89: Chapter 89: Humans are Partners on Earth (6th Update)

As Jiang Zhe finished speaking.

Not only Xiao Yu, but even the livestream chat fell into silence.

At this moment, inside the principal's office.

A cold wind blew through, and the air temperature seemed to drop a few degrees.

Old Wang took a long while to squeeze out a sentence: "Why is it inexplicably so cold? We humans are just... that little flower. The little flower will grow and eventually become a big flower; when the time is right for the big flower..."

Analyzing up to this point, Old Wang's scalp began to tingle, and his whole body shook uncontrollably as if he had Parkinson's.

Xiao Wang, standing beside him, gasped: "Damn, Jiang Zhe means—that Earth will also open a window for us. How terrifying!"

Principal Fu also felt the cold, but his rational mind told him...

"This is sheer nonsense. He's been off-track since the first mass extinction!"

However, after saying that, he couldn't help but shrink his neck, his confidence wavering.

...

Beijing, University of History faculty housing.

Old Qian looked at Jiang Zhe on the screen and rubbed his chubby hands:

" [Xiao Yu, it was you who cleared the best position, the best flower; it was not the wind and rain that destroyed that big flower!] "

"These words are inexplicably thought-provoking."

Old Wang closed his eyes and spoke slowly: "Heaven and Earth are unkind; he, the gardener, is the kindest, because he only keeps the right flowers. Whether it is kind or not depends on whom it is kind to."

Professor Liu Guangyi's gaze gradually deepened.

He had originally been invited by Professor Chen Runzhi—thinking that Xiaoyu's brother, wasn't he just a streamer?

But who would have thought that Xiaoyu's brother's ideas were not only cutting-edge, but his words were also deeply thought-provoking!

Is this the insight of a 24-year-old?

He left a professional like him, who is nearing sixty, speechless!

"His metaphors make sense ecologically, but they are emotionally unbearable."

"We will eventually become that big flower!"

Old Chen spoke: "Perhaps... unless... the flower becomes a spirit!!!"

As he finished speaking, the other three old men rolled their eyes at the whimsical Professor Chen Runzhi.

...

On the other side, inside Qingfeng Temple.

Zheng Ming snorted coldly and pointed at the large projection screen:

"Look, he goes around in circles, and in the end, it's still the same routine!"

"The Earth is dead, so how could it be our turn? Could he possibly throw a meteorite on purpose to kill us?"

Xu Mu, the expert in theology standing beside him, couldn't help but laugh.

He really wanted to educate Zheng Ming—that the Earth can indeed weaken itself to guide meteorites to descend upon Earth.

When the Earth is fully firing, its protective layer will weaken the meteorite impact, and most meteorites will be vaporized.

Once!

When the Earth weakens that part of the protective layer, letting more meteorites fall to Earth one after another...

But seeing that Zheng Ming seemed to have no knowledge other than Sinology, he couldn't be bothered to explain it to a fool.

Then he turned his gaze to Celestial Master Zhang.

Celestial Master Zhang was fiddling with the small incense burner on the table without even lifting his head.

"Junior Brother Zheng!"

He said lightly: "Look at this incense."

He pinched a small pinch of incense ash with his fingers and sprinkled it gently onto the tea tray in front of him.

The fine gray-white ash landed on the dark tray surface, gathering into a clump.

"The incense has burned out and turned to ash... Is it the fire that wants to extinguish it, or has it already burned itself out?"

Before Zheng Ming could speak, Celestial Master Zhang picked up the teapot again and poured clear water into it.

The clear water washed over the incense ash; the ashes dispersed, melted, and then vanished.

"The water came, and the ash dispersed—is it the water that wants to destroy the ash, or is it that when the ash meets the water, it was meant to be this way?"

He put down the teapot and wiped the water stains off the tray with a white cloth.

At this moment, the tray surface was as clean as if it were unstained, as if there had never been any incense ash.

"The flower on the windowsill, the candle in the wind; when it should be there, it is there; when it should be extinguished, it is extinguished—who is there to fret over it?"

He looked up, his gaze calm, and looked at Zheng Ming:

"The Tao follows nature; that is to say—it should be how it is."

"Do you think it is [intentionally opening a window] ?"

He shook his head slightly, "It is just that the wind was supposed to come."

Zheng Ming opened his mouth in surprise, looking at the clean tea tray, unable to speak.

