Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Mr. Crocodile, who was wearing a hat and a white gentleman's uniform, was riding a passenger bicycle. There were about twenty animal children on the bicycle seats behind him, including common monkeys, rabbits, mice, and uncommon weasels, black muntjacs, platypuses, etc. wait.

As a whistle came from the whistle in Mr. Crocodile's mouth, he spoke in a rough voice in a tone that would only be used to coax a child:

"We have completed today's journey and have arrived at the terminal!"

The children obviously did not have a good time. Some of them made a lot of noise and asked Mr. Crocodile to go around the zoo again. Some started crying after their screams were ignored, and some shouted, "If you don't come around again, go back." Tell my dad to lay you off" and the like.

Mr. Crocodile twisted his nose in anger, purred like a big cat, tore his white gentleman's uniform, and revealed his original shape.

The animal children were frightened and ran away, but except for the flying robin, the other animal children were quickly caught up and strangled by the crocodile, and the scene was bloody.

Mr. Crocodile ate all the animal children, and his belly became larger than his whole body. He just stayed there and started laying eggs.

Lay... lay eggs?

A huge crocodile egg, as tall as a child, fell to the ground. Tentacles of an unknown type extended from the surface of the egg shell and took root in the ground.

Soon, with the sound of "click, click, click", the crocodile babies were born.

Mr. Crocodile——This gentleman once again put on the clothes he found from somewhere. This time it was not a gentleman's clothes, but some kind of noble clothes that were higher than the gentleman's clothes.

Another whistle came from the mouth, and the crocodile babies obediently got on the passenger bicycle.

Only then did they notice Chen Yan——

"Dad! There's a human there!"

Mr. Crocodile turned his head suddenly, a humanized expression of fear appeared on his face, screamed, and fled quickly on his bicycle.

Beasts fear humans, just as humans once feared wild beasts that suddenly appeared outside the zoo grounds.

Chen Yan watched the absurd scene unfolding in front of him throughout the whole process, and without much hesitation, he understood everything that was happening in front of him.

'It eats them, converts their flesh and blood into energy to breed its own heirs, and at the same time, its status increases.

Is this the animal world?

So, in the animal world, what is in the cage? '

Chen Yan already had the answer in his mind.

When he saw the answer in his heart with his own eyes, he was still a little shocked -

The animal area of ​​Byron Weiss Zoo has now been built into many parks for human beings. However, due to the excessive number of humans, even one of these parks has an astonishingly large area——

There is no end to the human park in front of him in both directions. Except for one avenue that runs through the skyline, the field of vision is filled with densely packed high-rise buildings with hundreds or even thousands of floors. Chen Yan was already distracted by the densely packed windows of the high-rise buildings at just one glance. The pressure feels suffocating.

At this time, the sky is dark, and the zoo is completely illuminated by street lights, while the inside of the human park can be seen through the lights from the windows in high-rise buildings - the lights in countless windows in countless high-rise buildings are almost all on, making the entire park The interior is like daylight.

——This was originally supposed to be the rabbit area.

'They don't have to keep the lights on, just because if they turn them off, the monsters in the dark will eat them. '

Chen Yan shook his head and couldn't tell for a moment whether the one inside the fence was the real world or the one he used to be in was the real world.

'The zoo... has obviously expanded. It is no longer the frontier of wilderness, but occupies a considerable part of it. '

Since he already had enough vision, Chen Yan gradually understood everything that appeared in front of him.

'Am I, who descended here through the eyes of Osmandis, an invitee?

Obviously not - before the zoo was so large, it would have been impossible to invite a beast into a hunting night.

So, in what capacity did I come to the zoo?

The answer is obviously [intruder] - I was forcibly sent by Osmandis to kill the director.

He didn't even allow me to argue.

He didn't have time to listen to my argument. '

Before the moment the teleportation occurred, Osmandis was completely dead in this world.

The demi-human king was born from the Ice Age and the genetic technology accumulated before. He was born to fight against the succession of generations. He was supposed to have eternal life. If he did not observe the truth of this world, he might live forever. Until the end of the server, live until [eternal death] no longer exists.

But he didn't choose that.

