Shu Jingtong saw the sweat on Lin Yuan's face. The sweat drops hung down and gathered at the tip of her chin. She raised the back of her hand and wiped it away.
She is not having an easy time either. Shu Jing thought the same thing.
But, she is actually learning and growing.
When Lin Yuan fired his first shot, he missed the monster. The human-headed monster just paused for a moment and then quickly ran away.
But after the second shot, the monster's movements became unusually slow and clumsy, as if its brain had suddenly gone stupid, and it was hit hard by Lin Yuan's bullet.
After the third shot, the monster was completely frozen, unable to move, and became a living target. Lin Yuan blew off half of its head.
In just three shots, she learned how to invade the monster's brain in an instant. In a short period of time, she learned how to capture the enemy and influence his actions.
In such a chaotic battlefield, her learning ability is so terrifying.
If she had not grown up in the White Tower, what kind of person would she become
This thought flashed through Shu Jingtong's mind.
The monster on the roof never appeared again. It seemed to feel threatened and hid far away.
The metal ceiling of the restaurant was slowly deforming, with bubbles forming in many places and rust-colored liquid oozing out.
That giant human-headed monster was extremely cunning.
It no longer actively attacks, but at some point, it smears a large amount of highly corrosive saliva all over the place where it crawls.
It was hit in the face again and again, and was filled with resentment, so it wanted to pry open the entire roof of the airship and lift up a corner of the tin can.
Let all the mutants swarm in and let those guys inside who have caused them pain several times taste their revenge.
Tick.
The roof had been corroded in places and was dripping with thick acid.
The liquid hit the dining table, quickly emitting a puff of green smoke and corroding a small round hole on the table.
Tick.
The sound was like a knock on everyone's heart, burning a hole called terror there.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up at the ceiling, wondering when it would be corroded and collapse.
Then the helpless guides in this cabin were exposed to the monster's sight.
"Give the sentinel mental counseling and wake her up."
Lin Yuan suddenly said, she kept holding the gun and reached out to rub her shoulders gently.
"Spiritual counseling? Here?" Shu Jingtong pointed at himself, "You, are you talking to me?"
The spiritual world is an extremely vast yet extremely fragile place.
When the guides enter the sentinel's mental picture, they are very careful, treading on thin ice, and being cautious.
If one is not careful, it may cause serious damage to the sentinel's spirit, or the guide himself may get lost in the world of the sentinel's mental picture and never wake up again.
Therefore, most guides choose to conduct psychological counseling treatment in a special counseling room.
Those high-end counseling rooms specially set up by the empire are decorated warmly and comfortably, with carpets in gentle colors on the floor, soft recliners and facing sofas, and the walls have top-notch sound insulation.
Most guides will have some rituals before starting spiritual counseling, such as sitting quietly to adjust their emotions, playing some soft and soothing music, and smoking some light and comfortable fruit fragrances.
Once you have entered the sentinel's mental picture, the guide will be gentle and polite, and will never rush in.
Just carefully remove some mental pollutants deposited on the periphery, without being too rough, to ensure safety.
There is no precedent for this. No one would provide spiritual counseling in such a bloody and crisis-ridden environment.
Or he was guiding a sentry who had just been seriously injured and whose mental picture must be in chaos.
"Yes." Lin Yuan turned his head and looked over, as if it was a matter of course. "You are the first in our class in mental counseling, right? I think I remember it correctly."
Although she didn't know her classmates very well, she still had some impression of the names of those who ranked first in the semester assessments every year.
Shu Jingtong's face turned red. For a moment he felt that Lin Yuan was mocking him on purpose, and then he felt that maybe Lin Yuan was right.
Indeed, Lin Yuan's mental strength is very strong and beyond the reach of others.
But when it comes to meticulous work like spiritual counseling, I am indeed the best in the school.
Shu Jingtong took a deep breath, found a clean spot on his clothes, and wiped his bloody hands dry.
When his palm reached out to the sentry's forehead, he couldn't help but look up.
Nicole and another female guide looked at him with sparkling eyes and gave him a thumbs-up.
In the corner of his sight, Lin Yuan had already turned his head back, his eyes still fixed on the roof, as if he was sure that Shu Jingtong would take action without even looking.
She also remembers my grades.
Shu Jingtong adjusted his breathing, calmed down, and gently placed his warm hands on the sentry's cold eyes.
Lin Yuan felt someone pulling her clothes.
