All You Can Eat!

Soon the Old Squad Leader in the Life Support Pod opened his eyes.

His empty, lifeless eyes seemed to still pulsate with the smoke and gunfire of the battlefield. He could vaguely hear the roars of his soldiers fighting bravely and the deafening roar of artillery fire. But as his visual system presented the scene to his brain, the Old Squad Leader's empty eyes gradually regained focus, and then a wave of confusion washed over him...

Where is this? A huge, bright white factory, and rows of impressive-looking things.

Inside lay one after another well-built, muscular man...

The Old Squad Leader is very confused.

He had never seen anything like this in his entire life.

But soon more memories surfaced—he remembered fighting desperately alongside the main force as they charged out of the trenches on the battlefield!

Although he usually appears very kind, he always harbors a deep sense of righteous indignation towards his enemies!

A burning resentment! It was this resentment that sustained his spirit and energy, allowing him to miraculously become a military soul through the aura of the battlefield. After being absorbed into Lu Xingshen's body for so many years, he was finally resurrected after encountering Li Yao.

However, he himself could not possibly know these things.

He only remembered that he was already dead...

He turned his gaze and saw an old man with gray hair looking expectantly at him in front of him.

—Hey, this old man is quite handsome! His deep features, gray hair, and well-tailored suit make him look just like the gentlemen I saw when I marched through the Bund... no, even more respectable than those gentlemen.

So, who is he? And why is he looking at me like that?

He's just a peasant, how come he never knew such a person? This guy looks even more powerful than the Regiment Commander he knows... Wait a minute, who's the Regiment Commander again? I don't remember him at all.

Various questions churned in the Old Squad Leader's mind, but he just couldn't understand it! Could this be the world after death?

Judging from the clean and bright surroundings, it must be the sky?

Hey there! I never thought I, Old Squad Leader GuoTou, would have a day like this?

The simple and honest Old Squad Leader suddenly felt a little smug—although the political instructor always taught them materialism and other ideologies when they were in the company, he was just a farmer, and once he joined the army, he would just be a farmer who could shoot and chop people up.

He wasn't even a competent soldier.

Therefore, we have never paid much attention to ideological work.

His thinking was simple: cook good meals for everyone, make sure everyone is well-fed, and let everyone kill more Japanese soldiers and fight more enemies! If necessary, he could also grab a gun, a machete, or even a spatula and fight to the death!

I won't understand anything else if you explain too much.

So, just like ordinary people, he would pray to Bodhisattvas and Daoist patriarchs whenever he had a problem, and he didn't care whether it worked or not.

Besides, it's free anyway, so why not believe it a little more?

If you really want money, then forget it...

The Old Squad Leader chuckled and leaned forward, pressing his head against the glass in front of him to look around.

Sensing movement inside the Life Support Pod, the glass on top of the Life Support Pod slowly opened under automatic braking—the oxygen filling the Life Support Pod also escaped from it, making a hissing sound.

The Old Squad Leader looked around and found that many similar cabinets were open... Many people were peeking out of those impressive-looking cabinets and looking around.

Amidst a series of hissing gas valves, the Old Squad Leader looked at the very respectable old man in front of him and asked, "Who do you think you are?"

Lu Xingshen was stunned for a moment. "Old Squad Leader, it's me! Lu Wa Zi!"

This time, the Old Squad Leader was stunned...

Lu Wa Zi? He blinked and asked, "Which Lu Wa Zi?"

Lu Xingshen immediately said, "Lu Wa Zi from the Steel Fourth Company of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Army directly under the First Field Army! I fought alongside you!"

The familiar unit number triggered the Old Squad Leader's memories. After a while, he exclaimed in surprise, "You... you've gotten so old! Where do we look? Are we in heaven?"

The words, spoken with a heavy accent, brought tears to Lu Xingshen's eyes. He stepped forward and helped the Old Squad Leader out of the Life Support Pod, saying, "You're still alive, Old Squad Leader! This is our country!"

Our country? The Old Squad Leader couldn't believe it...

The country he remembered was nothing like this... this... different! Looking at the completely unfamiliar and alienated surroundings, the Old Squad Leader, who had never been to school and only learned a few words in the company, couldn't even find the words to describe what he saw and heard! He was being supported by Lu Xingshen.

His tall, sturdy frame was hunched over like a startled fawn, as if he were a country bumpkin seeing the world for the first time.

They seemed lost and confused.

"This... I..."

The Old Squad Leader hesitated, wanting to say something or ask something, but had no idea where to begin.

Lu Xingshen held onto the Old Squad Leader's arm as if it were all a dream, and that it would slip away from his grasp if he wasn't careful.

He reassured her, "Don't rush, tell me slowly!"

The Old Squad Leader caught his breath. "I... I'm hungry."

Lu Xingshen was stunned, as were Li Yao and Maeve, who were standing not far from them.

The clash of swords and the smoke of gunfire gradually faded, leaving only faint traces in the brief moment of resurgence.

Even though those things have all disappeared, the hunger that is ingrained in our bones has never disappeared!

Old Man Lu's eyes immediately welled up with tears...

This terrified the Old Squad Leader—

I was just hungry and wanted to eat something, why did I scare you to tears?

He said in a flustered manner, "You... I... I don't eat much, just two cornbread buns will do! If it's more, I'll eat one and drink more water, okay?"

Or is it that they don't even provide food? Lu Xingshen wiped his eyes hard and said fiercely, "Old Squad Leader, we'll eat white rice! We'll drink greasy soup! We'll eat braised pork! We'll eat as much as you want! Enough to satisfy you!"

The Old Squad Leader leader isn't there. White rice? Oily soup? Braised pork! My goodness... this is incredible!

I can eat better than the leaders!

If they're all this powerful, why do they say this isn't heaven? But why did Lu Wa Zi come along too? And why has he become so old?

Lu Xingshen continued, "Not only can we eat these! We can also eat canned food! Canned meat! Canned fruit! And bread! The kind of bread that Americans and Japanese devils use! Cheese! Cream, we have all of that here! Old Squad Leader! We'll never go hungry again!"

The Old Squad Leader nodded numbly. "Oh, oh, okay! Okay..."

The Old Squad Leader had heard of some of the things Lu Xingshen mentioned, but had never heard of others.

What cheese? What cream? We've never even heard of them, let alone eaten them...