Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 1068 Wright III
Sakura Country samurai, armed with two samurai swords, dressed in imperial guard uniforms, holding knives and guns, wanted to kill the aloof Wright III, who would never even appear in the world...

There is no reason, no motive, no need, why would he do this...

Countless brief thoughts flashed through Klein's mind. These thoughts appeared and fell quickly because he thought he should have passed out due to the severe pain - a young nobleman with muscles all over his body trained in the gym was being shot by bullets. He should have been unconscious after the shooting. The bullet should have penetrated one of his organs, causing massive bleeding and dying.

People like me should have a normal human body, not a monster that will not die even if the whole body is destroyed.

Klein thought this, and his body had these reactions due to his thoughts. He fell straight in front of Wright III. His whole body was twitching and he didn't even have the strength to cover the wound on his chest. He lay on the spot and fainted. .

……

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When Klein woke up, a pair of thick palms were holding his hands tightly.

'I was mortally wounded and should not appear too fit when I came to. '

He weakly opened his eyes. This thought caused his pupils to dilate, making him look like a patient who had not recovered from a serious injury and was not clear-headed.

"child."

The person in front of him sounded happy.

"I'm so glad you're awake. I've been praying for you, and it seems like the Holy Light heard my prayers and answered them."

Amid the warm lights and lingering incense, Klein's pupils began to focus, finally settling on the old man in front of him.

This is a compassionate man, Klein thought.

This man looked to be 90 or [-] years old. His hair had turned from silvery gray to milky white. Time had blurred his voice and gender, leaving only his compassionate eyes and voice.

Wright III, one of the elders who now holds the highest power in the Choir, looks no different from an ordinary old man. He is completely mortal. It is hard to see how he survived deep into the wilderness back then.

Klein opened his mouth, but no words came out. His condition was really bad. Not only was he still receiving blood transfusions, but his heart had been hit by a bullet. Although it had not yet ruptured, it was still causing him great pain. Now He had to implant a pacemaker to barely keep his blood pumping.

A sad smile appeared on Klein's face, and he pulled his lips, but still couldn't speak.

"Don't talk or worry. You saved my life. I will arrange all your subsequent treatments."

Wright III said these words with a smile, and at the same time Klein discovered something - the old man's pupils were unfocused, which meant that he had lost his vision.

It was the blindness caused by being too old - the special biomass database in Klein's brain allowed him to judge the old man's physical condition in an instant.

Not only is he old, Wright III is now also facing chronic organ failure, intermittent neurasthenia, and a certain degree of ALS. These diseases that can be completely cured by omnic modifications have actually happened to this powerful man. On the body, it is really incredible.

"In fact, the situation we face is much more severe than you think."

The old man whispered these words, and he seemed to have noticed something.

At this moment, some reasoning appeared in Klein's mind:

During his coma, the old man must have inquired about his identity. What was the purpose of such a petty nobleman relying on nepotism to force his way into the circle of big nobles?At this juncture, one can only struggle to survive for the right to live.It takes courage to take a bullet for a big shot, and Klein happens to have it. This kind of courage was appreciated by Wright III, so he can now lie in the hospital bed and be cared for by this legendary big shot.

"On the one hand, those in the military can no longer hold back. Although the resources on the ship are still sufficient, if we cannot merge with Starlink within a few months, everyone will starve to death together, and riots will definitely be worse than starvation. Come earlier because too many people know the news.”

Wright III said these things in a slight but clear voice - he fulfilled Klein's wish - as a reward for Klein's life-saving grace.

"Those in the military want to take back control of the ship, because the ship is actually not just a warship of the military. This ship was built at the shipyard of the Imperial State Enterprise and was originally built to fight against Apocalypse. One of the thirteen [Sky Boats], the person controlling this ship is actually a certain brain—the brain belonging to a certain noble who is absolutely loyal to the empire."

A steady stream of secrets came out of Wright III's mouth. Klein was so entranced that he even forgot about the pain.

“That brain—has actually been decomposed into countless brain cells and corresponding neurons, connected to every corner of the ship through precise circuits—that nobleman who is absolutely loyal to the empire has become the ship itself.

Loyalty to the empire is of course not the same as loyalty to the military, so the military is very anxious now. Starlink has rejected us, so they are eager to get control of this ship. They want to take everything into their own hands. Only in this way can you feel safe and do what you want to do. "

Wright III chuckled, and Klein could hear emotionless sarcasm in this laughter—more precisely, mockery.

"How ridiculous! They haven't realized that this planet is dead until now. If they want to restore the glory of human civilization, they can only go to Starlink!"

Klein finally couldn't help but said:

"Isn't the entire Starlink the territory of the military..."

Wright III blinked at him, his laughter still filled with mockery:
"Do you think the military on this ship and the military on the star chain are the same people?"

Klein suddenly understood.

The imperial military is not monolithic. This kind of thing is really unimaginable. It completely subverts Klein's understanding of the once majestic empire. Everyone knows that the empire has the possibility to conquer most of the world because of its highly developed military system. Sex, and any factional conflict will reduce this possibility to zero - the empire is so proud of it that it has even written this "fact" into textbooks, becoming the inherent knowledge of most educated people.

Even after Klein joined the workforce as an adult, he had never heard of any rumors of "discord" in the Imperial Army.

Klein was so shocked that his muscles were affected, and the pain after the operation came immediately, causing the muscles on his face to twitch.

Wright III patted his hand and told him to calm down.

After he calmed down, Wright III said again:

"These people on the ship are anxious, not only because of food, but also because of ambition-ha, isn't it ironic to mention ambition at the end of the world?"

Klein doesn't think this is ironic. He even agrees with this statement because he has been in contact with that circle for a long time and knows who is in it.

