Star City.

Central Park.

The sky was overcast and drizzling, and the cool autumn breeze slapped his cheeks with drizzle.

Feng Qi, dressed in black, stood in the rain and looked at the hero statue more than 30 meters high.

In front of the hero statue stood a stone tablet, engraved with his life story and his contribution to Star City.

Flowers and wine were neatly placed in front of the statue. Every day, people from Star City came to offer flowers and wine, and there would be special people to clean it.

His hero statue was also often maintained by someone.

"What a big boss."

Xiao You pointed at the hero statue and exclaimed, then turned to look at Feng Qi curiously:

"Boss, why is your statue weapon a sharp one, not a magic knife?"

As he said that, Xiao You pouted and made a few sword-holding virtual stabbing movements towards Feng Qi.

"This is not called a sharp one, it's a sword, one of the weapons commonly used by humans."

"Why not a magic knife?"

Xiao You blinked and continued to ask.

"The sword is the king of all weapons in the eyes of the human race. It is a symbol of force and can also be understood as strength. The book in the left hand of the statue symbolizes knowledge, implying the combination of knowledge and force. These are two essential weapons for the growth of the human race."

"Ah." Xiaoyou nodded, not quite understanding.

After answering Xiaoyou's doubts, Fengqi looked up at the hero statue.

It can be imagined that this hero statue, which has been integrated into his blood, has collected a lot of faith power for him in the main timeline.

But until today, Xingcheng has not announced how to connect with him in the main timeline.

Experiments have shown that there are hidden dangers in the faith growth route he has high hopes for.

He will not be spiritually eroded when connecting with Weiwei, but ordinary people are different. They cannot perfectly match the spiritual fluctuations of the main timeline, causing the spiritual power of the main timeline to always erode believers who want to borrow talents.

Erosion may come from negative emotions in the main timeline, or it may be something else.

It's like a deal with the devil.

Every time you borrow a talent, you have to pay a price, and the final result is mental pollution.

He once wanted to set the faith growth route as the first choice for replacing the human growth system after Mu Yu failed.

But this timeline seems unrealistic.

The final choice can only be to hope for the improvement and perfection of the rune transformation route.

When he went to the Mist City, he had discussed the problem of faith connection with the Lord of Mist.

But the Lord of Mist knew very little about the faith route, and could not analyze the cause, let alone give useful suggestions.

To solve the problem of mental erosion, you have to rely on Lin Ran.

The good news is that Lin Ran has already studied some clues and is trying to solve it.

But he knows that Lin Ran's time is running out.

As a member of the human race, Lin Ran certainly has the wisdom and intelligence of an era, but he is still limited by his flesh and blood. His short lifespan is the shackles of his solution to the problem.

Even if there are tools such as genetic drugs to assist in prolonging life, Wei Wei also made it clear that Lin Ran can only last for more than 200 years. If you want to get a longer life, you have to cooperate with genetic drugs and practice simultaneously.

But even so, Lin Ran's lifespan still has an upper limit.

The most important thing is that Lin Ran will not choose to rely on practice to prolong his life.

Because cultivation also takes time, if time is spent on cultivation, research will not make any progress, and life will still pass.

The same problem also occurs to all the staff of the Scarlet Research Institute.

Don't they want to prolong their lives through cultivation?

The fact is that they have no time to cultivate at all, and heavy work occupies most of their lives.

This is also the reason why the staff of the Scarlet Research Institute need to regulate their bodies with food therapy.

To solve this problem, the only way is for the cultivation system to develop explosively, so that the physical fitness increase effect obtained through cultivation far exceeds the time consumed by cultivation.

For example, one minute of cultivation can gain three minutes of life.

But it is not easy to raise the upper limit of the cultivation method to this point.

Looking at the domain world, there are not many domain forces that can do this, and most domain forces cannot break free from the crushing of life by time.

It seems simple, but if it is easy to do, there will be no old age and death.

In the mouth of the old fan, transcending the shackles of life is a growth system that only those super domain forces have.

When growing to that point, life will always be ahead of time and will no longer be restricted by the oppression of time.

Even the Mist Clan has never had such a cultivation system.

Even the Blood and Flesh Sacrifice cannot do this.

It's not that the Blood and Flesh Sacrifice is not good enough. The Blood and Flesh Sacrifice is just a god-level technique that lays the foundation, which is different from the main technique that perfectly matches humans.

This is not a problem that can be solved by traveling through the timeline a few more times. What

he needs to do is to enhance the overall growth potential of mankind and lay a solid foundation for the development of mankind.

