Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 1065 Deep Dive
In order to complete "deep diving" and "swimming" in the [Dark Zone] and put on a specially modified space suit, Perrit shaved his head again.

This time he had some hair, as it was unlucky for a pirate to be without hair.

He shaved his head before because he had a death wish, but now he doesn't want to die. He wants to live well until he completes his goal.

Anthem 13 installed the last air-tight buckle of the specially modified space suit on him, used a small palm-sized air pump to pump out the air in the isolation layer of the space suit, and then debugged his own radio frequency and entered a single into the encrypted frequency band.

'Hey, can you hear me? '

Parrett in the spacesuit moved his mouth, and his voice was received by the radio wave chip in the mechanical brain of Psalm 13, converted into a binary code, and was quickly transferred into the brain computer, becoming a readable information code. .

'heard it. '

Psalm 13 responds, saying:

'Set up to check the fiber optic connection in the alloy cable every 13 milliseconds, send out the signal and check my signal response - remember, a complete signal check must be within 13 milliseconds. '

Perrit didn't speak, but gave a thumbs up to Psalm 13 to show that he understood.

He put down his hand and stepped onto a simple ejection machine that looked like a treadmill, and the footwork mechanism of the modified space suit clicked into place perfectly.

He took a deep breath and gave Psalm 13 another thumbs up, this time meaning "I'm ready."

Psalm 13 connected one end of a thumb-thick neural pipeline to the neural pipeline interface on the back of his neck, and connected the other end of the neural pipeline to the ejection machine at Parrett's feet, and then relied on the wired encryption band that existed on the alloy cable. Start sending messages to Parrett:
'Ready, 3, 2, 1, launch! '

When the words fell, Parrett, who was wearing a modified space suit, had been ejected into a dark space where light could not enter.

The ejection speed became extremely slow after his whole body was "immersed" in it. From the perspective of Psalm 13, Parrett's entire body was suspended in the dark zone. Such suspension lasted almost less than 1 seconds. In [-] second - Parrett's materialized figure "gradually disappeared" from his field of vision.

Only the alloy cable that quickly fell into the dark zone under his feet meant that Parrett was still connected to the normal world.

500 meters, this is the depth agreed upon by Anthem 13 and Parrett. Even the Starlink Enterprise, which relies on the power of technology and ships, has never dived such a long distance into the dark zone.

But Perrit was able to do it just by relying on a modified space suit to protect his body.

As pirates with incomplete souls, they are essentially very different from normal people. [Swimming] is not essentially a special extraordinary ability, but the pirates have castrated themselves in order to swim in [liquid]. A special ability caused by a part of one's own soul.

And the [Dark Zone] turned out to be something similar to [Liquid], which was really beyond Psalm 13’s expectations.

Pirates who can swim in [Liquid] naturally gain the ability to move freely in the Dark Zone. They euphemistically call it [Dark Zone Swimming] to increase their worth, which is understandable in itself.

Psalm 13 recovered his thoughts and began to communicate with Perrit through the cable in the alloy cable.

'how are you feeling. '

'I'm about to suffocate. This place is completely different from ordinary water. The density is ridiculously high...'

'...This is an exaggerated joke, isn't it? '

'Yes... I feel it's actually okay. Although the liquid here is very dense, it hasn't reached the point of [viscous] yet, so I can still swim. '

'what do you see? '

'Space, Mr. Missionary, I see endless space. '

'What we have in front of us should be the central corridor area of ​​the STR-56 space station, and beyond that should be the residential area. It seems that the [Dark Zone] has some kind of space-changing properties. '

'Wait...I suddenly saw someone in front of me. '

'Parrett, don't go, that's not a human being. '

'That seemed to be one of my brothers...he...he talked to me!He...he's calling me! '

'That's fake!Parrett!wake up! '

A strong radio wave entered the alloy cable from the neural pipeline and was quickly transmitted to Parrett's brain computer, canceling the nerve impulses in Parrett's brain through forced electrical stimulation.

After regaining his composure, Perrit was frightened for a while.

'Mr. Missionary, what was that just now? '

'That was your brother just now. '

'I……'

'Don't be so quick to get angry. That was indeed your brother just now, but he is already dead. '

'I don't understand……'

'He is dead and you are still alive, so you cannot get close to him. Once you get close, you will become a dead person. '

'What the hell is going on?The Dark Zone...is it a wilderness?The wilderness is where the dead live! '

'No, at least not entirely, after the apocalypse, the boundaries between the Dark Zone and other deeper worlds became blurred, and part of the wilderness came here through that blurred boundary, so you saw your dead brother. '

'Mr. Missionary, I have heard some legends. The legendary wilderness is alive, has free will, and is a monster that can devour the dead. '

'This is not entirely true. The wilderness is alive, but it does not have free will. Although it will swallow the dead, it does not digest the dead, but breaks them into pieces and reorganizes them into the world. itself generates new life. '

'Mr. Missionary, how do you know this? '

'You may not believe it, but I was born knowing it. '

'Is this where your knowledge of wilderness comes from? '

'Yes. '

'Is the world you lived in in your previous life... a deeper world? '

'Yes, it's not much better than the world we live in. It's just that the technology is more advanced and people still live in hell. There's nothing to brag about. '

'Do you want to go back? '

'Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid I have no choice. '

'Um? '

'Parrett, this world is collapsing. This is the effect of [Apocalypse]. [Apocalypse] has accelerated everything. This not only means that the adult who created [Apocalypse] has lost patience with the entire world, but it also means that The entire world will soon cease to exist, and everything will return to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty - the so-called "Yuan Bei" is the world I live in. '

'Then... what will we become? '

'We may become a bunch of meaningless code, we may become a corner of the mountain of code accumulated over endless years, Parrett, I can't say, but it won't end well.

