Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 527 [Chapter Hidden in the Abyss] 71: The Destination of Life
The sudden change caught everyone off guard.

Except for Jack Baldo, everyone else has always believed that the spherical Tunguska is Chen Yan's pet, a tool to assist them in underground exploration.

The little thing seemed to be familiar with the environment here. With Chen Yan's finger in its mouth, it jumped into the ruined jungle and disappeared in an instant.

In the vision of "a certain soul" in the spherical Tunguska body, everything in front of him is strange but familiar.

It is strange because it has not been back for many years, and the place has changed a lot.

It is familiar because it used to be its hometown, the habitat of it and thousands of members of the ethnic group.

Many years ago, when it was taken away by Swarm, it was just a young and uncivilized individual, chaotic and ignorant.

After encountering the spherical Tungus, it parasitized in the body of the spherical Tungus, and underwent adaptive assimilation with "evolution" as its essence.

When the evolution is complete, it has an independent soul.

Spherical Tungus discovered its existence, and at first Spherical Tungus panicked, thinking he was going to die.

Until it showed its kindness, the spherical Tungus finally let go of part of its guard and began to communicate with it.

It learned many things from the mouth of the spherical Tungus, including this world completely different from its hometown, including everything that happened underground.

It lives in harmony with the spherical Tunguska. They share the same body, their souls blend with each other, and their hearts communicate with each other.

But they soon face a problem:
The life activities of the parasite are at the cost of consuming the vitality of the host, even though its parasitism makes the spherical Tunguska stronger, it still speeds up the passing of life.

After a few years of parasitism, the life of the spherical Tunguska is coming to an end.

It didn't want the spherical Tunguska to die, and it didn't want to find a new host.

The knowledge in the gene tells it that a ceremony called "Marriage Contract" once appeared in the long evolution of the flora, as long as it finds a witness of the same race—a spore with consciousness, it can be witnessed by the spore. , complete the "marriage contract" and continue life.

Therefore, when the spherical Tungus was about to reach the end of its life, it once returned to the ruins of the city of mountains together with the spherical Tungus in an attempt to find the surviving spores.

They are lucky.

In the depths of the abyss, among some ruins, under a collapsed house, they found a parasitized phonograph.

How could the gramophone be parasitized?
What they didn't know was that the phonographs of that era still had a wooden sleeper structure to stabilize the sound, and the surviving strains were parasitic on the wooden sleepers.

Witnessed by the spores on the sleeper, it married it. 【Note 1】

Since then, the spherical Tunguska has learned about the history of its people:

They were born in the radiation after the natural disaster, experienced countless years of evolution, and finally awakened the will of the group.

Each of them is like a neuron, and countless neurons form a huge bacterial colony structure, and the bioelectric communication between each other gives birth to the wisdom of "groups" as a unit.

They used to live here, living a life so monotonous that it would not change until the end of the world, day after day, year after year.

They are bacterial flora. Humans in Yanan City once called them [brain ball strain], and survivors of the natural disaster world called them [evil descendant flora]. Struggling to survive, it is just a weak life that has become a little bit stronger due to accidental factors.

In order to survive in the world of natural disasters, they adapt to the environment and evolve, and because of adapting to the environment, they have a strong adaptability. They have prepared for this for many, many years, and the specific time is so long that even the genes have lost traces.

While running in the ruins of the dense forest, the spherical Tunguska was always "talking to himself".

"Where are you going!? Didn't we agree to go into the ruins to find the "Engagement" and cancel the "Engagement", so we both have our own paths?! Now that success is close at hand, what are you doing?!"

"But... I'm already home! This is home! We don't need to terminate the "Engagement" anymore!"

"You! What are you talking about!"

"Serena... I'm sorry... I don't want to go back... Let's find our big family together, and we will live together in the future, okay?!"

"Who the hell wants to live with you! I want to go back! I'm dying! I'm dying!"

"Death is by no means the end of life, Serena, listen to me, try it once, okay? I have already felt everyone, as long as we return to the flora, you will definitely experience the unique beauty in the world, which is the most beautiful form of life , is the unity of all things..."

"So, I have to die, or abandon my independent will, to experience these things, right?"

"Yes."

"Fuck you! Stop it for me!"

The spherical Tunguska's fast-moving body suddenly stopped at this moment, and the running body was thrown out by inertia, and hit the waste rock pile of a certain concrete building, immediately bleeding from the head.

"Serena...don't be like this...you're dying...you know, before you go underground, you have very little vitality left, and I'll compress those vitality so that you won't look old...you didn't realize Is it? You can no longer control your body, because your life has begun to slowly die out like a candle left in the wind."

"You fucking..."

"You are running out of time, you can only return to the flora with me! That is also a kind of eternal life!"

"You...you are right, we...let's go."

"Really Serena! I love you!"

"I love you too, let's go find the flora, can you give me back the control of my body?"

"En!"

The next moment, the spherical Tungus rushed towards a rusty and broken steel bar exposed in the ruins beside him.

The steel bars pierced through his body, and the spherical Tungus lost all his strength, and the yellow scales all over his body turned gray in less than a second.

But it didn't die, it was holding on to its own life, and for some unknown reason, it still refused to close its eyes.

Chen Yan and others who were chasing after him also arrived at this time. He came to the spherical Tungus, picked up the broken finger on the ground beside him, and took off the black opal ring.

Chen Yan was able to complete this movement like clouds and flowing water, not because he was strong-willed and able to endure the pain, but because his bitten finger had grown back—the index finger was only one-fifth the size of an ordinary finger, It looks like a pink and tender granulation, but it has indeed grown out.

Chen Yan attributed this miraculous phenomenon to the restoration of his body by the Messiah.

He put the black opal ring on his right middle finger, and at the same time put it on Jack Baldo's glove, and then looked at the spherical Tunguska who was trembling and raising his head.

　【Note 1】

　　The description of this period of history by the spherical Tunguska is in "Chapter 435 Past Events in the Earth's Center 3: Living to Death"

　　The dialogue between strains and spherical Tunguska occurred in "Chapter 443 The Secret of Spherical Tunguska"

　　The comparison shows that the spherical Tunguska is lying.

　　It can be seen from the plot that it concealed many things from Chen Yan, such as the real purpose of entering the underground, the deal with Leonardo Adams, and the content of the marriage contract in this chapter.

　　I have written some of the plots, and others I have not written clearly, but I can guess.

　　It’s okay to guess wrongly, some plots are for guessing, and anything can happen, as long as it is within reason.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)