Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

When Chen Yan woke up from his dream, his eyes were a little empty.

This time, he was not awakened by the indescribable and incomprehensible images in his dream.

He had a clear consciousness and perceived everything that happened in last night's dream. When he woke up from the dream, he still remembered everything that happened in the dream.

He saw the White Snake coming from chaos, and saw many things that the White Snake had done in countless generations. He saw countless interactions between him and her, countless conflicts, countless entanglements, and countless vendettas. ——

She played different roles in his countless reincarnations, in order to let him experience different lives in order to obtain the so-called [soul characteristic value].

[Soul characteristic value], Chen Yan learned this term from the description of wish before, and knew its function - when an uploaded consciousness, or virtual life, has a soul that matches the original flesh and blood body When the characteristic value is reached, this consciousness/virtual life can return to the state when it was uploaded/completely become a real life.

'So, what am I? '

After countless experiences, the problem returned to the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.

'who I am? ’

Chen Yan was tired of this problem.

'Of course it's me! '

He chuckled.

What gods, what white snakes, what reincarnation...

Chen Yan was not interested at all.

As he woke up, although all the memories in the dream were still there, the corresponding feelings were gone forever like a dream - the dream he experienced was like watching a tear-jerking movie. I was so moved that I consumed several kilograms of tissue paper, but after reading it, I woke up the next day and still had to get dressed and go to work.

The experience of this life made Chen Yan realize that he is a layman.

The kind that is vulgar to the point of being unbearably vulgar.

He climbed out of bed, went to the kitchen, drank a few compressed biscuits with cold water, and walked out of the cabin as the hunger in his belly gradually disappeared.

In just a few days, the experimental field at the bottom of the mechanical honeycomb has grown to a large scale. People don’t know what method was used to pull up the plastic greenhouse, and installed a sunlight simulation device and an irrigation device controlled by a temperature control module under the plastic greenhouse. At this time At the scheduled watering time, the water mist from the sunlight simulation device actually poured a rainbow in front of Chen Yan.

Rainbows are particularly eye-catching in the dark.

Chen Yan was stunned.

Soon, there were shouts, curses and arguments, the content of which was nothing more than "the experimental field is placed crookedly and cannot be watered" and "the shower head is installed at the wrong angle and conflicts with the system design." , "The program is so damn stupid, it can't be poured into so many corners" and so on.

People may have conflicts or fights over such things. The successful party may show off in front of others, while the losing party may seek revenge later...

Chen Yan was not unhappy because of these conflicts.

That's how humans are.

Human beings cooperate in confrontation and move forward in disputes. Conflicts are normal. A situation like "working together" would make Chen Yan think that he was in a false dream.

He is even a little excited now, because synaesthesia tells him that with the efforts of people, the entire two-story experimental field on the bottom of the mechanical hive has been completely set up. The artificial greenhouse experimental field made of most of the manpower and a small part of the machinery has emerged from in front of him. Spread to the other side of the space at the bottom of the mechanical hive, Chen Yan saw hope for progress with such a large-scale creation full of "technological sense".

Synaesthesia also told him that with people's efforts, the experimental field has completed the first stage of seed planting, and germs have grown in just a few days. The survival rate of the germs is quite high, which means that after a month, people will Will be able to eat the first vegetables grown by the mechanical hive.

——Even if there was a conflict, they still completed the task!

——This is completely a miracle created by people’s hands!

Chen Yan rode the big elevator all the way up to District N as usual a few days ago. Treating himself as an ordinary office worker, he walked all the way from the big elevator exit to the headquarters of Z Group through the streets and alleys. People seemed to have adapted to him. behavior, so when he continued to do this a few days later, there were far fewer eyes from the blocks on both sides of the road.

Chen Yan realized from people's behavior that he might be safe now, and the resistance forces in the mechanical hive that could not be detected by the connected senses were probably dormant for the time being.

This way, it's better for everyone.

Due to the shortage of resources and the inability to completely liberalize the market, Z Group today assumes a considerable part of the functions of the social public service department. The first to eighth floors are now divided into various functional areas.

Chen Yan squeezed through the crowds of people, got on the elevator after a long wait, and reached the 11th floor of the group, stopping in front of the conference room.

Before he could regain his footing, he heard the quarrel coming from the conference room.

After listening carefully, he learned that the quarrel in the conference room was about the quota allocation for the second phase of the Pioneer Team.

At the beginning, everyone was not optimistic about the island chain's pioneering team plan. The reason was simply that the companies participating in the plan had to provide manpower and materials. These days, no one's manpower and materials come from strong winds. Investing in a pioneering team is too risky. , the cost is also ridiculously high——

As we all know, the outside has been frozen, and now there is a white-haired wind blowing on the ice all day long. People who stand in the field will be frozen to the point of losing their vital signs in ten minutes.

Not to mention sending a pioneering team to restart the islands in the island chain, whether they can reach other islands in the first island chain is a question in itself.

Once it fails - and there is a high probability of failure - not only will people not be able to come back, but resources will also be wasted.

No one can bear such a result.

