Chapter 915 Meeting with the Third Rank

Li Qi looked around the small tribe.

It was called a tribe, but it was actually just a family. This world seemed to be far from developing cities and the like. All their ties were based on blood.

However, for newborns in the family, only the eldest son and the female would be left. The other males would be expelled from the tribe after adulthood and look for other families.

Li Qi looked at the tribe. There were seventeen people, several pairs of parents and children. The relationship between them was aunts and uncles, nephews and nieces, and everyone lived together.

But there were no couples. This was a group marriage system. As long as they were not relatives, all men and women were shared with each other. The children born were also raised by the tribe together. Men from outside tribes would give birth to qualified next generations with the women who stayed, basically eliminating inbreeding.

In addition, there was an old grandmother. Li Qi knew that the other party was already forty years old and was too old to die at any time. However, because her son was the eldest son and the head of the family, she could still stay here.

Normally, the elderly at this age would be abandoned, which would save food and not require care for the elderly, but the head of this family was obviously not right.

Not only did he not abandon the elderly, but he tried his best to take care of them, allowing the grandmother to live to the age of 40.

It was already night, and except for the youngest children who were still full of energy, everyone's movements were extremely slow, and they were obviously exhausted.

They also worked all day today. The women peeled, collected oil, dried plants, and walked a long way to find a windless area to cook.

The men brought back a prey, a big fish with rich fat, enough for the whole family to eat for two days, which meant that at least they would not be hungry or cold for two days.

Oil is a very important material, whether it is eaten, used to oil clothes to keep warm, or directly burned for heating, it is very good. In this icy and snowy land, oil can even be said to be hard currency.

The division of labor in this tribe is very clear, and even the children know what they should do. While playing by the fire, they are also helping to do things. While helping, they are also learning these jobs and doing their part.

Children would occasionally look for plant roots as firewood, or skin some small creatures like mice, and practice the ability to skin large prey through this method.

Day after day, year after year, life has to repeat these boring tasks every day to make itself live longer, although they don’t know why they have to live longer.

But what’s wrong with being able to survive? No one wants to die, this is the instinct for survival.

However, it is precisely because of this instinct that they can continue.

If humans come to this place, they will probably quickly analyze these mortals and local animals together to determine their forms, and then transform the entire planet, build cities here, improve infrastructure, and then kill all of these natives after retaining samples.

In the eyes of humans, these mortals are no different from animals, and they are not out of biological instinct at all. It is not worth wasting time. Just get rid of them after collecting samples.

Of course, in fact, this planet has no value. There are no minerals worth mining, no local resources, and even the species are mediocre, and there are few talented ones.

In other words, there is no interest in mining, just ignore it.

This situation prevented them from developing a more advanced civilization, but they did not need to worry about external erosion, just like the giant isopod or horseshoe crab in the sea.

There was not much meat, so no one ate him.

He himself had no motivation, and lying on the seabed for hundreds of millions of years would not produce any changes.

It was no wonder that humanity looked down on them. Although such a world existed in large numbers, it was indeed meaningless. Technology was almost isolated here due to the climate, and there were almost no means of cultivation.

The fire of civilization could not be ignited in this area.

It had been 200 million years since humanoids appeared. After the evolution of higher intelligent life, another 200 million years had passed, but they still lived as before, as always, without change.

It was similar to the situation of dinosaurs.

It continued like this until a natural disaster occurred one day, and then it became extinct.

Countless worlds had such an ending, such a situation, and... it was getting worse and worse.

Because the construction of the world is gone, the existence of celestial bodies replaces the world, and the subtle differences between the laws of the world have become less. Although a large number of special laws have been produced in each "single universe", compared with the density of the world, the universe is too sparse.

This directly led to the disappearance of a large number of special products, and the number of special species has also decreased.

But there are also benefits.

That is, at least 900 billion times the material density can make up for this in quantity, so the total amount of special products is actually much more.

But... the probability of appearance is smaller, but the total amount is more, which means that there are more "stepping stones".

There are more hopeless worlds, and a large number of mortals are full of emotions, and the number of subjective wills has also increased. Correspondingly...

"The number of demonic thoughts has also increased. The collapse of the desire realm does not seem to have any great impact on the magic path. Did the demons make up for it?" Li Qi thought so.

The collapse of the desire realm will theoretically have an impact on the magic path.

However, the expansion of cosmic matter and the increase in intelligent life have made the magic path stronger. It seems that places like the "City of Dreams" have increased by at least 900 billion times.

This may be enough to make up for the losses caused by the desire world.

Li Qi sighed. Every change in the universe corresponds to the direction that the great sects hope for. In this case, it is really difficult to make a choice.

While thinking about this, Li Qi has already arrived at the tribe, and the residents of the tribe have also seen Li Qi.

Li Qi was immediately welcomed. No one cared that he was a stranger. He was accepted almost immediately.

The tribe welcomed him, then took out charcoal and painted on Li Qi's skin. The charcoal drew stripes, which was a welcoming ceremony.

It is not a brainwashing method, it is just a simple "tradition".

Men will leave their families after adulthood and go to the wilderness. They must survive alone for a long time until they are lucky enough to meet a second tribe.

In this process, a considerable number of "weak" will be eliminated. Only men who can survive alone in the snowy wilderness have the opportunity to find a second home.

And if they find one, then this new family will be very happy to accept a strong man who is capable of surviving alone in the snowfield.

