The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 18 Passed the Assessment
The director looks very handsome today too.

Lin Nan silently gave him a thumbs up in her heart.

"This result is very common among beginner guides. Mental counseling is not an easy task. I just need to work harder in the future."

"Do other people have similar numbers?" Lin Nan couldn't help but feel curious.

"Most of them are like this, but some are only 0.1. The level gap between Sentinels and Guides is generally quite large these days, so poor guidance is perfectly normal. However, there are exceptions." Huo Sen finished, pulling out another student's report card. "The boy from the Frendia family is a rare genius. His mental power has reached A-level. His mental guidance of Sentinels of the same level is 100% effective, and even cross-level treatment can achieve a 70% effect. It won't be long before he's promoted to S-level and joins the ranks of legendary guides."

Florentia?

Lin Nan glanced at the photo curiously and saw a familiar face with blond hair and blue eyes.

It turned out to be this tsundere rabbit.

Is he really that powerful?
No wonder she is often looked down upon. She is a D-level person, which is really not good enough compared to others who are A-level.

Lin Nan felt a little crazy in his heart.

She had also heard of this legendary guide list. It was said that all the people on it were S-level or close to S-level characters. Each of them had a large number of followers, and their madness was comparable to that of crazy fans.

However, those people either went in and out of the front line or the government's confidential departments, so Lin Nan had no chance to see them.

“I don’t know when I’ll be able to do this.”

The salary should be very high.

She sighed like this, but didn't say the rest of the sentence.

"I believe it won't take long." Huo Sen slowly walked over to her side after hearing her words. "As long as you get good results in the upcoming league, you'll have the opportunity to match with the best military resources. They will give you rich experience."

That’s what she said, but with her current abilities and popularity, she probably can’t even make it past the league’s preliminary round.

Normally, no one would choose her when the coaches formed a team for training, let alone in such an important occasion as the league.

It is said that the league is a joint competition specially organized by the Guide Academy and the Sentinel Academy for the second-year students who are about to enter the internship period. During the competition, the Sentinels are free to choose to form a team, which can be single or multi-person, and there is no restriction on the mode, but the number of people in a team can be controlled at most 10.

During the competition, the group that earns the most points wins.

This world has always respected the strong. People with high spiritual levels will have priority in selection, and the people they choose will naturally be high-level people like them.

There are only a few people like Lin Nan who fail in every subject in the grade. Even though she was promoted to a higher grade in the past few days, it still cannot change her situation of being at the bottom of the class.

Thinking of this, she smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm not someone with big ambitions. I just want to pass the exam. When I graduate, if I can't get into the tower, I'll find an easy job in a private clinic."

Hearing Lin Nan's words, Huo Sen finally chuckled. The gloom that had been weighing on his heart for a while finally dissipated. He asked, "Do you know about a private clinic?"

Uh, what's wrong?

Isn’t it similar to the private hospitals in the past? She can’t get into the public one, so why can’t she go to the private one?

Seeing her ignorant look, Huo Sen stroked his brow and said, "Are you sure you didn't cheat on your 60 points in cultural subjects?"

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Lin Nan, who had been trying to fish in troubled waters since crossing over, was almost discovered and immediately slid to his knees: "Sorry, Director, I had a fever not long ago, and it kind of damaged my brain."

"..." Huo Sen was a little speechless and continued, "Private guide agencies are engaged in shady transactions that are not recognized by the country or the government. As a guide who graduated from a legitimate college, you absolutely cannot go to such a place and ruin yourself."

"Yeah." Lin Nan nodded frantically.

Scared to death!

It turns out that in this world, private hospitals are places of this nature. I was careless.

"But you don't have to be too anxious. You may not understand your spiritual body yet."

What does that mean?! Lin Nan was confused.

"We've analyzed your recent operational data. Although your spirit body doesn't have any purification capabilities, it inexplicably matches the spirit bodies of some high-level Sentinels very well."

The director's voice was calm and steady as he explained slowly.

Lin Nan was a little confused by what she heard. She looked at the director in front of her humbly, waiting for a more detailed explanation.

Huo Sen observed her expression and sighed, knowing that she probably didn't understand.

"The Sentinel-to-Spirit connection isn't just for healing. A capable guide can also use it to control the Sentinel, turning it into a weapon in your hands."

As Huo Sen spoke, he subconsciously wanted to take a cigarette from the cigarette box at hand, but then he thought of something and put the cigarette back.

"The most powerful Guides, like Sentinels, are both S-rank. However, this world has countless S-rank Sentinels, but only a handful of Guides. Guides are inherently weak physically, which limits their spiritual growth to a certain extent. Therefore, they need to rely on the power of Sentinels."

"The higher the degree of compatibility between the spirit body and the sentinel, the closer the connection between them and the sentinel. It seems that your spirit body is born with the unique ability to break through the sentinel's mental barrier and tolerate negative emotions."

