Chapter 105. Getting Through It
An Se sat on the sofa, his fingertips nonchalantly tapping the armrest. His flat gaze swept over the white coats who had difficult expressions, and a faint smile curled on his lips.
“Now you know how to beg me? Weren’t you quite confident when you were questioning my fairness just now?”
The short white coat in the middle flushed a deep red but didn’t dare talk back again, simply hanging his head and apologizing in a low voice.
“It was our lack of consideration. Please don’t take it to heart, Director An Se. It’s mainly because the Monitoring Department is pushing hard, and I said that in a moment of impulse.”
“A moment of impulse?” An Se gave a light snort and stood up, walking to Su Tang’s side.
“Forget it. I won’t hold it against you. Let’s resolve things here quickly so I can head back to the Medical Department to work.”
An Se even let out an annoyed “tsk.” He raised his hand and placed it on Su Tang’s forehead, his tone instantly becoming gentle.
“Don’t be afraid. I’ll probe gently; it won’t hurt.”
The spiritual power at his fingertips gently permeated Su Tang’s spiritual sea.
“Well done, good girl. Continue to cooperate with me…”
Su Tang looked up at An Se. With his back to the others, he no longer had to continue pretending. He stared at her with a smile in his eyes, and seeing her look at him, he even flirtatiously raised an eyebrow at her.
Cooperate with him?
Su Tang knew very well that An Se’s spiritual power hadn’t entered her spiritual sea; it had only lingered in the shallow areas of her body for a while. So when he said “cooperate,” did he mean cooperate with him to continue this act?
Su Tang understood. She submissively lowered her eyes, and when she felt the man’s large hand supporting her lower back, she meaningfully pressed her body weight against it.
“Nn… it’s so uncomfortable. Director An Se, don’t enter anymore…”
She fully committed to the act of being weak and exhausted.
An Se’s body gave a sudden jerk. What kind of words were those?!
His hand froze at Su Tang’s lower back, and the tips of his ears flushed a suspicious red. Little Guide, that sentence has a lot of ambiguity!
An Se’s eyes grew deeper. Feeling the pressure from his arm, he inconspicuously pulled the little Guide’s body closer to himself.
“Be good. Endure it; it’ll be over soon.”
An Se’s voice carried a deliberately maintained steadiness, but his fingertips quietly pinched her lower back, signaling her to show some restraint.
His spiritual power appeared to be probing deeply, but in reality, it simply made a light circle at the edge of her spiritual sea before being withdrawn.
Afterward, An Se finished his performance. He helped Su Tang sit on the nearby sofa and then turned to look at the white coats.
His face was filled with gravity, as if he had encountered something very thorny. He raised his hand and slowly rubbed his brow, speaking in a heavy tone.
“You saw it for yourselves. She was in such pain just from my spiritual threads entering her spiritual sea. Su Tang’s situation is even more severe than I initially expected.”
He walked to the center of the room, his gaze sweeping over everyone, and said word for word:
“There are multiple ruptures in her spiritual sea barrier, and the fluctuations in the spiritual core area are abnormal. Just a shallow contact just now triggered a strong stress response. This is clearly caused by long-term spiritual power exhaustion combined with a sudden trauma. She currently can’t even perform the simplest shallow soothing.”
The white coat responsible for recording hurriedly lowered his head and took notes. The sound of the pen tip scratching across the paper was exceptionally clear in the quiet room.
The short white coat in the middle no longer had any of his previous skepticism, only genuine worry.
“Then, Director An Se, how much time do you estimate Guide Su will need to recover?”
“I can’t be sure of that. Everyone’s physical quality is different, so the time required is naturally different. Furthermore, her damage is so severe that she needs to be nursed back slowly. I can’t give you a definite value regarding time.”
An Se paused, his gaze sweeping over the group, before speaking again.
“I’ve already given you the inspection report you wanted. She needs quiet rest now. If there’s nothing else, please leave. Her spiritual power is very disorganized; I need to take her to the Medical Department for treatment.”
“Al… alright. Thank you for your hard work, Director An Se. We will promptly organize the data from today’s inspection into a report and submit it to the White Tower.”
After seeing off the white coats, Su Tang quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
She looked at An Se standing in the middle of the living room and asked:
“Tell me—what exactly is going on? Why did people from the Monitoring Department suddenly come to check my physical condition?”
An Se turned around, the amusement in his eyes completely extinguished. He sat down opposite Su Tang.
“That fellow Shen Ji reported the fact that you marked Mo Xiao to the White Tower.”
“Shen Ji?”
Su Tang’s fingers gripped the sofa armrest tightly, her eyes filled with shock.
“Why would he do that?”
An Se’s fingertips tapped lightly on his knee, and his tone grew heavy.
“My Guide Su, do you not know what a seductive existence you are to us Sentinels?”
He paused, then continued.
“You can easily save Sentinels with high pollution and high ranks like Mo Xiao, Zhan Ye, and even Yasuo. To a Shen Ji who is already on the verge of collapse, your existence is the last straw he can grasp to save his life.”
“Wait, wait… I’m asking why he reported me to the White Tower. I’m not here to hear you say such tooth-aching words about how important I am to him.”
Su Tang felt like her mind wasn’t quite clear.
She had received way too much information this morning.
An Se raised an eyebrow.
“It’s precisely because you are too important to him that he would do this.”
Su Tang frowned in confusion.
“I don’t quite understand what you’re saying. Are we talking about the same thing?”
“He submitted an application to Team 1 a while ago, hoping you could give him a spiritual soothing. However, Mo Xiao was leading a mission during that time, and the remaining Sentinels hadn’t handled such things before, so they simply processed all external requests with a single click. That fellow Shen Ji thought you looked down on him and were unwilling to save him, so he revealed the fact that you marked Mo Xiao to the White Tower.”
Su Tang felt a chill in her heart.
“He wants the White Tower to step in, make them realize my usefulness, and peel me away from my status as Team 1’s accompanying Guide? He wants to use this method to force me to give him soothing?”
An Se nodded.
Talking to a smart person was truly easy.
“That’s basically what it means.”
An Se leaned back, his brow slightly furrowed.
“The fact that you can mark Mo Xiao is enough for the high-level officials to value you. Before they figure out your trump cards, they won’t move against you easily. Shen Ji made a good calculation.”
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