The Last Sentinel

"The execution time of Order No. 1052 is 720 hours, or 30 natural days. This is the Human Alliance's final grace to you scum of humanity. You may choose any way you like to end your lives, but do not expect the Human Alliance to spare your lives."

"Because from this moment on, we are no longer a single people; you are traitors!"

"There is no sacrifice too great to bear, nor betrayal too small to be tolerated."

"The Human Alliance will emulate the traitors punished by our ancestors 100,000 years ago, and utterly exterminate you! Every trace of you in this world will be erased!"

"Supplementary terms to the Extinction Order: The Extinction Order will be activated at time 1052. All containment teams may conduct containment missions in accordance with the Human Alliance Convention rules. Any person who refuses to be contained may be subject to precision strikes for map clearing."

"During the execution of the Extermination Order, citizens with legal identities in the East and West will undergo identity verification and memory erasure after being identified by the containment team, and will be transferred to other areas of Japan. Any individual who violates the Extermination Order, regardless of whether they have a legal identity, may be eliminated."

In all 23 wards of Tokyo, whether in ruins ravaged by monsters or in the luxurious Ginza business district, wall screens, mobile phone screens, television screens, and loudspeakers are loudly repeating the contents of the Human Alliance's "Extinction Order."

Chaos erupted completely at this moment. The originally excited demonstrators, the young people who had previously clamored to unite with Atlantis to avenge the East, and the old men, all turned ashen-faced in an instant. In the blink of an eye, they turned into hysterical madness, with all sorts of smashing, looting, burning, killing and plundering. In an instant, the ugliness of human nature was played out in the streets and alleys.

This once hypocritical and falsely civilized city has torn off its last veil of secrecy, and the law of the jungle has become the only rule.

Some individuals, unwilling to accept extinction, attempted to drive their cars out of Tokyo's 23 wards to escape this place on the verge of extinction.

However, the Human Alliance was well-prepared. The Human Alliance had a mature and meticulous plan for the execution of the Extinction Order. What you can think of, how could the geniuses of the Human Alliance not have thought of it?

On land, all exits to the outside world from Tokyo's 23 wards have been completely cut off.

Under the operation of the Great Xia [Earth Fissure Generator], a controllable earthquake zone was detonated. The terrifying crustal activity created a huge earthquake fissure zone. An elliptical fissure chasm, more than 100 meters deep and more than 10 kilometers wide, perfectly cut Tokyo and the surrounding islands apart. The entire Tokyo was like a huge isolated island. At this moment, seawater rushed into the terrifying fissure chasm with a roar. Huge waves crashed against the fissure chasm, continuously impacting and expanding the fissure chasm created by the Earth Fissure Generator.

Since land is not an option, surely the sky can!

Sorry, the Human Alliance's [Storm] magnetic field launcher has been activated from its orbit, directly enveloping Tokyo. All magnetic energy devices are completely disabled, planes cannot take off, and anyone attempting to escape will be shot down by the patrol robots.

Tokyo Bay, Ginza, the rooftop of the Imperial Building.

Wearing a hospital gown, Kitagawa Hero looked down at the burning, killing, and looting below. As flames soared into the sky and screams shook the heavens, his eyes, though calm, held a deep sense of lingering fear.

"8500 million people!"

"That's a population of nearly one hundred million!"

"They make up one-eightieth of the total Homo sapiens population!"

"The Human Alliance can just throw its hands of it like that."

"Better to kill a hundred million innocent people than let one guilty person go free—that's just too ruthless!"

At that moment, Kitagawa Orine walked over. "Father, why did you leave the hospital! You should go and get treatment."

Kitagawa Hideo waved his hand, "We're unkillable dragon people. As long as we're not instantly killed, this little injury is nothing!"

Looking down at the chaotic city below, Kitagawa Orine murmured, "The Eastern Divine Land is truly enraged. The [Earth Rift Generator] and [Weather Generator] are fully activated, and the space-based weapon-grade [Storm] magnetic energy pulse weapon is at full capacity. Now, the entire Tokyo is in a state of magnetic field disorder and physical isolation. Coupled with this [Extinction Order] propaganda, I'm afraid that Tokyo will become a dead city in less than 720 hours."

