Lin Yuan stood under the rack and looked up at the sentry tied to it.

The man's head was drooping, his face was covered in blood, his hands were tied and hung above his head, and his toes could not touch the ground. The scorching sun hanging high above the rack made him look even worse, almost like a rag hanging on an iron frame and about to be dried.

Lin Yuan now remembered the name of the sentry, which was a little strange: his surname was Ni and his given name was Ji.

Ni Ji, yes, that’s the name.

At this moment, Ni Ji looked nothing like before.

Lin Yuan still remembered that several years ago, this sentry was wearing the uniform of a special forces soldier from the Sentinel Academy and had a clean face.

The black tights show off her slender figure, slim waist and long legs.

The black military boots stepped on the snow, splashing snow beads all over the sky.

At that time, the young sentry was like a sword with an unrestrained and sharp edge.

Now, if it weren't for that unique sound of the sea tide, Lin Yuan would never have brought the two people together.

For some reason, this sound of seawater always gave Lin Yuan a familiar feeling. Every time he heard this sound, his tentacles became particularly excited. They rolled up, stood up, opened their small suction cups, and were eager to explore.

When Lin Yuan appeared at the execution ground, the guards watching below the screen were shocked.

They made way for her one after another, watched curiously, discussed excitedly in low voices, and gathered together with their friends.

No one expected that the higher-ups would send a guide to serve as the interrogator.

After all, in a military camp like this, interrogations are common and the appearance of a guide is a rare thing.

Ni Ji, who was on the rack, heard the buzz of discussion all around him getting louder. He opened his eyes and saw a young girl walking towards him through the crowd.

She was a guide, wearing an ivory dress, with a slender figure, delicate features, and even her walk was graceful. She didn't seem to be aggressive at all.

But at the first sight of her, Ni Ji's heart sank.

Why this person?

Ni Ji was actually not too afraid of the guides sent by those people.

When he was young, he lived in the capital of the empire and met many guides in the White Tower. Each of the guides was carefully raised in the White Tower since childhood, wearing beautiful clothes and leading a life of luxury and comfort, like flowers in a greenhouse.

Even though the Guide was born with a strong mental power that could influence the Sentinels, he never thought that a guy who grew up in such an environment could easily pry open his mental barriers and invade his spiritual world.

Even when he had been tortured for many days and was already very weak.

It’s just that the methods used by those people in the Quartermaster Department are too dirty.

He had seen a sentry who had been tortured to the point of mental breakdown. He was originally a man as strong as steel.

First, torture your body to wear down your will. Abuse people to the point of being at their weakest, and then use humiliation to break their spirit.

But, the girl they found was that girl.

If there was a guide in the White Tower that made him jealous, he would say it was a girl he met many years ago.

Back then, that very young girl possessed such a strong mental strength that even he was shocked.

It happened that it was she who came, and it happened that I had offended her severely in order to carry out orders in the past.

Ni Ji smiled bitterly and tasted a hint of blood from his cracked lips.

He suddenly felt extremely thirsty.

Those people have been hanging him here for four or five days and have not let him drink even a sip of water.

Throat feels dry and burning.

Is it going to fail? I can't even take the first step in my plan.

Ni Ji felt that the sun above his head was too dazzling, and his consciousness began to become a little blurry.

Even though so many people died and so much blood was shed, the God of Fate was unwilling to give us even a ray of luck.

He should have known that fate would only smile on those who lived on the top of the white tower.

If I could have a sip of water.

He knew that he shouldn't think about such unrealistic things at this time.

But deep inside my body was clamoring with thirst. The more I tried to stop myself from thinking about it, the more I couldn't help but keep staring at this thought over and over again.

At least give me a sip of water, he thought.

If I could have a drink of water at this time, maybe I could get through it.

The sergeant in charge of the interrogation was very happy to see Lin Yuan coming. The guide's joining meant that he could finally complete the task that he had been struggling to complete.

He diligently served tea to Lin Yuan, brought a comfortable armchair, picked out the thickest whip from the torture instruments on the table, and held it in his hand with great interest.

"Sit down and rest for a while. I'll give him a tough one. It will be easier for you to do it later."

The guide took his tea and took a sip slowly, but then she put her white little hand in front of his eyes and waved it back coldly.

"No, you can leave now." The tone was very impolite.

The prison guard was of low rank and needed help from others, so although he was angry, he dared not say much. He withdrew with resentment.

I thought to myself, you are such a proud little girl! This is a tough bone to chew. I want to see if you can do it.

In the office on the second floor, several office officials and Roy brought chairs and sat side by side by the window to look down at the excitement.

"Xiaoyuan is very young, and her grades in the academy's examinations are quite high. She seems to be an excellent student." Office Officer Wu looked very happy as he flipped through Lin Yuan's file.