"Do you understand what I mean? To put it bluntly, if you want something, no sentinel can deny you." Once such a person grows up, he will be extremely terrifying. Your defense in front of her is like a sticky, shapeless ball of mud, so fragile that it can be easily damaged.

He had seen guides with such special abilities before, but it was a pity that before such extraordinary abilities could be revealed to the world, he had already...

Huo Sen looked at the girl in front of him, as if he saw the person from the past——
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Lin Nan didn't know why he followed the director for no apparent reason.

She sat in the passenger seat, watching the car drive out of the school, pass through the quiet and spacious streets, and then head towards the center of the empire, the magnificent white tower.

"Director, where are you taking me?"

Lin Nan then felt a little uneasy and couldn't help asking.

"The rehabilitation center in Baita." Huo Shen replied.

"What are you doing there?"

White Tower, isn't that a place only military personnel can enter? Why are you taking her there?
"To do a test, you need to meet someone."

"Who?"

"You'll know when you arrive."

After saying this, Huo Shen didn't say anything else, and Lin Nan didn't dare to ask any more questions. After all, the other party was a teacher in her school and would not do anything to her, so she leaned back in her chair and didn't care about anything else.

Perhaps it was because she had just used up too much energy in the struggle with the jellyfish, and once she relaxed, she looked particularly tired. Lin Nan looked out the window, feeling a little drowsy, but she didn't dare to really fall asleep, so she just forced herself to stay asleep.

In her daze, she always felt a wet and sticky gaze beside her, which could not be shaken off...

After an unknown amount of time, the car finally arrived at the White Pagoda. Huo Shen rolled down the window, and the sentry on guard saw that it was him, saluted, and let him pass.

Lin Nan followed Huo Shen closely, and the journey was smooth. Afterwards, the two entered an elevator, and the other pressed the button for the fifteenth floor underground.

It turns out that the White Pagoda is not only as tall as it appears on the surface, but it also has so many floors underground!
Lin Nan exclaimed in amazement.

The elevator reached the fifteenth underground floor, and in front of it was a long corridor. The cold metal walls emitted a piercing glow under the dim light.

Huo Shen brought Lin Nan and stopped in front of a door called "Observation Room". Then he swiped his name tag and walked in.

Inside were various instruments and a giant electronic screen. There were only two or three staff members inside. Lin Nan recognized one of them; he was the male assistant who often followed the director.

"How is it?" Huo Shen went straight to the point.

Jis glanced at Lin Nan behind Huo Shen and said, "There's nothing we can do. The mental barrier is locked."

"No one can pry it open?"

"An S-rank guide might be able to help, but the masters in the tower are all out on missions. If we wait for them to return, we'll miss our departure date."

"I understand." Huo Sen nodded calmly, then he turned to Lin Nan and said, "Student Lin, this is why I invited you here today."

Huh? Lin Nan was a little confused.

Huo Sen asked someone to turn on the image on the electronic screen, and a naked, strong male body was instantly projected onto the screen in an extremely magnified state.

Lin Nan was startled, thinking it was some 18+ picture, but after a closer look, she realized she had misunderstood.

The man in the picture was tied to a giant rack with his hands suspended above his head, forced to stretch his slender and powerful body. The clothes on his upper body had been shredded, leaving only a pair of black combat pants, messy and stubbornly stuck to his body.

He lowered his head and his facial expression could not be seen clearly, but his pale and thin chin showed that he was not in good condition at the moment.

The lower half of this person's face gave Lin Nan a familiar feeling.

Is this the black wolf?

She was a little unsure because the sentry had already begun to mutate on the day of the incident. She had only seen the remaining half of his face through the images transmitted by the vines.

"When a Sentinel's pollution index reaches the threshold of his brain's tolerance, he will lose his rationality and completely transform into a mad monster. The higher the level of the Sentinel, the higher his tolerance, but this also means that his alienation will bring more devastating consequences. Currently, the White Tower has limited senior guides. Even if they are required to provide 24-hour uninterrupted guidance, they are almost unable to keep up with the progress of the Sentinels' alienation."

Having said that, Huo Shen paused, his dark green eyes filled with an unfathomable expression.

"It's fortunate and rare for someone like him to be appeased and regain his human sanity in the early stages of his transformation. However, strangely, we discovered that even though his transformation has ceased, the pollution level in his brain hasn't decreased."

As Huo Shen spoke, he cast his gaze towards the little girl in front of him, who was still in a state of confusion. He was nearly two meters tall, standing straight in front of Lin Nan, like a mountain, making Lin Nan a little breathless.

"Student Lin, what exactly did you do to him at that time?"

Huo Shen's voice was low, yet it contained a seriousness that could not be avoided.

Once a puppy recognizes its owner, it belongs to the owner.

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(End of this chapter)