The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 204 Opponent
Lin Nan couldn't sense what it was.

She had never encountered such a monster before; it was devoid of resentment, anger, sorrow, or joy, like a monster without emotions, leaving no loopholes in its existence.

It was very powerful and difficult to deal with, leaving her unsure of what to do.

The moment the control room door opened, dozens of distorted faces squeezed in—the so-called "people" were pushing each other with inhuman force, their eyeballs bulging out of their sockets, and strange blue-purple veins writhing under their skin. The "people" in the front row had their mouths torn to their ears, revealing spiral-shaped sharp teeth inside.

"Back off!" A shout from somewhere torn through the chaos.

A bluish-gray arm suddenly stretched out, like rubber, for two meters, and instantly wrapped around the neck of someone in the carriage who couldn't escape in time. The sound of bones cracking rang out clearly, and the person's head snapped backward at an impossible angle.

Before they could even cry for help, a life was lost.

"Wow—monster!!!" A child's shrill voice suddenly rang out from the crowd. The parents holding their child quickly covered the child's mouth, but it was too late—the monsters' attention was completely drawn to the child.

The monsters turned their heads at the same time, their pupil-less white eyes fixed intently on the source of the sound.

The stench of blood in the air seemed to further irritate them; the monsters' mouths were torn open to their ears, revealing jagged, white teeth.

"Help...help...someone save us..."

The couple was too frightened to speak. They trembled as they pressed the child's head tightly against their chests, but they couldn't stop the child's uncontrollable crying.

The nearest monster suddenly crawled on all fours like a spider along the roof of the car. Just as it was about to attack the couple, a green vine suddenly wrapped around one of its feet and ripped it off the ceiling.

Lin Nan stood in front of the couple, her eyes glowing green. She quickly sensed the emotions of the recently mutated monster and her sharp, dagger-like mental energy invaded it, forcibly rewriting the commands in its brain.

【Back off! 】

Lin Nan gave the command, and the monster trembled violently, its eyes darting around wildly as if it were tearing at something inside its body, its joints making a teeth-grinding cracking sound.

When she used her abilities, her original appearance was gradually revealed, like a pearl covered by dust.

The hair tie snapped, and her cascading black hair moved freely in the carriage without any wind, with shimmering green specks of light flowing between the strands.

Those deliberate disguises are now being gradually devoured by the spiritual energy emanating from beneath the skin.

"Sister...you..." The little boy who had been following behind her stared at her in shock, unable to utter a word.

But Lin Nan couldn't care less about anything else right now; all her attention was focused on those monsters.

She encountered an unprecedentedly formidable opponent.

It seemed that another spiritual force was manipulating these monsters, and Lin Nan's consciousness was met with all-round resistance as soon as it invaded.

The two spiritual forces converged and clashed fiercely in the minds of these monsters. Their originally aggressive attacks slowed down, their fangs bared menacingly, and murky, painful tears flowed from their eyes.

【Help……】

Help me...

Lin Nan heard the only obsession these people had before their mutation.

Cold sweat beaded on her forehead. She used almost all her strength to invade the monsters' minds with her mental power, and finally, she suppressed them—

The monsters instantly lost their killing intent, becoming like destructive machines, frozen in place.

At that moment, the car door behind Lin Nan was also broken open, and several sentries rushed out from the crowd. The sentries brandished their weapons and, with swift strokes, used the brief moment to instantly cleave the monsters into pieces.

"Get down!"

After killing the mutant, one of the leading sentries turned around and pounced on Lin Nan. Before she could react, he had already pressed her head down and forced her to the ground!

An invisible wind blade flew right over their heads, severing some of Lin Nan's hair that was still dangling in the air. Lin Nan fell heavily to the ground, her cheek pressed against the cold earth.

"Don't move, Your Excellency the Guide."

The sentry's voice was extremely low, the vibration of his Adam's apple transmitted through their pressed backs.

Her vines instinctively tried to probe their surroundings, but the sentry grabbed her wrist: "Don't use your mental powers, they're targeting you now! Hide!"

The man's heavy body pressed down on her back, and Lin Nan felt his muscles taut like a fully drawn bow, ready to spring into action at any moment.

"Th...thank you," Lin Nan said nervously after a long while, finally finding her voice.

"No, we should be the ones thanking you... We're so sorry, we didn't even realize you were in the car, it was our negligence, I—"

Before the sentry could finish speaking, another ear-piercing sound of metal twisting came from outside the carriage.

It was as if some enormous thing was tearing at the train's exterior. After a violent tremor, the upper part of the entire train, separated by the windows, was completely ripped open.

Hehe, I found you guys!

A childish and eerie voice came from above, like the babbling of countless children mixed with electronic noise, resonating inside the skull of everyone.

Everyone looked up in alarm, and then they saw a scene they would never forget—

A huge, fly-like eye was perched above the train, as if it had found a fascinating treasure, staring intently at the remaining humans inside the carriage.

In the thick black space, blood-like lines began to appear as far as the eye could see—and those lines actually solidified in the air, blooming into eerie red flowers.

On the petals, those infectious crimson robes reappeared, floating in the air like insect eggs, constantly wriggling.

The enormous compound eye turned gently, and thousands of hexagonal lenses captured the face of everyone present.

An invisible sense of oppression and fear permeated the entire space.

We've found you...

A childlike, innocent laugh came again from behind the compound eyes, accompanied by a chilling electronic reverb.

"One of you is a guide... Hand over the guide to me, and I will release you."

Let me guess, who is the guide?

The enormous eyeball spun around, and wherever its gaze fell, the passengers' expressions began to contort.

Lin Nan quietly curled up the vines, trying to conceal the fluctuations of her overflowing spiritual power.

The sentry and the little boy on her body shielded her beneath them.

It seems none of you are willing to talk...

The eye smiled eerily, and then a long, insect-like mouthpart suddenly emerged from the compound eye and grabbed one of the couple.

"Ahhh—my husband!!" the woman screamed, desperately trying to grab the man who was being swept away, but everything happened too fast. In an instant, the man was twisted in two by the cutting tool.

The mangled body fell back into the carriage, and scalding blood sprayed down like raindrops. The cruel scene completely shocked everyone present.

Screams erupted from the carriage as people frantically scattered, while the eye emitted a piercing laugh that sounded like rubbing against glass.

[Still not telling...? Then who will be next...?]

(End of this chapter)