Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

The crow stared at the magpie without saying anything.

There is nothing he can do now.

"First of all, thanks to my voluntary labor, the vast majority of people involved in the Z Group explosion received timely treatment!
All office staff who were not in direct contact with the building survived the explosion! I've given their bodies some level of omnic modifications - none of them implanted with viruses - and the speed of their recovery seems great!
Secondly, although I failed to save Chen Yan, I allowed her to survive in another form - I uploaded her into a blank Turing chip, and she became a brand new Turing! She will become the central control system of the group in the future and work hard for the group - just like she did in the past!

Once again, I decided to let you, junior brother, continue to cultivate here. "

The magpie's expression began to become very deformed:

"Junior brother, you were injured too badly. There is even something wrong with your brain-computer chip. I have started to repair your brain-computer chip urgently, but I don't know what the result will be - but don't worry, the worst result is just It’s just amnesia, not a serious mental disorder.”

Crow swung out his fist, but it only hit the junction of light and darkness in front of him - the light seemed to form a wall, blocking his physical body.

"Don't worry, please be patient, I will definitely save you!"

After saying these words decisively, the magpie retreated into the darkness.

Only Crow was left sitting on the small bench illuminated by light, enveloped in death-like silence.

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When Klein and Ogami drove the shuttle ship to the outside of the planet, they stared at the white planet outside the porthole window and almost couldn't hold back their cheers.

After such a long and wonderful journey, they finally returned to their hometown. When the concept of hometown came to their minds, they all had a strange feeling. They never realized that "hometown" would actually bring them Such feelings - warmth, calm, tranquility, excitement, joy...

From their current perspective, the surface of the planet is vast, and obviously the entire world is still covered in heavy snow. However, what is different from their original imagination is that the vastness is unevenly distributed, and azure and deep colors can still be seen in some locations on the planet's surface. blue.

They had not studied meteorology and had no idea what those colors meant.

Outside the planet, the huge space city attached to the planet is like a mechanical stick insect lying on a persimmon. Most of the stick insect's tens of thousands of segments have been burned into ruins, leaving only the intact ones. A faint light can also be seen on the "head".

That's the STR-56 Space City.

All the good feelings came to an abrupt end when a discordant voice appeared on the shuttle's radio:

"Shuttle ship STR-2390124, please accept the guidance and merge with STR-56."

Ogami frowned and said:

"who is it?"

The person who answered him was not Klein, but a very emotional electronic voice coming from the center console:
"It's the defense center of the STR-56 space station. Damn it! We were targeted by their rail guns!"

The speaker was [Turing] STR-2390, whom they brought back from the STR-239023 Starlink Colony. He did not like others to call him a number, but preferred others to call him the name he gave himself: Kongche SAMA.

The electronic sound in the center keeps coming:
"That rail gun was originally built to defend the gods. Its parameters are at the pinnacle of human heavy industry in all aspects. Coupled with the power supply of the controllable nuclear fusion reactor, as long as it is targeted, it will never escape. Dropped."

Facing Central Turing's explanation, Ogami seemed to have thought of something, combined with the secrets he had explored during this trip, and asked:
"What god?"

Kongche SAMA said:

"It's a powerful imaginary enemy. Someone at the top of the empire 'predicted' that the apocalypse might come from an 'attack from the gods', so they built many similar defense facilities."

This conflicts with Ogami's perception of the world. In his perception, [Apocalypse] is the manifestation of operational errors caused by server instability in the real world, rather than the means of a specific subjective will.

Perhaps the truth was more complicated than he imagined. He thought to himself that after so many years, he must not be the only one who could complete the [Soul Characteristic Value]. Those who had gone to the BIOS in the past might have known other secrets, and if He usually brought the secret back, causing the empire's top brass to realize that "the gods would attack".

Perhaps the empire's top brass made such a decision simply based on fear of the apocalypse.

Or maybe there really is such a [god] - a person who has obtained server administrator rights, and launched the [Apocalypse] for some purpose.

