Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 17 Solar

"Let's not talk about this small zoo, the empire itself is evil."

Third Uncle reached out and touched the inside of the black leather jacket, but there was no smoke.

I guess I forgot to bring it.

Without a cigarette, the third uncle was obviously a little irritable, licked his lips, and cursed again:
"It's so fucking evil, this is not the first time... It's not the first time that people have turned into monsters!"

His clumsy words made Chen Yan immediately understand that he was changing the subject.

Uncle San didn't want to talk about the secrets he knew.

Chen Yan knew that he would not be able to ask the things that the old man didn't want to say, so he stopped asking and listened to the third uncle.

"Pujie boy, if you spend enough time in society, you will encounter some strange things...some strange, incomprehensible, strange things like dreams."

While the third uncle was speaking, the snowflakes falling from the sky grew bigger.

The sky was covered with snowflakes, and the four of them shivered and hid within the platform, losing sight of five meters away.

The snow on the ground was accumulating at a speed visible to the naked eye, reaching ankles in a moment, and it was still rising at an accelerated pace.

There is no way to move fast on such a road.

Once you leave the platform and your body is exposed to the wind and snow, you will face the risk of losing your body temperature at any time.

Once hypothermia occurs, the heat loss of the human body is greater than the heat supply, resulting in a decrease in the temperature of the core area of ​​the human body, and symptoms such as shivering, cardiopulmonary failure, and even death...

Wardfalke State is located in the northern part of the empire, and it is already severely cold.

Every winter, there are not a few deaths in the lower urban area due to hypothermia.

Moreover, if the figure is exposed in the snow outside the station, the chances of being discovered by the little girl who has turned into a monster will also increase.

They all understand that their field of vision is no more than five meters, but the little monster girl's field of vision is not necessarily only five meters.

Four people were trapped in the platform.

Fortunately, the platform has a glass roof, which can withstand part of the snow, so that the four of them will not be buried by the heavy snow.

Uncle San and Chen Yan spoke their native dialect, and they were not afraid of the missionaries and hooligans eavesdropping.

"Hmm... about ten years ago, the empire hadn't opened up new immigrants, and I hadn't entered Tai Shenghe's hall yet...

At that time, I was still on the westernmost pier in Wardfark State..."

It was not yet 7 o'clock at this time, and the street lights on both sides of the gravel road in the zoo had not yet been extinguished. The third uncle told stories that Chen Yan had never known under the dim light of the street lights.

Ten years ago, the third uncle was more than 30 years old, in the prime of life.

Although the empire was not open to immigration at that time, the great momentum of the maritime era had already been revealed, and dock workers became one of the most lucrative occupations for the people at the bottom of the empire.

The third uncle had just arrived in the empire at that time, and he couldn't even communicate in the imperial language, so he could only help carry goods on the dock and do some physical work with simple machinery.

At that time, my third uncle had a colleague who worked hard, but was taciturn and didn't communicate with others all day long.

That's an imperial man.

People in the empire generally do not do hard work, because they enjoy the social welfare guarantee of the empire. Even if they do not work, they are still covered by the empire.

At least not starving to death.

But the blonde colleague not only came out to work, but also did two jobs by himself, which can be said to be very hard-working.

He worked hard, but he didn't earn much money.

In the eyes of the ship owner who runs the ship, this is just a down-to-earth employee. Even if he works more, he is only doing his duty and doing his job, and there is no need to pay more wages.

At that time, the third uncle had just arrived, he didn't understand the language, and he didn't know anyone, so he was bullied by other dock workers all day long.

Most of the other dock workers are Asian.

There are also a few black skins, but the majority are Asian.

At that time ten years ago, the people who bullied Asians the hardest were their fellow Asians.

This taciturn colleague was warm-hearted, and Shi Chang helped the third uncle.

The people of the same clan who bullied the third uncle were more or less afraid of the white skin of the empire.

Seeing that the third uncle has an imperial white skin under his protection, after a long time, he will give up, at most he will call the third uncle a rabbit in private.

"That's when I was like, hey, this guy is fucking good."

When the third uncle said this, there was a look of fear on his face.

"It's not bad..."

The colleague's name was Solal, and he didn't say what his surname was, and the third uncle didn't ask either—at that time, the third uncle only knew that people in the empire had names, and didn't know that there was a surname after the name.

Solal not only helped the third uncle gain a firm foothold on the pier, but also became the third uncle's imperial language teacher.

He taught seriously, and the third uncle was also willing to learn. After a few months of work, the third uncle was able to speak fluently with ordinary imperial people.

Although they have some accents... Who doesn't have a native accent if they are not native to the empire?
Even rural villages in remote areas of the empire have completely different accents from big cities.

In that era, as long as Asians could speak a few words of imperial dialect, they were extremely powerful—not only could they negotiate orders with the ship merchants who ran the ship, they could take over jobs by themselves, and be their own bosses.

There is no need to go through an intermediary, and most of the wages are deducted by the intermediary.

You can also enter the big cities of the empire, and through your own skills, you can get jobs that are much better than dock workers.

The third uncle can not only speak the imperial dialect, but with Solal's help, he is even proficient in most of the native slang of the empire.

This is a big deal.

Unlike normal Asians who are down-to-earth and willing to work, Third Uncle is not a down-to-earth person. When he has some money, he likes to do speculative things.

One time when I was doing business, I was short of other people's goods, and three fingers were cut off on the spot by the local gangsters of the empire.

Later, the third uncle's business was still done.

He participated in the rise of Tai Shenghe, and he flourished in the gang. In just one year, a woman with fame and status had everything...

After the achievement, the third uncle missed the old love and went back to Solal.

The person who bullied the third uncle back then was still working as a coolie on the pier. When he saw the third uncle who was dressed richly and was smoking a cigar, he nodded and bowed to the third uncle, but he didn't recognize the third uncle.

"I remember that day very clearly. When I arrived at the pier, the workers said that Solal was not at work today, and asked me to go to the workers' dormitory to find him."

The third uncle found Solal in the dark alley behind the workers' dormitory.

At that time, Solar was lying on top of a person, and the sound of chewing echoed throughout the dark alley.

"It was ten o'clock in the morning, and the workers had all gone to work. The dormitory area was very quiet, and I could hear it clearly. Until now, those voices still appear in my ears when I dream back at midnight."

Uncle San imitated.

"Crack, click."

"Solar is gnawing at the corpse."

"He looked up, and his face was completely changed. He turned into a monster like a rotting corpse, very much like a living corpse described in some horror novels..."

(End of this chapter)