Sudden enlightenment

Sometimes, when riding in the same car with Lorraine, Ivy would have the illusion that they were an old married couple.

The two people unexpectedly took photos together while living in the car.

For example, they would get up on time at five in the morning and exercise. You can't run in the wasteland, and you need to maintain your strength to deal with accidents. Before breakfast, Lorraine inspected the temporary camp, and Ivy took the opportunity to collect some samples or identify those creatures that only exist in the wasteland according to the knowledge taught in class.

After dinner, while Ivy was cleaning herself, Lorraine would go outside the car to look at the stars and the moon; similarly, the two of them tacitly kept a certain distance.

But the illusion of being an "old married couple" did not last long. On the third day, Ivy accidentally ran into Lorraine punishing a player.

She finally understood why Songxu thought it was a torture to ride in the same car with Lorraine.

"I'm not asking you to explain just to listen to your nonsense complaints," Lorraine said in a deep voice, "You think your life is worthless. Don't think that other people are the same as you."

In the morning, one of Song Feng's team members, Lenz, was lazy while on duty and secretly sent flirtatious messages to his girlfriend in District 1 using the communicator - this is why Lorraine was furious. Lorraine punished Lenz for standing in the hot sun for nearly three hours before starting to verbally admonish him.

"Your so-called emotions are as insignificant as your sense of responsibility," Lorraine said. "If something unexpected happens, what are you going to do? Use your flirtatious language to seduce the artificial intelligence? Or kiss it passionately and conquer it with your 'superb kissing skills'?"

He read out the words in Lenz's flirtatious text without mercy, and finally ended the taunting with a cold voice: "I never knew you had such great abilities, Mr. Lenz."

Even someone as sensitive as Ivy could sense the bad taste in his tone.

She stood silently and saw the silver pointer in Lorraine's hand.

His black gloves formed a strange contrast with the cool silver. Ivy suddenly thought of some avant-garde clothing designers who had similar words like "leather and metal", "recreation" and "deconstruction" on their billboards last year.

These unfamiliar terms ultimately point to an adjective that Ivy can understand - sexy.

For some reason, Ivy suddenly felt that Lorraine looked very sexy now.

He was obviously angry, frowning and criticizing the irresponsible team member, reprimanding him in the tone of a leader, and using harsh words to mock him.

The whip could strike Soldier Lenz hard at any moment.

It was the first time that Ivy saw Lorraine so unhappy. His cold temperament finally showed human emotions when he was angry. The thin image of "handsome teacher" in her mind suddenly became much more vivid and was no longer a lifeless piece of metal.

"Speak," Lorraine raised his hand, and the hard whip lifted Lenz's chin, with the top against his throat, "Do you need me to remind you?"

"I'm sorry, sir," Lenz bowed his head, "I am willing to accept any punishment - as long as you don't drive me away."

"Drive away?" Lorraine said. "I suggest you change the word. You sound as if you don't realize what you have done wrong."

He turned around, the silver irises on his uniform gleaming: "Song Feng!"

Song Feng ran over and saluted: "Here, sir!"

Lorraine didn't hit Lenz, but the pointer pressed on his cheek, leaving a bright red blood mark.

He said to Song Feng: "I cannot understand your current management system."

Song Feng was shocked.

"I am very disappointed with your performance," Lorraine said. "In recent years, the budgets applied for by the Iris team have been increasing year by year, but the returns have been decreasing each time. Is this also your strategy?"

Song Feng explained: "Because of the speed of evolution of artificial intelligence——"

"Did it suddenly evolve this year?" Lorraine asked. "Go look at the files of the expedition over the years. I think you should have the literacy of an elementary school student, sir."

Song Feng said nothing.

"Iris's members have faced high-level challenges over the years," Lorraine said. "You enjoy the taxes paid by residents, but you stop in the face of difficulties - this makes me seriously doubt your integrity."

Ivy was really glad that she wasn't the one being scolded today.

She enjoyed it very much.

Song Feng said, "I'm sorry, sir."

Ivy was betting in her mind whether Lorraine would say the famous ancient saying, "If apologies were useful, why would we need the police?"

--no.

Lorraine is a serious teacher who doesn't like entertainment-based teaching or admonition.

