Lin Yuan saw Ni Ji running towards him.
A neat voice rolled through my heart.
Ah, fish.
[It's a small fish]
[Little fish, little fish, little fish…]
[Woo woo]
[He also ran]
[He is so cute]
I'm so excited
[I really want to catch him]
Ni Ji ran so fast that Lin Yuan had the illusion that he wanted to rush over and hug her.
But he stopped at the last moment, staying at a polite distance.
He stood there, looking Lin Yuan up and down for a long time, and finally reached out and gently touched the wound on Lin Yuan's face where the bandage was.
"How did you get hurt?" he said. His voice was dry and hoarse, completely different from his usual gentle voice.
The movements were very restrained, with only the thumb touching very lightly through the dressing.
Lin Yuan felt his face itchy, as if being touched by the fine leaves on the branches.
The hand that Ni Ji touched Lin Yuan was not wearing a glove, and was covered with dried blood scabs and exposed scars, which were much more serious than the scratch on Lin Yuan's face.
He stared at Lin Yuan with sad eyes, as if he was a person who had never seen blood and was saddened by a small injury.
Lin Yuan felt happy to meet familiar friends in such a dangerous place.
She was originally a person of few words, but at this moment she couldn't help but want to say a few more words.
The two hid in an uninhabited house and exchanged what they had seen and heard since entering.
During the day, the lights and voices in all the houses along the street disappeared, and the streets became empty houses again.
It's safer to hide inside the house than on the street.
The light in the room was still dim. A little light from outside came in through the drawn blinds, casting interlaced light and shadows on the table by the window.
There was a light mist outside the house and the world was very quiet, like a cold morning.
The two of them sat at the table by the window. Ni Ji found two cups, washed them, and boiled a pot of hot water in the kitchen.
He also took out five or six candies from his pocket, of various brands, and placed them all in front of Lin Yuan.
The conditions were extremely poor and the two men were in a very miserable state, covered in wounds and blood.
Holding a cup of steaming water and only a few scattered candies, I had to be on guard against the scary monsters that occasionally passed by downstairs.
Lin Yuan recalled the gathering that took place in his own backyard.
If Xiaoyu had come at that time, this might have been the feeling.
It was relaxing to sit and talk together.
Lin Yuan released his spiritual body and showed Ni Ji his broken tentacle.
Ni Ji, who was holding a teacup, had a gentle smile on his face. When he saw the tentacle, the smile on his face froze.
He stared at Lin Yuan's broken tentacle. That look made Lin Yuan feel sad, as if he had not just broken a tentacle, but had suffered some fatal injury.
"It's okay. It will grow back." She couldn't help but give Ni Ji some knowledge about spiritual bodies.
Although it’s impossible that the veteran sentinel didn’t know.
A serious injury may cause the spirit to dissipate, affecting the life of the main body. However, ordinary injuries will still recover little by little over time, but the speed is very slow.
The tentacle that usually eats the most meat and vegetables snorted and did not actually move towards Ni Ji.
Perhaps he felt that the broken section of his body was very ugly and he didn't want to appear in front of people, so he shrank back sullenly.
Ni Ji raised his hand—by this time he had treated the wound and put on the black gloves again—as if he wanted to touch the severed tentacle.
But in the end he didn't touch it, but released the killer whale silently.
The shrunken killer whale was suspended in the air, lying quietly beside Lin Yuan's knees.
Lin Yuan sensed the sincerity and restraint in Ni Ji's heart. She didn't quite understand why this sentinel made himself so entangled and conflicted.
I didn't object to Ni Ji touching my tentacles.
But he let himself touch his killer whale.
Lin Yuan became happy and stroked the killer whale's pure black back with his fingers.
The fingertips felt soft and moist. It was smooth and elastic, and the touch was so good that it made me want to bite my lips.
The little killer whale did not move under her touch, but only whimpered slightly.
Lin Yuan felt that he, who had been frozen in the cold night, was warmed from the bottom of his heart.
After staying in this strange and cold world for too long, it seems that the human side of myself has faded.
At this moment, huddled under the blinds in the early morning, holding a cup of hot tea with sugar, with a familiar killer whale leaning against his legs, even though he was still in the polluted area, Lin Yuan felt like he had become a normal human being again.
The injured tentacles were no longer polite and climbed up the killer whale's tail with a grunt.
The tentacle with a large section broken off could not move smoothly, so it used the remaining suction cups to wriggle hard, clinging to its favorite big fish and doing its best.
It was injured and aggrieved, humming all the way, clinging, twisting, drilling up and down, and rubbing in various ways.
The big fish closed its eyes and put up with its willfulness without resistance. It even accepted its will when the fish coiled on its belly and turned its snow-white belly over in mid-air.
