The leader of the rescue team amiably consoled the surviving guides.
He claimed that he had failed in his duty and caused them unnecessary fright. He said that this incident was a terrible accident.
He also promoted his effective and timely rescue efforts, which ensured that the guides were well protected inside the airship, and at least most of them did not suffer fatal physical injuries.
The rescue officer asked everyone what they were going to do next. He said that they had originally arranged vehicles to continue to take them to various outposts, but considering that everyone had suffered such great damage, it was understandable if someone wanted to go back to recuperate.
In his mind, these frightened guides would definitely not have the heart to rush to the sentry post.
They must be trembling and crying and wanting to go back. In this way, he could take advantage of the situation and bring everyone back to the White Tower to report. He wouldn't have to travel a long way to send these people to those dangerous and poor places one by one.
As for the soldiers at the sentry posts, whether they needed guides or were waiting for treatment from the guides was not something that he, an official living high in the White Tower, needed to worry about.
After all, it's just a formality, right
"I, I am willing to continue to the sentry post. The sentry over there is still waiting for us." The person who spoke was a young man. He had overdrawn his mental strength, making his face look very ugly. He looked like he couldn't even stand up, but he sat on the ground and raised his pale arms.
Oh, it was the top student in the grade, Shu Jingtong. The rescue officer recognized this person. He curled his lips in his heart, good students are rigid, there is really nothing you can do about him.
But on the surface, she still had to put on a smile and praise him for his loyalty, selflessness and consideration for the overall situation.
"Me too. I want to go too." The girl who spoke this time had a big afro like a bird's nest, and her face was covered with snot and tears.
Oh, the spoiled young lady from the Marquis’s family. The rescue officer thought, it’s normal for the young lady to be ignorant of the ways of the world.
"I'll go too." Soon another person raised his hand.
"Yes, I want to go too."
“Although I’m a little scared… I’ll go anyway.”
"Count me in."
One guide after another raised their hands. Although not all of them, the number still surprised the rescue officer.
The guides who used to live a refined life in the White Tower were now covered in dust and looked miserable. They sat around without any energy. But every hand they raised was so firm.
There was a spark in his eyes that the official in a high position could not understand.
The rescue officer had no choice but to complain in his heart while taking out a notebook, recording the destinations of each guide, and began to arrange the escort vehicles and personnel.
Some went to Luolong, some went to Zidian. There was a strange guide wearing a dark sportswear who said she was from the Special Research Department and was the Dongbin outpost.
Ni Ji, who had already left with the team and walked a long distance, suddenly stopped in the wilderness.
"Dongbin." He seemed to have heard something and softly read out a place name.
"What's wrong, Brother Ji?" Song Siyuan, who was walking beside him, asked, "You remembered it wrongly. We are not going to Dongbin sentry post, we are going to Zidian, although the two sentry posts are quite close."
The morning light was rising in the sea. Fishermen who had just returned from fishing were dragging their fresh catches towards the seawall.
Crowds of people gathered at the dock, forming a small seafood trading market.
The fishmonger raised her knife and chopped off the huge fish head. Blood mixed with fish scales gathered on the ground into a thin stream, flowing down along both sides of the road.
Passersby walked on the muddy ground.
The market was filled with the sounds of bargaining, hawking and the smell of fish. It was dirty, messy and noisy.
Sentinel Shen Fei stood in the muddy city, and adjusted the silk scarf around his neck with some discomfort.
He was not used to wearing the imperial capital's formal dress in a place like this, and he hadn't worn it for many years.
Behind him, several sentries standing or leaning on the jeep laughed at him.
"Captain, look at what you are wearing. You look like a colorful peacock. Hahahaha, it's so funny. Don't you see that everyone passing by is looking at you?"
"Captain, you may be able to wear this outfit to attend the ball in the White Tower, but it's really funny to stand here in the vegetable market."
"Shut your dog mouths." Shen Fei scolded them, "People from the capital dress like this. This is a formal dress. It shows that we value her."
Shen Fei was born in the imperial capital, and grew up in a family of collateral branch of an aristocratic family. Compared with the native sentinels, he knew more about the etiquette of the White Tower.
He felt that he could be considered a handsome man in the past, but now, after spending so much time hanging out with those veteran soldiers at the Dongbin outpost, he started to use foul language and could hardly regain the etiquette and rules he had learned since childhood.
"Don't laugh at the sentry." A female sentry with a shaved head sitting on the roof of the jeep said, "This is the sentry's last dress. Before we set off, my sister-in-law found it overnight, washed and ironed it, and rushed to let the sentry wear it."
The sentries stopped laughing.
Most of them still remember that when the sentry first came here, he had a lot of colorful clothes like this. Most of them have been sold over the years, leaving only this one, which he would occasionally take out to show off when he needed to entertain.
They really shouldn't laugh.
"Boss, will the guide you mentioned come? We have been waiting since yesterday, but we haven't seen even the shadow of a guide. Could she not be coming at all?" The speaker was a big sentry with thick eyebrows, thick hair and beard, over two meters tall, and he was already very impatient of waiting.
