"Hold the line!" Daniel commanded.
All around, there was the clacking sound of the Secret Keepers transforming their cold weapons. Chen Ke was puzzled why, under such circumstances, their first thought was to engage in close combat with cold weapons.
The frenzied residents surged towards the small square from all directions, vastly outnumbering the defenders, and Chen Ke noticed that these residents were all slightly mutated, not at all like normal humans.
What had they been through to become like this? Chen Ke couldn't help but think of how Xu Jing once explained the disappearance of the year 2006: the deities had turned everyone into the Clan, nearly causing human history to break off, so the Foundation launched a memetic attack that erased 2006 from the timeline, replacing it with an alternate 2006.
And this was consistent with what the Foundation in the real world claimed...
