My Dreamy Old Husband
Chapter 66

Michael's voice suddenly turned serious. “Bayside University's students are specially selected fromhundreds of thousands of candidates in Cethos yearly. Training camp will allow the instructors tosee a person's qualities. Bayside University wants to ensure that their graduates are true elites, sonaturally, they have to eliminate a certain group of people.”

He then dove into his point. “The marks allocation for training camp is very strict. There are marksfor teamwork, individual achievement, housekeeping, discipline, formation, and there are evenmarks to be given for normal days and during weekends. Your marks can be deducted fromanywhere. Only a handful of people can obtain full marks.

If a person performs excellently in every aspect, the other students will naturally be jealous of him.The day before training camp ends, there will be another session whereby all the training mates willscore each other anonymously. In this session, those who usually perform too excellently will losesome marks.

Thus, the handful of people who scored full marks are mostly the Fletchers, because everyoneknows that the Fletchers have people inside the military. They could check who was the person whogave them low marks.”

D*mn, this is simply insane!

If they did not perform well, they would not score full marks. If they performed too well, the otherstudents would deduct their marks out of jealousy. Thus, only the Fletchers had the ability to get fullmarks.

Since someone had even placed a nail in Sophia's shoes, that person would surely give her a badscore.

Hence, only a person with an astonishing family background and superb personal qualities couldscore full marks.

Sophia then suddenly asked, “Honey, then how much did you score in your military training backthen?” Michael graduated from Bayside University too, so he surely had been through militarytraining as well.

Michael let out a sigh. "95.5. I was too good-looking and I performed too well, so I ended upstealing the spotlight. My teammates were too incompetent, and in the final session, I was evengiven a bad score by a few losers.”

Sophia nearly asked Michael why he didn’t use the connections the Fletcher family had to replace outwho the culprits were. However, Michael seemed to be keeping his connection with the FletcherFamily a secret, so she decided against asking him that question. She would settle with herknowledge of him being a Fletcher.

She then continued pursuing the topic. “What about the teamwork marks and individual marks?What should I do to score in these sections?"

Michael replied, “For the teamwork marks, it all depends on your overall performance in the teamduring this one month. If the team doesn’t do well, it'll also be useless even if your individualperformance is good.” “What about the marks for housekeeping and discipline?”

"Housekeeping includes the arrangement of your barracks, rinsing cup, shoes and personalbelongings. It'll also take into account the tidiness of your attire, coat, belt and hair. Three beststudents will be selected yearly and three groups with outstanding performances will receive specialprizes.”

Michael seemed like he was very familiar with the rules of training camp. He could explain almostevery point and even let her in on some of the tips which the instructors had kept from them.Sophia listened attentively, and even borrowed a small notebook to jot them down. With that, thecouple talked for the entire afternoon.

They talked until five o'clock and it was about time for her to return to her company to compete fordinner. Sophia suddenly remembered that Michael was still overseas, so there was surely some timedifference. She asked timidly, “What time is it at your place?”

Michael replied, “It's already 2 o'clock in the morning.”

It's already two o'clock in the morning!

He was giving up on his sleep to chat with her.

Sophia was shocked. “Honey, then you better go and rest first. I have to compete for dinner soon. IfI'm late, I can only have steamed buns for dinner. I'll hang up first.”

Michael answered, “Steamed buns are not bad. During my batch, the slow ones could only gothrough the rest of the night with an empty stomach.”

Sophia swiftly shut down the computer. She suddenly realized that her face was getting hot and aweird thought popped up in her head. Michael is actually not as cheeky as I had imagined.

She then rushed back to rejoin her group with Nathan. Commander Ford did not say anythingabout her absence. He said that he understood Sophia's situation, but Sophia felt like he had notedher name down in his small notebook.

After coming back, Sophia rejoined the training. It was already 5:30 and all of the instructors hadleft; even Commander Ford had brought Nathan to the car. Then, the clock at the training groundbegan counting down for them to race for dinner.

Sophia had kept Michael's words in mind.

There were tricks to this competition for dinner as well. It might look like a test for individualbehavior among the students, for everyone would get to eat whatever they managed to obtain, butin actuality, it was a test of teamwork.

Those who ran the last would have less food. Although they wouldn't starve to death, their energywould surely be insufficient and consequently, it would affect the performance of their overalltraining. It would then directly affect the entire team's marks.

As the countdown entered the final stage, Sophia finally voiced out, “Everyone, listen to me. I havesomething to say!”

Everyone turned their gaze toward her, wanting to hear what she had to say.

“I heard from a senior that teamwork marks are important too. Those who run the last can only eattwo steamed buns and they will be at a great disadvantage as they don't have enough energy. Thus,it will affect the entire company’s marks. This could cause the whole team to fail.”

The few girls who were at the end of the race did not have the stamina to catch up with the others.They were on the verge of tears as they did not want to be the last ones too, but they really did nothave the stamina. Since they ran rather slowly, their portion of food was smaller and they had lessfood to eat. Hence, they ran even slower.

Sophia then offered her idea. “I have an idea. Let's not run on our own later. Instead, we'll run as asingle company. As we run together, let's help each other out. I'm not wishing that everyone can getthe buffet, but at the very least, we can't let the students who run the last starve.”

Everyone exchanged glances; they seemed doubtful of Sophia’s words, but then, they heard herspeak again. “Let's conduct an experiment today. If we do it well, I'll give everyone watermelons.Come, let's hold hands first.”

Although nobody knew what Sophia was up to, they immediately listened to her orders and joinedhands when they heard they could have watermelons later on.

Sophia instructed, “When it's time later on, we'll start running in a group. Don't spread out.”

Less than a few seconds later, it was time. When the clock struck 5:30, the thousands of studentsbegan the race to head to the cafeteria.

Company 49 was the only company that was still in a group, holding onto each other's hands.Forming into a line, they charged forward with all their might. The slower ones were then draggedalong by the faster ones, just barely catching up to the group. When they reached the base of thefirst hill, a few people had left the group. After doing a headcount, there were only roughly 30people left; all the boys had gone ahead.

“Everyone, listen to me. From now on, we mustn't let go of our hands again! Those who let go oftheir hands will not have their portion of watermelons tonight.”

There were many delicate girls in Company 49. Almost half of them could only run fast enough toeat the two steamed buns, but that would be the worst-case scenario. After hearing Sophia say thatthey could have an extra meal after dinner, they immediately held their hands together.

Seeing that everyone had held each other's hands, she ordered, “Let's start hiking!”

Everyone dashed toward the hill with their hands tightly held together. If someone slipped or fellbehind, the person beside could immediately pull the person up. Although they were slightly slower,at least nobody was left behind.

Soon, they arrived at the riverside. At this moment, the group started having different opinions; agroup of them wanted to cross the bridge, while the other wanted to swim across the river.

Sophia was the big boss in the company, so she decisively ordered, “We'll swim. We can save a lot oftime!”

A girl said shakily, “I don’t want to. I don't know how to swim!”

Sophia took a look at the group. “Those who can swim, step forward.”

A group of girls stepped forward. More than half of them knew how to swim, so Sophia said, “Let'sgive each other a hand. Those who don't know how to swim, please pair up with a student whoknows how to swim. Let's help each other out.”