Chapter 28: Oath
Zoe was so busy in the laboratory that she didn't know that all of Belster's students had already left for the battlefield a week ago.
During the training that day, a broadcast suddenly sounded in the base, ordering all the trainees to assemble in the hall. This was the first time that all the trainees had gathered for an important meeting since arriving at the new base. The trainees all had a hunch that what they were going to say in the hall must be related to the mutation, and they would eventually have to go to the battlefield, even though they knew they would have to face zombies from hell. But this was their duty. The trainees were honored, but they were also facing death at all times. Even though they knew that the outcome of rushing into the battlefield would be death, they would hold their guns tightly and walk towards the end of death with their heads held high.
When Suwan and Angela arrived at the hall, it was already half full. The two found a seat and sat down. Soon other students came in and filled the seats. The students who arrived late stood in the aisle and the back row, all looking at the stage nervously.
Sitting in the front row were the instructors of the Belster cadets. There was not a single soldier in the hall, because this had nothing to do with the soldiers and was no longer something the soldiers could interfere with.
When Instructor Will stood up, the students who were talking in the hall fell silent and waited for him to speak. Instructor Will walked up to the stage with a heavy face, stood in front of the microphone and looked at the students. He had a thick notebook in his hand. Instructor Will did not have any opening remarks. He looked at the students in front of him with a sad face, lowered his head to open the thick notebook, and then read out the names.
These are the students' names.
The students whose names were called stood up to answer, but there was always a name that no one answered. It was the student who died in Belster. Unconsciously, all the students stood up and listened quietly. Except for the voice of Instructor Will, the hall was silent. The mood of grief and sorrow spread in the hall. As more and more names were not answered, everyone's face was sad. I don't know who sobbed softly in the corner. These names were all living lives. They had their own wonderful lives, but now only a name is left.
Since they have to go to the battlefield, the students will inevitably die.
The number of living people who can answer the questions in that thick book will become fewer and fewer, and eventually it will become a list of dead students.
After reading everyone's names, Instructor Will closed the notebook, expressionless and with a sad tone, he said: "My students, I have to tell you some unfortunate news. What happened at Bellster Academy is not over yet."
No one spoke, and they all looked at him nervously. The news was originally blocked, and the trainees lived a normal life in the new base. They didn't know what was happening outside, and because their lives were the same as before, they almost had the illusion that nothing had changed.