Lin Xinglan whispered.
Song Lili frowned. We? Since when did she and Lin Xinglan become "we"?
"If you’re afraid, just give up. Honestly, even if you join now, grabbing one of those twenty spots is going to be tough."
"And... and you’re not afraid?"
"With such a great opportunity in front of me, where do I have the time to be scared?"
Song Lili said indifferently, the words coming straight from the heart.
Rather than saying that applying to military school was fulfilling a dream she had given up in her past life, it was more about using this opportunity to make up for all the regrets from before.
Only by reaching that position could she objectively and fairly determine what had motivated that person’s decisions.
Climbing up step by step is hard and slow, and she had prepared herself to dedicate her whole life to it, which was also the worst-case scenario.
Therefore, she would try any shortcut, no matter how risky.
She couldn’t give up on any opportunity.
Lin Xinglan looked at the side of Song Lili’s face, unable to see the slightest bit of wavering... Her determination made Lin Xinglan’s body tremble.
When Song Lili saw Lin Xinglan still standing beside her, she glanced at her,
"Even if you give up now, no one will laugh at you."
"I would laugh at myself..."
"Since I stepped forward, at least... I should try a little. It’s better to be eliminated than to give up on my own..."
Lin Xinglan muttered to herself.
Song Lili found it quite novel, "Are you possessed by something?"
Lin Xinglan took a deep breath, blew up her cheeks, and glared at Song Lili fiercely.
Song Lili chuckled to herself.
In the office, Lu Ziqing looked at the risk acknowledgement forms signed and submitted by each class. He hadn’t said a word yet, but Qi Yong by his side was the first to lose his composure!
"At least a third of the students stood up just now, right? There should have been about three hundred in total, but now only a hundred and twenty are submitted?"
"That’s already quite a lot. After two stages, if fifty are left, that wouldn’t be bad."
Qi Yong took a deep breath, looking at Lu Ziqing with some concern,
"Commander, are you really planning to use our team’s special forces selection exam to test them?"
"Don’t worry, I’ll make some adjustments. Special forces... ha, I am not intending to annihilate them all."
Although Lu Ziqing said this, Qi Yong was still a little skeptical and couldn’t help but pray for the students participating in the selection.
Song Lili truly believed this was an incredible opportunity, and like many others thought:
No matter how terrifying the army commander’s words were, he couldn’t possibly be asking them to risk their lives for real.
Many were intimidated, yet many others persisted, and some children from military officer families firmly believed that Lu Ziqing was just bluffing.
They were all wrong, Song Lili was wrong, everyone harboring a stroke of luck was wrong.
The day after the list of participants was submitted, at two in the morning, the piercing alarms of the camp rang out.
"All those participating in the selection for the officer training class, assemble at the training field within three minutes!"
"Three minutes? Seriously... There isn’t even enough time to run there without clothes on..."
Lin Xinglan grumbled as the alarm woke her, but then she heard the sounds of people rushing out in the corridor.
As Song Lili passed by her dormitory, Lin Xinglan quickly called out to her,
"Tang Xiaohua, being a little late is fine, no need to rush so much that you can’t even put your clothes on, right?"