Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chen Yan was confused.

Even if he knew the ending, he couldn't imagine how difficult the process before the ending was.

In fact, he believes that that ending may not necessarily happen, because the real world and the deeper world just have the same rules, and the same results may not necessarily occur under the same rules.

He told Wish that, in fact, one hundred and thirty-six months after the third apocalypse, the survivors of the mechanical hive were already facing a desperate situation.

He complained to her:

As early as the first few months after the third apocalypse, workers and engineers who went to the surface died in batches due to extreme low temperatures.

They opened up the path from the island chain to the mechanical hive, and brought supplies from the island chain to the mechanical hive. In the following years, these supplies became the lifeblood of the survivors in the mechanical hive.

The price they paid was not only their lives, but also the dead end that no one could follow——

Even if the students in the school study hard, they still cannot acquire the work skills that their predecessors have gained through practice in the past ten years.

Even if they are frequently exposed to front-line construction work while in school, they cannot directly take over all the work of their predecessors after graduation.

As the outside temperature gets colder and colder, all decisions made by United Group become more conservative.

Everyone's life is precious, and they must be cautious when making decisions in order to minimize casualties and preserve the survivability of the entire system in the apocalypse.

The passages forged by the ancestors' lives brought precious opportunities to the mechanical hive. They had enough time and resources to improve the underground experimental field and even built a small-scale underground animal husbandry factory.

When the temperature continued to drop, they realized that all their efforts to survive were completely worthless in the face of natural disasters——

When the fertilization facility froze, filth nearly engulfed an entire floor of the mechanical hive.

The pipeline system of the entire mechanical hive is connected as a whole. When pollution comes, every link will face serious danger.

In this crisis, the United Group invested almost all the manpower it could invest. They blocked most of the filth, but they still could not prevent a small part of the infrastructure from being polluted.

Plague followed pollution.

This is the biggest existential crisis since the decline in food production.

Chen Yan did not tell Wish about the process of this crisis.

He didn't want to think about what happened in those years.

He only told his wish that when this survival crisis ends, there will only be 30,000 people left in the mechanical hive.

Thirty thousand people sounds like a number that is completely unable to operate the infrastructure in the mechanical hive.

Most people are unwilling to reproduce in such an environment because they cannot see the future. After experiencing several disasters, people have matured and begun to think about death, and death is the most awakening thing for people.

In fact, disasters are not independent. Disasters are interlocked. When a disaster occurs, it will definitely affect the entire closed-loop system. Then, other parts of the closed-loop system will be affected by the disaster and problems will arise.

Today, due to staff shortages and damaged infrastructure, the United Group has stopped maintaining most unnecessary infrastructure, leaving only water, electricity, heating and other infrastructure necessary for daily life in operation.

"Now, it is the one hundred and thirty-sixth month after the third apocalypse, and it is also March 11th of the 3th year.

The temperature outside the mechanical hive has reached minus 211 degrees Celsius. According to the news from our observation station, the air flow speed has dropped by at least half compared to 11 years ago.

This means that there is no oxygen for people to breathe outside the mechanical hive.

The oxygen inside the mechanical hive comes almost entirely from the experimental fields on the ground floor. We renovated the fertilizing facilities and built a new pipeline system to purify some of the polluted oxygen, but the bacterial content in the oxygen is still very high.

A month ago, the first patient with bacterial lung disease appeared in the mechanical hive. "

Chen Yan expressed his wish.

Xixi knew that he didn't want to tell her these things, he just wanted someone to talk to to relieve the depression in his heart.

"We tried to treat him, but it failed. The bacterial lung is irreversible, and our stock of bionic lungs was used up five years ago.

Our engineers measured the oxygen in the mechanical hive and found that the level of oxygen pollution was high enough to affect the human respiratory system.

We have increased the power of the air purifier, but we don’t know how long the remaining Ophioli and coal mines can sustain power generation. "

His words were confused, and at the moment when his spirit was completely depressed, he expressed his last clear thoughts:

“People need not just knowledge but practice.

