The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 97 Pollution (Revised)

Lin Nan felt that something was invading his consciousness.

A sharp thorn and a black mist continuously poured into her narrow mental picture. After Huo Sen's feedback, her mental power level had risen to C level, but it was still too low for this powerful pollutant. She couldn't even form her own mental barrier.

The vines began to wilt, drooping listlessly, their vitality being drained away bit by bit.

"Guide Lin, please stop struggling and just relax and accept me. Look how wonderful it is to become an alien. I have the ability to make anyone live the life they desire."

Ronnie watched Lin Nan struggle in agony, his human eyes radiating a sickly, fanatical light. He slowly raised his mutated forelimbs, as if painting a beautiful picture, his tone gentle yet alluring.

"You've seen it all before. Everyone in the village has their own fields and works for them every day. I was born late, and my parents have always wanted me to go to the Sentinel Academy so that I can become an officer instead of an ordinary soldier. You see, I go to school now. Every day off, I go home, and they will prepare my favorite food for me... If I can bring back a girl I like, they will be even happier..."

Having said that, Ronnie bent down his huge body and lifted Lin Nan up. Because they were closer to the source of the pollution, the buzzing sound became stronger. Her head could no longer hold on and it was like being hit by a sledgehammer. The severe pain instantly spread throughout her body.

"Guide Lin, I'm getting more and more fond of you for being able to hold out this long. Come with me. If you're willing, I can let them go..."

The monster's voice was soothing and coaxing that Lin Nan began to see some vague illusions, as if countless pairs of eerie eyes were watching her in the darkness, and waves of chills surged from the bottom of her heart.

Mental pollution can trigger the most horrific memories in a person's heart, and then repeatedly amplify the torture until the other person completely loses their mind.

Ronnie originally wanted to capture Ireland to avenge Duke Ned, but during these few days of getting along, he found a target that interested him more.

Like him, she is a low-level spirit, but she has extremely powerful mental control abilities.

The first time he spoke to her, he asked her: What do you think of the weak flying squirrel?

She said that spirits were not divided into strong or weak, and as long as they were used properly, they could all play their greatest role. Moreover, she praised his spirit body - it was very cute.

This was the first time he received words of praise from someone else. He was surprised, but at the same time, he had infinite expectations in his heart that he shouldn't have.

"Guide Lin," Ronnie said silently, "I've already used my spirit body to its fullest potential. Do you still think it's cute?"

"..."

Lin Nan no longer had the strength to move, and his entire body lay in the monster's hands like a puddle of mud.

She seemed to be lost in a very deep and long tunnel, surrounded by endless darkness and so quiet that she could only hear her own rapid breathing and panicked heartbeat.

She tried to run inside, her steps stumbling, but she could never see the end.

Those shadows seemed to have come from the abyss of darkness, their bodies twisted, and they kept speaking vicious words. Their voices were sharp and piercing, like sharp blades, trying to snuff out her last hope...

At the end of the tunnel, she saw the helpless girl again—

It has been a long time since I last saw her. When Lin Nan first came here, he always met her in his dreams.

The inferior, sensitive and silent girl took a knife and stabbed it into her temple bit by bit, constantly hurting herself in an extremely cruel and decisive way.

"Those people hate me."

"What should I do to be liked by people around me?"

"They say my spirits are disgusting. Yes, I feel disgusted too. They always make me hear things I don't want to hear..."

"It's so annoying, so painful, my head hurts, I'm going crazy..."

"It's normal for a freak like me to be disliked. If I strip off my spiritual body, will others like me?"

"But—how can I do that… The teacher said that most people's spirit bodies reside in their brains. Can I dig them out with a knife…"

One after another, voices buried deep inside kept appearing in Lin Nan's mind, like stirred sediment floating up one after another.

Lin Nan's mood became extremely gloomy.

Cheer up.

Don't be influenced.

The original owner is the original owner, and you are you.

You're an adult, pull yourself together.

