In truth, in this situation, no matter what Chen Jiehua answered, it would be wrong! Nagatomo Tsugio knew Aoki Seigen had an unsociable personality! Someone unsociable should not answer every question put to him!
So, at a time like this, silence was the best answer!
After rapidly analyzing and calculating in his mind, Chen Jiehua made the decision not to answer.
Receiving no response to his question, Nagatomo Tsugio did not show displeasure. Instead, he felt somewhat relieved, because in that case, the personality of the man before him also matched!
At this moment, the military policeman behind him wanted to make his presence known. “The section chief is asking you a question! It’s far too rude not to answer!”
Chen Jiehua rolled his eyes at the military policeman, then simply turned around and lay down again, lying on his side facing inward, directly pointing his backside at the two of them!
Just as the military policeman was about to lose his temper, Nagatomo Tsugio said to him, “You, out first.”
After the military policeman left, Nagatomo Tsugio walked to the bedside, patted Chen Jiehua on the backside, and said in Japanese with the same Miyazaki Prefecture accent, “I know Aoki-kun is from Miyazaki Prefecture. Just now was a test for Aoki-kun! I am your fellow townsman from Miyazaki. Aoki-kun’s confinement is over!”
“In the future, if Aoki-kun needs any help at the school, please come to the Military Law Office to find me.”
Although Chen Jiehua had his backside turned outward, at this moment, his mind continued analyzing rapidly. Was there any trap hidden in Nagatomo Tsugio’s words?
In the same situation, as an unsociable person who did not like to speak, what reaction should he have now?
If he continued not to respond, then it would no longer be a matter of being unsociable! It would mean there was something wrong with his head! Or something wrong with him as a person!
Could someone with something wrong with his head safely make it through two years of the Army Academy preparatory course and pass the assessment to enter the official infantry course? Definitely impossible!
So he could not fail to respond to these words!
Before Nagatomo Tsugio had even finished speaking, Chen Jiehua immediately turned around and sat up again, looking at the section chief of the Military Law Office before him with an excited gaze!
Searching through Aoki Seigen’s memories, there were no fellow townsmen from Miyazaki Prefecture in the Army Academy’s 17th infantry class!
To run into a fellow townsman at the school, and one who was the section chief of the Military Law Office at that, was something worth celebrating with a couple of drinks!
Although it was impossible for them to toast each other now, being excited yet not speaking should be the most correct and most reasonable reaction after comprehensive consideration!
Chen Jiehua’s reaction once again earned the favor of Nagatomo Tsugio, the section chief of the Military Law Office!
When fellow townsmen meet, tears well up in both their eyes.
Although this boy still had not spoken, the emotion and behavior were correct!
With this, the character setting matched as well!
Nagatomo Tsugio happily patted Chen Jiehua on the shoulder, then turned and left the confinement room.
He had passed! The confinement was over!
Chen Jiehua was in no hurry to leave the confinement room. Instead, he continued lying on the bed, thinking about his subsequent response plan.
This place was dangerous at every step. It would be more prudent to think things through before going out!
First of all, as a Chinese soul born under the red flag and a Party member besides, he definitely had to go home!
A red heart turned toward the Party! What year was it now? Back home, the Party should already have been founded, right?
But at present, he was in the enemy camp, and the enemy’s headquarters at that! There was no way he could afford not to be cautious. The Japanese Army was not made up of the fools from later generations’ anti-Japanese war dramas. Their reasoning and analytical abilities were also very strong!
So, in the enemy headquarters, he had to be careful and prudent, advancing step by step! Recklessness definitely would not do. Being reckless once in a while might not be a big problem, but if he kept being reckless, he was guaranteed not to live past three chapters!
In order to survive in this era, and in order to make contributions to the nation and the country in the future, following the opening the author had given him, starting from a complete novice, making use of his current identity, managing the relationships behind this identity well, and learning to become a spy and agent lurking in the enemy headquarters was not impossible!
Then, let it begin!
Walking out of here would be a new chapter!
Chen Jiehua’s first crisis after his soul transmigrated had temporarily been resolved!
According to Aoki Seigen’s memories, after Chen Jiehua returned to the living area for the Army Academy’s 17th infantry class cadets, he first found the entrance ranking list and pretended to glance over it casually.
Sure enough, what he feared had come true! Just as Chen Jiehua had expected in his mind, Aoki Seigen’s comprehensive ability was ranked 3rd, while the original Chen Jiehua was only ranked 23rd!
For now, Chen Jiehua could only follow Aoki Seigen’s character setting and trajectory, keeping to himself. In places where no one was paying attention, he would study diligently and strengthen his training, hoping he could catch up to Aoki Seigen’s original abilities before the next comprehensive test!
