Obelisk, essentia, sequence, branch.

While listening to the lecture, Li Qing tried to match the extraordinary abilities he had seen and obtained through the awakening trial with the names of the sequences that Song Qiu had said.

What he can almost certain now is that the man in the cap is most likely a transcendent in the sequence of "stargazers", who can arrange the stars and collect the power of the stars.

"Stealth?"

Song Qiu pondered for a moment and said, "Have you ever seen a transcendent being?" These five sequences, as long as the transcendent can properly use the power he has obtained, can achieve a similar effect of stealth through different ways, such as the Four Elephants, who can use the rich water element in the air to cover their own body in foggy weather."

"Another example is the swordsman, through the control of their body and breath, they can also create the illusion of stealth for mortals, and the stargazer, they can briefly escape into the 'mimic astral plane', or they can disappear out of thin air, and the gunner, they can create what they call 'mechanical camouflage' to help themselves achieve 'stealth',"

Song Qiu paused for a moment and said earnestly: "In short, the concept of 'stealth' is too broad, the transcendent world is not as simple as you think, for more than two hundred years, the transcendents have continued to develop their transcendent abilities, and the temporary end point that has been reached so far is much farther than you imagined,"

"It is not known that a seemingly inconspicuous transcendent ability may be able to exert the power to transform decay into magic when it is in the hands of an experienced transcendent."

Li Qing nodded as if he didn't understand, and chose to bury this doubt in his heart for the time being, the several principles of stealth that Song Qiu described just now seemed to be different from the extraordinary abilities he had obtained.

His own invisibility does not require the help of external objects, nor does he enter any mimic astral boundary, nor does he use the senses of others to create illusions and illusions.

He changed the question with a slightly vague direction, and said: "Since the obelisk, essentia and sequence are one-to-one correspondences, from the excavation of the first obelisk to the birth of the fifth obelisk, there is a gap of two hundred years, such a long time span, doesn't that mean that the first transcendent sequence, that is, the four elephants, will make this sequence go ahead of the other four sequences, and even exceed the fifth sequence of 'scholars' a lot?" ”

In the end, Li Qing had a feeling that the more he talked, the more active his thoughts became, and he temporarily added another question, "Moreover, is this a little unfair, a little unfair to both the pioneers and the latecomers." ”

For those who awaken first, they have less opportunities to choose, for example, before the second obelisk is born, the awakened person can only walk on the sequence of the four elephants, and for the scholar in this sequence, there is a lot less experience of the predecessors for them to learn from.

"You have your own thoughts, but you don't listen attentively."

Song Qiu took the pen and tapped the table gently, like a teacher knocking on the blackboard, "Remember what I said?" On the transcendent path, those who awaken first do not go further than those who come after, and as for the question of the right to choose, for the awakened, there is never an opportunity to choose. ”

"Which obelisk to resonate with and which sequence to embark on is never artificially chosen and decided."

"What determines that?" Li Qing asked curiously.

"After a long period of experimentation and exploration, the transcendents finally came to a unanimous conclusion and formed a consensus," Song Qiu picked up the pen and pulled a straight line between the stickman, the small circle and the sharp triangle, "Fate, the decision is in the hands of fate." ”

The line drawn by Song Qiu seemed to symbolize "fate", he pondered for a moment, and then said: "In fact, there is a more interesting theory, this kind of doctrine was put forward by a 'scholar', which is very meaningful, and the academic circles call it 'fatalism of the times'"

Without waiting for Li Qing to speak, Song Qiu continued: "The fatalism of the times combines the present world of the obelisk with the evolution of the times, according to him, in this primitive period, human beings live in ignorance, full of awe of the power of nature, that is, earth, fire, water, wind, thunder and lightning, etc., they are also the first power that human beings come into contact with, so the corresponding sequence of the first obelisk is the four elephant envoys who can control the power of the five elements,"

Song Qiu drew four small patterns on the paper, symbolizing earth, fire, water, and wind, and then connected them with a circle.

"After that, people learned to make tools, learned to smelt metal, from bows and arrows, stone knives to copper swords, iron spears, this is the second kind of lethal power that people come into contact with, so the second obelisk corresponds to the sequence of swordsmen who specialize in cold weapons."

Song Qiu drew a pair of crossed swords on the paper, and connected the pair of swords with the circle formed by earth, fire, water, and wind.

