The Strongest Sentinel (18): He was quite looking forward to Gu Juntian’s “revenge”.

The live stream ball finally flew away.

The people in the ruling faction had long wanted to end the live broadcast, but things developed too quickly, and they didn’t have time.

Moreover, Zhou Qinghao had already joined forces with a guide, their momentum was gone, and cutting off the live stream was pointless.

At eighty years old, far exceeding the average life expectancy in the outer city, the appearance of the governor had remained in middle age, showing no signs of aging.

But at this moment, he sat dejectedly in his chair, suddenly looking a bit like an old man.

Zhou Qinghao, who was also sitting at the table, was in very good spirits, looking like he had turned back ten years.

He had already finished the fried meat that Gu Juntian prepared on the table.

This piece of meat was cooked to perfection, incredibly delicious. Gu Juntian’s culinary skills were the best he had ever seen in his life.

Of course, it might not be that Gu Juntian’s cooking skills were good, but rather that when Gu Juntian cooked meat, it was filled with love.

Wasn’t it said that meals made with love were the best?

Zhou Qinghao sat at the table, expressionless, savoring the moment.

Tang Chen and the others thought he was contemplating something important and didn’t dare to disturb him for a moment, but in reality, Zhou Qinghao’s mind was completely blank.

Since discovering that Gu Juntian was indeed a guide and even had a great fondness for him, his thoughts had been happily floating, refusing to come back down to earth.

Compared to the serious Zhou Qinghao, Gu Juntian seemed much easier to get along with. The most important thing was, Gu Juntian was actually a super S-level guide!

One of Zhou Qinghao’s subordinates spoke up: “Mr. Gu, we didn’t expect you to be a super S-level guide! I wish you and our commander a lifetime of happiness and eternal love!”

Gu Juntian loved hearing such words, and with a smile, he said, “Same to you.”

Seeing that Gu Juntian liked it, Tang Chen immediately said, “Mr. Gu, you and my teacher are truly a match made in heaven!”

“That’s right.” Gu Juntian replied without any politeness.

Seeing this, everyone surrounded Gu Juntian and praised him for a while. Then someone asked, “Mr. Gu, when did you and the commander get together?”

Gu Juntian said, “I met Qinghao when he came to our school to give a lecture. The first time I saw him, I fell in love with him at first sight.”

Gu Juntian was having a great time chatting with these people.

Although the wedding night was gone, there was a city-wide live broadcast, so now everyone in the underground city knew about his relationship with Zhou Qinghao. That was not too bad, right?

Moreover, he really liked Zhou Qinghao’s subordinates.

These people were obviously battle-hardened; they were the ones protecting Base One.

Zhou Qinghao’s subordinates also really liked Gu Juntian.

Who didn’t like a guide? Especially when it was their commander’s guide!

He also heard their conversation. The boiling thoughts in his mind finally calmed down, and he began to reflect on everything that had happened before.

Gu Juntian fell in love with him at first sight?

Made sense, Gu Juntian had always been very enthusiastic, and at that time, he even took the initiative to ask him for the contact details.

As for Liang Xia, whom he was very concerned about before…

When Gu Juntian said that the gift he brought for Liang Xia was just a token of appreciation, he no longer felt jealous of Liang Xia. Later, when Gu Juntian said that he had long discovered Liang Xia’s true nature and that his contact with Liang Xia was merely to understand Liang Xia’s intentions, the little grudge in his heart completely vanished.

He even started to feel regretful and guilty—he shouldn’t have doubted Gu Juntian.

Fortunately, no matter how much he suspected Gu Juntian, he didn’t harm him. At most, he just held Gu Juntian tightly and took the initiative to sleep with him…

Uh… based on the previous situation when their mental powers combined, Gu Juntian didn’t dislike those.

So at that time, Gu Juntian wasn’t angry at all. No, wait, it seemed he was a bit angry too…

Someone was chatting happily with Gu Juntian and said with a smile, “Mr. Gu, our boss doesn’t understand romance and has done a lot of excessive things to you. We’re really sorry. You can just get back at him, and we won’t stop you! We just want to know what he has done.”

Gu Juntian laughed and said, “He’s done quite a few outrageous things! First, he suddenly hugged me, and then it was a princess carry. I’m a grown man, what does it look like for him to carry me like that? I’ll definitely carry him back one day!”

Zhou Qinghao’s subordinates burst into laughter, suddenly feeling that Zhou Qinghao, who was sitting next to them with a gloomy face, wasn’t so scary anymore.

Wait, their boss wasn’t gloomy; he was even smiling!

Oh my God, their boss laughed!

Zhou Qinghao indeed smiled. Looking at the unrestrained and flamboyant Gu Juntian, he couldn’t help but chuckle.

After finishing his laugh, seeing his subordinates looking at him in shock, he returned to his usual demeanor and said to them, “What are you all laughing about? With such a big incident happening, there must be a lot to do. Aren’t you all going to get busy?”

