"This... this is exactly what I needed."
Lying on his not-so-large bed and ignoring the shrieks of the two girls below, Lu PingAn silently flipped through the books.
He gave all the books a rough read, asking Eve to annotate some of them. She actually remembered every one of those code-like aliases clearly, which surprised Lu PingAn quite a bit.
"Are you looking down on me?!"
The sensitive girl immediately bared her fangs and claws.
Lu PingAn simply pressed her back down, then stuffed a braised chicken leg into her mouth. She had been getting increasingly clingy lately.
But in truth, she had received a full elite education, especially in all sorts of strange subjects involving religion, life, and alchemy.
Lu PingAn suspected Big Cat knew this stuff too, but she was simply too lazy to explain it to him. He had no proof, though.
"'Coordination,' 'coexistence,' 'creating environments'... I never expected to see these concepts in the life-type."
In Lu PingAn's impression, the life-type was like an "arena." Different materials and species were thrown together to devour and prey upon one another, ultimately producing stronger species. Everything was for evolution; relationships between living beings were more about predation and competition.
Yet in the Forest Goddess Church's "teaching materials," their focus had never been on the "individual," but on the "environment."
They did not even discuss selective breeding. Instead, they studied external factors such as soil, weather, and moisture.
"...Seeking the evolution of the environment rather than the evolution of individuals—is this the fundamental difference between Lady Lin and Big Cat?"
The more Lu PingAn read, the more he realized that perhaps they had started from the same point. Both were pure pursuers of "evolution."
Their goals might have been similar, but their directions were not merely divergent—they were practically