Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 1042 [Apocalypse]

Chen Yan said "wait for me to come back" and turned around to run out. But after taking two steps, he suddenly turned back and said to her very solemnly:

"Leave with your father. I'll call you when it's safe."

Chen Yan said very calmly:
"How long until it's safe?"

Chen Yan didn't know and couldn't answer. If this [Apocalypse] will last forever like the extreme cold at the end of the Ice Age, then there may never be a safe day in this world.

Does she know these things?
How could she possibly know these things?

If she knew, would she still have the courage to face all this now?
"I can't wait that long."

Chen Yan had no idea where her courage came from.

The woman's tone remained calm, and her eyes showed trust in him:
"I'm right here, waiting for you to come back."

Chen Yan said nothing and turned around and walked out.

Suddenly, a violent tremor came from under his feet. Chen Yan stumbled and hit the wall. His vision went dark, and he was shaken to pieces.

At the same time, the piercing natural disaster sirens once again sounded throughout the entire mechanical hive.

A strong sense of fear erupted from all directions. Synaesthesia captured these unstoppable emotions in an instant. If Chen Yan hadn't been mentally prepared, he might have suffered from psychological phobia in an instant.

He adapted to the fear coming from all directions, forced himself to stand up on the ground, and staggered downstairs.

He didn't find Swam. He only saw that the hall on the first floor was in chaos. The medical utensils and glass showcases were almost completely destroyed by the strong earthquake just now. The crow was lying in the corner and several young doctors were working on it. He does first aid.

When a young doctor saw Chen Yan coming, he stepped forward with a panic look on his face and said something to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan only felt a buzzing in his head. The strong emotions caused by the synaesthesia shock caused him to have continuous high-intensity tinnitus. Under the tinnitus, he could hardly hear other sounds.

He had to grab the young doctor's wrist to know what the young doctor said:

Currently, there are more than a dozen patients who are receiving prosthetic implants due to the last [Apacaleps] injury in the intelligent robotic prosthetic modification operating room on the first floor of Z Group. The sudden incident just now has made the patients nervous. The situation became very bad, and Crow was so unlucky that he hit his head on the operating table and fainted. Now they have to complete the operation before the power goes out no matter what.

Chen Yan nodded and thanked him.

Chen Yan turned to look at the street, and saw that the street was already in chaos. Crowds of people were trying to escape in panic without any purpose. People's desperation caused a serious stampede. Chen Yan could not hear the tragedy due to the severe tinnitus. There were screams and howls, but the pain that penetrated his heart could be felt in the air and was stronger than the sound - he was almost suffocating.

When he went out, he saw some pedestrians lying on the street. Most of the people who were still lying on the ground were old people and children. They hurriedly dodged in the crowd but had no chance to escape. In the blink of an eye, they were gone. Disappeared into the crowd without a shadow.

There was a huge crowd in front of the gate of Group Z, but no one dared to enter and take refuge, because Thomas Gilbert and his men were standing inside the gate, with more than a dozen guns pointed at the gate.

Chen Yan made a decision in an instant - letting panicked people enter the company will not save them, but will only cause the patients to fail to receive treatment in time, leading to the failure of the operation.

Thomas Gilbert saw Chen Yan walking up to say these things. Chen Yan suppressed the annoyance caused by the tinnitus, pointed at his ears and waved his hand to indicate that he couldn't hear, then grabbed his wrist and knew. Things he said:

Some people are fishing in troubled waters in the disaster. The shops across the street have been robbed, and women and children have been dragged into dark alleys. It is very dangerous outside now. It is best for you to stay in the company and not go out.

Chen Yan was about to refuse, but saw A Wei staggering into the door with his face covered in blood. Thomas Gilbert's people all knew him and let him in.