"I need a reasonable explanation," Lorraine said. "You rejected the top-ranked students and kept the mediocre and unremarkable team members. This stupid behavior makes me suspect that you should receive psychiatric treatment. After the treatment, you immediately gave me a detailed written document. Remember, this document will affect my trust in your team's ability."

Song Feng said nothing.

Lorraine nodded slightly, holding the teaching stick and left. There were several members of the Iris team around him, and no one dared to question or refute Lorraine's decision - especially after he called out the names directly at the end, the taciturn captain Rong Qi looked at Song Feng with a complicated look, which was rare.

——The student who ranked first in the assessment, Ivy, had her place crossed out by Song Feng himself.

Lorraine brought the "deleted" Ivy into the team and even kept her by her side. It was obvious that she knew the whole story.

Rong Qi came over and patted Song Feng on the shoulder: "You will be the one writing the explanation document. Take care of yourself."

A word of comfort that has nothing to do with itching.

Everyone knows how difficult it is to deal with the government army. Rong Qi once sent a report on the future development plan of the expedition team to the mysterious Admiral Hector, hoping to impress him and get more support from the military.

Hector's reply to them was extremely cold.

"This is bullshit, redo it"

For the next three years, every time Rong Qi thought about it, he was so embarrassed that he couldn't sleep.

"You said," Rong Qi sighed, "It's fine if you hate Ivy, but why do you have to retaliate against her in such a childish way? Isn't she married? And her relationship with Lorraine is like this now... If you really hate her, you should send a letter to her husband and condemn her from a moral high ground."

Song Feng answered the question irrelevantly: "What if her husband is a domestic abuser?"

According to statistics, people with D-level genes are most likely to be emotionally unstable, manifested by sudden crying and sudden laughter; even compared to E-level people, D-level people are more likely to become violent criminals - of course, it may also be because most E-level people have lost the ability to use violence against others and can only be abused by others.

Song Feng just hates Ivy and doesn't want her to die.

It hasn't come to that yet.

He turned around and looked at where Ivy had been standing.

There was no one there, I don't know when she left.

Ivy followed Lorraine closely, took a few quick steps, and caught up with him: "Teacher."

Lorraine: “Yeah.”

He still seems difficult to communicate with. He is strict and taciturn. It's OK if he doesn't speak, but when he does, he mostly scolds and admonishes.

Ivy felt that she had done nothing wrong in the past few days, so she was not afraid.

She thanked him, "Thank you for what you did just now."

Lorraine finally stopped.

His back was tall and calm, and the tailored military uniform wrapped around his body without any care. He turned around, and the sunlight shone on the metal buckle of the military belt, refracting a faint, dazzling light that pierced Ivy's eyes——

She blinked, avoiding the invading light, and seemed to taste the cool metallic taste of his leather in her mouth, a taste between pain and cold, like a ripe lemon, quietly oozing out astringent and hard juice on the tip of her tongue.

Lorraine said: "I was just pointing out their shortcomings as a superior."

Ivy understood his subtitle - "Don't be so conceited."

very nice.

Although both are arrogant, Lorraine and Song Feng behave in completely different ways.

The arrogance of Song Feng is an indiscriminate attack, using tinted glasses and discriminatory language to sweep all things that are not pleasing to the eye, regardless of black or white;

Lorraine's arrogance is only shown when she is reprimanding others, and her sarcastic remarks are only revealed when she is criticizing people who have made mistakes.

In comparison, Ivy thinks Lorraine is easier to get along with.

——In comparison, relatively speaking.

If she had to choose an ideal partner, she would still choose someone like her first love, who is elegant, gentle, kind, emotionally stable, and humorous.

Ivy is generous and wants to use all the beautiful words in the world to give to her first love.

"Thank you anyway," Ivy said sincerely, "I feel very proud."

"It seems that those two slaps were not enough to vent your anger," Lorraine said, "but I don't recommend that you get into conflict during your adventure. Human life is not a joke."

Ivy blushed immediately: "How did you know?"

Lorraine didn't answer. He continued walking forward. Ivy quickly caught up with him: "Teacher!"

"What is it?"

"Regarding my retraining as a frontline soldier," Ivy said, "can you give me a clear answer?"

Without waiting for an answer, she hurriedly demonstrated: "Look, these days, you have seen that I am no worse than others - it is no exaggeration to say that I even think that many of the official members of this team are not as good as me. I just lack an opportunity to prove myself."

