The Last Sentinel

One hour ago, in Kitagawa Ward, Tokyo.

Ye Feng awoke weakly.

Charlie's punch was truly ferocious. Even though it was just a shockwave from the punch, it completely shattered the combat suit's defense mechanism. All the transmission instruments shut down, and the body signal transmitter stopped responding. It was as if he had been carried hundreds of kilometers by a high-speed train, and cracks appeared on every bone in his body.

"Don't try to stand up."

"All the bones in your body are shattered. Any slight movement will result in multiple fractures throughout your body."

Kitagawa Orin, dressed in a kimono, appeared in the side room carrying a pot of water and wearing wooden clogs.

Ye Feng looked at Kitagawa Orin in front of him with some apprehension and asked, "Why did you save me? Is this Amaterasu's new trick?"

Kitagawa Orine didn't look up. She simply poured two cups of tea, placing one in front of Ye Feng and the other opposite him. Then she got up and left the room.

Ye Feng was extremely thirsty, but all the bones in his body were cracked, making it impossible for him to lift his arms, let alone hold a teacup.

At this moment, the curtain of the side room was pulled open again, and a dashing young man dressed in a dark blue suit walked in. He looked to be about the same age as Ye Feng, in his early twenties, with long black hair that reached past his shoulders. His features were gentle and elegant, especially his captivating eyes, which added a touch of charm to his handsome appearance.

Ye Feng looked at the guy who bore a striking resemblance to Kitagawa Orion and hesitated before asking, "Are you Kitagawa Orion's older brother?"

The young man smiled gently and said kindly, "Arigato, thank you for the compliment."

Ye Feng was a little confused.

From outside the door came Kitagawa Orion's voice, "He is my father, Kitagawa Hideo! He is not my brother! I don't have a brother, I am an only child!"

Ye Feng looked at Beichuan Yingxiong and understood what he meant by "Arigato".

In reality, he was thanking me for praising his youth!

But then again, Kitagawa Hideo is really well-preserved; if you didn't tell anyone, he could easily pass for Kitagawa Orion's brother.

The Kitagawa family's genes are truly stable; fathers and daughters alike maintain consistent good looks, a lineage passed down through generations.

Kitagawa Hideo raised his hand and brought the teacup to Ye Feng's mouth. "I'm sorry to have troubled you, Ye Jun. My daughter has a lot of opinions about you. There's nothing I can do. It's just the two of us at home, so I'll have to feed you tea."

After taking a sip of tea, Ye Feng felt much better. Looking at the heroes of Beichuan before him, he said, "I have to admit, you saved me. What do you want?"

Kitagawa Hideo waved his hand magnanimously, "No, I'm not interested in your reward. I saved you purely because I don't like Neanderthals! Strictly speaking, I hate Charles Darwin, that Neanderthal bastard, that hypocritical, arrogant, self-righteous, and extremely bloodthirsty and arrogant bastard."

Ye Feng stared at Kitagawa Hero, "You don't like Neanderthals? You don't like Charlie? How could that be? Isn't he a Japanese?"

Kitagawa Hideo chuckled and said, "They are Japanese, but there are many kinds of Japanese. Unlike the Great Xia, which has undergone cultural baptism and has a very high degree of ethnic purity, the people here are almost all kinds. For example, I am neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal."

Ye Feng's alertness suddenly spiked as he stared at Beichuan Yingxiong. "What ancient race are you?"

Kitagawa Hideo raised his left hand, his slender fingers gently wiping his jade-like, exquisite cheek. Where his fingers touched, ancient tattoo patterns spread out, transforming into bluish-black scales. On his head, a bluish-black horn slowly grew from his forehead, a dragon-like horn appearing vividly on his forehead. Combined with the scales on half of his cheek, he no longer resembled the handsome young man he had just been; instead, he exuded an indescribable aura of malevolence and ferocity!

Seeing this, Ye Feng's eyes narrowed, and he calmly uttered two words: "Dragon Man!"

Kitagawa Hideo laughed. "To correct you, you're a pure-blooded dragonman."

Kitagawa Hideo covered half of his face with his left hand again, and the scales, the horns on his forehead, and all the characteristics of a dragon-man disappeared without a trace.

Ye Feng said, "No wonder I was able to kill your daughter twice, but not once. It turns out she's not a Homo sapiens."

Kitagawa Hideo laughed and said, "Dragon people are a race with very strong vitality. Unlike fragile Homo sapiens, we are very difficult to kill, whether it is a shot to the heart or a vital spot like the forehead of Homo sapiens."

