Chapter 28 Guide Assessment Preparation
The guide assessment will be on the 13th, and Lin Yao doesn’t have any major concerns about the actual combat.
Baita's guidance work made Shasha's perception of the Sentinel's mental barrier more and more acute. When the ice-blue vines brushed against the barrier, they could accurately capture the slightest cracks;
The sparring with Lei Ya and the others in the training ground also made him proficient in controlling his mental power to construct a defensive field. He could even adjust the density of the protective net according to the attack rhythm of the sentinels.
The most crucial thing at the moment is the theoretical knowledge hidden deep in the original owner's memory.
Ever since he learned about the guide assessment, Lin Yao has taken advantage of daily work and training to slowly unlock the original owner's knowledge reserves.
Seeing a case of a sentinel going into a mental breakdown will trigger a corresponding counseling plan; when encountering different types of sentinels, fragments of the adaptation formula will automatically emerge.
But after all, there are still some knowledge points that are like being shrouded in thick fog. No matter how he triggers them, they remain motionless. It really takes a whole block of time to sort them out and awaken them.
The next day after receiving the assessment notice, Lin Yao went to work at the White Tower as usual.
As soon as he walked into the hall, Chen Ke, who was tidying up the instruments, raised his head, the calibrator in his hand still emitting a faint blue light.
"I heard that you are going to take the guide examination?" He raised his eyebrows and asked with a hint of understanding in his tone.
Lin Yao paused when he heard this: "Yes, on the 13th."
"Do you need a few days off to prepare for the exam?" Chen Ke put down the calibrator and looked at him and asked.
Lin Yao turned to look at Chen Ke, with obvious surprise in his eyes: "Can I take leave to prepare for the exam?"
Chen Ke sneered, tapped the energy valve with his fingertips, and called up a string of operating data:
"I told you on your first day that the White Tower offers excellent benefits to guides, and assessments are a big deal!"
What Chen Ke meant was that this was a legitimate reason and Baita would approve it.
Lin Yao looked at the energy parameters jumping on the instrument screen as Chen Ke fiddled with it, and began to calculate quickly in his mind.
There are still four days left before the exam, including today. If I come to work every day, I will have very little time to sort out my memory, and those knowledge points that have not been unlocked will probably hold me back.
Lin Yao recalled the scene last night when he was staring at the original owner's theoretical notes. Those vague formulas and annotations were like a stone weighing on his heart.
"I would like to take three days off starting from tomorrow." After weighing the pros and cons for a moment, Lin Yao made a decision. Three days would be enough for him to concentrate on attacking those unlocked memories. If he arranged his troops properly, he could also leave some time to adjust his condition.
Seeing him take the initiative, Chen Ke nodded in agreement: "Let's go through the process quickly!"
His tone was calm, but his words seemed to urge Lin Yao to submit his leave application as soon as possible.
Lin Yao looked at Chen Ke's focused profile and said, "I'll go up and submit it in a moment!"
Chen Ke said "hmm" and continued to adjust the energy valve without changing his expression.
After solving the time problem, Lin Yao's steps upstairs became much lighter. Those knowledge points hidden deep in the original owner's memory should have nowhere to hide this time.
Lin Yao's leave application was approved within five minutes of being submitted, with a note at the end, reminding him that he could finish today's work early and leave work early.
This really confirms what Chen Ke said, the guide benefits are very good!
The day passed like this. Before going to bed, Lin Yao read for two hours as a warm-up for tomorrow's reading strategy!
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The next morning, Lin Yao got up early. After washing and packing, he neatly stacked the books left by the original owner in front of the desk.
From the basic "Basic Theory of Mental Force Field" to the advanced "Sentinel Mental Barrier Repair Guide", a total of more than thirty books piled up into a small mountain of books in the morning light.
He knew that the solution to the fog that was holding him back was hidden within these pages.
