Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 462 [Chapter of Hidden Abyss] Six: Home of Wandering Souls

"Did the experts invited by the pirates name the strain in the strange snake?"

Chen Yan asked this question because if the pirates invited "real" experts, they should have named the strains in the strange snake. Such naming usually follows the rules of biological classification.

Under normal circumstances, the class attribute of the creature itself can be judged through the name, so as to know part of its living habits.

"Yes, they called it [Snake Kiss Strain] - because there are a large number of such strains on the rich veins of Snake Kiss Rock, they were still discussing at that time, the reason why Snake Kiss Rock changed from ordinary rock to Could it be that the minerals that can emit electricity are due to the existence of this strain?"

"They think like this: the Omega sector enriched in the Snake Kiss Rock has a large number of corpses of strange snakes, and [Snake Kiss Strain] feeds on the corpses of strange snakes, so inside the Omega sector, As long as there are Snake Kiss Rocks, [Snake Kiss Plants] are almost everywhere.

So, is it the secretion from the strange snake group that turns the rock into the charged ore [Snake Kiss Rock], or the [Snake Kiss Plant] that feeds on strange snakes? "

Chen Yan followed up and asked:

"Have they worked out the results?"

Spherical Tunguska responded:

"No...they have been researching for a long time, but they didn't know about it. The main reason is that the test subjects are too fierce. Whether it's a strange snake or [Snake Kiss Plant], they are very aggressive. If you are not careful, you will die. .”

"The company originally wanted to spend money to buy human lives to continue research, but then there were too many dead people, and money couldn't buy human lives. This experiment can only be dropped."

I see……

Chen Yan thought, maybe the transformation of [Snake Kiss Plant] to rock is not a natural process, but a supernatural process—an extraordinary process.

The experts invited by the pirates did not have knowledge of extraordinary biology... or "abnormal biology", so they couldn't explain the impact of [Snake Kiss Strain] on rocks.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan suddenly thought that the anomalous biology of Miskatonic University has a history of several decades, maybe they have conducted an investigation on this situation?
Well...the probability of this guess being correct is not high, because everything that happened underground only took a few years. According to the narration of Bald Perrett and Spherical Tunguska, in comparison, the application of Snake's Kiss Rock is only three to five years However, the Department of Anomalous Biology at the University of Rice may not be able to have a complete understanding of the underground situation.

Chen Yan pondered for a moment, and sorted out the thoughts in his head.

As far as he knows now, there are four strains:
The first strain comes from "Underground Cave", and was named "Snake Kiss Strain" by the experts invited by the pirates. Chen Yan guessed that it might be a variant of "Brainball Strain", a parasitic strain. It has been found in "snakes" and will feed on the body of the host. When gathered together, it will produce a strange effect-to revive the long-dead will.

The second strain comes from "City of Overlapping Peaks" and is named [Brain Ball Strain] by the North Bureau. It is a vicious infectious strain, which will produce strong hallucinogenic properties and gradually devour the host no matter whether there is enough food or not.

The third strain comes from the "Secret Order of Spring God". Its name is tentatively named "Haemophilus" by Chen Yan. It is a parasitic strain. When food is sufficient, it can strengthen the vitality of the host and cure some difficult diseases ; Will devour the host and replace it if there is not enough food.

The fourth strain is from...Messiah.

The fourth strain confuses Chen Yan the most. What was the power that repaired the crimson color of his body?It is also a strain that can repair fatal injuries. Is there any relationship between the power of crimson and Chunshen's [blood-thirsty bacteria]?

The characteristics of the four strains are different, and the first two strains from the underground and the latter two strains that appeared on the surface are completely different things.

What Chen Yan can now confirm is that there may be some connection between the two underground strains, and there may be a relationship between the two surface strains.

Now, the underground [Brain Ball Strain] came to the ground through the spherical Tunguska, and the surface [Haemophilus] also came to the ground through Weber.

Chen Yan faintly felt that something was wrong. The four strains intersected because of the expedition team. Is this intersection really just a coincidence?
Chen Yan recalled the description of [Brass Pipe Space] that he had wished for, and thought of the unexpected encounter of extraordinary things, and his heart gradually became vigilant.

The oppressive atmosphere did not last long.

Amidst the low-pitched cheers of the shrimp people, everyone in the expedition team looked forward to the ship's side, and their vision suddenly became clear——

At the end of the waterway, a huge karst cave space floats in the field of vision. The dark, damp, dangerous and cramped mine tunnel that I guessed at the beginning did not appear, but the first thing that appeared in front of everyone was actually a flash of various colors. Neon lights!
"What the hell is this……"

On top of the huge karst cave, there is actually a dilapidated "city" like a garbage dump. The buildings in the city are connected to each other through large iron plates that "float on the water surface". Streets in the city.

