Producers are rare; owning arable land or herds of livestock is an unimaginable luxury. Without stable, secure work, most people will risk their lives for a living.
Most adventurers are scavengers. They wander among the ruins, collecting items to sell to merchants in exchange for their survival. In a sense, they are no different from wandering ghosts, except that while wandering ghosts chase after life, these adventurers chase after the possessions that can sustain their lives.
Other scavengers venture into the wilderness, searching for edible small animals and plants. This work requires excellent survival skills, but often a successful haul can last for three or four days without further risks, and they can also enjoy a well-balanced diet. Scavenging groups roam in packs, like wolf packs, and each person carries only a small amount of belongings that can be easily taken away.
Even in the misty lands teeming with wandering spirits and glass goblins, humans who wield weapons are not at the very top of the fighting force, but they are not so lowly as to be confined to the dust in the food chain.
A higher, but more dangerous, job than scavenging is that of a hunter. They don't hunt wild animals, of course, but rather monsters covered in glass—glass goblins. Foreign merchants buy certain items from these goblins at very high prices, bringing with them many valuable things: weapons, armor, livestock, food, books, medicine…
Chen Jing knew that, according to legend, the "demon core" of the glass monster, when consumed in a special way with a special formula, could turn one into a cultivator. Even for merchants from the outside world, the "demon core" was a precious commodity they needed.
This world has extraordinary people and cultivators. Chen Jing had heard that when this land was still a normal kingdom, cultivators opened dojos to teach martial arts, and there were even several sects that worshipped their ancestors while fighting for the kingdom.
In that great war known as the "War of Ruins," the country was reduced to ruins, fog filled the land, and the surface and wild animals began to become glassy. Most of the population either perished or fled, leaving only people like Chen Jing, barely clinging to life, powerless to leave yet wanting to survive.
The former Song Dynasty was the name given to the country that once existed on this land; the memory of that lost country is too painful to recall!
Chen Jing has been in this world for a long time, and he is unsure of his age. According to his "father," he is about eighteen years old. Chen Jing has a secret: as he grows up, memories that do not belong to this world begin to surface in his mind.
In another memory of his, he was born in a sun-drenched country where everyone had the right to live a good life. According to that memory, Chen Jing was a "time traveler."
However, when Chen Jing transmigrated, he did not face the world as an infant. Instead, as his brain grew, he gradually "remembered" the past.
With that knowledge, Chen Jing matured faster and was sent by his "father" to work in a scavenging group at a very young age to earn money for his drinks.
The income from the scavenging group soon made "Father" dissatisfied. In order to protect his younger siblings and prevent them from taking risks at an early age, Chen Jing took the initiative to join a hunting group as a "monster lure".
Chen Jing waited in the sewer for a while, then opened the manhole cover and came out.
He stared at the mist, a vast expanse of white.
Being a monster lure is an extremely dangerous job. When you encounter dangerous spirits or monsters, you must take the risk alone; no one will come to your rescue.
So Chen Jing had to go back alone. Back to the place called the settlement.
He's used to holding a pistol and a sword, hasn't he?
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