Invasion [3]
Lin Yuan stood under the rack and looked up at the sentinel who was tied to it.
The man drooped his head, his face was covered with blood, his hands were tightly bound and hung above his head, and his toes could not step on the ground. The scorching sun high above the rack made him look even worse, almost like a rag hanging from the iron rack to dry.
Lin Yuan now remembered the name of this sentinel, which was a bit weird. His surname was Ni and his last name was Ji.
Ni Ji, yes, that's the name.
At this time, she couldn't see Ni Ji's previous appearance at all.
Lin Yuan still remembered that several years ago, this Sentinel was wearing the uniform of the special forces of the Sentinel Academy, with a clean face.
The black tights framed a lean body line, with a tough waist and long legs.
The black military boots stepped on the snow, splashing snow beads all over the sky.
At that time, the young Sentinel was like a sharp knife without restraint.
Today, if not for that unique sound of the tide, Lin Yuan would not think that this was the same person at all.
For some reason, the sound of sea water always gave Lin Yuan a familiar feeling. Every time they heard this sound, the tentacles were very excited. Rolling one by one, standing upright, with a small suction cup, gearing up, impulsively wanting to actively explore.
When Lin Yuan appeared at the execution ground, the observing Sentinels under the screen were extremely surprised.
They made way for her one after another, watched curiously, discussed excitedly in low voices, and more people gathered together.
No one expected that a Guide would be sent to act as an interrogator.
After all, in such a military camp, interrogation was very common, while the appearance of Guides is a rare event.
Ni Ji, who was on the torture rack, heard the buzzing of discussions around him getting louder. He opened his eyes and saw a young girl walking towards him from the crowd.
It was a Guide. She was wearing an ivory skirt, with a slender figure, soft features, even walking gracefully. It seemed that she was not aggressive.
But just seeing her for the first second, Ni Ji's heart sank completely.
Why was it this person?
Ni Ji was actually not too afraid of the Guides sent by those people.
When he was young, he lived in the capital of the empire and met many Guides in the White Tower. The Guides were meticulously raised in the White Tower since they were young. They wore beautiful clothes and lived a life of luxury and comfort, like the flowers in the greenhouse.
Even though the Guide was born with a strong mental power that could influence the Sentinel, he never felt that people who grew up in that environment could easily pry open his mental barrier and invade his spiritual world.
Even when he was so weak after being tortured for many days.
It's just that these people in the quartermaster department were too dirty.
He had seen a Sentinel, tortured to the point of a nervous breakdown. It was a man as strong as steel.
They started by torturing his body and killing his will. When he was abused to the weakest point, they used humiliating methods to crush his spirits.
Unfortunately, it was that girl they found.
If there was a Guide in the White Tower that made him afraid, then he would say it was the girl he met several years ago.
Back then, that very young girl possessed a powerful mental power that shocked even him.
It happened that she was the one who came, and it happened that he had offended her severely in order to carry out a military order.
Ni Ji smiled wryly, tasted the smell of blood oozing from his chapped lips, and suddenly felt extremely thirsty.
Those people hung him here, and they haven't let him drink even a sip of water for four or five days.
His throat was as dry as burning.
Maybe he's about to fail? Not even the first step of the plan.
Ni Ji felt that the sun above his head was too dazzling, and his consciousness began to seem a little blurred due to the sun.
Obviously so many people died and so much blood was shed. Yet the God of Destiny was still unwilling to give even a little bit of luck.
He should have known that something like fate would only smile at those who lived at the top of the White Tower.
If he can have a sip of water to drink...
He knew that he shouldn't think about such unrealistic things at this time.
But the depths of the body are clamoring, thirsty, the more he didn't let myself think about it, the more he couldn't help but stare at this thought cycle back and forth.
Just give me a sip of water, he thought.
If he can drink a sip of water at this time, maybe he can make it through.
The non-commissioned officer in charge of the interrogation was very happy to see Lin Yuan's arrival. The addition of the Guide means that the task he has been unable to finish could be handed over.
He graciously brought tea and water to Lin Yuan, moved a comfortable armchair, picked the thickest whip from the torture equipment on the table, and held it in his hand with great interest.
"You sit and rest first, and I'll give him a tough one so it's easy for you to do it later."
The Guide took the tea and took a sip slowly. A pure white little hand was suddenly in his way, blocking his eyes, and waved it back indifferently.
"No, you step back." The tone was very rude.
The level of the interrogator was low, and he needed help from her. Although he was angry in his heart, he didn't dare to say more. Resisting the unhappiness in his heart, he stepped back.
He thought to himself, the young girl is so arrogant, this hard bone is not easy to chew*, I want to see if you can handle it.
*it's not an easy problem to handle
In the office on the second floor, the clerk and Roy moved chairs and sat side by side by the window to watch the excitement.
"Xiao Yuan is young, but the college's assessment results are quite high. She seems very good." Clerk Wu flipped through Lin Yuan's files, looking very happy.
