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The year 3020 was somewhat different from what people had imagined.

At the start of that year, people still felt that everything was perfectly ordinary.

That year, there were no time machines,

nor was there interstellar travel.

People were still huddled on Earth. Most were busy running around to pay off various loans, or worrying over already strained cash flows. Even in the foreseeable decade ahead, life did not seem likely to change much.

Although people in China had experienced all kinds of changes since the millennium,

and their lives had undergone earth-shaking transformations,

in truth,

they had merely caught up on the ground they had once lost.

And in the process, every aspect of society had paid a considerable and painful price.

It was just that, amid the surging tides of an ever-changing era, most people had failed to realize it. Few still looked up at the stars or entertained grand, turbulent fantasies about the future.

Then,

metahumans, aberrations, and other supernatural phenomena were exposed.

Everyone suddenly realized that their world might not be so simple after all, though they still had no real sense of it.

It was much like most people's reaction when 4G had first arrived.

Wasn't it just faster internet...

Other than making videos load faster, what else was it good for? Then livestreaming, food delivery, e-commerce, and other applications emerged, overturning old business models. During that time, China also saw many changes that made the rest of the world envious.

Later,

after Star River Universal Entertainment was founded, it completely overturned people's understanding of online games.

This was only the first year after the metahuman incidents had been exposed. What would happen afterward?

Some sharp-minded people had already begun imagining the future.

But the future they envisioned never arrived.

Instead, overwhelming hordes of monsters