Some time ago, in the promotion of consciousness duel, Ivan once heard Lin Quan mention two short stories about philosophers:

The first one was that the ancient Greek philosopher Thales observed the celestial phenomena one night, but fell into the pit because he was too serious and laughed at him by others, saying that he couldn't even see what was under his feet. He had a p-use for studying stars. Later, the philosopher used this skill to predict the weather and made a lot of money by buying and selling olive oil. As a result, everyone looked at him with admiration.

Another is a little joke. A philosopher and a mathematician were sitting on a fisherman's boat. The mathematician said that he had not learned mathematics, so he wasted half of his life. The philosopher said that he had not learned philosophy, so he wasted most of his life. As a result, the boat capsized. The fisherman asked the two people if they could swim. The fisherman said that they had wasted all their lives.

These two stories can only be cloaked by "philosophy" and sell secular success, because for most people, whether a thing "can be useful" is one of the best ways to judge the value of such things.

The reason why Lin Quan mentioned this at that time was just to lament that philosophy has a low status in most people's hearts in human history is that pure philosophy is almost useless, and the emergence of the duel of consciousness has somewhat given this ancient science the basis for becoming a "practical technology". The promotion and popularization of philosophy are undoubtedly beneficial.

If in human life, everyone has to accept an inevitable duel of consciousness every year, after those decades, due to the huge pressure of survival, everyone who survives will become a philosopher - this is Lin Quan's original words.

To be honest, Ivan did not appreciate the philosopher making money in the first story, because in his opinion, the role played by "night star constellation" in the story is actually not essentially different from that of modern people learning to trade stocks. However, for the second story, Ivan and Lin Quan had a little difference in their views at that time - Ivan always believed that in a world where there is a river and inevitably need to bear the risk of drowning, the value of swimming is indeed much higher than that of philosophy.

The two of them are competing, and according to the habit of logical dialectics, they inevitably give some very extreme examples - Ivan said at the time that if a person is useless except philosophy and cannot even support himself, and is just immersed in the "pleasure" of knowing the world and the truth all day long, then should such a person be respected or despised?

The debate ended with Lin Quan's failure, because if this issue continues to evolve, Ivan will definitely mention what would happen if all mankind were such a person - without a doubt, in a society where everyone knows only philosophy and other uselessness would be a pathological society that could not be self-sustained.

Ivan also mentioned that many people advocate "supreme values" at the spiritual level, and the big reason is that these values ​​are scarce and urgently needed by this society. In the thinking of these people, philosophy is actually the same as the rising real estate, but it only has a "seemingly high-end" status due to market supply and demand.

Philosophy is important, but Ivan always believes that it is far from important enough to let people abandon the premise of survival. Living is the root of all meanings. This is the same for individuals and social groups.

Ancient Greece was an extremely developed civilization of spiritual civilization. The core of all existing human civilizations, including science, mathematics, philosophy, music, and even politics, was inevitably influenced by this ancient civilization country more than 2,000 years ago. But what makes everyone feel a pity that such a bright civilization sun was finally strangled in the bud by a group of Romans who only knew how to wave the bronze dagger. Although Archimedes' mirror could attract the fire of God, it could not stop the "barbaric" invasion of the Romans.

There are countless such regrets in the history of the earth. The Song Dynasty, which was destroyed by Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty, which was destroyed by the Later Jin Dynasty.

But in Ivan's eyes, the disappearance of these countries and civilizations is not the sorrow of the earthlings, but the most precious historical heritage of the earthlings - history uses countless iron facts to warn later generations, warning them what is the most important in this world. No matter how rich and vast the spiritual world you have discovered is, as long as you forget the land where you live and forget that violence is the basis for maintaining all existence, then reality will sooner or later make you pay the price.

Some people may say that even if these people die and these civilizations disappear, their status in history will never be erased. Their death has a thousand times more meaning than the lives of others.

This is obviously another nonsense - if at this moment, an asteroid is about to hit the earth, but the earthlings have no way to deal with it, and then humans are destroyed like dinosaurs, will later civilizations think that the earth's civilization is dead?

I believe no one on earth would think so. If this kind of thing really happens, everyone's biggest reflection will definitely become without hesitation - why don't we use the energy of enjoying all these years to develop aerospace technology.

The moral peace of mind is like countless spiritual knowledge. Although it has an important position, if these are placed on the balance in Ivan's heart and the other end on survival, the result will be obvious.

