Startling News

"Of our 1.3 billion people, 1.2 billion have now undergone evolution. We have also delivered the surplus gene-modification Evolution Devices to World No. 1. Every Descendant of the Yellow Emperor has the chance to try one."

This had been part of Chen Mu’s original plan, so he could not help nodding after hearing Xu Jia’s words.

Universe No. 1 was also developing rapidly. With the Main World’s support, it had progressed at breakneck speed, and every citizen there had attained the life they had once dreamed of.

But for Chen Mu and the younger generation, that was still not enough. Every Descendant of the Yellow Emperor deserved the right to evolve.

Thus, once the Descendants of the Yellow Emperor in the Main World had more or less finished evolving, the surplus devices were naturally transferred to World No. 1 through the Heavenly Court.

This allowed the older generation there to enjoy the same treatment as those in the Main World.

Every Descendant of the Yellow Emperor was treated this way.

Afterward, the Evolution Devices would all be stored by the Heavenly Court. When new worlds joined in the future, these devices would naturally be put to use again.

"Oh, right. China’s efforts to raise its people’s life levels are no secret in the international community. But despite foreigners’ protests, our country has paid them no attention and continued developing according to our own plans."

China had long since left Earth behind. To put it bluntly, even if Earth in the Main World broke out into a third World War, China had the confidence not to fear it in the slightest.

At worst, they could simply take their people to another planet. And if that was not enough, could they not go to other multiversal worlds?

In short, China now had plenty of ways out and had no need to worry about threats from other nations.

So-called nuclear war was nothing more than a joke to China at this point.

And as for so-called economic sanctions?

That was an even bigger joke. China no longer needed to rely on foreign products. Rather, the entire world now depended on China’s industrial capacity.

If they claimed they were sanctioning China, they would ultimately only hurt themselves.

"Other countries?"

Chen Mu sneered. He had gone to great lengths to make possessing the genes of the Descendants of the Yellow Emperor a prerequisite for the Tablet of Life’s evolution. Otherwise, members of other races would have only one fate if they used an Evolution Device: death.

Chen Mu had put enormous effort into making the unique genes of China’s fifty-six ethnic groups the prerequisite. As for people of mixed heritage, they could use the Evolution Device under certain conditions. But one must not forget that the Evolution Devices were controlled by the Heavenly Court. Foreigners, or those yellow-skinned, white-hearted banana people, had no right to use them at all.

"It’s fine. I can’t be bothered with them."

Chen Mu smiled and said indifferently, "Evolution Devices are specifically useful only to Chinese people. If foreigners use them, they will only die."

"There’s another matter—inheritance." Xu Jia thought for a moment before saying, "Could foreigners use intermarriage to bring Chinese genes abroad?"

Though it would be a very lengthy process, if it were possible, would that not allow foreigners to reap the benefits without doing anything?

"Don’t worry. Only if both parents are evolvers can they pass those genes on to the next generation. If one is from another country, or if the other party has not evolved, never mind the success rate—even if a child is born, they will not inherit the evolved genes."

Chen Mu had spent a long time establishing those rules. Did other races think they could spread evolved genes through marriage?

That was utterly impossible!

Moreover, because of evolvers’ lifespans, the only outcome of pairing with a non-evolver was being forced to watch the other person grow old and die. If they had children, they might even have to watch their children slowly age and leave this world before them.

For China, with its traditional values, that was absolutely not something people wanted to see.

In truth, the emergence of evolvers had already divided society at its very core.

Those who cared nothing for their own country, looked down on everyone else, and worshipped foreign things did not even qualify to evolve. Under such circumstances, with a lifespan of only a hundred years, even a billionaire could only find someone equally unqualified to evolve.

Otherwise, watching one’s partner enjoy a long life while one could only slowly grow old was devastating.

China did not need to deliberately target such people. It only needed time to gradually erase them.

No one would respect someone who looked down on their own country and people.

The fate of such people was destined to be tragic.

"Recently, though, many foreigners with bad records have been expelled from China."

They had no choice but to expel them. Those foreigners had once strutted around arrogantly, but now they might be dragged off with a sack over their heads at any moment, or inexplicably struck by lightning.

For the foreigners still in China, China had become an extremely dangerous place.

"That’s good."

Xu Jia sighed, then stared at Chen Mu with a resentful look. "Also, I’m pregnant…"

"???"

Chen Mu’s eyes widened, his face filled with horror.

What was going on?

I took a trip to see Uatu, and now she was telling me I’d become a father?

"Because of evolution, Chinese pregnancies now last as long as three years. And for some reason, after two years, all I can confirm is that I’m pregnant…"

Xu Jia looked deeply aggrieved. Since they had become a long-lived species, it had become more difficult for Chinese people to have children than before.

It was not that the chances of conception had decreased. Rather, women no longer carried children for ten months. According to observations, the process could even take as long as three years.

Since the beginning of universal evolution, even the children of married couples among the first batch of evolvers had yet to be born.

However, evolution had drastically lowered the birth rate. Given their current lifespans of a full five hundred years, people might once have considered one hundred years old merely adulthood. Young people in their twenties and thirties truly had no hurry to have children.

Fortunately, the population had already surpassed one billion. There was not much demand for further population growth anyway. Since everyone was long-lived, 1.2 billion immortal people were more than enough to explore the universe.

As for children born before evolution, they also had the opportunity to evolve directly.

This also showed that children born in the future would be naturally gifted and extraordinary.

As for Xu Jia, after Chen Mu had patted his butt and left, it had been nearly a year before she discovered that she was pregnant. Yet now, two years later, there was still barely any movement.