During these few days, Yu Ran and Lu Zexuan worked together to move the snow mountain scenes, and both of them were very tired.
Especially Yu Ran, who had the nine-tailed fox and the white fox act separately, had to do two things at once, which consumed a lot of mental energy. Now, looking at the snow-capped mountains that appeared in the forest, Yu Ran finally felt relieved.
He finally realized this unprecedented great plan. From now on, as long as the nine-tailed fox uses its invisibility to hide the snow mountain, even if someone checks his mental picture, they will not find anything unusual.
As for Lu Zexuan, the place was completely devastated and ruined. As long as Lu Zexuan acted like a "puppet" who obeyed Yu Ran's orders, the Dark Night Organization would not suspect him. In this way, the two of them could cooperate secretly and catch the big fish behind the scenes while minimizing casualties.
Perhaps because he finally relaxed, Yu Ran felt a strong sense of sleepiness in his mind, and he could hardly open his eyes. When their minds merged, Lu Zexuan noticed his fatigue at the first moment and immediately said, "Ran Ran, take a rest."
Yu Ran nodded: "Okay, you should sleep for a while too."
The two of them fell asleep on the Spider Queen's back.
There is also day and night on this planet, but the day here is not the 24-hour system common in human society. The night lasts for 12 hours, and the bright day is about 4 hours, with a cycle every 16 hours. However, the night here is not completely dark, there is still a faint light, which seems to be the light emitted by creatures like fireflies, dotted with stars, like a dream.
It was nighttime on the planet and everything was quiet.
A breeze blew by, ruffling Yu Ran's hair, but he didn't notice it at all. His eyes were tightly closed, and he was obviously tired and fell asleep.
But Lu Zexuan was not sleepy, instead he was very energetic.
During the process of moving the scene, all Lu Zexuan needed to do was to guide Yu Ran to the location of the snow mountain.
The only time that exhausted his energy was when he quietly concealed the secret about the Intelligence Bureau's special agent team that was jointly sealed by the Golden Eagle and the White Eagle. He used a large memory bubble and hid it deep in the snow-capped mountains.
Yu Ran was busy moving a huge amount of memories and had no time to check carefully, so he didn't notice it.
Of course, Lu Zexuan didn't hide it from Yu Ran on purpose, it's just that the right time has not come yet. Now that the two of them have merged their spirits, Yu Ran will know all this sooner or later. The lives of the two are now connected, and Lu Zexuan has to play the role of a "puppet", which makes it inconvenient for him to act. Therefore, when necessary, the special agent team can help Yu Ran.
My father should understand.
Although the existence of the special agent team must be "absolutely confidential", the original intention of my great-grandfather to leave behind this elite team that is loyal to the Lu family is to protect the heirs of the Lu family. Now, Lu Zexuan and Yu Ran's lives are linked. If Yu Ran gets into trouble, Lu Zexuan will surely die. Protecting Yu Ran is equivalent to protecting Lu Zexuan, so there is no need to make such a clear distinction.
Lu Zexuan looked at the person sleeping beside him.
Yu Ran has long and thick eyelashes, fair skin, handsome and soft facial features, and full lips. He looks a little thin, but his frame is even and beautiful, and his overall temperament is very capable.
When he was young, Lu Zexuan had imagined what kind of guide he would look for in the future. Would he be a gentle and lovely healing guide who needed his care, or an aggressive guide who was decisive and could fight alongside him
He never dreamed that he would meet a guide like Yu Ran—a person with first-rate acting skills, who could switch between "cute and innocent" and "ruthless and decisive" at any time, and who possessed both powerful attacking and healing spirits.
It can attack, heal, and even complete the unimaginable transportation and reconstruction of spiritual images. It is so powerful that even Lu Zexuan admires it.
Lu Zexuan knew that Yu Ran was very capable, and perhaps no one in the entire Federation could match him. However, looking at the person sleeping quietly beside him, he suddenly had a strong desire to protect the other person.
—No matter how strong you are, I will stand by your side and protect you to the best of my ability.
Lu Zexuan was thinking, when suddenly, a black mist appeared in his mental picture.
The two of them are now mentally integrated and can see each other's dreams. Lu Zexuan clearly sees the scene in the shadow.
