The news that Earl James died in his bedroom spread quickly and became the hottest topic on the streets in recent days.

It is said that the murderer is still at large. The sentries of the Sheriff's Office are extremely busy. Even Her Majesty the Queen, who has not appeared in public for a long time, has paid attention to this matter and sent Chief Luther of the Royal Guard to personally supervise the case.

It is just that no matter who it is, no matter how prominent they were during their lifetime, after death, they can only stay in the spit of others for a few days.

Soon it will disappear into thin air with the passage of time and no longer be remembered by anyone.

The long bloody night of feasting and revelry passed, and the sun rose again.

In the wilderness far away from human settlements, vegetation grows wildly and the earth is full of vitality.

An airship slowly approached from the horizon.

The exquisite goddess statue at the front of the airship glowed with a cold light made of special materials in the sunlight. The elliptical body of the airship could accommodate hundreds of people. The huge shadow of the airship was cast on the green of the earth, startling a group of elks hiding in the forest.

Beautiful herds of deer galloped across the green wilderness, accompanied by the roar of the airships.

Soon, the elk rushed into a ruin covered with vines, stirring up a few flying leaves, and disappeared deep in the old buildings that had been abandoned by humans for many years.

"Come and look, those are relics from the past." A young man on the airship said, pointing out the window.

He was wearing a white Orientation School dress with delicate lace trims on the cuffs, and his demeanor revealed good manners that were ingrained in his bones.

She still looks very young.

Several tour guides dressed like him came over and stood at the window to watch.

This luxurious airship left over from the past costs a lot to fly once.

It requires the use of expensive energy stones and is not a means of transportation for ordinary people.

At this moment, the airship was carrying more than a dozen young guides, guarded by a large number of sentinels, and was slowly heading towards the border.

Today, the situation at the border is becoming increasingly dangerous. Contaminated areas are expanding and changing at any time, and powerful mutants are appearing everywhere.

No guide would be willing to stay at such dangerous and resource-scarce outposts for a long time. The few and weak guides could not withstand the attrition of the battlefield.

But in order to appease the emotions of the sentinels living in the bitter cold, the Empire would select some guides from the White Tower to patrol and stay at the border posts for a few days every year.

The reason for this is to help treat those Sentinels with serious mental problems. After all, the Empire has declared that it will not abandon any Sentinel easily.

But as the years have gone by, this matter has almost become a formality.

Every year, the Empire would symbolically send out guides. Every time they arrived at a place, they would take videos and film them in a grand manner, surrounded by flowers.

The guides would rush to those places with harsh conditions for a symbolic day or two, and then rush back quickly with complaints.

It will basically not truly eradicate the spiritual pollution for the humble and poor grassroots sentinels on the border.

There were so many sentries in need of help, and the few young guides really couldn't do anything but go through the motions.

The young guides dine in the spacious and bright restaurant, and through the large glass portholes, they can have a panoramic view of the vast and boundless scenery.

No matter how reluctant they were to leave, they were a group of young people who had never left the White Tower. Everything in the outside world was new and interesting to them.

Beneath the lush green grass lies a large area of ​​buildings left behind by humankind.

Most of the elevated roads and street lights that once spanned the entire city have collapsed, like a dead dragon, mostly buried under the yellow sand. Some broken cross-sections are still frozen in time, looking up at the bright sunny sky.

Countless skyscrapers that soar into the sky, over hundreds of years, have been corroded by time, their steel bodies. They are like hundreds of huge tombstones, covered in green, standing silently in the wilderness.

"Wow, are those the places where ancient humans lived?"

"See those tall, tower-like buildings? The densely packed small black holes on top are said to be the houses where ancient people lived." The sentry who greeted everyone at first explained.

"Wow, why did they build such tall houses and live in such a crowded space? The land is so big. I heard that there were no contaminated areas at that time, right?"

"At that time, there were a lot of humans on this planet, so many that you can't even imagine. There wasn't enough land to live on. People could only build houses higher and higher, one layer on top of another, living together like bees. Yes, it looked like what you see."

"As expected of Shu Jingtong, the top student in the academic year assessment. He even learned ancient history so well." His companions praised the young man, "Xiao Shu, you got first place in every subject, right?"

Sitting in the airship restaurant, Shu Jingtong withdrew his gaze from the porthole, laid out his napkin elegantly, and smiled humbly, "It's not like that. Of course there are people who have better grades than me."

"Jing Tong should have topped the list in all subjects, except for the mental strength test. He was beaten by that weirdo every year."

"You, that person you are talking about?"

"Yeah, who else could it be? Her grades were terrible. She was not good at flower arrangement and failed tea ceremony. I happened to be in the same classroom with her during the cooking class and I watched her burn the trash cans."

"How could Jing Tong lose to such a person? Could he have used some tricks or cheated?"

"That's right. Her grades in all subjects except her mental strength are so poor. How could she be matched with such an excellent partner so early on?"

"He is the only son of the Jiang family. He is a sentinel who has passed the B-level test at a young age. His spiritual form is a very majestic cheetah. He is also very handsome and has a good personality."

Shu Jingtong raised his hand to stop his companions from making arrangements. "Don't say that. She is indeed stronger than me in terms of mental strength. We should obey the White Tower's arrangements."

As an excellent student who grew up in the Guidance Academy, he was taught by teachers from an early age, and he developed a self-disciplined, polite, humble and gentle character. He is a dual benchmark in academic performance and morality among students of the same grade.

He knew that as a leader, humility and gentleness were the most important qualities, and he felt that it was wrong to criticize others behind their backs.

Even in his heart, there had been dissatisfaction and doubt.

He once quietly asked his tutor why he always lost to that person in this subject.

