Last class

Ivy originally thought she was lucky.

Except for the time when she was ruthlessly "driven away" for attending a class, she had not experienced Lorraine's embarrassing sharp tongue.

But now it seems that her luck is not that high.

Since she was a child, Ivy has experienced a lot of ridicule and discrimination. If she were to rank those hateful guys, even someone as annoying as Song Feng would have to be ranked third.

The refugees of Area 23 and the D-class gene are marks that cannot be erased. The combination of these two makes Ivy's study much more difficult than ordinary people. When she was in middle school, there were already boys who would maliciously kick her stool and ask in a mocking tone, how much money would she pay to date him?

Ivy responded by punching the opponent so hard that one of his teeth was knocked out.

...Then, the story changes from a happy story to a realistic one. Aiwei compensated the other party with 1,000 yuan for medical expenses. In order to raise money, she had to write homework for Song Xu for a whole month.

Song Feng's vocabulary is as limited as his patience. He keeps repeating the same few words over and over again, which are not very good. He looks down on Ai Wei's D-level genes because she got together with Song Xu not long after breaking up with Yu Mo. He scolds her for being a water-blooded girl and believes that she will pollute their noble pure A-level genes, and ridicules her for being fanciful.

Compared with the above, Lorraine's words just now can be considered euphemistic.

Ivy was still unhappy.

It's even more unpleasant than being ridiculed by Song Feng.

Yu Mo stroked her face as he did in the past. He never shied away from being intimate with Ivy, just like he used to call her "little treasure" no matter where they were. In the room waiting for examination, he also showed his preference for her generously.

During the blood test, after obtaining the consent of the blood collector, Yu Mo personally drew blood for her and pressed it with a cotton swab - the silvery silky long hair fell on Ivy's arm, and she couldn't help but think of the cold silver iris on Lorraine's uniform.

Turning around, Ivy saw Lorraine unbuttoning the cuffs of her shirt with one hand and neatly rolling up the sleeves of her black shirt to her elbows, revealing her strong forearms.

Those were the arms of a man who had served in the military for many years, with smooth muscles from years of using guns and heavy machinery. Unlike her thin blood vessels, the veins in his arms looked like they could be easily pierced with a needle. The multiple scars of a lighter color made this powerful body look even more repressed and forbearing.

Ivy couldn't hear what Yu Mo was saying beside her. She thought of how Lorraine looked when she was teaching.

Dressed in uniform, he said coldly that if you set foot in the wasteland, you must be prepared to lose your life.

Ivy had long foreseen that she would die from an inexplicable genetic disease, and had prepared herself for death long ago; now, as she looked at her scarred arm, she slowly realized that her previous thoughts were still a little superficial.

After all, Ivy has never really faced the "threat of death" as an adult.

Perhaps this was why she paid so much attention to Lorraine—he was a soldier, and everyone and every teacher in the base treated him with respect, proving that he had a high military rank.

The high-ranking military ranks belong to humans who have fought against intelligent machines in the wasteland and won great victories time and again.

In a sense, he is the kind of person Ivy wants to be. She wants his title, his power, his ability, his responsibility. She wants to replace him and become him.

Everyone is mortal, and Ivy hopes that she can die in a war, while working for the happiness of her compatriots and the future of mankind.

Those lofty words and aspirations ultimately turned into the blood flowing through the bodies of teenagers. Ivy was unable to participate in the unified conscription after adulthood, and her understanding of the deserted area was limited to her parents' reluctance to leave.

For my parents, the experience of crossing the wasteland from District 23 to District 1 was like a nightmare, and the relatives and friends who fled with them all stayed there forever.

This is one of the reasons why they stopped Ivy.

But today, seeing Lorraine's scarred arm, all the cruelty and bloodiness of the war became concrete.

Ivy suddenly thought of the term "post-war trauma".

Their teacher Lorraine does not seem to be related to this word. He does not look rough, but has sharp and handsome features, black slightly curly hair, eyes that are between ink and black spinel, cold, serious, neat, and taciturn. He wears a uniform all day long and has strict discipline. He will use harsh and almost vicious words to ridicule students who have made mistakes.