Turning around, I saw that the sentry with long braided pigtails had woken up.
Half of her body was wrapped in white gauze, and her face was pale. But as soon as she opened her eyes, she reached out her hand to pull Lin Yuan.
"You..." She pointed at the gun on Lin Yuan's shoulder, "That gun doesn't suit you. Exchange it with me."
His voice was hoarse at first, but when he said the last word, he had barely sat up, took off a smaller Scorpion submachine gun from his waist, and exchanged it with Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan handed back the heavy assault rifle in his hand, took the much lighter submachine gun, and rubbed his shoulders.
Under the loose dark blue sportswear, a large area of red skin was exposed.
Half of the sentinel's shoulder was completely disabled. She used the only hand that could still move to pick up the heavy metal weapon and put it on her shoulder.
"You, you can't shoot anymore." Shu Jingtong reached out to support her.
He bandaged the wound himself and knew how serious the wound was. If the man was not a sentinel but a guide or an ordinary person, such an injury would be enough to kill her two or three times.
That kind of crappy makeshift stitches couldn't withstand the slightest vibration, not to mention the powerful recoil of the gun.
"If you don't shoot, you'll die." The girl had dark circles under her eyes. She pulled her bloody braids back and looked up at the gradually deforming and softening roof. "You will all die, and so will I."
"Then you..." Shu Jingtong thought for a moment, and finally said, "Then you put the butt of the gun on my shoulder."
He supported the sentry's injured body from behind and stretched out his hands, which were usually used to arrange flowers and make tea, to help hold up the heavy weapon, letting the hard butt rest against his shoulder.
Shu Jingtong knew that many people were watching him secretly. He was too close to a strange sentry.
But he suddenly felt like he didn't care anymore.
Leaning against his body was a pauper sentinel, without any title or halo.
But she is a life.
He is a hero who has one arm broken but still picks up the gun to protect them.
He is someone who deserves my full assistance at this critical moment of life and death.
The sentry's body temperature could be felt through the fabric of her clothes, and one could smell the residue of gunpowder and blood on her body.
Shu Jingtong supported her and held the gun with her. The two of them were very close to each other, without any romantic thoughts in their minds.
At this moment, he vaguely felt that he was like a soldier, standing shoulder to shoulder with the sentry on the battlefield, waiting together to face the fierce and cruel enemy.
The roof of the cabin shook and dust fell down.
Once again, a large piece of the roof shattered and fell into the cabin in front of everyone's desperate gaze.
With a loud crash, waste and dust flew everywhere.
The sunlight shone in, very blinding.
The interior of the airship was no longer safe, like a can with its lid opened, revealing the fresh meat inside for anyone to devour.
A monster's face appeared at the edge of the gaping ceiling. It was a little boy of about six or seven years old, overweight, with two blushes on his cheeks, and his mouth was wide and strange, revealing his front teeth.
The sentry fired the first shot, and the boy's head was pierced on the spot. The boy rolled along the inner wall of the airship crying loudly.
The powerful recoil caused by the shooting hit Shu Jingtong's shoulder unexpectedly.
It hurts so much!
It turned out to be such a strong force. He gritted his teeth, steadied himself, and supported his back to hit his sentry.
The human-headed monster dodged the first bullet and rushed all the way, but suddenly slowed down halfway.
The tearful face began to smile foolishly, revealing a dreamy and foolish look.
The sentry's second volley of bullets followed and blew it to pieces.
Another head popped up over the edge, then two, and a third.
As soon as those terrifyingly agile fellows showed their faces, they seemed to be bewitched and moved sluggishly and slowly.
For the sentinels with excellent eyesight and strong physical fitness, this is like shooting at a fixed target.
The sentinels fired two or three shots at each monster, steadily and ruthlessly killing them. The monsters that were extremely troublesome before, the monsters that were running around everywhere, were now as easy to kill as cutting vegetables.
She looked at the girl standing next to her in surprise.
The girl in a dark blue coat stood in the flying dust, her sleeves folded to her wrists, holding a small submachine gun in her bare hands, and looking up at the sky.
Under her feet, in the dust, there seemed to be countless mysterious things surging back and forth.
One head after another popped out from the edge of the gap.
They had strange looks on their faces, crowded together, and drooled at the people in the cabin.
However, no matter which one it was, big or small, there would always be a brief pause in its movements at an inexplicable time.
