The special forces members’ spiritual energy had suffered tremendous trauma and wouldn’t recover anytime soon.
Treating injuries to the mind is extremely complicated. It requires placing the person in a medical pod to enter deep sleep, allowing their brain regions to rest and relax.
Their spiritual bodies had been pushed to the limit after enduring wave after wave of energy assaults. Now that the immediate danger had passed and transparent ripples appeared in the air, the spiritual bodies gradually returned to their owners’ physical forms to sleep and recuperate.
The crashed golden eagle lowered its head, struggling to use its wings to cover its belly.
Seeing her eagle in low spirits, Jiang Yue sighed, stroked the down on its head, and picked it up.
The golden eagle struggled painfully in Jiang Yue’s arms, trying to stand proudly on her shoulder like it used to.
Halfway up, it rolled off like a ball and bounced twice on the ground, just like a rubber ball.
Jiang Yue quickly picked it up and said earnestly, “Stop struggling. Lose weight slowly from now on, we can’t rush it. No one becomes slim overnight.”
Comforted, the golden eagle fell temporarily quiet.
Holding such a big, fat ball in her arms was still quite a challenge. They said spiritual bodies had no physical weight, and even a large frame should feel light, but this eagle felt like it would crush her! It was like a solid lead ball.
Sweat beading on her forehead, Jiang Yue panted, “Come on, kid, go back! I really can’t hold you anymore!”
The golden eagle instantly fluffed up in fury, stamping its claws hard in Jiang Yue’s arms, nearly dislocating her arm.
Fine, spiritual bodies follow their owners, this was clearly a tsundere eagle.
Jiang Yue could only hold the solid, heavy bird and ponder a serious question.
The situation at the time was unusual. The energy howls unleashed by the mutant had thrown them into complete chaos, and no one would ever know that it was her spiritual body that had absorbed that energy.
Jiang Yue understood the principle that even an innocent man can be blamed for possessing something valuable.
At the very least, she couldn’t let anyone find out about this now.
The incident with Song Yang had left her with a deep and lasting lesson: never trust anyone lightly. When interests clash, a friend who once fawned over you can turn against you in the blink of an eye.
But how could she avoid arousing their suspicion?
Her current state of mind was definitely unsuitable, she wouldn’t be able to speak two sentences without giving herself away.
Jiang Yue paced irritably, hefting the heavy golden eagle in her arms. Stroking the round, chubby bird, she fell into deep thought, racking her brain for a way to escape the base’s questioning.
The base had specialized interrogators, and with technology so advanced now, the methods were countless. Even a single technique could make life unbearable, easily forcing someone to reveal everything.
Jiang Yue had seen “truth serums” in wartime dramas. When humans were injected with the anesthetic scopolamine, they would enter a special sedated state, answering questions accurately while unconscious.
The personnel at the base surely had similar methods. What she had to do now was avoid arousing anyone’s suspicion and extract herself completely intact.
Jiang Yue stroked the down on the golden eagle’s forehead. The round, chubby bird pressed against her face, using its wings to knead its balloon-like belly.
Being a simple, clueless bird wasn’t so bad, carefree every day, with none of life’s worries.
Jiang Yue anxiously rubbed her temples, frowning as she tilted her head to look at the narrow opening above the giant crater, momentarily at a loss.
The mutant had lost more than half of its spiritual energy. The remaining energy dispersed throughout its body, and it had fallen into a long, deep sleep.
With the interference from its spiritual energy gone, the base’s rescue operation would proceed very quickly.
There wasn’t much time left for her to think.
Jiang Yue gritted her teeth, grabbed the golden eagle by the neck, and commanded, “Attack me!”
The eagle froze midair, its wings stiff from rubbing its belly, tilting its head in utter confusion.
Jiang Yue suddenly smacked the eagle on the head and scolded, “You silly bird! You ate up all of my stuff and got fat like this, do you think I’m blind? I can see it!”
She smacked the golden eagle’s belly hard again. “If you don’t attack me, then whatever you ate, I’ll make you spit it out just like that!”
