【Ruijin】Eye of the Storm

"What was the last number of matches measured at the medium?"

"54%."

"69%."

"...How much is it?"

The two sat side by side on the edge of the bed, Gray turned his head to look at Jin beside him, but the guide avoided his sight and coughed to cover up: "69, just remember 69."

"Can you summon your own spirit body?"

Gray nodded, closed his eyes and retracted his thoughts. After a while, the famous gray wolf Lie Zhan appeared in the room. With an aura similar to its owner, it walked to Gray's feet and sat down. .Jin also tried to summon his spirit body in the same way, and a moment later, a brown-red cub appeared on Jin's knees.

Camille watched the movement of Jin reaching out to stroke the back hair of the spirit body on his knee, and lowered his head to write something in his notebook.

"Last question," Camille pursed his lips, "When did you two get married?"

Jin looked at Gray with some uncertainty, and tentatively said, "...it should be five years ago?"

Gray shook his head in denial, "Six years ago," he reminded lightly, "when you were 17."

"Ah, that should be six years ago." Jin unconditionally believed what the sentinel said, and turned back and nodded to Camille.

"...Okay. Then, I will briefly introduce what you need to do later." Camille dragged the chair that Leishi had sat on, and sat opposite the two of them, saying : "We will leave this room for a while and leave enough private space for you. Golden Guide and Grey Sentinel, you need to imagine how you and each other will feel when you combine for the first time, so as to open up your mental landscape to the greatest extent."

Camille shifted his gaze to Grey again: "What Grey's sentinel has to do is to get back the 'gold' that got lost there after entering the picture that the guide has fully opened."

"Just find him?" Gray asked.

Camille nodded: "That's right. However, there may be many problems in this process. The mental picture constructed by the mentally ill guide is often desolate and dangerous, and because Jin's ability has not fully recovered, you There may also be a time limit, because too long an "invasion" will make the main body feel very uncomfortable, even if the other party is a Sentinel who has already combined with you. For the sake of the physical endurance of the two of you, I suggest that this time must be controlled within three within an hour."

"And me," Jin asked hastily, "what am I going to do?"

Camille looked at him, and before he could open his mouth, he was snatched away by Leishi, who was on the side of the old god: "The person who has a problem between you two is not Gray, but you. So theoretically speaking, you have nothing. Doing is the best way to help. Of course, if you can, try to give your sentry some guidance and hints when he runs into your mind to find you."

"Of course I know," Jin choked with Lei Shi unconvinced, "I will help Gray without you saying, okay?"

"——I think you should all be aware of the risks of this behavior. For Jin's situation, whether it will work or not... we can't say. After all, this is just a new idea that stays at the level of laboratory research. , and there is no previous experience to learn from,” Camille said, “No matter what you see in the mental picture, remember what, you must keep in mind that you must stabilize your emotions to the greatest extent... Do not fall into the In the 'well'. Got it?"

The two nodded at the same time.

Camille looked at them and slowly closed the book: "Okay. Then, I wish you success."

"If Camille hadn't asked me just now, I wouldn't have remembered it," Jin put his hand on Gray's shoulder, "I always feel that the first impression is not very clear, what should I do... "

Gray's purple eyes dimmed, and he picked him up involuntarily, making him sit across his lap, wrapping his arms around him.The upper bodies of the two people were very close: "It's okay, I remember."

Jin felt a little inexplicably uncomfortable, and asked suspiciously: "...Is this the posture we had when we first got married?"

Gray didn't show any expression, but replied without hesitation: "Yes."

"really?"

"Ah."

"Oh..." Jin was convinced, and closed his eyes on his own initiative, "Then let's start, I'm ready."

The process of entering the mental picture is surprisingly easy.When Gray opened his eyes again, he found himself standing on a strange land.

Gray looked around and found that his location was almost a wasteland.The sandy-yellow soil appears barren and dry, and crystalline "rocks" are scattered in it like desert cactus, giving people a strange sense of deformity.This is actually a very normal thing, which proves that what Gray has reached so far is only the most superficial spirit of the guide.According to research, most guides and sentries conjure up mental images that are often strange and have a logic that is completely different from the real world. You can often see strange sights such as snakes with bull heads and upside-down buildings.The silver-haired sentinel squinted his eyes. He vaguely remembered the last time, that is, the day when he and Jin had undergone the "ceremony" to formally combine. The scenery he saw in Jin's spiritual vision did not seem to be as withered as it is now.

Gray didn't hesitate too much, he closed his eyes and tried his best to perceive it, and followed his intuition to walk in a certain direction.After walking for about half an hour, Gray noticed some changes in the scene in front of him.The light gradually dimmed, and the thick white fog began to diffuse wantonly in this space at some point.Gray's right foot suddenly stepped into the air, he reacted quickly and took a step back to maintain his balance, and a stone lifted by the action rolled down vertically along the steep edge of the cliff.

The sentinel stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down. What responded to him was a black abyss and the faint whining of the wind at the bottom of the abyss.

After thinking for a while in silence, the sentinel took a step forward without any hesitation, and jumped into the bottomless unknown space.

The first half of the fall was very fast, and Gray closed his eyes to feel the pain caused by the retrograde wind blowing across his cheeks.At this moment, an invisible force supported his body from below. Only now was Gray sure that he had made the right decision, so he relaxed his limbs and let that force lead him to slowly descend to the surface again.

The moment he landed, the scene in front of him distorted like muddy colorful paint. When Gray regained control of his body, he found himself standing in a place that looked like a basement.