Chen Yan felt that the street was not quite right. When he raised his head, he saw that the upper half of the city was actually embedded in the rock cracks at the top.

It was only then that Chen Yan realized that the buildings he saw in front of his eyes were not "floating on the water", but were hung in the rock wall above!
The field of vision went deeper, and the part outside the city was still not dark. Chen Yan saw densely packed telephone poles on the rock wall. The wires wrapped around the poles could be called "thick". Brass pipes are twice as thick.

Most of the utility poles are equipped with lights for lighting. The field of vision bypasses the city from the water and looks deep into the mine. Those lights are like underground stars, starting from the city and spreading to the end of the field of vision. Darkness is like a moonless night sky.

Electricity is clearly not a scarce resource for the Underworld.

Chen Yan looked away suddenly, and saw that there were also various telephone poles arranged in a mess on both sides of the city streets, and the broken neon tubes formed various billboards:
"House of Underwater Bullies", "Happy Mine Boys", "Big Ace Medicinal Bath", "High Pressure Scuba Wholesale Supermarket", "Snake Meat Bar", "Power Suction Office", "Chess and Chess Room" ...

The light pollution emitted by various neon billboards covered a large part of the city. At first glance, it was very bluffing. When the boat was about to dock, Chen Yan saw that in this floating city, apart from these In addition to the billboards that can be seen, more billboards-the neon billboards that occupy more than 80% of the entire city have been dimmed.

In other words, the mining area here is obviously in a recession, and almost only the entertainment industry is left in the surviving cities.

"Welcome to the Home of Wandering Souls!"

The Home of the Wandering Souls, this is the name of the city.

Chen Yan was extremely wary of this kind of place, before he figured out what it was, even if he turned his head and went back to the waterway, he would not enter the city rashly.

Before Chen Yan could speak, the voice of the bald man Perrett in his breast pocket reached his ears:
'You'd better make sure what this place is, I've never heard of any [House of Wandering Souls] underground... the name doesn't sound like a good place. '

Chen Yan became more vigilant when he heard such words.

"What is this place? Where are we now?"

The shrimp man answered truthfully:

"This is the home of wandering souls, a gathering place for desperate miners. For various reasons, they either unilaterally tore up the contract with the company, or violated certain provisions of the contract...

In short, it was a breach of contract, so he was bound by the extraordinary contract, unable to return to the surface for life, and became a [wandering soul] that could only wander in the underground space. "

From the backpack in Chen Yan's hand came the slightly excited voice of the spherical Tunguska. After entering the ground, this little thing was so happy for the first time:
"Ha! This garbage dump really exists! I thought it was a joke from the miners! They really made this place! Spyro Industries is going to die!"

Listening to the gloating voice of the spherical Tunguska, and feeling the silence of the bald Perrett in his breast pocket, Chen Yan seemed to understand something, and let go of part of his guard against the city.

Everyone landed on the "iron pier" that was hung on a certain building in the city and suspended more than 1 meter above the water surface. The shrimp people tied the ship's wires to a certain iron plate and welded a piece of rusted system. on the pole of the boat, said:
"I'll send you to a safe place and tell you the route to the Omega Sector. I'll introduce you to a reliable bartender. She's my cousin. If you have any questions, just ask her. This place is like home to her."

Shrimp man George LeBost siblings are everywhere, and Chen Yan is sometimes particularly envious of that.

Entering the city street along the pier, you can faintly see a huge mining machine composed of various neon tubes in the center of the city. The majesty of the mining machine proves the former glory of this place, while the densely packed mine machine is completely dim. The dilapidated neon tubes on the street testify to the desolation of the place today.

George Lebster walked beside Chen Yan and kept saying:
"The position we are in now is a bit strange, probably at the bottom of the beta sector and the top of the gamma sector-at this position, the two sectors overlap."

"Because the beta sector is full of winding mine tunnels, and the gamma sector is almost covered by groundwater, the junction of the two sectors is actually not very obvious, so there is a place like the home of wandering souls."

"Such a large house of wandering souls was built entirely by miners. It has been about five years since the construction was completed. During this period, it was destroyed many times by pirates. The reason why it still exists is because On the top is the fault layer of the Beta sector, if heavy fire blasting is used, it may cause the collapse of the entire Beta sector and a chain reaction to other sectors.”

"The wandering souls who have nowhere to go stick to it with their lives-this is another reason why the home of wandering souls still exists."

(End of this chapter)