The golden eagle now understood the seriousness of the situation. But as a spiritual body, it was inherently one with its owner, any harm that befell the owner would also affect it.
Seeing the eagle still hesitating, Jiang Yue raised her fist, the size of a sandbag, and brought it down on the eagle’s forehead with a solid punch.
…
I treated you like a beloved owner, and you treated me like a free-range chicken!
The eagle fainted.
Jiang Yue fainted too.
Summoning every ounce of strength, she tried to pull the golden eagle back into her spiritual domain. Dizzy and seeing stars, Jiang Yue clutched the back of her head, adjusted her collapsing posture, and with her eyes rolling back, she passed out.
The imaging data transmitted from the detector showed the spiritual energy activity spiking to an astonishing peak… before suddenly vanishing.
It vanished so suddenly that the elite personnel at the base, ready for a desperate last stand, were completely stunned.
Even the top leaders of the base were baffled.
The threads in the giant crater no longer emitted a continuous bright light. After the mutant fell into a deep sleep, they returned to their normal state.
The base convened an emergency meeting. After careful discussion, they concluded that the mutant had entered a deep slumber and would not awaken for a long time. Thus, the fourth rescue operation was launched.
The special forces team sent for the rescue had prepared for a near-suicidal mission, but this time, the operation went unexpectedly smoothly.
When their small aircraft safely landed at the bottom of the crater, they thought it was the calm before a storm. Each of them tensed up, nerves on edge, ready for anything.
The storm never came. After a thorough search, they found the 18 previously missing team members along with two first-year cadets from the Federal Military Academy.
Putting aside Xiang Sui, that fool who had jumped into the crater on his own, Jiang Yue, the rookie, was truly unlucky, an innocent victim of circumstance.
When the special forces team found her, this under-18 alpha was already unconscious.
The team leader examined her injuries and said gravely, “Based on my assessment, they must have been hit by a powerful energy attack. Jiang Yue’s spiritual body is still in its juvenile stage, and it sustained severe trauma while resisting the energy. Now, we can only hope that her brain hasn’t suffered irreversible damage.”
The number of survivors exceeded expectations, much to everyone’s relief. Yet five elite members had still lost their lives, never to awaken again.
These special forces operatives always walked on the front line between life and death, viewing mortality with a certain detachment.
The greater the power, the heavier the responsibility, the burden on their shoulders grew accordingly.
Some dangerous tasks always had to be undertaken.
There were always things more important than one’s own life.
After organizing the wounded, the small aircraft carried everyone out of the deep crater.
Those stationed on the high platform hadn’t expected the rescue to go so smoothly. Seeing the aircraft ascend, they were momentarily stunned, thinking they must be imagining things.
Jiang Yue remained unconscious for a week before waking up.
Once she awoke, base personnel approached her bedside with fruit baskets, beginning their “friendly” inquiries.
The base personnel here to question Jiang Yue wasn’t a stranger, he was one of the monitors in the observation room, named Lu Geng.
He had sharp, angular features, golden hair, and golden eyes, extremely handsome. His golden eyes were like two shimmering lakes, exuding a sense of purity and divinity.
He liked drinking lemon black tea and had even given Jiang Yue a box of lemon black tea bags, only for Xiang Sui, who kept dropping by, to drink them all.
To create a pleasant atmosphere, Lu Geng also brought her a photobook. He winked at her mysteriously and said, “It’s a limited edition. The price has gone up two hundredfold. It was really hard for me to get it.”
Jiang Yue curiously opened the thick photobook, only to see a naked male Omega reclining in a very provocative pose in a bathtub, key areas covered in pure white cream and garnished with dripping red cherries.
Slap!
Jiang Yue slammed the photobook shut.
Who would have thought, this angelic, saintly-looking Alpha in front of her was actually a seasoned pervert!
As expected, Alphas all had the same kind of nature!
The Alpha in front of her gave a sly, indescribable smile and said to Jiang Yue, “There’s also a personal autograph from Sweet Orange in here.”
