Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

The rebellion failed.

The army was defeated like a mountain, and Chen Yan, who once stood on the top of the mountain of human civilization, became a prisoner.

In the next picture that appeared on the screen, Chen Yan, covered in blood, was kneeling on the execution platform, his blood-stained and ferocious face showing a beast-like posture.

Spotlights located at various locations in the huge space shone at him, and the intense light blinded him.

"The prisoner's guilt is hereby announced."

The cold electronic sound echoed in the huge and empty white space like a temple.

Chen Yan did not argue because his tongue had been removed before the execution and he could not speak.

After a long reading, the bloody and primitive execution ended in a flash - the guillotine cut him in two.

The spotlight dimmed a little, and then the real bodies of those spotlights appeared on the screen - they were cameras surrounding the execution platform - a dense crowd of people holding cameras recording the entire execution.

"It's a live broadcast..." William Adams raised his eyebrows: "This is how to deal with the rebels. If I were to make the decision, I would make the same choice, let such a rebel die in front of the camera, and tell everyone The fate of the rebellion... But I didn't expect that he would fail like this. Looking at the dates shown in the video, it could be more than ten years at most?

For a rebellion by a senior officer of a cosmic civilization, this was too short-lived. "

William Adams was clearly in a good mood:

"Hopefully my drill will dig out more."

As he spoke, something suddenly changed on the screen——

The spotlights surrounding the huge execution platform began to dim, and the person broadcasting the execution prepared to leave.

But things didn't end so simply and easily.

On the execution platform, Chen Yan's split body suddenly began to tremble. At first, his movement was very small, just trembling. When the first person noticed this abnormality, his trembling had turned into violent convulsions.

A stream of black water that did not resemble blood at all flowed out of his chest. The black water easily corroded his head and melted it, making it a member of the black water.

When the black water spread along the execution platform, the photographers and others present had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter. The spotlight was turned on again. They wanted to record such a scene. The sudden change of the most senior federal officer was not random. You can see it casually.

There have always been conspiracy theories against senior federal officers on various planets within the federation, but no one thought that those outrageous remarks would be confirmed in such an execution.

The entire execution platform was rapidly heated, but the black water was not affected by this. Instead, it expanded rapidly as if it had absorbed and transformed the heat.

The emergency response team appeared at the edge of the execution platform and used special firearms to spray various condensates into the black water in an attempt to prevent the spread of the black water. However, the condensates of various colors merged with the black water in a very short period of time. ——

The addition of condensate accelerated the expansion speed of the black water several times, and it actually touched the humans on the edge of the execution platform in an instant.

The poor guy became a part of the black water after this moment. It seemed that the black water was more compatible with the carbon base, so this time the expansion volume of the black water was more than twice as large as before.

More people were swallowed by the black water, so the expansion speed of the black water increased exponentially. The black water that was unable to flow quickly due to its viscosity occupied everything by "devouring" it.

When the black water completely covered the entire camera area, the image disappeared.

William Adams stared straight at the black screen.

"what is that?"

He looked at Chen Changsheng, who gave him a completely unexpected reply.

"That is the world-destroying thing in that world, an [infinite copy] called [eternal death]."

William Adams blurted out:

"[Beta cancer variant]!"

Confusion appeared in Chen Changsheng's electronic voice:

“It looks like, but not quite, that [beta cancer variant] is far less aggressive than [infinite replicator].

The former is only limited to the infection of carbon-based life cells. I do know that some people are conducting related research, but it is far from as aggressive and infectious as in the video. "

There was hesitation in Chen Changsheng's electronic voice:

"unless……"

William Adams asked without hesitation:

"unless?"

The hesitation in the electronic sound disappeared:

"Unless there is an electronic biologist with a vision that transcends the times, he must be an in-depth researcher of genetic engineering, and have carried out in-depth transformation of [beta cancer variant], even without [infinite replicators] as a reference Under certain circumstances, the [beta cancer variant] has been deeply modified according to a certain logic, even breaking away from the essence of a carbon-based virus and producing mutations that transcend life forms."

No one spoke in the screening room.

The picture on the screen is switched.

A huge mecha-shaped building standing like a miracle in the desert appears in the video. The rugged yellow sand and Gobi represent the tranquility that has existed here for countless years in eternal time. It occasionally appears in the sky above the windy sand. The flying creatures that quickly disappeared proved the harsh environment here with their actual actions.

What broke the calm was the black water overflowing from the huge mecha-shaped building——

At first, the black water emerging from the gaps in the building was inconspicuous in the wind and sand. Even if you could see the surface through the wind and sand, you would only see a layer of "rust" produced from the alloy gaps in the building.

Everything was as calm as relative stillness, until the qualitative change accumulated from quantitative changes exploded in an instant——

In just a moment, the black water that erupted from the building enveloped the entire building, swept the yellow sand into it, and transformed everything visible to the naked eye into a part of itself.

When the ground was covered by black water, and when the black water formed a vast ocean on the surface of the planet and rose into the sky based on the planet itself, the person who shot the video finally reacted.

A panicked and desperate alarm sound came from the video:

"Call headquarters! The advanced index fan blades of the STR-Ω-M92ON78BN frontline colony have been captured!"

When the words fell, the black water had broken through the planet's atmosphere, and the entire video screen stopped abruptly.

William Adams raised his hand:

"and many more."

He looked at one of his trembling subordinates:

"Dougs, you were working on the colony numbering of Starlink before. Have you heard of that number just now?"