Roy thought to himself, you don't know, she only has one subject with a ridiculously high score, and basically failed all other subjects. This girl is a weirdo, but how many people who can apply to the Special Research Department are not freaks?

Of course, he would not tell this to the officer around him.

Roy stretched his neck to look under the window. He didn't know if Lin Yuan could do it.

Everyone held their breath, waiting to see what methods the new guide would use to torture the stubborn prisoner.

They wanted to see whether the man who refused to surrender even under torture would break down in the guide's soft hands and confess.

Seeing the guide raised his hand,

The white and delicate fingers grasped the chin of the sentry on the rack.

Force his face up.

Then, with her other hand, she picked up the cup of water on the table and fed the sentry into it.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, it seemed like a normal process with no problems.

"What is she doing?" Office Manager Wu was so shocked that she almost jumped up. She pointed at the window and asked Roy.

Roy, who was sitting next to her, slowly crossed his feet and glanced at her impatiently as if she was an idiot.

It seems that this is how it should be done, and only those idiots in their office who have never seen the world would be surprised.

Office Manager Wu didn't like to lose face in front of Roy, who was her equal. She held back what she wanted to say, moved her shoulders, and forced herself to sit still.

It's not a big deal, I can just wait and see, she said to herself.

Maybe this is really a special method. Anyway, those who can enter the Special Research Department are all weird. That department is neither up to the sky nor down to the earth. There is no proper person in charge, and it only raises freaks. Ah, I still can't figure it out.

She glanced at Roy, who was dangling his legs and looking as if he was too lazy to explain.

Little did he know that Roy was actually completely confused.

What is this little girl doing?

He didn't know, but he didn't care, the little girl was one of his own. He didn't care whether these idiots in the military control office could handle their affairs well.

Lin Yuan pinched the man's chin and forced him to drink the entire glass of water.

She watched the man drink the last drop of water in the cup, his cracked lips opened and he exhaled twice with a gasp.

The man drank the water from her hand, then shook his head to break free from her restraints and raised his eyes to look at her.

His face was covered in blood, and his dirty hair hung down in front of his eyes. He looked as ferocious as he could be.

But when he lifted his eyelids, the look in his eyes from behind his dirty bangs was unexpectedly the same as the one in the boy's eyes on the snow that year.

There is a hint of arrogance in his coldness, he is fierce and unwilling to yield, like a cold knife reflecting the color of snow.

Lin Yuan rubbed his fingers to remove the blood stains on his white fingertips.

Then she opened her palms, covered the man's eyes, and pressed them on his entire forehead.

…

Lin Yuan found himself on a vast ocean. The water was boundless, clear blue in the distance and emerald green nearby.

Without hesitation, she jumped into the sea.

Waves surged around me, and the sunlight filtered through the sea, giving every wave a golden edge.

Diving into this sea is like being in a huge and pure emerald, beautiful like a dream.

That kind of boundless beauty is mysterious and awe-inspiring.

This turned out to be Ni Ji's mental barrier. His mental barrier was actually an ocean.

The Sentinels have their own mental landscape, a fragile and private place.

It visualizes their state of mind and emotions, and stores their private memories that are unknown to others.

Therefore, they erected high walls to protect this most private garden deep in their souls.

The mental barrier is the strong wall that every sentinel uses to protect his own mental picture.

Lin Yuan has seen many Sentinels' mental barriers.

Most of them are solid and have boundaries, such as metal walls, huge stone walls, and sharp thorns.

This is the first time I've seen someone's mental barrier being a boundless ocean.

Sea water is the softest; the sea is also the most turbulent and powerful.

Lin Yuan felt that if it had not been her, perhaps no guide would have dared to jump into the deep sea as recklessly as she did.

She kept diving in the sea. The sunlight that penetrated the sea became very weak, and fell on her body like strands of golden threads.

The seawater surrounding him seemed calm and gentle, and did not react to Lin Yuan's invasion.

It looks like a real ocean.

But Lin Yuan knew that this was Ni Ji's spiritual world, and huge waves and whirlpools could appear in the sea at any time, attacking invaders mercilessly.

She felt no fear; she calmly waited for the moment of battle.

Swim all the way to the deep sea.

The layers of her skirt floated behind her as she dived, and she moved freely in the sea like a creature that had lived in the deep sea since ancient times.

There were some huge invisible shadows extending from under the skirt that was floating like seaweed, extending happily in all directions.

Lin Yuan felt that she was in a good mood. Even though she was doing such a dangerous thing, she had a happy feeling.

She hadn't experienced such emotional fluctuations in a long time.

At this time, she would remember that Jiang Yangshuo always said that he was lacking in emotions and was not like a normal guide.

In fact, she has worked very hard these years, trying to be like a normal person, trying to maintain the appearance of a normal guide. She has tried hard to live the normal life that everyone thinks they should live.

