It was a place of despair, with no exit or entrance, no food, no water, and no end option.
A group of gray shadow-like creatures are working hard to survive.
Compared with other survivors, they do not have sharp claws or special powers. They are afraid of too hot sunlight and will weaken and die due to the evaporation of water. They even have a natural lifespan limit.
But they are the masters of this ruined world.
Reason? Quantity.
In an apocalyptic future where only strong individuals can survive, their number is nearly unlimited.
They swarmed up, devouring the surviving monsters, the remnants of organic matter, and the stone-like inorganic matter, and then forcibly transformed them into "themselves".
They...or "he", no matter how many copies of themselves they make, no matter how many pieces they are torn into, no matter what kind of mummies they are roasted into, they are still "him".
He is struggling and surviving.
His "immortality" trait is enviable. No matter what kind of attack he encounters, he only needs to regenerate more parts to make up for it.
His "self" characteristics are incomprehensible. When the whole world is "them", they can still realize that "I" only have one copy.
And in the dream, the soul of a young man tried to contact this strange life, or in other words, pollution...
"...Because normal life cannot survive, so I simply stop being a human being..."
When he woke up from his dream again, Lu Ping'an's sweat had soaked into the thin quilt.
This was the third day after returning from the third-level secret realm 'Steelman Triathlon'. Lu Ping'an also fell into this nightmare one after another. At this moment, he finally behaved like a normal person who could not bear the overload pollution.
This is information, intelligence, but it is also taboo knowledge and pollution.
It is a special life form, a gift given by the pursuer, but if it cannot be endured, it may also be a life-threatening curse.
Normal people would probably have to wander endlessly in pain, have nightmares for several months or even half a year, and wait for the curse to subside a little before they can understand what is in this "gift".
But the road is safe and there is a bank of life.
[The host gains a small amount of unknown breathing method experience and a small amount of unknown breathing method experience. 】
When I opened the system panel, I saw the same prompt as last night. Life Bank successfully materialized its "harvest". This is obviously a good thing, but the problem is...
“…Why Breathwork?”
Lu Ping'an couldn't understand, and even felt some instinctive uneasiness. This was not the result of spiritual thinking, but the instinctive fear of living beings about the reasons for their survival.
He seemed to realize that this point seemed quite important.
Since I can't sleep, I won't sleep.
Lu Ping'an got up and ran to his gym to exercise. As expected, he saw the cat starting his morning exercise on the side... The changes in this cat were too obvious.
After saying hello, there was no small talk. We saw each other every day, so there was not much to talk about.
Lu Ping'an just jogged in a circle, relaxed his mind, and used the breathing techniques he had learned to slowly adjust his physical condition.
Running, running, I broke out in sweat again and calmed down a lot.
While running, he constantly felt the changes in his body, the small but real changes that accompanied his breathing.
"...Why breathing method."
The same words, but this time in a positive tone.
He has realized that the fact that "breathing method" can enhance the strength of the physical body and increase special power is extremely "unscientific".
Or, it can be explained in terms of "the rules of the gods" and "the rules (settings) of the world" at the beginning. But when Lu Ping'an understood more and more this supernatural world where everything was born from the "source", he also
I became more and more aware of the abnormality in it.
"Just relying on the rhythm of breathing and adjusting the breath of the entire body can cause changes on the physical level. No matter how you think about it, it is incredible."
However, this ability is ubiquitous and extremely common. Almost all combat positions are equipped with a set of breathing methods to improve their basic abilities.
"...The battle professions in our world don't have any breathing skills, and many worlds don't have them. So Shui Yun's professional skills don't have breathing skills, so she needs to find an extra one..."
The words that the big cat said casually at the time, now that I think about it, contain a lot of secrets.
"Other races don't need the Breathing Technique, or they have similar abilities but it's not the 'Breathing Technique'. Humans need it and alien races don't. Is there any difference between the two..."
Perhaps, the answer is not difficult to obtain, it is just hard to face.
"...Humans are low-pollution creatures, while many alien races are highly polluting creatures. Big Cat once said that humans are not special in the food chain. On the contrary, they need to supplement and evolve...
..”
Breathing method, or the customary name of civilization, but another term may be more straightforward - "self-transformation".
"Why Breathwork."
It's still the same question, but this time the answer is obvious.
Human beings cannot control their own blood flow and internal organs. The only thing they can actively control is probably their own "breathing".
So, is it feasible to introduce pollution and transform the body through specific breathing methods?
"It's not that simple. The rhythm itself can be meaningless, but in the final analysis, Morse code is just a rhythm. As long as the rhythm contains information, it is also a language. Language represents information, and information contains taboo knowledge."
The big cat cruelly revealed the truth. Perhaps, from the moment the breathing method was used, humans could no longer be called humans.
"The process of using the breathing method is like chanting the name of God, using 'information' to construct a specific spell, and then using the spell to continuously draw external pollution into the body and carry out specified transformations. In the end, it is naturally inhuman
the result of."
Lu Ping'an rubbed his brows. Many of the previously puzzling questions were all answered at this moment.
Why do exercise and killing make professionals stronger? They are transformed by the "breathing method" into designated strengthening and mutation, allowing professionals to go further on a certain route.
Why are the basic attributes of other professionals so strong? The attributes of Lu Ping'an, the highest black iron, are accumulated through many advancements and employments. However, other second- and third-level professionals only have two or three occupations, but they are at the basic level.
The attributes are almost the same as him, which has always puzzled him.
Looking back now, other combatants have used the breathing method to transform their bodies for a long time, and their basic attributes have naturally improved. However, Lu Ping'an's breathing method exercise is far from enough, and has not improved much at all.
If the existence of this ability itself needs to be classified into a category, "change system" may be the most suitable category.
Cats are born mutated, so the breathing method has little effect on them. The orcs don't rely much on the breathing method. It is said that the improvement rate has always been low.
At this moment, Lu Pingan understood the true meaning of that "gift".
It is a form of life, a mutated module recorded with the "breathing method", and what it contains is...
[The unnamed breathing method contains the concepts of 'immortality', 'regeneration', and 'perpetual motion'. The host is requested to perfect it as soon as possible. It is not recommended to use it in its current state. There is a high probability of unknown mutations...]