The old-fashioned community where Li Li's parents live is about 30 minutes away from the camp, which is a relatively long distance without taxis and transportation, and it is deserted along the way, except for the soldiers patrolling the team, there is almost no human figure, which looks particularly bleak, and most of the entertainment venues in Anshi have been closed, and only a small part is still open, and the objects of business are not ordinary people.

Walking on the dim street, Li Li can be said to be full of emotion, thinking of the experience from the monster invasion of Spring City to the present, he was a little in a trance, in just over two months, his life trajectory has completely changed, from the assembly line operator who struggled with the food and clothing line to the current lieutenant with third-order strength, such a change is like a roller coaster as fast, so that his mind is a little unable to react.

Every time he walked, Li Li would see a group of drunks and a group of flamboyant women hugging and flirting on the street, and the patrolling soldiers often turned a blind eye to this, just as Li Li watched him stroll under the street lamp during the curfew time, and he knew that it was all thanks to this set of captain's uniforms.

In the dead of night, this time period is when Li Li's thoughts are the most active, he feels that he is very angry and thinks of Li Yunpan again, and also thinks of a blank future, thinking of the terrible humanoid monster, if Anshi can't keep him and his parents, what should he do, the more he thinks about it, the more troubled he is, and finally he walked to the door of a KTV called Zun that was opening his door, and walked in absent-mindedly.

Li Li went straight to the bar and said to the beautiful bartender inside, "Give me a pack of cigarettes." ”

The beautiful bartender showed a signature smile and handed Li Li a pack of soft middle, Li Li took the cigarette and took out a lighter printed with the emperor's phone number and address from the bar box and said, "How much." ”

"Ten pounds of food stamps." The beautiful bartender said in a pleasant voice.

"What can you pay for besides food stamps?" Li Li was stunned for a moment, but soon said that the current implementation of material control is somewhat similar to the previous planned economy, the original paper money is no longer in circulation, and all material purchases are spelled with bills.

"Three-pound meat tickets are fine." The beautiful bartender was stunned when she saw Li Li, thinking that the other party had no food stamps.

"I mean use other substances besides bills." Li Li frowned slightly, there was a lot of gold in his space ring, there was also a lot of food, and there were a lot of snacks, but there were no tickets, because he hadn't gone to receive his salary yet.

The beautiful bartender who heard Li Li's words suddenly looked embarrassed, and didn't know what to say for a while, mistakenly thinking that the other party was here to make trouble, and at this moment a bald middle-aged man in a suit came over, first looked at Li Li's epaulettes and a star, and then said with a smile: "This big brother, I am the lobby manager here, and this pack of cigarettes is for you." ”

Li Li looked at the bald man and didn't speak, it turned out that the bald manager thought that Li Li was the kind of person who ate overlord cigarettes, but when he saw the one star on the other party's epaulettes, he thought about it and thought that there was no need to offend a person for a pack of cigarettes, so he gave him cigarettes and calmed things.

The bald middle-aged man saw that Li Li did not answer, but looked at him directly, his smile froze for a moment, and then he hurriedly took out a Chinese and handed it to Li Li and said: "Brother, tell me what else you need, you are also hard, if it weren't for your desperate work on the front line, how could we have a comfortable life now, which division commander Yang went up just now is a friend of our boss, and division commander Yang also specially greeted us to take special care of the soldiers who came here to consume." ”

This bald man seems to be a lobby manager really has some ability, his words are soft and hard, it really makes people can't find a little fault, even if they are people who want to make trouble, they don't dare to make trouble anymore, in fact, the point of the bald man's words is that Master Yang and the boss are friends, and Master Yang personally said that he should take care of his brothers, don't you have long eyes to make trouble, isn't it a slap in the face of Master Yang?

Li Li is not stupid, he understood the meaning of this as soon as he heard it, took the cigarette handed over by the bald man, the bald man hurriedly took out the lighter and lit it for Li Li, Li Li took a deep breath, and then coughed violently from his throat, choking tears almost flowed out, and the bald man immediately called the beautiful bartender to pour Li Li a glass of cold boiled water.

Li Li waved his hand, put his hand into his trouser bag, took the opportunity to take out a gold bar from the space ring and threw it on the bar, and said quietly: "This is cigarette money." ”

After speaking, he left the hall without looking back, leaving behind a bald man and a beautiful bartender with a blank face.

After coming out to the river, listening to the sound of flowing water, looking at the wide river, listening to the constant chirping of insects in the weeds by the river, I suddenly felt that I was not so troubled, opened the newly bought pack of soft and took out a light, slowly learned to smoke, after a few violent coughs, I was finally able to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog normally, looking at the cigarette in my hand and muttering: "No wonder there are so many people in the world who are obsessed with cigarettes." ”

After smoking almost half a pack of cigarettes, Li Licai got up and walked towards the camp dormitory, and when he returned to the dormitory, it was almost twelve o'clock in the evening, he took a hot shower, lay quietly on the bed, lit a cigarette, and smoked calmly.

After smoking a cigarette, Li Li turned off the light and fell asleep.

"Knock knock!" A quick knock on the door woke Li Li from his sleep, opened his sleepy eyes and shouted out of the door: "Don't knock, it's coming." ”

After speaking, he put on his clothes and walked to the door, as soon as he opened the door, he saw Wang Wei wearing a second lieutenant military uniform and Huang Tianqiang wearing a first-class sergeant major uniform. ”

Li Li looked at the elated two inexplicably, Huang Tianqiang looked at Li Li who was stunned and reacted first, and hurriedly explained: "Team Li, because we handed in too many crystals at one time, which attracted the attention of our superiors, we sent someone to ask us how we got the crystals, and we told our superiors in detail about the ambush battle that day, and the superiors quickly sent someone to tell us that each person was promoted to a higher level, and we had to do an exclusive interview." ”

"Team Li is about to change, the interview is about to start, the brothers are waiting for you, I looked for you a few times yesterday and didn't find you." Wang Wei hurriedly interjected, they got the news yesterday.

Hearing Huang Tianqiang's explanation, Li Li finally understood, it turned out that in order to encourage morale, the army used their deeds yesterday as a positive teaching material to publicize it, and Li Li took the clothes in Huang Tianqiang's hand and returned to the dormitory.

After a while, Li Li, who was wearing a new captain's uniform, and the entire ninth squad appeared in a conference room, and there were also Sun Yang, Su Zhi and a middle-aged and elderly soldier in his fifties wearing sunglasses, among which the man in sunglasses sat in the middle of the conference room, and Su Zhi and Sun Yang sat on both sides.

The man in sunglasses slowly took off his sunglasses, this person was none other than Chen Guibin, who mobilized Li Li and others to rescue Jiang Tianqiong some time ago, a two-bar and four-star official.

Director Chen looked around at Li Li and the others who were sitting in the conference room and said with a pleasant face: "Let me introduce myself first, my name is Chen Guibin, and I am the director of the Shu Dusai Defense Office in Anshi. ”