Life was nothing but torture for him.

Chen Yan lowered his head, put one hand in his pocket, took out the phone with the other, dialed the number to the zoo agent Lawrence, and walked along the familiar road to the tiger area.

The call was quickly answered.

"Mr. Chen."

The emotions contained in Lawrence's voice on the phone were particularly complex, including the joy of reuniting with old friends, worries about their friends' futures, loss of their own current situation, and more importantly, helplessness at the changes in the world - these emotions were vividly expressed It came out without any cover-up.

"Lawrence, long time no see, are you okay?"

Chen Yan followed his inner wish and made a greeting. This time - and the only time - he didn't have any purpose when he called Lawrence.

The voice on the other end of the phone was obviously calmer, and the joy was more intense, but the words were stumbling. I think Lawrence might not have had a good time during this time:

"Fortunately, fortunately, since the zoo built the aquarium, I have been very busy every day.

The aquarium was built, then the poultry area, then the large beasts area and the space dangerous creature area... Fortunately, I completed my task and did not become a drag on the plan. "

After so many parks were built, did they become gathering places for humans?

Chen Yan did not ask this question because most of these questions had answers in his heart:

"Lawrence, you are a data life, right?"

You are a data life, so you only showed kindness to me after I had a quantum clone and became an alternative data life, because in a sense, I am the only one of your kind that you can contact.

"Yes, but not entirely."

There was anxiety in Lawrence’s voice:

“My original body is an unstable signal fished out from the dark zone by the director. I may have been a human being, but I have been immersed in the wilderness for so long that I cannot become human.

I was going to become a desolate person when I was completely destroyed, but after I was saved, in order to repay the kindness of the director, I stayed in the zoo to help the director handle the affairs..."

When Chen Yan heard what he said, he already knew what he was talking about.

"Lawrence, listen to me, this is not the case. In the real world, you were originally an employee of a certain company, and there is a high probability that you were a subordinate of William Master in the real world.

In reality, your copy has been uploaded to a huge server - in the world you are in now, you have once again become William Master's subordinate, working diligently for him. "

——Whether it is speculation, probability, or fact, Chen Yan made it clear.

After a long silence that was long enough for Chen Yan to come to the outskirts of the Tiger Zone.

"I see."

Lawrence's voice on the phone was filled with relief.

Chen Yan didn't know what he understood. He didn't know what kind of answer he had verified through his own knowledge combined with Chen Yan's statement. He didn't know what he knew.

Chen Yan could only feel some transformation in his spirit.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen, if you need anything, call me again...if I'm still here.

So, goodbye, Mr. Chen. "

After Chen Yan said goodbye to him, the call was hung up.

Chen Yan looked at the fence of the tiger area and saw that the scene inside the fence had almost completely turned into the same scene as the previous rabbit area. The difference was that the surrounding high-rise buildings were not plain areas like the rabbit area, but were covered with dense rainforests. .

Under the light of daylight, Chen Yan arrived at the gate of the Tiger Area, touched the third stone slab from the door according to the impression in his memory, moved the stone slab away, and saw the key to the gate. (Chapter 35)

'If you were still here...Lawrence would really be nostalgic. '

Thanking Lawrence again in his heart, Chen Yan opened the park door, threw the key into his pocket, locked the door with his backhand, and then walked in a direction in front of the dense buildings.

Synaesthesia captured the various emotions in the air and guided him to a certain big tree in the rain forest.

Chen Yan walked along the dense vines surrounding the big tree and found a passage to the heart of the tree. He kept walking along the passage until the surroundings became hotter and hotter, until sparse fire butterflies flew in front of him. .

At the junction of the tree-core passage, the forest where Wan Brynmesh's hut once stood was now a piece of scorched earth. Chen Yan had a hard time finding the location of the original hut in the forest, which had also been burned to the ground.

He put his hand on the ash-filled ground and searched down the land with his senses. He quickly found the entrance to the underground space of the forest cabin - the downward elevator was still there and still running.

He rode the elevator all the way down until he entered the ground.

