Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 59

Chapter 59: Humans with No Way to Escape

“Don’t you understand cause and effect? See where the library is?”

Yin Yang Tian Yin shook his head. “I can only understand the cause and effect of people and events in Jiuzhou. I can’t see the cause and effect of this world.”

The language of this world was easy to master, and even Jiang Li, a Mahayana cultivator, and the immortal artifact had no difficulty mastering it. But even if they could speak, no one would pay any attention to them.

Jiang Li stopped passersby to question them, but they didn’t frown or show any surprise. They walked around Jiang Li

and ignored him. Jiang Li forcibly grabbed them, and even if he stood still, they continued walking, ignoring Jiang Li.

It wasn’t Jiang Li’s job to answer Jiang Li’s questions.

Jiang Li wanted to call the police, but since no one in this world committed crime, there were no police.

“Aren’t you an immortal artifact? Think of a way.”

“Aren’t you the Human Emperor? Think of a way.”

The two exchanged glances, momentarily at a loss for what to do when faced with people without emotions, without fear, who only cared about fulfilling their duties.

“If you two have nothing to do, why not chat with me?”

The emotional words rang out, and the man and seal felt like the sound of nature. They saw a smiling middle-aged man standing by the road, waving at the two of them.

Jiang Li had already seen this man with his spiritual sense, but he did not notice that he had any emotions.

“Who are you?” asked the Yin Yang Heavenly Seal.

Although the Heavenly Seal was surprised that the other party had emotions, it did not become alert. It did not believe that there was anything in this world that could threaten it.

Jiang Li was not careless. He had many guesses about the situation of Daozu, one of which was that Daozu was imprisoned. He had to be careful with the world that could imprison Daozu.

“Nice to meet you, two aliens. You can call me President No. 506. Of course, I gave myself a name, Ming Zhong. I would be very happy if you called me Ming Zhong.”

“My name is Yin Yang Tian Yin. You can call me Tian Yin.”

“Jiang Li,” Jiang Li paused, then asked, “Do you know our origins?”

This world is filled with electromagnetic waves. Optical computers aren’t handheld, but exist within them. Everyone can summon their own optical computer from the air. Ming Zhong pressed a button in the air, and a screen of light appeared before the two of them.

The screen showed Yin Yang Tian Yin appearing out of thin air, weeping in the sky for five days. Then Jiang Li also appeared out of thin air, and the two landed in the city.

Jiang Li understood: this world is omnipresent.

“Where are you two from? From another planet?” Ming Zhong asked with a burning gaze, deeply interested in the two.

Although Jiuzhou and Wuqing World are both continental worlds, they do have planets. However, these planets lack spiritual energy and oxygen, and the environment is extremely harsh. The temperature difference between day and night can reach thousands of degrees, making it impossible for life to arise there.

Unlike the star world, which at least has a few planets with relatively comfortable environments, the continental world has no such planets.

Zhong Ming, however, was clearly unaware of this. He reasoned that while the observed planets lacked life, unobservable planets might harbor life.

For example, this carbon-based creature before him and this robot, whose structure he couldn’t understand.

“First, let me introduce you to your world, and then we’ll introduce you,” Jiang Li said.

Ming Zhong took the two to a restaurant. Concerned that the nutritional meals might not suit the tastes of aliens, he personally cooked two dishes even more appetizing than the nutritional meals.

He then presented Yin Yang Tian Yin with a plate of nuclear batteries, leaving him bewildered.

Jiang Li politely tasted the food and congratulated himself on his fasting.

“As I said, my name is President 506, the 506th president. Each of us has our future career determined by our genes before birth, and we use our career plus a serial number as a distinguishing name.”

“I’m an exception. I didn’t think President 506 sounded right, so I gave myself a name.”

“Why are you erasing your emotions?” Jiang Li asked.

Ming Zhong said seriously: “Because we want to live.”

“Can’t you live if you have feelings?” Yin Yang Tian Yin found this reason incomprehensible. All creatures in Jiuzhou have feelings, and no one has died because of feelings.

“I saw the two of you just circled over us humans and didn’t go to the other end?”

“Are there no humans on the other side of the continent?”

Ming Zhong clicked on the light curtain again, and hundreds of strange-looking monsters appeared. Some had tiger heads and deer bodies, some looked like rhinos but had eight eyes, and some were giant snakes wrapped in lightning: “These are things from the other side of the continent, we call them ferocious beasts.”

“At present, more than half of the continent is the territory of ferocious beasts, and we humans only occupy a small half. And our area is gradually shrinking.”

“At first, these ferocious beasts were not too strong, and we relied on missiles to compete with the ferocious beasts. We thought that as long as technology advanced to another level and weapons became more powerful, we would be able to solve the ferocious beasts sooner or later.” “

But we were too optimistic. Our technology is indeed improving, but the ferocious beasts are evolving faster than us! In the end, we even used thousands of nuclear bombs, but we were still blocked by these ferocious beasts!”

Jiang Li felt that these ferocious beasts might be the monsters of this world, and they practiced very quickly.

“If this continues, we humans will sooner or later be devoured by ferocious beasts.”

“We believe that technological progress is a process of gradual accumulation, and blindly pursuing gradual development won’t work. Therefore, we choose to let several generations shed their emotions and focus on building a foundation, then allow the next generation to develop emotions and use the foundation left by their predecessors—for example, through scientific experiments requiring constant trial and error, films, novels, and television series—to advance technology. We can’t just use technology to advance technology; that’s slow. Technological development also requires entertainment to provide inspiration.”

“In an era of accumulation, emotional presidents are elected; in an era of gradual development, emotionless presidents are elected.”

“Under this strategy, technology has indeed advanced rapidly, with the development of mechas, optical computers, simulated yang bombs, and annihilation cannons.”

“As you can see, we are in an era of accumulation,” Ming Zhong said, his eyes gleaming with a hint of pride, but then quickly losing strength, his tone even despairing.

“Yet, despite our utmost efforts, we still can’t keep up with the ferocious beasts’ evolution. Our defenses are retreating every year,” Ming Zhong said, a hint of tears in his voice. “Their evolution is simply too rapid.”

“In fact, everyone knows that if we continue like this, humanity will still perish. But if we don’t do this, our extinction will be even shorter.”

“Can you… save us?” Ming Zhong pleaded.

“Why don’t you leave the continent and fly to other planets?” Jiang Li asked. Judging from the level of technology in this world, it is entirely possible to migrate to other planets. Things like the temperature difference of thousands of degrees between day and night and sandstorms thousands of meters high can be overcome.

Zhong Ming was stunned and asked back: “Don’t you know? The farther away from the continent, the stronger the gravity. How is it possible to fly out?”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Li walked out of the restaurant and jumped up. Before, he and Yin Yang Tian Yin were flying low and didn’t feel it. But when he jumped to a high place, he really felt the increasing gravity. When the gravity was at its strongest, even a cultivator in the Tribulation Crossing Stage could not bear it with his flesh and blood. It was not until he was ten million meters high that the gravity disappeared.

“It’s really not easy to fly out.” Jiang Li landed.

Ming Zhong was stunned.

(End of this chapter)