Lu Zexuan brought Yu Ran to the seventh floor underground and found the sentinel. The source of his frenzy was cleared by Mor, but the damaged spiritual world was only half restored. At this time, he was in a coma, and he was obviously very uneasy in his sleep, with his brows tightly furrowed.
Lu Zexuan swiped his card to open the door, and Yu Ran walked in, connecting the green thinking tentacle to the sentry's forehead.
The sleepy sentry felt as if a breeze was blowing through his brain, soft and warm. The breeze dispelled all distracting thoughts from his spiritual world. At the same time, the green vines seemed to bring vitality, and the damaged spiritual picture began to slowly rebuild.
A clear voice deep in my mind said, "Your comrades must hope that you can live until the day when the truth comes out."
The sentry murmured in his sleep, "The truth?"
Yu Ran said: "Don't you want to know why they suddenly went berserk?"
The sentry was stunned for a moment, and the voice soon disappeared. The restoration of the spiritual world was completed. The sentry opened his eyes in confusion, and then met a pair of strange eyes -
He actually had two different colored pupils, one black and one red. However, this person's pupils were not scary, but clear and beautiful, with a gentle gaze.
Is this... a guide
The sentry realized what had happened and hurriedly said gratefully: "Thank you, thank you for saving me."
Yu Ran said gently: "You're welcome, just live well."
The sentry nodded. If he committed suicide, how could he face his comrades who had sacrificed their lives? He must live until the day when the truth came out, so that he could give an explanation to his comrades! The sentry mustered up his courage again and began to adjust his spiritual world.
After dealing with the sentry, Yu Ran walked towards the other cells. He whispered to Lu Zexuan, "I can't treat patients alone yet, so I can only be Moore's assistant. I want to learn more from him these few days. If you are busy, you don't have to accompany me all the time."
Lu Zexuan said: "It's okay, I'm not busy."
Yu Ran: “… ?”
How can I save people if you keep following me like a follower
Forget it, forcing Lu Zexuan to leave would only arouse this man's suspicion.
Yu Ran had no choice but to continue taking Lu Zexuan to check on the sentries on the seventh floor below ground. After checking around, he returned to the dormitory to rest.
After taking a nap in the afternoon, Yu Ran was not sleepy at all at night. He closed his eyes and pretended to sleep on the bed, but he was actually thinking about the rescue strategy in his mind.
After these two visits to the basement, Yu Ran had memorized the layout of the cells and the escape route.
Cell No. 103 is in the third room on the south corridor. He can go down from the elevator due south. As long as he destroys the surveillance cameras in the southwest and southeast corners, he will not be captured.
The A-level sentinels were held on the negative tenth floor. Once a sentinel of this level went berserk, it would take a long time to treat him. It would be safer to subdue him violently by attacking him and make him follow your instructions.
It won’t be too late to provide treatment once we get the person out of the White Tower.
There are three ways to leave the White Tower. One is the helipad on the upper floors, where you can fly out on a spaceship or starship, but this method is obviously not feasible. The second is the aerial parking lot on the tenth floor, where hovercrafts for daily use are parked. A pass is required to enter and exit, and you will be stopped and inspected. The third is the pedestrian exit on the first floor, which leads to the central square, where there are many sentinels patrolling back and forth.
The Marshal must have made arrangements for the pick-up. The best way is to take the sentry to the square on the first floor. As long as he avoids the patrol troops and blends into the crowd, it will be difficult to be discovered.
After 10 o'clock at night, the number of people entering and leaving the White Tower will decrease significantly, which is the best time to take action.
***
In the next few days, Yu Ran assisted Moore in treating the sentinels. Lu Zexuan followed him every time, and it was indeed boring after following him for a long time.
The guide's treatment was all in the spiritual world. Lu Zexuan could only see Moore and Yu Ran each extending their thought tentacles, touching the sentinel, then retracting their thought tentacles and continuing to touch the next sentinel.
The conversation between the two guides was also in the spiritual world. There was no sound during the treatment. Lu Zexuan, who stood by as a door god, always felt that he was a little redundant? At first, he was worried about Yu Ran, but now it seems that Yu Ran is not in any danger with Moore.
It was Saturday, May 6th.
In the afternoon, Yu Ran continued to treat the sentinels with Moore. He deliberately held back and only repaired half of the sentinel's mental image. After all, his "mental power was limited", so it was normal that he could not complete the repair in one go.
Lu Zexuan took the "exhausted" Yu Ran back to rest. Yu Ran took a nap and woke up at exactly 10 o'clock in the evening. He had dinner as usual and said to Lu Zexuan, "I want to go see the sentinel who was not dealt with this afternoon and help him repair his mental picture."
—This is the fourth time.
For the past four days, Yu Ran would go back to work overtime every night because he couldn't finish his work in the afternoon. Repeated events are most likely to make people get used to it and relax their vigilance. Lu Zexuan really didn't doubt it at all and said, "I'll go with you."
