Don't leave things unsaid during a medicinal bath.
Minur only said that "because it was dark and she did not participate in the attack on the base, she did not know the whereabouts of Lieutenant General Keliu" and "the chief of the Snow Mountain Clan suspected that Du Yuan's escape was related to her, so he sent her to guard the mine."
She subtly glossed over Du Yuan's whereabouts with her words. She didn't tell a single lie; she simply chose not to, which made her seem all the more genuine.
But she met Sangye, the person who cared about Du Yuan the most in the world.
Sangye stared at her stubbornly, determined to get an answer out of her.
“She probably has nothing to do with you, but I want to know,” Sangye said bluntly. “Do you see your people outside your door? They’re not beyond redemption, they just need a lot of mental energy to be constantly poured in, and you don’t have that ability at this stage; the base guides won’t waste their precious mental energy on the enemy.”
“I can save them, as long as you tell me everything you know.” Sangye’s tone was confident, her expression relaxed, as if this were no difficult task for her.
Indeed, water was still dripping from Minur's chin as he continuously felt the spiritual energy being poured into the imagery.
This guide is very special. She is not of high rank, and even the sentries can detect her. However, her mental energy seems to be inexhaustible.
For those who have nothing left to lose, their psychological defenses are most easily breached.
“I let her go.” Minur was silent for a moment before revealing the truth. “She’s like the royal family that landed back then, she doesn’t belong to our world at all, and she’s even less willing to help us do evil in this way. Back in the tribe, she often called us ‘evil cultivators’ and ‘possessed by demonic possession.’ Although I didn’t understand much, I could understand what she meant.”
"Then one day, when it was my turn to guard her, I let her go."
Many steps have obviously been omitted, but now is not the time to dwell on that.
“I took her to the Snow Mountain Forest, though there are no trees there now,” Minur said. “There’s an abandoned man-made cave on the snow slope behind the Snow Mountain Forest, where I used to observe the universe when I was a child. Nobody in the tribe knows about it.”
“I hid her there, planning to find an opportunity to send her to your base and then leave,” Minur shrugged. “But before I could find an opportunity, I was assigned to guard the mine.”
"Snow Mountain Forest, what is this place?" Sangye asked Aso Mente and Wu Huan, who were standing nearby.
But they turned their attention to someone who had been standing aside just moments before.
Lin Changli had just finished eating his rice ball when he picked up a huge mutton skewer and looked back at it without a hint of guilt.
“This is the heart of the snow-capped mountains that Marshal Lin burned down last time. It’s now a ruin, and the burning spiritual energy hasn’t dissipated yet. Without protection, it’s impossible to get in,” Wu Huansheng explained. “For sentries with unstable mental states, rushing in will only accelerate their mental breakdown.”
Therefore, the snow-covered mountains and forests became natural cover, and because the ruins were exposed and there was no cover, they would not arouse suspicion. After all, if Minur hadn't mentioned it, even the base wouldn't have discovered that there was an artificial cave hidden in the snow slope.
"Actually, judging from the final direction, your people most likely also migrated towards the snow-capped mountains and forests, it's just a matter of where they finally settled down."
She truly didn't know Lieutenant General Keliu's whereabouts, but the chieftain's group certainly did. Minur recalled the last few directions the search teams had sent out, with the snow-capped mountains and forests being the most frequent.
Having obtained the information she wanted, Kuwano did not delay. She instructed the robot beside her to serve Minur a fish and mutton soup, and then returned to the temporary kitchen.
Those two unconscious sentinels who were still undergoing mutation were troublesome, but not without solutions, and the solution could be quite simple and brutal.
After filling several water tanks large enough to hold multiple people with the spiritual spring water, Sangye added various medicinal bath ingredients such as mugwort, dried ginger, motherwort, fragrant stone vine, fleeceflower vine, and half maple leaf to the water, and then asked Rongcheng to help heat it up.
These medicinal herbs either grow on the back mountain of Shifangwu or are gifts brought by other sects. They are all spiritual plants that gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and are good for strengthening the body and bones.
In the past, when snow fell heavily in winter, the people of Shifangwu would hold a special hot spring medicinal bath day, filling the entire bottom of the pool with spiritual plants and herbs, allowing the magma below to slowly heat it up.
They soaked in the pool while eating all kinds of fruit, as happy as free monkeys in the mountains.
After the water in the vat was heated, the two sentries were moved into the vat. The vat, which could originally hold several people, was filled to the brim by their mutated bodies.
The water gradually turned dark brown, and the rising steam contained spiritual energy.
Those who had previously looked down on the mutated sentinels couldn't help but move closer to the two water tanks, sharing some of the overflowing spiritual energy.
Rong Cheng simply pulled up a stool and sat down to eat.
She didn't want to take a medicinal bath in public. She wanted to wait until the base was rebuilt before taking one in her room by herself.
The sentries followed suit, and soon the area around the two tanks was completely packed.
A few shameless individuals, disregarding their own filth, dragged their shoes and coats off and plunged headfirst into the water vat.
Hot water splashed onto the faces of the other sentries, who yelled and cursed at them: "Are you a space pirate? Give me some space!"
