The Strongest Sentinel (21): Thank God for letting him travel to this world, otherwise, he would not have met Zhou Qinghao.

Zhou Qinghao secretly built a new base, which he named the Hope Base.

This was a very common name. When bases first appeared, many bases were called Hope Bases.

It’s just that later, with the passage of time, some “Hope Bases” disappeared, and some “Hope Bases” changed their names.

Nowadays, there were no other Hope Bases left, so he named his new base like this.

Here, it carried their hopes.

He hoped the base was not too far from Base One, but also not too close. It should be about two hundred kilometers away.

Zhou Qinghao rode his super high-performance motorcycle at full speed. With his mental power, he could fend off any gods or Buddhas along the way, and he could reach his destination in just an hour.

They usually drive ordinary tanks, following the explored roads all the way, and it took about three hours to get there.

But now their team was too large, and their pace was very slow. It would take them at least six hours to get through.

This journey was quite long for the ordinary people sitting in the car, especially because there were so many people, some of whom didn’t have seats.

However, these people didn’t care at all; they leaned against the car window, packed tightly together, greedily looking at the outside world.

When Gu Juntian killed the mutated beast, he saw those faces pressed flat against the glass and couldn’t help but laugh.

He hoped that these people could all have a bright future.

And if he wanted everyone to have a bright future, simply changing the base might not be enough.

When those ordinary people couldn’t even walk to the surface and could only live in the underground city, relying on the protection of the strong… then they were destined to not be treated fairly.

Zhou Qinghao established the Hope Base with the hope that everyone here would have human rights, but once he and Zhou Qinghao passed away, there might still be strong individuals who would establish a dictatorship.

Moreover, the Sentinel’s spiritual sea problem also needed to be addressed.

Gu Juntian thought that the best solution was to let everyone adapt to the wilderness environment first, and then have more people awaken as guides.

And this was actually not difficult.

Many, many years ago, someone studied mutated plants and animals and created a potion that could awaken ordinary people into sentinels.

If ordinary people could be awakened into Sentinels through medication, why couldn’t they be awakened into Guides through medication as well?

Gu Juntian reviewed the data and found that many people wanted to research potions that could turn ordinary people into guides, but there wasn’t a single laboratory conducting related research.

Perhaps, some powerful sentinels did not wish for every sentinel to have a guide.

Think about it, the vast majority of sentinels in Base One were awakened after ordinary civilians inject gene serums. If they all had guides and stable mental powers, how powerful would that force be?

Could those powerful elites still maintain their rule?

Could they still use mental stabilizers to make money?

There were also the guides.

The powerful portrayed the guides as weak, but were the guides really weak?

Guides were indeed once treated as resources to be seized, their lives not guaranteed safety, but you should know that during that period, many powerful sentinels also died at the hands of guides.

Guides like Liang Xia, who were D-rank, could also go out and kill zombies if they learned more about using their mental powers.

Unfortunately, the guide school at Base One didn’t teach guides how to become stronger at all.

Gu Juntian planned to first develop a potion that could awaken ordinary people into guides, then explore the methods of using and training mental power, and finally make it public.

His goal was to ensure that everyone possessed mental strength and the potential to become stronger.

In this world, there had never been absolute fairness, but with this, there could always be relatively more fairness.

After killing the mutated beast for another hour, Gu Juntian stopped his actions.

Seeing this, Zhou Qinghao immediately handed over food and water, urging him to drink some water and eat something.

Gu Juntian had a quick bite, wiped his sweat, and said to Zhou Qinghao, “Qinghao, take me for a walk somewhere else.”

Most of the mutated beasts that foolishly charged at the convoy were low-level, with a few being mid-level.

The high-level mutated beasts were very smart; they had already hidden!

Moreover, Zhou Qinghao had walked this road many times, so there were few places left to explore, and there were also fewer mutated plants and beasts to see.

Gu Juntian wanted to go see other places, to see the mutated plants of this world.

In the future, he might be able to develop a potion that awakened ordinary people into guides.

After awakening as a Guide, Gu Juntian actually used his mental power to observe those ordinary people in the base.

He discovered that ordinary people in the base, if given some stimulation, could actually possess mental power.

This stimulus could be a drug or it could be his mental strength.

If he continuously stimulated an ordinary person with his own mental power, that person could awaken their spiritual sea, gain mental power, and become a guide!

Ordinary people, sentinels, and guides were all humans; they actually had no essential differences, just varying levels of mental strength.

“Okay.” Zhou Qinghao agreed with a smile.

After greeting his subordinates, Zhou Qinghao took Gu Juntian to see the nearby scenery.

Zhou Qinghao’s driving speed wasn’t fast, after all, it was to let Gu Juntian enjoy the scenery.

