“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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really

After school that afternoon.

in the dorms. Jordan had set up an apartment. nearby for

go back right after school. He claimed he needed to

he didn’t forget his responsibility as an older brother. He called the Burnetts’s driver, instructing him to pick up Milly before leaving. As for himself, he

left the classroom, she saw Lucius

frowned. “Aren’t you staying in the dorm? Why

shoulder. His handsome face remained expressionless. “I’ll

pulled

else offering to walk her out, she might have believed it, but

escort her out of school, but rather to lead her into the woods to cut her

showing a cold expression. “Friends should help each other, and

off? It sounded like something kids would say to each

to her again, pulling back the distance

his determination, Milly had no choice

stick to the original plot of the book and push Lucius away again,

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fear his potential to turn

they reached the school gate, she spotted a smartly dressed man waving excitedly at her from a distance, as if afraid she wouldn’t see him. “Ms. Milly!

It was Danny.

What’s he doing here?

wasn’t too loud, so only Milly noticed and hurried over. “Mr. Jarvis, what’s up? Are

her, looking briefly surprised before his calm smile returned. “Ms. Milly, Mr. Tate just got back from abroad and wants to talk to

blinked. George

time since she’d seen him. He’d mentioned

“Where is he?”

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