Chapter 5 Yanren, the Receiver and the Thought Body

"Has the thought body entered the refugee street?"

"Yes."

Although the two still looked human, their exposed skin, including the head and arms, was full of doll-like, wooden and metal parts, like puppets made by some kind of machinery and mechanism.

But it was not so, they had their own will.

They were the so-called Yanren.

The "new humans" that countless flesh people in the refugee street yearned for and even worshipped.

The slender and thin Yanren wore white armor, and the other tall and strong Yanren wore a black jacket and leather pants.

On the refugee street where countless wastes were piled up, the two Yanren stopped at the place where "Crow's Mouth" picked up the helmet. The slender Yanren uttered a mechanical male voice, and the hard eyes of the crystal scanned the area:

"It should be around here."

After this sentence, the two looked around, as if they were looking for something, but after a few minutes of searching, they seemed to have returned empty-handed.

After exchanging glances, the slender Yanren opened his collar, and with a sound like wood rubbing against metal, the "flesh" on his shoulder opened up, and he reached in and took out something.

It was a green, hard, metal-like twig, with lanceolate, oblong metal leaves symmetrically distributed at both ends.

Facing the leaves on the twig, Yanren whispered:

"No target found."

After saying that, he raised the twig, and almost as soon as he raised the twig, a mechanical white bird with traces of splicing on its body, like a dove, flew over as if emerging from the void, took the green twig in his hand, and disappeared on the spot.

Ten seconds later, the white bird emerged again from the air not far away, flapped its wings and flew to his hand, put the green twig in his hand, and flew away again and disappeared.

The man in the jacket wearing sunglasses put the green branch to his ear with familiarity, and a female voice came out:

"Then there is no need to look for it. The fluctuation of the thought body has disappeared here."

Hearing this, the man in the leather jacket's eyes changed slightly, and he gritted his teeth and threw away the green branch in his hand.

Just when he threw away the green branch, the mechanical white bird disappeared from the air as it came.

And his body was also changing.

With the sound of the opening and closing of the iron and wood parts, his jacket continued to expand.

And at this time, another man shouted in a low voice:

"Lang An! Calm down!"

After he shouted, the abnormality of the man in the jacket stopped abruptly, and the expanded body shrank back with the sound of the parts opening and closing.

Watching him recover, the Yanren in white clothes whispered:

"How many times have you been asked to remember the rules?"

Hearing this, the man in the jacket, who had recovered, was silent for a moment and spit out a number:

"61."

Seeing his appearance, the Yanren in white clothes smiled:

"After awakening the spiritual bridge, the bodies of us shelterers will also assimilate with the spirit. We use the spiritual bridge to integrate the spirit and the body and gain special abilities, but there are also flaws."

"Our fluctuating emotions will directly affect the body and cause changes in the body."

He He picked up the green branch that was thrown away, put it back from his shoulder, and then said:

"Excited emotions will improve our physical abilities, but we will lose some judgment. High vigilance will make our perception sharper, but it may also weaken our attack ability. Fear will also make us more flexible when escaping, but we will lose some discrimination ability."

The abilities they have are classified according to their performance, including transformation type, external type, attachment type, perception type, additional type, living type, and undetermined type. The transformation type is the most sensitive to emotional changes.

"Your emotional changes will directly activate your abilities and change your body."

As he spoke, he glanced around:

"Do you know the exact difference between us, the receivers, and the thought bodies?"

The jacket man called Lang An nodded and responded:

"We, the receivers, are a unity of spirit and flesh, allowing the spirit and flesh to assimilate, and changes in thinking and emotions will directly affect the body."

"But the thought bodies, as the spiritual remnants of the old human beings, do not have a physical body, but their characteristics are highly condensed and can be directly manifested in the form of spirit."

"No, it should be said that because they are highly condensed, they can become thought bodies and manifest in the form of spirit."

The white-clothed Yanren glanced around and said in a deep voice:

"We, the receivers, need to fight against the physical changes brought about by the spiritual changes, so that our own structure is stable enough, otherwise, we may even lose our personality and collapse."

"When we receive the thought bodies, we need to choose, and we need to find the thought bodies that are sufficiently compatible with ourselves before we can receive them."

"But the thought bodies are different."

"They are the condensation of certain ideological characteristics of humans in the old times. Moreover, the characteristics of humans in the old times are that they are easily polluted and their spirits are easily spread. This highly condensed ideological characteristic is very polluting and can pollute the spiritual body. At the same time, it can also assimilate the polluted spiritual body with the same characteristics as itself into a part of itself."

"Sometimes, the receivers who receive these thought bodies will also be polluted."

"However, we, the receivers, can rely on the stability of our own structure to forcibly receive thought bodies that are not compatible with ourselves, but thought bodies cannot assimilate other spiritual bodies with different characteristics from ourselves."

"This is our advantage."

"But, facing the thought body, we also have a big disadvantage."

The Yan people in white clothes looked at Looking around:

"If the spiritual body contaminated by the thought body belongs to us, the containment body will also show some changes, and we can identify it by this method."

"But if the object contaminated by the thought body is not the containment body, and there is no spiritual and physical integration, then it is difficult for us to discover the fact that it is contaminated."

"And once such a target awakens the spiritual bridge, the situation will be bad."

"There were several mental pollution incidents caused by the thought body that appeared in the city before, and we lost a lot of people."

Hearing this, the man in the jacket asked in confusion:

"Then why don't you deal with all the old humans?"

His tone was very normal and calm, and it was obvious that he really thought so.

His question made the Yanren in white clothes shake his head:

"For safety, the Yanren will try to avoid too big changes in their thinking, but it is precisely because of this that an overall crisis has emerged in Yancheng."

"We must protect a certain number of potential old humans as new parts of Yancheng."

"Even in the refugee street, we must avoid the invasion and contamination of the thought body."

Just then, as the night gradually fell, the Yanren in white clothes seemed to notice something. In the gradually darkening night, vertical lines appeared in his crystal eyes:

"Found it."