Crow's Paradise

"The missing body has entered the homeless street?"

"right."

Although the appearance of the two people is still humanoid, their exposed skin parts, including their heads and arms, are full of puppet-like traces of connection between wooden parts and metal parts, as if they were made of some kind of machine or mechanism. Out of the puppet.

But no, they have their own will.

They are the so-called Yan people.

The "new human being" that countless meat people in the homeless streets yearn for and even worship.

The slender Yanren was wearing white armor, and the other tall and strong Yanren was wearing a black jacket and leather trousers.

On the homeless street where countless wastes were piled up, two Yanren stopped at the place where "Crow's Mouth" had picked up the helmet. The slender Yanren spat out a mechanical male voice, and his hard crystal-like pupils scanned the area. lock up:

"It should be around here."

After saying this, the two of them glanced left and right, as if they were looking for something, but after a few minutes of searching, they seemed to have returned in vain.

After looking at each other, the slender Yanren opened his collar. In the opening and closing sound that sounded like wood rubbing against metal, the "flesh and blood" on his shoulder opened, and his hand reached in. Something was taken out.

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

Looking at the leaves on the twig, Yanren whispered:

"Target not found."

After saying that, he lifted the twig. Almost as he was lifting the twig, a dove-like mechanical white bird with traces of stitching on its body flew over as if emerging from the void and took away the twig in his hand. The green branches disappeared in place.

Ten seconds later, the white bird emerged from the air not far away again, fluttered its wings and flew to his hand. After placing the green branch on his hand, it flew away and disappeared again.

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

"Then there's no need to look for it. The fluctuations of the missing body have disappeared here."

Upon 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 was flinging away the green branches, the machine-like white bird disappeared from the air as suddenly as it had arrived.

And his body is also changing.

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

At this moment, another Yanren shouted:

"Lang An! Calm down!"

After he shouted, the abnormality in the jacket man's body suddenly stopped, and the enlarged body shrank in size amidst the sound of parts opening and closing.

Watching him recover, Yanren in white clothes whispered:

"How many times have you memorized this rule?"

Hearing this, the man in the jacket, who had returned to his original state, was silent for a moment and spit out a number:

"61."

Seeing his appearance, Yanren in white clothes smiled:

"Those of us as hosts, after awakening the spiritual bridge, the body will also assimilate with the spirit. Through the spiritual bridge, we integrate the spirit and the body and gain special abilities, but there are also flaws."

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

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

"Excited emotions will make our physical abilities comprehensively improve, but we will lose a certain amount of judgment. High vigilance will make our perceptions sharper, but it may also weaken our ability to attack at the same time. Fear will also make us Becomes more agile when escaping but loses some ability to discern.”

The abilities they possess are classified according to their performance, including transformation type, external type, attachment type, perception type, extra type, living type, and undefined type. The transformation type is the most sensitive to emotional changes. kind.

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

As he spoke, he looked around:

"Do you know the exact difference between us hosts and the missing body?"

The man in the jacket, known as Lang An, nodded and responded:

"Our recipients' soul and body are integrated into one, so that the mind and body can be assimilated, and changes in thoughts and emotions will directly affect the body."

"However, as the spiritual residue of human beings in the old age, nostalgic bodies themselves do not have physical bodies, but their characteristics are highly condensed and can directly appear in spiritual form."

"No, it should be said that because they are highly condensed, they can become thoughts and appear in spiritual form."

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

"We inmates need to resist the physical changes caused by mental changes and make our own structure stable enough. Otherwise, we may even lose our personality and collapse."

"When we take in the missing body, we need to choose. We need to find a missing body that is suitable enough for us before we can accommodate it."

"But the missing body is different."

"They are the condensation of certain ideological characteristics of human beings in the old era. Moreover, the characteristics of human beings in the old era are that they are easily polluted and their spirits are easy to spread. This highly condensed ideological characteristic is highly polluting and can pollute the spiritual body. , and at the same time, he can assimilate the contaminated spiritual body that is consistent with his own characteristics into a part of himself."

"Sometimes, the recipients who take in these missing bodies will also be contaminated."

"However, we hosts can rely on the stability of our own structures to forcibly contain missing bodies that are not compatible with ourselves, but the missing bodies cannot assimilate other mental bodies that are different from their own characteristics."

"That's our advantage."

"However, facing the missing body, we also have a big disadvantage."

Yanren in white clothes looked around:

"If the mental body contaminated by the missing body belongs to us as hosts, then their bodies will also undergo some changes, which can be identified through this method."

"But if the object contaminated by the thoughts body is not the recipient and has no spiritual and physical integration, then it will be difficult for us to discover the fact that it is contaminated."

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

"There have been several mental pollution incidents caused by missing bodies that have appeared in the city before, causing us to lose a lot of people."

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

"Then why not get rid of all the old humans?"

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

His question made Yanren in white clothes shake his head:

"For the sake of safety, Yan people will try to avoid excessive changes in thinking, but it is precisely because of this that there is an overall crisis in Yancheng."

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

"Even if it is a homeless street, we must avoid the intrusion and contamination of thoughts."

At this moment, as the night gradually fell, Yanren in white clothes seemed to notice something. In the gradually dimming night, vertical lines appeared in his crystal eyes:

"found it."