Lorraine didn't look at her.

After the blood was drawn, he said thank you in a cold voice, but the tone was no different from asking the other person to die.

"Xiaobao?" Yu Mo asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Ivy thought for a moment and said, "I thought I might be different, but it seems to be closer to being sentimental."

"Nonsense," Yu Mo smiled, his long silver hair seemed to have life, shimmering with a cold light, "There is nothing more perfect than you right now."

Ivy was frustrated: "You still like to tease me as before - but after listening to me, I am still as happy as before, thank you."

Yu Mo always had nothing but encouragement for her.

Even when Ivy fought back against Song Feng as a child and threw a grasshopper into his collar, Yu Mo would only smile and praise her for being brave, never saying a harsh word, as if everything she did was right.

So when her parents asked vaguely "Are you dating someone?", Ivy did not hesitate and chose to confess her love to Yu Mo directly; she was happiest and most relaxed when she was with him. If this is not love, what is?

Even their friends, Lily and the others, think they are a perfect match.

It has been so long since the breakup that Ivy has accepted the fact that they have returned to being "brother and sister" and has completely moved on. She thought that everything was as Yu Mo said, that she was the kind of person who "didn't want to bear the loss, so didn't want to start", but the appearance of Lorraine strangely broke this perception.

The bleeding spots on her arm had already clotted. Ivy threw away the blood-stained cotton swab and found that Lorraine was gone.

Teacher Lorraine's depressed atmosphere lasted for a long time.

He would not intentionally embarrass students because of this, but he would be more merciless when criticizing those students who made mistakes.

"Your burst of power looks like a chick hiding from the rain under its mother's wings."

“Is this non-standard pose a tribute to Venus?”

"Looking at the current training progress, as a teacher I can only give you one piece of advice - it's not too late to apply for withdrawal now."

The last boy he criticized lowered his head and said, "...but the training is almost over."

"Yes," Lorraine said, "I have been unable to distinguish between these two guns for so long. Allow me to be extremely reserved about your adventurous career."

He held the cold teaching stick, looked at the blushing boy, and said, "If you really want to join the expedition team, drop out of school immediately and join the media clubs that specialize in gossip and scandals. Your existence is of no help to the expedition team, but your gossipy mouth should be very pleasing to the media."

The male student turned pale after being criticized by him: "I'm sorry, teacher..."

Lorraine pressed the silver stick in his hand against his shoulder, and his sharp eyes made the other party shut up.

Ivy was too angry to say anything. She had already begun to worry about Lorraine's final test. With Lorraine's teaching style, she could foresee that many people would not pass this final test.

The boy didn't stay. He packed up his things and left silently.

In fact, Ivy also thought it was good for him to leave now. After all, he had failed four of the five tests that had been completed so far.

There is no way this result can pass Lorraine's rigorous test.

Now Ivy agrees with the teacher's point of view. If a male student cannot tell the difference between the two weapons after a whole class, it will be a waste if he goes to the wasteland.

During the break, Ivy saw Nana looking around mysteriously outside the classroom.

As soon as she walked out, Nana grabbed her hands excitedly: "Baby! Did your teacher Lorraine do something super cool?"

Ivy was puzzled: "What?"

"He scolded a male student and ran away. That male student said in the cafeteria not long ago that there was something wrong with the mate selection survey form that the government had asked students to fill out not long ago, because some D-grade girls would cheat secretly to achieve the goal of being paired with A-grade students..." Nana asked, "Didn't you hear about it?"

Ivy sincerely feels that with Nana's wide range of information acceptance, she is also suitable for working in the media.

"I should have asked for leave and went home that day. I am the only D-class girl in the base," Ivy said helplessly. "Who is the A-class he mentioned?"

Nana shook her head and asked, "Is there no extra information to share? Did the boy look miserable when he left?"

"It's 'like losing one's parents'," Ivy corrected her wording. She caught a glimpse of Song Xu's figure from the corner of her eye. His ears were drooping, and his messy blond hair was like withered weeds. "Song Xu!"