Theoretically speaking, Chen Jiehua’s only flaws at present should be the differences in physical stamina and reaction ability!
In the eyes of someone paying attention, such flaws were also fatal!
Fate clearly did not intend to give Chen Jiehua the chance to catch up to Aoki Seigen’s original comprehensive ability. At the Army Academy, all cadets received the same treatment: twelve people to a dormitory! Fully militarized management! (Starting from the 18th class of the Army Academy, Japanese and Chinese students began attending classes separately and living separately; even their courses became different.)
Everyone else was sleeping, and you alone ran outside to train. The key was that before this, you, Aoki Seigen, had not been like that! It was obviously unreasonable!
Reasonable and logical! What could he do to make it reasonable and logical? Chen Jiehua lay on his bed in the dormitory with his eyes closed, feigning sleep, while communicating with the system in his mind!
“Calling system! Calling almighty system!”
“Host, please speak!”
“Almighty goddess system!”
“Host, please don’t flatter me. Normal communication will suffice!”
“All right, great system. Look, I transmigrated over and got off to a bad start right away. Only with your two instances of help did I barely escape danger! But that was only a temporary escape from danger!”
“The comprehensive quality ranking of this body is ultimately twenty places lower than Aoki Seigen’s! From now until the comprehensive test in January next year, there are only a little over two months left! There’s no way this body’s physical qualities can catch up! When the time comes, after the comprehensive test, I’ll still be around 23rd place. Especially in kendo and combat—if the gap is too big, it will be completely unreasonable! Unreasonable means exposure! Exposure means death! Right? You surely don’t want the host you just bound to kick the bucket in less than three months, do you?”
“Host, what are you trying to say? Speak directly!”
“What I mean is, do you have any kind of medicine here that can permanently strengthen physical stamina, reaction ability, speed, brainpower, swordsmanship, and so on?”
“No!”
“Then wasn’t choosing me a huge loss for you? I only have a little over two months before I kick the bucket. You just came out, and now you’ll have to go back and choose again!”
……
It seemed that taking shortcuts and trying to be lazy would not work.
When Chen Jiehua woke up early the next morning, according to Aoki Seigen’s memories, Aoki Seigen’s previous habit had been to get up early every day and first go to the courtyard to do push-ups! This habit was very good. It matched Aoki Seigen’s normal character setting, so he had to do the same!
Although the current Chen Jiehua definitely could not do as many push-ups as the original Aoki Seigen, no one would be bored enough to get up this early and count them for him.
After Chen Jiehua finished several sets of push-ups and stood up, what he saw before him was a classmate with a puzzled expression on his face.
A prompt appeared in the upper left of his field of vision: Zhao Yiyue, Chen Jiehua’s fellow townsman and friend, from the same Army Academy preparatory course and the same Army Academy infantry course.
At this moment, Chen Jiehua, who least wanted to encounter trouble, still encountered new trouble!
Some plots, historical materials, characters, and so on in this novel refer to or will refer to the following books. They are only references, not plagiarism (2/3):
(10) The Great Japanese Defeat 1: When the Kwantung Army Encountered the Soviet Red Army, by Guanhe Wushizhou, Modern Press, 1st edition, March 2019;
(11) National Calamity (Volume Four) — A Documentary Record of Kuomintang Espionage in the War of Resistance Against Japan, by Shi Yuan, Unity Press, 1st edition, January 2012;
(12) National Calamity (Volume Ten) — The Bloodstained Transportation Lines in the War of Resistance, by Li Gerui, Unity Press, 1st edition, May 2015;
(13) Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service, by Frederic Wakeman Jr., translated by Liang He, New Star Press, 2nd edition, February 2017;
(14) Assault on the Soviet Union, by Yepifan Makarev of the former Soviet Union, compiled and translated by Sun Peng, BJ United Publishing Company, 1st edition, June 2004;
(15) Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War, by David M. Glantz, translated by Sun Bo, Taihai Publishing House, 1st edition, August 2018;
(16) China Will Not Perish: A Documentary Record of Anti-Japanese Agents’ Decisive Operations, by Sa Su, Jiuhua Press, 1st edition, September 2014;
(17) The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, by Ben Macintyre, translated by Yuan Xin, Social Sciences Academic Press, 1st edition, January 2021;
(18) A Complete Record of China’s War of Resistance Against Japan (1931–1945), by Li Jifeng, 21st Century Publishing Group, 1st edition, June 2015;
Thanks are hereby given to all of them. If there is anything improper, please contact me for deletion or revision.