Watching the barrage of comnts like "Close ties between the army and the people," "Now *that’s* a good soldier of the people," and "Salute!" drifting across the video, Zhang Beixing watched for a while longer.
But soon, he sensed sothing was off.
Why isn’t the progress bar of this video moving much?
Out of curiosity, Zhang Beixing dragged the bar a bit.
He discovered the video was actually ten minutes long!
No way. Are you kidding ? Are you shooting a military recruitnt promo or so kind of short film? Ever heard of splitting videos? Who could sit through all this? Zhang Beixing fud internally, completely speechless. If I weren’t in this video, I would’ve swiped away by now.
Just as Zhang Beixing was bracing himself to keep watching, an inconspicuous comnt slowly floated across the top of the video.
"TL;DR Guy here: Main event starts at 4:31!"
Seeing this comnt, Zhang Beixing paused, then without a second thought, dragged the progress bar straight to that ti.
He saw that as soon as the video hit four minutes and thirty-one seconds, the style of the comnts abruptly changed to things like "The main event starts now!", "Hype incoming!", "Non-combatants, clear out!", "Here cos the protagonist!"
Seeing this, Zhang Beixing grew curious. Is all this hype necessary? Who in this recruitnt video could possibly outshine ** and be hailed by netizens as the ’protagonist’?
Then, after a brief screen blackout, his own enlarged, chiseled, handso profile filled the screen.
AHA! So it was ! Well, that explains everything!
Seeing his own face appear on the screen, Zhang Beixing, who had been slightly miffed, imdiately cald down. He even felt these netizens’ sharp critiques were spot on.
They recognized at a glance that *I* am the core of this recruitnt video! Not bad, not bad at all! Quite perceptive of them! Zhang Beixing thought, starting to appreciate it.
He then noticed that in the remaining five and a half minutes of the recruitnt video, the scenes of him and the soldiers doing Martial Arts Training alone took up a solid minute!
The remaining four and a half minutes showed the army’s routine drills, various military weapons and artillery, and appeals for the public to enthusiastically enlist.
But Zhang Beixing didn’t pay much attention to that anymore. Because after seeing his own footage, he had already opened the comnts section:
"Well, if it isn’t pretty boy himself! You’re here? I knew you’d check the comnts section!"
"So handso! Is this one of our soldier boys? He’s really so handso!"
"Marry a soldier, that’s the way to go! That slogan really holds true!"
"Just curious, have all the young, handso, and fit guys been snapped up by the military? I’ve watched at least ten recruitnt videos lately, and they’re all unbelievably good-looking, without exception. Of course, the most handso one is the guy in this video. Especially when he’s practicing his punches—that explosion of male hormones! My night is made!"
"To the comnter above, please stop your thirsty comnts! This is the official social dia account of ’Army in Yanjing,’ and the internet is not a lawless place!"
"I wasn’t really thinking about enlisting, but after seeing this video... say no more, bros! See you at the autumn recruitnt drive! Joining the army ans three years of regret; *not* joining ans a lifeti of regret! I’m going to dedicate my youth to our country and make these years count!"
"Speaking of which, does anyone else think the interview at the beginning was total BS? Seriously, how can a military exercise involve civilians? Are you sure nothing went wrong during the exercise?"
"The comnter above is right! I’ve been wondering about that too. And I also noticed that the guy practicing shooting and boxing in the later part of the video looks really familiar!"
"Huh, you think so too? I thought it was just . It’s so weird—he looks strangely familiar, yet unfamiliar at the sa ti. Could this be the Mandela Effect?"
"Um... is it possible you guys *have* actually seen this guy before? It’s him, @Zhang Beixing."
"HOLY CRAP! It really is him! I was wondering why he looked more and more familiar the more I watched; sothing felt off. Isn’t this the ’Good Samaritan’ who helped crack that human trafficking case in Shishi recently? How did he end up in Yanjing and even get involved with the local military?"
"I suddenly have a wild thought. People were wondering why the military exercise involved the public, right? Well, isn’t the ’public’ sotis a ’Good Samaritan’? Zhang Beixing has a history of being a Good Samaritan and helping the police solve cases. Plus, he’s in this recruitnt video now. So... could this joint military-civilian exercise actually have sothing to do with him?"
"No way... you might actually be onto sothing! @Zhang Beixing, I was wondering why you’ve been so quiet for days. Turns out you were secretly pulling off sothing huge behind our backs, huh? That’s our boy! The blogger we stan is just aweso! Now you’re even working with the military! All our efforts supporting you weren’t in vain!"
"@Zhang Beixing, co on out and explain! Is this connected to you? Did you, like, arrest the bad guys in the military exercise, just like you did back in Shishi?"
"LOL, you guys have wild imaginations! You should write novels, seriously. Isn’t this just an innovative joint military-civilian exercise? How do you even co up with all this stuff?"
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