CH 150 Bad Feeling
Translated by The BL Muse (ko-fi)
"Junior Jiang Chen, do you have a club you want to join? Our drama club is recruiting..."
"Student Jiang Chen, I read your paper, and there are some things I don't understand about your image processing system, can I ask you now?"
"God Jiang, can you give me your contact information?"
All the way to the dormitory, Shen Xu, who was fully prepared for this and prepared to enjoy it, cowered on the spot due to the stares, conversations, and waves of senior brothers and sisters, and left Jiang Chen without hesitation and ran away. Jiang Chen, who was left behind, was left to chat with his classmates, senior brothers and sisters whom he didn't know all that well, such that his voice was a little hoarse when he finally arrived in the dormitory.
After closing the dorm room door, Jiang Chen let out a heavy breath. He suddenly had a bad feeling about the military training that would start tomorrow.
"Hello!" The boy on the bed next to the door walked up to Jiang Chen, and greeted Jiang Chen enthusiastically, "My name is Li Gang. When I looked at the dormitory list, I thought it was just the same name and surname. But who knew that I would really share a dorm room with the great god, what an honor."
Jiang Chen shook hands with him. Seeing that he was the only one in the dorm room, he asked curiously, "Have the others not come yet?"
"Zhao Feng, the bed opposite me. He went shopping with his girlfriend, but the other one hasn't arrived yet." Li Gang glanced at Jiang Chen's suitcase and said, "You only brought such a small suitcase? We'll be going to the army unit then, and we won’t be able to buy anything there.”
Jiang Chen smiled: "Isn't everything we need for military training handed out?"
"That may be the case." Li Gang turned around, and took out all the things he had prepared from his suitcase: "But sunscreen, cologne, thermos cup, insoles… let me tell you that you must bring insoles. We'll be relying on this for a month, have you brought it all?"
Jiang Chen picked up his light luggage that only contained a few changes of clothes and toiletries, and fell silent.
"Didn't bring it?" Li Gang guessed it from his expression, got up and said, "It's okay, brother will take you shopping."
Jiang Chen thought for a while and asked, "Can you bring these things into the army?"
"Of course." Li Gang said to himself: "Our senior brothers and sisters bring these with them like this every year. How can we not do the same when it's our turn? That's so unfair."
The result was just that unfair.
On the bus assembled to go to the army, Li Gang hugged his previously bulging luggage which was now woefully flat, infinitely desolate: "How could they do this to us...it's so inhumane, how will I live this half a month, how will I endure it? "
Jiang Chen sat beside him, and comforted with a smile, "Didn't they leave you your insole and cologne?"
"But there's only one pair!" Li Gang angrily said, "I brought fourteen pairs for easy replacement! He actually only let me keep one pair. I'll already be tired from military training, and every man's feet smell bad when they sweat. Not letting me change the insoles and not letting others change, do they want us to raise insects!"
Jiang Chen was drinking water, and almost spit it out when he heard these words. He swallowed the water in his mouth, wiped the corner of his mouth, and when he looked up, he saw the instructor who was following the car was already standing beside their seats.
"Raising insects?" The dark-skinned instructor sneered: "The description is quite apt. Since it is raising insects, there must be a bug king in the end. Do you and your roommate want to be the bug king?"
Li Gang coughed twice: "Instructor, you heard it wrong. I didn't say raising insects, I said telling stories, that is, everyone taking off their shoes and telling stories together, which is very harmonious."
"Telling stories?" The instructor smiled and said, "Then tell us one?"
Li Gang looked at Jiang Chen, and Jiang Chen looked out the window.
"Hehehehe..."
Ever since Li Gang attempted to laugh dumbly and tried to get away with it, and the instructor left with a cold chuckle, Jiang Chen knew that this military training might not be too easy.
Facts only proved that he was not wrong.
"One! Two!" The belt snapped at his leg: "Can't your calf be straightened?"
With a bitter face, Li Gang straightened his almost cramped leg.
"Not bad." The instructor passed by Jiang Chen: "Standard posture, come up and show everyone."
Jiang Chen: "Yes!"
He glanced at the front where the sun was strongest, and walked over helplessly.
This kind of scene had been repeated since the first day of military training. Li Gang was always the one who got snapped at, and Jiang Chen was always the one who stepped forward to demonstrate.
But no one envied him. Instead, after the initial curiosity and excitement, they all sympathized with him.
Every time the instructors always choose a training site that was sunny, but there was also general sunny and an extremely sunny level. The place where the instructors stood, that is, the place where the demonstrators did demonstrations, was always the sunniest.
And not only that, since you were a demonstrator, it was a big mistake if you made a mistake and led the whole class wrong. In order not to make a mistake, you could only practice more. After the people in the same class finished with training, he still had to stay behind to grind with the instructor on the training ground. The first two days were obstacle courses on the battlefield. Most of the students couldn't lift their arms and legs after practicing all afternoon, but Jiang Chen practiced until nine o'clock in the evening.
