Chapter 74: Evening Of Field Training
Xiang Chuan was still thinking how humane modern military training was, that there wouldn’t be any mandatory class group activities at night, when the dormitory broadcast announced the evening schedule.
【Tonight, promotional images from the nature reserve and field training base will be arranged. Please open the teaching page on your personal terminal at 19:00 to watch.】
“……Can I not watch?” Xiang Chuan looked disgusted at the light screen and asked Chou Manman, who had just come out of the bathroom next to her.
“Just watch it. Images from the reserve side are basically not publicly distributed.” As she spoke, Chou Manman had already opened her own light screen, tapped the teaching page, and looked at the screen with eager expectation. “Besides, the teacher will check via retina monitoring on the teaching page whether we’ve been obediently watching the screen. If not, we might get marked absent?”
What about respecting personal privacy?!
Xiang Chuan glumly opened the light screen. There were still more than twenty minutes until the specified time, so she could only boredly tap around, opened her little sister’s live stream room, and found her eating strawberry-flavored pudding with Lin Ming while watching a TV series.
Looking at her little sister’s face that had gradually become rounder over these two weeks, Xiang Chuan felt a growing sense of responsibility: Her little sister had most wanted to maintain her figure in her previous life, so she definitely had to be a good big sister and supervise her diet. Thinking this, she typed in the comment section: “Eat less dim sum, you’ve gained weight.”
【This Consort Hua……Huh, big sister?】
While Xiang Xue was waving her spoon and expounding her “profound theory,” she saw Xiang Chuan’s comment. Family members with live stream room accounts were set with special highlight effects by her and the live stream room’s small team, so she could spot them at a glance. After seeing the content, her brows furrowed into a river shape. She put down the spoon, pinched her face, then pinched her skinny little waist with not much meat, her little face full of unhappiness.
【Have I gained weight?】
Xiang Xue’s little face scrunched up, unknowingly stirring pity from her many secret admirers and the moms in the audience, so the comment section’s vibe suddenly switched from plot discussion to comforting Xiang Xue:
【Xiao Xue’s figure is great, don’t listen to your Xiang Chuan sis.】
【Xiang Xue, your current face shape is perfect! Girls in our class are all envious.】
【Xiao Xue the streamer eats so much without showing it, it makes us so jealous.】
Xiang Chuan looked at the comment section, her mouth twitching involuntarily: Some viewers had watched too many TV series, their wording even mimicking ancient costume drama style—was this cultural invasion? Would she get called in by the Cultural Affairs Bureau for drinking tea?
At this time, the director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, who was also her mom, was sitting on the sofa next to the live stream room’s camera, looking at her big daughter’s comment, raised an eyebrow, and quickly typed a line on the keyboard:
【If we’re talking slender figures, that must be excellent, but Xiao Xue’s healthy physique truly lives up to the power of Xiao Chuan’s delicacies.】
As soon as the Cultural Affairs Bureau director chimed in, it immediately drew exclamations from the crowd. Black lines on Xiang Chuan’s forehead were about to form a curtain.
Fine……as long as they like it. Xiang Chuan immediately posted a hand-drawn image of raising hands in surrender—why hand-drawn? No choice, no emotes available, so she used her elementary school-level doodles as emotes, but unexpectedly these quirky images were quite popular with the viewers. In less than two days, a bunch of people asked Xiang Xue for her images, so Xiang Chuan simply had Xiang Xue’s live stream room maintenance team implement her emote pack as an official feature in the live stream room. Now, the live stream room comment section was full of elementary school-level drawing quality emotes flying around.
Xiang Chuan: Although I know they mean no harm, it always feels like they’re publicly executing me.
After casually chatting a couple sentences with her little sister and the viewers, Chou Manman saw she was watching the live stream room, so she logged into the live stream room herself and revealed that Xiang Chuan was currently waiting to watch the nature reserve promotional video and had come looking for fun out of boredom.
【Then you can’t tease your own little sister for fun either!】 Learning it was just her big sister teasing her figure out of boredom, Xiang Xue immediately wasn’t having it. 【Xiang Chuan sis, if you don’t compensate me, I’ll have Xiao Chef use up all your yeast! Hmph!】
Sigh, Xiang Chuan was familiar with this expression—her little sister was pretending to be mad to try getting more benefits from her. Naturally, she didn’t believe Xiang Xue would use up all the yeast; she loved cake so much, and couldn’t go without buns every morning. If all the yeast was used up, starting from scratch would mean at least four to five days without her favorite cake and buns—she’d be the first to not endure it.
But an unhappy little sister still needed proper soothing. After agreeing to make her new dim sum when she got back, Xiang Chuan exited the live stream room, then fluidly and naturally picked up the pillow beside her and threw it straight at the opposite side, only for it to be dodged by the smirking Chou Manman who was already prepared.
If the light screen hadn’t popped up a notification that the image was about to start playing, Xiang Chuan would absolutely have properly punished this “traitor.”
The content of the promotional image was just as Xiang Chuan thought, similar to a typical corporate promo video, except the nature reserve’s introductions to various areas included a lot more wildlife images.
This wasn’t anything novel for Xiang Chuan; in her previous life, though she hadn’t gone to the zoo much anymore, she still occasionally saw animal short videos on video websites or SNS. But for modern people, it was a big difference.
“Wow! Xiang Chuan, quick look! That’s a deer! It really has antlers—what does it feel like to touch this antler?”
“Quick look, quick look, that’s a sparrow! So tiny.”
“Why does the centipede have so many legs? So interesting……Xiang Chuan, your face doesn’t look good, are you feeling unwell?”
Xiang Chuan stiffly waved her hand: “I’m fine……just……don’t like bugs……” Damn it, the first sight of this bug made her want to pass out, and now with close-ups and multi-angle pans—was this trying to take her life?!
Luckily the insect segment didn’t last too long, and after switching to the next species, Xiang Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Half an hour later, the reserve’s promo video ended, followed by the field training base’s promotional image. Turns out this was the headquarters of the field training base, and other branches simulating different environments were set up on armed escort ships for the escort ship’s guard team members to conduct adaptability training for various environments.
Xiang Chuan originally thought this kind of institutional intro video would be boring, but after watching two, it seemed……pretty good? Xiang Chuan couldn’t help sighing that modern humans’ cultural genes were inherited from twenty thousand years ago, but their aesthetics had been passed down.
She glanced at Chou Manman, who was watching the light screen with relish, and thought this wasn’t bad—at least her self-familiar friend’s future development path wouldn’t start off so rough.
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