Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chen Yan's entire brain was empty, and a deep sense of powerlessness flashed through his body like an electric current, making it impossible for him to even have any ideas.

"what……"

The power transmission system at the bottom of the mechanical hive is not a separate hardware device, but a complex equipment group that requires multiple devices to work together to be effective. The entire system occupies nearly one-half of the area at the bottom of the mechanical hive. In this current situation In the era, most of the parts of this system were orphan products produced and transported back from Starlink.

That thing was blown up, and all Chen Yan's efforts these days were in vain. And this was not the only dilemma Chen Yan faced. They actually blew up his company and killed his people. This was something he had never done before. What I have thought of is also the first time I have experienced it in my life.

He murmured unconsciously.

"I...I know."

He didn't want to just give that answer.

"I...will go back soon."

He hung up the phone and stood there blankly, swaying with the breeze in the tunnel like a zombie. The exhaustion arising from his heart made him sit down on the ground, without the strength to get up.

"Victor Corleone..."

Chen Yan murmured the name repeatedly until he got used to the bad news, until the anger swept away the sadness in his heart.

"Oh shit."

He cursed calmly, then climbed up with support on the ground. He took out a pack of cigarettes from the depths of his pocket in a panic, lit the cigarette regardless of Adam's safety warning, and then smoked it all in one breath.

As the smoke filled the air, Chen Yan fiercely flicked the cigarette butt to his feet:

"Damn it, I don't know what's so good about smoking this thing until now. When I go back this time, I will bury all the cigarettes in the mechanical hive!

I also want to sign a no-smoking order! From now on, no one can smoke on this third of an acre of land! "

Adam on the phone whistled:
"The commander-in-chief is angry!"

Chen Yan said with an extremely angry attitude and a smile:

"I probably know what they want to do. Let's go back now. We'll go back first... we'll have to go back. Let's go back and see how many people we'll kill. Kill... kill a few people who don't have eyesight. Kill a few people who do evil things. Kill a few people." A deliberate plan to kill that bastard Victor Corleone, and then, oh fuck, then I don’t know what to do!”

Adam's voice came out from the mobile phone with a hint of mockery:
"Are humans so easily manipulated by anger?"

Chen Yan said while calling the investigation team members who came with him this time:
"Anger is not a bad thing, and losing your mind is not necessarily a bad thing. Adam, you don't understand."

He made the call.

"Lindsay, we have to go back. The power infrastructure at the bottom of the mechanical hive was blown up, and there is no way to connect the reactor cables. Our trip was in vain."

"Well, I don't know for sure. I heard it's a man named Victor Corleone. You guys clean up, and we go back to settle accounts with him."

"Huh? I'm not sad, am I? I'm fine."

"You're worried about me...you're worried about me, you might as well worry more about the mechanical hive, because this time everyone is really going to freeze to death and starve to death!"

"Huh? Out of control? I'm not out of control! I'm very good!"

Chen Yan hung up the phone with a completely different arrogance than usual, and then walked to the elevator at the end of the undersea tunnel.

The power for the entire undersea tunnel project is provided by the reactor. Although this power cannot reach the mechanical hive now, it is enough to allow him to return to the bottom of the mechanical hive, which is where Swam said it was blown up.

When Chen Yan arrived here, the top of the elevator was no longer the transformer room where the reactor cables were connected and the nuclear power battery room. Everything except the elevator-related equipment had been blown up.

"He even kept the elevator when he blew it up, knowing I was coming back from here!"

Chen Yan made a crying gesture:

“He’s so sweet!”

Chen Yan took a step forward and felt that his ankle was caught. When he looked down, he saw that a thread was broken under his feet. The thread seemed to be... the lead of something...

next moment--

boom!
The explosion occurred in an instant, and Chen Yan's entire body was instantly enveloped in a sea of ​​green fire.

