Chapter 188: Monologue
Loneliness has levels.
A person wanders between the stars.
A person loses his identity as a "human".
One person witnessed the demise of the entire civilization.
One person transforms galaxies to create civilization.
Just watch the hometown that I can't go back to.
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One becomes the only villain.
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It’s not that you are alone, it’s not that you are lonely because you are eager to meet others, it’s that you are lonely... It’s just that you choose to be lonely.
Qi Guangli's loneliness has never been related to people.
"There is no saying that should have been known long ago. In the long river of time, when to know and when to choose are established events.
The so-called reincarnation is an inevitable event that occurs at an inevitable time.
Whether it is Tong Zhao or Yu Lei, even if I appear in the same time and space, we are the same individual.
Even if I appear earlier than you, I am just the future you."
Still sitting in the office of the Magic City, Qi Guangli was leisurely holding a red wine glass, not knowing whether he was answering whose question or muttering to himself.
"There is never a paradox between you and me."
Qi Guangli and Tong Zhao, in essence, are the same person and the same soul.
"You change the world again and again, it is history.
It is also history that I turn history back on track again and again.
We have different purposes, and you are not what you hate."
As the creator of this world, no one can know the essence of this world better than Qi Guangli, and no one knows the meaning of Tong Zhao's existence better than Qi Guangli.
"Your choice is not wrong, and Yu Lei's choice is not wrong. In fact, we are all envious of his choice..."
Speaking of this, Qi Guangli smiled as if he was ridiculed, "No, it is correct to say that we are jealous of him, otherwise I would not instill the memory of the "past" into him after he completely forgotten it.
At that time, I thought it was because of coincidence that he still had complete memories of time traveling and complete memories of the Earth's home planet after reincarnation, but in the end he was still his own bad taste.
The reason why it is so easy to build a city, school, and relatives and friends in my memory is that I handle it myself.
But maybe I was so happy that I didn’t even notice so many strange things, nor did I make the decision to guide history toward a more ‘hopeful’ path earlier.”
Drinking a sip of red wine and a glass of loneliness, Qi Guangli has no habit of smoking, but now he wants to take a sip, not because tobacco can numb the body and mind, but simply because the process of this smoke entering and leaving the body and floating in the air is fascinating.
In the universe, every species with the ability to exchange gases in the air is obsessed with some kind of smoke that can enter and exit their own breathing organs.
"This is what is called planning that cannot keep up with changes and is losing one's ambition. What was my original plan?
I can't remember it anymore. It's like a nine-rate novelist without an outline. When I think of anything interesting, I will change the outline casually, and the final change will be beyond recognition.
But one thing is fine, that is, the purpose is still there.”
Qi Guangli's plan has changed many times. At the beginning, he just wanted to reshape the civilization that was destroyed by the accident caused by himself.
Later, when he contacted the mother planet and learned that the mother planet Earth was spying on, Qi Guangli planned to create a false alternative civilization to deceive the enemies by destroying it.
Later, he changed the entire galaxy, and then hid it, emitting a signal of "initial civilization" to the surrounding universe, thereby attracting and disrupting the enemy's spy on the mother star.
But before meeting the enemy, he met his old squad leader earlier and met those comrades from all over the country who were selected to participate in secret missions when he was in the army.
Later he also met Lily, Eye of the Void, Paladins, etc., using the help of ancient civilizations in the universe to create civilizations and then participate in the battle against these hostile civilizations that are spying on the "main planet of the Earth".
These events disrupted his original plan, and the appearance of the soul of "Tong Zhao" in his civilization made him realize more possibilities.
Therefore, five thousand years after the appearance of "Tong Zhao", Qi Guangli transformed history according to his past memories.
Because "Tong Zhao" has the memory of "Qi Guangli" transforming history, after becoming "Qi Guangli", he "shapes" history according to such memories.
Of course, the reason why Qi Guangli created this world civilization was to protect the civilization of the "maternal planet Earth", so he did not have the idea of changing this "future".
The disappearing "ancient civilization" with the "maternal planet Earth" as the origin, the new interstellar civilization established on this civilization, follows a time paradox.
Through light transition technology, the time when these interstellar civilizations reach their parent planet only takes one month for the parent planet.
At the same time, after reaching the "transition balance", no matter how far apart the galaxy is, time will be synchronized with the parent star.
So... when Squad Leader Liu and the advance team were all destroyed, Qi Guangli reopened his original plan.
"If I don't stop you, it's natural to create a prosperous China and even lead China to the interstellar world.
Even if I obstruct you from it layer by layer, have you still found a way to build a base on Mars?
But no matter how far you go to the interstellar world in the past five thousand years, even if you don’t become the abandoned son who replaces the “mother star” and buys time according to my plan, when I let go of my hands, this civilization will still face a catastrophe.
There is not enough foundation and time to settle down, and has not experienced enough mistakes, failure or even on the verge of destruction, rising from the dust again and again. Such a smooth civilization dies too quickly.
To be precise, a scientific and technological civilization has no ten thousand years of time and history. If it rashly comes into contact with the ancient relics of "soul technology", the entire civilization will basically enter the countdown to destruction.
And the Immortal Cultivation Civilization, Magic Civilization and Even Super-Energy Civilization have not been around for many years. At the beginning, I took the wrong path and flew out of the stars. I was just a matter of being found by other civilizations following the fluctuations of their souls."
"But I am not exonerating what I have done." Qi Guangli added a few pieces of firewood to the fireplace, "I am indeed doing things like gods, and I am indeed controlling the entire planet.
One of my thoughts can indeed destroy this galaxy, so there is nothing wrong with me controlling what the future of this civilization under my control.
I am not raising a child, nor will I have any affection for raising children. This planet and civilization are just tools I use to achieve my goals.
Their desires are correct in their perspective, your resistance is correct in your perspective, and my use is never wrong in my perspective.
There is no question about interests in between, some are just ‘correct’ and ‘wrong’.”
Looking at the increasing flames in the fireplace, Qi Guangli nodded with satisfaction, then picked up the red wine bottle and poured himself a cup of iced black tea.
“We, in essence, are no different.
Even though you have experienced the baptism of purgatory, you only know the existence of purgatory, and I came out of purgatory."
"As a 'people' are alive, there is no need to worry about hating or not. The red wine glass is just a container, and filling iced black tea can't change the essence of the container."
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"Then let me enjoy your curtain call. From the starring actor to the audience, the same play will bring different feelings to people."
Qi Guangli held the red wine glass and adjusted his more comfortable posture, sitting quietly in the backrest chair in front of the fireplace like an audience looking forward to the opening of the movie.
Outside the office, the roar of the waves, the roar of monsters, the collapse of tall buildings, the fall of the earth, the sound of explosions, roars, screams... all seem to have nothing to do with him.
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