Chapter 2: The "Meat Man" In Refugee Street

A huge wall, made of components that look like wood but are closer to metal, stands tall.

Outside the city surrounded by these walls, countless old waste piles are assembled into various small houses on the desolate and dilapidated streets.

Not far from these small houses, a young man stood in the ruins of various waste metals or building materials piled up like a garbage dump, cursing and trying to take things out of it.

"If I can awaken the spiritual bridge and become a Yanren, it would be great."

The young man is not handsome, but not ordinary either. If ordinary is 70 points and handsome is 100 points, then he is probably 85 points.

Although this is just what he thinks.

However, this is just a joke.

He is an unknown person outside the city, just a group of refugees.

The so-called "Yanren" is a race different from humans in the city in front.

However, they are indeed transformed from humans.

By awakening the spiritual bridge.

Maybe they should be called new humans?

The young man couldn't help but think of the words used by the Yanren worshippers in the refugee settlement where he lived.

Although he was disgusted by that group of people, the Yanren were indeed the most prestigious and prestigious group of people he could see.

That group of people not only had resources that they didn't have, enjoyed a life that they didn't have, but also had abilities that he didn't have and envied.

Although he tried, he failed in the end and failed to awaken the spiritual bridge and make himself a Yanren.

Yanren, in layman's terms, is also called mechanical man, robot, and constructed man.

It is another concept relative to ordinary flesh and blood humans, that is, relative to the "meat man" called by those Yanren worshippers.

In the city ahead, the hardest and easiest way to climb the ladder is to become a "Yanren".

According to the information he bought from an intelligence dealer in the refugee settlement, after awakening the spiritual bridge, the flesh and blood will be organic, mechanized, and mechanical, so that you can change from a flesh and blood body to a complete mechanical structure, and from a weak flesh man to a "偃人".

If you want to become a 偃人, you need to awaken the spiritual bridge.

And there are three general methods.

One is to form through artificial stimulation, the second is to form through natural awakening, and the third is to awaken through unexpected stimulation.

The first one, the flesh people in that city have the opportunity to exchange through contribution, but he does not have the qualifications to enter that city. .

The remaining two types are hard to come by, and he has not awakened successfully since he became an adult.

In this life, he can probably only stay in this refugee settlement and be an ordinary flesh man until he dies one day.

With emotion, he pulled out something from the ruins.

It was black and gray, although broken, but it was generally spherical, about the same size as the head, and covered with rust.

Is that a helmet?

The young man couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. The style of this thing looked like a helmet.

However, if you look closely, although there are a lot of rust, there are also some places without rust.

Is there some soft rubber inside?

"Send it to Lao Yantou to exchange for something?"

The young man muttered a few words. Although he had experienced many shattered dreams as a scavenger, he couldn't help but think that he could get lucky and pick up a good thing.

After two gestures, the young man put the black and gray broken helmet on his head.

"This thing, a helmet?"

As the young man muttered, the luminous parts on the black and gray helmet that looked like lights suddenly flashed.

It was at this moment that the young man seemed to see a bridge formed by white light, and he seemed to be able to step on the bridge at any time, but at this moment, he saw a group of crows flying towards him.

In the terrifying scene, he was drowned by the dense flock of crows, and the bridge formed by the white light was also drowned by the crows.

The young man fell to the ground and his vision was scattered.

Doubt, familiarity, fear, bewilderment, conflicting looks in his eyes.

Soon, the young man stood up again, grabbed his helmet and left the place, walking towards his residence.

"That's the 'crow' you mentioned, right? Did you sell the information to him?"

In an abandoned hut, two men suddenly stopped talking. The strong man who was dressed more neatly stared at the young man passing by the door and whispered.

"Yes."

The other pale and thin man nodded:

"But he has no hope of entering Yancheng, and there is no chance for him to compete with you."

"That's true, a little chicken."

Laughing, the strong man raised his neck and continued:

"Let's go on, what about the shelter? For a guy like you who entered Yancheng but failed to become a Yanren, it's really profitable to do intelligence business."

"Making a fart." The pale and thin man said hatefully, "You can get more by lying down for a month in Yancheng without doing anything than by selling intelligence in the refugee street for a year"

Hearing this, the strong man smiled, and the savings he gave out to buy intelligence didn't seem to hurt so much:

"Hurry up and continue, finish talking about the shelters."

The pale and thin man choked, paused for a moment and continued:

"The Yan people themselves don't call themselves Yan people, they call themselves 'shelters'."

"The monsters that appear in the wilderness are called 'thought bodies' by them. They are a kind of spiritual form, the spiritual residue of the flesh people of the old era, and they are 'shelters'. They are the new humans who become after the flesh people awaken the spiritual bridge and integrate their spirit and body."

"After the integration of spirit and body, their thoughts will directly act on the body, and the changes in the body will also directly act on the spirit, allowing them to directly interfere with the thought body, attack, destroy, and even shelter."

"Shelters?" The strong man asked hurriedly.

"Yes, it is to contain."

The sallow-faced and thin man recalled what he had read in a book that every resident of Yancheng had:

"The integration of spirit and body allows the spirit and body of Yan people to be synchronized at all times, and the past worldview, values, and outlook on life will be directly assimilated with the body."

"The special abilities of Yan people are also formed from this."

"However, this has a disadvantage. Because the body and spirit are synchronized, they cannot change their bodies when their thoughts change like meat people. If the thoughts change too much in a short period of time, the body will directly collapse or have various abnormalities. Therefore, their concepts are quite conservative and stable. In this case, if they want to gain new abilities and strengthen themselves, they must rely on discovering the spiritual residues left by humans in the old era and improving themselves by containing the thought body."

The more the strong man listened, the brighter the light in his eyes became.

The sallow-faced and thin man had a different mentality from the man in front of him.

He had sold this information to many people, including the crow-mouthed young man.

The days of obtaining living resources by selling this set of information known to everyone in Yancheng through information gaps are almost unbearable.

He looked in the direction of the wilderness.

If it doesn't work, he can only try to break into the wilderness where various thought-body monsters are entrenched.

If someone can come to the vicinity of this city from the wilderness, then he can also go the other way around

PS: Thank you for the support of the old book friends before. How about it, my world view setting is not bad, right?

New book friends are also welcome to join the pit. My storytelling writing level can only be said to be average. I can only say that please bear with me and be a food and hay.