The subordinate was stared at by William Adams with keen eyes, trying to figure out the chairman's meaning. He did not dare to answer wrongly: "According to the original design, STR is codenamed Starlink Colony, and subsequent numbers represent its position in Starlink. Special characters represent branches of Starlink.

Before the jump, the Starlink colonies we built had not left the Milky Way. There was only one Starlink channel and no branches. Therefore, all our current colonies are named with STR followed by a number..."

His detailed explanation was interrupted impatiently by William Adams:

"Just tell me what this code name means!"

The subordinate couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his head:

"This codename has the prefix STR, which is obviously a member of the Starlink colony. STR is followed directly by Ω. Our current colonies are not numbered like this... Our current numbers are only pure numbers, because according to the plan, the first colony in the galaxy is A star chain will be named with a number plus a prefix.

In ancient imperial texts, Ω is the last of the twenty-four letters, representing the end.

According to our current star chain naming logic, this Ω cannot appear, because once it appears, it means that the star chain has reached the end - it has reached the edge of the universe. "

He secretly glanced at William Adams, and when he saw that the latter had looked away with a thoughtful expression on his face, he relaxed slightly and continued:

"As for the content after Ω, it is the normal naming method. This naming method does not express much. It may be the coordinates or the time when the colony was discovered. In fact, these are irrelevant, because Ω itself has already made it clear. The location of the colony—somewhere at the edge of the universe.”

William Adams turned his attention to Chen Changsheng on the hospital bed:

“But according to mainstream physics, the universe was born from the Big Bang and continues to expand, and the expansion speed of the universe is much greater than the speed of light.

When a person exceeds the speed of light, time will flow backwards - this obviously does not exist.

Therefore, physicists generally believe that [the speed that humans can reach < the speed of light < the speed of the expansion of the universe].

Then we can never reach the end of the universe. "

Chen Changsheng said:

"The mechanical application of cosmic physics and classical mechanics cannot answer all questions. We are faced with things that we have never experienced and cannot answer."

William Adams asked again:

"If the world was born from servers, then having borders wouldn't be unacceptable."

The chairman's words brought great panic to everyone. They felt unbelievable about what he said - they felt unbelievable about most of the things they saw today.

No one can accept that they are virtual lives in the server.

William Adams added:

"Continue to play the next video material."

The image that appeared on the screen again was a ball of gray liquid stuck on a piece of black paper dotted with dim light spots.

Everyone quickly realized that it was not some gray liquid and black paper, but the changed black water occupying a certain planet in the starry sky... or a galaxy.

The black water turned gray. It had obviously undergone some kind of change. It continued to expand and spread along the vacuum. Even if it could not touch other planets, satellites or meteorite fragments, it was still expanding.

William Adams narrowed his eyes:

"The vacuum is also its nourishment... Can the gas in the vacuum also be its nourishment... It's really scary.

Jamie, what the hell is this thing? "

William Adams seemed to ask a nonsense question that he had asked repeatedly:

"What are the so-called [infinite replicas] and the so-called [eternal death]?"

Chen Changsheng answered him in a different way than before:

"It is a creation that should not exist in this world."

The father and son did not look into each other's eyes, even though they knew what they were thinking.

William Adams asked in a casually tentative tone:

"Isn't there any record in your USB flash drive?"

Chen Changsheng answered calmly:

"No."

Rarely did he respond more than once to such a probing by William Adams:

"The things recorded in that USB flash drive are only part of the truth, and the fact is that when you only grasp part of the truth, this part of the truth will be more deadly than lies.

So I never regard the contents of the USB flash drive as a real reference. "

Jamie’s USB flash drive does not contain this part of knowledge!

William Adams seemed to have discovered some shocking secret about Chen Changsheng. He suppressed the surprise in his heart and nodded:

"That's the truth."

Everyone present could not help but be surprised, what was the USB flash drive they mentioned?

They were surprised and a little frustrated at the same time. It seemed that the matter was really serious to the point of final showdown. At this juncture, all the things that everyone used to treat as top secret information and even dare not mention their names were put on the table.

But these senior elites who used to stand at the top of the pyramid can only stare at the irreversible situation under such circumstances. They can do nothing, just like any ordinary person, they are completely unable to control their own destiny. Cause a little bit of impact.

The gray liquid in the video screen spreads along the vacuum to the universe from all angles. The images recorded by the camera are constantly switching, and each switch will be accompanied by human screams or curses.

In the constantly switching pictures, the gray liquid gradually became lighter. It seemed to have evolved a carbon-based material structure as it swallowed the carbon base. After switching the picture countless times, I was already shocked beyond measure by everything that happened on the screen. The people suddenly discovered a blood vessel-like curve in the middle of the gray liquid.

Fear ensues.

For a life with vision, when the gray liquid appears in the field of vision, it means that there are less than three minutes left before death——

Within three minutes, everything in sight will become a part of it.

It spreads and expands in the universe, everything becomes it, and it becomes everything——

It has the tenacity of a star, the calmness of a vacuum, and the vitality of life——

Blood vessel-like curves appeared over a large area in its body - no one could see what changes had taken place in its body. Only those who were swallowed up by it and those who are now watching in front of the screen could clearly see the changes in its body. Veins like blood vessels can be seen as tightly arranged tissues like cells on the surface of the body.

It spread rapidly in the icy starry sky, swallowing up countless planets with civilizations, and countless ships sailing in the universe became part of it.

It finally stopped in front of a certain blue planet.

William Adams said dumbly: "Why doesn't it move forward?"

Chen Changsheng's electronic voice appeared: "It senses its own kind."

William Adams felt hot all over for a moment, and a rush of blood rushed to his forehead: "That thing also exists on our planet?!"