Chapter 5: A New Era
"Xiao Xiu, go and make a fire, you can start cooking dumplings and eat. ”
"Okay, Mom, I'll go. ”
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Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and Qiao Xiu's relatives have all gone home.
Parents and eldest brother are a family of three, and the second sister is a family of three, because the brother-in-law is an orphan and has no other relatives, and they also came back to celebrate the New Year together.
According to local customs, Chinese New Year's Eve is the time to make dumplings on the morning, and wait until the evening to eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together as a family.
Of course, the work of making dumplings is handled by the mother, the second sister and the sister-in-law.
There are a few old men left, the father is killing chickens, and the eldest brother and brother-in-law are taking care of their respective children, sitting together to drink tea and chat.
Qiao Xiu was also teasing his little niece and nephew beside him, and by the way, he was on call at any time, as long as his mother and father had instructions, he hurried over to help.
No, seeing that his mother had already made a large tray of dumplings, and the time had come to more than eleven o'clock in the morning, Qiao Xiu obeyed his mother's instructions and ran to the kitchen to make a fire to cook dumplings.
Because there are many people, a large stove and cauldron are used to burn firewood.
Qiao Xiu has experience in burning firewood and cooking rice since he was a child, so he is still relatively neat in his work.
It didn't take long for a fire to break out in the stove. When the water was boiling, my father had just finished killing the chicken, so he put the chicken and the whole pork belly in and boiled it.
This large rooster and pork were sacrificed to the ancestors in the afternoon.
The leftover soup from boiling the chicken and pork will be more delicious when used to cook the dumplings.
After about half an hour, the dumplings are ready.
The family sat together and ate dumplings, talking and laughing, and the scene was warm and happy.
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Although more than half a month has passed since the major powers jointly issued the Blue Star Announcement, and the changes brought to the world by the vision a month ago have become more and more obvious, the lives of ordinary people do not seem to have changed much for the time being.
For example, this Chinese New Year, how to spend it before and how to live it now.
When you think about it, it's not hard to understand.
The change of the times cannot be achieved overnight, and in just one month, it is impossible for the world to undergo earth-shaking changes under the condition that the government controls the overall situation.
Speaking of which, when the official suddenly jumped out half a month ago to announce that the world would enter a new era of national evolution, Qiao Xiu's first feeling was that it was terrible, and the world was going to be in chaos.
But he soon reacted.
The officials are not stupid, and since they dare to make a public statement, it shows that they are confident that they have enough strength to deal with what may happen next.
It turned out to be right.
In the wake of the official global announcement, a powerful armed force unit appeared in front of the world.
The Transcendental Authority, officially established by various countries, is composed of the Transcendental, and later a special department dedicated to the management of the Transcendent.
The situation in foreign countries will not be mentioned for the time being.
Qiao Xiu's Huahan Kingdom, where it is located, has shown great power to make many people understand that the official actually knew that the world change would come a long time ago, and was fully prepared for it.
The personnel of the Super Power Administration are not only Super Awakeners, but also powerful cultivators.
That's right, it's those who, as written in the novel, have mastered transcendent powers through cultivation.
Since then, the power of the Extraordinary Authority at all levels has been rapidly spread across the country.
From the national capital, major cities, to thousands of towns and villages, they have set up sub-departments.
In this way, some of the chaos caused by the evolutionary awakening of the whole people in various places was quickly suppressed and wiped out.
Those who tried to use their power and superpowers to break the law and commit crimes were either killed on the spot or arrested in prison.
And those other creatures that have evolved and awakened have either been exterminated and contained and managed, or they have been expelled to the deep mountains and old forests.
Not only that, but the authorities also quickly announced some management policies regarding the vast number of evolutionaries and super-awakened people.
The first is that the status of all people in the law remains unchanged, and the unity is an ordinary resident, and there is no such thing as being superior to others because of awakened superpowers.
Because as mentioned earlier, this is an era of full evolution, and under the baptism of dark energy, all people's bodies are slowly evolving.
It's just that those who awaken superpowers are more talented, and they are just one step ahead.
Others can continue to grow stronger if they are able to awaken again or obtain the corresponding cultivation methods in the future.
Therefore, in terms of the open law, it is impossible for the official to engage in any hierarchy.
But that's just on the surface.
Even in the previous ordinary era, there was a huge gap between the rich and powerful and the ordinary people in terms of social status.
It is foreseeable that in the future, as the power of extraordinary individuals becomes stronger and stronger, the gap in social status between people will also become larger and larger.
Secondly, for people who have awakened superpowers, the official theory requires all of them to go to the department under the Superpower Administration to record their identities and abilities.
Of course, this official request cannot be fully realized.
Some people are reluctant to file for the record, and it is impossible for the authorities to find out them one by one.
However, for those who have not been recorded, one is that they cannot obtain the corresponding social benefits by virtue of their legal status as a superpower, and the other is that once they commit something in the hands of the government in the future, they will definitely be punished more heavily.
Then, for those who kept to themselves, had no criminal record, and were of exceptional ability, the Extraordinary Authority offered very generous conditions to bring them all into the organization.
Of course, this kind of solicitation is not mandatory, and if you don't want to join the Super Energy Administration after the identity capacity is recorded, the official will not force it.