His tone was so seductive, and Jiang Yue knew that tone all too well. When she and her girlfriends looked at risqué pictures, this was exactly the same way they spoke!
It seemed she couldn’t really blame Lu Geng. Unconsciously, Jiang Yue found herself recalling her past self.
Who would have thought that someone who looked as pure as a white lotus, with a personality as fresh as green tea, had filled 400GB of her 512GB Huawei P50 with risqué pictures and short videos?
Jiang Yue’s feelings were complicated. She set the closed photobook aside and managed a stiff, “Th…Thank you.”
“No need to thank me, it’s nothing. Besides giving you gifts, I also have to follow protocol and ask about the situation at the time, how exactly did you fall?”
She had known this moment was coming all along.
Jiang Yue looked puzzled. “I’m not really sure either. The light was too dazzling, I couldn’t see anything. I just felt something wrap around me and pull me down.”
“What happened after you fell?”
Jiang Yue skipped over the two hours she had spent crying and replied calmly, “I was unconscious for a while. When I woke up, I was surrounded by threads. I’m a bit afraid of the dark, so I kept moving toward the light.”
“The light?”
Jiang Yue: “It was the light emitted by that mass of spiritual energy. I moved toward it, and after leaving the circle of threads, I fell.”
“Can you describe it in more detail?”
Jiang Yue: “I reached the outermost layer of the threads and grabbed onto them, trying to climb out of the crater. After climbing for a while, something suddenly grabbed my waist and pulled me down. On the way down, I got tangled in many white branches. I even tried to take a closer look, but my head hit something really hard, and I completely blacked out.”
“Did you see what pulled you down?”
Jiang Yue shook her head. “It seemed like white branches. I was really exhausted at the time, so I’m not entirely sure. My strength had run out, and I was very tense. I had my eyes closed to rest, and everything happened so suddenly, I panicked and didn’t see clearly.”
Lu Geng nodded and asked again, “What happened after you fell?”
Jiang Yue shook her head. “I don’t know. I was unconscious the whole time. I only just woke up and am still a bit dazed. When I woke, I even thought I had arrived in the underworld.”
She looked at Lu Geng, her voice urgent. “Since I was rescued, what about Xiang Sui and the others? Did you find them? Are they still alive?”
Lu Geng smiled and patted Jiang Yue on the shoulder. “Don’t worry. They’ve all woken up. You were the most seriously injured, so you were in deep sleep in the medical pod for a week.”
Jiang Yue let out a long, relieved sigh, her face reflecting pure relief.
Just as her tense nerves finally began to relax, Lu Geng suddenly said, “To ensure you’ve fully recovered, I need to check your spiritual body. If it’s damaged, the base will issue compensation. Summon your spiritual body so I can take a look.”
Jiang Yue closed her eyes, her face extremely pale from the stress.
After a moment, she opened her eyes, still ashen, and said, “I… I can’t summon it. It seems… I’ve lost contact with it.”
She spoke in a flustered, disjointed manner. “W-What… What’s happening?”
Lu Geng’s expression suddenly changed, his face immediately turning serious.
Looking at Jiang Yue’s panic-stricken, ashen face, it was clear that no untrained young cadet could fake such a reaction.
Lu Geng quickly reported the situation.
A large group of personnel rushed back in force, gathering around Jiang Yue’s bedside.
Once you tell a lie, you have to keep lying to cover it up.
Jiang Yue had told very few lies in her life, but the pressure was immense. Terrified of being exposed and with a very fragile mental state, tears burst from her like a flood.
Everyone here clearly understood the importance of a spiritual body.
The coldly beautiful female Alpha sat by the bedside, silently shedding tears. Faced with everyone’s concerned questions, her lips trembled, but she choked, unable to utter a single word.
Even those with hearts of stone would have been moved by this scene.
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Sam Williams On TYMIMA Chapter 152
shes becoming so proficient and learning to deal with this world. im so proud of her
Dang she could be an actress atp