Ah Wei, if you don't take good care of your wife and children, why are you coming to the company at this time?
Ah Wei grabbed Chen Yan's arm to prevent him from falling to the ground. The panic and the meaning he wanted to express appeared in Chen Yan's synaesthesia:

Several large ships have taken off from the upper levels of the mechanical hive, and now the logistics center is empty, with only civilians left!boss!Let’s leave quickly!All the big shots have fled, and the mechanical hive is probably going to sink!
Chen Yan read his fear, but also his mood - he felt that he owed Chen Yan something, so he came here to tell Chen Yan the news.

Chen Yan said to him:
No one can escape, so it is better to find a way to solve the problem.

Chen Yan turned to put his gun and the magazine into Ah Wei's hand and told him to go back and guard his family. Your child is still young and can't run away.

Ah Wei's face was very ugly, because he knew the fact that his child had just been born, which meant that it was difficult for the couple to escape with their child. In troubled times, human lives are at a loss, and young and middle-aged laborers cannot guarantee their own safety. How to ensure the safety of a child?They can't go anywhere now!

He gritted his teeth, thanked Chen Yan, rushed out with the gun, and went home.

Chen Yan turned to Thomas Gilbert and said that he must find Swam and ask him to help him go out with him.

Thomas Gilbert knew that Chen Yan was a synesthete and knew how to communicate with synesthetes, so he said as clearly as possible:
It's dangerous outside now, and you may see blood when you go out. Be mentally prepared... Also, do you know what happened?This time the logistics center did not issue any notice at all.

Chen Yan pulled him and walked out:

The real [Apocalypse] is coming.

During the time it took Thomas Gilbert to react, Chen Yan told him:
I want to find a way to temporarily stabilize the situation, but I don't know what to do, so I can only pray to a god.

Before he finished speaking, there was suddenly a harsh mechanical pounding sound that was violent enough to tear his eardrums. Thomas Gilbert's face was completely convulsed at this moment.

Even though Chen Yan's head was filled with tinnitus, he could clearly hear this huge and terrifying sound.

This time Chen Yan almost didn't need to think before he realized that the mechanical structure under his feet - this was the sound caused by the severe deformation of the mechanical structure of the mechanical hive!
The next moment, when he stepped into the street, the ground beneath his feet had tilted severely.

Chen Yan subconsciously looked into the distance, but couldn't find any reference to measure the slope of the road. From this, he understood that it might not be the street that was tilted, but the entire mechanical hive.

Below Dais Island is a deep-sea trench several kilometers deep. Once the mechanical hive sinks...

Where is Swarm?
My god, where are you?

There is no trace of Swam in synaesthesia at all!

Chen Yan stepped out and was involved in the crowd. Within a few breaths, Thomas Gilbert, who had followed him into the crowd, had disappeared.

In desperation, he could only use his last resort - all the carbon-based life forms within his sight were transformed into Chen Yan's quantum clones at this moment!

Chen Yan did not occupy their minds, but only used their eyes to observe the world and search for the existence of Swarm.

In an extremely awake state, countless murmurs flooded into his mind, and endless overlapping images appeared intertwined. Chen Yan seemed to have 1 worlds appearing in front of his eyes. Each world was only slightly different, and [-] thoughts, ideas and emotions were present at the same time. Chen Yan's mind exploded.

'What should be done?so afraid! '

'I need to go to the dock as soon as possible. My ticket has not expired yet. I just need to leave the mechanical hive...' Dad!Mother! '

'Damn it, damn it, there are so many people, why are there so many people...'

'I knew I wouldn't have come to the island chain! '

'It just so happened that I had no money to eat today, and God gave me another typhoon?Do you want to give me a chance? '

'I haven't found a job, I owe a lot of debt, and this happened again. I'm really unlucky this year. I have to find someone to look after me after escaping this time...'

'O Holy Light, please grant us salvation...O Holy Light, can I enter your kingdom after death? '

'The casualties are not a big deal. This is an excellent opportunity for our Great Spring God Secret Order. We must seize the time to transform the believers and contribute to the resurrection of the Spring God. '

'damn it!My son is still in daycare!Get the hell out of my way! '

……

The main body's consciousness was impacted over and over again, and Chen Yan could not imagine that he could withstand it!
Even with the vision of many people, he still did not see the shadow of Swam.

