Chapter 827 The Man of Dreams
Li Qi walked on the streets of this underground city.
It is not quite right to call it a street, it should be called a ‘pipeline’.
This is a narrow pipe that can only accommodate two people, and it is full of terrible noise and severe claustrophobic environment, but it is not dark, and there is plenty of light and fresh air here.
Walking and living here is like living in an ant hole. You can come to one ‘block’ after another through this narrow pipe, and these ‘blocks’ are strange buildings.
These buildings may be energy institutions, food factories, or the ‘dormitories’ where hundreds of thousands of people sleep in a box, or some cultivation cave, some air purifier, wastewater treatment plant, etc.
After all, this place is actually very technologically advanced.
Nearly unlimited energy, plus the industrial capacity to feed countless billions of people, this is no joke.
Moreover, it is called the ‘City of Dreams’, but in fact it is not very peaceful here.
Li Qi walked through the pipes and could hardly see any "scenery". Even if the large air purifiers and various wastewater treatments made the environment "tolerable" and not to the point of killing people quickly, it still could not change the depressing atmosphere here.
However, there is one good thing.
The lives from all over the universe are all outstanding people in the local world. They come to the world to pray for a chance to stand out.
They can tolerate the chicken coop before sleeping, but the reason is that everyone... no, it should be said that most people must believe that they can get to a higher level.
The reason why not everyone is because there are always people who are defeated by setbacks.
But on the whole, most people are very energetic along the way that Li Qi walked.
Moreover, Li Qi also found some "star gates".
It is said to be a star gate, but it is actually something like "constellations" or "golden platform", which can quickly transport people from outside the domain to the world.
The human golden platform will handle countless goods every day. These materials sent from outside the domain support countless mortals in the human world. They can buy rare treasures from a world millions of light years away in the supermarket next to their homes.
The locals can't eat it, but the human world can buy it cheaply.
There is a typical example, a crystallization of the entire world of a ninth-grade world, such as the typical "world tree fruit". In an entire ninth-grade world, billions of people spend hundreds of years to produce only one precious fruit. The local natives can fight for this fruit and even start a world war for it.
However, this kind of thing, in the supermarket downstairs of the human world, is two yuan per catty, and five yuan for three catties.
There is no other reason, it's just the ninth-grade world, there are too many, it's too troublesome to harvest, and generally the lower-level world takes the initiative to pick it.
This "dream city" is similar in terms of products.
Things like the world tree fruit, although not five yuan for three catties, can also be bought with half a month's income.
This situation is simply a miracle for these mortals who have just come to the world, and this is also the beginning of their "dream".
The world can even do this kind of thing.
Then, aren't their opportunities endless?
As long as you work hard, as long as you struggle here, then when you leave here and return to the outside world, you will naturally become a superior person and become an existence admired by countless people!
So, as far as Li Qi saw, the surface areas of the dozens of planets around were generally like this.
"The means of the devil are much better than imagined." Li Qi thought so, and passed through a pipe and came to a relatively large cave.
This is also a typical "block", the outer wall is wrapped in alloy, and the building inside is also a regular rectangle.
This is the largest "cave" nearby, because this is the only "star gate" within the area of dozens of planets.
Of course, for the entire giant building, this is just a very small ordinary star gate, but it is already the largest building nearby.
Every moment, countless people are sent to this place.
However, they are not "walking over".
"Oh... packed like this and sent here, this is really..." Li Qi sighed.
What he saw was that what was sent here was not people at all, but caves.
All people and lives are packed in the caves.
As a cave that can carry life, it is difficult to travel directly within the world under normal circumstances. It is easy to be smashed by the world barrier, and everything inside will not fall, unless it can form its own space to maintain its own existence.
However, the space of the world is very solid, so there is no such concern. Here, whether it is a cave or a small world, the world can easily carry it.
But the problem is that such a cave, one cave, and hundreds of millions of people are transported here at any time, so... how to put it down?
It is easy to put it in, but where to put it when you want to put it out?
Li Qi was a little puzzled, so he decided to ask directly.
He broke away from the state of being integrated into nature, and then walked forward and walked in front of one of the transporters.
It was an eighth-grade humanoid creature, taller than ordinary humans. He held a cave and walked out of the star gate carefully.
The reason for choosing him was that Li Qi scanned the circle and found that this person was the most honest with his mind-reading ability.
It is more comfortable to deal with honest people, otherwise it is annoying to see a few eighth-grade people jumping up and down and playing tricks with you, especially since Li Qi is not in a good mood now.
He walked in front of this eighth-grade person, released his breath slightly, and exerted pressure on the other person alone.
The humanoid creature immediately trembled.
At this moment, he seemed to see the universe unfolding in front of him.
A brand new "reality".
A terrifying world that cannot be described, with completely different world laws.
At this moment, his mind and body seemed to be destroyed and then reorganized.
Then, all of this suddenly disappeared, leaving only him alone.
The surrounding world was also isolated.
An "independent" space appeared here.
Of course, in fact, there is no independence. Space is essentially just a manifestation of material movement. It cannot exist independently. The surrounding is just a folded direction.
The direction of space shows the complexity of space. Now the complexity of space here is different from that of the outside world, so it is naturally isolated. No matter whether it is light or anything else, it is impossible to come here, because there is no "direction" leading here at all.
"Xian, Wei..., Shen, Da... Uh--" This eighth-grade humanoid started to speak, as if he had thought of a lot of honorifics, but in the end he couldn't say them out loud.
