You are all bad women! Don't come over!

"Hello, my name is Shen Xinyue. I'm twenty-one today, a little older than you."

Outside the Sentinel Station, inside a parked special operations vehicle, a young and beautiful woman reached out her hand to Shen Mochen.

"Hello, Shen Mochen." Shen Mochen slightly glanced at her. Her attire was simple, a red coat on the outside.

Maybe this coat was worth something, but at least on the surface, it appeared quite ordinary. Even in a crowd, it wouldn't stand out... of course, that's speaking of the attire only.

With Shen Xinyue's appearance, it was hard to truly blend into the masses. Even though Shen Mochen was accustomed to seeing all kinds of top beauties, he had to admit she had extraordinarily remarkable looks.

Her beauty held a hint of charm, her hair elegantly and fashionably styled in side-parted waves. Especially her eyes, as if kissed by the Creator—particularly bright and spirited, like mountain streams, yet also deeply affectionate.

Shen Xinyue warmly held Shen Mochen's hand: "I felt familiar the first time I saw your photo online. I didn't expect we're actually related!"

"I didn't know I had relatives outside."

"You've really suffered outside all these years. I didn't expect that of Third Grandpa's line, only you're left." Shen Xinyue sighed, her expression sad, and slightly tightened her grip on Shen Mochen's hand, "These years, the family has been looking for your whereabouts, but unfortunately, there was no news. Fortunately, heaven does not disappoint those who persevere, we finally found you!"

"Yeah, it's okay, it's just a pity that my grandfather and father are gone." Shen Mochen was somewhat unaccustomed to her familiarity, responding rather formally.

After all these years, he was meeting relatives for the first time. What should he do, rush into Shen Xinyue's arms and cry, saying, "Why did you only come now?" or say, "I've finally found you!"

It seemed quite unnecessary. Of course, the biggest reason for Shen Mochen's indifference was his inability to confirm whether she was genuine.

And also his stubbornness ingrained in him.

Compared to this giant Shen Family, he was just a poor boy. But even a poor boy must have self-respect. He didn't want others to feel like he was pushing hard to acknowledge his kin as if he were eager to latch onto the Shen Family's high branches.

Shen Xinyue's tone became gentler: "Yes, the family owes you too much, rest assured, we've been instructed, this time when you return home, the family will certainly compensate you properly."

The vehicle slowly started, with only Shen Xinyue, Shen Mochen, a driver, and two security personnel inside.

Arriving at the hotel, Shen Mochen donned a mask before disembarking. Shen Mochen was led to a presidential suite where General Yan and an elderly man awaited him.

Shen Mochen saluted upon seeing General Yan, who smiled and pointed to the old man: "Let me introduce you, this is your grandfather's second brother, Mr. Shen Motian, you should call him Second Grandpa."

"You look so much alike!" Seeing Shen Mochen, Shen Motian, excitedly grasped his hand, his voice trembling, "You and your grandfather really look alike..."

"Second Grandpa." Shen Mochen called softly.

"Ah!" Shen Motian hugged Shen Mochen, tears streaming down, "Let's go home right now, we need to announce to everyone that we found Third Brother's descendant!"

Shen Mochen glanced at General Yan, who slightly smiled: "No worries, go home. It's separation month these days, you don't need to worry about the 0819 node issue. Miss Alexandrova said she'd guard it for a few days... although she's been guarding it all along."

Since arrangements had already been made, Shen Mochen nodded in acceptance. Shen Motian immediately wanted to take Shen Mochen away but was halted by General Yan.

"Please wait a moment, I need to confirm something with Captain Shen regarding Buque." General Yan said, "You two can wait for him at the airport, I'll send him over shortly."

Shen Xinyue was momentarily stunned, but then Shen Motian laughed: "Then I trouble General Yan."

With that, he shook Shen Mochen's hand again, wiped away his tears, and kindly said: "Mochen, we'll see each other again later."

Having said that, he left the hotel reluctantly, with Shen Xinyue bidding farewell to Shen Mochen and leaving as well.

"Captain Shen Mochen." With the Shen Family members gone, General Yan's expression turned serious, "Due to your outstanding performance during the node's near-collapse, the nation awards you a special merit, and promotes you to Major! I hope you keep it up and contribute more to the country and the people."

"Yes!" Shen Mochen saluted.

"This is the Yupi Sentinel Medal." General Yan held out a box containing the medal with both hands.

Shen Mochen was slightly surprised, this was one of Yupi's highest medals, every recipient of this medal is a national hero.

He solemnly received it with both hands, recalling Buque's prior arrangement of Yin Caiyu's "relics" given to him, Yin Caiyu only received two special merits and one Yupi Sentinel Medal.

And one of the merits and the medal was due to Yin Caiyu participating in the last suicide mission.

Unexpectedly, he was catching up so quickly.

"Feels like I'm unworthy to receive this medal..." Shen Mochen said.

"It belongs to you, undeniably." General Yan said calmly, "You alone prevented a node collapse, that's an enormous achievement. The 0819 node was collapsing too rapidly, catching us off guard, even unable to rally defenses in time. If it had collapsed, the beasts would disperse, Yu Huai City would face unprecedented destruction."

"The 0819 node was relatively stable, why was it suddenly collapsing, any investigation result?"

"Unfortunately, there's no clue at present; we can only define it as an incident." General Yan shook his head, "Let me reveal a secret, last year globally twelve nodes collapsed. This year isn't over yet, fifteen nodes have already collapsed. These events won't be systematically reported in the media, only briefly mentioned."

Shen Mochen was shocked: "So many?"

"Of course, collapses usually involve ordinary nodes like 0819, whereas ultra-critical nodes like General Yin's exist only as that one." General Yan sighed and shook his head, "Alright, let's not talk about this. Due to your identity and secrecy, your achievements and medal cannot be publicly acknowledged for now, I hope you understand."

"I understand, I understand." Shen Mochen replied.

"There's another matter of considerable importance I'd like you to know." General Yan gazed at Shen Mochen, "Even though you're returning to the Shen Family, I still want to remind you, you belong to Buque, you're Yupi's Major. I hope Major Shen can prioritize Yupi and Buque's interests. I believe you can, and I think this is also General Yin's wish."

Shen Mochen was slightly startled, listening to General Yan, it seemed the relationship between the Family and Buque wasn't very harmonious?