The Last Sentinel

Jiangbei District, First People's Hospital.

"Master, you were looking for me? I just finished surgery! I'm covered in sweat, do you want to take a shower first?"

The advisor waved his hand and said, "What are you washing for! Come on, follow me to pick up the person."

Vice Dean Zhang jogged after the clerk, "Who are you picking up, Master? Are higher-ups coming to inspect? No, even if it are higher-ups, with your seniority and experience, it should be the leader picking you up, not the other way around!"

The advisor kicked Vice Dean Zhang in the backside, "Your apprentice is coming back! My grand-apprentice is almost home!"

Vice Dean Zhang was overjoyed, beaming with delight. "Little Ye, you're back! When did this happen? How come I didn't know about it!"

The advisor said irritably, "Who do you think you are? What kind of organization is the Renmeng? They are the ruling elite of the deeper world. You think you're worthy to inform you? I just got the news myself!"

Vice Dean Zhang asked, "How long is Xiao Ye's vacation this time? A month?"

The advisor said, "One day, I received news that the sentry commander is returning to rest for a day."

Vice Dean Zhang muttered, "Sentry Commander? That title sounds strange."

The advisor said, "Is it strange? The strangeness lies in your lack of exposure to that circle. Once you do, you'll find it normal!"

"Speaking of which, to be called 'commander,' means my grand-disciple must have made a name for himself within the Human Alliance!"

"Isn't that obvious? Otherwise, why would the internal notifications from the Human Alliance be so respectful!"

Vice Dean Zhang's lips were practically smirking as he spoke with an air of absolute authority, "What did I say back then? I could tell at a glance that my disciple wasn't an ordinary person; he was a dragon among men. Just from that first glance, I saw a purple aura enveloping his head, and I knew he would become a celestial being. And look at him now, only a month or two has passed! My disciple has already risen to a high-ranking position at the Southern Heavenly Gate!"

"Shh—" the advisor pressed on his apprentice's shoulder, "Would it kill you to keep your voice down! What I'm worried about right now is whether or not to introduce that guy your uncle recommended to the sentry!"

Vice Dean Zhang was taken aback. "The advisor is referring to that unlucky guy who's accumulated eight lifetimes of bad luck?"

The advisor said, "Who else could it be but him! To be fair, this person's intelligence and character are impeccable, and his achievements in mathematics are also remarkable. Although not as exaggerated as Xiao Ye's, he could completely understand the materials Xiao Ye wrote in your office before, and his admiration for Xiao Ye is almost like that of a fanatic. His connections with his mentor are also quite strong. His advisor and I belong to the same academic faction, and he has helped me a lot before. So, both morally and logically, I should recommend him..."

Vice Dean Zhang grinned and said, "Recommend my ass, Master! You know that guy is a walking disaster. Anyone who hangs out with him is doomed. Introducing someone like that to Xiao Ye would only be harming her!"

The advisor said, "But he's been staying at the hospital every day, and Xiao Ye hasn't mentioned it once since he came back. I can't just leave that out!"

The master and apprentice walked out of the hospital building as they were talking. Before they even reached the intersection, they saw a Cadillac Escalade collide with a middle-aged man who was picking up takeout.

What kind of nonsense is this?

A car accident occurred in front of the hospital?

Is this a result delivered to our doorstep?

The security guard rushed over, but before he could even help the man who had been knocked down up, he saw the unfortunate middle-aged man dust himself off, stand up, and calmly pick up the debris from the ground, as if everything was normal.

The young man driving rushed out and said with concern, "I'm so sorry, sir, I'm not a very good driver. Are you alright?"

The middle-aged man who was hit waved his hand with a wry smile, "It's nothing, I get hit thirty to fifty times a year, it's nothing. You guys go to the hospital!"

Just as the middle-aged man was about to leave, Old Shen called out from behind, "Little Li, are you alright?"

The middle-aged man turned around and saw Vice Dean Zhang and his advisor. He quickly smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, sir, I'm fine, I'm alright! I'm not injured!"

