Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 161 Deep into the Ocean
{Chapter BGM:Cornfield Chase—Interstellar}
The uncontrolled field of vision is further zoomed out.

Chen Yan saw the horizon.

On the infinitely elongated horizon, as far as the eye can see, is a huge empire crawling on the boundless land and sea.

He hadn't been able to see the borders of the Empire, which didn't seem to exist at all.

He was overwhelmed and wanted to stop all this, but the facts were always not as expected.

He realized that his current "vision" does not belong to himself, but to his desire.

The field of vision of desire is wide-angle, three-dimensional, and beyond the world itself——its perspective is independent of the world, which causes the world in the field of vision to change into another appearance——

I don't know when it appeared next to him, like air, water and soil that make up the world in the eyes of the wish, it turned out to be countless [fragmented pictures].

Those pictures are not static, there are various people and various things happening in each picture—those pictures are dynamic.

He looked around in a daze, and found that the world within his field of vision had been completely filled with these fragmented pictures at some point - further away, the sky and the surface of the earth still existed, but they had completely become the background of these fragments.

This is the world in the eyes of wishes...

Chen Yan stared at those pictures, and in a daze, a girl's immature voice echoed in his ears.

'Inside those fragments are the memories of everything that once existed in this world, most of which only exist for a moment, and are quickly forgotten by the world. '

Who is speaking?

Is it a wish?

Chen Yan wanted to speak, but now he didn't even have a mouth, and he couldn't convey his thoughts. It was impossible to communicate with the voice that echoed in his mind.

He can only continue to observe the fragmented picture that fills his field of vision and constitutes the entire world in front of him.

When he focused on a certain fragment, the movement of things on that fragment became more clearly visible.

He saw workers loading and unloading goods on a dock on the other side of the world. They were bare-chested and bare-footed, walking in the muddy water, their bodies already wet by the morning fog.

He saw killer whales under the surface of the sea filled with "joy" emotions, they seemed to see him and greeted him... Huh?How do I know they are saying hello?
Chen Yan realized that the person who felt their greeting was not himself, but wish.

Everything he felt came from his wish.

Wish did not move his eyes, but there were still more pictures appearing in front of his eyes.

He saw a scholar in a college who was calculating complex equations under a kerosene lamp. The man seemed exhausted, but he persisted.

He saw under a certain streetlight on the other side of the world, an elderly father was kneeling in the wind and snow, holding his child who died in the war.

He saw the crimes that happened in the streets, the generators that were overwhelmed by the load, the farmers praying to the fields, and the squids swimming among the lush green algae in the small river ditches...

Chen Yan realized that, as the voice said just now, the pictures in these fragments did not seem to be happening now.

Everything in The Fragment has ever happened.

But people don't remember.

Those fragments are proof that [everything] once existed, the true history that constitutes this world.

' Nobody remembers these facts, but The World faithfully records everything that happens in the world.

These things are the memory of the world.

Actually, I don't understand why I can see these things...'

You are the wish, right!

I knew something was wrong with you!Do you have the general thinking ability of human beings!

The voice of wish was much more immature than Chen Yan imagined.

'I can see all this because of the grain of rice you gave me.

There is something wrong with that grain of rice, not just a simple grain of rice.

Chen Yan, what did you feed me?
Although I don't understand why all this happened, why it appeared in my head... In short, I have seen this situation before, it is not dangerous, just look at it. '

Wish doesn't seem to be the first time seeing the world from this perspective.

Chen Yan was at a loss and could only watch what happened in front of him.

The horizon of desire is still being stretched further.

Until the human empire on the ground became indistinct innumerable small squares, and the almost covered clouds appeared behind countless fragments.

Complicated ravings emerged from the fragments, and those unusually clear voices flooded into his mind, seemingly harmless—they wanted to tell Xie some things, and those things were knowledge that Chen Yan's current brain could not grasp.

They want to communicate with wishes - this is the only thought in Chen Yan's head.

They come from all directions, and there is no distinction between "life" and "death".

They just "exist", exist in those fragmented pictures, become a part of the world, and are recorded by the world.

Even though he couldn't understand it, he still heard the cheers and joy in those complex raving voices through his wishes—the owners of those voices seemed very happy for the wishes to come.

But he could hardly understand even their simplest cheers.

Low-level carbon-based life like humans can only "feel" their joy.

Wishes should be understandable, right?
They were eager to talk to the wish, which led to more, more complex, and more passionate ravings in Chen Yan's head—the rising voice almost killed him.

Even though he couldn't feel his forehead anymore, the swelling and pain of the pineal gland still clearly appeared in his consciousness. That hateful tiny gland allowed him to cross the whole world between the soul and the body, turning the original The pain that belongs to him is clearly transmitted into his consciousness.

He closed his eyes in pain.

The moment I closed my eyes, all the ravings in my ears disappeared without a trace.

Chen Yan was stunned.

I close my eyes so the world disappears from me?
Eyes... Are my bridges to the world?
But I have already lost the ability to control the pupils of my body, could it be... the eyes I "closed" are the eyes of the brain!
There are inexplicable guesses and understandings in Chen Yan's heart. The answer he came up with is obviously groundless, but he always has a thought in his heart: my guess is right——

My intracranial eyes help me see the world in the eyes of my wishes.

'Can you hear those voices?Some of those voices are very clear, because some of the knowledge in those voices has been passed down in the world until today—that is the most precious wealth of the carbon-based civilization that exists in this world. '

Listening to the words of the wish, Chen Yan opened her eyes to see the world again.

The vision of desire is infinitely stretched, and things that have never appeared in his small world view appear before his eyes.

Completely different from what he had seen before, Chen Yan "seeed" more—in the broken pictures that make up the world, everything contained in the countless times that had existed flashed before his eyes like a rewind.

The complex ravings coming from his ears contained knowledge he had never heard before, and the knowledge he had never heard made him feel even smaller.

Although he didn't understand, the more he saw, the more fear he felt.

(End of this chapter)