The direction of the target range on the back mountain.
These words completely ignited the fuse in Zhang Ruobing's heart.
Everything made sense: suspicious, unknown food, and a furtive figure sneaking out the window in the middle of the night.
The destination was a military restricted area—the Houshan firing range.
These two things must be inextricably linked.
"What did that person look like? Did you see who it was?" Zhang Ruobing pressed.
Bai Wei's face showed a perfect expression of difficulty and hesitation. She lowered her head, as if trying hard to recall, or as if she was not sure.
"It was too dark, and we were a bit far away, so I couldn't see the face clearly... But... but that figure... it seemed a bit short and thin, and the way it ran... it felt... it felt a bit like..."
She didn't finish her sentence, as if she was worried about something, but her gaze once again, intentionally or unintentionally, fell on Wang Xiaoya at the front of the crowd.
The implication couldn't be clearer.
"Whoosh—"
In an instant, everyone's eyes in the dormitory focused on Wang Xiaoya.
Among the generally tall and strong female soldiers, Wang Xiaoya's figure was indeed considered relatively "short". Because of her young age and malnutrition in the countryside since childhood, she was not tall and her body was thin, like a bean sprout that had not fully grown.
Wang Xiaoya was completely dumbfounded.
She stared at Bai Wei with her mouth agape, feeling as if she had been doused with a bucket of ice water from head to toe.
She felt the whole world spinning, and everyone's faces were blurring and moving in front of her. She couldn't hear what they were saying; all she could hear was a buzzing sound in her ears.
"No...it wasn't me!"
She finally realized what was happening, shaking her head frantically, her voice filled with injustice and panic, "I didn't! I didn't leave the dorm room at all tonight! I've been sleeping in bed the whole time! Really!"
She turned to Bai Wei, her eyes welling up with tears.
"Bai Wei! You're lying! Why are you framing me? When did I climb out the window? When did I go to the back mountain? Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Faced with Wang Xiaoya's questioning, Bai Wei's face showed an even more aggrieved and innocent expression.
"Little girl, I... I didn't wrong you. I was just telling you what I saw."
She paused, a perfectly measured hint of sympathy and regret in her eyes. "I wish I had been mistaken, really. But... but that figure really looked like you... and you just admitted to stealing food, didn't you? Putting these two things together, it's no wonder the instructor suspected you..."
Her seemingly ambiguous and considerate demeanor, which made Wang Xiaoya appear more objective and credible, actually made her "testimony" seem more objective and credible.
In contrast, Wang Xiaoya's emotional and somewhat out-of-control explanation seemed weak and powerless, more like an attempt to cover up her crime in a fit of anger.
"You're lying! You did it on purpose!" Wang Xiaoya was trembling with anger.
Although she was naive, she wasn't stupid. She could sense that Bai Wei was targeting her! But she couldn't understand what she had done to offend her and deserve such a setup.
"Enough!"
Zhang Ruobing's sharp rebuke stopped the two from arguing.
She is now almost certain that Wang Xiaoya was the one who broke into the restricted area at night.
Stealing food and climbing out of a window are both crimes, making this an extremely serious offense.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
