Chapter 114: Si Yu Three Years Ago
“Do you want to keep reading?”
Su Tang let out a long sigh. Her finger swiped lightly across the forum page, stopping when she saw the latest comments at the very bottom.
[Anonymous: Just expressing my thoughts rationally. I bet M will be heavily punished this time. At the end of the day, the White Tower values Guides more because theyâre a rare species that needs protection, while weâre just consumables because there are so many of us. Don’t even talk about him being an S-rank Captainâhasn’t there been a precedent before?]
[Anonymous: If the person above wants to talk trash, you don’t need to use the word ‘rationally.’ What do you mean the Tower values us Guides more? Thatâs foul. If we were so valued, why is a Guide’s status in the Tower still so low? A Guide, regardless of rank, has to provide a large amount of blood for experiments every month. If we were valued, how could they ignore a Guide’s physical condition and let that rule stand?]
No more comments followed these two. Su Tang tried to process the information she had just learned and couldn’t help but look toward An Se.
“It says there was a precedent before. What happened?”
When she asked, the room fell into a long silence. Su Tang looked at the expressions of the two men, only to see that both were looking unusually solemn.
“Why aren’t you speaking? Did I say something wrong?”
Su Tang looked at their tense faces, her heart skipping a beat. Yasuo toyed with the empty tube of nutrient solution, while An Se looked down and rubbed his cuff. The usual playful smile on his face had vanished without a trace. The room was deathly quiet.
Yasuo closed the forum page and tucked away his bracelet.
“That… you should probably let An Se tell you.”
Su Tang looked at An Se. The manâs expression was flat, but Su Tang felt as if he were surrounded by a bleak cloud of sorrow, which made her own mood sink.
“That precedent…”
An Se spoke, his voice low and muffled, as if covered in dust.
“Now that I think about it, itâs been about three years.”
Yasuo nodded.
“Exactly three years in another month and a half.”
“If… if itâs hard to talk about, you don’t have to. Just act like I didn’t ask.”
Su Tang saw that both of them were in a bad state and wanted to drop the subject.
“Thereâs nothing to hide. What they were talking about was the Fourth Team of the White Tower.”
The Fourth Team?
During her time at the White Tower, she had never heard anyone mention the Fourth Team. In the original host’s memories, the Fourth Team… seemed to have all died in the line of duty during a massive Tide Attack a few years ago…
Could there be more to the story?
Yasuo took over the conversation, his voice carrying suppressed anger.
“The Captain of the Fourth Team was named Si Yu. Like us, he was a Super S-rank Sentinel. Youâve probably heard of the Tide Attack three years ago.”
Su Tang nodded.
“Three years ago, the Polluted Entities launched an unprecedented large-scale attack on the White Tower. I heard the number of attacking entities was endless. The Tower deployed every Sentinel, and the war lasted for a week without the tide stopping.”
“Exactly. Back then, the sheer number of Polluted Entities was staggering. Three scout teams discovered that the beast tide was being commanded. It was then that we realized that once Polluted Entities reach a certain level, they develop intelligence. The White Tower issued an order for the Fourth Team to go deep into the tide and assassinate the high-level commander. And they did it…”
When Yasuo reached this point, his eyes actually reddened. Not wanting the little Guide to see him this way, he turned his back and stopped speaking.
“And then…?”
There had to be a sequel, otherwise, Yasuo wouldn’t have that expression.
“Then, no one expected that after those high-level Polluted Entities were killed, a high concentration of pollution gas suddenly erupted from their bodies. The number of Mental Entities surrounding the White Towerâs perimeter was too vast. We couldn’t break out, and they couldn’t return. Just like that, the entire Fourth Team was trapped in a high-pollution zone for an entire week. By the time we found them, their… their Mental Seas were completely eroded.”
Su Tangâs heart leaped. A Sentinel’s Mental Sea being completely eroded… in that situation, without a Guide, it was likely impossible to save them.
“What happened next…? Were they saved?”
“They were brought back, but it would have been better if they hadn’t been.”
An Seâs voice trembled. His fists were clenched so tightly that his nails dug into his palms, leaving red marks.
“I rushed there with the medical team and injected them with inhibitors. Their condition stabilized enough to stop the collapse. But just as we were preparing to bring them back to the White Tower for follow-up treatment, the Tower issued its final command…”
The White Tower again. Su Tang had begun to understand their way of doing things and could roughly guess the content of that order.
“Was the White Tower afraid of what would happen if the Fourth Team was brought back? If they couldn’t be controlled, they feared the Sentinels would collapse and turn directly into monsters, so…”
Su Tang paused, watching An Seâs expression, then spoke tentatively.
“Did the White Tower give you the order to abandon the Fourth Team…?”
Yasuo snorted coldly from the side but said nothing, seemingly waiting for An Se to give the final answer.
“Youâre half right.”
“They were indeed afraid the Fourth Team would threaten them. But that order… wasn’t given to me…”
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