——Because of this, when Chen Yan first proposed to form a pioneering team to investigate the material resources that were still available on the first island chain, the representatives of other companies within the United Group just looked at it and pretended that there was no such thing. Hear about this.

Even though Chen Yan emphasized many times in front of everyone and wrote it on the public page of the United Group's website that the resources obtained by the pioneer team's investigation would belong to the investors, they remained unmoved.

At this juncture, everyone is a prudent businessman, not a crazy gambler.

They did not expect that the first phase of the pioneering team would obtain the rich results that followed——

In just one week, the first phase of the pioneering team restarted 23 resource islands in the first island chain, including Dais Island. Among them, there are 15 mines that produce solid and liquid minerals and are used as factories for heavy industrialists. There are six islands, including two islands that are used as warehouses to store light industrial supplies.

The so-called "restart" has two criteria: one is to restore the power system, and the other is to restore a certain production capacity in the factory workshop.

When the news of the pioneer team came back, most companies within the United Group were not very shocked.

They have a very clear understanding of the first phase of the Pioneer Team - in fact, the open recruitment for the first phase of the Pioneer Team has been made public on the official website of the United Group. Most of the people who participated in the Pioneer Team signed a life and death certificate and also wrote Suicide note, most of these people are not of high quality and their family background is not good. It is precisely because of this that they choose to leave the mechanical hive that can still keep them alive and enter the ice and snow where they may die at any time.

——With such a group of people, even if they get things done, how much can they accomplish?

They know the usual methods used by outsourcing companies such as logistics centers - if they achieve three points, they must tell their employees that they have achieved six points, tell the logistics center that they have achieved nine points, and report to their direct leaders that they have achieved ten points.

——It was with this idea in mind that they gathered together to figure out how many resources the first phase of the pioneering team had obtained from the island chain, and they suddenly exploded——this time the pioneering team was on the island chain The resources obtained are enough to support the next stage of the mechanical hive's construction plan!

In other words, through this venture investment, Chen Yan has obtained the leadership of the next stage of human civilization!

They regretted it greatly. The United Group was established after Chen Yan discussed with everyone. The fundamental purpose of establishing the United Group was to concentrate resources to do great things under the condition of distribution according to work. Whoever creates what kind of value will have this value. who--

On a larger scale, this united group is to assemble scattered human forces into a big family that can work towards a common goal. Even if there are some small frictions and conflicts between family members, they still have to discuss how to live their lives in the end. .

To put it simply, the United Group is actually a joint-stock company with small profits that can only support a family. Although the profit is not much, the investment will definitely receive a corresponding proportion of return.

When they inquired, they found out how much Chen Yan had invested - Chen Yan had almost paid most of Z Group's net worth for the first phase of the pioneering team. If the first phase of the pioneering team failed, Z Group would go bankrupt.

Chen Yan took the gamble and won. As one of the craziest gamblers in the apocalypse, Chen Yan got his generous rewards.

——Even after knowing such news, they still felt after careful calculation that although the profit of this transaction was not high, and even negative returns in the short term, according to Chen Yan's expectation curve comparing the investment and harvest of the first phase of the pioneer team, Look, as a long-term investment, the Pioneers' investment is guaranteed to make a profit.

It’s the end of the world, some businesses are good to do!

Therefore, with the motivation of many boosts, the plan to form the second phase of the pioneer team was quickly put on the agenda, so that today, just one week later, everyone is sitting here to discuss the allocation of quotas for the second phase of the pioneer team.

Chen Yan listened to the quarrel in the conference room and felt the ugly greed coming from synaesthesia. Although he was not irritable, he couldn't help but feel nauseous, so he gave up the idea of ​​entering the conference room and turned around and entered his office. .

Chen Yan is not here. She is really busy these days. Since Z Group lost a large number of high-level employees in the last incident, she wears multiple hats and is extremely busy dealing with official matters all day long. Fortunately, she Having undergone omnic transformation, there is no need to worry about your body.

He was just about to check out the status of his wish through lucid dreaming, when suddenly there was an unusual breath coming from his synaesthesia.

He walked along where the unusual smell came from, exited the building, walked through the streets and alleys, took the large elevator all the way down, and arrived outside an ordinary single-family house in District D.

He tried to knock on the door, but found that it was not closed.

He walked straight into the door, resisting the emotional chaos rising in his heart in vain, passed the corridor, turned a corner, and stood in front of a bedroom door on the first floor.

There was a low and disorderly murmur from inside the door. The tone of the voice was very different from what Chen Yan had heard before. Along with the murmur, there was an unbearable and strange putrid smell, like It is rotten deep-sea fish that has been marinated without oxygen for several years and then poured with a layer of thick tomato sauce used for hot pot. Chen Yan thought for a moment, then reached out and knocked on the door.

The mumbling stopped.

"How did you come……"

Even though the voice was hoarse and difficult to distinguish, Chen Yan still identified it through synaesthesia from the almost completely changed voice. It was Osmandis's voice.

"I felt like you were in trouble, so I came here."

Chen Yan said in a light and calm tone:

"Do you want me to help you die?"

The voice inside the door did not make him irritable because of such a "greeting", but was just slightly irritated. He seemed to be unconscious:

"No, I don't want it for now, I still have things to do...I've seen a lot these days, including outside, including...you."