With the solid foundation in front, the human building can rise from the ground.

He thought that as long as he continued to travel through the timeline, the human cultivation technique would grow infinitely.

Now thinking about it, he felt that the idea at that time was too naive.

The foundation is the key to determining the upper limit of the future. This is the conclusion he drew from experience.

With the early development state of Star City when he just gained the ability to travel through the timeline, even if the timeline was restarted a hundred times, the strength of the cultivation technique obtained would be difficult to break through further after reaching a certain bottleneck.

The development of a race has never been a steady progress.

It is wishful thinking to want to develop the human race through more than 1,500 years.

History is a lesson.

It took millions of years for humans to enter the agricultural age from the Stone Age.

But it took only hundreds of years to enter the industrial age from the agricultural age, and then quickly manufactured airplanes, ships, and even spacecraft to the starry sky.

It is unrealistic to continuously promote the progress of cultivation techniques by traveling through timelines on the original basis.

What humans need is a foundation and opportunity for explosive development.

He is now planning the development of Star City and even planning the construction of a new city for the cultivation system, just to create a brand new opportunity for the human race and become the fuse for explosive development.

He and the human race still have a long way to go to get a pass to the strong race that can break free from the shackles of time.

In fact, there are also many strong people among humans who have a lifespan beyond the normal.

But they are not ordinary people.

For example, Wei Wei, she is a miracle in Mu Yu's mouth. According to the existing intelligence clues, it is speculated that Wei Wei is a special human who has activated the life-continuation power of some pillar gods.

They are a very small minority among all human beings and cannot represent all human beings.

Now he can actually be classified as a special human. Now

he has merged with the magic knife, and his life form has undergone a transformation, and he has a long lifespan.

He doesn't know how old he can live, but judging from the degree of aging of his body, he feels that it is not a problem for him to live for thousands of years or even longer.

But this special case cannot be replicated, let alone promoted on a large scale.

Thinking back to the present, looking at the hero statue standing in the center of the park, Feng Qi felt a heavy sense of responsibility.

This heroic honor does not belong to him alone.

When he came to the hero statue, Feng Qi put down the flowers in his hand.

"You humans are really weird. Why do you want to give flowers to your own hero statue? Is this a manifestation of narcissism?"

Lei Ting, who saw this scene, couldn't help but wonder, and seemed unable to understand Feng Qi's behavior.

Feng Qi did not answer this question, but just smiled and shook his head, then turned and left.

Lei Ting didn't know his experience, so he naturally felt strange.

But he didn't offer flowers to commemorate himself, but the past.

It was the sacrifice line who endured darkness for the ideal prosperity. Many of them were still nailed to the pillar of shame after death and were despised by future generations.

They always have a share of the heroic honor obtained by this future line.

Most of the people in Xingcheng don't know their contributions, but Feng Qi always remembers it in his heart.

Behind the prosperous Xingcheng now, there were many sacrifice lines who carried the burden forward, stepping on the mud to push the development of Xingcheng to the current prosperous scene.

Poison removal, reform, innovation... In the eyes of the people of Star City, he is like a god descended from heaven, creating countless miracles.

But miracles are not achieved overnight, and they have taken root in the darkness that they cannot see.

Leaving Central Park, returning to Hupo Research Institute.

Feng Qi originally planned to set off for the Winter North in the next few days.

But the development of the situation has changed after talking with Lao Mi, and some arrangements must be deployed in advance.

Lao Mi suggested that instead of killing Jian Ji, he could choose to seal up the seriously injured Jian Ji and let the main timeline 1500 years later to kill him.

But it is not easy to do this.

He must contact the Scarlet Research Institute in advance to arrange a plan for Jian Ji's sealing.

If it is not arranged in advance, suddenly sending Jian Ji to the secret base of the Scarlet Research Institute will disrupt the future resource arrangements of the Scarlet Research Institute.

After the Scarlet Research Institute is completely isolated from external contacts, the internal resources adopt an internal circulation mode.

The consumption of resources needs to be strictly calculated.

The appearance of Jian Ji will inevitably greatly increase the resource consumption of the Scarlet Secret Base and increase the burden.

After all, sealing Jian Ji is not as simple as freezing it.

He discussed this with Lao Mi, and there were three issues to worry about.

The first issue was that Jian Ji must be kept in a state of serious injury and dormancy, but not fatal.

This required constant monitoring of Jian Ji's life fluctuations to prevent him from dying in dormancy, and perhaps injecting energy into the dying Jian Ji's body from time to time to ensure that his body always had vitality.

