Infinite Pollution: The SSS Guide Pierces the Horror Dungeon - chapter 21

Wen Song glanced sideways. “How am I different?”

Zhuo Jiang stammered, “Just… just… just everything is different.”

“Other Guides all look down on us Sentinels. They secretly call us idiots, and Spiritual Guidance is so expensive. I have to spend half a year’s salary for just one session. But you’re different. You go on missions with us, fight side by side with us, and you even offer us Spiritual Guidance proactively! You don’t even take our money!”

People like them were straightforward by nature, and their logic for liking or disliking someone was simple.

It was all about whether you could share a pot of food, drink from the same bowl of water, enter the same Pollution Zone, stake your life together, and be willing to sacrifice yourself for each other.

Yesterday, he fainted, but that didn’t mean he didn’t know-Wen Song didn’t run away. She even overextended her spiritual power to save him.

Zhuo Jiang wasn’t someone who forgot kindness. From now on, he’d treat her like a true brother!

He’d shed blood for her!

“And… and…” By the end, Zhuo Jiang scratched his head a little embarrassedly. “You’re also the prettiest among all the Guides.”

Hearing the last sentence, Wen Song looked up with interest. “Seems like you’ve met a lot of Guides, Old Zhuo.”

“How could that be!” Zhuo Jiang’s eyes nearly popped out. “I’m not that kind of guy! I’ve only met a few for Spiritual Guidance!”

“Then how can you be sure I’m the prettiest?” Wen Song asked lightly.

Zhuo Jiang hadn’t expected Wen Song to ask that. He froze for a moment, then answered honestly, “You just are!”

A hint of mischievous delight flashed in Wen Song’s eyes.

Qin Xu, standing nearby, watched Wen Song with a faint smile in his eyes.

This Wen Song was so lively.

She was like a huge treasure chest. Yesterday, she had revealed just a corner, and it had already amazed them.

But he found that, with just a gentle wipe, she shone even brighter.

Compared to giving Spiritual Guidance to Qin Xu, this session was clearly much simpler.

Zhuo Jiang’s Spiritual Landscape was a forest-dark, damp, but with a few rays of sunlight piercing through, preventing the forest from being completely shrouded in gloom.

The brown bear’s location wasn’t hard to find. It sat obediently not far away, watching Wen Song gradually repair his Spiritual Landscape with her spiritual power.

It even secretly moved closer to her. In places Wen Song couldn’t reach, it would use its own arm to help.

“Don’t move. Your arm is injured.”

Wen Song looked at the honest-faced brown bear and gently patted its arm.

Because of bites from the Aberrants, the flesh was torn open, with bone exposed in some places.

It was a sight that tugged at the heart.

Yet it still came over to help.

The brown bear looked at Wen Song, a little puzzled. It had met people like her before, and they always made it work.

But she said she didn’t need it to work.

The brown bear started to like her.

Within the Spiritual Landscape, Wen Song’s spiritual power could fully control the forest.

She pulled out the excess weeds, straightened the little yellow flowers in the corners that had been battered by wind and rain, chopped off the broken branches and tossed them into a pile, then pruned the canopy to let more sunlight in.

The brown bear sat quietly behind Wen Song, watching the forest it depended on begin to change.

It lowered its head, looking at the sunlight shining on its injured arm.

Gently, it raised its other arm and placed it on top of the wounded one.
Warm.

The massive body shifted again.

Still not enough.

Move again.

Until its whole body was in the sunlight, the brown bear lifted its head, eyes squinting in comfort.

So there’s sunlight here-

It vaguely remembered that a long, long, long time ago, there was sunlight here too.

Later, it seemed to disappear.

It really liked the sunlight here.

Wen Song finished repairing the entire forest, and when she turned around, she saw the brown bear sitting in the sunlight behind her.

It seemed to really like the sunlight, its eyes squinting in comfort.

Sensing Wen Song’s gaze, the brown bear hurriedly sat up straight, as if afraid she wouldn’t like it this way.

Wen Song simply walked over and gently patted its arm.

“Want to go back to the cave first? There’s too much dust on the leaves, I need to wash them with water. Otherwise, you’ll get soaked.”

The brown bear looked at Wen Song and shook its head vigorously.

It wanted to stay by her side and protect her.

Wen Song wanted to persuade it again-its fur would be hard to dry if wet, not to mention the wounds on its body.

But looking at its dusty fur, Wen Song had another idea.

Might as well give it a bath too.

Wen Song placed her hand on its body, and as her spiritual power grew stronger, those dry guide lessons came back to her.

If last time’s Spiritual Guidance for Qin Xu was a simple, swift treatment,

this time, the treatment was more meticulous, more focused.

The tendrils of spiritual power linked to the brown bear; the brown bear knew she was helping it, so it stayed perfectly still, letting her in.

In the sunlight, the wounds on the brown bear’s arm slowly healed.

In no time, only faint scars remained.

Wen Song withdrew her Spirit Body and looked at the brown bear. “Are you ready?”

Before the brown bear could react, surging seawater rushed in.

Its innate swimming skill activated.

The brown bear immediately started swimming.

Maybe it was just its imagination, but it felt an incredible lightness all over its body.

When it snapped back to reality, it remembered Wen Song was inside. Afraid Wen Song couldn’t swim, it anxiously tried to find her.

As soon as it turned its head, it saw Wen Song calmly standing in the center of the seawater, all the water cleverly flowing around her.

Her hair drifted gently in the water.

She was definitely, definitely, definitely the most beautiful of all the guides, the brown bear thought.

In the end, Wen Song washed all the trees, grass, and flowers, then brought the brown bear out into the sun to sleep and dry off before leaving.

When she opened her eyes, the first person Wen Song saw was Qin Xu.

He’d been here the whole time?

Qin Xu spoke: “I heard that when a guide performs Spiritual Guidance, safety must be ensured.”

[This is the base, what danger could there be! You’re just selfish! You just want to monopolize Guide Wen for yourself!]

Black Panther contradicted Qin Xu in the Spiritual Landscape.

He wouldn’t let it go out and play with Wen Song, so it was angry!

“Monopolize Guide Wen”-hearing these words, Qin Xu felt a strange emotion surge in his heart.

“Don’t talk nonsense!” Qin Xu directly warned Black Panther.

[Hmph!]

“Thank you.” Wen Song’s gaze fell on Zhuo Jiang, who was already asleep, his face full of happiness.

It seemed he was basking in the sunlight, happily dreaming.

“Let’s go.”

This place was left for Zhuo Jiang to sleep.

The two walked out together. Suddenly, Wen Song turned to Qin Xu beside her. “I want to enter your Spiritual Landscape again.”