The three exhausted guides returned to their families and sipped their fish and mutton soup.
Before long, under the watchful eyes of everyone...
The physical transformation first stopped, and then it actually "regressed" in the opposite direction.
They were surrounded by a translucent white "mist," which was the ethereal form of their spiritual entities.
The most direct target of mental power is the mental body.
Therefore, the spiritual entity regains consciousness before its owner.
Two wisps of mist kept pressing the excess torso back into the body, even biting and pinching it.
These irradiated spiritual entities are still trying to save their master.
After watching for a while, Sangye added a lot of mint and cloves to the water. Heating it together with the water made it extremely refreshing.
The aroma also boosted the spirits of many of the sentries present.
The mutated sentinels' recovery is accelerating and becoming visible to the naked eye.
Only Sangye sighed as he looked at the medicinal herb reserves.
After all, she was a cook, not a doctor. She had a huge amount of ingredients in her storage ring, but very few medicinal herbs, and she had used most of them today.
Could you add some seasoning to the water? After all, the sentries need mental energy anyway.
Boiling it with seasonings and a little soy sauce is like making braising liquid, except you're boiling "sentinels".
It sounded a bit like hell, so Kuwano gave up the idea.
Minur emerged from her cell; there was no longer any need to guard her. A person's circumstances and stance could reverse in a short time, and at this moment she was no longer an enemy of the base, especially since she had never intended to be an enemy of either the base or the Empire.
Thanks to the base's heating, her combat uniform dried completely, but her hair was still half-wet.
She watched the two people in the jar with some nervousness.
Rong Cheng kept heating the medicinal bath. Under the high temperature, the spiritual energy of the medicinal herbs evaporated quickly, and even a lot of the water was absorbed to repair the limbs.
Their spiritual forms had solidified into physical entities, which could be identified as a feline and a four-legged animal.
Sangye didn't plan to throw any more herbs into the pot; she couldn't bear the waste any longer. She wanted to feed the two of them some fish and mutton soup.
Being unconscious is not a problem.
Directly pour it in.
The sentinels and guides dared not approach, but the robots, which could not feel pain, had parts that could be replaced at any time, and did not possess any mental power, were not afraid that the two might suddenly riot.
On the other side, the "dumplings" in the water tank had all been cooked, the medicinal herbs had turned into useless withered branches and leaves, and the water had been completely absorbed by the sentries.
The robot's act of pouring soup was far from pleasant, but with the continuous flow of spiritual energy, the two finally shed their physical distortions, regained their human form, and showed signs of awakening.
Minur excitedly went forward to check.
Sangye followed behind her.
The two still had remnants of downy hair and scales on their faces, and their eyes revealed a sense of relief at surviving a disaster.
Although Du Yuan has only been here for a few months, he has already made them too reckless and completely forgotten the terrible consequences of radiation.
The two shakily climbed out of the water vat, which now contained only withered medicinal herbs, but they were completely clean, without a trace of moisture. The process of limb repair and mental body shaping had generated a large amount of heat, drying them off long ago.
“You’ve come back to life.” Minur almost cried with joy.
Even though these two were not her confidants, and the chieftain did not allow her to keep her true confidants by her side, they were still members of her Snow Mountain tribe, and she cared about their safety far more than the chieftain did.
Aso Ment came over and ordered the two men to be moved to another room and locked up again. Although they were not enemies, they still had to be careful.
She left Minur outside.
“Tomorrow, I will send someone with you to find Lieutenant General Kliu and that guide.” Aso Ment stared at Minur. “You’d better lead the right way.”
Aso Mente now distrusts Minur very much. Although she has not told a single lie, she still hides a lot of information. Sometimes, omitting a link in the sentence can lead to unimaginable consequences.
“I don’t have much patience. My fleet carries enough nuclear energy to destroy the entire snow mountain. I can destroy the entire snow mountain, your tribe, and the black crystal energy that you want most.”
Anyone familiar with Asso Mente's life and military career has no doubt about the veracity of her words.
Lin Changli was one of them, but he remained calm and composed, as if he wasn't talking about his planet.
He looked out at the snow-capped mountains through the small window behind the makeshift kitchen. Outside, it was a world of ice and snow, bitterly cold, but inside it was warm as spring and filled with spiritual energy. The sentries were immersed in the pleasant spiritual energy, and some had already fallen asleep, snoring comfortably.
I've never fought such a comfortable battle before.
All of this was brought about by that peculiar guide.
He looked at Sangye, who was handing out warm and fragrant food to the "cell," his eyes deep and unfathomable.
"This is the first time I've ever seen such a peculiar guide." The little phoenix felt completely relaxed from being immersed in spiritual energy, and happily rolled around in the spiritual landscape.
Seeing that Lin Changli seemed to have relaxed his guard, it extended a beautiful wing from his shoulder blade, patted his arm, and brought waves of heat.
"Go back." Lin Changli slapped it expressionlessly.
The little phoenix was in a good mood and didn't argue with Lin Changli. She continued to happily roll around on the scorched earth, covering herself in charred debris.
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