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"Holy crap!"

"I'm easily scared, boss, please don't scare me."

Yang Wei was startled by Chen Xi's words and turned around sharply to stare intently at the buildings that were being repaired in his direction.

Whether it was psychological or not, Yang Wei really felt that these skyscrapers, which were being restored to their original appearance, looked like they had been painted, but he didn't believe that the world was a painting.

After all, he had lived in this world for more than 20 years, and because he dropped out of school early, he had also worked on construction sites and carried bricks. These buildings were all built little by little with cement and steel bars.

How could it be a drawing?

Wang Sanjin didn't speak, but the expression on his face spoke volumes.

"It really does look like..."

Chen Xi repeated, "Because of hyperthymesia, he remembers subtle details very clearly."

"But boss, the painter is in Shangjing City, and the explosion range is 1.5 kilometers in radius, which is 3 kilometers in diameter."

"Such a large area, a painter at Rank I wouldn't have the ability to do that, would they?"

"Even if he's at level II, he still couldn't have this kind of painting speed."

Yang Wei rarely provides examples to prove this.

However, Chen Xi shook his head:

"When I say it looks like a painting, I don't mean it was painted by an artist."

"This must be a tactic employed by the Black Tower."

As Chen Xi said this, her eyes narrowed slightly, as if she had thought of something:

"I found it strange before. Although there are few superhumans and fake humans, and few cities, there are still several thousand people."

"Wasn't there even a single instance of this kind of battle being filmed?"

"Judging from the scale of Phase II, they'll need to blow up one or two buildings at the very beginning!"

"Even the Hulk will be hammered to death!"

"It now appears that the mysterious and unpredictable Black Tower has been maintaining this balance."

As Chen Xi spoke of this, he couldn't help but think of the black tower sphere on his body.

So far, apart from the name, there is nothing else that is the same.

There are currently four colors revealed: red - kill, crimson - strip, and black - weaken. There are no other abilities.

However, Chen Xi believed that this thing must have an extremely high potential, but at this stage he was not yet able to reach it, or had not yet found its true way of use.

Soon, like a scroll being unfurled, colors began to appear around them, and the surrounding buildings and the ground affected by the explosion were rapidly returning to their previous state.

The restoration quickly reached the feet of Chen Xi and the other two, which was also the so-called end point, and without any surprises, it was restored to its original state.

"Wait a minute before we go."

Seeing that the repairs were finished, Yang Wei and Wang Sanjin prepared to turn around and leave.

Chen Xi stopped him as soon as his toes turned and his heels hadn't even touched the ground.

"What's wrong?"

Wang Sanjin said in a deep voice, his expression serious, as if he thought something unusual had happened.

"Don't you guys feel like something's missing?"

Yang Wei and Wang Sanjin exchanged a glance, their eyes flashing, as if they had simultaneously realized something:

"Onlookers!"

"Ordinary people!"

"Yes, those ordinary people haven't been repaired, so I think I'll wait and see."

"I have a guess in my mind that I want to verify."

......

And so, the three of them waited in the same spot for an hour.

In the end, nothing came of it.

"As expected, ordinary people cannot be repaired."

Chen Xi drew a conclusion.

"Isn't that too arbitrary, boss?"

"Is it possible that the ordinary people were destroyed too thoroughly by this explosion?"

"Not even a trace was left."

"At least the foundations of those buildings are still intact."

"You said it yourself, it's a repair, so it should need some of the original parts."

"That shouldn't be the reason."

Yang Wei was immediately refuted by Wang Sanjin before he could even open his mouth.

Are you targeting me?

Yang Wei stared directly at the other person, giving them a look that said, "You'd better have some evidence."

Wang Sanjin turned slightly to the side and pointed to a row of small food carts around him:

"Being so close to the epicenter of the explosion, these small food carts should have been completely destroyed like the ordinary people, but they were all repaired."

"Even the hot oil and fruit on top have been restored."

"It can be said that in this explosion, the only ones who were not repaired were the ordinary people."

Chen Xi nodded and continued:

"It's understandable that the superhumans and pseudo-humans haven't been repaired, but what about ordinary people..."

"Whether it was Tiger, who had his head pierced at the beginning, or the ordinary people who were scared away by fear but still lingered in the distance."

"Looking at it now, they were essentially our foundation, so it's understandable that they haven't been repaired."

"But this also proves one thing: we are real!"

After Chen Xi finished speaking, he looked around again, his eyes filled with an indescribable sense of wonder, and remained silent for a few seconds:

"Whether this restoration was drawn or not, the current result leads to a unified conclusion."

"The world is fake, but love is real!"

This is a heavy topic, and no one is taking the bait.

Even Yang Wei, who loves to complain, chose to keep quiet.

After all, who would want to believe that the world they've lived in since childhood is actually a fake world?

"Slap! Slap!"

Finally, Chen Xi broke the deadlock by patting each of them on the back:

Don't be so discouraged.

"My conclusion is just my conclusion; it doesn't equate to the facts?"

"Besides, even if I'm right, we still exist."

So let's keep moving forward.

"The original plan was to visit the author's house first."

......

The three had barely left Tianfu Street when they saw a steady stream of pedestrians heading in the direction they had come from.

"Where are we going? There are so many people?"

Yang Wei said it casually.

Surprisingly, a talkative middle-aged woman actually went to pick her up:

"Where to?"

Go fry my youtiao (Chinese fried dough sticks)!

"Tianfu Street opened today, and so many businesses moved in, but some damn leader gave a speech and said we all have to go."

"See, we merchants rushed back as soon as we finished listening to that nonsense!"

The woman's mouth never stopped for a second. After responding to Yang Wei's words as she walked, she immediately started introducing her 38-year-old unmarried daughter to an elderly man walking alongside her.

"It seems that not only has the city been repaired, but the people's perception of it has also been altered."

Wang Sanjin murmured, this was the first time he had ever seen something like this, and it felt very novel.

"It's not that small."

Chen Xi shook his head:

"The scope isn't that small; it should be everyone, everyone who doesn't possess extraordinary power. Their understanding was probably altered along with it when Tianfu Avenue was repaired!"

Chen Xi turned around, watching the retreating figures of the new merchants, her eyes flashing with a complex light:

Before we awakened, weren't we just like them?

"I really want to see what this world would look like before it was changed."

After saying that, the three of them continued towards the author's house according to the original plan, but this time they didn't need to attract so much attention. The three of them took a taxi together.