Time passed, year after year.
In the blink of an eye, another twenty years had gone by.
At the start of the new year, snowflakes drifted down from the sky, dressing the land in silver. The vast mountain forests were a sea of white, and houses and mountains alike wore a silver mantle.
The bitter winter winds did nothing to dampen people's fiery spirits. Young men and women were out celebrating the new year in streets and alleys everywhere. Many were making snowballs in the squares, enjoying a rare taste of innocent childhood fun.
Meanwhile, on television, the internet, and other channels, the current parliamentary speaker, a solemn-looking middle-aged man, was delivering an important speech. "Friends and comrades, this year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Great Academy of Sciences and the Great Knowledge Institute! It is also humanity's 191st year in the supernatural era."
"The changes over these past thirty years have been plain for all to see!"
"With the help of various Heart Source Flow abilities, Superpower-related crimes have fallen by 87.6%. This is a remarkable figure. It also means that, in terms of social ideology, we have finally completed the true transition into the modern Superpower era and achieved a genuine leap in our civilization's form!"
The previous era had not truly been a "modern Superpower era"-more and more people were coming to agree with this view.
Why? Because, in the past, many people could not control their desires. They thought being stronger than others made them superior.
Their bodies were indeed those of Superpower users, but their minds and thinking remained stuck in the past. They were only a little better than monkeys that had acquired power.
And so, all kinds of violent crime naturally arose.
In some remote areas, the rate of