Ji Jinrong followed Mr. Shen into the deep forest.
It is really surprising to have such a jungle near the capital. Ji Jinrong felt as if he was walking in a primeval forest. He raised his vigilance and walked along the road full of fallen leaves with Mr. Shen.
When the two reached a deserted forest, Elder Shen stopped, turned around and asked Ji Jinrong, "Can you feel anything?"
Ji Jinrong also stopped, and calmed down to feel everything around him. In the depths of this dense forest, there is a strange and powerful air flow, which seems to gather from all directions. And in the deeper part of the land, the roots of the coiled tree extended to the surroundings little by little, firmly grasping the surrounding soil, forming a natural barrier underground.
However, the jungle that should be full of vitality gave him a deadly gray feeling, and a deep sadness lingered in his heart. The branches seemed to be pressed down layer by layer from top to bottom, and all the surrounding light All drowned.
It's not a nice feeling.
Ji Jinrong's heart skipped a beat.
Opening his eyes, Ji Jinrong looked at Elder Shen. There was a bit of worry between his brows, and he looked at Elder Shen who brought him to this place.
Old Shen saw the clue from Ji Jinrong's expression.
Old Shen knew that his guess was correct.
Ji Jinrong was indeed as he expected, a guide with extraordinary strength.
If the sentinel strengthens his own five senses, the guide strengthens the "induction".
The reason why the guides can channel the incomparably disordered mental power of the berserk sentinels is because the guides can quickly sense which parts are normal and which parts are disordered, and judge which parts should be kept and which parts should be left behind at the fastest speed. should be cleared.
Elder Shen always felt that it was absurd for the guide to awaken only for the sentinel.
Since they are also "awakened", the guide should not just exist as a companion of the sentinel!
Ji Jinrong mentioned the "array", which gave Shen Lao a clue. Even if the average person noticed the unusualness of the base, he would not say the word "array" directly, unless he really understood the "array" and could feel its existence!
Elder Shen asked again: "Did you feel anything?"
Ji Jinrong opened his eyes, hesitant in his eyes: "I'm not sure."
Old Shen said: "Tell me about it, just take it as a reference for me."
Ji Jinrong said: "I feel a dead air." An extremely sad dead air, as if the whole world is coming to an end, and they can only use their own lives as the last resistance.
This kind of resistance is weak and insignificant, and they don't even know if it makes sense to do so.
Ji Jinrong pondered for a moment, and said everything he felt.
Old Shen quietly listened to Ji Jinrong's narration, the more Ji Jinrong spoke, the more surprised the old Shen's face became.
What Ji Jinrong said really surprised him.
Mr. Shen said: "This formation has been passed down from generation to generation in our master's school, and it is called 'Borrowing Life'. Just like its name, it borrows their life energy from certain creatures to form the formation. So, you The 'death energy' felt is real, because the life energy of these trees is almost exhausted."
When Ji Jinrong heard the word "borrowing life", he understood what was going on with this formation. Every creature has a certain amount of life energy, if you "borrow" its life, its life will be reduced. Once you "borrow" it continuously, the other party's life energy will always be exhausted day.
At that time, they will naturally be surrounded by natural death, and their lives will not be long.
Ji Jinrong said, "Are you planning to change a batch of trees?"
Old Shen sighed and said, "There are not many spiritual trees that can 'borrow lives'." Not all plants have "life" that can be borrowed from them.
Ji Jinrong said: "Then what should we do next?" If the base cannot be kept, the training of the sentries will become an extremely difficult problem. At that time, the sentry will no longer be the best "weapon" against the "living dead", but a hot potato! Ji Jinrong paused, thinking of Xiou, "Can you find out how Xiou solved it?"
During this period of time, he learned a lot about the Western European side. They need a long period of closed training, but the Western European training methods do not.
Elder Shen said: "Their solution is very simple. They just airdrop sentries into the pile of living dead. If they can stabilize after a period of fighting, they will naturally become stable. If they cannot stabilize, they will have no chance to return to China."
Ji Jinrong was dumbfounded: "Are they willing?"
Elder Shen said: "It's all like that, what else do you want? It's not necessarily safe to stay in the country, and the normal environment may be more exciting to them, so most of them will obey orders." He paused for a moment, then Added, "Of course, there are still some people who are unwilling to obey. They fled from where they were and formed a team of sentinels and mercenaries. Most of these people stabilize their spiritual power by preempting the newly awakened guides—I don’t think their approach is correct. Too much reference value."
Ji Jinrong also understood.
To put it simply, the Western European side directly skipped the training stage, and threw them into the battlefield after training as ordinary soldiers, allowing the battlefield to hone their will. Some who didn't want to obey this arrangement went to snatch away all the awakened guides, and organized their own team to earn some commissions with strong mental power.
For Xia Guo's situation, such an approach is indeed of no reference value.
Judging from the current situation in Western Europe, this approach is indeed the worst choice-if this is useful, there will not be so many countries in Western Europe reduced to a paradise for the "living dead"!
