Logically speaking, those who could make the old man feel this kind of familiarity would have to be old friends at least fifty years' worth.
Yet the youth standing in front of him clearly looked underage… and still gave him that exact feeling.
The old man couldn't help but feel surprised.
But instead of panicking or calling for the guards, he calmly sat back down.
"Who are you? And how did you get in?"
His fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop as he assessed the situation.
Huang looked at him and fell into deep memories.
In the dream, he had worked with the top leader of the Xia Kingdom for a long time. Now, meeting again in the real world, there was no sense of distance at all.
It only made Huang more certain:
He had been reborn with memories.
"I haven't seen you in a long time… but you're still so calm."
Huang's expression softened with relief, as if he truly cherished the old man before him.
No one understood better than Huang what this man represented.
According to the original course of history, the old man had been busy day and night after the meteorite fell, devoted entirely to the revival of the Xia Kingdom.
A truly great man one who worried before the people worried, and rejoiced only after the people rejoiced.
In the archive of "Age of Warriors," the old man had not died to a devouring giant beast.
He died quietly.
On a silent night, he was still handling state affairs in his study. While thinking about the future of the Xia Kingdom, he slowly closed his eyes… and never opened them again.
Yet during that period of confinement, Huang never saw him again.
It was precisely because of the old man's spiritual will that Huang later became the Martial Ancestor of the Xia Kingdom guarding it until he died in battle.
Huang trusted this man completely.
Looking at the entire world…
Only the old man in front of him deserved to be entrusted with Gene Potion Type III. No one else.
Huang took a deep breath and spoke with extreme seriousness.
"Before I explain who I am… I'd like to ask you to listen to a story first. Is that okay?"
The old man frowned slightly, but did not reject the request.
In truth, he was also curious: what was the purpose of this mysterious young man who had broken into Tianlong Pavilion?
"This story begins on a morning… a few months from now. That day…"
Huang began speaking.
He first described in detail the exact circumstances after the meteorite fell then described how the Xia Kingdom rose in the apocalypse, developing genetic medicine and new technologies to resist the tides of ferocious beasts.
His voice was calm, but the content was heavy.
He spoke of how other countries fell some panicked, some "went to the doctor in desperation," tossing out mushroom eggs, accelerating the evolution of ferocious beasts worldwide.
If not for the sudden rise of a young Martial Ancestor turning the tide and defending the borders of the Xia Kingdom with one man and one sword perhaps the Xia Kingdom would have perished alongside every other nation on Blue Star.
He spoke of many things.
And eventually, he spoke of the advent of the Age of Great Warriors.
It was an extraordinary era, where heroes gathered.
Countless body-building methods and martial arts emerged like stars.
Warriors could punch through the sky and stomp the earth with their feet, fighting ferocious beasts in close combat.
They were truly beyond ordinary.
Even the most terrifying of the beasts the three-clawed dragon
Huang, the Martial Ancestor himself, guarded the mouth of the sea to protect the Xia Kingdom… and the last hope of human civilization on Blue Star.
It was an era of prosperity.
A great era in which countless civilizations shone brightly
Yet it was built atop mountains of bones.
The corpses of warriors and soldiers, piled one after another.
Everything was a gamble placed on the will to survive.
Even the old man who had never personally experienced it found his heart stirred by the deaths in the story.
At that moment, the certainty in his mind grew stronger.
He wanted to believe the young man in front of him.
"I originally thought the confrontation between warriors and ferocious beasts would continue… until one side finally produced enough powerful existences to completely overwhelm the other."
"But I never expected…"
"A hundred years later, a giant egg would fall from the sky."
"That giant egg hatched an extremely terrifying alien monster."
"I did everything I could… and only managed to tear off one of its arms."
At this point, Huang stopped.
He closed his eyes and shook his head.
The old man could feel the regret and unwillingness in him.
Without speaking, the old man remained seated and waited patiently.
About ten seconds later…
Huang raised his head again.
His eyes were filled with absolute determination.
"I know this is too unbelievable. But I still hope you can trust me. Everything I've said is true."
"Humanity… doesn't have much time left."
He reached into his clothes and took out a test tube.
"This is Type III genetic medicine."
"I hope you can send people to study it and develop first- and second-generation genetic medicine as soon as possible so warrior education can be popularized."
He paused, then spoke each word clearly.
"My name is Huang."
"An ordinary human warrior."
At this point, Huang had nothing more to add.
His gaze was clear without even a trace of malice.
It made the old man feel that he wasn't lying.
"Rebirth…"
The old man murmured.
His cloudy eyes seemed to brighten slightly.
After hearing Huang's account, the old man already believed seventy to eighty percent of it.
But as the top leader of a nation, he could not make a hasty decision without real evidence.
"I'm willing to believe you."
"But if you want others in the Xia Kingdom to believe it…"
"You must provide enough evidence to convince them."
"I'll have someone analyze and research this genetic potion."
"And in addition… you must also prove the authenticity of a warrior. Understood?"
Facing the old man's request, Huang smiled.
He knew his plan had succeeded.
In this life, he would become the vanguard of the Xia Kingdom minimizing its casualties as much as possible.
At the same time, he would cultivate to a higher, stronger realm…
And completely annihilate the powerful devouring beast.
•••
High above the imperial capital of the deduction world, Jiang Yi couldn't help showing a strange expression as he watched Huang shake hands with the old man.
"Should I say he's worthy of being the protagonist?"
"He actually moved the old man with just a few words."
"But that's true as well."
"With the strength of a third-level warrior and the existence of genetic medicine…"
"No matter how outrageous the facts are, people can still accept them calmly."
Jiang Yi's eyes gleamed.
"It's really exciting to see where this world will go."
"Don't let me down, Huang."
Jiang Yi narrowed his eyes slightly and waved his hand.
In an instant, the entire deduction world began to change dramatically.
Time accelerated skipping the boring days.
The Xia Kingdom transformed and developed at a speed visible to the naked eye.