My Military Career in a Parallel World

Four o'clock in the morning.

The experiences of Chu Fei, Li Qiang and the other two were still vivid in their minds. No one dared to stay in bed even if they were very sleepy.

"Keep down, don't disturb my sleep!" After waking up everyone, Li Gang did not supervise them like he did yesterday. After saying this, he lay back on the bed and went to sleep.

"Damn, I hope you give birth to a son without an asshole!" Chu Fei cursed at the position of Li Gang's bed.

Although he just opened his mouth without making any sound, you can tell what he is saying just by looking at his lip movements.

However, everyone was just complaining. After yesterday's experience, everyone knew how tight the daily schedule was in the army.

This is just the beginning of training, and many physically demanding activities have not yet been practiced. The sooner you learn how to fold the quilt, the easier it will be in the future.

Not to mention, there is also the deputy monitor, a sweet treat hanging on the side.

To borrow a phrase from the instructor: "It's not easy to put on this outfit."

"Brother Chen, where are you going?" Seeing that Jiang Chen did not fold the quilt but walked towards the balcony, Zhang Meng couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Sweep the floor. We'll fold it directly on the floor later. The bed is too narrow to maneuver." Jiang Chen lowered his voice and glanced at Li Gang at the door.

"Oh."

Yesterday at noon and at night, Jiang Chen folded the quilt on the floor, and Zhang Meng didn't think much about it.

After simply tidying up the floor near the bed, Jiang Chen spread out the quilt, took out a small stool, half-knelt on the ground and began to press the quilt.

This time, Jiang Chen pressed very carefully, not missing any corner, and pressed the cotton inside the quilt as tightly as possible.

After practicing hard for dozens of hours, it is now time to show the results. Jiang Chen does not want the final result to be affected by a small detail.

However, he was also careful not to show all the training results at once.

It's not that he is hiding his incompetence, and there is no need to talk about this in the army. The key is that he is afraid that the progress will be too fast and cause unnecessary trouble.

Another most important point is that one night of practice is not enough to reach the standards mentioned by Li Gang.

In this case, it would be better to slow down a bit and demonstrate strength step by step. At least it won't appear so abrupt.

If Li Gang asked, he would say that he had studied for a period of time in his hometown with his grandfather and other retired veterans in the village.

As a famous revolutionary base, eight out of ten elderly people in their village are veterans who have participated in battles.

These old men have really punched the Eagle Sauce, kicked the Russian bear, beaten the white elephant, and beat the monkey. Basically, they have beaten everyone around them who can fight. To say that they have been through many battles is an insult to them.

In the original owner's memory, Jiang Chen even found that when he was a child, Grandpa Jiang told him stories about the Anti-Japanese War in order to coax him to sleep.

As far as he knew, the old man seemed to have joined the youth team when he was twelve or thirteen years old, and later followed the troops to northwestern Shanxi to fight the Japanese invaders. He left the army for some reason during the Great Revolution.

If Jiang Chen hadn't just traveled through time and was afraid of acting too extreme, he would have wanted to pester the old man to ask about the past.

He felt that the old man's experience must be complicated, and he could tell a lot from just these few words.

First he was in the Youth Corps, then he fought in the Anti-Japanese War, and even went to Taipei to beat up the Eagle Sauce. With such legendary experiences, who would believe that there is no story behind them?!

With this relationship as a foundation, Jiang Chen is not afraid even if his performance is outstanding. At worst he can just pass the blame to the old man.

Is it really possible for someone to go find an eighty-year-old man and ask him questions?

After lying on the ground for nearly twenty minutes, the others had almost folded their quilts for the second time, but Jiang Chen's quilt was not yet finished.

This is the gap in experience.

After dozens of hours of practice, Jiang Chen would occasionally look up the scenes of Li Gang folding quilts for reference, and he already had his own experience and skills in how to fold a standard quilt.

Apart from the difference in experience and skills, the biggest difference between veterans and recruits is the firmness of the quilt.

After years of use and pressure, the cotton inside the veteran's quilt was almost compressed like paper.

This kind of quilt is naturally much easier to fold. Basically, for a soldier who has been in the army for more than one year, it only takes five or six minutes at most to fold a quilt.

Last night, in order to make the quilt tighter, Jiang Chen and the others stuffed the quilt directly under the mattress when they slept.

It was only one night, but when Jiang Chen was pressing the quilt just now, he felt obviously much more relaxed. What's more, this was an old quilt that had been pressed on Li Gang for who knows how long.