Generally speaking, with the conditions offered by the government, and the idea of enjoying the shade with their backs to a big tree, most of the people who are recruited will choose to agree to join the official organization.
Qiao Xiu's eldest brother, Qiao Feng, is an example.
Qiao Feng was originally a Chinese teacher at a high school in Maocheng, and probably because of his love for calligraphy, he recently awakened a spiritual superpower called Xia Bi Ruo Shen.
This ability is that the words he writes carry a kind of spirituality endowed by his own spirit, and this spirituality has a great effect on the supernatural creatures.
The so-called supernatural creatures are those ghosts and ghosts in legends.
Under the influence of dark energy, they are no longer ethereal legendary creatures, but real ones.
Qiao Feng's ability is just more in line with the legendary way of cultivating spirit runes, and it will have a special bonus when used to draw runes.
The Extraordinary Authority has a large organization and a large number of personnel, so the demand for various equipment is naturally relatively large.
As the main equipment for dealing with supernatural creatures, spirit runes are naturally highly valued.
So when Qiao Feng went to report his identity ability, the staff of the Transcendent Administration immediately threw an olive branch to Qiao Feng.
Qiao Feng was very moved by the generous conditions offered by the Extraordinary Authority.
However, he also had concerns in his heart, hearing that the Transcendental Administration was responsible for dealing with all transcendental events across the country, and it was indispensable to fight transcendental criminals and other transcendent creatures in normal times.
Qiao Feng is a Chinese teacher, and fighting is not his strong point.
After he expressed his concerns, the personnel of the Transcendental Administration gave Qiao Feng a satisfactory answer.
It turns out that the internal personnel of the Transcendental Administration are mainly divided into two categories, one is the combatants, who are responsible for dealing with various transcendental events and belong to the main force. On the other hand, there are logisticians, who are responsible for the internal affairs of the Extraordinary Authority and the provision of various types of material support to combatants.
A person with an ability like Qiao Feng is just more suitable as a logistics staff to provide corresponding equipment for combatants.
When Qiao Feng heard that he still had a choice, he was naturally even more moved.
Then when he returned home, he first consulted his wife, and after her consent, his parents.
The parents were a little worried at first, but after Qiao Feng explained again and again, and Qiao Xiu also agreed with him, they agreed.
Then Qiao Feng successfully became a logistics staff member of the Transcendent Authority.
Under the efficient operation of the Transcendent Administration, Qiao Feng was quickly transferred from the original school to the Maocheng Branch of the Extraordinary Administration.
Now Qiao Feng is still in the learning and training stage as a newcomer, and if there is no accident, the direction he will specialize in in the future is the production of spirit runes.
Fortunately, the management of internal personnel by the Extraordinary Authority is quite humane.
Newcomers like Qiao Feng who are just starting out don't have any special tasks to complete, so they can still go home on vacation during the Chinese New Year.
Qiao Feng is a super-powerful person in the family, and everyone is still very happy.
For in the foreseeable future, there will be an era in which the world will be dominated by powerful transcendents.
It's a pity that except for Qiao Feng, the rest of the family doesn't have the obvious ability to awaken.
Like many ordinary people, at most, I feel that my body has improved a little.
Even Qiao Xiu is now acting like an ordinary person.
In addition to the improvement of physical fitness, the originally strong muscles have become stronger, and the body has grown a few centimeters taller, there are no too obvious changes in other aspects.
He didn't have superpowers like Awakened Elemental Manipulation or Psychic Momentum, nor did he double his physical fitness and strength overnight like a power-based awakened person.
But Qiao Xiu didn't feel lost or panicked.
Because he had already received the key to the otherworld.
Not long ago, through personal experience, Qiao Xiu had proved that the two breathing methods in his memory were true and could be cultivated.
It is precisely because Qiao Xiu's breathing method has been introduced that his physical fitness will improve higher than that of ordinary people.
However, because the introduction to the breathing method is still in the stage of laying the foundation, there will be no obvious qualitative changes until his body reaches the limit of the human body to condense the fighting qi, so his changes do not seem to be large.
Today's Qiao Xiu is like an extraordinary reserve, according to the standards of the Croft Continent in Lynn's memory, when he condenses his fighting spirit and becomes a black iron beginner warrior, he can be regarded as officially stepping into the door of the transcendent world.
It is precisely because of the reliance in his heart that Qiao Xiu has behaved so calmly in this month.
Even if he knew that the eldest brother was a superpower awakener, he was just happy for him, and there was no jealousy and loss in his heart.
Even in his opinion, although naturally awakened superpowers like Big Brother seem to be one step ahead of others, if they don't find a suitable cultivation method later, it will probably become particularly difficult to explore the path of advancement on their own.
On the contrary, like the Dou Qi cultivation method in his memory, it came from a transcendent world with a mature cultivation system, and it should be easier to advance.
The breathing method from the Northland Army in my memory can theoretically be cultivated to the transcendent third order, that is, the gold level.
Judging from the current reality, most of the awakened are rookies who have just stepped into the transcendent first order.
The strongest person officially revealed may also be the level of the transcendent second order, which is equivalent to the silver level of the Crove Continent in memory.
If Qiao Xiu could cultivate to the silver level or even the gold level in a relatively short period of time, then the forest of powerhouses in the real world would have a place for him.
In this regard, Qiao Xiu, who has the help of Lynn's memory experience, is still more or less confident.