Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 368 The Disadvantages of Quantum Entanglement Communication
Chen Yan was shocked by the construction progress of the construction workers, but in one morning, they had erected two concrete stairs and repaired the window of Room 304, leaving only the wall destroyed by the ivy left untreated. .

After returning to the apartment, Messiah seemed to have rested. She was able to walk around on her own, and even took the initiative to undertake the important task of making lunch. Counting the people in the apartment and the construction team hired by Chen Yan, she will have more than ten people today. for lunch.

Chen Yan felt that she must remember something, but she didn't know how much... In short, she must have part of her sister's memory.

He sent Messiah home, and went to the vegetable market on Walker Street to buy a lot of ingredients and came back, and it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon in a blink of an eye.

Although mundane chores are simple, they take a surprisingly long time. Marina is sorry for this, because she can't help, and she is the only idler in the apartment.

Most importantly, she calculated in private that the rent she paid should not be enough to live in this apartment.

She knew since she was a child that there is no kindness without reason in this world, and there is no favor that can be obtained at will. In her world view, any kindness without reason is for another purpose.

So she's panicking, especially after Messiah grows up - and the panic reaches new heights after seeing the closeness Messiah shows to Chen Yan.

Her daughter is so beautiful. In this city, beautiful girls are very dangerous. It is better to be an ugly monster and live like a human being.

She told Jack Baldo about her worries, but Jack Baldo would always use idiotic reasons like "Chen Yan is a good man, there is no need to worry about rent" to perfuse her.

She knew Jack Baldo was unreliable, and she could only rely on herself—and her daughter, Messiah.

After learning about Messiah's "talent" for cooking, she told the girl before going to bed last night that she wanted the girl to cook a few more meals in return for the seemingly harmless landlord's "innocent comeback." By" and a favor that made her wary.

Messiah was puzzled at first by her mother's request, but she nodded at her mother's insistence.

The promise of the Messiah made Marina a lot easier.

Cooking was easier than making money, especially in an apartment with a kitchen like this—with a bread oven, running water, almost new iron pans, and an almost endless supply of coal.

At this time, if there is someone who can cook delicious meals, it can relieve the landlord's deep-seated anxiety——

Marina has already observed that the landlord is in an unsolvable embarrassing situation when it comes to eating. The cooking skills of the girl from Sakura Country are pathetic. Buy and eat outside.

The ingredients are cheap, but the processed food is very expensive. If someone can cook, it will not only relieve the embarrassment of the landlord, but also save him a sum of money—although it is not much, but it must not count less.

In this way, they would not live in his house for nothing.

Marina carefully planned everything about herself and Messiah——

After a few more days of her recovery, she can go to work in a textile factory and earn 6 pence a day. If the money is carefully calculated, it is enough to support the living expenses of her and Messiah, because the dormitory and meals in the church school are free. , she only needs to pay a small amount of money to support the Messiah's life.

At that time, she will find a cheaper apartment and move out, so that she can stay away from this kind-looking landlord——

She had noticed the way he looked at Messiah.

How malicious was that look.

……

Chen Yan was sitting in the hall waiting for lunch, totally unaware of what Marina was thinking.

He found a very embarrassing thing.

Although quantum entanglement allows him to communicate with the quantum clone in the online world anytime and anywhere, he has only one consciousness, and he can't be distracted. Once he focuses on the things in this world, he can't allocate part of his energy to the quantum clone.

And in the same way, once he focuses on everything he sees in the online world, he has no way to control his body in this world.

Even when he is highly focused in the online world, he will ignore things happening around him in this world.

It's like when you are concentrating on reading a book, you don't feel hungry even if you are hungry.

'Am I supposed to be exercising my ability to be distracted?
Isn't this a joke!
This is completely different from drawing a circle with the left hand and drawing a circle with the right!

If you want to deal with things in the two worlds at the same time, you must completely divide your consciousness into two and think independently. '

When Chen Yan thought of the warning that Wish had given him when he used the [Quantum Entanglement] earlier, he felt that he had no idea.

Wish told him at the time that this supernatural power is likely to cause the clone to have independent consciousness.

He didn't understand what was going on at the time, and he didn't understand the joints until he tried it himself.

"Practice really brings true knowledge..."

He thought of the consequences of dividing his consciousness into two parts, so he temporarily gave up his attempt at "dual use of distraction".

