Chapter 494: Modern Era (If-Things) (22)
After three days of indoor military training, this military training officially began.
It's called wilderness training.
"This field training is an outdoor training exercise in our 17th district in the suburbs. While ensuring everyone's safety, we will assist you in completing this military training."
Hearing about the field training, many students were excited, especially some of the energetic boys who shouted with excitement.
Indoor training consists of nothing but standing at attention and running, which is incredibly boring. It's much more interesting to go outside.
But many students still cried out in despair, saying that training in the wild in such hot weather was going to kill them.
"It's an old tradition."
Xia Meng explained to them, "Mingguang is close to the suburbs and also close to a former military training base. Now that military region has moved, the training base is still there, so it can be used for some military training activities."
“Mingguang’s freshmen training is always conducted at that base every year.”
Anno asked, "Since it's a base, does it have an indoor venue?"
Xia Meng leaned on her roommate's back and sighed, "They've made us train outside, so it'll definitely be outdoors. If we want to train indoors, we'll have to wait until we go back to the dorm to rest at night."
That's right, all of them, the first-year high school students, had to take a bus to the training base.
You can only bring one backpack, containing two sets of clothes to change into and some basic daily necessities.
Anno wasn't afraid of any tougher training; she was just worried about the blazing sun outside.
Urged by the instructors, they quickly returned to their dormitories to pack their belongings and gathered at the school gate within the designated time.
A bus couldn't fit all the students in one class. As soon as Anno boarded the bus, she saw Baroque get on her bus.
Behind him was Huo Xuan.
Huo Xuan glanced around the car and saw An Nuo. His eyes lit up, and he immediately walked towards her.
"Hi, cutie."
He had just greeted Anno and was about to sit down next to her when Baroque sat down faster than him.
Huo Xuan saw that this was her brother, gritted her teeth, and had no choice but to sit behind them.
But the seats behind him had already been taken by other students. Huo Xuan smiled at Xia Meng and the others behind him and coaxed them to switch seats with him with a few words.
The bus ride to the training base takes only two hours.
It was two o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was at its strongest. Anno and Baroque switched places and sat in the aisle. Baroque drew the curtains to block out the sunlight, and then took out a pair of sunglasses from his backpack for her.
Anno put on sunglasses, leaned on Baroque's shoulder, closed her eyes, and went to sleep.
The students were in high spirits throughout the journey, and led by a few of the most active students, they sang songs all the way.
Anuo was also half asleep and had a dream.
In her dream, she rode on the back of a white wolf, being carried by it as it sped across the wilderness.
She shouted joyfully, and the white wolf howled back. Just as she was enjoying herself, she heard someone calling her from behind.
"Shut up! My sister is sleeping!"
Just as Baroque slapped Huo Xuan's hand away, he saw Anuo take off her sunglasses and look back with a hint of resentment.
Huo Xuan originally wanted to share some snacks with An Nuo and try to get closer to her, but when he saw the look in her eyes, he chuckled and handed over the snacks in his hand, saying, "Here you go."
He handed her another peach.
Anno glanced at Baroque but didn't take it.
"We have our own food."
Baroque disliked Huo Xuan very much and had a terrible first impression of him.
He took an apple out of his backpack and gave it to Anuo. Apples were Anuo's favorite fruit, and eating the apple cheered her up a bit.
As she ate, she thought about the white wolf from last night, wondering how it was doing and whether it was alright.
If he doesn't register with the Special Administration Bureau to seek asylum, he'll likely get injured again, and once will happen twice.
The world of non-humans is different from that of ordinary people; those struggles are deadly.
Moreover, when she treated his injuries last night, the wounds on his body didn't look like they were from the first time; there were other old injuries as well.
As Anuo was thinking about the white wolf, Huo Xuan leaned over and whispered to her, "Little cutie, how did you escape from that wolf's mouth last night?"
"What wolf?"
Baroque looked at him too: "What wolf?"
The brother and sister both pretended to be stupid, which fooled Huo Xuan.
However, he firmly believed that he was absolutely not mistaken.
"That must be a wolf demon."
Huo Xuan usually enjoys studying fantasy creatures and reading related reports.
Yesterday on the rooftop, when he saw Anuo jump off the building, he also saw another figure, which should be the human form of the giant wolf.
Have you seen any anime?
Huo Xuan and An Nuo said, "The two male protagonists inside are also wolf demons."
Baroque recognized the name and asked, "What's the male lead's name?"
"This." Huo Xuan opened his phone, searched for pictures, and showed them to them. "Look, Inuyasha."
"I like Sesshomaru the most, he's so cool!"
Baroque stared at the two anime characters on his phone for a moment, then asked him with a puzzled look, "Say it again, what kind of demons are those two?"
Huo Xuan: "A wolf demon."
"Crunch." Anno chewed on an apple, put his hand on Baroque's shoulder, looked at him, and then the two of them couldn't help but laugh.
