It was a land of despair, with no exit, no entrance, no food, no water, not even an option for the end.

A group of gray creatures, trying their best to survive.

Compared to the other survivors, they don't have sharp minions, no special abilities, fear of too hot sunlight, will weaken and die due to water evaporation, and even have a natural lifespan limit.

But they are the masters of this ruined world.

Cause? Quantity.

In a post-apocalyptic future where only the strongest individuals survive, their numbers are nearly limitless.

They swarm up and devour the surviving monsters, the remnants of organic matter, the stone-like inorganics, and then forcibly transform them into "themselves".

They....... Or "he", no matter how many selves are copied, no matter how many pieces are torn into pieces, no matter what kind of dried corpse is roasted, it is still "he" himself.

He's struggling, he's surviving.

His "immortality" trait is enviable, and no matter what the attack he encounters, he only needs to regenerate more parts to make up for it.

His "self" is incomprehensible, when the whole world is "them", they can still know that there is only one part of "me".

And in the dream, the soul of a teenager tries to get in touch with this strange life, or rather, pollute ........

“........ Because normal life can't survive, why don't I just stop being a human being.......

When he woke up from the dream again, Lu Ping'an's sweat had soaked through the thin quilt.

This is the third day after returning from the third-order secret realm 'Steelman', Lu Ping'an has also fallen into this nightmare continuously, at this moment, he finally behaves like a normal person who can't withstand overload pollution.

This is information, it is intelligence, but it is also forbidden knowledge, it is pollution.

It is a special life form, a gift from the chaser, but if it can't bear it, it is probably a curse that urges it.

Normal people probably have to wander infinitely in pain, have nightmares for months or even half a year, and wait for the curse to subside a little, in order to understand what is in this "gift".

But the road is safe, and there is a life bank.

[The host gains a small amount of experience in the unknown breathing method, and obtains a small amount of experience in the unknown breathing method.] 】

Open the system panel, and it's exactly the same as last night's prompt, Life Bank has successfully embodied its "harvest", which is obviously a good thing, but the problem is ......

“...... Why Pranayama? ”

Lu Ping'an couldn't understand, and even had some instinctive uneasiness, which was not the result of spiritual thinking, but the instinctive fear of living beings about the cause of existence.

He seemed to perceive that this seemed to be quite important.

Since I can't sleep, I don't sleep.

Lu Ping'an got up and went to his gymnasium to exercise, and unsurprisingly saw the cat who started his morning exercise on the side...... The changes in this cat are too obvious.

After saying hello, there was no small talk, see you every day, how can there be so much to say.

Lu Ping'an just jogged around the circle, let go of his mind, and used the breathing method he learned to slowly adjust his physical state.

Running, running, sweating again, and calming down a lot.

In the process of running, he also constantly felt the changes in his body, which accompanied by breathing, small but real changes.

“....... Why breathing? ”

The same words, but this time, in an affirmative tone.

He had already realized that the fact that the "breathing method" could increase the strength of the physical body and increase special strength was extremely "unscientific".

Or, at first, it can be explained in terms of "the rules of the gods" and "the rules (settings) of the world", but as Lu Ping'an understands this supernatural world where everything is born from the "source", he becomes more and more aware of the abnormalities in it.

"Just relying on the rhythm of breathing, just by adjusting the breath of the whole body, can cause changes on the material level, no matter how you think about it, it's incredible."

However, this ability is ubiquitous and unusually common, and almost all combat positions are equipped with a set of breathing techniques to improve their basic abilities.

“...... Our world's war occupation doesn't have any breathing methods, and many worlds don't have it. So Shui Yun's professional skills don't have a breathing method, she needs to find an extra ......."

The words that the big cat said casually at the beginning, but now that I think back, they contain a lot of secrets.

"Is there any difference between other races who don't need breathing, or that they have similar abilities but are not 'breathing', humans who need and aliens don't........"

Perhaps, the answer is not difficult to obtain, but it is rare to just face it.

“...... Human beings are low-polluting creatures, and many alien races are high-polluting creatures, and the big cat said that human beings are not special in the food chain, on the contrary, they still need to supplement and evolve........"

Pranayama, or the customary name of civilization, but perhaps a more straightforward term – "self-transformation".

"Why breathing?"

It's still the same question, but this time, the answer is obvious.

Human beings can't control their own blood flow and internal organs, and the only thing they can actively control is probably their own "breathing".

So, is it feasible to introduce pollution and transform the body through specific breathing methods?

"It's not that simple, the rhythm itself can be meaningless, but Morse code is just a rhythm after all, as long as the rhythm contains information, it is also a language. Language represents information, and there is forbidden knowledge in it. ”

The big cat brutally revealed the truth, perhaps, from the moment of using the breathing method, that human can no longer be called a human being.

"The process of using the breathing method is like chanting the name of the gods, using 'information' to construct a specific technique, and then using the technique to continuously draw external pollution into the body, and carry out a specific transformation, and finally, it is the result of nature and inhumanity."

Lu Ping'an rubbed his eyebrows, many puzzling things before were all answered at this moment.

Why do exercising and killing make a professional stronger? They are transformed into specific reinforcements and mutations by the "breathing method", allowing the professional to go further on a certain route.

Why are the basic attributes of other professions so strong? Lu Ping'an's highest black iron upper attribute has been accumulated from many advances and employment, but the other second-order and third-order professionals only have two or three professions, but they are almost the same as him in terms of basic attributes, which has puzzled him all the time.

Looking back now, other combat positions have transformed their bodies for a long time through the breathing method, and their natural basic attributes have gone up, but Lu Ping'an's breathing method training is far from enough, and he has not improved much at all.

If the existence of this ability itself were to be categorized, the "change system" might be the most suitable type.

Cats are born mutated, so the breathing method has little effect on them, and the orc department does not rely much on the breathing method, and it is said that the improvement has been low.

At this moment, Lu Ping'an understood the true meaning of that "gift".

It is a form of life, a mutated module recorded by the "breathing method", and what is contained in it is.......

[The unnamed breathing method contains the concepts of 'immortality', 'regeneration', and 'perpetual motion', please complete it as soon as possible, the current state is not recommended to use, and there is a high chance of unknown mutations......]