I accidentally joined a group of charlatans, so I immediately called the police and handed it over t

With Chen Xi's soft voice, the invisible barrier of energy surrounding the suite's entrance vanished without a trace, like melting snow.

Li Guobang felt his hand suddenly go empty, and he almost fell over.

Before he could even steady himself, a white figure had already swept past him like lightning.

It's Su Qingge.

The chief scientist, who usually calculates his stride precisely even when walking, rushed into the room without any regard for his image.

A strong, pungent stench hit me, like the smell of sewers and rotting flesh.

The special forces soldiers following behind instinctively covered their noses, and Zhao Tiezhu frowned even more, the smell was even stronger than when he had undergone marrow cleansing and hair removal.

But Su Qingge seemed to have lost her sense of smell.

She stared intently at the man standing in the center of the room.

Chen Xi's clothes were torn and tattered, and large patches of black grime were peeling off, revealing her fair and jade-like skin underneath.

That's not an adjective, but a true physical description.

His skin, under the dim light, faintly radiated a hazy glow, and his pores were so fine that they were almost invisible to the naked eye.

However, he no longer gave off the impression of the frail scholar he once was.

He stood there, like a peerless sword whose sharpness had been sheathed, or a majestic, solitary mountain.

That sense of oppression on a life-level scale made Su Qingge, an ordinary person, instinctively feel short of breath.

"drop--"

With trembling hands, Su Qingge raised the portable vital signs detector.

A red laser beam swept across Chen Xi's body.

The data on the screen started jumping wildly.

"This...this is impossible..."

Su Qingge's voice trembled, carrying a sense of dread after her worldview had collapsed.

Li Guobang strode over, ignoring the stench, grabbed Chen Xi's shoulder, and looked him up and down:

"Hey kid, how are you? Where does it hurt? What happened just now?"

Looking at the old man with bloodshot eyes and an anxious expression, Chen Xi felt a surge of warmth in his heart.

"I'm fine, Lao Li." Chen Xi smiled, revealing a set of clean, even teeth.

"Better than ever before."

"What a load of rubbish!"

Su Qingge suddenly screamed, shoved the testing device in front of Li Guobang, pointed at the data on it, and yelled:

"Look at this heart rate! 30 beats per minute! This is the data for someone on the verge of death! But look at this waveform!"

On the screen, the electrocardiogram that should have been smooth now resembled a series of steep mountain peaks.

Each jump is accompanied by an extremely high peak.

"His heart pumps blood with more than five times the force of a normal person! The sound of blood flowing in his veins is like a floodgate being opened!"

"And bone density! This instrument can't even penetrate his bones to image! This means his bone density has exceeded the instrument's preset limit, comparable to aerospace alloys!"

Su Qingge suddenly looked up, staring at Chen Xi with a fanatical gaze, as if she were looking at an alien who had just arrived on Earth.

"Chen Xi, what exactly are you now?"

Chen Xi helplessly shrugged: "Dr. Su, I am human, a pure-blooded Chinese."

"No."

An old voice suddenly rang out at the door.

The old Taoist priest from Qingcheng Mountain, who had been following behind, was now leaning against the door frame, his whole body trembling violently.

He looked at Chen Xi, tears streaming down his cloudy old eyes.

"Thump."

To everyone's astonishment, this highly respected elder in the Taoist community actually knelt down before Chen Xi and performed the most solemn salute.

"Amitabha Buddha..."

"Skin as smooth as ice and bones as pure as jade, an immaculate body...refined essence, radiant inner light..."

The old Taoist priest kowtowed while muttering to himself, his voice filled with a fervent, almost pilgrimage-like devotion.

"Foundation Establishment! This is Foundation Establishment!"

"Benefactor Chen... no, True Man Chen! You have completed the Foundation Establishment stage in a hundred days, and the Great Dao has been achieved!"

"The divine body that only existed in ancient books has actually appeared in this world during my lifetime!"

