threat

In fact, when people are focused and anxious, they don't even notice the pain.

Ivy didn't feel how painful it was where the skin on her palm was burned, especially after Lorraine applied the medicine. It was not only cooling but also seemed to have a certain analgesic effect. The skin was a little dull and numb, like the only expensive anesthetic she could use.

She was still arguing with Lorraine.

"You are totally unfit to marry me," Ivy said. "You should register with the country and devote your passion to your great cause, or your ulterior motives. Is there any anesthetic effect in this drug?"

"I can already sense your dissatisfaction with this marriage. No need to remind me again, thank you," Lorraine pressed harder, "There's no anesthesia - you're just numb from the pain."

Ivy said nothing, looking at the unconscious Yu Mo at her feet. Lorraine said nothing, and directly handed the ointment to her.

Ivy couldn't quite believe that he would be so kind and looked at Lorraine suspiciously.

"Don't look at it," Lorraine said, "Use it to apply medicine to him. I don't want to see you apply medicine to him with that hand again. Leave it alone. It is so flexible and very suitable for holding a gun. Don't waste it."

Ivy stared at him. "You didn't really place a device in my brain that could read my thoughts while I was asleep?"

She was about to take the ointment, but Lorraine pulled it away again.

"If there was such a thing, I should have used it on your wedding night," Lorraine said. "Forget it, I'll apply it."

Ivy looked at him with a frown and a look of disgust, and even roughly lifted up Yu Mo's torn pants.

Unlike when she applied medicine to her, Lorraine looked like she was applying mustard to the wound on Yu Mo's leg.

She was really worried that Lorraine would pull out a gun and shoot Yu Mo in the head in the next second.

The other party didn't look like he would help the dying and the wounded. Instead, he would shoot at Yu Mo.

At this moment, Ivy was sure that her empty dream was just a dream. Lorraine was not the kind of person who had a cold face during the day and would secretly help the poor little girl at night. He seemed to be indifferent and even kicked her away.

She said nothing and went to see Xin Lan. She found that after poor Xin Lan "turned off his phone", the wounds on his body stopped bleeding. The scars were frozen at the last moment after he woke up, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

The people above lowered the steel cables again. Lorraine said nothing and let Ivy, Yu Mo and Xin Lan go up first.

Ivy asked: "What about you? Wait for next time? It's dangerous here——"

"Don't worry," Lorraine said, "don't treat everyone as a cute doctor."

After a pause, he added: "If this is considered 'dangerous', my position can be replaced by someone else."

Ivy said, "You don't understand what care means?"

Luo Lin held Xin Lan with one hand and grabbed Yu Mo's collar with his other hand in disgust. His expression was as if he was looking at a pile of garbage. After placing the two unconscious people on the steel plate at the same time, he said to Ivy, "You don't understand me either. Don't worry."

"What are you relieved about?"

"Don't worry if you can't get my inheritance for the time being," he said, "I won't let you become a 'widow'."

Ivy said, "I really want to give you a book right now."

"What book? About crops?" Lorraine used the hand that had not touched Yu Mo to pick up Ivy by the waist and placed her steadily on the steel plate. His words were completely different from his actions. "About the spring of a weed in fear? This way of expression has been outdated for a hundred years."

"Why don't people like what you say?" Ivy yelled angrily, "Forget it, come on up, this should be able to carry four people--"

Lorraine didn't go up.

He sent a direct signal to let Clear Sky and Rain Cloud pull up the steel cable.

Ivy saw for the first time what Lorraine said in class: "By using the claws flexibly, you can climb a thousand meters high."

Although it was not a thousand meters high, Lorraine was almost easily browsing this old and dilapidated underground abandoned machinery cave. Due to the limitation of the teaching venue, Ivy had never really seen Lorraine's high-difficulty demonstration in person - he didn't even wear a parachute or any protective measures!

On the steel plate, exhausted Ivy froze in a daze.

His body was wrapped in a black combat suit, and his dark windbreaker was like a python's tongue. Lorraine had no expression on his face. The talons he used were obviously longer than Ivy's, and the wires were thicker. Unlike Ivy's movements that relied on the flexibility of her body, he obviously had more energy-saving skills. He was familiar with the route, and he easily shuttled across the hundred-meter-high rock wall. Any small stone could become a help to him.

During this process, he didn't even breathe heavily, as if he was walking on flat ground.

Five minutes later, Qingkong and Yuyun came over anxiously and helped the three people who had finally reached the ground level into the expedition car. Ivy's hands were burned, and the responsibility of driving fell back to Lorraine. Instead, it was Dangdang who took the initiative to drive Lorraine's motorcycle away -

It was late at night when the group returned to the supply station. The night was quiet, and Ivy pressed her face against the car window, staring blankly at the scene outside. Unlike the "pitch-black night" described in the book, the bright moonlight was hanging high, and the wilderness was more transparent than the gloomy evening. Under the thousands of silent and dim stars, Ivy leaned to the side and saw a meteor in the distance falling with a long tail.