At that moment, Kitagawa Orine's voice came from outside the door, "Father, this bastard killed me twice. Why are you telling him so much? Are you worried he won't be able to kill me next time?"

Kitagawa Hideo glanced helplessly at the door. "Sorry, you must have found this amusing."

Ye Feng said, "Dragonkin, trolls, and Homo sapiens, this Fusang is really interesting. I wonder if the three major races of elves, droies, and dwarves still exist."

Kitagawa Hideo said, "You've already met the elves. As for the druids and dwarves, they live in the west. You'll have the chance to meet them."

Ye Feng blinked, recalling the phantom of Amaterasu in the Iga Shrine. "You mean Amaterasu? Amaterasu is a spirit?"

Kitagawa Hero neither confirmed nor denied it, but simply smiled kindly.

Ye Feng continued, "I was once hunted down by a type of 'pseudo-human' that looked exactly like them. What race created these 'pseudo-humans'? Dragonmen? Neanderthals? Or elves?"

Kitagawa Hideo said, "Both dragonmen and Neanderthals are proud. They disdain such methods. If we want to kill an enemy, we will directly and without hesitation kill them head-on."

Ye Feng nodded, understanding now. The [false human] that had been chasing him was a trick played by the elves!

"Let's get to the point after we've learned about the book!" Kitagawa Hideo took out a mirror from the side. It was an eight-foot mirror. He gently wiped the edge of the mirror with his fingers and said, "Besides my dislike for Charles Darwin, there's another reason I saved you. You are a Homo sapiens, and a super genius among Homo sapiens with S-class intelligence and S-class psychic abilities. I need you to do me a favor."

Ye Feng was taken aback. "You want my help? Are you sure? You're so young, not only do you not age, but you're also almost impossible to kill. What could possibly require the help of a fragile human like me?"

Kitagawa Hideo said in a serious tone, "Please don't describe your own people like that."

"I can see that you were defeated by that gorilla, and you're probably upset. You're clearly very good, so why is your physical strength inferior to that gorilla's, right?"

"That's because Homo sapiens put all their talent points into intelligence."

"Homo sapiens are the most intelligent species in the world, that is beyond doubt."

"Ten thousand years ago, six ancient human species vied for supremacy. Homo sapiens was the first to learn to use weapons and the first to domesticate wolves, thus compensating for your weaknesses. Through endless alliances and an almost infinite quantum bond, you could point at a puppet and call it a god, and then all Homo sapiens would believe that puppet was a god. And then you could trust each other without any limits!"

"This is something that we, whether we are dragon people or troll Neanderthals, find incredible. How could a puppet unite all Homo sapiens and inspire tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of Homo sapiens to charge into battle without fear of death!"

"And this is precisely the core of the name 'Homo sapiens'—your high intelligence often signifies unparalleled adaptability, comprehension, analytical skills, and logical reasoning!"

"Like the Neanderthals, they were just too clever. Generally, they were very cautious and closed off, distrustful of outsiders, even if they were all Neanderthals. Neanderthal tribes typically had a maximum population of five hundred; once they exceeded five hundred, they would automatically split up!"

"The idea that Homo sapiens could live in a city in the form of millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions without war is a myth to Neanderthals."

Ye Feng looked at Kitagawa Hero and asked, "So, what advantages does your dragon race have?"

Kitagawa Hideo raised his hand, "You've already seen it. We have the highest appearance, the longest lifespan, and the most tenacious vitality among the six ancient human races. We are very difficult to kill."

Ye Feng asked, "What are the drawbacks?"

Kitagawa Orion's voice came from outside the door, "The downside is that, like Homo sapiens, we can suffer from acute heavy metal poisoning. If you bomb us, we'll die just the same. Are you satisfied now?"

Ye Feng felt a little embarrassed; he really shouldn't have asked that question.

Kitagawa Hideo placed the [Yata Mirror] in front of Ye Feng and said, "Mr. Ye, could you please help me analyze this item?"

Ye Feng looked at the [Eight-Foot Mirror] and asked, "What's so interesting about analyzing this thing?"

Kitagawa Hideo held the [Yata no Kagami] and said meaningfully, "This thing holds many secrets, or rather, every sacred relic passed down from a civilization holds great secrets."

Ye Feng asked, "What secret? I haven't seen any related information in the Zhirenmeng Forum database."

Kitagawa Hideo slowly uttered two words, "Cross over."

Ye Feng was completely stunned when he heard this.

This was the second time Ye Feng had heard the word "travel" from the natives of the ancestral planet, besides the guide camel!

