The Grand Finale, Part Two

After breakfast, Chen A'man slung her little backpack over her shoulders.

"Grandma, I'm off to school."

"Be careful on the way, and stay safe!" Mother Chen hurried to her feet.

"Got it, Grandma," Chen A'man replied.

In the courtyard, Carl had already opened the rear car door.

Chen A'man climbed into the car and, as soon as she had settled in, said, "Thanks, Uncle Carl. Let's go."

"Of course, miss," Carl said respectfully.

Thud!

The door shut, and the car soon started up and slowly drove out of the courtyard.

It was rush hour, and the roads were packed with cars and people.

The buildings on either side of the street no longer showed the slightest trace of damage. A few skyscrapers not far away were nearing completion. The tallest stood nearly a thousand meters high. Once finished, it would claim the crown of human architecture and become the world's tallest skyscraper.

Only five years had passed since humanity had migrated to this unfamiliar star system.

But those five years had seen an explosive boom.

Freed from the constraints that Primal Force had placed on technology, and far from war, humanity's development faced no limits.

In just five short years,

human society had not only returned to the prosperity it had enjoyed before the mutations, but had also entered a technological boom.

Twenty years of war, twenty years of existential crisis, twenty years of struggling to survive—humanity had accumulated countless technologies. Until now, most had been put to military use; now, they were being rapidly redirected to civilian life.

A great many tech giants sprang up like bamboo shoots after the rain.

Humanity had entered a period of unprecedented prosperity.

As the most prosperous city of the new era, Zhonghai was the new financial and economic center of the world—and