Lorraine's depressing voice rang out: "Don't put your hands too close to the glass, or the medicine will be rubbed off."

Ivy said, "Guan Zhenkuan, is your hometown near the sea?"

Having said this, she withdrew her hand and turned to look out the window with an expressionless face.

Lorraine's response was equally cold: "Don't live by the sea, live by the river."

Song Xu was confused: "What are you talking about?"

The Milky Way was pouring down, the world was turning upside down, and Song Xu in the car was carefully feeding water to the unconscious Yu Mo. Looking at the wound on his leg, he felt both happy and worried.

What made him happy was that Lorraine and Ivy seemed to have had a quarrel, which was a good opportunity to take advantage of the situation; what made him worried was that the source of the quarrel seemed to be Yu Mo, which made it more difficult to deal with... He was still the one at the back.

The supply station was particularly busy tonight. Lorraine did not let Iris's team doctor come up, but instead called a more experienced military doctor to treat the injured.

Tiger's condition was much better. He just broke his leg. He was in good health and woke up before reaching the supply station. He was put in a cast and a splint and started to go to the cafeteria to eat on crutches. Congcong accompanied him worriedly and tried hard to reweave the broken leather bracelet.

Xin Lan rested in Lorraine's room. Ivy didn't know how Lorraine had convinced the military doctor. Anyway, it didn't seem to have much effect on the other party, and no one suspected anything.

There was nothing abnormal about the unconscious Yu Mo. The military doctor cleaned his wounds neatly and efficiently, saying that they all fainted due to the confusion of consciousness caused by the robot's infrasound.

This kind of infrasonic attack is not uncommon. Just take a night's rest and don't worry.

Ivy returned to the room with a heavy heart, and as soon as she opened the door, she wanted to leave.

One step too late.

Lorraine frowned, pushed her into the room even faster, and slammed the door shut.

"Xin Lan must rest in my room alone," he explained briefly and forcefully, "I cannot abuse my authority to occupy more empty rooms. It is reasonable for husband and wife to share a room."

This reason is very Lorraine.

Ivy reminded: "Don't forget that we are negotiating a divorce."

"I won't touch you," Lorraine said. "I'll sleep on the floor."

She saw two thin quilts spread out on the floor, probably ones he had someone send back.

Too many things happened today. Ivy was very tired. She sat in the chair and just untied the straps of her combat shoes when she heard Lorraine say, "I heard that thing call you 'daughter'."

"Maybe it's just a robot that got out of control," Ivy turned around, "Are you going to judge me for this again? Are you going to collect my body fluids again?"

Lorraine's expression looked like she wanted to say "calm".

But the last time she did this, she cried badly.

"I want to find out the truth with you," he said. "Also, did you have a quarrel with Alice?"

"What's wrong?" Ivy asked, straining her back. "How compatible are you?"

"Me and her?" Lorraine said unhappily, "You are my only wife - I am reminding you that she is hostile to you."

"Don't forget, I may have killed her. Also, have you read the ancient comic Tomie?" Ivy said, "Each Tomie that splits out will want to kill another Tomie that is exactly the same as herself. Maybe only one of us will survive in the end."

She had taken off her shoes and socks, and these things were placed in a mess on the ground. Ivy, exhausted both physically and mentally, had no mood to tidy up and took off her coat and clothes one by one.

Luo Lin bent down and picked up her socks that were thrown into a ball: "She said you took the risk to save Yu Mo."

"How is that possible?" Ivy said incredulously, "I'm going to save my teammates. Even if Tiger is the only one missing today, I will still go!"

"Obviously Yu Mo doesn't know this," Luo Lin adjusted her shoes. The combat boots had a few wears. He bent down and stroked the worn areas. "Or maybe he did it on purpose."

Ivy, carefree, had already taken off her clothes and walked into the bathroom.

In order to hear Lorraine's words clearly, she left the door open. Under the water, Ivy objected vigorously: "It's impossible. You saw it too. If it wasn't for me, the robot would have killed Yu Mo directly with a laser."

"A self-torture trick," Lorraine folded Ivy's dirty shirt and pants into small pieces and placed them neatly in the cleaning robot basket at the door. He closed the door, hung up her coat, smoothed out the wrinkles, and said in a deep voice, "Isn't Yu Mo very good at this?"

Ivy squeezed the foam on the top of her head and rubbed her hair quickly: "I only believe what I see with my own eyes."