Ji Jinrong said, "Then do you have a solution?"
Elder Shen looked towards the dense forest around him: "I want the guides to try to 'repair' them."
Ji Jinrong's heart skipped a beat. He said, "Repair? Like repairing the sentry's mental power?" As he spoke, he tried to communicate with the surrounding trees.
To Ji Jinrong's surprise, he felt a green light appearing on the surrounding trees.
When the mental filament climbed up to the green light, he clearly felt the wind, frost, rain and dew of decades. Obviously he was alone, but at this moment he seemed to be integrated with the giant tree he was trying to "communicate".
He could feel the joy of this giant tree when it was born, he could feel the joy when it was bathed in the rain for the first time, he could feel the joy of shaking its branches and leaves in the wind for the first time—slowly, he felt that when the strong wind came, it couldn't help it. The pain of not bending over, the panic of feeling its branches curl up when the rainstorm is approaching—
Is this the "spiritual body" of the tree
Without further guidance from Mr. Shen, Ji Jinrong was already groping for the parts where the green light had dimmed, trying to repair them.
As if in response to the touch of his mental filaments, the giant tree slowly stretched its branches and leaves, and the gray haze on the leaves faded away bit by bit, revealing a green luster full of vitality.
The moment the giant tree came back to life, the surrounding trees went crazy.
But all life will have the instinct to survive.
Ji Jinrong suddenly felt that there was an ocean of distress signals all around him, and countless bright lights lit up in the forest.
That means that most of the grass and trees completely exposed their "spiritual body" to him.
Ji Jinrong has powerful mental powers, and he doesn't need to use them at all, so he doesn't feel uncomfortable accepting so many "spiritual bodies". Like appeasing an old friend, he touched their bruised "spiritual bodies" one by one with his mental filaments, repairing the damage they had suffered over the years.
Over the past few decades, they have endured too much suffering. But before the disaster strikes, they are still willing to turn themselves into the last wall and build an isolated training base for the last hope of the world.
They are willing to be part of the formation of "borrowing life".
Now, they can no longer hold on.
But they still want to live longer, and they want to last a few more years - they are always going to die, but they all want to buy some more time for everything they love before they die.
They love the wind, frost, rain and dew of this world, love the noisy and ignorant juniors around them, and even love everyone who happens to pass by in front of them.
Yes, they love too many things, so they are not willing to die yet.
Ji Jinrong stood where he was, without moving for a long time.
What he touched was a soul he had never touched before. They are so pure and beautiful that he feels ashamed and can only restore their "spiritual bodies" as best he can.
This process is not long.
Ji Jinrong opened his eyes again, and met Old Shen's earnest gaze. He laughed and said to Mr. Shen: "I think it should be possible." He looked up, and saw that the "dead energy" that had filled the air when he stepped into the forest was gradually receding, and the surrounding air was changing. Fresh and luscious.
There was also a chirp or two from deep in the bushes.
Looking further into the distance, several groups of birds soared over, hovered in the air for a while, picked out the favorite branch to settle on, and sang cheerfully on the branch.
The vitality of the forest is slowly returning.
The branches and leaves of the trees shone brightly in the sun.
Although Mr. Shen couldn't feel the "spiritual body" of the trees, he could feel the changes around him. He stood in the open space and took a deep breath, feeling that the turbidity in his chest was washed away by the fresh air.
Elder Shen said: "I haven't breathed this kind of air for many years." His expression was slightly dazed, as if he had fallen into the memory of the past. , tell us that there will be a catastrophe in a hundred years. I thought that the years before the founding of the country were the "big disaster" that Master said, but I didn't expect that after the founding of the country, there would be such a catastrophe."
Ji Jinrong said, "Your master is a master."
Old Shen said: "Even an expert can't survive his fate."
Ji Jinrong paused for a moment, then looked directly into Elder Shen's eyes: "I don't believe in 'fate'. I have done some things, success means I have worked hard enough, and failure means my hard work and strength are not enough, not the so-called 'fate'. "
Elder Shen met Ji Jinrong's calm and serious gaze, and couldn't help but think of Shao Junying.
The child also said similar things to him, and the child was about the same age as the boy in front of him at the time.
Perhaps it is precisely because of his resolute mind since he was a child that that child became a rare "Dark Sentinel". In Western Europe, a "Dark Sentinel" can easily form an armed force of their own—because they don't seem to be crazy, and they don't need a guide to guide them spiritually.
However, even if Shao Junying is the "Dark Sentinel", Mr. Shen also hopes that he can find his own guide. Because the path Shao Junying chose was too difficult and lonely, if he was the only one to survive, maybe one day he would eventually fall down.
After coming out of retreat, Elder Shen was very happy to hear that Shao Junying had found a guide. Chasing Shao Junying like that just now was just for show. As long as Shao Junying is willing to look for it, no matter if the other party is male or female, regardless of the age of the other party, he will have a wish fulfilled.