Only one or two small whale calls are made occasionally.
The spirits rolled into the corner to play. Ni Ji turned his face slightly and looked at the street outside the blinds.
Lin Yuan saw long bloodstains on his ears and neck. He must have been in a long and fierce battle.
There was still blood stain on his ears, mouth corners, and hair. Half of his body looked like it had been soaked in blood, and his right hand had never been raised.
"Were you attacked mentally?" Lin Yuan asked him.
Ni Ji looked at her and nodded. He picked up the warm water cup and took a sip to replenish his body with some calories.
During the battle last night, he suffered a severe mental attack, and now his brain felt like it was being stirred back and forth by red-hot iron nails, causing waves of severe pain.
But it doesn't matter, he feels everything is getting better.
He found the person he was looking for, and that person was safe and sound.
When the tentacles were acting coquettishly with the killer whale, he was actually very embarrassed and didn't know what to do. Fortunately, the blood on his face concealed his expression.
But he couldn't help but admit that ever since the tentacles touched the killer whale's skin.
The anxious heart in my chest can finally relax.
Lin Yuan broke a piece of fruit candy in his mouth into pieces and ate it quickly while chewing it.
Then he used a handkerchief to carefully wipe his hands. In the sunlight coming in through the window, Lin Yuan raised his clean hands and waved to Ni Ji.
This is the standard gesture that the guide uses before giving spiritual counseling to the sentinels.
"To give you spiritual counseling." Lin Yuan said.
She saw a trace of panic in Ni Ji's eyes. The tranquility of the lake was shattered, and her beautiful eyes trembled obviously.
He is a little nervous.
But he finally leaned forward and put his forehead close to Lin Yuan's hand.
At this time they were very close, and Lin Yuan realized that Ni Ji's eyes were very beautiful. In the dim light, there was a layered and transparent feeling.
It's like a delicious candy, crystal clear and especially sweet.
"You have such beautiful eyes." Lin Yuan smiled.
Lin Yuan suddenly remembered that this seemed to be the first time he had formally provided spiritual counseling to Ni Ji.
The number of times they met was really not that many, but she actually thought that they were already very familiar with each other.
Lin Yuan thought about it and entered Ni Ji’s mental picture twice.
The first time they fought, she was the one who bullied Ni Ji.
The second time, in order to break out and leave the No. 5 contaminated area, she entered deep into Ni Ji's mental picture, blocked Ni Ji's sense of pain, and messed up the hormones in his body, which was also considered doing a bad thing to him.
Thinking about it this way, it seemed that I didn't leave much of a good impression on this sentry.
"Isn't it too dangerous here?" The sentry under her hand said with some concern.
But he knew in his heart that if he could have an effective spiritual counseling at this time, it would be very important for his recovery of combat effectiveness.
"It's okay, I will protect you."
He heard the girl say to him.
Thick tentacles confidently emerged from all directions and wrapped around the two people who were standing very close to each other.
Blocked out all the emotions that were revealed by both of them.
Lin Yuan entered the familiar sea.
The deep blue sea welcomed her warmly, and the moonlight shone into the seabed and followed her. Lin Yuan turned over in the sea, and the tentacles spread out behind her like seaweed.
This is such a comfortable place.
Comfortable, spacious, free and unrestrained, beautiful and gentle, able to bear everything about her.
The Kraken slowly emerged from the dark depths of the sea.
At the deepest part of the sea, that beautiful underwater garden was ravaged by someone. It was scarred, in disarray, and covered with large patches of black filth that was difficult to remove.
A powerful mental attack hurt him.
What made Lin Yuan most unhappy was that the mysterious palace that he had just explored once had its corners broken off in the impact of the battle, several solid wall pillars collapsed, and beautiful pearls and clam shells were overturned and rolled everywhere.
Giant tentacles emerged from the seabed.
One by one, huge, surging, menacing, ready to work.
One was wriggling slowly over the pebbles on the seafloor, picking up broken red corals and replanting seaweed that had been uprooted. It was so busy that it became distracted and started chasing a runaway hermit crab.
The other one dug into the fine sea sand, lifted up the sticky black negative emotions and destroyed them, but accidentally dug out a red sea cucumber, and poked it, it actually lit up. The tentacle shook off the sticky negative emotions hanging on its hand and went to tease the sea cucumber.
There are more tentacles involved in the work than ever before, crisscrossing across the vast and dark seabed.
Those who were soothing the starfish started playing with them. Those who were collecting shells started teasing them to make them splash water. Those who were planting corals started to coil them for some reason. Those who were cleaning up the garbage were busy digging holes…
Work efficiency is lower than ever before.
