Myriad Paths

In the secret room underground, the headquarters of the law enforcement agency, the shelter for all weirdos, the strongest weirdo in history suddenly said that he was going to die.

This frightened the veteran so much that he almost fell down, but the tea in his hand still spilled all over his pants.

It will probably be difficult to explain for a while. After all, he is already seventy years old. It is still difficult to deal with this kind of thing. The maid will probably roll her eyes.

And Li Qi smiled: "Yes, it seems to be fast. With the current process, how many hundred years will it take?"

The veteran suddenly rolled his eyes.

He almost fainted, but it turned out that he was talking about something hundreds of years later! It was... almost giving him a heart attack.

However, after he rolled his eyes, he suddenly remembered something——

In the past forty years, no matter it is 'Cocoon' or 'Li Qi', the appearance of these two people has not changed at all.

After forty years, they are still young.

Maybe... in a few hundred years, for them, they will really be "almost dead".

This made him sit up straight, and kept observing the indescribable weirdness of the two people back and forth.

"Hundreds of years... I hope so. The greater possibility is that with your push, I will be killed by them faster." Cocoon looked at the veteran next to him.

"Cocoon, I won't hurt you." The veteran said immediately.

"I know that it was not you who killed me, but you." Cocoon said.

"The faith of Orthodoxy is declining. As a 'god' condensed by the power of faith, Cocoon is naturally also declining. When the worship of gears and technology overwhelms the worship of Orthodoxy, she will naturally die." Li Qizai The side explained.

"However, according to my estimation, this process should last for hundreds of years. By the time this world war is over, the Orthodox Church's reputation will have hit rock bottom, its control over people's consciousness will also decline, and it will gradually become more mainstream. thoughts replaced, and then gradually disappeared," Li Qi said.

"So, Mr. Li Qi, what about you?" The veteran suddenly seemed to realize something and looked at Li Qi.

"Me? Well, my existence is not something you can understand. It would be troublesome to explain it forcefully. Just acquiesce to my existence. At least in the era when Cocoon is alive, I will not die." Li Qi said.

"Really...then it seems that there is still room for discussion on this matter, right?" the veteran said.

"Yes, as long as the Orthodox faith can be maintained, it can continue to exist. However, this is very difficult. Changes in ideological trends do not happen in a day or two. Naturally, it cannot be changed by one or two people. In the final analysis... …There aren’t that many people who believe in Orthodoxy anymore,” Li Qi said.

"...I understand." The veteran nodded, as if he had made up his mind.

"Don't be sad for me." At this time, Cocoon said gently: "This is just the only way to go, and when the time comes, I'm afraid you will hate me instead."

"How is that possible! Master Cocoon, your contribution to this world is obvious to all. All royal families and orthodox believers can listen to your teachings. Only the most hateful and ungrateful people will hate you!" Veteran! said immediately.

Li Qi chuckled lightly.

indeed so.

However, mortals are the most forgetful people. Even a blood feud will fade away in just two generations.

As long as it is not maintained continuously, the existence of the cocoon will be quickly erased under the impact of ideological trends, and... there is another problem...

Is it really a good thing to be made of cocoons?

That's not necessarily the case.

Industrialization, pollution, competition, world war, suppressing the human technology tree, and burning scientists like the Carolingians.

This is what cocoons do.

Although this god is gentle, his methods are quite cruel.

In order to stop the progress of mortals, she killed countless people and suppressed the weirdness that resulted from it.

For a significant number of people, the presence of cocoons is a hindrance.

And according to Li Qi's understanding...

Anyone who stands in front of the torrent of the times will be crushed to death, even Cocoon is no exception. However, Cocoon cannot retreat. As the spirit of the times, she is purer and more determined than any mortal.

Li Qi did not discuss this topic for too long, and soon he left the headquarters of the law enforcement agency.

Outside, the sky was overcast, the wind was biting, and snowflakes were about to fall.

Of course, the sky has always been so gloomy. You must know that there is no sun and moon in this world. The way they see the world is infrared, which means that everyone is self-luminous.

In the eyes of outsiders, this is a dark world, but in their eyes, it is bright everywhere and at all times, and there is no distinction between day and night.

Even though they are all humanoid creatures and look like humans, they are not the same race after all. Every place has its own characteristics, let alone a ghost place like the Desire Realm.

Li Qi was walking on the street. The pollution was still serious. There were many advertisements around. Most of them were selling medicines, such as some kind of life medicine, super scientific balm, life-saving water, etc. All these medicines have one characteristic, that is, they can heal the world. all diseases.

This is understandable. The number of diseases in this city is horrifying, and almost every worker has more or less diseases.

Lack of medical treatment, insufficient food, overwork, and heavy fog pollution have made them all weak, skinny, and pale. Except for those muscles that they work particularly hard, other muscles are weak. developed.

Almost all people suffer from indigestion and therefore suffer from melancholy to a greater or lesser degree, always looking sad and unhappy. Their weak bodies are unable to fight off diseases and they can fall ill at any time due to the smallest thing.

In this case, the 'panacea' is an irresistible temptation for them. They have no education, are stupid and tired, and often believe their lies after listening to advertisements and salesmen's nonsense, and buy those lies. A 'cure-all' that is useless or even harmful.

These are all good things done by 'Cocoon'.

Therefore, it is natural for the cocoon that has done all this to be overthrown by the times and even die.

As far as Li Qi knew, nearly half of the power in the world war was supported by these workers. They could not bear such a life, so under the leadership of another organization that overthrew the Orthodox Church, they continued to attack the kingdoms.

No matter what the outcome is, it will seriously shake the rule of Orthodoxy.

