Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

At this moment, the top floor of STR-56 space city.

This place has been regularly destroyed by flesh-and-blood creations according to Xanthium's will, and the area has been re-divided through the isolation and blockage of flesh-and-blood creations.

In the huge thirteen-story city space, several separated areas are filled with flesh and blood creations - they become the floor, the ceiling, and all the appliances that are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. They shoulder the functions of all rooms, just like has been replaced.

The spaces they re-divide are like the chest, like the brain ventricles, like the abdominal cavity, like the stomach pouch...

They seem to be forming a huge body, but even if they have enough energy and strength, they have not yet completed the last step.

They seem to be trying to imitate something, but they haven't gotten the true meaning yet, so even if they are forcibly formed, they can only become ugly dissimilarities.

When Ogami came here, he stopped in disbelief and subconsciously wanted to raise his gun and shoot.

Klein was startled the moment he discovered his thoughts, and used his spiritual power to remind him:

"Calm down! You can't shoot here!"

They have reached the end of the journey, and Xanthium must be nearby. No one knows what crazy decisions this crazy extraordinary scholar will make after the plan is ruined. They must be careful to avoid all the efforts they have made before. In vain.

Ogami was awakened, and now he was only a mortal body and broke into a cold sweat because of his actions.

"I've seen these things before."

What Ogami whispered aroused Klein's vigilance.

"In the BIOS, outside the company's walls, a basement of isolated servers... It is a huge basement, and the basement is full of such... such flesh and blood tissue."

Ogami pointed to an organ not far away that looked like a heart:

"I came back to this world through something like this."

He added:

"It's similar, not exactly the same. The flesh and blood tissue here is obviously very... fresh."

He used the adjective "fresh."

"The flesh and blood tissue I once saw in the BIOS has obviously withered, and even appeared to be in a state of failure. Many blood vessels appear blue and black because there is no blood."

Klein, who had awakened the memory in the BIOS, said solemnly:

"I don't know what this thing in front of me is, but the thing in the BIOS is named [Eternal Death]. It is a huge unknown organism entrenched on the surface of the planet."

He probably explained the situation of [Eternal Death] to Ogami.

After the shuttle ship's central control betrayed them, they had no way out. In fact, when he saw Miao Shuisheng in the spore-infected server operation room, Klein had thought that those spores could gain server permissions by infecting the server. Then you can also control the life of data by infecting program code.

Maybe it’s not control, it’s just infection. Maybe it’s not infection, control, or being invaded, but what thoughts come to Zhongkong’s own mind when he “sees the big world”…

In short, until now, whether Zhongkong will stay or not is irrelevant.

After giving up and returning to the real world, Klein already knew exactly what he wanted to do. Eliminating the disaster here was only the first step he needed to take after becoming a "real person".

"The flesh-and-blood creations here convert other substances much faster than the [Eternal Death] in the BIOS. According to our statistics in the BIOS, the conversion efficiency of [Eternal Death] to substances is about 300 cubic meter every 1 years. That’s as many centimeters.”

Klein expressed his opinion:

"Xanthium is obviously imitating the biological model of [Eternal Death]. I don't know what purpose he had in creating this thing... This thing is just a means to achieve his goal."

The two were walking in the space surrounded by huge flesh and blood creations. Through the cosmic rays coming in from a certain porthole, they could clearly see the existence of carvings and paintings. Because the entire flesh and blood space was too huge, A large number of carvings and portraits composed of flesh and blood protrusions seemed to embellish the entire space into a palace of some flesh and blood giant.

A twisted and deformed artistic sense was born from the corners of this palace of flesh and blood. It was evil, absurd and mind-distorting, as if it had become a new civilization that was completely anti-human. This civilization was completely opposed to human civilization and was based on human beings. On top of the flesh and bones of civilization.

Flesh and blood will not be produced out of thin air, and biomass will not be generated quickly in a short period of time. The two of them know where these flesh and blood and the "arts" on flesh and blood come from.

Fortunately, at this moment, these flesh and blood creations seemed to have fallen into sleep, giving them the opportunity to sneak into them.

