A generation of soldiers begins with Feng Yuxiu traveling through time and space with Xu Sanduo

Chapter 229 Choice
A bleak wind swirled up dust as Yuan Lang and Qi Huan stood side by side, their silence weighing heavily on each other like a lead weight.

Qi Huan's face was ashen, and his voice trembled slightly as he asked with a hint of trepidation, "Captain, will we be laid off?"

Yuan Lang slowly shook his head, a hint of confusion in his eyes: "I don't know, everything depends on the outcome of the meeting with the brigade leader."

Finally, Tie Lu emerged from the military region, his steps heavy, his face showing exhaustion and helplessness.

Knowing the seriousness of the situation, Yuan Lang took the initiative to ask, "Captain, what will be our punishment?"

Railway took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep drag. The smoke swirled around him, like the sorrow in his heart.

He slowly exhaled a smoke ring and said, "There's a military exercise the month after next. If we lose, then there really won't be a future."

After hearing this, Yuan Lang slowly let out a long sigh of relief.

That's how special forces are, especially when carrying out such important missions; a small mistake can render all their efforts futile.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to participate in these joint operations anymore." Railway's words were like a death sentence for Old A, making Yuan Lang's face even more grim.

Yuan Lang said remorsefully, "It was my mistake. I thought they would retreat when they saw our reinforcements arrive. I underestimated these guys' principles; they're not afraid at all."

“What about Li Xuanxuan…” Yuan Lang hesitated, “Xu Sanduo doesn’t know about this yet, should we let him meet her?”

Railway suddenly sneered, leaned forward, and stared sharply at Yuan Lang: "Who do you think we are? Who do you think Xu Sanduo is? You want to see that person? I'm not even qualified to see Li Xuanxuan. Let me tell you, Li Xuanxuan's father has no idea that she's dating Xu Sanduo. If he had known from the beginning, he would have been raising pigs long ago."

"Go back! Wait!" After saying that, Tie Lu turned and left, leaving Yuan Lang and Qi Huan standing there, their hearts heavy.

Qi Huan stared at the furious figure of Tie Lu, paused for a moment, and asked, "Captain, does that mean it's not over yet?"

Yuan Lang took a deep breath and said, "Let's go back."

All three were in a terrible mood. A seemingly simple mistake had sealed Old A's fate.

Outside the dormitory corridor of Old A, Wu Zhe lowered his voice and anxiously asked Wu Liuyi, who was coming out of the dormitory, "How is it?"

Wu Liuyi was silent for a few seconds, then a look of worry appeared on his face: "He's eating, but he doesn't like to talk much anymore. I just changed the dressing on his shoulder, and his eyes are terrifying right now. I've never seen eyes that can send chills down my spine. I'm telling you, this kid is definitely thinking about something right now, definitely!"

Wu Zhe tensed up, a hint of fear in his eyes: "The captain and the others aren't here right now. If Xu Sanduo gets angry, you and I won't be able to control him."

The image of Xu Sanduo carrying a 40-fire weapon with one hand flashed through Wu Liuyi's mind, and he couldn't help but shiver and fall silent.

“I think he’s pretty good, I can totally understand. Think about it, anyone would go crazy in that situation if it were their own girlfriend. It’s perfectly reasonable,” Wu Liuyi added.

“The sentry posts downstairs in the dormitory are still there, and the captain told the whole brigade before he left that it was unlikely that Xu Sanduo could do anything. He just hasn’t said anything, which makes people uneasy,” Wu Zhe sighed and said worriedly.

Wu Liuyi was silent for a moment, then said in a heavy tone, "This is truly the first time I've seen Xu Sanduo so crazy. He's really too crazy."

In another dormitory room, Feng Yuxiu quietly gazed at the willow trees outside the window.

A gentle breeze blew by, and the willow branches swayed softly, but his heart remained completely undisturbed.

His heart was unusually calm, devoid of the unexpected pain and madness, as if none of it had ever happened.

