The comments said I was deeply affectionate, I just added points by using an alternate account.

Those towering stone statues, these silent warriors who emerged from the eternal darkness, were kneeling before them in the most humble posture.

No, it wasn't them.

It is an old coffin.

Hong Yuan looked at the stone statues with their heads bowed, then turned to look at Chen Guan, who stood at the very front of the line without even changing his posture, and felt that her cognitive system was being impacted like never before.

"Feed..."

Hong Yuan's voice broke the frozen silence, sounding particularly abrupt in the empty passage.

She swallowed hard, trying to make her tone sound normal: "Chen Guan, what's going on? Do you know them? Or... did you secretly use some kind of illusion on them?"

"Do I look like someone who would have that kind of ability?" Chen Guan finally spoke, sounding utterly helpless.

Who can cast an illusion on a lump of stone?

He turned halfway around, his gaze sweeping over the astonished faces behind him.

"Then explain yourself, what exactly is going on?"

Hong Yuan slammed her giant axe into the ground, the sound making everyone's hearts skip a beat.

"They were just looking like they were going to tear us to pieces, but as soon as they saw you, they acted like mice seeing a cat?"

"It's not like a mouse seeing a cat."

Yin Chen's calm voice rang out. He lowered the hand holding the short staff, but the frost shield around him did not disappear.

"Their posture, as Su Yuehe said, is a gesture of submission; it is not fear, but awe."

"Just as believers revere God."

This was even more unexpected than Chen Guan subduing the cheetah. Subduing even the most powerful beast was still within the realm of understanding, perhaps just a bit extraordinary. But the submission of these guards before him represented a completely different meaning.

It evokes a sense of absurdity, like the Qin Emperor riding a polar bear.

"I don't know," Chen Guan gave an answer that surprised everyone.

"have no idea?"

An Changqing frowned. He knew very well that this kind of unknown goodwill was sometimes more terrifying than direct hostility.

Because the rules it represents are completely incomprehensible to them.

"I really don't know," Chen Guan repeated. "I just feel that the atmosphere here is very familiar."

Chen Guan chose to tell the truth. He believed that An Changqing and his ilk were reliable, so there was no harm in telling the truth.

Moreover, he also wanted Su Yuehe, a person well-versed in both ancient and modern times, to tell him what the current situation was.

Familiar with.

This word made Su Yuehe's body tremble slightly.

But that was because of excitement.

She stared intently at Chen Guan's retreating figure, countless broken threads in her mind rapidly connecting.

Su Yuehe knew very well what familiarity meant. In addition, An Changqing had previously seen Chen Guan's information, and the answer was that Chen Guan was just an ordinary student, which made everything about him inexplicable.

She once thought that Chen Guan's strange behavior was related to a scandal in her family.

But now, everything seems to have a different answer.

"An Changqing, do you remember the file on Chen Guan that you looked at?"

Su Yuehe didn't turn around, but she spoke to An Changqing: "An ordinary family, with no family history related to superhumans, yet his strength, his talent... all of this cannot be explained by the words 'ordinary people'."

An Changqing certainly remembered.

Because he remembered, the turmoil in his heart was more intense than anyone else's.

Everything about Chen Guan was a mystery, and now, the answer is right before our eyes, revealed in a way that is beyond everyone's imagination.

"you mean……"

Following Su Yuehe's train of thought, An Changqing formed a bold guess in his mind.

"That's right!" Su Yuehe turned around abruptly, her eyes shining brightly.

"We've all fallen into a cognitive trap, always trying to explain Chen Guan's uniqueness using existing systems. But what if the source of his power doesn't belong to this era at all? What if he himself is a living piece of history?"

She reached out, pointing to the stone statues still kneeling on the ground, and then to the coffin in front of her.

"These guards follow the commands of an ancient civilization. They don't see us; they only see their king. The familiarity Chen Guan felt wasn't the familiarity of memory, but a resonance of blood. He was a remnant of an ancient civilization, a descendant of a lost kingdom!"

Su Yuehe's conclusion was like a thunderbolt thrown into a dead silence, leaving everyone stunned.

"A descendant of an ancient civilization? A king?"

Hongyuan, carrying an axe, looked at Chen Guan, then at Su Yuehe, her mouth opening and closing, but remained silent for a long time.

How did a perfectly ordinary student suddenly transform into a prince?

Oh no, what will happen if the world has another second-generation rich kid like me?

Hong Yuan was heartbroken that her only civilian friend had also betrayed her.

"I think this explanation is quite reasonable."

Yin Chen's voice rang out at the right moment. He put away the overly bright light on his staff, making the ice-blue shield softer.

"This explains why the magnetic field suppression here has little effect on him, and it also explains why these ingenious creations are hostile to us, yet bow down to him."

He looked at Chen Guan with envy in his eyes.

The power inherited through bloodline is far purer than any superpower cultivated later in life.

"Descendants..." Long Ao murmured the word, and his tense body relaxed a little at this moment.

He looked at Chen Guan's retreating figure with a complex expression.

He had always regarded Chen Guan as an unfathomable opponent and partner, but he never imagined that the other party's background was so powerful.

Su Yuehe's deduction echoed in the dark passage, causing everyone present to pause in their thoughts for a brief moment.

The words "king" and "descendants," which only exist in epic legends, are now vividly applied to a classmate with whom one spends every day, bringing a strong sense of absurdity.

Hongyuan gestured with her hand to indicate the surrounding stone carvings.

"This is even more outrageous than the stories we tell in our college history class."

Yin Chen glanced at her, unusually refraining from making any sarcastic remarks.

He looked past the crowd at Chen Guan's back. A royal descendant—this would be quite a scandal if word got out.

"I am more inclined to believe that, for whatever reason, Chen Guan is the only key to this site."

Yin Chen pointed to the stone statues with their heads bowed.

"These guards don't recognize strength or weakness; they only recognize authority."

An Changqing slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, trying to suppress the turmoil churning in his chest.

He took a step forward: "Chen Guan, what do you think of Su Yuehe's guess?"

All eyes were now focused on Chen Guan.

Faced with the intense gazes of the crowd, Chen Guan finally broke his long silence.

He turned around, a hint of helplessness appearing on his usually expressionless face.

"I have no idea."

This is the absolute truth.

He also wondered how he had inexplicably become a royal descendant after just one trip.

Suddenly having an ancestor was quite unexpected.