Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

"If the virus just now is defined as a native species, then this spore can be defined as a subspecies."

Kongche SAMA told the two of them:

"The morphology of these spores looks different from the aberrant biological tissues formed by previous viruses, but they are actually the same thing. The embers that are constantly flickering on the surface of the spore clusters and spore floccules are their eyes."

"They are trying to let the virus itself invade the server... They are actively mutating."

Kongche SAMA's tone has changed, and a very clear fear appears in his voice:
"They are conscious and intelligent. They...must be watching us. I even seemed to hear their sneers...They did not regard us as enemies, but just...comparisons drilled out of the sewers on the roadside. A strong rat...or some kind of poisonous bug..."

"It's no longer safe here... I originally thought that the space city's LAN would provide us with a lot of help..."

"Boy, we may not be able to leave."

Ogami asked:
"What's the probability of not being able to leave?"

Kongche SAMA said pessimistically:
"83%!"

The two of them suddenly felt relaxed, and Ogami looked incomprehensible:
"It's not that high. Let's move forward. Could you please help us?"

Kongche SAMA is completely unable to understand their mentality. He does not understand how human beings persist in things that seem to have a very small probability of success. He cannot understand such things as "faith", even if the interpretation of this thing is completely up to him. in the database.

They continued forward, and after a while they arrived at the central control room of the server room.

Pushing the door open, they saw that the center console of the center control room was completely covered by spores with ember eyes. Someone was lying on a rotating office chair in front of the center console. When they entered the door , the man also turned around.

"You came at the right time!"

Klein looked at the man's face and immediately recognized his identity. As one of the few dangerous people on the Mechanical Hive's list, this man had also been on the collection list of the Northern Federal Bureau of Abnormal Biological Investigation for a long time. superior--

Miao Shuisheng, this person's recorded identity is a "terrorist", "Pan-Blooded Extraordinary Scholar", "Reconstructor" and "Severe Genetic Deficiency Person". From Klein's perspective, Miao Shuisheng had planned and He has led several terrorist incidents that seriously threatened social security, and has never been arrested after the incident. Even under the relentless pursuit of the Northern Bureau, Miao Shuisheng has remained safe to this day.

Klein didn't want to believe a word of what came out of his mouth.

"I brought you here."

Miao Shuisheng did not show any hostility. He pointed at the virus spores on the center console and said:
"As you can see, these things are almost swallowing up the entire space city. You need to help me fight against these things. In return, I will help you return to the surface."

Does he know about the surface?
Klein asked:
"What's going on with the earth now? I deserve to know all the truth you know."

An inexplicable force acted on Miao Shuisheng, causing him to answer truthfully:
"The empire is over, the Internet of Things has been completely frozen, and almost all major cities have been completely submerged by the tsunami. There is only one surviving city, which is the mechanical hive in the first island chain."

After finally hearing the good news, the two of them felt much more relaxed.

Miao Shuisheng frowned and said:

"What did you use on me? Was it the executor's idealistic power? It didn't arouse my subjective disgust... It's really interesting.

There was only one surviving city, but there were many small strongholds the size of ordinary castles. Some forces with ancient heritage had spent many years building their strongholds, so they were able to survive after the tsunami destroyed everything.

After the tsunami came, the natural ecology of the entire planet was completely destroyed. The Great Ice Age came again and everything was frozen. According to the experience of past generations, this Ice Age will last for 300 years, of which the first 300 years will be As the ice freeze intensifies, the middle 800 years will be used to accumulate new strength, and the last 200 years will give birth to new life in the world. "

When the two of them heard the news, they felt a little cold in their hearts. Will they survive the intensifying Ice Age for 300 years... This is impossible no matter how you look at it.

"Oh, by the way, in addition to surviving cities and small strongholds that are self-enclosed and won't appear in the world until the end of the ice age, there is also a ship in the stratosphere."

The two knew immediately which ship it was.

"That ship once tried to contact us, but was blocked by our boss. It seems because there were dangerous people on the ship who were difficult to deal with. I don't know the details."

"But no matter what, that ship cannot change the current situation that the world is about to enter a thousand, three hundred years of ice."

Miao Shuisheng said:
"That's all I know about what's going on on the surface."

Just as Klein was about to speak, he was interrupted by Miao Shuisheng:

"I don't know how much power you have left."

Klein looked into his eyes, and for a moment he felt like he was being targeted by some extremely vicious cold-blooded animal.

This feeling disappeared in an instant as Miao Shuisheng looked away.

"I advise you to save your money. Even I can't leave here now. You have to obey the boss's orders in everything."

Who is the boss?

Miao Shuisheng did not explain, but Klein had a guess in his mind: Since Miao Shuisheng belongs to the "Pan-blood School" of the extraordinary side school, his boss may be a senior researcher in the Pan-blood School.

Klein has not been in the Northern Bureau for a long time and has not had much contact with such confidential information, so he does not know who the researchers of the "Pan-Blood School" are and how many there are.

Miao Shuisheng pointed to the surrounding virus subspecies:
"I created this thing through small means. I want to use this thing to resist. As long as I eliminate the [source strain of the virus] and gain control of the space city, I can send you away."

Ogami asked:
"What if you fail?"

Miao Shuisheng lowered his head and thought for a moment before replying:
"Probably... this disgusting virus will fuse with everything - all living and non-living creations, even the air - and it will become some kind of gaseous virus molecule, spreading in any space and turning the space into itself , and then...it might just spread to the whole universe, who knows?"

Ogami asked:

"What the hell is that thing?"

Miao Shuisheng didn't think about it this time and told him the answer Xanthium had told him:
"It is the end of evolution and the [ultimate] of all things."

