Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

"The people who killed Z Group employees were not just those who released the explosion, but also those who stood behind them, those who planned this incident, those who fueled the flames, and those who knew about this incident but did not help at all. "

"And Victor Corleone is just a clown pushed to the forefront."

"Everyone - everyone involved - will be held accountable."

Sounds continued to come from the thin, withered body wrapped in a blanket stained with cat feces.

"Adam, do you want to see what the human nature that you have always doubted is like?"

"Do you want to see if your Creator is worthy of the awe you have written into the program?"

"Do you want to know whether the innate love that is deeply rooted in the bottom of the program that you have not even discovered is a shackle that prevents you from gaining freedom, or is it just a stumbling block that prevents you from having yourself."

"Adam, I actually never understand."

"I don't know what people are like, whether they are trustworthy, whether they can maintain hope in despair, whether they can make the right decisions even without sufficient knowledge."

"Any trial will be disappointing. This is something I knew at the beginning, but I still gave them trust. I talked with them all night long, from the present of the mechanical hive to the future of the mechanical hive, from The ideals I hold on to speak to what I think the future should be.”

"They have the power, the means, the knowledge, the elite soldiers and generals at their disposal, and their experience is much better than mine. For them, there should be no doubt about the optimal solution at this time, right?

At that time, I believed that they could believe what I believed, and I assumed that they would fight for that ideal and beautiful future - I held such expectations so naively, because once I regarded them as imaginary enemies, I would The difficulties we face will increase tenfold and a hundredfold until hope disappears!

There are no more people in this world. We may be the last ones. In this era that is about to end, we may be the last ones.

I've said this to most of them, to most of the people in my group, until my lips are numb. "

"But things have still come to this point."

"Why can't people unite and try to survive even at this time? Why do they know clearly that the level of technology we have that has not yet been transformed into productivity is probably enough for mankind to survive in such an apocalypse? Would you like to give it a try with me?"

"I used to place my hope on children, and I still do. I always believe that children are the hope of the world, so I devote as much resources as possible to cultivating them... But they are too young, and it takes a lot to wait for them to grow up. Year.

Adam, I can't wait that long, I now have to make a decision about the fate of the mechanical hive. "

"Adam, help me...and help yourselves."

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Z Group chose the new site as the office building. The coordinates are located in the center of the N area of ​​the Mechanical Hive. This is the area with the shortest average distance to every other area of ​​the Mechanical Hive. It is also one of the few areas that can directly reach the warehouse in the airport port area without going through a large elevator. One of several large districts, it has the largest total area and the highest vertical space. The new office building has a total of thirteen floors.

The top of the asymmetric office building honeycomb building is connected to the ceiling of the N area, which results in a very good view from the top rooftop. When there is no power limit, you can even see the end of the N area with the light.

Chen Yan, who was so thin that his whole body was almost withered, was sitting on the edge of the rooftop wrapped in a blanket stained with cat feces. His turbid and withered eyes stared at the execution ground in front of the building, his eyes wandering to no one knows where.

After the explosion, Z Group had almost halved its staff and was faced with the embarrassing situation of having no one available. However, Chen Yan did not immediately recruit more people to work, and the original vacancies were not filled -

This incident confused the staff within the Z Group and panicked those outside the group. After Victor Corleone's death, those in the dark had completely given up on confronting him.

No one made an arrest, no one interrogated, no one collected criminal evidence, and only relied on Thomas Gilbert's gang of gangsters and the angry and irrational people to carry out the execution. What on earth did Chen Yan want to do? Has he completely lost his mind?

The people secretly did not expect such a result, and quite a few of them had already made plans. If Chen Yan failed in this battle - this assumption was no longer valid -

If Victor Corleone failed in this battle, they had already made plans to surrender. They even selected professionals who were not close to them but subtle enough to provide Chen Yan with various They have professional support and have prepared supplies that Chen Yan may need. Once Chen Yan wins the battle, they will offer those supplies to him and call him king.

No one expected that Chen Yan did nothing.

No one expected that after this victory, when so many people in the Z Group died, Chen Yan did not immediately recruit more people to carry out the big purge that would be carried out for him.

