Chapter 90: The Occasionally Crazy Child (4,000-word chapter)
Under the scorching sun, eleven or twelve-year-old children dressed in military uniforms, with serious expressions on their little faces, stood motionless, conducting formation training.
In the last row of the team, two boys stood together. One looked a little thin, and the other had a lot of flesh. The two people standing together formed a sharp contrast.
"Damn it, here's the summer camp we agreed on."
Lu Mingze, who was only twelve years old, did not dare to move. The sun was shining on his body, and he felt that his clothes were completely soaked with sweat. The pungent smell of rubber shoes and military uniforms made him temporarily lose his sense of smell.
"Take a break! Stand at attention!"
"rest!"
Following the ringing of the bell and the instructor's instructions, Lu Mingze collapsed weakly on the ground, and immediately jumped up due to the heat of the hot ground.
"Brother, give me a hand."
Lu Mingze weakly stretched out his hand to his cousin Lu Mingfei, and with the help of Lu Mingfei's hands, he got up from the ground.
"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have come..."
"But we can't run away."
Lu Mingfei had a grimace on his face. His fat cousin could still rely on fat as a cushion, but his small body could not bear it anymore.
"Lu Mingfei, what do you think Uncle De does? He was sent directly to the military camp for us."
Lu Mingfei limped to the side, picked up the kettle, drank a large amount of water, and recalled his experiences during this period.
After graduating from elementary school, a strange uncle suddenly came to my home, touched my head with a smile, and told me that he was my distant relative.
This uncle named Lu Ande was originally doing business in a foreign country. In recent years, the business has been good, so he asked his parents to take over, and he himself planned to return to Minzhou to recuperate for a while.
As for poor Lu Mingfei, he will be fostered in the home of his uncle Lu Gucheng for a period of time, and will grow up with Lu Mingze, who is the same age as him.
If that was the case, forget it. After all, Uncle Lu Ande was so generous in giving Lu Mingfei a GBA game console made in Japan.
But at the family dinner that day, the man told his aunt with a devilish smile:
"I signed up Mingfei and Naring Ze for a summer camp, just so they could get acquainted with each other."
The aunt was convinced that this relative from the United States had great supernatural powers, and since the two of them were about to enter junior high school and had little homework this summer, she agreed.
Lu Mingfei originally thought that this summer camp was the kind of tour group that takes people to enjoy the mountains and rivers, but after getting off the plane, he was taken by bus to a military camp and began a month and a half of military training.
At this time, Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze realized that they had been tricked. This was a military summer camp!
The two of them cursed and participated in the military training. Two weeks of queue training, two weeks of physical training, two weeks of firearms training, and the summer camp schedule was fully booked.
However, although Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze complained about military training, there were two things they liked very much:
First, this summer camp allows you to play with real guns, and in the future you can also shoot rockets and mortars;
Second, the food is really good, with large pieces of beef and mutton, and sometimes seafood. Combined with high-intensity training, the thin Lu Mingfei gained some muscle.
Of course, the most important reason for these two to persist is...
"Are you two okay?"
A girl with short hair came over. Her name was Susie. She was one year older than the two of them. She was now in the first grade of junior high school in Peking and also came to participate in this summer camp.
I don't know why, but Su Qian has always cared about the two of them, which caused Lu Mingze to have some misunderstanding.
"It's okay, it's okay, Sister Susie, I'm in good health."
Lu Mingze, a fat little man, patted his belly and made a crisp sound to show his strength.
The most important reason is that the girls we train with are not bad looking, and the eleven or twelve-year-old boys already have some youthful ignorance, so naturally they don't want to make a fool of themselves in front of girls, especially the girls they like.
On the other side, in a room in the military camp, a middle-aged man in military uniform was chatting with Ender.
"Mr. Lu, don't worry, I asked my daughter to watch them. Nothing will happen."
"It's okay. Boys just need to practice hard. Not even a mixed race can keep up with that fat little guy."
Ender picked up the tea cup and took a sip. Ender liked the tartary buckwheat tea with the aroma of grains, mainly because it was not as bitter as other teas.
The soldier in front of him is the general director of this summer camp and Susie's father.
This person is considered a branch of the Su family and one of the descendants of Su Yu. During the battle with the eight Sheqi families, most of the mixed-race families in China were torn apart and scattered to various places along with the army or civilians.
This Colonel Su was born into a military family and was a top expert in the relevant departments back then. However, he was later injured and had to retire and work on the second line.