"what……"

A hoarse laugh came from the sea of ​​green fire. The laughter gradually became clearer as the throat repaired itself. Until the fire gradually subsided, a carcass burning with green fire limped out of the fire, squirming all over. The strain died in the green fire and was quickly reborn, desperately repairing his body.

But this time is different from every time before. Those strange green fires are like the natural enemies of the Spring God strain. Once contaminated, they will immediately linger like gangrene on the bones, continuing to burn every piece of his body that has just been repaired. The tissue is destroying every cell that was just constructed from the germ of the strain.

The pain that was enough to make people crazy impacted Chen Yan's sanity. He dragged his mutilated body and slammed into the ice wall. The ice wall that was already stained with green flames collapsed with his head, and the residue stained with green flames collapsed. The body fell into the pool that had just been melted by the green fire after the ice wall, and the pool began to boil under the burning of the green fire.

The broken body kept rolling in the burning and boiling pool, and the Spring God strain tried its best to repair the broken body, until the regeneration rate of the bacterial colony became slower and slower, and the speed of cell and tissue generation became slower and slower...

The green fire melted the ice, and the pool where the remaining body was located became larger and larger. The speed of the green fire's spread became slower and slower as it offset each other with the ice.

Until an unknown amount of time later, the green fire went out, the water surface stopped boiling, and the area within a few hundred square meters became a murky water area. The situation below the water surface could no longer be seen clearly from above the water surface.

Under the water, everything was calm.

There is no more struggle, no more raging green fire. The green fire seems to be a living creature with life and consciousness. When its prey gives up its struggle, it has completed its mission.

The edge of the water still maintains a high water temperature. The hot water further melts the ice. A fish trapped in the ice is thawed. It regains its vitality and escapes to other parts of the water due to the higher water temperature. It Aimless and with no way to escape, the muscle tissue is almost cooked by the higher temperature of the water.

Just when it gave up escaping and prepared to wait for death, suddenly a tattered hand with bones visible to the naked eye popped out of the water and held it tightly in its hand.

The sea fish was caught underwater and soon turned into fish bones and floated up.

When the fish bones stopped making ripples, the water was finally no longer calm. Chen Yan, who was much smaller than before, swam to the shore with difficulty. As he left the water, his skinny body appeared in the air. .

He was no longer as strong as before, and his severely overdrawn vitality made him look extremely thin. His pale skin looked like a patient recovering from a long illness. A gust of cold wind hit him, and most of his body exposed to the wind immediately developed frostbite, and the pitiful little muscle died in a short period of time.

He stared blankly at the large, ugly frostbite on his body, with only one thought in his mind:
The strain of Spring God has left me forever.

The pain caused by frostbite made him unable to support his body anymore. He fell forward and fell on the arm of Swam who suddenly appeared in front of him.

Swam covered him with a blanket stained with cat feces and whispered:

"I'm sorry...someone just stopped me..."

Swam held the frail Chen Yan in his hands like he was walking a kitten, and disappeared into the cold ground in a flash.

……

After a while, there was a hidden room in a certain area of ​​the mechanical hive.

Chen Yan, wrapped in a blanket, sat in front of the burning fireplace, slowly drinking coffee and looking at the laptop on the ground beside him.

The laptop is not connected to the Internet. To be more precise, the wireless network card hardware of the laptop has been removed. This is a method that someone did to keep it secret.

As the screen was opened, the equally pale Koschilanfur Krapeter appeared on the screen.

Chen Yan saw his prosthetic hand at a glance.

"I'm really sorry, I can't discuss it with you in person."

Koschilanfur Krapeter's coughing made him look even weaker.

"The room I prepared for you is an absolutely secret safe house. No one will disturb you in any way."

"After I survived due to rescue, I have made proper arrangements for myself. I didn't know when you would come back, so I did something on my own initiative. I hope you won't be angry after knowing it."

In the pale light of the screen, Koschilanfur Krapeter looks like he's in the underworld:

"We were severely damaged. Most of the new recruits in this wave died due to the explosion, and the remaining people also suffered injuries of varying severity.

