After humans entered the interstellar age, two types of evolutionists appeared: "Sentinels" and "Guides". Most Sentinels are born with sharper senses and stronger bodies than ordinary people, while there is no regular pattern for the awakening of Guides. Some Guides are born with strong mental powers, while others awaken suddenly, and there are even cases where they awaken after the age of 30.
According to federal regulations, awakened guides must register with the "Guide Association". They will be taken to the "Sanctuary" to receive primary education and learn how to control and use mental power. After learning, young guides can go to school to continue their studies. Guides who awaken after graduating from college will be assigned jobs directly by the government.
According to the strength of their abilities, sentinels and guides are strictly divided into different levels, from low to high: C-level, B-level, A-level, and the rare S-level.
Yu Ran said that he "had just awakened last month and hadn't had time to register with the association yet." This reason made sense. His spiritual body looked very weak, and he was probably a C-level guide - but when judging a person, you can't just look at the surface. The surface can be disguised, but the spiritual world is the most real.
As long as you enter the guide's spiritual world, you will know whether it is true or false after a try.
Moore quickly came up with a solution. He placed his hand on the boy's shoulder and looked into his eyes gently. "Don't be afraid. I am Moore, the logistics guide of the Federal Falcon Special Forces. The person who saved you just now is our captain, Major General Lu Zexuan. He has no ill will towards you. He was just asking a routine question just now."
While speaking, More secretly used his "mental comfort" ability to dispel the boy's panic. The boy's mental strength was indeed not strong, and he did not resist More's comfort at all. His emotions soon stabilized, and his eyes looking at More gradually became full of trust.
Mor struck while the iron was hot and continued to ask: "Can you tell me under what circumstances you awakened?"
Yu Ran said seriously, "I grew up here and was an ordinary person until I was 18. Last month, on my birthday, my parents died unexpectedly, and I suddenly awakened the ability of a guide... However, I don't know how to use this ability yet, and I don't have the money to buy an interstellar ticket to the Guide Association on the capital planet, so I was delayed in registering..."
The awakening of a guide is "spiritual power", and many guides will suddenly awaken when their spiritual world is severely impacted. The boy's parents suddenly passed away, and his grief reached its peak. His spiritual world was severely damaged, and he unexpectedly awakened as a guide. However, he was an orphan due to his poor family background, and he was unable to register with the Guide Association of the Capital Planet in time... It sounds reasonable.
However, Moore always felt that this was a bit like a pre-arranged story, too "logical".
Morwen said, "Don't worry, since you have become a guide, you will be well taken care of in the future. You are still very weak now, so go to my room and have a good sleep first."
Yu Ran obediently followed Moore to his room.
Space on the starship is limited, and Moore's room is only about 15 square meters, with a bed, a wardrobe, and a separate bathroom. Moore took out a set of clean pajamas from the wardrobe: "This is new, go to the bathroom and change into it. The bandages we use are all military waterproof gauze, and you can take a simple hot bath."
The boy nodded, took the pajamas, and walked into the bathroom, where the sound of splashing water was soon heard.
A message appeared on the communicator. It was from Lu Zexuan: "How is the guide?"
Moore said: "His emotions have stabilized. He said that his parents died last month and he was stimulated to wake up. I will test it carefully to see if it is true or not."
"Well, once you determine his origins, report it to the Guide Association as soon as possible."
"clear."
After a while, Yu Ran came out of the shower.
His facial features were very good-looking, and his heterochromatic eyes were especially clear and beautiful. The thin boy wore a white pajamas that was one size too large, with wet black hair hanging down beside his ears. He looked well-behaved and obedient, which made people feel pity for him. His spirit body, the little white fox, was still curled up into a furry ball, lying on the shoulder of his master, without any threat.
Seeing the young man's confused look, Moore's heart softened slightly. He took him to sit on the bed, tentatively extended his thought tentacles, and said gently: "You have been frightened a lot today, you may not sleep well, do you want me to help you sleep?"
Yu Ran said without hesitation: "Excuse me, Dr. Moore, I really can't sleep."
Moore asked immediately, "Can I take a look at your mental image? I want to know your mental power level so that I can report it to the association. Don't worry, I won't break your mental barrier to pry into your privacy."
The mental landscape is the world that Sentinels and Guides construct in their minds, and it is also the space where their spiritual companions live. From a house or a garden to the sky, the ocean, and the desert, the more powerful the Sentinels and Guides are, the broader the mental landscape in their minds will be.
Entering the guide's mental picture and determining his level of mental strength is also a necessary step for newly awakened guides to register with the association.
Yu Ran nodded and said a little embarrassedly: "Sure. My mental picture is very small, it should be C level, right?"
He seemed to be spiritually inspired by More and trusted him very much.
Mor extended a few white tentacles of his mind and gently pressed them against Yu Ran's forehead. Yu Ran saw his spiritual body, which was a pure white elk, with antlers emitting a lustrous luster, beautiful and holy. It stood quietly beside its master and looked at Yu Ran, and its gentle eyes seemed to have a reassuring power.
—A-level guide, possessing powerful healing mental power.
As the white tentacles of thought approached gently, Yu Ran felt his head become dizzy and his mood became extremely happy and relaxed. He soon closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
Moore also successfully entered Yu Ran's mental picture.