Behind them, Zhou Qinghao’s personal guards were following. Although Zhou Qinghao and Gu Juntian didn’t need their protection, as Zhou Qinghao’s personal guards, they still had to follow.

Gu Juntian really liked the outdoors.

He looked around and said to Zhou Qinghao, “Qinghao, let’s go hunting every other day from now on.”

He planned to go hunting every other day in the future, and on the days he didn’t go hunting, he would stay at the base to study potions.

Although he could use his mental power to turn ordinary people into guides, on the day he leaves, only the potion could be passed down for a long time and even spread out.

“Okay,” Zhou Qinghao said.

“By then, I will personally hunt the mutated beasts,” Gu Juntian said with a smile.

If it were before, Zhou Qinghao wouldn’t have agreed, but now, he readily accepted: “Okay.”

“Let’s stop for a moment,” Gu Juntian said.

Zhou Qinghao parked the car.

At this moment, they were standing by a river.

Before the great disaster, many rivers had murky waters, but now, the river water had become very clear.

In the shallow waters by the riverbank, some mutated lotus flowers were growing. Although they had mutated, they still look very beautiful. At this moment, they were blooming with large, magnificent flowers.

The mutated insects had grown larger because many mutated plants had also grown larger; these lotus flowers had a diameter of one meter.

This was a dangerous yet beautiful world.

After Zhou Qinghao parked the car, Gu Juntian got out, then turned around to kiss Zhou Qinghao.

Such a beautiful scene, he wanted to get back at Zhou Qinghao by kissing him until his lips were swollen.

Not far away, one of Zhou Qinghao’s personal guards took a photo.

In addition to being Zhou Qinghao’s personal bodyguard, he was also a freelance reporter for the media under Zhou Qinghao, specifically providing them with news material related to Zhou Qinghao.

The previous photo of “Zhou Qinghao not wearing clothes” was taken by him.

And now, he had captured the kiss between Zhou Qinghao and Gu Juntian in a very beautiful way.

Later, he would go to consult Gu Juntian. If Gu Juntian agreed, then this photo would be published in their own media tonight.

As for Zhou Qinghao’s opinion, there was no need to consider it.

Gu Juntian had already agreed, so how could Zhou Qinghao possibly oppose?

If they had a guide, they would probably want the newspapers to publish their intimate photos with the guide every day.

Gu Juntian and the others ran around outside and then caught up with the large convoy.

And at this moment, they arrived at Hope Base.

The main body of the base was underground, with only a few entrances left on the surface. At this moment, outside these entrances, many people were eagerly waiting for Zhou Qinghao and the others.

These people were still asking the team leader, Xiang Tiange, “Tiange, does the commander really have a guide?”

“Tiange, is the commander’s guide really that amazing?”

“Tiange, my spiritual sea is about to collapse. Do you think he would be willing to help me sort it out?”

……

Xiang Tiange said, “My teacher’s guide is the best guide in the world.”

Although Xiang Tiange was sent over here, he was in a particularly good mood.

The mental barrier set up by Gu Juntian had always been effective; these past two days, he had been eating well and sleeping soundly.

Right now, he didn’t have time to think about whether Zhou Qinghao no longer loved him; he just wanted to please Gu Juntian and have Gu Juntian give him a few more sessions of mental power therapy.

Time passed quickly, and they could finally see the convoy.

A motorcycle was at the front, arriving before them.

A sentinel next to Xiang Tiange blinked at the driver, his face full of disbelief: “The Commander not only has a guide, but he even has a child? This child looks just like him!”

Zhou Qinghao had just parked the car when he heard a silly remark. He looked at the other person speechlessly and said, “Zhou Wuyi, what did you say?”

The person named Zhou Wuyi was taken aback for a moment before recognizing Zhou Qinghao: “Boss… Boss?”

Zhou Qinghao “hmm”ed.

“Boss, you’ve suddenly become several decades younger, I almost didn’t recognize you,” Zhou Wuyi said.

Zhou Qinghao was even more speechless: “I’m only thirty this year!” Just over thirty, rounding down to thirty.

If he were a few decades younger, would he still be in this world?

Zhou Wuyi also came to his senses at this moment: “Sorry, boss, I always forget your age…”

Zhou Wuyi was actually a few years older than Zhou Qinghao.

He awakened at eighteen and almost died when he first went to the battlefield. It was Zhou Qinghao, who was only fourteen at the time, who saved him, and then he recognized Zhou Qinghao as his leader.

Later, he had a falling out with his parents, even changed his name, and took the surname of Zhou Qinghao.

He always thought Zhou Qinghao was his elder, but now that Zhou Qinghao had become so young, he found it a bit hard to get used to.