Faintly, you can see leaping tentacles suddenly emerging from the shadows.
Those flexible tentacles accurately and instantly invaded the monster's brain. The monster, which was running around, would fall into emotional stagnation at a certain moment.
The sentry seized the opportunity and shot the monster dead with several shots.
One of them controls the situation while the other one kills. They cooperate perfectly.
Even though human-headed monsters kept appearing, they were unable to break into such a huge gap.
Is this a guide
So this is what a real guide is like, the sentinel who had never met a guide thought to himself.
With her level and combat ability, there was no way she could deal with so many mutants at the same time.
It was the female guide standing next to her who unleashed her powerful mental control to seize control of the battlefield, allowing her to increase her combat power by tens of times.
She had never experienced such a thrilling battle.
Even if the bullets are almost exhausted, even if the body is extremely weak.
However, the mental picture that should have been in chaos due to excessive injuries was now peaceful.
Such a stable mental state allows her to support herself, give her all, and fight to the end without any scruples.
The guide who possesses the spirit body of pure white chinchilla has been supporting himself.
It was he who used the soft and gentle mental power of a cat to channel and eliminate all the painful negative emotions in his mental picture.
This is the guide.
No wonder the Empire treasures guides so much.
But such guides should not only be companions of the Sentinels’ families. They should appear on the battlefield and become the Sentinels’ best partners and comrades-in-arms.
For a moment, the sentinel had a thought that shouldn't have occurred to a soldier of his level.
What a pity, I may not be able to protect such a good guide. The sentry looked at the dim sky above his head, thinking regretfully that he may not be able to protect them out safely in the end.
The bullets were gone and the body had reached its limit.
However, monsters continue to appear one by one.
They were just ordinary airship guards and rarely came into contact with contaminated areas.
It is very difficult to find an exit when suddenly entering such an unfamiliar new contaminated area with no information about it.
The sentinels fighting the monsters in mid-air were all covered in blood, and from time to time there were soldiers falling from a height of thousands of meters covered in blood.
There were also seriously injured sentinels who struggled and fell back into the airship.
The first sentry who fell had both legs broken and was covered in blood. He rolled on the ground a few times, propped himself up, and gritted his teeth to pick up the gun he had dropped on the ground. His crawling body left two long bloody trails.
"Give me my gun, I can still shoot. Damn, those guys, those guys killed the captain."
His eyes were red and black feathers appeared and disappeared on his face, which were signs of frenzy.
Nicole hesitated for a moment, walked towards the man covered in blood, touched his skin with trembling hands, and held up his face.
Can I do it? A poor student like me, Nicole thought.
I'm not doing very well in grooming classes. I probably can't do it.
At this moment, she suddenly regretted her past carelessness in the academy. At least, she should have done a better job of guiding her children in a scientific way.
In the palm of her hand, the face covered with black feathers had its pupils erect and roared at her fiercely, which scared her.
But soon, the black color of the face faded and turned back into a human form. The sentinel regained consciousness for a short while.
He was stunned for a moment, looked at his broken leg and his changing body, and handed the gun he was holding tightly in his hand to Nicole.
"Can you...can you use a gun?" he said to Nicole, his voice soft and gentle, like a plea.
"You, you point it towards me and open it." His hands were covered in blood and he weakly pointed to his head.
"Please, I don't want to end up as a monster."
Nicole's spirit body appeared at this time.
It was a silvery-white reticulated python. The white body of the snake moved on the ground and swam around the two people.
"It's okay, you'll be fine. I'm a guide. A very good guide. Please calm down and cooperate with me."
Although the guide was very young and had an afro, his voice was gentle and his hands holding the sentry were soft and warm.
The silver snake body swam around, and its beautiful scales reflected colorful light, blocking out all the violent and chaotic aura around it.
The sentry stared at her blankly, and his changing expression gradually stabilized.
"Yes, great. That's it. I'll give you some counseling right away," Nicole said.
In the past, she always thought she was a unique girl in school, rebellious, uninhibited and very cool.
Only then did she realize that her previous self-righteous behavior was ridiculous and just childish.
Now I am truly cool.
The noble young lady closed her eyes and reached out to cover the sentry's eyes.
When one person comes out, there will be a second and a third.
Many people followed and rolled up the sentry's trouser legs to stop his bleeding and bandage his wounds.
When they saw the cross-section of the legs bitten off, several guides' eyes turned red.