Not to be discouraged, in short we cannot change the fate of this world, we can only do what we need to do.

Parrett, what can you see now? '

'I saw many stars. ''Okay, don't get close to them, have you seen some floating bubbles? '

'Purple...like soap bubbles? '

'Yes, touch them with your pinky finger. '

'Okay...beep beep beep...'

Parrett broke the link, and at the same time a strong nerve impulse came from the nerve pipeline connected to the ejection device. Psalm 13's vision went dark and he almost lost consciousness.

Fortunately, he managed to hold on and sent a unique nerve impulse signal to Parrett through the neural pipeline.

After a while, Parrett's signal was restored:

'Damn, my head hurts so much... Mr. Missionary, my head can't stand this kind of torment. '

'It's okay. Just ask Chen Yan to replace you with a biomass nervous system when you go back. Now tell me what you just saw? '

'I...I gained the perspective of a scholar and experienced his life in a brief moment...as if I were him...I felt everything about him. '

'What has he achieved in his life? '

'He is a very powerful biologist who has made great achievements in genetics and genetic medicine, and has overcome many seemingly impossible problems in genetic diseases. '

'Well, it seems he's not the person we're looking for. '

'Mr. Missionary, there are many purple bubbles floating in front of me. Are those things a person's lifetime experience? '

'To be precise, it is a person's lifetime memory. '

'what? '

'You heard it right, those bubbles are a person's pure memory, without any soul, without any personality residue, just memory. '

'But I felt the emotion in the bubble, and I felt the personality. '

'Those emotions and personalities are dead. '

'I don't understand. '

'Human emotions and personalities can change, have ups and downs, and are not static, Mr. Parrett, but everything in the bubble is just the mechanized emotions and personalities in memory. Those emotions and personalities are only for special situations. scenario and will not take effect in a new scenario. '

'Maybe I see what you mean. '

'Okay, Mr. Parrett, I want you to go from bubble to bubble until you see our target. '

'I didn't expect it to be so difficult. '

'You will get used to it. '

In a short time, Parrett has experienced as many as 6 different lives, and his spirit has experienced nearly 400 years. Therefore, when he talks to Psalm 13 again, his voice already has more experience. The vicissitudes of time:
'Mr. Preacher, I need to rest for a while. '

'No problem, Parrett, we have plenty of time. '

'Speaking of which, Mr. Missionary, is Chen Yan still alive? '

'I hope he is still alive. In fact, he is not bad, and he is kind and principled in doing things. If he is still alive, he will be a good helper for us. '

'Mr. Preacher, I just didn't take long, did I? '

'Yes, it only took us 10 minutes. '

'How deep am I now? '

'351 meters, Mr. Parrett, this is the location that Starlink's most powerful shuttle ship can reach. You succeeded. It was not easy. '

'This time I found what we want, can we drive out those dirty people in the space city? '

'It stands to reason that it is possible, but I can't guarantee you that the thing that woke up in the coffin is too powerful and has exceeded the scope of life. I can only try my best. '

'Where's the rest? '

'The remaining dirty things are just fusion monsters produced by evil spirits and collusion, and they are not worth mentioning. '

'That's really good news. '

'Yes, once we seize the STR-56 space city and cleanse the city of evil spirits, we will be able to get in touch with the Starlink base further away, and your wish will be possible. '

'I'm rested and now it's time to move on. '

'Come on, Mr. Parrett. '

Parrett, who was moving in the void, followed the scattered light that was spreading in his pupils. Every step he took was under pressure from all directions. The pressure not only came from the liquid-like space in the [Dark Zone], but also from some special kind of Mental oppression——

The deeper he dives, the clearer and more numerous the vague sounds appear around him. However, his incomplete soul makes him more susceptible to being bewitched by those sounds, and his spirit is also created because of those sounds. Some confusion.

He became suspicious, even the passing of meteor fragments around him attracted his excessive attention. The tiny meteor fragments turned into sharp shrapnel in his eyes, because the person in the bubble he just experienced was Killed by shrapnel.

As he keeps moving forward in the dark zone, he keeps touching the bubbles that contain countless lives. These bubbles have not yet had the chance to enter reincarnation. Or maybe this broken world has no chance for them to reincarnate again. They accumulate here, and as they The deeper the depth, the more and more they piled up, until nearly 500 meters, they had already enveloped Perrit's entire body.

Parrett is going crazy. He has experienced countless lives in a short period of time, and his spirit and personality have been almost irreversibly affected. If Psalm 13 hadn't always reminded him of his identity through an encrypted channel, He might even forget who he is.

'You are Peret, a pirate from the Smoky Lake in the imperial city of Yharnam. You and your brothers discovered the underground veins of Snakestone and formed Spyro Industries.

You are now in the broken area near 56 on the lower level of Starlink STR-15670 space city. You entered the dark zone from the border between this area and the dark zone, in order to find a way to liberate the STR-56 space city from the evil hands.

You are going to Starlink to avenge your brothers, because James Parrett, the traitor, killed them for profit. This hatred has accumulated on you and will be indelible before revenge. '

When the cable reached 497 meters, Anthem 13 suddenly found that the retrieval signal returned from Parite's computer had disappeared.

He quickly controlled the alloy cable to recover and pulled Perry back in a very short time.

The moment Perrit was pulled out of the dark zone, he took a long breath like a drowning person who was finally saved, and then let out a low cry of pain.

With the exhaust sound of the air pressure valve, Psalm 13 removed his hood, revealing his head that had been soaked with sweat many times.

"Mr. Preacher."

Parrett showed an extremely ugly smile.

"I found it."

He told the good news, then tilted his head and fainted.

(End of this chapter)