Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Unexamined, like a dream that has gone through countless years.

Numerous pictures are chaotically interlaced, and endless light and shadow overlap.

Until a low sigh appeared in his ears, Chen Yan opened his eyes unconsciously.

He sat up from the bed and didn't see the sighing person.

"Adam, you're up to something again."

He said this calmly, and was quickly answered by a funny voice like a jester.

"Good morning, Master! Congratulations on your kingdom surviving another day in the apocalypse!"

The voice was funny and ridiculous, much more interesting than the clown in the circus. Such voice and pronunciation logic were the product of Chen Yan’s hundreds of days of program tuning. Chen Yan was once very satisfied with it. As time went by, , now completely indifferent.

Chen Yan rubbed his head, and he suddenly felt that Adam's voice was different from his impression.

Such thoughts only appeared for a moment and then disappeared like a dream.

When Adam's funny voice appeared again, it was as emotionless as the electronic sound of ordinary non-intelligent chips:

"Today's glacier cloud thickness: 15981 meters, blizzard visibility dropped by 13.3% year-on-year, outdoor temperature was minus 256 degrees Celsius, and the consumption rate of the reactor's external insulation device was 0.12%..."

In the sound of Adam's mechanical report, Chen Yan rolled over and got up. Wearing only a pair of clothes that looked like pajamas but more like some kind of lab coat, he walked barefoot through the empty mechanical corridor and entered the mechanical door that opened automatically at the end of the corridor. .

A huge golden flare was suspended under the glass dome above his head. The heat provided by the golden flare to the entire building maintained the operation of all infrastructure inside the building.

"The return rate of the rice bran wood self-circulation system in the second phase of the experimental field increased by 12% month-on-month. The return rate of the bionic meat flower garden has greatly improved due to the breakthrough in genetic structure, and it reached an astonishing 76% before the owner woke up."

Chen Yan ignored this information. The biochemical farmland at the lower level of the base always brought surprises when a certain technological node broke through, but after the surprise, there was only a long period of boredom - hundreds of hectares of biochemical farmland were only for his use. There is so much food that it is impossible to finish it all. The sense of material security has been worn away over a long period of time, and now there is only emptiness.

The reason why he still kept Adam's report every morning without caring was just because he wanted to hear some voices.

Even if it's not a human voice, that's fine.

After entering the mechanical door, there is another long corridor. On both sides of the long corridor are various mechanical doors designed by Chen Yan himself. He designed things that he thought were beautiful according to his poor aesthetics. He once thought that Pride, as time went by, these once beautiful things had turned pale in his eyes, so much so that after Adam took over completely, he would never set foot in them himself again.

It wasn't until he came to the door of the small room at the end of the corridor that the numbness caused by his ordinary life finally dissipated. He adjusted his collar and suddenly realized that he was no longer wearing gentleman's clothes.

He was a little confused and didn't know why he had such thoughts. He had obviously not worn gentleman's clothes for a long time, so how could he have such thoughts at this moment?

He wants to be more formal, that's right. He only comes to see the person in the door every six months. The guy who is the only survivor of mankind with him naturally wants to dress more formally.

He stretched out his hand, held the door handle of the small door, and was about to push the door open when Adam's report came to an end:

"The information sent by the lighthouse to the six survivor fortresses still has no feedback, but the heat source is still there, which means that the other party must have received the signal we sent, but for some reason did not respond."

Chen Yan's hand froze on the door handle.

He seemed to have thought seriously for a long time before he said:

"After the tsunami, they have continued to survive for thirty years. Adam, last time I asked you to hack into their fortress to check on their situation, how did you do on this matter? Let's just talk about the fortress closest to us. !The one in Yanan City!”

Adam responded in a perverted voice that was so aggrieved that he was about to cry:

"The master became furious after hearing their situation ten years ago and said he should just let them fend for themselves!"

