Under the dry and cold wind, the sun shining directly from the top of the head without any shelter dispelled the chill.
Under a clear sky, on the small peak of the Constant Mountains, Lin An silently raised his head and stared directly at the dazzling sun.
"What is difficulty?"
"What does it mean to weigh the pros and cons and protect yourself?"
"What's right? What's wrong?"
Stayed up all night.
After questioning himself again and again, Lin An vaguely got the real answer that transcended reason and human nature.
If you want to survive in the apocalypse, if you want to win a glimmer of hope in the increasingly difficult catastrophes,
So, what to rely on?
By strength?
Can you survive by relying on absolute reason, relying on wisdom, relying on cold-blooded ruthlessness, relying on pursuing the optimal solution in everything, and relying on making the right choices?!
No!
The answer is no.
Is the King of Alien Species not sane enough?
In order to achieve his goal, he will do whatever it takes.
Lin An also believed that a leader of a civilization who could reach the pinnacle of the fourth level and still try his best to break through the fifth level, and who was even willing to sacrifice half of his civilization to cross endless light years, the King of Alien Species was definitely qualified.
But he died, failed, and lost in a ridiculous way.
Are Tianmu people not smart enough? Don’t they have wisdom?
No.
A Tianmu person who is physically fragile but relies on psychic technology to make a comeback is definitely not a fool!
Didn’t they learn their lesson? Didn’t they make the “right” choice?
No.
They made it, and they made the most correct choice at the current stage of their civilization.
They have killed and injured too many people. In the internal wars before the end, they have raised their individual meaning to a common level.
After the doomsday, they unite as one, hoping to end this disaster with minimal losses.
But they still lost, and they lost because of a mistake that was so small that it was even ironic.
But Lin An knew that even the Tianmu people knew that that mistake was bound to happen.
Why?
Lin An slowly closed his eyes and stared directly into the scorching sun for a long time. His eyes stung, and even after closing, the black sun would remain in his eyes.
Is it because you are not sensible enough?
Is it because they didn’t realize the crisis?
No.
If these two civilizations are not excellent, their perfect ones also appeared too late and did not play their due role!
What about the other fifth-level escapers!? Or even sixth-level! Seventh-level!
Lin An can imagine how outstanding those powerful beings above the fifth level must be! How amazing and talented they must be!!
But they all seemed to fail at a certain stage.
Lin An also believes that among the Tianmu people, there must be someone who realizes that they cannot be "arrogant", and someone must have thought of the potential crisis!
Similarly, based on his understanding of the power of faith during this period, he also roughly guessed what the Alien King had done!
The King of Alien Species must have also realized how the power of faith came about!
He must also realize that concentrating internal resources will lead to civilization being in trouble!
So he chose to "create" a place of deadly battle, and kept killing high-level alien species with reasonable excuses! And the overflowing energy will return again!
As for why the alien emperor didn't choose to gather the power of faith, or he couldn't choose.
Lin An could only guess that it might be related to the alien body.
"In fact, they all made correct judgments, and they were based on their own cognition."
With a pale face and intense thinking, Lin An whispered to himself.
"But the so-called transcendence, almost divine reason and wisdom, is completely meaningless in the face of the end."
"The so-called weighing of interests and harms, the so-called optimal solution does not exist at all!"
"The answer that the insect came up with is meaningless!"
"Why haven't the Tianmu people solved the hidden danger!? Because they think it may not be important, and maybe it can be solved later! They think the cost of solving it is too high! It's not cost-effective!"
Taking a deep breath, Lin An thought of the Third Eye Council, the regretful, humble old man who could only ask him for help.
He could imagine that on the eve of the Tianmu people's complete defeat, someone must have wanted to raise these issues, but the person or group of people who raised them ended up being "scared". They weighed the pros and cons and thought that the tribe should no longer take risks.
That is the optimal solution.
Are there no wise men among native humans? Don’t they know the consequences of class solidification and killing their own perfect ones?
No, the choice they made was the most correct one at the time.
They just take luck and think that they can deal with these problems in the future and it will be better!
Not only that, Lin An didn't believe in the alien emperor and didn't want to gather the power of faith, but why didn't he do that?
If nothing else, if you want the alien species to gather faith, you essentially need to reshape the entire race! Because the alien species has been the "end of the world" for native humans from the beginning of its birth! The target of their hatred is likely to be the alien emperor himself!
Therefore, the King of Alien Species gave up this path. He believed that the price was too high and he would rather spend decades slowly gathering power.
