repent

Ivy didn't expect Yu Mo's first sentence to be so direct.

She thought that he would ask with concern, "Does the man last night have a physical examination report? Is he clean?" Just like her mother, he would quietly prepare the necessary items for her wedding.

Those greetings from elders were more suitable for Yu Mo, rather than the current words that were closer to an ambiguous relationship.

This is not common sense. Ivy was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously remembered the tone of Yu Mo when he said "Let's break up". He told her calmly and gently, without any rush, that he always treated her as a sister or daughter, in short, a junior, not a couple who could have close contact. Ivy was sad for a long time at first, and then she slowly accepted it——

Yu Mo obviously didn't realize this.

He looked like he hadn't slept all night. There was a faint black bruise under his eyes, his clothes were wrinkled, and his hands were cold when he touched her. Although he was a doctor, Yu Mo's health was not very good, especially when the seasons changed, he would always be sick for a few days and couldn't go out.

At this moment, Yu Mo frowned, obviously realizing what happened yesterday. He asked in a very gentle tone: "In this place, he forced——"

"Doctor Yu."

A very polite but emotionless voice.

Lorraine was still wearing the black windbreaker, standing on the steps behind him, looking down at the two of them, slowly putting on his gloves, the black leather gradually covering the scars on his wrists that looked like gunshot wounds or corrosive liquids. Now he looked serious and upright, his eyes sparkling like black spinels.

Ivy glanced at him and quickly lowered her head, trying hard to forget what was inside his windbreaker and on the back of his shirt.

She soiled those things yesterday.

She originally thought she could handle all this as if nothing had happened, but now she finds it a little difficult; after some things happened, both of them felt a little subtlely awkward and uncomfortable.

Yu Mo was surprised: "Teacher Lorraine? Didn't you say you would not participate in the actual action of this test?"

"It is my responsibility as a teacher to ensure the safety of students," Lorraine said, "but it is you, Dr. Yu."

He walked down the stairs slowly, his eyes sharp: "How did you know Ivy was here?"

"After I got the news, I looked for her all night," Yu Mo said, "I didn't expect you would live here with her - did you know that she was still under testing?"

Lorraine narrowed her eyes and asked, "Who told you the news?"

"Song Xu," Yu Mo said, "You don't allow students to enter the dark area, but you allow base doctors to enter; Ivy has never been here-"

"It sounds like Dr. Yu is very familiar with this place," Lorraine said coldly, "Does he come here often?"

"Where's the commander?" Yu Mo smiled, "It seems I'm not as familiar with him as you."

"My duties require me to be familiar with every inch of this place," Lorraine asked. "What about you? Your resume never mentioned that you had any experience in illegal medical practice, Dr. Yu."

The two of them were arguing with each other. Ivy, who was caught in the middle, was thinking about whether to say "Stop arguing", but after seeing Lorraine's gaze, she looked away very unnaturally. It felt so strange now. We had already communicated fully, but now I still had to call him teacher.

They didn't look like they were arguing.

Yu Mo was silent.

His smile slowly faded.

"Song Xu will be deducted 20 points for violating the confidentiality principle," Lorraine said, "Thank you for your timely disclosure."

Ivy took two steps. She felt a little uncomfortable due to her physical discomfort and excessive energy consumption.

Yu Mo glanced at her sideways and asked Luo Lin: "It is your responsibility to ensure the safety of students in the dark area. Is what you did last night also the teacher's responsibility?"

Being pointed out so bluntly, Lorraine looked awful.

He simply summed it up in two words: "Unexpected."

Ivy couldn't help it, she had to say something to break the deadlock.

"Mom knows too?" she asked Yu Mo, "How did she know?"

"She couldn't get through to you," Yu Mo said, "so she asked me, and I said you were undergoing a test."

Ivy said "Oh" and then Lorraine asked, "When did you get a brother? Ivy, I didn't know that you both have the same mother."

"We will find out slowly in the future," Yu Mo smiled again, "I hope you can take safety measures, Teacher Lorraine - our little treasure is not a tool to satisfy your reproduction."

