The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 163 The Trapped Bird

This old geezer is a bit annoying!

Number Five said angrily.

I've seen him.

Number Six wriggled its itchy tip, feeling restless all over.

I feel like I've seen it before, but I don't know why I can't remember it.

【…】

As the vines spoke, Lin Nan was startled to realize that her memories had been secretly altered!
Is it the Queen...? No one else could do it...

Where has she seen this person before?!

Lin Nan, enduring the discomfort, struggled to raise her hand and reach for the glasses on the man's body—

Dr. Cai became increasingly excited as he smelled Lin Nan's scent. His free hand had already precisely located the entrance to Lin Nan's mental imagery—on the butterfly bone of her spine.

The man had just turned her body over when he accidentally saw the marks on the girl's neck.

"Such heavy marks..." The man's sticky gaze paused for a moment, then he said, "Looks like you're quite popular."

Unlike a sentry or a guide, he didn't have such sensitive senses. He couldn't smell the scent left on Lin Nan by others, but as a normal man, he knew all too well why a woman would have a hickey on her neck.

Just then, a familiar voice came from outside the cubicle.

"Dr. Cai, the second batch of wounded soldiers has been brought over. We need to trouble you to come out for a moment."

"..."

The man's lips, which had been parted in excitement, instantly returned to their cold, hard, and rigid shape.

The dense aura around him disappeared, and he slowly stood up, pushing up his glasses that Lin Nan had almost ripped off.

Giss was waiting for someone outside the cubicle when the curtain was suddenly pulled open from the inside.

Upon seeing the person come out, he said very politely, "I'm so sorry to bother you, Doctor. The injured person is in the next room. I don't know the extent of the injury, so I dare not carry him over rashly. I'll trouble you to go over there."

"Heh..." Dr. Cai didn't say anything. He straightened his white coat and walked towards the door. But halfway there, he turned around suspiciously, looked Giss up and down, and then glanced at the silent Black Feather beside him. As if he understood something, he sneered, "So protective of her own, what kind of director is she? She might as well be a wet nurse who cleans up excrement and urinates!"

"Dr. Cai is too kind." Gis bowed. He naturally knew who the other person was referring to, but as the assistant, he couldn't say anything more at this time.

After everyone left, Giss stood outside the cubicle for a while longer, until Lin Nan finished tidying herself up and came out through the curtain.

"Lin, are you alright?"

"Thank you, Yoshisuke, I'm alright. And thank you to the police officer too," Lin Nan said, still shaken.

It must have been this police officer who called Geese over.

"Dr. Cai has always been like this. When he encounters something that interests him, he gets a little out of control. I hope he didn't hurt you."

"Who is this guy?"

“He’s the most authoritative PhD at the Academia Sinica, specializing in the evolution and mutation of spiritual entities. The testing equipment and other machines you see here were all made by him…” After saying this, Giss bent down and lowered his voice a little, “Because of his special status, he has certain privileges, and no one dares to stop him. If you don’t like it, Lin, remember to stay away next time. This person is a madman…”

Lin Nan nodded hurriedly and rubbed her aching wrist, thinking to herself, "No wonder."

Seeing her like this, Giss felt a little relieved and continued:
"It's good that you're alright. The director is still in the contaminated area. I think he would be very worried if anything happened to you." "How long has the director been in the contaminated area?" Lin Nan asked.

“It’s been almost five or six hours. This contaminated area isn’t particularly difficult for the director. At his usual speed, he should have already killed all the mutated creatures. The fact that this contaminated area still exists means that the director doesn’t want to kill it yet.”

"I don't want to...why?"

"The abstinence center has the right to hunt down mutated species, but sometimes it depends on the situation. If they think the species can still be saved, they will show mercy. However, the specific decision depends on the situation. So for now, we just need to guard this place and wait for the outcome."

"..."

Lin Nan's unease intensified. Although Geese reassured her, she still felt that something was amiss.

She stepped out of the cubicle. The guide's place wasn't particularly far from the manor; it was just at the foot of the mountain. Standing in the square, she could still see the magnificent brick-red walls and tiles of the manor on the mountaintop.

However, the area above those walls and tiles is now covered by a gray-brown barrier, from which pollution occasionally spreads through the air, but otherwise, no other clues can be seen.
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Lan Yin found herself trapped in a cage.

Ever since he went into the enclosure to escape a black bear attack, he has found himself unable to get out.

The already enormous birdcage suddenly became even larger and rounder, until the metal fence completely disappeared into the sky. In the vast alien space, the door that allowed entry and exit vanished, leaving only an enormous bed and a snow-white bird trapped on it.

"Senior, I feel something's not right." Lan Yin stared at the little bird, then collapsed into the center of the bed, as if all her strength had been drained away.

He tried to sit up, but he didn't even have the strength to lift an arm, and could only struggle helplessly on the soft bed.

"What... happened?" Tina's voice came from the terminal, but it was intermittent.

"No, my power is being drained..."

With the disappearance of the door, the terminal signal was cut off. Before Lan Yin could even finish speaking, he and Tina were completely cut off.

Damn it, I've been scammed!

It deliberately lured him in!

Lan Yin gritted her teeth, struggling to muster the last bit of strength in her head to look straight ahead, but the scene before her eyes became increasingly blurry.

A white, icy aura of spiritual energy quietly seeped into Lan Yin's dazed mind. He struggled to open his eyes again and saw—

The snowy owl, which had been sealed away like a statue, suddenly shook its wings and began to move.

By the time he realized it, he was already weak and powerless, as if he had been possessed, and lay paralyzed on the bed, unable to move.

The only eye that could still move was fixed on the other side of the bed curtains.

There stood a beautiful snowy owl, its head tilted, looking back at him with its bright black eyes, a hint of cunning in them.

He was all too familiar with that expression.

Where is your master?

Lan Yin tried to communicate with it, but the snowy owl did not react. Instead, it spread its wings, revealing snow-white feathers with a touch of gray, which looked agile and soft.

The little bird hopped lightly to Lan Yin's side and, just like countless times before, nuzzled against his body.

Ireland's spiritual entity—the snowy owl—especially adores Bluey. Whenever the two meet at parties or in private, it always flies over enthusiastically, perches on his shoulder, and rubs its head against him.

Although Lan Yin was a little annoyed by Ireland, she didn't dislike the spirit entity.

But at this moment, faced with the snowy owl's usual affection, he only felt a bad premonition—