The troublesome crow was being tightly gripped by the neck in Chloe's hand, nearly suffocating, occasionally twitching to show it was still alive.
Bai Zuo remained silent for a moment, then said, "Let go and give me the crow."
It was barely alive now, and if Chloe continued to torment it like this, its fate would be uncertain.
Chloe obediently handed the crow to Bai Zuo, her eyes showing some reluctance.
After receiving it, Bai Zuo loosened his grip slightly to avoid strangling the crow outright. As he examined the bird's body, he explained in detail:
"The man you caught earlier probably wasn't a formal employee of the Viper Group. At most, he was a defective experiment, sent here as a target. As for this crow..."
Bai Zuo pinched the crow's neck, twisting it left and right to observe. Then he took out a thin dagger from his waist and directly plucked out the crow's eyeball.
Strangely, even with this treatment, the crow didn't bleed at all. Instead, a jumble of wires clattered out.
Electric wires, in various colors.
Chloe raised an eyebrow slightly: "Wow, how high-tech, avian mechanical modification."
Bai Zuo: "..."
Damn avian mechanical modification. When would this girl ever say something pleasant?
Bai Zuo said nothing, tightening his jaw as he pulled out the monitoring and listening devices from the crow's eye socket. After examining them, he said:
"Fortunately, these aren't real-time. For them to receive information, this crow would have to fly back. So the Viper Group probably doesn't know our specific situation here..."
At this point, Bai Zuo paused briefly, then asked, "Are you sure there's only one such crow around here?"
Chloe raised three fingers to her forehead in a swearing gesture:
"Absolutely no second one, I guarantee it on my character."
Hearing this, Bai Zuo felt slightly relieved, but then heard Chloe add:
"Although my character has already crumbled beyond repair."
Bai Zuo: "..."
"Alright, shut up and go to sleep."
Chloe put one hand in her pocket: "What sleep? I'm on guard all night tonight."
Hearing this, Bai Zuo raised an eyebrow slightly: "Didn't they say you were in poor health? Can you handle being on guard all night?"
Poor health?
Chloe's expression darkened: "Who said I'm in poor health? I'll beat them to death!"
Bai Zuo didn't reveal that it was Daniel who said it, instead just asking again, "Can you really handle it?"
Chloe: "Of course, only a puppy couldn't handle it."
Bai Zuo thought to himself that he'd wait to see Chloe turn into a dog.
In the end, he didn't say much more, leaving with just a "Come find me at the tent after your shift."
Chloe rubbed her head, thinking she'd be stupid to go find him right after her shift.
After standing guard all night, wouldn't she need to sleep first?
Chloe thought this way and naturally acted accordingly.
As soon as her shift ended, Chloe seemed like she didn't want to stay a second longer. She tucked her gun into her waist and sauntered away from the main entrance of the tent.
On her way back, she ran into the regular soldiers coming to take over the shift.
Seeing Chloe, some of the men involuntarily blushed, about to raise their hands in greeting, but Chloe rushed past them with her head down, running into the tent where the Military Academy students lived.
Chloe accurately found her own bed and jumped onto it in a flash, ready to sleep.
But just as she touched the pillow, a whistle sounded outside.
The kind of whistle that signaled training orders.
As soon as this sound rang out, about a dozen Military Academy students immediately sprang from their beds, quickly changed clothes in their own bed tents, and ran out.
Qu Yan changed her clothes and specially came to wake Chloe, fearing she might oversleep.
Chloe wasn't oversleeping; she was getting up with murderous intent.
The feeling of not being allowed to sleep after staying up all night was really...
When she got up, Chloe's face was full of fatigue, her eyes full of killing intent.
Qu Yan was startled by her gaze. As she stood dumbfounded, Chloe grasped her wrist, yawned, and said slowly:
"Don't be afraid, I'm just a bit irritable."
As she spoke, she got up from the bed, looked around, and said resentfully: "I just want to ask one thing, isn't there any special consideration for sentries... I mean, guards who have just come off duty?!"
Qu Yan: "...There is."
As soon as she said this, she saw Chloe's eyes light up.
Qu Yan slowly said: "According to the rules, sentries who have been on guard all night can sleep a few extra hours in the morning. You sleep first, and I can be responsible for waking you up..."
Before she finished speaking, Chloe had already excitedly hugged her blanket and fallen asleep.
Qu Yan's hand, which had been grasped by Chloe earlier, was still suspended in mid-air.
She paused, then sighed and said, "Alright, you rest well."
Qu Yan withdrew her hand, tucked Chloe in properly, and then left the tent.
By now, there weren't many people left in the tent.
Only the sentries who had just come off duty were catching up on sleep.
...
When Chloe woke up again, she didn't know what time it was.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she found Anderson standing by her bed.
She was confused for a moment, then asked, "Didn't Sister Qu Yan say she would come to wake me? Where is she?"
Anderson raised his hand to smooth down a tuft of hair that had stood up on her head during sleep, his voice gentle: "Qu Yan was temporarily assigned to go on a mission with a team, so I came to wake up the little miss."
Hearing this, Chloe slowly said "Oh," and then asked, "What time is it now?"
"Ten in the morning."
Chloe calculated and realized she had slept for about six hours.
Not bad, barely enough to restore her energy.
She waved her hand to push Anderson out, pulled the bed curtain closed and started changing clothes. After changing, she set off for Colonel Bai Zuo's tent.
Colonel Bai Zuo had told her to come to his place immediately after her shift, but Chloe had delayed until now.
Thinking of this, Chloe felt a pang of guilt.
As soon as she entered and saw the full view of the interior of the tent, Chloe felt a surge of indignation in her heart—
Why does Colonel Bai get to live in such a luxurious tent! While we Military Academy students are...
"Because I'm a colonel."
Bai Zuo put down his teacup on the table with a crisp sound.
Chloe composed her facial expression, trying her best not to have everything written on her face:
"Officer Bai, I'm very sorry for being late," she said, then eagerly leaned in closer.
Bai Zuo looked at Chloe's changeable expression, his lips twitching slightly before he spoke:
"You're quite bold. This is the first time I've seen someone dare to disobey a superior's orders."
Chloe put on an innocent face. "This has nothing to do with boldness. Sentries who've been on duty all night must get enough rest before continuing training. That's the rule in the military camp."
She smiled with seeming sincerity:
"You should know that I've always been a good girl who follows the rules."
