Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Two hours after the Z Group explosion.

Mechanical Hive Area B-3, in a secret room in a residential building.

The old woman who was sitting in a wheelchair and had become a living dead had dull eyes. Her eyes were filled with white shadows and narrowed, making her look like she was half asleep and half awake.

She had a bone spur on the little toe of one of her feet that was on the iron foot pad under the front end of the wheelchair. On the bone spur, there was off-white flesh crawling along the bone spur, expanding, extending, and growing outward from the bone spur on her foot. The combination formed an increasingly clear outline of Thomas Gilbert.

The bone spur gradually turned black while transporting nutrients to form flesh and blood. When Thomas Gilbert formed a humanoid form, the entire bone spur broke off from the old woman's toe and became his index finger.

She seemed to have suffered tremendous pain, but she still hadn't woken up from her half-life and half-death state. She could only use her muscles and nerves to react by raising her face and then twitching - extreme pain, that was what she could do now. The only consciousness I have.

Thomas Gilbert coughed violently and coughed up white blood all over the floor. The blood squirmed under the cold light of the scattered light, as if it was alive.

Thomas Gilbert looked at them with disgust, then ran over them with his foot.

After crushing them, he slowly made a hugging movement, hugged the old woman, and whispered in her ear:

"We will succeed soon, aunt, just wait for me, soon, soon..."

He stood up and took the clothes he had prepared from the hangers on the side of the secret room. He allowed his body, which was gradually returning to normal functions, to slowly adapt to the rough touch of the clothes until he shakily put on all the clothes. A thought flashed through his mind. :
He took over his aunt before the apocalypse. Fortunately, he took over his aunt in advance, and now everything has room for relaxation.

He looked at his watch and determined the current time.

Since the first time he used his aunt to be reborn, his rebirth time has been getting longer and longer each time——

After each death, his soul will return to his aunt's body. The time of return is proportional to the distance, and then he will be reborn from his aunt's body——

From the first few seconds to the current two hours, from the initial rapid growth to the current difficult struggle to reach adulthood, Thomas Gilbert sensed a very serious crisis.

He could no longer rely on his aunt as before.

But this is something he can't control?

He is not the protagonist of some third-rate novels and TV series. He cannot always have smooth sailing. In their line of work, he gets a lot, but the corresponding dangers are also great. People who deal with bullets all day long will eventually die under bullets. He has Having so many opportunities to be reborn is already a huge blessing.

The only thing he was sure of was that he would never find another aunt.

Thomas Gilbert walked out of the secret room door, passed through a public washroom and came to an ordinary residential hive. He walked around the cloister and followed the stairs to the street like an ordinary tenant.

He looked at some shops on both sides of the street that had started to open again, and felt a sense of regret in his heart.

These stores were able to reopen entirely because the Z Group developed something called [Internet Voucher], which has the same function as the former Imperial Pound. The difference is that the circulation of trade vouchers is now very restricted. , because this thing is only paid as a salary to those who can work now, and these people are very few.

Thomas Gilbert heard Chen Yan say that business can release the vitality of a city, so he and his think tanks began to think about things like [Internet Securities]. Chen Yan and his staff hoped to use this thing To unleash the vitality of the mechanical hive and let everything run on its own to the grandeur of the former days when logistics centers ruled.

Nothing is possible now.

Noisy alarm bells were heard in the distance on the street not far away, and the dispersed crowds were flowing in the direction of the alarm bells. In such an urgent situation, people instinctively avoided all kinds of things that might represent disasters, and did not care at all. I like to join in the fun as usual.

Thomas Gilbert lowered the brim of his hat so that his face was completely hidden in the shadow of a winter hat. At this time, most people in the Mechanical Hive were wearing such hats. Although his appearance seemed ugly to him. Very, but easier to make him look less conspicuous.

Thomas Gilbert walked slowly on the street, following the crowds of people, and began to review the situation two hours ago in his mind, trying to find a glimmer of hope for a comeback.

