The Heartthrob Guide: Dodder of S-Class Sentinels

Chapter 235 Correcting One's Stance
What kind of scene is this?

Lin Nan is already difficult to describe.

I felt like this person would pull out a pink magic wand and shout, "Magic Shochu Transformation~" at any moment.

Thinking of this, Lin Nan covered her face with her hands, feeling that she was being incredibly filthy—

While she was lost in thought, the spiritual entity that Moss had left on Lin Nan's hair suddenly stirred, and the man's clear voice was transmitted into her mind through a wisp of spiritual power.

"We have news from my elder brother, Master. Would you like to see him?"

After Moss became her personal sentinel, he left one of his spiritual clones on her body. With this clone, he could locate her position and contact her anytime, anywhere without using a terminal.

This is undoubtedly a very useful skill, just like now, when she needs them to investigate something.

"Where is he now?"

"The Spider House".

"Okay, I'll head over there."

After Lin Nan finished speaking, she packed her things and prepared to leave.

As soon as she stepped out of the room, Caesar, who was squatting by the door, clung to her.

"Baby, where are you going?"

"I have to go out for a while." Lin Nan's reply was light and dismissive, without even lifting her eyelids.

"Then I'll stay with you; it's chaotic outside right now."

"No need, Andrew is with me."

Lin Nan was too lazy to say anything more and was about to walk past him when her wrist was grabbed from behind—

"...It's been five days." The man's voice carried a hint of anger, like a volcano that had been holding back for a long time, with scalding lava seeping out from the cracks. "Even if you're furious, you should have calmed down by now."

Because the two were so close, Caesar's uncontrollable, explosive emotions enveloped Lin Nan like a cloud of steam, making it damp, stuffy, and hot, so uncomfortable that it was hard to breathe.

Lin Nan resisted the urge to slap him.

"I'm not angry, let me go first."

"Not angry? If you're not angry, why are you ignoring me?!" The man's voice suddenly rose, and the grip on her wrist tightened. "You were getting so close to that bee, you were just trying to annoy me, weren't you?!"

A buzzing sound, accompanied by Caesar's hoarse questioning, assaulted Lin Nan. Lin Nan felt dizzy and, after enduring it for a moment, forcibly shook him off with her mental power.

“There are some things I don’t want to say a second time.” The green light in Lin Nan’s eyes suddenly sharpened, like two unsheathed jade daggers, each word striking coldly and hard. “You are just my sentinel now, nothing more. Not my partner, much less my relative. Who I travel with, who I care about, is none of your business, and I don’t need to report to you.”

Her spiritual power extended to Caesar's chest, and with a flick of her fingertips, she opened a gap in his thin shirt. The invisible force probed freely through the gap, precisely pressing against the green sprout mark on his heart, carrying an undeniable sense of oppression.

“If you still can’t learn to recognize your place…” Lin Nan lowered her voice even further, “then—I can take this mark back at any time—”

"..."

Kaiser had never experienced anything like this before; it felt like being choked and submerged in deep water, with no room to struggle.

He stared intently at Lin Nan, his usually sharp face now flushed crimson, as if a fire were burning in his chest, before turning as white as paper in the next second. He wanted to argue, but looking into the girl's indifferent eyes, all the words stuck in his throat.

He should have realized it sooner.

Those seemingly mild tones and indifferent expressions were merely a facade woven by the girl before me. She could be playful and carefree most of the time, but once her bottom line was crossed, she would reveal a core harder and colder than anyone else's.

Caesar opened his mouth, his lips trembled and moved a few times, but in the end he gave up.

The surrounding air seemed to freeze.

Silence, like a silent surrender, smoothed away all his sharp edges and hostility, turning them into submissive meekness.

"I understand." Caesar gently covered the mark on his chest with his hand. After a moment of silence, he raised his head, the previous ferocity gone from his eyes, replaced by a cautious probing. "Then... then I'll wait outside your room, okay?"

It really did go down!
Lin Nan felt that the scorching aura that had been following her like a shadow was gradually fading away, and a sense of surprise swept through her heart.

Her attention was entirely focused on Caesar's gradually decreasing pollution level, and she didn't pay attention to what he said, so she casually nodded: "Whatever you want."

Lin Nan got into Andrew's military off-road vehicle.

We drove through the chaotic streets after the war. Ruins rushed past the car window, charred building skeletons jutting into the gray sky. Occasionally, a few pedestrians wrapped in tattered clothes huddled in corners, staring blankly into the unknown distance.

The city has long lost its former order; its manpower and resources are like hollowed-out organs, and even the most basic cleaning has become a luxury.

The rain continued to fall incessantly. Lin Nan looked out the window through the mottled glass and felt a heavy heart.

Occasionally, sentries would carry out bodies that had been dead for who knows how long from various street corners and put them into military trucks parked on the side of the road.

"How will Tali deal with these people?"

Looking at the corpses, Lin Nan suddenly thought of the people who had come from District Two with her.

Colonel Lawn said that there seemed to be a special place to house the bodies of those attacked and infected by aliens, but he didn't know where it was.

Andrew, who was driving, heard Lin Nan's words and his antennae twitched, but he did not answer her.

Lin Nan came to her senses and then remembered that Andrew couldn't speak.

Worker bees are the closest attendants to the queens of all time, like shadows hidden behind a curtain, always by their side, and inevitably they will come across those secret and hidden information.

In order to eliminate the possibility of leaks at the source, from the moment they differentiate, they are subjected to special means in their genes to deprive them of the ability to speak.

From then on, they became silent, loyal servants, their eyes fixed only on the figure of their superiors, yet not a single word could be uttered.

"I'm sorry." She felt a little guilty, as if she had rubbed salt into someone's wounds.

"Buzz—" A muffled sound rolled out of Andrew's throat, like an old gear turning dryly.

His physique was so massive that when he sat in the driver's seat, his broad back almost completely covered the seat back, and his thick arms rested on the steering wheel, making the center console seem cramped.

Lin Nan sat beside him. At 1.65 meters tall, she wasn't short in the old world, but compared to these people, she was simply too short. Her shoulders barely reached Andrew's elbows, and when she turned her head to the side, her gaze was barely level with his.

Perhaps sensing the barely perceptible melancholy in her eyes, Andrew freed one arm and touched the top of Lin Nan's fluffy hair, silently indicating that he didn't mind.

(End of this chapter)