Evening, in the cafeteria.
Su Tang, Wang Xiaoya, Liu Landi, and Chen Xiaocao sat around a dining table.
As one of the top five in the shooting assessment, Su Tang received top-tier treatment in her aluminum lunchbox.
A large, glistening, and fragrant chicken leg sits beside a spoonful of braised pork belly cooked in a rich, reddish-brown sauce. The glistening broth drips down from a pile of white rice. Just the aroma alone is enough to make your mouth water.
This stood in stark contrast to the meager cabbage and potato stew in the lunchboxes of the other trainees, which were almost entirely devoid of oil.
In the cafeteria, almost everyone's gaze drifted intentionally or unintentionally toward Su Tang's lunchbox, their eyes filled with undisguised envy and jealousy.
"See that? That's Su An, the one who got a hundred rings."
"My God, that chicken leg is bigger than the one I ate during Chinese New Year!"
"She's a sharpshooter, of course she gets special treatment. But why did she choose Chen Xiaocao, that burden? If I were her, I would have chosen Jiang Yan long ago. A powerful combination would guarantee the championship."
"Who knows? Maybe he's lost his mind. What a waste of that immunity."
The murmurs weren't loud, but they were enough to reach their table.
Hearing these words, Wang Xiaoya was furious and wanted to retort, but Liu Landi stopped her with a look.
Su Tang didn't take it seriously at all. She picked up the big chicken leg, didn't even look at it, and put it directly into Chen Xiaocao's lunchbox next to her.
"Huh?" Chen Xiaocao was startled and quickly tried to put the chicken leg back. "Su An, this...this is your reward, I can't accept it!"
"Eat it if it's given to you, stop talking so much nonsense." Su Tang then shared some of the braised pork from her lunchbox with Wang Xiaoya and Liu Landi.
"Eat quickly, you'll have energy when you're full. Don't pay attention to those idle chatter and waste your breath."
To be honest, Su Tang didn't really care much for the chicken leg and the braised pork. Every day during her rest time, she would use her mental energy to explore her space and use the one-click cooking function to make two delicious and nutritious dishes to soothe herself after a long day of hard training. It can be said that she has never neglected her stomach since she entered the camp.
Wang Xiaoya and Liu Landi exchanged a glance, both seeing emotion in each other's eyes. They ate their meat silently, secretly vowing that in the next assessment, they would do everything in their power not to hold Su An back.
Only Chen Xiaocao, looking at the huge chicken leg in the lunchbox, felt her eyes well up and almost shed tears again.
She lowered her head and ate her rice in small bites with her chopsticks, feeling a mix of emotions.
After a satisfying meal, I returned to my dorm and was immediately enveloped by a cold and oppressive atmosphere as soon as I opened the door.
The dormitory was quiet; everyone sat on their beds, and no one spoke.
Qiao Lin and Li Yue, who are always inseparable and as close as conjoined twins, were sitting on the easternmost dormitory bed folding clothes, while the other had pulled up a wooden chair and was sitting at the westernmost end of the bed, mending socks with her head down.
The two were seven or eight meters apart, ignoring each other, and the atmosphere was so awkward it felt like ice could freeze on the spot.
Chen Xiaocao leaned close to Su Tang's ear and whispered gossip in a voice barely above a mosquito's buzz: "Su An, I heard from them that this afternoon at the shooting range, Qiao Lin dumped Li Yue in front of everyone in order to team up with Du Jinshan, who came in third place in shooting! Li Yue was so angry that she cried, and the two of them had a huge fight when they got back, almost coming to blows!"
"Huh?" Wang Xiaoya heard this from the side and covered her mouth in surprise, forgetting to lower her voice. "Isn't that too unfair? They usually seem like they're inseparable, even holding hands when they go to the bathroom, but when it really matters, they stab each other in the back? Are they just fake besties? They break up at the slightest touch."
Her startled cry shattered the silence of the dormitory, drawing a flurry of stares towards Wang Xiaoya.
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