Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 519 [Chapter Hidden in the Abyss] 63: Cause and Effect

With the "departure" of one of the two superimposed cities, Swarm's power to maintain the normal form of the [Crack] with the power of the starry sky snake disappeared, and the [Crack] could no longer maintain its original state.

The small space where the crack was located collapsed violently, like a waterfall formed by light, it flowed backwards into itself, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

【Crack】disappeared.

Disappearing with it is the fungus city in Chen Yan's synaesthesia.

Everything that Chen Yan witnessed was produced by the [Crack]—that is, the [Door Frame Fragment] of the [Gate of Transcendence].

Now, the [Crack] disappeared, and the [Door Frame] also left, returning to the original world, no longer within the scope of Fungus City—so, the Fungus City after the natural disaster disappeared from Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's synaesthesia for [Door Frame Fragments] turned into chaos. At this time, [Door Frame Fragments] did not know where it was located. Chen Yan only felt mottled light and shadows and chaotic colors in front of his eyes. Countless broken pictures flashed before his eyes, endlessly colorful Cascades of light and shadow appear...

Everything that appeared so quickly produced an uncontrollable suffocation. Chen Yan had no choice but to cut off the synaesthesia, and his consciousness returned to the ruins of the laboratory.

He held the [Door Frame Fragment] in his hand, panting heavily, and there were only a few thoughts left in his chaotic mind:

'No matter where this piece of [Door Frame Fragment] went later, it finally returned to the other side of the [Crack], back to the ruins of the laboratory. '

'This is how Swarm came to our world...'

As he thought about it, he put [Door Frame Shards] into his pocket.

Chen Yan's teammates, Solal and the miners were more or less surprised to see Chen Yan sitting on the ground panting.

In their eyes, Chen Yan had just picked up some kind of "garbage" from the ruins, and fell to the ground the next moment, turning into this appearance that looked like he had gone through a strenuous exercise.

After calming down, Chen Yan finally figured out the connection between the two overlapping cities——

'The ruins of the city of overlapping mountains under the city of Yanan and the fungus city in the world of natural disasters are actually the same city.

The source of everything is Swarm's power inherited from the starry sky monster snake, which caused a certain [spatial level] mutation in the city.

This caused Fungus City to change from one to two, one of which stayed in the world of natural disasters, and the other came to the underground of Yanan City, becoming a city of overlapping peaks. '

'The fungus city is the city of overlapping peaks, and the city of overlapping peaks is the fungus city, which are just different names of two different worlds. '

Chen Yan's eyes trembled.

'So, where we are now, is it the fungus city in the world of natural disasters, or the city of mountains beneath Yanan City? '

'According to what the zombie boy said, we are clearly located in the [Fungal City]—in the [Three Years Later] Natural Disaster World's Fungal City. ' (Chapter 498)
Chen Yan shook his head fiercely, recalling what the zombie boy said, he clarified the time of the incident in Fungus City, and the corresponding relationship with the events before and after the emergence of the city of overlapping peaks underground in Yanan City——

'The timeline said by the zombie boy:
[Three years ago] in the world line of Fungus City, the plastic dolls of [Liu Jiaxian] conducted live experiments on the strains of [Mug City], and due to unknown reasons, the experiment failed, opening a certain kind of [crack].

Then, this should be the first appearance of [Crack] in the world of natural disasters.

What happened after that was the scene I saw in my synaesthesia with [Door Frame Fragments]. '

The train of thought in Chen Yan's head became clearer and clearer:
'At the same time, [20 years ago] in the world where Yanan City is located, Chen Changsheng and other students transported the [Crack] to the laboratory of the Rice University Research Institute, and conducted experiments on the [Crack] with the participation of the director. '

'Two [rifts] appeared at the same time, so the two worlds were connected.

The opening of the [rift] in the two worlds, I can only attribute it to [coincidence]. '

At different times in the two worlds, two events are simultaneous because the events coincide.

But the time is not right.

'Perhaps, there is a certain time difference between the two different worlds that exist extremely far away in the universe. Therefore, [20 years ago] in Yanan City is equivalent to [three years ago] in the world of natural disasters. '

Chen Yan's poor knowledge is not enough to understand this strange time difference principle, but the [fact] he saw is this:

20 years ago in Yanan City, it was exactly the same as what happened in Scourge World three years ago.

'Space mathematicians like Joseph Lagrange must be able to answer this question. '

Chen Yan continued to think:

'In Yanan City [20 years ago], that is [three years ago] in the world of natural disasters, after the natural disaster [blindness] came to the fungus city, under Swarm's intervention, the fungus city was divided into two.

One of them was located in the Scourge world, and it became what I see today.

The other enters Yharnam and gradually decays into the ruins that Wish saw through the vision of the [Spirit of the Universe]. '

'So here comes the problem. '

'We obviously entered here from the underground of Yanan City before - we took the road into the ruins of the city of overlapping peaks, not the road into Fungus City. '

'There must be something wrong with the [water curtain] we crossed before entering Fungus City—according to the zombie boy, that [water curtain] is actually some kind of crack. ' (Chapter 498)
Cracks appeared again in Fungus City. Does this mean that today, 20 years later in Yanan City—that is, today, three years after Fungus City, [Liu Jiaxian] and his plastic dolls started the experiment again? , opened the [Crack]? '

'There is such a possibility. '

Chen Yan kept thinking:
'According to what the zombie boy said, in the timeline of the natural disaster world, in the past three years, after the events of that year, the plastic dolls of [Liujiaxian] rebuilt the fungus city and became The way we see it today. '

'The current appearance of this city is indeed very different from the fungus city in the synesthesia.

In synaesthesia, the fungus city [three years ago] on the timeline of the natural disaster world is completely a [natural ecological city]. Looking back now, it actually looks pretty good...

Kejun City is now a city completely made of steel, and underground fortifications have been built... This also means that [Liu Jiaxian] has far more control over the city than it did three years ago. '

'There is another key point - [the fall of the laboratory of the Rice University Research Institute], which happened about ten years ago in the [Yanan City Timeline]. '

'I originally thought that the laboratory fell in the ruins of the city of overlapping peaks, but who knew that the laboratory actually fell in the fungus city of the natural disaster world. '

'That is to say, when Cyborg Quinn and the big dog pushed the laboratory into the bottom of the abyss, the [crack] still existed. When the laboratory fell, it passed through the [crack] and entered the fungus city , smashed through the layered buildings of Fungus City, and came to the place where we are standing now. '

When thinking of this, Chen Yan checked his train of thought again, and felt that there was generally nothing wrong with it.

Looking back again, although there are still doubts about the whole incident, it has gradually become clearer.

(End of this chapter)