There must be something wrong with me-Chapter 626 - 238: Comprehending the Dao! Manifestation of Causality! (Part 2)

But this is not about cause and effect; it's the unavoidable sunk cost, it's human nature.

In plain terms, it means being set up.

This is common in general companies, relationships, and business partnerships.

It's easy to unravel such a setup: either have a strong mind and get to the bottom of the matter to make it clear, and the setup naturally unravels, leading to a transparent mind.

Or, from the very beginning, don't get involved with others, don't step into the setup, as long as you feel there's no problem and it doesn't involve any crime, just create your own setup.

Right now, Zhang Feng is creating his own setup.

And if this were a normal society, where the thief couldn't kill to get his way, he would only end up spending money and effort and then be fooled by Zhang Feng.

If it were a contract stating it's a partnership, then it would be nothing but working for free.

Especially after being fooled, within the context of sunk costs, a few sweet words could make him foolishly follow along.

Adding in some delaying tactics could suffocate a young man's ambition.

High thinking crushing low thinking is absolute domination.

And even among strangers, in a situation where neither knows the other, if a high thinking person seeks out a low thinking person as a friend, there must be some ulterior motive.

Either to play the role of a generous mentor and show off, while making the other provide emotional value, or to covet the other's body, or it's about the money in the other's pocket, or all three.

Zhang Feng doesn't claim to fully understand all the emotions and desires of people now, but he knows these things, and understands that humans are just animals.

No matter how you look at it, humans are still animals.

Then, in this analogy, high thinking is the lion in the forest, and low thinking is the rabbit.

In a situation where they don't know each other, if a lion suddenly seeks out a rabbit as a friend, it's unlikely to be anything good.

The only beneficial scenario is where the lion is famous and someone with human nature's goodness mentors and guides, and then maybe the rabbit can learn something from the lion.

But it doesn't really help, as the rabbit will likely fall into every trap it's supposed to jump into.

People must learn from experience; big principles are useless.

For example, at the start, the thief was the lion seeking out the rabbit, namely himself, wanting to kill and plunder.

But now he has turned the tables, becoming the lion, using the thief's wealth and manpower.

This involves the basic gamble of human nature, the exchange of roles, alongside insights from yesterday and today's transformations as a supplement.

Throughout these days of everything happening.

Zhang Feng finally gradually understood human nature, saw through the essence, found the basic logic, and gained a lot of experience.

Although he doesn't like intellectual battles, as they are too troublesome.

But thanks to the insights at this moment, the Divinity Transformation has progressed by another 3%.

Zhang Feng is quite happy about it.

It can be considered as another completion of the emotions and desires, an extra gain.

Including this gain, it is both an intellectual battle and life itself.

Zhang Feng used to be reckless and run about chaotically, but now on reflection, he realizes that over the centuries, he hasn't truly experienced the basic scheming between people.

Arguably, scheming is the first real-life experience.

The earliest trial world was an apocalypse world, which was the best place for intellectual battles.

But he developed slyly for a day or so, only emerging when invincible, then suppressing all creatures.

Subsequent worlds were also steadily approached until invincibility was achieved, then began most of his interpersonal interactions.

Zhang Feng himself doesn't care about these schemes, so he inadvertently overlooked them.

This made his whole life incomplete.

He realized that, just like the thief, he seemed to have gotten the sequence wrong, fell into a mental maze, and reversed the whole process.

Fortunately, he achieved the result, which is the 3% progress in Divinity Transformation.

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Over the next two days, the thief didn't bring up any issues.

More often, during Zhang Feng's medicine brewing, he casually chatted about little anecdotes from all over.

Regarding these stories, they mostly involved miraculous occurrences or ghost sightings somewhere.

Most were just folklore, nothing interesting to hear.

Zhang Feng was more focused on the thief himself, feeling that at the moment he had managed to fool him again.

As long as he stays safe for a few days, it will be good.

Anyway, the longer this drags on, the stronger he will become.

Once his Constitution reaches 30, he can attempt to repair his brain, seriously begin to condense Spiritual Thought, and then rapidly achieve Foundation Establishment Perfection.

It's essentially the application of theory from earlier days.

Zhang Feng estimates that it should take about five more days.

After five days, his Constitution should leap from the estimated 30 to at least around 60.

Then he can slowly nurture it further.

The reason it's only 60 and not as high as previous starting points is due to the limitation of his aging body.

Previously, reaching 60 was just a matter of minutes.

But now, even with Foundation Establishment Perfection, lacking telomeres and with a body full of illness, combined with the rapid loss of vitality, quickly boosting strength is a significant issue.

It's entirely going against the current, akin to defying the heavens by borrowing lifespan at the start.

However, as long as he achieves Foundation Establishment Perfection, although his Constitution is not high, the strength will increase by dozens, even up to a hundred times the normal Foundation Establishment battle power on the basis of 60.

Then it will appear as though he has a Constitution of 60, not reaching the thief's nearly 90.

But Zhang Feng will be able to handle a group of thieves.

Even if a hundred show up, he could sweep them all away with a slap.

That will be the day he can truly hold his head high.

Currently, Zhang Feng is quietly brewing medicine, while listening to the thief's nonsense.

Just listening away.

The thief, originally talking about a wandering spirit in a village, suddenly switched topics,

"Old sir, today I went to Qianlin Hall in town to buy medicine and saw they had a Centennial Ginseng."