Love Began with the First Meeting novel Chapter 1286

At that moment, there were sound signals coming over the intercom. "Report to Lightning! Nighthawk in position, but the target is three kilometers away. It's out of the shooting range. Request for changing location," said the voice from the intercom.

Edgar withdrew his eyes from Maggie. He took up the intercom, pressed a button on it and replied, "This is Lightning." Then he looked back at Maggie and continued, "Hold your position."

"Copy that!" Daniel replied on the other end of the intercom.

Edgar released the talk button and asked Maggie, "Nighthawk has an M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper with 2450 meters effective shooting range. But the target is three thousand meters away!"

"Sir, I can raise the shooting range to three thousand meters in two hours!" Maggie said, her spirits rising rapidly.

"Do you know why I've let you try on different makes of sniper rifles, but didn't allow you to try on an M110?" Edgar asked, his eyes looking deep and stern.

"I don't know, sir," Maggie replied in confusion.

Edgar snorted at her lack of insight and explained, "To the best sniper, the shooting range of an M110 would not exceed 2500 meters." "Why?" Maggie asked. "Because when the shooting range is more than 2500 meters, the penetrating power of the bullet would decline as the distance increases," Edgar explained. "The weapon would become ineffective then."

After hearing Edgar's words, Maggie's eyes popped wide in surprise. She had studied missile research. Although there was a big difference between bullets and missiles, she had minored in the friction between various firearms' bullets and also their shooting ranges. But she hadn't learned about what Edgar had just said.

Seeing Maggie grinding mental gears in a daze, Edgar said coldly, "There are some things which you can't learn from books, but only from actual combat experience."

"Sir, that's exactly the reason why I asked for combating on the spot, not because of curiosity. I'm hoping I can gain some combat experience so that I can make a contribution to the army and to our country someday," Maggie said honestly then.

The officers and staff in the command center were studying the battle blueprint, but couldn't help glancing at Maggie from time to time. This scene was full of momentum. No wonder she could have established her reputation in S Army within a year.

A brief smile flashed on Edgar's face, but it disappeared before Maggie saw it clearly. She even thought that she had been mistaken, or that her eyes were playing tricks on her.

"Great," Edgar said, raising his eyebrows. "We don't have a coward here!" Edgard went on as Garth, Jake and Edith walked up to him hurriedly. They stood up straight and looked at Edgar with expectation. "Since you're so desperate to know about combat, I'll let you find out," Edgar said at the end.

Maggie and her friends' faces all brightened up at his words. They stood at attention and expressed gratitude. "Thank you, Captain!"

Then Edgar called the managing director over the intercom and told him to make the arrangements for their deployment. They were separated into different quads. Fortunately, Maggie was in the Falcon Commando as she had wished.

Embarrassed, the managing director queried, "Captain… The higher-ups didn't agree that these students could engage in combating at the spot. Even though this is only a military exercise, they can still get hurt!"

"Then I'll take full responsibility for that," Edgar replied calmly.

Upon hearing his words, the managing director knew that there was no room left for discussion. The decision had been made, and he had orders to follow. But he still hesitated.

At this point, a brigadier general walked up to Edgar. He shot a glance at Maggie, and then looked at Edgar, motioning that he wanted to speak to him in private.

Edgar walked a few steps away with the brigadier general and asked, "What's the matter?"

Frowning, the brigadier general said, "The superiors wouldn't agree with that! They considered over and over again even to just let them stay at the Blue Force's command center. Now you allow them to join the combat? You will get punished. Severely." He staring at Edgar's epaulets and continued, "You know that those old men in X Army are watching you and they're just waiting for you to make a mistake."

Edgar sighed, "But this is the only chance for them and also for us."