Vice Dean Zhang turned to the young man beside him and said, "Young man, you need to be more careful while driving. Don't be reckless! Luckily, you ran into Xiao Li. He's tough. If it were anyone else, they would have tried to extort money from you!"

The young man's eyes swept over the nameplate on Vice Dean Zhang's chest. "Are you Vice Dean Zhang?"

Vice Dean Zhang asked, "Do you know me?"

"No, I don't know you," the young man said respectfully. "But my senior brother knows you, and he asked me to come find you."

Vice Dean Zhang hesitated before asking, "Your senior brother? Which one?"

The young man said, "His name is Ye Feng, codename Sentinel, and he serves in the South Heaven Gate Great Xia [Kunpeng] Space Fleet. My surname is Qi, and my name is Qi Tian..."

The advisor quickly interrupted the young man, "Ahem, don't say anymore, let's not talk about these things. Qi Tian, ​​right? Come in with me!"

Nearby, middle-aged man Xiao Li keenly heard these sounds, his eyes lit up, and he followed closely behind the group.

Soon, the group arrived at two quiet lounges.

The middle-aged man surnamed Li asked impatiently, "Young Master Qi Tian, ​​you...you're from the Human Alliance? You're a member of the Deep World?"

Qi Tian was a little confused. What was going on?

Vice President Zhang said, "We're not family, we don't share the same car. Xiao Qi, this is one of our own."

Qi Tian nodded. "Yes, I'm from the Human Alliance. You're one too, buddy?"

The middle-aged man, Xiao Li, said with great enthusiasm, "Not at the moment, but I really want to join the Human Alliance. Let me introduce myself. My name is Li, and my given name is Gou Sheng."

Qi Tian blinked. "Li, Gou, Sheng? This name is really unconventional, free and unrestrained."

Li Gousheng said politely, "A name is just a symbol! There's no need to pay too much attention to it!"

Qi Tian turned to Vice Dean Zhang and asked, "You're my master?"

Vice Dean Zhang patted the corner of his clothes and coughed solemnly, "That's right, Ye Feng is my last disciple, and also my only disciple to inherit my mantle. How do you and Ye Feng know each other?"

Qi Tian hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "Qi Tian greets Master! Grandmaster!"

Vice Dean Zhang said, "No, don't be so nervous, what's going on!"

Qi Tian's face turned red with embarrassment. "According to the confidentiality regulations, I can't say this casually! I can only share it with members of the Human Alliance. Among us, only Master is a member of the Human Alliance, so I can't say too much. But I can guarantee that Ye Feng is indeed my senior brother. He personally promised to take me as his junior brother and even asked me to come to the hospital to become his apprentice."

Just then, the door to the lounge was pushed open, and a girl's voice came through, "Brother, did you forget me in the car?!"

A young man in a black trench coat stood outside the door, accompanied by a little girl of about eleven or twelve years old.

Qi Tian awkwardly pulled his sister over and greeted the young man, "Greetings, Senior Brother!"

Ye Feng looked at the people in the room and said with a smile, "Master, Master, good afternoon!"

When the sentry arrived, everyone's faces lit up with joy.

"Xiao Ye, you're finally back! Your mentor has been thinking about you every single day while you were away on that business trip!"

"Everyone's here, what are we waiting for! Zhang, bring out those bottles of your treasured wine! We're drinking until we drop!"

"Okay, I'll have the chef prepare a few more of his signature dishes, and we'll have a good drink!"

"Let's go, let's go to the guesthouse, don't waste time!"

Not long after, in the hospital guesthouse, glasses clinked and the air was thick with the smell of alcohol.

With Ye Feng present at the dinner table, Qi Tian no longer adhered to any confidentiality agreement and opened up, recounting the Battle of Tokyo and the Battle of Perfection. His spiel left everyone speechless, especially when he got to the part about conquering the underworld and the ancient secondary continent. Master Li Gousheng and the others almost stood up.

