For that reason, Chen Xuan had specifically gone to chat with the elderly people at the stronghold, asking about their memories of that war.
By the obvious logic, he "hadn't been born yet" when the war broke out, so no matter how bluntly he asked, there was no need to worry about arousing suspicion. At most, he could add that he was interested in researching history and offer some credit points as compensation. That was usually enough to get the old folks talking nonstop for an entire afternoon.
As ordinary citizens of Jiangcheng, they did not actually know much about organizations like the Dimensional Limit Organization or the Gospel Society. They only knew that, almost overnight, many ability users had appeared in the world, followed by conflicts between ability users and ordinary people, as well as all kinds of outrageous ability-related crimes.
But Chen Xuan still noticed one detail.
Not a single one of them mentioned the "New Century Nuclear Shadow."
Despite bearing the name New Century, it had actually happened in 2030—Lin Qing had mentioned it while casually talking to him about the dangers of illegal ability users. An English nuclear submarine docked for repairs at Mao Harbor had been taken over by an ability user, who then launched strategic missiles at major English cities, ultimately causing a tragedy that killed more than six million people.
The incident had had an enormous impact and paved the way for the Dimensional Limit Organization's later involvement in public security.
In a sense, it had been 9/11 multiplied several times over.
As one of the era's defining memories, no one who had lived through that period could possibly have forgotten it.
Yet every one of those elderly people said there had been no nuclear shadow.
When the world had truly been shrouded