"Ranran, go!" On May 10, 494 of the Star Calendar, on the Starship Starlight, a female general in dark blue uniform had deep and sharp eyes. The electromagnetic knife in her hand was stained with bright red blood. She cut off the head of a sentry with one blow.
Next to the female general was a handsome and gentle man. He looked at Yu Ran with eyes full of reluctance and heartache. The man reached out his hand, gently rubbed Yu Ran's head, and whispered: "Ran Ran, live well."
Then, he exerted force and pushed Yu Ran into the escape pod.
The couple worked together to close the escape hatch.
"Mom! Dad!" Yu Ran frantically banged on the hatch door in the escape pod.
The next moment, the escape pod was suddenly ejected with great force. Yu Ran heard a loud "bang" in his ears. The dazzling flames of the Starship's explosion instantly dyed the sky of the universe red. The entire starship was dismembered into a large amount of wreckage in just a few seconds, and countless metal fragments fell like a rainstorm.
"Dad... Mom...!" Yu Ran's voice was hoarse and choked, and his emotions were almost broken.
The escape pod was pushed into the depths of the vast universe by a huge force. The firelight in front of him gradually became blurred, and Yu Ran's eyes were filled with tears. His heart was broken, and his pale hands pressed hard on the transparent porthole of the escape pod, as if he wanted to grab something...
Soon, his escape pod was sucked into a cosmic wormhole and the surroundings became dark.
"Ran Ran, go!" "Live well."
The nightmare began to repeat itself.
The faces of General Xie Xi and Professor Qin Luo appeared clearly in the dream again and again. The scene of the Xinghui warship being blown up was like a repeat button being pressed, replaying in front of Yu Ran's eyes over and over again.
The pain and despair of watching the sacrifice of parents slowly spread deep in the forest.
Before we knew it, a large area of black fog enveloped the forest. A strong wind suddenly blew up in the primeval forest, and torrential rain came down fiercely. The flowers and plants on the ground were uprooted by the strong wind and rainstorm, and the trees fell down one after another. The whole forest became a mess in the blink of an eye.
19-year-old Yu Ran stood alone in the center of the rainstorm.
He shouted in confusion: "Dad... Mom... where are you?"
"Major Tang, Major Noah... where are you?"
"Why am I the only one left?"
The boy ran around in the forest like a lost soul. The heavy rain soon soaked him. He stumbled along the way and accidentally tripped over a vine, which left him with a bruised face. One of his eyes was pierced by a thorn in the vine, and blood gushed out. The intense pain made his whole body tremble.
At that time, his eyes were still black, and he was followed by a red fox. The fox did not have nine tails, but because its owner was in so much pain and despair, the red fox's mental state was also very bad, and its body was translucent and almost disappeared.
Yu Ran is blind in one eye.
His right eye was blurred by the rain and his left eye was bloodshot, so he couldn't see anything clearly. However, he struggled to get up and continued to stumble forward.
Ranran, have you been haunted by nightmares like this for so many years? Is this what you experienced in person? After losing your parents and comrades and coming to this planet alone, did one of your eyes get pierced by a spike and become blind
When Lu Zexuan thought of this, he felt so heartbroken that he almost suffocated.
How did Yu Ran survive the desperate situation alone?! He said that when a human was in the most pain and despair, an alien monster encouraged him and helped him out of the predicament... So, it was because of the help of the Spider Queen that you survived
The teachers all said that when negative emotions appear in the sentinel’s mental picture, they can hand it over to the guide to sort it out.
However, no one told the guide...
What should the guide do once he himself falls into a terrible nightmare and is about to have a mental breakdown
Who can help him
He fell alone on a strange planet and was struggling to survive. Who could lend him a hand
Seeing the young boy Yu Ran stumbling in the rainstorm, Lu Zexuan felt so distressed that he wished he could bear it all for him. Seeing that Yu Ran's dream was about to repeat itself, Lu Zexuan decisively spread his wings and flew into the dream.
He walked quickly forward and hugged the boy, who was covered in wounds and soaked by the heavy rain, tightly.
The boy was suddenly hugged by a man. He looked up blankly and looked at the man in front of him: "Who... who are you?"
Lu Zexuan gently pressed his head into his arms, touched his wet hair, and said softly: "I am your sentinel."
Yu Ran asked doubtfully, "My sentinel?"
