Ace Special Forces in Movies and TV Shows

Chapter 0096: My "Friendly Force" – Just Pretend I Don't Exist

Smoke rose and then vanished without a trace. A soldier went into the place called the kitchen, fiddled around for a while, closed the door, and left. Night began to fall. Zheng Yingqi, who was lying on his stomach more than 300 meters away from the maintenance station, could smell the aroma of steamed buns coming from the kitchen.

And there was the aroma of leftover soup and rice.

A little voice inside Zheng Yingqi said, "What are you waiting for? Go for it! Steal some food to fill your stomach first."

Another little person said, "The person upstairs is right."

Another little man said, "They're all right..."

Zheng Yingqi muttered, "I know they're all right..."

Of course you're right, the world is vast, but the belly is the biggest—but people always have to stick to some things.

"Damn it, Cheng Cai can even stick the steamed bun out of his mouth. I've been killing Cheng Cai all my way since I joined the army. Do you think I'm inferior to him in this respect?"

Zheng Yingqi thought bitterly, then took out the wild vegetables and grasses he had collected along the way. "This is a scallion...this is a flatbread...this is a steamed bun...oh right, and I also need a piece of beef..."

He muttered to himself as he stuffed food into his mouth, as if under hypnosis, making the wild grass and vegetables taste like delicacies—okay, let's just treat it as a simple home-cooked meal.

Darkness slowly enveloped the land. The maintenance station "garrison," which was relaxed on the outside but even more so on the inside, seemed to be going through its monotonous days. Zheng Yingqi, whose stomach was finally feeling a little better, kept his eyes and ears open, waiting for the "fish" to arrive.

This time, of course, I won't be fishing for the fish from the scout camp.

Around 10 o'clock, shadowy figures appeared in the darkness. Zheng Yingqi chuckled and observed the figures. Sure enough, there were three of them, sneaking into the maintenance station's kitchen.

"It's time to go and fool some people!" Zheng Yingqi chuckled and headed towards the kitchen. As he passed the path that Xu Sanduo had built, Zheng Yingqi suddenly smiled silently.

He silently approached the kitchen, pressed his ear against the door to listen to what was happening inside. Sure enough, the three of them were arguing about something over the steamed buns they were about to eat. The proud Wu Liuyi wouldn't allow himself to cheat in this "war," and the simple-minded Xu Sanduo didn't have Wu Liuyi's sense of honor, but his honest thoughts told him that such food shouldn't exist in this "war" where they were infiltrating deep into enemy territory.

Cheng Cai angrily gnawed on his steamed bun, venting his anger in a despicable way, but in the end he couldn't swallow it. When Xu Sanduo handed him the field rations, his last bit of self-respect made him spit out the steamed bun in his mouth.

In his final, desperate struggle, he tried to drag the two idiots down with him, but in the end, he was defeated by the rations that Xu Sanduo handed him. He said, "If I eat steamed buns, at most my stomach will rot, but if I eat your stuff, my whole body will rot."

What should I say about this kid?

Zheng Yingqi sighed inwardly. If no one else was around, Cheng Cai would definitely have chosen to eat the steamed bun. But in front of these two idiots, Cheng Cai chose to follow the rules because of his pitiful pride.

Unfortunately, this incident did not make Cheng Cai realize his shortcomings. For Cheng Cai, as long as the goal can be achieved, the means are not important. In his view, rules are only binding on him if others can see them. It was precisely because of this that he was ultimately rejected by Old A under Yuan Lang's indifferent gaze.

His strong desire for personal gain caused him to overlook many things, and precisely what he overlooked was the true principle of a soldier—the true principle of a military man!

Silence fell over the room. Zheng Yingqi could imagine the three people inside staring at each other, so he pinched his nose and whispered:

"Congratulations on passing the food temptation test! Ten points each!"

"Who?"

The three people in the kitchen jumped up instantly, nervously pointing their guns at the door, looking like startled monkeys.

The loud sound of a popular TV drama playing in a nearby house drowned out the commotion here. It was like two different worlds inside and outside the house. The soldiers of the Fifth Platoon would never have imagined that at this very moment, inside and outside their kitchen, one person was smirking like a cat that had stolen some fish, while the other three were like wild beasts that had been caught, anxiously plotting how to fight back.

"I'm from the assessment observation team. Keep your voice down, do you want to alert our allies? You've done a good job, so you're each allowed a steamed bun as a reward!" Zheng Yingqi continued to bluff. Wu Liuyi and Cheng Cai were skeptical, finding what they were hearing unbelievable, but the most honest and simple-minded Xu Sanduo was overjoyed:

"It's Yingqi!"

