Myriad Paths

Li Qi found a place, which should be the corner of a food factory, and then blended in with nature, hiding behind it, and then stared at the other person.

Immediately afterwards, he began his own observation.

After all, he has reached the fourth level. For Li Qi, decades are just a blink of an eye, even for Li Shiwei. These decades are nothing.

Li Qi was unwilling to go to Li Shiwei now because he knew that going to Li Shiwei now would probably not bring any good results, and Li Shiwei would not be willing to say anything more to him.

Understanding must be deepened.

Understand...the magic way.

well.

When he thought of this, Li Qi couldn't help but sigh.

For the sake of his daughter, he really had to study the magic way. The observation he made now was also to understand how the magic way guides the operation of the world.

But when he wanted to delve into the magic way, he couldn't help but worry.

You won’t go further and further on the path of magic, right?

Sometimes, just by 'understanding' some knowledge, it will affect your various decisions, and you will unknowingly fall into the opponent's scheme.

However, Li Qi is confident in himself.

If there really is something in the devil's path that can irresistibly pull him into the devil's path in an instant after he understands it, it can only mean that Li Qi is naturally fit for the devil's path. If he doesn't fall into the devil's path today, he will fall into it in the future.

So, he began to observe carefully.

The eighth-grade person he selected had a very strange name. It was difficult to pronounce the name of a person from outside the region, and it was not very convenient to address him. Li Qi decided to give him a code name.

Just like No. 1, simple and convenient.

This eighth-grade man, codenamed 'No. 1', pledged his entire world in exchange for a cave that could hold all his clan members.

Then, he took all his clan members to ‘ascend’.

On the first day he arrived here, he started his adventure with that cave in his mind.

He had to find a place to live. He could live in his own cave, but that would leave the cave unattended and left outside, which would basically be like giving it away to others.

Therefore, at least one person should be left outside to protect the cave and all property.

But he found that after searching around, he found that the cheapest dormitory, the kind of Datong shop where Li Qigang arrived, also cost 'a penny'.

And the price of 'one dollar' made him stunned.

I have said before that the 'World Tree Fruit' from outside the territory is sold in fruit shops here, and it only takes half a month's income to buy it.

The fruits of the World Tree are very cheap, corresponding to...

For these worlds, that is their most precious thing, and they can only be exchanged for so little money.

This made No. 1 give up the accommodation decisively. He decided to go work first. Since the money here was so valuable, what if he, as an eighth-grade man, had to work non-stop for half a month?

Having made up his mind, he went for it.

However, after he found a job, he realized... that there was a reason for the existence of that kind of dormitory.

Yes, everyone is a practitioner. Why does such a thing as a ‘dormitory’ exist?

Because he found that... he couldn't do it without sleeping.

After coming to this place, he seemed to get tired easily.

After working in the magic weapon factory for several days, he almost fainted on the assembly line. Then the co-workers found out that he was about to die, so they asked him if he had not slept and if he was a new employee.

He answered yes.

So I learned that I must sleep in this place.

Although I don’t know the reason, here, your spirit is particularly easy to get tired, and you can’t recover without sleep.

Of course Li Qi knew why.

I've said it before...

The devil feeds on the heart.

The erosion had already begun when they stepped into this 'City of Dreams'.

And sleeping is the simplest and most common way of resistance.

If you don't sleep, then the eighth-grade ability will not be able to withstand it for long.

But if he sleeps, people everywhere will be watching his property and even his life. He has been stolen dozens of times and robbed several times during the day in the past few days, but he only relied on his own vigilance to avoid being caught.

When sleeping in a dormitory, it is 'absolutely safe'. The dormitory guarantees that you will never be killed, stolen or robbed while sleeping.

So, he sold one of his savings, a spare magic weapon, and sold it for ten yuan, which allowed him to live in it for ten days.

He couldn't bear to sleep and went there once every three days, so that he could stay for a month.