Roy thought to himself, you don't know, she only got ridiculously high in one subject, and basically failed all other subjects. This girl was a weird person, but how many of those who can apply to be admitted to the Special Research Office were not monsters?
Of course, he would not tell the clerk beside him.
Roy craned his neck and looked down the window. He didn't know if Lin Yuan can do it or not?
Everyone held their breath, waiting to see what method the new Guide would use to torture the stubborn prisoner.
They wanted to see if the man, who was unwilling to give in even under torture, would break down in the soft and boneless hands of the Guide and confess.
They saw the Guide raised her hand,
her white and delicate fingers pinched the Sentinel's chin on the torture rack,
forcing his face to lift up.
Then, with her other hand, she picked up the water glass on the table and fed it to the Sentinel.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, it seems to be a normal, problem-free process.
"She, what is she doing?" Officer Wu almost jumped up in surprise. She pointed to the window and asked Roy.
Roy, who was sitting next to her, raised his feet unhurriedly, and glanced at her impatiently with an idiotic look.
It seems that this was the way it should be done, and only idiots in their office who have never seen the world will make a fuss.
Officer Wu didn't want to lose face in front of Roy, who was her equal. She held back what she wanted to say, moved her shoulders, and forced herself to sit still.
It's not a big deal, let's see if it's a big deal, she said to herself, maybe this is really a special way. Anyway, those who can enter the Special Research Department are... strange, that department can't go up and down, there is no serious person in charge, and they are all freaks. Ah, still can't figure it out.
She peeked at Roy with her eyes, and Roy swaggered with his legs crossed, looking too lazy to explain.
What she didn't know was that Roy was also completely confused.
Why did this young girl do this?
He didn't know, but he didn't care, the young girl was one of his own people. And he didn't care if these idiots in the Military Control Office could finish their task well.
Lin Yuan pinched the man's chin and poured the whole glass of water into it.
She watched the man drink the last drop of water in the glass, parted his parched lips, and gasped for breath.
The man drank water from her hand, then shook his head and got rid of her restraint, and raised his eyes to look at her.
His face was bloodstained, and his dirty hair drooped in front of his eyes. How very embarrassing that face should be.
But when he raised his eyelids and looked over from behind his filthy bangs, she saw the same boy that stood on the snow back then.
Extremely aloof in the cold, fierce and unwilling to give in, like a cold knife reflecting the color of snow.
Lin Yuan rubbed her fingers, rubbing off the blood on her white fingertips.
Then she opened her palm, covered the man's eyes, and pressed it on his entire forehead.
...
Lin Yuan found herself on a sea. The sea was boundless, the water in the distance was clear blue, and the water near her was emerald green.
Without hesitation, she jumped into the sea.
The waves were surging around, and the sun shone through the sea, plating gold on every wave.
Diving into this sea was like being in a huge and pure emerald, which was as beautiful as a dream.
The boundless beauty was mysterious and frightening.
It turned out that this was Ni Ji's spiritual barrier. His spiritual barrier was actually an ocean.
Sentinels had their own spiritual realm, a place that was vulnerable and private. It visualized their state of mind and emotions, and stored their unknown private memories. So, they erected walls to guard the most private garden of their souls.
The spiritual barrier was the strong wall for each Sentinel to protect their own spiritual realm.
Lin Yuan had seen the spiritual barriers of many Sentinels.
Mostly it would manifest as something solid and bounded, such as iron walls of metal, walls of huge stones, and sharp thorns.
This was the first time that someone's spiritual barrier was a boundless sea.
The sea was the softest, but at the same time the sea was the most turbulent and powerful.
Lin Yuan felt that if it was not her, perhaps no Guide would dare to jump into this deep sea without any scruples like her.
As she dived continuously in the sea, the sunlight penetrating into the sea became very weak, and strands of sunlight fell on her body like golden threads.
The sea water that wrapped around her body looks very calm and gentle. There was no response to Lin Yuan's intrusion.
It looked like a real ocean.
But Lin Yuan knew that this was Ni Ji's spiritual realm, and huge waves and eddies would appear in the sea at any time, attacking the intruders mercilessly.
She felt no fear, and calmly waited for the moment of she would be engaged in battle.
She swam all the way to the depths of the sea.
Layers of skirts floated behind her as she dived, and she moved freely in the sea like a creature that has lived in the depths of the sea since ancient times.
Faintly, there were some invisible huge phantoms, extending from under the floating skirt like seaweed, extending happily in all directions.
Lin Yuan felt that she was in a good mood. Although she was doing such a dangerous thing, she felt happy.
She hadn't experienced such emotional fluctuations for a long time.
At this time, she would think of Jiang Yangshuo always saying that she lacked emotion, not like a normal Guide.
In fact, she has worked very hard these years, trying to make herself look like a normal person, trying to maintain the appearance that a normal Guide should have. She tried her best to live the normal life that everyone thought she should live.
Tried to no avail.
