“It’s not considered a bad habit; the main thing is that your tacit understanding and teamwork skills still need to be improved. After returning to the military, I intend to send in a request to see if you could be extracted during Winter and Summer breaks to come train with us in the base.”
“Tacit understanding and teamwork skills aren’t developed in a few days. Instead, it is through the accumulation of days. Also, you have one talent that overtakes us by too much; that’s why we’ll also have to keep up with you. There’s no such problem like you should wait for us; no strong people would slow down their steps to wait for the weaker people to catch up to them.”
“Don’t feel stressed; once your tacit understanding and teamwork skills get improved, then everything would be easy to solve.”
Ye Jian pondered for a moment and asked: “Is it because during this mission, I had dragged J5 and the others down?”
“Why would you think that? No, your performance was really good, especially when charged through the heavy encirclement on two wheels. That had made them astounded.” Hearing her uncertainty, Xia JInyuan lowered his head and kissed the top of her head with heartache, “You’re really good, little fox; you are the pride of my life.”
Letting out a breath of relief in her heart, Ye Jian was suddenly embarrassed after being praised by him; she hugged his fine and strong waist with one arm and replied seriously: “You’re the pride of my life too.”
Interaction between couples was filled with very intimate words that had no end; meanwhile, between Ye Jian and Xia Jinyuan, aside from intimate words, they talked more about topics related to training, operations, and their missions.
They talked about their operation this time to their overseas match, and before they knew it, time had slipped away, and night had turned into the early morning.
When Ye Jian, who didn’t even know when she had fallen asleep, opened her eyes, only then did she realize the man who said he wanted to ‘offer’ his body hadn’t stayed the night, it was also a mystery when he had left, she didn’t have any impression about it.
Pulling open the curtains, Ye Jian saw the pale blue sky, though the sun was still not up, but it was obviously going to be a good, clear day. Standing on the second floor and staring at the horizon, the world that had been washed with water seemed green with life.
The new building of the campsite was constructed at the foot of the green mountain, the training grounds for the Border Guard Company soldiers were still at the old campsite when Ye Jian came down for her morning run, she only saw the Border Guard sentries at their post standing watch, meanwhile, her comrades from the Elite Platoon… Ye Jian stared at the rows of tightly shut doors, wondering if they had gotten up.
Ye Jian didn’t go knock on the doors. Instead, she walked towards the outside of the building; when she reached the door, she saw Xia Jinyuan was walking over with large strides.
After noticing her, he quickened his pace and reached her in a short time; he smiled: “Come, let’s go upstairs and pack your stuff; I’ll send you back to the Academy later.”
“You… just sent the other comrades off?” He was well-dressed and didn’t have the sleepy expression of someone who had just woken up, and there were still drops of water on his golden shoulder mark, which could be either rainwater or morning dew.
Ye Jian couldn’t help but glance at the new building behind her; why did they all leave so early?
She didn’t even get to see them off…
Xia Jinyuan walked with her back into the new building; the strides he was taking were quite large as if he had something urgent to take care of, “Something’s come up in the base, we’ll leave at 0430, and we’ll arrive at the base in an hour.”
What happened for him to be this rushed?
He didn’t say; Ye Jian didn’t ask; she had no right to ask about things she wasn’t told.
However, their other comrades had returned so urgently, as their Captain, shouldn’t he return as well?
Returning to her room, Ye Jian packed a few clothes into her military-use travel bag and came out to tell her man: “I can go back to the Academy by myself. If you have something to do, then you can go ahead; I don’t need you to accompany me back.”
Her gaze then landed at his waist, “I saw everything last night; you still have a bandage over your waist where your wound was, so you don’t have to send me back to the Academy; I’ll go back alone.”
