Chapter 877: The Sign of the Death Demon's Power Returning to Death

"Suddenly disappeared, what happened?" Li Qi was a little confused.

The man smiled and said, "I don't know. At first, I was as confused as you. I just took a nap, and when I woke up, everyone disappeared, only Suya and I were still there."

"Everyone in this world disappeared."

"If it's really as you said, then you are really... calm." Li Qi looked at the other party's reaction in surprise.

After waking up, everyone disappeared, leaving only a ship girl and himself to depend on each other.

Then, suddenly met a living person again.

He can still be so calm, which is really a great capacity for mortals.

"Calm? Haha, if you came in the first three years, I'm afraid I would be crazy with joy, right? But so many years have passed, no matter what happens, I shouldn't be surprised, right? So, young man, how is your health? Can you still eat?" The middle-aged man asked.

"It's hard for a person to live in this world, right? I opened a vegetable garden over there, so I don't lack food. I'm going to build a canal here. It's under construction now. Come together." The man grinned and said.

Li Qi looked at the other party and nodded slightly.

Digging a canal alone...

Ah, this person relieved his worries through labor, so he survived. Well... The weak ship girl next to him also relied on his strong willpower to survive with only one person's heart.

"It's amazing that a person has lived for so long and can even support the existence of a spirit." Li Qi exclaimed.

"Haha, if I were alone, I would definitely not live so long. Fortunately, there is Suya. It's better to say that Suya supports me rather than me supporting Suya." The man said so.

"I can understand." Li Qi said.

At the same time, Li Qi's Dharma body has also appeared all over the world.

Almost everyone who survived has welcomed a "Li Qi" belonging to them.

Li Qi lived with them for about a week and listened to their stories.

There are middle-aged men living alone, and there are useless young people immersed in the virtual world.

There are girls trying to survive in the wilderness, and there are old women who are waiting for death quietly.

All kinds of people.

But without exception, they are all alone.

Some of them have spirits to accompany them, and some don't.

The only similarity is their experience. Although they encountered many different things, without exception, they woke up after a sleep and everyone in the world disappeared.

Li Qi tried to guide these people to meet each other.

However, what surprised Li Qi was that... they could not see each other.

They could find out what the other party was doing, such as if a man dug a ditch today, the woman would see the ditch appear.

But the two sides could not see each other, just like psychological invisibility.

What is going on?

Li Qi wanted to penetrate the truth with the magical power of the third rank, but found that he could not do it.

This is definitely related to the death demon, but he didn't know why it was related, and he didn't know what the death demon did.

Incomprehensible.

It's really hard to imagine that there are mysteries that the third rank can't understand, and it seems that it still needs to be studied.

However... this is the result Li Qi wants.

Being able to understand is a good thing, and not being able to understand... is also a good thing.

This shows that there is something to understand, and Li Qi believes that his wisdom can be thoroughly studied in a short time.

After all... it's just the aftermath of the wreckage of a death demon.

If you can't handle this, then forget about it. Why bother investigating the Desire Realm? Go home and have a rest.

Then, let's start researching.

Li Qi immediately started researching. He divided the remaining thousands of people into groups, and then used thousands of Dharma bodies to classify them into experimental groups and control groups. Through the exploration of true knowledge, he conducted in-depth and subtle observations on each person.

His Dharma bodies lived with these remaining people, became their companions and friends, worked and entertained with them, and lived every day.

Perhaps because Li Qi was too capable, many men and women fell in love with Li Qi, but Li Qi declined. However, this feeling also caused more influence, but it was so subtle that Li Qi noticed the disturbance, but he didn't know what the consequences were, so he prepared to continue to make more in-depth observations.

The observation continued until...

Everyone died of old age, so that this civilization would end, and he should be able to observe death.

With this thought, Li Qi accompanied everyone, and those who were alone suddenly had a partner.

Some were happy, some were indifferent, some were wary, and some were in love. Thousands of people had thousands of different reactions, but they were generally the same emotions.

Li Qi accompanied them at his own pace and told them that there might be other people in the world.

Imperceptibly, more than a decade passed.

Then... some people suddenly realized and sensed the existence of others.

This part was ecstatic, they finally met -

Then, they found that Li Qi disappeared.

What they thought afterwards, Li Qi didn't care, Li Qi just wanted to be a control group.

He stopped observing, and even actively closed his senses that could detect these people, and then focused on another group of mortals who couldn't see others.

Then, in this way, after subtle and delicate psychological guidance, Li Qi separated the two groups of people.

After about twenty-six years, the last person who "lived alone" died. Li Qi collected his body and held a funeral.

Then, Li Qi took a look at the control group.

After the initial chaotic battle royale, they had stabilized the social order and started construction.

So, he closed his perception.

He wanted to know if these people would change without his observation.

Li Qi returned to the mountain and closed his eyes.

He decided to get up every ten years to observe the development of this last civilized settlement.

In the first ten years, everything was thriving and moving in a good direction. A large number of newborns were born, and the population more than doubled. The settlement also began to have people who left their jobs, and began to redefine positions such as craftsmen and teachers.

In the second decade, the newborns in the settlement had replaced the elderly, and the settlement became even stronger, with more than ten thousand people.

In the third decade, the population continued to expand. Using the legacy of previous civilizations, they had begun basic mechanized planting. Eating was not a problem at all, but the problem was that industrialization could not continue to progress. They could only continue to do archaeology and rely on old equipment to maintain their lives.

