The hospital is too busy, so I'm going to join the army and become a top soldier!

"Liang Pai, hang in there a little longer! We'll get you out soon!"

From beneath the ruins, a faint echo could occasionally be heard.

A dozen minutes later, a wooden beam that was pressing down on top was finally slowly lifted up by the hydraulic equipment.

Several firefighters crawled into the gap and slowly pulled Liang Zheng out of the mud and wood.

At this moment, Liang Zheng's face was covered in mud, he had a wound on his forehead, and his body was covered in abrasions.

The most serious injury was to his chest.

A wooden beam had just hit him in the chest, making each breath extremely difficult.

"Quick, a stretcher!"

"Bring the oxygen!"

After a quick check, the on-site sanitation worker's expression immediately turned serious.

"The wounded soldier has a serious chest injury!"

"He must be taken to the temporary medical station immediately for emergency treatment!"

Upon hearing this, Wei Shanjia was the first to lift the stretcher.

The road to the medical point wasn't far, but it was muddy and difficult to walk on, and the stretcher couldn't be shaken violently.

Everyone had to keep their speed down and move forward as steadily as possible.

Liang Zheng's consciousness was becoming increasingly blurred.

Wei Shanjia carried him on the right front of the stretcher, calling his name all the way.

"Liang Pai!"

"Don't sleep!"

"We'll be at Shen Yan's place soon!"

"I haven't told you my secret yet!"

Gao Zhenhai's face darkened.

"If you can't speak properly, then don't speak at all!"

"Old Gao, don't worry about it!"

Wei Shanjia's eyes were bloodshot, but his voice grew louder and louder.

"Liang Pai!"

"You only just finished assembling this Gundam a few days ago, you can't let it fall apart here again!"

Liang Zheng's eyelids twitched, and he actually managed to open them a crack with great effort.

"Damn it, I..."

"Hey, you're awake!"

A hint of joy appeared on Wei Shanjia's face.

My own verbal attacks... well, no, my verbal comforting words actually worked!

Wei Shanjia kept walking, carrying Liang Zheng as he continued to walk quickly forward.

"Platoon Leader Liang, haven't you always wanted to know who that person in our unit with connections is?"

Liang Zheng's eyelids twitched again.

"you……"

"Know?"

"Of course I know!"

Wei Shanjia grasped at a straw.

"I knew it all along!"

"Hold on until you reach the medical station, then I'll tell you!"

Liang Zheng took a deep breath.

"Now...can't we say?"

"cannot!"

"If you want to know, then you'd better hold out for now!"

Liang Zheng was actually captivated by those words.

He spent a month looking for connections.

The guy who made him misunderstand Shen Yan, causing him to lose face on his first day in the unit, and whom he still couldn't find.

Wei Shanjia actually knew who it was!

Ga Wa quickly moved closer to the stretcher.

"Liang Pai, you must persevere!"

"This is a huge secret!"

"Once you find out, you'll realize you've been blind all this time!"

Wei Shanjia glared at him.

"Are you trying to help, or are you implying that Liang Pai is blind?"

"I'm trying to keep him a little more agitated, otherwise it wouldn't be good if he fell asleep!"

The two of them talked non-stop the whole way.

Driven by curiosity, Liang Zheng managed to stay alive and didn't completely lose consciousness.

A few minutes later, the stretcher was finally rushed into the elementary school's temporary medical point.

"Someone in the recruit company is seriously injured!"

"The house collapsed, and he was hit in the chest by a falling wooden beam!"

Shen Yangang had just finished treating a patient with a fracture when he heard someone call out the words "new recruit company," and immediately rushed out from under the awning!

When he realized that the person on the stretcher was Liang Zheng, his expression instantly turned serious.

"Liang Pai?"

"What's going on?"

Gao Zhenhai quickly explained the time of the house collapse, Liang Zheng's burial, and changes in consciousness.

