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The theme song music video will be released a week later, on a Friday night at 8 PM.

This is a prime time slot carefully calculated by the production team—students have just finished school, office workers have just finished get off work, and online traffic is climbing to its peak.

"Absolute Debut" has been generating buzz for three months, with behind-the-scenes footage, trailers, and mentor promotions bombarding viewers and whetting everyone's appetite.

The topic on Weibo has already surpassed 3 billion views, and every day people in the comments section ask, "When will it air?", "Can you hurry up?", "I'm getting impatient."

But the production team kept it to themselves.

The full video of the first stage performance is still in post-production and will not be available online for at least two weeks.

But they need something to maintain the buzz and, incidentally, to let the audience get familiar with these 90 faces in advance.

Therefore, the theme song music video was released.

There were no glamorous costumes; ninety people, all wearing identical white T-shirts and dark pants, with even their makeup and hair so light they were almost bare-faced.

The stage background was pure black, and the lighting was also cold white, with no extra props or special effects.

It was as clean as a blank sheet of paper.

But it is precisely this cleanliness that draws everyone's attention to the most essential things—

action.

singing.

temperament.

They still have the nerve.

At 8 PM sharp, the music video was simultaneously released on the official Weibo account of "Absolute Debut", a certain website, Douyin, and a certain admin.

The title is just one line: "The music video for 'Uncharted,' the theme song for 'Absolute Debut,' has been officially released."

The accompanying image is a distant view of ninety boys in white standing on a black stage.

The lights shone down from above, outlining their silhouettes like a painting.

The number of shares, comments, and likes surged to five figures in the first ten minutes and continues to grow at a visible rate.

The topic trended at 8:03.

It started as a small tail, hanging in the seventeenth position, with the tagline #AbsolutelyDebutThemeSong#.

At 8:10, it rose to ninth place.

8:15, fifth place.

8:20, first place.

It was followed by a purple "爆" (explode) character.

The entire weekend, the internet was dominated by ninety guys in white T-shirts.

The comments section under the official Weibo MV quickly evolved from "Let me see what handsome guys are here" to a large-scale character recognition event.

"Who's that person in the center position?! I need all their information within three seconds!!!"

"Is this level of uniformity even real? This isn't a talent show, it's like military training!"

"The white T-shirt is forever... I'll be the first to disagree if anyone says male idols can only rely on heavy makeup!"

"Help!!! How do you move around like that without bumping into anyone??? I'm getting dizzy just watching!"

"Could someone make a 'recognize the person' version?! I've watched it five times and I still can't tell who's who!! But it's just so good!!!"

"Oh my god, who sang that high note in the chorus?! The power is incredible!!! My ears are pregnant!!!"

"Wait, are you guys only focusing on the high notes? Did anyone notice the low harmonies in the second verse of the chorus???"

This comment received 20,000 likes in less than ten minutes, followed by a long string of replies.

"!!! I noticed it too!!! My whole body went numb when that low bass came out!!"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's the line 'This is my uncharted ground,' there's a very low voice behind it, listen carefully!"

"I listened to it again on the stereo, and it really was there!! The bass was so deep it was vibrating in my chest!"

"This voice is absolutely amazing... so low, husky, and with a hint of harshness, who is this?"

"I'm guessing it's one of the main vocalists from Class A? But that voice is so unique! I've never heard this kind of timbre before in the Chinese entertainment industry!"

The debate spread from the comments section to Weibo, and then from Weibo to Douban and other websites.

Someone extracted the audio from the music video, analyzed its spectrum using software, and posted screenshots on a forum.

"In the second verse of the chorus, the ending note of the word 'Uncharted' has a vocal frequency of around 80Hz, according to the spectrogram."

"This note is close to the extreme range of a bass. It's very difficult for an average person to sing this note clearly; it requires very strong bass control."

The replies under the post were all "???", "professional", "I don't understand it but I think it's amazing", "So who sang it?"

"Could it be a composite image created later?"

"The production team said the audio was a studio recording, with no audio editing, only mixing. If it were synthesized, that would be faking it, and they wouldn't dare."

