What... Fifty-Six Years?!

Ma Dafeng lay on a hospital bed, his eyes weakly opening as he stared at the empty ceiling. Perhaps because he had just awakened from hibernation, his mind was a complete mess, and every so often, his lungs stirred with the urge to cough.

A life-monitoring device sat on the bedside table, displaying bodily data such as his heartbeat and blood pressure. An IV bottle of saline hung from his hand.

As a user of the "Sealing" ability, ever since he had sealed the soul of that Great Spirit Essence User, he had been infected by aberrant power. The skin across his body had become like an octopus's, while even his limbs had turned into Octopus Tentacles covered in suckers and tumors.

What happened afterward was already a blur. Back then, he had relied on nothing but sheer will to endure pain as horrifying as hell itself.

He only remembered that humanity was at war, and that he had escaped from a Flying Saucer...

Only today did he finally see daylight again.

"Am I dead, or am I alive?"

Ma Dafeng gradually came to his senses and looked at his palm. It had actually become somewhat delicate and smooth.

The aberration... was gone? How many years had passed?

When he saw the date on the wall, he was completely dumbfounded. What kind of Pangu joke was this? How the hell had fifty-six years passed? Had he somehow traveled through time?

Some gurgling sounds rose from Ma Dafeng's throat, but he was too weak to say anything.

"Hey, buddy, you're awake? Congratulations, you earned Second-Class Merit. You're a hero."

"Don't be surprised. Fifty-six years really have passed. It's... pretty shocking, haha. I had the same expression when I first woke up."

Beside him was a soldier who had awakened earlier. Both