When Song Xu saw her, his dry hair suddenly became full of life, sparkling in the sunlight. He smiled, revealing two small dimples: "Weiwei!"

He came running over.

"My cousin has been in a bad state these days," Song Xu said. "My cousin received the notification of this year's spouse results. Guess what? Last year, there was a woman who was highly compatible with him, but this year she is gone! The highest match was only 75%. He is now in a slump and even began to wonder if the destined person last year died young..."

Ivy and Song Feng had always been at odds, so she had no sympathy after hearing this. But seeing Song Xu's drooping eyes, she still racked her brains to comfort him with a few words.

Song Xu kept looking at her: "In fact, we are a good match."

Nana smiled: "Do you two think that I am a good match for light bulbs now?"

She waved her hand and winked at Ivy mysteriously: "Remember to check your phone. I'm going to tell you something very important later."

Ai Wei looked at what Song Xu was holding in his arms: "What is this?"

"Oh, I almost forgot," Song Xu said, "It's the student materials for Xin Lan - do you have time now? Can you help me deliver it? I want to go see my brother, he's in a very bad condition now..."

It was as bad as a male beagle that had just finished an egg removal operation and was hiding in a dark corner, silently licking the indistinguishable wound on its teeth.

Ivy didn't refuse.

She had nothing to do and was barely familiar with Xin Lan.

Even though she had driven him away the first time they met, he still handled her repeated applications fairly during the time she was at the base.

But she didn't expect Lorraine to be there too.

The office door was ajar. As Ivy walked to the door, she heard Xin Lan's laughter: "...This is the strong jealousy caused by genes. Not to mention your sensitivity. Your sensitive period will soon come. Instinct will make it difficult for you to tolerate her being intimate with other people..."

Lorraine said, "Don't use such childish words to describe me."

Xin Lan said: "To be honest, this is the sequelae of the transformation surgery you underwent that year. I just didn't expect that you only realized it now-"

"etc."

Ivy heard Lorraine interrupt Xin Lan, and the next moment, the office door was opened, and Lorraine's cold and handsome face appeared in front of her. His black uniform was buttoned to the top, and his left hand without black gloves was exposed in front of her for the first time, with slender joints and taut veins.

His expression was expressionless: "Eavesdropping should not be a required course, Ivy."

Ivy held up the stack of information: "Song Xu asked me to give it to Xin Lan."

"I hope his stupidity won't be spread through contact," Lorraine took the stack of information, "Anything else?"

Ivy shook her head.

"Wait a moment."

Lorraine ordered coldly, turned coldly back to the office, and coldly threw a box of things to her.

Ivy didn't see the pattern on it clearly, but she felt it was heavy: "This is..."

"A blood tonic," Lorraine said. "When you feel slightly dizzy due to anemia, just drink one."

Ivy: “Huh?”

She lowered her head, looked at the packaging carefully, and recognized that it was a very rare item.

The price of this drug on the black market is as high as six figures per milliliter. It can quickly promote the work of hematopoietic progenitor cells and produce a large amount of blood for the human body in a short period of time. It is an emergency drug that is only supplied to the military.

"Yu Mo said you were slightly anemic, and the blood test showed that your anemia has worsened recently," he said, "I don't want the excellent students I taught to fail the physical examination for this reason."

Ivy wanted to explain that the anemia was because she had been drained too much recently...but -

She caught the key words: "Did you just say 'excellent student'? Do you think I am excellent?"

"There's no point in seeking approval from others," Lorraine said calmly, "You should go back to class and wait for your lesson."

He slammed the door shut.

Ivy held the heavy box of blood tonic in her hand and stood at the door for a long time, then she heard her cell phone ringing.

She held the medicine carefully in one hand and opened it with the other.

Nana: "By the way, our special training is about to end."

Nana: "Are you really not going to ask Teacher Lorraine for her contact information?"

Nana: "Today is the last class, right? After today, you may never see each other again."