Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 1016 The world is so big, why is home

When Chen Yan took Swam and left the silver monster with Klein, he finally saw the whole thing.

Like a super-large Kirov airship hovering in mid-air, the silver monster has a football-shaped body. This seamless body does not even have any decorations. This unique design makes this monster occupy The huge creation that takes up two-thirds of the space of the entire mechanical hive has a weird beauty.

It has a metal-like luster, but is smoother than metal; it has a plastic-like flexibility, but at first glance it feels much better than plastic; its overall appearance may even become transparent in the sun. It's like glass, but much harder than glass - it can even be forcibly embedded in a mechanical honeycomb with part of its body without any scratches.

Chen Yan looked at this thing and thought of something inexplicably.

Kun.

Chen Yan withdrew his gaze, stood on Klein's special small aircraft, and gradually drove away from the silver monster. After being shocked, he asked:
"What is this thing?"

Klein has stopped looking at that thing:
"That thing is called Dawn, and it belongs to the Imperial Air Force. Ten of them are currently in military use, and more are under construction."

Klein said:
"It's a transportation starship that was restored from some kind of blueprint obtained in the dark zone. It doesn't sail very fast and can only perform transportation missions within the galaxy."

"Although it is a transport ship, it is actually more powerful than an ordinary battleship, because we have almost no enemies in the starry sky. We need people to build it wherever we go, rather than bloody wars."

"They all firmly believe that the Dawn can carry the humans of the past, open up territories in the stars, and create a new dawn."

"By the way, the Dawn itself was named after William Master because it was the design drawings his students found in the Dark Zone."

Chen Yan listened to the meaning of his words, and before the wave of shock in his heart subsided, another wave of shock appeared again.

He ignored the director naming the starship and asked with awe:
"Has the Empire's fleet... sailed beyond the solar system?"

Klein replied:

"No one knows where the farthest point of the Star Chain has reached. That is still a secret for us."

The two of them didn't feel any discomfort at all when they talked about the "solar system". They took the existence of the "solar system" for granted.

Klein looked at the mechanical hive getting closer and asked Chen Yan a rare question.

"Before Dawn leaves, you still have a chance to regret it."

Klein's voice and emotions were both deep:
"Why don't you join the Great Crusade?"

He did not specify how much time was left for Chen Yan to regret his decision.

Chen Yan didn't care because he never thought about leaving.

He breathed the cold sea breeze above the mechanical hive and stared at the south. His eyes seemed to float across the sea and landed on the pier of Yanan City. For a moment, he seemed to see in the bustling crowd the scene that he had just landed in Yanan City half a year ago. , standing on the dock at a loss.

"I feel ashamed to say it. When I first came to Yanan City, I felt very uncomfortable."

Chen Yan obviously didn't speak fast and his tone was very calm, but the emotions he expressed were very intense.

“I stood on the deck, raised my head, and saw the city beyond my sight.

I saw the seagulls landing on the roof of the pier ticket office, the badge of Holy Light on the top of the church not far away, and the black smoke coming from the chimney that darkened the sky in the distance.

I originally thought that I would be looking forward to all this. I didn’t know anything at the time. I naively thought that I would have an ordinary job, work hard for a few years, save some money to buy my own house, and even say Maybe I can marry a girl and spend the rest of my life with her.

I looked at the endless flow of people and suddenly noticed what I was wearing. It was a gentleman's suit that my father customized for me in my hometown town. It was old-fashioned and did not fit well, but I still wore it because I had no other clothes. clothes.

I looked at the faces that had no features similar to mine, and felt very panicked. I thought to myself, would I be laughed at if I spoke only half-heartedly in Imperial dialect?I can’t even understand grammar or phonetic symbols. How can I communicate with others?
——I was standing on the deck at that time, these things flashed through my mind, and I suddenly panicked. "

Chen Yan sighed slightly.

"The city is so big, Klein, the city is so big, there is no end in sight, it's like a maze with no way to find the exit.