More than two hours ago, the bastard Magpie appeared in front of him with a group of very powerful extraordinary beings, and used a force that he could not resist to deprive him of all his ability to act——

They cut out his tongue and replaced several large joints on his body with omniscient devices. All subsequent actions were under their control, and he had no choice.

He knew that they didn't want him to survive, so they did what they did. They also didn't want most people in Z Group to survive, so they tied bombs all over his body and detonated them inside Z Group.

Pity……

It's a pity that the great situation created by Chen Yan was destroyed by a group of lunatics...

Thomas Gilbert was very irritated and wanted to take out a cigarette from his pocket, but the hand that reached into his pocket quickly froze.

Cigarettes are a rare item nowadays. He only got two of them by following Chen Yan's raiding team. If he smoked them all so quickly, he would definitely not be able to smoke them for a long time in the future.

Not being able to smoke is as torture as going to jail.

Thoughts were running through his mind.Judging from the conversation between Magpie and those extraordinary beings, Magpie and the people behind him had already found out that at least half of the core members of Group Z were in that hive before doing this. As long as that building was blown up, Half of what Chen Yan had arranged was finished, and the remaining half would be completely destroyed with their continuous invasion.

Even if Chen Yan comes back, they still have a way to deal with him - the legendary leader of the Choir's [coffin] is now in the mechanical hive. They just need to find a way to get the leader to stand up again and take a breath, let alone a thousand Chen Yan, even 1 Chen Yan would be dead!

—They said these things to Thomas Gilbert's presence.

Not only did he hear their plan, but he also heard their curses. This time the operation to blow up the Z Group camp was not helped by any other forces. This was not because other forces were hostile to them, but because most other forces only knew how to do it. Wait and see——

Even in this life-and-death doomsday, they still remained rational and shrewd like only top businessmen. They used shrewd silence to force the magpie and those who most desperately wanted Chen Yan to die completely to the front line. When the winner was decided, They will definitely celebrate the winner and use their unique way to help the winner interpret everything.

This group of madman-like extraordinary beings who appeared in front of Thomas Gilbert had planned for a long time and clearly named the two big figures. Thomas Gilbert had heard those two names and knew the energy represented by those names.

But he wasn't sure if they meant it to him, because he had clearly understood before that Magpie knew that he had an aunt and that he could be reborn from her aunt's body.

Magpie... Even though Magpie knew that he could be reborn, he did not stay at the place where he was reborn. This may be because Magpie did not know the location of his rebirth, but it is more likely that Magpie deliberately let him live. Thomas Gilbert He had worked his way up from the bottom, and he knew that in the market, as long as you were willing to put in the effort, there was no secret that you couldn't find out.

Magpie...what on earth is he going to do?
Thomas Gilbert thought to himself, if the magpie deliberately wanted to let him live, then the names of the two big men mentioned before were also told to him?
Tell him these two hostile big shots, do you want Chen Yan to follow the clues and eradicate other hostile forces after he comes back?
If this guess is true, then, are the magpies actually helping?
That's not right. He carried so many bombs and exploded. Most of the people in the building must have been completely ruined. All the administrative staff of Chen Yan and Chen Yan, including the doctors of the entire Intelligent Prosthetic and Prosthetic company, were all ruined— —With so many people dead, Chen Yan will definitely not let the magpie go when he comes back.

So why do magpies want to help?
Or maybe, Magpie just wants to eradicate the two big guys and the forces behind them, which is his purpose in itself.

But what benefit does it bring to Magpie to clean up the boss?People like Magpie are best at moving between forces, relying on information differences to earn everyone's price difference. If Chen Yan uproots the hostile forces, how will Magpie make money from the information gap in the future?
That's not how business is done.

So, what does the magpie want to do?
Thomas Gilbert found that he had hit a blind spot in his thinking, and for a moment he couldn't figure it out at all.

In short, he must have a unique purpose.