There are not many of us left. If we want to continue to survive, everyone must wear multiple hats. Everyone... must make the greatest effort to survive.

But the remaining people... they cannot master a large amount of knowledge in a short period of time, and even if they have knowledge, they cannot carry out sufficient practice.

Whenever they make a small mistake while working on the front line, the fragile system of the mechanical hive will amplify the mistake and even get out of control.

I...can't let them master knowledge just by talking.

I need to use quantum clones to enhance synaesthesia and use synaesthesia to transfer knowledge into their heads so that this knowledge becomes their instinct.

Only in this way can they... let them master knowledge.

Only in this way can the efforts put in by all of them be successful, and then countless successes can be accumulated into the future of human survival. "

There was even more disappointment in his tone.

"However, in the past 11 years, I have accumulated a lot of loss of control due to excessive use of synaesthesia and the power of quantum clones. Now I have transformed everyone into quantum clones and become my reservoir of loss of control——

I can't increase my strength anymore——

Once I increase my power, people will completely lose themselves and become unconscious quantum clones.

That's not the ending I wanted.

I want people to survive until the end of time. "

This is the path he chose, and he has never regretted it until now.

But he didn't think he could survive it, even if his wish had already put the end in front of him.

He only believed in everything he saw - everything he saw in the mechanical hive was falling into the abyss with unstoppable momentum.

"I don't know how people can survive...

I saw absolutely no hope of continuing to survive.

Perhaps the United Group's laboratories can develop new technologies, create an environment that is insulated from extreme cold, and create new technologies that can increase food production...

But I don't know if I'll ever see that day.

I have transformed everyone into my quantum clone, but the accumulated loss of control is about to reach a threshold.

I'm going rotten.

I will prevent the birth of corruption...that will be my end.

Until then, I'll keep at it.

I will stay with everyone, help them solve their difficulties in work and life, and find ways to encourage them.

I will describe to them a future that is beautiful, free, and desirable.

I will make my last effort for everyone's survival.

Wish...

I think that after I die, if you have the means, wait until the next generation comes, find and tell me in the next generation what happened before he woke up.

Let him wake up quickly and face the world he should face quickly.

Tell him who his friends are and who his enemies are.

Tell him what he will have and what he will lose...

If he were to face my current situation again, I hope he could avoid my mistakes and live with other people. "

At this point, he saw the look in Wishful's eyes and suddenly realized something.

"I told you this before, didn't I?"

Wishes lowered his head and did not reply.

Chen Yan was stunned.

It turns out that Wish has traveled back in time, searching for a way to fulfill his wish throughout countless generations. It turns out that he had said similar words to his wish when the previous generation was about to end.

She was silent, which meant that she had not found a way to achieve his wish.

"So."

Chen Yan's tone became relaxed, he touched her head and said with a smile:

"Stay alive——

Wishes, I want you to live, no matter where you are, and never come back to this hopeless world.

——That’s my last wish. "

Desire embraced him.

"I understand."

She stretched out her right index finger and touched his eyebrows with her fingertips.

"Actually, I also have a wish."

In the dim space, Chen Yan was peeled off like a cocoon and flew into countless pieces of paper.

Countless pieces of paper flew around, forming a huge whirlpool like a storm.

There are flashing pictures on the surface of each piece of paper, and the pictures record what Chen Yan has experienced——

These pieces of paper are fragments of the world's memory and a passage to the past.

When the wish took a step forward, the vortex stagnated in mid-air.

She used the pieces of paper as steps, climbed up the steps, selected a piece of paper, and jumped into it.

When the wishful figure disappeared, a sound so low that it was almost imperceptible came from his ears, like some kind of murmuring.

He was too tired to distinguish the sounds.

……

……

Chen Yan had a dream.

