Invasion [2]
Until she reached the office on the second floor, when handing over the materials to the clerk in charge of approval, Lin Yuan suddenly remembered that she had heard this sound of the sea before.
It was probably a few years ago, when she was not qualified to leave the White Tower.
But that day, she didn't know what was going on. Like crazy, she insisted on sneaking out of the White Tower on a snowy night.
The current Lin Yuan didn't quite understand what she thought back then. Maybe it was the chuunibyou disease they mentioned, puberty, or anything. In short, her mood was not stable during that period.
Sometimes she became extremely paranoid because of some inexplicable little things.
For example, a snowfall, or a cluster of fireworks in the sky... It's all small things like that.
Some people said that in order to ensure the safety of the Guides, the Guide Academy in the White Tower had the most powerful security system in the entire empire, and no one can enter or leave at will.
But Lin Yuan felt that the matter was not as exaggerated as the legend said. She could always sneak out if she wanted to.
Those tentacles of hers could travel far underground.
Before those people saw her, they were often quietly hooked by her tentacles.
Without making too much movement at all, just by lightly touching their superficial consciousness, and they can subconsciously ignore herself. She could go out calmly under the eyes of those teachers, security guards and Sentinels; they didn't notice her at all.
It was not that they couldn't see it, it's that they ignored it subconsciously. They still feel inexplicable when they realize it afterwards. How could they not see her?
This kind of mental induction was almost as easy as eating for Lin Yuan, just like an instinct, as if it was born at birth.
But this was not something every Guide knows, nor it was a compulsory course for Guides. It was hard to master and off the table. It was considered that only some "unscrupulous" people will learn.
It was generally expected that a Guide should be gentle, inclusive, rich in compassion and empathetic.
A good Guide should pride themselves on being able to soothe Sentinels.
It was the job of a Guide to be able to better guide their spirit.
The academy in the White Tower was like spring all year round. Everyone wears high-end silk clothes and eats nutritious and delicious healthy food. Apart from the need to consider their future match, it could be said that they were carefree and live a luxurious and rich life
But for some reason, Lin Yuan always wanted to sneak out. Step on the icy snow, wander into the dusty streets, take a few breaths of air outside the tower that had not been filtered by the purifier, or take a look at the sky without a roof.
She could wander aimlessly under the sky outside for a while. It was very difficult for those people to find her.
There was a lot of snow that day, there were no people on the street, and balls of icy and cold white cotton-like snow were piled up everywhere, and the whole world seemed like a distant dream.
Lin Yuan came out of the warm Guide Academy, wearing only a thin uniform and a pair of boots that were too big, and was terribly cold.
But she had no intention of going back at all. She was sitting in an alley, leaning against a dumpster piled with snow, looking up at a small patch of gray sky above her head covered with snow.
That Sentinel appeared suddenly, and almost at the same time Lin Yuan heard the faint sound of the tide, he landed on top of the iron dumpster. Wearing a black tights from the Sentinel Academy, stepping on the snow on the top of the box, he unceremoniously pressed a cold short knife against Lin Yuan's neck.
He reported to the walkie-talkie: "I found the target person. Yes, it's her. I have fully controlled her. Okay, I'll take her back right away." When he was speaking, his eyes stared at Lin Yuan indifferently, with a hint of strangeness in the depths of his eyes. There was a hint of lavender in the depths of his eyes that could be activated at any time. That was not the look in the eyes of a Sentinel when he saw a Guide. It was a special soldier staring at a fugitive who caused himself trouble in a snowy day.
Calm and alert, not allowing her to escape.
The sharpened short knife in his hand firmly pressed against the skin of Lin Yuan's neck.
Thinking about it now, Lin Yuan seemed to still be able to remember the feeling of the sharp blade on her neck.
"So it's that person." Lin Yuan rubbed her neck and looked over the window on the second floor.
The screen on the military grounds was still playing in a loop, surrounded by countless angry sentinels.
"You want to apply to the Special Research Office?" The clerk sitting in front of Lin Yuan drew Lin Yuan's attention back.
It was a middle-aged lady wearing a military cap with an officer's badge pinned to her chest. Flipping through the materials submitted by Lin Yuan back and forth in her hand, her expression was a little impatient, "This... doesn't follow the rules," she said.
Holding a small seal in her hand, she turned it around, refusing to stamp it down for a long time, even though Lin Yuan's application did not have any real irregularities.
But with power in her hand, she liked to make things difficult for others.
This was not the first time Lin Yuan had seen this officer surnamed Wu. In the past, when this person faced him, she always smiled kindly. She didn't speak in such a tone, and she would never call her Xiaoyuan with the attitude of an overbearing senior.
People's attitudes were sometimes like this, suddenly changing.
Of course she wasn't the only one who changed.
