Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

"According to the logic courses in high school in church schools, [the existence of dreams] is the criterion for testing whether a creature has real intelligence."

Chen Yan stopped what she was doing and said these words.

Chen Yan didn't answer.

The two of them were conducting dangerous explorations on an extremely sensitive topic.

"If a so-called higher creature is not complete, then he should not have normal dreams."

Chen Yan slowly said these words that were deep in his memory, his tone strengthened by the experience of this life.

"My dreams are abnormal, but I don't know what is abnormal about my dreams, because every time I wake up from a dream, the memory of everything in the dream is almost completely gone.",

Chen Yan looked at him calmly and said:

"Have you ever thought about, if there is really something wrong with your dream, what will be the consequences when you face everything in the dream while you are awake?"

Chen Yan looked into her eyes, trying to see something in her eyes.

He failed quickly, and her calm eyes covered everything in the abyss beneath the lake like a deep lake.

"I thought about it, but there was no result, so now I am eager to know the answer."

For a brief period of time, he had the ability to stay awake in dreams -

The blessing from the Moon God gave him such a valuable ability for a short period of time, but at that time, he had no vision at all. As a result, he was armed with a sharp weapon without realizing it, and he did not further explore the waking dream world.

Looking back now, he wanted to seize this opportunity to verify his inner doubts.

"What do I need to do?"

She still plays her role as Chen Yan perfectly.

Chen Yan told her about the mechanism of lucid dreaming.

"I might get lost in a lucid dream."

His calm tone could not completely suppress the very slight panic:

"When I am lost in a lucid dream, you need to use Lucid Dreaming 3.0 software to locate my position in the dream, and then guide me until I return to our current world."

He copied the software to her, told her how to use it, and gave her full trust without considering whether she could use [Lucid Dreaming 3.0] smoothly.

"What if what happened last time happened while you were asleep?"

She posed the question to him.

He smiled nonchalantly:

“I transformed them today through violence, and they will surely resist me through violence.

But I have already told Swam, so no one can carry out any effective resistance through violence. "

After he finished speaking, he came to the office wall, closed his clothes and lay down on the sofa, and said:

"Then, I'll see you when I wake up."

He closed his eyes.

Chen Yan looked at him sleeping peacefully, her eyes a little dazed.

The office was extremely quiet. The sound coming from the window turned into some kind of low-frequency white noise after passing through the soundproof glass. The sound of the computer host became the reverberation of those low-frequency white noises, making the entire office even more vivid. Quiet.

As Chen Yan entered the lucid dream according to the basic execution method of lucid dream, the whole world and the light froze.

The stars outside the planet stopped rotating, and the blizzard inside the planet stayed in mid-air. The dim light that penetrated the thick stratosphere and reached the space above the ground condensed as if it had fallen into absolute zero.

The people scattered around the mechanical hive also completely stopped.

All things return to silence.

In this still world, Chen Yan slowly stood up from the office chair, came to Chen Yan, and slowly sat down on the edge of the sofa.

She looked at his face with deep eyes, her mind wandering to no one knows where.

……

……

It was hazy and hazy, like a dream that had gone through countless years.

Countless pictures are intertwined, and endless light and shadow overlap.

When the heavy rain hit his forehead, Chen Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

The dilapidated cement road is full of potholes crushed by passing vehicles. A wild dog scurries past the feet, attracting curses from the surrounding pedestrians. Thick haze covers the field of vision more than ten meters away, and breakfast is faintly heard in the distance. The sound of food being hawked - this is Walker Street in Yanam City.

Chen Yan raised his head and saw heavy rain in the gloomy sky covered by smog. The rainwater contaminated with smog and soot hit his face and splashed into his eyes, immediately causing eye discomfort.

He was stunned by the weather. Looking around blankly, he saw that the pedestrians were no longer wearing cotton clothes, but only slightly thicker shirts.

‘I returned to Yanam, a city that didn’t belong to me. ’

Chen Yan was extremely sober at this moment.