Moreover, now that they have made progress, they have carried out large-scale religious suppression activities in their territory. They have transformed churches into dance venues or conference venues, moved sacred sculptures to museums for exhibition, and transformed obscure Mysterious ancient scriptures were translated and many copies were kept in libraries to criticize the ignorance and superstition in them.

Under such actions, the Orthodox Church had no way to judge these heretics. This also caused their prestige to plummet, from "unable to resist" to "just powerful".

Under this situation, a large number of esoteric cults, scholars, and people who had long been dissatisfied with Orthodoxy sneaked into the other side.

The rest are believers who stayed because of inertia, or people who don't care about the world at all, but these people are actually the majority.

Those who choose to leave and go to an unknown world just for the sake of a living environment are in the minority after all. Most people actually live by "inertia".

Get up habitually, brush your teeth habitually, take the bus habitually, and start a day of study and work habitually. Eating is a habit. If you are used to eating rice, you will not be able to eat noodles. Sleeping is also a habit. How? How you wake up from bed is also determined.

People continue to live in their habits and seldom or never make changes.

And religion is also a kind of inertia.

It is under this inertia that the cocoon continues to exist.

But Li Qi had already seen it, and his purpose was about to be completed.

This world is embarking on the beginning of breaking out of the world. Once the shackles of Orthodoxy are broken, it will be like emerging from a cocoon and becoming a butterfly, officially embarking on the journey to the universe.

Just like lobe-finned fish moving from the sea to land.

Walking on the street, Li Qi watched the changes here. After a while, he would be able to witness the scene after this civilization faced the devil of death.

Observations at that time were particularly important.

Then, just wait.

Li Qi thought this and started waiting as usual. After all, for the third grade, tens to hundreds of years simply passed by in the blink of an eye.

For the powerful, both an instant and a thousand years are valid. Their concept of time is not limited to somatosensory time. Their reaction speed can be calculated in picoseconds, and they can also wait for billions of years with extraordinary patience. time.

Their battles will also undergo different changes as a result, including fierce instant battles and life and death decisions in a few microseconds, such as Zhu Fengdan and General Zhennan Mansion.

It may also be a long, billions of years of Taoist struggle, just like the daily life of the nine places in the world.

The intensity of the two is actually the same.

Although it is difficult for mortals to understand, this is the fact that intensity is not measured in time.

Soon, another ten years passed.

The veteran died of old age. He continued to preach before he died. Others were surprised why a veteran who did not believe in God turned into a fanatic believer before he died. Perhaps it was really the fear of death and the hope for heaven that made him He must have become like this.

But only Li Qi, Yu Yu, and himself knew the reason.

The same situation also occurs with many scholars. They are obviously scientific scholars and people who should support craftsmen, but they all start preaching at the end of their lives, insisting on integrating their research results with theology.

This also gave many religious people confidence. They began to proclaim doctrines such as 'the end of science is theology' and advocated that these great scholars eventually became pious because they found evidence for the existence of God from science. Category.

And, amazingly, they're not technically wrong.

They not only found ‘evidence of God’s existence’, they directly recognized ‘God’ itself.

The existence of cocoon is no longer a secret among the top leaders of the country.

Therefore, many believers, as well as some beings with distinct personal stances, are in awe of this god, which alleviates the cocoon situation.

However... this also brings new problems.

For the rebels, the existence of cocoons is not a bad thing.

God is no longer illusory, but actually exists, inspiring both believers and god-killers.

Their goal is no longer an illusory idea, but a real object.

When the true form of God appears, no matter how powerful it is, it is like having a 'blood bar', and it has a target to attack.

As a result, the intensity of the world war increased again.

Li Qi kept watching quietly.

After the death of the veteran, he no longer interfered with the affairs of law enforcement agencies, but he still occasionally chatted with Cocoon.

About forty years later, the coalition forces broke through the Orthodox Holy City and purged the remaining church members. They allowed the church to maintain its faith, but they wanted to take away all the secular power of the church.

Those well-equipped soldiers walked on the streets and loudly promoted their new decree: "Give God to God! Give to men what belongs to men!"

While they were shouting this, Li Qizheng was pushing an old lady's wheelchair around the corner.

"The institution is also going to be taken over, right?" The old lady said to Li Qi in a hoarse voice.

"Yeah, it looks like it's going to be fast." Li Qi said.

"Fortunately, I'm already dying and don't need to accept the new era." The old lady said happily.

"Don't you hate the institution? They obviously created you and made you suffer a lot when you were young for their own selfish interests." Li Qi looked at the old lady in front of him.

The former three-nothing girl is now too old to look good. Her husband, the former young man, also died twenty years ago, but she lived for more than a hundred years. Li Qi would come to see her sometimes. she.

"Hatred or loved, what does it mean to a person of my age? I just hope that the world will not change too fast while I am alive." The old lady said, and then looked at Li Qi: "Then Your...Your Majesty Li Qi, what do you think of it after traveling through endless years?"

"Me? Well... I actually don't have much opinion, but it's good to have changes." Li Qi replied.

"Then... I wish you can continue on this road in the future." The old lady said her sincere blessing.

Li Qi also smiled at her, then put his hand in front of her: "Let me give you one last gift."

After saying this, Li Qi turned his wrist, and a flower appeared in Li Qi's hand out of thin air, just like ninety years ago.

The flowers were still as beautiful as ever, and Li Qi was still the same, but the girl had turned into an old woman in a wheelchair.

The old lady grinned her toothless mouth, took the flowers, and said, "After adding sugar, it tastes delicious..."

After saying this, she lowered her neck and died.

Li Qi pushed her to the hospital, handed the body to the doctor, and then left.

Soon.

In a few decades, they will be exposed to the stars.