Even if she didn't stretch out her spiritual tentacles, Lin Yuan could tell the difference in these people's attitudes towards her.
Before they were respectful and now they were arrogant, deliberately making things difficult for her.
It seemed that without that marriage contract, she suddenly became an incomplete person, and she should be embarrassed, disgusted and be sympathized everywhere.
Under the ground, two invisible tentacles pulled back from the direction where the clerk was, shook them in disgust, and curled up unhappily.
Have they accidentally touched a bad mood again? Sometimes Lin Yuan is very helpless with her spiritual body. The size of "it" was too large, and its personality was not the same herself. It liked to wander around and touch, and she couldn't control it.
They always accidentally touched the surface consciousness of some people.
Especially those strong, unrestrained outgoing emotions were easily touched and fed back to Lin Yuan.
In fact, Lin Yuan really didn't want to know the emotions and thoughts of those people. To her, it was all irrelevant people, irrelevant things.
Forced to hear here and there emotions, the whole world had become a lot more annoying. It was a pity that this was not something she can completely control.
Every Sentinel and Guide in the world had their own spiritual body, which will appear in the form of some animals invisible to ordinary people.
The spiritual body of the Sentinels were mostly carnivorous hunters. Tigers, coyotes, goshawks, giant sharks... mighty and fierce.
Most of the Guides' were mild-tempered herbivores. Elk, koi, snow rabbit and so on, cute and adorable.
And Lin Yuan knew that she was a different kind.
It's not too different, Lin Yuan comforted herself, "it" was actually cute, it was just "a little bit" bigger.
"It's not that I won't give you permission. That is to say..." the clerk muttered, and when she turned to a certain page, she suddenly stopped, "Eh, this is spiritual induction?" She paused and closed the file, as if thinking of something, Lin Yuan's eyes turned into a smile again, "Xiao Yuan, you see, if you're a Guide, running around everywhere really don't look good. I'm also in a difficult situation here. But..." She changed her tone, "We just have a very important matter here.
"Did you see that prisoner? It's a murderer." She pointed out the window with her chin, "We need a Guide to invade his spirit, pry open his mouth and let him confess his crimes truthfully."
A Guide was also a soldier, and they must obey the order of the officer in name.
But the job of a Guide was to appease the Sentinels, and no one wanted to do the dirty work of interrogating criminals.
Those Guides who had matched marriage contracts to nobles and royal families would not be assigned to such tasks. The officer felt that it was just right to put this matter on Lin Yuan's head.
Probably because she was afraid that Lin Yuan would disagree, she stretched out her hand and patted Lin Yuan's hand across the table, as if Lin Yuan had some kind of close friendship with her, "You helped our Military Control Office solve the problem, I have to give you the green light too, don't I?"
Roy, who was waiting at the side, heard this, pushed Lin Yuan away, and was about to push himself up to speak for Lin Yuan.
He heard Lin Yuan answer lightly: "Yes."
Roy turned his head in surprise, feeling that this little girl was really careless. When he explained to her along the way, she clearly agreed very obediently.
But she turned around and forgot! When someone made such an unreasonable request, she nodded without even thinking about it.
Maybe she didn't know how terrifying such a vicious criminal would be.
Those were not the Sentinels in the White Tower who were at a loss when they met their Guides. Such a person rolled through the sea of blood and crawled out of hell, sending away lives in his hands. People like him were often strong-willed, fierce and brutal.
It was not only difficult but dangerous to pry open their barriers and invade the mental picture.
She was simply ignorant.
He winked at Lin Yuan vigorously.
But Lin Yuan didn't see it.
She looked over the window and kept looking at the looping screen, as if thinking about something.
The officer was very happy. She came to the window, stood beside Lin Yuan, and whispered the things to pay attention to.
"Actually... pleading guilty is not the main thing. What's important is the whereabouts of that piece of chrysanthemum jade." She winked her eyes, made a mysterious look that you understand, and lowered her voice, "That's a live insect jade. It’s priceless. It’s what the higher-ups asked for, so you must get it and send it up.”
Lin Yuan squinted her eyes and looked out the window, her face was expressionless, showing no signs of happiness or anger, and she just hummed lightly as an answer.
The clerk was relieved. This was just a young girl who hadn't been out of the White Tower yet, and this girl was also requesting her help.
She should be very obedient and easy to manipulate.
So she stretched out her hand to pat Lin Yuan's shoulder, and encouraged her, "Just let yourself go and do your best. As long as you can find the whereabouts of the thing, even if the Sentinel is killed or crazy, it's fine."
The young Guide in her academy uniform turned to look at her. The dark eyes on the fair face made the officer's heart inexplicably terrified.
It must be an illusion, because she soon heard the Guide's obedient reply, "Understood."
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