……

At this moment, on the top floor of the STR-56 space station, in a corner of the "Palace of Flesh and Flesh".

Clad in a linen blouse, Xanthium still looked gentle and elegant. He stood in front of the test bench, observing the blood cells just collected from the flesh and blood creation through a microscope, and was overjoyed by the strong activity displayed by the blood cells.

“It did all the parameters we set for it and moved closer to its predecessors on top of that.”

He seemed to be talking to Miao Shuisheng behind him, but it was more like talking to himself.

"Until now, it has almost all the life characteristics of the legendary existence. It is younger and more powerful. Although it is not yet stable, aren't young people so energetic?"

Miao Shuisheng felt a little nauseous, and he thought maliciously, how perverted a person must be to call that disgusting thing a young man.

Although he thought so, he did not say so:

"Is it ready?"

Xanthium always likes to hear such non-problems. Miao Shuisheng knows that Xanthus has been waiting for too long - most of his life as a human being.

Xanthium didn't want to wait any longer, and his every move was irritable. He wanted a final victory, but hated staged victories.

Is it ready for the final step? This is the last question that concerns Xanthium now.

"I think it's ready."

Xanthium answered slowly, and he was obviously thinking carefully while answering:

"What makes it more powerful than its ancestors is that it can think independently - it has an incomplete mimetic neural network. This mimetic neural network will not produce subjective consciousness, but will act on biological tissues, allowing biological tissues to produce developed nerves. system.

In this way, it has the ability to self-improve—completely out of self-improvement that transcends subjective consciousness, like muscle memory. "

Muscle memory for self-improvement.

Miao Shuisheng trembled at this description.

What a fucking monster. Such a monster would have to develop self-awareness sooner or later, because its nerve impulses are so strong that it can generate enough nerve impulses to support subjective consciousness.

Miao Shuisheng said:

"Judging from its current evolution speed, such self-improvement capabilities may soon make it the [complete body] we designed."

At this point, Xanthium suddenly stopped answering. Miao Shuisheng's heart skipped a beat.

Just silence made Miao Shuisheng feel unparalleled pressure. This pressure did not come from any material thing or extraordinary power, but from the child's innate love for his parents.

A child loves his parents, so he cares about every word his parents say, every look in his eyes and the tone of every word he speaks, every time his parents treat him, and he tries his best to please - he wants his parents to feel happy, so he wants his parents to feel happy. He turned into a clown who tried his best to please them.

He is happy when his parents are happy, and he is afraid when his parents are angry. He seems to be independent and has no personality of his own. He just lives on guard day and night.

Xanthium is both father and mother.

Miao Shuisheng is a child, but he has grown up. He has inherited everything from Liang Ansheng and learned the principles of life from the world. He has read many books. He has learned many principles from those books and gained More doubts.

He began to reflect on his social relationships. The natural free will of human beings allowed him to seek his own existence and began to dialectically understand the meaning of his own existence.

At that time, he was horrified to discover that he had no independent personality - he had no independent self. He was just an appendage of Xanthium. The person "Miao Shuisheng" was hollow, like a body without a soul.

In order to find the meaning of his existence, the first thing he did was to find a way to block the blood link between himself and Xanthium.

He was born in blood and had no blood relationship with Xanthium, but he fed him, and what he drank when he was still an infant was not milk, but his blood, so he owned his blood source.

He spent a lot of money to block the connection between the blood sources. He kept this secret and behaved submissively, so he was never discovered by Xanthium.

Later, he was very angry to find that even after cutting off the blood source connection, he was still afraid of Xanthium.

At that time, he finally understood that he was afraid of Xanthium, not because of Xanthium's control over him in terms of material means, but because he had raised him and he was his parent.

"I have parents" - this is the attribute that [self] naturally carries.

Miao Shuisheng hated this attribute deeply. His life was clearly arranged by Xanthium, with detailed plans for almost every step - this fact made Miao Shuisheng feel suffocated every time he thought about it, and the suffocation also gave rise to anger. and hatred.

He doesn't want to be dominated.

He is free - he deserves freedom, he deserves freedom, he deserves freedom!