Yu Ran was silent for a few seconds before he asked tentatively, "Can I go by myself?"
Lu Zexuan asked, "What's wrong?"
Yu Ran blushed slightly and whispered, "You always accompany me. In the eyes of outsiders, I am too weak. If I go to see a sentry for treatment and need your personal protection, the sentries will laugh at me. I am embarrassed to bother you all the time."
Lu Zexuan: “…”
Yu Ran looked at Lu Zexuan with a serious expression: "In the future, when we go on missions, you are the captain and you have to command the overall situation. You can't always be distracted to take care of me. Let me take care of myself and become an independent guide who can assist you, instead of being a burden to you, okay?"
Lu Zexuan's heart trembled slightly.
Every word Yu Ran said made sense, and he really had no reason to refute it.
Being overprotective is not good for Yu Ran's growth. Besides, with Mor here, the security in the White Tower is strict, and all the sentries are locked up. Even if there is an emergency, they can be controlled with electric shock in time, so Yu Ran will not be in danger.
Even in such a safe White Tower, he still had to worry about Yu Ran. When he went out into the wild, he couldn't just tie Yu Ran to his belt, right
Lu Zexuan said ashamedly: "I'm sorry. I wanted to take care of you so much that I ignored your feelings."
Yu Ran smiled and said, "It's okay. I know you are worried about me. Can I go down to find Moore by myself today?"
Lu Zexuan said simply: "Okay, go ahead."
Yu Ran went out happily with the pass - he had no plans to take action today. If something went wrong in the White Tower on the first day he went out alone, it would be too obvious.
This time, Yu Ran obediently came to the underground seventh floor, found Mor, and worked overtime with Mor.
Lu Zexuan sent a message to Moore, asking about the situation: "Did Yu Ran come to see you?"
Moore replied, "Don't worry, Ranran is here with me. He has been learning very quickly recently and can now handle some simple C-level sentinels independently. Those above B-level can also assist me smoothly."
Lu Zexuan breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, thank you for taking care of him during this period of time."
Moore teased, "Why didn't you come, you follower?"
Lu Zexuan said: "It's not good to always follow him. After all, he is 18 years old and should do things independently."
Moer said: "It's good to know. If you don't know me, you might think you are Yu Ran's guardian."
Lu Zexuan: “…”
Never mind. He has always been following Yu Ran, and he really is like a guardian taking a child out. He should let Yu Ran grow up on his own.
***
The next afternoon, Yu Ran repeated the same trick and repaired half of a sentry's damaged mental picture, and went to work overtime again in the evening.
This time, Lu Zexuan did not ask too many questions and let him go without any worries. Moreover, if he kept sending messages to Moer, Moer would get annoyed with him, so Lu Zexuan simply did not send any messages.
He first destroyed the surveillance camera in the elevator facing south. The moment he walked out of the elevator, the two special silencer bullets in his hands were fired instantly, and the cameras at the corners of the southeast and southwest corridors shattered silently - the force was just right, and although the cameras were destroyed, not a single piece of glass fell to the ground.
There was indeed a number "103" written on the door of the third cell in the south corridor, which glowed faintly in the darkness.
Unlike the deafening roars and clinking of chains on other floors, the tenth floor below ground is exceptionally quiet. There are no lights on, and the pitch-black and quiet environment makes people feel frightened, as if they have arrived at the depths of hell.
Yu Ran walked quickly to cell 103, swiped open the door, and turned off the continuous current on the chain.
—That’s right. In order to control these A-level berserk sentries, strong electric currents are constantly flowing in the cells on the tenth underground floor.
The sentries endured the torture of electric shocks all the time. After a long time, they stopped struggling and making any sound. They were all in a "half-dead" state.
In the darkness, Yu Ran couldn't see who was imprisoned inside, but the sentinel with keen senses obviously noticed his presence. As soon as the current stopped, the frenzied sentinel seemed to immediately regain his desire to attack and pounced on Yu Ran without hesitation!
The sentry's extremely powerful fist, mixed with fierce palm wind, attacked Yu Ran's face!
However, the next moment, countless red tentacles of thought suddenly stretched out and quickly wrapped around the sentry in front of him like silk.
The sentry seemed to be frozen in time, unable to move. In the swamp deep in his mind, dense red thought tentacles suddenly appeared in the bushes, igniting terrible flames wherever they went! The raging fire shot up into the sky, almost burning his mental picture to ashes!
The sentry's head ached terribly, but he couldn't make any sound for help
The flames burned a large area of rotten bushes, and the fear of impending death made the sentinel's eyes widen slightly.
At this moment, a voice clearly sounded in the depths of my mind: "If you want to live, listen to me. I will save you."
The sentry answered subconsciously: "I, I'll obey."
Yu Ran said calmly: "Your spiritual body is a chameleon tree lizard?"
Sentinel: “Yes.”
Yu Ran said: "Leave the broken tail behind and pretend to be dead. The real body comes with me, don't ask any more questions."