It was a clear lake, only the size of a football field, surrounded by mist, and the border could be seen at a glance. A cute little white fox was lying by the lake to rest. Its owner was asleep, and it was sleeping soundly too.
Such a small mental picture is indeed a C-level guide.
Thinking this, Moore continued to explore Yu Ran's mental picture.
Yu Ran's spiritual world is mostly filled with warm and beautiful memories. He lived with his parents on a deserted planet. His father was a miner and his mother ran a cake shop. He learned baking since he was a child and could make many exquisite cakes with his flexible hands. The cake shop's business was not good. Although the family's living conditions were difficult, they were always happy.
The black fog spread rapidly, blocking out the sunlight like a dark cloud.
"Dad, Mom!" In the black fog, there was a vivid memory belonging to Yu Ran.
The young man stood in the crowd and shouted heart-wrenchingly towards the collapsed mine.
There were cries of sadness all around. The mine on the deserted planet collapsed, and many miners were buried underground, including Yu Ran's parents. It was Yu Ran's birthday that day, and her mother had already prepared a birthday cake. At noon, she went to deliver lunch to her father, but the mine collapsed and both of them were buried underground.
When Yu Ran arrived after hearing the news, the scene had been blocked off. He could only stand helplessly in the distance, waiting for rescue with the last glimmer of hope. The excavator dug out more and more bodies, and the faces of many bodies had been completely disfigured. Yu Ran walked stiffly to the two bodies, trembling as he touched the rings on their hands, his voice choked with sobs: "Dad... Mom..."
The boy witnessed the tragic death of his parents with his own eyes. The pain and despair he felt were infinitely magnified in his mental picture, and Moore could even empathize with them - this was a shadow deep in Yu Ran's memory and his strongest negative emotion.
In the mental picture, these negative emotions will turn into black mist, affecting the owner's emotions. At this time, because of its appearance, the boy fell into a terrible nightmare. His brows were tightly furrowed, his body became stiff and tense, and the little white fox in the mental world was also shaking uneasily.
Moore immediately extended his thought tentacles and dispersed the black mist.
The shadows in the boy's dream gradually disappeared, and the sun once again filled the lake. He soon got rid of the nightmare and fell into a deep sleep again.
Moore carefully exited his mental image. The boy on the bed was sleeping soundly. Moore reached out and gently touched his head, saying softly: "Go to sleep, those things are in the past, and everything will be fine in the future."
After calming Yu Ran down, Moore considerately turned off the lights, got up and walked out of the room.
The guide's footsteps gradually faded away, and the white elk followed its master away from here, and all its thought tentacles were retracted.
In the darkness, the boy who was supposed to be "sleeping" on the bed suddenly opened his eyes.
In his mental vision, a breeze blew, and the thick fog around the lake quickly dissipated, revealing the obscured real world.
It was a vast primeval forest, and the lake was just the tip of the iceberg.
In the forest where there is no visible border, there are towering trees with well-developed root systems everywhere. The branches and leaves of the huge trees are intertwined and connected to each other to form a green shade. The sunlight shines onto the ground through the gaps between the leaves. The flowers and plants on the ground grow wildly. The whole forest is full of vitality and is so huge that it is shocking.
—This is his true spiritual picture.
The little white fox that was originally "sleeping" by the lake suddenly enlarged several times and ran quickly in the forest.
Soon, it found its companions hiding in the forest.
A huge red nine-tailed fox stood deep in the forest, its blood-red eyes quietly watching its companion running towards it. Its nine tails shot up into the sky, and under the sunlight, its body seemed to be surrounded by blazing flames. The white fox was smaller than it, but it ran swiftly and agilely, not looking half dead like before.
After the two foxes met, the little white fox asked for credit: "Poor and weak C-level spirit body, was I pretending well just now?"
The red fox said, "Master, you can use the mental illusion to deceive Mor temporarily. But Lu Zexuan is not easy to deal with. He is an S-level sentinel. You should be cautious in front of him."
Yu Ran said calmly, "I know, his nose is very sharp, and he smelled my guide element."
A guide recognizes another guide through spiritual perception.
The sentinels, however, can distinguish the different smells of each guide through their sense of smell.
Yu Ran used a "spiritual illusion" to confuse More, making him believe in his experiences and life story. More thought that his mental comfort to Yu Ran had worked, but he didn't know that it was the "illusion" created by Yu Ran that completely trapped him.
But the sentinels don't have mind tentacles, and can't easily reach the spiritual world of the guides. They believe more in sensory memory and intuition. Yu Ran was hit by a rock, his forehead was injured and bleeding, and the guide element emitted from his body was more vivid than usual. Lu Zexuan just caught the special smell of his guide element.
"Fortunately, the association has erased all my information, and I can't find anything with just the guide element... I'll just have to adapt to the situation. I hope he doesn't ruin my plan."
Yu Ran leaped up and landed on the white fox.
The white fox carried him and ran quickly in the forest, and the red nine-tailed fox followed him closely.
The wind in my ears made the leaves rustle.
The boy closed his eyes and basked in the sunlight above his head peacefully.
This vast primeval forest is his true spiritual paradise.
The author has something to say:
The combination of sentinel and guide includes physical and spiritual combination, so Yu Ran's spiritual picture should be described in detail, so that he can perfectly integrate with Lu Dui in the later stage~
(End of this chapter)