Chapter 2: The Awakened

Three hundred years ago, humans developed the so-called artificial awakening technology, although the power obtained by artificial awakening is far less than that of natural awakening, but because it still retains the potential to take power from the twister, it will not be much worse than natural awakening in the later stage.

However, even if it is an artificial awakening, the success rate is quite low, but compared to the natural awakening like winning the lottery, it is much higher, and its security is far beyond the natural awakening, and it has gradually become the mainstream of the awakened. It is precisely because of the emergence of artificial awakening abilities that human beings can hold on to the already small territory in the current situation when the older generation of awakened people are withering away (except for a few abilities, the awakened cannot live forever).

As for the method of artificial awakening?

It's actually very simple to say - after killing the Twister, if the Twister does not have a relationship with the Awakened (if there is a fate, the ability will be absorbed), a low-cost device can be used to extract a part of the black mud from its body, and these black mud have already polluted the Twister, but have the characteristics of the Twisted One, and are no longer polluting (except for isotopes, that is, the black mud extracted from the Medusa Twister's body cannot re-pollute anyone except for the two-dimensional creature that is also Medusa).

These evils of this world, which contain the characteristics of the Twisted, will be sent to the corresponding base city (usually the base city to which the Awakened belongs, but if the ability of the Twisted Twister is relatively rare or powerful, it will cause competition among the various base cities) and stored in the "Awakened Land". In addition, since the black mud contains the complete ability information of a distortor, it cannot be divided.

After each citizen reaches the age of eighteen, he or she can enter the Land of Awakening and perform an awakening ritual by touching the black mud. Regardless of whether it can be awakened or not, the black mud that is touched will "evaporate" due to contact with three-dimensional intelligent beings, and this process of touching the black mud is called homotony.

If there happens to be the evil thoughts of the citizen or citizen ancestor in the black mud (only half-blood humans can induce the evil thoughts of their ancestors, while pure-blooded humans can only induce their own, which is also one of the reasons why it is easy for mixed-bloods to give birth to awakened people), they will inhale this evil thought into the body along with the ability, and become an awakened person, but because the twister has died, the ability itself is actually mixed in all the evil thoughts in the black mud, so most of the original twister's abilities will evaporate with the evil thoughts that do not belong to the awakened person, leaving only a small part, which causes the artificial awakening ability to be inferior to the natural awakening in the early stage。

Since the black mud itself needs to be obtained from the twister, it is impossible to provide it in unlimited quantities, so humanity has established a set of laws-

Each pure-blood Terran only has one chance to awaken for free, and the half-blood Terran only has three free chances, if the opportunity is used up and has not awakened, but you still want to try, you must spend a certain amount of money as the cost of "buying" black mud, at the same time, some special, The black mud left by the powerful twister will not appear in the free awakening option, and in order to be in tune with it, you either need to spend a lot of money, or you have a record of successful tuning of this ability among your ancestors (this is because the descendants of the awakened will inherit some of the bloodlines of their ancestors, and it is likely that they have the recessive gene of the ability that their ancestors once had, which will increase the success rate of synchrony), and by the way, those whose ancestors have a record of success in synchrony have the right to priority synchronism.

Of course, these artificial awakening settings have nothing to do with Feng Xue, a natural awakener, and the reason why the more than 1,000 words above are ripped out is just to lead to a setting - the Awakened Academy.

As the name suggests, this is a place to cultivate the combat experience of the awakened and teach all kinds of survival knowledge, but because there are not a few natural awakened people in this era, Feng Xue received more than a dozen admission letters handed over to him by the nurse at the same time as he was discharged from the hospital.

As a thousand years ago, the truth that good schools pick students, and good students pick schools, still exists, but the definition of "good" has changed.

Due to the different faculty, subjects, and power backgrounds, there are more than 20 awakened academies in Chang'an Base City alone. Among them, there are four top-level colleges alone.

But in addition to the official Awakened Academy (equivalent to a public famous university), the notices sent to Feng Xue were all miscellaneous colleges (equivalent to private pheasant universities), not to mention the colleges of the three mythical families (the other three top colleges, equivalent to private aristocratic schools), even the colleges founded by several legendary families did not send notices to Feng Xue.

(Whether it is the twister, the awakened or the free, they are divided into three major levels: reality, fantasy, and mythology, and each major level is divided into three levels, of which the reality level is divided into ordinary, extraordinary, and extraordinary, the fantasy level is divided into heroes, epics, and legends, and the mythological level is divided into saints, demigods, and true gods. The difference between the lower ranks, and what level is the strongest person that has ever appeared in a family, that is, what level of the family, that is, as long as there has been a sage, even if the strongest person in the family is only the transcendent level, it is also a mythical family, because as long as there has been a sage, then the bloodline of this family has the potential of a sage)

And all of this is because of the identity of his predecessor as a pure-blooded human race.

As I said before, there is no difference between natural awakening and artificial awakening except for the initial ability.

But there is a gap between pure-bloods and half-bloods.

