The Strongest Sentinel (5): He had a lot of things to do and couldn’t think about Gu Juntian anymore.

The spiritual sea of the guides was very calm; after they awakened, they did not have to endure any pain.

Also because of this, they simply couldn’t endure hardship.

Gu Juntian pulled a small piece from Liang Xia’s mental power. Although this caused some harm to Liang Xia, it wasn’t significant. The pain Liang Xia felt was probably less than one-tenth of the pain Gu Juntian had to endure when his spiritual sea had issues before.

But Liang Xia acted as if he was about to die. After exclaiming in surprise, he fell to the ground, clutching his head and wailing, “It hurts so much…”

“Are you okay?” Gu Juntian asked without much concern.

He found Liang Xia a bit annoying, making it impossible for him to calm down and think things through.

Wasn’t it just a small piece of mental power that was pulled out? What was the big deal!

When sentinels went to battle, their mental strength was used in combat, and sustaining injuries was completely normal. The injuries they sustained were definitely much greater than the ones Liang Xia had!

Liang Xia felt his head pounding unbearably, and tears couldn’t help but flow down his cheeks.

He felt extremely uncomfortable, and when he finally opened his eyes, he saw disdain in Gu Juntian’s eyes.

Gu Juntian actually despised him! At this moment, Liang Xia hated Gu Juntian to the core.

But he needed to gather information about that demon, Zhou Qinghao, from Gu Juntian, and he couldn’t let Gu Juntian discover his hatred. Liang Xia cried out, “I don’t know what’s wrong with my mental power, it suddenly got damaged, it hurts so much!”

“It’s just a mental injury, why are you reacting so strongly?” Gu Juntian said, “When fighting with mutated beasts, which sentinel’s mental strength hasn’t been damaged?”

Hearing Gu Juntian’s words, Liang Xia hated him even more, but remembering his own mission, he could only speak pitifully, “Juntian, my mental power is damaged, I’m afraid I can’t help you with the treatment anymore.”

When Liang Xia said this, he thought Gu Juntian would comfort and coax him.

Gu Juntian was a low-level sentinel. He looked down on Gu Juntian, but because Gu Juntian was very handsome, he still enjoyed Gu Juntian flattering him and giving him gifts.

However, Gu Juntian said, “Then I’m going home. My mental power has been damaged much more than yours. I need to go home and lie down.”

After Gu Juntian finished speaking, he stood up and walked outside.

After taking two steps, he saw the expensive skincare products that the original owner had brought back for Liang Xia on the table. Gu Juntian said, “You haven’t opened this yet? Don’t you like it? Then I’ll take it away.”

He took the set of skincare products that had cost the original owner 100,000 credit points and left.

In the base, an ordinary person worked hard for a month and only earned a thousand credit points. Earning three thousand was considered a high salary!

The original owner worked, and the part-time job introduced by Zhou Qinghao only earned six hundred credit points a month because of the short working hours.

Of course, six hundred credit points could already allow an ordinary student to live a decent life.

The money to buy this set of skincare products was originally requested from Zhou Qinghao.

The original owner’s father’s pension was only one million, and under such circumstances, he actually spent one hundred thousand on skincare products to give to Liang Xia!

The original owner was sick!

Gu Juntian walked too quickly, and Liang Xia didn’t even have time to call out to him.

He didn’t dislike this skincare set; he just left in a hurry last time and didn’t take it with him!

The background Liang Xia told Gu Juntian about was not a lie; he came from a humble background and his family didn’t have much money.

Although he awakened as a guide, he was just a low-level guide, so he didn’t attract much attention.

As a guide, he received a subsidy every month, but the subsidy for a D-level guide was only 20,000 per month. He usually couldn’t bear to use such expensive skincare products.

“Damn Gu Juntian!” Liang Xia felt heartbroken over the skincare products that had been lost, and because of the waves of pain in his mind, he couldn’t help but cry.

At this moment, his communication terminal rang; the person who had been close to Gu Juntian called him.

That person was his guide school teacher. When Liang Xia answered the video call and saw his teacher’s gentle face, he cried out, “Wow, it hurts so much, teacher…”

Liang Xia was quickly sent to the nearby hospital for an examination.

Doctors who treated mental disorders were all guides. The guide looked at Liang Xia’s condition and said, “Mild mental injury, just rest for two days.”

Liang Xia said, “If it hurts this much, how could it be just a minor injury?”

That guide doctor was very famous, which meant he had treated many, many people.

He glanced at Liang Xia and said, “You’re a guide, so I’ll consider this a minor injury. If you were a sentinel, I would have kicked you out directly. Coming to me with such a minor injury is a waste of my time.”

