I'm Already a God, and You're Only Now Telling Me There Are Monsters?

Chapter 202: Chapter 135: The Family’s Extraordinary Transformation

”Senior, what are you looking at on your phone so intently?”

Seeing Gu Qing staring down at his phone even while walking, Xia Shuran couldn’t help but ask.

Gu Qing held his phone out to her.

”See for yourself.”

”Let me see.”

Xia Shuran blinked her sparkling eyes, leaned in to look at the phone screen Gu Qing offered, and carefully read the chat history in the group.

After less than half a minute of reading, she was done.

Her eyes widened slightly, and her mouth fell open a little. She turned to Gu Qing with a hint of surprise.

”Senior, is the university... undergoing a Spiritual Energy Recovery?”

”Yeah, most likely.”

Gu Qing paused, then added, ”It’s also possible the entire Hai City is undergoing a Spiritual Energy Recovery.”

Xia Shuran was very surprised. ”I thought the Spiritual Energy Recovery would take at least a few more months. I can’t believe it’s here after just a few days.”

Gu Qing was just as surprised.

This recovery had come very suddenly, with no warning whatsoever.

’Normally, a Spiritual Energy Recovery should cause plants to grow wildly and animals to mutate first, with human evolution coming later.’

’Why is this Spiritual Energy Recovery so strange? Why are humans evolving first, right from the start?’

’No!’

’I’ve been led astray by all those Spiritual Energy Recovery novels I’ve read!’

’We’re all life forms on Earth. Why should humans evolve slower than other animals and plants?’

’According to the laws of nature...’

’As the dominant species on Earth, humanity’s talent for evolution should be greater than any other creature’s. It’s only right that we’d be the first to evolve during a Spiritual Energy Recovery.’

’That makes perfect sense.’

Gu Qing suddenly understood this point, and a sense of clarity washed over him.

Just then, an excited Xia Shuran spoke up from beside him.

”Senior, check the local videos on Douyin! So many people are posting that their bodies have suddenly gotten healthier. It really is the whole of Hai City undergoing a Spiritual Energy Recovery.”

”...”

Hearing this, Gu Qing also opened his Douyin and started scrolling through the local videos.

He quickly scrolled through ten videos, and six of them were about people’s health suddenly improving.

One video, in particular, was incredibly popular.

It had hundreds of thousands of likes.

It was posted by a patient claiming to be in the late stages of pancreatic cancer.

The person said that in the last few days, the tumor inside their body had miraculously started shrinking rapidly, as if it were about to be cured.

And in the comments section of this video, many other late-stage cancer patients from Hai City were describing the same experience.

”The Era of Spiritual Qi Revival is truly a wonderful time. It can give a second chance at life to so many people with terminal illnesses.”

Gu Qing sighed with emotion.

Xia Shuran asked curiously,

”Senior, with the arrival of the Era of Spiritual Qi Revival, even ordinary people are getting noticeably stronger. Does this mean that as Extraordinary Beings, we’ll get stronger exponentially?”

”Probably.”

Gu Qing paused, then continued, ”As the Spiritual Energy Recovery goes on, perhaps all ordinary people will become Extraordinary Contactors.”

”And the original Extraordinary Contactors will all become Extraordinary Awakened.”

”As for the original Extraordinary Awakened...”

”Hmm, my understanding of the Extraordinary is still quite limited. I can’t imagine what would happen to them just yet.”

”...”

Xia Shuran folded one arm across her chest, resting her other arm on top of it. She raised a slender, fair index finger to poke her cheek, thought for a moment, and then said,

”I guess... the original Extraordinary Awakened will probably undergo a second awakening.”

”A second awakening?”

Gu Qing thought about it and felt that his junior’s guess was quite plausible.

’In fact, if one’s talent is high enough, there might even be a third, fourth, or fifth awakening... just constantly stacking layers.’

’This Extraordinary World is getting more and more interesting.’

”Senior, the Night Court app posted an announcement.”

Xia Shuran said while looking at her phone, ”It says that Hai City has begun a large-scale Spiritual Energy Recovery, and it wants us to help maintain stability, while also scouting for new Extraordinary Awakened to bring fresh blood into the Night Court.”

Gu Qing nodded. ”Even the Night Court has issued an announcement. It looks like the Spiritual Energy Recovery is really here. We weren’t wrong.”

Xia Shuran’s voice held a trace of anticipation. ”By the way, Senior, do you think any Extraordinary Awakened will appear at Hai University now?”

”Probably not.”

Gu Qing explained, ”Before the Spiritual Energy Recovery, Hai University didn’t even have a single Extraordinary Contactor. It’s unlikely an Extraordinary Awakened would just appear out of nowhere.”

As he said this, he subconsciously excluded himself and Xia Shuran.

But even if he hadn’t excluded them, the statement wouldn’t have been wrong.

After all, neither he nor Xia Shuran were ”proper” Extraordinary Beings.

He had become an Extraordinary Being by relying on a cheat.

And Xia Shuran had become one thanks to her ancestor.

One was cheat-made.

The other was man-made.

Neither of them was a naturally born Extraordinary Being.

...

「In the time that followed.」

Gu Qing and Xia Shuran continued to wander around campus.

They searched for rats, hoping to find clues about the Rat God Cultists, while also observing the students passing by, looking for any Extraordinary Beings.

[Chef]

[Firefighter]

[Adulterer]

[Father]

[Boxer]

’Adulterer?’

’Well now, you really can’t judge a book by its cover.’

’That Japanese foreign teacher seems like such an honest woman. To think that after spending more time with her, I’d actually become a reviled adulterer.’

Gu Qing gazed at a teaching building up ahead.

His sharp, eagle-like gaze landed precisely on a woman who had just walked out of a classroom.

More accurately, it landed on the [Adulterer] label floating above her head.

This woman was from Japan, a foreign teacher specially hired by the university to teach the history of Japanese literature. Just last year, she had married a local male teacher who taught Spanish, becoming a wife in a transnational marriage.