Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chen Yan woke up from his dream.

When he woke up, everything in the dream was still vivid in his mind. He had doubted his dream for a long time, so even if he couldn't control the confusion when he woke up, he still relied on willpower to forcefully drive his subconscious, and through his subconscious, he could remember everything that happened in the dream. Recorded on the paper that had been prepared by the pillow.

That poor impression almost completely dissipated during the dream. When Chen Yan woke up completely, he saw only a few nouns, verbs and phrases recorded on the paper:

Chen Yan, non-reincarnation, completion, incomplete logic of life.

This was the only thing he recorded from his dream, and it was also the strongest reaction his subconscious had to the dream.

He stared at these words for a long time, then rolled out of bed, picked up the employee uniform of the United Group, put it on, and got up and left the cabin.

He habitually went to the first floor of the cabin to open the refrigerator, only to find that the refrigerator had been closed for a long time because there was no food.

Once again, I came to the dining room connected to the kitchen out of habit, and there was only a box of compressed biscuits with a long shelf life produced before Tianqi, and a message on the table.

Chen Yan picked up the paper. On the paper was beautiful imperial script, which was the word Nuomi Guo.

"Chen Yan:

I drank the last carton of milk. I'm really sorry. Hungry makes people lose their minds. I never thought I would experience such a thing again.

I received Ogami's signal from the stars - not through a lighthouse, but some other way.

He encountered something difficult to solve. Although it was dangerous and troublesome, there must be a good result soon.

I couldn't help him. Being able to survive was the limit of my ability. In order to get more food, I signed up for the trainee program of the United Group Research Institute. The first course lasted two years. , it can be regarded as part-time study, at least it can prevent myself from starving to death.

Finally, based on my research these days, I found something very interesting and useful - the [Lucid Dreaming 3.0] software you gave me before. I found that the program of this software is not composed of pure Imperial script characters. consist of.

To be more precise, it is the upgrade patch for lucid dreaming software from 2.0 to 3.0, which is not composed of pure Imperial script characters.

We all know that machine language is a computer language expressed in binary code instructions. The machine can directly recognize binary language without translation. Each operation code has a corresponding circuit inside the computer to complete it——

Machine language is essentially composed of high potential and low potential. High potential is 1 and low potential is 0.

The upgrade patch of the lucid dreaming software is not composed of binary language, but why can it still run on the computer?

What is supposed to be impossible happened in front of us, so I studied the upgrade patch out of curiosity, extracted those strange characters, and found out the corresponding binary encodings of some of them - the ones we used to The underlying tools for program editing in any computer software are only a small part of the code.

To put it simply:

If the programming language that our binary language can express is [River], then the programming language that the characters in the lucid dreaming software can express is [Sea].

I think that the legendary professor named Holy Light already knows something broader than this world - there is actually a paradox here. Professor Wright has obviously mastered and skillfully used such knowledge (lucid dreaming) software), why stay in this narrow world?

I guess - it's just a guess. I guess he may not have been a native of this world, so coming to this world was a choice he made - living in this narrow world was a decision he made himself. .

Everyone has the right to decide their own future.

I tried to reverse-compile the programming language composed of special programming characters, and obtained a very happy result - those higher-level programming languages ​​​​can be understood by our native language logic.

This means that I can know the operating logic of [Lucid Dreaming 3.0] through reverse engineering.

This will definitely be a very difficult process with a particularly heavy workload. I may not be able to understand some of the more difficult logic, but there must be more powerful programmers to help. This is the meaning of the trainee program of the United Group Research Institute.

At that time, I will tell you the results of my research.

During this time, I am working on the expansion of the [Lighthouse] signal with my colleagues. I will be very busy at work during the day and have no time to look at my phone. So if you want to contact me, you can wait for me in the restaurant after 10 p.m. , I eat late-night snacks before going to bed every night. 》

Everything seemed to be getting better.

Chen Yan felt a little relieved because of this letter. Nuomiguo had found the goal of her struggle. Although she didn't know her original motivation, as long as she found the way forward, there would always be a chance to gain something.

He chewed down a few compressed biscuits, barely suppressed his hunger, and left the cabin. In front of him was the reclamation test field that had just been laid out last night.

The bottom space on the same floor as the mechanical hive and the power station has now become a dedicated space for the experimental field. The power engineers of the United Group have used abundant electricity to ensure the lighting here, but there are not many full-spectrum lighting lamps in the logistics warehouse of the mechanical hive. Plants It can't absorb enough light, and I don't know what it will look like in the end.

"A large number of experiments are needed to change the characteristics of plants, and we have good expectations." - This is the definite reply given to Chen Yan by the person in charge of the experimental field.

Chen Yan is still optimistic today, because after complete planning for the mechanical hive in the future, the estimated power consumption of each infrastructure and the infrastructure that will be added in the future has been calculated. After taking into account the consumption caused by the extreme environment, Chen Yan was able to calculate through Adam the remaining time that Snake Rock's power generation could be maintained——

13 years.

If there is no other energy supply, the Snake Rock power generation equipment can maintain power supply for 13 years.

This was obviously higher than expected, so Chen Yan calculated the power generation capacity of Shekisuyan, and made a countdown of the real-time consumption of electricity - most importantly, the real-time consumption of each subdivision, and placed it on the official website of the United Group Directly above, the slogan that replaced the United Group's staff had been discussed for most of the night to encourage labor production.

This decision, which everyone felt was very childish and was expected to have negative consequences, did not cause an uproar. After just two days, people had adapted to the countdown itself and understood one thing deeply -

Most of the power in mechanical hives today is not used by people, but is consumed for no reason due to various losses such as transmission loss, low temperature loss, component aging loss, storage loss, etc.

