Sentry: The guide who's getting extra help is very busy today.

The defense system of the central city is far superior to that of the White Tower.

It's dark in the distance; it's nine o'clock in the morning.

The massive army of pollutants is coming.

"preparation."

A series of orderly footsteps sounded, and the latest batch of combat robots appeared first.

The wind lifted the hem of Nylonco's trench coat, but it couldn't take away his anxiety.

"Fire!"

At this command, the central city lit up, and the sound was deafening.

Edford held Xu Yan, who was experiencing nightmares, and gently comforted him, his voice sometimes sounding like Shu Zao's and sometimes like Bo You's.

"Yan Yan, don't be afraid, the bad guys have been chased away." The noise outside didn't reach the house.

The sentry children, aged seven and above, wore helmets, were fully armed, and held weapons. They stood obediently behind the strong, ordinary people who were ready to go, without saying a word.

They are the last line of defense.

We can't retreat, or the babies in the house behind us will die.

Near Grana Miro White Tower.

"Turn left." Xingyao changed direction; turning left would waste more time.

However, no team member questioned his decision.

Once his abilities reach SSSS level, he can minimize danger and find the fastest and optimal route back to the central city.

Therefore, even though he changed direction several times along the way, no one was resentful.

Nironko sent in the latest intelligence, updating it every half hour.

"Hang in there, if you can get through this, there's a 10% chance you'll become an SSSS-level mentor." Guan Zhou wiped the sweat from Shu Zao's face.

Before it died, it injected what Guan Zhou wanted into Shu Zao's body, which angered Guan Zhou so much that he is still sitting on its body.

"One percent!!! What will happen if we fail?" Shuzao's teeth chattered.

"You're really going to die, but don't die yet. If you die, your personal sentinel will die too, and then the central city will really be finished."

They alone cannot hold out.

Shu Zao: "..." If she didn't know Guan Zhou well enough to understand that he cared about her, she would have thought he was gloating.

"Commander Shuzao has Commander Etheris." Guan Zhou's personal sentry couldn't help but speak up from the side.

Dear Guan Zhou, stop talking, isn't it better to just be a cool girl quietly!

"Don't use Commander Etheris unless absolutely necessary. This pain is nothing to you. You have a high pain tolerance, you can definitely get through it."

We can't waste the Soul Essence!

Who knows if the Soul Essence will still exist after using Etheris's power?

I can't afford to gamble.

Shu Zao pursed her lips, and Guan Zhou, even more attentive than her personal sentinel, immediately moistened her lips with a cotton swab.

Seeing her swallowing hard, Guan Zhou said skillfully, "I'll lift your head up a bit before feeding you water, otherwise you might choke."

Yuanli and the others wanted to intervene, but Guan Zhou shut them down with one sentence: "Do you know anything about what entered her body?"

"I became an SSS-level guide less than two months ago." Shuzao didn't want to be so discouraged, but she had to face the cruel reality.

She made no preparations whatsoever for promotion to SSSS rank!

Can you really reach SSSS-level guidance just by enduring pain? Hahaha, she'd laugh her head off.

"That's why I said you only have a 10% chance. Sigh~ I should have stood in front of you. In order for my body to accept the Soul Essence, I also stayed back and developed, so that you could carry the flag."

In the end, it was all for naught; all their efforts were in vain.

How confident are you?

"Fifty percent, fifty percent is enough for me to create a miracle."

The pollutants encountered along the team's route were of average strength; they died at the hands of Yuan Li before they could get close to the team.

"The accuracy is good, let's split it in half." Yan Zhe stood next to Yuan Li and watched him kill the contaminants.

"Yeah, that's all. It's fine as long as he's dead."

Their relationship wasn't as strained as it had been before it was sealed away.

Fermby walked to the other side of Yuanli and stopped. "How long has it been since the three of us stood together like this?"

He became Guan Zhou's personal sentinel, abandoning his determination to leave Shu Zao behind. He should have gone out and seen more of the world earlier; he could have given up much faster.

Guan Zhou looked down on him—he was too vain! And they didn't even live in the same neighborhood.

He refused to shave his head to maintain formation, even though the sentries at home couldn't beat him.

Guan Zhou hit him, but he didn't fight back.

In daily life, if the robot butler sweeps up a strand of long hair on the floor, Guan Zhou will beat it up.

Once, while cleaning, I found five sticks. I couldn't finish cleaning them during the day, so I left them for the next day.

The other sentries, with their own quick minds, picked up the hair that had fallen to the ground in front of him and kept it. When he got hit, they threw the hair into the living room.

Then, Guan Zhou, who had been standing aside watching Fei Mobi come back, discovered that Fei Mobi had been playing this trick two or three times.

That day, they were hit by a mixed doubles match between Fermby and Guan Zhou!

Even with the soundproof walls, the screams could still be faintly heard.

"Wow, I can't remember, it's been too long." Iwatsu put his hands on his hips.

Central city.

The pollutants reached the city walls, and the combat robots were completely wiped out.

"Your potion arrived too slowly, otherwise the White Tower could have held on a little longer," the old man said to Sima as he sat at the laboratory entrance.

The lab belongs to Shu Zao; no unauthorized personnel can enter without her permission.

"That's fast enough. If you had been as open and honest as Commander Shuzao from the beginning, giving us time to prepare, the robots could have lasted at least another hour."

A researcher walked past them, head down, without saying hello.

"Who is he?" the old man asked curiously as he watched Jing Shuangdu's departing figure.

"Kyosou Frost, a genius researcher who is immersed in his own world, is a loner, and only Commander Shuzao can talk to him."

When other researchers approached him, he was indifferent, too busy to respond.

Where is he going?

Sima tapped the light screen and pointed to the time on it: "It's lunchtime, let's go eat."

Old man: "..."

He's quite individualistic; he seems unaffected by the noise around him, continuing to do whatever he wants.

Staying at their posts until the very last moment.

"You're not going to the battlefield?" The old man looked Sima up and down. He didn't look very old, so he shouldn't be able to stay in the rear.

"Go, Speaker Nironko will inform the laboratory, and we will leave immediately after putting down the experiment."

With zero combat power and everyone going to their deaths, there's nothing to look forward to.

Old man: "..."

Did I interrupt your time?

"Yes, you wasted ten minutes of my time, but it was Speaker Nironko's order to chat with you, and I dared not disobey."

The old man stood up: "I apologize for disturbing you."

"It's alright, it's normal to panic a little when you're getting old."

Old man: "..."

Leaving behind the words, "Your emotional intelligence is terribly low," the old man angrily walked away with his hands behind his back.

"Researcher Sima, why do you have to provoke him?"

"I respected the elders for ten minutes. I used those ten minutes in the experiment. Maybe I can discover some amazing weapon."

"It's easy for you to talk when you're not in his shoes. I'll go and win him back, and you'll talk to him?"

The researcher waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "No, no."