Ivy covered her ears: "Can you guys talk about something else?"

"Continue with your test, Ivy," Lorraine said sarcastically, "--but I don't want this Mr. Yu Mo to slow you down--Dr. Yu, are you her milk bottle?"

Ivy ran away quickly, holding the map.

She had no idea why the two of them were attacking each other like male peacocks. The test lasted only two days, but she had already wasted nearly ten hours on being seduced by the male beauty. According to the plan, she was supposed to chase the android day and night - now Ivy wanted to catch the escaped android before the end of the day and successfully rescue the little human girl.

Yesterday's excessive exercise still had a big impact on her. After waking up from a nap, she still felt a little drained. In the past, she could run ten kilometers a day, and after a nap, she could recover her health and continue to run twenty kilometers with full energy. But now it's not possible. Not only can't her health be fully recovered, but she can even vaguely feel that Lorraine is still there. His presence is too strong, just like his smell, full of aggression.

Fortunately, the chef was aware of the size of the kitchenware and took her appetite into consideration, so he was very careful when cooking. After preheating, no wounds were left, otherwise it would have affected her normal test.

Only after Ivy ran away as quickly as a rabbit did Lorraine approach Yu Mo.

Yu Mo clearly saw a small mark left by a fingernail on Luo Lin's neck, caused by pinching, and there was also a kiss mark on his Adam's apple, a light plum color.

His pulse stopped for a second after he saw that thing, and Yu Mo felt an indescribable tightness in his chest.

He had never felt such a stuffiness before, as if someone had cut open his trachea and completely blocked it.

The feeling that was so strange that it could be called painful made him frown, and his emerald eyes remained still as he slowly pondered the source of this pain.

"We met once on the night of the wedding," Lorraine looked at him, "After Ivy got drunk, you kept hugging her."

"We have been like this since we were young," Yu Mo smiled, "Didn't she tell you?"

"You didn't tell her either," Lorraine said coldly, "She didn't know I was her husband at first, but you knew."

"I don't know?" Yu Mo said in surprise, "Sorry, I thought you were playing games. You know, Xiaobao likes some——"

Lorraine interrupted: "Thank you for the reminder, but it's not necessary."

"I was very worried about her breaking into the dark zone this time," Yu Mo smiled gently. "When Xiaobao was five years old, she just arrived here. I taught her how to read. When she was bored, she liked to pick up newspapers to read. One of the articles reported that a young serial killer in the dark zone dismembered many people in an extremely cruel way. Xiaobao was so scared that she had nightmares for a long time... I still remember that the boy was called Cyril. Neither the dark zone nor the coalition government succeeded in catching him. Later, he suddenly disappeared... Do you have any clues, Commander Lorraine?"

"You should ask the police officer in charge of this case," Lorraine said calmly, "I didn't expect you still want to be a detective, Mr. Bottle - oh, I'm sorry, Dr. Yu."

Yu Mo smiled slightly.

"Stop holding her in the name of brother and sister," Lorraine said, "I don't think you are just weaned children, are you?"

He stopped looking at Yu Mo and strode forward. The scar under his black leather gloves seemed to be burning.

The pain of being corroded by acid rain and the feeling of being burned by charcoal coexist. Even though I have been wearing gloves to cover them for years, I often have the illusion that my scars are exposed to others.

Those scars that had been painful and burning for a long time seemed to have lost their heat yesterday after drinking the coconut milk.

Military boots stepped onto the dirty steps.

Lorraine looked up.

As far as the eye could see, Ivy's figure was like a swift little squirrel, running quickly towards the bionic repair points marked on the map.

Without Lorraine's help, Ivy searched for all the repair spots in close proximity within five hours.

Only the owner of the last repair shop, covered in motor oil and with greasy stains on his apron, smoking at the door of the shop, heard her question and expressed his impression of the "man shot by a crossbow."

Ivy generously gave him some money.

"It was around four this morning. He asked for the repair fee and then left," the boss said angrily, "but he stole a lot of things before leaving! This nasty thief..."

Ivy asked, "What are they?"