After walking out of the elevator door, there was an envelope posted on the prominent wall next to the door. Chen Yan opened it:

"Tidanius's waking time is getting longer and longer, and his madness is getting more and more serious, but my work is getting busier and busier, and I can't help him at any time.

As a last resort, I injected it with some powerful sedative, creating a real hibernation environment for the Tidanios race, and put it into a long sleep.

I lost the signal to the present world and could not contact Lindsay Robert Darwin and others. Maybe it was because William Mast cut off the connection with the present world, or maybe it was for other reasons... When the apocalypse came Now, nothing matters.

Shortly after the apocalypse came, William Mast held a meeting for all employees of the zoo. He assigned arduous tasks and explained that the outcome of the tasks was to lead to "the great unity of life" and to open the "new era" of human civilization. Dawn].

No one knows what he wants to do, but everyone is bound here by him and can't help themselves.

I don't know when he will discover this place. I hope you can come back before he destroys this place.

——Van Brynmesh, written after the tsunami came.

Chen Yan put the letter in his pocket and continued walking forward. Not long after, he felt that the surrounding area was getting colder and colder, so much so that his joints could not move smoothly.

With willpower, he entered a dark snowy mountain and climbed up along the rugged mountain road.

The surrounding temperature was getting lower and lower, but fortunately, he finally reached the huge shadow above the snow-capped mountains before he was frozen and lost his vital signs.

He reached out and groped, grabbed a certain ball of soft down, and then took a dozen steps forward. His whole body was wrapped in the down, and finally he was no longer cold.

Along with warmth comes a sense of security. This sense of security is strange. It seems not only to come from the present, but also from the past, from the depths of hidden memories.

Under the double package of security and warmth, Chen Yan felt light and airy all over. He had not felt this kind of relaxation for a long time, and he lay down on the fluff and fell asleep.

……

……

It's like waking up after a completely relaxing night's sleep.

The feeling of going back in time lingers around me, and all the overlapping lights and shadows flash before my eyes.

When a low roar appeared, the light in Chen Yan's eyes faded, and he saw a blind black wolf among the dead trees in the forest, above the yellow leaves, looking at him eagerly.

'The black wolf is not looking at me, but at Tidanius. '

When Chen Yan had a thought, the black wolf suddenly lowered his body. More than a dozen slender bone spurs exploded from various parts of the spine on his back. Circles of ferocious mouthparts protruded from the wolf's kiss, turning into a black shadow and heading toward him. He, Tidanios, pounced.

Although the still young Tidanios did not undergo any ferocious changes, his own attack strength was obviously more than a little stronger than the mutated black wolf. The winner of this battle was already decided after an instant——

The black wolf that had turned into a monster had its head cut off at the neck!

There was not a drop of good blood in the wolf's body, and the blood-blackened meat looked completely inedible.

Chen Yan felt strong hunger. The young Tidanios had obviously been hunting in this forest for a long time, and he had never seen such a mutated monster until now.

Unable to bear the hunger any longer, Tidanios ate the black wolf's corrupted flesh raw.

It could barely suppress its hunger, then felt dizzy and fell to the ground unconscious.

Chen Yan controlled his consciousness in this lucid dream to leave Titanius's body, and observed from a God's perspective, his eyes flickered.

There is almost no difference between the young Tidanius and his later wishes.

'This Titanius must not be a wish, but should be the ancestor of the material carrier of wishes. This beast that only existed in the mythical age obviously inherited the spirit and memory. This is how I saw the future Titanius through a lucid dream. The reason for the dream. '

Chen Yan has long been aware of the consequences, but has never known the cause. Now he has seen the young form of Tidanius and the black wolf that has mutated in this world. Combined with his understanding of the world, he has a vague idea in his heart. Guess.

'At the beginning, Van Brynmesh told me that some kind of mutation had occurred in the species Tidanios, but he did not know the cause of the mutation. '(Chapter 754)

'Now I have come to its dreamland through a lucid dream. My destination in the lucid dream did not arrive randomly, but before the mutation occurred in this ethnic group. This shows that only before the mutation occurred, Titanio Si's memory is clear and complete. '

'Then, let me see what caused Tidanius' mutation. '

Chen Yan had a strong thought that all this had something to do with him.