Zheng Yingqi was disappointed. Who the hell said honest people are easy to fool? This guy was completely fooled by Yuan Lang, how come he can't fool himself?

The door opened gently, and three faces crowded to one side, looking at the unexpected guests outside with surprise.

Xu Sanduo chuckled foolishly and whispered, "Yingqi, I thought you were eliminated."

Cheng Cai was pleasantly surprised, but said arrogantly, "A scourge lives a thousand years..."

"You're quite something, kid," Wu Liu pulled Zheng Yingqi inside, carefully closing the kitchen door behind him. "You actually dared to fool me... Damn it, I almost believed you!"

When they were attacked after getting off the vehicle, Zheng Yingqi took the initiative to cover their retreat. However, their path to the dry ditch was cut off. They thought Zheng Yingqi had been captured alive by the division's reconnaissance battalion long ago. They were naturally overjoyed to find him here.

Zheng Yingqi collapsed onto the bag, laboriously unfastening his gear. "Tsk tsk, I didn't expect your IQs to be lower than my Xu Sanduo's—does hunger make people regress?"

"Go away, stop talking nonsense." Wu Liuyi lightly kicked Zheng Yingqi, saying with lingering fear, "You scared us to death just now... How did you manage to get here?"

"This is the right direction. If we don't find this, where else can we find it?" Zheng Yingqi's words delighted the two who still had doubts about Xu Sanduo's judgment. They had gotten this far only because Xu Sanduo had insisted on his own way. Zheng Yingqi looked at the three of them and asked, "How's it going for you today? Have you been relentlessly pursued by the division's reconnaissance battalion?"

"Stop talking..." Wu Liuyi chuckled and said dejectedly, "The division's reconnaissance battalion is like mad dogs. Yesterday they chased us for a while and then stopped, but today I don't know what's wrong with them. They're relentlessly pursuing us. There are only four of us left. One of them didn't agree with this direction and went to the other side."

Zheng Yingqi didn't dare mention that he had flirted with the division's reconnaissance battalion, but nodded in deep agreement: "We even planned to march at night and rest during the day, but we didn't expect the division's reconnaissance battalion to have prepared observation posts. We almost fell into their trap—four vehicles pounced on us in just a few minutes. If I hadn't been lucky, you would probably have been looking for me in a pile of dead bodies."

After the group had a bit of complaining, Wu Liuyi said, "Alright, stop talking nonsense. Let's save our energy. We still have to keep going as soon as it gets light."

"Aren't you going to eat some?" Zheng Yingqi asked with a wicked grin, staring at the nine and a half steamed buns on the table.

"You eat it." Wu Liuyi said irritably. Zheng Yingqi reached out and grabbed a steamed bun. Xu Sanduo immediately tensed up, "Yingqi, you can't eat it."

Zheng Yingqi held the steamed bun under his nose and sniffed it intensely. "Eat my ass! I just want to smell it and enjoy it!"

He tossed the steamed bun back, then took out some wild vegetables and rubbed them in his hands, as if trying to get the flavor from the bun: "Wild vegetables that taste like steamed buns can still fill your stomach!"

Xu Sanduo just grinned foolishly, while Cheng Cai, standing to the side, looked on with disappointment in his eyes—if Zheng Yingqi ate it, he would definitely eat it too.

Unfortunately... he didn't!

……

In the dormitory of the fifth platoon, the popular TV series was still playing, but the soldiers of the fifth platoon were not paying attention to the TV series, because there was a "friendly soldier" in their dormitory wearing a strange military uniform.

The "friendly force" was asleep with their eyes closed and headphones on. Although they couldn't understand the device the headphones were connected to, they were certain it wasn't a video recorder.

"We've arrived—time to sleep?"

The friendly forces suddenly said that when the soldiers looked at the time, it was only 10 o'clock—they suddenly remembered that 10 o'clock was actually bedtime.

"Sleep, sleep, sleep..."

The soldiers of the fifth platoon said awkwardly.

"Just pretend I don't exist... Sorry to bother you tonight," the ally said again.

The soldiers of the fifth platoon muttered to themselves, knowing that this guy didn't want to leave—what a strange person! He pretended to be asleep after arriving, and didn't talk to them. When the time was up, he would say he was going to sleep. They really didn't know what kind of person he was!