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In the chilly underground chamber, the lighting flickered due to an insufficient power supply, occasionally accompanied by the SIZZLING sound of a short circuit.
Suddenly, from an old-model incubator in the chamber, there was a SPLASH, followed by a BEEP as the indicator light on top turned green. Someone opened the door from the inside and sat up.
He slowly wiped off the viscous fluid from his head and face, revealing a "plain and unremarkable" visage—one that would be impossible to find again if thrown into a crowd.
But his eyes were extraordinarily complex, nothing like those of a newly cultivated life form.
If Chen Gu had been there, he probably would have recognized him from those eyes immediately: Wei Jiangqi!
The secret to his millennia-long survival lay right here.
All of a sudden, pain and struggle contorted the new Wei Jiangqi's face. With a scream, he fell back heavily into the incubator, viscous fluid splattering everywhere.