The sky sentinels worked hard to guard the rickety airship.
The guides in the airship did their best to treat the wounded who were sent down one by one.
Everyone is doing their best.
Yet the monsters seemed endless.
At this moment the sky is orange-yellow, with oil-paint-like tones, as beautiful as a painting.
The small airship that strayed into the water was sailing unsteadily in the boundless canvas, desperately looking for an escape route.
In the distant sky, a huge city shadow was floating like a mirage.
It was a city that existed only in the old days, with skyscrapers like towers densely packed together and thousands of lights twinkling on. Neon lights were suspended in the city, and the viaducts that circled back and forth were full of cars coming and going.
The ghost of the old days seemed like a dream of someone lost in the past, hovering darkly in the distant sky.
From the brightly lit imaginary city, a group of black cloud-like human-headed monsters flew out from afar.
Such a strange and huge world, boundless and endless.
Monsters keep coming, where can we find the "door" to escape
There were fewer and fewer sentinels able to fight in the sky. Almost every one of them was lying on the airship, dead or injured, unable to get up.
The guides were sweating profusely, and many of them could no longer summon their own spirit bodies.
Shu Jingtong put down the gun in his hand.
His shoulders were now red and swollen, and he could no longer lift them.
The sentry who had been leaning against him had just fainted and was now lying at his feet.
He looked at everything in front of him with a little despair.
I have tried my best.
But I couldn’t help but think, if I, if we were not so weak and powerless.
If he had not lived in the comfortable White Tower since childhood, and if he had received more training, would there be a chance of turning the situation around when he faced the desperate situation he faced today
I was born in a horrible era. Why could I live with my eyes covered and feel at ease for so many years
Sweat blurred his vision, and he tried hard to wipe it off, but all he could see were his companions in a mess, unable to get up.
There was only one person, Lin Yuan. She was still standing upright in the middle of the battlefield covered in blood and dust, just like she did at the beginning.
At the edge of the huge gap at the top of the airship, black heads appeared one after another.
It was like a black tide rising up but never falling, sticking around the entrance of the cave, piling up layer by layer.
So many monsters were held down by Lin Yuan alone.
But these monsters cannot be shaken off or killed, and the high waves will eventually burst the dam.
Maybe we will all die. But I hope she, I hope that person can at least survive in the end.
Shu Jingtong thought with blurred eyes.
Lin Yuan stood stubbornly in the devastated battlefield.
Her chest and back were soaked with sweat.
The orange sky outside the airship looked like a fire.
The sky was full of human faces, all kinds of faces, laughing, scolding, making noises that made people upset.
There was blood all over the ground, and the painful groans of classmates and soldiers filled my ears.
Lin Yuan felt a severe headache, so severe that it felt like it was about to split open.
There is a huge hole in my heart, empty but untouchable, as if it is sealed tightly by something.
Lin Yuan felt as if she had returned to her childhood, the little girl standing alone in the raging fire.
There were cries and howls on all sides,
Everyone will die, she thought, just like then, everyone will eventually die here in pain and misery.
It was no use trying her best.
Even if you exhaust yourself, you still can't save anyone in the end.
But it doesn't matter, she doesn't feel pain, she doesn't feel bad, she is an emotionless monster.
The place in my heart that should have been filled with emotions was empty and sealed off, just like my father had sealed off my five senses and hadn't released them yet.
She will never feel sad or heartbroken.
But why was she still standing here? She didn't understand herself.
She was clearly unable to hold on any longer, having used her mental power too recklessly and excessively, causing her head to nearly split open, and her tentacles to become so weak that they were almost withering.
And those monsters continued to pile up layer by layer like waves, gradually accumulating into a terrifying high wall.
It wasn't something she could handle alone.
Collapse is imminent, and there is no point in persisting.
She didn't need to look, she had seen every face that fell around her, saw their despair, saw their pain, saw someone calling her to leave alone.
I am not weak, Lin Yuan thought.
I should belong on this battlefield.
I don't want to lose, I don't want them to die.
I just…
The thick glacier that had been sealed for many years in my heart cracked slightly.
At such a life-threatening moment, she actually felt a little relieved.
She seemed to understand a little bit what sadness was.
Just then, there was a sound of waves coming over, and the cold sea water flooded over her heart which was tense to the extreme.
Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then she heard a familiar whale cry.
From far away, coming from the evening sky.
(End of this chapter)