Efforts to no avail.

The seabed was very quiet, so quiet that she felt comfortable. From deeper in the water came some distant and illusory sounds. Like the calls of some kind of whale, some kind of fish, or some ancient marine life. Calling her to swim towards it.

Lin Yuan saw the seabed and the garden hidden deep under the sea.

There are soft seaweed and gorgeous corals, which are like a huge forest, swaying with the waves of the sea as if breathing. Schools of small fish shuttle among them, and lovely conches and shells lie in the sand.

Those huge coral reefs, which are of different heights, have a colorful glow on their surface. They are so deep and overlapping that you can't see the end of the space at a glance.

This is actually the spiritual world of a sentinel.

So rich and varied, mysterious and soft, it attracts people's hearts.

The tentacles had developed that ambition earlier than Lin Yuan. Each of them wanted to rush into the seabed, roll around there, destroy something, and then swim around and explore the coral reefs.

Lin Yuan suppressed that terrible impulse.

A guide should be gentle and peaceful, full of love and compassion for beautiful things.

She shouldn't be like this.

Lin Yuan heard a clear whale cry coming from deep within the giant kelp.

A huge whale appeared in the dark seaweed that looked like a forest.

The whale's back skin was jet black, its belly skin was pure white, it had a large and powerful tail, a halberd-shaped dorsal fin standing high on its back, and a white eye spot under each eye.

It was a killer whale, a ferocious beast of the deep.

Strong, powerful, and huge, it is a well-deserved hunter in the ocean.

This is the prisoner's spirit body. A form of sentinel's spiritual power, a clone-like thing.

Lin Yuan didn't expect that this sentinel would let him drive straight in without any obstruction. He actually wanted to choose to fight him at the edge of the mental picture.

This guy is just a lunatic, Lin Yuan thought.

A strong guy who dares to walk on the edge of a knife.

She suddenly felt a little excited. She began to want to chew her fingers.

Deep in his heart, the thick soil shell that had been accumulated through years of hard work suddenly cracked, and the tip of a seedling of something poked out from there, but was quickly pressed down by Lin Yuan's hands.

Guides shouldn't be like this, guides should be gentler, guides shouldn't get excited about fighting.

The battle started in an instant.

A terrifying and huge tentacle suddenly broke through the soil on the seabed and drilled out. It instantly wrapped around the killer whale's tail.

The suction cups on the tentacles locked onto the killer whale's smooth skin and dragged the huge whale deeper into the trench.

The other tentacle quickly came up, coiled up along the long tail fin, wrapped around the smooth belly and dorsal fin, and swam all the way upwards.

Suddenly, the tentacle was grabbed by a strong arm. It was a human male's arm, with purple bruises on the wrist, but it held the flexible and smooth tentacle tightly like a pliers.

Then a sharp blade pressed tightly against the tentacle's skin.

In the disturbed kelp forest, the turbid sea water gradually became clear.

Can see everything clearly,

The male killer whale's black tail fin was entangled by a thick tentacle, but its upper body transformed into a human male, revealing the face of the sentinel that Lin Yuan had seen. The man stretched out his powerful arm, grabbed the tentacle, and held it tightly with a sharp blade.

The turbulent currents surged in all directions, and the seaweed and corals destroyed by the tentacles in the battle turned into bubbles of memory and floated up.

The sentinel's young face can be seen here and there in the floating memory fragments.

Sometimes I am laughing, sometimes I am drinking with my friends, and sometimes I am fighting on the battlefield.

This was originally the world made up of his memories. Any excessive damage would make the sentinel's mind unstable and painful.

But at this moment, the half-man, half-whale sentinel was floating in the scattered bubbles, confronting Lin Yuan calmly and calmly.

He held a clamp in one hand and a sharp short knife in the other, the muscles in his arm were tightly clenched. No one would doubt that he had the ability to cut off the entire tentacle with one blow.

"It will hurt." He stared at Lin Yuan closely, "Being hurt in the mental picture is more painful than being hurt in reality."

This is his spiritual sea. As long as he thinks he has a knife, he can have it. As long as he thinks the blade can hurt people, the knife can cut off Lin Yuan's spiritual tentacles.

The feeling of the sharp blade against the skin was clearly transmitted to Lin Yuan's brain, causing a slight pain.

The scene seemed to overlap with the snowy night of that year.

Dangerous and deadly, it makes the blood boil in people's hearts.

A normal wizard shouldn't be like this. A wizard should...

Fuck it.

Fuck the quiet and gentle.

Lin Yuan said to himself, I clearly like it, and I clearly have this desire in my heart.

I don't like to wait quietly and gently. I like to attack, take the initiative and destroy, and I like to control everything myself.

Like to do things that "the guide shouldn't" do without restraint.

I am not a normal guide.