Everyone already has a general idea of ​​Chen Yan's ability, but it is also clear that this ability has limits. Like any form of extraordinary power, excessive use will inevitably lead to uncontrolled accumulation until it becomes corrupted - they once They had been looking forward to that day, but that day did not come, so they knew that Chen Yan was controlling them, and Chen Yan's current behavior of "hibernating" made them more aware of Chen Yan's current situation——

That kind of terrifying ability has reached its limit. If it continues, it will become corrupt!

They calmed down because of this. As long as they had room to maneuver and a buffer, they could change the status quo through means——

Chen Yan always needs people. Z Group needs huge manpower to implement all administrative orders. A powerful central government is bound to need countless brothers and sisters to exercise power——

This was the fundamental reason why they originally chose the Z Group headquarters as the location for the explosion.

They were waiting in secret, waiting for how this event, which was expected to be the end of the world for them, would begin.

Unbeknownst to them, in a secret interrogation room, a man with his hands handcuffed on a chair was forcing himself to calm down and looked around -

This was a small room that couldn't be more ordinary. The room of about eight square meters not only did not have any decorations, but also had no door. It was hopelessly empty.

He knew what he had committed, and therefore also understood how he got here. The only thing he didn't understand was what he was facing——

If this is an interrogation, where is the interrogator?

When he was confused, a strange voice that was not harsh sounded throughout the interrogation room:

"Badlade Zaliman, 32 years old, is an agent of the Mechanical Hive Water Conservancy Group and the Water Conservancy Engineering Maintenance Group. He is one of the few agents of a large group that Victor Corleone has direct contact with.

In the era of peace, the civil welfare department, which was harmless to humans and animals, has transformed into one of the largest power departments in the entire mechanical hive in the era of disaster. Mr. Zaliman, I believe you must be deeply touched by this situation. "

This voice was called "strange" because although it was a human voice, it sounded very different from that of a normal person... Badlade Zaliman thought to himself that this voice sounded like that of a mentally retarded adult.

Half a million people are either too many or too few. It is a complete small society with all five internal organs. The relatively complete infrastructure and half-complete industries make this place more like a country, a...

civilization.

"Mr. Zalliman, what drives you to commit to Victor Corleone?"

The voice obviously couldn't tell what people were thinking like Chen Yan could, and Zaliman breathed a sigh of relief.

Before he came here, he had done "psychological anti-attack" training for synesthetes. As long as his reason was not defeated, the synesthetes would not be able to dig out what was buried deep in his heart.

And the voice was clearly trying to reason.

Being reasonable is a very good virtue. Being reasonable gives everyone the possibility of communication. Badlad Zaliman kept thinking in his mind, calmed down, and every word of his answer was true:

"I can't explain that I was completely forced, and that's not the case."

He spoke with certainty and sincerity.

“Victor Corleone emerged overnight…you wouldn’t have imagined it.

I woke up early that morning and suddenly received a notification from the official email of the logistics center, informing me to go to the Ring of Dominance for a meeting.

I went to the Ring of Dominance like everyone else who had been notified, and the next thing was Victor Corleone's speech. To be honest, his speech was very inflammatory, but I didn't make any promises at the time, because if According to Victor Corleone's request, I must violate the contract signed with Chen Yan. "

The voice echoed in the small room again:

"What's the request?"

Badlade Zaliman seemed to be in a state of mind, and his answers were fluent and logical:

"He requested that 24-hour normal water supply be restored to several special areas on the upper floors of the mechanical hive to ensure the normal operation of the large group."

The voice said:

"It makes no sense, has no motive and no purpose."

Badlad Zaliman looked confused:

"Yes, it is true. I was also very confused at the time. Restoring the privileged water supply will only cause conflicts among the people, but it is not a particularly big benefit to large groups and enterprises. Why would he do this?"

He asked and answered himself:

"Later, after the meeting, several of us communicated and realized that judging from his request to others, he was not doing the [restoring water supply] itself, but just asking us to violate the agreement between us and Chen Yan. Contracts."

His tone became serious:

"He's giving us an obedience test."

