Until I walked to the service hall on the second floor and handed the documents to the officer in charge of approval.
Lin Yuancai suddenly remembered that he had heard this kind of sea sound before.
It was probably a few years ago, when she was not yet qualified to leave the White Tower.
But I don’t know what went wrong with him that day, he had to sneak out of the White Tower on a snowy night.
Now Lin Yuan doesn’t quite understand what she was thinking back then. Maybe it was what they call chuunibyou or puberty. In short, her emotions were not very stable during that period.
Sometimes I become extremely paranoid because of some inexplicable little things.
For example, it snowed, or there were fireworks in the sky... small things like that.
Some people say that in order to ensure the safety of the guides, the Guide Academy in the White Tower has the most powerful security system in the entire empire, and no one can enter or leave at will.
But Lin Yuan felt that the matter was not as exaggerated as the legend said. As long as she wanted, she could always sneak out.
Those tentacles can swim very far underground.
Before those people saw her, they had often already been secretly hooked by the tentacles.
You don't need to make any big movements. Just gently tap into their superficial consciousness and they will subconsciously ignore you.
She walked out calmly from the teachers, security guards and sentries. They would not notice her at all.
It's not that I can't see it, it's that I ignore it subconsciously, and I still feel puzzled when I find it later. How could I not see it
For Lin Yuan, this kind of effortless mental induction is almost as easy as eating. It is like an instinct, as if he has been able to do it since birth.
But this is not something every guide can do, nor is it a required course for guides. It is difficult to master and is not presentable. It is believed that only some "unserious" guys will learn it.
It is generally believed that guides should be gentle, tolerant, compassionate and empathetic.
A good guide should pride himself on being able to soothe a sentinel.
Being able to provide better spiritual guidance is a guide’s job.
The academy in the White Tower is like spring all year round. Everyone wears high-end silk clothes and eats nutritious and healthy food. Except for the need to consider who their future match will be, they can be said to be carefree and live a luxurious and abundant life.
But for some reason, Lin Yuan always wanted to sneak out at that time. Walk in the cold snow, mingle in the dusty streets, breathe in the air outside the tower that has not been filtered by the purifier, or look at the sky without a roof.
She could wander aimlessly outside under the sky for a while.
It was difficult for those people to find her.
It snowed heavily that day. There were few people on the streets. There were piles of icy, cold white marshmallows everywhere. The whole world seemed like a distant dream.
Lin Yuan came out of the warm Guide Academy, wearing only a thin uniform and a pair of too big boots, and was freezing.
But she had no intention of going back. She sat in an alley, leaning against a trash can piled with snow, and looked up at the small patch of gray sky with snow falling above her head.
The sentry appeared suddenly, and almost at the same time when Lin Yuan heard the faint sound of the tide, he landed on the top of the metal trash can. Wearing a black tights of the sentinel academy, one foot stepped on the snow on the top of the box, and held a cold short knife against Lin Yuan's neck without any hesitation.
He reported into the intercom: "We found the target person. Yes, that's her. She's under complete control. OK, I'll take her back right away."
As he spoke, his eyes stared at Lin Yuan indifferently, with a hint of purple deep in his eyes that could be activated at any time. That was not the look a sentry would have when he saw a guide. Rather, it was the look a special forces soldier would have when he saw a fugitive who had caused him trouble in the snow.
Stay calm and alert, and don't allow her to escape.
The sharpened dagger in his hand was pressed firmly against the skin of Lin Yuan's neck.
When Lin Yuan thinks about it now, he can still remember the feeling of the sharp blade on his neck.
"It turned out to be that person." Lin Yuan touched his neck and looked down through the second-floor window.
The screen on the parade ground was still playing the video in a loop, surrounded by countless angry sentries.
"Do you want to apply to the Special Research Department?" The officer sitting in front of Lin Yuan drew Lin Yuan's attention back.
She was a middle-aged lady wearing a military cap and an officer's badge on her chest. She flipped through the documents Lin Yuan had submitted, looking a little impatient.
"This... doesn't seem to be in accordance with the rules," she said.
She held a small seal in her hand, turning it back and forth, and refused to stamp it for a long time.
Although there was nothing really irregular about Lin Yuan's application.
But she holds power and likes to make things difficult for others.
This was not the first time Lin Yuan had met this official surnamed Wu. In the past, when this person was facing him, he always smiled kindly, never spoke in this tone, and never called him Xiao Yuan in a senior manner.
People's attitudes are like this sometimes, changing suddenly.