This summer camp was specially prepared for the children of the commissioners of relevant departments. The people who came to train were all hybrids. The training subjects were also varied, so that this group of dragon-slaying reserve soldiers could see the power of modern weapons in advance.
"That kid is a little timid, remember to give him more practice."
Ander emphasized.
The soldier opposite showed a gentle smile, but a scar on his face made his smile look a bit ferocious.
"Don't worry, this summer camp is specially prepared for dragonborn and hybrids."
The two met and smiled, but Lu Mingfei didn't know what was waiting for him next.
One month later…
The skin color of Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze was obviously several shades darker, and the swimming ring on Lu Mingze's belly was also a little smaller.
The two of them stood there upright, their spirits refreshed, and there was a bit of a soldier in their demeanor.
"I'll let you play a game today!"
Lu Mingfei suddenly shuddered when he heard the instructor's powerful voice. The last time the instructor said this, he led the whole class to a four-hundred-meter obstacle course.
That day, Lu Mingfei's legs were shaking and his whole body felt like he had been run over. He finally understood what it meant to rather run five kilometers than four hundred meters.
The coach led the team to a puddle. He held up a square object with a lead on it.
"Now I have a 500-gram piece of TNT in my hand!"
He cheered everyone up with just one sentence. The coach lit the fuse and threw the explosive into the water.
"Everyone is here, lie down!"
Lu Mingfei lay on the ground, thinking that today he was here to see the power of explosives. This was not interesting. Yesterday he went to drive a tank.
boom!
As the ground shook, water columns rose into the sky, covering the person lying on the ground with water.
"stand up!"
"You've all seen its power. Let's use it to play drumming and passing flowers later!"
The instructor said the most terrifying words in the calmest tone, and Lu Mingfei felt a sense of absurdity and madness for the first time.
"You're going to die..."
"Who's gossiping down there?"
The instructor's eyes glanced over, and Lu Mingfei shuddered and silently closed his mouth.
"The rule is this, the fuse can burn for thirty seconds. I have a timer here that will hit it once every second."
"Thirty of you form a circle and pass the explosives clockwise. The last person throws the explosive into the water. If you don't do this, everyone will be killed by the bomb."
"Whoever gets it remembers to count it."
"Do you understand?"
The instructor explained the rules, but Lu Mingze beside him couldn't sit still.
"Tell the instructor, this will kill someone."
The instructor's face darkened, he paused and said:
"The summer camp has a death quota, but this year's quota is not full yet."
Such words were still a bit too heavy for an eleven or twelve-year-old child, and there was a terrifying silence at the scene.
The instructor yelled again:
"Do you understand?"
After a summer of training, these children reflexively shouted:
"I understand!"
"Okay, now come and form a circle around this pool."
On the sentry tower on the other side, Ander and Colonel Su stood side by side. Ander held up his binoculars and looked at Lu Mingfei and others who were queuing up.
"You guys really know how to play, passing bombs around to practice your courage."
Colonel Su stood straight beside him, looked at his daughter, and nodded.
"Mr. Lu, this form is an excellent experience we learned from foreign countries and is generally used in the training of special forces."
Ander looked at Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze through the telescope. The word "Congxin" was written visibly on the little fat man's face. Lu Mingfei looked calm, but in fact his legs were spinning uncontrollably.
Shaking.
These two children are in the last row of the team. If the order of delivering the bombs is correct, they will be the last two people to get the bombs and the two most dangerous people.
At the beginning of the summer camp, there was a shady spot at the back of the queue. Lu Mingze pulled Lu Mingfei to the back of the queue, just to cool down a little.
Now the little fat Lu Mingze is so regretful that his intestines are green. If he had known that this would happen, he should have been the vanguard.
"Is everything lined up? Ready to start."
The coach's powerful voice sounded in Lu Mingfei's ears again. He felt as if he was floating in the clouds, and Lu Mingze's body next to him became blurry.
He saw a bit of fire, which must have been the instructor's lighter that ignited the explosive. His mind flew to an unknown place, and he only saw the flame falling on his right hand.
"one!"
That was Susie's voice. This girl had always been at the top of the team, and her performance in training was no worse than that of the boys.
Lu Mingfei turned his head and looked at Susie on his right. In his hazy vision, he saw two golden flames burning in Susie's pupils.
"Your daughter seems to have awakened."