But I can only move forward, because I can't look back. The future for which I am about to devote all my efforts is built in Yanan City, and I will never be able to return to my hometown for the rest of my life.

I couldn't see my future. Even if I knew how I should live my life, I still felt anxious and uneasy, unable to detach myself.

So, when I saw a 'familiar face' who looked similar to me on the dock, I couldn't help but believe him.

Later, I owned a property on Walker Street. Although I had to bear the pressure of expensive land rent, at least I had my own property and an opportunity to settle down temporarily.

I haven't changed since then. I am greedy for this kind of life - busy but somewhat hopeful, stressful but not so stressful that I will give up my life at any time - I can even eat meat occasionally!

I am satisfied with this kind of life. "

Chen Yan's tone became a little worse.

"Later, I saw that the empire was not as wealthy as the outside world rumored. The sufferings suffered by the people were no different from those of the folks in my hometown, or even worse...

I have met a lot of people and come into contact with a lot of things, and I understand more and more that human beings are the same everywhere.

One time I went to a bar for some reason and saw a certain bartender. In order to prove that the wine in the bar was okay, he drank several glasses of fake wine until he died of alcohol poisoning - he didn't know about the industry. Alcohol is poisonous.

I told my friend that watching the man smugly drinking the fake wine was like watching a dog eat its own vomit - equally stupid.

I saw him and felt like I was in pain.

It's obviously someone else's stupidity, why should I feel pain because of it?
It took me a long time to understand that maybe it was because I thought ignorance was wrong. I hated ignorance. This disgust was irrepressible and unstoppable...

Isn’t it natural to hate ignorance? "

Chen Yan suddenly stopped talking, lowered his head and said:

"Actually, I lied to my friend. The dog I saw in front of me was not eating vomit, but excrement.

I am very uncomfortable... The mental discomfort far exceeds the physical discomfort. This feeling is indescribable...

So I wanted to eliminate ignorance, which was one of the reasons why I later started a night school...but due to my personal ability, there was never any results..."

The aircraft circled half of the mechanical hive and was about to reach the end point in Area Z.

"I was standing in the control room of the Dawn just now, and listening to your words, it somehow reminded me of the time when I was standing on the dock of Yanan City.

I seemed to see myself standing on the bow of the ship. When I raised my head, I saw the dark and boundless galaxy.

I seemed to see the stars hidden in the planetary belt, the transport ships between the planets as small as pixels, and the Starlink colonies established by humans on the vacuum desert of the planet.Where is my home?

The universe is so big, where is my place?

I already have my own place, I have my ship, I have a home in the mechanical hive, or every place on the surface that I can live in... I think it's good here, and I can do what I want. thing.

So I couldn't find any reason to go to the stars. "

The aircraft began to descend, aiming for the Z area of ​​the mechanical hive that had become an open apron. Looking down from the aircraft, the navigator could already be seen waving a red flagpole waving to the aircraft.

Chen Yan looked at the greatly changed mechanical hive, and caught the faint sound of gunshots ringing in his ears, and his tone became colder:

"As for the Great Expedition... I don't care at all."

Chen Yan knew that Klein must not care much, otherwise he would not have made the decision to stay on the surface.

Seemingly with the purpose of “explaining clearly”, Klein said:

"The empire took away all the high-end labor force, and the rest were all old, weak, sick and disabled. Everything was screened through big data - everyone's ability valuation, everyone's value calculation, everyone's applicable Position...everything about human beings has been completely digitized. The empire selects the part with higher comprehensive value and transports it to space for star chain construction, while the rest remains on the surface...to fend for itself."

Chen Yan asked:

"Didn't you say that we would build a controllable nuclear fusion reactor before? Why did it just fend for itself?"

Klein replied:

"For a period of time, the earth's surface will still serve as the rear, supplying materials to the Starlink front line. When a complete Internet of Things chain is established in space, the resource-poor surface will be abandoned because there is no energy spent on maintaining the stability of the surface. It's necessary.

