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"Mom and Dad, you should go back. I'm enlisting in the army, not going to a battlefield."

At the entrance of the train station, a young man of seventeen or eighteen gave a helpless look to the middle-aged couple who were holding onto him tightly.

The young man was dressed in a green military uniform, with a huge red flower pinned to his chest. Standing one meter eighty tall, combined with his sturdy and athletic build, he exuded a strong sense of masculinity.

Looking at the faces of his parents—who felt both familiar and unfamiliar—filled entirely with worry, Su Yang could not help but offer an explanation.

In his previous life, he was an orphan, raised from childhood in an orphanage, and went to university with the country's help. Deeply grateful to the nation ever since he was a kid, and witnessing border friction, he resolved to join the military and enlisted right upon graduating from college.

However, he never expected to fail the physical examination. Unable to realize his dream, Su Yang drank to drown his sorrows, only to wake up and find himself seemingly transported back to the late 1990s.

He had been reborn into the body of a teenager who shared his exact name!

After spending about a month adjusting, Su Yang accepted reality and decided to start over.

As an orphan in his past life, Su Yang held deep respect for his predecessor's parents. Having never experienced parental affection before, he willingly accepted their love.

Yet, he was not very satisfied with his predecessor!

Although still young at seventeen, with decent physical fitness and a good appearance, the boy was an academic failure.

If not for his parents running a small restaurant to support his studies, he probably wouldn't even have managed to get a high school diploma.

Therefore, upon accepting reality, Su Yang decided to enlist in the army.

First, to fulfill his personal dream of defending the country; second, to gain the eligibility to take the military academy exams through the armed forces.

He believed that with the learning capacity of a top-tier university graduate, passing the military academy entrance exams should be a breeze.

After saying goodbye to his parents and urged on by the leading officer, Su Yang picked up his luggage, entered the train station, and boarded a classic green-skin train.

Su Yang's home was in Spring City, and this train was bound for Jinling. Consequently, he had to endure two or three grueling days on the train with the veteran escort, making his backside as stiff as iron.

Rather than pulling into the major metropolis of Jinling as Su Yang had imagined, the train carrying the new recruits instead drove deep into the mountains and stopped at a very small train station.

Faced with the unfamiliar surroundings, the recruits shook off the exhaustion of the long train ride and excitedly observed their new environment. If not for the stern faces of the accompanying officers, they probably would have already been chattering away noisily.

"Everyone, grab your luggage and get off the train!"

As soon as the train came to a complete halt, the officers shouted loudly down the aisle to remind everyone.

Su Yang retrieved his luggage from the carriage seat, trailed sluggishly behind the escort officer, and squeezed his way off the train.

"Everyone wait here. We still need to transfer to another vehicle and ride for a few hours before we reach our destination. No wandering around!"

"Raise your hand and report if you need to use the restroom!"

Though strict, the escort officer was quite considerate of the recruits who had not yet officially entered the camp, repeatedly reminding them of important precautions.

Su Yang placed his luggage in front of his seat. Unlike the other recruits who excitedly chattered away while observing their surroundings, he simply rubbed his already freezing hands.

"Damn it, this weather is freezing to death!"

Su Yang stretched his limbs to get his blood flowing and felt his body warm up slightly. Looking up at the grey, drizzly sky, he muttered curses under his breath.

In his previous life, he had never experienced the era of green-skin trains, so these continuous days of rail travel had left him thoroughly exhausted.

Coupled with the cold wave gripping the southern region in winter, temperatures had plummeted drastically. For someone like him who had lived in a place like Spring City in Yunnan Province—where all four seasons feel like spring—this was pure torture.

Still, complaints aside, Su Yang wasn't a delicate person. Once his hands felt slightly warmer, he reported to the officer and headed to the station restroom to relieve himself.

"Make way! Make way!"

Just as Su Yang finished up, a crowd of northern-accented recruits rushed swarm-like into the already cramped restroom.

