Soul Mechanic [Interstellar]

【A guide like an angel】

When Mu Qiu opened his eyes, he thought he saw an angel.

The blond hair fell down softly on the side of the face, the green pupils were full of gentle smiles, and the fair skin couldn't find a single pore, which inexplicably overlapped with the face in memory.In a trance, a title came out of his throat involuntarily——

"Mother……"

As if hearing something interesting, the smile on the beautiful face deepened.

Mu Qiu's mental realm trembled violently, and he quickly came back to his senses, wishing he could faint again.

"Haha, don't be shy, if you can have a son as beautiful as you, Mommy and Daddy will be so happy!" The clear and sweet voice, like a beautiful note, penetrated into Mu Qiu's ears, but at this moment he Would rather not hear.

Mu Qiu's face turned red all of a sudden, and he was even more ashamed after realizing his current state, struggling to get up from the hospital bed.

"Hey? It's attached to the healing device! Don't move around, good baby~~" Elsa pressed him on the bed, blinking teasingly, obviously not planning to let him go.

Mu Qiu simply didn't know how to react, he was a big man, but he was so easily suppressed by a little girl, really...

Mu Qiu put the back of her hand over her eyes to cover her complicated expression.

"Okay, okay, I'll let you go." Elsa forcefully and gently lifted his hand, "I told you not to move around, you were sunburned when you were sent here, what can you do if you don't treat it properly?"

As she talked, she habitually stretched out her spiritual tentacles, gently brushing over Mu Qiu's body.

Mu Qiu's body froze - not because of holding the girl's hand for the first time, but because of the strange mental fluctuations emanating from the other party.

He is very sure that his identity as a guide has not been exposed, so Elsa may just be out of the instinct of a military doctor to sort out the mental waves of patients habitually. After all, no ordinary person can bother a precious guide for consultation.

——Thinking of this, Mu Qiu gradually relaxed.

Sure enough, Elsa soon realized that Mu Qiu was just an "ordinary person", so she smiled apologetically, and naturally took a plate of fruit with water droplets on it, and asked playfully, "Do you want to eat it? Special for the guide!"

Mu Qiu smiled politely, and responded politely: "Thank you, you will not be rewarded for nothing."

"No reward for nothing?" Elsa is obviously not very proficient in Huaxia, although this charming language has passed the test of time and has become the official lingua franca of the Galactic Federation.

It was only then that Mu Qiu realized that the other party was not Ah Luo who was used to making jokes with him, so he showed an apologetic look, and said very sincerely: "Don't worry about it, it's a good word anyway."

"Haha, Qiu, you are really a special person, different from the people here, I like talking to you!"

The enthusiastic girl expressed her appreciation frankly, and her joyful emotions resonated with Mu Qiu's spiritual realm.

In an instant, Mu Qiu was baptized from body to heart, and all the negative states were swept away.

Since Mrs. Mu left, this was the first time he experienced such a beautiful feeling. Mu Qiu couldn't help being a little closer to Elsa.

Elsa was the first guide that Mu Qiu came into close contact with. She did not expect that the emotional resonance between the guide and the guide would be such a wonderful experience—it was like a sunny day after the rain, like a spring blossoming, like soaking in a warm bath. spa.

Mu Qiu pretended to be casual and looked at the little goat gnawing on its hoof on the bed next to it, thinking that it was Elsa's spiritual body, just as lively and lovely as its owner.

The little guy met Mu Qiu's gaze as if feeling something, and tilted his head in doubt.

Elsa's heart skipped a beat, and she asked in surprise, "Qiu, can you see little Polly?"

Mu Qiu pretended to be stupid, "What?"

Elsa pointed to the direction where the little goat was, and said eagerly: "There is a snow-white little goat there, very cute, can you see it?"

The beauty's expectant eyes made people's heart flutter, and no one had the heart to let her down.

However, Mu Qiu still smiled, and pretended to be puzzled and asked back: "Is it your spiritual body? It turns out that you are a noble guide. Unfortunately, I am just an ordinary person and cannot see it."

Elsa lowered her eyelids, visibly disappointed.

However, after only a short while, her bright smile returned to her face, "Compared with 'noble guide', I prefer Qiu to call me Elsa, I know you are a new military doctor, and I happen to be That’s right, we’ll be colleagues from now on—”

Elsa extended her right hand to Mu Qiu.

