The next day, at lunchtime.
Chen Shouyi was eating when he suddenly stopped, his expression blank.
Unlike ordinary people, he ate from a huge soup bowl. One bowl held as much as three adult men would eat in a meal. In the past, he would have needed at least two bowls, and after intense exercise, he might even have eaten three. But today, he'd only eaten a little over half a bowl before his body told him he was full.
"Why did you stop eating? Don't you like the food today?" Mother Chen asked, noticing the odd expression on her son's face.
Chen Shouyi came back to himself. "Oh, no. I was just thinking about something."
He shoveled the rest of his food into his mouth, got up, and went to serve himself another bowl.
Although he felt full, he could still easily eat another bowl without feeling stuffed. To test it, he simply ate another bowl before stopping.
The same sensation of fullness came after one bowl as after three, making him feel as if he hadn't eaten the other two at all.
After finishing his meal, Chen Shouyi hurried back to his bedroom.
He sat down on the bed and felt his slightly distended stomach. His stomach seemed like a furnace, digesting the food at incredible speed. The meal had barely settled, yet he already felt it was almost completely digested.
Ever since he acquired divinity, his body seemed to have undergone some unknown change.
The May sunlight streamed through the window, glaringly bright. Countless tiny specks of dust in the bedroom drifted through the air in irregular Brownian motion.
Since the changes began, the widespread use of Steam Engines had caused coal consumption to rise ever higher. Most factories, in particular, simply dumped their exhaust into the