Chapter 1 The Deadland Boy (1) ()

Tummy... dark.

The floating dust spreads into the distance, making the sky look foggy gray.

The oncoming wind rolled up the dust on the ground and brought out a scent of rotten smell, which was disgusting.

This is the forgotten dead domain of the planet Alpha, desolate and lonely, and there is no place for all kinds of garbage transported from other areas, spreading like hills to hundreds of kilometers away.

The dust covered the stars in the sky, and several faint lights and shadows flashed in the darkness, and a black and gray mecha was shuttled through the gray fog.

It has a clumsy body, thick and round limbs, and a thick shell. It looks like a bulky iron block from a distance. When it gets closer, it is not difficult to see that the paint surface of the shell has been worn out.

Ling Han was watching everything outside through the protective window. At this time, except for the continuous garbage dump outside the machine warehouse, all that was left was the misty fog that made people feel sleepy.

Old Mike was sitting not far away drinking ale, lazily tilted his legs on the table, holding an old lamp in his arms, blowing it from time to time, and wiped it several times without letting go.

The appearance of this old lamp is very exquisite, with a crystal lampshade and a copper statue lamp holder, which looks very classical and artistic. When he saw this lamp for the first time, he was attracted. Without saying a word, he decided to leave it for use.

Speaking of this lamp, I have to thank Ling Han, which was taken out from the hillside of a garbage dump this morning at the risk of being scratched by a barbed metal piece.

At that time, the light only showed a corner. Ling Han reached out and pulled it out, held it in his hand and tossed it over and over again, and found the socket using the micro solar panel at the bottom of the lamp holder.

The black solar panels taken out have no energy, so they should be used just by changing them to a new one.

Old Mike was snatching him up with sharp eyes and was willing to give it to him.

The two of them have been traveling through this dead domain for a whole day. Although they have gained a lot compared to yesterday and the day before yesterday, they have not found anything that can be called a treasure.

In addition to this lamp, there is also an alarm clock that can sing on the table, a self-cleaning fish tank, a smart vacuum in the corner, and that soft hypnotic rocking chair... Not only these, there are many other treasures that cannot be named for a while, although they are not particularly expensive things, Ling Han guessed that they could be exchanged for some good prices.

This sixteen-year-old boy has always dreamed of controlling a new type of psychic mecha and becoming a glorious mecha warrior.

Since entering the fifth era, in this new universe era, the average life expectancy of human beings has reached about 300 years old. At the age of sixteen, he is still in the ignorant stage of childhood. He has excellent mechanical driving talent since childhood. With his own continuous efforts, Ling Han's control technology is far superior to his peers, and he has never had any doubts about realizing his dream.

The difference between psychic combat mechas and ordinary mechanical mechas is that manipulating them requires a high level of mental control. This is also the core technology of the fifth era, and the material realization application of spiritual power.

This epoch-making technology almost ended the myth of invincible giant ships and cannons in the starry sea, completely overturning and rewriting the rules of interstellar war. If it weren't for the extremely high mental talent that required to manipulate spiritual armor, there would often be one or two lucky people among hundreds of people. I believe that those interstellar giant ships that consume a lot of energy will only be worthy of being stuffed into the furnace.

The current mental power standards that are common in the universe are divided into twenty levels, from breaking through ignorance and having conscious thinking as the first-level starting point to the ultimate perfection of mental power that is known to break the void.

These twenty levels are known as the ladder to heaven.

In the first five levels, the differences are mainly reflected in the understanding and creative ability of thinking, and the differences cannot be directly seen. Once you break through to the sixth level, the mental power will enter a new realm and can directly act on the material world, that is, the material manifestation of spiritual power, and truly step into the door of spiritual power cultivation.

After that, every time you break through a level, your mental power will be sublimated qualitatively, and all kinds of incredible and wonderful changes will occur.

Only by having the sixth level of mental power can one exert the true power of the psychic mecha and individual soldiers gallop across the vast sea of ​​stars. Therefore, the sixth level of mental power is also called a star barrier. It cannot be broken through. No matter how talented or the material conditions are, it cannot surpass the limitations of species genes. Lifespan and strength are greatly limited.

Human beings are unique among many species in the entire universe.

As long as the intelligence is sound, even the most ordinary human beings will have the third level of mental power when they are adults. Those geniuses with good qualifications can even directly open the key to their potential in life, break through the star barriers of mental power, and evolve into advanced life forms in the universe.

Breaking through the star barrier is not an easy task.

Even if a race in the human universe that is recognized as having great potential has to achieve this goal through its own efforts, it is an extremely difficult goal.

Usually, every time an ordinary human improves his mental power, it takes about a corresponding level of ten years. Therefore, in ancient times, humans usually enlighten their wisdom at the age of ten, thirty, and understand the worldly emotions at the age of sixty. If they let nature go and want to break through the star obstacle, even if everything goes well, they must have a life span of about two hundred years.

Even a precocious genius can only reduce this time by one to two times through secret practice.

In this way, if you want to control the new psychic mecha, even if you have talent, you will have to be around seventy or eighty years old... that's so far away!

Of course, there is no other way. If ordinary humans want to achieve rapid improvement of their mental power, the shortest way is to receive an evolutionary fluid injection. At the end of the Fourth Era, humans were able to compete with the extraterrestrial alliance that gathered two-thirds of the intelligent race of the Milky Way with their own strength, thanks to this technology.

It is a very common fact for humans in the new universe to quickly achieve evolution by relying on drug injections.

Ling Han resolutely decided to undergo this minor operation, spending all the savings left by his parents when he died. He lay on the operating table and imagined his cool and heroic posture of manipulating the psychic mecha. When the evolution fluid was injected into his muscles, he almost jumped up in pain.

He will never forget the unforgettable pain at this moment, but he did not expect that the result of the operation would be a failure.

If it was just like this, it would be fine. With his talent, he could break through the star barrier sooner or later with his own efforts.

The repulsion between the evolution fluid and the body caused a terrible backlash of power, and Ling Han became a wasteful person who could not evolve.

There was no bigger blow than this. Ling Han could not find any other way except for his own efforts. He was not willing to continue like this and continued to strengthen the training of various skills, thinking that efforts could make up for the shortcomings.

However, it is ultimately impossible to beat reality.

Ling Han's mental power is not weak. He is only sixteen years old and has already achieved the fourth-level mental power level for an adult.

However, it is impossible to continue to improve its strength. With the mere fourth-level mental power, it is impossible to use new high-tech spiritual power products. With the continuous development of spiritual power technology, old-fashioned products have been updated and replaced in large quantities, and even civilian machinery has gradually begun to have requirements for spiritual power.

Even the spiritual power requirements of some new civil machinery require at least the fifth level of spiritual cultivation.

Obviously, Ling Han does not meet this basic condition.

The professional pilot assessment failed repeatedly, and Ling Han suddenly lost hope for life.

From a promising elite and talent to a mediocre society, this gap is an unbearable mental pressure for a young man who yearns for glory.

Ling Han, who was unsuccessful, hid in the corner of the tavern and drank a lot.

In the following days, he was like a kite cut off a string, lost his dream of life, fell into extreme helplessness and confusion, and relied on alcohol to paralyze his nerves, and lingered in the tavern for a long time.
Chapter completed!