Chapter 240: An Anonymous Recommendation (2/2)

Although the military didn't set a quota, it did set an upper limit on the number of volunteers from each school. In a few days, the situation had reversed entirely as the students got all excited by propaganda and motivational speeches, and were practically competing with each other for the rights to be the volunteer. The military soon followed up with an announcement saying that they would be looking for another group of volunteers when the first group had done their duties.

Wang Tong had submitted his application, and all he could do now was wait for it to be approved. As Samantha stared at Wang Tong's name on the approved list, she was dumbfounded.

Samantha had never handed in Wang Tong's application for personal reasons. She had reasoned that it was better and safer for Wang Tong to continue his school since he was guaranteed to earn more reputation during future tournaments. She was confident that Wang Tong would do well on Norton, but she also understood the way military worked: reward was reserved only for those who prevailed, even if it meant that they had to steal it from someone else.

Samantha was caught off guard when she saw Wang Tong's name on the list, and It had occurred to her that someone had been messing around with the application.

Samantha quickly pulled her strings in the military to investigate. Her friend told her that someone had recommended Wang Tong and he would definitely be sent off to the Norton unless any unforeseen event happened that stopped him from leaving Earth.

However, even Samantha's source in the military was not able to confirm the identity of the person who made the recommendation.

Samantha sank her body into the chair, feeling exhausted. She heaved a sigh and rubbed at her temples as she started to miss Ma Xiaoru.

The right sense was always cruel. Many politicians had warned about the danger of an infatuation to one's career. Once one became sentimental and emotional, they would quickly lose their judgment, and their love would also quickly become his or her weakness, ready to be taken advantage of by opponents. This had been the unbroken rule for many professionals, and there had never been any exceptions.

Samantha wasn't sure if Wang Tong truly wanted to return to Norton. If he had gone back to his nightmare in the name of helping her, she would do anything she could to stop his foolish act.

The motivation of the person who had recommended Wang Tong seemed perplexing. It could be as benign as someone wanting to challenge Wang Tong after witnessing his incredible performance during the tournament at Capth, or, it could be more sinister as someone wanting to hurt Wang Tong and thinking that Norton would be the perfect place to finish him off.

After thinking on it for a while, Samantha decided that the latter was not very likely since the odds of a student offending anyone as powerful as the instigator was very little. Eventually, she had decided to talk to Wang Tong and see what his thoughts were.

Karl had already received his approval to join the fleet, which made Wang Tong jealous.

Wang Tong knew that the odds of him being assigned to a fleet was very small, so he took what he got and tried to be positive. After all, the 5G environment would be very useful in improving his tactics.

Karl would be leaving for Norton next week, and the students who were assigned to the ground units would leave a week after that.

Wang Tong thought the timing worked well since he still needed to finish that battle with Lie Wushuang. While Wang Tong was still pondering on his schedules, the ring tune of Skynet startled him.

Wang Tong read the message and it was from Samantha, she wanted him to go to her office.

When Wang Tong arrived at Samantha's office, he saw her sitting quietly at the other end of her desk, waiting for him. The two of them stared at each other without saying a world.

Finally, a laugh escaped Wang Tong's teeth and broke the silence.

”What's up, principal?”

”Grab a seat, how's everything going?”

”Could be better.” Wang Tong grimaced.

Samantha smiled knowingly. She took off her glasses and said, ”Good. I was wondering if you had forgotten about your first love. I have heard that women would always remember their first man, but men were the exact opposite.”

Wang Tong grinned with a slight hint of indignation in his eyes.