Human Shackles

It was July, the weather was extremely hot, and even in the evening there was still no sign of cooling down.

The breeze blows, and the heat wave rolls in. The roaring factories in the city make the heat even worse.

Zhang Xiaofang couldn't help but lift up his shirt, revealing his round belly.

As he walked, he carefully avoided the piles of coal and stone in the streets and alleys. Power plants consumed a staggering amount of coal every day, and people also needed coal for cooking, so they were everywhere.

As Yu Fuzi said, human civilization is an energy civilization. The higher the level of evolution, the higher the requirements and demands for energy. The higher the requirements and demands for energy levels, the more developed the civilization will be. The two complement each other. ,mutual improvement.

And what will be the pinnacle of civilization? In fact, the answer is very simple: it is the "end point" of human imagination.

It might be the legendary god-level civilization, or it might even be the unknown beyond the present universe.

What Master Yu taught every time was too obscure and too profound. Everything seemed to deviate from the concept of matter, and few students could understand it.

Zhang Xiaofang was also confused, but he remembered one thing, that is, there is no difference in knowledge. Learning physics and chemistry is no worse than physical skills, and even farming is no worse than physical skills.

These words are what Lao Zhang often emphasizes to him. There is no superiority in knowledge. Physics and chemistry can make people understand the properties of matter. Agriculture and animal husbandry can make people understand the earth and get close to nature. These are ultimately the same as physical skills.

He didn't understand it at first, but he finally became enlightened recently.

Zhang Xiaofang is seventeen years old this year. His parents died when he was young, and he wandered everywhere. Later, he met Lao Zhang and was brought to Hope City by him. He lived a normal life and had the opportunity to learn knowledge.

Lao Zhang is a caravan cook who has a good skill in cooking the meat of ferocious beasts.

The meat of ferocious beasts is tough, not to mention tasty. It is very difficult for ordinary people to even chew it. However, Lao Zhang has the ability to soften the meat of ferocious beasts without losing energy. With this ability, of course he will not be short of food, and he will occasionally take it. He came back with some ferocious beast meat, so he fed Zhang Xiaoguang until he was fat and white.

Zhang Xiaofang's figure was easily laughed at in school, but he was both mentally and physically open-minded and didn't care. The breeze blew over the hills and the bright moon shone across the river, which made me laugh to myself.

Of course, inner strength also requires physical support, just because he has passed the review of the Taishu Association and became a physical practitioner, which is rare in schools that focus on engineering, and no one knows that he He dreams of one day traveling the world with Lao Zhang and slaying ferocious beasts. Naturally, he won't be able to see the same things as those little brats.

His home is in the outer suburbs of Hope City, close to the outer city wall. It was originally a mass grave. With the rapid expansion of the city, it was wrapped up and transformed into a large cemetery.

No matter how the city expands, cemeteries are indispensable, representing mankind's awe and worship of death.

The cemetery is overgrown with grass and the location is very remote. Moreover, some existences are now not only taboo, but also exist. It is said that those things like to stay in the cemetery, so no one wants to live here. Only Lao Zhang does not dislike it. A small courtyard was built next to it, euphemistically called to exercise Zhang Xiaofang's courage.

Zhang Xiaofang had never seen a ghost before, and he was really timid when he first looked at the dark cemetery. After living there for a long time, he didn't see anything, so he didn't care.

But people are naturally afraid of unknown existences, so they asked today's question.

The good thing is that there is a giant artillery camp near the cemetery, where a large group of military physical warriors are stationed. He can climb up a big tree and learn physical skills secretly.

Lao Zhang has to go out as a businessman all year round, often leaving Zhang Xiaofang alone. In the past two years, too many people have flocked to the city, and the neighborhood of the cemetery, which was originally extremely disliked, has also become popular. In other words, Zhang Xiaofang has neighbors, but he I am not happy at all, just because there is a neighbor who is really... a little bit infiltrative.

Hope City is bustling and noisy at night. The city with electric lighting is like a nightless city, and all existences based on darkness cannot be revealed.

There were various food stalls everywhere on the roadside. Smelling the slightly pungent aroma of barbecue, Zhang Xiaofang couldn't help but swallow. He hadn't eaten meat for a long time.

Leaving the inner city, the road turned into a dirt road, without electric lighting, and because the trees blocked the moonlight, it was dark and dark all the way, and I groped my way into a deep alley.

"Dong dong dong." The knock on the door was very harsh in the empty box.

No one answered for a long time. Zhang Xiao waited at the door for a long time, then leaned close to the door and listened carefully for a while. After hesitating for a while, he was about to open the door and enter when an old and hoarse questioning voice came from behind.

"Who are you looking for?"

An old lady with a curvy figure walked out of the darkness. The old lady was holding a mop, her wrinkled old face had turned into a chrysanthemum shape, and she asked him coldly.

For some reason, as soon as the old woman appeared, a chill suddenly appeared in the sultry alley, and at the same time an inexplicable sense of depression spread. Zhang Xiaofang couldn't help but shrink his shoulders and replied: "Well... I'm Lu Yun's classmate heard that she was not feeling well, so he came over to see if she was there?"

The old woman didn't answer. She stared at him for a while, shook her head, turned around and staggered away into the darkness.

Zhang Xiaofang knocked on the door again, but there was no response for a long time. After waiting carefully for a while, he didn't feel anyone inside, so he had no choice but to leave.

After leaving the alley, the inexplicable feeling of depression disappeared, and Zhang Xiaofang breathed a long sigh of relief. He had lived here for several years and it seemed that he had never seen this old woman before.

He rolled up his trousers and started jogging all the way home. After about an hour, the surrounding area gradually became empty and he was far away from the city. After getting off the avenue, he walked a long stretch of dirt road. The path was pitch black and surrounded by weeds as tall as a person. , a gust of evening wind blew by, causing waves to rise.

After walking for a while, we saw huge bulging hillsides ahead. Under the cold moonlight, they looked like a devouring beast crawling on the ground. Find Shuyuan www.zhaosｈhuyuｎ.com

This large hillside is the largest cemetery in Ping'an City. There are several lonely large houses at the foot of the hillside. One of them is still dimly lit, which is his and Lao Zhang's home.

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The bright moon hangs high and the night is as cool as water. On the top of the hillside, Master Yu’s rickety figure is revealed.

He looked at the bright moon in the sky, which was as big as a disk, and suddenly began to cough violently. The cough was heartbreaking, his liver and intestines were severed, and a piece of internal organs spewed out of his mouth.

The coughing gradually stopped, and his old body was crumbling, but his turbid eyes bloomed with dazzling starlight, turning from lackluster to focused, and then to empty.

The world also became hollow in his eyes, and the world of microscopic particles, molecules, and subtle changes within atoms were all clearly seen in his mind.

An astonishing scene happened. The blood and internal organs fragments on the ground began to flow back and re-entered the body. The internal organs were reshaped, so finely that every cell returned to its previous state, the heartbeat resumed, and the vitality returned again. The whole process was like going back in time. .

The fact is not that he went back in time, but that he used his mind to control matter, reshape the structure of matter, and return the deepest cells to their previous molecular state.

This body is too old, death cannot be avoided, it can only be delayed.

"Chirp!" A small metal snake as thick as a finger crawled onto his shoulder and cried softly.

To obtain a certain kind of power, you must carry the will it represents. If you want to restore yourself, you can only give up these powers.

He gave up his demigod body, gave up the small universe that was about to take shape, and tried to return himself to the realm of nothingness and emptiness. Maybe that is the essence of himself!