Chapter 1428
Chapter 1428: One Pit After Another (5)_1
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Fuck, let her be!
Am I afraid of her?!
So, Devina Millet waited anxiously for a full twenty minutes.
Flossie Wright stood with her arms crossed, leaning against the door, watching the snowflakes dance outside.
The figures of Belinda Nichols and Joshua Bailey arrived late.
Belinda Nichols walked at the forefront, her hat brim and shoulders dusted with snow. Her expression was cold and unreadable, yet Flossie spotted a certain decisiveness and persistence in it.
As for Joshua Bailey, he stood behind with a slightly darkened face.
His eyes and brows spelled resignation.
God knows how he got "dragged" here by Belinda Nichols!
A female soldier, where did she get the courage to barge in, overpowering him in presence despite being in the wrong, her assertive words forcing him to make this unwanted trip.
It’s downright insubordination.
When Belinda Nichols reached the doorway, she paused.
And Joshua Bailey strutted in with a swagger.
"Where’s the military knife?"
Without looking at the dormitory’s state, Joshua Bailey raised his voice and shouted.
He planned to make it quick and decisive.
Chloe Bell bent down to pick up the military knife and hurried over to hand it to Joshua Bailey.
Joshua Bailey took it, glanced at it briefly, and casually tossed it, turning his gaze to Devina Millet, "Is this military knife yours?"
Standing at attention, already resigned to her fate, Devina Millet responded decisively and forcefully.
"Quite confident, aren’t you?" Joshua Bailey snorted with a smirk, his eyes narrowing slightly, "Hiding a military knife, nearly injuring a comrade, those are serious offenses... Standing outside for two hours shouldn’t be a problem, right?"
Standing...
For two hours?
In this freezing weather?!
Devina Millet’s eyes widened in shock.
She had thought that at most, Joshua Bailey would punish her with a run.
In this kind of weather, running was tiring, but at least it would warm up her body, and she wouldn’t freeze half to death.
He chose to make her stand still?!
Even in good weather, standing for two hours was already pushing Devina Millet’s limits, let alone in this cold...
Just thinking about it made Devina Millet shiver all over.
"What, you’d rather stand the whole night?"
Joshua Bailey raised an eyebrow, looking at Devina Millet with a half-smile.
Devina Millet’s face instantly turned pale.
One night out could freeze her to death.
This weather is no joke.
"Don’t worry, I’ll have a medic accompany you," Joshua Bailey assured Devina Millet.
Devina Millet grew even more suspicious.
Accompany her?
He’s probably afraid she’ll freeze to death, right?!
"As for you," disregarding Devina Millet’s expression, Joshua Bailey’s gaze quickly shifted to Chloe Bell, "you’re the one who argued with her, right? I won’t punish you too much, go run thirty laps."
Chloe Bell agreed more readily.
Compared to Devina Millet’s standing in the cold for two hours, her thirty laps were a breeze.
In freezing weather, staying still could kill you in minutes.
After issuing the punishments and "dispensing justice," Joshua Bailey was eager to leave without lingering any longer, quickly departing.
As he passed by Belinda Nichols, Joshua Bailey gave her a glance, and his expression suddenly turned a bit weird.
It’s freaking unbelievable!
He was actually afraid of a female soldier?!
A... female soldier?!
Cursing inwardly, Joshua Bailey’s departing footsteps quickened progressively.
It seemed as though he couldn’t get away from Belinda Nichols fast enough.
Noticing something off about Joshua Bailey, Flossie Wright raised an eyebrow inquisitively and asked Belinda Nichols, "What did you say to him?"
"I told him the truth."
After a moment of contemplation, Belinda Nichols couldn’t think of anything else and straightforwardly replied to her.
Flossie Wright laughed softly, then she didn’t pursue the matter further.
Meanwhile, a huffing Devina Millet, along with a resigned Chloe Bell, left through the door one after the other.
Just as Flossie Wright was entering, she ignored Devina Millet’s angry gaze.
Taking advantage of the remaining time, Flossie Wright and Belinda Nichols went for a hot shower.
By the time they returned, the other people in the dormitory, except for the punished Devina Millet and Chloe Bell, were mostly gathered.
Yet everyone was absorbed in their own activities without any discussion.
It was a strange atmosphere in the dormitory, yet Flossie Wright and Belinda Nichols adapted extremely well.
Exhausted to death, Becca Reyes couldn’t even bother to get into her own bed and simply sprawled over Iris Dukes’s bed and fell into a deep sleep.
"Flossie, are you going to sleep now?"
Just as Iris Dukes climbed onto Becca Reyes’s bed, she sat there swinging her legs and asked Flossie Wright, who was climbing into her own bed.
Flossie Wright replied faintly.
"Oh, well then, good night."
Smiling and squinting her eyes, Iris Dukes cheerfully said.
In fact, everyone who came back to the dormitory after exercise was pretty much ready to sleep.
Only Iris Dukes was having a ball on her own, toying with a piece of rope between her hands.
Half an hour later, the lights in the dormitory went out.
Everyone went to bed to sleep.
Chloe Bell and Devina Millet returned one by one.
One was dead tired, and the other was dead cold.
Without any delay, they both crawled into their beds and fell asleep.
The next day.
Five-thirty.
Flossie Wright opened her eyes on time.
Ten seconds later.
She flipped over and got up from bed.
Dressing, leaving the bed, putting on shoes -- all movements were quick and decisive.
Her slight motion woke up the still-sleeping Belinda Nichols.
Sitting up and seeing Flossie Wright putting on her shoes, Belinda Nichols frowned slightly, but quickly realized what was happening.
Just like her, she began to dress.
After putting on her shoes, Flossie Wright straightened up and immediately went to wake up Becca Reyes.
"What’s up?"
Opening her eyes groggily, Becca Reyes’s voice was full of sleepiness.
Hadn’t the assembly whistle gone off yet?
Speaking of which...
What time was it now?
In a daze, Becca Reyes, filled with various questions, lifted up her hand wearing the military watch.
The light went on.
Five-thirty!
Seeing the time, Becca Reyes immediately became alert and quickly sat up in bed.
"What’s going on?" As she put on her clothes, Becca Reyes asked Flossie Wright in a low voice.
"They’re deliberately setting us up."
Flossie Wright replied indifferently.
Yesterday, they started at three in the morning and barely finished the training mission before breakfast.
It was five-thirty, who else was awake?
It was a classic setup they were facing.
— End of Chapter 1428 —