Everyone's eyes followed her gaze, trying to guess her target.
Under everyone's gaze, Su Tang gently patted Chen Xiaocao's shoulder, who was already dumbfounded.
"Let's go, Little Grass. Let's go register our team information with the instructors."
"ah?"
Chen Xiaocao's brain completely shut down. She stared blankly at Su Tang's face, which was so close to hers. Su Tang had a faint smile on her face, her mouth was open in an "O" shape, and she looked completely dazed and confused.
"I...I?" She pointed to her nose, her voice trembling. "Su An...you...you must have made a mistake? Your teammate...is me?"
"Otherwise what?" Su Tang looked at her silly look with amusement. "Hurry up, time is almost up. If you don't register now, your qualification will be invalidated."
At that moment, everyone in the room realized what was happening.
The teammates Su Tang chose were neither hidden masters nor formidable dark horses.
Instead, it was... Chen Xiaocao.
Chen Xiaocao's shooting score was only one ring above the elimination line, ranking last among the female soldiers. Her physical fitness was also average. She needed someone to pull her along during every armed cross-country run to barely keep up!
She's a universally acknowledged, undeniable burden; anyone who teams up with her is doomed.
If the rejection of Jiang Yan earlier was shocking, now everyone's expressions can only be summed up in two words—absurdity.
"Is she really crazy? She'd rather be last than first in the whole camp?" Sun Erniu shouted loudly, as if afraid no one would hear her.
Zhou Zhihui smirked, "Bringing such a burden is a complete waste of her immunity. Even if she survives this round thanks to her immunity, she'll still be eliminated in the upcoming combat assessment and wilderness survival. Tsk tsk, what a pity..."
Zhao Yan crossed her arms, feeling embarrassed and angry at being rejected by Su An in public: "I finally understand. Su An is all show and no substance. What good is good marksmanship if he's not smart enough? Given the current situation, the top three in each assessment have special privileges. Instead of trying to expand his advantage of finally getting first place, Su An is deliberately making things more difficult for himself... He's ridiculously stupid."
Su Tang's choice of Chen Xiaocao was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, nor was it made on a whim.
Sisterly affection was one aspect, but she genuinely couldn't bear to see Chen Xiaocao on the verge of tears because she was afraid of being eliminated.
More importantly, she understood Chen Xiaocao's value better than anyone else.
After spending several days together, Su Tang had long since discovered that Chen Xiaocao's ability to identify various wild herbs, poisons, and edible plants was simply superb. She could smell where there were wild strawberries and where there were white cogon grass roots that could stop bleeding, even with her eyes closed.
This is practically a mobile "wilderness medical kit" and "survival encyclopedia".
If you put her in a special operations mission in the wilderness, such a teammate would be more valuable than a sharpshooter, and could save the lives of the entire unit in a critical moment.
She wanted to give Chen Xiaocao a chance, a chance to showcase her true abilities in the later subjects. At the very least, she wanted the instructors, like Lei Kuan, to see her strengths, so that even if she didn't make it into the top three, she could still be transferred to the logistics department as a military doctor.
She didn't want a special talent like Chen Xiaocao to be buried in this cruel elimination mechanism because of her weakness in shooting.
As for that "get-out-of-jail-free card"... for someone like her, who was already "pre-selected" by Xiao Dongsheng, it made no difference whether she had it or not. Since that was the case, it was better to save that opportunity for her close female friends than to team up with someone she didn't know well.
Of course, she didn't need to explain these deeper considerations to anyone.
Just then, a strange, sarcastic voice rang out, interrupting her thoughts.
It's Zhao Yan.
With her arms crossed, and Sun Erniu, Zhou Zhihui, and Zhang Man following behind, she walked up to Chen Xiaocao, giving her a malicious look from head to toe, before forcing a fake smile at Su Tang:
"Su An, I've really seen something new today. It turns out that strength isn't important; the real skill is knowing how to please people. Look at our Xiao Cao, she's usually quiet, but when it matters, she sheds a few tears, and she gets that get-out-of-jail-free card, doesn't she? What a clever trick! We silly girls, who only know how to train like idiots, should all learn from you."
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