Chapter 100: Standing Up
afternoon.
The training just ended.
Tian Ming was surrounded by his teammates and went to the restaurant to compete with Xu Yan in terms of appetite.
Some people from other companies also followed suit, rushing to the restaurant and showing unusual interest in the game.
Crowds of people poured into the restaurant from every corner of the army like a stream, and soon quite a few people gathered in front of the restaurant. They were not busy eating, but curiously pointed at and talked about Tian Ming and others.
"That person is Tian Ming, Xu Yan's opponent this time. He has a huge appetite and can fight against three or four people."
"Is that true? He doesn't look that fat."
"What do you know? Those who can really eat are not necessarily fat people. Only those with a fat waist and a bow belly can eat. This Tian Ming has a fat waist, and I'm sure he also has a bow belly!"
"It's going to be interesting this time. The appetite is not like anything else. You have to eat as much as you can. There is no room for falsehood and no skills involved. Let's see how Xu Yan wins this time!"
Time passed quickly during the discussion. In the blink of an eye, ten or twenty minutes had passed. However, Xu Yan had not shown up yet, and neither had any of the people from the reconnaissance company.
"Why hasn't Xu Yan come yet?"
"That's right. It's been so long since the training ended. Logically, he should have arrived. Why hasn't he arrived yet? Is he afraid?"
"It shouldn't be. Did you notice that not only Xu Yan, but even the people from the reconnaissance company didn't show up?"
"Their company training probably hasn't finished yet, let's wait a little longer!"
After waiting for another ten minutes, Xu Yan still didn't show up. He was a little impatient and couldn't help but yell, "Why hasn't he come yet? Forget it, I won't wait any longer. Let's go eat first. I'm starving!"
This statement caused a wide response. Many people went straight into the restaurant to have their meals. Some who were still hesitant gritted their teeth and followed after everyone else when they saw that everyone else had left. In just a few minutes, the originally bustling restaurant became deserted, with only the people from Tian Ming's company still holding on .
"What's going on with Xu Yan? Why hasn't he come yet? Did he stand us up?" said a squad leader with a gloomy face.
This question was destined to have no answer because no one knew what had happened. Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads to indicate that they didn't know.
"Squad leader, when is the competition going to start? I'm starving!" Tian Ming said with a bitter face. Basically, he would go to the restaurant to eat after training every day. Now it was almost half an hour past mealtime and he still hadn't eaten a single grain. His stomach had been rumbling for a long time, but he hadn't said it because he had to wait for Xu Yan to compete. Now that he heard the squad leader talking about it, and it was very likely that Xu Yan would not show up, he couldn't help but bring it up.
"What should we do?" asked Tian Ming's squad leader.
"How about we go eat?" someone suggested.
"Let's wait a little longer, in case Xu Yan arrives soon." A squad leader rejected this proposal. Seeing that everyone looked hungry, he thought for a moment and said, "How about this, send someone to the reconnaissance company to check and urge them!"
Someone went to the reconnaissance company to urge them. At this time, some of the people who had gone in to eat before had finished their meal and walked out. They stood on the steps in front of the restaurant, picking their teeth leisurely, looking at Tian Ming and others.
These people were well-fed, refreshed, and looked contented, which formed a sharp contrast with Tian Ming and others who were hungry, with resentful and anxious faces.
Another person walked out of the restaurant after eating and drinking, but still didn't see Xu Yan. He couldn't help but ask, "Hey, why hasn't Xu Yan come yet?"
"I don't know. Maybe something delayed them. They have already sent people to urge them. There should be news soon." said someone who came out early.
A group of people continued to wait. After waiting for a few minutes, the person who went to scout the company to urge them came back angrily. Tian Ming and others hurriedly went to meet him and asked, "How is it? When will Xu Yan come?"
The man took a deep breath, faced everyone's inquiring gazes, and said in a muffled voice: "Don't mention it, the scouts have gone and there is no one left!"
"What's going on?" A group of people looked at each other, and their intuition told them that things didn't seem to be good.
As if in response to what the group of people were thinking, a man who had just finished his meal in the restaurant suddenly said, "I remember now. Today I saw people from the reconnaissance company leaving the army in a car. It seemed like they were going to a field training exercise!"
Field training!
Hearing these four words, Tian Ming and others were immediately confused.
"So we've been waiting here like idiots with empty stomachs for most of the day, but they're not even in the army."
"Then what does our persistence mean? Give me back my youth!"
"You didn't even inform us that you couldn't come, and left us waiting here. That's too much!"
The crowd started to make a great noise, filled with anger and a feeling of being screwed. They hated Xu Yan to the core.
Tian Ming's stomach growled, and he couldn't help but say, "Squad leader, Xu Yan can't come, can we go eat now?"
"go to eat!"
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field!
In an open area, the members of the reconnaissance company gathered and were practicing throwing grenades.
Mo Wenyuan looked at Tang Yan's back and couldn't help shaking his head with amusement. The company commander was really competitive. He knew that Xu Yan didn't have a good appetite and would most likely not win against Tian Ming, so he even used the trick of training in the wild. There was nothing wrong with training in the wild, but when you were outside, you asked everyone to practice throwing grenades. What did he mean? You can throw grenades anywhere, why do you have to do it in the wild?
"Company commander, we don't need to come to the wild to practice throwing grenades!" Mo Wenyuan asked with a smile.
Tang Jue noticed the smile on his lips, glanced at him, and said seriously: "Practice for combat. The combat situation cannot be as ideal as the training ground on the playground. Let everyone get familiar with different terrains so that they can better participate in the battle in the future."
This reason was also acceptable. Mo Wenyuan was dumbfounded for a while, and then he responded with a strange look: "The company commander is right!"
After saying this, Tang Jue's face seemed to be a little hot, and he no longer paid attention to Mo Wenyuan. He turned his eyes and saw that Jiang Danian's posture was wrong. He strode towards him and said, "You can't do this. There are also tricks to throwing grenades..."
After telling Jiang Danian the trick, Tang Jue asked him to throw it again. Jiang Danian pursed his lips nervously, tightened the grenade handle, pulled the ring, raised the grenade high, and threw it forward suddenly.
The grenade pull ring caught on the cuff, flipped up into the sky, and then, in front of everyone's astonishment, it landed at Tang Jue's feet with a plop. Tang Jue crawled on the ground reflexively.
Ha ha !
Everyone burst into laughter.
Tang Jue got up from the ground, his face as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Captain, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Jiang Danian shrank back.
Tang Jue glared at him and said angrily: "I didn't mean to do that. Do you know that if I were on the battlefield, I would have died. I would not have died in the fight with the enemy, but died in the hands of my own people..."
