Chapter 5: Fiery Youth

"My passion is like a fire that burns the entire desert. Even when death sees me, it hides from me, avoiding this passionate flame......
His loud and rugged singing echoed above the so-called life-threatening Gobi Desert. In this desert, where a lone smoke rises and eggs can be fried directly on tank armor, the heroic song stands tall in the afterglow of the setting sun. Beneath his feet lies an endless yellow desert, above him a pure, unpolluted blue sky. Behind him, a fiery cloud adds the most beautiful and majestic backdrop to his scene.
A gust of slapping through the desert brought a wave of dry heat, and with tiny sand particles swirling everywhere, Zhanxiage couldn't help but frown and squint his eyes.
A trainee from the Fifth Special Forces Elite Training School who came with Zhanxiage for terrain adaptation training grabbed his camera and shouted loudly, "Old Zhan, can you not wear a bitter face?" Laugh, you never want to take a photo that instantly evokes sympathy, thinking you've just passed away, and mail it back, right?! ”
"Pah!" Zhan Xiage's eyes widened as he extended a finger and middle finger to the comrade taking his photo, shouting, "You damn well standing there with your back to the wind. Of course, standing there doesn't hurt your back. If you've got the guts, come over and try it!" ”
"Crack......"
That comrade was also very simple. He pressed the shutter of his camera, stared at Zhanxiage, frowned, and put on a mournful expression, looking like a frog puffed up in anger, yet he somehow extended a middle finger. The scene swept into the camera's negative, freezing a fiery youth in this ever-flowing river of history.
"Do I look ugly? Don't misunderstand, that middle finger was definitely not meant to raise it against you. I swear to the compassionate and compassionate Satan, big brother, I am innocent, I am framed! Only the last negative remains, so just develop this first photo. You'll have to make do with plenty of it! Who told us to live in this vast desert where birds can't even lay eggs and can't fill their stomachs with cold water? ”
Looking at this photo, Yajie'er smiled. Zhanxiage looked darker and thinner. The photo faithfully showed Zhanxiage's dirty military uniform and a face that hadn't been properly washed with clean water in ages. Although Zhanxiage was smiling, on him, a kind of uncontrollable passion suddenly surged from deep within Yajie'er. On him, an invisible, sharp substance was slowly rising.
Is it his proud and sturdy figure standing in the fierce wind?
Or is it that he no longer needs to glare fiercely or raise his fist, yet his steel-like tough facial features subtly emerge?
Or in those deeply sunken eye sockets, those fierce yet passionate eyes that had merged into the vastness of the desert and the fierce wind of the wind?!
雅洁儿轻轻咬着嘴唇，放下了自己手中涂了一半的唇膏，她抓自己单身宿舍的电话，略一思考后拨通了一个电话号码，她低声道：“对不起，我……今天晚上的约会，我还是……不去了。”
On the table in front of Yajie'er sat a large flower carefully crafted from lilies and roses. The combination of red and white, combined with scattered starry stars, created a wave that could stir a gentle wave of affection for any girl in love.
Next to this large bouquet of fresh flowers sits a withered, pitiful, and unknown little flower. Perhaps it was Yajie'er's illusion, or perhaps an unconscious favoritism after falling in love, but she suddenly felt that this little flower was the most beautiful, even the most magical, because it came from the so-called life-threatening Gobi Desert!
"Did you see that little flower? Don't be fooled by how small and short this flower is—it's unremarkable, but we all call it the 'Military Soul Flower' because we've never seen a flower more resilient and life-sturdy than it. You don't know, when I suddenly saw a small oasis in a vast sea of sand, the shock between yellow and green brought me both visually and emotionally. With almost admiration, I invited this military soul flower quietly growing behind a stone half-hidden by wind and sand into my own hands. No matter what, you must bring it to your nose and sniff it hard! ”
Yajie'er gently lifted the small wildflower called the "Military Soul Flower." With a gentle smile, she really did as the war hero song had requested, and took a deep sniff. It doesn't have any faint, elegant fragrance. Creatures living on such a lifeless cliff no longer need to emit any enticing floral scents to attract bees or butterflies to spread pollen. Yajie'er smelled the scent of the desert in this little flower.
It was the taste of a man's broadest heart!
"Phew, our half-year hellish training in the desert is finally coming to an end! Long live Brother Satan! Long live! Long live! I just don't believe there's any training ground more terrifying than here! ”
Seeing this, Yajie'er could almost see Zhanxiage shaking his head and swaying his head, with a childlike happy smile at the corner of his mouth.
"You have no idea, the instructor's relationship here is basically a perverted woman in menopause for life! The temperature here was 45 degrees, and the sand on the ground was over 60 degrees. Even wearing army boots, we didn't dare stand there for long, afraid of burning our feet! What he liked most to do was order us to take off our uniforms and bare-chested, carrying a tree stump weighing fifty kilograms as we ran a fifteen-kilometer run through the desert! ”
"And this perverted old woman who is in lifelong menopause is leisurely driving an off-road jeep, following behind us with a chirping sound, drinking Coca-Cola to soothe the throat!" But at least he had a bit of mercy. Under his guidance, we actually found a river in the desert! It was amazing. As soon as the instructor gave the order, 'Drink some water,' we all rushed over with joy. Then, with a gentle, affectionate, and kind voice that said no one would bury us in death, the instructor told us that everyone would immediately jump into the river to drink water for four minutes. If anyone dared to pop their head out of the water during this time, they would ...... Gunfire! ”