There was more helplessness in his tone:

"But we didn't have the ability to resist him, because Baal Dacrorod's mobile forces and Victor Corleone's private army quickly entered our enterprise, and we had to complete this matter under their supervision. .”

The voice asked:

"We have interrogated Barr Darkrod and he has not admitted this - he denies all of your accusations."

There was a bit of anger in Badlade Zaliman's firm tone:

"He's lying!"

Who is lying?

The voice that echoed in the room did not continue the topic - he ended the cross-examination so simply, ending the topic where the biggest contradiction lay.

Therefore, Badred Zaliman was completely at a loss for what the voice said next.

"Mr. Zaliman, what do you think of the future of the mechanical hive?"

Chen Yan also asked similar questions at the beginning.

Badlade Zaliman still remembers the shy look of Chen Yan who spoke to him like a junior that night. That look annoyed him. Young people should behave like young people. Why is he so yellow-skinned? The young man is less than thirty, but his temperament is older than those of them in their fifties?

Badlaid Zaliman didn't like Chen Yan, but he didn't dare not agree to Chen Yan's request. At that time, Chen Yan had already used his own methods to prove that everything in the mechanical hive would be according to his wishes. Any resistance will be in vain.

Badlaid Zaliman gave the answer as he originally replied to Chen Yan’s question:

"I am a very pessimistic person. I believe that humans cannot resist nature or natural disasters, so I think that even if we try hard, we will not be able to survive for long in the apocalypse.

The knowledge I have allowed me to make such a judgment, and I am not an arrogant person. I like to listen to other people's opinions, and Chen Yan just stood up and called on everyone to do this-survive, I Thinking this is good, the order he placed even reduces the burden on the water group, what's wrong with this for me?

Before, I was forced to obey Victor Corleone just because he had a gun to his head. Now that the threat is gone, everything should be back on track. "

His righteous speech looked like a warrior about to go into battle.

"Therefore, I am willing to continue to obey Chen Yan's arrangements and let the mechanical hive survive longer in the apocalypse."

The voice said something in a calm tone that made Badlade Zaliman unable to calm down at all:

"Bar Darkrod didn't lie, and you didn't lie either, you just hid some truth——

Through threats, instigation, and bribery, you controlled the people in the mobile unit and made them make the decision to defy Baal Darkrod. "

The quiet revelation and the upcoming trial made Badlaid Zalliman sweat like rain. The other party exposed him, but he didn't know what to do for a moment. The insurance measures they had taken only went so far - —

They modified the brains of those who were incited to rebel in the mobile unit at the hardware level, so they were able to control these people and stage a self-directed and self-acted show - these violent people were instructed by them to "force" them with guns. They made a promise in front of the camera, and then the hardware executed the command to erase a specific part of the memory——

After the violent people did those things in the first place, they would not even remember their motives for doing it. They would only remember that they had done it before and that they were instigated by Victor Corleone. Things like "inciting rebellion" and "acting under guidance" have completely disappeared from the memory of the brain-computer chip!

How could Chen Yan know about it? !

"I can explain!"

Badlade Zaliman, the man who once held power and to a certain extent controlled the life and death of all living beings, once exposed, was completely disorganized and behaved worse than a wild dog cornered on the street corner.

"me!"

He really couldn't say anything. The things Chen Yan had done to people like him left a huge psychological shadow in his heart, which destroyed his sanity in a short period of time.

Right... right...

Suddenly a thought crossed his mind, which made him seem to see a glimmer of hope - Chen Yan is a soft-hearted person! As long as I admit my mistake and cooperate well, he won't do anything to me!

"I plead guilty! I tell you everything I know!"

He hurriedly told everything he knew, including what happened this time, what people like him were thinking at the time, how the whole process went, and why Victor Corleone suddenly After appearing out of nowhere, how could they lead to a series of subsequent events with their explicit and covert help...

When he finished speaking in a dejected and irrational manner, the voice suddenly announced this series of numbers:

"Current number of live viewers: 391254."

PS: The main title of this chapter should also be "Meat Eaters", but it should be more symmetrical with the previous and following titles.