At that moment, Kitagawa Orine's mocking voice came from outside the door, "Father, give up on that idea. There's no such thing as time travel in this world. Even if you found the most outstanding double-S super genius among the Homo sapiens, you still couldn't decipher the path to time travel!"

Kitagawa Hero didn't refute his daughter, but stared at Ye Feng and said very sincerely, "The idea of ​​time travel is something that few people, let alone my daughter, would believe. Even among the other members of my Dragon Clan, most of the other five ancient human races besides Homo sapiens would be unwilling to believe it. But I think it's true, and I have a strong premonition that the most outstanding Golden Race among Homo sapiens, the Great Xia, has already mastered some kind of secret of time travel!"

"You don't need to stare at me with such shock! I'm not crazy, I'm perfectly rational, and I'm in the prime of my life as a dragonman. There's nothing wrong with my logic or mental state."

"I have evidence to support my claims!"

"I spent nearly a century investigating almost all missing persons cases that might be related to time travel, and I found that the places where these cases occurred most frequently were almost all in Great Xia, with only about one percent occurring in the West."

"The occurrence of time travel events necessarily requires an extremely advanced civilization and a very advanced human race."

"It's like the Great Xia with its golden-skinned people, and Western Europe with its platinum-skinned people!"

"Among the Homo sapiens races, the Golden Race holds a dominant position in terms of the number of transmigrators with an absolute and overwhelming advantage!"

"And all of this proves that time travel is a real phenomenon!"

"If it exists, how is time travel achieved?"

"This is what I've been researching all along, and all of this has ultimately come down to these relics."

"I have sought out many powerful elders, including the ancestors of the dragonkin, the technological elders of the Neanderthal tribes, the goddess of wisdom among the elves, the hammer elder among the dwarves, and even the oldest redwood ancestor among the druids."

"But none of them had an answer. Only the Redwood Ancestor gave me a vague hint. The Redwood Ancestor told me that the secrets of this world only exist in two places: one is in the tower of the most prosperous race, and the other is at the pinnacle of secular power."

"On our ancestral planet today, the most powerful human race is undoubtedly Homo sapiens, and the pinnacle of secular power is the Fifth Council at the Human Alliance headquarters!"

"The Fifth Council is very mysterious; nobody knows where it is."

"I can only ask you, the most outstanding genius among the Homo sapiens, for a favor. If you're willing to help, my reward will definitely satisfy you!"

"Arigato!"

At this point, Beichuan Yingxiong humbly bowed his head and kowtowed to Ye Feng.

Ye Feng's face remained calm, but his heart was practically exploding.

Me, me, do you think Kitagawa Hero can read minds?

No, that's not right. Even if he could read minds, he couldn't possibly read my mind!

I am a time traveler, and my mind is protected by a chat group defense network. If you want to read my thoughts, you must enter the chat group. However, the chat group owner, "Sentinel," is already gone, so only a powerful figure can read my mind and memories. He, Beichuan Hero, cannot do it.

Since he can't do it, it can only mean that everything he's saying now is something he came up with on his own!

So here's the question: if he can discover the traces of time travel, does that mean that if I crack the code, I can directly follow the clues to search for the wanderers who have been separated from their homeland in all the worlds?

The big shots in the chat group were in an uproar.

Hongmeng's First Deepest Affection: It truly lives up to the saying, "When you think you've reached the end of the road, a new path opens up!" Hahaha! I was originally thinking, "Oh no, how are we going to find our way home?" But it turns out these bastards from my hometown are also searching for the way back! Doesn't this make perfect sense?

Wuji Demon Lord: Hahaha, we're out but can't go back, they want to get out but can't get out. Doesn't this create a perfect closed loop? Send them out and pick us up at the same time. Everyone's needs are met!

Fifteenth-realm Martial Artist: I hereby declare that from today onwards, the Beichuan Hero Dragon-Human Race is our strategic partner. As for the Homo sapiens destroying the Neanderthals and Charlie, that's fine, but don't kill the Dragon-Humans yet. This Beichuan Hero's research direction has perfectly solved our worries. Ye Feng must lend him a hand!

Immortal God of Magic: Of course I'll help, but we need to agree on the conditions. Don't let the dragon people block your research progress, or kill you off after you've finished your research. It's not too late to analyze it after you find a safe place.

Great Love Immortal King: Yes, play with him first. His daughter is quite pretty! Why don't you spend the next few days dating and have a little dragon to play with? Once the main force of the Homo sapiens Alliance arrives and you're safe, it won't be too late to study the relics.