"Those who trigger an avalanche and cause a catastrophe are bound to shirk responsibility and pin the blame on others. It is their instinct. Hidden within that statement is an utterly sinister intent, one most people find difficult to detect because everyone is kind."
"Oh? I didn't see it either." Zhou Chunfeng asked curiously.
"The other meaning of that statement is that when an avalanche comes, no matter who you are, you are merely an ordinary snowflake. It does not matter if ordinary people like us are snowflakes, but those who normally hold power and swallow up wealth somehow become ordinary snowflakes too? Its venom lies in deliberately washing away those people's sins, making everyone overlook the cause of the avalanche, give up holding the chief culprits accountable, and stop caring about the avalanche itself. Instead, they blame the innocent and force the innocent to bear the fault." Li Qingxian sneered.
"You... Your words may be rough, but your reasoning isn't. So what did your grandfather say?" Zhou Chunfeng asked with a smile.
Li Qingxian frowned and thought for quite a while before saying, "What my grandfather said was rather mysterious. My father admired it greatly, but did not entirely agree. Grandfather said that 'encountering an enemy one cannot defeat' was merely a surface phenomenon. The deeper cause was that those who controlled a nation's power believed too strongly in 'the finite,' and then stopped advancing. The difficulties they encountered afterward would inevitably exceed the finite limits they believed in and become impossible to solve, causing the nation to collapse. If they pursued the infinite, the nation would keep moving forward and would not collapse. I remembered those words because I could not understand them. I thought Grandfather was talking nonsense, but after thinking about them over the years, I