"Yes, I’ll go right away." Burbank quickly saluted twice and disappeared in a flash.
Lu Jin glanced nervously down below, then back at his boss. His heart was pounding more frantically, and he couldn’t shake the feeling that sothing bad was about to happen. "Boss, it’s... it’s not your fault."
Lu Jin stamred and said, "Don’t bla yourself anymore. Without you, the Regular Army would be even more brutal, and even more innocent people would die."
Lu Jin was speaking the truth, and everyone knew it. It was precisely because of this that Huo Beijiang had been sent back. Although he was here to assist Kaka, the deeper purpose was indeed to end Kannaya’s civil unrest as quickly as possible.
The longer the war dragged on, the more innocent civilians would lose their lives.
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Chen Jing and Ding Jiaqi lived on the outskirts of the core district, together with the Special Forces that Huo Beijiang had brought from back ho. Although the number of people used to be quite small, Lin Yizhong had now arrived with ten more soldiers. Fortunately, these troops were well-disciplined and never tried to strike up conversations with them.
Ding Jiaqi had tried several tis to chat with the Special Forces, subtly and overtly probing about Huo Beijiang’s affairs, but she ended up being ignored, which left her fuming with anger.
By the ti the two of them returned from the prisoner camp, it was already late at night. There was no food to be found, and their stomachs were growling with hunger. They managed to dig up so compressed biscuits.
"So dry, so awful—how are we supposed to eat this?!" Ding Jiaqi angrily tossed the compressed biscuits onto the table, resting her chin in her hands and pouting miserably as she looked at Chen Jing.
Chen Jing, on the other hand, munched on her biscuits while sipping small amounts of water.
"How can you still eat?" Ding Jiaqi snapped irritably. "These are so dry—how are you even swallowing them?"
Chen Jing: "..." Having sothing to eat was already a blessing; she wasn’t about to be picky. But she didn’t want to tell Ding Jiaqi this, since she’d brought it up countless tis before. Each ti, not only did it fail to convince Ding Jiaqi, but it ended with Chen Jing making herself seem unreasonable.
At this point, she’d co to understand—regardless of whether Ding Jiaqi made sense or not, in the end, she was always "right," and everyone else was sohow obligated to apologize to her.
Chen Jing’s silence, however, dissatisfied Ding Jiaqi further. She looked at Chen Jing with disappointnt, condemning her: "Why aren’t you saying anything? Am I wrong or what?"
"You’re right!" Compressed biscuits were indeed unpleasant; the entire world knew that. But no matter how unpleasant, they still had to be eaten! Hunger was no joke. Who didn’t want to eat sothing delicious? Braised pork, Peking duck, marinated beef... But that’s only if those were available!
Hearing a satisfactory reply, Ding Jiaqi broke into a radiant smile. "You’re still the one who understands best, Chen Jing."
Chen Jing: "..."
"Oh, right! I wonder if Huo Beijiang is back yet. I’m going to find him." Ding Jiaqi said as she got up to leave.
"Wait!" Chen Jing hurriedly stopped her. "It’s so late—don’t go now. Just wait until tomorrow!"
"No way, I have to see him now. I can’t wait another second." She hadn’t seen Huo Beijiang in days and was now bursting with eagerness to et him.
"You just offended Burbank during the day. What if he complains to Huo Beijiang? Going to him now would be walking straight into trouble."
Ding Jiaqi paused, showing a hint of contemplation.
Chen Jing truly didn’t want to see her best friend stirring up trouble everywhere. Didn’t she notice? The people around them were all giving her disdainful looks.
Honestly, every ti Chen Jing accompanied Ding Jiaqi, she felt the urge to dig a hole and bury herself inside. Personally, she could never behave like that. No matter how much you liked soone, you should still have self-respect, right? And it was painfully obvious that the other person didn’t like her!
She really couldn’t fathom what was going through Jiaqi’s mind.
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