He opened the first volume of "Basic Theory of Mental Force Field" and when his fingertips landed on the four words "resonance frequency", the original owner's "resonance frequency parameter table of different sentinel types" instantly unfolded in his mind, accurate to three decimal places.
He continued to flip through the pages and came to the chapter on 'Energy Conduction Loss'. The derivation process of the formula that the original owner had memorized in class automatically emerged in his mind, and even the professor's added annotations on special cases were clearly visible.
In "Identification and Response to Sentinel Types", as soon as the title "Assault Sentinel" caught my eye, the "Red Shadow Legion Assault Sentinel Mental Characteristics Database" compiled by the original owner was unlocked, containing counseling plans for more than 300 specific cases.
Turning to the 'Agile Sentinel' section, the note about 'their mental power fluctuation cycle is short, and the frequency of guidance needs to be increased' came to mind.
The thickest book, "Compilation of Practical Counseling Cases", took him a whole day to read.
Each case title is a key: the specific memories under various knowledge points emerge clearly one by one.
Even the most boring "Guide Ethics and Standards" awakened the original owner's memory when he read it word by word.
"Article 47: Forced relocation of unauthorized sentries is prohibited." Below, the details of the 'Related Cases in the 372nd Year of the Imperial Calendar' noted by the original owner were automatically filled in.
For three days, Lin Yao scanned every book word by word like a sophisticated scanner.
There is no extra thinking, just a glance at the key words, and the massive amount of memories stored by the original owner will unfold in the mind in an orderly manner like an unlocked database.
During this period, Lin Yao did not forget to deal with the issue of mental power level.
His current mental strength has already far surpassed D-level. If it is exposed during the assessment, it will inevitably attract unnecessary attention and may even be noticed by Wen Suhua and his group.
Lin Yao wondered if he could compress his mental power to level D. The first time he tried to compress his mental power, he truly experienced what it meant to be powerless.
He held his breath and concentrated, trying to retract the mental power surging in his body, but the energy was like river water that had broken free from a dam. No sooner had it been forcibly suppressed a few points than it would rebound with even greater force, causing his temples to throb.
The Shasha on the cuff also became restless, its ice-blue leaves trembling violently, with dazzling silver light emanating from the edges, as if it could not withstand the surging energy.
Seeing this, Lin Yao had to give up temporarily. He raised his hand and gently stroked the leaves of Shasha, sighing helplessly: "It seems that forcing it won't work."
The turning point came in the afternoon of the second day after I took leave to review.
The day before, he asked Shasha what to do, and the next day Shasha gave him the answer!
That day, Lin Yao buried his head in theoretical books for the entire morning. His solar plexus felt slightly swollen, and he felt as if excess mental energy was flowing out from the top of his head.
At this moment, Shasha suddenly poked her head out from his sleeve and gently rubbed his wrist with her leaf.
A gentle suction force came along, as if being gently wrapped by a soft cloud, and the excess mental power actually flowed along the arm and silently into the leaves of Shasha.
Lin Yao was stunned for a moment, and tried to mobilize his mental power, but found that the energy he could use in his body was less, but the missing mental power did not really disappear.
Instead, it was as if they were stored in an invisible container. He could clearly sense their existence and could extract them again with just a thought.
"Shasha, you..." Lin Yao was surprised and happy. He looked down at the vine swaying happily in his palm. Shasha patted his fingertips with the leaves, as if to ask for credit.
He immediately took out a mental power detector from the storage ring. This was an old-fashioned simple stand-alone mental power detector he found at the bottom of the box when he was looking for the notebook left by the original owner. Because it was old, it was not connected to the current main brain at all.
It was also because of this instrument that Lin Yao knew his current mental power level - S+; also because it was old, the S-level classification was not very clear.
It is not like the current one where we can distinguish between 2S, 3S or higher, but those below S level are the same.
Lin Yao took a deep breath and started the experiment.
