Hazy, open your eyes.
He picked up the cell phone placed on the bedside and looked at it. The time displayed was October 1, 2066.
Every time the soul travels back, he feels a sense of alienation. He needs to read the news and become familiar with the modern atmosphere before he can reintegrate into the world.
The news says that due to warming weather, Arctic icebergs, Antarctic glaciers, and glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are beginning to melt, and sea levels are rising year by year. As of the end of this summer, sea levels have risen by more than two meters compared to 2020!
2 meters may not sound like much, but for coastal cities and some countries, it is not a small number! But it is an extremely serious challenge! There are 267 million people in the world living at an altitude of less than 2 meters. Those Pacific island countries are in trouble!
China's coastal provinces are also facing challenges, especially in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If something is not done, many places will be flooded.
Although China has a reputation as an infrastructure madman and can build a flood control embankment along the coastline to keep out the sea water, it may not be that easy to implement it! Because there are rivers running through the continent, seawater will pour in!
For example, in the city of Sh, a Huangpu River runs through it, and to the north is the broad Yangtze River. All river embankments must be significantly raised, turning them into overhanging rivers like the Yellow River.
And the groundwater is connected, and the well water will turn into a fountain!
A little rain can cause waterlogging in the city.
If the sea level continues to rise, if this continues, it will be impossible to prevent it. Over time, humans will have no choice but to give up and be forced to move to higher places.
In addition to sea water, humans also face the threat of invasion by monsters. Because of the resurgence of spiritual energy, some sea fish, sea beasts, and birds absorbed spiritual energy and stimulated their potential. At the same time, they also activated their ancient bloodlines and became demonized.
At present, because the spiritual energy has only been revived for 40 years, the real demonization has not yet been completed, but it has already posed a threat to ordinary people. Because of this, many people living on the islands moved to the land, and the country leased those islands to martial arts sects.
After reading these news, Lu Cheng couldn't help but sigh.
To be honest, as a monk, he longed for immortality and hoped for spiritual recovery. But he doesn't want to see drastic changes in the living environment, and he doesn't want to see ordinary people displaced.
He thought in his heart: "What can I do for the people? Although I am a witch, I can only protect one city, a county with a radius of hundreds of miles. It is difficult to protect such a huge country from wind and rain. I have no strength. That’s so strong, but it’s not as strong as covering the sky with one hand.”
Nowadays, the territory that Lu Cheng controls is a sixty to seventy mile radius around Yawu Rou. In addition, he also controls three islands and has arranged a large array of guardians on the islands. But these arrangements did not bring benefits to ordinary people, they only expanded the power of the Lu family.
After dawn, during breakfast time, the whole family gathered together.
Because it was National Day, Lu Qingyan and Ling Shiqi came back with their son Ling Lingqi. Plus Lu Qingshan, Mei Lingshang, and their son Lu Lingchen. There are also old man Lu Tianming and old woman Rao Yuqiu.
Ling Lingqi is 4 years old and Lu Lingchen is 3 years old. The two little brothers were sitting next to each other. They were childish and cute, which was very pleasing.
61-year-old Lu Cheng and 57-year-old Jiang Qiuyun adjusted their appearance to be forty years old, so that they could be worthy of the status of "elders". Otherwise, their appearance would be the same as that of Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyan, which would confuse the two little kids.
After breakfast, Lu Cheng called his daughter Lu Qingyan over and asked about her cultivation status.
Lu Qingyan is 34 years old and currently at the seventh level of the Great Witch, not far away from advancing to the level of Spirit Witch.
Lu Cheng gave her some instructions and gave her several bottles of elixirs.
"In three months, you come back, and I will protect you and advance to the level of Spirit Witch."
"Okay, Dad."
"In the future, you should spend more time practicing and less energy studying mathematics and astronomy."
Lu Qingyan was confused and asked: "Why?"
Lu Cheng sighed and said: "Cultivation seems to be a kind of metaphysics, but as my father's skills improve, I feel more and more unfathomable!"
"Dad, can you tell me more carefully?"
"It's a long story to say."
"Dad, please speak slowly. I'll call Qingshan to listen too."
After a while, Lu Qingshan also came and sat on the edge obediently.
Lu Cheng thought for a moment and said: "Darwin proposed the theory of evolution in 1859. In order to explain the diversity of organisms on earth and the origin of life, he wrote the book "The Origin of Species". He said at the time, 'The theory of evolution is just a hypothesis, it is not the truth. It needs further verification by future generations'.
In April 2020, more than a thousand scientists signed a scientific objection to Darwinism, which read: "We are skeptical about whether 'random variation' and 'natural selection' can explain the complexity of life. This should be encouraged. A careful examination of the evidence for Darwin's theory."
Lu Qingyan listened with a smile.
Lu Qingshan's expression remained as usual. He usually spoke little.
Mei Lingshang made the spiritual tea and poured a cup for each person. Then she sat down and listened.
Lu Cheng took a sip of tea and then continued: "The so-called 'cultivation' is actually a kind of theology.
Science uses reason as a tool and is empirical. Theology requires belief first, understanding later. Theology goes even further on the ultimate questions of the beginning of the world, its ultimate purpose, and the meaning of life.
I advise you to spend more time practicing, because I want you to embark on the road to eternal life, have the superpower to move mountains and reclaim seas, and stand firm in the troubled times in the future, and then you can do what you want to do.
I have a hunch that if we use scientific means to analyze cultivation, we won't gain much in the short term.
I vaguely saw that a few years later, after the collision of nine major galaxies, the earth was not destroyed, but merged with multiple planets and became a huge star continent.
It was a strange and bizarre world, just like what was described in the ancient "Shan Hai Jing". There were many strange things, such as zombies. Although a person died, his body existed for a long time and could walk and jump. He can stand, sit, and wield weapons to kill!
There are extremely tall building trees whose height cannot be explained by science.
There are also countless monsters, huge in size, comparable to the dinosaurs of the Jurassic era!
There are also many exotic flowers and herbs, each of which has magical medicinal effects.
These are not the key points. What is really worrying is that the humans who have merged from the nine major galaxies include many celestial witches, celestial warriors, witch kings, martial kings, and even witch emperors and those legendary gods! Behind every great monk, there is a powerful clan, or even a country with hundreds of millions of people.
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By then, will humans on earth become slaves? Can Chinese civilization continue? Will technological civilization be interrupted by barbarians? So it becomes a fantasy and disappears in the years to come?
No matter what, mankind on earth will face a huge impact. In the future world, only monks with high skills can have freedom. Life can become very difficult for ordinary people. The so-called 'fairness, justice, democracy, and rule of law' only exist in history books.
Over the past thirty or forty years, your mother and I have been practicing Falun Gong. Originally we were skeptical about whether we could live forever. However, as our skills improve and the spiritual energy on the earth becomes more and more abundant, we become more and more confident in our immortality.
I'm imagining what our Lu family will look like thousands of years from now, facing the fusion of galaxies and the impact of the prehistoric world.
Therefore, I advise you to shorten the time you spend doing scientific research in half! Focus your main energy on personal cultivation and training your children!
I want to see a harmonious, prosperous cultivation family with many great monks, standing proudly in the East! "