An ideal kite is like a bright starry sky. No matter how high or beautiful it is, if you forget to observe the road under your feet when you are watching them, and forget that the earth under your feet is supporting you, there will always be a day when you fall into a pit and never get up.

Carmel's official time is consistent with Chad. Overall, it is close to 6 hours "faster" than the time in Country Z. This means that when Carmel time has entered late at night and Ivan is about to fall asleep, Beijing time is just approaching 5 pm, and Zhao Liang's home is just preparing for supper.

During the meal, Zhao Liang told his parents that he was going on a business trip tonight and would not come back in the past few days.

Zhao Liang's father also cared about the purpose of Zhao Liang's trip this time, and Zhao Liang also gave the reason he had been using it - the company arranged a business trip.

They did not doubt it, but just complained about the inhumanity of the overtime system of their son's company as usual, and then reminded Zhao Liang to pay attention to safety on the way and not be deceived in other places at the end of the topic. Zhao Liang's mother also cared about her son's lifelong affairs as usual.

If Ivan's life is a king who is superior, and the biggest center of his daily life is to make many decisions that relate to others, and the work he does depends on his own brain, then Zhao Liang is a veritable commoner, and the content of his "work" also forms a complementary relationship with Ivan in physiological terms - let Ivan himself describe it, Zhao Liang's existence is like a robot that performs various tasks accurately.

Zhao Liang's parents only knew that their son was focused on work all day long, busy with all kinds of business trips and overtime work, but they never knew what his son's job was.

If they spend less energy on finding a partner for their son and investigating them privately, they may not be as relieved as they are now. However, because of the existence of the five-digit "overtime pay" on Zhao Liang's bank card every month, the motivation for the two elderly people to do this almost does not exist.

After dinner, Zhao Liang walked down the apartment building as usual, stopped a taxi at the entrance of the community, and then randomly signed up for a place name.

It was already past six o'clock. For Ningzhou in late November, this time means that the sun is already in the west to remove the last glimmer of today. On both sides of the street, the brilliance of the city is about to begin to shine.

Every taxi driver in Ningzhou is a natural talkative chat. The one Zhao Liang encountered today is no exception. Along the way, just as Zhao Liang was admiring the street scenery expressionlessly, the enthusiastic driver began to talk to him about the latest popular topic-immigration to space.

Americans have begun to try to expand the current space station and build permanent cities like the Carmel Space Station. In front of a minute and a half, the driver enthusiastically pointed to Zhao Liang at a few dazzling new stars in the sky - according to him, they were several new space stations built by Americans, each of which could accommodate up to tens of thousands of people.

Compared with Carmel's space stations, there are quite a gap in scale, security, and operational experience, but these cannot stop humans from truly yearning for space. Thousands of newly built space stations by Americans have moved into several new space stations, and this number is still increasing. A month ago, the US President just issued a statement stating that these space stations are all sacred and indivisible territory of the United States.

This incident had a great influence internationally at that time, but later due to the tension between China and Cards, it quickly disappeared. Judging from the driver's current enthusiasm, this incident still has the influence among the people.

The driver has been complaining about why the country has not increased its investment in space, and then asserted in an expert tone that if this continues, the earth's orbit will become the world of Americans in the future. Of course, he would not know that China and Kazakhstan have added 120 cautions in their attitude towards magic because of the previous events. It is too late to draw a clear line with Carmel, so how can they strengthen cooperation?

Regarding the driver's complaints and excessive concern for national affairs, Zhao Liang responded simply as if he was dealing with his parents' remarks at the dinner table. After getting off the bus, he saw the taxi disappear at the end of the traffic in the distance, and he sighed a little: "Don't care about what you really should care about, but worry about what you shouldn't worry about."

There is no day and night in the cave. For a long time, the only tool that mages can use to measure time is the degree of hunger in their stomachs, the speed of hair growth, or the interval of feeling sleepy.

The appearance of the mobile phone made this situation change subtly, and at the same time made all the mages understand that the time in the cave was not as fast as they had imagined before.

"He's here." The young mage said to everyone else after taking a look at his phone.

As soon as he finished speaking, a strange figure appeared in the middle of the cave. He appeared so fast that without his reminder, such speed would definitely make everyone present unable to react.

"What a fast space magic." The young mage stared at Zhao Liang in front of him and exclaimed.

Zhao Liang did not answer, but paid a rough attention to the surrounding environment.