In the fourth decade, they disappeared.

Once again, they disappeared out of thin air.

Li Qi didn't even understand what fluctuations there were in these four decades.

But fortunately, he made a detection device this time.

Yes, although Li Qi himself did not conduct any observations, he left behind something that could passively record images.

It was not a video recorder or something that recorded subjectively, but a "mirror".

Yes, it was just a mirror.

He installed a mirror in the sky, which reflected the bottom at all times.

The reason why the mirror can reflect light is that the light hits the mirror surface and then is reflected out.

Then, by observing the reflection and deviation of each molecule on the mirror surface, the path of each photon can be traced and an image can be formed.

Although it sounds nonsense, the third rank can indeed do this.

Li Qizhen could trace back any trace left by each photon on the mirror in the past ten years, so he could infer what happened.

Li Qizhen did so. He clearly traced back all the photons and then found out what happened.

"Suddenly disappeared in the dream." Li Qi came to the conclusion after calculation.

It was indeed as expected.

When everyone was "lonely", they disappeared unconsciously.

Everyone was lonely?

When there were many people, society would inevitably begin to divide labor, so moral disorganization and interpersonal alienation would also occur.

Only when he was alienated from his other partners, when he clearly saw that others only contacted him because of private interests and social division of labor, when the hypocritical connection that could not withstand even the smallest test completely disappeared, it was only at this time that interpersonal alienation began.

The decoupling of individuals from the public world, the dissolution of the social attributes of physical space and the change in the concept of time made people confused about how to find their own way of living.

In other words, they were trapped in their own world, just like a dead otaku could survive alone.

They all fell into their own world, and briefly thought that all life except themselves had disappeared from this world.

So...

They really disappeared.

In other words, once civilization develops to the level of "atomization", they will disappear. Is this death? Or... something else?

But this is not right.

Even if it is atomized, in fact, the connection between people in society is closer.

For example, a dead otaku thinks that he is the only one in the world. He lives alone, eats alone, stays at home playing with his mobile phone, and makes a living by playing games and selling gold coins.

Then, the people who buy gold coins, the operators of the games, the base station maintenance personnel of the mobile phone signal, the operators of the network cables, and the unmanned supermarket downstairs where one person buys things.

Goods will not grow out of thin air on the shelves. In this atomized society, although you are not aware of the existence of others, in fact, your connection with others is very precise.

Compared with those societies that are not atomized, such as "villages" or "communities", they seem to be very close, but after all, most of the people you can contact are just relatives or people in the village. Before leaving this land, "family" and "village" are everything in society.

In fact, the former is more alienated from the whole society than the latter, compared to the otaku in the apartment.

So why didn't the former disappear, but the latter did?

Li Qi was quite puzzled, but also very happy.

He realized that this was the point where the power of the death demon intervened.

Li Qi was very strong, so strong that it was almost impossible for him not to notice the reason. If there was a place that he couldn't notice, then this place must be where the power of the death demon intervened.

Then, the result was obvious.

"This is where death takes effect." Li Qi nodded gently on the top of the mountain.

There is no living person in this world anymore. He has been here for hundreds of years, from the steam age to the extinction of civilization.

He has found the place where the remains of the death demon changed.

"The root of birth and death without beginning, now, and all sentient beings, use the causal mind as their own nature, the two are the original pure bodies of Bodhi Nirvana without beginning, now, the consciousness essence can produce all kinds of conditions, what is left by the conditions is left by all sentient beings, this original light is not aware of it even if it is practiced all day, it is in vain to enter all kinds of interests." Li Qi muttered what he understood and sighed.

"Cause", or "connection".

The essence of man is the sum of all social relations.

It is determined by all social relations, among which the decisive factor is the production relationship.

Without social relations, you are just an object, not a "person" living in society. Without social relations filling inside, you are an empty shell.

If there is a person who lives outside of society, no one knows him, no one knows him, then does this person exist?

Philosophers have long given the answer. If a thing cannot be seen, touched, or smelled, and does not affect anything and is never discovered, then this thing does not exist.

The same is true for atomized individuals. To others, they cannot be seen or touched, so they do not exist.

The same is true for this world. This is what is called "what is left by fate is left by all living beings".

According to Buddhism, the world is born from fate. The world is full of cause and effect. Everyone has his own cause and effect. The lines of cause and effect touch each other. The point where they touch is the "fate", which is the "origin". When the lines of cause and effect separate, the two sides no longer have any intersection, which is the "extinction of fate".

Therefore, when a person's "fate is extinguished", that is when this person dies.

The death demon just turned this step into reality. He truly realized the "extinction of fate".

When these mortals stepped into the starry sky, the power of the death demon had already quietly invaded him.

When someone's "fate is extinguished", this person will disappear.

Similarly, when the fate of all living beings is exhausted, the world should disappear.

This civilization perfectly practices this.

"This is the power of the death demon, so... what if it is the third grade?"

"If the third grade, which has reality and can generate "fate" by itself, has the situation of "end of fate", will it die?" Li Qi pondered.

Or, if he could maintain his own ‘fate’, would he be able to resist this piece of the wreckage of the Death Demon?

He felt that he had found the truth about the Death Demon, so he could try to contact the wreckage of the Death Demon, right?

Let’s give it a try.

With this in mind, he left this dead world and headed towards the wreckage of the Death Demon.