Infinite Pollution: The SSS Guide Pierces the Horror Dungeon - chapter 22

Qin Xu was momentarily stunned.

Enter his Spiritual Landscape?

Before Qin Xu could refuse, the Black Panther had already gone wild with joy, madly running across the grassland.

Awesome!!!

Qin Xu couldn’t be bothered with the crazed Black Panther and shook his head in refusal. “No need. My spirit wasn’t polluted this time.”

The Spiritual Landscape was far too private; the experience from last time was still vivid in his memory.

So much so that, recalling it now, half his body felt numb.

Even, in the depths of the night…

His gaze drifted aside, an indescribable feeling rising within him.

Hearing Qin Xu’s refusal, Wen Song felt a little regretful, her fingers curling slightly.

She still wanted to pet the Black Panther a bit more.

What a pity.

“My Spiritual Guidance ability seems to have improved. If you need it, you can come to me anytime.” Wen Song didn’t press the matter.

Qin Xu: “Alright.”

Watching Wen Song’s departing back and listening to the Black Panther’s wild roaring within his Spiritual Landscape, Qin Xu couldn’t help but feel a trace of regret for some reason.

Perhaps…

It wouldn’t have been impossible.

To test her Spiritual Guidance ability, Wen Song spent almost the entire day repairing the Spiritual Landscapes of all the other team members.

None of them had slept this well in a long time.

Even their dreams were sweet.

But overexerting her spirit led Wen Song to fall into a deep sleep again.

Early the next morning, as soon as everyone woke up, their first thought was to find Wen Song and thank her. After searching for quite a while, they finally found her at the training ground.

Wen Song was dressed in training gear. The Northern Frontier was freezing, but the training uniforms could adjust their temperature according to a person’s body heat.

Unlike the Empire Academy, where every training ground had a dedicated climate control system and an intelligent system to monitor everyone’s status-if anyone felt even a hint of discomfort, an alarm would go off immediately.

The training ground in the Northern Frontier was as barebones as it could get.

Only the training uniforms were decent.

Whether in the apocalypse or in this world, resources were always concentrated in the hands of those who didn’t even need them, while those who truly did could never reach them, no matter how hard they tried.

After venturing into a Pollution Zone, Wen Song became even more aware of how poor her physical fitness was in this world.

This time, it was thanks to Qin Xu and the others, and as luck would have it, the Pollution Source was swallowed by her Spirit Body, causing the Pollution Zone to dissipate and weakening the Aberrants to some extent.

Otherwise-

She had to improve her physical fitness as quickly as possible!

“Guide Wen, are you trying to improve your physical strength?” Yu Tao jumped straight onto the training platform, skipping the steps entirely.

Sweat beaded on Wen Song’s forehead. She had just run thirty kilometers and was pondering where to start next.

Seeing Yu Tao, Wen Song remembered that his Spirit Body was a little monkey fond of eating bananas. Before leaving his Spiritual Landscape, she had watered his banana tree, making it ripen faster.

“Yes.” Wen Song nodded.

She just hadn’t decided which aspect to work on first.

Ji Cheng walked up and said concisely, “Guide Wen, your marksmanship is excellent. You can ignore guns.”

“If needed, we can help you test which areas need improvement.”

Mu Yao: “I can help too.”

His Spirit Body was an Azure Bird soaring freely across the sky.

“Me too,” Cheng Yang said shyly, scratching his head.

His Spirit Body-a sea turtle-might be of some use.

Wen Song agreed without a moment’s hesitation. “Alright, thank you.”

She really needed it.

–

Wen Family.

“What did you say! Wen Song helped the Northern Frontier Sentinels disperse Pollution Zone Seven?”

The moment Wen Father heard the news, his eyes filled with shock.

He immediately denied it. “Impossible! That can’t be her. She’s just a mere C-class Guide-how could she assist Sentinels? What a joke!”
The person who came to report paused for a moment. “Minister Wen, that’s correct. The documents sent from the Northern Frontier have already been submitted.”

“They specifically emphasized Guide Wen.”

The messenger spoke with extra emphasis on the last sentence. “The King was very pleased to hear that the Pollution Zone could actually dissipate, and said there would be a reward.”

Wen Father’s expression immediately darkened.

“Are you sure you’re talking about Wen Song?” Shao An, who had been sitting quietly to the side the whole time, finally spoke up.

He was here today at the request of his parents, to cultivate a relationship with Wen Xu.

He had no feelings for Wen Xu, but couldn’t go against his parents’ wishes, so he came anyway.

“Yes.”

When Shao An heard this “yes,” his eyes grew unfocused for a moment.

He couldn’t help but recall how she looked before she left; they had seen each other just the day before her departure.

She had stood by the window in the Wen Family’s corridor, chewing on bread, looking perfectly at ease.

When she saw him, there was neither joy nor sadness in her expression.

She said, “Don’t worry, I won’t like you anymore.”

He thought she was just saying it out of anger.

She was angry that the Wen Family and Shao Family had dissolved their engagement and pinned it on Wen Xu instead.

Later, to spite him, she actually went to the Northern Frontier, which was desolate beyond belief. Someone like her, raised in the Imperial Capital, surely couldn’t stand it there.

He didn’t like her, but they had once been classmates and even engaged.

He didn’t want her to give up on herself just because their engagement was annulled.

The messages he sent her went unanswered.

He thought maybe she hadn’t seen them, so he sent a second message, but what popped up was a red exclamation mark.

That was the sign for being blocked and deleted.

She actually blocked and deleted him! How ungrateful!

Well, that’s fine.

He didn’t like her anyway, and was most annoyed by her clinging-this was for the best!

But for some reason, these past few days he’d been tossing and turning, his mind filled with images of Wen Song from that day.

He sat up in bed, telling himself over and over that she was just being stubborn.

When she couldn’t take it anymore, she’d naturally come back to him.

He was now working in the Green Tower’s security department. Although she didn’t have the qualifications to enter the Green Tower, with his influence, it wouldn’t be hard to find her an easy job in the Imperial Capital.

But now, she had actually helped the Northern Frontier eliminate a Pollution Zone!

“Shao An, I’m ready. Let’s head out.”

Wen Xu came down from upstairs. For today’s date with Shao An, she had specially chosen a blue silk gown, its intricate design hand-embroidered by the designer, making her complexion look radiant.

She had been desperately whitening her skin these days, drinking a bottle of whitening agent almost every day, and finally the yellow undertones had faded.

She was quite satisfied when she looked in the mirror.

Shao An looked down at Wen Xu, who was holding his arm affectionately and smiling at him.

Wen Xu was an A-class Guide, had excellent grades at school, and was the Wen Family’s biological daughter.

By all accounts, she was better than Wen Song in every way.

But subconsciously, he wondered: if Wen Xu had gone to the Northern Frontier, could she have eliminated a Pollution Zone?

Shao An lowered his head and gently removed Wen Xu’s hand. “Sorry, I need to reply to a message. Give me a moment.”

With that, he quickly walked outside, opened his Light Brain, and clicked on a contact.

Shao An pressed the screen, deliberating several times.

[Wen Song, I know the credit this time belongs to the Sentinels of the Northern Frontier. They only added your name to the report to give you face.

You’re just a C-class Guide. Those border Sentinels are rough and volatile-they won’t like you, and you’ll be in danger.

As long as you come back, I’ll find you an easy job.]