Perhaps another kind personality was completely eradicated. No, it shouldn't be a kind personality, but rather the personality of that good-for-nothing, that inferiority complex and people-pleasing personality that arose from being scolded by his master from childhood in his previous life.

Based on Feng Yuxiu's current decision, it would be impossible to strike the leader's leg the moment he discovers him.

If he were shot through the forehead, he wouldn't have crossed the line and entered the sniping range of those mercenaries. He wouldn't have been injured, and Li Xuanxuan wouldn't have come to bandage him.

"It's alright, Scorpion! I, Feng Yuxiu, will find you. When that happens, I'll make you keep smiling. Don't you like giving thumbs up? It's alright, I'll find you when I do." Feng Yuxiu grinned, a chilling smile playing on his lips, and slowly closed his eyes.

The energy within his body began to move, and the fear of facing death caused the hormones throughout his body to flow even faster.

At this moment, Feng Yuxiu's spine began to bulge on his body surface, and the energy spheres in his arms pushed up his skin and began to move.

Large patches of dark blood seeped through the white gauze covering his bandaged shoulder blade, yet his eyes remained calm, as if he had lost all sense of pain.

A person cannot fall in the same place three times. Shen Xue and Li Xuanxuan had already fallen twice, both times due to their lack of decisiveness. Therefore, he completely killed the other personality.

"Scorpion! I will find you!" The somber words echoed in the dormitory, like a sinister laugh from hell.

The train slowly pulled into the base gate, and Yuan Lang and Qi Huan got off.

Yuan Lang looked at Qi Huan and said, "Qi Huan, you need to calm down these next few days. Make sure to provide proper psychological support for Wu Zhe and Wu Liuyi, as they won't be back to normal for the next few days."

Qi Huan frowned, somewhat worried, and said, "I'm not worried about those two, but Xu Sanduo... Should I go and tell him that Li Xuanxuan is still alive?"

Yuan Lang turned around, his expression calm but tinged with helplessness: "If he's not dead, he might become a vegetable? Lying in bed for the rest of his life? Xu Sanduo and Li Xuanxuan's fate is over. That leader will never allow Xu Sanduo to see Li Xuanxuan again."

"Let's leave it at that. He's still a good soldier. Let's wait until he's ready to accept it. If we tell him now, given his personality, he'll probably rush out to see Li Xuanxuan without a second thought. That would be a much bigger problem."

Qi Huan fell silent. Neither of them were qualified to see Li Xuanxuan, let alone Xu Sanduo, a sergeant.

Before Li Xuanxuan's identity was revealed, Xu Sanduo and Li Xuanxuan could have been a loving couple.

Feng Yuxiu is also making continuous progress. Everyone thinks that by the time Feng Yuxiu plans to meet Li Xuanxuan's family, he will have already become a capable military officer, and things might be easier to accept at that time.

But now everything has changed. Li Xuanxuan's father has intervened earlier, and now when Xu Sanduo goes to see him, he will be facing an enraged leader.

Training at the Old A unit continued, while the new recruits enjoyed a two-week break.

For the first time, they faced a real battlefield, and the brutal scenes kept flashing through their minds. What followed was the torment and agony in their hearts.

Qi Huan remained silent, following Yuan Lang's explanation.

At the brink of death, Feng Yuxiu seemed to recall the complete Yi Jin Jing (Muscle/Tendon Changing Classic). It consisted of twelve moves, divided into three internal and nine external techniques.

Among them, the three postures of Wei Tuo offering the pestle are based on the circulation of internal energy. They are: picking, coiling, clawing, pulling, plucking, probing, pouncing, bowing, and tail, which correspond to nine extremely domineering killing moves.

Legend has it that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this set of martial arts techniques was repaired and improved by Yu Dayou, which could temper all the joints, elbows, fists and legs of the whole body into sharp weapons, and could unleash extremely strong killing power in an instant with a punch or a kick.

In addition to Feng Yuxiu's previous explosive compression of the seven meridians and eight channels, once all of them are mastered, his explosive power, speed, and endurance will reach the level of a grandmaster.