Wright III let go of his hand and slowly leaned back on the back of the seat. His voice was still very soft, and the smell of incense almost made people drowsy:

"The reason why I say the situation is serious, from another perspective, is because of the thirteen ships that took off from the empire, we were unable to contact the other twelve."

When he finished speaking, seriousness finally appeared in his voice.His seriousness is different from any seriousness Klein has seen before. Although there is no sense of "majesty", it is as thick as a mountain. The moment he makes this look, the listener will know that "things are really true." It’s very serious.”

"This means that we have become the only group of survivors in the upper echelons of the empire. It means that none of the legendary big figures and big entrepreneurs survived. Even the wise man affirmed by the Holy Light, William Adams, died in this In the midst of disaster.”

Klein found that he felt absolutely nothing when he heard the news, as if he heard a dog die in the gutter.

Perhaps it was because he regarded William Adams simply as an ordinary being, and the death of an ordinary being would not be surprising at all—as if the water melted into the water.

"The cities and Internet of Things systems built by the empire at a huge cost are all paralyzed, the professionals it spent many years training are almost all lost, and the lighthouses built with overdrawn resources for many years to come are almost all frozen..."

"The explosion of the nuclear fusion reactor spread radiation all over the planet's surface. The number of waiters on this ship has begun to decrease. We even had to recruit some civilians into the ship to serve as laborers..."

Civilians...survivors on the surface? !

As if seeing Klein's surprise, Wright III explained:
"The tsunami flattened the southern part of the empire because the altitude of the southern part of the empire is negative relative to sea level, while the northern part of the empire has a relatively higher altitude. The place where the tsunami passed was still able to leave people with life, so most of the survivors were people from the Northern Federation. .

They were lucky enough to survive the natural disaster, and even luckier to receive the radio signals we broadcast.

They reached the extraction point and they were saved, a gift of the Light. "

Klein asked in a low voice:
"What about the island chain? I remember that the island chain has corresponding countermeasures. Even one of the considerations when the mechanical hive of the first island chain was originally built was to resist large-scale disasters..."

Wright III said:

“So far, no news from the island chain has been received on board.

The tsunami happened too suddenly. Even if there are large-scale survivors, they are just some organized and systematic extraordinary groups. Most of these groups are hidden. No one knows where they are, and they will not take the initiative to contact others. .

As for the scattered extraordinary beings... most of the extraordinary beings are very low-level, and they have the same ability to resist in the face of a tsunami as ordinary people.

Even if there are one or two powerful guys occasionally, they must have been frozen to death... Most extraordinary people have physical problems and are not very strong. "

Hearing the news, Klein had mixed emotions.

Has everything... been drowned in the tsunami...

He did not give up. He always had an unrealistic "delusion". He imagined that extraordinary beings could escape the apocalypse through their own power and survive the tsunami...

There was an imperceptible heaviness in Wright III's tone:

"Things will get worse and worse. Most of the lighthouses have been extinguished. The dark zone will begin to spread in places where the sun cannot shine. The place covered by the dark zone will become a wilderness, and the creeping darkness will swallow all living things. "

Another piece of news that Klein didn't know.

Klein used to only know that the dark zone was [active], and he only knew that the wilderness was [alive], but he had never connected the two.

Now that he knew the relationship between the two, he couldn't relax.

[Wildness] is the [Dark Zone]. This news means many things. For example: [Wildness] must be reached through the Gate of Transcendence, and [Dark Zone] only needs to enter the range that cannot be covered by the lighthouse. Now [Wildness] Becoming a [Dark Zone] means that the [Wilderness] is hidden somewhere in the [Dark Zone], which means that after the apocalypse comes, the boundaries between the underworld and the underworld begin to blur...

Klein thought of a lot at the moment, but most of those thoughts could not deduce any more information. The only thing he could deduce was the terrifying fact that "disasters lead to disasters."

When Wright III spoke again, the imperceptible heaviness in his tone had disappeared, as if his whole person had returned to calm:
"People should fear the apocalypse, not because it destroyed most of them, but because, until now, this is only the second coming of the apocalypse."

Klein asked a question that seemed unnecessary:
"Will the apocalypse come again?"

Wright III’s expression was very relaxed, but the words that came out of his mouth really made people uncomfortable:
"Yes, child, that is the punishment of gods."

Klein was a little stunned, because Wright III was not talking about the Holy Light, but just "gods" - this was already a kind of blasphemy - this was completely a subconscious reaction of Wright III.

The leader of the choir in a high position should not make such a mistake!

Is this old man... essentially a heretic? !
He was completely speechless at this discovery.

Wright III gently patted his arm and said:

"Good boy, rest. I will pray for you and let the best doctors on the ship treat you. After you recover, I still have important things for you to do."

Klein thanked him with difficulty and watched Wright III leave the ward.

Has he truly entered their circle now?

Klein doesn't think so.

'I am nothingness. '

He confirmed this idea over and over in his mind.

'I am a non-existent nothingness, I wander in the air, I pass through walls without being noticed by anyone, I walk among humans without being caught by any means. '

When this thought became strong enough, Klein's spirit suddenly left his body and "suspended" on the surface of his body.

Klein glanced at himself with his eyes closed, turned around and floated out of the ward.

He noticed the back of Wright III, but did not look directly at it. Instead, he turned around to confirm the direction, passed through the wall, and headed towards the bottom of the ship.

He quickly arrived at a cell where the former warrior-like imperial guard was imprisoned by a type of shackles called [Self-Detection Electrodes]. As long as he moved slightly, the shackles would be electrified, rendering him incapacitated.

In the long silence, a voice suddenly sounded in the ears of the imperial guard.

'You are the Yingguo warrior beside Chen Yan, right? '

(End of this chapter)