Chapter 49: Shi Jin

"Are you kidding me? Do you believe this?"

Sunlight from outside filtered through the window and shone on the floor, but Gao Cheng felt as if his vision had gone black. He questioned Shi Jin and Wu Liuyi, who were sitting on stools, with a face full of rage.

"Company Commander, let's talk this over calmly. Isn't it still unclear right now?" Hong Xingguo hurriedly spoke up to persuade him.

Gao Cheng waved his hand. "Don't. This matter isn't that simple. I have such a promising soldier, a Soldier King, and now you're telling me he's self-harming?"

"Shi Jin, you must give me a solution to this today!"

Shi Jin wanted to open his mouth, but in the end, he remained silent.

"Company Commander, the first time he broke his left index finger. Last night, it was his left middle finger first, and then ten minutes later, six fingers were broken. He said he fell. Do you believe that?" Wu Liuyi stated his opinion.

"Don't tell me these things, I won't listen! Where is Xu Sanduo now?" Gao Cheng asked with a dark face.

"The infirmary," Wu Liuyi replied.

"Didn't eight fingers break? Why aren't you sending him to the hospital? Are you planning to ruin my Soldier King?" Gao Cheng was absolutely furious.

Shi Jin was stunned. Wasn't he the Company Commander's best bro? When did the relationship turn around?

"Company Commander, it's not that the Squad Leader didn't want to. That kid is as stubborn as a mule. He said getting steel pins inserted would affect his feel for holding a rifle in the future."

"Fart! His hands are ruined, what's the use of 'feel'?"

Gao Cheng stormed toward the gate. "That kid is still in the infirmary, right?"

"Ah, yes, he is." Wu Liuyi stood up to answer, only to find that Gao Cheng had already walked far away.

Inside the company office, the three of them fell silent.

It was Hong Xingguo who broke the quiet. "You two go back. This matter..."

"Instructor, it was just killing a person; he was stimulated in his heart. Really, there's no psychological barrier, he'll be fine after a while." Shi Jin was shocked and hurriedly stood up to explain.

"Understood. You two go back." Hong Xingguo waved his hand.

The two stood up and walked out.

At the doorway, looking at the soldiers training, Shi Jin sighed.

"Squad Leader, it's my fault. I shouldn't have let Xu Sanduo kill anyone." Wu Liuyi lowered his head in self-reproach.

Shi Jin frowned. "Does this matter have a necessary connection? If Xu Sanduo hadn't acted back then, I would have been stabbed to death. This is purely a lack of psychological endurance. Let's go, let's go take a look. Call Gan Xiaoning and Bai Tiejun too."

Bang!

The infirmary door was pushed open roughly.

Gao Cheng looked around with a gloomy face, but he didn't find any trace of Feng Yuxiu.

"Where did the person go?"

The military doctor sighed. "Company Commander Gao, this soldier of yours is too rigid and too tough. Eight fingers broken, the bones even pierced the skin—traumatic fractures—and he forcibly straightened the bones himself, disinfected them, clamped the fingers with a few steel plates, and left."

Gao Cheng was completely stunned upon hearing this.

What Shi Jin and Wu Liuyi had described was too understated.

He had thought it was just dislocated fingers.

He hadn't expected them to be completely broken.

Those were eight fingers.

In this instant, Gao Cheng's heart wavered too.

If it wasn't a psychological problem, who would be this calm? If this isn't a madman, what is it?

In the end, Gao Cheng found Feng Yuxiu on the training ground, his hands wrapped up like a mummy.

"Company Commander!"

Feng Yuxiu saluted Gao Cheng.

Gao Cheng stared calmly at Feng Yuxiu.

So Feng Yuxiu followed his gaze and looked at him.

Gao Cheng watched for ten minutes.

Feng Yuxiu also stared back silently for ten minutes.

"Be careful when walking in the future. Don't fall again."

After saying this, Gao Cheng strode away.

A trace of a smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

He was a good judge of people, especially their eyes.

