The small-scale upheaval in heaven and earth a month earlier had caused no stir on Earth.
Only occasionally did news appear online of someone suddenly changing, then swiftly being taken away by the Law Enforcement Department.
And there had only been one or two such cases.
Those people had been extraordinarily lucky: they had eaten Mutant Fruit.
But news of just one or two cases was never going to catch anyone's attention. Within days, people had forgotten.
Besides, certain forces were erasing the information online.
Only the various countries and Financial Consortiums had gained anything from that small-scale upheaval.
The general public knew nothing about it.
Ever since the war, strange things had been fairly common in this world. What was one more?
Multicolored streaks of light appeared in the sky, and a thin mist rose between heaven and earth. So what?
Did it affect their jobs? Did it affect their mortgage or car payments?
No. Most people still had to scramble to make a living.
The war had destroyed more than half of Earth, and civilization had been rebuilt from the ruins.
Yet some things had reappeared all the same—loans, for instance.
It truly seemed fated.
Still, though the world looked unchanged, some things had quietly taken root and begun to sprout.
No one knew that, in a small town on this eastern land, a married couple were racing down the Evolution Path at a startling pace.
They intended to evolve in secret, then dazzle everyone.
One year and eleven months later.
Chu Feng was three years old.
"Godfather, what are you looking at?" Chu Feng tilted his head back and watched Meng Chuan gaze at the stars.
"The Big Bang," Meng Chuan said.
"How does it bang? Do you fry it in oil? Will it taste good afterward?"