The boys in the second row noticed the girls beside them seemed to be afraid, they said with grins on their faces: “If you’re scared, then go next and let me go first. How about it?” The most exciting thing to do here was shooting at the targets, no idea what the girls are so afraid of.
“You girls are so timid, what’s there to be afraid of? It’s a rare opportunity to get close with a gun, and those are real, authentic guns!”
Boys can never understand the timidness of girls, guns are so masculine, all the TV shows and movies showed the protagonist picking up weapons and ‘bang, bang, bang’ shot them whenever they see an enemy, how cool and manly that is!
From picking up a gun to pulling the trigger, and the safety precautions for everything in between was explained once again for another twenty minutes after they were finished, the instructor directed his gaze on Ye Jian’s face, without asking aloud, instead, he asked with just his gaze if she was okay with this.
Ye Jian nodded her head with a smile; target shooting will not be a problem.
“Are there any students who think they cannot do this? Now raise your hands and step forward!” The instructor realized and had peace of mind if she said she could, then she definitely could, his hard gaze swept across the faces of the other students, and he noticed there were a couple of girls who tardily raised their hands.
As long as they raised their hands knowing this, then it’s okay!
The instructor who was afraid of them forcing themselves if they couldn’t bring themselves to it perceived the situation, his tightly knit eyebrows relaxed and spread apart; he yelled: “Group Attention! Dress, right, dress! Ready, Front! At Ease! Attention!”
With his commands, the students of Grade 11 Class One started to tidy up their formation; the other classes were more or less also tidying up their creations, in a few moments, they will begin the final exercise for their military Bootcamp period: target shooting!
“Ten people in each group, the first group starts! Regardless of gender! Girls that don’t know how to step forward, we will be re-explaining! If you still don’t understand, you will forfeit this target shooting exercise! Do you hear me!” The young instructor was in charge of them for six days, and he had also yelled at the top of his lungs for six days. However, his voice was still loud and powerful, shaking the cores of the students like a drum.
Five girls then stepped forwards; they lowered their heads with uneasy expressions, one of the girls mumbled softly: “Report, instructor, I don’t want to do it, I’m afraid. When I look at the guns, my legs go weak.”
“I’ll give you a minute to think about it, if you don’t think you can do it, then tell me once again.” The instructor did not intend to force them, nor did he accept her request immediately, he turned around and asked the four other girls, “What about you four? Are you going to shoot? Or think about it?”
The four girls looked at each other and exchanged glances, though their voice was soft, she spoke with determination behind it: “I want to try, I’m just afraid that I won’t shoot accurately.”
They’ve only been in contact with a fake gun for two days, and they’ve only been given explanations for two days, and she thinks she could hit the target? The instructor smiled and said: “There are no strict requirements for target shooting, even if you missed, it is still fine, as long as you don’t point the guns at your fellow students, then all is fine, and don’t casually move the bipods, the guns must be accurately pointed at the front.”
As long as there weren’t score requirements… then they could rest assured.
“If you girls are afraid, then why don’t you go and team up with Ye Jian.” The instructor immediately realized that it wasn’t because they didn’t understand how to do it. Instead, they were afraid of missing the mark, that’s why he immediately thought of asking Ye Jian to lead them if she was present, then the girls would probably feel more courageous.
Ye Jian was like a fish in water in the military, from yesterday noon till four p.m. today, it hasn’t even been 48 hours yet all the instructors had unconditional trust in her and believed in her abilities.
The moment the girls heard Ye Jian would be leading them in this exercise, it was as if they had forgotten Ye Jian had just arrived yesterday afternoon. She wasn’t with them when they were in contact with fake guns, now all of them started smiling as if finally being able to relax, they said happily: “That’s great, we’re glad.”
The girl who was afraid of firing a gun had ultimately decided to give up, she was terrified, and her calves hadn’t stopped trembling.
The instructor did not force her to return to the formation; then he asked Ye Jian to step forward, “Ye Jian, you should lead a group with the four of them, they’re quite timid and would like you to be their leader.”
