Ace Special Forces in Movies and TV Shows

Chapter 108: Extremely Rigorous Training

At the Army Aviation Airport, Qi Huan drove through the airport checkpoint, onto the sidewalk next to the runway, and headed toward a light helicopter that was waiting to take off.

Cheng Cai could hardly believe what he was seeing. Xu Sanduo stared at the helicopter in shock, but Zheng Yingqi was not particularly excited about his first time boarding a helicopter.

The helicopter pilot stood by, and after seeing Yuan Lang and Qi Huan disembark, he checked his watch and said to Yuan Lang, "On time!"

Yuan Lang shrugged dismissively—it was just routine procedure. He gestured for the three to take their luggage, while he leaned against the SUV watching the airport staff prepare for takeoff, his gaze involuntarily drifting towards the three of them.

Cheng Cai was easy to see through, while Xu Sanduo was dull and a very simple person.

But what about him?

Yuan Lang looked at Zheng Yingqi with a somewhat unrestrained scrutiny in his eyes. He had the right to do so, but Zheng Yingqi acted as if nothing had happened, as if he hadn't seen Yuan Lang's gaze at all.

interesting.

Yuan Lang smiled inwardly. When they first met on the training field, he had really underestimated this audacious soldier.

"Xu Sanduo, Cheng Cai, go and load the things onto the plane. Zheng Yingqi, stay here," Yuan Lang suddenly said.

The two whose names were called habitually obeyed orders and got busy. Yuan Lang walked up to Zheng Yingqi and asked curiously, "I feel that you are very well prepared and know us very well."

"Reporting to the commander, I only have a slight understanding. It is precisely because I have a slight understanding that I have made as much mental preparation as possible," Zheng Yingqi replied.

"So you're wary of me?"

Zheng Yingqi remained silent, his guarded intentions crystal clear.

"Because of the incident where you kidnapped me?" Yuan Lang finally brought up the incident from last year.

"No. It's because we're about to be trained under you."

Yuan Lang looked at Zheng Yingqi with a strange gaze. He could tell the difference between training under you and serving under you, which was why he was surprised. Before a few people were eliminated, most people thought that it was a sure thing for them to enter the Old A.

"Very clear-headed." Yuan Lang concluded the conversation with these three words.

Zheng Yingqi remained expressionless, but couldn't help feeling a little uneasy inside.

The three boarded the helicopter, which took off and hovered in the air. This was a height that Zheng Yingqi and his companions had never reached before. The town looked like a small chessboard, while the distant grassland had become a dome.

Even Zheng Yingqi, who had been calm all along, was amazed at this moment. He wasn't afraid of heights, but he was very curious about the view from this height—the helicopter, carrying three country bumpkins and two veterans, began to cross the distance that would have taken a long time to reach by car.

Temperate forest terrain—the area where the original exercise took place; Old A's base was located deep in an unknown region.

The three followed Yuan Lang and Qi Huan forward, slowly entering the heart of Team A. At this time, there were more soldiers around them, all of them sharp and burly men, their eyes fixed on them like those of top-tier hunters.

The three, who were still first-class sergeants, hurriedly began to salute passersby, because any one of them who passed by was a junior officer.

Yuan Lang looked at the three men who couldn't let go of their hands with a wicked smile, and finally said, "The soldiers here are highly professionalized, so anyone you pick out is a junior officer—unfortunately, our current level of professionalism hasn't reached the level below junior officers."

"In the future," Zheng Yingqi said.

"Yes, as my country's overall national strength improves, there will be more and more professional non-commissioned officers," Yuan Lang echoed.

Just then, a team of fully armed veterans ran past. Zheng Yingqi and his group subconsciously looked at them. The new equipment, the veterans' special training uniforms, and the veterans' special boonie hats made them think that they would dress like this in the future.

The entire team of Old A were watching them. Xu Sanduo was the first to look away, and Cheng Cai followed suit. The fierce gazes of the Old A made Cheng Cai feel uneasy, but Zheng Yingqi stubbornly met their eyes.

The A-team members ran past them laughing. To Cheng Cai, their laughter sounded like a provocation. Zheng Yingqi, who stubbornly stared back at the A-team members, didn't share this sensitivity. He simply thought that the A-team members just found it funny.

"Congratulations, a 91% head-turning rate—it's rare to be trained here as a non-commissioned officer, and I hope you'll continue to be so." Yuan Lang stopped in his tracks. In front of him was a military barracks building: "This is your temporary dormitory. Across from you are the dormitories for our regular army. I really hope you can move to the other side as soon as possible."

Cheng Cai said confidently, "We'll definitely move there."

"And what about you two?" Yuan Lang looked at Zheng Yingqi and Xu Sanduo. Xu Sanduo nodded, but not very seriously. Obviously, for him, who was easygoing, there was not much difference between the regular army dormitory and the miscellaneous army dormitory.

Zheng Yingqi said, "I will do my best to move there."

Yuan Lang smiled. He liked Zheng Yingqi's caution, but he liked Cheng Cai's confidence even more. However, this was a place that eroded their confidence. He said, "Parting words: Comprehensive quality is something you must cultivate anytime, anywhere."

The three pondered these words, but apart from Zheng Yingqi, the other two did not understand them.

Yuan Lang didn't mind and said to Qi Huan, "These three are yours. I won't worry about them anymore—it's your turn to perform!"

"Just three soldiers," Qi Huan said nonchalantly. This was the first time Qi Huan had spoken since they started traveling together, but his words were so unpleasant.

"Captain, you go ahead and get busy. I'll take these three soldiers—I doubt there'll be a good place to put them. I'll have to find somewhere to cramm them in." Qi Huan's final muttering made Cheng Cai and Xu Sanduo change color. This nonchalance was something they had never seen in their military careers. Zheng Yingqi, however, seemed oblivious, because he knew that this was just the beginning.

Leading the three into the old-looking military barracks, Qi Huan took a roster from the sentry at the entrance: "Routine procedure—state your name and unit."

Cheng Cai and Xu Sanduo couldn't understand this routine procedure; they had come together, yet it seemed like they knew nothing about it.

Zheng Yingqi quickly replied: "Zheng Yingqi, First-Class Sergeant, Guard Company, 702nd Regiment, T Division, W Group Army".

Following Zheng Yingqi's example, the two also announced their "family backgrounds".

"I'm not deaf—does being from the same group give you the right to be loud?" Qi Huan said angrily, flipping through the roster to the end to add information, saying as he wrote, "Look at you three, so far back in the list? What a nuisance! I hope you get out of here soon so I can flip through fewer names to check off."

"By the way, you don't have names here, you'll only have numbers from now on—if I hear either of you calling out someone else's name during training, both of you will be punished. You, number 41, you, number 42, you, Lao Mo, number 43, got it?" Qi Huan assigned numbers to the three of them: Xu Sanduo 41, Cheng Cai 42, and Zheng Yingqi, who was Lao Mo, 43.

Amidst various acts of contempt and domineering, Qi Huan conducted the "newcomer" training, even provocatively kicking the three men's bows. Finally, he laid out a series of behavioral guidelines with prohibitions and rules—in short, just be a good grandson, or get out if you don't want to be a grandson.

Zheng Yingqi thought to himself, after this whole ordeal, the vast majority of soldiers would be filled with all sorts of disappointment here.