Chapter 35: Conquest

Huang Zhipeng replied, "The report is eleven months and twenty-one days!" ”
Zhan Xiage, however, stared silently at Sun Jing. Meeting his clear, cold gaze like a thousand years of cold water, Sun Jing couldn't help but raise both hands and say, "I surrender!" Don't look at me like that when you treat class enemies, you don't know, but your gaze is sharper than the butcher's knife next door to me when I was a kid—so bright it makes me uneasy! Who knows if you were a pig butcher in your past life! ”
Huang Zhipeng laughed, "That's right, that's right, he killed you in his past life!" ”
"I won't waste words with you anymore!" Sun Jing glared at Huang Zhipeng and said, "I want you to take two months off!" ”
Zhanxia Ge's face showed no emotion as he asked, "Why?" ”
"You've been working in the most boring submarine for eleven months and twenty-one days. You should go out and have some fun, enjoy real life...... Sun Jing raised her hands again, helpless, "Here we go again, here we go again. Don't you know that when you glare at someone, it really makes people nervous?" ”
"Reason!"
"Sigh...... Sun Jing slowly put away her smile, "Neither you nor Huang Zhipeng have formally completed their enlistment procedures. In other words, you're just a backdoor pawn, right?" ”
Zhanxiage and Huang Zhipeng nodded together.
"Our submarine has been rated a 'Model Boat' for three consecutive years, renowned for its strong technical skills, courage to fight, and willingness to sacrifice, always completing higher-level tasks with quality and quantity. This time, the higher-ups assigned me a task: I must lead all the officers and crew on board to test sail a newly modified nuclear submarine from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and assist two academicians, four associate academicians, and four professors from the National Defense University to complete seventeen new weapons test tasks!" So, what do you think? This is truly impressive! Don't be fooled by the fact that I'm just a minor major now—once you mention it, you're a well-known figure in our entire fleet! Otherwise, how could such a shameless matter have fallen on me, brother?! ”
Looking at Sun Jing's smug face, Huang Zhipeng whispered, "Hmph, today I finally understand what it means to be a woman selling melons and boasting about herself!" ”
Sun Jing suddenly slammed the desk with a loud "smack," startling Huang Zhipeng. Sun Jing pointed at the calm and unchanged Zhanxia Ge and said, "Ah Huang, you saw it, right? Zhan Zhan is the real man, a qualified soldier. Look at yourself, so restless—how can you not grow up?!" ”
"Damn it, let me tell you, the people I used to look down on most were the children of high-ranking officials. What's so impressive about the children of high-ranking officials? Isn't it just having a good old man?! They treat the military camp like a hotel, come and go whenever they want, just pat their butt when they want to leave, turn around without even saying goodbye, and when they've been mistreated in society, they dare to return to the camp for help. In their eyes, what do they regard as soldiers? Their family's gangster?! dry !! ”
It turned out that the reason Sun Jing could become close buddies with Zhan Xia Ge and Huang Zhipeng was definitely because of the idioms, old sayings, and sayings about dragons begetting dragons, phoenixes begetting phoenixes, and the mouse's friends digging holes. He simply stood up, rolled up his sleeves, slammed the table hard, and shouted wildly, "Back then, the higher-ups sent you to my submarine again. I felt so awkward, like two Spanish green-headed flies were forcibly stuffed into my mouth but couldn't spit them out, so I just had to hold it in!" At first, I was waiting every day for you to get out, but, damn it, you two actually managed to endure the toughest, most exhausting, and dirtiest submarine jobs among all branches. The war hero song even became a technical model on our submarine! It really made me secretly feel ashamed! ”
Zhanxiage frowned slightly and said, "If you have something to say, say it. Don't flatter me!" ”
"Heh heh ......" Sun Jing gave an awkward smile and said, "I absolutely believe you are qualified to participate in this experiment. But after all, you're not real soldiers. I hope you can take the initiative to take leave. There's no need for you to take risks with me!" You have to understand, testing new weapons means we face danger at any moment. Sometimes we sink to 300 meters deep, sometimes we have to test survival equipment, sometimes we have to launch torpedoes at water levels above the limits. One button might strike and our submarine could explode with a 'pop' into four or five hundred pieces, or even sink to the bottom as a can of sardines. As the older brother, I can't just drag you all into risking our lives, right?! ”
Zhan Xiagage suddenly laughed.
In this year, it was the first time Sun Jing had seen Zhanxiage's smile. He really couldn't imagine how a man's smile could give him such a dazzling shock and emotion, like a glacier thawing and reviving all things!
"Thank you, really thank you!" Zhanxiage gazed at Sun Jing and said softly, "Death is just another mountain I want to conquer!" ”
But Huang Zhipeng suppressed the smile on his face and said in a deep voice, "I've already sworn to myself that on the peak conquered by the Battle Hero's Song, I will always leave two rows of footprints!" ”