Ye Xinghe finally couldn't hold it in any longer!
"Dean! Can't you give us a chance?"
"Sure, we don't have much experience, but we don't want to just stand around watching this time!"
"We want to do our part for the Academy and the country, too. Please let us go!"
At that moment, the new students all pleaded with him. They truly didn't want to miss this opportunity!
They had spent nearly a year training at Pioneer Academy. It was time to see what they had achieved!
Xiao Chuihuo slammed his palm down on the table!
"I'll ask you one thing: are you prepared to die in the Abyss?"
At those words, the new students' expressions froze!
Xiao Chuihuo glared at them. "Why do you think there are only 287 veteran students left?"
"I remember the name of every student who died out there over the past three years!"
"I remember their parents grabbing me by the collar and asking me in despair why I hadn't taken better care of their children!"
"You've all grown over the past year, but you're still green. Are you really ready?"
The meeting hall fell into a long, heavy silence.
The new students all fell quiet, and the veteran students' eyes grew misty, too.
They remembered as well. Some of them had even lived through it themselves!
The reason Xiao Chuihuo kept holding them back was that, on missions like this, someone always failed to come home.
In Xiao Chuihuo's eyes, every student at Pioneer Academy was his own child.
How could he bear to send them into danger?
Just then, Zhong Yingxue sprang to her feet, her beautiful eyes filled with resolve!
"Dean, I still remember what our instructor taught us when we first arrived at the Academy!"
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