Chen Yanxian's eyes flickered. He really didn't expect that ten years had passed. Ten years passed in a blink of an eye in the frozen world, but his consciousness was still stuck on ten years ago.

Then he became very angry and burst into anger that was completely inconsistent with the incident itself:

"Then what!"

Adam obviously understood his temper, and immediately changed to his flattering voice and responded:

“Ten years ago, twenty years after the tsunami, their society completely collapsed due to civil strife and entered an era of complete chaos.

What followed was another five years of chaos, and after experiencing up to 78% reduction in personnel, they finally had a new social form - a social system dominated by a leader that was close to serfdom.

In the fifth year of the first twenty years, the nuclear leakage of the small reactor caused by the initial tsunami impact inside their fortress could no longer be suppressed, so the radiation caused the mutation of their ethnic group-their unstable sub-human genes. Some bad aberration has occurred, both men and women have undergone a certain degree of atavism - which I believe is the cause of their social unrest.

Atavism, mutation, competition for resources, violent conflict, violence...reproduction...

They survived, but had lost their qualifications as human beings. "

Chen Yan was a little absent-minded, and he hesitated:

"Where are the other five forts?"

His hesitant tone also made Adam hesitate, but out of obedience to the order, Adam could only answer:

"The other five fortresses have professional computer technicians. I hacked into their servers, observed through cameras, and relied on the detection of their outgoing personnel to deduce their current living conditions:

Among them, the floating fortress in the sea near the equator in the southern hemisphere has been trapped in the glacier for thirty years. They originally had rich marine resources. In the ten years before the tsunami, they were even able to rely on the catch obtained by breaking the ice for fish reproduction. However, As the temperature of the glacier became lower and lower, their fortress was damaged by the extreme low temperature. They did not have the materials to repair the fortress, nor did they establish a base on the deeper seabed that could absorb the geothermal energy under the seabed. Until yesterday evening, They have not conducted any field exploration in 283 days;

The glacier fortress in Antarctica itself was built by a group of cold-blooded animals. They began deep hibernation in the third year after the tsunami hit, expecting to spend the end of the world in this way, but they obviously underestimated the coldness of the end of the world. In seven years When the surface temperature of the former planet reached minus 210 degrees Celsius, the cold penetrated the fortress, destroyed their life structure, and ended the life of this group forever;

Among them, the swamp fortress located in the south of the original human empire is the only one that has preserved the human civilization of the empire. It was once called a barbaric land of witchcraft and cholera. Because of the rapid iteration of civilization, it was able to preserve the characteristics of the empire - this The gentle evolutionary process inherited a considerable part of the empire's ideology and civilization characteristics - also because the empire's ideology was preserved, the civil strife was very serious. Although the transformation of the swamp and the rich rock formations below the swamp gave them sufficient, useful resources. In order to transform the fortress's minerals and other natural assets, the technology from the empire gave them the possibility to transform and repair the fortress. However, the endless civil strife and the mutual conflict between different factions made the people in the fortress suffer;

Among them, the group of ships located in the sky above the second continental shelf is the most difficult to detect, because the stratosphere has been completely frozen. The three ships they were originally connected to in the sky should be completely insufficient to provide food and comfort for the survivors. Living environment, in the tenth year after the tsunami, I could no longer detect the life signal on the ship. In the next twenty years, there was still deathly silence on the ship - in the twenty-third year after the tsunami, the Siamese The computer on the ship has also completely stopped functioning. I speculate that the people on the ship must have uploaded their consciousness to the computer. Their original plan should be to set up a node through the temperature detector - after the apocalypse is completely over, the temperature detector Feed back and activate the computer system, and they can be downloaded into the body of the brain robot. What is ridiculous is that they overestimated the cold resistance of the ship. Today's conjoined ship group has become a pile of scrap metal. The computer system must have been completely destroyed.

