone would pop up under the ship in the middle of the night and drag us into the water.”
With the laughter of the veterans, the remaining soldiers finally believed…they were really having a holiday!
Everyone laughed happily. They had twenty-two minutes left. They had to change their diving equipment, clean up the entire beach to see if there was any scattered equipment, and then return to the tent to pack everything… They were finally leaving after four months!
