"An Qingyu... How could it be you?" Lin Qiye frowned when he saw that familiar face.
When they had clashed just now, he had already seen that face through his psychic perception. To be honest, the result had indeed taken him by surprise.
In his memory, after the Nanda Snake Demon incident, this genius An Qingyu should have forgotten all memories related to the "Mysterious" and returned to an ordinary campus life.
How had he avoided the memory erasure, and how had he gradually become Cangnan City's ghost?
An Qingyu smiled. "Surprised?"
He turned and headed deeper into the sewers. "Come with me. You are the first guest here in over a year."
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qiye waved Mumu away and followed him.
"After the Nanda Snake Demon incident, what exactly happened?" Lin Qiye could not help asking.
An Qingyu let out a long sigh. A look of reminiscence surfaced in his eyes as he spoke calmly. "That day, after you left, I secretly carried the Nanda Snake Demon's head and hid in the sewers. Then..."
An Qingyu briefly told Lin Qiye how he had awakened, how he had evaded the Night Watchmen's search, and how he had hidden within this sewer system to build his own underground laboratory.
"Your Forbidden Ruins can replicate the abilities of the 'Mysterious'?" Lin Qiye asked in surprise after hearing him out.
"Not quite." An Qingyu shook his head. "The essence of my Forbidden Ruins is 'analysis.' Through extensive dissections and experiments, I analyze the principles behind certain traits of the 'Mysterious'—such as the Nanda Snake Demon's Snake Seed, a lizard's regeneration, the Murderous Ghost's combat instincts and psychic attacks, and Frostvine's freezing power...
It is fundamentally different from replication in the conventional sense. From obtaining a corpse to analyzing a