74: Chapter 74: Female Soldiers Assemble! Familiar Faces

Early morning, the Falcon Base training ground.

Su Han stood on the high platform with the four members of the War Eagle Squad behind him; they were dressed in training uniforms, their expressions solemn.

In the distance, a military jeep slowly approached and stopped not far away. The car door opened,

Xiao Budian came hopping and skipping down, followed by a young Special Forces Soldier.

“Great-grandfather!” Xiao Budian waved her small hand and shouted excitedly.

Su Han nodded to her and then looked at the Special Forces Soldier: “Take her to the shooting range to have a look, and keep her safe.”

“Yes! Sir!” The Special Forces Soldier saluted, then crouched down and said to Xiao Budian: “Xiao Budian, how about Uncle takes you to fire a gun?”

“Okay!” Xiao Budian cheered and then shouted to Su Han: “Great-grandfather, keep it up! You must pick the most amazing big sisters!”

Watching Xiao Budian's departing back, Zhou Mo couldn't help but laugh: “This little girl is even more excited than we are.”

Da Xiong checked his watch: “The female soldiers should be arriving soon.”

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On a mountain road five kilometers away from the base, three military trucks were jolting forward.

Inside the truck beds, one hundred and fifty female soldiers sat neatly; they came from various army groups of the Yuezhou Military Region and were all elites who had passed the preliminary screening.

“I heard that the Chief Instructor this time is a legendary figure—the champion of the All-Army Grand Competition!” a female soldier with a high ponytail spoke up; her name was Lin Yu, she came from the Reconnaissance Battalion, and she excelled in combat.

“I heard that too,” the quiet female soldier next to her wearing glasses pushed up her frames; her name was Li Xue, a Military Doctor from the Military Region Hospital who was proficient in field first aid. “Supposedly, he can fight ten Special Forces Soldiers by himself.”

“That's probably a boast, right?” A robustly built female soldier snorted; her name was Zhang Meng, she came from the Engineer Regiment, and her strength was greater than many male soldiers. “I've seen his file; he's only 18 and has been in the service for less than a year. How powerful can he be?”

In the corner, a cold-faced female soldier listened quietly to everyone's discussion.

Her name was Su Qingcheng, she came from the Communications Regiment, and she was an Electronic Warfare Expert. For some reason, when she heard the name 'Su Han,' a trace of inexplicable unease welled up in her heart.

“It couldn't be such a coincidence...” Su Qingcheng muttered to herself. “The name of the Great-grandfather in my clan is also Su Han.”

“And the age is also about the same.”

A moment later...

“Impossible, impossible! How could there be such a coincidence in the world!”

“No matter what,” Lin Yu clenched her fists, “I must pass the selection! I want to be a Special Forces Soldier!”

“Me too!” Li Xue said softly but firmly.

Zhang Meng patted her chest: “I want to see what this young kid is capable of!”

Su Qingcheng looked out the window at the base gates getting closer and closer, that inexplicable sense of unease growing stronger.

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Falcon Base training ground.

“They're here!” Houzi shouted, pointing at the trucks approaching in the distance.

The three military trucks slowly stopped at the edge of the training ground, and the female soldiers disembarked and lined up in an orderly fashion.

Su Han stood on the high platform, his gaze sweeping over these one hundred and fifty faces. When his sight passed over the end of the line, he paused slightly—

That somewhat blurry face seemed familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before...

“Is it an illusion?” Su Han shook his head inwardly, pulling his attention back to the present.

The female soldiers were also secretly sizing up the instructors on the platform.

When they saw Su Han standing in the center position, they couldn't help but be stunned—

This boy, who looked younger than many of them, was the legendary Chief Instructor?

Su Qingcheng looked up, and when she clearly saw Su Han's face, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

“He really looks a bit like him; it couldn't really be him, could it?”

She had joined the army three years ago.

But even before joining the army, she had lived at school; after starting junior high, she rarely gathered with her playmates from the clan.

Specifically, it had been five or six years since the last time she saw Su Han.

At that time, Su Han was only twelve or thirteen; boys develop relatively late, and at that age, Su Han was small and hadn't hit his growth spurt yet.

But the current Su Han had developed well, standing over 1.8 meters tall with a much more robust build, and his facial features had naturally changed as well.

It made it very difficult for her to identify him.

“Attention!” Zhou Mo shouted loudly.

The female soldiers immediately stood up straight.

Su Han took a step forward, his voice not loud but clearly reaching everyone's ears: “Welcome to Falcon Base. I am your Chief Instructor, Su Han.”

When Su Han stood on the platform and introduced himself, a slight commotion immediately broke out in the ranks.

“He's the Chief Instructor? He looks even younger than my younger brother!” a dark-skinned female soldier said in a low voice.

“His file says he's 18 and has been in the army for less than a year. What kind of ability could he possibly have?” another female soldier with a ponytail curled her lip.

“Shh—keep it down!” the female soldier with glasses next to her looked around nervously. “I heard he's the champion of the All-Army Grand Competition!”

“So what if he's the champion? Maybe it was just good luck...”

“Shut up!!”

Zhou Mo gave a violent shout that echoed over the training ground like a clap of thunder.

The female soldiers instantly became as quiet as cicadas in winter, standing with their backs straight.

“Whispering in the ranks is forbidden! Didn't you learn that in the New Recruit Company?!” Zhou Mo walked to the front of the ranks with a cold face. “Do you think this is a vegetable market?”

His gaze swept over every female soldier like a blade; wherever it landed, the female soldiers unconsciously tensed their bodies.

The female soldiers secretly exchanged looks—this fierce-looking instructor seemed more like the real Chief Instructor, while the young man standing in the middle looked like a raw recruit who had just joined the army no matter how they looked at him.

At the end of the line, Su Qingcheng's gaze remained fixed on Su Han's face.

“Too similar...” she muttered in her heart, “especially that look in his eyes...”

“Hey, hey, hey!”

“What are you doing? What are you doing?”

In the middle of this incredibly tense atmosphere, Su Han suddenly spoke.

However, he wasn't speaking to the female soldiers, but looking at Zhou Mo with a face full of displeasure. “Who told you to speak to our female soldier comrades like that?”

“Can't you have a little gentlemanly manner?”

“Can't you be a bit gentler? Huh?!”

Zhou Mo was stunned on the spot. “Gent... gentlemanly manner?”

What the hell is that?

Is it something you can eat?