The Last Sentinel

Charlie turned around, looked at his brother who was enjoying his meal, and said with some suspicion, "You'd be so kind as to tell me so many secrets? I don't believe it."

John said, "Same here. I don't believe you'll readily leave the City of Perfection and return to the surface world after I tell you these secrets! But now a deal is in front of you. Want to make a deal? I swear in the name of the Neanderthal ancestral spirits that everything I've said is true."

Upon hearing this, Charlie raised his hand and solemnly promised, "I can also promise that the information I am about to share is all true."

“Very good,” John said. “To show my sincerity, I’ll tell you a secret first: the construction of the Perfect City is not a secret. In fact, the Perfect City was not built by Neanderthals.”

Charlie was taken aback. "Not Neanderthals? They're Sabbats?"

John shook his head and said, "No, the Sabite aliens hadn't even arrived on this planet yet!"

Charlie asked, "Then, who built the perfect city?"

John said thoughtfully, "A poor bastard, he came from the Great Xia of China. About five thousand years ago, a very fierce divine war broke out in Great Xia, and he fled here. To commemorate his homeland, he built the Perfect City on this ancient continent. As for the Neanderthals, they were nothing more than opportunists who took over the land! We have only occupied this continent for a little over a thousand years."

Charlie asked, "Who's that unlucky guy?"

John said, "This is another bargaining chip. Tell me your intelligence first."

Charlie then recounted the entire Sentinel's Plan A, the "suicide plan."

Upon hearing this, John burst into laughter, his angular face filled with disdain and mockery. He rested his chin on his hand and said to his older brother, "Foolish! My older brother!"

"This is utterly foolish!"

"The sentry lied to you!"

"You don't actually believe that the fundamental will of Homo sapiens would attack the fundamental will of this continent, do you?"

"It doesn't exist!"

"If we could attack, we would have attacked long ago!"

"The reason we haven't attacked is because this world was created by the Great Xia Golden Race of Homo sapiens, their god-like beings! In a sense, the relationship between the primal will of Homo sapiens and the primal will of this continent is roughly like the relationship between you and me!"

"The two primordial wills despise and hate each other, but they are both from the same planet, both built by the same civilization, and both have a father. They cannot fight each other!"

"The Sentinel's so-called 'Eight Hundred Chosen Ones' plan is just a bluff!"

"Even if we kill all eight hundred of them, at most we might awaken the primal will of Homo sapiens, but it's absolutely impossible for it to trigger a dimensional reduction attack from the primal will of the Homo sapiens race!"

Faced with his younger brother John's merciless mockery, Charlie's cheeks turned as red as a monkey's bottom.

What?

Is this... is this fake?

The sentry lied to me!

But, but I truly felt that this was the Sentinel's plan!

John slowly poured himself a glass of wine. "I can understand that you were deceived. After all, you haven't been to the Royal Library, nor have you witnessed many things from 40,000 years ago, such as how the Neanderthals survived after being completely defeated by Homo sapiens 40,000 years ago."

"For example, after Homo sapiens unified the continent 40,000 years ago, why did the Sinian continental plate become the seven continents and five oceans we know today?"

"For example, the three-star ancient human race, a deep-space technological race that led to the extinction of Homo sapiens!"

"For example, the immortals were to ancient Homo sapiens what the modern human alliance is to ordinary human society."

"Homo sapiens has always been an extremely elitist group, worshipping the strong and firmly believing in the supremacy of strength! Homo sapiens has always lived in two worlds, a surface world and a deep world. The history of Homo sapiens as slaves is real, just as the bronze technology of Sanxingdui is real. It's like modern human society, where spaceships are real and electric cars are real. These are not contradictory."

Charlie stared at John and said, "The Sentinel has a Plan B now. He deciphered a bronze token and said he wants to build an altar. What do you think?"

Upon hearing this, John's expression suddenly turned cold and ruthless. "Bronze? What kind of bronze?"

Charlie raised his hand and pointed, and an image appeared on the ice table, clearly resembling the bronze token.

John stared at the patterns on the token and murmured, "This is... a product of the Sanxingdui civilization's bronze technology!"

Charlie said, "This is a centurion's token from the Tang Dynasty, not from Sanxingdui!"

"Shut up, you piece of trash!" John rudely interrupted Charlie. "Who do you know more, you or me? How much Sanxingdui technology have you seen? What do you know! This is the Sanxingdui civilization! This is the bronze technology remnant of Sanxingdui! How did this thing end up here?!"

"During the final judgment, Pangu was banished and transformed into a star. Weren't all traces of Sanxingdui bronze technology related to Pangu erased by the Sabit aliens? How could this thing appear on this planet?"

"Unless it's said that this thing wasn't left behind by Pangu, but by another genius of the Great Xia Clan who, like Pangu, touched the Star Key of Sanxingdui, but didn't open this civilization's ruins! They only brought out a token!"

Charlie felt frustrated, but he had nothing to say and couldn't join the conversation at all. He had never heard his brother say anything before.

At this moment, the difference between a scoundrel and a prince of the true bloodline is displayed to the fullest extent.

John said seriously, "This time, the sentry wasn't lying. Plan B, he's serious! We need to be on high alert this time! He's really going for it!"

