Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 392

"Wait... Spyro Industries? Is it an industrial group organized by demihumans?"

Chen Yan has never heard about this "Sparrow Industries". When he was still on the ferry, he searched all the big companies in the entire Yanan City in order to submit his resume. He remembered all the famous companies clearly. , Even if it is a small company, he still has a certain impression, unlike now, he is completely unfamiliar with the name "Spyro Industries".

The shrimp man replied:
"I don't know who the big boss is, I only know that the top management of the company are pirates in the smoky lake."

pirate?

Chen Yan finally remembered that the term "Spyro" in Spyro Industries meant "pirate".

Pirates of the Smokey Lake... Aren't those guys cornered refugees and criminals?

They don't even have enough to eat, and they have to rely on plundering Leprosy Alley to obtain food supplies. Why do such people set up an industrialized enterprise?

The fact is that the pirates not only established companies, but also owned exploration machines capable of underground excavation—Chen Yan remembered that even in his hometown, such things as underground exploration machines were products that were only born when industrialization was sufficiently developed.

Chen Yan pointed to the bucket of Snake Kiss Rock he had just brought to the basement, and asked:
"What's wrong with this thing?"

The shrimp man shrank his head:
"It can't be done, the construction site is strictly controlled!"

Chen Yan frowned:
"Can't do it? How did you bring this piece out?"

The shrimp man faltered and couldn't speak.

Chen Yan didn't intend to come straight to the point, but just said in a persuasive way:

"Do you know how scarce electricity is in the secular world? This thing is very valuable. It can be exchanged for imperial pounds, and imperial pounds can buy most items in the secular world... The empire is rapidly industrializing, and the factories can already produce Plastic, if I have money, I can buy some for you and build a breeding house."

The shrimp man's eyes straightened:

"You... what did you say!"

Chen Yan said:

"Breeding house! Three bedrooms and two living rooms! Constant temperature heater! High-power external oxygen pump! Make your home full of oxygen bubbles all year round!"

The shrimp man couldn't hide the longing in his big eyes, tremblingly said:
"That thing will cost a lot of money..."

Chen Yan put on a puzzled expression and asked:
"Should you be able to find such a place in nature?"

The shrimp man sighed and began to whisper:
"Over the years, due to abnormal evolution, many of our instincts have degenerated..."

The ethnicity of the shrimp people began with a group of shrimps that Raz "rescued" back then.

One day many years ago, a very wealthy guest came to the hotel and ordered a large portion of aquatic products.

In that era when the whole society was very poor, aquatic products were a rare thing. The fish and shrimps near the shore of the smoked lake were almost caught by hungry farmers and refugees. If you want to eat fresh aquatic products, you must row a boat into the smoke Inside the smoked lake, the capture operation was carried out at the risk of being scratched by pirates.

Boss Muen spent a lot of money to buy aquatic products and put them in the back kitchen, but the chef at that time had never handled shrimps. He didn't know that shrimps need to survive in water with high oxygen concentration, so he didn't put shrimps in it. Oxygen was added to the container, and within an hour, half of the shrimp returned died.

Raz put the remaining half of the shrimp in another container with fresh water, but the shrimp kept dying.

She had to turn on the tap and keep filling the container with fresh water—an act that saved the remaining shrimp because the flow of water into the container brought oxygen and slowed the rate at which the remaining population died until eventually, A small number of shrimps have adapted to the water quality with such an oxygen concentration-although Raz doesn't know the reason for it, and it's completely wrong, but in any case, some of the shrimps survived.

The surviving prawns were not enough for a dish, so the remaining group of prawns survived fortunately—they were thrown to Raz by Mr. Moon.

Raz raised it for a period of time, and found that the reproductive ability of the shrimp was surprisingly strong, but within a few months, the original small handful turned into a large bucket!

Raz has lived a happy life where she can eat shrimp every day. She has a small body and a small appetite. Even if she eats shrimp every day, there are more and more shrimp in the bucket.

After changing all the ways to cook shrimp, Raz got tired of eating.

She keeps the remaining shrimp as pets.

Another few months have passed, and the shrimp has multiplied for countless generations. The original bucket has become the current three buckets.

"Grandma Raz witnessed the tenacity of our lives, lamented the greatness of life, and a fraternity for life was born in her heart, so she released my ancestors into the small river behind the hotel."

Chen Yan interrupted here:

"You called Raz...'Grandma'?"

Calling someone who nearly ate up all his ancestors "Grandma"...that's a weird and outrageous title.

The shrimp man took it for granted and replied:
"At that time, the family reproduced very quickly, and they had not yet enlightened their spirits, so they could only be regarded as wild beasts, and could not be regarded as normal beings with spiritual intelligence.

Although Grandma Laz ate many people from the tribe, she finally gave us the possibility of the survival of the tribe out of her love for life. "

Chen Yan was silent.