Among them, the ethnic group located in the central volcano of the northern continental shelf obviously thrived - they built a fortress in the crater, and ethnic groups have always appeared in the extremely cold environment for thirty years. We now have no way of knowing what they originally decided to do. Whether it was to avoid the tsunami or for other reasons, they survived by relying on the geothermal energy extracted from the volcano. Now that the extreme low temperature has reached 256 degrees Celsius, they obviously still have the ability to support the temperature to minus 273 degrees Celsius. " -273 degrees Celsius, which is the lowest temperature in the universe, is also called "absolute zero". It is the negative limit of temperature. When it reaches absolute zero, molecules will stop moving, humans will not be able to survive, and even light will be frozen. , everything will usher in death.

Adam once calculated through his function that according to the current cooling rate curve, it will take another 200 years for an environment close to absolute zero to appear.

Chen Yan has never imagined 200 years from now.

He listened to this long speech, and then felt disgusted with his previous decision.

So boring.

He looked at the small door in front of him again, cleared his throat gently, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open.

Behind the small gate is a garden.

The environment in the garden seemed to be in summer, with hundreds of flowers blooming and wild bees flying around. The water droplets on the moist trees and flowers told Chen Yan that it had just rained here. The light approaching the sun above his head made the environment here infinitely closer to that before the apocalypse.

Chen Yan walked barefoot in the mud and soon came to a cabin in the forest. He picked leaves in front of the cabin and cleaned the soles of his feet. Then he walked onto the platform and knocked on the half-open door.

No one answered.

Chen Yan's face suddenly turned ugly. He bumped into the door and saw Chen Yan's bloodless body lying on the chair.

As she lay there, the paper knife cut half way through her neck, and the blood dyed the hemp skirt he had knitted for her with his own hands.

He was so furious that his whole face became distorted and deformed.

He tremblingly picked up the white paper that was placed on her chest and placed it under his clasped hands. The white paper was now dyed as bright red as her linen skirt.

"I remembered something.

I roughly understand that our current situation is not as good as you said, and the world has fallen into endless ice.

This garden is fake, right?

Flowers are real, grass is real, trees are real, bees and butterflies are real.

The garden they make up is fake.

I was panicking. Every time I slept, I always dreamed of some strange scenes. In those scenes, the group was destroyed by an explosion. I died in that explosion. After that, the situation continued to deteriorate. When you came back Not seeing me anymore makes me crazy.

You killed so many people, you controlled so many people, you forcibly rewritten Adam's program so that the self-obliterated Turings took over the mechanical hive, and you killed everyone who disobeyed you...

Everything in the dream is getting worse and worse. You quickly became corrupted due to the abuse of your abilities. You lost control and almost defeated you. You had to transform everyone into your quantum clone, so everything was out of control...

After everything, with the help of Adam, I was reborn.

I was reborn based on all the past information about Chen Yan that Adam collected from big data. I was reborn in a culture medium made of flesh and blood. I was reborn in your memory.

With the help of dreams, my memory continued to revive, and I remembered more things. I remembered all this and my mission——

I want you to become a complete you, I want to help you become the real you, I want you to realize the logical closed loop of life belonging to "Chen Yan".

You must make the right choice, Chen Yan, you will come here again, maybe not the mechanical hive, maybe not this garden, but it must be a similar node - through the nodes composed of fragmented elements, you will Faced with a decision that is painful enough to make you lose your mind.

Please be careful, you must choose a correct answer from countless wrong choices...

Maybe two answers, or three answers, I don’t think there will be more. Those correct answers are the necessary conditions to start the next step. Once you choose the right answer, you will move to the next step of your real life.

That will be your truth.

I have been waiting for many years...many, many years. I have been tired of it, but now I have realized it.

Chen Yan, see you in the next generation. 》

When he read the message, Adam's voice appeared:

"Master, do you need me to place a copy of her last moments before her death?"

Chen Yan looked at Chen Yan's body, his eyes dazed for a long time, and then replied as if he had come to his senses:

"no need."

He picked up the blood-stained paper knife that fell on the ground next to Chen Yan and cut his own aorta like she did.