Within a month, you can get your first payment.

But he still underestimated one thing...

The factory here has KPIs, and he has to work hard to keep up with the speed of the production line.

It's not even enough for him to work by himself. Many times, he has to assign production tasks to his own cave and let all the tribesmen, billions of people, help him complete it.

Yes, billions of people together.

For them, an eighth-grade magic weapon is the treasure of the entire world. It is similar to an aircraft carrier. Each part requires a person to complete it throughout his life.

Just for the design of such an eighth-grade magic weapon, if it were made by someone who was not qualified, it would probably take hundreds of tons of design drawings and the strength of the entire world to create one.

However, it sounds exaggerated, but if you think about it carefully, it is actually quite normal. The design drawing of a screw also requires three or five pieces of A4 paper.

Two hundred sheets of paper are about 1 kilogram, so one ton of drawings is about 200,000 pages.

As for the eighth-grade magic weapon, as a precision system that is more complex than an aircraft carrier, it is a super collection of complex projects, various control systems, and precision parts. It seems reasonable to add up to so many drawings of the eighth-grade magic weapon.

The design documents that break down each small area alone are tens of thousands of pages in size.

These drawings alone must have corresponding indexes, titles, and numbers. These will be compiled into a catalog, otherwise mortals will not be able to understand them at all.

Each part must have a special drawing, one A4 or A3 for each part. When the parts are combined into components, there also needs to be a special assembly drawing. The mechanism that makes up the parts must have a special assembly drawing. It goes up level by level, and the amount of drawings Reaching dozens of tons is just like eating.

One can imagine what level of work they do for those refiners who can refine magic weapons alone.

For this kind of people, photographic memory is their own blank slate ability. Without this talent, they are not qualified to enter the profession of master refiner.

Therefore, the factory here, said to be a factory... is actually a super distributor that distributes work according to the world. It's just because the world is so big that it seems ordinary.

Soon, No. 1 learned that he was far from the only one doing this.

In other words... those who don't let their world help are the minority.

After that, No. 1 continued to work hard and continue to accumulate money.

The reason he accumulated money was because he found many, many techniques.

Many of them are top-level and exquisite techniques in his eyes. As long as he learns them, he can become much stronger than he is now. The whole world can benefit, all tribesmen can learn, and the world level will be improved as a result. The number may even increase hundreds of times because of this technique.

Originally, after the No. 1 clan members came to the world, the number of ninth-grade people increased dozens of times, and many people who were restricted by the bottleneck were able to break through because of this.

Because the great source of heaven and earth in the world is strong enough to easily support these people in making breakthroughs.

And with the support of good exercises, they can become stronger and change more, and the whole world will benefit from this.

This is the benefit of coming to the world!

This is also the reason why No. 1 can persevere.

Yes, hold on.

Every day now, No. 1 is in great pain.

He could only sleep once in three days, which caused incredible torture to his soul. His head looked like it was going to explode, and his whole body curled up into a ball. He felt ashamed and angry at his vulnerability, and there were hallucinations every moment. All around him, mental torture made it difficult for him to control his thoughts.

He still had the idea of ​​​​jumping up to escape from here and return to the outside world, but soon after, his eyes would be filled with tears of frustration, and anger would rush into his heart again. It would not be until he tried hard to restrain himself that he would calm down again. .

It's all about making the world a better place.

It's all worth it.

Number One said to himself.

The only point where he could feel 'enjoyed' was sleeping.

That night in the dormitory was the most comfortable time for him.

No need to think about anything.

The fantasy disappeared, and as he fell into sleep, he unconsciously reveled in this sweet nothingness.

There are no dreams, just close your eyes, there will be no troubles, no work, no illusions, no endless torture, only the comfort brought by rest, the physical fatigue is relieved, and the spirit is relaxed.

