The Guide to the End of the World: Four Sentinels Compete for Favor

The man seemed startled. He turned around and blocked the two children behind him, looking Ai Wanxin up and down with vigilance and caution.

"Who are you and why are you following me?"

"I'm fine. I'm alone." Ai Wanxin wrapped her sari tightly. Her beautiful eyes were filled with panic and helplessness. She spoke one word at a time, as if she was frightened. "I want to be chosen. Please."

The man saw that she was indeed alone, and his tense shoulders relaxed a little: "Young women are easy to be chosen, you can try tomorrow night."

Ai Wanxin shook her head with tears in her eyes: "No, I've been here for a long time, and no one chose me."

The man frowned, stared at her figure half hidden in the darkness, sighed softly, and said, "You are too thin."

In fact, Ai Wanxin was tall and straight, with thin and well-proportioned muscles, which contained extreme strength. However, in the eyes of people with generally broad bones, she was indeed considered thin.

Ai Wanxin was even more confused. She didn't understand what the connection was between being thin and not being chosen for eternal life.

"You can help me, you can, right?" Ai Wanxin used simple phrases to express her meaning.

The clumsy appearance would make people relax their vigilance. Sure enough, the man stood up straight and put his arms away, no longer in the posture of a bird protecting its chicks. His light-colored eyes were dim in the night, and he said vaguely: "I can't do anything, otherwise you can go to the bar at the pier and ask."

Ai Wanxin knew there were three docks here, but she didn't know which one the man was talking about, so she pretended not to understand what he said and asked in confusion, "What?"

"The dock." The man's tone became a little impatient. "Poseidon Harbor, didn't you come out from there?"

Ai Wanxin's eyes curved slightly: "I know, I will go to the bar in Poseidon Port."

A strange feeling arose in the man's heart, but he couldn't figure out what it was for a moment. When he raised his eyes again, the woman with a sari covering her face and beautiful eyes like stars was gone.

He turned around and wanted to take the two children into the house, but the boy lowered his shoulders and broke free from his hand, questioning in a still childish voice: "Dad, why did you let her go there? Didn't you warn me that I must never go there, not even close to it?"

The man's face darkened. "She asked if there was any solution. I just told her what I knew. Do you want her to continue to pester us?"

The little girl seemed a little frightened and called out "brother" in a low voice.

The boy wrapped the blanket around his sister and ran out without saying a word.

"Come back!" The man chased two steps and shouted in a low voice.

The only answer he got was the "da da da" sound of bare feet stepping in the dirty water.

Jing's tall figure walked out from the deep darkness. He stood beside Ai Wanxin and asked softly, "Sister, if you want to know where those chosen people were taken, I can take you to catch up with them tomorrow night. Why do we have to go to the dock?"

"Did you hear that man say that everyone came out of Poseidon Port?" Ai Wanxin explained patiently, "According to Xue Muqing and Fu Meng, the people of Eagle City were sent here through the portal. What about the people from other countries?"

"How did they get here? What are they doing here? Are they here just to choose eternal life?"

"We still have one day until evening. Let's first figure out the situation here, and then go see where those selected people have been taken."

"There are too many people here. If we start fighting rashly, there will be too many casualties. It's better to check it out first."

"Okay, sister." Jing smiled obediently.

He changed the subject, took Ai Wanxin's hand, and said with a little grievance: "Sister, your acting was really good just now, but you haven't shown me the promotional video you said you would show me last time."

Ai Wanxin patted the back of his hand and said softly, "I'll show it to you after I'm done with this."

"Da da da——" There were quick and loud footsteps behind her. The moment Ai Wanxin turned around, Jing had disappeared.

She was somewhat surprised to find that it was the boy who had caught up with her.

Just now the boy was blocked by his father and huddled in the shadows wrapped in a blanket, so Ai Wanxin couldn't see their appearance clearly. Now that the boy ran closer, Ai Wanxin could see clearly that the boy's cheeks were completely sunken, and his arms exposed outside his short sleeves were almost skin and bones, with some pus-oozing, scabies-like wounds on them.

The boy stopped half a meter in front of her, and before he could catch his breath, he said very quickly: "Don't go, don't go there."

Ai Wanxin half squatted down and asked, "Why?"

Her eyes inevitably swept over the boy's bare feet. The boy hid his feet behind him a little embarrassedly: "It's dangerous there. I heard it from others."

He didn't want to put a strange woman in danger because of his father's words, but he also didn't want to cause trouble for his family, so he told a little lie.

Ai Wanxin didn't ask any more questions. She took out a small cloth bag from her sari and handed it to the boy. When the boy reached out to take it, she held his lonely wrist.

Before the boy could struggle, a soft white light appeared from under her palm, and the wounds on the boy's body healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, returning to normal.

The boy slowly opened his eyes and said, "Eternal Light..."

"What is it?" Ai Wanxin asked.

The boy looked at her in amazement: "The eternal light that the sun god gave us, which can heal diseases, that ball..."

Ai Wanxin immediately understood why people had such satisfied expressions when bathing in the white light of the metal ball.

She blinked her eyelashes and said slowly: "This is a secret between us, okay?"

The boy nodded quickly. When she was about to let go, he asked anxiously, "Can you give mom back to us?"

Ai Wan thought of the red-haired woman who pushed her husband aside and walked into the queue without looking back. She stood up and said, "It is difficult for those who have been chosen to come back. If you try hard to survive, maybe we will see each other again one day."

Tears welled up in the boy's eyes, which were as clear as glass beads. Ai Wanxin pointed at the small cloth bag in his hand and said, "Don't let your father see it. Take good care of yourself and your sister."

The boy held back his tears and nodded, took two steps back, turned around and ran into the darkness as he had come.

Jing reappeared and asked in confusion, "Sister, what did you give him? Why didn't you let him give it to his father?"

"Some food and golden beans." Ai Wanxin looked at the boy disappearing at the end of the alley and said softly, "His parents went to participate in the selection themselves, but left their young and sick child in an unsafe home. Do you think they have ever thought about what would happen to the child if two people were selected at the same time?"

"Now that you mention it, it's really strange, but I don't think his father doesn't love them. After all, it's not easy to take care of two young children in the apocalypse."

"It's not too strange." Ai Wanxin turned around and continued walking towards Poseidon Port.

"Perhaps the attraction of eternal life is too great."