The Money and the Handsome Men Are All Yours: Do You Like It? Hmm?

That said.

The system that assigned her people upon registration did have its merits.

She could get half of several people's assets without having to take responsibility for them. Where else could she transmigrate and find a deal that good?

Xin Lan accepted it in no time.

She just didn't know how bad inflation was here. She'd have to go shopping to find out.

Meanwhile, in the central council chamber of the K9 District sanctuary.

In the ice-blue, futuristic hall, five tall sentinels sat around a conference table that glowed with a cold light. Each had a different hair color, and all were exceptionally handsome and distinguished in bearing. Their expressions varied.

At the head of the table sat Administrator Mo Xiao, his smooth silver hair falling to his waist. Beneath long silver lashes, his deep blue eyes resembled a vast, tranquil sea, with a stern chill in their depths.

"The Free Alliance has formally declared war on the Federation Government. For the guides' safety, the Federation won't be sending any guides to K9 District for group soothing in the near future. You need to be prepared."

"Heh, no one was counting on the Federation anyway."

Yun Jin, with his red hair and brown eyes, gave a cold snort. His eyes were full of disdain and a frenzied hostility.

Gray-haired, gray-eyed Wu Xi crossed his legs and yawned. "Those fucking idiots in the Free Alliance. Guides are so precious, and they still dare kidnap them? I'm backing the Federation all the way on this one. Fuck those bastards."

"Wu Xi, watch your language and behavior."

Mo Xiao frowned and warned him in a low voice.

The chamber fell silent again.

Suddenly, all five of their wristbands chimed at once, and identical panels popped up.

[Beep! The Star Brain has matched you with the guide in your current region with whom you have the highest compatibility! Compatibility: 99.99%]

[Guide information updated. Please move into the guide's residence within one week to serve as a guardian sentinel. Form a deep link with the guide within six months to become an exclusive sentinel!]

[Note: During the probationary period, the guide has the right to terminate the binding at any time and need only return half your assets. Please be sure to observe Article Three of the Human Development Code: A guide's life and safety come before all else!]

"Holy shit, did I hear that right?! There's actually a guide willing to come to our K9 District? And she's a match for us?!"

Wu Xi perked up and immediately sat upright, joining the others in examining the pale blue panel above his wristband.

Name: Xin Lan

Mental power level: S-rank

Gender: Female

Age: 25

Height: 170 cm

Weight: 54 kg

Residential address: None at present

Star Network ID: M19K910086952700

Apart from the most basic details, all information about the guide was blank.

Even the only photo was obviously a snapshot taken by a testing device.

In the photo, the esteemed S-rank guide wore very shabby clothes, but even those rags couldn't conceal her beauty.

She stood before the streamlined blue-and-white wall of the testing station, her black eyes bright as stars. Her long black hair, soft and lustrous as silk, fell loosely over her shoulders. Her chin was slightly raised, and her palm-sized face bore no expression, brimming with a mysterious, captivating classical Eastern beauty.

On a planet where most people had striking European features, such a classical, traditional appearance was undoubtedly exceptional.

For a moment, the chamber was so quiet that a pin could be heard dropping.

It took Wu Xi quite a while to tear his eyes away from the photo.

"Ahhh! My lady guide is so beautiful! Administrator! Pause the meeting! I'm going to see her!"

Before he had finished speaking, Wu Xi had vanished from the chamber.

Compared to Wu Xi's excessive enthusiasm, Administrator Mo Xiao and the other three were much calmer.

Mo Xiao closed the information panel and swept his deep blue eyes over the other three, his expression unreadable.

"One minute ago, first test, first registration of resident information..."

On Iota M19, regardless of which district they were born in, everyone had their resident information registered and received a unique Star Network ID before turning one. Even if they later differentiated into sentinels or guides and gained a new identity, their initial registration information was retained.

But their lady guide was different.

It was as though she had appeared out of thin air, without a trace of any previous existence, suddenly showing up in K9 District. Even her Star Network ID had only just been issued.

It was truly incomprehensible.

