Chapter 1885: Restart the Fire Seed
Of course, there were other possible arrangements.
Such as, "Today without tomorrow is meaningless."
"Choice without victory is meaningless."
"Destruction without survival is meaningless."
Or even, "Today without destruction is meaningless," and so on.
But after carefully weighing them, Meng Chao still felt that the first arrangement was what the "mummified corpse" Lei Zongchao had wanted to convey to those who came after him.
Meng Chao believed that in an Exploration Log spanning hundreds of thousands of characters, words such as "today," "tomorrow," "life," and "destruction" must have appeared more than once.
Yet the characters that the "mummified corpse" Lei Zongchao had deliberately overlooked and failed to erase completely were arranged in the precise order of "today, tomorrow, destruction, survival, choice, victory."
The meaning was clear.
The "mummified corpse" Lei Zongchao clearly believed that today was more important than tomorrow, and choice was more important than victory.
As for how to interpret the sentence "survival without destruction is meaningless," that required further thought.
And why had the "mummified corpse" Lei Zongchao left behind these three baffling statements at the brink of death?
The answer to that should not have been difficult to reach.
Some force—perhaps the "voice in the brain" he had mentioned later—had tried to tell him that tomorrow was more important than today, victory more important than choice, or had urged him to pursue something like "survival without destruction."
But that conflicted with the ideals of the "mummified corpse" Lei Zongchao, so he had resisted to the death and ended up like this.
"How strange. Today and tomorrow shouldn't be opposing concepts. It's not as though one is more important than the other, is it?
"On the contrary, survival and destruction should be the two mutually incompatible concepts.
"Why did this Senior