"So, the so-called optimal solution is nothing but self-deception. When individuals and civilizations reach a certain level, any judgment they make will essentially consider their own gains and losses."
"The stronger you are, the more you are afraid of. Just like people who have more wealth are the ones who are most afraid of losing it."
"Under this kind of interference, the choices made will become increasingly wrong."
"And the so-called wise men and wisdom are essentially just judgments based on the summary of information."
"But in the face of the vast universe and the disaster that wipes out countless civilizations, what is the essential difference between the information and wisdom we possess and that of insects?"
"Because I'm afraid of losing, I shrink back."
"Because I weighed the pros and cons self-righteously and thought it would be better to solve it later, I gave up."
"Put your hope in tomorrow and regard your self-fantasy as wisdom"
"Put retreat and comfort in the future!"
"How ridiculous."
Lin An laughed at himself in a low voice, maybe what he did during this period was not that wrong.
only
But he suddenly knew what the thing he threw was.
He lacked the courage to fight, and he lost the belief that he must control his own destiny!
He is so strong that he thinks that as long as he regains his strength, he can solve everything. He does not dare to die. For the theoretical optimal solution, he should go against what he has always done.
"Not to mention the past me, whether I could watch these things happen, but just want to hide them and do nothing."
"Even if I have just awakened my power, I will not be as "cowardly" as I am now."
"Can I really hide? I'm afraid of being chased by fugitives, and I'm afraid of alien species."
"The funny thing is, I almost died at the hands of a level 0 person."
"It seems like a month is a lot of time, but maybe I will be killed by the lowest level thugs tomorrow. Maybe it's just because it's convenient."
"I obviously still have "power" in my hand, and I know how to quickly create "awakened ones" to protect me. But after weighing the pros and cons, I think it's better to hide."
"I place my hope on my future self. Isn't this an escape?"
Take one step back, take ten thousand steps back!
Lin An slowly opened his eyes and stared at the sun.
Before his eyes he seemed to see himself on a rainy night.
When he encountered the Ghost Infant for the first time, as the only one who was not affected, the theoretical optimal solution was to abandon everyone and flee immediately.
Anyway, he has a savior system. Anyway, he is already an awakened person. He can solve it later even if he runs far away.
But in that heavy rain, he chose to fight for his life and live towards death.
How stupid
Why?
It's because he knows that he can never escape when encountering difficulties or desperate situations. He is too eager for power. Having died once, he is willing to risk everything to fight for his life.
If you are afraid of death, you will really die.
He actually wants to save everyone, even if he, Lin An, is not a good person.
"Watching these children die and watching these people suffer, what is the difference between watching one million or ten million people die?"
"I can give up on them because of the current difficulties, but what if it's half of the human world? What if it's all of humanity? Even An Jingtian and the others?"
"Waiting for a month to clear it all up? What's the difference between waiting for a year or ten!?"
"I'm afraid of being killed by alien species. What's the difference between being killed by a fire wolf?"
"I'm afraid that this group of scavengers will lose control after being transformed. What's the difference between this and a sudden outbreak of zombies?"
"If I don't know, I don't see, I can't do it, I can't do anything, I don't even have a chance to struggle, then I can run away."
Silently clenching his fists, Lin An slowly turned his head and looked at the child behind him who was working hard to pile stones.
Is losing power a desperate situation?
How about compared to a sixth level suddenly descending on the earth!?
The former is just a trivial difficulty, the latter is the real desperate situation!
During this period of time, he was so afraid of death that he almost didn’t dare to do anything except "cheating" food and carefully exploring the power of faith!
He is afraid of attracting attention, but does he really know how the other party can find him?
Maybe the alien species will locate him in the next second!?
Now, while his destiny is in his own hands, he doesn't want to escape anymore!
So what if it attracts attention?
Then hurry up and hurry up! Do everything you can to absorb the power of faith, do everything you can to contact Long An! Do whatever you can to regain your power!
Instead of waiting like a coward for a month! No one knows what will happen in this month!
If he wants to die, he will die at the hands of the monster he created!
Or
Trembling all over, Lin An raised his head high and looked at the increasingly hot sun. Even though his eyes stung, even though his body could no longer withstand the cold wind on the top of the mountain.
But at this moment, a surge of understanding and belief seemed to burst out from deep within his heart.
"In this apocalypse, we actually have nothing."
"No strength, no wisdom, no reliance"
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"There is only one heart, forever! Never! A heart that will never retreat! Face disasters and all difficulties head-on, and always solve them as soon as they arise!"