Liang Xia looked at this person in disbelief.

When he was in the guide school, if his spiritual sea was a bit off, the guide doctors there would use their mental powers to soothe him for a long time…

Liang Xia felt very wronged, still sobbing as he left the hospital, but at that moment, the guide teacher who brought Liang Xia over couldn’t wait to start asking about Gu Juntian’s condition: “Liang Xia, did Gu Juntian say anything to you? He went to Zhou Qinghao’s place some time ago. The head of the medical department was killed by Zhou Qinghao before. Did he see anything?”

Before Liang Xia went to find Gu Juntian, he had instructed Liang Xia to ask Gu Juntian about some matters.

Liang Xia was dumbfounded: “He didn’t say anything.”

Liang Xia recounted what happened after meeting Gu Juntian today and then complained, “Gu Juntian’s attitude towards me was really bad today!”

The teacher at the school had already reviewed the surveillance footage in the house where Liang Xia was living and found that Gu Juntian’s attitude towards Liang Xia was very poor today.

But after Liang Xia explained the situation of Gu Juntian’s mental sea, she more or less understood why Gu Juntian had become like this.

The issues Gu Juntian was experiencing in his spiritual sea were much more severe than Liang Xia’s; he was definitely suffering more and finding it harder to cope than Liang Xia.

If Liang Xia still couldn’t cure him, in this situation, it would be strange that he could show Liang Xia a good face!

The guide school teacher put on a gentle face and began to comfort Liang Xia.

On the other side, after leaving Liang Xia, Gu Juntian called a car using the communication terminal and had it take him home.

In the underground city, public transportation consisted of small, narrow self-driving cars. Residents could call one anytime they needed it using a contact terminal.

Basically, it wouldn’t take a minute for the car to appear in front of the residents.

This type of car was divided into three categories: one was a regular car, another was a quality car, and the best one was a premium car.

The special car was usually only used by the sentinels. It was very clean inside, with no smell whatsoever. Every time someone used the car, it was disinfected and an odor masking agent was sprayed.

Thanks to Zhou Qinghao, Gu Juntian’s account had hundreds of thousands of credit points, so calling a private car didn’t cost him much.

At first, Gu Juntian felt that he couldn’t use Zhou Qinghao’s money and thought that once he started killing the mutated beasts, he must return the money the original owner took from Zhou Qinghao.

But now, wasn’t he supposed to be treating Zhou Qinghao?

In that case, Zhou Qinghao owed him a life debt, so spending a bit of Zhou Qinghao’s money in advance was nothing?

Speaking of which, he had previously planned to break up with Zhou Qinghao, but after seeing Zhou Qinghao, he completely forgot to bring it up…

Zhou Qinghao was in very bad shape, and he was still infatuated. If he brought up breaking up at a time like this, Zhou Qinghao probably wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Forget it, anyway, he was already planning to become a guide to treat Zhou Qinghao, so whether they broke up or not didn’t seem like a big deal.

Let’s talk about this matter once Zhou Qinghao was better.

Gu Juntian pulled his thoughts back to the matter of the “direction guide.”

Through observation, Gu Juntian had already discovered that both the guides and sentinels were humans, with no fundamental changes.

They were divided into two categories because their mental strength was different.

In that case, if he could make his mental strength the same as a guide’s, then he would be a guide!

For a Sentinel, transforming their mental strength to be like that of a Guide was nothing short of a fantasy.

But he was different; he had a golden finger. In his mind, there was a vast mental power hidden, calm and still like a stagnant pool.

When his mental energy merged with the mental energy belonging to the original owner in the spiritual sea, his spiritual sea underwent violent turbulence. Once the turbulence subsided, his mental energy was integrated into the original owner’s mental energy.

He could allow his own mental power to be assimilated by the original owner’s mental power, or he could use his own mental power to control and assimilate the original owner’s mental power.

If he choses that path, his mental strength might be even gentler than Liang Xia’s mental strength!

And what Liang Xia, as a guide, could do, he could do as well.

In that case, what else could he be besides a guide?

He liked to fight, and if he were a sentinel, his combat skills would be very strong. However, being a sentinel was tough, so he might as well be a guide.

Anyway, guides could also go to the battlefield and fight!

Gu Juntian decided on the path he wanted to take in the future and then found himself home.

The underground city had no sky; the buildings were all constructed from the bottom up to the top.

On both sides of the narrow road, there were densely packed houses, and above the road, there were actually rooms.

In the inner city, people could find their homes without relying on contact terminals, but in the outer city, without the guidance of contact terminals, many people couldn’t find their homes, after all, every household looked the same.