However, Mu Qiu was so surprised that he forgot the basic etiquette that a man should have—he didn't shake that white and delicate hand, but said dully: "Military doctor? Guide Elsa, I think there must be something in it." What misunderstanding, I am a graduate of the First Federal Military Academy, and I have just passed the qualification certification of an A-level mechanic..."

Elsa giggled amused by his appearance, and there was a look of amusement on her beautiful face, "Qiu, I think I have to tell you a piece of 'unfortunate news' - when I was looking at the case before, I accidentally scratched It's your transfer order, not a mechanic, but a military doctor, a generous man shouldn't mind a lady accidentally offending him, right?"

Of course Mu Qiu didn't mind, he didn't care at all, because he was doubting life - he spent his days and nights, and forgot to sleep and eat all the way from the juvenile class to the graduate school, did he come to such a planet full of yellow sand to be a military doctor?

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However, no matter how upset Mu Qiu is, until he finds a suitable opportunity, he has to honestly stay in the military hospital of the Tianlong team.

Of course, being a military doctor here is not without its benefits.

Perhaps because of the special department where Elsa works, Mu Qiu, as her only assistant, is treated much better than other medical staff.

The most direct manifestation is the accommodation environment.Even though the ordinary staff of the hospital have corresponding military ranks, they must live in the family area outside the military area. Only Mu Qiu and Elsa live in the inner area. Their residence is only two rows away from the round building of the sentinels. Green plants are under the strictest protection.

The single dormitory that Mu Qiufen arrived was [-] square meters by visual inspection, with a kitchen, a bathroom, a room and a living room. If such a room were placed in the imperial capital, it would be a luxury house.

You must know that in the interstellar era with a population explosion, except for the harsh environment and side stars where insects and beasts are rampant, on any livable planet, all the residential buildings are straight into the sky, and there are various underground buildings. Each building is divided into countless honeycomb-like small grids, and the space of each small grid is fully utilized.

Even in a place like the First Federal Military Academy, two to four students live in a dormitory. In a small space, there are two desks and two chairs during the day, and two sleeping cabins with a medium configuration at night. On the ceiling, after all, not everyone can afford a space button—no privilege, no matter what your status is, unless you choose not to live on campus—however, no matter whether local or non-local students, almost no one does.

Fortunately, the Federation will equip every citizen with a free terminal. There is an electronic library in the terminal. If it is replaced by a physical book, there is no place to put it.

Having lived in such an environment for more than twenty years, Mu Qiu thought he was used to it. However, at this moment, he seemed to have returned to his previous life. The hut, the place he called home.

Mu Qiu's eyes were moist for a moment.

Perhaps it was because of too many emotions during the day, but at night, despite his exhaustion, Mu Qiu couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

In the dead of night, a moon-like celestial body hangs in the sky, reflecting the light of the stars, and spilling on the white sheets through the oval ceramic glass window.

Mu Qiu stretched out his slender fingers, caressing the perfect arc.

In the last life, there was a senior who specialized in research on glass ceramics, and was doing secrecy work with a national subsidy, decent and amazing.

Up to now, glass ceramics have been updated for countless generations, and have already turned from the military industry to civilian use-this fact clearly reminds Mu Qiu that this place is no longer the small earth it used to be.

Mu Qiu has been in the future world for 24 years. He had memories when he was in his mother's womb, and he also retained the memories of being an adult in his previous life.

At that time, he felt the expectation of his parents through a layer of soft belly, and heard them tirelessly expressing their love for him, Mu Qiu was full of gratitude to God.

He had been an orphan for 24 years and finally died of illness. He never expected to have a family in this life.

In the past ten years, Mu Qiu spent a happy time with his parents. He tried his best to behave like an ignorant child, so that his parents could fully experience the joy of being a parent, and he himself had the opportunity to double the love he had lost. .

However, an accident 14 years ago made him an orphan again—his parents who loved him so much were held hostage right under his nose, but he could only cowardly hide, unable to do anything.

Thinking of this, waves of dull pain slid through Mu Qiu's heart, the blood on his face gradually faded, and a violent storm suddenly broke out in the spiritual realm.

