Myriad Paths

Cocoon clearly understands the crisis in this world.

Therefore, she encouraged the mortals to industrialize and covered the sky with endless waste gas, thus covering the mortals' ability to look up at the stars.

At the same time, her 'orthodox' also vigorously suppressed and even arrested those mortals who wanted to look up at the stars.

Moreover, she also established the current organization to train law enforcers, capture other weirdos, and suppress the manifestation of a large number of demonic thoughts caused by industrialization.

Everything is for the survival of this world.

Although it seems contradictory, this is all her efforts to ensure that the world can continue to exist.

"So...are you the incarnation of the inevitable future?" Yu looked at Li Qi, with strong fear in her tone.

It is impossible not to be afraid.

Still time, this kind of thing...

Even if she could destroy an entire city, she couldn't do such an unthinkable thing.

"No, to be precise, I am a passer-by. However, you should know that sometimes an ordinary passer-by can actually bring many benefits and add many good variables to life." Li Qi said : "I want to get answers from you and hope to get your cooperation. Of course, if you are unwilling to cooperate, I will leave on my own initiative."

Cocoon said: "So... cooperation means answering your questions, right?"

"That's it for the time being. Don't worry, I don't covet your world at all. I don't want to invade here, nor do I want to interfere with your lives." Li Qi emphasized.

Then, Li Qi reiterated the three questions he wanted to know.

Why support industrialization.

Why was this organization formed to hunt other spiritual phenomena.

Why hinder these mortals from taking to the sky.

After listening, Yu Yu said with some difficulty: "I have already answered your question."

"Yes, but it's not detailed enough. I want to hear the real story and reasons." Li Qi said.

"This is the real reason." Cocoon said.

"Oh... So, you actually don't know the real reason." Li Qi nodded slightly: "Then no wonder I can't read it. If you don't know it yourself, then I definitely can't find it."

"But, fortunately, I still have a lot of time. So, can you let me move freely? I want to walk around this world and see it. A few years will be enough. Your world is very small. If you want to understand it clearly and It’s not difficult.” Li Qi said.

"Do we have the right to refuse?" Cocoon asked.

"Yes, if you don't want to, I will leave." Li Qi said.

"Okay, please take a look. Whatever you want, I will provide you with permission." Cocoon made a decision immediately.

"Thank you." Li Qi smiled and nodded to express his gratitude.

Time flows again, and peace returns to the cocoon.

The people observing around them did not find anything unusual. According to their records, these two weirdos got along quite well.

Cocoon even asked everyone to cooperate with Li Qi as much as possible.

The surrounding staff discussed secretly for a while. They couldn't imagine why Cocoon would be so close to the weird thing in front of them. However, based on Cocoon's past situation, the agency finally chose to trust Li Qi and did not force him to take Li Qi into custody. Instead, he allowed him to act independently. permission.

Li Qi expressed his gratitude and then started his plan.

After that, he began to promote some things in this world, such as... He began to develop some technologies in the Esoteric Cult with Professor Carolingian through the technology tree of this world, but mainly in the field of artillery. It seemed that it was really Studying how to use a cannon to launch people.

He will also go to the Orthodox Church from time to time to observe the Orthodox believer organization, and occasionally join the law enforcers to help them deal with some difficult weirdness.

Li Qi looked at the world in his residence, observed their daily lives, talked with them about their specific conditions and sufferings, and then witnessed their struggle for everything they pursued.

But these are just Li Qi's interests and have nothing to do with what he really wants to do.

Regarding the serious business of observing the remains of the Death Demon, he has been seeking a position in this world and funded Carolingian and his secret church to conduct research in this area.

He is unwilling to use the technology descended from the sky to interfere with the original technological process of this world, but... there is no problem in using resources to push it a little.

He opened a crack in the oppressive science building, allowing these esoteric scholars to access higher-level technologies through their own efforts, and perhaps even build a true 'astronomical telescope'.

It's just... Li Qi himself doesn't know what the outcome will be.

Because this is not a 'scientific world'.

If it were in the real universe, then all this would be logical and there would be no disturbances. Observing the universe and stepping into the starry sky itself is the only way for most civilizations.

Practicing in isolation within your own world to the end is a situation that only very few civilizations in extremely vast worlds will encounter.

But this is the realm of desire.

The world of desire can be changed by subjective cognition. This is a world composed of complete subjective consciousness. There are no "objective facts" in this world.

In other words, when you believe from the bottom of your heart that light is a particle, then if you do an experiment and do a thousand double-slit interference experiments, you will see particles a thousand times.

On the other hand, another scientist who insisted that light is a wave did an experiment. He did it a thousand times and saw that it was all waves.

This has nothing to do with the nature of light. Their "firm belief" itself is enough to change the results of the experiment.

Similarly, in engineering, they built a building. The mechanical structure of this building is wrong. If it were in the real universe, it would definitely collapse. However, because the designer is a very good architect, he calculated the formula wrong and didn't find it. He believed that it would not collapse, and everyone followed suit and believed that the building would stand firm.

So, this building really will not collapse and can exist forever. If someone finds that the mechanical structure of this building is wrong, tells everyone, and convinces everyone, then the building will collapse immediately.

This is the situation in the desire realm.

It doesn't matter what the reality is, what matters is what everyone thinks.

And as we all know... there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Everyone has different ideas. The final result is the "greatest common divisor" of everyone, that is, the combination of everyone's ideas.

This is also the reason why the desire realm can maintain "balance" and "stability".

The reason behind this is that the measurement of most phenomena is always determined by the "addition" of countless factors. It seems to be nonsense, but this addition is the addition in the ordinary sense, the + in 1+1=2, not multiplication or any other operation.