I used part of the supplies to expand the armed forces of Z Group and sent them to provide armed protection for the core employees of Z Group.

I know that such armed protection is unreliable — emergency recruitment of armed forces personnel, most of whom cannot be background checked, is inherently unreliable and requires an ongoing investment of resources.

But we have no choice now.

I approved a suspicious omnic prosthetic doctor named Magpie to join the company. I knew he was suspicious, but Crow was already dead because the first floor of the group was the area most affected by the explosion, so Crow's team was almost No one was spared.

Magpie is able to perform regular omnic prosthesis surgery, which is completely different from other small limb surgery workshops in the Mechanical Hive. I had to choose him.

In fact, he did quite well. As long as the employees' brains were preserved normally, he uploaded all their consciousnesses and rescued them all. "

Koschilanfur Krapeter realized that his words were garbled, so he closed his eyes and adjusted his mentality. When he opened his eyes again, he regained his composure:

"In addition, the opening ceremony of the compulsory school has been carried out smoothly. We received 1321 students in the first wave of registration. Although it is much less than expected, the subsequent teaching process has gone smoothly. The children are obviously not used to such a group. education, but they adapt quickly.

I heard from the guy Tintan that there are some children with excellent academic performance among them, and we decided to focus on them for training - I know you don't agree with this approach, so I assure you that other children will get the same education as them Same educational content.

I know that you transferred me from my position in the compulsory school because you don’t want me and my classmates to form a power. I hereby guarantee that it will not happen.

It’s just that the current situation is not good and Z Group lacks manpower, so I have to intervene in the affairs of the compulsory school to keep the compulsory school running. "

Xiaoke never knew anything.

Chen Yan sat motionless, placing the coffee on the ground, with a faint white mist rising under the light of the flame.

Xiao Ke was born in a prosperous age, but the prosperous age could not give people like him a chance to stand out, so he remained unknown until he graduated from college.

Now in troubled times, his knowledge and personality are destined to shine on this stage.

"I got some information about them, and now I can confirm that they have not taken action against compulsory schools, not because they dare not, but because they need compulsory schools to provide them with labor. According to their plan, they will cancel you in the future. The support policy for school-age children allows children in compulsory schools to only receive technical training in the classroom and participate in productive labor as soon as possible - they are in urgent need of manpower.

From this point of view, compulsory schools are safe for the time being. "

Koschilanfur Krapeter on the screen spoke again after a brief moment of silence for rest:

"The good news is that Victor Corleone has an obvious purpose. Once his purpose is achieved, there will be no further entanglement——

For example, when he blew up the Z Group, he actually wanted to hit you. He has already done it, and we people will not be hit again.

Of course, we must be careful, because he must have follow-up methods. "

Chen Yan had no idea where this Victor Corleone came from. It was not like he had never seen the roster of the remaining forces of the Mechanical Hive, but there was really no one named "Victor Corleone" in his memory. , and there is no Frankie force named "Corleone".

Chen Yan knew that this person's appearance must not be out of nowhere.

"I investigated his identity and the results were surprising."

Koschilanfur Krapeter raised the same doubts as Chen Yan:

"Before he appeared in the public eye, he was just an ordinary dock porter. After the tsunami came, he suddenly emerged and climbed to the top of the mechanical hive at a very fast speed. The forces that were against us before were already in name. He became his vassal, and those forces with ambiguous attitudes also appeared at his banquet - they were showing favor to him, but they did not surrender or hand over their names.

I guess in my mind that they want to get benefits in this way, and I also have some guesses about what they will do next, but I don’t know exactly what method they will choose - we actually don’t need to be afraid of these people. , because they themselves are not a problem.

Our attention is directed to Victor Corleone himself. "

Every time he talks about this person, Koschilanfur Krapeter’s voice becomes solemn:

"Chen Yan, he seems to know you very well."