“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.

an apartment. nearby for them, so they could just head

since Xavier had offended Anthony, Anthony decided not to go back right after school. He claimed he needed to reclaim his

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

soon as Milly left the classroom, she saw

the dorm? Why aren’t you going back

over his shoulder. His handsome face

instinctively pulled

someone else offering to walk her out,

her out of school, but rather to lead her into the

showing a cold expression. “Friends should help each other, and guys should look out for

off? It sounded like something kids would say to each

again, pulling back the distance

had no choice but to follow

of the book and push Lucius away again,

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her fear his potential to turn

she spotted a smartly dressed man waving excitedly at her from a distance, as if afraid she

It was Danny.

What’s he doing here?

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

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

George has

been a long time since she’d seen him.

“Where is he?”

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