Those classmates who saw him that day, not one did not sympathize with him. When Jiang Chen went to the bathhouse, no matter which class or battalion saw him, they all let him jump the line and let him wash directly.
"Stand upright!" The instructor gave the order, and the kicking students lowered their feet as if they were being pardoned, and each of them straightened their backs, like small poplars, "Straddle."
"This morning's training is almost done." The instructor said: "Gather on time in the afternoon. Dismissed."
After the students applauded, most of them left in twos and threes, and some people sat down on a random step to replenish their energy on the spot.
"Instructor." Li Gang sat next to Jiang Chen and said, "Can Jiang Chen leave too?"
"He can't." The instructor said lightly, "Do you want to accompany him?"
"Of course. After all, he was also implic... in the same class and dormitory as me. As good brothers we should share the same blessings and the same difficulties."
"Okay, you can train together too." The instructor pointed to Jiang Chen's side: "It happens that there is a lack of a substitute."
Li Gang said "ah?", and stood next to Jiang Chen with a bitter face.
Jiang Chen glanced at him amusedly, but his movements did not lose order at all.
The amount of training at the moment might seem huge to others, but it was nothing to him. When he was in the army in his last life, he was in the most rigorous and powerful army in the entire galaxy. It went without saying that their training was rigorous. Jiang Chen witnessed it, and although he didn't need to train with the troops all the time, the daily training was also very strict. At that time, the training he received might have even been difficult for ordinary soldiers to complete.
Now that he had returned to this body, although it was not as strong and agile as the body that received special training in his previous life, he had also improved a lot in his usual exercise. At least the amount of training during college military training was not a problem for him now.
And even though many students called their instructors devils behind their backs because they sympathized with him, he could feel that the instructors in his class were really training them seriously, including keeping him for special training every time. They really felt that he could go on, and didn't mean to make things difficult.
Jiang Chen explained this to other students, including Li Gang, many times. At first they still believed it, but ever since he sparred with the instructor on the battlefield that day and rolled in the sand a few times, no one believed what he said.
And no matter how he explained later, his classmates would look at him with eyes of "I understand, I understand". The sympathy and distress contained in it honestly made him speechless.
"Here's a set of military boxing moves." The instructor said, "After training, just as those students have finished their meals, let's go to the cafeteria."
Jiang Chen nodded. Li Gang's face became even more bitter. It was just too cruel to drag them into training, and have them eat leftovers as a matter of course.
After arriving at the cafeteria, it only took a second for Li Gang's expression to turn from exhausted and discontent to full of light.
He opened his eyes wide and looked at the self-service dining area in front of him, turned his head and asked Jiang Chen in disbelief, "Is this still the cafeteria where we ate in?"
Jiang Chen took a plate as usual, nodded and said, "The instructors all have their own diet, so they usually don't eat with the students. Each of them supplements different nutrients, so they serve themselves according to their needs."
Li Gang closed his mouth and nodded, then suddenly turned his head, "You mean that you have been eating here since the military training?"
Jiang Chen picked up a piece of corn and put it on his dinner plate, and said with a slight smile, "I said earlier that I eat at noon every day, and it's a buffet."
"I, I, we, didn't we think that you were just forcing yourself to smile, and were just enduring your grievances!" Li Gang added a chicken leg and a piece of steak, and while swallowing his drool, he frantically glanced at other dishes: "If I knew it was like this, I would also like to train more. It’s even okay to train until midnight every day!”
"That's what you said."
"I said it!"
Jiang Chen turned his head and said to the instructor, "Look, didn't I say he would agree."
The instructor gave Li Gang a look of disdain, crossed his arms and said, "All right."
Li Gang happily finished his meal and was about to take a nap when he heard the instructor say, "Go to training with us."
Li Gang: "Huh?"
"Didn't you say because you can eat these every day, so you're willing to train until twelve o'clock?" The instructor snorted coldly, "You don't have to train until midnight, you can do it until ten o'clock every night."
Li Gang: "Ah?!"
Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I have some work to do at the research institute, and I may leave early, and I won't be able to participate in the military parade at that time, so I proposed to the instructor to let you replace me."
"Ah?!!" Li Gang quickly refused: "I can't!"
"You can." Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I believe in you."
Li Gang: "But I don't believe in myself!"
Jiang Chen: "Just trust the instructor."
Li Gang: "…"
Li Gang: No, I don't want to trust the instructor at all, and now I don't even trust you.
Seeing that his expression was too distressed, Jiang Chen smiled and comforted him, "If my progress goes fast, I'll make it back as soon as I can. You don't have to worry too much, maybe I'll be back in two days."
Li Gang forced a smile on his face: "Hahaha."
The instructor glanced at him: "Can you train?"
Li Gang: "Can I say no?"
Instructor: "No."
……
When Jiang Chen came out of the military unit where the college military training was, he saw the off-roader parked outside. The driver was still Qian Yi, but he didn't expect that there were other people inside as well.