When he deliberately released mental power beyond D-level, Shasha immediately took action, like a precise regulator, absorbing the excess energy in an orderly manner.
The value on the detector screen jumped a few times and then stopped at the D-level range.
Looking at the fluctuation of the numbers, Lin Yao felt that it was probably because Shasha was not clear about the threshold of each level of mental power.
In order to avoid this problem, Lin Yao deliberately released five levels of mental power from D to S, allowing Shasha to feel the threshold, especially the critical point between the levels.
This way, even if his mental power output fluctuates, Shasha can still control it precisely.
The result was gratifying. After the five-level threshold demonstration was completed, Lin Yao tested level D again.
This time, he deliberately let his mental power ebb and flow like the tide, nearly breaking through the threshold of Class C at its peak. However, Shasha seemed to have a precise sensor, always absorbing the energy at the moment it was about to cross the limit, and it was as stable as if it was nailed to a scale.
"It's much more accurate now." Lin Yao looked at the stable numbers and curled the corners of his lips in satisfaction.
He could clearly feel that his control over the level of his mental power was unprecedentedly free. No matter what level he wanted the energy to stop at, Shasha would cooperate and collect the excess, as if an invisible hand was controlling the energy valve, allowing him to control it at will.
Shasha rolled his fingertips and shook it, and the ice-blue color on the leaves became more and more translucent, as if showing off the results of his studies.
Lin Yao smiled and put away the detector, and the last bit of worry in his heart disappeared.
With such a trump card, his assessment was naturally half assured.
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On the 12th, around five in the afternoon, when the last book was closed.
Lin Yao clearly felt that the original owner's knowledge system about the guide theory in his mind had been completely reproduced, like a net with no dead angles, enough to cope with any theoretical test.
Shasha rubbed his wrist, and the flickering light on the leaves seemed to testify to this vast reserve of knowledge.
At this moment, Lin Yao's light brain lit up and a message came in. The sender was Ye Heng.
After knowing that he had taken three days off to prepare for the exam, Ye Heng's concern was like a long-lasting stream, always appearing at the right time.
At ten o'clock in the morning on the first day, Lin Yao had just read half of "Basic Theory of Mental Force Field" when his brain vibrated.
Ye Heng sent a text message: "Get up and move around for ten minutes. Staring at the computer for too long hurts your eyes."
Following behind was an emoticon of military boots crushing stardust, which made Lin Yao laugh. He stood up and walked around the room twice. Shasha also followed his footsteps, and the leaves brought a breeze when they swept across the desk.
At twelve o'clock noon the next day, Lin Yao frowned at the case analysis questions.
Ye Heng's message came in right on time: "It's time for dinner, stop studying."
The tone sounded like someone supervising a disobedient soldier. Lin Yao was stunned for a moment before realizing that he was indeed hungry. The servant of the De Lin family also happened to bring him lunch for the day.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the setting sun dyed the notes on the desk golden.
Ye Heng sent another message: "Relax appropriately, you will be more efficient at night."
Lin Yao smiled at the screen, finished reading the last paragraph of knowledge, then got up to wash up and change into comfortable clothes.
There are not many such reminders, but they are like precise timers, always popping up when Lin Yao is so immersed in his work that he forgets the time.
Lin Yao knew that Ye Heng was afraid of disturbing him while he was reviewing, so he always stopped talking at the right time and never said more.
Lin Yao also received messages from Ye Heng this morning and at noon. He hadn't read the new message yet. He first looked at the time and saw that it was five o'clock, which was the time for Ye Heng to send messages.
Lin Yao clicked on the message, which read: "Get up and walk a few steps, stretch your body, don't sit all the time."
Lin Yao smiled at the message and tapped on the screen with his fingertips, "Doing it!" followed by an emoticon.
The reply came almost instantly: "Is the review finished?"
"How do you know?" Lin Yao replied, feeling inexplicably relieved.
