Chapter 184 : Chapter 184
Chapter 184. Wait, What? We Risked Our Lives Just to Finish the Mission, and You Finished It and Solved the Beast Tide Too?
At Dormitory Building No. 4, after a wonderful dinner,
Shen Qingyue did not stay long. The group and the family still had a mountain of matters waiting for her, so she had to hurry back to Central China overnight.
Jiang Yichen understood, but at the same time felt helpless.
After seeing his mother off, he could not help feeling a little empty inside.
“Brother Yichen, what are you thinking about?”
After tidying up the kitchen, Su Linyu, still wearing her deep blue apron, noticed the faint trace of melancholy on his face and asked curiously.
Sitting on the sofa, Jiang Yichen thought for a moment. “Maybe I’m missing home a little.”
Hearing that, Su Linyu blinked her bright, lively eyes. After taking off her apron, she slowly walked over to him.
Her soft, fair hands covered the back of his hand as she smiled sweetly and said, “Brother Yichen, then why don’t we build a little home of our own? A home that belongs to just us.”
“The wilderness mission only ends tomorrow, and most of the recruits still haven’t come back yet. There won’t be a dorm inspection tonight, so I can stay with you, Brother Yichen.”
“Besides, the military district internship lasts two years. Once it’s over, we can have a child together. Then we’ll be a family of three…”
Seemingly dissatisfied with that, Su Linyu quickly changed her words. “A family of four or five would be nice too.”
Jiang Yichen burst out laughing at her adorable expression.
When it came to dreaming about the future, the Warrior of Pure Devotion truly had no equal.
“Are you a little pig? How can you be so good at having children?” he teased, pinching Su Linyu’s cheek.
Su Linyu giggled and rubbed her lower belly. “I’m Brother Yichen’s little piggy.”
Jiang Yichen laughed. Unable to resist, he pulled Su Linyu into his arms, and the low mood brought on by parting with his mother vanished in an instant.
When it came to emotional support, Su Linyu had never once been lacking.
Leaning against his chest, Su Linyu’s cheeks flushed slightly. As she listened to his strong heartbeat, the corners of her lips rose unconsciously.
She listened carefully for a moment, then took out her daily notebook from her Spatial Bag and wrote down:
“Brother Yichen’s heartbeat is thirty beats per minute, slow as the ripples stirred across a lake by the evening breeze. Every beat lands precisely against my heart.”
After writing it down, Su Linyu happily closed the notebook, her face glowing with joy.
By now, Jiang Yichen was already used to it.
The night stretched on, and the two kept each other company…
…
The next evening, the deadline for the Recruit Wilderness Mission arrived. The recruits dragged their exhausted bodies back to their dorms and collapsed into bed the moment they entered.
At dawn, they were jolted awake by the shrill sound of the assembly whistle. They hurriedly threw on their uniforms and swarmed toward the training ground.
Jiang Yichen, on the other hand, moved at an unhurried pace. After enjoying the breakfast Su Linyu had made for him, he used a spatial jump and arrived directly at the training ground.
Another glorious day of slacking off through training was about to begin. Off we go!
A smile hung at the corner of his lips. Ever since he had started slacking off, his mindset had become unbelievably positive.
Jiang Yichen’s appearance also drew the attention of both the tactical instructors lining up the formations and the recruits.
Although they had not been qualified to attend the award ceremony the day before yesterday, they had still heard bits and pieces about it.
“I heard it was Young Master Jiang who put an end to the Great Rift Valley beast tide, and he even received a Special Class Merit! That’s the highest honor in the military!”
“No way. I thought that was just a rumor. It’s actually true?”
“It’s true. The commander of the East China Military District personally gathered people from the ten major military districts to award medals to Young Master Jiang and his group. It was incredible.”
“Damn! A Special Class Merit! Not even the military district commander has one, and Young Master Jiang has only been here for a month. He’s still a recruit. Isn’t that absurd?”
“We fought with everything we had just to complete the wilderness mission and keep our internship scores from suffering, but Young Master Jiang completed the mission, casually solved a beast tide on the side, and even got a Special Class Merit. Ah! My life has no meaning anymore. I don’t want to live!”
“…”
The discussions went on without end, and even Jiang Yichen, standing in Formation One, felt a little awkward.
“Young Master Jiang, how did you become this amazing?”
The ever-eccentric Chen Dapao asked the question aloud.