Or maybe...

Ogami couldn't tell. He had too little information, and the sources were unreliable. He could only draw very vague inferences from the information he obtained. He knew in his heart that he could not draw from these vague inferences. The right truth.

Suddenly, Kongche SAMA captured a surprising message.

"Wait a minute... I just learned from the space city network that their core controllable nuclear fusion reactor has been blown up by Apocalypse. Now the entire lower level of the space city has become a high-energy radiation zone, while the upper level power supply of the space city has It is maintained by several cosmic ray collecting generators located at the top."

It's not very surprising news.

Klein looked at the central control information display above the radar map, his eyes gradually stiffening:

"They are starting to interfere with our radar signals. If this continues, we will lose our way even if we enter the surface."

Kongche SAMA shouted excitedly:

"They are not in the same command system as us, and they have no authority to use orders over us! There must be a riot in the space city!"

Klein had a headache with this central Turing. He had repeatedly suggested not to talk like that and just report the program information, but Kongche SAMA said that he was like this when he was designed and there was no way to change it.

Under the threat of death, they had to merge in accordance with the orders of the STR-56 space city. The shuttle changed its direction and headed towards the upper level of the space city.

Klein looked at the airport getting closer and closer, thinking in his mind, and muttered:
"It stands to reason that the STR-56 space city does not belong to a specific force, because when the city was originally built, it had been divided up by the military, the choir, and the imperial aristocracy. Among the surviving senior administrators, there should be Only people I know can be right..."

Kongche SAMA immediately poured a basin of cold water on him:
"Some unreliable network information shows that the network of the STR-56 space city has been disconnected from the subsequent Starlink colony. Before the disconnection, several distress signals were sent out. Those distress signals showed that more than just what is happening inside the space city is It's a riot, and there's something even more dangerous -

It seems that some kind of electronic biochemical item has been leaked, or that some kind of transcendent with a predatory form has launched an attack on humans. "

Klein's heart felt cold. If some form of riot really broke out in the space city, even if those fat-headed administrative officials were lucky enough to survive, they would definitely be ousted by the violence department, and his relationship with them would be gone. purpose. Ogami asked:
"Sora, do any of your clan members serve in the STR-56 space city?"

Kongche SAMA’s tone was heavy:

"According to the unreliable online information, even if my people survive the apocalypse, they will most likely be infected by electronic and biochemical items. I cannot predict whether they still have the basic ability to judge right and wrong."

What a sad news. Even Turing, who has knowledge and reason that far exceeds that of humans, is not immune, let alone humans who are far inferior to Turing.

Seeing that the shuttle was about to enter the airport, Klein quickly asked:
"What exactly are the so-called 'electronic biochemical items' that can infect [Turing]?"

Kongche SAMA’s heavy tone became even worse:
"It is a new type of electronic biotechnology that surpasses all current technologies. This technology does not serve society and will not produce any productivity. In the form of technology, the concept of technology will regress, just like human beings are degenerating."

Based on the rich emotions in the code, Kongche SAMA is unable to further interpret this so-called "new electronic biotechnology".

Moments before entering the orbit of the space station airport, Ogami finally saw the full view of the "orbital gun"——

The "mechanical cone" that is so huge that it covers half of the upper side of the space city shows a perfectly smooth surface under the illumination of cosmic rays. The unique surface material makes this behemoth appear to be completely integrated with the surface of the space city, just like on the skin. Slightly raised.

From this angle, you can easily see that the slender body of the rail gun is hidden inside the "mechanical cone". The bottom of the gun body is hidden very deep in the space city and is completely invisible from the outside.

With an almost imperceptible jolt, the shuttle entered the port and then connected to the orbit, completing its merger with the port.

The track transported the shuttle boat to the isolation door, and the air pressure valve began to operate. As a harsh high-pressure exhaust sound sounded, part of the layer of frost covering the shuttle boat's portholes rose into water vapor, and part condensed into water. The portholes flowed downwards and soon disappeared.