"By the way, Father, why did Homo sapiens give us 720 hours? Is this time really what they called their final gift?"

Kitagawa Hideo asked, "What kind of method of killing do you think is the most ruthless?"

Kitagawa Orine pondered, "The extinction of the dinosaurs, an asteroid impact!"

"No," Kitagawa Hideo shook his head. "It's too crude, not precise enough, and doesn't suit the tastes of Homo sapiens."

Kitagawa Ori said, "Please enlighten me, Father!"

Kitagawa Hideo said, "Three to four billion years ago, there was a mass extinction on this planet."

Kitagawa Orine blurted out, "Father, you mean the 'Anaerobic Pandemic' caused by prokaryotic cyanobacteria? That disaster killed 99.999% of plants and animals!"

Kitagawa Hideo nodded and said, "That's right. 3.4 billion years ago, cyanobacteria were the first organisms on the blue planet to have photosynthesis. Using the sun's energy, they could synthesize the substances they needed from carbon dioxide and water, and then release the waste produced by photosynthesis—oxygen—into the atmosphere. However, oxygen was very harmful to the anaerobic organisms that existed on Earth at that time. When they encountered oxygen, their life activities would be inhibited, and if it lasted for a long time, it might lead to their death."

"The emergence of cyanobacteria caused oxygen to cover the entire planet, the temperature dropped to freezing point, triggering the Great Oxidation Event, which led to the extinction of all anaerobic organisms."

"But Homo sapiens extracted genes from cyanobacteria and cultivated the opposite oxygen-eating controlled plant, which they named the 'Lycoris radiata'."

"The Lycoris radiata takes 720 hours from planting to bloom. By then, all the oxygen in the city will be depleted, and all oxygen-suppressing life in the city's 85 million inhabitants will suffocate!"

Kitagawa Orine gasped, thinking to herself, "The Human Alliance is really ruthless when it comes to its own people!"

Looking down at the scene below, Kitagawa Hero sighed, "The Neanderthals had a delusion that they could successfully kidnap the Human Alliance by hiding in human cities and taking more innocent Homo sapiens hostage, thereby threatening the Human Alliance and making people hesitant to act."

"But they don't understand one thing: the reason why Homo sapiens have become the top rulers of this planet is that they have always adhered to the ultimate elitist creed, namely the principle of the supremacy of power!"

"Behind human supremacy lies meritocracy, and beneath meritocracy lies a deeply ingrained worship of super geniuses—that is, the worship of gods!"

"As long as the gods exist, as long as super geniuses exist, then there is no sacrifice too great for the Homo sapiens to bear, nor betrayal too small to be tolerated!"

"The Neanderthals were able to successfully kidnap people in the past because no god had appeared that the Alliance of Humans desired."

"And now, the gods have appeared."

Kitagawa Orine frowned and asked, "Father, do you mean the Sentinels are the gods appointed by the Human Alliance?"

Kitagawa Hideo said, "Isn't that right? Didn't you see Wu Budu's attitude towards the Sentinel? A martial arts master who is decisive and ruthless was extremely gentle and warm towards him! In fact, when Ye Feng said, 'King Kitagawa and his daughter saved my life,' Wu Budu, who only kills and never saves, violated his personal principle of only killing and never saving for the first time and released my father and daughter!"

"Before us, no extraordinary person could survive Wu Budu's attack."

Kitagawa Orine recalled the suffocatingly oppressive scene from the previous night. When Wu Budu stared at her and her father, his killing intent was undisguised. If he raised his finger and pointed, she and her father would be reduced to dust!

After Ye Feng said one sentence, the imposing big shot stopped his attack and turned to leave.