In the past few days, Feng Yuxiu has been reviewing his actions. He knows that he is not fast enough and his body cannot react to its full potential.

The shot he dodged was a lucky prediction. The South American mercenary's muscle movements were obvious; he had his left shoulder pointed at the muzzle. If he couldn't dodge, he would be injured, but the bullet would still hit his face.

The twelve postures of the Yi Jin Jing are enough to make this good fortune a constant reality.

Li Xuanxuan's experience was like a deep thorn stuck in his heart, a provocation to his inner self, a feeling he could not bear.

The rules prevented him from staying any longer; his hatred burned like a raging fire, and he had to take revenge himself.

and so……

He's going to retire from the military! He's going to go to South America and skin those scorpion-like people alive.

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A stack of reports was laid out on the railway table.

He smoked a cigarette, gazing at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, seemingly lost in thought.

Yuan Lang stood right in front of him. "Have the results come out yet?"

The railway was silent for a few seconds, then said, "It's nothing."

"What?" Yuan Lang still didn't understand the specific meaning of the words "it's okay".

Railway continued, "It's nothing serious. We think the problem is very serious, but the only complaint the military region's higher-ups have about this is that our defense work was inadequate. As for Xu Sanduo crossing the line, it's perfectly reasonable."

Yuan Lang still didn't understand that the inside and outside of the boundary were two different worlds and rules.

Even though they saw mercenaries shooting outside, they couldn't go out.

That's the rule.

But now the railway says everything's fine?

Tie Lu tossed Yuan Lang a cigarette. "Those guys are stateless mercenaries. They're not really a country anymore. Besides, there are Vietnamese monkeys outside our border. What could they possibly do?"

"This is no longer something we can worry about. On the battlefield, you either kill the enemy or you get killed by them. It seems we've fallen into a trap."

Yuan Lang asked in surprise, "So that means he has the rank of second lieutenant..."

Railway looked up slowly at Yuan Lang. "Those are two different things. Do you see this stack of reports on my desk? It's a detailed summary report of this operation, including Xu Sanduo's crossing the boundary and this decision. It's nothing for Xu Sanduo personally, but such a big oversight has occurred, so there has to be an explanation."

Yuan Lang recalled the moment just before the mission was about to begin, when the decision made through the earpiece to suddenly change the plan.

Will many people be punished?

Railway sneered, "Discipline? It's not that simple... The higher-ups can't stand any half-hearted handling of the situation. Just wait and see. How are those two recruits doing?"

Yuan Lang knew that the railway was asking about Wu Liuyi and Wu Zhe.

“Wu Zhe is fine; he figured things out on his own very easily. You know he’s always been very opinionated. Wu Liuyi… he’s just a little reluctant to pick up a gun.”

Railway suddenly stood up and slammed the cigarette pack in his hand on the table. "I can't stand this shrewish little thing! What's the big deal? Go ask him. Old A went to great lengths to train this elite soldier, only to send him here to experience life?"

"If he's still like this before his vacation ends, send him home to farm! Stop dawdling!"

Yuan Lang sighed, "I tried my best, and this soldier was quite good. If I can't adjust my mindset, I won't be able to be a normal person when I go back."

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"Captain, you should take a look at Xu Sanduo. He's been acting strangely these past few days. He hardly talks, just sits cross-legged, occasionally standing up to practice a set of punches. It's completely different from his ferocious fighting style on the battlefield. I hope he's alright."

Qi Huan finally couldn't stand Feng Yuxiu's constant martial arts practice, and he was also writing something from time to time.

Yuan Lang frowned. "Go ask him."

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For the first time, Qi Huan felt that some things were hard to say; who would be so detached?

His madness on the battlefield is completely different from his current state.

“Sanduo, some things have already happened, you don’t need to torture yourself like this. As soldiers, we were prepared from the moment we enlisted.”

"In fact... what is this?"

Before Qi Huan could finish speaking, Feng Yuxiu handed him a stack of documents and manuscripts with a blank expression.

Feng Yuxiu calmly began, "Discharge report."

(End of this chapter)