Chapter 3: Response Considerations

Why are there still people joining the group late when the training camp is almost over? This question has puzzled everyone in the group.

In addition to Lin Guantang, there are seven other people in the group - four are S-level freshmen of the Central Military Academy this year, and three are senior students who are also instructors in charge of the training.

Four freshmen lived in the same dormitory. Their bedtime topic was the freshman who suddenly showed up today, but they couldn't come to a conclusion after discussing it for a long time. In the end, they could only come to the conclusion that "we'll know who is the unlucky guy who dared to skip training after school starts."

As one of the four, Shao Qingbai agreed with the others' conclusion on the surface, but his heart was actually broken into pieces - he was the unlucky guy who would be scolded to death by his sister!

Shao Qingbai read Haitang's speech over and over again, and only then realized that what Haitang said was exactly what he had said to his elder sister not long ago.

So the truth is - this is the small account that my sister sneaked in!

I didn't expect that the elder sister's acting skills were so superb - you know, this elder sister's usual chatting style is always very relaxed and casual. In short, it is impossible for her to be at a loss because of an announcement.

It is even more impossible to pretend to be good and cute.

If the contrast hadn't been so great, Shao Qingbai wouldn't have failed to recognize the person at first and questioned him mercilessly... Sometimes, moving your hands too fast can also be a mistake!

Shao Qingbai wanted to chat privately with his sister several times to praise her acting skills, but he finally held back.

With their many years of experience of getting along, Shao Qingbai was very sure that if he chatted privately with his sister at this time, he would be scolded to death by his sister. She actually dared to talk to her like that, she must be tired of living.

So, it is better to follow the original plan, pretend that I don’t know her, and then help my sister conceal her identity in the group. After a few days, when my sister has forgotten about what I did to her, I can talk about this matter in private.

I am such a little genius at avoiding disaster!

Shao Qingbai gave himself a thumbs up for his cleverness and fell asleep peacefully.

On the other side, in the instructor's office, the instructors were also discussing this new member of the group.

The training convention of the Central Military Academy is to let seniors with excellent grades and outstanding performance serve as executive officers for the freshman training. For example, in this year's freshman training, except for a number of people doing auxiliary work, the overall person in charge is the junior senior Huo Shizhen, who is also the director of the school discipline department, and two assistants - sophomore Sikong Tan from the intelligence department, and sophomore Yin Zhiyou from the executive department.

Yin Zhiyou is a lone wolf and has always been tired of various meetings. For example, at this moment, Huo Shizhen and Sikong Tan were still working on the final work of the training mission in the middle of the night, and he was absent with a clear conscience.

So he had no idea that the two people in the meeting room were making fun of him.

Sikong Tan sat in the swivel chair, looking at the content posted by the person nicknamed [S] in the group chat, and commented:

"Yin Zhiyou's ability to win people's hearts is much better than yours. If it were you, you would just tell this confused junior to get lost."

"Why would we need to win over the hearts of useless people?"

Huo Shizhen, the only person who didn't speak in the group of eight, just glanced at the group chat history and was too lazy to look again. He sneered at the poor acting skills of the new members in the group. He didn't know how many people he had seen using "forgot/didn't see/was delayed by other things" as an excuse to evade their tasks.

Yin Zhiyou's hypocritical concern made him feel even more disgusted.

and--

Huo Shizhen said with disgust:

"He's just a clumsy liar, and you're not going to kick him out? Don't tell me your brain has degenerated and you can't even remember how many S-ranks there are this year."

Among the new students recruited by the Central Empire this year, there are only four S-level ones, and all of them participated in this training camp. This kid who came out of nowhere, regardless of the truth of his other statements, said that he was S-level, which is obviously a lie - he must have known that all the members in this group chat were S-level, so he lied.

"You have management authority, so why are you ordering me to do it? But I think it's a good idea to keep him here."

Sikong Tan looked at the newcomers in the group who were grateful to Yin Zhiyou for speaking up for justice, and found them a little cute - well, the kind of cuteness that was funny to the extreme. To be honest, this was the first time he saw an S-level alpha who was so scared as if the end of the world had come because of a mere 20-minute five-kilometer announced task.

Unfortunately, he wasn't S-rank—if that were the case, he was just an A-rank or even lower alpha, so it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to be troubled by the content of the group announcement.