He has come to Jin's deepest spiritual space.This place seemed to be the most extreme corner of Jin's spiritual world, and it was very likely that this was the key memory that was forcibly forgotten by the guide's brain.

At this moment, there was a commotion from above the fully enclosed room.A moment later, someone opened a window on the ceiling, and several men came out from that entrance, stepping on the iron stairs and falling to the ground one by one.The person who landed first checked the surrounding situation and then gestured to the companion above, who responded and pushed a person with his hands bound behind his back into him.

The light in the basement was very dim, and Gray wanted to get closer, but found that his feet could not move as if they were fixed on the ground.

Those people violently pushed the guy brought by them down on a chair, and tied his hands and feet tightly to the armrests and chair legs respectively.

The last person to come down from the skylight should be their leader. Gray saw that everyone actively moved out of the way for him.The man walked all the way to the table, leaned over and turned on a dazzling white desk lamp.When he passed in front of him, Gray finally saw the man's face clearly with the light on: he was the black market organization that was forced to commit suicide under the pursuit of the tower in the big guide trafficking case By.

Gray's heart sank suddenly, and he quickly turned his face to look at the person tied to the chair.

"Take off the cloth." The man who seemed to be the leader ordered in a low voice.The people around him quickly responded, and stretched out their hands to tear off the black cloth covering the man's face.The blinding white light made him feel uncomfortable the moment he opened his eyes, subconsciously he tilted his head back slightly, but someone grabbed his hair roughly and pushed him back to the original position.

—It is gold.

Gray's pupils shrank sharply.

"Is he that S-rank?" The leader looked at Jin from a bird's-eye view and asked.

"That's right, my lord, it's him," the other person replied immediately, and explained flatteringly, "Thanks to the news of 'that person', we were able to capture him smoothly, and it took a lot of effort from the brothers. Now, The Tower should have sensed that their ace guide is missing."

"Send some more people and show me the entrance on the death side. Those people must not find it."

"Oh, yes."

"Very good. Then, it's time to ask you now..." The leader walked around the table and walked to Jin's side, supporting the back of the chair behind him with one hand, "Where is the formula?"

Kim took a deep breath, his face covered in several bruises and abrasions.The blond guide looked back at him with difficulty half-opening his eyes: "I don't know."

The leader sneered and said: "When it comes to life and death, there is no difference between knowing and not knowing. Guides are precious things, and we want to be as friendly as possible. It's just that the formula is very important to me. I hope you cooperate."

Jin lowered his head slightly, and the slightly longer golden sideburns on both sides swayed with the movement.He said slowly: "I already said I don't know, but you don't believe it. You just want to synthesize the kind of banned drug that can turn ordinary people into dark sentries. I won't help you."

"It's very backbone," the leader laughed unabashedly, shaking his head at him with pity, "I'm really sorry. If that's the case, then we can only use you instead Our 'petri dish' is gone."

The man was satisfied to see the blond guide in front of him showing a puzzled and shocked expression, and grabbed the back of the chair and easily turned the chair around so that Jin could see the scenery behind him.

The other wall of the basement was artificially built with black heavy fences, transforming it into a prison.Through the gap between the fences, Jin saw the dozens of children imprisoned inside.

They were dressed in ragged single clothes, pale and skinny, and the oldest one was no more than ten years old.They curled up like animals, sitting with their knees hugged against the wall in the cold basement, staring at this side with a hungry and explicit eyes.That look made Jin feel a chill from the spine of his tail upwards, and the guide's instinctive awareness made him aware of the crisis.

And the S-rank sentinel who existed in the mental space at the side already clearly understood what happened. Although he couldn't perceive who those children were, those eyes and the beast-like aggression in the air filled the air like the sentinel's mind wandering out of control. It is enough to prove their greedy desire for gold, or in other words, high-quality wizards.

Sure enough, Gray heard Jin ask hoarsely, "Who are they? What do you want?"

"They are all semi-finished products of my experiment. They have been very successful, haven't they?" the leader said.

"This is a crime," Jin said slowly, his emotions reaching the critical point of explosion, "They are still underage...! Besides, I have already bonded, and my guide elements are only useful to my bonded sentries. It is worse than plain water for other sentinels!"

"—who said they were sentinels?"

"……What did you say?"

"Golden guide," the leader stared at him arrogantly, and said slowly, "Of course we have fully understood your situation. Indeed, the guide elements that have been combined with the guide cannot be used on other sentries other than the combined sentinel. , but these people in front of you are just 'guards' who have awakened individual senses."

"There is no order, no knowledge of concealment, and no self-control. A guard who can only obey his own desires is like a gun without a safety bolt. It is low-level and barbaric."

"As long as I throw you into that cage," the leader bent down and pouted at him, "they will immediately pounce on you to tear up your original marks and compete for your guide elements. Why don't we make a bet, 10 Within minutes, will your spirit break down first, or your body die first?"

"..."

"You don't have to be so nervous," the leader said, "I know this decision is very difficult, so I will give you one more day to reconsider. By the way, remind you that when you were brought here, they had already paralyzed you The dose will continue to increase until you figure it out. So stop trying to inform your Sentinel through that binding link, it won't work."

"Think about it, young man," he paced back to the other side of the table, and closed the neckline of his windbreaker, "Don't expect to pick grapes from thorns*."

TBC

* Adapted from the Bible

*Guard: A special group of people who have only awakened 1 to 4 senses, which can also be indirectly understood as "unformed sentinel" or "secondary sentinel".This noun is not original, it belongs to hearsay + my stream adaptation.