"Don't think about tomorrow! Don't think about the future! Don't think about the future! Don't think about relying on luck!"
"Give up your illusions! Fight forever!"
"What's worse, I'll become a monster again!"
"Sir, enlightenment tower"
On the top of the mountain, Anduin looked with some surprise at Lin An, who was slowly walking down from the highest point of the mountain.
The words are not finished yet.
Subconsciously, he wanted to help Lin An, who seemed about to fall down at any time.
But for some reason, when he looked at the extremely weak pace and this not-so-tall man, he felt like his heart was trembling.
Watching Lin An step by step under the scorching sun, he felt that Lin An seemed to be a different person.
If before, he just thought Lin An was mysterious, someone who held secrets that might be god-like to him. But in essence, he was just a taciturn ordinary person who seemed to be hiding himself all the time.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt that Lin An, who was walking down from the top of the mountain, seemed to be detached from this world, but he returned to the world with something.
Nodding slightly, Lin An stared at the pyramid built according to his requirements.
Under the sunlight, the pyramid made of bluestone and bricks looked so rough, but under the sunlight, it actually reflected a faint light.
Walking forward, Lin An carefully adjusted the three pyramids according to the structure in his memory.
He didn't want to wait any longer, and he didn't want to run away anymore.
According to the three structures with the strongest effects tested in memory, the three pyramids soon changed their appearance slightly.
It was obviously just a slight adjustment to the internal structure, but in the eyes of Anduin and others, this strange pyramid seemed to be able to absorb even sunlight.
It feels like it’s even more mysterious than what Master Ling’an built before.
Half an hour later.
Looking at the sun that had reached its highest point, Lin An frowned slightly and looked down the mountain.
According to the agreed time, he has asked Anduin to notify Angus and others to gather here today. It stands to reason that given the level of desire of the scavengers for divine revelation, they will definitely arrive early, not late.
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Before Lin An realized what accident might have happened, the next second, a panicked shout suddenly came from the foot of the mountain.
I saw twelve scavengers carrying a middle-aged man up to the top of the mountain, shouting, their voices full of sadness and anger.
"Lord Ling'an!"
"Angusta"
Standing beside Lin An with some rickets and dejection, holding a bag of bloody food tightly in his arms, Old Put looked at Lin An with a sad and angry face, but seemed to accept his fate.
"We wanted to bring more food when we came here. You told us that we might have to stay here for two or three days."
"So I took Angus and the others to where I live, and I planned to take out all the food I had hidden."
With a trembling voice, Old Put wiped the dried blood on his face and couldn't help but tighten the bag in his hand.
In his heart, those foods are offered to God! They are what Master Ling'an needs!
If they can't even do this, what if they offend Lord Ling'an!?
Patting Old Put's shoulder, Lin An told him that he didn't need to feel guilty, but looking at Angus who was pale and had his arms cut off, his heart suddenly felt a little heavy.
"Angus had his hand cut off by Fire Wolf and those guys in order to keep food!"
"Fortunately, we all had weapons with us. Those bastards were afraid that we would try our best to steal most of the food and then ran away."
Everyone looked sad and unwilling.
Although they are scavengers, Angus once served as a soldier and helped them after the apocalypse.
If Old Put is the good old guy in the team, then Angus is the captain in everyone's hearts.
Lying on a simple stretcher, Angus' eyes were dull and his chapped lips opened and closed.
He struggled and looked at Lin An in a daze, looking at the pyramid he had built.
Losing a lot of blood, he felt like he might be dying.
"grown ups"
"I'm really unwilling to accept it."
The voice is hoarse and weak.
Angus reluctantly moved the corners of his mouth and spoke hoarsely like a sad smile.
He actually guessed what Lin An asked them to come here for today.
But he didn't expect that maybe after receiving a few more revelations, he would be able to get the power he dreamed of, but he fell on the road.
This world seems to have never been kind to him.
Even if there is a god, it will only cruelly make him fall before hope.
But the next second.
When everyone couldn't help sobbing sadly, Angus closed his eyes weakly.
Lin An, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke softly:
"Angus, didn't you ask me if there is a god in this world? Will there be a god to save this world?"
"I told you before, maybe it will happen in the future."
"Now."
"He's right here."
After signaling for everyone to push Angus into the pyramid, Lin An silently raised his head and looked at the sun that seemed to be burning forever.
After a moment, he walked towards the other one with firm eyes and difficulty.