At that time, the surface of the earth will usher in an era of chaotic chaos of demons. "

Chen Yan suddenly realized:

"That's why you want to stay and maintain order!"

Klein nodded. He was so serious that he didn't even use the words "mantis as a cart" to describe himself.

"My personal ability is very small, but I want to do what I can as much as possible."

Klein said:
"My wife and children are also here. I asked them and they didn't want to go to Starlink, so we stayed together."

As he spoke, the aircraft had stopped on the apron. Chen Yan took Swarm out of the aircraft. Klein did not get off, but said to Chen Yan:
"You abducted the White family's daughter. Although she is not your biological child, they are still very unhappy. Fortunately, Fernando spent a lot of effort and finally convinced the White family to provide us with the most advanced big data algorithms."

Chen Yan couldn't help but said:
“Is there no knowledge related to big data in the dark zone?”

There was doubt in Klein's voice:

"It's strange to say that the knowledge in the dark zone is as complex as the vast sea of ​​​​stars, but there is no knowledge related to big data... I don't know exactly what is going on."

Chen Yan remained silent.

"I have added your identity to the whitelist and you will be exempt from the draft."

"I also want to go to the third island chain... If anything happens later, we can contact you at any time."

Klein's aircraft took off, and Chen Yan watched him leave.

The spatial structure inside the mechanical hive has been greatly changed. It is much simpler than before. The streets that have completed the "recruitment" have been transported back by the mechanical hive itself. Now those streets are empty.

After this battle, there will be many fewer people in the mechanical hive than before... I hope that more Z Group employees can stay, so that he will not be too embarrassed in the subsequent operations.

As Chen Yan rode the large elevator toward the Z Group headquarters in Area B, he thought to himself that the empire had created such a panic inside the mechanical hive that people should no longer dare to stay.

It's fucking bad.

Chen Yan returned to the company along the empty streets and found that all the company's employees were still there, so he told them about the military conscription and asked them to tell their relatives and friends to try not to go out on the streets these days and hide as much as possible. .

Chen Yan didn't know if this was useful, but at least it gave the employees a mental preparation. If they decided to go to Starlink, it would be easy. There would be a registration portal online.

Chen Yan had a strong doubt in his heart, so he went straight to the third floor of the company, found Lindsay Robert Darwin, and asked about the extravagance of Turing chips in the Mechanical Hive.

"Relevant companies that directly cooperate with the logistics center have replaced the latest models of Turing chips, and the big data algorithm software has been successfully loaded... The big data processing center of the logistics center was reinstalled the fastest because it was burned before. A full set of Turing chips and the latest software system are used.”

Lindsay told the truth without any concealment.

"So, your idea is correct. The software-side technical maintenance support for this forced conscription is actually provided by us."

Chen Yan's eyes darkened.

He never thought that what he did would have such negative consequences!

Lindsay comforted him:
"In fact, there is no need to be so pessimistic. It stands to reason that only by going to Starlink and participating in the Great Expedition can you maximize your personal value, because the technology on the surface has actually been stagnant for many years, and almost all the new technologies we have come from [ Outer Gods], most of the technology needed to build the world and Starlink comes from the [Dark Zone].”

Lindsay thinks about things from different angles and from different standpoints——

Lindsay originally came back to develop more advanced technology, and the development and growth of technology must be something he likes to see.

Chen Yan had already thought about it before coming back and said:

"This time we have a very precious opportunity. I got to know a major general of the Imperial Air Force Fleet. If you can serve him, he will definitely be able to give you greater achievements."

Chen Yan is not without selfish motives, but he is not blinded by selfishness for the time being, and will not use deception to keep a young scholar like Lindsay who obviously has a bright future.

"What I want to do may not be what you think."

Lindsay blinked at Chen Yan.

"I want to stay in this laboratory, and this is the only laboratory that can verify my point of view."

Chen Yan nodded, respecting his decision.

At this time, Chen Yan's phone vibrated. He picked up the phone and saw the following message on the screen:

Missed calls: Xanthium (161 times)
(End of this chapter)