Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 342 The Attic That Doesn't Exist
"It is currently difficult for us to determine whether this so-called [bloodthirsty strain] is itself bloodthirsty, or after breaking away from Gottlinde's control, in order to survive, it stimulated the ability to transform blood into vitality."

Chen Yan said to Ogami:

"For animals and plants, mutations in vital signs due to environmental changes are not a bad thing.

That is life itself changing in order to survive - life will find its own way. "

In the spirit vision, the moss-like strain broke down again after being active for a short time.

The bright emerald green disappeared from the vision, and became a lifeless off-white again.

Ohgami looked at the thing, pondered for a moment, and said:
"I think the situation is still different from what you said.

These things are obviously able to move after losing their biological activity—that is, they still have the ability to move after [dead]—this is no different from zombies. "

Chen Yan looked at the strains that could still wriggle even though they had lost their biological activity, and pondered:

"The [death] of the bacteria means that the bacterial cell wall and cell membrane are destroyed, the cytoplasm is polluted or escaped... No matter what kind of death method is used, it is impossible to [be able to move after death]. "

"But it's clearly happening right before our eyes."

"Ordinary scientific knowledge cannot explain such a situation, so it can only be answered with extraordinary knowledge."

Ohgami said:
"Glutinous rice fruit has conducted investigations on zombies in various situations.

Except for the zombies transformed by the curse, other zombies can be almost divided into two situations:

One is that the consciousness has been obliterated due to the infection of [filth], and it has become a brainless walking dead. This kind of zombie looks no different from a normal person, but it can no longer carry out normal thinking and has a strong aggressiveness.

The other is that they were forcibly sacrificed their own flesh and blood due to infection with the [Beastification Virus], thus turning into some kind of bloodthirsty [Virus Creature].

The reason why this kind of virus creatures are called "zombies" is because they have to bear the blood consumed by the whole body virus, so they have a strong desire for flesh and blood, and even lose their reason because of this, leaving only bloodthirsty in their consciousness. "

Ohgami added:

"It's worth mentioning that both of these situations are fairly common --

The former is more commonly seen in superhumans who accidentally see [unknown knowledge] that they should not see,
The latter is more common in demihumans who cannot bear the [Ascension Ritual] and lose control. "

Chen Yan was stunned:

"I originally thought that the zombies in this world were ugly monsters infected with biochemical viruses and turned into anencephaly..."

Ohgami immediately responded:

"Coincidentally, Nuomi Guo has also investigated this before - the zombies you mentioned have appeared in the history of the world, but for extraordinary people, they are too weak, and they are easily wiped out before they have a large scale. .”

"The glutinous rice fruit also said that without the intervention of the extraordinary, that thing would form a disaster that changed the world."

Chen Yan nodded, looked at the wriggling moss again, recalled the scene of the cult ceremony in the basement that Ogami had previously described, and said thoughtfully:

"Gotlinde obviously has self-awareness, it is definitely not the first case.

Then, these mosses belonged to the second situation-infected with [Beast Transformation Virus] and were forcibly sacrificed their own flesh and blood. "

Chen Yan frowned and said:
"Is Gottlinde a demihuman? I can't tell at all..."

Ohgami said:
"This is the strangest point. I have observed her carefully and found that she is not a demihuman, nor is she considered human. After what happened tonight, I can only confirm that she is a family member of the gods——

She is the family member of the dying god named 【Spring God】.

The tentatively determined abilities are [Drain Life from Flesh] and [Body Strain]. "

Chen Yan pondered for a moment and said:
"There is one more thing about her ability: [Integrate the spirit body into herself and make it a part of herself temporarily]."

Under Ogami's surprised eyes, Chen Yan told Ogami about the experience that Gottlinde brought them out of the zoo as mentioned in Psalm 13 last night.

"Is that so!"

Ohgami said:
"That proves one thing—these strains are biomass—because they can host spirits."

Chen Yan thought about it:
"Not only can she integrate their spirit bodies into herself, but she can also avoid the shackles of the zoo's rules, which shows that for the zoo's rules, at that time, they had already become a part of her."

"But after leaving the zoo, she was able to separate them from her body again."

"This shows that her abilities are completely under her own control—this at least shows that the strains in her body are completely under her control."

"And these lost strains are obviously out of her control."

Ohgami nodded:
"The sacrificial ceremony in the basement also fully illustrates this point... But, I don't quite understand why they say that wild boar is [Leviathan family]."

Chen Yan thought of what he experienced with Wish during the day, and suddenly said:
"That wild boar is just a [symbol]—

It is the [symbol] represented by the resources, will, connections, etc. of the [Leviathan family].

When they ate the wild boar, it was equivalent to eating all the resources of the Leviathan family, including not limited to flesh and blood. "

Ohgami thought for a while, and understood what he said.