Quantum clones were generated in the eyes of countless people. Chen Yan's field of vision was continuously extended and expanded like a telephoto lens. After a short moment, he crossed the crowd, transcended the block, and landed in an inconspicuous corner.

That corner is a damaged spot on the wall of the mechanical honeycomb. The wind and sun have caused weeds to grow. On the weeds sits a small nest made of a tattered cardboard box. A black tattered sweater is lying on the nest. There were a group of newly born kittens and a female cat. The female cat was breastfeeding at this time, and Swam was sitting cross-legged in front of the cat's nest, raising one hand high to catch the cat that fell from above. A giant steel bar tens of meters long, the whole person is illuminated by the sun.

found it!
Chen Yan took over the body of the person closest to Swam, controlled him to approach Swam, and called his name.

Swam looked at him blankly and immediately sensed Chen Yan's presence.

Chen Yan, the quantum clone, came to Swarm and said:

I want to ask you something - I want you to lift the mechanical hive. Can you do it?
Swam raised his arms, with a reluctant expression on his face, and muttered:
I don't want to save those people...human beings.

Chen Yan's heart suddenly sank, and his tone was as gentle as possible:

why?

Swam looked at the cats in front of him:
They were originally domestic cats that were abandoned here. When I came here, the female cat, who was already seriously ill and infected with many parasites, had just given birth. She was so sick that she was no longer able to feed the kittens. As a result, they would all die. .

I nourished them with my blood, and they came to life.

I don't want to save people because people don't respect life as you once said.

Since people don’t respect other lives, why should I respect their lives?

Chen Yan tried his best to explain:

It’s not that everyone doesn’t respect life, it’s just that everyone is different. The differences between different people are even greater than the differences between people and dogs. There are people who love life, and naturally there are people who don’t love life. I think The ones to be saved are those who love life.

Swam was obviously moved by these words. He hesitated and then asked:

So, I still save those people who don’t love life.

Chen Yan answered patiently again:

Those people should not be saved, but some of them will produce offspring, or even already have offspring, and there will still be people who love life among their offspring. What I am doing is to make people become people who love life - —Education, that is what I have been doing, and I will stick to it.

But if there are no people, there will be no opportunities for education.

Without people, "love" will lose many opportunities to be born.

Swam lowered his head and thought carefully.

The entire mechanical hive shook violently again. Chen Yan's quantum clone was originally a mortal and had no strength. It was knocked up and then fell to the ground. His feet were sprained and he could not stand up.

After the violent shaking, the expression on Swam's face became serious. He held up the steel bar with one hand, stretched out his other hand, and said to Chen Yan:
We pull the hook.

Chen Yan climbed up to him relatively quickly and hooked his little finger.

Pull the hook and hang yourself, and it cannot be changed for 100 years.

After Chen Yan finished speaking, Swam's frown finally relaxed. He has always been reliable:
What can I do, but it requires energy support - I need to pull out the submarine cables and draw the energy of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, and the entire mechanical hive will completely lose power transmission.

Swam's answer was much clearer than before, and he even pronounced the long and complicated phrase "controllable nuclear fusion reactor" correctly.

Chen Yan could only nod bravely.

Swarm added:

So please help me take care of these cats.

Chen Yan nodded vigorously again.

The next moment, Swam put down the giant steel bar dozens of meters long, and then disappeared in front of Chen Yan.

The next moment, there was a continuous slight trembling under Chen Yan's feet, and a slight but still perceptible feeling of overweight - the mechanical hive was rising!

When the trembling stopped after a moment, the trembling feeling from under the feet had completely disappeared, and the feeling of weightlessness was also gone.

Swarm succeeded.

Chen Yan's quantum clone picked up the cat's nest carton and walked a few steps forward to the broken glass wall of the mechanical hive. He saw that Dais Island had become a small patch the size of a palm in his field of vision.

The next moment, the sea surface suddenly surged, a terrifying huge wave rose into the sky, and the entire Dais Island disappeared above the sea surface.

(End of this chapter)