The coach blinked and gave him a thumbs-up. "Smart!"
"I'm not kidding, Lin Li. If this really was your first time doing live-ammunition shooting and you can get results like this, then you're absolutely prime material for the military. You might even become a King of Soldiers someday. You've got tremendous potential and a promising future."
Coach Shi had clearly developed an appreciation for talent and spoke sincerely.
Lin Li: "..."
"I'm only in my first year of high school, Coach." Lin Li politely declined.
This wasn't his real talent.
Besides, what would happen to his Genshin daily commissions if he joined the military?
Lin Li considered himself pretty bad at hardship. A few days of military training had already left him exhausted and whining like a dog. Joining the army? Forget it.
"Aren't you about to become an adult? What grade you're in isn't the issue." But Coach Shi didn't think it mattered.
"What?! Coach, how did you know what grade I'm in? And can gay people like us join the military too?" Lin Li asked in shock.
Coach Shi: "?"
What the fuck.
"I just brought it up casually. It's not that serious." Coach Shi smiled and waved a hand. At Dongda, this sort of thing really came down to personal choice.
Leaving Coach Shi inside to clean up the shell casings, Lin Li left the shooting booth.
The moment he stepped out, Bai Bufan seriously walked up and grabbed Lin Li's hand. He said earnestly, "Lin Li, promise me that if we ever do outdoor exposure together and run into a brown bear, neither of us will point the gun at the other person's knees, okay?"
Though Bai Bufan had been standing outside, he could clearly see Lin Li's results through the glass.
Fuck, how was he