There were indeed many things for them to resolve now. Tang Chen asked, “Teacher, what should we do next?”

Next, he wanted to have a wedding.

He and Gu Juntian had already formed a mental bond, but they hadn’t had a wedding yet!

But obviously, now was not the time to have a wedding.

Zhou Qinghao said, “Let’s go to the headquarters and discuss it.”

After finishing speaking, Zhou Qinghao looked at Gu Juntian.

Gu Juntian quickly said, “I’ll go too.”

The walls of this house were gone, it was weird to stay here, it was better for him to follow Zhou Qinghao to their headquarters.

Since a decision had been made, the group quickly headed to the headquarters of Zhou Qinghao’s faction, which was also the area where Mother Gu worked.

And just as they had left, Xiang Tiange hurriedly arrived, but by the time he got there, the place was already empty.

Glancing at the communication terminal, he found that all the messages he had sent to the teacher were unread. Xiang Tiange was filled with sorrow and could only head back home.

Gu Juntian only suddenly remembered his mother when he arrived at Zhou Qinghao’s territory.

But he glanced at his communication terminal and found that his mother hadn’t sent him any messages, so he decided to put the matter aside for now.

He still had some more important things to do.

“Let’s go to the conference room for a meeting. Do you want to join?” Zhou Qinghao asked Gu Juntian.

Gu Juntian said, “I won’t go, let them accompany me.”

The people Gu Juntian pointed out all had very poor mental health.

Zhou Qinghao’s subordinates were basically all from commoner backgrounds. Among these people, there were some who had found guides, but the number was very small.

Guides from noble families in the inner city mostly looked down on the civilian sentinels.

The guides who awakened in the outer city were taken to live in the inner city as soon as they awakened. After enjoying everything the inner city had to offer, they also tended to pair up with sentinels from noble families.

For this reason, the spiritual sea of Zhou Qinghao’s subordinates was mostly not very good.

Since he had already become a guide, let’s help him organize their spiritual seas and establish a barrier.

When he merged his mental power with Zhou Qinghao, he discovered that his mental power was on par with Zhou Qinghao’s, far surpassing that of anyone else in this world.

In other words, all of Zhou Qinghao’s subordinates were of a lower level than him.

Guides helped sentinels of lower levels to organize their spiritual seas, and there was no need for mental combination; they caould just go ahead and do it directly.

“Mr. Gu, are you curious about the commander? Feel free to ask, we won’t hide anything,” one of the remaining sentinels said with a smile.

Gu Juntian said, “No, I just want to ask you for a small favor. I want to practice using my mental power. Can I do a mental power guidance session for you?”

These people looked at Gu Juntian, both surprised and delighted.

This wasn’t them helping Gu Juntian; it was clearly Gu Juntian helping them!

Several people quickly expressed their gratitude, and then among them, the one in the most serious condition sat in front of Gu Juntian: “Mr. Gu, you can just tidy it up casually, but please be careful. My spiritual sea is quite turbulent, and I accidentally injured a guide before…”

This person didn’t finish speaking and just couldn’t continue.

Gu Juntian’s mental power surged into his spiritual sea, then flattened the disruptive mental forces within it all at once.

How to describe it? It was like a few low-level ant beasts causing trouble and fighting, and then suddenly a thousand S-level sentinels showed up. Before those ant beasts even had a chance to react, they’d already been crushed by the sentinels’ mental power.

Those sentinels looked around in confusion, realizing there were no enemies, and could only leave. As they left, they even tidied up the place a bit.

For Gu Juntian, who had helped Zhou Qinghao sort out his spiritual sea and had seen many grand scenes, the spiritual sea of the sentinel in front of him was really too easy to handle!

He took five minutes to handle it, and when he left, he casually built a mental barrier for him, allowing him to be free from excessive information interference for a certain period of time.

Generally speaking, under non-conjugated conditions, the barrier established by the guide for the sentinel lasted for a few days at most.

But this barrier of his canouldhold for a few months without any problem.

Gu Juntian let him leave, smiling as he said, “Next.”

The first person to receive treatment was pulled away by a companion, then surrounded by others: “How do you feel right now?”

The person still seemed a bit dazed: “I feel better than ever before, I’ve never felt this good!”

He was an A-level sentinel, and the only S-level guide in the entire base generally didn’t help people with their spiritual seas, so in the past, he could only find other A-level guides to help him with his spiritual sea.

Every time he combed, he had to pay a huge price, and the combing effect was still not ideal.

But this time… he really felt great!

He said, “I want to sleep for a while.”

After saying that, he lay down and went to sleep.

At this moment, Gu Juntian had already helped the second person organize their spiritual sea.

Soon, the second one lay down and fell asleep too.

So, by the time Xiang Tiange returned, he saw Gu Juntian drinking tea outside the conference room, with several soldiers snoring beside him.

He could also sense that the mental strength of these sentinels was very stable.