Although he didn't know why Feng Yuxiu had turned himself into this state.

But one thing was certain: his eyes, and the thoughts conveyed by his gaze, were extremely normal, even absolutely rational.

How could a person with such a gaze have their psychology crushed by such a small stimulus?

Thinking back to how this soldier had suppressed Wu Liuyi from the very beginning.

Breaking two military-wide records in a row.

He seemed to have some peculiar training method.

Gao Cheng still believed those rumors in the streets about martial arts masters and the like.

As long as there was no psychological problem, let everything else be.

Recently, the company didn't have any urgent training missions either.

——

Feng Yuxiu sat slowly in a sunny spot, closed his eyes, and his chest began to rise and fall.

His abdominal cavity gradually expanded and grew larger.

A toad-like croaking sound came from within his abdomen.

Even under such a fierce, scorching sun, heat surged throughout Feng Yuxiu's entire body.

The muscles on his arms revealed ripples, like waves beginning to ripple.

Inch by inch, the muscles began to flatten, gradually flowing down to his forearms.

Entering his bandaged ten fingers.

Suddenly, the broken fingers seemed to be placed on an iron stove to be roasted.

The unbearable stinging sensation made Feng Yuxiu frown.

He enjoyed pain, and he endured pain.

But breaking eight fingers at once was a ruthlessness that hadn't even appeared in his past life.

This feeling made his brain dizzy and stars appear before his eyes.

"Keep pushing!"

Feng Yuxiu's arms trembled crazily, and he growled with a ferocious face.

Suddenly, the snow-white gauze that had been bandaged was soaked red by the blood bursting through.

Blood dripped through the gauze onto the ground.

Feng Yuxiu seemed not to hear, his whole body trembling slightly as he continued to push into his ten fingers.

He could feel the tendons moving from a stretched state into the acupoints.

"Sanduo... what... what are you doing?"

Gan Xiaoning's trembling, fearful voice sounded from behind.

Feng Yuxiu instantly dispersed his internal energy and turned to look behind him.

Looking didn't matter, but behind him stood Gan Xiaoning, Bai Tiejun, Shi Jin, and a grim-faced Wu Liuyi.

Gan Xiaoning's face was twitching.

When Bai Tiejun saw Feng Yuxiu, whose hands were stained red with blood, his lips turned pale. "Oh my mother, what happened here?"

"Xu Sanduo, what are you doing?" Shi Jin asked in a deep voice with a pale face.

Feng Yuxiu stood up and said indifferently, "Squad Leader, the wound split open. I'm going to the infirmary to get it bandaged."

After saying this, he lowered his head to look at his hands, which were bleeding non-stop, and strode toward the infirmary.

Gan Xiaoning glanced at Shi Jin and hurriedly followed. "Squad Leader, I'll go take a look."

Bai Tiejun said in standard Henan dialect, "Alright, then I'll go too."

"Squad Leader, what should we do now?" Wu Liuyi rubbed his brow in a headache.

Shi Jin took a deep breath. "It's fine, it's fine. Tonight I'll talk to him. Such a good soldier, he can't be ruined by those few thugs!"

"I'll talk to him!"

"Also, this matter is limited to the Third Squad," Shi Jin added.

Wu Liuyi nodded, arms crossed, squinting at the soldiers training in the distance.

"I don't believe a Soldier King would have psychological problems because of this! His eyes tell me he isn't that weak of a character!"

Shi Jin sighed. "I hope so."

Night.

Shi Jin and Wu Liuyi sat on stools with serious faces, staring at Feng Yuxiu.

On the left were Gan Xiaoning and Bai Tiejun.

Behind them were the other soldiers.

"Squad Leader, I'm going out for a bit." Feng Yuxiu stood up, still intending to go outside.

"Private Xu Sanduo, stand at attention!!!" Shi Jin roared, a shout that startled the entire corridor.

It also woke up the various squads that were sleeping, as well as Gao Cheng, who was washing his feet. ===== CHAPTER 50 =====