Mm, what a green tea~

"Miss Guide, Chi Ming is so violent! I only wanted to discuss how we could serve you better together, and he actually hit me!"

"Look, my face was almost ruined, and I bled so much~"

From far away, Chi Ming heard the bedroom door open, followed by Cang Leng's relentless accusations against him.

No matter how slow he was, he understood now.

Cang Leng had deliberately provoked him into making Lanlan angry, so she would send him away.

That guy was so scheming!

And he had never noticed it before!

Damn it!

He had fallen for his trick so easily.

"Lanlan, that's not what happened. I never meant to hit him. He kept running his mouth and provoking me."

Chi Ming hurried to the bedroom door and explained himself.

Cang Leng covered his face and argued back, putting on a green tea act. "I never provoked him, Miss Guide. He was the one who..."

Xin Lan couldn't be bothered to listen.

She pressed her brow, her dark eyes full of annoyance and irritation at having her nap disturbed.

"Shut up."

The two obediently shut their mouths and waited anxiously for her to hear them out and decide who was right.

But Xin Lan only closed the case; she didn't decide who was right.

She looked at Cang Leng. "You, punch Chi Ming."

Chi Ming:!

Lanlan actually didn't believe him?

He jerked his head up, his golden eyes full of disbelief and boundless disappointment.

Cang Leng felt exactly the opposite.

Intense delight flickered in his hazy, smoky-purple eyes, but he still spoke with great magnanimity.

"Miss Guide, why don't we just let it go? I don't think Chi Ming meant to do it. He's just too possessive of you and doesn't like my spirit body being close to you..."

"Cut the crap. Hit him, and use all your strength."

Xin Lan cut short his tea party, her tone even sterner.

The light in Chi Ming's eyes dimmed instantly, and his whole body went limp.

Cang Leng smiled and apologized to him, then put all his strength into a vicious punch to his face.

The physical pain and the heartache of not being trusted struck Chi Ming at once. He swayed, so dazed he could barely stay on his feet.

Before the smile had faded from Cang Leng's face, Xin Lan spoke coldly again.

"Chi Ming, you punch him too."

Cang Leng's declaration of victory caught in his throat, while Chi Ming was like a walking corpse freshly infused with blood. When he raised his face, his golden eyes were startlingly bright.

"Lanlan, you..."

"Hit him."

Xin Lan looked at him expressionlessly, giving no indication of what she meant.

Chi Ming could only obey and give Cang Leng another punch.

The blow left Cang Leng dazed.

He looked at Xin Lan in bewilderment, covering his face with tears in his eyes.

"Miss Guide, what did I do wrong? Why did you..."

"Why? You disturbed my sleep, and you dare ask why? Do I look that easygoing?"

Xin Lan snorted and released her mental power, driving it fiercely into their mental landscapes.

A sharp pain instantly shot through Chi Ming and Cang Leng's heads. Both clutched their heads and fell to their knees, crying out in pain, their clothes soaked in cold sweat within seconds.

Xin Lan had only meant to give them a small punishment as a warning, and she quickly withdrew her mental power.

But the agony at the mental level seemed to linger in their mental landscapes, leaving their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

"Remember, from now on, no one is to disturb my sleep without my permission. Otherwise, all five of you can get lost."

Having delivered her warning, Xin Lan slammed the bedroom door shut.

The two men slumped on the floor, drenched in cold sweat and still somewhat dazed.

Cang Leng adapted relatively quickly. After all, compared with the few minutes of violent punishment he had endured before, this little warning lasting a few seconds was nothing. Instead, he felt a little excited that Xin Lan's mental power had invaded him again.

Chi Ming, however, held his head, shocked and bewildered.

"Lanlan really can attack with her mental power. How on earth does she do it...?"

He did now feel far closer to Xin Lan and admired her far more than anyone else, but those feelings weren't enough to make him lose his reason.

Especially after confirming that what made Xin Lan special could cause unimaginable upheaval in K9 District and even across the entire planet.

He hesitated for a moment, then immediately headed for the 89th floor.