Xu Mu, standing beside him, had a somewhat solemn expression:

"It was supposed to come... if human civilization has also reached the time when it should disperse..."

The atmosphere inexplicably became somewhat heavy!

...

After a long time, the viewers in the livestream chat slowly came back to their senses.

"We are the little flower, the little flower will eventually become a big flower, and in the end..."

"I don't even dare to think about it anymore!"

"Damn, the truth about the five mass extinctions is actually like this. I thought it was a coincidence, but it turns out to be a design that is nearly a coincidence!"

"Oh my god, the materialist worldview is completely tainted!"

"..."

Jiang Zhe looked at Xiao Yu, who was too shocked to speak.

"We... we... are the little flower..."

"In the future, we will eventually grow into a big flower..."

Xiao Yu muttered these few sentences, as if she had experienced an epiphany.

Suddenly!

She stood up abruptly, her beautiful eyes shining, "Brother, I know!"

"I know why Earth arranged for humans to appear!"

Seeing Xiao Yu's excited appearance, Jiang Zhe raised an eyebrow: "Oh? So excited?"

"Haha, of course!"

Her gaze was fiery, and she spoke quickly:

"Because Earth is just like humans; in ancient times, everyone thought that bigger, stronger, and fiercer were the warriors!"

"But as time passed, those who were bigger and fiercer, like the Neanderthals—"

"They could challenge tigers and bears with their bare hands!"

"In the end, they still didn't outlast us Homo sapiens!"

Excited to this point, she pointed to her own head, "The difference is: the brain!"

Jiang Zhe crossed his arms, his eyes showing a bit of appreciation.

"And Earth is the same. At first, it also thought that bigger, stronger, and fiercer creatures were the only path!"

"But!"

Xiao Yu said decisively: "It was wrong!"

"Those bigger and fiercer animals, even if they lived better, were just eating and drinking on Earth, then waiting to die."

"They don't understand what greenhouse gases or the greenhouse effect are, let alone what an ozone hole is, or how to control pollution."

"Anyway, they don't understand anything; they only know [survival, hunting] to maintain a simple ecological food chain."

Xiao Yu took a deep breath, calmed down, and looked at the night sky outside the sixth-floor window.

"They don't know how to look at the sky, and they don't know how to block asteroids that bring unexpected disasters!"

"They don't know how to deal with solar storms, nor how to protect this powerful yet fragile planet in the universe!"

"Earth has been preparing for over four billion years, from the moment [Jiang Zhe consciousness] was born—it has saved so much, and what it wants is not a tenant that only consumes."

Xiao Yu's voice gradually became excited:

"Even though Earth let dinosaurs survive for 160 million years, within those 160 million years, dinosaurs had no prospect of development, so it destroyed them!"

"What Earth wants is someone who can understand the manual it left behind, use the toolbox it has stored; even help it repair, and face dangers together..."

"Partners, or even business partners!"

"The appearance of humans, as Brother said, is definitely not a coincidence!"

Speaking all this in one breath, Xiao Yu's eyes trembled:

"It is inevitable, because Earth has waited for a race that can finally walk with it!"

"That race can be humans, or it can be other races in the future!"

Following the series of impassioned words, the viewers in the livestream chat exploded instantly.

"Holy shit!!!"

"Partners, business partners, awesome!"

"I have goosebumps, Xiao Yu is too awesome!"

"So we humans are the guardians selected by Earth; Earth is our protector, and we are also Earth's protector—Maya, a mutual journey!"

"I didn't expect a cold Earth chronicle to have such warmth!"

"Damn, no wonder the desire for exploration in human genes—we can't help but look up at the stars. It turns out it's not just looking at stars, but that Earth wants us to look at the stars: while brilliant, they also hold the same crisis!"

"Wow! So Earth has been waiting for a civilization that can look up at the night sky from the very beginning!"

"Damn, you realized it, I realized it too!"

These words from Xiao Yu...

Left Principal Fu, Old Wang, and the old professors like Professor Liu Guangyi, and even Celestial Master Zhang and Zheng Ming stunned.

I thought Xiao Yu was a poor student character...

I didn't expect her to be able to comprehend such a great Tao under Jiang Zhe's explanation!

A knowing smile appeared on Celestial Master Zhang's face, "The comprehension is indeed not bad!"