Yun Jin pressed his lips together, his eyes fixed on the photo in the panel, his sharp brows severe.

"Whatever the plot, the Federation could never use an S-rank guide as bait. The Free Alliance is even less likely to."

Guides were extremely scarce. Even the lowest-ranked guides in the Federation had at least three exclusive sentinels protecting them at close quarters, let alone S-rank guides, who were sent to District K1 for layers of protection as soon as they differentiated as adults.

There weren't many guides of S-rank or above in the entire world.

The odds of a wild high-level guide appearing in a place like theirs, where even dogs wouldn't bother to visit, were even lower than the planet suddenly exploding.

But that was exactly the kind of outrageous thing that had happened.

"So where did she come from? Is there something wrong with my brain? I really can't figure it out."

Purple-haired, purple-eyed Cang Leng reached out absentmindedly to touch the translucent panel before him, his misty gray-purple eyes full of curiosity.

He thought he must have fallen in love at first sight with the lady guide whose compatibility with him was as high as 99.99%.

Otherwise, why did simply looking at her photo make his heart surge uncontrollably...?

No one answered Cang Leng.

Everyone had fallen into thought.

"She probably took the test at South Tower."

Chi Ming, black-haired, golden-eyed, and stern-faced, had not said a word until now. Suddenly, he rose and strode out.

He was the commander of South Tower and knew every area inside and out.

A strip of lighting on the wall behind the lady guide in the photo was damaged. He had broken it the last time he went berserk and partially mutated.

The lady guide had to still be at South Tower!

Xin Lan was rich now, but she had no money on hand and no device with which to log in to the Star Network.

So, after looking around, she resorted to the most primitive method: buying on credit and paying later.

The process had been a little violent, but the outcome was good.

She had successfully bought the latest model of smart wristband and several tubes of fruit-flavored nutrient solution in very pretty packaging.

The smart wristband worked much like a phone, but it had more functions and was more convenient. She planned to study it at her leisure later.

For now, her top priority was to sweep away her hunger and become herself again.

Squatting by the roadside, she carefully opened a tube of watermelon-flavored nutrient solution worth five hundred star coins.

Before pouring it into her mouth, she even closed her eyes, intending to savor just how exquisite this high-tech food tasted.

The next second, her face turned green. She clapped a hand over her mouth, but after gagging several times, she still couldn't hold it back and threw it all up.

"Ugh..."

Damn! Was she sure this wasn't aged slop with watermelon flavoring?

Had she bought an expired one?

Refusing to believe it, she opened the other tubes of nutrient solution and tried them one by one.

"Blegh~"

"Ugh-"

After throwing up three times in a row and emptying the last of her stomach's contents, Xin Lan clutched her cramping, aching stomach and opened her wristband again.

She couldn't take it. She had to find a proper restaurant, even if all she could eat was a plain, low-calorie meal.

This nutrient solution wasn't something a normal person could drink!

Even a dog wouldn't drink it!

Following her wristband's navigation, Xin Lan hurried along.

Suddenly, a futuristic white hovercar came to a stop directly in front of her.

Xin Lan frowned and started to walk away, but when she looked up, she saw a handsome European-looking man with gray hair and gray eyes leap nimbly out of the car, dressed in a tight black-and-blue combat suit.

The handsome man's long legs looked longer than a Japanese person's life, and his looks were even more striking.

He had a high nose bridge, deep-set eyes, and full, pale peach-colored lips. A long silver star earring dangled from his left earlobe. Against the black-and-blue combat suit, his gray-white hair and cool, pale skin seemed to glow, and he carried himself with aloof, lonely pride.

One look was enough to tell he was a sentinel with a very high mental power level and a severe mental illness.

So Xin Lan simply admired him for a few seconds, then turned and walked away.

But she had taken only one step when the gray-haired sentinel, who looked so cold and arrogant, suddenly flashed in front of her and blocked her path.

Without any warning, he dropped to one knee before her, quickly took her right hand, and devoutly kissed its back. He moved so fast it was as though he feared he wouldn't get to kiss it if he were a second late.

"I finally found you, my lady guide!"