Foundation building?

Li Guobang and Su Qingge exchanged a glance.

They were familiar with this term; they'd seen it countless times in cultivation novels.

But when it actually happens in real life, to someone close to you, the impact is indescribable.

"Take it to the lab."

Li Guobang took a deep breath, quickly regaining his composure and decisiveness. "Conduct a full investigation immediately! Seal off the news; everything that happened here today is classified as top secret!"

……

Half an hour later.

Deep underground at Base 001, in the core area of ​​the "Genesis" laboratory.

Chen Xi had washed away the filth and changed into a specially made loose-fitting testing suit.

He lay inside a massive, multi-million dollar full-body CT scanner.

Inside the control room, dozens of top medical experts and biologists sat in deathly silence in front of a large screen.

The screen displays a diagram of Chen Xi's internal anatomy.

Perfectly defined muscles, twisted together like steel cables.

The internal organs radiate a healthy red glow, without any blemishes or diseases.

What's most incomprehensible is his lower abdomen, specifically the area around his dantian.

The instrument detected a high-energy reaction.

That's neither a tumor nor a foreign object.

Instead, it was a cyclone composed of bioelectricity and some unknown energy, slowly and steadily rotating.

It was like a miniature black hole, greedily devouring the surrounding free energy and then transforming it into a high-quality life force that nourished Chen Xi's entire body.

"Unexplainable..."

An elderly academician took off his glasses, rubbed his temples, and said dejectedly, "It completely defies common sense in biology. How was this energy core formed? What sustains it? The efficiency of this energy conversion is even higher than nuclear fusion!"

"This is beyond the scope of scientific explanation," another expert sighed.

"No."

Su Qingge stood in front of the control panel, her fingers swiping across the touch screen to bring up a set of comparative data.

That was Chen Xi's previous medical examination report.

"The end of science is theology, but the essence of theology may simply be a higher science that we have not yet mastered."

Su Qingge pushed up her glasses, her eyes gleaming with a light called "truth".

"This is an evolution."

She turned to face the crowd, her tone firm.

"Just like single-celled organisms evolved into multicellular organisms, and apes evolved into humans."

"Chen Xi's genetic lock has been unlocked. That so-called dantian cyclone is actually a more advanced bio-energy furnace."

"He is no longer the species 'Homo sapiens'."

Su Qingge paused for a moment, then gave a definition that sent chills down everyone's spine.

"He is the progenitor of the 'new humans'."

Inside the testing room.

Chen Xi sat up from the scanner.

He didn't hear the arguments of the experts outside; he was just feeling it.

Feel the surging power within my body.

He raised his hand and looked at a metal handrail next to him used to secure the instrument.

It was a solid stainless steel piece with a diameter of five centimeters.

Chen Xi reached out and gently grasped it.

He did not use the Qi in his dantian, but relied solely on the strength of his physical body.

Bring your five fingers together.

"Squeak—"

A metallic creaking sound rang out.

The incredibly hard stainless steel handrail was easily flattened in his palm like clay, leaving clear fingerprints.

Chen Xi released his hand, looked at the fingerprint, and felt an indescribable sense of security welling up in his heart.

He has always been the most vulnerable link in this massive plan.

He possessed immense resources, yet he had no ability to protect himself.

He needs Li Guobang's protection, the protection of the Pangu Squad, and he has to be careful even when he goes out.

That feeling of helplessness, that sense of being a "rare animal," lingered in his mind.

But now, things are different.

Chen Xi clenched his fist, feeling the power feedback from his fingertips.

He knew from this moment on.

He was no longer just a middleman or a liaison.

He now has the confidence to stand tall and face all threats in this unpredictable world.

"Old Li."

Chen Xi looked at Li Guobang behind the one-way glass and did something he had never dared to do before.

He gave a thumbs up, then turned downwards, pointed to the crushed handrail, and a bright smile spread across his face.

"We can save on security budgets in the future."