The car stopped in front of a door. Gu Juntian entered and saw a long corridor inside, with doors on both sides. Of course, there were also stairs and elevators leading upstairs, where the layout was the same.

These houses were not all residential; schools, supermarkets, restaurants, clothing stores, and such were also located inside.

From inside the house, you could walk to other houses; the entire block was interconnected.

Some people didn’t like going out and might even spend their entire lives without leaving their own neighborhood.

And there were also distinctions between different neighborhoods; some neighborhoods were inhabited by ordinary people, and they were all poor, making them dirty and messy.

But there were also some neighborhoods that were clean, tidy, and quiet, like the area where the original owner and his mother lived.

The residents here were basically low-level sentinels and their families. Sentinels had higher demands for their living environment and were generally wealthier, so the environment here was better than elsewhere.

This neighborhood had many entrances, and Gu Juntian entered the one closest to his home. He wandered around a bit and soon arrived at his doorstep.

When he approached, the door to his house opened automatically.

The level of intelligence in the base was still very high.

“Juntian, you’re back!” The original owner’s mother saw Gu Juntian and smiled happily.

People from the outer city generally didn’t go to university, but the original owner was an exception.

He attended university at the border between the outer city and the inner city, and since he got into university, the number of times he returned home decreased.

The original owner didn’t like the overcrowded outer city.

People in the outer city generally married and had children early. Mother Gu was only in her early twenties when she gave birth to the original owner, and now she was only forty.

Compared to other women living in the outskirts, she didn’t need to support herself through hard labor because of her father’s influence, so she looked relatively younger, but she still had fine lines on her face.

Gu Juntian handed her the skincare products in his hand: “Mom, today when I was working at Zhou Qinghao’s place, someone sent him a gift, and it included a set of skincare products. He didn’t want it, so he gave it to me. You can use it.”

Gu Juntian wanted to return this skincare product, but it was a limited-edition luxury item, so it couldn’t be returned.

It could only be used for his mother.

This skincare product was worth a hundred thousand credit points because it contained genuine ingredients.

It was made from the essence of mutated snails, capable of repairing various skin issues and restoring youthfulness.

In the inner city, it was something that many people admired.

Of course, the top-tier people didn’t take this stuff seriously. Even if they used it, it was just to wipe their bodies.

If they wanted to wipe their faces, they had more expensive and higher-end products to use.

As for Mother Gu, she had never even heard of this brand.

The people in the outer city could not see this brand’s advertisements.

Mother Gu said, “You keep taking things from Zhou Qinghao, isn’t that a bit inappropriate? This item looks quite valuable. Why don’t you keep it for yourself and give it to someone suitable as a guide in the future?”

“Mom, just take it and use it. The guide doesn’t lack this.”

“Juntian, Zhou Qinghao thinks highly of you. Can you talk to him and ask him to introduce a guide for you? An E-level guide will do. Mom still has some savings here…” Mother Gu continued to mumble.

Over the years, the one million compensation received after the original owner’s father passed away had already been spent by them, with three hundred thousand gone because the original owner’s education was not cheap.

But there were still seven hundred thousand left!

In the outskirts, their family was considered wealthy.

“Mom, it’s not my turn to have a guide,” Gu Juntian said.

Mother Gu  said, “How could that be? You’re so smart, even Zhou Qinghao has taken a liking to you! Mom is doing odd jobs now, can support herself, and you don’t need to worry about her. Once you two get married, I’ll move out of this house…”

Gu Juntian was afraid of Mother Gu and said, “Mom, I’m feeling a bit unwell, so I’m going to lie down in my room.”

Mother Gu immediately said, “You should go lie down and rest well. Sigh, being a sentinel is really not easy…”

Gu Juntian returned to his room and lay down, skillfully pulling a piece from his calm mental power and merging it into the original owner’s mental power.

In his mind, waves of pain surged and crashed, one after another.

But Gu Juntian didn’t say a word.

Zhou Qinghao had endured much more pain than him, yet he could still live normally. What was there to complain about?

After a few hours, this small fragment of mental power finally merged with the original owner’s mental power.

This fusion speed was much slower than before.

There was no way around it; previously, there was a guide to help him sort things out, but now there wasn’t.

Gu Juntian paused for a moment, then began the next round of mental power fusion, making an effort to control his mental power and make it as gentle as possible.

He had been tormenting his mental power like this; although his mental power was softer than before, his spiritual sea was in complete chaos.

Gu Juntian lay down and didn’t get up until the next morning.

The original owner was a student majoring in nursing, and his future career path was to provide medical treatment to the sentinels who fought against mutated beasts on the ground.

The beast tides were not frequent; sometimes, in a whole year, you might not encounter one at all. However, there were very, very many soldiers who got injured fighting the mutated beasts.

