Chapter 1135 Meeting 1
What comes into view is no longer broken walls or tense military facilities, but wide and clean roads with tall and lush trees on both sides. The branches and leaves sway gently in the breeze, casting mottled light and shadows.
In the distance, red brick teaching buildings, dormitory buildings and other buildings are scattered among the green trees, with an elegant and solemn style.
The lawn is neatly trimmed, and in the flower beds you can even see carefully maintained flowers that are extremely rare in the end times.
If it weren't for the iron-blooded slogans and banners hanging on the roadside lampposts, such as "Always be prepared for war, purify our homeland" and "Strengthen the army with science and technology, and win the end of the world", and the occasional camouflaged military vehicles passing by to remind people of their current situation, Zhou Wei and others would almost think that they had mistakenly entered the quiet campus of a key university before the end of the world, or a high-standard health resort.
"This... is simply another world." An accompanying Eastern Theater Command staff officer couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, his voice full of disbelief.
Since the end of the world, they have been accustomed to death and despair. Such a vibrant and moving scene of all things flourishing has long become extremely vague in their memories...
So much so that everyone felt as if they were in another world...
Deputy Commander Wang Zhiming couldn't help but open the window and took a deep breath of the fresh air in the Zhongzhou Theater Command, which was filled with the fragrance of plants and trees. He sighed:
"Yes, green trees, red walls, birds singing, flowers blooming... If it weren't for those slogans, I would have thought I had traveled through time. To be able to work and live in such an environment, the comrades in the Zhongzhou War Zone... are truly..."
He couldn't find the right words to describe it. Was it luck? Was it strength? Perhaps both.
This almost normalized tranquility and beauty represents an absolutely safe environment, a stable operating order, and logistical support that is sufficient to take into account the quality of life.
This, better than any display of weapons and equipment, reflects the profound foundation and powerful control of the Zhongzhou War Zone.
As the convoy drove slowly along the internal road, the scenery outside the window slowly unfolded like a scroll.
The generals in the Eastern Theater watched in silence, the shock in their hearts intertwined with their previous emotions. They felt an unprecedented mixture of curiosity, admiration, and an indescribable eagerness for the Commander Gu who was about to meet and who had created this "paradise".
They were eager to know who the owner of this miraculous land was.
...
Soon, the convoy passed through the internal road and slowly drove into the medium-sized square in front of the office building, and finally stopped smoothly.
On one side of the square is the sparkling Yue Lake with willows swaying in the wind, and on the other side is the towering crimson government building.
The golden sunlight coated the hard outline of the building with a layer of warm golden light, but failed to soften the solemnity and majesty it brought. Instead, the sharp lines under the contrast of light and shadow showed a silent and powerful oppression.
At this moment, what is even more eye-catching is the crowd standing and waiting in front of the main entrance of the building.
There, the generals shine brightly and the aura is overwhelming.
Nearly ten senior generals dressed in the general uniforms of the Zhongzhou Theater Command in various colors (Army green, Air Force blue, Navy dark blue, Rocket Force dark green...) lined up in an orderly manner. The shining golden stars on each shoulder represented the highest authority and responsibility in a certain area of the theater.
They were of different ages, some had gray hair on their temples, and some were in their prime, but without exception, they all had postures as straight as pine trees, sharp eyes, and the aura of majesty cultivated from long-term occupation of superior positions intertwined together, forming an invisible but powerful force field that was enough to make the air stagnate.
However, everyone's aura, like the moon surrounded by stars, converged on the young figure standing at the front of the queue.
After unremitting training and with the help of muscle-building and bone-strengthening pills, Gu Chengyuan's body proportions are now as perfect as if he had been carefully carved. His lean and well-proportioned figure is wrapped in the straight uniform of an army general without a trace of excess, and he exudes a sense of power like a cheetah that can burst out at any time.
The neat short 3:7 hairstyle is meticulously done, revealing a smooth and full forehead and a pair of deep and calm eyes.
Compared with the experienced and powerful veterans around him, Gu Chengyuan is too young and even seems a little "out of place".
But when he stood there, without any words or actions, a calmness and determination that emanated from him, which was totally inconsistent with his age, naturally became the core of everyone's heart.
It is not just a temperament, but also a sense of power that is integrated into the bone marrow - it is something that is precipitated by the absolute authority of commanding hundreds of thousands of troops, looking down on the situation in a region, and making decisions that affect the lives and deaths of countless people.
This sense of power made his young face lose its immaturity, leaving only a mountain-like heaviness and unfathomable depth.
The sunlight fell on the three bright golden stars on his epaulettes, reflecting a light that was too bright to look directly at, and also enveloped his entire body in a dazzling and mysterious aura.
He just stood there calmly, looking at the stopped convoy with indifferent eyes, but seemed to have absorbed all the light and breath around him, becoming the only protagonist in this world.
The convoy stopped and the doors opened.
When the members of the Eastern Theater Command delegation, led by Zhou Wei and Wang Zhiming, stepped out of the carriage one after another and their eyes subconsciously turned to the welcoming array of generals in front of the main entrance of the building, time seemed to freeze for a moment.
Everyone's gaze was almost uncontrollably drawn to the young figure standing at the front of the queue.
Then, unspeakable shock and strong suspicion, like a mixture of ice and water, instantly filled their chests, making their breathing suffocate.
