Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 330 The Forerunner

"I reject."

He said calmly:
"But it seems useless to say no now, you've got a lot of faith in that knife."

Chen Yan knew that she had other things that she didn't tell him:
About the knife, and her surprise when she concluded that it had been used by him.

"Mr. Chen, you are a smart man."

Alice is no longer as cowardly as before, and the expression on her face has not changed much, but Chen Yan still sees the ferocity of a trapped animal.

"Once you have access to that knife, you can't stay out of it.

You got the karma on the knife in the zoo, you gotta be part of it in some way. "

Alice showed a smile that Chen Yan had never seen before.

"The [karma lines] all over the world were originally mottled and scattered, but because of the changes in the stars, they converged in [places that do not exist]."

"The original mutual attraction between all things becomes closer due to the existence of [causal lines], which leads to you will inevitably encounter other people and things linked by certain [causal lines].

That will change everything in your life. "

"And now, I'm going to prove something to you."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly walked towards the middle of the road and ran.

She was running too fast, and a steam bus that couldn't see the shift had no time to brake, and knocked her into the air.

When the impact occurred, blood had already spread on the ground.

With a screech of brakes, the steam bus, which was still smoking black smoke from its chimney, stopped on the track.

The door opened, the driver, the conductor and several passengers got out of the carriage, and after arguing around Alice's body that had turned into a broken sack, the conductor went to the nearest police station to call the police, while the driver evacuated the passengers on this shift. passenger.

Chen Yan looked at her dead body, his mind went blank.

How did you die like this? !

Why did she commit suicide? !

What is she... trying to prove to me? !

Chen Yan couldn't figure it out at all, and even couldn't figure out her previous riddle.

When the brain went blank, the No. 306 bus had arrived.

He got into the car in a daze, bought a ticket, and looked at the driver's seat, only to find that the driver was no longer Donald, but a strange face he had never seen before.

It was a young Asian, and Chen Yan could see his immature face from the rearview mirror above his head.

He thought at once of the visit to Sergei the night before, and realized that Sergey and his companions had already done that.

He fidgeted in his position, thinking about Alice's death on the one hand, and thinking about Sergey and the others on the other.

In the end, concern for what Sergey had done got the better of him.

"hello."

He spoke to the new driver in the language of the Celestial State.

Hearing the old voice from a foreign country, the driver brother was obviously very excited.

But for some reason, he seemed so restrained that he even lowered his voice.

"Hello……"

Chen Yan sat near the driver's seat and asked:

"Steam Bus Operating Company, what happened?"

In the rearview mirror, the blue veins on the driver's forehead twitched suddenly.

"That's a big deal, brother."

He didn't dare to speak at first, but only because the language of Tianshen State had not been understood by most other ethnic groups, he dared to tell those "taboo" things in his native dialect.

When the driver brother said these words, there was a little bit of excitement that could hardly be heard in his vigilant tone.

"This morning, the office building of the steam bus operating company was surrounded by drivers and various workers. They felt that their wages were too low and wanted to steal money from the company."

Chen Yan frowned and asked, "How could it be money grabbing?"

The driver brother said in a low voice: "Yeah, I also don't think it's necessary... Work hard, and the salary is not very low in Yanan City. How can you go to the company to rob money?"

His voice was even lower: "But... that's what came out of it. Everyone dare not think about it, and they don't dare to go out and talk nonsense. After all... we still have to eat this bowl of rice in the future? Don't you think so?" ?”

Chen Yan asked in a joking tone: "If you don't dare to go out and talk nonsense, you dare to tell me?"

The driver brother panicked all of a sudden, and looked at Chen Yan from the rearview mirror with more hostility: "Brother, don't make fun of me."

Chen Yan was slightly serious: "I won't talk nonsense. Asians should unite instead of doing things that hurt each other."

Seeing his righteous words, the driver brother immediately believed him, and let out a sigh of relief: "Brother, you scared me to death..."

He glanced at Chen Yan again from the rearview mirror, and then said: "Brother, I only think you are a young man, so I dare to say these things to you...

If I'm facing some old oily people, I won't talk nonsense even if I sew my mouth shut. "

Chen Yan understood what he meant and did not speak.

The driver brother continued: "Probably all morning, the steam bus operating company has been surrounded by workers. Although there are not many of them, they seem to be organized, so no one knows what happened in the company."

"It was almost noon... around 10 am? There was a heated argument in the company building."

"I didn't understand what they said...I'm not very good at Imperial."

"I was going to come for an interview today, but I didn't expect to be blocked outside. The people who blocked me didn't know if it was the driver or someone else. They treated us badly...but they didn't treat us well."

