Chapter 5: The Past (II)

After coming down the mountain at the age of eighteen, he finally got to know this world that was completely new to him, and it was then that Shen Zhong knew that there were very few people with such abilities as himself.

He didn't go to school, he could only be considered basically literate, and at that age when he didn't know what a part-time job was, he first thought of joining the army.

From birth to the age of eighteen, the people he came into contact with were his parents before the age of eight, and for ten years after the age of eight, he lived in isolation in the deep mountains and old forests like a wild man, occasionally showing up in villages and towns more than ten miles away from home, only to change clothes and supplies, and then hurriedly return.

The outside world of such a person is a blank sheet of paper for him at all, and it happens to be his habit that is incomparably compatible with military life. Withstand pressure, endure loneliness, withstand temptation, and endure torture.

In the army, he grew rapidly, and the rules and regulations of those troops did not become his fetters, but polished him more and more mature and stable.

After only two years of enlistment, Shen Chong was quickly promoted from private to private, corporal, sergeant, and up to the fourth sergeant major, a record that no one has broken so far.

The troops' sense of smell for potential stocks is definitely 100 times more sensitive than that of any other industry in this society, and they feel the heavy growth of jumping grades, and the upper echelons move quickly to secretly select the same type of personnel from the whole military region, and at the same time report to the top leaders. It was also at this time that he met the first and second friends in his life, Gao Hongwen and Gao Hongwu.

There is no place in this world where there is true peace, and if there is, then no human beings have ever arrived in that place.

Someone said: "It's actually a good thing that the war is so cruel, otherwise someone will like him." This is still an era of bullying!

When there is demand, there will naturally be "products", and the elite among the elites recommended by various military divisions, the top among the top ones stand out, and it is also from this time that they are isolated from the outside world, receive top-secret special training, and then eliminate them one by one. The qualification standard will never be reduced because of the reduction in the number of people, one meets the standard, then one, and if it does not meet the standard, it will all be brushed down, and the relevant departments as the recommended units will be punished accordingly.

That is to say, people like them are among the people selected from dozens of millions of young people who join the army in each military region every year or every few years, and then after a long period of hellish training in mysterious institutions, a group of people who have survived with an ultra-high elimination rate, and even if they are as strong as heavy, they are still polished in it for two years!

Although the team was still declared to be a special operations team when it was formed, in terms of strength, they had long been out of the category of special forces. Due to the secrecy nature of the mission to be carried out in the future, the team was not given any code name, and the members of the team were no longer referred to by their own names as of that date.

Four years after joining the army, the heavy military rank has not changed after jumping five levels in the first two years, and with him, there are thirty-three people, the oldest Qu Yuan is twenty-five years old, and the youngest Cheng Kai is twenty years old. That year, Shen Zhong was twenty-two years old, and his position was the leader of the special operations squad, military rank: Sergeant Major IV.

On the day they stepped out of that gate, the supreme leader personally visited them in the camp, and that was the fourth time Shen Zheng had seen him.

The group of energetic and high-spirited young people were excited, delighted, and even more proud to accept the review of the country's supreme leader. The scene of pride and ambition will always be frozen.

The chief walked up to each of them, straightened their collars, patted them on the shoulder, and said: "The motherland will always be your solid backing, and I am waiting for your triumph!"

They were then greeted by four years of overseas operations and other top-secret missions around the world, such as lurking, rescuing, protecting, assassinating, investigating, fighting... In the past four years, they have experienced hundreds of battles, large and small, with the enemy numbering as few as a few dozen or as many as more than 10,000.

He has fought against government forces, terrorists, six of the world's top ten mercenary groups, and even pirates and the underworld. Hundreds of top-secret missions, none of which can be humane, and the horror is that there is not a single failure!

For more than four years, more than 1,500 days and nights, they did not even get a good night's sleep, because they had to deal with all kinds of attacks that might come at any time. Even when sleeping and bathing, they must always be vigilant against all kinds of ruthless lethal means from their comrades-in-arms, this is their spare time, and if they want to survive, they can only rely on their comrades-in-arms to constantly improve themselves! They are accustomed to tense their nerves all the time.

Everyone followed Shen Chong, and his enigmatic ability turned the tide countless times in desperate situations, and he always subdued this group of mortal beings who were almost god-like in every battle, and at the same time urged them to speed up their own pace, and take him as the direction to keep catching up.

It was also in these four years that the number of their combat team of 34 people slowly decreased, Cheng Kai, Wang Qikun, Li Dongkui... There is no time to grieve, let alone sink, because they have to rush to the next destination to carry out the next mission.

In order to live, and for the beliefs and dreams that they have always insisted on in their hearts, they can only endure not to grieve and make themselves stronger.

It was also in those days that Shen Chong finally realized that there was still an existence like him in this world, even if it was only a handful, but after all, it existed. Just one is enough to turn the tide of the battlefield against such a powerful opponent that he can't fully defend his combat squad in many complicated situations.

Although in that world that is opposed to light, there will be people dying tragically every day, and they die quickly, many of them, but seeing the comrades-in-arms who get along with him day and night, and the comrades-in-arms who depend on each other sacrifice one by one, and can no longer see their voices and smiles, Shen Zheng will still feel helpless and powerless.

How can there be any quiet years, but someone is carrying the weight for you...

Finally, I can go home, I can go home, with the ashes of the former group of comrades-in-arms, and finally return to their hometown that haunts their dreams. Maybe they were tired a long time ago, and in those days, they would always look in that direction when they were on duty at night, and they would miss and worry about that place thousands of miles away.

Sitting in front of the bulging dirt bag, putting his head on his knees, he gradually closed his eyes, really tired, tired, tired. Just like when he was eight years old, his parents left, and he was still just a man swaying in some corner of the world, not knowing where to go or what to do. And unlike him at that time, at this moment, he was unprecedentedly hesitant.