Girls und War

440. Natsuki's Daily Life

The first officer on duty in the Red Dragon Squadron this time was still Qingxian.

It seems that this is her personal habit.

After the combat period is over, I take a break from work, adjust my mood, and feel refreshed.

Or maybe she still has some desire for something deep down in her heart?

See, it's like that—

In my memories of my youth, the girl with excellent grades who sat in the front row always did her homework in her seat after school and would go home a little later.

So I like to rush to be on duty and stay until the end to clean. And when the class becomes less and less crowded, I hope to establish a small friendship with that girl in my reverie and anticipation.

——Such a subtle emotion?

However, Xia Shu couldn't feel these overly delicate radio waves.

She could only judge from her own experience and think that Qingxian was also a good child who loved learning.

The reason why she often smiles at me is simply because her personality is so easy-going and friendly.

Because Xia Shu himself is such a person.

As for the other girls who remained in the squadron, Xia Shu was even too lazy to guess what they were thinking.

If Xia Shu understood the feelings of a daughter, I'm afraid the interpersonal relationships of this broken book would be twice as complicated.

So isn't this pretty good?

It is slightly chilly in early winter, but the sun is shining brightly.

Xia Shu stayed alone in the library, carefully looking at the battle illustrations in the textbook.

She is in a good mood now, without the usual ups and downs of emotions that come before a non-commissioned officer's promotion.

The reason for this is that, in addition to confidence in one's own strength, the relatively simple promotion rules for corporal to sergeant are also a very important part.

Specifically, the promotion of junior non-commissioned officers to senior non-commissioned officers is not much more difficult than the promotion of soldiers to non-commissioned officers.

Take the deputy command sergeant as an example. As long as he can pass the corporal assessment, he will be able to meet the requirements in terms of physical fitness and military quality.

After all, being a deputy commander doesn’t mean screening cultivators.

Do you really want an old sergeant to be able to beat a young private?

Therefore, the assessment for promotion to sergeant is only based on on-the-spot experience and skill expansion, and has deeper requirements for the corporal deputy commander.

One of them is that the corporals and non-commissioned officers participating in the assessment must have extensive experience in leading a team in combat independently.

Please note that this is leading, not commanding.

After all, the deputy commander is doing the work of a soldier and cannot take over the command of the troops in place of the officers.

As for the evaluation criteria for this team, it is actually very simple.

For standing troops, about one squad of soldiers is enough.

Frontline combat troops are half a level higher than regular troops, so the strength of a group is equivalent to that of a squad of regular troops.

That's easy to say.

As a sniper, Xia Shu's single sniper team is equivalent to an independent team.

Therefore, every time she takes action on the imaginary battlefield, it is equivalent to leading a team independently in a battle.

Because of her extensive combat experience, her combat scores were quite high during the promotion assessment.

After all, actual combat is the highest manifestation of a soldier's strength.

So, to sum up, the biggest threshold for Xia Shu to be promoted to sergeant is basically non-existent.

As long as she can pass the various skill tests in the deputy commander assessment, it will be a sure thing that she will get the rank of sergeant.

Others hold the same idea.

Because from the big data - among all the military rank promotions of soldiers and non-commissioned officers, the promotion rate from corporal to sergeant is about 32%, which is the highest success rate among all promoted personnel.

The promotion rate for privates to non-commissioned officers is the lowest, only about 17 percent.

Private promotions are usually not counted in statistics because they are too random.

As for senior non-commissioned officers above that, their scarcity is not due to the difficulty of promotion.

Instead, it is the various promotion thresholds that block most non-commissioned officers who want to participate in the assessment.

Coupled with the upward selection mechanism, it is understandable that the final senior non-commissioned officers are differentiated into small individuals in the huge number of soldiers.

Xia Shu read the battle examples for a while. The sun shone through the window onto her back, making her feel a little sleepy.

After stretching, my interest in reading faded a little.

So she opened the network interface, pulled out the community message bar, and read the messages.

After ignoring the countless greetings from strangers, messages from a few friends quickly occupied her main interface.

She took a look and saw that most of the questions were about the killing of little Jack.

It seems that the news has spread, Xia Shu's status has further risen, and his idol's rise is unstoppable.

Besides this, there is another thing.

Those are greetings to family members.

Tuxi sent her a reminder, telling her that her birthday was coming soon.

Xia Shu then remembered that her birthday was in a few days.

By that calculation, she should be eighteen years old.

It’s just that Xia Shu has almost no obsession with birthdays and often forgets about them.

