The buses rode deep into the mountains for about another hour before they finally saw signs of human presence. A majestic olive-drab gate that stood concealed among the mountains opened before their eyes, revealing rows after rows of simple yet neatly arranged barracks inside.

This place was where they would spend a month.

As Sophia looked at the surrounding mountains and rivers, she suddenly recognized this place. This place was Audistin’s hunting ground!

This hunting ground was the only actual hunting ground in Bayside City, and many beasts were raised inside for the hunting pleasure of the scions of noble families. In other words, there were lots of wild animals nearby.

Quinton was the lecturer in charge of accompanying the students on their military training. He had probably chaperoned the students many times, for he knew a lot about the military training camp. He kindly reminded everyone, “The military training camp is just next to the hunting ground, so please be careful and don’t wander around. Some students were bitten to death by tigers a few years ago when they sneaked out by climbing over the wall.”

Sh*t, this is going to be serious! thought Sophia to herself. She had thought of climbing over the wall at midnight to wander nearby, but who would dare to sneak out under such circumstances?

Luckily, the military camp was situated next to Audistin’s ground, which was her home turf.

Sophia led Nathan into the military training camp in the best of spirits. Everything seemed very new to her, including the spacious training ground, the rows of barracks, and the olive-drab color that came and went around them. However, Nathan seemed to be unhappy; perhaps it was because he had not gotten enough sleep on the bus, for he kept pouting his lips.

Sophia soon found her barracks, which accommodated twenty people. Inside the barracks were bunk beds and two rows of desks with a desk for each person. On each desk was a tooth mug with toothpaste inside, whereas below each desk was a thermos bottle. Instead of being air-conditioned, the barracks had only a few large fans.

The ladies were still complaining about the barracks’ poor living conditions. Even the civilian students, who mostly came from well-to-do middle-class families, had never borne such hardships, let alone children of wealthy families.

 

Nathan should have been staying in a male dormitory, but for some reason, he was assigned to the same barracks as Sophia’s; he took the bunk above hers.

As Sophia put her stuff in their proper places, she muttered to herself, “Does Michael really have no qualms about putting his son in here?”

After putting her stuff in place, Sophia went out to have a look. There were many barracks here, for every barracks could accommodate twenty people, and there were at least four thousand new students in this batch. Therefore, the barracks covered an extensive area.

They had half a day to rest, recuperate, and get used to the place. Wearing a pair of slippers, Sophia took Nathan for a leisurely stroll around the military training camp.

the military shoes she placed under her desk in the barracks to have a few nails

with the military training camp as he guided Sophia around the place with

so you can have them do me a favor by writing

This place

almost impossible to climb over the wall. Besides, this place

to enter or leave the military training camp. Nathan took a card off his neck and

gate opened with a beeping sound, and Nathan went out through the gate calmly while still holding

with live ammunition stayed perfectly still as though they didn’t know that

they exited the camp, a Second Lieutenant came riding a military

arrived at a

this the military training camp’s vegetable farm?

it was only natural that the troops cleared out a plot of

expected, there were soldiers growing vegetables on the farm while

a word. Sophia was puzzled as to why he did so, but on second thought, she realized it wouldn’t be possible for her to be kidnapped and sold by a little brat. Therefore, she entered the polytunnel

overwhelmed by the sight of countless big watermelons before her eyes. As it turned out,

in sandy soil, and heat lamps were used to resemble the environment best-suited for growing

out, they were here

before picking a small watermelon that he could carry just fine. Sophia picked a few big watermelons as well. She was quite an expert at picking watermelons, for her maternal grandfather’s family used to grow watermelons

finished picking watermelons, somebody helped them load the watermelons into the car and even drove them back to the military

now even more certain that Nathan was related to the Fletcher Family of

the camp’s cookhouse. After the cooks cut all the watermelons into halves, Sophia and Nathan ate one half of a watermelon each, whereas

mouth and asked Nathan, “Tell me, kid, how did

card was an amulet since Nathan wore it around his neck all the time; little did she expect that it was actually

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