Cang Leng was also curious about his current Rampage Level. Thinking that Xin Lan wouldn't wake up anytime soon and that there was no point in continuing to antagonize Chi Ming, he casually wiped the blood from his mouth and followed him, expressionless.

Chi Ming looked at him coldly. Though displeased, his tone was calm. "You really feel like your Rampage Level went down?"

"It's not a feeling. It definitely did."

The sickening affectation had vanished from Cang Leng's face, replaced by a somewhat grave expression.

"My mental landscape was invaded twice. The first time lasted longer, and I felt it more strongly. So I suspect her mental power can do more than just purify and attack, and her rank is probably higher than S too."

He frowned with unusual seriousness.

"Your mental landscape was entered twice too, once purely for purification and once purely for attack. Any ideas?"

Chi Ming pressed his lips into a straight line. "Yes."

The two soon reached the 89th floor.

As expected, neither Wu Xi nor Yun Jin had left.

Both were waiting eagerly, as if they had known all along that the two would come down soon.

"Well? Has Miss Guide fallen asleep? Did she say who she'd make permanent?"

Wu Xi went up to greet them enthusiastically.

Cang Leng shrugged, looking somewhat dejected. "She didn't say who she'd make permanent, but she said that if any one of us disturbs her sleep again, all five of us can get lost."

Wu Xi: ...

"Fuck! You're useless at getting things done and great at screwing them up!"

If he'd known they couldn't make Miss Guide happy and would make her angry and drag him down with them, he should have brought them straight downstairs. What a waste of a great chance to earn her favor! He might as well have gone himself!

Yun Jin was also at a loss for words. "Useless."

Twice now.

Both times, someone else had made Xin Lan angry, and he, who had done nothing, had been caught in the fallout.

What had he ever done to deserve this...?

"Chi Ming, Cang Leng, come have your Rampage Levels tested, and tell us what you think while you're at it."

Mo Xiao had already disguised Xin Lan's information and turned down some unnecessary meetings. The most important thing now was to find out exactly how powerful Xin Lan was.

Chi Ming and Cang Leng each gave their views.

They both believed that Xin Lan's mental power could also purify and soothe to a certain extent while attacking a mental landscape, and that the effect was several times better than a single deep link with a guide of her rank.

But it was extremely difficult for a guide to purify someone of a higher rank, especially someone two ranks higher.

With a gap like that, even a physical link between a guide and a sentinel could only lower the sentinel's Rampage Level by 20% at most.

And Xin Lan had never had a physical link with Chi Ming at all.

So Yun Jin didn't believe a word they said and scoffed at it.

"Heh, that's a fairy tale."

If Xin Lan were really that capable, how could she have tested at only S rank? Even an SSS-rank guide couldn't do that, all right?

Those two must have been suppressed for so long that, after suddenly receiving a little purification, they had blown how good it felt completely out of proportion.

One deep mental link could halve a Rampage Level? Heh, if it really dropped that much, he'd livestream himself licking her feet on the star network!

"We'll know whether it's true when the results come out."

Chi Ming knew Yun Jin deeply distrusted Xin Lan, but he couldn't be bothered to say more.

He only wanted to let the facts speak for Xin Lan.

"89%? Holy shit! It really dropped by five percentage points? Cang Leng, what was your Rampage Level before? I remember it was almost 94%, wasn't it?"

When Cang Leng's test results came out, Wu Xi practically jumped out of his chair.

Yun Jin also stood up instinctively, but soon sat back down.

"It's only five percentage points. Is that worth making such a fuss over? She spent nearly six minutes working on Cang Leng. That was enough time for her to purify his mental landscape once."

He still stubbornly refused to believe it, but his hands unconsciously clasped together in tension.

Five percentage points...

That wasn't a small drop, and was even a little impressive.

After all, she hadn't had a deep link with Cang Leng at all. Other S-rank guides couldn't do that...

Finally, Chi Ming's test results came out too, and Yun Jin's hopes were completely dashed.

Seeing Wu Xi staring speechlessly at the screen and Mo Xiao looking grave, he went over to look for himself.

Then he was instantly dumbfounded.

"Holy shit, how is this possible? It really dropped that much?"