No. 1 did not consider the reasons for this feeling. He let himself be immersed in the mysterious and harmonious sounds that fascinated him. He was completely immersed in the hazy nothingness and sweet feeling. He did not understand, and he also Not intending to understand what had happened to himself.

However, this gap sometimes makes him feel depressed.

When he awoke from his sleep, he often found himself sandwiched between two other people, in a darkness filled with sultry heat, nauseating stench, and nightmare-like screams, wails, prayers, and vomiting.

At that time, he would pack up his things honestly and leave quickly, because he knew that he was also a part of other people's 'discomfort'.

It is inevitable that everyone lacks their own space, but the dignified eighth-grade world master is like this

The most spacious place where he can breathe freely is actually working in a factory.

However, there is an end to all this.

Number 1 has a junior whom he admires very much. As long as this junior can reach the eighth level, there will be two eighth levels in their world.

Then, he's ready for his shift.

You can let the other party take care of the cave while he goes back to rest. If the other party can't stand it anymore, he can take over again.

As long as there is one person who can share such a heavy responsibility, his pressure will be much less.

Number 1 thought so.

He lasted six years.

Six years later, due to a fraud, he suffered heavy losses and his proud descendant died.

Yes, just plain old fraud.

Of course, there are more than just honest people like No. 1 in this place.

There are also many criminals, violent robbers, thieves, frauds, and all kinds of competition are natural here.

to be honest……

There is no law at all here.

Yes, the magic way does not follow any laws and regulations. There is no such thing as "official government" here, there is only complete free competition.

In this case, the life of the lower class is naturally not guaranteed at all.

For example, No. 1, the factory he worked in, compared to the materials he produced, the income he received was less than one percent.

But there was no way he could sell it himself.

Because he has no drawings, no production line, and no sales channels. He sells magic weapons by himself, but no one buys them. He can't make those magic weapons by himself, and without the protection of the factory, he would have been killed long ago. People were beaten to death.

Yes, the owner of the factory is a seventh-grade man. He protects the entire factory and maintains the safety of the factory so that the employees will not be beaten to death by thugs who suddenly rush in and steal all their property.

It can be said that without the factory, he would not even be able to protect himself.

In this situation, he could only let others exploit him, and there was no other way.

If you want to get ahead, you must first find a way to survive. Living has everything.

There is no security at all in this area. All the order here now is just a dynamic balance brought about by endless friction.

The big war has already been fought, and the small wars are fought every day, but a big war is not a good thing for everyone. It is in the interest of everyone to work together to maintain the lowest level order that will not affect production.

Therefore, there is a semblance of peace here.

But it can't always stop petty theft, deception and abduction.

This is the case for No. 1. He feels that after six years, he already has a certain network of contacts and is almost familiar with the people in the factory.

So, he believed one of them and planned to cash in the life-extending pill that Li Qi gave him.

As long as he sells the longevity pill, he can buy a useful book that can be passed down.

In this way, the level of the entire world can be improved, and rank nine will become the norm in the future! There will be more eighth-grades, and he can live a much easier life.

However, he was deceived.

They were not prepared to trade with him at all, just to steal his Dongtian and Life-Extension Pill.

To others it is a cave, to him... it is his own world and people.

It’s not that No. 1 doesn’t know the principle of keeping wealth secret, but he still trusts others. He thinks that he has found a channel in the past six years.

But that was a game.

The final outcome was that the successor and descendant whom he had high hopes for and raised as a son died because of this.

All the caves in the world were stolen, and he fought hard to get them back, but the population had been taken away, leaving only an empty shell.

No. 1 has been in a state of decline since then, haunted by evil thoughts. He originally came to the world full of hope, but now he has ended up like this.

The life-extending pill Li Qi gave him became his life-extending talisman.

"...Ordinary." Li Qi sighed.

Yes, ordinary, there are too many such things in this dream city.

(Isn’t it unlucky to publish this kind of chapter in the New Year?)

(By the way, are you interested in a New Year’s episode about Tutu and Li Qi?)