The bottom of the sea was very quiet, so quiet that she felt comfortable. Some distant and unreal sounds came from a deeper place. Like some kind of whale, or some kind of fish, or some ancient sea life calling, inviting her to swim there.
Lin Yuan saw the seabed, and also saw the garden hidden deep in the seabed.
There were soft seaweeds and gorgeous corals. They were like a huge forest, undulating and swaggering with the fluctuations of the sea like breathing. Groups of small fish shuttled among them, and there were lovely conch and shells lying in the sand.
Those huge coral reefs scattered high and low, the surface was shining with colorful light, and the mountains were very deep, so deep she couldn't see the end of the space at a glance.
This was actually the spiritual world of a Sentinel.
So rich and colorful, mysterious and soft, it attracted people's hearts.
The tentacles developed that ambition earlier than Lin Yuan, each of them wanted to rush into that seabed, roll around there wantonly, break something, and then swim around on those coral reefs to explore.
Lin Yuan restrained that terrible impulse.
A Guide should be gentle and quiet, full of love and compassion for the beautiful things.
Shouldn't be like her.
Lin Yuan heard a clear whale cry, coming from the depths of the giant algae.
A huge whale appeared in the forest-like dark seaweed.
The back skin of the whale was black, the belly skin was pure white, it had a big and powerful tail, a halberd-shaped dorsal fin stood high on its back, and there was a white eye spot under each of its eyes.
It was a killer whale, a beast in the deep sea.
Strong, powerful, and huge in size, it was a well-deserved hunter in the ocean.
This was the spiritual body of the prisoner. A form of Sentinel's spiritual power, something like an avatar.
Lin Yuan didn't expect that the Sentinel would let her drive straight in without blocking her all the way. He actually wanted to choose to fight against herself at the edge of his spiritual realm.
This was a lunatic, Lin Yuan thought to herself.
A guy who was strong and dares to lick blood on the edge of a knife.
She suddenly felt a little excited. She started wanting to gnaw on her own fingers.
At the bottom of her heart, the thick crust of soil that she had worked hard to accumulate for many years suddenly cracked a gap, and a seedling of something sprang up from there, although it was quickly pressed down by Lin Yuan's hands.
A Guide should not be like this, a Guide should be gentle, a Guide should not be excited by battle.
The battle started in an instant.
Scary and thick|big tentacles suddenly broke through the soil on the bottom of the sea and drilled out. In an instant, the tail of the killer whale was wrapped.
The suction cups on the tentacles tightly locked the smooth skin of the killer whale, dragging the huge killer whale to the depths of the trench.
The other tentacle coiled up quickly, wound up along the long tail fin, circled around the smooth abdomen and dorsal fin, and traveled all the way upstream.
Suddenly the tentacle was held by a strong and powerful arm. It was the arm of a human male, with blue-purple bruises on the wrist, but they held the flexible and smooth tentacles tightly like iron clamps.
Then a sharp blade pressed against the tentacle's skin.
In the disturbed seaweed forest, the turbid sea water gradually becomes clear.
She could see everything clearly,
The black tail fin of the male killer whale was entangled by thick big tentacles, but the upper body has turned into a human male, revealing the face of the Sentinel that Lin Yuan had seen. The man stretched out his powerful arm, grabbed the tentacle, and held it tightly with a sharp blade.
Turbulent currents surged in all directions, and those aquatic plants and corals that were destroyed by the tentacles during the battle turned into memory foam and floated up.
Among the floating memory fragments, the Sentinel's young face could be seen sporadically.
Sometimes he was laughing, sometimes drinking with his companions, and sometimes fighting on the battlefield.
This was originally the world formed by his memories. Every excessive damage would make the Sentinel's body mentally unstable and painful.
But at this moment, the half-human half-whale Sentinel was floating amidst the flying air bubbles, calmly confronting Lin Yuan.
He clamped a tentacle with one hand, and held a sharp short knife in the other, the muscle lines of his arms were forcefully tensed. No one doubts that he had the ability to cut off an entire tentacle with one blow.
"It will hurt." He fixed his eyes on Lin Yuan, "It's more uncomfortable to be injured in the spiritual realm than in reality."
This was his spiritual world, as long as he thought he had a knife, he could have a knife. As long as he felt that the blade could hurt people, that knife could cut off Lin Yuan's spiritual tentacles.
The sharp blade's touch on the skin clearly transmitted to Lin Yuan's brain. A little bit of pain.
The scene in front of her seems to overlap with the snowy night that year.
Dangerous and deadly, it made the blood in the bottom of her heart hot.
A normal Guide shouldn't be like this, a Guide should...
F*ck what she should be.
F*ck being quiet and gentle.
Lin Yuan said to herself, she obviously liked it, and she clearly have this desire in her heart.
She didn't like to wait quietly and gently. She just liked to attack, liked to take the initiative and destroy, and liked to control everything by herself.
Liked to recklessly do things that "a Guide shouldn't do".
In the first place, she was not a normal Guide.
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