This is an ordinary standard refuge. Lighting, constant temperature, and air exchange are familiar and unfamiliar magic circles that make Ivan feel as if he has returned to the past. After only four years of contact with these, Ivan feels like he has been a lifetime away.

"You came early," the only mage in modern clothes in the shelter said to Zhao Liang, "Why?"

"I think before you appear on Earth, some words need to be explained to you first," Zhao Liang replied, his eyes swept across everyone's faces one by one, "Are everyone here?"

"Yes."

Zhao Liang nodded and said to everyone: "Although you already know my identity, I think it is necessary to introduce myself in person. My name is Ivan. In the past, I was also an escaped mage like you. But now, I am the king of Carmel. The most important thing is that I am a creator of consciousness network with a scale of nearly 200 million."

When talking about the consciousness network, Ivan noticed that the spirit of several mages had strong fluctuations. He glanced at them, then turned to the mage in front of him and asked, "Where are you?"

"Before you appeared here, I tried my best to make them all believe that you were kind-hearted, but now it seems that this is just my wishful thinking." The young mage's face turned a little cold as he said these words.

"Whether I am kind or not depends on you," Ivan said straight to the point, "Tell me, if you can fight against the emperor and keep your pride as a mage, you can only choose the same thing, what will you choose?"

"I don't understand." said the mage.

"It's not difficult to understand," Ivan stretched out his hand and opened his five fingers and said, "If all five fingers want to fight against a fist in their own way, the outcome will only be failure."

"You mean, let us obey you!"

"If you're willing to understand this way," Ivan smiled faintly, "That's right."

"This can't be done!" The mage's face looked like a lump of ice. "You were also a mage, you should understand that this is impossible."

"Yes, I know," said Ivan, "so I've brought you another advice, to leave the earth, the farther you are, the better."

"Why?" The mage still didn't understand, "Are you afraid that our presence will pose a threat to your rule?"

"No, it's not a threat," Ivan shook his head, "You can't cause real threats to me like the emperor, it's just a problem."

"Don't you know yet?" Ivan continued, "What the Earth is about to face will be an extremely arduous war. In such a war that is about survival, I only need one kind of person, that is, those who can obey orders, and just so happens that you are not among them, and your appearance will prevent more people from becoming such people. So, I am very clear that the Earth does not need you now."

"But we are going to help"

"Your departure is the best help," Ivan admitted without leaving any room for anything, "I don't need allies now, I just need subordinates."

"What if we don't do this?" Among the twelve people, another mage passed a message to Ivan.

"I don't want this to happen," Ivan raised his hand and said to everyone, "but if that's the case, I'm prepared for it, and believe me, this path is a mistake for both of us."

"We have no malice," there are already people in the crowd building magic, and the young mage is trying to make the final effort, "and we can also promise that it will never affect your rule."

Ivan glanced at him, but asked another topic: "You are the prophetic master who appeared in Country Z a month ago and finally informed me of more than 140 days left?"

The other party nodded.

"May I have your name?"

"Everyone who knows me calls me a prophet."

"Prophet?" Ivan smiled, "It is indeed a good name. I know that in the Emperor, prophetic magic is called time viewing, and the caster of prophetic magic is called the viewing, and you, the best viewing man I have ever seen, I believe you may know better than me what consequences will be caused if you continue to stay on earth at that time."

"Yes." He admitted, "but that's because of you."

"No, you still don't understand," Ivan interrupted, "even without my factor, even if Carmel and I, the consciousness network does not exist on Earth at all, and so many of you mages appear at the same time, it is easy to cause war."

"Tell me, how long have you lived on Earth before?"

“More than a month.”

"Tell me, your impression of life on earth over the past month."

"They have made amazing achievements in the field of science and technology, and thousands of years of civilization history have achieved many planes that have not been achieved in tens of thousands of years, but"

"But this world lives in an extremely fragile balance of nuclear deterrence. The button to destroy the world is controlled by a few special leaders. If you are not careful, this small planet will be destroyed by themselves. Their greatest creation is the noose around their necks. All hope of survival depends on whether these leaders are rational at critical moments. That's right."

There is no doubt that as a veteran, every word Ivan said was what he thought.

"Have you ever thought that if we wizards who master these powers are specifically used to deal with the emperor, it would definitely be perfect, is that true?"

The prophet nodded and admitted.

"It's over," said Ivan. "In my opinion, the damn self-righteousness and taking for granted by the mage are the root of the biggest trouble."

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