Xia Yuanfang said angrily, "These are two different things! Is it okay if you like it? Do you know that soldiers have to fight? This is not a trivial fight like your bounty hunter! You are just a little girl, you don't have to worry about things like fighting!"
It seems that Xia Yuanfang doesn't want her to stay in the Special Security Bureau and insists that she quit.
Xia Chujian bit her lip and decided to be frank with Xia Yuanfang: "Aunt, I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm eighteen years old and an adult. I have not only killed people, but also killed strange beasts and infected bodies of the ancient species. And I killed a lot of them very quickly."
“I like the atmosphere here, I like what I learn here, and I feel like I belong here.”
Xia Yuanfang said angrily, "You've only been there for a few days, and you already know where you belong? That's way too rash! And you have no idea what being a soldier means!"
"You don't realize that killing people as a bounty hunter and fighting as a soldier are two completely different things!"
"Have you ever seen what it's like to have hundreds of thousands, even millions of people fighting?! Have you ever thought about what it's like to have no way to heaven and no door to the earth?! Do you know what it's like to have bones piled up like a mountain, lives as worthless as grass, and everyone around you dead?!—You know nothing, and yet you say you belong there! Is all these years of teaching you by your aunt not as good as four or five days of training over there?!"
Xia Yuanfang became more and more excited. She stood up, waving her arms, her face flushed and veins on her forehead exposed.
Xia Chujian blinked and said in confusion, "...That's why I want to be a soldier, to protect my aunt and my family from encountering such a situation...Aunt, do you think that if I encounter such a situation, I should hide and wait for others to rescue me?"
Xia Yuanfang: “…”
When Xia Chu heard this, she was speechless for a moment.
After a long while, Xia Yuan finally said in a low voice: "...Is it not possible? With your identity...you should hide, someone will come to save you..."
For the first time in his life, Xia Chujian directly rejected Xia Yuanfang.
She said seriously, "No, Auntie, I can't. Even if someone comes to save me as you said, it doesn't mean that I have to put my fate completely in the hands of others. If the situation you described really happens, I would rather be in the army, holding a weapon to protect myself and save others, rather than waiting to be rescued!"
Xia Yuanfang stared at her, his lips trembling and tears about to fall.
She covered her mouth with her hands, holding back her sobs, took a few deep breaths, and after calming down, she said, "Chu Jian, you don't understand. When that kind of situation comes, the army is useless. Because they will be the first to die..."
Xia Chujian raised his eyebrows and said calmly, "While I'm here, it won't happen."
Xia Yuanfang: “…”
She was simply powerless to stop Xia Chujian's blind confidence.
Xia Yuanfang closed his eyes and said, "Chu Jian, no matter what I say now, you will have a rebellious mentality. Train well, and we will talk after you come back."
Having said that, she took the initiative to cut off the video call.
After ending the call, Xia Yuanfang poured himself a glass of red wine and took a sip.
The taste was a bit bitter, a bit sour, yet a bit sweet, giving her a mixed feeling.
She stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the bedroom, looking at the clear night sky outside and the white jade-like crescent moon, her face full of melancholy.
It took her eighteen years to forget, but she never expected that as long as she had the chance, those scenes hidden deep in her memory would roll up one by one like waves in the sea tide and dry on the beach.
Xia Yuanfang took another sip of red wine and murmured, "Dad, Mom, I miss you... Dear colleagues, have I embarrassed you?"
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Xia Chujian was sitting in the dormitory in a daze.
She originally wanted to take this opportunity to ask Xia Yuanfang to help her summarize the knowledge she had learned from books, but she never expected that Xia Yuanfang would be so strongly opposed to her joining the army.
But she really thinks that being a soldier, and with the rank of second lieutenant, is really cool!
As for what my aunt said about wars involving hundreds of thousands or millions of people, I just thought it was her fantasy.
In the war history she learned in school, the largest interstellar war had only a total of 100,000 people on both sides.
And when she thought of what her aunt said about the situation where bones were piled up like mountains and lives were worthless, she was not afraid at all.
Their lives are worthless now. Doesn’t my aunt realize this?
More than 300 students died in the school, and none of the school leaders of Mulan City No. 1 High School has taken responsibility so far.
The old building they used to live in collapsed, killing more than 500 people. So far, no investigation has shown that the collapse was not an accident but man-made.
Going back further, more than a thousand people died in the Square Garden incident.
Moreover, she had personally experienced that the nobles could beat and kill commoners like them whenever they wanted, and they even had criminal immunity!
Aren’t these things terrifying enough?
Thinking of this, Xia Chujian made up his mind that he would decide everything by himself.
She thought about it and immediately sent a message to Meng Guanghui.
Xia Chujian: Commander, my aunt just found out I've joined the army and is furious. She might come to you and ask me to withdraw. I hope you can help me find a solution. I don't want to withdraw, but I also don't want to anger my aunt.
At this time, Meng Guanghui was on vacation in his apartment in the upscale community of Beichenxing.
He saw the message and replied with a smile.
[Meng Guanghui]: Don't worry, you are over 18 years old. No one can make decisions for you, not even your parents.
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