The Last Sentinel

Let's go back three days.

With the complete retreat of the Neanderthals, an empty, frozen fortress and thirty bewildered Homo sapiens warriors were left behind.

"Boss, Dian Wei has passed out! This is a pretty serious side effect!"

"Isn't that just nonsense? Taking down three hundred elite rangers in one move? Each of those rangers weighs over ten tons. Even if each one is comparable to an elephant, in a game, taking down three hundred elephants in one go would be considered serious cheating. The fact that Dian Wei's account wasn't banned immediately shows that the Source Will has shown leniency. If he didn't faint or get seriously injured, would that be justifiable?"

"The boss is right, hehe, but Awei's move just now was absolutely awesome!"

"Indeed, he has some of the charisma I had back in the day!"

"Boss, Awei just received his attendance bonus and funding subsidy."

"I'll compensate you tenfold later!"

"No, we don't need ten times the overtime pay, three times the overtime pay is fine. If the boss promises too much, we're worried we'll become the road-paving team."

"Why the hell do you bring up something that shouldn't be brought up! Get things sorted out and go inside!"

Brother Eighty led his men into the Frozen Fortress in a grand procession. What came into view were towering city walls and massive buildings, comparable to skyscrapers. The sturdy, thick ice walls were over ten meters thick, with guards every three steps and sentries every five. Even though Brother Eighty wasn't a military personnel, he could tell that the Frozen Fortress had been armed to the teeth by the Neanderthals. This was a true den of dragons and tigers!

If we were to launch a full-scale assault on this frozen fortress, even if all the Homo sapiens were like Dian Wei, capable of achieving great things, it would still require at least a hundred or so fearless warriors to charge forward and conquer the city.

Brother Eighty felt a lingering fear. "Fortunately, the enemy fled on their own, leaving us with this fortified base!"

Xu Chu, carrying Dian Wei on his back, asked, "Brother, what do we do next?"

Brother Eighty said, "You and the brothers search the rooms to see if the Neanderthals have left any bombs to harm us! I'm going to check the command center!"

"Yes, everyone! Spread out and thoroughly search the base!"

"yes!"

The group dispersed to search the base.

Brother Eighty then entered the fortress command room.

Inside the command room, a sweet, pungent smell filled the air. It was a purple, steaming beverage served in a giant teacup large enough to be used as a bathtub for Brother Eighty. On the huge table were some animal hide maps scattered about, and on the walls hung some huge animal tusk and bone ornaments. Among them, the tusks of a mammoth were particularly eye-catching. These tusks were a full fifteen meters long and were entirely silver-white. Brother Eighty was immediately captivated by them.

"My goodness!" Brother Eighty stroked the mammoth tusk. "When I visited the Polar Museum, the largest mammoth was only about a size bigger than a modern elephant, and its tusks were no more than three meters long. This one is fifteen meters long! It's hard to imagine that the mammoths on this continent must have been as big as school buildings!"

"This is such a big piece! If I took it back, I could make so many ivory lucky beads from it!"

"Tsk tsk!"

After admiring the mammoth ivory, Brother Eighty's gaze fell upon a huge conch shell horn.

"Tsk tsk!"

Brother Eighty looked at the bright blue conch shell horn, which shone brightly and was polished to a glossy sheen by the Neanderthals, clearly indicating that it was an extremely important item.

But how do you use this thing?

Brother Eighty raised his hand and gently rubbed the shiny spot on the plate. The next moment, the blue conch horn emitted a hissing sound, "User's genetic code detected. Gravitational wave transmission initiated based on the genetic code. Contacting gravitational waves on the same channel..."

"Ding! Gravitational wave signal from same genetic code received. Source signal: Sentinel."

"Connect now?"

Brother Eighty was stunned. This conch shell was a communicator!

Wow, the Neanderthals were an interesting group; their telephone design was like a magic lamp!

It connects with a simple rub, and it's quite intelligent; it has a simple appearance but advanced technology inside!

"Ding! The sentry has sent you a call invitation. Do you wish to accept?"

Brother Eighty hurriedly replied, "Agreed! Connect immediately!"

The blue conch horn released layers of blue ripples, and the projection of a sentry appeared on the white wall in front of it.

Before the azure boundary gate, a sentry stood on the deck, beaming. "Well done, buddy! Congratulations on taking over the Neanderthal border outpost!"

Brother Eighty, recalling the plan Ye Feng had given him, rubbed his hands together somewhat sheepishly and said, "This...this isn't quite what I expected. I originally planned to rush in and die, but who knew my brother Dian Wei would be so overpowered! I'm really sorry, sir! But don't worry, next time, I will definitely die! I guarantee it! Absolutely!"

Ye Feng waved his hand and said, "No, there's no need for him to die. The plan has changed."

Brother Eighty was taken aback. "The plan has changed? What do you mean?"

Ye Feng said, "What I'm about to say might shatter your worldview, so be prepared."

Brother Eighty laughed heartily, "Sir, you're too kind! To be honest, ever since I joined the Human Alliance, I've been waking up in shock and falling asleep in shock every day. Shock is as normal to me as my period. Now, I can calmly accept whatever shocking things you say. After all, I even think it's reasonable for my brother to cheat and dominate the world. There's nothing I can't accept."