If the consciousness is really divided into two parts, and the quantum clone has an independent personality, he will really become a clown.

While sitting at the dining table waiting for his meal, he closed his eyes again and returned to the online world.

'They were getting ready for visitors when I just turned my attention away from the online world.

Those visitors are all investors of the director's [New Dawn] plan, and they should be some big shots... I don't know if they have left. '

He shuttled from the "solar eclipse" gateway back to the building in the network world, hid in a certain ventilation duct, and after a simple search, he easily discovered what was happening in a small room:

In the small room in front of him crawled a man wearing a saddle. Chen Yan had seen that man in the newspaper, and he seemed to be one of the members of this year's Yanan City Council.

Beside the man, a girl transformed from a program is holding a spiked whip with haughty eyes.

'This……'

Chen Yan quickly noticed one thing.

'However, why does this congressman have a face in the real world in the online world? '

'Well... Maybe it's because in this test, the programmers of the garden director did not encrypt the identities of these visitors... After all, people in this era may not necessarily have the awareness of encrypting identities on the Internet . '

'Or maybe the director wants to bully them. On the surface, they can't see their identities. From my current perspective-the underlying data flow, they can easily identify their identities. '

'This is really... so convenient. '

Except for this small room, everything in the other rooms is different, and the number of visitors in each room is different.

In a larger room, nine visitors gathered around a large table that had been set up as a battlefield, playing a simulated regular battle flag game, yelling happily, and it looked real. It looked like Chen Yan was playing an online game for the first time.

'I can hear them, so the microphone is ready for the guest?

Can still play this kind of... It's not considered [real-time strategy], it can only be said to be a strategy game similar to [board game].

The principal knows a lot... the game has been created.

However, judging from the small screens I just saw, it may be uncomfortable to play these games. '

Chen Yan continued to look at other small rooms, and there was no surprise like before.

These small rooms are nothing more than: a chat room with only dialogue but no characters, a recreation room with various novel ways of playing, a game room with large multiplayer board games, and a video room where you can watch opera.

It is worth mentioning the video room. In addition to the operas recorded by the opera house, there are also some small movies that Chen Yan did not expect. Some visitors stayed in the video room without moving, watching one small movie after another. .

'Is this the only way for the director to attract investment? '

Chen Yan thought.

'It's not enough to rely on these estimates. The director will definitely give them a picture. Now that there is a server, the director can tell them that they can share everything here, and the sharing is safe and encrypted. The benefits of blah blah blah. . '

'Those big shots are very tricky speculators, and they will definitely realize the value of the Internet. In this way, the director's next round of investment will be guaranteed, and the next round of Internet construction is expected to be put on the agenda soon . '

'What's the next round of construction? '

'Of course to allow civilians to access the Internet! '

Thinking of this, Chen Yan was very excited.

"Ninety-nine percent of people in Yanan City are poor. If the director really wants to let them use the Internet, he will carry out a wealth equalization campaign... that would be so interesting!" '

Chen Yan smelled the smell of rice from the world, and calmed down for a while.

'Probably not. The director himself is a group with vested interests and cannot represent the interests of the common people. He will definitely use other methods to promote the Internet. '

'I really look forward to his approach. In such a big environment, this kind of plan is simply hell. '

Chen Yan moved the quantum avatar outside the building, far away in the pale network world, and then withdrew his consciousness and opened his eyes in this world.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a bowl of hot ramen in front of him!
The heat-dissipating light that appeared in the hall at noon just rightly put a beautiful halo on the ramen, and around the halo where the ramen is located, there are roasted bacon and extremely thin sliced ​​tomatoes. , and the bolognese that smelled fresh.

He was staring at the bowl of ramen in a daze, and Messiah was already sitting beside him with a small bowl of ramen in it.

He looked at the girl's expectant eyes, and still couldn't help saying in Asian language:

"It would be perfect if it had cilantro."

The girl was stunned for a moment when she heard his fault-finding words, and then she didn't show the slightest expression of disappointment, but nodded in agreement.

'She understands Asian languages. '

'She didn't hide at all that she could understand Asian languages, but she really wasn't a younger sister, because she didn't show her sister's...sickness. '

'What the hell is going on with this...what the hell is going on with her now? '

(End of this chapter)