Anuo usually has a high threshold for laughter, but Huo Xuan really made her laugh.
"Hahaha, wolf demon."
Anno and Baroque huddled together, laughing non-stop. Baroque usually liked watching anime and would drag Anno to watch it with him. They had seen this anime before, but they never expected Huo Xuan to say that Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were wolf demons.
Huo Xuan looked at the brother and sister who suddenly burst into laughter and asked with a puzzled expression, "Is there a problem? Did I say something wrong? They are wolf demons."
Anno and Baroque were probably laughing so happily that the surrounding classmates all looked over. It was the first time they had ever seen Anno smile like that. She usually looked a bit silly and didn't smile much. She seemed a bit slow-witted.
"Annuo, what's making you laugh so happily?" Xia Meng asked, peeking over.
Lin Xu, who was sitting in the same row as her and was listening to her hearing test, also took off her headphones and turned to look at her.
Anuo was probably thinking about the white wolf from last night, and when she heard Huo Xuan's silly mistake of calling a dog a wolf, she found it quite amusing.
She took the phone from Huo Xuan and said to them, "He said they are wolves."
Xia Meng chuckled and said to Huo Xuan, "Hahaha, how many episodes have you watched? How could you think they're wolves?"
Huo Xuan scratched his head and said, "I just got into this."
Baroque laughed and said, "Guess why Inuyasha is called Inuyasha."
"Hahaha, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are both dogs, how could they be wolves?"
Huo Xuan immediately took his phone in embarrassment. "Alright, alright, I know. I always thought they were wolves. Their true forms don't look any different from wolves."
Then he said to Anno, "Your giant wolf from yesterday looked a lot like them to me."
Anuo instinctively said, "It doesn't seem like it."
As soon as she finished speaking, Huo Xuan jumped up and laughed loudly, "Haha!" "I knew it was true! You admit it now!"
Anno: "..."
"You can't deny it now." Huo Xuan was so smug that he was practically wagning a tail.
Anno didn't want to talk to him, but he wanted to get information about the White Wolf from Anno.
Since Anno just let it slip, it means she knows about the white wolf.
"Why are you hiding information about the white wolf? Do you know that white wolf?"
Huo Xuan leaned closer and asked in a low voice.
Anno put on his sunglasses and ignored him.
Baroque shoved his head back, "Are you annoying me?!"
Huo Xuan, like a clingy big dog, kept trying to squeeze between the two of them, saying, "If you don't tell me, I'll keep bothering you."
"Tell you what?"
“It’s that wolf from last night. Anno just admitted it.”
Anuo said slowly, "If you bother me again, I'll make you lose your memory, believe it or not?"
Upon hearing this, Huo Xuan asked in surprise, "Do you know magic?"
Anno nodded: "Yes, if a mortal like you sees something he shouldn't have seen and can't keep his mouth shut, we'll make him lose his memory and forget this memory forever. From now on, if you say even one more word, I'll make you forget it immediately."
Huo Xuan covered his mouth, still somewhat doubtful.
For the second half of the journey, he indeed stopped bothering Anuo, but he felt very uncomfortable and also had a strange sense of excitement.
Unable to find anyone to talk to in the car, he texted his brother, "Bro, guess what? Anuo admitted to being carried off by that giant wolf last night! I told you I wasn't seeing things, now you believe me! Anuo said it herself!"
The other side replied quickly, "What did she say?"
Huo Xuan repeated to him what Anuo had just warned him.
After a while, Huo Xuan received another text message from his brother: "She's right."
After that, she stopped replying to Huo Xuan's messages, letting him get excited on his own and keep searching for news about fantasy and the like.
After the bus arrived at the training base, the accompanying teachers arranged for the students to go to their respective dormitories.
The dormitories are no longer like those in schools where several people share a room, and there are separate shower rooms and washing machines. Here, people sleep on large communal beds, and showers are taken in public bathrooms.
Before the students could even process the fact that they would be living here for the next two weeks, the instructors were already blowing whistles to gather them for the day.
They could only hurriedly drop their backpacks and head to the large grassy area outside to gather.
On this vast grassland, they saw the training grounds, just like the soldiers training they had seen on television.
Zhang Cheng was leading his students in a loud demonstration when he turned around and saw a student wearing sunglasses.
He knew who it was without even guessing; he stood out in the crowd, his white skin practically glowing. An Nuo was the only one in the entire class who stood out.
Zhang Cheng walked towards Anuo. Anuo seemed to have anticipated what he wanted to say and took out a medical record about her eyes that her father had given her from her pocket.
Baroque told Tang Ting about it yesterday, and he drove over to deliver it to him overnight.
Zhang Cheng took the medical record and was about to say something when Anuo said, "I only wear it occasionally. Training will proceed as usual. It won't affect the team or our image."
Zhang Cheng smiled and put the medical record in his pocket. He wasn't going to scold her, but he was worried that the training would affect her eyes, as the medical record stated that her eyes were sensitive to light.
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