Xiang Tiange watched this scene in shock. The condition of these people’s spiritual seas was worse than his, wasn’t it? How could they suddenly become so stable?

At this moment, Gu Juntian also saw Xiang Tiange.

He knew Xiang Tiange. In the original storyline, Xiang Tiange later became the war god who protected the new base.

Xiang Tiange had excellent talent and was an S-level sentinel. Although he was tall and strong, he looked a bit like a tiger cub, probably because of his young age.

Gu Juntian smiled and said, “Do you want to undergo mental guidance?”

Of course, it was necessary. Sentinels without guides could not resist mental guidance.

Xiang Tiange immediately sat in front of Gu Juntian.

Although Xiang Tiange’s condition was relatively better, he was an S-level sentinel.

He was still the heir chosen by Zhou Qinghao.

Gu Juntian was quite meticulous in his work; it took him ten minutes to complete this sorting.

Then, Xiang Tiange felt that since he had become self-aware, the persistent headache that had troubled him was resolved. His mental power was no longer violent, and he could still collect the information around him if he wanted to. If he didn’t want to collect it, he could just retract his mental power back into his spiritual sea, and he could live a life just like an ordinary person!

This feeling was amazing!

Xiang Tiange’s mental strength was too strong; he had long been prepared for a lifetime of not finding a guide and a lifetime of no one helping him with mental guidance.

He planned to follow in his teacher’s footsteps and dedicate his life to the base.

But now, his teacher had found a guide, and he had someone to help him channel his mental power!

Xiang Tiange looked at Gu Juntian with an incredibly affectionate gaze.

So, after Zhou Qinghao discussed the next steps with Tang Chen and the others, when they came out of the conference room, they saw Xiang Tiange circling around Gu Juntian, happily explaining the origin of his name: “Although I was conceived naturally, my father abandoned my mother, and my mother didn’t like me either, so they didn’t even give me a name. One day, I heard someone reciting a nursery rhyme that had the line ‘Singing to the Sky with a Curved Neck’. I had always wanted to see the sky outside, so I decided to name myself Xiang Tiange (Singing to the Sky). Mr. Gu, our names both have the character for “Tian (sky)” in them, we are truly fated to be together!” 

Zhou Qinghao had always liked Xiang Tiange. Like him, Xiang Tiange was born in the outer city, and they had many similar experiences. He treated Xiang Tiange like his own child.

But now, he suddenly found Xiang Tiange a bit displeasing.

Xiang Tiange was Gu Juntian’s peer! He kept talking about “fate”!

Zhou Qinghao used his mental power to suppress Xiang Tiange, rendering him unable to move, and then said, “Xiang Tiange, since your mental power is stable now, go to the new base and kill the mutated beasts.”

After finishing, Zhou Qinghao added, “Let’s set off immediately.”

Xiang Tiange gaped, staring in shock at Zhou Qinghao.

His teacher really didn’t love him anymore!

After driving off Xiang Tiange, Zhou Qinghao looked at Gu Juntian and asked, “Aren’t you tired?”

His mental strength was very strong. Although he was in a meeting earlier, he still kept some mental focus on Gu Juntian’s situation, so he naturally knew what Gu Juntian had done.

Gu Juntian said, “I’m not tired. Qinghao, you can have someone tally up the people under your command who have issues with their spiritual seas, and I’ll help them sort it out.”

When he was able, Gu Juntian was very willing to help others.

“Your own spiritual sea had issues a few days ago; there’s no rush to help others with their spiritual sea,” Zhou Qinghao said.

“At that time, I was awakening. My mental power was too strong; the awakening wasn’t a one-time event, it came gradually… but now I have fully awakened, and it’s all good.” Gu Juntian said.

He didn’t know that Zhou Qinghao had secretly come back a few days ago to observe his condition; he still thought that Zhou Qinghao’s mention of his spiritual sea issue referred to the time when he had just crossed over.

It turned out that Gu Juntian’s mental power went out of control during the day because he was awakening.

At that time, he must have been very painful and uncomfortable.

And he didn’t even stay by his side…

Zhou Qinghao felt guilty and was overwhelmed by intense emotions.

He finally couldn’t hold back any longer, picked up Gu Juntian, held him for a while, and then put him down.

He actually wanted to kiss Gu Juntian again, but there were too many people, so he felt embarrassed.

Gu Juntian angrily said, “Zhou Qinghao!”

After shouting, Gu Juntian said again, “Zhou Qinghao, I’m taller than you. It’s not right for you to hug me like this. I’m going to remember this and get back at you sooner or later!”

When Zhou Qinghao was a child, his living conditions were poor, so his diet was naturally not good. After he awakened as a sentinel, he no longer lacked food and drink, but he suffered from long-term sleep deprivation.

He was not short, but Gu Juntian was tall and a bit taller than him.

Zhou Qinghao’s eyes sparkled with a smile: “Alright, you can get your revenge.”

He was actually looking forward to Gu Juntian’s “revenge.”