Ender on the sentry tower held up the telescope and looked at Susie whose eyes turned into golden pupils.
Colonel Su on the side was stunned for a moment, and couldn't care less. He grabbed the telescope in Ander's hand and slapped it in the face.
"Golden Eyes, it seems that this kind of training is too stressful for children."
If Ander hadn't emphasized that he wanted to give Lu Mingfei some special treats, Colonel Su would definitely not have set up this kind of courage training program in the summer camp. It can only be said to be a coincidence. I don't know how many of the dragons below can activate under pressure.
Dragon blood.
"It's better to activate it earlier and learn more magic."
Ender comforted her by saying that Susie is a dragon-born hybrid. If she awakens earlier, she will be able to more easily feel the magic brought by the blood in her body, and her talent in magic will be higher.
Ender and Colonel Su were chatting and laughing on the guard tower, but Lu Mingfei down below was not doing so well.
"fifteen!"
Half of the explosives had been delivered, and he was getting closer and closer to Lu Mingfei. He felt his heartbeat speeding up rapidly, and every heartbeat became so obvious.
He felt the tips of his fingers were cold, and he couldn't help but imagine himself being blown into a bloody flower by a bomb in his mind. He also thought about the big crater made by the mortar before, and wondered whether he would become a piece of dust in the crater.
.
His chest was aching and his temples were bulging. In Lu Mingfei's field of vision, the eyes of the children who were training together were filled with flames. They looked at him with arrogant eyes, like giant dragons.
Looking down at prey.
The instructor on the side frowned. This training was originally a temporary increase, but the effect was unexpectedly good. Through the delivery of bombs, these little hybrids seemed to break through some kind of boundary and awakened one after another.
"twenty five!"
"Twenty-six!"
The deadly bomb came back again, and Lu Mingfei could already see the sparks on the fuse.
"Twenty-seven!"
Taking another step closer, Lu Mingfei breathed rapidly and made up his mind to throw the bomb into the puddle as soon as he got it.
"Twenty-eight!"
The last point is that as long as Lu Mingze gives himself the bomb, this absurd game can end.
Lu Mingfei looked at his cousin next to him. Lu Mingze's face was frighteningly white, and his clothes were completely soaked with sweat.
He is the only ordinary person among these people. If Ender hadn't guaranteed it, he wouldn't have been able to attend this summer camp.
The unconscious dragon power of those awakened hybrids also made Lu Mingze even more nervous, and he was almost crushed by the substantial pressure.
The explosive was handed to his hand. He wanted to hand it out, but found that his hand had already stiffened and he could not even move it.
Lu Mingze's hesitation made Lu Mingfei's condition worse. He watched helplessly as the fuse of the explosive burned to the end. Could it be that today was the day he died?
Lu Mingfei closed his eyes in despair. It was too late, but the explosion he expected never happened.
He opened his eyes and found that everything was still, including his companions, the instructors, the grass blown by the wind, and the birds passing by in the sky.
Lu Mingfei, who had just graduated from elementary school, was so frightened by this strange scene that he sat on the ground and began to sob softly. The sobs quickly turned into crying and shouting.
In this bizarre scene, Lu Mingfei looked so lonely.
"It's okay, brother."
A person held him in his arms. Lu Mingfei did not see his face, but instinctively felt a warmth connected by his blood. He cried wildly in that warm embrace, and then fell asleep again.
Zero put Lu Mingfei down, walked to Lu Mingze, glanced at Lu Mingze with disgust for occupying his brother, took out the explosives in his hand and threw them into the puddle, and then disappeared.
When Lu Mingfei woke up again, Lu Mingze was lying on the hospital bed, his fleshy face full of worry.
Seeing that Lu Mingfei was awake, he rushed forward desperately and hugged him.
"Brother, you will be my brother from now on."
Later, Lu Mingfei found out that at that time, he snatched the explosives from Lu Mingze's hand and threw them to the ground in one go. In Lu Mingze's words, he was more handsome than the martial arts star in the movie.
The instructor told him that in fact, only the fuse of the explosive was real, and an air cannon was set up in the puddle to simulate an explosion. All of this, as he said, was just a courage exercise.
The golden eyes he saw and the warm embrace he felt at that time were all remembered in the heart of little Lu Mingfei, just like a midsummer dream.
"I*, you are indeed a descendant of Lulin City."
Colonel Su used a rare curse word on the guard tower, and Ender nodded with satisfaction.