It seemed that because he was so out of control, he didn't have enough energy to maintain a lucid dream for a long time.

In the dream, Chen Yan was confused and still looked like a child from the size of his body. He was looking for fish left in puddles due to low tide on a beach and threw them back into the sea.

A girl looked at him on the shoreline for a long time, then came to him and asked him in an emotionless voice:

"If you do this, no one will care."

He was a little panicked and answered her without thinking clearly:

"How could it be...don't they care?"

The girl is very sure:

"Yeah, they don't care, they won't even remember -

The memory of fish is only seven seconds. Not only will they forget their own life and death, but they will also forget that you saved them. "

Chen Yan became even more panicked, and his clumsy argument sounded completely arrogant to the girl:

"But within the seven seconds it has memory, it remembers and cares about it, right?"

The girl choked and suddenly realized that she had no way to refute, and became angry:

"This beach is so big! You can't save it!"

Chen Yan was frightened to tears by her fierce look. The child was full of emotions, and the crying turned into howling the next moment:

"What should I do if they die?"

The girl obviously didn't expect Chen Yan to be so mentally fragile. She was so panicked that she couldn't help but say:

"The dead fish will turn into stars! They will rise into the sky!"

Chen Yan, who was crying, suddenly stopped and looked up at the sky blankly.

Above the sky, the sky is filled with bright stars.

The girl took advantage of catching his attention and struck while the iron was hot, trying to calm him down:

"If you wish on a star, your wish will come true!"

Chen Yan quickly clasped his hands together and closed his eyes, but his face was still facing the sky.

After a while, Chen Yan put down his hand.

"What wish did you make?"

The girl added:

"You must express your wishes to make them come true!"

Chen Yan, who was too young, did not doubt the truth of her words at all, and said embarrassedly:

"I hope the fish that couldn't be saved will remember me.

When it lives again in its next life, it will find me and I will apologize to it because I failed to save it in my previous life. "

The girl said with a straight face:

“The savior plot is not advisable!”

Chen Yan asked curiously:

“What is a savior plot?”

The girl's tone is cunning:

"If you go to school with me from now on, I'll tell you!"

Chen Yan immediately became happy:

"Okay! What's your name?"

The girl pulled Chen Yan and left the beach step by step. Her childish voice was drowned in the sound of the receding tide:

"My surname is Bai..."

They turned around and left, unable to see that on the beach behind them, a small fish that had lost its life due to lack of oxygen turned into a ball of light.

The glimmer of light rose into the sky, seemingly turning into a shooting star, dragging a long tail, penetrating the clouds and entering the starry sky.

The dead fish turned into stars.

Many years later, the stars gained their own consciousness, and they began to serve as the eyes of the world, observing and recording changes in the entire world on its behalf.

It has worked conscientiously for the world for many years, but it was so bored that it fell asleep at its workstation unknowingly.

Suddenly one day, a middle-aged man's voice appeared next to it and woke it up.

"Hello~"

The man greets her.

"I am a messenger from heaven, my name is William Master." (Corresponding to Chapter 163)

It looked curiously at one of the man's eyes, and its intuition told it that it was this eye that made the man see it.

"I want to lead you to the lower world and bring a beautiful new dawn to mankind.

Are you willing to go with me? "

It accepts a man's invitation.

……

……

In the one hundred and fifty-eighth month, the mechanical hive's food output and consumption reached a balance due to attrition.

People seem to have become accustomed to this kind of life. They go to their posts nervously every day, work at their posts and carefully record all observable information.

People continue to survive by virtue of their strong adaptability, because a small number of people occupy a large amount of resources, so although people have to face survival crises every day, their lives are pretty good.

Until one day this month, Chen Yan, who was sitting in the office, suddenly noticed some changes in himself.

Loss of control reaches a threshold.

His time has come.

PS: Warm reminder, according to the setting of this book, all dreams are realities that have happened before. (I forgot if I reminded you before, let me remind you again...)