The little robot squeezed out from the frantic mental realm, stretched its two small arms to hug Mu Qiu's chin, and shouted anxiously: "Qiuqiu! Qiuqiu calm down!"

The little robot spared no effort to radiate comforting mental waves, and Mu Qiu's manic mood gradually calmed down.

He hung his head, rubbed his sore temples, and said as calmly as possible: "Don't worry, little radish, I'm fine."

"But Qiuqiu is not happy, Qiuqiu is in pain here." The robot-shaped spirit body named Xiaoluobo pointed at the position of Mu Qiu's heart and said pitifully, the tears in his eyes almost came out.

"It's okay, it will be fine soon." Mu Qiu laughed, trying to calm down, it didn't take too long, because he was used to it.

Every time he thinks of the "death" of his parents, Mu Qiu has to experience a mental riot like a sentinel. This kind of situation happened to a guide, which makes people laugh and cry.

In order to calm down the restless emotions as soon as possible, Mu Qiu gave himself psychological hints over and over again. Parents are not dead, they are still alive, and they must be living well somewhere in the interstellar world...

Mu Qiu raised his arm and habitually touched the small black mole behind his right ear, his eyes were gradually stained with hope.

At the same time, in the silver-gray barrel-shaped building less than a hundred meters away, Chu Qingtian's spiritual realm gradually returned to calm.

Just now, he who had fallen into a deep sleep suddenly jumped up, and there was a violent fluctuation in the mental field for a while, and the unspeakable bad feeling made people almost go crazy.

Chu Qingtian suppressed his manic emotions, and calmly injected himself with a guideline, but the effect was minimal.

Fortunately, this process was very short, and the restless emotion seemed to come suddenly, and then disappeared without a sound.

Chu Qingtian gradually calmed down.Intuition told him that his guide had appeared.

At the award ceremony of the Federal Innovation Award, he remembered the throbbing moment.It's like a fish that lost water returns to the sea, like a dry river flowing into a clear spring, like a missing soul is replenished, as if all the beautiful words can be used in it.

But where is he?

Is it the military doctor who was transferred?

Chu Qingtian shook his head, it wasn't that person, the sentinel's instinct told him that it wasn't that person, the kind of good feeling that went deep into the bone marrow couldn't come from a guide with only 80.00% compatibility.

A bold guess entered Chu Qingtian's mind unstoppably, perhaps, it was [-]% compatible.

In the night, a handsome smile appeared on his chiseled face——[-]% ah, huh, really bold enough.

The author has something to say: Xiaozhan’s setting of the sentinel guide comes from Du Niang Encyclopedia. In order to prevent those who don’t know the truth from thinking that this article is similar to XX, I’d better post the content on Du Niang here. If you are interested, you can take a look-the following settings are used selectively in the small exhibition, not all of them!mwah!

Sentinels have special abilities

All five senses are strengthened;

The ability to communicate with ghosts;

Possess a spiritual guide of the animal department;

It is possible to predict the future;

It is even possible to use a spirit guide to bring one's partner back from the dead.

向导

People with strong empathy, able to feel other people's emotions and appease the sentry's irritable mood, can take the sentry out of the fugue state.A guide with strong empathy can even influence the thinking of others.Generally, they are milder and more rational, but weaker in physical fitness.Most spiritual guides are moderate vegetarians or omnivores.

Most of the guides are women, but about a quarter of the guides are men, which is higher than the proportion of female sentinels.

特点

The guide has stronger spiritual power and will be infinitely tolerant as a sentinel partner.For example, the relationship between a sentry and a guide is the relationship between a gun and a trigger.Compared to Sentinels, Guides are rare and invaluable.Guides lack freedom, and after awakening their abilities, they will be sent to the tower to receive a unified education. After reaching a certain level, they will be arranged to combine with a suitable sentinel, and they will be hanged on the opponent's body from then on, unable to get rid of it.

Under normal circumstances, sentries and guides will form a partner to perform tasks on the battlefield together. The process of forming a partner is the so-called physical and spiritual combination.This union is for life, unless one partner dies and the other survives alone, but that is too rare.If the sentinel dies and the guide survives, then the above will immediately arrange a new combination partner for the guide.Sentinels who have lost their guide are not so lucky, unless the value of the sentry is very high.

