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

In the lower cabin of the Blue Ghost, in a crew dormitory that was temporarily converted into a prison cell, two bare metal hard beds were placed side by side.

Yi Shenshou sat on the ground, leaning against the bed far away from the cabin door, with his eyes closed and his head lowered tiredly. A black metal ring was tightly wrapped around his thin neck.

"Cough, cough, cough--" He was awakened by the violent coughing sound coming from behind. Yi Shenshou opened his bloodshot eyes, turned around abruptly, and helped Yan Shupei, who was coughing so hard that he could not lie on the bed, to sit up.

"Teacher..." Yi Shenshou patted Yan Shupei's back to help him calm down. Under his palm was Yan Shupei's spine, which was so thin and protruding that it hurt his hand.

Yi Shenshou clearly remembered that before the end of the world, Yan Shupei had been exercising and keeping fit all year round. Although he was not very strong, he was definitely not the skinny type.

After the end of the world, he saw his teacher running around to plan for the academy and the surviving teachers and students, trying to get supplies, and also dealing with pressure from the speaker, working hard every day.

After they were captured on this strange island and locked up in this small cabin, the teacher worried about the safety of his students and couldn't sleep day and night. He became anxious and frantic, and quickly became haggard and aged.

After a long while, Yan Shupei finally stopped coughing. He leaned against the edge of the bed and said in a hoarse voice, "Shen Shou, you must listen carefully to what I am going to say to you next."

Yi Shenshou vaguely guessed what Yan Shupei was going to say, and for once he disobeyed his wishes, he said in a gentle but firm tone, "Teacher, we can survive."

For some reason, he always felt that if Xinxin found out that they were missing, she would definitely come to rescue them, even if this was an unknown island in the center of the ocean, far away from Guanghui City.

Yan Shupei shook his head helplessly: "Shen Shou, even if I follow their request and put the blame on Xinxin for the second evolution potion, they will not let us go."

"I said, it's death. If I don't tell you, maybe I can delay it for another two days."

"My only regret and guilt is that I dragged those innocent students into this—"

"Teacher!" Yi Shenshou frowned and interrupted him, "This is not your fault."

Yan Shupei closed his eyes, tears seeping from the corners of his eyes, and he said in agony: "Shen Shou, rationally, I know that this is the fault of those greedy and inhumane politicians, but when I think of those children who barely escaped the doomsday catastrophe and will disappear silently somewhere on this island, I..."

Yan Shupei's throat choked with sobs. He raised his head, and two lines of turbid tears flowed down the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes and into his messy gray hair.

Yi Shenshou pursed his lips tightly, his heart seemed to be entangled by a thorny vine. They captured the students of the academy, which was like pinching the pulse of their teacher and him. When he was in the Desolate Valley, he had no way to break this deadlock. Now he was put in a collar that restrained his mental power and could no longer use any of his supernatural powers. He was even more helpless.

He really couldn't think of what to do to rescue both the teacher and his classmates.

Maybe he thought Xinxin would come to save them, but it was just a fantasy that came into being when people were in despair.

"Shenshou, do you still remember what I told you?" Yan Shupei calmed his troubled mind, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said softly.

"What is it, teacher?"

"After the incident with Mingying and the others, I was called to the Guard General Administration Building to take a statement, and you met me at the door."

"I told you at the time, Shen Shou, that you are just a student. You have done everything you can. You don't need to shoulder the responsibility that belongs to the teacher. Do you remember?"

Yi Shenshou stared in silence. As smart as he was, he had already guessed why Yan Shupei said that.

Sure enough, Yan Shupei came closer to him and said in an almost completely silent voice: "When we can't delay any longer, I will promise them that if they want me to accuse Xinxin, they will definitely need to take us out of this room. Then you can find a chance to run away."

"Swish--" The door of the prison cell opened from the outside, Yi Shenshou stood up and stood in front of Yan Shupei.

He and Feng Mengduo, whose face was full of frost, stared at each other from across the small cell.

Feng Mengduo sneered and said, "Half a day has passed. Have you thought about it, Dean Yan?"

Yan Shupei grabbed Yi Shenshou's arm and used his strength to barely stand on the ground.

"Didn't you say 24 hours before? This matter is very serious. I need to think about it again."

"But before I make a decision, I need to know that those students are safe."

Feng Mengduo sneered, looking up and down at Yan Shupei who was barely standing, and said, "Dean Yan, they say that people who live in an ivory tower their whole lives are obsessed with scientific research and simply don't understand worldly affairs. I didn't believe it before."

"Because I have seen too many opportunists in the academic circle who are trying their best to gain personal gains. Their minds and tactics are no worse than any experienced politicians."

"But you are indeed someone who impressed me."

She walked slowly into the cell, a sinister smile on her lips.

"An old thing with half of its body buried in the ground can be so naive that you think your clumsy lies can deceive me."

Yi Shenshou tensed his muscles and used his backhand to block Yan Shupei behind him.

"Then you found a chance to run away." Feng Mengduo murmured as if she was very close to him, "You didn't think I couldn't hear you if you spoke in a breathy voice? You have been doing scientific research all your life, but you seem to have no idea about the technological level of this starship."

Yan Shupei's face turned pale, and his body, which was already struggling to hold on, was already shaky.

Yi Shenshou steadied his body and said coldly, "I won't run away, but your conspiracy will never succeed."

"When Xinxin came to the Academy, the Second Evolution Potion had already been stolen. We reported the theft to the Guards. Everything has a clear timeline. It's useless for you to confuse right and wrong."

Feng Mengduo was amused by him: "Xinxin, you call her so affectionately, you must be very familiar with her~"

"Since we are so familiar with each other, you must know that she is surrounded by a group of sentinels with extraordinary powers, right?"

"With them here, how difficult is it for her to travel a thousand miles a day?"

"Oh, by the way, their spirit bodies can fly, you should know that too."

"So, after leaving Maple City, your Xinxin sneaked into the Glorious City Science Academy and stole the secondary evolution potion that was originally used to help crops adapt to the apocalyptic environment more quickly."

"Afterwards, she went to the 9th Mountain Division's base near Frost City and forced the soldiers who had just completed the disaster relief mission to participate in her evil human experiments in order to strengthen her own power."

"At the same time, she framed Frost City Lord Sheng Xiuming and staged the tragic incident of the red dragon attacking the city. She used the flesh and blood of thousands of her compatriots to pave her way to the supremacy of Glory City."

"You know, there are quite a few people in Zhangcheng who have seen her with a red dragon."

Feng Mengduo's eyes flashed with a dark red light. She said fiercely: "These things are perfectly timed and logically reasonable. Tell me, what is black and what is white, tell me?"