Su Yang could only use Mandarin to ask them to clear a path.

Stepping out of the restroom and returning to the main hall, Su Yang discovered that another train carrying recruits had pulled into the already overcrowded small station at some point.

Su Yang wasn't particularly surprised by this, as the escort officer had already informed them beforehand.

This was merely a transit station; new recruits from all over the country would depart from here for various units of the Southeast Military Region.

Returning to the formation, Su Yang had just taken his seat when he noticed another group of recruits approaching and settling down right next to them.

Before Su Yang could look closely, a guy whose face looked extremely familiar sat down beside him.

"Xiwa?"

He was somewhat dazed. How could joining the army lead him to run into someone who looked identical to Chen Xiwa from *The Gazing of Special Forces*?

Hearing Su Yang's voice right after sitting down, Chen Xiwa quickly turned his head and asked with a bewildered expression, "Do you know me?"

"No way? Your name really is Xiwa!" Su Yang found it hard to believe.

Chen Xiwa nodded, looking perplexed as he asked, "My name is Chen Xiwa, from Dongshan. Do we know each other?"

A wave of shock surged through Su Yang's heart. Could it be that he had transmigrated into the world of *I Am a Special Soldier*?

If this was the special forces universe, where was Xiaozhuang?

With a violently pounding heart, Su Yang kept his expression calm and shook his head at Chen Xiwa. "No, I just heard your escort officer calling out the roll, so I knew your name!"

Quickly turning his gears, Su Yang fabricated a plausible excuse to brush it off, then hurriedly looked up to search for the figures of Zhuang Yan and Zheng Sanpao.

Sure enough, as expected, he spotted the familiar Xiaozhuang within Xiwa's squad.

That guy was currently holding a book and reading it!

At this point, Su Yang was essentially certain that he had arrived in the world of *I Am a Special Soldier*.

Just as Su Yang sank into deep thought, a whistle shrilly pierced the air!

The sound pulled Su Yang back from his reverie into reality.

"Everyone up, get ready to board the trucks!"

Following the whistle, Su Yang stood up and looked toward the source of the sound, watching as Zheng Sanpao tucked his whistle away and cast a glance in Xiaozhuang's direction.

"Hey, you soldier! You soldier!"

Su Yang couldn't help but smile inwardly; he knew that the rebellious Zhuang Yan was about to clash with Zheng Sanpao.

He didn't bother to intervene or offer a warning, because his own escort officer was already glaring right at him.

Su Yang hurriedly picked up his luggage and kept pace with the moving column.

...

"Hey, what do you all think? Any good prospects among this batch of recruits?"

Near the train aisle, an escorting officer was chatting with several veteran squad leaders.

"I've got one over here named Su Yang, from Yunnan Province. Only seventeen, high school graduate. His physical conditioning looks solid, and his personality is pretty good—not the rebellious punk type."

The veteran in charge of Su Yang shared his observations and gestured casually in his direction.

"It's too early to judge personality. If you ask me, you want the rebellious-looking ones; they're much more fun to train into shape. If someone is too agreeable, they just turn into slippery old soldiers."

Another veteran disagreed.

Zheng Sanpao cast a curious glance at Su Yang but remained silent.

"Old Pao, aren't you going to say anything? Don't go hiding all the good soldiers for yourself."

Seeing Zheng Sanpao stay quiet, the escorting officer singled him out.

"The few I've spotted are all a bunch of softies, nothing much to talk about." Zheng Sanpao shook his head.

"Softies? Come on, Old Pao, I saw you chatting with several of those recruits. I know your character—you wouldn't bother with them unless you saw potential."

The escort officer outright refused to believe Old Pao's words.

"And let me tell you, among the recruits you've got your eye on, there's actually a college student—he's even from the directing department of a theater academy."

"Who?!" The others gasped in astonishment.

"The guy sitting right by the aisle!"