Ye Feng raised his left hand, and a bright blue light shone from his palm, revealing an ancient bronze token. As the sentry clenched his left hand, the token instantly disintegrated and was completely analyzed.

The token was broken down into countless small modules. Upon closer inspection, there were tens of millions of these modules. These modules spun continuously in the palm of the hand like a galaxy, dazzling and magical.

Seeing this, Brother Eighty couldn't help but ask, "Sir, what... what is this?"

Ye Feng said, "This thing is called a sacrificial vessel, or more commonly, a sacred relic."

Eighty-Brother blinked. "Sacrificial vessels? Objects used in sacrifices?"

"As expected of the CEO of a listed company," Ye Feng said. "The most important matters of the state are sacrifice and war. This token of a centurion from the Tang Dynasty is made of a sacrificial mark left by a prehistoric civilization before the Tang Dynasty. When the first Japanese envoy to Tang, Shi Yuanmingya, was on a mission to the Tang Dynasty, he met Yuan Tiangang, the director of the Imperial Observatory of the Tang Dynasty. Yuan Tiangang gave this item to Shi Yuanmingya, saying that it should be returned to the Tang people when they went to Mount Fuji. Shi Yuanmingya's descendant, Shi Yuanmingxin, returned this item to me the day before yesterday."

"At first, I didn't quite understand the deeper meaning behind Lord Yuan Tiangang's arrangement, or rather, could Yuan Tiangang have foreseen that I would come to Mount Fuji today to carry out the Tokyo destruction plan?"

"But later, I gradually realized that something was wrong."

I wonder if you've ever heard this saying?

Eighty-Brother raised his hand. "What did you say?"

Ye Feng said, "The antidote will be available within three steps."

Brother Eighty chimed in, "The path to salvation lies within that!"

Ye Feng laughed, "Yes, after I understood that sentence, I analyzed this item. It would have been better if I hadn't analyzed it, because once I did, I discovered a secret: why are there relics almost all over the world, even in 'trash' Tokyo, there are three divine artifacts, but we in China have no relics, or if we do, they are scattered abroad?"

Brother Eighty, "What is the truth behind that secret?"

Ye Feng said, "This secret is a bit beyond your comprehension. Even if I told you, you would probably find it hard to accept. What I want to tell you is that the Perfect City was built during the Middle Ages, and during that period, the Tang Dynasty dominated the world."

"And in this world, the true secrets reside in only two places: one is within the towering spires of prestigious sects, and the other is atop the pinnacle of worldly power!"

"The Tang Dynasty meets both of the above requirements, therefore, the Tang Dynasty knows all the secrets of this world, including the existence of Neanderthals."

"Yuan Tiangang already knew about the hidden danger of the Perfect City back then, so he left something and placed it at the exit of the Perfect City, Mount Fuji."

"When the Perfect City invades our Great Xia one day, and the Tang people reach the foot of Mount Fuji, they will be able to obtain this item and suppress the Perfect City!"

"This is our ultimate weapon against the Perfect City!"

"I told you before that I would let eight hundred of you die first to awaken the innate will of Homo sapiens, crush the Neanderthal origin, break through the limitations of that origin, and allow us to enter, thus forcing a war!"

"This is Plan A."

"Plan A's advantage lies in its efficiency, but its disadvantages are also obvious. The sacrifices are too great. The number of deaths of the eight hundred chosen ones and the number of experts who died in the life-or-death battle with the Neanderthals are not what I want to see."

"And I have a Plan B! Plan B is much gentler, which is to use the sacred relics as a starting point to build our sacrificial altar on Neanderthal territory. Once the sacrificial altar is built, the primordial power of Great Xia will continuously flow into the ancient continent."

"In this way, by relying on the power of origin to gradually erode it, even without awakening the original will, even without the immortal chosen one, we can slowly plot against it, changing the rules of the ancient continent, making its rules the material rules of the surface!"

"But there is a prerequisite for doing so: one must be able to gain a foothold in this world and not be killed by the ruthless methods of the alien races."

"I initially thought Plan A was more likely, but now I think Plan B is more reliable!"

"Therefore, the situation has changed, the plan has been altered, Plan A has become Plan B, and the suicide plan has been changed to building a temple altar!"

Brother Eighty asked, "Does the commander mean to build a Great Xia altar?"

Ye Feng nodded: "It's not just about building an altar; we also need to gather other Homo sapiens here, especially the eight hundred Chosen Ones. I don't know how to use the relics yet, but I'm certain of one thing: the more people there are, the greater the power of the relics."

Brother Eighty said, "I don't quite understand the principle of the erosion of the source power that the commander mentioned, but I obey the commander's orders. I will light the beacon tower and summon other Homo sapiens to gather here."

"Okay!" Ye Feng said, "Don't fight the Neanderthals for now. Settle down and wait for my signal."

Brother Eighty replied, "Yes!"

Ye Feng's figure disappeared from the screen. Eighty-ge felt thirsty, so he took a sip of the cloyingly sweet, fishy-tasting liquor, then kept cursing, "What the hell!"

"It tastes awful!"

"How did Neanderthals, those monsters, even eat this?"

"..."