"In the past you would just send 'hmm'" Ye Heng replied quickly.
Lin Yao had just sent out the message, "Marshal Ye is very perceptive!" when he received a message from Ye Heng.
Ye Heng invited him to go out and relax. Lin Yao thought about it and felt that it was indeed time to go out and get some fresh air, so he agreed.
But he didn't know where to go, so he asked Ye Heng.
"Secret." Ye Heng's reply was a bit mysterious. "I'll pick you up in half an hour. See you then."
"Okay." Lin Yao agreed, stood up and changed his clothes. His main goal was to be casual to the end.
Shasha excitedly jumped around in his sleeves, its leaves curled up in joy.
Just half an hour later, the black aircraft landed steadily in front of Delin's house.
Lin Yao sat in the back seat, and Ye Heng handed him a bottle of warm juice: "Freshly squeezed, to supplement some vitamins."
"Thank you." Lin Yao took it, and his fingertips touched the warm bottle, and his heart felt warm.
Lin Yao unscrewed the bottle cap, took a sip, and asked curiously, "Where are we going?" It must be quite far, so they even needed an aircraft.
Ye Heng glanced at him, a smile on his face: "You'll know when you get there. I guarantee you'll like it."
Seeing that he really couldn't get anything out of him, Lin Yao gave up and said, "Let's go!"
The aircraft flew south, passed through the bustling urban area, and headed out of the city.
About twenty minutes later, the aircraft landed next to an open meadow.
The moment Lin Yao got off the car, he was amazed by the scene before him.
This is a cliff by the sea. The large area of grassland looks like a thick green carpet. When the wind blows, the grass waves roll, layer upon layer, like a green ocean.
And below the cliff is the real sea. The blue water is surging with white waves, echoing the green waves above, which is interesting and spectacular.
"How is it?" Ye Heng walked up to him with a questioning tone in his voice.
Lin Yao took a deep breath, the air was filled with the fresh scent of grass and sea water: "It's beautiful."
The two walked slowly along the path on the grass. Shasha emerged from Lin Yao's sleeve and blended into the meadow. Its ice-blue leaves appeared and disappeared among the green grass waves.
"How's your review going these days?" Ye Heng asked casually.
"It's okay. I've sorted out most of the things that need to be sorted out." Lin Yao kicked the pebbles under his feet. "I just don't know if it will perform well in actual combat."
"You're fine." Ye Heng's tone was very affirmative.
Lin Yao smiled and said nothing. Although he didn't know where he got this conclusion, he felt more at ease because of this sentence.
Lin Yao watched Shasha dashing left and right in the meadow. Its ice-blue leaves were like marbles blown by the wind, sometimes plunging into the depths of the grass waves, sometimes suddenly jumping up, bringing up a string of crystal grass seeds.
He couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, picking up a blade of grass that had been blown into his palm by the wind with his fingertips. "It seems like I've been holding it in for the past three days. I'm like a snake in the grass."
As soon as this thought came to mind, Lin Yao suddenly thought of Ye Heng's spiritual body.
After asking for compensation from his second uncle's family, he searched for Ye Heng on the Star Network. His information stated that his spirit form was a mutated anaconda.
Lin Yao was looking through Ye Heng's encyclopedia information at the time and accidentally clicked on an external link.
What came out was Ye Heng's spiritual body, roaring on the Zerg battlefield. He broke through the Zerg soldiers like a sea of lightning, and went straight to the dragon's nest to strangle the poor Zerg queen with a crushing force.
Interstellar cameras are very high-definition, so the death process of this insect mother is also very clear. The muscles wrapped under the scales will take away a bit of the insect mother's vitality with each forceful contraction, until the three-meter-thick body of the insect mother is directly broken into several sections.
Strangulation is a common hunting and attack method used by snakes. The body quickly wraps around the target, forming a tight spiral in the shortest possible time.