Slightly tipsy, Ye Feng grabbed Qi Tian's shoulder and said, "To be honest, Master, my junior brother and I are true brothers on the battlefield. Facing the overwhelming army of the alien prince, my junior brother didn't even beg for mercy. He went all out and fought to the death! What courage he had! Among this batch of chosen ones, my junior brother is the one I admire the most!"

Vice Dean Zhang chuckled and said, "Good, good, good. I've always felt that you're too lonely on your own. I was thinking of finding you a junior brother or sister, but I was afraid you wouldn't like them. But you've found one yourself! Haha, you won't be lonely in the Human Alliance anymore!"

The advisor also said, "Xiao Qi, your senior brother Xiao Ye is a genius, but sometimes he may be too ruthless and unapproachable in his dealings with others. As his junior brother, you should think more about your senior brother and protect him! The Human Alliance is a formidable place, so be careful not to be eliminated."

Qi Tian nodded repeatedly, "Yes, I will follow Master's and Grandmaster's teachings!"

Ye Feng waved his hand and said, "Sigh, Master, Grandmaster, you shouldn't always think too highly of the Human Alliance and the Deep World. You need to break through this filter and treat them equally. To put it bluntly, the Human Alliance in the Deep World is just a makeshift organization."

Vice President Zhang could only smile wryly. The phrase "makeshift team" is a matter of who says it!

If you, Vice President Zhang, were to say that the Human Alliance is a makeshift organization, I bet the advisor would kick you away.

But if Ye Feng said it, then it really was just a makeshift operation.

The air was thick with the smell of alcohol. The advisor coughed and said, "Little Ye, well, Gousheng's master and your master are brothers-in-law. Gousheng's advisor and I are from the same school. His advisor just passed away recently. Before he left, he held my hand and said that their family had been together for three generations and hadn't even touched the door to the deep world. Gousheng is the most promising one in that school. I hope you can give him a hand. I don't expect you to arrange a formal membership in the Human Alliance for him. I would be happy with any job he could do, like watching the parking lot or dock at the Human Alliance base."

Ye Feng blinked, looking at the middle-aged man in front of him, "May I ask your surname, brother?"

The middle-aged man said awkwardly, "I, I'm only twenty-three this year. My baldness is hereditary, and I look older than I am. Actually, I'm very young! My surname is Li, and they all call me Li Gousheng."

Ye Feng asked, "Oh, what area are you studying?"

Li Gousheng said, "My original major was medicine, but I listened to my master and switched to studying the Brouwer school of mathematics."

The mentor chimed in, "Xiao Ye, Xiao Li can understand all the math papers you wrote for me, and he even offers many different perspectives from yours! He's a true mathematical genius!"

The advisor chuckled, "Even if he's not a mathematician, he's at least the closest thing to a mathematician—a monkey who can do arithmetic! Xiao Ye, think about it!"

Ye Feng's eyes lit up. He could understand my paper. Wow, his mathematical ability is already quite good.

It should be noted that even Ye Feng himself might not be able to understand the papers he wrote.

Ye Feng simply copied whatever the experts in the group wrote. However, Ye Feng still made some mistakes in copying. The fact that the other party was able to correct his mathematical errors shows that the other party's mathematical foundation has caught up with the progress of the experts' math teaching in the group!

Ye Feng is currently lacking manpower.

Although my junior brother Qi Tian is a genius in the creation system, he didn't select the mecha manufacturing option in his skill tree. Instead, he selected the research of metaphysical science and the laws of the Great Dao.

Mech manufacturing is a purely mathematical game, and I'm currently in a situation where mech manufacturing stops if I don't work.

The two cheap mecha repair apprentices he picked up were only skilled in mecha repair and simple assembly. They knew nothing about mecha control, mecha instrument accuracy, and mecha program logic compilation. They were the kind of people who couldn't learn even if you killed them.

Now that's great, we've got someone with decent math skills. Isn't this exactly what we needed?

Ye Feng patted Li Gousheng on the shoulder, "My master and grandmaster will vouch for you. I'll take you through the procedures later. If you pass, you'll be a formal member of the Human Alliance!"