Thomas Gilbert thought for a moment and still decided to put his money on Chen Yan.

He thought clearly in his mind that there were several reasons why he had to make such a decision:
The most important reason is that Chen Yan possesses absolute violence. Thomas Gilbert once saw with his own eyes a scene in which a team of well-equipped transcendent mercenaries were completely powerless to resist in front of Chen Yan and were instantly strangled. That scene still shocks people to this day. His mind.

The second reason does not seem to be important. Thomas Gilbert believed that Chen Yan was a very soft-hearted person. When Chen Yan personally killed several big gangs a few days ago, this idea had wavered until He accidentally saw Chen Yantu fainting in the bathroom after that, and this idea became firm again - the Slaughterer actually fainted with blood. Even dogs wouldn't believe this if he told it, but Thomas Gilbert Just saw it with my own eyes.

Thomas Gilbert believes that soft-hearted people are most fond of old friendships. If you work under such people, as long as you don't stir up big troubles, you will generally be forgiven. The snake boy who killed his brother before was not guilty. Was he sent by Chen Yan to solve the social civil investigation?

Thomas Gilbert is also well-informed within the Z Group. He knows that the social and civil investigation at this time has entered a critical stage. As long as the investigation is carried out, he will inevitably face violent conflicts and organized armed murders at any time. This is serious. Hard work!
But at least there is room for relaxation - that kid killed someone!

Chen Yan made it clear before that those who kill must pay with their lives.

Chen Yan went against what he had said and broke the rules he had set, just because that kid took his life and made a contribution - this matter is not as serious as it seems, because everyone understands Chen Yan's situation and also Everyone knows that casually killing a meritorious person will cause great damage to the internal connections of the entire organization, and will be devastating to the personal credibility of the organization leader - this is something even a gangster like Thomas Gilbert knows. .

Regardless of whether Chen Yan killed the snake boy or not, he was still not a human being inside and out, so Chen Yan took a smarter approach and asked the boy to perform a more dangerous and life-threatening chore. This kind of treatment was completely justified. , everyone was convinced, and there was no need to continue to investigate Chen Yan for breaking the rules he had set.

——This means that when you work under Chen Yan, you won't lose your head directly because of a momentary mistake.

——According to Thomas Gilbert’s contact with the major forces in the Mechanical Hive, there are only a handful of big guys who can do this.

Most people who can hold high positions are arrogant, especially today when the power in their hands has been infinitely magnified by the apocalypse. Human life is more despicable than a piece of grass. Those who have power and arms can kill and take away the remaining lives. .

Chen Yan stepped forward, which is a good thing, because among the 50 people in the Mechanical Hive, I don’t know if there will be another Chen Yan. Therefore, although Chen Yan did not do that well, and the rules he made were full of loopholes, there are still Better than nothing.

——After such a long psychological game, Thomas Gilbert chose to fight for the interests of the Z Group.

Now the enemy is in the open and he is in the dark. A dead person can do much more than a living person. He believes that he must cherish his current identity.

Thomas Gilbert pressed the brim of his hat, recalling the two names mentioned by Magpie before, and already had a plan in mind.

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At this moment, in the sky of the planet, in the ice sky, there is an unknown area.

On the shuttle boat, Klein, whose eyes were bloodshot, pulled his eyelids upward, and then used tape to stick the pulled eyelids to his forehead.

Some white haze has appeared in his eyes, which is the early symptom of snow blindness. This damn disease caused his vision to decline significantly in just 24 hours. Now he can only rely on the radar in front of him to identify the direction and direction. The shape of the earth's surface has changed - God knows why his modified body still suffers from such low-level diseases!

He and Ogami had been on the shuttle boat for such a long time, and the oil in the fuel tank was about to bottom out, but they still did not see the shadow of the mechanical hive. This was obviously abnormal. At the speed of the shuttle boat, They have circled the planet for more than half a circle. According to the original positioning of the mechanical hive in the radar, they should have arrived long ago.