Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 491 [Chapter Hidden in the Abyss] 35: Five Entrances

The mental state of Tungus Spherical seems to be not very good, and he said in a trance:

"Ah... yes... why didn't I think about this before..."

After a trance, it looked at the darkness in the distance, showing obvious nervousness:

"We... we are back again, I don't know if it's a good thing... I can always hear a voice calling me, and now I'm back, maybe I don't hate that voice as much as I imagined, maybe... I Everything I did was to get back to this place."

Some pathos suddenly appeared in the spherical Tunguska voice:
"Chen Yan! Tell me, am I still me now? Do I already have a part of [Brain Ball Strain], that's why I have so many thoughts that don't belong to me!"

Chen Yan firmly said:
"You are still you now! As long as you have a clear self-awareness, you are you!"

Hearing Chen Yan's firm answer, Tungus Spherical was obviously much more relaxed, although he was still perplexed.

Even though Chen Yan said that, he was already extremely wary of this little guy in his heart.

Spherical Tunguska was infected with [Brain Ball Strain] more than ten years ago, which is too far away from now. In these long ten years, [Brain Ball Strain] has always existed in its body. Who knew that [Brain Ball Strain] How has the plant reacted with its body?
Thinking of this, Chen Yan thought of the group of strange snakes infected with [Snake Kiss Strain] in the cave waters.

He had almost confirmed before that because of the "assimilation" between the natural enemies of the [Brain Ball Strain] and the strange snake group, [Snake Kiss Strain] was born.

Only a few years after the big snake was released from the ground, [Brain Ball Strain] assimilated with the strange snake group.

But the [Brain Ball Strain] in the spherical Tungus body has existed for more than ten years, and even married the weird "gramophone" in the city of overlapping mountains——under such circumstances, Chen Yan believes that the [Brain Ball Strain] The strain] must have caused an irreversible transformation to the spherical Tunguska's body.

This "transformation" may be mutation, or adaptive assimilation, or a change in life form at a deeper level...

In short, according to the experience and conclusions he summed up before, biologically speaking, the current spherical Tunguska is no longer the same living body as the spherical Tunguska that was just infected with the [Brain Ball Strain].

But he couldn't tell it the truth, it had obviously broken down emotionally, and as an extraordinary and abnormal creature, it also had the possibility of "out of control".

Chen Yan didn't want to stimulate it, but just wanted to appease its emotions until its mental state returned to normal, until it took him away from the ground...

"By the way, we should not be the only ones going ashore."

Chen Yan tried to change the subject to divert its attention.

"The shuttle mining machine was pushed to this place by the underwater undercurrent together with us, indicating that the direction of the underwater undercurrent may be fixed, and other people may also be pushed to the shore in this direction."

"If other people can be found, with more firepower, we will be in a safer position."

The spherical Tunguska was successfully diverted by the word "safety", perhaps because it is still dominated by the personality of the timid small animal of the genus Tunguska, so when it hears things that can guarantee its life, it will be more or less At least aroused the inner hope and yearning.

"Yes!"

Spherical Tunguska said with a little excitement:

"Others may not come ashore at the same time, but once they retain normal consciousness when they go ashore, they must stay away from the shore—there are strange snake corpses under the water, who dares to stay on the shore more!"

Chen Yan looked at the darkness in the distance:
"They have already entered the darkness, and I don't know if they have entered the range of the city of overlapping peaks..."

Spherical Tunguska corrected:

"The City of Overhanging Mountains has no city walls, and the ruins of the city are very large... How should I put it, when the City of Overhanging Mountains was still prosperous, the population should have exploded, and the underground space should not be enough, because I followed Sai When Borg Quinn came here, he went to the very edge of the underground space where the city of mountains is located——

Even on the rock walls at the edge of the underground space, there are houses built in the style of the city of overlapping peaks. "

The spherical Tunguska paused here.

"That kind of house... can't be described. Anyway, it's different from the house in Yanan City. It was specially customized for the habitat of strain people. I can't describe it... But you may be able to see it soon."

"So, to be precise, the location we set foot on is already within the scope of the city of mountains."

It stared up into the darkness.

"But... I have never been to this place. This is the...another entrance to the city of mountains."

Chen Yan still remembered that, according to the spherical Tungus, the first entrance to the city of mountains was the [Waste Abyss] below Miskatonic University. Although it was an entrance, there was no downward path.

Chen Yan thought to himself, from this point of view, he is now at the bottom of the ruined abyss, and the end of the darkness he saw when he looked up just now is actually the campus of the University of Rice!
This geographical relationship is really amazing.

The second entrance to the city of mountains is not far from Miskatonic University, the starting point of the abandoned subway track in Yanan City.

According to Alice, the zoo colleague and the ticket inspector, the third entrance to the city of overlapping peaks is somewhere inside the Miskatonic University, where there is an elevator down to the 100th floor (later the spherical Tunguska also arrived. passing that place, proving that it exists).

[Before this summer], in Alice's graduation season, she entered the city of mountains through the elevator down 100 floors, and even came into contact with the strain people in the city of mountains (she was also infected).

(This is the most creepy message in the whole thing. Wish has already seen it with the vision of her cosmic spirit. The city of overlapping mountains is obviously in ruins. How could Alice still see the complete streets and streets there? What about live strain people?)

The fourth entrance of the city of overlapping peaks is somewhere under the Omega sector. A few years ago, the investigators of the North Bureau headed by Cyborg Quinn, together with the spherical Tungus, dug through by chance. (Chen Yan is very suspicious, this is the first time in underground history to dig through the [Giant Forbidden Zone] defined by Spyro Industries later—that is, [City of Mountains]).

The fifth entrance to the city of overlapping peaks is their current location.

Chen Yan looked at the surrounding black granite rock formations, and felt that there should not be too many strange snake groups here, because once the strange snake groups infected by the [Snake Kiss Strain] appear, they are often accompanied by the transformation of the rocks and a large number of them. The appearance of [Snake Kiss Rock].

The rock wall here is dark and dull, and there is obviously no [Snake Kiss Rock] that can emit green light.

What made Chen Yan feel that something was wrong was that the state of the mountainous city entered from these five entrances was different.

The city of overlapping peaks entered from [First Entrance: Mi Da Ruin] is a ruin (Wish just saw it a few days ago).

The city of overlapping peaks entered from [Second Entrance: Starting Point of Subway in Yanan City] is a haunted ruin (Wish also saw it) (Chen Yan guessed that it was a "haunted event" caused by the hallucination of [Brain Ball Strain], and I believe that the probability of this conjecture being true is very high), and it is barely in the same state as the city of overlapping peaks entered by the first entrance—it is the "state of ruins" of the city of overlapping peaks.

However, the city of overlapping peaks entered from [the third entrance: Mi Da Elevator] is "alive" (Alice verified it this summer), which is in line with what Tungus Spherical said back then, "the city of overlapping peaks is alive" statement.

The city of overlapping peaks entered from [Fourth Entrance: Omega Sector] has also been "revived".

This creates a contradiction.

It is obviously a city of overlapping mountains at the same time, why are there two different states?
Could it be that... entering the city of mountains from different entrances, does the city of mountains look different?

So... Will the city of overlapping peaks entered from [Fifth Entrance: Gamma Sector Waters] be ruins, or... Already alive?
(End of this chapter)