While listening, Shen Yan checked Liang Zheng's breathing, pulse, and blood pressure.

"Establish intravenous access immediately!"

"Cut open your shirt, get ready for a breast exam!"

Several medics immediately sprang into action.

Liang Zheng had a large, obvious bruise on his chest, and his breathing was shallow and rapid, with each inhalation causing severe pain.

Shen Yan carefully examined the chest and then had someone bring a portable ultrasound device.

After a brief physical examination.

Fortunately, although Liang Zheng's breath sounds were weak on both sides, they did not disappear significantly, and he did not show signs of tension pneumothorax for the time being.

No large amounts of pleural effusion or pericardial effusion were found under portable ultrasound.

Fortunately, the broken bones did not cause serious damage to the heart, lungs, or major blood vessels!

This is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune!

After the initial examination was completed, Shen Yan's tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

"A fractured sternum, several fractured ribs, and possibly mild pulmonary contusion."

"Liang Pai is seriously injured and must be sent to a rear hospital for further examination as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, Wei Shanjia's face turned pale instantly.

"Then he..."

"Will he die?"

"There's no need to worry about that, but Liang Pai may need to stay in the hospital for a while."

Hearing this, Wei Shanjia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It can survive!

It's good that I survived!

Liang Zheng, who was on the stretcher, seemed to have heard Shen Yan's words as well.

After his tense mind relaxed slightly, he struggled to turn his eyes and found Wei Shanjia's location.

"Wei..."

"Shanjia..."

Wei Shanjia quickly went over.

"Liang Pai, I'm here!"

"that……"

"A person with connections..."

With each word Liang Zheng spoke, a sharp pain shot through his chest.

"Who is it...?"

Wei Shanjia sniffed and bent down.

"Actually, that person is..."

Before he could finish speaking, Liang Zheng closed his eyes, finally unable to hold on any longer, and completely lost consciousness.

"Liang Pai!"

Wei Shanjia was so frightened that his face changed drastically.

"Stop shouting, he's just passed out."

Shen Yan quickly checked Liang Zheng's pupils and vital signs.

"Getting ready for transfer!"

Ga Wa stood silently for two seconds, then couldn't help but say:

"Hey friend."

"Liang Pai persisted the whole way just to find out who you are."

"We were already at the door, but we still didn't get the answer!"

Wei Shanjia glared at him fiercely.

"He's just passed out, it's not like he'll never wake up!"

"It's not too late to tell him later!"

Shen Yan was holding Liang Zheng's chest in place when he heard their conversation, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

"Goodness, they've been in recruit training for so long."

"Has Liang Pai still not found out who the person with connections is?"

……

One week later.

The sun finally reappeared over the disaster area.

The torrential rains that had lasted for several days have stopped, the floodwaters have gradually receded, and several main roads that had been washed away have been reopened by rescue teams.

The affected people were transferred to resettlement sites, and a cordon was set up near the collapsed houses.

The rescue work has shifted from search and rescue to post-disaster resettlement and recovery.

The second platoon has completed its rotation and has returned to the camp with the new recruits.

Shen Yan, however, was unable to return with them.

He and Zheng Guoliang's medical team remained in the disaster area, responsible for re-examination of the wounded, changing dressings, conducting rounds of medical visits at resettlement sites, and carrying out post-disaster epidemic prevention work.

The temporary medical station on the elementary school playground has been half demolished.

Several tents covered in mud were packed up, and the remaining medicines, stretchers, and disinfection supplies were loaded onto the truck.

The soldiers in the medical unit's eyes lit up when they saw this.

"Zheng Lian, can we finally go back?"

"I've almost forgotten what the beds in the medical corps' dorms look like!"

"Company commander, can I take a shower when we get back? I feel like mushrooms are growing all over my body!"

Zheng Guoliang was checking the supplies list when he heard this. He looked up and shattered their illusions without hesitation.

"Who told you you were going back?"

