Chapter 94: Showing One’s True Colors
“Xiao Geng.”
Geng Jihui, who was struggling to advance through the forest carrying his teammate on his back, heard someone calling him. The voice sounded like Chang Ning.
He turned around and saw that it really was Chang Ning. Nothing could make him happier than encountering a good brother at his most difficult moment, and this good brother could actually help.
“Chang Ning! I didn’t expect to run into you here.”
Geng Jihui had no idea that Chang Ning had already completed his mission.
In his mind, he thought Chang Ning’s mission location was the same as theirs, just with a different departure time.
He hadn’t imagined how thrilling Chang Ning’s Jungle Survival was this time.
“I came specifically to find you.”
“Specifically to find me?”
Geng Jihui carefully set the wounded man down against a tree trunk, then looked at Chang Ning. He knew Chang Ning had something to say.
The wounded man was stuck between the two of them and suddenly felt like a third wheel. If he could walk, he’d want to get far away from these two right now.
“My mission is over. I saw there was a wounded man here through the monitor, so I snatched the job of picking him up from Earth Wolf.”
“What! Your mission is over!”
The mission end time hadn’t arrived yet. Even if Chang Ning had returned to camp early, it shouldn’t be this fast.
Geng Jihui didn’t know where Chang Ning’s mission location was. Thinking of Gao Zhong Dui’s nature, it definitely wouldn’t be that simple, so the only explanation was that Chang Ning had been eliminated.
“Hey, stop!
I wasn’t eliminated. Put away that look of pity mixed with disbelief.”
Hearing Chang Ning say he wasn’t eliminated, Geng Jihui finally relaxed.
Actually, if Geng Jihui hadn’t been overly concerned, he could have inferred the result from Chang Ning’s earlier words.
In the Selection Training Camp, eliminated soldiers were never assigned extra tasks, let alone something easy like transporting the wounded.
“I’ll tell you all about my situation later when it’s over.
Now I need to get to work. You hurry to camp to rendezvous with me too. I can’t have fun with Hui Lang and the others without you.”
After Chang Ning finished speaking, he squatted in front of the wounded man, pulled him onto his back with both hands, then stood up steadily without any wobble.
This showed just how strong Chang Ning’s core strength and lower body stability were.
“Got it. I won’t delay here too long.”
Geng Jihui responded to Chang Ning, and the two advanced in opposite directions.
Although their destinations were the same, Chang Ning had driven here and needed to take the road, while Geng Jihui needed to cross mountains and ridges to reach camp, so their directions were definitely different.
Bringing the wounded back to camp, Chang Ning watched as the other placed his helmet under the national flag with a face full of reluctance.
He had paid the price for his arrogance. He might not have been eliminated otherwise.
As a result, all his previous efforts had gone down the drain, and he had to waste another year to try again.
What happened next was beyond Chang Ning’s control. The medical team would handle this comrade’s wounds.
As soon as Chang Ning arrived outside the tent, he heard the highly distinctive voice of Ostrich coming from inside.
“Damn it, someone save me! What the hell is this place!”
Ostrich’s body was tightly pressed against the cliff face, the mountain wind blowing chilly. He didn’t dare move at all.
The protruding parts of the cliff had been eroded away. As soon as Ostrich moved slightly, rock fragments rained down.
Ostrich carefully looked down. His position was about fifty meters from the ground.
There were many exposed rocks on the ground. If he fell, Ostrich felt he definitely couldn’t survive; he’d likely lose his life.
“You’re back.”
Outside the monitor, Hui Lang smiled and greeted Chang Ning upon his return.
His temper flared quickly but faded just as fast. As the combat team member second only to Gao Zhong Dui in the squad, he felt he understood Chang Ning pretty well.
After so many days of interaction, Chang Ning wasn’t the type to backstab a comrade.
Once Hui Lang calmed down and thought carefully, he figured Chang Ning must be up to some scheme.
None of that was the main point. As long as Chang Ning wasn’t someone who would backstab a comrade, the other little thoughts were harmless.
Hui Lang decided to see what scheme Chang Ning was up to.
“Yeah, I’m back.”
Chang Ning sat in his spot and watched one of the famous scenes from the original plot through the monitor.
Ostrich’s cry for help was heard by the medic, who followed the sound to the cliff edge and looked down.
Yo! An acquaintance!
Seeing Ostrich clinging desperately to a shaky little tree, the medic was amused. How does a normal person end up on a cliff?
“How did you get up here?”
Ostrich was also frustrated. He’d been holding this position gripping the little tree for hours.
His physical fitness was draining fast, and he answered the medic’s question gasping for breath.
“How should I know? In the pitch dark, I followed my compass and somehow ended up here.”
Seeing Ostrich’s condition was still okay, the medic wasn’t in a rush to rescue him. He chuckled and started teasing: “Aren’t you an eagle? Why don’t you fly?”
“Don’t joke. The height difference here is over fifty meters. I wouldn’t have time to open my parachute pack.
And I don’t even have a parachute on me. How can an eagle fly without wings?
Medic, stop joking with me. Hurry up and figure out how to pull me up.”
Ostrich felt like he couldn’t hold on much longer and said urgently.
“If you want me to pull you up, you have to shout ‘I’m an ostrich’ three times.”
Ostrich definitely wouldn’t agree to that demand, and the two started bickering.
In the end, Ostrich gave in. After all, only the medic could save him now.
“They’re breaking the rules.”
Watching the monitor, Chang Ning didn’t laugh along with Hui Lang and Earth Wolf at Ostrich and the medic’s antics.
Instead, while the two were laughing heartily, he very much spoiled the mood by pointing out that Ostrich and the medic were breaking the rules, with a hint of mockery in his tone.
The trap he had painstakingly set up before could now be sprung, so of course Chang Ning had to push harder.
“Keep them, keep them, this is so…”
Hui Lang was like a duck whose neck was suddenly grabbed; he forcibly swallowed the rest of his words.
Seeing the inexplicable look in Chang Ning’s eyes, Hui Lang realized it. Chang Ning’s intentions, hidden until now, had fully unfolded.
Whether in age or experience, Hui Lang far surpassed Chang Ning. If he still couldn’t see through Chang Ning’s intentions now, he’d be too useless.
Besides, as a member of the Lone Wolf Commando Unit, how could Hui Lang possibly be useless.
“You little rascal, waiting for me here.”
Hui Lang didn’t say more. He got Chang Ning’s intention. For this kind of thing, understanding it himself was enough; no need to say anything.
Besides, it wasn’t a big deal, as long as it didn’t affect the overall situation.
Although Hui Lang was biased, he still had his bottom line. He didn’t eliminate Ostrich and the medic.
Unlike Fan Tiankeng, who directly exposed his commander to He Chenguang’s gun muzzle and got away with nothing afterward—simply outrageous.
“Same as Geng Jihui, their situation is special.
You saw it too. If Shi Dafan didn’t save Deng Zhenhua, he’d be in mortal danger.
Still the same words: our Special Forces don’t need emotionless killing machines.” Hui Lang said.
Chang Ning didn’t press further. Some things were better left understood in everyone’s hearts without saying them out loud.
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