The second issue was that Jian Ji's ability to self-repair must be curbed.

At Jian Ji's level, his body already had a function that could self-repair.

For example, the energy injected into Jian Ji's body by the Scarlet Secret Base was intended to keep Jian Ji alive and keep him in a state of near death. However

, the energy injected into Jian Ji's body might be consumed in an instant and used to repair Jian Ji's life.

It was not certain that Jian Ji would revive and get out of the state of near death.

As long as Jian Ji woke up, no one in the Scarlet Secret Base could compete with Jian Ji, even if Jian Ji was already seriously injured at that time.

The third issue was how to make Jian Ji fall into a long sleep.

He and Lao Mi thought of many ways, such as low-temperature freezing, soaking in a room full of hypnotic drugs, and sealing with shackles made by Tianshu...

But no method is 100% reliable.

The most reliable one is the sealing shackle made by Tianshu.

But this kind of special metal may not be able to seal the awakened Jian Ji, after all, even Tianshu can break free from his seal at any time.

Jian Ji was able to fight against Mu Qing and Mu Yu and win, which proves that Jian Ji's combat power is higher than Tianshu.

Whether the sealing chain is effective is still unknown.

Of course, all methods can be carried out at the same time.

But the amount of resources required will increase significantly. If this time is extended to 1500 years, the Scarlet Secret Base simply cannot afford it.

Freezing a sucker has already made the Scarlet Research Institute very strenuous.

Wei Wei once described that the low temperature state needs to be turned on at all times during the freezing of the sucker. If the low temperature is turned off, the body temperature of the sucker will rise rapidly, melt the ice layer, and wake up in a short time.

During this period, it is also necessary to replenish energy to the sucker to ensure that its life fluctuations always exist.

Jian Ji's situation will only be more complicated than the sucker.

Sealing Jian Ji for 1500 years is far more difficult than killing Jian Ji.

He needs to contact the Scarlet Research Institute in advance for these issues, and then Scarlet senior management such as Wei Wei will design a reasonable solution.

He has already contacted the top leaders of Hupo about this deployment, and has already contacted the Scarlet Field Team.

In addition to this reason, there is another reason why he has not left for the time being.

Just three days later, Zhang Daowen will retire from the front line and return to officially join the military.

Zhang Daowen in this sacrifice line still did not take the scientific research route, but chose the military growth route.

Like the historical development of the previous sacrifice line, Zhang Daowen will step down from the position of head of the group and the front-line affairs, and move to the Star City Military Department to work hard for the construction of the Star City Military Department.

Zhang Daowen's talent is a testament to history.

Compared with the front-line battle group, the military department will be a bigger stage.

The strongest combat power of Star City has never been the front-line battle group, but the military department of Star City, which is also the fundamental force for Star City to survive.

Future wars will become more and more cruel.

The front-line battle group model will be less and less applicable in the future.

In the confrontation between tribes, the military department will be the most powerful external armed force of Star City.

Now that the supply of Xingcheng West can run in an orderly manner, it would obviously be a better choice to transfer Zhang Daowen to the military for development.

Three days later is the day when Zhang Daowen joins the military.

At that time, Zhang Daowen will start from the grassroots level and gradually understand the internal system of the military.

But all the people in Xingcheng understand that starting from the grassroots level is just Zhang Daowen's desire to understand the situation of the military in more detail, not that Zhang Daowen's ability is suitable for the grassroots level of the military.

It has almost become a consensus that Zhang Daowen will inevitably be one of the top leaders of the military in the future.

But no one thinks there is a problem.

Zhang Daowen's ability has been proven on the front line, and his record has even ranked among the top ten contemporary war gods, and he is known as the ice and snow war god.

In terms of seniority, contribution, and even personal ability, Zhang Daowen is fully capable of taking on the heavy responsibility.

It was Zhang Daowen who took the initiative to choose to start from the grassroots level, which surprised the people of the five major cities, and even talked about it, thinking that Zhang Daowen's ability should not start from the grassroots level of the military.

But Feng Qi understood that Zhang Daowen chose to start from the grassroots level in order to have a deeper understanding of the structure of the Star City military and prepare for future military reforms.

This requires a gradual process.

Due to Zhang Daowen's special status, the military will arrange a welcome ceremony for his joining.

Feng Qi was also invited by the military.

He did not refuse.

At that time, he will personally go to the military to witness the important moment of Zhang Daowen joining the military, and finally he will personally award Zhang Daowen the Medal of Honor.

After finishing all this, he will also leave Star City

and embark on the road to the decisive battle.