The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 34 Team formation
Lin Nan checked the sentry named Chris again, and then, as she expected, she saw a face she didn't want to see.

It’s the two-faced green tea jellyfish!
What kind of Shura field is this? Is it too late for her to quit the league now?

She doesn't want to meet these two crazy people again ah ah ah ah ah——

Ellie: Hey, Nan Nan, are you still online? Should we get their contact information privately? I wonder if this amazing person has a guide. With a little luck, maybe we can join their group.

Lin Nan: You can try, but I won’t go. o(╯□╰)o
Ellie: Why?
Lin Nan: You know, the person I was assigned to do the practical test was Tahir. I put him in solitary confinement twice and put him in an electric shock collar for a month. Now when he sees me, he acts like a mad dog. I don't want to provoke him again.

Ellie: Oh yeah, how could I have forgotten that? Never mind. An S-rank character like that would have already been assigned a team. How could they be waiting for us to snag them? I was just daydreaming.

In every year's league, those with strength have already formed teams early on. Unlike the two of them, they have no strength and no connections, so they can only wait miserably for the final random assignment.

Due to the huge difference in the number of sentinels, each sentinel team is only allowed to bring one guide. Those who aspire to win the championship must be very cautious in choosing a guide.

For example, El, the top student in their grade, was said to have been contacted privately by a Sentinel in his first grade, wanting him to become their exclusive guide.

Ellie: Or should we look at the Air Combat Department? This year, they've recruited a group of students from the Northern Territory. Their spirits are quite interesting, drawn from mythical figures. They're all handsome and beautiful, and incredibly powerful. Rumor has it there's even an S-rank among them.

Lin Nan: Can the guide only rely on the sentinel team?
Ellie: Of course not. We don't have the fighting power. Why would we go to the ring? Are we going to play tricks on each other? Without the sentinel team, we can't even get past the preliminaries.

Lin Nan: QQ
It seems to be the case.

Ellie: And the finals are a real survival game in the wild. Even though there's a high-level police team secretly guarding the place, it's still very dangerous for us. If we're not careful, we'll be eaten by those aliens. The best strategy is to find a reliable group of sentinels, guide them, and then share the points.

Lin Nan pondered. Every year, the venue for the league finals was chosen by the central government. They would arrange for a less polluted area with weaker alien species for the students to train in. To prevent tampering by those with ulterior motives, the venue was not announced until the day of the competition, and then the students were transported to that location by airship.

The league lasts for one week. During this week, contestants sent to various areas can form teams or work alone. They need to find the "king beast" of this area and kill it.

There are also many alien monsters on the road, and you will get points for killing monsters. The "King Beast" has the highest points. After the game is over, the organizer will count the points together and rank them according to the points. The person or team with the highest points will be the champion of this league.

The role of the guide is to clear the negative energy for the team members and make the killing of monsters more efficient. There is still a big difference between a team with a guide or not.

Lin Nan: Didn’t you just say that there are three teams that are favorites to win the championship this year? Who is the other one?
Ellie: There are also people from the Mind Control Department. It’s just that the people in this department are weird and we don’t like to interact with them. I don’t know who that person is.

Lin Nan: Uh...what do you mean?
Ellie: Because many of the sentinels over there are insect-type spirits. You know, insects are good at mind control, so they also become weird. Unless we have to, we'd better stay away from them. We don't know when we will be controlled and hypnotized.

Ok.

As they chatted, they found that it was already late at night. They said good night and went to bed.

After Lin Nan fell asleep for a while.

The terminal placed aside lit up again and a message came in.

It was a friend request from a stranger, with a cute, dancing blue jellyfish as their profile picture. [Has Mr. Lin rested yet? Regarding the league, I wonder if you have someone in mind for your team. If you haven't decided yet, would you consider me?]

After a while, probably seeing that Lin Nan hadn't replied, he sent another message:
It seems that Mr. Lin has fallen asleep. I am so sorry to bother you. I will wait for your message tomorrow morning and look forward to your reply.

Finally, an emoticon of a jellyfish peeking out from behind the door is attached, looking hesitant and nervous, pitiful and cute.

……

The terminal went quiet, but not long after, it lit up again.

It was another friend request from a stranger, and the avatar was a majestic lion with golden hair all over its body.

This person didn't say anything, and there was a simple "." on the application list.

After a while, seeing that Lin Nan did not reply, he sent another message, this time with five "..." numbers.

The terminal fell silent once more. In the still night, soft moonlight shone through the gaps in the curtains, quietly slipping into the room. Silver rays, like wispy silk threads, outlined irregular shapes of light and shadow on the ground and walls.

The moonlight was gentle and lingering, like the sticky, tangled emotions that some people struggle to express. Unfortunately, Lin Nan, asleep, felt nothing. She lay quietly in bed, her face serene, her long eyelashes casting a faint shadow beneath her eyelids, her breathing even and gentle.

Lin Nan was dreaming. In her dream, she saw a red moon, like a huge eye, hanging in the sky just a few inches away. Butterflies with flapping wings struggled to fly over it, and a faint pungent fishy smell floated in the air.

In the distance were some twisted buildings. Lin Nan was very familiar with these buildings. They once belonged to the world where she existed. However, here, all these things had become a pile of deserted and desolate relics of the old era, staying here desolately.

The breath of human life in the past has long disappeared, and huge mushroom robes that are towering into the clouds are constantly interspersed among them, making the whole picture absurd and lonely.

Seeing this, Lin Nan felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

This world is still the same world, but it is no longer the same world.

The group of people she was familiar with had long been buried in the dust of history. She was the only one who was still carrying the bag of memories of the past, walking alone in this strange yet familiar world.

No—perhaps, she is dead too.

Lin Nan's sadness did not last long.

Because a group of people appeared in her sight.

The clever jellyfish has already taken the initiative by talking and chatting.

Suddenly, I am on the pk list again. I have been working hard for 4000 in the past two days. I have no manuscripts. It is terrible. Please follow me and don’t keep writing.