Carrying 25 kilos of combat equipment on their bodies, and shouldering the rifle that protects the lives of soldiers, that guards the lands of the nation, and defends the safety of the civilians, wearing those pairs of combat boots covered in mud and tree-ash, they marched forwards with matchless bravery.
They looked like they will keep on marching onwards; even if mountains of blades or seas of flames were ahead, they wouldn’t falter and would march on bravely.
They waited until the twenty-two figures had left their line of sight; only then did the platoon commander allow his soldiers to put their hand down and let his squad leaders rally the men and went with them.
Meanwhile, Li Jinnian and Ye Jian were already close to two of the ‘hostage target’ locations.
The two of them looked at the artificially piled-up soil and swept a glance, then knew there was a trench behind it, then glancing at the opposite mountain across the trench, it was a stark contrast between the burned down fir forest.
One was burned to ashes and left without life, the other was wonderfully in autumn bloom, and there were reddish maple leaves gently waving their broad leaves in the drizzling rain.
“Down there.” Ye Jian pointed towards the mountain trench, then communicated with Li Jinnian with hand gestures, “You left, I right, go down together…”
Returning an ‘OK’ gesture to her, Li Jinnian crouched down and went towards the left side when he heard Ye Jian say, “Ready!” The two of them went into the trench at basically the same time.
Ye Jian fired and hit the back of one of the soldiers, the signal device was activated and let out a long ‘beep,’ Li Jinnian and her both eliminated one at almost the same time.
Squad Leader Fu’s eyes bulged out as he stared; his eyes weren’t bulging out because he was ‘shot’ in the back. Instead, it was because… The special forces soldier that ‘fired’ at his vice leader’s back was too familiar, so familiar that his eyes bulged out because he couldn’t believe it.
“Ye Jian.”
He quietly called out the name that was familiar in the past; even though his voice was quiet, it was filled with surprise, filled with astonishment, and more than that, it was filled with disbelievement.
How is that possible? How could he encounter Ye Jian here, she… When did she become a member of the special forces?
In the first half of his Grade 10 year, he enlisted himself in the army in school, then he returned to Fujun town to handle the enlistment procedures; he encountered Ye Ying and her mother, Auntie Sun, on the streets, she told him Ye Jian had quit school and walked off with a gangster.
Some people in the town even said they heard someone seeing Ye Jian in the coastal cities, something like they had seen her working as a hair-washer gal in a hair salon.
The rumors were quite detailed, and when he heard about it at the time, he felt that it was quite a pity, leaving aside the improvement of her grades, she had even won a huge prize, so why did she allow herself to fall from grace and turn into a hair-washer gal with a bad rep!
Hair-washer gal? Special forces soldier?
After working as a hair-washer gal for some time, Ye Jian then went to become a special forces soldier?
Is that even possible?
He was a soldier himself; he knew that wasn’t possible at all!
Li Jinnian was the one who eliminated Squad Leader Fu, noticing this regional army’s squad leader had actually spoken Ye Jian’s name, his brows unconsciously knit together.
That coincidental? Already encountering a soldier that knew Blue Bird.
Ye Jian was also quite shocked, encountering a middle-school classmate of old, Fu Dong, at this place.
Squad Leader Fu, named Fu Dong, hailed from Yunnan Province, Anyang City, Fujun town, was once a middle-school classmate with Ye Jian, and also the only male classmate from middle-school that had enlisted.
Encountering an old classmate during a match like this, walking over to exchange greetings,… doesn’t seem appropriate!
Besides, even though she and Fu Dong were classmates, they didn’t really have much of a relationship.
Middle school was when her training was the hardest; besides being close with Jia Xin, Zhang Bin, Zhang Na, Zhou Liao, the rest of her classmates were mere acquaintances they didn’t have much to talk about.