Glossary and general settings

Social system

The total number of Sentinels and Guides is about a quarter of the total population.

Sentinels and guides have equal status, and guides are not accessories of sentries. Sentinels can choose guides, and guides can also choose sentries.However, the status and treatment of sentinel guides are higher than that of ordinary people.

Once the sentinel and the guide are determined, they must be registered at the Tower of London, and then they must be sent to the Tower of London for three years of training at the age of 16. After the training is completed, they can freely choose a partner. The guide is not in the mandatory pairing list.

After completing the training, serve for five years, and the place of service can be the army or the guild.At the end of the service period, you can choose to continue to serve or retire.

The life of sentries and guides after retirement is strictly monitored by the Tower of London. One is to keep in touch with the Tower of London at any time in case of emergency; the other is to prevent sentries and guides from using their abilities to do illegal things.

If the sentry or guide is seriously injured during the mission, he can retire early.

Sentinels and guides can be combined with ordinary humans. The children of sentries and ordinary people can only be sentries or ordinary people. The children of guides and ordinary people can only be guides or ordinary people. The children of sentries and guides may be sentries, guides or ordinary people.

Combine

A sentry can only be with his bonded guide and vice versa.But once one of them dies, the other can choose a new partner to combine.However, losing a spouse is a very painful thing for both sentries and guides. It is equivalent to splitting the soul, so most sentries or guides who have lost their spouses will no longer have the intention to find a new partner, only a few lucky ones I can find my other half again.

guild

The guild is mainly responsible for dealing with the entrustments of some ordinary people. The scope of entrustment is relatively complicated, and it mainly handles some tasks that ordinary manpower cannot do. The task levels are divided into A, B, C, D, and S.The ability levels of sentinel guides in the guild are uneven, and the guild will assign tasks according to the level according to the abilities of the sentinel guide partners. A-level and above belong to high-risk tasks that may endanger life, and S-level tasks are more difficult government commissions.

White Tower

In various settings, it is almost in an educational zone for the villain.Every guide who has just awakened is forced to be sent to the White Tower for teaching. The educational courses are similar to flower arrangement and tea art... The purpose is to obliterate the personality of the guide and send out a docile and weak guide to the sentinels. [5]

spiritual guide/spiritual body

The concretization of the spirit of the sentinel guide should be some kind of higher-dimensional creature, only the sentinel and the guide can see and touch it, and it has no effect on ordinary people. Theoretically, the sentinel guide can be attacked.

Guidance

Similar to the pheromone in the ABO setting, it can be used to track and identify guides. Every guide registered in the tower will leave a copy of the guide. No matter where the registered guide escapes, as long as he has this guide, he will They can be identified, so in the era when guides have no human rights, every newly awakened guide will try to avoid registering with the tower, and most of them will use their abilities to hide themselves.The guide element can also be used to temporarily stabilize the sentry's mood. If there is a sentry who is out of control, press and hold it, and a tube of guide element will be fine.

Dark Sentinel

The most powerful type of sentinel, the probability of appearing is extremely low, has extreme self-control ability, can control one's emotions well, theoretically there is no need for the assistance of a guide when emotions are out of control.The reason for the formation of the Dark Sentinel is still unclear, but what is certain is that every Dark Sentinel is the king of that era.

barrier

A protective barrier formed by mental power can isolate the five senses of the sentinel from the spirit of the guide, avoiding the mental load caused by the huge information in daily life.

escort/companion

From the "Victorian London Sentinels and Guides Observation Report", those who have not awakened all five senses, only sensed 1~4 are called guards, and those whose mental strength is too weak to really combine are called partners.

White noise

Because Sentinel's five senses are very sensitive, most sounds are no different from noise to them. Being in this sound environment for a long time will be a great burden or even harm to Sentinel.White noise is different from such harmful sounds, such as the sound of water and wind.Sounds that are harmless to Sentinels when no barriers are erected are white noise.

silent room

Special rooms with only white noise are usually piped outside a relatively closed room.It is generally used to rest the injured sentry, and of course there are other uses, such as the partial bond/forced bond written in "Chameleon", which is also carried out in a place full of white noise similar to a silent room. Of course, just now Sentinels who have awakened and have no barriers live in this environment.