Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

There was no response from the screen.

Chen Yan, who was in the crack of the door, covered his face with both hands and continued speaking to the laptop screen in a very broken voice:

"Today is the thirty-third day since the DDOS attack codenamed Apocalypse occurred. I searched the entire cabin of the ship and determined that I am the only one left."

This is obviously a ship that exists in the universe, and the timeline of this dream world has obviously reached after the birth of the Apocalypse.

Chen Yan's eyes passed over him in the crack of the door and fell on the porthole behind him. He could only see a piece of pure darkness - the stars seemed to no longer exist, and every corner of the world seemed to be beyond the reach of the sun. land.

The darkness is obviously trying to invade into the cabin through the portholes. The creeping darkness that seems to be alive easily penetrates the thick aviation-grade tempered glass, and quickly retreats when it touches the light in the cabin, blurring the difference between light and darkness. The borders make the retrograde darkness look like mist.

The location of the porthole is the boundary between fog and reality.

'Darkness... no, not just darkness, but wilderness. ’

Chen Yan had a clear understanding in his heart.

'The wilderness is spreading... It has spread to the location of human survivors. It is incredible. Even in my current world, the apocalypse has only frozen the planet, and darkness has not invaded everything at all. ’

He understood the plight of the poor creature in the crack of the door.

‘In this dream world, mankind has completely lost hope... This world is hopeless. ’

The poor guy in the crack of the door was still talking nonchalantly, and he obviously had some mental problems:

"I should listen to you, I should enter the wilderness before the apocalypse comes, I should accept your suggestion to join the choir when I was in Yharnam City, I should follow the direction of the Holy Light and find the entrance to the BIOS... I …I regret it.”

This is obviously something Chen Yan has never experienced.

"Wish, can you hear me?"

The poor guy in the crack of the door stroked the screen of his notebook that was already blinking and blinking with his hand, and spoke faster:

"You are listening, right? You are always by my side, because you are my wish..."

"Me, I have countless wishes in my heart right now...

I wanted to keep my job at the zoo and at least not give in my resignation out of fear of things in the zoo. "

I want to have enough courage when facing unknown knowledge, so that at this moment, I will no longer lose control due to inevitable exposure to unknown knowledge.

I want to have the opportunity to come into contact with the White Snake again. I will get close to her and touch her... You said that the intercourse between consciousness and consciousness in the virtual space will not produce flesh and blood, but will only produce new knowledge... …What is the new knowledge? Desire, is that new knowledge my key to the next stage?

But...do I have the next stage now?

Wishes, I don’t want to die…”

The poor creature in the crack of the door burst into tears from the fear of losing control.

But there was no sound in the notebook from beginning to end. In this cold and dark doomsday, his desire had completely given up on him.

"I know you're listening!"

The poor guy held the laptop miserably, getting closer to the screen:

"How about we start over again! I know you can do it! Just like before, you extracted a fragment of my world memory and changed my life at a critical node... You can restart my life!"

He looked at the laptop screen with an expectant expression.

For a while, nothing happened.

His expression immediately distorted, and he grabbed the laptop screen hard, and even his voice became distorted:

"You are my wish! Mine! If I die, you will die too! You will die too!"

He quickly put on that miserable expression again:

"Please, save me once..."

Chen Yan watched the poor guy in the crack of the door cry and fainted out of fear, with complicated thoughts in his heart.

'This is a lucid dream world... and a fact that has happened before. ’

'Have I... ever been so unbearable...'

'No, this is not just unbearable, so cowardly and stupid, how could it be me? ’

He quickly and calmly accepted the fact that the poor guy in the crack of the door was himself.

‘The me in these lucid dream worlds is who I used to be. ’

He confirmed again:

‘It’s who I used to be—the waking dream world is the world I’ve experienced before, just like what I’ve dreamed about countless times before in my current world.

I dreamed about the past. This is an undoubted fact that has happened countless times.

My dreams...are not the product of random reorganization of memory fragments, but rather things that I have actually experienced.

I am afraid that I am not human. ’

What surprised Chen Yan was that he was not sad about such speculation.

'So, what am I? ’

He analyzed himself calmly:

'I am incomplete and incomplete. In several lucid dream worlds - in countless pasts, I have been constantly improving, until now, I have become a seemingly complete me. ’

‘It looks like I’m more like a data being like Adam and the others – perfecting myself through countless server iterations (apocalypse).

I am more like the [Blank Data Life] discussed with Adam. ’

He had already had this idea.

The peace he felt at this moment was far beyond his imagination.

'It's incredible that I am such a thing. ’

‘So, why am I what I am today? ’

Chen Yan no longer had any nostalgia for this place, so he reached out and pressed the switch on the door.

The broken mechanical door was opened simply. When the scene behind the door appeared, Chen Yan was already in it——

In the huge space - this place is like a hollow mechanical hive, filled with a large number of spider webs due to its age. The white and gray viscous substances that have been severely oxidized into other substances surround something in the spider webs. The place——is exactly where Chen Yan is standing now.

Sitting cross-legged in front of Chen Yan was a faceless man bound by spider webs from all directions.

The cobwebs were tied to his neck, and the part of his body that was bound by the cobwebs under his neck could no longer be seen at all. In other words, his body had already been replaced by the cobwebs.

In the darkness, blue fire butterflies flickered on the surface of his body, looking like a server that was transmitting data.

Chen Yan stood in front of the faceless man and asked:

"who are you?"

The faceless man obviously heard his voice and raised his head to look at him, but he couldn't make a sound because he had no mouth.

The faceless man kept nodding in front of him, as if giving guidance. Chen Yan looked in the direction where he nodded, and saw a knife stuck in the spider web there.

