Chapter 221: A fork in the road
In the Wansheng fleet, the giant bear starcarrier, Zuo Zhe fell into a difficult decision. On the path of strengthening, there are two ways to strengthen oneself and strengthen external objects. The enhancement of gods and demons is like a day-by-day boasting of the father, the kind of existence that will directly drink the great rivers dry. The world seems to be their bodies to gods and demons. And Zuo Zhe's body, which fuses body, soul, and the body of an ancient god in the small universe, is similar to gods and demons.
In contrast, the soul and body of human beings are divided into the dark matter world and the material world, and they use the power of the group to make their population stand on top of the world. In the human race, the strength of a single person is extremely weak, and he can't even resist the random blows of gods and demons. However, the numerical superiority of humans and their great ability to reproduce made it impossible for gods and demons to kill all the weedy humans. Human beings must rely on the strength of groups to survive and develop, and they are heavily dependent on the external environment. It's like people in remote areas who are living in poverty, and they never even have the opportunity to leave their villages and see the outside world in their lifetime.
Between gods and demons and humans, there is a line that separates the extraordinary from the ordinary. Now Zuo Zhe has come to a fork in the road, and he needs to determine his own direction of progress, whether to pursue the extraordinary or find his own path from the ordinary.
This seems to be a meaningless choice, life pursues a higher level of life, and naturally wants to become a transcendent being. If human beings become gods and demons, then human beings have the power to call the wind and rain, overturn mountains and seas, and even create the world.
However, the path of transcendence is destined to be lonely, and the deeper it is, the fewer companions there will be. If you reach the end of this transcendent path, you may be a glorious but dead throne in the midst of a mausoleum. The reason why it is said that the end of the transcendent path is the mausoleum is because why those amazing people in the past did not succeed, and why did they have to wait for Zuo Zhe to step on the throne called "Supreme"?
Zuo Zhe is unclear about his future, but Zuo Zhe does not think that his qualifications are the best. If there's one thing that has to be your advantage, it's the traverser. If a traverser can't travel back and forth, he or she loses his core ability as a traverser. As for using the memories in your head for your advantage? This is not the history of a parallel world, and there is not much to learn from at all.
The hidden personality of the traverser did not stand up and explain anything to Zuo Zhe. Since the farewell of the Titan Nebula, this hidden personality who claims to be the master has never appeared. It seems that the other party can only appear in a moment of life and death crisis.
Now, the only one who can decide the future may be Zuo Zhe himself. So, how will Zuo Zhe choose?
If he chooses to be extraordinary, Zuo Zhe's future path will be farther and farther away from mankind. But if you choose to be ordinary, will Zuo Zhe be obsessed with everyone?
Opening the laws of the real world, Zuo Zhe carefully examined his body. The soul and body are closely intertwined, and there is a small universe that belongs only to Zuo Zhe. Zuo Zhe in this state is like a complete prototype of the world, a prototype of the world that can exist independently of the outside world. As long as Zuo Zhe is given enough energy, Zuo Zhe has the hope of creating a new universe. This is the power of the ancient gods, the power pursued by the gods and demons, the confidence of Kuafu to swallow the great rivers into his belly day by day, and the power that a person represents a world.
I have to say that this power is powerful and full of infinite possibilities, which makes people intoxicated and difficult to extricate themselves. As long as you continue on this path, the whole world will be Zuo Zhe.
It's just that at the end of the myth of Kuafu's day-by-day chase, Kuafu was dying of thirst when he was very close to the sun.
Recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Kuafu chasing the sun" is a very interesting myth and legend. At first glance, it seems to be a persuasion to work hard, and a warning to people not to be overwhelmed.
Mr. Yang Gongji, a well-known historical research expert, believes that the story of Kuafu's day-to-day story tells people: "Only those who value time and the sun can walk fast; The faster one walks, the more he feels empty in his belly, so that he can need and receive more water (water is used here as a symbol of knowledge); Only by getting more water can we race against time and not fall behind time. ”
The ancients were in a state of scientific ignorance, but in many philosophical concepts they had a glimpse of the surface and pointed to the essence of the understanding. Perhaps at first glance the expression does not feel this deep secret, but when it is really interpreted in depth, this short story description of only a few crosses contains too much.
