What worried Becca Reyes was that the Chinese New Year was just a few days away right after their training, and the festive atmosphere was getting more intense. However, as new recruits, they still had to continue their training as usual. She had no idea to what extent Austin Shepherd and Nathan Foster would be kind enough to let them enjoy their first New Year in the forces.
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At dawn the next day, it was still dark.
Having slept too much during the day and hardly at all at night, Flossie Wright woke up before the cooking class, carrying the iron pot and ladle into the darkness from the kitchen.
"Clang, clang, clang——"
"Clang, clang, clang——"
"Clang, clang, clang——"
The deafening sound echoed from afar to near, just like sticky candy that can't be shaken off, evoking bursts of curses from the male soldiers in the dormitory.