"No, Dahu. The one who came is a guide from the Special Research Department. She is here for Contaminated Area No. 5." Shen Fei shook his head and said, "She is going to do a research mission for Contaminated Area No. 5. She will definitely come."
Although she said this, she was actually worried in her heart. She couldn't help but keep looking up, "Strange, we should have arrived earlier. The guide usually wears a white silk skirt, which is very conspicuous and everyone pays attention to it."
Closer to contaminated area No. 5 is actually another sentry post next door.
Originally, the guide would not come here, but he specifically asked a cousin of his distant cousin to come here. The cousin named Roy has a say in the special research department. Shen Fei spent a lot of effort and repeatedly assured the cousin Roy that he would take good care of their guide. Only then did he agree to let the guide stay at their Dongbin sentry post during the research period.
As long as the guide came and stayed with them, there might still be some hope.
The sentry nicknamed Da Hu snorted, "Even if they come, so what? The White Tower has sent guides to our place over the years, but after they came, they either complained about the poor accommodation or the food, and every time they came, they wanted to leave. Has anyone ever helped sincerely?"
Someone immediately answered, "Yes, the one who came two years ago, just arrived at the sentry post, he accidentally saw Da Hu's half-beast form, and was frightened to death on the spot. After waking up, he refused to stay any longer, and ran back with his luggage packed as it was. Hahahaha."
"So you better behave yourself this time." Shen Fei scolded unhappily, "Don't say any dirty words. Don't show your half-beast form, keep your spirit form away, and don't let anyone out to run around."
"Why?"
"That would be suffocating."
"That's right, a guide is great. Who cares?"
"I don't want to serve tea and water to those guys and not get any good face in return. It's just a waste of time."
"Those guys in the White Tower never treated us as human beings."
The soldiers started talking noisily.
"So what do you want?" Shen Fei turned around and yelled, "You don't want to take Rachel's life, do you?"
When the sentries heard these words, they fell silent instantly.
Shen Fei's angry eyes swept across the faces of every sentry, and every sentry he saw lowered his head.
"Do you know what condition Xiao Lei is in now or not?" Shen Fei's gaze finally fell on Da Hu, who was leading the trouble, and said in a cold voice, "Da Hu, you tell me. If you say one word, your deputy captain's life will be in vain. I won't say a word now and will turn around and leave. Who has the patience to wait for a guide here?"
"Boss, that's not what I meant," the tall and strong sentry shrank his head and bowed his head to apologize, "I'm sorry, I know I was wrong."
"Listen carefully. When the guide comes, put away your bad habits one by one." Shen Fei pointed at everyone with his finger, "I'm telling you this, you should bow your head when you should, bend your waist when you should, and do your job of serving tea and pouring water. I will never forgive anyone who messes up."
"Boss, stop talking," Dahu pounded the carriage and swore, "If that guy can really save Captain Lei, I'd be willing to kneel down and lick his shoes, not to mention serving him tea and water."
"What shoes?" a girl's voice interrupted at this time.
Shen Fei turned around and saw a girl standing in front of him.
The girl was wearing a dark, loose outdoor outfit with her sleeves folded to her elbows, a gun on her waist, and a small backpack on her back. Except for her pale face and thin hands, she looked nothing like the guide I remembered.
"Excuse me, are you the sentry from Dongbin?" she asked.
"Yes, I am Shen Fei, the sentry commander of Dongbin." Although he had seen the photo, Shen Fei still didn't dare to believe it, "You... you are?"
"Lin Yuan from the Special Research Institute." Lin Yuan showed his work badge, "Something happened to the airship on the way. I got here by car."
But Shen Fei was very happy, as if he had obtained a treasure, and was so excited that he didn't know where to put his hands.
He took Lin Yuan's backpack attentively, handed it to the group of guys who were peeking behind him, and personally opened the car door for Lin Yuan.
"I heard about it, I heard about it. You are trapped in the contaminated area." Shen Fei said warmly, "It's really not easy. I was worried that you would not come."
The guide who came the year before last brought seven or eight large boxes with him, and the back bed of the car could barely hold them all, so this time Shen Fei specially asked several brothers to help carry the things.
Who knew that the person who came this time had a different style and only brought a backpack.
The sentries all got into the jeep's bed. Shen Fei drove the car himself and asked Lin Yuan to sit in the passenger seat.
This jeep was the only motor vehicle in the sentry post. It was old and had been repaired. Although its performance was OK, its interior was really not very good. Although Shen Fei had organized people to carefully clean it before coming, it still looked a bit shabby.
There is a long bumpy dirt road from the dock to the sentry post.
In order to leave a good impression on the new guide, Shen Fei dismantled his daughter's only doll before he came, and asked his wife to sew a soft velvet cushion with the down inside overnight. It was placed specifically for Lin Yuan's seat.
Lin Yuan sat on the cushion, and Shen Fei in the driver's seat couldn't help but look at her secretly.
The young guide got on the bus, casually adjusted the seat cushion to make himself comfortable, and then stopped moving. He didn't say anything, but had an expressionless face, supported his chin with his wrist, tilted his head and looked out the window at the muddy ground receding all the way, looking bored.
