Myriad Paths

If the environment is really too cold, even your breath will turn white.

However, if the cold continues, the exhaled air will instantly become lumpy, which is what it looks like now.

The temperature of minus 70 degrees is already the limit for life to exist. If it were any lower, it would be difficult to survive. Fortunately, this planet has warm geothermal heat, and the ocean itself has good thermal insulation properties.

Come to think of it, if it were at the bottom of the water, the water temperature might rise to zero, which could even be called hot water.

This is the planet's ice age.

The cold environment led to the formation of huge ice sheets covering the planet. These ice sheets covered everything indifferently from the poles to the equator.

The land became cold, the rivers froze, and all weather turned into blizzards, freezing rain, hail, and the rare sunny days did not allow the temperature to exceed minus fifty degrees.

Plants, wildlife, and intelligent civilizations will face never-ending freezing conditions, suffer direct damage from extremely low temperatures, or starve to death due to lack of food.

A huge body is good for keeping warm, but it requires high energy, so only organisms at the top of the food chain or those huge bottom filter feeders have the chance to grow.

However, even the simplest lichens and mosses, or low-level life such as insects, only those most suitable for living in extremely cold areas can survive until now.

They must have had great adaptability and creativity to have any chance of surviving the brutal sieving of the Ice Age, which would have lasted hundreds of millions of years.

Li Qi was still chatting with the parents in front of him. It was just a bit boring daily chat. No, there was no need to chat. As long as he was by his side, the two third-grade people just stayed quietly without doing anything extra. matter.

As parents speak, they are also sharpening their spears.

It was an extremely rare metal weapon.

In this dark and cold world, metal weapons actually do not exist. The hunters here use stone or bone weapons, or simply use their own flesh.

However, the parents seemed to have used their own methods to create a metal weapon.

He was very good at his craftsmanship, and when he sharpened his sword, the blade of his spear made a gentle buzzing sound.

This is the sound of swords.

From the perspective of a mortal refiner, the sword will sound only when the internal structure of the weapon is completely integrated, the stiffness is uniform, the weight of the blade is precise and balanced, the handle is very tightly fitted, the blade is sharp, and the heat treatment metallography is uniform.

If the refiner's methods are not good enough, any cracks, uneven thickness, gaps in fit, and uneven strength will increase the vibration dissipation, making it impossible to sustain the sound of the sword.

This third-grade hand-forged weapon is the best among ordinary soldiers. It is not only sharp, but also represents uniformity, reliability, and stability. On this primitive and backward planet, this is a magic weapon that can be entrusted with life. , no animal's skin can block this spear.

This made Li Qi a little confused.

Because although this spear is very excellent, in fact it is just a mortal weapon, and it is actually of no use to the third level. Maybe it will be very comfortable for mortals to use it for hunting, but...is it meaningful?

If you want to integrate into the segment, eat and live together with the mortals, then there is no need to use this special metal weapon, as a bone spear can penetrate this galaxy.

Therefore, Li Qi asked: "Why do you want to make such a weapon that is not in line with the times? If you want to integrate into this world, you don't need to do such an abrupt thing, right? Is there any special significance? My deduction seems not to Sensing something wrong, this weapon should be dispensable to you."

Li Qi's deduction was based on the opponent's situation, but he found nothing special about this spear.

"I want to do this, that's all." The parent said.

Looking at the other party's appearance, Li Qi nodded thoughtfully: "It's not just a matter of freedom. Your Taoist heart is broken, isn't it?"

Li Qi stared at the other person. This was not the first time he saw a dying person.

Especially for practitioners, the so-called life and death is not just as simple as losing interference and possibility in the world. There are many other ways of death in the world.

Just like the Zhongwei bird in front of him, his Taoist heart has long been dead and he can't get out. Therefore, everything that follows in his life, and even all his time in the future, is just to give him death. The heart builds a tomb that is beautiful on the surface but empty in reality.

"Yeah, but I don't regret it. Although I have lost those things, I am still happier now than I have never met before." Zhongweiniao said with a smile.

He continued: "In the previous war, my history was killed. Just when I was about to escape, I almost lost consciousness. When I regained my consciousness, I found that my history Like a dismembered pig in a butcher's shop."

"If I had that kind of backbone, I would stand up and fight back to reduce my possibilities to zero. In this way, even if I can no longer interfere with the future, I can at least hold on to the present, hide in the closed space-time ring, continue to live, and look forward to the future. A day that opens up new possibilities.”

"However... I failed to do it. I chose to give in and did not interfere with the changes they made. It retained the possibility of continuation, but it made my past fragmented and turned into a dream." The Zhongwei bird said lightly. .

Li Qi nodded slightly.

In fact, he can understand.

The war of the first-class affected many people. It started one picosecond after the Big Bang. In all timelines, all dimensions, all spaces, and all places where existence can reach, every first-class who joined the battle was fighting with other first-class.

This kind of fight is invisible, there is no such extensive magical power, there is only the cold chill like the ice field in front of him.

The ice field did not hurt anything, he just existed.

Li Qi did not say much.

He did not continue to chat, but returned to the snow house.

After that, Li Qi joined the family, but he refused all invitations to mate.

At first, everyone did not understand, but Li Qi soon showed his extraordinary hunting ability.

Showing his own value, then everyone can tolerate quirks, so Li Qi still quickly integrated into the family.

He lived in the family for about 20 years, and lived with his parents until the family split.

Because there were too many people, everyone's relationship began to become complicated, and prey was not easy to catch, so they needed to separate.

The authority of the head of the family was challenged several times, and finally the family chose to separate, split into three settlements, and went their separate ways.