The occurrence of each factor can be described by "probability", that is, the law of large numbers. These two points together create a world full of Gaussian distribution, just like if there really is merit and everyone's "trust", then the probability of satisfying the normal distribution is high. In this way, doing this merit adds one, doing that merit subtracts 10, and the merits and demerits can offset each other. In the end, the convergence of countless factors also forms a normal distribution, forming a relatively stable world.

Therefore, Gaussian distribution seems to be able to be used as a gauge to test whether the measurement of a desire world is reasonable. If the score is adjusted to the normal distribution, the difference in scores of different people can always properly reflect the differences in their diligence, IQ, ability and other factors. The sum of countless people's ideas constitutes the basic stability of the desire world.

However, overall stability does not mean fluctuations in certain specific areas. In this world, the results of subjective research may really affect the suppression of the death demon on the surrounding star fields.

Anyway, no matter what, Li Qi is now very curious about what the universe explored by the scholars in this world will look like, and what will happen when it collides with the area covered by the dead demon.

In order to do this, Li Qi even gathered his distracting thoughts and stopped himself from thinking about anything about the universe.

This is impossible for mortals, who can't control distracting thoughts at all, but it's very simple for Li Qi. Controlling thoughts is too simple for him.

And during this period of time, he didn't do all these things. In his spare time, he has been stabilizing his third-grade ability.

Li Qi still feels very surprised about this.

He knows that he is not a complete third-grade, and he still needs to wait for his cultivation to be stable. This process may even last for millions of years.

But... is the gap from the fourth grade to the third grade really that big?

In a sense, every day that passes, Li Qi can kill yesterday's self in one move.

His power was constantly rising. Although he was only "stabilizing his cultivation", it was like the explosion after the Big Bang. Every minute and every second, his progress was terrifyingly fast. Li Qi himself couldn't figure out why there was such a change.

As a qualitative change, the secret of the third rank was still unknown to Li Qi. Even the crown prince Changqin said that he couldn't tell Li Qi and could only let him find it himself.

Then take your time. There is still a lot of time.

Li Qi slowly influenced the world while waiting for his own changes.

In the blink of an eye, twenty years passed.

Professor Caroline exposed his identity in an incident, was caught by the Orthodox Church, and burned to death. The cannon launch plan had to be shelved, but he had a student who inherited most of the hidden manuscripts.

The law enforcers trio, in an operation, the veteran was seriously injured, the three-no girl went out of control and ran away, the remaining young man rescued the three-no girl, I don't know what method was used to suppress the out-of-control, but the three-no girl also lost her superpowers, but she was no longer the three-no face. A few years later, they got married, and Li Qi also attended the wedding. At the wedding, she had the ability to express emotions and welcomed Li Qi with a beautiful smile.

When the three-no girl became normal, she naturally lost the ability to distort reality through her mind. It can be said that all superpowers originally came from "mental illness". When mental illness is cured, superpowers will disappear.

Power comes from distortion. If you want to gain power, you can't be a normal person. This is also a manifestation of the desire world.

During this period, Jian was still doing her thing, and even resisted Li Qi several times, and Li Qi chose to give in.

He fully respected the world's own choices. Although he would promote certain things according to his own wishes, if other beings expressed resistance, then Li Qi would not be stubborn.

Otherwise, it would be like him controlling the world to touch the Death Demon, which would be meaningless. It would be more convenient to brainwash the whole world.

He wanted an autonomous world, to see the sky from his own perspective, rather than controlling a puppet.

There are as many puppets as there are things like, and they don't necessarily have to be in this world. Li Qi can even create a world on the spot and let it touch the dead demon, but this doesn't make any sense.

Just like the Demon Lords asked Li Shiwei to break Li Qidao's heart, if Li Shiwei was directly brainwashed, it would be useless and would not affect Li Qidao.

Therefore, Li Qi waited slowly, walking around the world, talking to various people, and as a contained 'weird', he helped the law enforcers deal with some difficult things, understand the information and their thoughts, and waited for them Take the initiative to peer through the fog in the sky and get in touch with the universe above.

Another twenty years passed after that.

A war broke out in the world. Due to various problems caused by industrialization, various countries invariably chose the same solution.

That is, transfer the contradiction abroad.

When the war broke out, the influence of the 'Orthodox Church' dropped sharply, and Cocoon fell into an extremely weak state. She was no longer able to control human civilization. However, through law enforcers and advance planning, she is still the most powerful being in the world. Civilization is silently protected in the darkness.

In other words... imprisoning civilization.

In forty years, Li Qi has seen clearly that her name is really appropriate.

She is the 'cocoon', the obstacle that the larvae must overcome if they want to climb out, but at the same time, it is the existence of the 'cocoon' that protects the larvae.

Breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly is a step that a larva must take.

At this moment, Li Qizheng is sitting in the 'Law Enforcer Headquarters'. For decades, he has been living here in order not to hinder the mortals of this world.

Next to him were the 'veterans' who had retired to become high-ranking law enforcement officers, and Cocoon.

"Your Excellency Li Qi, then, about the last encirclement and suppression mission of the war -" the veteran scratched his head at Li Qi.

"Didn't you do a good job? No one died." Li Qi said with a smile.

"In the encirclement and suppression mission, no one died, isn't it a bit... Although you subdued both sides and knocked everyone unconscious, the war will not end because of this." The veteran sighed.

"Is it over if you die? Not necessarily." Li Qi asked rhetorically.

These words left the veteran speechless.

However, this time, Cocoon spoke.

She suddenly interjected: "I'm dying."