If Tuxi hadn't reminded her every time, she really wouldn't have remembered it.

So how do you plan this birthday?

Otherwise, just find an excuse and ignore it.

It was just a birthday, and she didn't like celebrating it anyway.

After casually replying a message to her, Tuxi quickly replied with an unhappy expression and then began to lecture her.

Xia Shu nodded and said "hmm" and "ah" perfunctorily, then set the mode to "do not disturb" and went to check other messages.

After almost everyone's responses were completed, the most difficult one was left.

There is still a long list of unread articles by Mi Yu.

Xia Shu's scalp began to tingle as he watched.

This contemporary Li Shangyin, no one knows where he got so many romantic poems from - he expresses his true feelings to Xia Shu almost every day.

Xia Shu was in a dilemma whether to reply or not.

Fortunately, Miyu had already entered the imaginary battlefield at this time. Otherwise, how to reply would become a big problem.

Xia Shu thought for a long time, and finally marked "read" in the conversation column.

But he felt it was too cold, so he added "very comforting" at the end.

It's just a token of my appreciation.

But afterwards, Xia Shu felt a little guilty again.

She could imagine Mi Yu's disappointment when she finally left the battlefield and opened the message panel with great anticipation, only to receive a reply of only four words.

Putting aside the most difficult part of the passionate emotion, Mi Yu is after all a good comrade who came from the same recruit company.

Why are the social interactions of the other people all normal, but Mi Yu is treated differently?

Is Xia Shu such a heartless person?

After thinking for a moment, she began to consider whether she should take the time to visit Miyu and the others later.

441. Invitation to Go Home

After thinking about the itinerary, Xia Shu wrote in his memo, "I will visit Mi Yu during this period."

After thinking for a moment, he added, "Get along well with your comrades."

After finishing writing, I was about to continue browsing the community when I suddenly saw a figure sneakily appear at the door of the library.

Xia Shu looked up and saw that it was Jia.

Seeing Jiayou's hesitation, as if he was afraid of disturbing her, Xia Shu raised his hand and beckoned her to come in directly.

After Jia came in, he asked very carefully, "Did I disturb you?"

Xia Shu shook his head and said, "I haven't read the book."

Then he asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

Jia seemed to have made up his mind. He took a deep breath and said tentatively, "Um... Xia Shu, can I invite you to my house to play?"

"sure."

"Sorry, I'm just asking, nothing special...what did you say?" Jia didn't seem prepared for Xia Shu to agree.

"Sure." Xia Shu repeated, then asked, "When? Today?"

"Ah? Um...I..." Jia waved his hands around in confusion, not knowing how to answer.

Xia Shu was not in a hurry and waited for Jia to calm down.

After Jia finally came down from the clouds, he felt a little bit unbelievable.

So he asked, "Aren't you preparing for the exam? Will this waste your time?"

Hearing this, Xia Shu said indifferently, "That's not important. I think it's better to spend more time with you guys."

Jia was so delighted when she heard this that she automatically ignored the difference between "you" and "you guys".

"Then... then today we will..." She looked around happily, then asked anxiously, "You... are you kidding me?"

Xia Shu cooperated very well, putting on a serious expression, nodded, and said, "Yeah, I was just kidding."

"Ah?" Jia showed visible disappointment at that moment.

Natsuki laughed again.

"I was kidding."

Jia was fooled around, but she didn't dare to get angry at Xia Shu, so she stamped her feet and said in a coquettish manner, "Really? Who is it?"

"Go to your house, go to your house!" Xia Shu stood up with a smile and said while packing his things, "Now?"

"Now!" Jia was afraid that something might happen if he was late, so when he saw Xia Shu had packed her things, he took her hand and walked towards the dormitory.

This plan to go home was not in Jia's schedule. According to her original plan, she would stay with Xia Shu during this period to cultivate their relationship.

But she recently received another message from home asking her why she wanted to go back home and see her parents.

As a filial daughter, she certainly couldn't say that she was busy with love and had no time to visit her family.

So I answered immediately and went home right away.

But this way, Xia Shu's plan to cultivate favorability would be ruined.

She was not quite willing to accept it.

So, she invited Xia Shu with a try-it attitude.

Originally, based on her understanding of Xia Shu, Xia Shu would definitely not be interested in such an extremely boring social activity.

Natsuki must be the ultimate lone ranger who doesn't even bother to celebrate his own birthday.

But it turns out Jia doesn't know Natsuki well enough.

In fact, Xia Shu definitely values ​​friendship more than her own birthday.

She may not be willing to participate in tedious large-scale social activities.