Then, through the coordinated contraction of the circular muscles and longitudinal muscles, continuous pressure is applied, and the force of each circle of wrapping is even and gradually added until the target dies.
The powerful point lies in speed and strength. The rapid entanglement ensures that the target cannot escape, and the strength ensures the time to kill the opponent.
Ye Heng's spiritual body has reached perfection in these two aspects.
No matter how many circles it wrapped around, the anaconda could complete it within one second. The power to kill the insect queen was gradually accumulated, while the others were killed instantly and could not last even a second.
After watching the video, Lin Yao discussed it with Shasha, asking him to learn it too. It was a shame! Shasha hadn't grasped the essence! He had only learned the form!
Thinking of this, Lin Yao turned to look at Ye Heng, his tone filled with natural curiosity: "Mo Yun, that's its name, right? Won't you come out to play?"
Ye Heng's Adam's apple moved slightly. He didn't expect Lin Yao to ask this question. Isn't Mo Yun going to come out?
In fact, Mo Yun didn't want to come out. Ever since he first went to the White Tower's counseling room, he couldn't hold back in his mental space, his tail slapping the ground in his mental image, making it thud, and he wanted to get out right there and then.
But after weighing the pros and cons, Ye Heng still did not release Mo Yun from the White Tower's guidance room. One reason was that there were many people coming and going in the White Tower, especially many guides. If Mo Yun came out and scared the guides, he would have to write a self-criticism.
Another thing is that Lin Yao said he was not afraid of snakes, but that was a virtual venue. At that time, Mo Yun, like him, opened a small account and disguised himself.
The spiritual body in reality is completely different. The cool touch of the black cloud scales, the subtle airflow caused by spitting out its tongue, and even the perfect sense of oppression when entangled, are all no different from real top predators.
So Ye Heng didn't dare to gamble.
Ye Heng raised his eyes to look at Lin Yao, with a subtle hint of inquiry in his dark green pupils: "Are you really not afraid?"
Lin Yao was amused by his serious look. He paused and said seriously, "I'm really not afraid."
"Then it's as you wish." As soon as Ye Heng finished speaking, the air beside him suddenly rippled.
The grass waves suddenly parted, and a giant ten-meter-long anaconda broke through the air. Its entire body was as black as ink. When the sunlight fell on its scales, its true dark green color was revealed, like the veins of a leaf soaked in ink.
The appearance of the dark clouds brought a strong wind, carrying the salty smell of sea water across the meadow.
It did not approach immediately, but just stayed three meters away from the two of them. Its golden-brown vertical pupils blinked, and it first looked at Ye Heng, then turned to Lin Yao, and the movement of spitting out its tongue was so gentle that it seemed like a greeting.
Lin Yao looked at the huge body that was comparable to a small mecha, and his breathing paused slightly. This size was indeed more oppressive than he had imagined.
But he quickly narrowed his eyes, looking at the dark green luster flowing on the black cloud scales, and said with sincere admiration: "It's beautiful."
Ye Heng's tense shoulders relaxed slightly.
He watched as Lin Yao reached out to touch Mo Yun's head, and Mo Yun actually lowered his head and put his cold forehead close to him. He couldn't help but chuckle softly, "Thank you for your love."
The Shasha in the grass was startled by this sudden change, but it was only stunned for half a second. Then it reacted and stood up straight with its leaves, like a small flagpole pointing the way.
Shasha rushed in front of Mo Yun, gently touched its scales with the tip of its leaf, as if to confirm something, and then circled around it.
The sound of the wind blowing through the grass was mixed with the rustling sound of the leaves rubbing against the scales of the shasha trees.
The moment Lin Yao's fingertips touched the black cloud scales, he felt a strange power hidden in the cold touch, as if he was holding a piece of breathing black jade.
The golden glow of the setting sun spread across the grass, stretching the shadows of the man, the snake, and the vine very long, and the sound of the waves under the cliff seemed to become gentler.
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