‘Why is it the city of Yanan? There are many important turning points in my life. According to the theory of lucid dreaming, I should enter the node that most arouses my emotions.

Why did I dream about Yanan City...and it was Yanan City in spring. ’

He looked around and suddenly saw the time in the street window.

It's a Sunday in May.

‘May…May! Yes! If the apocalypse had not come, the time in the mechanical hive would have reached spring, where May is! ’

‘The time in the lucid dream and the real world are synchronized. ’

Chen Yan had a clear understanding in his heart.

‘The waking dream world is by no means just a dream world! ’

He took steps towards a familiar place along the familiar streets.

The street on Walker Street is very similar to what I remember, but it is also very different - the street is obviously more shabby, but the shops on the street look more novel - more houses have been turned into shops, The shop has been replaced with anti-theft windows whose materials cannot be seen. Outside the anti-theft windows stands a single girl who looks like a human but not a human. She is wearing a cool bunny girl maid outfit in the still cold spring.

‘You still need to use bunny girls to sell hardware, what do you think? ’

The absurd reality of people in the dream world of lucid dreams.

There were far fewer pedestrians on the street than when Chen Yan was still in Yanan City. He even bumped into people's shoulders while walking on the street, which Chen Yan was not used to.

He followed the traces of dilapidation and found No. 33 Walker Street.

It was Sunday morning, and there was obviously someone in the apartment. Chen Yan could hear the quarrel coming from the house while standing on the platform.

"With your little salary, you still want to buy a new computer! Do you want to see how many cabbage leaves are left in the vegetable basket?"

The voice was a female one, and because it was too sharp, Chen Yan felt familiar and at the same time unable to identify it.

‘In this lucid dream world, is the house rented to someone else...someone I know? ’

The next voice that appeared quickly denied Chen Yan's guess: "I don't want to buy it in full, can't I pay it in installments? Wait for the next Holy Light Prayer Day website to hold an event, and you can get 50% off for purchases over 500 pounds. Let’s talk about the full reduction of pounds!”

Chen Yan couldn't believe it when he heard this cowardly voice.

Is this me in this lucid dream world? !

Chen Yan quietly moved to the side of the apartment and saw the scene in the lobby on the first floor through the window.

Their hall has obviously been decorated again. Every corner of the room reveals a strong Rook Aboriginal style. She, who is wearing pajamas, and Chen Yan, who is also wearing pajamas, are standing in front of the fireplace in the center of the hall. The former has his hands spread out, and the latter The person was holding a white cat in his arms.

White cat…

Chen Yan felt his nerves jump. The entire field of vision suddenly dimmed and brightened. The white cat in Chen Yan's arms had turned into tabby.

This situation has occurred before.

Chen Yan was clearly aware of the changes in the world, and recalled the previous time at this moment - that was at the zoo. When he saw Wish for the first time at the zoo, he clearly saw a little wish under the rockery. white cat.

Later, when he went to work in the zoo again, the white cat had become tabby.

——Chen Yan recalled this memory and clearly found that his mind was disturbed when he thought about it before.

——In this world where he lives, this matter is some kind of taboo for him. This taboo causes his brain to deceive him, so that every time he thinks of that scene, his brain will automatically modify it. .

——Maybe it’s not the brain that deceives him, maybe the deception comes from the world itself.

——Chen Yan can now clearly realize all this.

'Awake, I am awake. Maybe I have never been awake before, so I have always been deceived by the world. Maybe it is because from the moment I set foot in the zoo, the loss of control began to accumulate in my body, and I have never been fully awake again. pass. ’

He looked again toward the lobby of the apartment at 33 Walker Street.

The two people in the hall were still having an argument similar to a quarrel. This kind of conversation seemed to be their unique way of communicating.

When Chen Yan looked at them, they were too invested in the conversation to notice his presence, but the white cat in their arms noticed Chen Yan.