Judging from the personality shown between the lines in Raz's diary, she is not a person with "fraternity".

Chen Yan reckoned that Raz didn't want to give these shrimps to others simply because he couldn't afford to raise those shrimps and because he was "stingy"—or maybe he was too lazy to sell them, so he directly sold these shrimps. poured into the river.

The so-called "Raz's fraternity" is just a wishful self-consolation when faced with the hopeless fact that cannot be changed.

The shrimp man cleared his throat:
"Countless years later, I don't know how many generations have gone through. Although my ethnicity is still intellectually inferior, the admiration for Grandma Lazi is still passed down from generation to generation. In order to express our gratitude to her for her closeness and blessings, we every A generation calls her grandma."

Chen Yan thought for a while, and probably understood why it said so—it was like some cults in folklore of some empires, who had faith in a big devil who had been dead for a long time. Out of reverence for power, believers would Those legendary figures have titles like "Big Daddy" and "Mother William"—even if they have been hurt by these existences—someone will always pay respect to the strong who hurt them. This kind of respect is Chen Banquet can not understand.

After being released from Lazi, the shrimp population has multiplied for countless generations, and the vicissitudes of life in Yanan City have changed.

The landform of that year has undergone considerable changes due to human activities, and the living range of the shrimp population has also shifted from surface rivers to underground caves——

It is not known when the cave was created.

According to the "distant legend" of the shrimp group "passed by word of mouth", since the shrimp group came to the ground, the cave has already existed, and the scale is also huge.

The turning point of the matter happened on an unexplorable day, when the shrimps were hunting, resting and multiplying as before, a huge explosion suddenly came from the depths of the cave, and countless indescribable dirty things rushed along the water As a result, the clean bacteria and decay in the cave were polluted, and the shrimp population was also submerged in it.

According to the legend left by the shrimp group at that time, the waters under the cave were muddy for three days and three nights.

God knows how they keep time in the dark cave.

Three days and three nights later, a floating corpse floated over along the current.

The floating corpse was already swollen, and unknown things were wandering under the surface of the body, as if a corpse explosion would occur at any time.

According to the legend of the shrimp group, the strongest shrimp at that time sacrificed himself for the survival of the population, dragged the floating corpse, and left the territory of the shrimp group.

"Wait, [pull] the floating corpse? Are you sure it's [pull]?"

Faced with Chen Yan's doubts, the shrimp affirmed:
"I'm sure that the hero back then was the Chosen One, very strong and able to pull a grown man."

Chen Yan has doubts about this.

A few days later, the shrimp came back.

The shrimp that came back was no longer a normal shrimp, it had a human body——

It has evolved!

Since then, there have been floating corpses floating down the water, and the remaining shrimp groups began to "evolve" with the help of the evolved shrimps, until the entire shrimp group became this kind of human-like shrimp and shrimp-like ...

When Chen Yan heard this, he couldn't help thinking, this is not a kind of flesh and blood ascension! ?

At the same time, he sighed in his heart, good guy, where is this a shrimp?
This is obviously a vicious shrimp parasite that can kill the host!

A shrimp slave similar to Arthropoda and Cirripeda, occupying the host body through parasitism, becoming a part of the host organ, and then gradually replacing it.

At the same time, he thought to himself that the whole process of "flesh ascending" described by the shrimp must have something to do with the "indescribable filth" flowing out of the cave.

Chen Yan even had an intuition that the "hero shrimp" had the power to pull adult men back then, probably not because of some "natural power", but because it mutated under the turbid current coming from inside the cave, so it obtained such power. the power of.

Shrimp sighed and continued:

"Until later, the reproduction of our race was rather strange..."

It does not tell about the process of reproduction.

"The speed at which new tribes are produced is getting slower and slower, the inner circle is getting more and more restless, the original ancient inheritance is constantly being lost, and even the instinct of reproduction has degenerated-before we have evolved, a mother can even give birth to hundreds of people. individual people.

But after evolution, there are only a dozen people born from one mother body.

Later, the number of reproductions gradually decreased, gradually changing from more than a dozen to several, or even one...

Up to my generation, there have been cases where children cannot be produced. "

The shrimp man sighed:

"If this continues, our ethnic group will perish."

Chen Yan was silent for a second, then said:
"But if you can have a breeding house, it can improve your fertility more or less."

The shrimp man knew what he was going to do, but out of his longing for the breeding house, he couldn't help but affirmed:

"Yes! A proper breeding house is very important to us!"

Chen Yan grinned and said:

"You need a lot of money."

The shrimp man sighed:

"But I don't have a spouse yet..."

Chen Yan said:

"According to the rules of human society, as long as there is... a breeding house, there will be a spouse soon."

(End of this chapter)