—Muscle adhesives, drugs that promote bone growth, and a scalpel…

Scattered.

The boss had no idea how the other party had taken all these things away, and now they were all in a large abandoned robot pit less than ten meters away from the store.

This is the "dumping ground" for many discarded bionic people. Half-rotten bionic people and their limbs are scattered everywhere. An old corpse crusher transports these discarded corpses into the body via a conveyor belt and then breaks them into pieces. The robots responsible for burying them are operating slowly in the back, burying them slowly in the soil.

There was a huge gap in the working efficiency of the two robots. Ivy found the familiar clothes that Bayman wore yesterday among the bionic corpses. A piece of the remaining limb was still connected to the crossbow arrow shot by Lorraine.

Next to him were the ointments stolen from his boss. The man, named Beman, seemed to have tried to treat his wounds himself, but failed. The crossbow arrow had wounded him so badly that he died, or maybe he had accidentally fallen into the pit, passed out, and was smashed to pieces by the mortar crusher.

She suddenly felt like vomiting.

The androids are so similar to real humans.

Ivy's face turned pale as she stumbled to the edge. Her dull sense of smell seemed to be restored at this moment. She smelled the strong smell of blood and suddenly felt that these people were not androids but real humans...

A pair of black boots appeared in front of her.

Lorraine raised her hand and pulled her up steadily.

Ivy staggered into his warm embrace, hugging him tightly like a koala, almost as if he were a tree, burying her face tightly in his warm and solid chest. The strong feeling of dizziness made her instinctively grab everything she could grab.

The dependence she showed for the first time at this moment made Lorraine stunned for a moment. He put his hand on her shoulder and noticed that she was shaking, so he patted her. In this embrace, Ivy's weight was much lighter than he had imagined. Touching her obvious shoulder blade through her uniform, this difference in strength made Lorraine realize again the age gap between them. Ivy's body was not strong enough. Her performance yesterday was obviously very strenuous and unbearable.

The bloody scene made Ivy feel sick and even had a slight hypoxia reaction. Lorraine realized this and without saying a word, he carried her away neatly and quickly, all the way to a place far away from the bloody smell. He sat on the broken stone chair, let Ivy sit on his lap, took out some water, and fed her two sips from the cup. She didn't look very well now, and it seemed that she couldn't even hold the cup.

"Have you found Beman's whereabouts?" Lorraine asked, "Can you take him away by yourself?"

"It might be a little difficult to take him away," Ivy said dazedly after she finished drinking some water and slowed down a little, "but we can find a bag to put him away..."

Lorraine: “Hmm?”

Ivy entered the dark area and was deducted ten points.

However, she successfully brought back Behman's body (after comparing the DNA with the hair left in the apartment, it was confirmed that it was the same person), so she gets an extra ten points.

The little human girl was found successfully, but she was severely frightened and in a coma.

Yu Mo gave her a simple physical examination and sent her to a public hospital.

Song Xu leaked the secret and was deducted 20 points.

Song Xu was furious and slammed the table and stood up: "Why? Why don't you allow me to enter the dark area? Maybe I can capture Berman alive after entering!"

"Thank you for your courageous yet reckless demeanor once again," Lorraine said. "If you are not satisfied with this score, I can tell you clearly that it still has a lot of room to fall."

Song Xu said: "This is totally not--mmmm--"

Song Feng, with a dark face, rushed into the room, covered his brother's mouth, and dragged him out.

The results of this test were announced very quickly. Multiple teachers gave scores and displayed them publicly. Lorraine's score for Ivy was neither very high nor very low, but in the middle range.

He gave ten students higher scores, praising them for their flexibility and skills in the test.

There were also twenty-three students who received very poor scores from him.

Ten of them will most likely be eliminated - meaning they have not successfully passed this intensive training and cannot apply to join any expedition team.

Ivy, who was able to graduate successfully, did not listen to these things. She slept comfortably in the dormitory for a whole night. The discomfort after overdrawn finally disappeared completely, and she felt full of energy again.

She got up full of energy and went to the library to organize her resume. As soon as she sat down, she saw Nana coming towards her with a book in her arms, looking worried and a little excited.

