“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 just her

After school that afternoon.

an apartment. nearby for them, so they

had offended Anthony, Anthony decided not to go back right after school. He claimed he

responsibility as an older brother. He called the Burnetts’s driver, instructing him to pick up Milly before leaving. As for himself, he

soon as Milly left the classroom,

in the

her backpack and slung it over his shoulder. His handsome face remained expressionless. “I’ll walk

instinctively pulled back.

else offering to walk her out, she

offering to escort her out of school, but rather to lead her into

should help

sound so off? It sounded like something kids would say to each

her again,

determination, Milly had no

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

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her fear his potential to turn

excitedly at her from a distance, as

It was Danny.

What’s he doing here?

Milly noticed and hurried over. “Mr. Jarvis, what’s up?

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

blinked. George has

it had been a long time since she’d seen him.

“Where is he?”

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