Since arriving in the STR-56 space city, he has secretly set up countless ambushes for Xanthium's plan——

He hacked into the server that supports the operation of the flesh and blood tissue, and can disrupt the operation of the flesh and blood tissue at any time. He can also add some code to the process of flesh and blood tissue derivation, so that the flesh and blood tissue cannot be deriving normally.

He forcibly dragged Ogami and Klein's shuttle ship, guided them into the space city, started cooperation with them, and guided them step by step to the top. He wanted to use them to eradicate the most critical part of Xanthium's plan. A part of a legendary terrifying existence——

The resurrected grand leader of the Choir is named [Sang], which means the blasphemer of the holy light of [the sun]——

The symbol of the Choir is the sun, and the brightest light in the world is also the sun. According to the teachings of the Choir, all believers are slaves of the Holy Light.

But the grand leader named himself the sun and compared himself to the holy light itself, which means that the name "Sang" itself is a blasphemy against the holy light.

After killing Sang, Miao Shuisheng will destroy Xanthium's life-long effort, the flesh-and-blood creation called the [ultimate] carbon-based life.

He wants to destroy everything about Xanthium.

To prove his freedom.

Xanthium's words brought him back from his brief reverie:

"[Perfect body] does not exist."

Miao Shuisheng lowered his head and said nothing. He didn't know what Xanthium meant. During this period, with the continuous improvement of flesh and blood creations, Xanthium sometimes thought about things beyond the technical level. That was something Miao Shuisheng didn't understand. field of.

"It stands to reason that the so-called [ultimate] of carbon-based life does not exist. Throughout human history, everything is constantly developing. This is true for human beings and the same is true for the world."

Miao Shuisheng understood that Xanthium was deconstructing what he had done from a philosophical perspective.

He listened attentively, wanting to know what tricks Xanthium was trying to play.

"What we call evolution is just optimizing the structure of carbon-based life, ranging from biological functions and biological tissues to small cells and genes. The computing power provided by the Turing chip allows us to optimize everything through calculation, and the mimetic neural network ensures Implementation of the entire optimization project.

Genes - Our research ultimately ends up on genes, because until now, all the combinations of genes we have found have simulated the life form of [eternal death] -

We have accomplished this almost impossible thing, the world has accomplished this almost impossible thing, and we have fulfilled one of the destiny of mankind. "

Miao Shuisheng didn't quite understand the meaning of this sentence. It sounded like Xanthium had a certain fate on its shoulders, but where did this fate come from?

Miao Shuisheng once overheard the conversation between Xanthium and Sang. He knew that they were very interested in and had a deep understanding of the deepest world, the underlying world called BIOS.

Through eavesdropping, Miao Shuisheng realized that Xanthium didn't just want to create a deformed and powerful creature of flesh and blood. The [ultimate] Xanthia was looking for was to solve some kind of unsolvable problem.

Xanthium is still telling her thoughts:

"In the past many years, we have traveled to many places and collected many permutations and combinations of genes of powerful carbon-based organisms. We have optimized these genes through computers, thus creating flesh-and-blood creations that can fuse almost any substance. .

It is almost similar to the legendary [Eternal Death], but this is still not enough. "

[Eternal Death] is another term that Miao Shuisheng has overheard many times. It seems to be some kind of super life form with multiple life forms that can transform any element——

In this aspect alone, flesh and blood creations are no longer comparable, because until now, flesh and blood creations can only transform substances with specific forms, and even various material elements in the air that have no specific forms cannot be transformed.

"We are just imitating and optimizing, but we have not created a real [eternal death].

However, our research, the end point of the carbon-based life we ​​created, can only stop here.

For our world, the carbon-based underlying structure is destined that carbon-based life can only go so far, and we have reached the end—

I think this is contrary to the eternal development of the world.

Is there a possibility that this world is not complete?

I mean, even the so-called BIOS, the so-called underlying world, is it incomplete?

Because, it stands to reason that in a complete world, everything should have the opportunity for eternal development.

Shuisheng, you said, in BIOS... deep in the real world, could there be a more real world with endless phenomena? "