Schadenfreude soon appeared in the confused voice:

"You've also encountered difficulties, and you're about to end up in the same situation as me. Are you sure you won't shoot yourself in the head before that?"

He became decayed and chatty:

"When you become like me, it will be too late to regret it. I no longer have the courage to raise the muzzle of the gun and shoot myself... Even if you do that, it won't stop me."

There was silence both inside and outside the door.

Chen Yan felt a little disappointed. Many friends had left him along the way. Although Osmandis was not a close friend, he could indeed be regarded as a loyal partner.

What broke the silence was the deep voice coming from the door:

"There was a cigarette on the table in the living room...it was left by a thief. I was very angry at that point. He happened to hit the muzzle of the gun."

He was incoherent.

Chen Yan went to the living room to get a cigarette, but couldn't find a lighter, so he just held the cigarette in his mouth. What he usually hated the most was the smell of tobacco, but when he was under great pressure, the pungent tar-like smell came back again. It gave him a feeling similar to pleasure, and he knew that it was some kind of dopamine secreted from the brain under the stimulation of the smell of tobacco.

When Chen Yan returned to the door, Osmandis started talking intermittently.

"I've discovered some secrets these days."

That was not the tone of telling a secret.

“I discovered that what is above our heads is not the sky, and what is under our feet is not the earth.

I discovered that what I experienced was not a change of generations or a change of time.

Everything was wrong, Chen Yan, everything was just a momentary mistake.

Mistakes gave birth to this world, mistakes gave birth to me, mistakes gave birth to Master William. "

Master William, "Master" means "Master", and Master William is William Master.

Before that, Chen Yan had already learned some of the director's secrets from the wishful mouth. In fact, Chen Yan was not very surprised at the time, because although those secrets were incredible, if it was the director, there seemed to be nothing to be surprised about. .

Chen Yan tried to continue this absurd conversation:

"The director is a very powerful person and a former loser."

The voice inside the door suddenly became very angry:

"He will also face failure in the future! I have already foreseen that future!"

Chen Yan asked:

“What does the future look like?”

The voice inside the door immediately became solemn:

"The future is created by people. The future is like a clay sculpture. Whatever people shape the future into, that is what the future will look like."

Chen Yan smiled:

"It's all nonsense, but I like the answer."

The voice inside the door immediately became violent:

"But I don't like it!"

Chen Yan did not answer immediately. He sat down at the door, turned the cigarette around, chewed the tobacco leaves, and asked:

"Why don't you like it?"

There was a sad tone in the voice inside the door:

"Master William destroyed my home, I want to kill him!"

Chen Yan chewed tobacco leaves, lowered his head, and said in a vague voice:

"When did this happen."

Osmandis' voice was full of hatred:

"Long after the end of the Ice Age, he found me again, designed a trap, and allowed me to have a wife and children. At that time, I thought he really just meant well and wanted to give a lonely soul like me a home...

Later, he kidnapped my child, and my wife died of a heart attack due to the loss of her child. I was the only one left in the world again..."

There is such a thing.

Chen Yan still lowered his head:

"You are not bound by the iteration of the world. He must want to conduct some kind of experiment on you... He wants your genes?"

Chen Yan asked and answered himself:

"No...it's not genes, he wants you...

Soul characteristic value. "

Osmandis' voice was like a ghost crying:

“He wants to create a new world that is not affected by any gods. He believes that for me, who is not affected by server iterations, my soul characteristic value is the password to create that new era.

The other people who had left the Ice Age on Saromair were also found one by one by him, and all possible experiments were conducted.

I believed him gullibly and even gave him my eyes. I thought he would really use my eyes of the demi-human king to search the world and find a way out of life. "

There was a hint of despair in the ghost's cry:

“To this day I know that that is simply impossible!

There is no way out of life! "

Chen Yan raised his head. Although there was doubt in his eyes, he was not too confused:

"Your eyes can only see into the universe, right."

Osmandis inside the door replied:

"That's not the case. To this day, I have seen the outside of the universe - the hopeless world that has been extinguished."

Chen Yan said with an almost blind optimism:

"Maybe what you see is not the truth."

Osmandis, who was close to decay inside the door and only retained a trace of sanity, said:

"I don't know, I can't see that kind of future... I can't kill Master William to avenge my wife and children.

Chen Yan, I will give you my real eyes, and you can help me take revenge, okay?

You will see what I see. "

The words fell together with the tone.

In synaesthesia, the emotions behind the door are completely confused, and there is no trace of human emotion involved.

Chen Yan pushed the door open and walked in, only to see that the entire room was filled with muscle-like biological tissues. Those muscle-like biological tissues connected together by tendons were obviously rotten and emitted a stench.

The biological tissue was inlaid with dense eyes. When Chen Yan walked in, all the eyes looked at him at the same time.

There was a "boom" in Chen Yan's head, and his consciousness was forced out of his mind by some kind of power in those eyes. He passed through the clouds and transcended the vacuum, and his perspective was continuously lengthened...

The next moment, as a tram bell rang, Chen Yan opened his eyes at the gate of Byron Weiss Zoo.