—Lizard, this spiritual entity has a special ability, the body can break on its own initiative.
When lizards in nature encounter natural enemies, they can leave behind their broken tails to disguise themselves as themselves, allowing the broken tails to jump around to attract the natural enemies' attention, allowing the real body to escape.
A-level and above spirit bodies are lizard sentinels and can do the same.
The sentry's body suddenly snapped at the waist and split into two. His "broken tail" quickly turned into his own appearance, pretending to be dead, while his "main body" broke free from the chain and quickly caught up with Yu Ran.
Yu Ran put his hand on the sentry's back, controlled him with his mind tentacles, and led him into the elevator.
Under the light of the elevator, Yu Ran finally saw the sentry's appearance clearly—
The man was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with handsome and strong features. However, no one knew how much torture he had endured. His clothes were tattered, and his body was covered with dried blood and bruises from electric shocks. His hair was messy like weeds, and it was unknown how long he hadn't taken a shower.
His eyes, without whites, were as black as ink, like a demon that had fallen into the abyss.
The crazy sentry was controlled by Yu Ran at this moment. Like a puppet, he followed Yu Ran's actions with a dull expression.
When Yu Ran saw his face clearly, she felt a sharp pain in her heart—it was this person.
No wonder the marshal asked him to rescue the sentinel.
A Sentinel, the spiritual form of "Chameleon Tree Lizard", has a strong ability to escape by breaking off the tail, the ability to blend in with the environment and change color, and the ability to adapt to extreme temperatures. The youngest battalion commander of the Star Legion's reconnaissance battalion, Major Tang Ce, once a child of destiny, has fallen into such a situation!
Yu Ran suppressed his heartache and quickly took him to the first floor.
It was ten o'clock in the evening, the night when the least people came and went in the White Tower. There were several sentinels on duty in the lobby on the first floor. Yu Ran directly activated the invisibility ability of the nine-tailed fox to eliminate his own presence, and at the same time asked the sentinels to use their spiritual body abilities to turn their bodies into the color of the marble floor.
The marble floor on the first floor was dark grey, and after the sentinels changed colour, they almost blended in with the floor. Coupled with Yu Ran's nine-tailed fox invisibility, the people around them automatically ignored them.
No one noticed that Yu Ran quickly left the hall with a sentry.
The troops in the square patrolled back and forth every 10 minutes. Yu Ran timed it accurately, took the sentry to a corner, and quickly started treatment.
He has been injured for too long and his mental state is terrible.
The vast swamp was filled with corrupted silt. The bushes and trees that lizards liked to crawl on were mostly dead. The entire spiritual world was gray, like the scorched earth left after a war, without a trace of life.
Such a serious injury cannot be completely healed in the short term, so we can only deal with it roughly and let him regain his sanity first.
Yu Ran decisively activated his S-level healing ability. Countless green vines, carrying the fragrance of grass and trees, plunged directly into the center of the swamp pool, surging wildly in the depths of the swamp!
Wherever the vines passed, it was like a stagnant swamp, which was gradually purified, and the rotten bushes around it began to take root and sprout again...
There is a lot of black fog in the spiritual world, so many that it is almost impossible to count.
"General, be careful!"
"This is a trap, Captain Tang, hurry up and leave!"
"Ahhh, it hurts, my hand—"
"No-"
The Sentinel's roar of collapse echoed repeatedly in his mental picture. The bloody faces of countless comrades appeared in the picture. Body parts were everywhere. The blue starship in the sky suddenly exploded. The dazzling fire was the last and clearest picture left in his memory.
Yu Ran's expression turned cold, and the green vines suddenly rolled up, forcibly suppressing these negative emotions and burying them deep in the swamp.
The sentry suddenly woke up from a nightmare.
His dark eyes gradually regained clarity, the whites of his eyes reappeared, and his gaze slowly regained focus. He looked at the person in front of him and murmured in his spiritual world: "Am I... not... dead?"
Yu Ran said calmly in the spiritual world: "I am here to save you. I cannot leave the White Tower for too long. It is up to you from now on. Find a way to leave here. Someone will pick you up. Be careful to hide."
The sentinel finally regained consciousness. Noticing the renewed vitality of the spiritual world and the energetic spiritual lizard beside him, he looked at Yu Ran gratefully: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Yu Ran glanced at him, "Take care of yourself."
The sentry was stunned for a moment, and the next moment he saw the boy suddenly disappear from his sight... No, he disappeared from his consciousness, he could not sense the other person's existence.
This is an invisible guide with S-level healing abilities, who seemed to have subdued him instantly just now.
Who is this person
Why does it feel oddly familiar
Tang Ce withdrew his thoughts and regained his spirit. He immediately transformed the lizard into the same color as its surroundings.
While the patrolling sentry was away, he jumped nimbly and jumped dozens of meters away in an instant, landing on a tree around the square.
The wounded sentry took advantage of the trees' cover for the lizards and quickly disappeared into the night.
(End of this chapter)