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Yuan City.
A small county town in the eastern part of Green State.
Early morning.
A mist shrouded the air.
On the benches outside the breakfast stall, a number of commoners were sitting.
Sipping soy milk and dipping youtiao, they chatted with acquaintances about recent interesting news, while several children chased each other around the tables, their laughter ringing clear.
Though the county magistrate could not boast of being as pure as the driven wind, he was not so corrupt as to scrape the ground for three feet, and the town's commoners lived fairly well.
Suddenly.
Boundless enlightenment clouds floated over from the sky, and the yet-to-brighten sky again turned gloomy and dark.
"How can the weather change so abruptly?"
The speaker was a stocky man, who hurriedly gulped down his soy milk, fished out a copper coin from his pocket, and raised his hand, about to call for the proprietress.
Whoosh—