Lin murmured over and over again, reminding himself in his heart, but it was no use. The thick darkness seemed to have found fertile soil, taking root and spreading there madly.

"You know what? Actually, I don't want to be a guide at all..." "Can you take me back to where I came from..."

Countless times, she heard the girl crying, silently begging for help from the world, but no one responded to her...

She stood blankly on a piece of barren soil, allowing the ugly and greedy vines to gradually entangle her, as if to crush her life and hope together.

A devastating pessimism overwhelmed Lin Nan. She painfully discovered that she had replaced the girl, enduring all the pain of hanging and allowing the vines to suck the life out of her.

"Do not……"

Lin Nan made a weak sound, tears fell from his tightly closed eyes, and his consciousness gradually became blurred.

So this is what it feels like to be spiritually polluted?
It was as if I was in an endless hell, suffering unspeakable torture both physically and mentally.

A needle, thin but extremely sharp, pierced into her spiritual world.

This needle seemed to be the source of all her pain, continuously releasing dark power, eroding her last line of defense...

"Guide Lin, come with me..."

Ronnie's voice seemed to come from far away, yet it seemed as if he was whispering in her ear.

The voice had a bewitching power that caused Lin Nan to waver in the midst of pain and confusion.

Her dark eyes were slowly losing focus...

At this moment, something in her brain emitted a scorching heat, which made her originally chaotic and confused consciousness clear up for a moment.

Lin Nan opened his eyes slightly, and in his peripheral vision, he saw a flame rising into the sky—

The flames dispersed the thick, diffuse black fog around them. Something shattered, and the transparent, invisible fragments glowed crimson in the light of the fire. Then, a golden lion roared, charging towards the rat-bodied monster with a human face and a rat-bodied body, carrying an overwhelming aura...

"Student Lin, hold on!"

Her body fell into an embrace with the smell of sea breeze, and a jelly-like object wrapped her tightly.

Lin Nan struggled to open her eyes, only to find herself inside the body of a blue jellyfish. The soft, elastic texture created an impenetrable barrier for her. The thick black fog and pollution surrounding her could no longer harm her.

Outside this barrier, Caesar and Lan Yin have already started fighting with the alien.

The golden lion continuously attacked the monster, and every pounce and claw strike was filled with tremendous force.

The lion's roar made the air buzz, as if it was going to shatter the dark space.

Lan Yin raised the pulse gun in her hand and shot at the monster continuously, but the alien's black fur was as hard as steel, and the bullets could not hurt its body at all.

Lin Nan finally saw what an S-level Sentinel was. Even though he was already riddled with wounds, he was still able to rely on his strong will and explosive power to suppress his opponent without any chance of resistance.

However, the surrounding contaminated radiation was too severe, and the black fog soon began to transfer and erode the will of Caesar and Lan Yin.

Gradually, the lion and jellyfish, which had originally had the upper hand, began to move slowly.

The alien seemed to have noticed the change in its opponent. Taking advantage of the lion's slowness, it suddenly swung its palm, which was wrapped in black mist, and slashed at the lion fiercely.

Caesar was hit hard by this sudden blow, and his figure instantly emerged from his spiritual body. He staggered a few steps and spat out a mouthful of blood!

Seeing this, Lin Nan's chaotic consciousness was completely awakened. A green light flashed in her eyes, and she mobilized her mental power. However, the mental picture at this moment was like a swamp shrouded in darkness. Her vines were stuck in the mud and could not extricate themselves.

What should she do? What should she do...

Lin Nan was extremely anxious, with sweat on his forehead.

Beads of sweat slid down her cheeks, dripping into the mud and instantly swallowed by the darkness.

Just then, something suddenly shook in the mud.

A green tender leaf emerged from the bottom. It was small and tender, and extremely conspicuous in the extremely smelly mud.

The heroine’s spirit body needs the ability to devour to grow. The original owner never had the opportunity to let it eat, so she was "eaten" by the spirit body.

The soul cannot match the powerful spiritual body and is backfired. This is probably what it means.

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(End of this chapter)