"Teacher, I just want to know how much the difference in mental strength is between her and me? I want to practice hard and try to catch up with her."

At that time, the teacher just sighed and reached out to touch his head.

Although the teacher didn't say anything, the sympathetic look on his face at the time aroused his rebellious heart for a time.

Later, he spent a long time introspecting and adjusting his mindset, and only then did he regain his peace and calm. He no longer had an inappropriate desire to compare with others every time he heard that name.

A guide should not have such a desire to win, it is totally wrong.

"That's not what a guide should be concerned about." The teacher's words of advice are still ringing in my ears, "The most important thing for a guide is to learn to control your mental power gently and carefully, so that you can channel negative emotions for the partner that the Empire matches you with in the future. It's not a good thing for a guide to be too strong."

He took the teacher's words to heart and let go of those inappropriate thoughts.

The most important quality of a mentor is to be calm, gentle and beautiful. To devote one's life selflessly to one's partner is the virtue of a mentor. This is a universal value, and everyone thinks so, isn't it?

Shu Jingtong also did so, being careful and strict with his words and deeds year after year, so as to become a perfect leader.

Several tour guides who were traveling with us heard the gossip and started talking about it in a flurry.

"You mean Lin Yuan?"

"Does she have any background? She's quite mysterious, not sociable at all, and is cold and alone every day. I don't think any sentinel can stand her."

"That's right. I think they will be finished sooner or later. Who would like a guide who can't even cook well?"

"Don't you know yet? Lin Yuan and the one from the Jiang family have broken off their engagement." A young girl sitting at the dining table put down the golden fork in her hand and wiped the corner of her mouth gently with a napkin. "It happened not long ago. I heard that Jiang Yangshuo was with another guide and was bumped into by Lin Yuan."

"Really? And then what? Tell me more, Nicole."

Everyone has a gossipy heart, even gentle and dignified guides are not immune.

Countless ears stood up, and even Shu Jingtong, the best student in the school, couldn't help but turn his head slightly.

Nicole is a girl with a permed afro. The weird hairstyle looks out of place with her elegant college dress.

But she was born into a noble family, her family was a hereditary noble family, her father was the royal family's external spokesperson, and held the title of baron. Therefore, the girl lived a much more unrestrained life than ordinary guides, and no one dared to control her.

"That was a case of theft and theft, there's no easy explanation. Lin Yuan was pretty tough, she took off her wedding ring on the spot and threw it into the sewer in front of the two dog whistles." Nicole said, "It's been spread around the circle for a long time, you just don't know about it."

"Really? Did she really throw that ring into the sewer?" someone asked in disbelief. "I heard that it was a piece of jewelry passed down from the Jiang family and is worth a lot of Imperial coins."

"Of course it's true. The dinner a few days ago was the day James died. I saw Lin Yuan, and she no longer had the ring on her hand." Nicole pouted. "To be honest, I quite like her personality. It's better than crying and whining when something like this happens, and tugging at the dog sentry to death."

"Oh, isn't Lin Yuan here too? She seems to have joined the Special Research Division. She took the same airship as us to the sentry post. Wouldn't it be clear if we ask her?"

Nicole looked up and searched the crowd. Soon she saw the person she was looking for and waved in that direction.

"Lin Yuan, come. Sit here."

Before the group could stop her, they saw the legendary weirdo, who had studied in the academy for so many years and was unfamiliar to everyone, walking towards them with a plate of food and a confused look on her face.

"Call me?" the one asked.

Like all guides, she has slender limbs and fair skin because she rarely moves in the sun.

But she didn't wear the complicated pattern dress of the Guidance College. Instead, she wore a dark blue sportswear suitable for activities.

The material of the clothes is indeed very high-end, but it looks a little ill-fitting.

She tied a belt over her loose clothes, and her long legs were wearing hard-soled high-top shoes. Her sleeves were folded up to her elbows, revealing her white forearms. She was twirling the tray full of food with two fingers.

She had just experienced betrayal by her partner, and she didn't seem to have any special emotions.

He stood in front of everyone calmly and asked with an expressionless face: "What do you want to ask me?"

"Nothing?" Nicole smiled at her and made room for her. "My classmates haven't spoken to you for many years. I heard that you applied for an outsourced job at the Special Research Office, so I asked you to have dinner with us."

Lin Yuan then took the plate and sat down beside her.

In fact, she didn't remember Nicole's name, although she looked very familiar with the girl.

She couldn't even call out the names of most of the people at the table. She only vaguely knew that the male guide sitting by the window was her classmate.

That was several years ago, probably after the semester exam, this person suddenly appeared out of nowhere and stopped me.

He stared at her with a pair of eyes that looked like they had been crying. "Can you show me your spiritual body?"

Lin Yuan was puzzled: “?”

"I just want to see how big the gap between us is." The boy seemed to have summoned all his courage to say this.

Then, a furry purebred chinchilla appeared next to the male guide.

The furry little cat tried its best to make its body as huge as possible, probably as big as a husky, which is rare among guides.

The "giant" Chinchilla meowed fiercely at Lin Yuan in a babyish voice and stretched out its fleshy paws.

Lin Yuan suppressed all his emotions, and tried hard to suppress all the tentacles that were ready to move in the darkness. He completely ignored the guide and walked past the snow-white kitten with a cold face.

Walk faster, walk faster.

The tentacles couldn't contain their restlessness.

I don’t know if the little cat guide behind me who was ignored was so angry that he cried.

In front of a table of college classmates, Lin Yuan was too embarrassed to ask everyone's name.

At least she knows that forgetting someone's name is not polite.

I had to act cool and aloof, saying, "Oh, I know who you are. I'm just too lazy to talk."

The table, which was chattering a moment ago, suddenly became silent and fell into an awkward silence.