It should be noted here that pure-blooded human beings refer to those human beings whose ancestors have been ordinary people for generations, once there is an awakened person in the direct ancestor, regardless of whether the spouse is a free person or not, this family is no longer a pure-blood human being, because at the moment of awakening, the human body has been mixed with the two-dimensional component. By the way, there are also cases of half-blood descendants returning to their ancestors and becoming pure-bloods, and the thinner the bloodline of the Awakened, the more likely it is to appear, so many Awakened families have family rules that prohibit intermarriage with pure-bloods.

Half-bloods are more likely to awaken, and because they have the blood of their ancestors' awakened and free people in their bodies, they are naturally aptitude, so they can easily find their way forward and grow up relatively easily.

And because the pure-blood human race is a pure three-dimensional creature, whether it is awakening or strengthening, it is difficult for many pure-blood awakened people to encounter the second ability that can be absorbed by themselves in their lifetime, plus the pure-blood human race cannot contact the two-dimensional substance before awakening, and many jobs are incompetent, so the status is much lower than that of the half-blood human race.

Feng Xue browsed through the stacks of notices and chose the Public Awakened Academy without hesitation.

……

"Dingdong, you have a new short message, please pay attention to check. ”

Suddenly, a pop-up window suddenly popped up in front of Feng Xue's eyes, startling Feng Xue.

"Could it be that my golden finger can't be successful?" Feng Xue instantly had a thought in his mind, but then it was shattered because of the memory of his predecessor.

In this era, due to the intervention of two-dimensional technology, human science and technology have made great progress, if it were not for the powerful twisters in the sky, I am afraid that human beings would have escaped from the earth by relying on space technology.

This retina projection technology is actually just a display port for personal terminals.

The so-called personal terminal is a microchip that is connected to the nerve when everyone is born in this era, which is equivalent to a mobile phone a thousand years ago, but it is more convenient to use, only thinking can be controlled, and the information will be projected directly on the retina, which will not cause side effects such as myopia.

At the same time, because this chip is completely made of three-dimensional matter, only real humans can use it (the twister relies on three-dimensional evil thoughts to contact the three-dimensional and is still a two-dimensional creature itself), so it has naturally become a proof of human identity.

The text message was selected according to the way in memory, and in an instant, a large amount of information suddenly poured into consciousness-

"Congratulations Comrade Feng Xue, you have entered the citizen establishment, your people's establishment has been invalidated, the system has automatically completed the change procedures, if you have other questions, please go to the Awakened Service Center for help. ”

"Congratulations Comrade Feng Xue, you have entered the Awakened establishment, your citizen establishment has been invalidated, the system has automatically completed the change procedures, if you have any other questions, please go to the Awakened Service Center for help. ”

"Congratulations to Feng Xue the Awakened, your information has been stored by the Awakened Committee, you have automatically obtained the status of a junior member of the Awakened Committee, and all the benefits and obligations of the Awakened have been opened, please go to the Awakened Service Center within three days to go through the relevant procedures"

"Congratulations to the awakened Feng Xue, you have automatically obtained the right to live in the core urban area of the third new Chang'an City, and the system has automatically allocated you housing. Your new home is located in Fei XX Community, Block 3, Building B, Room xxx. Within the next 24 hours, our service guide will go to your original residence to carry your luggage for you, so please wait at home. ”

"Congratulations to the awakened Feng Xue, you have become an ordinary awakened person, you are automatically assigned three citizenship certificates, you can upgrade three people to become citizens, and move into the core area of the Philippe City Community, Block 3, Building B, Room 305, enjoy safer living conditions and a more convenient lifestyle. ”

The amount of information was a bit large, which made Feng Xue fall into a headache in an instant.

Just by looking at the notice, you can probably understand that the people of this era are divided into three classes: the people, the citizens, and the awakened.

According to the memories of Feng Xue's predecessor, the people-level people lived in the outer urban areas of the base city, although they were protected by the city wall, but if they couldn't keep it, the twisters would come in, and the predecessor was attacked by the twisters before they naturally awakened, but at the cost of the whole family of the predecessor, including the neighbors, died in that invasion.

Citizenship is much better, with the ability to live in a relatively safe inner city (if you have immediate relatives of the awakened who can go to the core area), and you can also enjoy a better education. Medical care and other benefits, being able to buy a house of no more than 60 square meters in the inner city (in this era, any land is extremely precious, the law clearly stipulates that non-awakened people are not allowed to own more than 60 square meters of real estate), and if you want to be promoted to a citizen, in addition to passing the awakened (as the level of the awakened increases, the share of citizens you own will also increase), you only have a contribution value all the way (the contribution value refers to the contribution that this person makes to the base city, such as growing food outside the city, Hazardous work such as raising livestock will increase the contribution).

However, for Feng Xue, these three citizen places are redundant, as a time-traveler, he has no friends in this world, and his previous friends, neighbors, and parents all died in the previous invasion of the twister.

He could only watch in a daze as the staff helped him move his belongings from a beehive-style house of only 10 square meters to a "luxurious" residence in the core area.