My Little Poplar - Chap 60

Yu Fengcheng’s eyes were cold, chilling, he was about to speak, Chen Jing shouted angrily: “Shut up, shut up!”

The men fell silent.

Chen Jing sighed tiredly, “There are only five of us left, you are all my soldiers, from now on, I demand that you obey my orders, anything I don’t let you say, keep it to yourself, the purpose of this try-out is not for you to question each other The purpose of this try-out, is not for you to question each other or attack each other. the Snowleopard brigade has its own criteria, whether you are convinced or not, you will be selected under that criteria, I understand you are angry, I am angry too but because you are angry you can’t fight inside? Have you not grown up? If this is a real battlefield, can the country give the responsibility of protecting the people to soldiers with your attitude?”

Liang Xiaomao turned his head away, his face was grim.

Da Xiong whispered: “Sergeant, we didn’t mean anything by it, don’t be angry, I just think… We’re all exhausted like idiots, our feet are breaking and somehow we’ve been eliminated, it’s a bit hard to accept.”

Chen Jing said: “You must have heard a lot of rumours about the Snowleopard before you came to the try-out, if the Snowleopard was easy to get into, it couldn’t be the number one brave Special Forces unit in the North West. You think the try-out process is brutal now, if you get past the first hurdle, what you’re about to face will be even more brutal, the training will be more painful than that and when you do go into battle one day, you’ll be facing a brutal enemy, with real swords and guns flying around you and you could die in a foreign land at any time, this fatigue, this aggravation is nothing compared to that. What’s this fatigue, what’s this grief compared to that? Fengcheng is right, if anyone feels they can’t accept that, they should be sensible and give up here.”

Liang Xiaomao clenched his fist and said, “I won’t give up, I can bear hardship, I’m not afraid to die, I can’t be defeated by difficulties now!”

Da Xiong also said: “I won’t give up either, I’ve come this far, I’m going to see how good the Snowleopard team really is.”

Chen Jing said: “OK, everyone get your bags, let’s go.”

Bai Xinyu struggled to get up from the ground, his body was more tired than he could have imagined but his mind was unexpectedly wide awake, maybe it was the fragmented memories that had knocked him out of his drowsy head, maybe it was Huo Qiao’s “Out! “eliminated”. Anyway, he suddenly realised that he might be a lucky man, he didn’t believe he could recite a completely unfamiliar word or number in 30 seconds but he had drawn a lyric that he happened to have some memory of, it was a fluke that he had passed and that didn’t make him feel a bit happy, thinking of Wang Sheng’s dark gaze before he left, he felt that he had passed badly. Yu Fengcheng was the one who took care of him all along the way, dodging bullets, letting him sleep in secret while on sentry duty, even giving him his last sip of water and the only level he had to do on his own, he got lucky, the more eager he was to prove his ability, the less he seemed to be able to do it, the more he was able to do it. the more anxious he was to prove himself, the less he seemed to be able to do it and the more frustrated he felt.

As they ran into the forest, only seven or eight kilometres from their destination and with victory in sight, all five men pushed every ounce of energy out of their bones and marched fast. After running for a while, they were attacked by the first and probably the last wave of the day, not from the ambush they had experienced before but from the sky.

When they saw the shadow of the helicopter in the distance, they knew it was coming for them, the helicopter was wide open, it must have had snipers on board, they were scurrying through the sparse woods, there was no way they could survive, so they made a quick decision, they decided to take cover and wait for the helicopter to leave.