Banyan City, Fortune's Arrival Residential Complex.
A spatial portal woven from six orders slowly opened. Several people stepped out: two young women and a young man.
After five thousand years apart, they had come here together once more.
Just as they had so many years ago: a technician surnamed Lin from Rongcheng Steel Factory and her two children, out for a walk along the river after dinner.
By coincidence, five thousand years later, it was evening again.
Along the streets and by the river, elderly people, children, and couples were out walking off dinner with their families. People came and went, and the scene looked much the same as it had thousands of years ago.
"This is still Banyan City..."
Lin Wanqiu gazed around in a daze. Everything felt dreamlike.
Jiang Yuan was just as stunned.
Yet none of them looked out of place. Passersby glanced at them casually without paying particular attention.
The three of them gave off the air of locals from head to toe, with the same intangible ease and relaxation as their neighbors. There was nothing unusual about them.
It was a long while before Lin Wanqiu and Jiang Yuan came back to themselves. The three strolled along the river, chatting as they had so many years before.
Jiang Ding felt utterly at ease.
Returning after thousands of years, he took another careful look at his hometown and found that little around him had changed.
"Dingding, are you sure this is five thousand years later?"
Lin Wanqiu could not help asking, "It looks much the same as it did in our day. There are just a few more roads, the river's clearer, and there are lots of strange plants I've never seen before... It's practically identical."
"Exactly!" Jiang Yuan agreed.
"Right."
"It really hasn't changed much