——New cognitions like this refresh people's outlook on life, and the United Group obviously intends to do this. While establishing close social ties with people, it instills a large amount of knowledge into people, which results in the value of the information gap being infinitely increased. high, the cost of laziness becomes considerable.

At this time, the experimental field has only begun the initial setup and employee training. Due to the strong professionalism, the applicants who are being trained are obviously confused by the instructor's professional terminology and imperial words.

Fortunately, neither side has any escape route, so even if the contradiction is so great, both sides are trying to adapt.

According to the plan of the think tank of the United Group, the human management of the experimental field is completely a compromise. The think tank and their designers are designing in the direction of fully automated natural cycle ecological farmland. They believe that human management cannot meet the accuracy of machines - fertilizers cannot be put in accurately, plant light intensity and time cannot be accurately adjusted, waste fermentation rate cannot be effectively controlled, the number of bacterial flora cannot be controlled, the amount of fertilizer cannot be controlled, etc. …

They believe that rough management by humans will definitely have an impact on ecological farmland. Only precise management under intelligent biological control can cultivate ecological farmland that can truly realize natural cycles.

Chen Yan used to be indifferent to their plan because he was a layman and should not do things where a layman should guide an expert, so he never paid attention to the entire plan.

Until this morning when he woke up from the dream - until now, when he walked out of the cabin and saw the farmland, he suddenly had a strange feeling. He felt like he had seen this farmland before.

But this farmland is clearly going through the reclamation stage. Where does this familiar feeling come from?

Chen Yan had a clear understanding of this.

Chen Yan did not go through the test field area, but went straight to the big elevator and went to the Z Group building in Area N through the special access control.

The United Group implemented traffic control on the two floors below Area A. This decision was not subject to a referendum. When Chen Yan was an ordinary citizen a long time ago, he once wavered between power and democracy. Until now after the apocalypse, it has completely No more such confusion.

People are obviously not used to real big shots "swaggering" in front of them. They stand under the eaves and on the streets, pointing at him from a position that he cannot see, and saying this and that.

Chen Yan listened to everything. Before that, he thought that those true and absurd comments would only exist in literary works.

As a result, he understood even more the greatness of words that can be called literary works.

Fortunately, he did not experience the assassination that existed in those texts, nor was he hit on the head with the eggs he distributed to them. He just walked through the whole street peacefully, like an ordinary person. Z Group employees generally entered the group building.

He walked unskillfully through the hall crowded with patients, finally waited for an elevator, and after searching for a while, he found his office on the 13th floor of the company.

He opened the door and saw Chen Yan sitting in front of one of the desks in the office, focusing on the computer screen.

He had thought of many ways to greet her before he came, but when it came to this moment, he couldn't say anything. The decisiveness he had accumulated from facing countless life-and-death crises in the past few days was completely useless.

"Ah, you're here."

She greeted him and skillfully used her new abilities - while she was talking to him, she took out the hot breakfast from the incubator next to her desk with her left hand, and danced quickly on the keyboard with her right hand.

He came to her, without saying thank you, picked up the buns in the incubator, drank some yogurt sprinkled with sugar, and started eating slowly.

She obviously didn't notice anything strange about him:

"The steamed buns are distributed uniformly, and the fermented milk is made by ourselves. Our group's financial department is extremely inefficient and has not paid this month's salary until now."

She spoke simple and relaxed words, as if nothing had happened to her.

He finished his breakfast, wiped the food box clean with toilet paper, put it in a small cloth bag aside, pulled up a chair and sat across from her desk - which was exactly where the messy cables of the computer host were.

At this moment, she finally felt something strange about him, stopped what she was doing, and looked at him with soft eyes:

"Actually, I'm pretty good. I finally saved a life, and it's not much different from how I felt before."

She said in a joking tone:

"It's just that I need to patch myself from time to time, which is a bit troublesome...but it's okay. It's better than the few days in the previous month."

Chen Yan looked at her optimistic figure and held back the words "I'm sorry".

He knew that what she needed was not an apology, let alone him who would only apologize in this situation.

"I kind of knew that the plans I had made for United Group pissed off most people."

Chen Yan looked into her eyes.

She looked at Chen Yan in surprise, as if she didn't expect Chen Yan to tell her this.

——She didn't expect that Chen Yanyan wouldn't talk about her at all.

"Even though I killed all the former rulers like a butcher, and brought great infamy, and gave those who had knowledge a chance to rise, they didn't thank me."

Chen Yan whispered:

"The newly promoted department leaders in the United Group, as well as the newly promoted students in the core infrastructure department, they began to fear me after they gained power, because I stood on the opposite side of people like them, as long as I As long as I am around, they will never have peace.”

She didn't argue or engage in any discussion with him because she knew he had something else to say.

"I know that the best way to prevent them from causing trouble in private is to proceed step by step according to the things we discussed at the beginning. We have already had a general plan. In ten years... or even twenty years, I will There is no need to interfere in the affairs of the mechanical hive, as long as everything goes according to plan, people can survive in this frozen apocalypse."

"I, I, I decided not to look at their coy and embarrassed looks for the time being."

His conversation suddenly changed:

"I want you to do me a favor."

“There is such a software called [Lucid Dreaming], which allows people to enter their own dreams while staying awake.

I was very panicked about my dreams...very scared. I vaguely knew what the creatures in those dreams were, but I never had the courage to face those dreams head-on.

I want to enter my dream under your care, and see what the scary thing is in my waking dream! "