Extraordinary Realm from Persuasion System

Chapter 230: Chapter 145: Online Buzz, Breakthrough during Seclusion in the Mountains!_3

Watching the barrage of comments 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 something 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 me? Are you shooting a military recruitment promo or some kind of short film? Ever heard of splitting videos? Who could sit through all this? Zhang Beixing fumed 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 comment slowly floated across the top of the video.

”TL;DR Guy here: Main event starts at 4:31!”

Seeing this comment, Zhang Beixing paused, then without a second thought, dragged the progress bar straight to that time.

He saw that as soon as the video hit four minutes and thirty-one seconds, the style of the comments abruptly changed to things like ”The main event starts now!”, ”Hype incoming!”, ”Non-combatants, clear out!”, ”Here comes the protagonist!”

Seeing this, Zhang Beixing grew curious. Is all this hype necessary? Who in this recruitment video could possibly outshine *me* and be hailed by netizens as the ’protagonist’?

Then, after a brief screen blackout, his own enlarged, chiseled, handsome profile filled the screen.

AHA! So it was me! Well, that explains everything!

Seeing his own face appear on the screen, Zhang Beixing, who had been slightly miffed, immediately calmed down. He even felt these netizens’ sharp critiques were spot on.

They recognized at a glance that *I* am the core of this recruitment 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 recruitment 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 comments section:

”Well, if it isn’t pretty boy himself! You’re here? I knew you’d check the comments section!”

”So handsome! Is this one of our soldier boys? He’s really so handsome!”

”Marry a soldier, that’s the way to go! That slogan really holds true!”

”Just curious, have all the young, handsome, and fit guys been snapped up by the military? I’ve watched at least ten recruitment videos lately, and they’re all unbelievably good-looking, without exception. Of course, the most handsome 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 commenter above, please stop your thirsty comments! This is the official social media 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 recruitment drive! Joining the army means three years of regret; *not* joining means a lifetime 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 commenter 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 me. It’s so weird—he looks strangely familiar, yet unfamiliar at the same time. 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; something 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’ sometimes a ’Good Samaritan’? Zhang Beixing has a history of being a Good Samaritan and helping the police solve cases. Plus, he’s in this recruitment video now. So... could this joint military-civilian exercise actually have something to do with him?”

”No way... you might actually be onto something! @Zhang Beixing, I was wondering why you’ve been so quiet for days. Turns out you were secretly pulling off something huge behind our backs, huh? That’s our boy! The blogger we stan is just awesome! Now you’re even working with the military! All our efforts supporting you weren’t in vain!”

”@Zhang Beixing, come 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 come up with all this stuff?”