Lu Zexuan nodded: "Yes. In the future, you will meet a sentinel who is willing to live and die with you. You are no longer alone, don't be afraid, this is just a dream... Be good, have a good rest, you are really too tired."
A huge white falcon flew across the sky, like a divine bird that suddenly descended into the spiritual world, blocking the heavy rain and strong winds above.
Lu Zexuan's warm embrace and gentle comfort gradually calmed Yu Ran down.
The boy gently closed his eyes in Lu Zexuan's arms and whispered, "I'm so tired and my eyes hurt. Can I sleep for a while?"
Lu Zexuan hugged him tightly: "Go to sleep, I will watch over you."
The nightmare ended and Yu Ran finally fell into a deep sleep.
In the primeval forest, the violent storms gradually subsided, the sun shone from the sky, and the flowers, plants and trees returned to their original state.
Lu Zexuan opened his eyes and looked at Yu Ran sleeping beside him. He felt so distressed that he could hardly breathe. He turned around and hugged Yu Ran tightly, just like he hugged the lonely and helpless boy in his dream.
The man held Yu Ran's entire body in his arms, shielding him from the night wind.
Yu Ran seemed to find the pillow very comfortable, so she rubbed against Lu Zexuan's arms and reached out to hug Lu Zexuan's waist. This dependent action softened Lu Zexuan's heart. He reached out and gently touched Yu Ran's head: "Go to sleep, I'm here. We have merged our spirits. From now on, I will accompany you whenever you have a nightmare."
Bai Ying said in his mind, "Master, Ranran must have had more than one nightmare. How did his eyes get healed? I just looked through his mental image, but I didn't find where he hid these memories."
As Yu Ran fell asleep, the two foxes also fell asleep. The white eagle, which was not asleep, flew around in the forest, getting familiar with the environment of this new home. But it did not find Yu Ran's past memories. Most of the memory bubbles it found in the forest started from the planet B73 in the constellation of the Norma.
Lu Zexuan frowned and said, "I'll look for it."
In the mental image, Lu Zexuan spread his wings and flew in the forest with the white eagle.
Yu Ran's forest scene is too vast. Where are those memories hidden? Under the lawn? In the land between the trees? Or...
Suddenly, he saw a lake in the forest.
That was the lake that Yu Ran took the initiative to show to others when he was disguised as a C-level guide. It was only the size of a football field and placed in the boundless primeval forest. It was like a drop of water falling into the ocean, so small and insignificant.
The people of the Dark Night Organization knew that he showed the lake to others so that he could pretend to have "C-level mental power". When other high-level guides searched his mental images, they would definitely check deep into the forest and would not suspect what was hidden under the lake.
The place where it is displayed for everyone to see may also be the safest place.
Lu Zexuan swooped down and landed gently on the lake.
The lake was crystal clear, with only a few scattered water plants in it, which was in line with the characteristics of a "C-level guide". Lu Zexuan folded his wings and dived into the lake. He kept swimming downstream in the lake, and when he swam to the bottom of the lake, he found a large area of silt.
It was normal for the lake to have mud at the bottom, but Lu Zexuan could sense something was wrong. The invading guide would definitely think the lake had ended when he saw this, and would withdraw his tentacles.
But Lu Zexuan was different. He was not a guide and did not need to use his mind tentacles to break through the mental barrier. Moreover, he and Yu Ran had already merged mentally. Yu Ran's mental image would automatically recognize him as the master and would not be on guard against him.
No mental barriers can stop the new "master" Lu Zexuan.
I remember that before the spiritual fusion, Lu Zexuan once asked Yu Ran: "After the spiritual fusion, we will be bound together, and I will know your secrets. Is it okay?"
Yu Ran said, "It doesn't matter."
—Ranran, I want to know your past.
Lu Zexuan did not hesitate and continued to swim deeper into the mud. Miraculously, the mud dispersed on its own after encountering Lu Zexuan.
The thick mud, more than ten meters deep, was Yu Ran's spiritual barrier. A new world appeared under the mud.
It was a huge palace located at the bottom of the lake, where Yu Ran's most real and precious memories were stored.
His name is not Yu Ran.
He is the only son of General Xie Xi and Professor Qin Luo, and he takes his mother's surname Xie.
(End of this chapter)