Chen Yan continued:
"I don't know how they turned everything in the Leviathans into this [symbol]...but I've seen it before.

So, they must have their own unique way. "

Ohgami sighed:

"This is really... incredible."

Chen Yan nodded:

"When I first encountered this situation, I also felt incredible!"

He pondered for a moment, and said:

"By the way, are there more and more weird things in our apartment?"

Ohgami affirmed:

"Yes, there are still a lot of corpses on the second floor that have not been disposed of."

Chen Yan didn't know about this at all. Hearing what he said, he was immediately stunned:

"No... I'm talking about those extraordinary items in our hands... Where did the corpses on the second floor come from?!"

Ohgami said helplessly:

"Did you forget the time last Sunday night? It was the extraordinary creature you killed in the apartment building at that time."

Chen Yan frowned and said:
"No! Except for that [Pretender], I didn't kill anything..."

Jack Baldo didn't run out to kill anything in order to take care of Marina?

Chen Yan immediately realized that those extraordinary creatures should have been killed by wish.

Thinking back carefully, that time was also the time when Xixi usually came to the apartment.

"So that's how it is..." Chen Yan squinted his eyes in a daze.

Seeing Chen Yan's stunned expression, Ogami immediately reacted and said:
"So that's what the [spirit] did..."

He said:
"It's powerful...if only there was a peaceful exchange of time, that would be great."

Chen Yan said:

"There will be such a day... What I meant just now is that we have more and more transcendent items in our hands, and it is not a problem to keep them on our bodies all day. There are so many rooms in the apartment building. Why not make one room for special use?" to store the damn things."

Ohgami nodded immediately and said:

"good idea!"

Chen Yan extended an invitation to him:
"Today I'm going to buy things to repair the apartment, do you want to come together? Let's see what else you and the glutinous rice fruit need?"

Ohgami responded:

"Speaking of which, the tiles on the roof are rotten and need to be re-laid, and the chimney caps are badly corroded and almost rotten... there are some things that need to be repaired or redone."

He paused and added:
"Besides, the chimney above the roof does not lead to the fireplace in the hall."

The fireplace in the apartment at 33 Walker Street has not been used for a long time since underfloor heating, and is now only used for decoration.

Chen Yan touched his chin:

"It stands to reason that the fireplace and toaster in this apartment should share the same chimney. I seem to have seen this model of a two-channel chimney somewhere before..."

Ogami waved his hand:
"Well... that chimney doesn't lead to the bread oven either."

Listening to his narration, Chen Yan had a bad premonition in his heart.

Only to hear Ohgami continue to say: "I went down to look, but I still couldn't reach the bottom of the chimney, um... I probably moved down for about half an hour? But I still haven't reached the bottom."

Chen Yan's expression was stiff, does this damn apartment still have such a thing...

Although Ogami's spiritual sense is very strong, his spiritual vision is mediocre. It seems that he hasn't even awakened the eyes in his skull, and he doesn't know where this powerful power comes from.

In other words, Ogami probably couldn't step into the bottom of the chimney because he "can't see" the bottom of the chimney.

Chen Yan thought about it: "Let's go and have a look together, I'll go to the warehouse to find the rope..."

Ohgami reminded: "There is no need for ropes. The inner wall of the chimney is inlaid with iron escalators. Although it has been corroded, it is enough to bear the weight of several people."

Chen Yan doesn't allow such a weird thing to exist next to his couch. It's okay if he didn't know it before, but now he knows it. If he didn't figure out what the hell it was, how would he sleep at night in the future?

So he found scaffolding from the warehouse on the first floor, placed it at the end of the corridor on the third floor, stepped on it, and opened the small attic door that he had never stepped on—

A rotten and moldy smell came over his face, Chen Yan was almost choked and rolled his eyes, and hurriedly covered his mouth and nose.

After finally holding back his sneeze, the scene in front of him immediately attracted his attention.

It was 5:[-] in the morning, but it was not dark in the attic. A kerosene lamp that was exactly the same as Chen Yan usually used was placed on a small desk under the easternmost window of the attic.

Under the light, there were some messy papers and an uncapped pen of a non-brand.

Looking at the pen, Chen Yan was slightly surprised, because the empire's pen industry had long been monopolized by the William Adams Group, and miscellaneous brand pens had already been squeezed out of the market.

And the pen in front of me, who doesn't know what brand it is, is actually exquisite in workmanship, and looks very valuable at first glance.

It seems to be some years old.

The attic floor was covered in dust, a thick layer of dust that had accumulated for at least ten years... no, maybe more than ten years.

But if no one has visited here for many years, why is the kerosene lamp on the desk under the window still on?

(End of this chapter)