'desire. ’

Chen Yan called her in his heart.

The white cat didn't respond.

Chen Yan suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

‘Tidanius was saved by me at the end of the Ice Age, and left the body of wish in the future generation long after. This white cat should be wish as the body of Tidanius, but why didn’t it respond? Isn't she in this body now? ’

Chen Yan looked anxiously at other places in the hall. When his eyes saw the clothes hanging on the hangers, his anxious eyes suddenly froze.

I saw a label attached to a piece of work clothes on the hanger. The first half of the label was the name "William Adams Group" and the second half was Chen Yan's name.

In this lucid dream, Chen Yan in this world has embarked on a life completely different from his.

'I see. ’

At this moment, Chen Yan had another realization in his heart.

‘Each of the bizarre dreams I have experienced before is a life completely different from the one I have experienced.

Those ones……

It’s me and Chen Yan, living as a [disabled person]. ’

After this enlightenment broke out, more and more weird and broken scenes in the past dreams were remembered. Chen Yan saw the stories between Chen Yan and Chen Yan in his dreams several times, and he was greatly shocked.

'Who is she? What on earth is she going to do? Why is she so... determined to help me?

She must have been awake in every life because her purpose was always clear. ’

Chen Yan glanced at Chen Yan who was roaring in the window and wanted to ask clearly.

‘Since this is a waking dream world, and since she is awake every time, then maybe I can get the truth by asking her. ’

Chen Yan turned around and walked towards the door of the apartment.

What he couldn't see was that at the same time, Chen Yan in the room was also walking towards the door of the apartment.

"Okay... okay! I'm going to work overtime! Make more money and use the overtime money to buy a new computer!"

When Chen Yan outside the house grabbed the door handle, Chen Yan inside the house also grabbed the door handle.

They both opened the door at the same time.

The door was opened outwards, and Chen Yan stood at the door and shouted angrily:

"Hey! You really can't bear to let me work overtime on Sunday!"

Chen Yan's pretentious roar, with obvious signs of crying, came from inside the room:

"Who can control you?"

The white cat in his arms seemed to be accustomed to such quarrels. It jumped out of Chen Yan's arms, came to the door, grabbed Chen Yan's trouser leg, and was about to pull Chen Yan into the house.

Chen Yan immediately felt aggrieved and almost cried. He knelt down and picked up the white cat:

"You still feel sorry for me!"

He hugged the white cat, returned to the door, and closed the door when the white cat looked out.

……

……

Chen Yan opened the door and subconsciously stepped in with one foot. The sudden light and dark scene in front of him suddenly made him feel something was wrong.

He took a step back, but it was too late, the entire door had disappeared into thin air!

The mechanical passage that suddenly appeared in front of him made him overwhelmed, but this time he was not at a loss, but carefully observed his surroundings——

This seems to be a passage for some kind of large aviation equipment. The constant bright and dark light above the head means that the power facilities here have malfunctioned. The faint roar coming from behind the air pressure door deep in the passage seems to come from something strange. human creature.

What kind of dream is this?

Chen Yan realized that he seemed to have done something he had never done before - [Door] symbolized [Passage]. He came to this unknown world through the gate of No. 33 Walker Street. Judging from his previous experience, , he should be regarded as "entering a deeper dream state".

‘I came here because I advanced too far into the dream world of lucid dreaming. ’

Chen Yan walked along the mechanical passage toward the light, and soon saw a hatch stained with blood. The hatch could not be completely closed because it was damaged, so it kept colliding with only a gap left. Still couldn't close it.

Chen Yan turned around where there was light and confirmed that there was no other way here, so he returned to the hatch and looked in through the crack in the door.

He saw another version of himself.

The other self seems to be in a very bad mental state now. He has obviously not eaten or slept well for several days, and looks very sick and about to faint at any time.

He was sitting in the corner, talking to himself in front of his laptop screen.

"Hey, wish, can you hear me?"