Lorraine: “I admire your confidence.”

His voice was so flat that Ivy couldn't tell whether he was truly appreciative or just being polite.

It doesn't matter.

Brave Ivy, come on Feifei.

"I understand that you asked me to change jobs for my own good, and I understand your reasons and intentions for doing so," Ivy said. "I think you can see my loyalty through my performance these days."

——her loyalty to this country.

Lorraine stopped and looked at her with a complicated expression: "I just felt that you were being too honest."

"It's not a bad thing to be honest, is it?" Ivy said seriously, "I admit that I did do some inappropriate things with her - but I didn't hide it from you, did I? When you asked me, I admitted it directly."

——Indeed, when Nana hacked into the military system, she saw it, admitted it, and accepted the punishment.

She actively showed a sincere attitude of admitting her mistakes.

"Wait a minute, I'm shocked by you," Lorraine rubbed his temples, thinking of what she said, 'Song Xu's sleeping products are very good' and 'It's comfortable to sleep with him', as well as her initiative to ask to go to Song Xu's car, he slowly asked, "Is 'out of line' a euphemism for 'cheating' that young people use now?"

"Well……"

Ivy didn't quite understand what Lorraine meant.

But it doesn't matter.

Brave Ivy, keep flying.

"I have deeply realized my mistakes and sincerely want to repent," Ivy said, "and I promise not to make the same mistake again."

Lorraine's expression became more complicated: "You are now as determined as if you were swearing in to join the government army. I am surprised."

This is the first time I’ve seen someone commit adultery and feel such overwhelming remorse.

Ivy said loudly: "I will turn over a new leaf and become a new person."

"It's not that serious," Lorraine said. "I know you didn't do it voluntarily."

In fact, once the 100% match information came out, Lorraine got all her information.

Including her two beautiful relationships, which were not rich but had a good beginning and an end and ended peacefully.

If it wasn't for promoting the government's program, if it wasn't because they were the only one with a 100% successful match -

Neither person would choose to marry the other.

This marriage would end one day, and Lorraine knew it from the beginning.

So he was very polite to Ivy and would not take the initiative to have physical relations with her.

As for these little mistakes that all women in the world will make, Lorraine will choose to turn a blind eye - after all, they have no emotional foundation, and this marriage will not last long and will disappear at the right time.

The only compensation Lorraine could give her was a huge amount of useless money.

They are not in love with each other, it's just pure hormones.

The restrained Lorraine would not fall in love with a promiscuous girl;

Young and lively Ivy would never fall in love with a serious and old-fashioned officer.

These days, Lorraine, who takes suppressant medication, feels good.

You just need to take medicine every two hours.

Sure enough, after Lorraine said, "I know you don't do this voluntarily," Ivy's amber eyes flashed, like a wronged child who finally got the words "You've been wronged."

"Thank you for your understanding," Ivy choked up. "Thank you very very much."

"I need to remind you before this is over," Lorraine said politely, "I don't want you to go too far. In order not to waste public relations resources, I suggest that you keep——"

He hinted clearly that he should end his improper relationship with Song Xu or other ex-boyfriends and not let these things affect the "100% matching marriage" that was regarded as a model.

"I understand," Ivy said gratefully. She had already thought about what to say to Nana when she got back. "I know what to do."

Lorraine confirmed: "Really?"

"Yes, I will make amends," Ivy said. "When I get back, I will apply to move into her dorm."

Luo Lin's face darkened instantly and he rebuked: "Moving to his dormitory? You are not trying to make up for your mistakes, you are trying to cause great trouble!"

"Ah?" Ivy was puzzled. "I remember the training camp said that we can apply for two people to live together--"

"They are a couple," Lorraine said unhappily, "Who are you? Nonsense... Have you ever thought about what to do if you get pregnant unexpectedly?"

"...Huh?" Ivy asked cautiously, bewilderedly, "The current technology hasn't developed to the point where she can make me pregnant..."

...No, she was led astray by Lorraine's words.

She and Nana were innocent roommates! Why did Lorraine make it sound like they were in a lesbian relationship?

Lorraine paused: "He can't do it?"

"It's not a question of whether she can do it or not," Ivy reminded sincerely, "the problem is that she doesn't have it."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Lorraine startled for a moment and slowly narrowed his eyes——

At this moment, he finally figured something out.