"Yeah, most likely."
Gu Qing paused, then added, "It's also possible that spiritual energy revival has begun throughout Haicheng."
Xia Shuran was surprised. "I thought spiritual energy revival would take at least several more months. I didn't expect it to come after just a few days."
Gu Qing was equally surprised.
This revival had come very suddenly, without any warning.
Normally, spiritual energy revival should have made plants grow wildly and caused all kinds of mutations in animals before humans began evolving.
Why was this spiritual energy revival so strange, with humans getting a head start on evolution right away?
No!
I've been led astray by the spiritual energy revival novels I read before!
We're all creatures on Earth. Why should humans evolve more slowly than other animals and plants?
Going by the laws of nature...
As Earth's overlord, humans should have greater evolutionary potential than the planet's other creatures. We should be the first to evolve during spiritual energy revival.
That makes perfect sense.
Gu Qing suddenly figured this out, and everything seemed to fall into place.
Just then, Xia Shuran spoke beside him, sounding somewhat excited.
"Senior, quickly scroll through the local videos on TikTok. Lots of people are posting videos saying their health suddenly improved. Spiritual energy revival really has started throughout Haicheng."
"..."
Hearing this, Gu Qing also opened TikTok to browse the local videos.
He quickly swiped through ten videos, six of which talked about improvements in the posters' health.
One video was hugely popular.
It had hundreds of thousands of likes.
It had been posted by someone who claimed to have terminal pancreatic cancer.
The person said that over the past few days, the tumor in their body had miraculously shrunk at a rapid rate and seemed to be on its way to being