"He must have analyzed the bronze artifacts and learned about the lost history of Sanxingdui bronze technology. Therefore, he must also know the secret of the Star Key. If he finds the Star Key left by Pangu, the origin of Sanxingdui bronze technology, the consequences would be unimaginable. The 1999 scenario would be recreated!"

Charlie sneered, "The Key to the Stars? You're scared?"

John grabbed Charlie by the neck, lifted him up, and said, enunciating each word clearly, "You bastard, listen to me! Do you even know what the Star Key means? It means you can unlock the remnants of civilization on this planet and take off!"

"Looking back, in early 1999, when the Sabite aliens attacked, the entire Earth didn't even have a single Guardian-class patrol ship. We used satellites and space stations as weapons to bombard the Sabite alien ships. It was as ridiculous as throwing stones at Space Marines."

"But then, the Star Key appeared. A genius from the Great Xia Dynasty, codenamed [Pangu], was the first to discover the three-star bronze technology and, following the historical path, found the Star Key, unlocking the ruins of the Great Xia civilization. Three months! Three months!"

"The Homo sapiens civilization developed at the speed of light; they directly broke through the definitions of physics, and even more so, they directly hijacked and enslaved the primordial will! They made the primordial will cooperate with them to modify the rules of physics and redefine the concept of technology!"

"In just six months, this ragtag Earth Alliance army has managed to hold its own against the entire Sabite alien fleet that spans an entire galaxy!"

"In just nine months, this rabble of Homo sapiens from the Earth Alliance was able to launch the Great Interstellar War at the Xuanxiao Star Gate, nearly annihilating the Sabitian Allied Fleet!"

"If it weren't for a traitor among the Homo sapiens, the Sabitians would have been wiped out by now!"

"Even though Homo sapiens were defeated, the Sabite aliens dared not push them too far, fearing they might force out another Pangu!"

"Do you think that the code names given to these high-ranking members of the Homo sapiens, such as 'Haotian,' 'Xuannü,' and 'Zhurong,' were just chosen for their pleasant-sounding names?"

"Wake up, my foolish old man! The history of Great Xia records 10,000 years, but the Neanderthals were defeated 40,000 years ago. Do you know what Homo sapiens were doing during those lost 30,000 years after they dominated the world?"

"Let me tell you what they've been doing for the past 30,000 years? Fighting! They've been fighting a frenzied internal war! Homo sapiens believed that only the most outstanding Homo sapiens deserved to survive, so over 30,000 years, they selected the most outstanding golden race, which is the Great Xia clan!"

"This lost 30,000 years of history is, in essence, the mythical war history of the Great Xia Dynasty!"

"The strongest beings among them, the gods, shattered the continent of China into seven continents and five oceans, causing tectonic plate fission! Later, they created planets and blasted into the dimensional universe! In the end, they disappeared into the depths of the dimensional universe, and finally disappeared at the edge of the universe."

"These mythical beings who vanished from the universe believed that out with the old, in with the new. Only when the old faction completely disappeared could the perfect new human race, the Golden Race, begin a new chapter for themselves. They left without any regrets, even taking all traces and imprints of themselves with them!"

"But they also understood that if the perfect human race were targeted by extraterrestrial civilizations, they would be wiped out. So they left behind the Star Key. When Homo sapiens looked up at the starry sky, they saw their ancient and powerful gods beckoning to them, waiting for them to follow in the footsteps of the gods, embark on the ancient path of the stars, and inherit their legacy! This is a true physical 'great-grandmother' beckoning to me!"

"The reason you can't see the Great Xia's sacred relics on this planet is because the Great Xia's sacred relics are all in the starry sky, on the ancient starry road!"

"And the key to unlocking the ancient starry road is—the Star Key!"

"Homo sapiens are at the top of the food chain not because they are powerful now, but because they have always been powerful. After their peak battle 40,000 years ago, they have been undergoing a bloody process of self-elimination for 30,000 years!"

"The mythology and history of China, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than a simplified description of those 30,000 years!"

"So, my foolish oni-san, do you now realize how stupid the thing you did was?"

"You've angered the most superior species on this planet, and you even think you're so great! You scum! You're going to kill the Neanderthals!"

Charlie stared intently at John. "If what you're saying is true, then isn't the Classic of Mountains and Seas also true?"

John said, "You think the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a novel? Let me tell you, the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a record of inanimate objects."

"Are these codenames like Haotian, Nezha, Xuan Nu, Zhu Rong, and Gouchen just for sounding good?"

"These codenames represent, on a deeper level, the memories of their predecessors who died in 1999 Star Wars!"

"This also means they've mastered some of the ultimate techniques, mechs, talents, and underlying genetic code of their fallen predecessors!"

"When they enter the starry sky, the deepest genes within them will awaken the inheritance of the true gods, and they will obtain their own Star Key. At that time, they will use the Star Key to unlock the inheritance of their own powerful civilization. This is the ultimate method for their civilization to preserve its combat power!"

John released his grip, and Charlie slumped to the ground, utterly exhausted. At that moment, he finally realized that he and his brother were not the same species at all. Even if they were both Neanderthals, one of them would be a paramecium and the other a god.

Perhaps, going to the ground to become a wandering prince wouldn't be a bad choice.

At the very least, he knows so many secrets of Homo sapiens, enough to make him live a very comfortable life on the ground.