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    Zoey opened the package and saw painkillers and sanitary pads inside. Her face turned even pinker.

    Zoey got herself together and stepped out of the tent. She asked in confusion, “I remember you gave me something to drink, and now my abdominal pain has resolved.”

    Every time she was on her period, the pain was unbearable. But she feltfortable this time.

    Mike exined, “You can’t use those pills. Aria practices traditional medicine, so we asked her for help and found some herbs for you.”

    Zoey was stunned. She never would have guessed that it was Aria who had helped her out.

    She bit her lip, determined to thank Aria properly once thepetition was over.

    At the same time, Aria asked, “Thepetitionsts half a month. Half the girls may run into their period. When you can’t use the pills in the supply packs, how do you handle it?”

    Cathy’s lips curled into a mocking smile. “They could only take medicine to skip it.”

    Allison sighed. “Zoey took medicine too, but maybe the rain threw things off and it happened anyway.”

    “Who took medicine?” asked Aria.

    Emily raised her hand and said, “Jocelyn, Allison, and I.”

    Aria said, “We’ve gathered so many supply packs, but none of them have sanitary pads. Did any of you bring your own?”

    Allison replied, “We did, but the guys checking the supplies would open up our packages and inspect every single one. If they thought something was off, they’d even rip them open and then stuff them back. So we’d rather take the medicine.”

    Everyone noticed Aria’s expression darkened. “So you’d rather take medicine to participate in this horriblepetition?”

    No one answered.

    Aria rose up.

    Cathy asked, “Where are you going?”

    “I’m going to find some herbs,” Aria replied.

    When she reached the entrance, Aria stopped and suddenly kicked a drone towards a rock. The drone broke into pieces.

    She knew there was one left.

    Aria was about to walk over when the drone took off in a panic.

    In the observation room, Fillip was mad. “What the hell is going on?”

    A staff member wiped the sweat from his brow and said cautiously, “Mr. Shepherd, rules are rules. Inspections are required. They chose not bto /bbring bit /bthemselves.”

    “Have you heard of making exceptions for special circumstances? I can let the sanitary pad thing go, but what about the medicine?” Fillip bdemanded/b.

    “None of them brought any. The director said since nobody was on their period, we didn’t have to worry about it.”

    Fillip barely managed ito /icontain his anger. He stopped watching the video and stormed out. “Take me to whoever’s bin /bbcharge/b,b” /bsaid Fillip,

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    He never handled these kinds of things and had never attended any of the meetings, so he waspletely out of the loop.

    If it wasn’t Zoey who suddenly fell ill, nobody would’ve paid any attention to this issue.

    The other guys had never realized that the girls had to take medicine to avoid their periods and be able topete.

    Tessa scoffed when she saw it.

    Fillip alone wasn’t enough to put an end to this.

    What she wanted was to kick out the head of the resources department..

    Tessa grabbed the things she had prepared and set off.

    The atmosphere was heavy.

    Someone said, “Rx. I’m sure they’ll resolve it. If they don’t, we’ll raise hell.”

    “Yeah. Once the Skills Evaluation’s over, we’ll file a report,” another guy added.

    A few girls snorted. “It’ll get sorted out for sure. No need for you guys to step in.”

    Someone quickly changed the topic. “Hey, look. Aria just ran into some patrollers.”

    Aria crouched in the shadows with a thick wooden stick in her hand, staring at three patrollers walking towards her.

    As soon as they stepped into the perfect ambush spot, Aria leaped up immediately and lunged at the patrollers. She swung the stick, and it shot toward thest patroller.

    bAD /b