“It’s not really that amazing. I merely made a slight move, that’s all,” Jiang Yichen said lightly.
As far as he was concerned, this beast tide had not even reached the point where it truly required him to act.
But the moment those words fell into the ears of everyone in the formation, silence descended.
That humblebrag was enough to make them die of envy!
That was the highest honor in the entire military!
And even the members of Young Master Jiang’s group had all received Second Class Merit honors.
They only hated themselves for not volunteering to Instructor Huang and fighting for a place in Young Master Jiang’s group.
They had brushed right past a Second Class Merit. How tragic!
“Silence!”
Suddenly, a sharp voice rang out.
At the front of the formation stood an instructor in a neatly pressed military uniform. The two gold bars and three stars on his shoulder insignia were especially eye-catching.
“Damn, that’s a colonel’s rank!” Tang Long exclaimed in shock.
The others were equally startled. The instructors at recruit training camps were usually field-grade officers at much lower ranks, and even the chief instructor was only a major.
“Hello. I am the tactical instructor for your next month of training. You may call me Instructor Qin.”
Qin Feng, the colonel, swept his gaze across the formation, pausing for a moment on Jiang Yichen and the other four before speaking slowly.
With his rank, there had been no need for him to come here and teach recruits. But Jiang Yichen and the others had shone so brilliantly that Commander Xu had personally invited him over.
More importantly, Qin Feng himself wanted to see what sort of person a recruit had to be to earn the highest honor in the military after only one month of internship.
“Hello, Instructor Qin!”
The entire formation responded in unison.
They were all excited to be taught by an instructor with the rank of colonel.
But deep down, they all knew perfectly well that this was definitely because of Young Master Jiang and the others winning those honors. They were merely enjoying the benefits by association.
Qin Feng gave a small nod. “For the next month, aside from your daily basic training, most of your time will be devoted to tactical training.”
“Tactical training will be divided into individual basic tactical training, squad coordination tactical training, specialized tactical scenario training, and more. This will no longer merely test your physical strength and willpower. Clear tactical thinking will be even more important…”
As Jiang Yichen listened, his interest was low.
What he cared about more was whether this colonel-level instructor was planning to cancel his training exemption on the spot.
Well played, Zhou Yu. You really know how to make things difficult.
After Instructor Qin carefully finished explaining every tactical training program, he was about to lead the formation to the outdoor training grounds beyond the military district for individual tactical training.
“Report!”
At that moment, Jiang Yichen spoke up.
Qin Feng raised his brows slightly. A recruit with a Special Class Merit—he had been worrying that he might not get a chance to speak with him.
Expectation filled his eyes as he looked at Jiang Yichen, very curious to hear what he wanted to say.
“Speak!”
Jiang Yichen hesitated for a moment. “Instructor Qin, can I not go?”
Hm?
Qin Feng frowned slightly. “Why?”
A smile appeared at the corner of Jiang Yichen’s lips. “I’m exempt from training.”
Exempt from training?!
Qin Feng froze, then slowly turned to look at Zhou Yu on the reviewing stand. “Zhou Yu, what is going on with Jiang Yichen?”
He clearly remembered that before the award ceremony the other day, Zhou Yu had praised Jiang Yichen to Xu Lin for his diligence and hard work in training. So how could he possibly be exempt from training?
Zhou Yu’s body stiffened. He walked over to Qin Feng and lowered his voice beside his ear. “Jiang Yichen succeeded in the Recruit Challenge. He defeated the Divine Battle Division by himself and won exemption from group training!”
He defeated the Divine Battle Division!
Qin Feng sucked in a sharp breath. He knew exactly how terrifying the Divine Battle Division was.
He himself was not even qualified to spar with them, let alone defeat them.
He fell silent for a moment. Jiang Yichen had earned that training exemption with his own strength. It would be inappropriate for him to revoke it.
“All right, then. Jiang Yichen, you may refrain from participating in tactical training, but you must still be present every day.”
“You are the leader of Group One, so your squad still needs you for squad coordination tactical training.”
“And half a month from now, the recruits from the ten major military districts will hold a tactical exercise. Each military district will send its best squad. I hope you’ll fight for that opportunity.”
Hearing that, Jiang Yichen finally let out the breath he had been holding.
Being present every day was hardly difficult.
As for the recruit tactical exercise…
[Ding! Slacking Choice triggered…]