Just like being smashed into the abyss by a suddenly falling boulder when he was about to reach the top, Gu Lei broke out in a cold sweat, and his face was terrifyingly white.

Others just fell into the mud, but he fell to the bottom of hell all at once!

Thinking of every day and night in the past, thinking of the simple happiness that could not be easily reached, and thinking of a dark future, Gu Lei was overwhelmed, causing a severe headache.

At the same time, the necklace on his chest flickered invisibly as if he was anxious.

Not wanting people to see his ugliness, he bent down and lowered his head, forcing himself not to hold his head.

After a long time, he went through and sat down in his seat.

In the following time, I don't know if it was due to a headache or a blow that was too heavy, no matter whether he was in class or out of class, Gu Lei sat motionless in his seat and his eyes were blank.

No one was in the mood to care about and comfort him, but there was more of a "finally someone worse than me" look.

All the way to the end of school, all the way to the fading of the artificial sun in the migrant satellite.

"Classmate Gu Lei, aren't you going home yet?"

The mechanical instructor's programmed care pulled Gu Lei's mind back.

He looked around and saw that the classroom was empty, and he was the only one left. He looked out the window again, and the sky slowly took on a distinct dark red color as the artificial daylight browned, a sign that the air was heavily polluted.

He opened his mouth to say something to the mechanical instructor, but the mechanical instructor didn't give him a chance.

"You need to go home early."

After admonishing him without emotion, the mechanical instructor retracted into a corner of the classroom and turned off the power to standby.

Only then did Gu Lei remember that what was in front of him was no longer the amiable human teacher of the past, but a cold large repeater, even if he froze to death in the classroom, he would not pay attention.

He sat quietly for a while, accepting reality with great difficulty.

After all, he is just an ordinary low-level people in the republic, so what can he do but accept reality?

The schoolbag was stuck in the drawer, and he tugged hard a few times, "bumping", and the desk kept shaking.

There seemed to be a terrifying flaming tooth under Mu Ne's disguise.

……

Then start cultivating dragon qi from today!

Walking on the crowded streets, when he was still halfway from home, Gu Lei further accepted reality.

"The truth is figured out by people, not by life."

Jelf's words are still ringing in my ears. It was he who used the ring ruler to deeply imprint Gu Lei's heart through a beating.

"Good thing there's Jelf, oh, and you, right, Haguras."

Gu Lei, who came back to his senses, noticed that as if sensing a depressed mood, even Hagulas showed an unusually well-behaved attitude, quietly following his side, not making noise, not making trouble.

Hagulas, like Gu Lei, was also adopted by Jelf. But the difference is that Gu Lei is a human and Hagulas is a dog.

To be precise, Hagulas is a second-class dog. It has gray lines on a white background, three fires in blue eyes, and it is as handsome as a wolf, and it is beautiful in the prosperous world. In terms of appearance alone, he is really the best among dogs, and there is no reason why he will be abandoned.

However, this kind of dog is famous for its caretaker home, and it is very professional, and its energy is extremely vigorous, and it can't calm down at all.

Therefore, it is very rare for Hagulas to be so quiet and well-behaved now, which makes Gu Lei quite moved.

"As long as I have my uncle and you, I won't be afraid of anything."

Gu Lei reached out and touched Hagulas's head, and Hagulas also squatted down proudly, raised his head and chest, and let him touch it. The expression seemed to say:

"Hmph, I'm not ignorant of people's hearts."

Gu Lei, who was emaciated, was often stopped by the thugs and asked for protection money, and if he didn't give or gave less, he would be severely beaten, so Jelf asked Haguras to escort him to and from school every day. The results were surprisingly good.

In addition to successfully taking Gu Lei from all kinds of encirclement, chasing and intercepting, Hagulas's strange footwork that does not follow the usual path will also take Gu Lei to experience the speed of life and death that is fast enough to deform his face.

Who would have imagined that a small and medium-sized dog like Hagulas would have the tremendous strength to run fast while throwing Gu Lei into the air like a kite, leaving the gangsters dumbfounded.

Touching and touching, the fluffy feel made Gu Lei's mood relax, and the goal became clearer.

"Eh, I not only have to cultivate dragon qi, but I also have to refine dragon qi well."

Looking at the pedestrians coming and going, his brow couldn't help but furrow again.

Vendors setting up stalls, customers haggling, couples shopping, and old beggars lying on the ground begging for food in the distance...... It all looks like it was in the old days.

But in fact, beneath the seemingly more developed and prosperous façade lies a more terrible darkness than in the old days.

In all corners of the world, in order to fight against increasingly intelligent robots, the people at the bottom are constantly alienated.

Although each realm can strengthen the physical body, it can greatly improve the strength, speed, reaction and other physical qualities of the cultivator, but without the transformation of the flame realm, the physical body is still not comparable to the machine.

For example, a cultivator in the Mind Shooting Realm can lift a heavy object of two or three tons at most, while a machine can easily lift a heavy object of more than a dozen tons.

Therefore, students with average grades in martial arts, or poor in liberal arts and sciences, can only struggle to survive under the huge wave of production automation by combining the physical and mechanical.