"The frontline medical station has been withdrawn; we're moving to the rear resettlement area to continue our duty!"

"Changing dressings for the wounded, disinfecting drinking water, providing medical checkups for the elderly and children, and preventing infectious diseases after a disaster—which of these tasks doesn't require human intervention?"

"Just because you can't see the wounded all over the ground, you think the job is done?"

"They're all dreaming!"

The medic, who had been full of anticipation just moments before, suddenly looked dejected.

Okay.

There's no need to stay at the front lines.

But it was just a change from the front lines to the rear.

Back to camp?

I don't even know when I'll get to go!

Shen Yan came out of the tent carrying a box of disinfection supplies. Hearing that he would have to continue his duty, he was not disappointed.

The number of wounded being rescued on the front lines is indeed decreasing.

However, the rear resettlement site is also a new large experience zone.

During that week, he came into contact with a large number of patients with crush injuries, fractures, open wounds, and infections.

He also participated in multiple transfers and mass casualty triage operations.

Even though he didn't go back to training, his body wasn't idle!

In fact, his military skills improved much faster here than they did in basic training!

However, without those two lively characters, Ga Wa and Wei Shanjia, who are always causing trouble.

Shen Yan felt that life wasn't as happy as it used to be.

……

at the same time.

The recruit training ground.

Wei Shanjia, carrying his heavy pack, rushed across the finish line, staggered a few steps forward, and sat down directly on the ground.

Sweat streamed down his face, and his chest heaved violently.

He looked up at the edge of the track.

It was deserted there.

In the past, after each run, Shen Yan would stand aside to stretch his shoulders and back, adjust his breathing, rest for twenty minutes, and then run another run.

Sometimes, just as Wei Shanjia was about to lie down and pretend to be dead, he would look up and see Shen Yan carrying his heavy pack again, and his body would involuntarily stand up.

no way.

Living in the same class as a cheater, even someone with a slightly thin skin would find it hard to stay still!

But Shen Yan is still in the disaster area.

Nobody's rolling anymore.

Wei Shanjia, on the contrary, felt extremely uncomfortable.

"It's boring."

He ripped open the buckle on his backpack and said, panting heavily:

"With Shen Yan gone, there's hardly any pressure during training."

"In the past, if I ran even a little slower, I felt like there was a madman chasing me with a knife."

"Now, after completing a trip, I don't feel any sense of crisis at all."

Ga Wa, sitting next to him rubbing his calves, nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

"you do not say."

"In the past, if Shen Yan stood on the training field, I would feel like I was wasting my life if I took even a few extra breaths."

"Now that he's not here, I can't even slack off properly!"

Wei Shanjia turned to look at him.

"Isn't it good that no one's watching?"

"We've been working like dogs in the disaster area these past few days. We're finally back, what's wrong with taking a break?"

"Shen Yan isn't here right now. Are you expecting him to fly back from the disaster area and kick us in the butt?"

Ga Wa thought for a moment, then shook his head.

"Hey friend, that's a dangerous idea!"

"Shen Yan is in the disaster area, so he certainly hasn't been idle."

"Other people's disaster relief is just disaster relief, but his disaster relief is different!"

"He can practice his medical skills by saving a person, practice his weight-bearing ability by carrying a stretcher, practice his strength by moving boxes of medicine, and practice his endurance by keeping watch at night."

As Ga Wa spoke, his expression gradually became serious.

"If we slack off while he's away, we'll be completely out of luck when he gets back!"

The relaxation on Wei Shanjia's face slowly disappeared.

He thought about it carefully.

That makes perfect sense!

Shen Yan cannot be measured by normal standards.

"That's why we need to work even harder while he's away!"

"When he comes back, even if we can't surpass him, we'll at least give him a shock!"

Wei Shanjia's eyes lit up instantly.

"That's right!"

"Shen Yan's absence presents our best opportunity to overtake them!"

He suddenly stood up from the ground, not even caring about his sore legs.

