The rapid sound of shooting echoed throughout the New Student Training Camp, making everyone’s hearts race.
Although Lan Siming asked her to finish shooting all the electromagnetic waves, he didn’t ask her to shoot them all at once. It’s a miracle if her random shooting hits the target.
Lan Siming had been watching Gu Tong’s movements and hadn’t noticed any signs of her throwing the game. He frowned and said, "Report the target scores! What’s the data?"
"One shot hit ten rings, the rest missed..."
Ten rings and missed targets, what a huge disparity, Lan Siming sneered.
"Officer Lan, can I rejoin the team?" Gu Tong breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, the current scoring targets weren’t smart ones, or they’d definitely catch the trick she pulled.
That’s right, she was serious for the first shot, and then she simply carried the mistake through, hitting the ten-ring bullseye each time, even aiming accurately at one target spot.
It was a risky move, but clearly, Gu Tong’s gamble paid off. Her Artifact Technique remained unmatched and hadn’t diminished at all.
"You may!" Lan Siming gave Gu Tong a meaningful look, his expression filled with appreciation. This new trainee was truly hard to read.
In the subsequent training, Gu Tong felt as if she was walking on thin ice because Lan Siming meticulously observed her every move, his gaze full of scrutiny, never letting her out of his sight.
Gu Tong was nearly starting to swear... If she got into any trouble and her dad sent her back to the Royal Hospital, she swore she’d slice Lan Siming into pieces!
She just wanted to chase after her guy peacefully in the Academy. Why was that so difficult...
The clock ticked past five-thirty.
Dragging her weary body, Gu Tong arrived at the officer’s rest area of the Academy. She had arranged to meet Li Yan at six and expected him to be back in the room early, waiting.
After all, Li Yan was afraid of getting caught by Gu Tong in the corridors, which would only lead to endless trouble...
"Madam... you’re here..." A certain deputy stood vigil near the staircase, clearly under his Earl’s orders, and said, "The Earl is on the third floor, let me lead you, madam..."
The deputy appeared particularly attentive, with an air of ingratiation both openly and secretly. He figured out that the affection between the Earl and madam was rapidly progressing, and the Earl even seemed a bit henpecked, so holding onto the madam’s favor was undoubtedly the right move.
"Thank you for your trouble."
"It’s no trouble, no trouble at all..." Being able to facilitate the affectionate ties between madam and the Earl, how could he feel troubled... he’d even brave the mountains of knives and seas of flames if needed...
As they chatted, they ascended the stairs, following along to reach the location of Li Yan’s quarters.
Six or seven countesses were descending the stairs, laundry basins in hand, chatting and laughing, "Did you see that... that Bai Ling from the Art Class, actually volunteered to do the Earl’s laundry, what do you think their relationship is?"
"What else could it be, it’s that kind of relationship." Another countess covered her mouth, laughing, "My husband came back saying Bai Ling has a thing for our Earl, bringing him meals every noon. With the cafeteria in Pinsei Academy, why would she need to bring meals every day? What else could their relationship be?"
"Oh gosh, I really couldn’t tell, I thought... the Earl always wore such a stern face that young girls would run away from him..."
"Then you don’t understand, young girls these days love that kind of man, tough on the outside but tender on the inside, hahaha..."