“Did I hear that right? Live ammo? Oh my god, who can refuse guns!”

“The instructor said it’s like a real battlefield, does that mean there’ll be tanks and fighter jets too?”

“This is so cool, I can’t wait!”

The excited chatter around them was nonstop, making the three people sitting quietly in the last row look a bit stunned.

They really couldn’t get excited. Anthony and Lucius, both from military families, had grown up in army camps. Not to mention simulated battlefields, their elders had even sent them to real battlefields abroad to toughen them up..

As for Milly…

Her face turned pale in an instant. Hearing about a simulated real battlefield made‘ her think of the smoke and heaps of corpses, making it hard for her to breathe, as if she had actually experienced that terrifying scene before.

“Milly, are you okay?”

Anthony noticed her pale face and asked worriedly.

It took a while, but Milly finally calmed down from her fear. She took a deep. breath and waved her hand. “I’m fine.”

Even though she said that, the scene in her mind felt

ay too real.

The choking smell of gunpowder, the tingling in her palm from firing a handgun, and the pain of being shot

It all felt like sh

had actually lived through it before.

But how could that be possible?

Before she ended up in this book, she lived in a peaceful time and had never experienced anything like that. The original character in the story also lived in a peaceful era.

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they really

After school that afternoon.

Jordan had set up an apartment. nearby for them, so they could just head there to rest

not to go back right after school. He claimed he needed to reclaim his dignity, and ran off

as an older brother. He called the Burnetts’s driver, instructing him to pick

as Milly left the classroom, she saw Lucius following

you staying in the dorm? Why aren’t you going back

took her backpack and slung it over his shoulder. His handsome face remained expressionless. “I’ll walk you out of the

instinctively pulled

it were someone else offering to walk her out, she might

he wasn’t just offering to escort her out of school, but rather to lead her into the woods

“Friends should help each other, and guys

sounded like something kids would say

her again, pulling back the distance from before.

had no

original plot of the book and push Lucius away again, preventing him from lingering around

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his potential to turn

dressed man waving excitedly at her

It was Danny.

What’s he doing here?

his voice wasn’t too loud, so only Milly noticed and hurried over.

beside her, looking briefly surprised before his calm smile returned. “Ms. Milly, Mr. Tate just got

blinked. George has

long time since she’d seen him. He’d mentioned going abroad for something, but she didn’t realise it would

“Where is he?”

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