Miao Shuisheng did not continue to explain, but said: "As for whether what I said is correct, you can ask Turing. He has probably collected enough information."

After a brief stagnation, Kongche SAMA’s frightened voice with an emotional breakdown appeared in their ears:

"Yes, you two, that thing does meet the definition of the ultimate form of all matter... It has even been watching me. It allowed me to enter the server, so I was able to get information about it... We entered the space city from All my actions up to now have been under its watchful eye!”

Miao Shuisheng seemed to be able to hear Kongche SAMA's voice, and his next words seemed to be a complement to Kongche SAMA:

"Actually, it is not as scary as you think now, because its cognition comes from the database that has been filtered by the space city. The database has more knowledge and fewer bad things recorded, and the boss has given it a ban on eating brains. command, so it hasn’t learned it bad yet.

It is still a simple child.

But I can’t tell for sure in the future. It has grown too fast. Now it is just mentally immature. You know, as a child, the rebellious period will always come. When it rebels against the boss, people like me will He will become a victim of their confrontation. "

Miao Shuisheng was not depressed when he said these words. He had obviously accepted the reality, but still sought change.

Klein glanced at Ogami, and when he saw Ogami's seemingly plain but firm eyes, he already understood what he was thinking.

So he turned to Miao Shuisheng and asked:
"So, what do we need to do?"

Miao Shuisheng said:
"It's very simple, but also very dangerous - you need to keep in touch with me at all times and at the same time enter a laboratory on the upper level of the space city to get the child's genetic sequence information."

This is his plan to "dissolve" the [source strain of the virus].

Miao Shuisheng continued:

"I can't watch you all the time, and you don't have much time. The child is evolving every minute. When you leave the area covered by the subspecies virus, you will return to his field of vision. Don't Do something drastic, don't try anything to anger him, and then go to the end of the 3rd floor of the space city.

Now, I give you the key to enter the laboratory at the end of the third floor of the space city.

If you want to be less conspicuous, you must become a part of this city... its city. I will use my authority to arrange an identity for you. You must live according to this identity and cannot try anything other than this identity. That will make it feel that you don't follow the rules of the game it has set, and it will get angry. "

It turns out that the entire space city has become its playground.

It turns out that those people I saw before were all dolls in [its] amusement park.

"I have sent your identity to your Turing, and the key to the laboratory, the digital key, has also been sent to him."

"Now, go ahead, you two, I wish you success."

Klein and Ogami left Miao Shuisheng's server room. They had been thinking about the possibility of Miao Shuisheng's plan, but now they were unable to obtain more information. This resulted in them not only being unable to think effectively, but also wasting money. A lot of effort.

The only thing they can be sure of is that the printer supported by [Elemental Reconstruction] technology cannot enter the surface as soon as possible to provide services for the mechanical hive.

Damn bad news.

……

……

At this moment, the surface, the first island chain, and the submarine cable tunnel.

The reason why Dais Island can become the largest island in the first island chain is that the island itself is built on a ridge. Even if the bottom of the island was later hollowed out to build a mechanical hive, Dais Island is still relatively close to the seabed. Here, , mobile phones have been able to receive beacon signals from mechanical hives.

When the console connected to the last section of cable is lit, the entire undersea tunnel project returns to normal operation. Only the cable docking equipment at the bottom of the mechanical hive needs to restart operation, and the entire mechanical hive will resume the controllable nuclear fusion reactor. Limit power supply!

Adam's lazy voice sounded from the speaker of Chen Yan's cell phone:
"Hey, we're probably right under the mechanical hive now. How do you get up? If I remember correctly, when the mechanical hive was flooded by the tsunami, the power transmission system at the bottom was forced because it exceeded the transmission distance. The disconnection—it must have been caused by the alien."

Chen Yan picked up the phone:

"Yes, I'm about to make a phone call with that alien right now, please don't talk."

Chen Yan was in a very nervous mood. Due to the weather, the coverage area of ​​the mechanical hive lighthouse was greatly reduced. There was almost no signal not far away from the mechanical hive. He had not contacted the mechanical hive in the past two days. I don’t know if everyone How is everything going?

Soon, the phone was connected, and Swam's slightly panicked voice came from the phone:

"Sir, something went wrong... I followed your instructions and came to the substation, but the power transmission system here has been destroyed... It was blown up. The entire hardware facility of the power transmission system was blown into ruins."

When Chen Yan heard the news, a string that had been tight in his head these days broke with a bang.

Swarm said:
"Maybe it was the guy named Victor Corleone who did it. I have been chasing him these past few days, but he is too cunning. I really can't find any trace of him."

Chen Yan still didn't feel relieved.

Swarm was completely unaware of Chen Yan's mental state, and he continued:

"A lot has happened in the past two days... After you left, this guy named Victor Corleone appeared out of nowhere. He forcibly opened several warehouses under the guise of 'appointing a new governor in the empire'. The food in the warehouse was distributed to the people, and they were promised that they could eat like this in the future.

Therefore, when the group's social investigation team went out to investigate, the snake boy you sent to the front line to conduct household surveys was killed by the fanatical people. They hung him on the roof of the church and let him bleed dry. And die, as a way to express their anger at you...for only giving them two meals a day.

There's another thing... The Z Group's building was blown up, Doctor Crow died on the spot, Miss Chen Yan was seriously injured, but she was transformed by omnics and survived by luck, everyone else suffered injuries..."

When Chen Yan listened to Swam's words, his mind went completely blank for a moment.

"I chased those people, but with little success... They seemed to know my abilities and avoided me. I couldn't kill them all, and I only managed to save a few people, including Koschilanfo..."

"Sir, are you listening?"

"Sir?"