"You know, it's like the attitude of most Luke people in the empire towards us."

In the next sentence, he lowered his voice further.

"At 11 o'clock in the morning, people from the police station came."

"Well...it's not the same as the police station. It's a police officer wearing armor and holding a gun."

"The people blocking the way at the entrance of the company wanted to stop them, but they were beaten into a sieve at that time."

"They rushed into the company building, and there was a lot of gunfire."

"And then...we were called in and had a simple interview...that is, after filling out the information, we went to work at that time."

Chen Yan asked: "Where are the other people in the steam bus company? They won't all be killed."

The driver brother whispered: "That's not true, but a lot of people must have died, because the company's office building was blocked, and only people were seen going in, but no one was coming out."

"The people who go in... it shouldn't be very good."

"But most of the people who stay outside are fine...except for those who use their bodies to block guns."

"Don't talk about these things, let's talk about something happy!"

Perhaps it was because he was excited to meet a fellow countryman. When he said this, the young man happily said a lot:

"It's very lucky, brother, I didn't expect to find a job when I first came to Yanan, and the salary is not too low, and the daily salary for the internship period is 6 pence.

The working hours are not long, and the steam bus does not need complicated operations, so I can stand on my feet for the time being, and I must cherish this job..."

While he was rambling on, the voice on the radio on the roof of the steam bus attracted Chen Yan's attention.

"Here is an urgent news from the Evening Wolf News:"

This is……

Mr. Tom Raibert's voice!

After hearing the news from Chen Yan last night, he actually went to interview the workers of the steam bus operating company!

Tom Reibert's voice spoke on the radio:

"At 8 o'clock this morning, workers' demonstrations and strikes broke out at the steam bus operating company, the entire steam bus line was suspended, workers surrounded the company building, and negotiated with the company's main responsible personnel.

At 9:50 in the morning, the negotiation was successful, and the new contract was drawn up. The workers of the steam bus operation company got the eight-hour work system and overtime wage system promised by the company management staff, and won for themselves [there will be no unemployment under normal circumstances. 】 Power.

At 10:30 in the morning, the Steam Bus Company and the Yanan City Police Department cleaned up the workers who were on strike. They used hot weapons to kill 73 people and tore up the rights that the workers had won through negotiation.

The strike of the workers failed, and the initiator of the strike, Sergey the mechanic from Suka Britain, left these words—”

Sergey's voice appeared on the announcer, and that was the last time Chen Yan heard his voice in his life.

"If we don't fight back when we are oppressed, they will push forward.

If we do not speak up, we will never have the opportunity to speak up.

We will be the forerunners, we will prove their hypocrisy with blood, and we will crush their arrogance with our lives.

After we leave, you will get better treatment, your contracts will be more reasonable, your children will be treated well, and you will not work your whole life under the unreasonable working system like us...

It's not that they have a conscience,
It's because we've been here.

Please stand up, my brothers and sisters, please..."

The broadcast was cut off.

Then, a low roar came from the telegraph.

"Damn it! Who asked you to play these two recordings?!"

"President...the announcer is not turned off..."

After a moment.

The announcer sounded again, already another voice.

"Now to clarify a piece of fake news:
"Wolf News Evening News" is an unscrupulous media that broadcasts fake news to attract people's attention. Such media will be sanctioned by the holy light of justice.

The news report about Yanan City Steam Bus Operating Company is purely false, which was caused by improper information discrimination by our operating personnel.

The steam bus will continue to operate under normal conditions, citizens please stay calm and don’t worry about being late for work tomorrow morning~”

Chen Yan was silent.

The first thing he realized: before 8:306 in the morning, the [-] steam bus was still running, and he was taking it to work.

Going on strike in the morning and still working before 8 o'clock?
How can it be!

Chen Yan realized one thing——

There is only one possibility for this situation: there are scabs in the company!
Some people did not participate in the strike, but went to work normally, and even made more serious things.

He looked at the driver's seat.

Donald is still at work until 8 o'clock...

He...how could he be a scab?
Chen Yan learned of his political views from several exchanges with him, and believed that he would not be a scab.

But things are not absolute.

He got out of the car with a heavy heart, and he still didn't have the strength to raise his head until he walked home along the streets of Walker Street.

He didn't wake up until he opened the unlocked door and saw the girl inside.

The red-haired girl who had never seen her before was about twelve or thirteen years old. She was standing in the door with bare feet, looking straight at Chen Yan, and the kitchen knife in her hand was dripping blood.

(End of this chapter)