Chapter Two: Guide, Please Take a Look at Me~

Elk tried to make his voice sound as gentle as possible. "What’s your name?"

After a long silence, her voice slightly hoarse, Lu Meng replied, "My name is Lu Meng."

"Alright."

Erte then asked, "How old are you this year?"

Lu Meng answered honestly, "Eighteen."

She had just celebrated her eighteenth birthday at the base a few days ago. She wasn’t sure what was going on; it seemed like she had arrived somewhere completely different from the base.

Erte jotted it down in his notebook and then asked, "Do you remember how you got to planet Lotu-9?"

Lotu-9? Lu Meng couldn’t help but ask, "Where is that?"

Elk and Sear exchanged glances before noting it down.

[Does not know planet Lotu-9]

Erte continued, "Do you remember any information about your parents or relatives?"

Of course, Lu Meng remembered. She had no family since childhood and was raised in an orphanage. When the zombie outbreak occurred at age fourteen, she had awakened special abilities and had stayed in a protected base ever since.

However, sensing something was off around her, she hesitated and chose not to reveal anything. "I don’t remember."

Erte continued to write.

[Possibly estranged from family, unwilling to disclose family information]

Erte then asked, "Do you remember which planet you lived on before?"

Now Lu Meng was truly puzzled. Which planet did she live on? Didn’t everyone have only one mother planet—Earth?

This question felt strangely out of place.

Tentatively, Lu Meng asked, "What planet is this?"

"This is Empire Secondary Planet—Abye."

Lu Meng was speechless.

How had she crossed to somewhere else just by sleeping?

She had clearly been sleeping soundly at the base.

What was the name of this planet? Something with ‘bye’?

Might as well pretend to have amnesia—just pretend.

She lowered her head and said, "Never heard of it."

After this line of questioning, no useful clues emerged.

Erte closed the medical record and smiled at Lu Meng. "That will be all for today. You just woke up; rest well. If you need anything, press the bell by your bed, and a doctor will come."

Lu Meng breathed a silent sigh of relief, nodding without revealing any emotion. "Okay."

Erte and Sear exchanged a glance and left the ward, with Leishi following closely behind, thoughtfully closing the door.

Once the ward returned to silence, Lu Meng exhaled deeply.

She got down from the hospital bed and carefully examined the room. Honestly, she had wanted to say earlier that the equipment here seemed far more advanced than modern technology.

She then stood by the window and looked outside. Towering buildings with a strong technological aura sprawled before her. Hovering near the buildings were round, flying discs—like small flying biscuits—arranged neatly in rows and stacked vertically, as tall as the buildings themselves.

Sensing her gaze, the discs suddenly began to rotate as if greeting her.

Lu Meng was genuinely startled and a bit frightened, quickly averting her eyes.

Looking further beyond was a vast training ground where many people dressed in black uniforms trained in unison, each accompanied by some kind of entity.

From a distance, she could only make out tiny figures.

The sentinels undergoing daily rigorous training, possessing heightened senses, immediately noticed the girl watching them.

Their physical bodies remained engaged in harsh training, but their spiritual forms, uncontrolled by them, instinctively began to chatter excitedly.

"Who’s that? So cute! Is she the new doctor?"

"Didn’t Director Erte bring back a guide from planet Lotu-9 with Team M a few days ago? Could that be her?"

"Really? Wow, it’s my first time seeing such an adorable guide! Guide, look at me! I’m super strong; I can spin you around!"

"Get lost! Who wants to spin with you? Don’t scare the guide away! Guide, look at me—I’m an outstanding graduate of the Empire’s First Academy, winner of three second-place awards, and my spiritual form is a very protective brown bear. I can definitely keep you safe!"

"Your spiritual form is hideous. Guides like cute spiritual forms. My spiritual form is fluffy and adorable! You can pet it~"

"Shameless! The guide wouldn’t want to touch your spiritual form... Guide, look at me..."

Adi excitedly nudged Wen'er. "Hey, captain, is that the guide you brought back from planet Lotu-9?"

Wen'er also noticed the girl by the window. Her light blonde curls seemed to glow under the sun, and a gentle breeze gave Wen'er a fleeting illusion—as if, across the vast crowd, the girl was looking right at him.

Snapping back to reality, he scolded his team, "Recall your spiritual forms immediately. No whispering. If I hear any sound other than training again, you’ll carry a hundred-kilogram load."

Lu Meng didn’t understand what was happening, but from her vantage point, the training ground was suddenly filled with various animal sounds.

It startled her.

Hastily, she closed the window.