Chapter 47: It Wasn’t as Though He Was Anyone to Her

"Knock, knock."

"Come in!"

Ye Mexi pushed the door open, and the occupants of the room all turned to look at her simultaneously.

Fearing that Ye Mexi might feel ill at ease, Madam Feng hurried forward to pull her by the hand.

"Father!"

Ye Mexi greeted Ye Tianjiao first. After all, he was her adoptive father, and Ye Tianjiao had given her and her younger brother everything a father possibly could. Admittedly, she had helped Ye Tianjiao awaken his beast soul, but equally, she had entrusted her own life and livelihood to Ye Mexi. She was not the kind of person to take benefits for granted, and she would actively help repay the favor within her capabilities.

For instance, she had proactively offered to teach Madam Feng how to eliminate the black energy clusters while simultaneously instructing an awakener guide from the Ye family. As for whether they would go on to teach other guides later, that was a matter for the Feng and Ye families to worry about.

The guide sent by the Ye family was a younger descendant from a collateral branch of Ye Tianjiao's faction, belonging to his grandniece. She took the initiative to greet Ye Mexi.

In her past life, Ye Mexi had already experienced being called "Aunt" or "Great-Aunt" by peers of similar age. To say there was no awkwardness would be untrue, but there was very little.

Aside from Ye Tianjiao, Madam Feng, Ye Mingming (the 2A-grade guide from the Ye family), and Mingming's partner Liang Kun (who was also one of Ye Tianjiao's three adjutants), the room also contained the cousin pair Long Song and Long Mu.

Madam Feng had a little bit of experience but still hadn't quite grasped the essential technique, whereas Ye Mingming wore a completely bewildered expression; she had no idea why she had been summoned here, let alone why she had been told to bring her partner.

"I am... an offensive-type guide," Ye Mexi voluntarily offered to clear up their confusion.

"Due to some unexpected circumstances, I once wandered into the Wasteland Star... You all know about Feng Yanqing's situation. Yes! He was able to return to the Moyun Star System in a normal state partly thanks to my efforts."

Long Mu and Long Song's eyes flicked with emotion. The berserk index was a blade hanging over the heads of all sentinels, and no one knew when it would finally fall upon them.

Since ancient times, various families had exhausted their ingenuity without ever finding a way to restore clan members whose genetic collapse had degraded them into mutated beasts. Countless powerhouses even preferred to perish alongside powerful desolate beasts and the Zerg rather than suffer the fate of being sent to the Wasteland Star.

Especially over the past few centuries, guides had become increasingly scarce. Many new-generation guides were openly priced by their families from childhood, and the price one had to pay to bond with a guide could well be imagined.

The Long family had always had a surplus of males and a scarcity of females. They had produced many 2S-grade sentinels, and the family ought to have been even more prosperous; yet precisely because most of the girls born into the Long family failed to awaken as guides, they were kept in check everywhere by families possessing guides.

In Long Mu and his peers' generation, there wasn't even a single sentinel bonded with a high-grade guide! It wasn't that no guides wanted to bond with them, but rather that they were unwilling to let everything they had fought so hard for outside be enjoyed effortlessly by a guide, becoming a mere capital for them to show off, only to be forced to humble themselves and beg them for spiritual soothing, potentially risking everything and instead facing insult and ravaging by those guides...

Fortunately, their First Legion Commander Ye Tianjiao was not only formidable in strength but also possessed a cold and unyielding temperament. She would rather spend exorbitant sums hiring guides, ensuring that the guides in the First Legion enjoyed the finest welfare and benefits.

However, guides nowadays were far too precious. No matter how generous the benefits the First Legion offered, the demand ultimately far exceeded the supply. Unless pushed to the absolute brink, leaders like them all had to rely on suppressants to control the soaring spikes of their berserk indices.

"Mingming... First, attach your spiritual power to mine. Soon, I will bring you into their spiritual consciousness seas together, and you can watch how I operate..."

Huh? It was possible to do something like that?

Guides were universally aloof and selfish. Not only would they never allow anyone else to be present while performing spiritual soothing, but they would never share their insights on spiritual soothing with others either...