His experience of folding quilts countless times told him that it was useless to just trim them without expelling the air inside.

No matter how you fold it or trim it, the quilt will slowly bulge out after a while.

So the first step is crucial

Jiang Chen first used a small stool to expel most of the air in the quilt, and then used his palms to squeeze out the remaining air bit by bit.

After doing all this, he imitated what Li Gang did yesterday, using his fist as a ruler, measuring the distance and starting to fold.

Maybe the preliminary work was done well enough, and the air in the quilt was basically expelled. Jiang Chen didn't fold it carefully, but the quilt on the ground already had some tofu block shape.

Carefully carrying the quilt back to the bed, Jiang Chen sat on the small stool and began to make up his mind carefully.

It took almost half an hour from extrusion to final trimming.

What finally appeared before his eyes was an army green quilt in the shape of a seven-point tofu block.

Although it is still a little different from the flat square and octagonal shape mentioned by Li Gang, it is enough to amaze all the recruits in the dormitory.

You know, only one night has passed!

Originally, everyone was at the same level, how come there was such a huge gap in the blink of an eye?

It’s August 3rd, for sure!

Chu Fei subconsciously turned his head to look at the calendar on the wall and silently calculated the time in his heart.

They arrived at the unit on August 1st, and started training yesterday, August 2nd, so today is indeed August 3rd.

He saw the squad leader tear off the calendar on the wall with his own eyes that morning.

So, what’s the problem?!

"Fuck, Brother Chen, you are so awesome! How did you fold it?! It looks no worse than the monitor's!"

Looking at the quilt on the bed, Zhang Meng's eyes almost popped out.

"Damn it, Jiang Chen, you didn't do that on purpose yesterday, did you?!" Chu Fei muttered to himself as he trotted over.

The other recruits who were still concentrating on folding their quilts also attracted his attention. They turned their heads to look over, followed by bursts of exclamations.

The dormitory was suddenly in chaos. How could Li Gang, the squad leader, still sleep?

Not to mention him, even the squad leaders of class six and class four in the next class were woken up by the noise here.

"Damn, how do you fold it?! Teach me quickly!" Li Qiang's big face was almost sticking to the quilt.

"What's going on? Can anyone tell me what day it is today? Did I faint from oversleeping?!" Apparently Chu Fei was not the only one who had similar thoughts. Luo Ming's first reaction was also whether he fainted from oversleeping.

"Master Wozhini, what the hell is going on?!" The fat boy Sun Weichen spoke directly in his hometown dialect, and his hand involuntarily reached out to the quilt on the bed.

However, before he could touch the quilt, Zhang Meng next to him slapped him on the back of his hand.

"Go away, don't break it!"

Everyone was still in shock, but Li Gang had walked behind them without them noticing.

"What are you doing?! What are you all doing! Why are you huddled together instead of folding your quilts properly?!" Li Gang's tanned face was stretched long, and his eyes were filled with uncontrollable anger.

As soon as Chu Fei turned around, he met Li Gang's eyes that looked like he wanted to kill someone. He was so scared that he quickly explained: "No, squad leader, listen to my explanation, we just came here to take a look..."

"What are you looking at? What's so good about it?! If it's wrong, it's wrong!"

There are four things the troops cannot do: first, they cannot sit on the bed; second, they cannot act on their own; third, they cannot make excuses; and fourth, they cannot waste food.

Chu Fei's actions just now happened to touch upon the third point, and he could not make excuses.

If it’s wrong, it’s wrong. There’s no reason why!

This sentence made Chu Fei hold back the rest of his words. Li Gang looked at the others and shouted, "Everyone get down and do 100 push-ups!!"

"You're all looking for trouble, aren't you? Do you really need me to give you some extra food so early in the morning?"

Ignoring the new recruits who were lying on the ground doing push-ups, Li Gang walked towards Jiang Chen's bed, scolding him.

He was not deaf, so how could he not have heard what happened in the dormitory just now?

When he first heard it, he thought these recruits were ignorant and making a fuss out of nothing.

Not worse than what I folded? Who gave you the confidence to say that?!

However, when he saw the quilt on the bed, his first reaction was to subconsciously look at the calendar on the wall.

Looking back at the quilt on the bed again, Li Gang rubbed his eyes in disbelief before confirming that the scene before him was not an illusion.

"Damn it!" If there weren't new recruits in the dormitory, Li Gang would have almost screamed out loud.