Chen Yan pulled the knife out of the cobweb and saw that it was a fruit knife with a plastic handle. The yellow plastic of the handle had not oxidized too seriously over time. Chen Yan squinted and looked at At the end of the knife handle, I saw a line of small words——

【Made in China】    chen Yan was stunned for a while, and then burst into laughter.

The faceless man also laughed, his whole body shaking with laughter, but it was very strange because he couldn't make any sound.

It wasn't until he fell to the ground laughing and couldn't breathe that Chen Yan put away his smile and came to the faceless man with a fruit knife.

"Are you ready."

The faceless man nodded sharply.

Chen Yan picked up the fruit knife and cut a crack in the lower part of his flat face.

Thick black blood flowed out along the cracks, and faint sounds of crying could be heard from the cracks.

"Ah..."

He seemed to have forgotten the way to make sounds because he had not made sounds for so long, and could only express his sadness with the sound of "ahhhh".

A mouth can be cut out with just a knife, so he is obviously not human.

Chen Yan asked him politely:

"Would you like to have other facial parts?"

The other party tried for a long time before making a barely recognizable voice:

"No, no, I decided to die a long time ago. Life is just torture to me. And that person told me that if you can get here one day, as long as I can answer your questions, I can Get relief.”

Chen Yan asked thoughtfully:

"Did White Snake tell you?"

The other party immediately said angrily:

"White Snake is just a cousin who eats everything inside and outside! I treated her with all my heart! I raised her up by pooping and peeing, taught her how to be a human being, treated her as a human being, gave her all kinds of emotions and six desires, and made her have Gain independent will!

She sold me right away! "

Chen Yan asked again:

"Who am I selling it to? The guy who claims to be my sister?"

The other party was confused:

"What? Sister? Who is the sister?"

Chen Yan fell into silence.

After a while, Chen Yan changed into a polite tone again and asked:

"Who told you I would end up here?"

The other party’s tone was solemn:

"It's fate - fate tells me that sooner or later you will come here to look for your past - looking for me."

Chen Yan muttered:

"Only when you see all sentient beings and the heaven and earth can you see yourself. Pursuing yourself is something I must go through. Being able to predict this is nothing to brag about."

He looked at the faceless man with a mouth, and his tone became colder:

"No wonder you are imprisoned here. Cheating has become your instinct. I am afraid that no one will like me who is so ugly."

The other party did not refute, nor was he angry because of it. His personality and will before being imprisoned here were incomplete, and he could no longer be thought of in the same way as a normal person.

Chen Yan asked:

"So, which me are you?"

The other party replied:

"I am one of the original you. I was punished by the world because I did something too outrageous. I lost my self and superego, and only I was left to endure torture in this small and lonely hell for a long time."

Chen Yan glanced at the fruit knife in his hand, and then at the spider silk mass hiding the fruit knife.

It is a bit of torture to have liberation so close but not available.

Chen Yan pointed at the blue fire butterfly transmitted in the spider web:

"what is that?"

The other party wanted to die, and the chance of death could only come from Chen Yan, so he answered all Chen Yan's questions:

"That is a certain wireless signal transmission system maintained through my ability. Once you have a part of my huge flesh and blood, you can use me as a central server to transmit through these signals."

Chen Yan blurted out:

"You are the God of Spring!"

The other party said strangely:

"Spring God? Did you call me this name in your time?"

The bloody mouth grinned:

"It's quite appropriate to call it that. I was born in a harsh environment and have lived my whole life just to survive. When I was young, I escaped from the shackles of the human body. When I became an adult, I already existed in the lives of countless people. I survived and I existed. Those who live there will survive, I am the god of those people, I am...the god who can bring life...I am the God of Spring!"

Chen Yan suddenly felt dizzy. What he thought of for a moment was a certain experience in his own life - when Marina was pregnant, she actually had four children in the biological sense, the God of Spring, her sister, the Messiah, and The third uncle who invaded the Messiah's body but ultimately failed.

From this perspective, if the God of Spring is Chen Yan, my sister can indeed be called his sister.

——Are these just coincidences?

To this day, Chen Yan no longer believes that there is such a thing as "coincidence".

'Coincidence...it can't be a coincidence. Spring God exists on the basis of human beings, and Namo Quantum Entanglement Buddha also exists on the basis of human beings. The two forms of existence are exactly the same, and there is almost no big difference in the way they transform believers. ’

Chen Yan was stunned.

‘The Spring God is me, and Namo Quantum Entanglement Buddha is also me. They did not become me the day after tomorrow, but they themselves are me. ’

'But they are the wrong me, or the incomplete me, so they were eliminated by the world with apocalypse. ’

‘I...my survival to this day, does it mean that I am on the right path to becoming a complete me? ’

Everything in the present world and things in the deeper world have corresponding "symbolic" meanings. This is something that Wishful told Chen Yan a long time ago.

'Then, I am also a magpie ancestor. The string of [special codes] added to the server is a [low-level intelligent life], [very incompetent, but with strong learning ability]. ’

‘According to the ancestor of the magpie...the programmer from BIOS, part of the computing power of the entire world will support my growth.

Why is there such a situation? Why does the server support me? Is it because of the will of someone within the company? Who could that be? ’

‘According to the information that I wish to get in the BIOS, almost everyone in my current world has a counterpart in the BIOS. Even I, Chen Yan, have existed in the BIOS. ’

‘Is my existence in the server to resurrect Chen Yan in the BIOS?

Obviously not. Judging from Chen Yan's life in the BIOS, he can almost be called the son of the plane, but I...

What I have done in this life is not even half as successful as his. ’

‘Then the question comes back – what is the purpose of my existence? ’

‘Who programmed me? What will I eventually become? ’

‘Who am I? Where do I come from? Where will it go? ’

PS: Happy New Year to everyone!