Xiang Tiange was also not used to it.

He treated Zhou Qinghao as both an idol and a father figure, and at one point, he even wanted to get a scar on his own face that matched the one on Zhou Qinghao’s face.

Although this didn’t work out in the end, he usually roughs himself up to try to be more like Zhou Qinghao.

But now, he didn’t resemble Zhou Qinghao at all!

The distance between him and Zhou Qinghao was probably even greater now.

Under his sorrow, Xiang Tiange went to talk to Gu Juntian.

Seeing this, Zhou Qinghao didn’t think twice and assigned a bunch of tasks to Xiang Tiange, then turned to Gu Juntian: “Juntian, I’ll take you to see our home.”

Everyone thought Zhou Qinghao was very wealthy, but in fact, he didn’t have that much money.

Most of the money he earned before was spent on building the Hope Base.

Also because of this, he owned several houses in the Hope Base, all in the best locations.

Originally, he planned to give one of these houses to Xiang Tiange, one to Tang Chen, and the rest to Gu Juntian. But now… what to do with these houses was entirely up to Gu Juntian’s arrangements.

Zhou Qinghao used to live here before. The house he mentioned as their home was the one he lived in.

This house was slightly larger than the one Zhou Qinghao had at Base One, but it still lacked furniture and felt empty. Fortunately, the essential household appliances were relatively complete.

Zhou Qinghao took Gu Juntian to see the house, and then said, “Besides this house, I have several other properties…”

He told Gu Juntian about all the assets he owned, one by one.

Gu Juntian looked at the property information on Zhou Qinghao’s contact terminal and immediately made a decision: “This building will be converted into a pharmacology research institute, this building into a mental research institute, and this money will be used to buy research equipment…”

Zhou Qinghao saw Gu Juntian talking non-stop and suddenly realized that his money might not be enough.

He needed to keep working hard from now on!

At this moment, Gu Juntian finally finished arranging Zhou Qinghao’s assets, then happily said, “Sorry, Qinghao, I spent all your money, but it’s okay, I’ll take care of you from now on!”

Zhou Qinghao: “……” Did this sound strange?

After Gu Juntian finished speaking, he went to kiss Zhou Qinghao again, even using his mental power…

Zhou Qinghao felt a rush of heat throughout his body, starting to look forward to what was about to happen.

Gu Juntian, however, stopped and tightly embraced Zhou Qinghao, saying, “We’ll go hunt mutated beasts first thing tomorrow morning, so let’s get to bed early tonight.”

He wanted to take revenge on Zhou Qinghao, not letting Zhou Qinghao be satisfied!

However, while avenging Zhou Qinghao, it also made him feel quite bad, so once was enough.

If Zhou Qinghao was unwilling, it was not impossible to let it go this time…

Gu Juntian was just thinking this when he realized that Zhou Qinghao had already fallen asleep.

You really can’t underestimate the desire for sleep in someone who has been sleep-deprived for a long time.

If it weren’t for having too much to do and being too fond of Gu Juntian, Zhou Qinghao would have gone to sleep for three days and nights without caring about anything!

Zhou Qinghao was already asleep, so Gu Juntian couldn’t possibly go and wake him up.

He used his mental power to soothe Zhou Qinghao, and kissed him a few times while he was at it.

While kissing, Gu Juntian was using the communication terminal to check the news, and then he discovered that the front-page headline was a photo of him and Zhou Qinghao kissing, with a very interesting title—”Commander Suffers from Revenge in a Terrible Way, Must See!”

Under the photo, there were many comments: “More of this kind of revenge, please!”

“Wishing you a hundred years of harmony!”

“When I saw the headline, I didn’t react right away. I thought the commander had really been injured in retaliation, and I was furious. In the end, I was just fed a bunch of dog food…”

“Hahaha! This kind of headline looks so unserious. If it were something serious, they would use a serious headline!”

……

Besides this, there was some other news: “The Strongest Guide! Watch how the Super S-Level Guide kills Mutated Beasts!”

“Zhou Qinghao Might Be Living Off His Boyfriend, Just How Strong is Gu Juntian?”

“How does the Commander Win over the Guide? Let us Take You Through a Day in the Life of the Commander.”

……

Gu Juntian clicked on the last headline and then discovered that it was a very serious report, detailing how many people they had evacuated today and how much time it took, among other things. However, it included some photos of him and Zhou Qinghao as illustrations.

Sure enough, there were people in the comments cursing clickbait.

Gu Juntian smiled, turned off the communication terminal, and went to sleep.

Before going to bed, he kissed Zhou Qinghao again.

Thank the heavens for letting him travel to this world, otherwise, he would never have met Zhou Qinghao.