They warmly welcomed Li Qi, and as soon as they came, the women couldn't wait to mate with this strange man. This is a rare opportunity to add a newborn with different bloodlines to the family.

As we all know, the more mixed the bloodline, the healthier the tribe is. This is a tradition.

Li Qi was of course not interested in this. He refused the invitation, which aroused the confusion of the tribe.

Li Qi did not explain, because the parents would help him block it all.

Sure enough, the parent came out and muttered a few words, probably that Li Qi was very hungry and had no physical strength, so he ate first and talked about other things tomorrow.

Others also understood, and they immediately took out their food and shared it with Li Qi.

The simple primitive tribe did not have so many intrigues. Although it was rude and brutal, and there was no public order and good customs, it was common to abandon the elderly and rob other tribes because of lack of food, but it also revealed a kind of barbaric innocence.

Brutal, stupid, but not cunning, and even occasionally a little cuteness can be seen in their honesty, although this cuteness is probably seen from the bloody corpses of prey.

But none of this caused any fluctuations to Li Qi. He just went through these procedures and then found a place to sit down alone with the parents of this place.

Others have already started to rest, and those women who failed to find Li Qi before have also found other male partners and started their daily breeding activities.

Their residence is not fixed. If there is a cave, they live in the cave. If there is no cave, they will build an igloo. Everyone lives in the igloo, and breeding is naturally not shy about other people.

There is no need to be shy. Everyone is a family, and there is no need for any privacy between family members.

Moreover, in cold weather, the most convenient way to keep warm is actually the skin of the same tribe, which is even warmer than fire. Everyone's body temperature is always similar, which can keep both parties warm all night.

For these natives, everyone huddled together and covered under a blanket made of many furs is the warmest way, just like penguins huddling in a blizzard.

Penguins can thrive in a minus 70 degree storm by relying on the body temperature of their companions, so can the natives here, not to mention that they can even use the fat of their prey to light a fire, which can even raise the temperature in the igloo to minus 20 degrees.

This is so warm.

However, Li Qi and his parents did not stay in the warm igloo. They sat outside the igloo, enduring the silent cold of the planet. Fortunately, there was no wind tonight, so they did not look embarrassed.

Without wind, the wasteland seemed particularly quiet. Although there was ice and snow everywhere, it was neither wet nor would plants bloom. This was an icy wasteland. Except for the simplest plants and the most adaptable animals, other creatures were not suitable for living.

Since it was impossible to grow crops, it was impossible to raise livestock in this place. Therefore, most of the settlements on the frost ice cap made their livings through hunting and gathering, and maintained their lives through other animals and the simplest plants and seaweed.

However, under the ice field is a warm ocean, which is a paradise for creatures.

The ice field is minus seventy degrees, but the ocean can reach about minus two degrees, which can be said to be extremely warm, so fishing and catching sea beasts are also indispensable skills, and the oil they use is mostly the fat of sea beasts.

Both of them are wearing furs and dress like the natives, but Li Qi's is an illusion, while the other party is really dressed like this, he is really wearing the fur of local animals.

The head of the family is a man who looks to be in his twenties, but from the appearance, he is already a middle-aged man in the world, with sharp teeth, a thick body, and nearly three meters tall. He is a typical polar monster and the top predator in this area.

Of course, even if placed in the entire universe, the other party is also one of the top predators. I don't know why he chose this place.

Then, Li Qi said: "No matter which country, region, or settlement, there are many people who are excluded, and the reasons are all kinds of strange. So, what is your reason?"

Li Qi did not use the native language, but the typical elegant language of the world.

This may sound a bit strange at first, because it is obvious that this head of the family was not excluded. On the contrary, he was a person that the natives trusted very much. He could even support his grandmother, who was unable to work, because of their orders.

You know, in this icy and snowy place, it is very troublesome for an old man who can only eat white rice to have no ability to work.

However, the other party obviously knew what Li Qi meant.

He just said: "This is home. Is there anything wrong with me staying here?"

Li Qi shook his head: "This is not your home."

"I'm afraid it doesn't count if you say that." The other party smiled.

Li Qi sighed and said: "To be honest, it is really hard to convince people that a third-rank person who stays in a place with nothing special can say that he is a family."

"Is it difficult? Being accepted by others is a very happy thing. Is this reason enough? Instead of running around between heaven and earth, confused and at a loss, I think it's better this way." The head of the family said so.

"Running around between heaven and earth... That's true. Judging from your race, running around may be unavoidable." Li Qi nodded.

He knew that the parent in front of him was a meso-micro bird, an ultimate observer who could stand at the end of time, that is, a third-grade creature of the same level as Li Qi.

However, the characteristics of meso-micro birds stipulated that they could hardly communicate with normal creatures. If they maintained their ‘body’, they would be insulated from all basic interactions other than gravity.

That is, invisible and intangible ghosts, almost completely cut off from all civilizations, and could only echo in the universe alone.

Before they mastered the art of change, they were always lonely travelers in the universe, because when they were at the ninth grade, they could also shuttle in the universe at a speed close to the speed of light.

But the problem was that they shuttled, and they could not find anything except gravity wells.

For them, there were no celestial bodies in this universe, only gravity wells, and there was nothing in the gravity wells.

The meso-micro birds were destined to be lonely.

"But... can such loneliness make you feel unhappy?" Li Qi asked.