"Who exactly is this person?!"

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At the same time, some faces in the music video began to be screenshotted individually and went viral on various social media platforms.

The first one to break out of the circle was Qi Xunan, who was in the center position.

When the music video reached the chorus, the camera zoomed in, the formation of one hundred people contracted, and the face of the person in the center was frozen in the very center of the entire scene.

A clean white T-shirt, the simple, cool white light shining on his face, without any extra color.

Light makeup.

But it's pleasing to the eye enough.

"Who's that person in the center position?! I need all their information within three seconds!!!"

This comment received over 80,000 likes on the official Weibo account, followed by a long string of replies, all of which were "+1".

"This rhythm handling? Did he shift the beat back?"

"Listen carefully! Every sentence is half a beat late, but it's all perfectly timed on the downbeat! Is this person a metronome?!"

Qi Xunan's super topic was created within the first hour after the MV was released, and by Sunday night, the number of fans had exceeded 100,000.

But the person who truly transformed the phrase "absolutely debuting" from entertainment news into a social phenomenon was someone else.

Yang Sheng.

To be precise, it was Yang Sheng's absolute strength and age.

In the music video, his screen time was second only to Qi Xunan, and he was positioned in the middle of the second row of Class A. When the camera zoomed in, his face occupied most of the screen.

He has deep-set features, high and sharp brow bones, and a heroic and masculine air, just like his dance.

The live chat froze for half a second the moment he appeared, followed by a screen full of screams.

"Who is this? Who is this? Who is this?!"

"Yang Sheng from Banxing Entertainment! Seventeen years old! Two and a half years of training!"

"They can dance like this in just two and a half years?? Are all the trainees at Banxing Entertainment monsters??"

"Wait, is that Banxing Entertainment? Isn't that Shen Yiheng's company?"

"Shen Yiheng's junior brother!! No wonder, no wonder, no wonder!!!"

Someone edited together Yang Sheng's and Qi Xunan's individual shots, captioning it "There can only be one center position, but there can be two ACEs."

No one dared to refute it.

Qi Xunan has become a sensation, Yang Sheng has become a sensation, and even the other two boys from Banxing Entertainment, as well as several trainees from Class A, have each gained a wave of fans.

But another person who caused a huge uproar was an ordinary person.

He Xu.

His screen time in the music video is only 1.5 seconds.

Apart from that, they were all in the corners of other people's cameras.

In the second row on the right of Class B, when the camera panned across the first verse of the chorus, he was smiling at the camera.

That laugh was standard, but it carried a hint of arrogance and provocation.

Regardless, she inexplicably stood out among all the practice rooms where facial expressions were well-managed.

"Class B, who's that on the right in the second row???"

Soon someone found out his name: He Xu, an individual trainee, 24 years old.

"Twenty-four? An ordinary person? Someone who looks like that is an ordinary person??"

The name He Xu began to be mentioned repeatedly on various platforms.

But strangely, no one could find any more information about him.

There are no past photos, no social media accounts, and no videos of past performances.

This person seems to have appeared out of nowhere.

"It's too clean...it's too clean for some reason."

"Is she a secret trainee from some big company? Is she deliberately using the name of an individual trainee to participate in the competition?"

"It can't be that bad. Big companies can just send people to apply directly. Why pretend to be an amateur?"

"How did he suddenly appear? Twenty-four years old, looks like this, and his jumping skills are top-notch. How come he didn't make a splash before?"

What's even more noticeable is the scar on his right hand.

Someone zoomed in frame by frame on the music video screenshots, and the new wounds were clearly visible.

"He had stitches in his hand, right? Doesn't that kind of wound hurt when he dances?"

"In the music video, he uses his left hand to cover his right hand in several shots... but there are too many movements to cover it up."

"He was jumping like that and still laughing like that? This person is incredibly patient..."

Speculation about the scar quickly spread, but no answer could be found.

Meanwhile, the bass harmony in the second verse of the chorus remains a mystery.

But in any case, everything ultimately led to one result—the entire internet is waiting for the full episode of "Absolute Debut" to be released.