"So you fall in love with a hypocritical person," Lorraine said bluntly, "You are too easily deceived by superficial kindness and goodwill, Ivy."

"Surface kindness is still kindness," Ivy washed off the foam. She didn't know if the foam got into her eyes, but she couldn't help shedding painful tears. She turned her back and looked at the wall covered with water vapor. "It's better than those sharp and hurtful words."

She thought Lorraine would say "stupid" indifferently again.

"Unable to accept the truth of things, so stupid that he can only deceive himself through nice lies" and so on.

He would definitely say that, now Ivy knows him too well.

Ivy couldn't expect Lorraine to spit out ivory.

She continued, "So let's get divorced. After the divorce, you won't see me anymore, and our daily lives won't have any intersection. I will try my best to avoid you in the future - if you need my genes to customize something to satisfy Xingyu -"

"I won't clone people," Lorraine washed her hands. "Isn't having you enough to give me a headache?"

"I'm not yours," Ivy said angrily. She turned around and said, "I'm Ivy, my parents' child, an ordinary but very skilled human being - of course, you can hand me over to the Administration at any time, and I will happily tell them your secret."

Lorraine narrowed her eyes.

"——You secretly raise many androids as slaves. They all have self-awareness, but they are still enslaved by you." Ivy looked at him directly. "You can try it."

Lorraine suddenly smiled: "Not bad, you have learned how to threaten people."

"It's all thanks to my good teacher," Ivy stood straight, her hair completely wet. After washing, she turned off the shower, wrapped herself in a bath towel, folded it casually, and faced Lorraine's gaze without fear. "If you dare to tell others that I am a clone, I will--"

She took a deep breath and said, "I'm sorry, I just want to live an ordinary life, an ordinary life that you look down upon."

Lorraine stood in front of the bathroom door, his tall and calm figure set off by his black military shirt. Perhaps to make it easier to work, he rolled up his sleeves to his elbows, revealing his strong and muscular arms with slightly protruding veins. His body fat percentage was very low, and the bones of his blood vessels and joints were very obvious.

He said, "Ivy, such a precious secret should not be exchanged for such simple conditions; as long as you keep your distance from Yu Mo, no one will know your identity as a clone."

Ivy said, “On what basis?”

"On what grounds?"

Lorraine repeated this and slowly approached Ivy.

Ivy felt the breath of danger and subconsciously wanted to grab something to fight back, but at the moment, the only things within her control were a three-in-one shampoo and face wash and a bath brush. The former was too thick and heavy, so she gave up decisively. She just wanted to grab the latter, but her whole hand was held in Lorraine's palm. Ivy struggled for a while, but the resistance failed. Instead, both wrists were controlled by Lorraine with one hand - the student was no match for the teacher after all. Every close combat move she made was taught by Lorraine, who easily pressed her against the cold and damp bathroom wall.

Ivy looked up, her lips trembling from her rapid breathing. She saw Lorraine's calm eyes, like rare black spinels, dim and silent.

"He, a non-human, shamelessly occupied your first love and captured your heart with his hypocritical face," Lorraine said, "I hate him, that's all."

Ivy struggled but couldn't get away. He got stronger and his grip hurt her wrist. "Is that all?"

"Otherwise?" Lorraine said, "You should be able to feel it."

"I only feel your twisted possessiveness," Ivy said, "Because you and I are a perfect match, you are jealous of Yu Mo. Yes, it's not hatred, you are just jealous and envious."

"According to what you said," Lorraine said, "Why shouldn't I be jealous of Song Xu?"

Ivy said: "Because you know I don't love Song Xu."

After she said this, she was suddenly shocked.

The spine is separated from the skin, and in that instant I feel all the coldness and humidity in the bathroom, covering the entire body and penetrating the skin.

She forgot.

Lorraine was the best interrogator.

He could easily get the information he wanted without even resorting to force.

"So," Luo Lin lowered his head and looked at her with a blank expression, "you love Yu Mo, right?"

Ivy frowned and replied, "Sorry, you don't have the right to know."

Lorraine said nothing and released her hand from Ivy.

Ivy could neither retreat nor move forward. She was trapped between Lorraine's body and the wall. She looked up and saw in panic his cold face, his protruding Adam's apple, and the hidden blue veins on his neck.

As they looked at each other, he said in an incredibly calm voice, "I know you are very smart, Ivy."

Ivy replied stiffly: "Thank you for the compliment, and congratulations on your insight."

Lorraine leaned forward and said, "So, smart Ivy, do you know what I'm thinking now?"

Just a flick.

Ivy looked up and saw his eyes, which were as silent as lifeless spinels, and she felt a chill in her heart.

At the same time, the bathrobe she was wearing fell silently to the ground, covering her feet softly and weakly.