He only knew that the existence in front of him was beyond his imagination.
Disaster?
Encounter?
He didn't know, he only knew that he had encountered a big thing, life and death, wealth, all hung on a thread.
"Just call me senior, on the road of cultivation, there is a sequence of learning, and there is no high or low, so there is no need to be polite." Li Qi said casually: "I have something to ask you."
"Senior, please." The other party immediately said in a very proficient "Tianxia language".
It seems that in order to come to "Tianxia" and stand out in this dream city, he has done a lot of homework.
Li Qi could have directly read the other party's surface thinking, but Li Qi found that the other party's surface thinking was so chaotic that he couldn't understand it at all. Now this person in front of Li Qi has been completely panicked. He himself doesn't know what he is thinking, so Li Qi naturally can't see anything useful.
Li Qi could have directly searched the soul to read the deep memory, or used magic to hypnotize, but he was unwilling to do so now.
If he could talk nicely, then talk nicely. He was not a big villain, so why bother with that? He was just asking about the situation, and there was no need to make it like that.
"I know the purpose of your coming here. I just want to ask, where did these billions of people in your arms come from?" Li Qi asked.
Hearing this question, the eighth-grade humanoid in front of him was shocked at first, and then immediately realized that he should answer first, so he said: "Ah? This? Oh, senior, these are all my people."
"Your people? Oh, you moved the whole world here?" Li Qi asked.
"Well, this is the world, the pinnacle of the heavens and the worlds. I dare not dream of coming to such a place, so I have this opportunity. As the master of the world, I can't let it go. I can only move my whole clan here. Maybe in the future, I can take root here and become a local in the world!" He said so.
"...This is difficult. Has anyone told you about this?" Li Qi asked.
"Of course it is difficult. Maybe it will never be done. But the things in the world are not difficult, but there is no chance. There is no possibility. How can we not seize this opportunity?" He said firmly.
"But you should know that things are not so good. When you come here, your clan may be exterminated at any time. It is safer to stay outside the domain." Li Qi said.
"Senior...you don't know this. It may be a bit offensive to say it...but you are powerful and probably a local of Tianxia-"
"I am not a local of Tianxia." Li Qi interrupted him: "Go on."
"No?" The man was surprised for a moment, and then he obviously relaxed and became more friendly to Li Qi, not as awed as before.
It seems that compared with Li Qi's "strength", he is more afraid of the identity of "Tianxia".
He seems to have an indescribable yearning for this identity.
"So we are all from outside the domain, so is the senior also a newcomer?" He immediately became familiar.
"I've been here... for a while, but it's my first time here. I happened to see you guys coming out of the Star Gate in a group, so I was a little confused, so I came to ask you." Li Qi said.
The other party nodded slightly: "I see, then I understand, senior, you probably don't know that things are not very peaceful outside the domain recently?"
"Well... I do know, there is a war, right?" Li Qi said.
"So senior knows, then why would you ask such a question? If you stay outside the domain, you will suddenly die one day, and it's unclear, what's the difference between staying in the world? Not to mention, there are opportunities here." He said.
Li Qi could hear that there was hope in the other party's voice, it was a kind of abundant vitality, a kind of youthful vigor.
This is the 'City of Dreams', even if it is as rotten as a cesspool, but people who come here think there is hope here, and they can pursue what they want here.
"Is that so? That's right, outside the domain, you don't know why you were born, and you don't know why you died, so you might as well come here and try your luck." Li Qi nodded.
"That's the reason. Senior, this is also the reason why you came to the world, right?" asked the eighth-grade man.
"No, I came here by accident, and I don't know how I got here." Li Qi said.
The other party immediately looked at Li Qi with envy: "That's really... good luck."
"Good luck? Maybe." Li Qi perfunctorily said, and then asked: "But... you came to the world, but the world is also divided into many regions. Do you know where this place is?"
"As for the magic way, I know that coming here must be a life-and-death struggle, but... we have billions of people. Even if there is a life-and-death struggle, there will always be some people who can stay." The eighth-grade said.
"That's right, then I have one last question. Where did you know the existence of this city? Star gates shouldn't be everywhere, right?" Li Qi asked.
"Coincidence, or... luck, sometimes, star gates will suddenly open in your own world. This is also a legend outside the domain. I didn't expect that I could encounter it, but since I encountered it, I can't let it go." The eighth-grade said.
"Is that so? Thank you very much. Take this. Just treat it as my gift." Li Qi said, taking out a pill in his hand.
It was just an ordinary longevity pill, which Li Qi had rubbed with his hands a second ago.
"You are still at the eighth level and have not achieved immortality. This is just right for you. This medicine can extend your life by a hundred years, and there are no other side effects. However, it can only take effect once. Just consider it as a reward for asking questions." After Li Qi finished speaking, he disappeared from the spot, and the pill had already fallen into the other party's pocket.
Li Qi disappeared, and the other party was panicked.
He could not detect any fluctuations in Li Qi's cultivation from beginning to end. It was really amazing. He was already the strongest in his own world, but here, there were people stronger than him everywhere.
Sure enough, this is the world!
A surge of ambition surged in his heart!
Thinking of this, he stepped out of the star gate and headed towards this "Dream City" with other people from different worlds, running towards his own future.
However, he didn't know that he had been marked by Li Qi.
Li Qi wanted to see.
How these people pursued their dreams and what was their final outcome.
Then with the help of these, he could infer the policy of the Demon Dao here, and then judge Li Shiwei's situation.