Wenhao 1979, starting with contributing to Story Club

Chapter 69 A New Journey

"Comrade, with your physical abilities, it's a real shame you're not a pilot..."

On the outskirts of Beijing, at a military base, as the JJ-6 aircraft landed smoothly and began to taxi, the pilot suddenly chatted with Yu Zhen.

Yu Zhen chuckled, neither confirming nor denying.

Being a pilot, flying a fighter jet—goodness, that's never been on my list of life options!

After getting off the plane, I waved goodbye.

Vehicles were already waiting on the ground.

So he immediately got into the car that had been waiting for him, and was picked up by military personnel again.

The other party was very serious. After confirming his name and identity in person, he was ushered into the car and sat down. He remained unsmiling throughout the entire process, giving people a sense of inexplicable pressure and impending doom.

This scene immediately made Yu Zhen's heart jump again.

It's truly baffling what could have led to such an urgent summons to the capital.

Most importantly, he was picked up and dropped off by military personnel on both sides, and even fighter jets were used as his air taxis.

Given the extreme urgency, one can imagine the level of the situation that is about to unfold.

I only pushed the Shanghai Science and Technology Bureau too far, forcibly creating a Chinese input method more than 20 years ahead of schedule.

Technological innovation achievements of this level should be acceptable; they shouldn't warrant such a major fuss from the higher-ups, right?

The unknown is most likely to evoke inexplicable fear.

Yu Zhen's mind inevitably wandered to all sorts of random thoughts.

He even wondered if his "unknown identity," a point of contention that had always been a mystery, was about to explode!

The physical body has traveled through time and space to the present, but it has never been able to be given a completely stable and flawless identity.

In addition, during the nearly ten months of this new life journey spanning time and space since last winter, seemingly through a series of unexpected twists and turns, he has actually accomplished quite a few earth-shattering events.

Even so, is it really necessary to prepare such a grand reception for us?

Ugh!

It's a blessing, not a curse.

What's meant to be will be.

Let's take it one step at a time and see what happens.

At worst, if things really come to that... at worst we can go to the top and reveal our identity as time travelers...

After leaving the base, the car did not head directly towards the main urban area, but instead bypassed the main urban area and headed northwest towards the outskirts of Beijing.

It took another forty minutes or so to drive.

Along the road, there are farmlands, villages, lush trees, groups of pedestrians riding bicycles flashing by, and occasionally a large cart loaded with rubber wheels pulled by mules.

As the vehicle rounded a bend, a mule-drawn cart broke down, its wheels sinking into a mud pit, blocking the road.

Gaa! ~~

The military green jeep braked suddenly and came to a stop. Two military comrades jumped out of the car and helped push it. Seeing this, Yu Zhen immediately got out of the car as well and also planned to push the car.

As soon as I got off the vehicle, a strong smell of manure suddenly wafted over from the direction of the broken-down rubber-wheeled vehicle.

Oh my god!

The smell was too strong, both intense and oppressive, and the air seemed to thicken instantly.

He instinctively stopped in his tracks, but in that moment of hesitation, the two military comrades who had been very serious the whole way ignored him and went up to chat with the locals driving the rubber-wheeled carts. They rolled up their sleeves and started working next to the carts.

Yu Zhen held his breath and forced himself to step forward, finding a point of contact to help push the cart.

With the addition of three new members, the villagers adjusted the direction of the cart shaft, stabilized the mules and horses, and worked together to finally free the stranded manure cart after several attempts.

The villagers quickly came up and shook hands with each of the three men to express their gratitude.

"Thank you so much, comrades. I'm so sorry to have delayed your journey."

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"It's all for the people; it's what we should do."

"That's right, it was just a small favor, fellow villager, don't be so polite."

The two military comrades, who were usually very serious, responded with very friendly expressions.

After getting back into the car and leaving, the military comrades, once the car was far away, showed a rare expression towards Yu Zhen, no longer wearing their poker faces.

It seems that Yu Zhenfang had won their approval by getting off the bus with them and helping the villagers push their broken-down rubber-wheeled manure truck.

Alright, alright, it seems that we, as visitors from Shanghai, especially those qualified to ride in JJ-6 fighter jets, are naturally going to be branded with a special mark.

He made wild guesses, thinking that perhaps his emergency trip to Beijing aboard a JJ-6 fighter jet would be seen by others as someone who was young, not a soldier, yet able to ride in a fighter jet, making him seem like an unconventional character.

"Having lived in Shanghai for so long, we've become detached from the lives of ordinary people..."

Yu Zhen's mind began to clear.

The leisurely, carefree life he had enjoyed in Shanghai's bustling metropolis for most of the year had gradually made him forget that it was still 1979 in China.

Even in the suburbs of the capital, it's only a dozen or twenty miles away from the city.

In the current era, the most realistic domestic environment is that Beijing is only just outside the Second Ring Road. Outside the main urban area, there are still vast rural areas everywhere. On the potholed and slag-covered national highways, rubber-wheeled vehicles powered by various large animals are the main mode of transporting goods on the roads.

Since the vehicle was definitely not heading to the main urban area, it was even less likely to be what I had previously imagined—entering Zhongnan Hall and being summoned by a special entity at the Heavenly Hearing level.

Since that's the case, after being baptized and refreshed by that wave of manure-fueled rubber-wheeled vehicles and the overwhelming stench, my mindset actually calmed down immediately.

Curious, he abruptly asked, "Comrade, where exactly are we heading?!"

"Well??"

The military personnel were clearly taken aback by the question.

The other person became curious and looked Yu Zhen up and down. Seeing that Yu Zhen still had a curious expression, they opened the black folder in their hand and glanced at it. "Your name is Yu Zhen?"

Yu Zhen nodded, "Yes, back at the base, they already verified my identity documents, didn't they?"

"So you really didn't know you were being driven to Tsinghua or Peking University?"

"Huh?? My destination is Tsinghua and Peking University?? Oh my god, I should have figured it out sooner, that makes more sense now. Look at this mess, I thought I was going to be urgently summoned to Zhongnan Hall..."

"What the hell did you say??" The military comrade's voice suddenly rose eight octaves.

"Uh, hey, comrade, don't get excited, please don't get excited. I was just joking around. It's the first time in history that I've been able to fly to Beijing in a JJ-6 fighter jet. My feelings are a bit complicated, haha..." Yu Zhen laughed awkwardly.

The military comrades' attitude suddenly became extremely serious again.

Well, here we are, all the good impression we had painstakingly built up while pushing the manure cart together has been wiped out. Yu Zhen clicked his tongue in surprise, reminding himself that he had to keep his mouth shut once he entered Beijing.

Times have changed. Some jokes are best avoided, not only when making them with strangers, but even when you're thinking about them yourself.

However, the reason he was summoned to Beijing so urgently was that his destination was actually Tsinghua University and Peking University.

This is truly unexpected!

I applied to a prestigious university in Shanghai for my college entrance exam, and I reckon the acceptance letter should be delivered to my workplace in the next few days.

What's going on now?

Seeing that we got the top score in the national science exam, surely it's not that Tsinghua and Peking Universities are planning to use some special method to lure us into a trap, right?