Moreover, he pretended to be an S-rank to sneak into the group, and even after being questioned, he insisted that he was an S-rank - no matter what the reason was, lying was a bit unlovable.

Although Sikong Tan was not too disgusted by this, after all, he was very good at it and liked to deduce the truth from lies, but Huo Shizhen was different. He was extremely disgusted by people lying to him in a self-righteous manner.

But what does that have to do with Sikong Tan? He is not the one who is upset about it.

Sikong Tan ignored Huo Shizhen's request to kick him out and said with interest:

"Aren't you interested? A-rank or even B-rank juniors—whether they're curious or just stumbled in by mistake, since they joined this group and lied about being S-rank in order to stay, that means they're already determined to challenge the difficulty of S-rank, right? I'm really curious if the lower-rated students can keep up with the S-rank."

Unfortunately, the other person had no interest in this and only had two words to say:

"boring."

Sikong Tan sighed and said earnestly:

"Don't be so repulsive. In fact, I suggested keeping him in the group for your sake."

Huo Shizhen looked at him with a suspicious look as if to say, "Are you kidding me?"

Sikong Tan coughed, looked serious, and explained earnestly:

"If I remember correctly, after this operation, you'll be sent to Zhoucheng District to carry out a mission. That's a haven for traitors. The previous five executive officers all died because of traitors' betrayal. If you can't find the traitor there, you might die there for that very reason. So, why not use this little episode to help you train in finding traitors in advance?"

Sikong Tan paused, clicked on the group chat page on the screen, and then continued:

"This junior was able to join this group because someone in the group must have pulled him in. They had someone pretend to be an S-rank member. No matter what their intentions were, they didn't reveal themselves. This is evident from the fact that no one has admitted to the group after a night. So—how about finding the "traitor" who let this kid in without anyone noticing? Isn't that a challenge?"

"You haven't forgotten, right? Some documents that S-rank can participate in cannot be disclosed to others."

Huo Shizhen looked at him as if he were a grasshopper seeking death, and sneered:

"A mole is a lowly ant that hides in plain sight. It only takes one glance to spot a mole. But if this kind of boring game causes important information to be leaked in this group, for the sake of our friendship, I will gladly be the one to execute you."

That's not the case - no matter how confidential the documents passed in this group are, they won't be enough to get you executed.

Therefore, it is more likely that Huo Shizhen said this just to vent his anger.

Sikong Tan shrugged and said disapprovingly:

"But you're no longer in the Executive Department, so you can't do this kind of thing. Besides, it wasn't me who transferred you from the Executive Department to the Discipline Department—don't take your anger out on me. I suggest you make more trouble for Yin Zhiyou. I heard that the school plans to train him to replace you as the head of the Executive Department. Anyway, you're already the head of the Discipline Department now, so you have plenty of reasons to make trouble for him—Hey!"

Before he finished speaking, Sikong Tan felt a sense of crisis and dodged to the side almost instinctively. Even so, he felt a burning pain on his cheek - the bullet flew past his cheek. If he didn't dodge in time, he might really be shot in the head.

Sikong Tan raised his head and glared at the culprit. The smell of honey-like pheromones instantly filled the entire room. For an S-level alpha, the sweet aroma of honey seemed a little too sweet, but too strong, enough to make people feel dizzy and in excruciating pain.

Huo Shizhen didn't feel the slightest bit of guilt. He calmly put away his gun and said calmly:

"I thought you brought up these disgusting things on purpose to irritate me, and that you wanted to die so you asked me to give you a ride. And—your pheromones are really disgusting, almost nauseating."

How come I didn't bore you to death?

Sikong Tan hated the topic of pheromones the most. Since the beginning of his differentiation, almost everyone had doubted whether his S-level judgment was wrong, and even doubted his alpha identity because of the honey-scented pheromones.

In this regard, Sikong Tan could only say that they were a bunch of tasteless people who deserved to be cheated to death for looking down on him.

Huo Shizhen is the worst of the worst. Even though he is the well-known hexagonal god of war and the unspoken uncrowned emperor among military academy students, he is definitely a tyrant who draws his gun at the slightest disagreement. Putting him in the discipline department is like sending him to the maintenance department to collect dust even though he knowingly broke the law.

Sikong Tan thought indignantly, and the meeting between the two ended in an unpleasant manner.