"You can perceive cause and effect, so why can't you see where the library is?"
Tianyin shook its head, "I can only perceive the cause and effect of the people and events in the Nine Provinces; I cannot see the cause and effect of this world."
It was easy to grasp the language of this world for Jiang Li, at the Great Vehicle stage, and the refined spiritual instrument. However, as it turned out, being able to communicate was insignificant, as no one paid attention to them.
When Jiang Li stopped a passerby to ask a question, the person did not frown or show any surprise, simply circumventing Jiang Li without a single acknowledgment.
Even when Jiang Li forcefully grabbed the person, the person continued walking, not paying any attention to Jiang Li.
"Answering Jiang Li's question was not his responsibility."
Jiang Li still wanted to find the police, but in this world where no one commits crimes, there were no police.
"Aren't you an immortal weapon? Think of a solution."
"Aren't you the Emperor? Think of a solution."
The two looked at each other, facing emotionless people who felt no fear and only wanted to fulfill their duties, leaving them temporarily at a loss.
"If you both have no business, why not chat with me?"
A voice filled with emotion rang out, and the two felt like it was divine music. They saw a middle-aged man standing by the roadside, smiling and waving at them.
Jiang Li had already noticed this person with his divine consciousness, but hadn't realized he had emotions.
"Who are you?" Yin and Yang Celestial Seal asked.
Although the fact that the other party had emotions puzzled the Celestial Seal, it didn't raise any alertness. It didn't believe that there was anything in this world that could threaten it.
Jiang Li, however, was not careless. He had many speculations about the situation of the Dao Ancestor, one of which was that the Dao Ancestor had been imprisoned. He needed to be cautious in a world that could imprison the Dao Ancestor.
"Nice to meet you, two extraterrestrial visitors. You can call me President Number 506, but of course, I gave myself a name, Ming Zhong. I would be pleased if you call me Ming Zhong."
"I am Yin and Yang Celestial Seal. You can call me Celestial Seal."
"Jiang Li." Jiang Li paused and asked, "Do you know our origins?"
This world was filled with electromagnetic waves. The light brain was not handheld but existed within the electromagnetic waves. Everyone could summon their own light brain in the air. Ming Zhong pressed the air, and a light screen appeared in front of the two.
The light screen displayed the appearance of Yin and Yang Celestial Seal, crying in the sky for five days, then Jiang Li also appeared out of thin air, and the two landed in the city.
Jiang Li realized that monitoring in this world was everywhere.
"Where did you two come from? Another planet?" Ming Zhong asked with great interest.
Although Nine Provinces and the Heartless World were both part of the continent world, they also had planets. However, these planets had no spiritual energy or oxygen and had very harsh environments, with temperature differences of up to a thousand degrees between day and night, and no living beings were born there.
Unlike the Starry World, which at least had a few planets with relatively comfortable environments, the continent world did not even have such a planet.
Ming Zhong obviously didn't know this point, thinking that although the currently observed planets had no life, there might be unobserved planets with life.
Like this carbon-based life form and this robot whose construction he couldn't understand in front of him.
"First, introduce your world, and then we'll introduce ours," Jiang Li said.
Ming Zhong took the two to a restaurant. Considering that the nutrient meal might not suit extraterrestrial tastes, he personally cooked two dishes that were even worse than the nutrient meal.
He also brought a plate of nuclear batteries to Yin and Yang Celestial Seal, leaving it looking confused.
When Jiang Li politely tasted the dish, he was thankful that he had already undergone fasting.
"As I said earlier, I am President Number 506, the five hundred and sixth president. Each of us has determined our future careers based on our genes before birth. We use our profession plus a number as our names for differentiation."
"I am an exception and didn't like being called President Number 506, so I gave myself a name."
"Why did you erase your emotions?" Jiang Li asked.
Ming Zhong replied seriously, "Because we want to live."
"Can't you live with emotions?" Yin and Yang Celestial Seal found this reason inexplicable. Living beings in the Nine Provinces all had emotions, but that didn't mean they died because of them.
"I saw you both just flying around in our airspace, without going to the other end?"
"The other side of the continent isn't human?"
Ming Zhong opened the light screen again, and hundreds of strange and grotesque monsters appeared. Some had tiger heads and deer bodies, some looked like rhinoceroses but had eight eyes, some were giant snakes entwined with thunder: "These are things from the other side of the continent, and we call them 'ferocious beasts'."
"At present, over half of the continent is already the territory of these ferocious beasts, and humans only occupy a small part. And our area is still gradually shrinking."
"At first, these ferocious beasts were not too strong, and we could contend with them using missiles. We thought that as long as our technology advanced a step further and our weapons became more powerful, we would eventually be able to deal with the ferocious beasts."
"But we were too optimistic. Our technology did progress, but the ferocious beasts evolved even faster than us! In the end, we used thousands of nuclear bombs, but we were still unable to resist these ferocious beasts!"
Jiang Li felt that these ferocious beasts might be the monsters of this world, with a very rapid cultivation speed.
"At this rate, we humans will eventually be devoured by these ferocious beasts."
"We believe that scientific and technological progress is a process of accumulation, and just pursuing progress is not enough. So we chose to have several generations suppress their emotions, concentrate on accumulating strength, and then let one generation have emotions, using the foundation left by their predecessors, such as the need for continuous trial and error in technological experiments, movies, novels, TV dramas, and so on. Scientific and technological development cannot be based solely on scientific and technological development; it also needs entertainment to provide inspiration."
"In the period of accumulation, people with emotions are chosen as presidents; in the period of progress, those without emotions are chosen as presidents."
"Under this strategy, scientific and technological progress has indeed proceeded rapidly, and we have successively researched mechas, light brains, simulated sun-flares, and annihilation cannons."
"As you can see, we are currently in the period of accumulation," Ming Zhong said, with a gleam in his eyes, seemingly very proud, but immediately appearing dejected or even hopeless.
"However, even though we have made great efforts to develop, we still cannot keep up with the speed of the ferocious beasts' evolution. Our defensive line retreats every year," Ming Zhong said with a hint of despair, "Their evolution is just too fast."
In fact, everyone knew that at this rate, humanity would still eventually perish. However, if we did not do this, our time of destruction would be even shorter."
"Can you... save us?" Ming Zhong pleaded.
"Why not leave the continent and fly to other planets?" Jiang Li asked. Based on the technological level of this world, it was entirely possible to immigrate to other planets. The extreme temperature differences between day and night, the sandstorms thousands of meters high, all could be overcome.
Ming Zhong was stunned and asked in return, "Don't you know? The farther from the continent, the stronger the gravity. How could it be possible to fly out?"
After hearing this, Jiang Li walked out of the restaurant, leaped up, and felt the increasing gravity. When the gravity was at its highest, even a cultivator in the Crossing Tribulation stage couldn't overcome it with their physical body. It wasn't until they reached a height of ten million meters that the gravity disappeared.
"It's indeed not easy to fly out," Jiang Li said as he landed.