"Thank you!" Li Gousheng said excitedly. "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Brother Ye. But, Senior Brother Ye, let me be frank from the start, I... I might be a bit unlucky."

Ye Feng said, "Unlucky? How unlucky? Tell me!"

The master quickly stopped him, "Xiao Ye, don't listen to this!"

Ye Feng asked curiously, "Why?"

The advisor laughed, "Your master is afraid you'll want to return him after hearing this! Let me put it this way: Xiao Li's academic career is going smoothly, but Xiao Li's life is a complete mess. In fact, the more successful Xiao Li is academically, the more miserable his life is!"

Ye Feng waved his hand and laughed, "I've seen all sorts of monsters and demons these past few days. Can he be more unlucky than Anthony? Tell me, Gou Sheng, how unlucky are you?"

Li Gousheng's eyes were calm, and he said lightly, "Actually, it's just everyday stuff. In my opinion, there's no such thing as bad luck or good luck."

"Let me talk about my marriage first. I started dating very early and got married when I was nineteen."

"The 58.8 yuan dowry was borrowed through a loan, and the 380 million yuan off-plan property belonged to Huan Da, who has now absconded."

"Later, I had three children, but none of them were mine. If we divorced, I would have to pay child support, but my salary wasn't enough to cover it, so I just stayed in the marriage and endured it, pretending I didn't know anything about it."

The atmosphere at the dinner table began to soar from this point on, and even an optimist like Ye Feng looked at Li Gousheng with a hint of sympathy.

Li Gousheng said calmly, "Last week, after finishing get off work and getting home, my eldest son started playing Genshin Impact and used my mortgage payment for the month to buy the game. I thought it was fine for kids to play games, but he actually spent the money on random enemies! He got crushed by free-to-play players after spending money."

"My second son is doing his homework, and he even asked me to praise him for being smart when he calculated 3+4=10! He inherited my math talent!"

"My third daughter stole her allowance to buy tickets to a boy band idol group. I figured it's normal for her to be a fan."

"During dinner, my parents were bragging to me that the health supplements they bought for 8,000 yuan came with free oil and a medical pillow. They said it was such a good deal and asked me to renew their order."

"I wanted to find a balcony to smoke a cigarette tonight, but I found that my colleague had taken my matches, so I decided to check my wife's Weibo."

"I discovered my wife has written a lot on Weibo. Our daughter is good at makeup and seems to be competing with me for my husband. My husband was in a car accident but he has money for hospitalization instead of buying me handbags. After I got pregnant, my husband used the microwave frequently, causing our three children to have a genetic mutation that means they are not related to him. What should I do?"

"After watching it, I felt even worse. I wanted to tell a joke to lighten the mood between my wife and me, but my wife didn't laugh, while my husband did."

"There's a man in the closet. My wife says he's a time-traveling special agent who came to save us!"

"I left home and went to an internet cafe. I picked Darius for top lane, but the opponent was Zilean. I got completely dominated and suffered a nine-game losing streak. I opened an old friend website to cheer myself up, but found that the website was inaccessible. When I left the internet cafe, I discovered that my electric scooter battery had been stolen..."

Hearing this, even a strong sentry couldn't hold back. He raised his glass and said, "Brother Li, drink up! I'll toast you! You're still alive, you're a real man! I, the sentry, admire you wholeheartedly!"

Qi Tian also said, "Old Li, let's drink. I didn't understand you before, but now I completely understand you. I believe you get hit by a car thirty to fifty times a year!"

Vice President Zhang and his advisor kept whispering to each other.

"Only someone with Xiao Li's strong heart could survive in this kind of environment!"

"Any normal person surrounded by Digimon in this environment would probably end up in a mental hospital within three days!"

"With this kind of life, even an enemy would have to give him two hundred dollars to calm his nerves if he heard about it."

"Even enemies feel sorry for him, and creditors donate money! Gou Sheng is having a really tough time!"

"With this kind of treatment, even jumping off a building would be considered a happy funeral!"

"I rarely encourage people to jump off buildings, but for someone like him, I really want to advise him to reopen..."