When the base was first built, they could still grow ordinary crops underground and raise regular livestock.

But over time, those crops and livestock mutated and became inedible.

The source of human food has become the meat of mutated beasts and certain edible mutated plants.

These things all required the sentinels to leave the base and go outside the city to hunt or search.

And the sentries who went out, getting injured was all too common.

Gu Juntian came out of his room and saw the original owner’s mother frying mutated beast meat.

“After the beast tide, the meat of mutated beasts is cheap, so Mom bought some. Try Mom’s cooking,” Mother Gu greeted Gu Juntian with a beaming face.

Gu Juntian smiled and said, “Mom, your cooking is the best. I’ve always been thinking about it!”

Mother Gu usually stayed at home alone and ate cheap nutritious meals.

The so-called nutritious meal was actually a paste made by grinding up the scraps of mutated beasts and mutated plants, then adding various seasonings.

This was the most commonly eaten food by ordinary people. Ten credit points could buy you five hundred grams, enough for two people to have a meal, and there were hundreds of flavors to choose from.

And for an equivalent amount of mutated beast meat, the cheapest would still cost fifty credit points. An average person could only earn a thousand credit points in a month, so they generally wouldn’t buy it to eat.

The mutated beast meat that Mother Gu bought was only the size of a palm. After frying it, she gave most of it to Gu Juntian and only ate a small piece herself.

The mutated beast meat was placed on each respective plate, and in the middle of the table, there was a large bowl of plain nutritional meal.

After the original owner awakened as a sentinel, his sense of taste became extremely sensitive.

He could accept the natural taste of food, but he couldn’t stand the taste of various additives.

If sentinels ate nutritional meals, they basically ate them plain.

The plain-flavored nutrient meal was hard to eat, but the taste of the mutated beast meat was acceptable… Gu Juntian was very hungry today. He ate a full bowl of nutrient meal and then a piece of mutated beast meat, which made him feel a bit better.

After eating, he took a taxi to school.

His goal was to fight the mutated beasts, not to heal the injured sentinels.

But as a student, skipping classes was never a good idea.

Gu Juntian obediently attended class.

The textbooks and notebooks that students used in class nowadays were not made of paper; instead, they were thin tablets.

He opened it, took a look at the content to be learned today, then clicked into the library and started reading books about mental strength and the sentinel-guide relationship in the library.

In addition to reading, he also listened to the content taught by the teacher in class, so whenever this machine presented the teacher’s questions, he could provide the correct answers.

The teacher noticed that he was looking at different content, but seeing that he had already learned what was to be taught in class, she no longer paid attention to him.

Gu Juntian read very quickly.

This was the Sentinel’s gift; the speed at which Sentinels received information far surpassed that of ordinary people.

Nowadays, the high-ranking personnel in the base were basically all sentinels with guides.

Even if a sentinel without a guide received information quickly, their learning efficiency was not much better than that of an ordinary person because their brain could not handle it.

Of course, he was exceptional; with just a quick glance, he could firmly remember the content of the book.

Before he traveled through time, he must have been a very impressive person.

Gu Juntian was happily studying when the communication terminal suddenly rang.

He took a glance and found that Zhou Qinghao had transferred him one million.

As a D-level sentinel, who was more precious than an ordinary person, his life was worth a million. Zhou Qinghao actually just casually transferred this much money to him!

The key point was, the original owner and Zhou Qinghao were innocent; Zhou Qinghao hadn’t even held the original owner’s hand!

This person was so love-struck, giving that much money without even tasting a bit of sweetness!

However, in the past, Zhou Qinghao used to give the original owner money in increments of 100,000, but when it came to him, he directly gave him 1,000,000.

Was it that compared to the original owner, Zhou Qinghao liked him more?

Gu Juntian thought of this and felt inexplicably happy.

On the other side, Zhou Qinghao once again felt like he was going crazy.

He missed Gu Juntian like he was crazy.

In the past, every time he gave money, Gu Juntian would come to him, fawn over him, and send him more messages.

Then, he couldn’t hold back and transferred one million to Gu Juntian.

Knowing full well that Gu Juntian would give the money to that guide, he actually transferred a million to Gu Juntian!

Zhou Qinghao somewhat despised himself, but couldn’t help but stare at the communication terminal, waiting for Gu Juntian’s response.

“Boss, why have you been staring at the communication terminal? Is something going on?” someone next to Zhou Qinghao asked him.

Zhou Qinghao said, “It’s fine, let’s continue.”

He had a lot of things to do and couldn’t keep thinking about Gu Juntian anymore.

If Gu Juntian didn’t respond for a long time… should he give another million?