[BL] Heroic Death System (PART 1)

Chapter 132: Sentinel & Guide (IX)

When Shang Ke received the assignment, Whistler Hospital in the high-class area had been isolated. Just a few days ago, a spiritually unstable sentinel arrived at the hospital. The hospital sent a guide to treat him as usual, but during the process, the guide fell into the same spiritual state as the sentinel.

Guides were spiritually stable and rarely lost control. Only bonded sentinels and guides would enter perceptual synchrony because of spiritual resonance. However, both the guide and sentinel weren't partners, and the probability of spiritual resonance was too low.

The hospital sent a second guide to treat the sentinel after the treatment failed, but the same thing occurred. Even more worrying was that in the next few days, the hospital received several sentinels displaying similar symptoms one after another. They were not only unable to receive a guide's treatment, but they caused great spiritual damage to the guide.

All the guides who treated these sentinels regressed to their original state after regaining sanity, almost becoming the same as ordinary people.

Sentinels and guides were complementary. If sentinels could no longer be assisted by guides, or even bring serious harm to them, the interdependent relationship between the two would be completely destroyed, and the power structure of the country would collapse.

This quickly alarmed the upper echelons of the country. They suspended all spiritual assistance provided by guides to sentinels, isolated all the sick sentinels in the Whistler hospital, and sealed off the area.

When Yonis took Shang Ke to the meeting hall at the top floor of the hospital, many sentinels and guides had already gathered. They greeted Yonis with a salute and looked curiously at Shang Ke beside him.

"How's the situation?" Yonis' eyes lingered on Mitchell for a moment, then turned to the Dean.

"We have repeatedly tested the spiritual state of these sentinels. According to the fluctuation frequency, they're in a chaotic state of dissociation, often known as psychosis."

Psychosis is a kind of illness in which sentinels lose themselves in their senses, because they were not guided for a long time.

The Dean continued, "But unlike ordinary psychosis, this kind of psychosis is extremely unstable. The patients are stuck in a nightmarish state, and their spiritual powers change according to these nightmares. This also makes it difficult for guides to establish spiritual connection with them, and they're led into psychosis instead."

"This kind of psychosis is definitely caused by external factors. Sentinels' self-induced psychosis shouldn't be out of the control of a guide," The President of the Guide Guild finished.

"External factors? Sentinels have strong immunity. What kind of external factors could induce psychosis?" Yonis asked worriedly.

"This is also a problem we cannot fathom," The Dean replied. "Before this, the sentinels were completely normal. They hadn't fought with anyone and hadn't eaten food that didn't meet the sentinel's standards."

"Time is tight. We have to find a cure as soon as possible. If a sentinel wanders in his psychosis for more than a month, we may not be able to do anything about it," The President warned.

"The best way to cure it is to rely on a guide to attempt spiritual detection." The Dean sighed. "But, we dare not let the guides take any more risks. There were already two guides who had suffered spiritual deterioration due to treatment, and this kind of regression may be permanent."

Everyone knew the danger, and no guide was willing to test an uncertain guess with their future on the line.

The conference hall fell silent, and the scene came to a deadlock.