Restraining the shock and ecstasy in his heart, Li Gang quickly walked to the bed, squatted down, and carefully observed the quilt in front of him.

Although Jiang Chen deliberately ignored many small details and problems when folding and trimming the quilt, looking like he was inexperienced and immature, because the quilt had been pressed under his body for an extra night, and Jiang Chen had made some progress on his own, and was careful enough when pressing the quilt, the final effect was still eye-catching enough.

There were 100 push-ups, and except for the first 20, everyone's movements became less and less standard as time went on. In addition, Li Gang's attention was not on them, so it was natural that they would cheat and slack off.

Only Jiang Chen, a time traveler with more than ten years of experience than others, knows that being sneaky in this regard is tantamount to fooling himself.

Therefore, unless he really couldn't hold on, he would try his best to perform the movements as standard as possible.

However, even though Li Gang, an old soldier, was distracted, these little actions still could not escape his eyes, and soon the others suffered the consequences.

"Jiang Chen, stop. The others will add another fifty!"

"Yes!"

With a look of joy on his face, Jiang Chen quickly got up from the ground.

"Did you fold this quilt?" Li Gang's face was serious and his tone was extremely earnest.

"Report to the squad leader, I folded it!" Jiang Chen straightened his chest and looked straight into Li Gang's eyes.

On the second day of the recruits' training, they were able to fold their quilts like this. It would be a lie if Jiang Chen didn't have any thoughts in his mind.

When he was doing push-ups just now, he was imagining in his heart what the monitor's reaction would be when he saw his quilt.

Shock, daze, surprise, doubt, joy...

However, Jiang Chen never expected that Li Gang would be so rude!

Under Jiang Chen's gaze, Li Gang stretched out his hand and tore open the quilt that he had folded with great effort, and his dark, rough, calloused hands kept stroking the quilt.

"It is indeed a new quilt. There is no water in it and it is not slippery, but it can be pressed so tightly?" Feeling the touch from his palm, his originally frowned brows gradually relaxed.

When he first saw Jiang Chen's quilt, his reaction was similar to that of other recruits, but after calming down, he began to suspect whether Jiang Chen had used some tricks.

He couldn't help but doubt.

He knew very well the experience, skills, time and energy required to fold a new quilt to achieve a similar effect.

He didn't think that a new recruit who had just joined the army for less than three days could achieve this.

Jiang Chen's action of using a small stool to press down the quilt yesterday afternoon, and his subsequent words, deepened his suspicion.

Secretly add water to the quilt to reduce the difficulty of shaping...

With the rise of the Internet, similar methods are no longer a secret. You can find a lot of them by just searching on the Internet.

However, he had never expected that Jiang Chen's quilt had not been tampered with at all. This result was beyond Li Gang's expectations.

"Squad leader, I finally..." Jiang Chen looked a little aggrieved.

Ignoring his complaints, Li Gang searched the quilt from inside to outside, then looked back at Jiang Chen and asked seriously, "I'll give you another chance. Can you fold it like you did just now?"

"I guarantee to complete the task!" Jiang Chen said without hesitation, his facial expression instantly restrained.

Li Gang nodded with satisfaction. Regardless of whether this kid could do it or not, his performance just now was enough to surprise him.

Be decisive and enforce discipline.

While other recruits were still in the process of integrating into the army, Jiang Chen already had a hint of a soldier's flavor.

Without any nonsense, after receiving the order, Jiang Chen immediately took the quilt from the bed, found an empty space nearby to spread it out, took out the small stool and started pressing again according to the previous steps.

Reality is not a dream. Although the quilt had just been pulled open by Li Gang, the cotton inside was still firm because of the foundation just now, and it was not as troublesome for Jiang Chen to press it as before.

"Everyone stop, come and watch carefully, learn seriously!"

With just one glance, Li Gang concluded that the quilt was folded by Jiang Chen himself.

Use the small stool to expel most of the air, and then use your palm to further consolidate the result. As long as you do this step well, the rest of the folding and trimming can be done by any new recruit, as long as you follow the steps he taught yesterday, and basically you can achieve the same effect.

On the first day of enlistment, Li Gang noticed something different about Jiang Chen.

He knew too much about some of the army's rules, so it was hard not to notice them.

He didn't think much about it at the time, and just thought that Jiang Chen had asked the retired veterans about these things before joining the army. However, he didn't expect that in just two days, this kid gave him a huge surprise.