"Well... like I said, I'm an offensive-type guide, so I don't do that whole spiritual soothing routine. Besides, the other purpose today is to teach you how to eliminate the black energy clusters."

Eliminate the black energy clusters? Did that even make sense?

Since ancient times, no one had ever heard of black energy clusters being something that could be eliminated!

Ye Mexi cared not a whit about her internal struggle.

Swift resolution was needed... She still had to go to the supermarket to buy groceries. If she went too late, some of the delicious fresh meat would all be snatched up.

She belonged to the plantation department, so her household lacked no vegetables or fruits, but meats still needed to be purchased.

"Which of you is going first?"

Long Mu and Long Song paused.

"You'll do!"

The vine in Ye Mexi's hand instantly transformed into a wooden stick, and as her hand rose, the stick fell.

Long Mu was caught off guard and took the blow squarely.

He initially wanted to resist, but remembering the Legion Commander's instructions upon arrival, and considering that his berserk index truly had reached a perilous state, he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. Let's treat a dead horse as a live horse!

Since she was able to restore Feng Yanqing from his beastification state back to normal, he shouldn't suffer any losses either, right?

Because Long Mu was her roommate's husband, Ye Mexi planned to help tidy up Long Mu's spiritual consciousness sea along the way...

Then, when her spiritual power entered Long Mu's spiritual consciousness sea, Ye Mexi froze for a fraction of a second.

Since Feng Yanqing possessed dual abilities, his spiritual consciousness sea was an utter mess, which Ye Mexi had considered normal. When Ye Tianjiao's spiritual consciousness sea had previously been on the verge of collapse, she had also assumed that was probably just an isolated case.

Yet seeing Long Mu's spiritual consciousness sea now, Ye Mexi couldn't help thinking that perhaps the spiritual consciousness seas of all high-grade sentinels were equally chaotic and stormy?

Long Mu presumably possessed a mutated ice-type ability. Aside from the black energy clusters occupying well over two-thirds of his spiritual consciousness sea, there were neatly arranged ice pillars intertwined (or protected) by spiritual threads, and a single ice-blue four-legged serpent—no! A flood dragon lay lazily draped across the ice pillars, its cold, blue-gray pupils locking onto Ye Mexi's spiritual power as if it would pounce and tear her to pieces the moment she made any rash move...

Ye Mexi never denied being a member of the looks-obsessed association.

Being fellow flood dragons, she actually thought Long Mu's ice dragon was far cuter than Xiong Sheng's black flood dragon from before!

However, no matter how cute it was, it wasn't fluffy, and it was someone else's pet ice dragon anyway, so a single glance was enough.

Her attention began to focus back onto those black energy clusters.

Just now, she had noticed that Long Mu's berserk index was already at eighty-five, placing him in a very dangerous state.

Then she turned her head.

Where was Ye Mingming's spiritual power?

"Mingming, why haven't you used your spiritual power to enter Long Mu's spiritual consciousness sea?"

Huh? Ye Mingming snapped back to reality.

For one thing, she had just been stunned by Ye Mexi's actions; for another, Long Mu's spiritual consciousness sea was showing immense rejection and suppression toward her.

"Hurry! Get in there quickly. You're young, you learn fast."

Learn fast? But no one had explained to her what on earth she was supposed to be learning...

Somewhat dejectedly, Ye Mingming pressed her hand against Long Mu's forehead.

To be frank, there were no protective measures whatsoever on Long Mu, and this was her first time lingering beside a high-grade sentinel with a berserk index this hazardous. If anything went wrong, he could tear her apart with a single hand...

Yet, since this was someone the Legion Commander herself had ordered her to come and assist, she dared not voice any objections.

The instant her spiritual power penetrated Long Mu's spiritual consciousness sea, she was struck dumb with astonishment.

Ye Mexi's spiritual power had already morphed into shapes including, but not limited to, hammers, shears, mallets, kitchen knives, and even a flyswatter, and was currently hammering and pounding away at a mass of black energy.