He's a person with a cold personality.
Shen Fei began to feel a little nervous.
He knew that the seven or eight guys sitting or standing in the back of the truck must be listening to the noise in the car, waiting for him to speak.
Those sentinels have better hearing than anyone else.
"It must be tiring to take both airship and car along the way?" Shen Fei finally mustered up the courage, but said something nonsense first.
The guide did not answer, but simply withdrew his gaze from the window and turned to him, with a cold look on his face, as if he didn't want to talk.
Shen Fei couldn't continue speaking, but he had to continue.
I could only endure the embarrassment and continue speaking.
"Originally, I should let you rest for two days and adjust your condition. Only then I can talk to you." Shen Fei's smile was a little stiff. He hadn't begged others in a low voice for a long time, and he was not used to it.
"Just a few days ago," he said dryly, "as you may know, the nearby Contaminated Area 5 suddenly spread. One of our sentries was trapped in it."
"By the time everyone rescued him, he had already been tortured by those deformed monsters for several days. He was almost mentally collapsed."
Lin Yuan interrupted, "Do you want me to give him some mental counseling?"
"Yes, yes, that's it." Shen Fei's eyes lit up and he pleaded earnestly, "I hope you can help. The sentinel is on the verge of collapse and can't hold on any longer. We gave him several injections of guide element, but it didn't work at all."
"But my ability to organize my spirit is not very high, so I may not be able to help the sentinel on the verge of collapse." Lin Yuan replied calmly.
She was just stating a fact.
Mental grooming is a delicate job. In the imperial capital, all the sentinels who received her mental counseling in the grooming room showed painful expressions, and few people dared to come to her again. I guess she was not very qualified in this aspect.
But this sentence, coupled with her expressionless face, seemed a little too cold.
Da Hu, who was sitting in the back of the car, stood up suddenly, but was held by seven or eight hands around him and pushed back into his seat.
The short-haired female sentry glared at him fiercely to prevent him from acting impulsively.
Although everyone's expression was as angry and sad as his.
Shen Fei, who was driving in the car, felt anxious. He didn't know where to start explaining to Lin Yuan, so he spoke hurriedly.
"He sacrificed himself to save others. When the edge of the contaminated area began to spread, with his speed, he was able to run out in time."
“It just happened to be a makeshift village there, with old people and a lot of children.”
"The children came out, but he couldn't run away. He was obviously the fastest sentry in the entire sentry post."
"I saw it with my own eyes. I watched him being grabbed by the ankle by that thing and dragged into the black fog."
"When we finally rescued him, three days had passed and he couldn't even speak..."
Shen Fei knew that he was too excited and his words were incoherent.
He opened his mouth and swallowed the boiling emotions in his chest. He forced himself to force out an awkward smile.
"Look at me, I'm getting anxious. Let's go back first and talk about it later."
This is not good, he said to himself in his heart, the guide's emotions must be stable, and spiritual counseling cannot be forced. If she is unwilling, it will not be done.
When we get there, settle the people there first, and then slowly beg her. There will always be a way.
Don't mess it up.
I’m afraid that Xiao Lei can’t wait.
Rachel was his best soldier. He had been in the army since he was 15, and he had watched him grow from a teenager to a trusted deputy captain.
I watched him become half-dead and was helpless.
There are many guides in the tower who can heal the sentinels, but they are unwilling to come to the sentinels easily.
I finally got a spot, and I must not mess it up.
How could the carefree guide, who grew up in the White Tower, know the difficulties faced by the soldiers on the sentry post? How could he possibly understand the anxiety and pain in his heart at this moment
It's not hard to understand, Shen Fei said to himself, when he was a child, he lived in the city protected by the White Tower, in a dreamland of peace and prosperity. He was the same at that time, and never thought that there were many people in the world who lived such a hard life, living on the edge of a knife, living in such a barren place, and not having enough food.
What was he thinking about every day at that time
Wondering whether there should be cream or fruit on the cake, wondering whether there will be a decent dress for the dance.
I guess this young female guide from the White Tower is the same as I was back then.
You can't blame her. After all, it's impossible for people to understand other people's pain from their own perspective before they see it with their own eyes and experience it personally.
The car stopped and the gate of the sentry post was right in front of us.
Shen Fei found that his eyes were a little wet. He restrained his emotions, got out of the car and opened the door for Lin Yuan. He smiled at Lin Yuan and said, "Come on, I'll take you to see where you live. You can take a rest and see if there is anything missing."
"Aren't we going to see the sentry first?" Lin Yuan said curiously.
Shen Fei was stunned.
"I thought you were in a hurry." Lin Yuan gestured to lead the way. "Since the situation is urgent and there is no other guide, I have no choice but to give it a try."
[This person is really strange]
[You're almost crying, and you're still talking about taking a rest]
[That’s right, I don’t understand. Humans are the hardest to understand.]
[The big fish ran away, there are no fish to catch, it's so boring. ]
[boring]
(End of this chapter)