Lin Yuan swam into the mysterious palace that she had entered once.
This is where the Sentinel stores memories and emotions, the most private and vulnerable place in the spiritual world.
He opened the door to himself, without any defenses, and even the killer whales guarding the place remained in the outside world.
Lin Yuan decided to do her best to sort out the mess this time. She was very careful and meticulous at the beginning, cleaning up the messed up pearls and repairing the collapsed palace walls.
The ocean is a place with strong self-healing capabilities, and there are actually not many accumulated emotions here.
Cheerful sea creatures swam between Lin Yuan's fingers.
Lin Yuan started playing quickly.
What are these things that sway with the waves? Touch them and they will light up with a shy glow. It's a lovely reaction. Touch them a few more times.
What are these soft, colorful things? If you poke them, they will shrink back in embarrassment. They are so soft and fun to play with.
There are so many beautiful shells. I picked them up one by one and arranged them into cute shapes.
Some shells spit out crystal clear bubbles. A string of bubbles of memory rise from the bottom of the sea.
Wow, there's my face in there.
Lin Yuan realized that he had wasted too much time. When he came out of the mental image, he found that the sentry under his hand had fallen asleep.
His face was resting on the table, his breath blowing slowly on Lin Yuan's wrist, and he slept soundly and peacefully.
I quietly removed the hand that was covering his eyes. The man's eyelashes moved slightly, but he didn't wake up.
Lin Yuan knew that the sentinels were highly vigilant creatures, with auditory and tactile perception abilities many times more acute than those of normal people.
In such a crisis-ridden environment, Ni Ji was able to fall asleep, which shows that his spiritual counseling made him feel very comfortable and relaxed.
Lin Yuan was happy from the bottom of her heart. Her poor ability in mental counseling was a major concern for her and the biggest shortcoming in all her mental health subjects.
Before this, almost no one liked her counseling.
Even at the Dongbin sentry post, although they got along well with Xiaoniao and the others, when they were doing spiritual counseling for them, everyone couldn't help showing a look of need and fear.
"Yes, it's very neat and refreshing. It's ten thousand times more useful than the guide." The bird kicked its toes embarrassedly, "It's just a little scary. I tremble with fear every time."
Although Lin Yuan didn't say anything, the more scared they were, the more nervous Lin Yuan became.
Every time I provide them with mental counseling, I do it quickly and efficiently so as not to see them in pain.
This was the first time that she, like the other guides, made the sentinel being treated feel comfortable.
Lin Yuan looked down at Ni Ji who was sleeping on the table.
When Ni Ji was awake, he always had a strong aura, like a cold blade that had just left his body, or a solitary peak. The loneliness that seeped into his bones made him look very cold.
At this moment, as he lay here and fell asleep, his brows relaxed, and the light and shadow from the window bars cast on his face, adding a touch of softness to his temperament.
The blood stains on his forehead and lips made him look fragile yet beautiful.
A tentacle squeezed into Lin Yuan's arms, showing her the pink little tip that had just grown.
[It has grown so much? How did you do that?] Lin Yuan was shocked.
She knew that close proximity between spirits would help heal their injuries, but she didn't expect that the injured tentacle just rubbed against the killer whale for a while and the effect would be so extraordinary.
The professors pointed this out when I was in Guidance College.
In rare cases, the healing effect between some spirits is very significant. But this is very rare, and requires the spirits to be familiar with each other and have a very high natural compatibility.
Lin Yuan turned around to look for Ni Ji's spirit body. The killer whale was in the corner, being tossed around by seven or eight tentacles. It was in such a mess that tears welled up in its eyes.
Lin Yuan hurriedly called back those greasy but unsatisfied guys.
The little killer whale turned its head to look at Lin Yuan, whimpered, hid its body and returned to its void.
The energetic tentacles finally crawled back onto the table and helped protect the sleeping sentry in the middle.
Let him have a good rest after fighting for a whole night, injured and tired, and don't let any monster in this world find him.
One of his hands was free and was fiddling with the few colorful candies on the table that Lin Yuan had not finished eating.
It happily used its new, tender little tip to try to roll up beautiful candies one by one and hold them up to the light.
Occasionally, I would remember to go back and touch the sleeping sentinel's soft hair.
Its body recovered, its beauty reappeared, and it regained its strong self-confidence.
[What do you think? I'll say he's the sweetest.]
[Big fish are the sweetest, big fish are the best]
[Big fish is the sweetest]
[Big fish is the sweetest]
The tentacles responded to its words, and soon the chaotic voices in Lin Yuan's mind merged into one will.
[Big fish is the sweetest~~~~]
(End of this chapter)