"Praise the father and the sun, and enter the sun; thirsty, want to drink, drink in the river and Wei; The river and Wei are insufficient, and the north drinks Daze. Before he arrived, he died of thirst. Abandon his staff and turn into Dunlin. ——"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Overseas North Longitude"
The day by day represents the pursuit of the supreme authority of the world; thirst means inability to adapt; The desire to drink means that you want to change; Drinking in the river and Wei, the river and Wei are insufficient, and drinking Daze in the north represents the lack of initial change and wants to seek more great changes; Before coming, the Tao dies of thirst, which means that it is impossible to truly grasp the supreme authority of the world; Abandoning his staff and turning into Dunlin represents leaving a legacy and signposts to guide future generations.
From this point of view, Kuafu is a similar allusion to "Yugong moves mountains". It's just that in the allusion of Yugong moving mountains, Yugong finally moved the heavens, and the heavens moved the two mountains of Taihang and Wangwu. In terms of chronology, the Kuafu from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is earlier than Yugong moving mountains. In that ancient era, people's spiritual wisdom had not yet been imprisoned by the imprisoned "Emperor of Heaven" imposed on them, although they were confused about whether the road ahead could be successful, but they dared to face the inexplicable future.
In the Warring States Period, where the allusion of Yugong Yishan was located, although civilization was progressing rapidly, the legend of the gods also revealed people's compromise with the world.
During the Warring States period, people recognized the cruel reality and felt their own insignificance and powerlessness. So, people chose to compromise, to compromise with invented gods who don't know if there are or not.
The human world is indeed incomparably weak. Even in the Galaxy Alliance, which has a brilliant civilization, even Zuo Zhe, who has become an ancient god, is still extremely weak in front of the world. So, should people choose to compromise as their predecessors did? Or is it like the father, who is praising day by day, even if he finally dies in the journey day by day, he is still thinking about using his remaining strength to guide and help future generations?
No one knows what will happen after Kuafu's day-by-day journey, or if there will be any successors who will continue the day-by-day journey like Kuafu. Just like Zuo Zhe today, Zuo Zhe doesn't even know if he should embark on a journey of "day by day".
The journey of chasing power, or the essence of the world, is bound to be extremely difficult. But just hardship can't stop the latecomers. In this world, there has never been a shortage of people who are not afraid of death. What really stands in the way of people's progress is confusion. People don't know if they will succeed in their life's work. People are afraid of their life's work, only to find themselves pursuing only the illusion of their own imagination.
Everyone is born and asks why they are in this world. In addition to the set of scientific theories that the biology teacher told them that the cells of the two sexes combine and give birth to new life, what people really want to know is whether their birth represents some kind of special or even transcendent meaning?
The process of having children from nothing is so wonderful that people give more expectations to it. It would be a bit disappointing to use a series of biological explanations and chemical formulas to prove that human birth is a matter of course, something that has no special significance. After all, the gap between just two cells and the complete individual that grows later is too huge. Even if there is the influence of genes in the cell, the power that makes the gene turn the cell into an individual step by step according to a specific program is like a being in the dark, directing the constant change of the cell.
Rather than believing in cold formulas, people are more willing to explain the world in an emotional way, explaining why people are born.
The unknown is daunting and addictive.
In addition to chasing the transcendental, which seems to be drawn by instinct, there is also an unusual path in the ordinary. The ordinary here does not mean mediocrity. Just like Confucius, the ancient sage, this being, who was praised as a saint by later generations, has no extraordinary power, just an ordinary existence. But he used his ordinary existence to create an incredible transcendental, and successfully made his name forever remembered by future generations, and it can never be forgotten. Although Confucius has been dead for more than two years, people still know a lot about Confucius.
Two paths are like two answers to a multiple-choice question. If it is an exam, in the face of two answers, candidates only need to consider how to choose.
But there was no road in this world, and when there were more people, there would be a road. The key question is, in addition to the ready-made roads that have been trodden by predecessors, will there be new paths that have not yet been opened up by predecessors?
Reality is not a multiple-choice question, and thinking should not be limited by superficial options.
Zuo Zhe needs to find a new path that suits him. Zuo Zhe wants to gain extraordinary power, but Zuo Zhe also doesn't want to be alone. It's like a person who doesn't want to let go of anything and wants everything, and the end result is that he doesn't get anything. Greed is not a good habit, recognize your own strengths and needs, and make a rational decision, this is what you should do.
So, what does Zuo Zhe really want?
Is it an invincible supernatural power?
Is it to lead the people to endless glory?
Or, really figure out the truth of this world?