The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 215 The Infected Sentinel
"Guide! Guide! Is there a guide?!"

"Save us!"

"While on a mission outside B7... we encountered a high-level mutant, Rio—our companion has been infected!"

The corridor instantly erupted in a cacophony of voices, accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps as three blood-soaked sentries burst through the door to the evacuation room.

On the stretcher they were carrying, the young sentry was curled up in pain—his right arm had turned a strange purplish-black, and spiderweb-like fluorescent veins were writhing beneath his skin, the glowing lines spreading toward his heart at a visible speed.

Upon seeing this, Su Rui hurriedly scolded them, "What are you doing! Get out! This isn't an emergency room, don't bring the injured here!"

"I'm so sorry, but the emergency room is fully booked, and no other guides are willing to take us in. We really have no other choice... I'm sorry, could you please take a look at our teammate?"

The sentry in charge was yelled at and retreated repeatedly, his military boots leaving messy marks on the floor.

"This is ridiculous! Bringing the wounded in without proper checks is outrageous! What if there are hidden pathogens that could infect the guides?"

Su Rui was so angry she could barely speak. She stood blocking the doorway, trying to call the police officers on this floor using her terminal, but the corridor, which was usually guarded, was unusually quiet today.

"A major riot broke out on the outskirts of B7 this morning. There weren't enough personnel on site, and most of the sentries in the tower were out on duty. That's where we were injured. We suspect that some alien species have infiltrated the city... We're so sorry!"

The young sentry's voice was choked with sobs, and the bloodstains on his combat uniform left long trails on the ground. He suddenly knelt down and slammed his forehead heavily against the ground.

“Sean’s appointment slot is booked for three days from now… The other guides all say the contamination level is too high and they don’t dare take him… Please! This is the last appointment we can get him into. Rio is only sixteen, he’s just started differentiating—”

"Even so, it shouldn't be like this..."

Su Rui's words came to an abrupt halt as she saw the youthful face on the stretcher, still bearing traces of baby fat, with vomit residue at the corners of its mouth.

Su Rui was just an ordinary person, so she naturally understood the difficulties these people faced. If this person wasn't treated immediately, he would definitely mutate, and once the Sentinel mutated, the White Tower would kill him.

But before becoming an ordinary person, she was a guide assistant, and she couldn't violate procedures in the face of such unforeseen events.

The guide she's currently in charge of is just an intern; no matter how urgent the situation, it's not her place to handle this kind of thing.

"I'll contact the head nurse and she'll make the arrangements. Now, take your people to the isolation room first..."

Her voice gradually faded, and just then, the detectors in the evacuation room started alarming wildly:
[High concentration of psychoactive organisms detected. Please isolate immediately! Please isolate immediately!]

[Pollution index 87%, nerve breakdown rate 63%—exceeding safe limits! Warning! Warning!]

"87..." The sentry squad turned pale upon hearing this number. They knew exactly what such a number meant. "How could this be? Rio was just injured, how could it be so fast..."

They stared in shock at their companion on the stretcher, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Sure enough, not long after the alarm sounded, the seriously injured sentry suddenly began to convulse. The purplish-black mutated area had spread to his collarbone. He seemed to be in great pain, struggling and screaming with red eyes.

"Scatter! He's mutated!"

The two sentries carrying the stretcher panicked and retreated to the corner. The boy fell heavily to the ground, but he seemed not to feel any pain and twisted as he got up from the ground.

His eyes had turned completely cloudy and purplish-black, and his mouth was torn to the roots of his ears, revealing his stark white fangs.

The most terrifying thing was that those fluorescent veins were converging under his skin to form eerie totems, emitting a nauseating wave of mental pollution.

“We were careless…it’s actually an infectious agent…” The sentry in charge knelt down, his face ashen.

Their squad was just ordinary B-level sentinels; they had no ability to construct a mental barrier.

Exposed to a highly polluted environment, everyone's temples bulged with menacing veins, and their pupils began to dilate unnaturally.

It's over-

The thought exploded in the sentinels' minds like a thunderbolt, and they watched, their faces ashen, as their familiar comrade slowly mutated into a terrifying monster—

They actually brought a live mutant into the core evacuation area of ​​the White Tower! Thinking of that colonel known for his ruthless methods, the legs of several young sentries began to tremble uncontrollably.

They were far more aware than becoming mutants of the consequences of violating the core area security regulations—a military trial far worse than death.

Just as the mutant was about to erupt, a clear, ethereal bell sound suddenly pierced through the heavy air.

The sound seemed to come from a distant time and space, as clear and crisp as snowmelt falling into an ancient pool covered with moss, carrying a pure power to cleanse the soul. Immediately afterwards, a spring breeze carrying the fragrance of grass swept over us, and wherever it passed, the nauseating stench receded like a tide.

"Everyone back off!" A clear female voice rang out from behind.

Everyone turned around in a panic and saw a strange girl standing at the door of the lounge.

She was wearing a brand-new guide uniform, her long black hair cascading down to her waist, the ends still damp with raindrops.

The other person seemed to have just finished bathing; their face was unadorned, incredibly clean, with flawless porcelain-white skin, eyebrows like distant mountains, clear almond eyes, and natural cherry-pink lips—a very rare appearance for an Easterner.

What's most striking is the aura surrounding her, so pure it's like the first spring breeze after the first snow has melted, making you unconsciously want to get closer.

The sentries experienced a brief moment of suffocation.

Is this the new intern guide?
So beautiful, so small...

They suddenly felt sad and remorseful for their reckless behavior, which had put such a pure and kind guide in danger.

They're definitely going to get eaten!

Everyone present had the same thought.

"Can someone hold him down?"

The seemingly delicate and beautiful guide did not show any fear. Instead, she calmly stood in front of them and asked softly.

Surprisingly, the sentries who had been crying out for help just moments before fell silent.

Like Rio, they were all newcomers to the tower this year. Their daily work consisted of standing guard or running errands. They hadn't even been to the contaminated area yet, let alone faced real monsters.

The room fell into dead silence, with only the gurgling sounds of the mutants echoing in the air.

The girl looked around and saw that these burly men, who were on average two heads taller than her, were now cowering like frightened cubs.

All right--

Then she'll have to come by herself.

Lin Nan slowly raised her hand, her eyes glowing.

"Roar--"

Just as she was about to release her spiritual form, a deafening lion's roar suddenly erupted, the sound waves causing the reinforced glass of the entire corridor to shatter.

In the instant before everyone's retinas could still see the afterimage, a golden figure flashed past like lightning, slamming the mutated sentinel into the metal wall with a sharp whooshing sound!

　He's not laughing at all anymore.

　　She cried uncontrollably.

　　I just touched on the edge and talked a bit, but 213 and 214 were immediately locked out.

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　　(End of this chapter)