"After this, people found that the cold weapons of iron swords, iron swords, and iron spears were not enough to defeat all things in the world, and they were puzzled, they were confused, so a traditional reverence for heaven made them appeal to the stars, and the sequence of stargazers corresponding to the third obelisk came into being."

Song Qiu drew a star on the paper, which was ugly but enough to convey meaning, and then he drew a gun and a book.

"The two later obelisks correspond to two sequences, and gunners and scholars can also get corresponding explanations from this perspective."

What Song Qiu did not explicitly say was that the birth of the obelisk was not only a symbol, but also had a real impact on the development of the situation between the north and the south, and seven years ago, the Northern Federation won the battle for the fifth obelisk, and in the days when the number of obelisks owned by the two sides was not balanced in the past seven years and even in the future, the Yugoslav Federation could only choose to shrink the defensive line.

After digesting the view of "the fatalism of the times", Li Qing tentatively spoke: "Isn't this point of view a bit far-fetched to explain the sequence of stargazers? ”

"Yes, what you said is exactly the point where the fatalism of the times has been attacked the most in the academic community, so those who support this view are always actively looking for evidence to close this loophole." Song Qiu affirmed Li Qing's statement, and seeing that Li Qing seemed to be unfinished and wanted to ask questions, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said:

"It's almost time to get off work, and you can still ask one last question for the day."

Before this, Song Qiu thought that an extraordinary topic would arouse Li Qing's interest, but he didn't expect that this topic would be so attractive that it would make people forget about their time off work.

But this is a necessary step, similar to pre-job training, everyone who joins the Special Investigation Bureau will experience such a unique induction training, Song Qiu used to be a part-time instructor of the Ningpu Branch, in addition to teaching internally, telling the transcendents about theoretical knowledge, conveying the most cutting-edge transcendent theories, and sometimes publicizing and preaching to external personnel, and the object of propaganda is so few people in the jurisdiction who have experienced the awakening trial realm but have not chosen to join the Special Investigation Bureau.

In the past, this library was used as a classroom for internal teaching, and Song Qiu brought Li Qing here, which can be regarded as following the tradition.

Li Qing thought for a while and said, "Is my work similar to expanding historical documents?" ”

Song Qiu nodded, seemingly satisfied with Li Qing's realistic question, and said with a smile: "Yes, this is your main job, but it's not all. You can understand him as an expansion, but this kind of expansion is not a scribble, let alone nonsense, but it must be supported by evidence and evidence, if you can expand and write a good work, the Fuyong branch, and even the headquarters will not be stingy with rewards. ”

"In addition to this main job, you are also responsible for receiving visitors to do a good job of registration, regular cleaning, follow-up of cases and the formation of files, and the completion of other tasks assigned by superiors, that is, me, do a good job, the more ordinary the post, the more people are trained, many leaders are from the grassroots post step by step, accumulate experience, young people, what I am afraid of is not to endure hardship!"

This last job sounds like the most pits, and the last sentence is not a bit of a chicken soup, if it is true, why are you still here...... Li Qing nodded obediently, and in order to earn performance, he asked again:

"Will I still have the opportunity to receive visitors? And follow up the case, do we still have to handle the case? ”

"If you visit, normally there will be no more, at most, someone from above will come forward to make a difference. Now that the Ningpu Branch of our Investigation Bureau and the Ningpu Public Security Bureau have basically merged, all cases are handled by them, and they will only transfer them to us if they feel it is necessary, but they generally do not choose to do so. Song Qiu's smile carried some mystery in it,

"Do you know why?"

Song Qiu seemed to be deliberately appetizing, and said, "Let me ask you another question, do you know why Gao Zhihuai is so affectionate to you?" I also went downstairs to meet you personally. ”

Li Qing shook his head blankly.

"Because our Special Investigation Bureau has the authority to investigate and impeach territorial officials," Song Qiu looked at Li Qing with a deep meaning in his eyes, "And now it's different from the past, we can still hold the highest and deputy positions at the local level, in this case, can Gao Zhihuai be polite to you?" ”

"I've told you so much today, you can digest it yourself after you go back, let's go, I'll talk about it tomorrow, Director Gao is still waiting for you in the office, he is looking forward to it." Song Qiu was the first to get up and walked towards the outside of the library.

Li Qing also hurriedly followed, with a relaxed and happy look on his face.

If you can't get out of class, then there must be something wrong with your thinking.

In addition, Li Qing is also full of confidence in his future work, expanding historical documents, who can have more say than him who has personally experienced history?

Li Qing only felt that his current steps were more powerful than the transmission of the Shangqing train.