"Starting today, double the training volume!"

……

Military hospital.

In the ward, Liang Zheng sat leaning against the hospital bed, his face still somewhat pale.

He was secured with a protective strap around his chest, and even the slightest movement would send waves of pain through his broken sternum and ribs.

The doctor clearly instructed that I must rest in bed during this period, avoid strenuous activity, and especially avoid pushing myself to the limit during training.

This left Liang Zheng somewhat frustrated.

If I don't exercise for such a long time, my physical fitness will probably drop drastically!

Liang Zheng stared at the ceiling, his mind once again filled with the question that had been troubling him for a month.

Who exactly is this person with connections?

That day, after the stretcher rushed into the temporary medical point, Wei Shanjia had clearly leaned close to his ear.

"Actually, that person is..."

All that's missing is a name!

As a result, I actually fainted!

He managed to stay afloat all the way by relying on this incident.

Just when the answer was about to be revealed, my body couldn't take it anymore!

"Just a little bit more..."

Liang Zheng gritted his teeth and muttered to himself.

Because of the emotional agitation, a sharp pain immediately shot through my chest.

He gasped and quickly leaned back against something.

After the pain subsided, Liang Zheng recalled the words Shen Yan had spoken when he was in a daze.

"Good heavens, they've been in recruit training for so long, and Platoon Leader Liang still hasn't found out who his connections are?"

What does this statement mean?

This means Shen Yan knew as well!

It's even quite possible that the entire Class Two knows!

Only I don't know!

I, the trainee platoon leader, spent a whole month searching in the recruit training camp, while those bastards in the second platoon watched me like I was watching a monkey show for a whole month!

Liang Zheng's face grew darker the more he thought about it.

……

at the same time.

Inside a military compound.

An elderly man with gray hair sat behind a desk, quietly looking at the disaster relief report in his hands.

On the wall behind him hung a military uniform with stars on it and medals all over its chest!

Even just sitting there, this old man exuded an air of authority that came from years of holding a high position.

The middle-aged military officer standing in front of the desk reported to his superior in a low voice:

"Sir, the matter has been verified."

"When the house collapsed a second time, Shan Jia was in the danger zone."

"Liang Zheng, the trainee platoon leader in the recruit company, discovered the wooden beam had fallen and immediately pushed it out, but he himself was trapped under the rubble."

The old man did not speak immediately.

He lowered his head and continued to look through the materials.

After a few seconds, he asked in a deep voice:

"How badly are you hurt?"

"Shanjia only has some abrasions, nothing serious."

The middle-aged officer paused.

"Liang Zheng, who rescued him, was seriously injured, with a fractured sternum, multiple fractured ribs, and mild pulmonary contusion. He is currently recuperating at the military hospital."

The old man stopped flipping through the documents.

"Is the person out of danger?"

"They are out of danger."

"The doctor said that as long as I rest well, there shouldn't be any major problems with my recovery."

Hearing this, the old man's tense expression relaxed slightly.

He put the disaster relief report aside and picked up Liang Zheng's personal information.

Twenty-three years old.

Graduated from military academy.

They ranked among the top in academic subjects, military skills, and cross-country running with loads.

They come from an ordinary family with no special background.

……

The old man read the documents from beginning to end and tapped the table lightly with his fingers.

"What is Liang Zheng's current position?"

"Trainee platoon leader."

The middle-aged officer replied:

"After graduating from military academy, I was assigned to a grassroots position and am currently undergoing basic training in the recruit training unit."

After basic training, I should return to my original unit for a formal position.

The old man was silent for a moment, then slowly nodded.

"Good results."

"They are willing to risk their lives to protect their soldiers in critical moments."

"good!"

The middle-aged military officer stood to the side without saying a word.

The old man looked at Liang Zheng's photo again and suddenly said:

"Once he recovers from his injuries, the recruit training camp should be conducting assessments, right?"

"Then let's transfer him to be a guard!"