If you look closely, you will find that the vendor's left eye is actually an electronic eye, the bargaining customer's right hand is a mechanical arm, and the woman holding her boyfriend's arm is faintly reflecting a shiny metallic luster behind her neck.

"I don't want to be like them!"

Thinking that now that the whole people are advocating the cultivation of dragon qi, it will inevitably be more difficult to achieve a more outstanding result in martial arts, Gu Lei stroked Hagulas's soft fur heavily to ease the sinking emotions in his heart.

Haguras was badly deformed by the touch.

"Recently, the wave of automation has been wave after wave, the wave of unemployment has broken out, and last year teachers across the country were unemployed at the same time, and the phenomenon of mechanization is getting younger and younger!"

Gu Lei pulled Haguras through the crowd and whispered to himself.

"In this era of 'bottom instrumentalization', it is not easy for everyone to make a living, and if I want to live a stable and happy life, I must at least cultivate to the state of mind. The question is ......"

Spiritual power is related to the soul, and you must wait until the age of 12 when the soul is stable before you can start cultivating dragon qi, and then you can generally cultivate to the strong bone realm in about 3 years, and then, you have to wait for less than 6 years to more than 10 years to reach the shooting state of mind, which is the minimum standard for joining the army.

It seems that as long as he perseveres, it will take about eleven or twelve years to reach the shooting state of mind before the age of 30, the maximum age requirement for the enlistment test, for Gu Lei, who only started cultivating at the age of 16.

However, that was in an ideal state where resources and time were very sufficient, and the cultivation speed was available, and a poor child like Gu Lei did not have such superior conditions.

As a result, Gu Lei inevitably felt anxious:

This year, when I become an adult, there will be no living allowance, only an education allowance. Therefore, if I don't get into high school, I don't even have to get an education allowance. How can I cultivate without money? Practicing while working part-time? How can there be such an idle job? The question is, can I catch up in a year, no, is it more than that many? There are tens of thousands of candidates in the city every year, and there are only 20 of them who can be admitted to high school!

The more Gu Lei thought about it, the more irritable he felt, and his pace continued to speed up. The unsuspecting Haguras stumbled and hit the ground with a dog's face.

Hagulas struggled a few times and couldn't get up, screamed a few times, and saw that Gu Lei didn't react, so he simply let Gu Lei drag it, leaving a few long marks on the ground.

Suddenly, Gu Lei's figure froze, and he looked down angrily, but it was the old beggar who hugged his legs as he passed by, and kept shouting in his mouth sadly:

"The young master is okay, the young master is okay, pity and pity my old man, pity and pity my old man."

Gu Lei was taken aback at first.

Master? What the heck. Oh!

After Hagulas, who had seized the opportunity to get up, trotted to his side in a few steps, he quickly realized that it was true that people who raised second-class dogs generally had villas at home.

He rolled his eyes, looked at the old beggar's old cheeks, looked at the strange bulge of his lower body under the quilt, looked at his empty iron bowl, understood the anxiety and sadness written in those eyes, and couldn't help frowning deeply:

Will he be my future?

He dug into his pockets, and the irritability in his heart reached its peak, and said impatiently:

"Uncle, now that everyone is using the cloud payment code to buy things, who still has cash on them?"

The old beggar hugged him in vain, and pleaded unrelentingly with a hoarse snort.

Gu Lei had mixed feelings in his heart, but there was no way. He was about to forcibly break free, but he didn't expect that the old beggar's bone-like fingers were like the claws of an eagle that locked his prey, and he couldn't break free.

Gu Lei was extremely angry, and just wanted to use some more force, but the old beggar didn't know why he let go.

"Ahh

I only heard the old beggar scream miserably, writhing in pain, and the quilt was turned over, revealing the terrifying true face of the lower half of his body.

Gu Lei, who was a little flustered, froze instantly.

Broken and exposed gears, hydraulic rods, power pipes, tracks, all kinds of strange and large robotic arms...... The old beggar's lower body, including his waist and abdomen, had been completely mechanized, completely dehumanized, and looked like a scrapped multi-purpose work vehicle, rusty and covered with oil.

The greater the scope of mechanization, the more severe the rejection reaction between the body and the machine, and the pain caused by the rejection reaction will continue to become more intense and more frequent.

The vast majority of people will not be able to survive the day when they are completely mechanized under their necks, and they will be tortured to death by severe rejection!

The people nearby gathered around in twos and threes, all looking at the old beggar who was in pain and couldn't even roll around with sympathy, many of them had relatives, and no one thought that this was Gu Lei's responsibility.

The dense bloodshot cut the protruding pair of big eyeballs to pieces, and looking at the old beggar's distorted face due to pain, Gu Lei's heart suddenly surged with unprecedented determination.

In any case, I have to reach the Strong Bone Realm within a year, be admitted to high school, and then continue to cultivate to the Shooting Mind Realm and Flame Transformation Realm. No, in the future, I will cultivate to the subtle realm that is not one in ten thousand, master the two nuclear forces of weakness and strength, master all the four powers, and completely control my own destiny!