Kitagawa Orine then asked, "Father, if—I mean if you were at your peak, could you defeat Wu Budu...?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Kitagawa Hideo interrupted his daughter directly. "Are you crazy? You unfilial daughter! Wu Budu, do you think I'd dare to mess with your father? If it weren't for the Human Alliance's constraints, someone like him could wipe out all the Inhumans in Tokyo by himself, whether it's Charlie's Neanderthals, our Dragonmen, or some strange hybrid monsters—not a single heretic would be left! Aside from mechs, no human can defeat a supreme powerhouse from a top-tier race!"

Kitagawa Ori asked curiously, "Father, as you said, Wu Budu alone could wipe out all the alien races in Tokyo. The Human Alliance could simply send him to rescue Ye Feng and wipe out the alien races along the way. Why issue an 'Extinction Order'? That would cause the deaths of almost a hundred million Homo sapiens!"

Kitagawa Hideo's deep eyes gazed at the burning building and uttered, "The Pledge of Allegiance."

Kitagawa Orion asked, "What is a pledge of allegiance?"

"A deal," Kitagawa Hideo said. "From the perspective of the Human Alliance's higher-ups, the Sentinels are the Human Alliance's greatest asset for the future, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they are the Human Alliance's hope. The Human Alliance needs the Sentinels to lead the Human Alliance to glory, but the Human Alliance can't offer the Sentinels any rewards that would interest them. At the very least, the Sentinels wouldn't be interested in money, status, mechs, or weapons. So hatred becomes a business. The Sentinels hate Japan, the Sentinels hate Tokyo, the Sentinels hate the Others and everything related to the Others."

"Revenge has become a business deal at this time. The Human Alliance is willing to lose one-eighth of its own population just to show the genius how much we value you. Even if it means losing one-eightieth of our own tribe's population, we will avenge you and stand up for you."

"This is an expensive pledge of allegiance, a pledge of allegiance from the Sentinels of the gods they worship."

"And the Sentinels will see the Alliance's sincerity towards them, and they will give their all to lead the Alliance to even greater heights!"

"The benefits the Human Alliance will gain in the future will far outweigh the one-eightieth of their population loss!"

"This will be the most profitable deal ever made by the leadership of the Human Alliance!"

Kitagawa Orine asked, "Then, will the Neanderthals just surrender?"

Kitagawa Hideo turned around, put his hands behind his back, and said, "It's hard to say. Neanderthals consider themselves perfect humans. They have intelligence and strength far exceeding that of Homo sapiens. They are a powerful race that survived three ice ages. Whether it's Charlie or the race of his father behind Charlie, they must have a backup plan, or rather, the 'Extinction Order' is the result they want to see."

Kitagawa Orine took out a silver titanium button and said to herself, "Why don't the Neanderthals leave this universe like us? Why do they insist on fighting to the death with Homo sapiens when their chances of winning are clearly slim?"

Kitagawa looked at the silver button and said, "That's not necessarily true. The Neanderthals are said to have outside support. Some forces that don't belong to our planet, or even our universe, are supporting them from behind. This time, when Homo sapiens and Neanderthals clash, Homo sapiens may not be able to escape unscathed."

Kitagawa Orine twirled the silver button with her fingers, her beautiful eyes shining: "I hope the Sentinel is safe and sound."

Kitagawa Hideo didn't speak. He remembered this button; it was the communication button on Ye Feng's combat suit when it was destroyed. His daughter was holding an artifact from Homo sapiens. What was she thinking?

It's a damn forbidden love!

However, Kitagawa Hero did not open his mouth to expose his daughter's thoughts.

Because, I myself am also a transgressor of forbidden love.

If it weren't for that relationship back then, perhaps I wouldn't have been expelled from the Dragonkin race and ended up wandering in this Tokyo area.

Do you need a reason to love someone?

do you need?

Don't you need it?

The most dangerous kind of relationship is when you find yourself falling in love with someone you hate.

Ye Feng has killed her twice, and she is the person he hates the most. But this hate is changing, and the changed hate has a sour and foul smell.

Because the smell of love is sour and stinky...