Twenty years was just a blink of an eye for Sanpin.

Morning fungus does not know the new moon and full moon, and cicadas do not know spring and autumn.

If it is a mayfly, seeing a pair of humans drinking tea and chatting together, maybe sitting for half an hour? That is also a long time for it, and humans have spent most of their lives doing only one boring thing.

The same is true for these mortals.

Li Qi and the Zhongwei bird just sat together, drank a cup of tea, and talked a little, but it was already a lifetime for these people.

Li Qi and the Zhongwei bird did not even really start a topic.

This went on for about 150 years.

During these 150 years, he and the head of the family moved around in various tribes, constantly living basically the same animal life.

This kind of life is actually unexpectedly close to "nature".

Just as Li Qi once knew, the universe is probably not a dark forest. It is either brighter or darker. Space has always been so fair and selfless, so ruthless, cruel and extreme without bias towards any party, but it maintains that delicate balance.

Genes control these so-called higher organisms. Their bodies and your actions are just carriers under the control of genes. People are just large paramecium.

One day 150 years later, Li Qi and the micro-birds had just finished hunting. They caught a fat worm in the cracks of the glacier. This is a fish larva.

It sounds strange, but it is indeed a fish larva. This kind of fish will lay eggs under the glacier because there are almost no predators here. The larvae will be fat when they hatch. They will not eat and live on the fat in their bodies. Then they will slide along the glacier into the water. After a period of development, they will grow other organs and become a fish.

In the water, the fish form is indeed useful. This is the power of convergent evolution.

However, the glacier can stop other predators, but it can't stop the local "indigenous people". They will chisel the glacier and dig out these delicious big fat meat.

They let go of half of the larvae, and moved the other half out to freeze them tightly, so that the people in the settlement can take them away.

Then, the two of them sat under the glacier and looked up at the sky.

Above the glacier was the sky, emitting a faint light. After the others left, only Li Qi and Zhongwei Bird were left on the seabed. The surrounding and overhead were transparent glacier curtains like glass. The sea water underfoot was clear and transparent, and you could see the swaying seaweed.

Many cobalt blue and gray-silver small fishes were in groups, colorful red fishes shuttled gracefully, and some fat sea beasts were hunting.

Zhongwei Bird watched all this silently, as if enjoying the rare beauty.

Li Qi also appreciated this rare beauty. The glacier was sandwiched between the sky and the ocean. The deep sea water below and the gorgeous light in the sky were mixed together, which looked particularly beautiful, more magnificent than the aquarium.

The natural scenery is always so beautiful. Although it is not as gorgeous as the stars, it has its own flavor.

Then, Li Qi suddenly said: "Fear of death is because you love your life very much. The thing that people fear most is losing the things they love most. Love and fear go hand in hand. Even the love of a lifetime will eventually be lost, so fear is everywhere. Those who love money are afraid of losing wealth, those who love people are afraid of being abandoned, those who pursue the way are afraid of taking the wrong path, and those who love beauty are afraid of filth."

Li Qi suddenly said something irrelevant.

However, the Zhongwei bird looked at Li Qi and understood what Li Qi wanted to say.

However, Li Qi did not stop, but continued: "But if you work harder to get these things, make money, love people, pursue the way, and maintain your appearance, then having more means that you can lose more. This will not solve the fear, but will increase the evil thoughts."

Having said this, Li Qi looked at the distance of the glacier.

Ordinary people think that the existence of the third rank is invincible and can do everything.

Just like the ice field in front of us, the frozen world never stops, stretching endlessly, stretching to the end of the sight, disappearing under the distant sky, mortals can never reach the edge, but the third-grade can reach the distance just by tiptoeing.

But in fact, how can it be so simple?

What Li Qigang just said is actually the situation faced by a small number of third-grade people.

Of course, to say it is a small number is actually just for the microscopic bird in front of me.

If a person can easily regret and start over, then he will easily cherish the present less and less.

Because we don’t want to face loss, we choose to look back, which leads to more loss and more fear.

When you can find the future you want among the infinite possibilities...

The universe is full of infinite possibilities, so do these possibilities make sense?

Every end is a new starting point. An infinite starting point represents an infinite end. Infinite possibilities ultimately lead to everything being meaningless.

Because you have thoughts, you are afraid of losing them, so you live in fear. Once you fall into this cycle, you will become more afraid, and eventually your Tao mind will be in a mess, and even evil thoughts will breed.

It is precisely because of the fear of losing that we should cherish the present even more.

In Li Qi's view, he can't actually go back to the past, nor can he change the future. Only in the present moment can he reconcile with the past and no longer be afraid of the future.

Can the third grade change the past?

Many third-level people think they can do it, because they can really look back on everything that has happened. As long as no one interferes, they can easily start everything over again.

Then...the problem arises.

Infinite possibilities will traverse all possibilities. No matter how you choose, all results will appear, so your choice actually has no meaning.

One ten thousandth of infinity is still infinite. Divide infinity into infinite parts, and each part is infinite.

In the face of infinity, all choices are meaningless. The moment you choose 'infinite backtracking', the very act of backtracking directly enters the 'meaningless' stage.

Infinity is not a fixed number, but a trend, a trend that continues to grow and has no limit.

So, either stop this trend, or you have to face unlimited courage.

Li Qi chose to terminate.

He is unwilling to face infinity. He thinks that everything is real. When you look back, you actually kill everything you want and then create a new one.

The devil doesn't care from the beginning, they face infinity calmly.

So...where is the mesobird in front of me?

If he cannot establish a meaningful dialogue with the other party, Li Qike will not be able to find the nest of the micro-birds.

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