Of course, she wasn't the only one who had changed.
Even without extending his spiritual tentacles, Lin Yuan could tell the difference in these people's attitudes towards him.
He is respectful at first but arrogant later, and deliberately makes things difficult for others.
It was as if without that engagement, she suddenly became an incomplete person, and should be troubled, despised and pitied everywhere she went.
Underground, two invisible tentacles pulled back from the direction of the officer, shook them in disgust, and curled up unhappily.
"It" is too big and its personality is different from mine. It likes to wander around and touch things, and I can't control it.
I always accidentally touch upon some people's superficial consciousness.
Especially those strong and unrestrained outward emotions were easily touched and fed back to Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan actually really didn’t want to know those people’s emotions and thoughts.
To her, they were all irrelevant people and irrelevant things.
Being forced to hear all kinds of emotions, the whole world became much more disturbing. Unfortunately, this was not something she could completely control.
Every sentinel and guide in the world has his own spiritual body, which appears in the form of animals that ordinary people cannot see.
The spirit bodies of sentinels are mostly birds of prey, such as tigers, coyotes, hawks, giant sharks... mighty and fierce.
Most of the guides are gentle herbivores, such as elk, koi, snow rabbits, etc. They are very cute.
But Lin Yuan knew that he was an outsider.
It’s not too unusual, Lin Yuan comforted himself, in fact, “it” is also cute, it’s just “a little bit” bigger.
"It's not that I won't issue you a pass. It's just that..." the officer muttered, and when his finger turned to a certain page, he suddenly paused, "Hey, is this, mental induction?"
She paused, closed the information, and seemed to have thought of something. She smiled again at Lin Yuan, "Xiao Yuan, it's not very appropriate for a guide like you to run around everywhere. It's also quite difficult for me."
"But..." She changed her tone, "We just happen to have an important matter here."
"Did you see that prisoner? He's a murderer." She pointed out the window with her chin. "We need a guide to invade his mental barrier, pry open his mouth, and make him confess his crime truthfully."
Guides are also soldiers and nominally must obey the orders of the officers.
But the guide's job is to appease the sentinels, and no one wants to do the dirty work of interrogating criminals.
Guides who match marriages with nobles and royal families will not be assigned such tasks.
The officer thought it was a good idea to let Lin Yuan take charge of this matter.
Perhaps because she was afraid that Lin Yuan would disagree, she reached out her hand and patted Lin Yuan's hand across the table, as if Lin Yuan and she had some kind of close relationship, "You helped our Military Control Office solve the problem. If you have any problems over there, no matter how difficult it is, I have to give you the green light, right?"
Roy, who was waiting on the side, heard this, pushed Lin Yuan away, and was about to squeeze forward to speak for Lin Yuan.
Then I heard Lin Yuan reply calmly: "Okay."
Roy turned around in surprise, thinking that this little girl was really stupid.
When I gave her instructions along the way, she clearly agreed very obediently.
But I forgot about it the moment I turned around.
She actually nodded without even thinking about it when someone made such an unreasonable request.
She might not know how terrible such a vicious criminal could be.
Those were not the sentries in the White Tower who were at a loss when they saw the guide.
Such people have rolled in a sea of blood and crawled out of hell. They have killed people and are often determined, fierce and cruel.
Trying to pry open their barriers and invade their mental landscape is not only difficult but also extremely dangerous.
He is simply ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth.
He winked at Lin Yuan.
But Lin Yuan didn't see it.
Her eyes looked past the window at the looping screen, as if she was thinking about something.
The clerk was very happy. She came to the window, stood next to Lin Yuan, and whispered something to pay attention to.
"Actually... confessing guilt is not the main point. What's important is the whereabouts of the insect jade." She squinted her eyes, gave a mysterious look, and lowered her voice even more. "That's a living insect jade. It's priceless. The higher-ups asked for it, so we must get it and send it over."
Lin Yuan squinted his eyes and looked out the window. There was no expression on his face, and it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry. He just hummed softly in response.
The official was relieved, thinking that she was just a young girl who had never been out of the White Tower and had something to ask of him.
They should be very obedient and easy to manipulate.
So he patted Lin Yuan on the shoulder and encouraged her, "Just go for it. As long as we can find the whereabouts of the thing, it doesn't matter even if the sentry is killed or driven crazy."
The young guide in the college uniform turned around and looked at her. The dark eyes on her fair face made the officer feel a little uneasy.
It must be an illusion. She soon heard the guide's obedient reply, "Got it."
(End of this chapter)