The formation had been strengthened, and Mr. Shen took Ji Jinrong back to the base along another road. The trees on both sides drooped their branches slightly, and the leaves were rustling by the wind, as if saying goodbye to Ji Jinrong tenderly.
Mr. Shen talked about Shao Junying's childhood along the way: "The child Shitou has no parents since he was born. My daughter-in-law raised him by her side and loved him as her own son. He seems to be more sensible than other children since he was a child. He never Noisy, eating and urinating at a fixed time every day, more like an adult than an adult." He said with emotion, "I have never seen such a child."
Ji Jinrong asked amusedly, "Could it be that he hasn't had any interesting incidents since he was a child?"
Mr. Shen said: "No, he was very popular at school. My daughter-in-law was often worried about his puppy love, and told him to stay away from girls. He thought it made sense, so he obediently followed suit. Unexpectedly, there was a boy I confessed my love to him, and even chased him home, which made him not even want to go home during that time."
Ji Jinrong frowned, and smiled meaningfully: "A good face attracts people."
Elder Shen was not that sensitive about the affairs between young people, and couldn't hear the strong interest in Ji Jinrong's tone, so he only mentioned it as an interesting past event. He said: "This kid has a cold face since then, and he doesn't get close to men and women. At first, my daughter-in-law was quite satisfied, but when this kid is older, he will turn gray. In recent years, she has I have already prepared that this kid will be a bachelor for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect him to solve his life's major affairs quietly."
Ji Jinrong listened to Elder Shen with a smile, and returned to the base with Elder Shen after a while. Old Shen had just left customs and still had a lot of things to do, so he didn't continue to take Ji Jinrong with him.
Ji Jinrong asked someone to find out where Shao Junying was, and walked over following the other's guidance. Hearing that the guard said that Shao Junying was receiving guests, Ji Jinrong thought for a while and didn't bother Shao Junying anymore. He said to the guard: "You help me tell Shao Junying that I will go back first."
As soon as Ji Jinrong finished speaking, the door of the reception room was opened from the inside. Shao Junying came out and said, "Why don't you come in when you're here?" He just heard what Ji Jinrong said to the guards.
If he didn't come out, would Ji Jinrong just leave quietly
Seeing Shao Junying's annoyed face, Ji Jinrong felt that such a Shao Junying was really cute. Everyone is here in the capital, and it's not that they can't see each other, so what's the point of him going back first
Could it be that the people in the reception room made him feel bad
Ji Jinrong said: "Aren't you discussing something serious with someone? I'm just here to say goodbye to you. It's nothing special. It doesn't matter if you get in or not."
At this time another person stepped out of the reception room.
Ji Jinrong looked at the other party and found that the other party was actually a guide. Wearing rimless glasses, the guide was dressed in the official uniform of Xia Guo officials, and his shirt was buttoned up to the top. He looked like a serious and rigorous person.
The other party's eyes fell on Ji Jinrong generously, as if evaluating something.
Ji Jinrong said with a smile, "Hello."
The other party raised his hand and pushed his glasses, and said to Ji Jinrong, "You are too young to be suitable for Shao Junying."
Hearing what the other party said, Ji Jinrong was a little surprised. I didn't expect the other party to talk about such a personal topic. Could it be that this person came to see Shao Junying not for official business, but for "private matters"? The most likely target of this "private matter" is Shao Junying
Ji Jinrong said: "I feel the same way. Sometimes when I think of him being so much older than me, I want to call him dad."
The other party was slightly surprised, as if surprised that he would be so calm.
Shao Junying's face turned dark.
It's one thing for two people to joke in private, but it's another thing for Ji Jinrong to say that in front of outsiders. This guy knew that he cared about this very much, but he still said such things to outsiders!
Shao Junying really wanted to get Ji Jinrong to his residence, and let Ji Jinrong call "Dad" in another place as much as he wanted.
For example, go to his bed and shout!
Sensing Shao Junying's dangerous gaze, Ji Jinrong cleverly changed the subject: "My name is Gu Jin, what's your name?"
The other party paused, and said, "My name is Yan Xuefeng."
Ji Jinrong raised his eyebrows slightly: "A person lives up to his name."
Yan Xuefeng looked at Ji Jinrong.
Ji Jinrong said: "Your name is very similar to yours, a bit serious, a bit cold, and I feel difficult to get close to." He smiled and looked at Yan Xuefeng, "You use such a posture to talk about marriage with Shao Junying, Shao Junying will definitely not agree to you Yeah, he likes the fiery type like me—”
Yan Xuefeng's face turned slightly red, obviously very embarrassed.
How did this boy know what he was here for
Ji Jinrong said: "Think about it, he is cold enough, if he finds another partner who is as cold as him, how will he live in the future? So for the sake of 'harmonious' getting along in the future, he will only choose I am like this. What's more, you and him have known each other so early, if you want to have something, why did you wait until today?"
Yan Xuefeng: "..."
How do you feel that this young man knows everything