The two wore special engineering suits on the shuttle ship and synchronized the wireless frequency band of the engineering suits with Kongche SAMA - until this neither tedious nor simple process was completed, they did not receive any signals from the STR-56 space. City more commands.

"what's the situation……"

Kongche SAMA's voice appeared in their ears through the miniature microphone of the engineering suit helmet:

"Something's wrong. I just tried to send the entry application, but I didn't receive a receipt. This means that Turing in the space city has been completely offline, and there is no manual review to supplement the positions."

It was eerily quiet outside the porthole, and the imagined situation of being surrounded by armed forces did not appear.

There was no one in the huge, miraculous airport, and there was no sign of any ship. There were only two of them in the lonely harbor that was formed by the entire silver-white mechanical deconstruction and was like the Kingdom of God.

This place seems dead.

The trouble is not just that. Judging from the information that Kongche SAMA subsequently probed, even if there is no armed force or any staff to connect with them, they cannot do without the STR-56 space city, because the space city The original semi-automated weapon system has completely disappeared from the space city network. Not to mention inaccessible, even the access entrance has disappeared - as if such a thing never existed at all.

"I suggest that we enter the server of STR-56 space city to obtain permission to leave this place. On the 871st floor of the space city, connect me to the server central control through the physical interface, and I will be able to obtain a pass to leave the space city."

They have no better choice now.

Fortunately, Jack Baldo left weapons for them in the cabin - two high-energy rifles for dealing with alien creatures in the mines. They are some kind of cluster laser weapons, although they are much more powerful than ordinary weapons due to their ultra-high thermal energy levels. , but the range is ridiculously short, and it cannot effectively kill carbon-based life beyond ten meters.

But they have no choice now.

Following the index of Kongche SAMA, they passed through the empty airport and entered the inner corridor of the space city. The place was brightly lit, and it seemed that the cosmic ray collection generator at the top of the space city was running smoothly.

They were passing through a residential area now. There was no one or any sound in the entire area. Only some infrastructure was still running under the power supply. When they entered the circular commercial street in the connecting hall of the residential area, they immediately saw The holographic bunny girl dancing on the roof of the candy house, and the stuffed bear squatting at the door of the cafe.

Kongche SAMA gave them guidance:
"That stuffed bear is not a data life, it is just an advanced limited-range computer. It is intelligent enough within its limited range of functions. We may be able to know what happened here from its mouth."

The two came to the doll bear, and the electronic creation opened its hands to them according to its established program:
"Please taste the coffee~"

But it didn't have coffee in its hand.

With the attitude of giving it a try, Ogami raised his gun and pointed it at the stuffed bear.

The two-meter-tall electronic creature actually looked frightened and squatted down with its head in its hands, trembling all over.

Kongche SAMA’s scream appeared in their headsets in an instant:
"This thing shouldn't have emotions! Something's wrong with it! Get out!"

Both of them are ruthless characters. Seeing this situation, they were not afraid at all. Klein also raised his gun and pointed it at the teddy bear's head:

"What happened here?"

The stuffed bear squatting there was twitching all over as if it had been electrocuted. It was trembling violently and said intermittently:

“Suddenly something came up from below!

People... began to flee for their lives!

The people behind started to chase the people in front, their bodies penetrated their bodies, and their flesh and blood merged into flesh and blood!
People are all dead! All dead! "

Kongche SAMA appeared in their ears with a surprised voice:

"This guy seems to be no longer a simple limited-range computer, it... seems to have become some kind of very simple... but very powerful data life.

In any case, it has been invaded by that strange new electronic biotechnology, and the people it talks about should also be infected by this new electronic biotechnology.

Anyway, please leave as soon as possible! "

The moment Kongche SAMA's voice fell, the doll bear suddenly raised his head, and the electronic sound was filled with suppressed excitement:

"You guys smell so good!"