Now Nana looks like she has eaten an outrageous and shocking melon from an imitation friend.

Ivy took the initiative to greet her.

Nana struggled for a long time and put the book on the table next to her.

"Ivy," Nana said regretfully, "give up on Mr. Lorraine. He seems to have a girlfriend, a sexual partner."

Ivina wondered: "What? How come I don't know?"

"Of course you don't know," Nana whispered, "This morning, a student went to Teacher Lorraine to ask for an extra point... He saw a red strawberry on Teacher Lorraine's neck, and judging by the size, it should be a female."

Ivy: “Huh?”

She thought vaguely that in those confused moments, she did seem to leave some traces; it was not her fault, as she had a hard time controlling herself when she was high.

Ivy was nervous: "Did many people see it?"

"It's not bad," Nana counted slowly while counting on her fingers, "It seems that there are only Da Ming, Xiao Mao, Lao Hu from your class... and Mary, Jack, Tom, Long Aotian, Nangong Goudan, Ximen Chuiniu, Dongfang Changsheng from our class... Oh, and the twelve teachers who teach our class, Yamamoto Nakaichiro who is in charge of the sanitation robot, Aunt Wang from the kitchen, Ruth..."

Ivy clutched the book tightly. "Don't use the enumeration method, Nana. Who else in the base doesn't know about this?"

Nana thought for a while and said, "Maybe you are the only one."

Ivy: “…”

"Otherwise, let's just give up," Nana took the initiative to comfort him, "Don't show such desperate emotions. If it really doesn't work, we can still customize a companion robot. It's not a big deal. There are men everywhere on the street."

office.

Lorraine received a bunch of stupid people all morning.

He had never met so many idiots in such a short period of time in his life. If artificial intelligence was based on their brains to study bionic intelligence, then their technology would instantly regress two hundred and fifty years.

Almost everyone came in under various excuses, looking for him, and then visited him - the scars on his neck could not be hidden.

Lorraine called the culprit to the office with an expressionless face.

Ivy sat on the chair like a good student.

She watched Lorraine carefully close all the doors and windows.

"Tomorrow is a holiday," he said in a deep voice, "I need to confirm with you where you will be going tomorrow."

Ivy stared at the closed doors and windows. She had the illusion of a legal affair, but she still felt embarrassed.

She said, "Isn't it going home?"

"Which home?"

"…my mom and dad's home."

"You and Mom and Dad?" he repeated. "Anyone else?"

Ivy said: "Mom also invited Yu Mo, he should go too."

Lorraine leaned over, and Ivy felt the pressure of her uniform. The serious interrogation perspective made her lean back slightly, and her fingers on the chair unconsciously clenched.

It was difficult for her to connect the current serious Lorraine with the Lorraine who voluntarily bowed her head under her. The sense of separation between the two was too great.

Now Lorraine seemed to be only indifferent and coercive towards her. As a teacher, he was too cold and arrogant.

Lorraine asked, "Are you sure you don't need me?"

The close distance made Ivy take a step back unnaturally and explained: "...The soundproofing of my house is very poor, and I have to participate in the selection test for the expedition team the day after tomorrow...I need to maintain a lot of physical strength and have a good rest."

Lorraine straightened up slowly.

Obviously, the current environment in the office made him hesitate. Previously, their marriage was just in name only - and they were already in the divorce application stage, and both parties could barely maintain a normal teacher-student distance.

Now the unexpected incident in the dark zone has left both of them at a loss as to what to do, especially after they calmed down and regained their senses.

"Student Ivy," Lorraine called her name, "I have a question I want to ask you."

Ivy said respectfully: "Teacher, please speak."

"Last night, when I kissed you," Lorraine's face was in the dark, observing her expression silently, "you seemed surprised."

Ivy whispered: "Because it was so sudden, I didn't expect..."

"So," Lorraine asked, "you don't know that highly matched people are highly attracted to each other?"

Ivy: “I just heard…”

"Only heard of it," Lorraine repeated her words, her face darkening, "So, you've never felt this attraction—right?"