Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 559 [Chapter of the Game of Death] Nine: Fight to the Death

During the break at noon that day, Chen Yan felt the ringing of the mobile phone.

He glanced at Uncle Sam and the female prisoner who were resting on the table, walked lightly to the storage room in the kitchen, locked the door, put scaffolding on the doorknob, sat down on the bench inside the storage room, and closed the door. eyes.

The next moment, the quantum clone communicated with the mobile phone, and the voice of Jack Baldo appeared in Chen Yan's ear.

"Solar sent the money, 130 pounds, all hard new imperial pounds."

"Solar said he was going back to the Omega Sector, and he left this morning."

"I sent Paul out of town, I was worried about his mental state, but he has made his own decision..."

Chen Yan listened silently to what happened at home, the stark contrast between the free world outside and the dark environment in the prison made his heart heavy.

"Brother, Ogami and I disassembled the console casing of the first-generation mining machine, and have taken photos of the internal structure from left to right, take a look."

Chen Yan: 'Okay. '

He used his consciousness to call up the data of the photo album from his mobile phone, and saw the photo of the console structure taken by Jack Baldo.

An integrated structure connected by a special "joint" part appears in front of you——

The interior of the entire console can be regarded as a huge circuit board, on which various parts that Chen Yan can't name are "inserted", and among most of the parts that Chen Yan doesn't know, there are frequent occurrences. Something that looks like a palm-sized "processor core".

These "processor cores" are arranged in a certain order between the entire circuit board. Chen Yan also saw something similar to wires, but it was not the same as the wires he knew before. They were exposed and seemed to be moving. , with a peculiar...biological activity.

'Is the end of technology bionics...'

With a faint icy blue light flickering in his palm, he understood the truth about this thing——

This "wire-like thing" is indeed a biomass material, but it is completely different from the "bioelectronic material" used in Chen Yan's mobile phone. It is pure "biomass" without electronic components.

If Chen Yan insists on using Chen Yan's own worldview to define this kind of biomass, Chen Yan can only think that the flexibility of this kind of thing is between "bone" and "tendon", and it has good electrical conductivity. It is a special organ of an unknown creature.

'Is it an organ used to conduct electricity... a conductive organ like that of vertebrate subphylum, neofin subclass, and electric eels? '

'It's still different. The electrical organs of electric eels are essentially muscle tissue, but this material is obviously not muscle, or even bone. '

"I don't know what it is... There is no relevant knowledge in the ice blue memory fragments..."

He looks at the circuit board.

The "circuit board" really has the same function as the circuit board he knew before, except that there is no silicon, no organic resin, and no copper-clad laminate in the raw materials of this circuit board.

The circuit board is composed of a high-density, calcium-like elemental element, and a metal-like material that is almost copper, but twice as dense as copper.

A faint icy blue light flickered in the palm of his hand, and knowledge kept appearing in Chen Yan's mind, explaining what he saw in front of him.

These elements come from another ecological environment that is completely different from human existence. There is a small overlap between the basic principles of science and technology formed by them and the basic structure of human electronic civilization, so it can be understood to a certain extent in the way of electronic civilization. morphological deconstruction.

'Hmm... It means that a small part of the theory of human electronics can be applied to these things in the first generation of mining machines, but it is not guaranteed, and there is a certain degree of understanding deviation. '

As far as the eye can see, everything in the photo is translated naturally between the flickering icy blue light in the palm of the hand:
Where is the signal entrance and exit, where is the signal processing unit, where is the component safety protection structure, where is the access point of external equipment...

With the help of Binglan's memory fragments, Chen Yan gradually understood everything about this circuit board from the "arthropod otter civilization".

After a while, he got two news, one good and one bad.

The bad news is that the electronic components that make up this thing are very advanced, with high technological content, so advanced that it cannot be manufactured at the industrial level of Yanan City.

The good news is that the underlying metals for these electronic components are not rare, and there are lower-tech alternatives.

Using a substitute will reduce the efficiency of the entire board, but it will improve stability in a disguised form - generally speaking, the lower the technology content, the better the quality, because there is nothing to break at all.

The electronic components suitable for this circuit board can be replaced with some low-tech alternatives, which means that as long as you find a workshop that customizes components, you can do whatever you want on the original mining machine. remodel.

"I do know a parts workshop like this. It was run by an old employee who was fired from an electronics factory. The old employee was originally a member of the Labor Party. I have a way to contact him...but the price must not be cheap. This kind of It’s also the most expensive thing on the market.”

After Jack Baldo explained the matter, Chen Yan said that money was not a problem. Solal had just exchanged 130 pounds for him, which was enough to buy the electronic components he wanted.

After a while, Chen Yan calculated the type and quantity of components needed according to his modification needs.

In addition to common components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transistors, there are also uncommonly used transistors and field effect transistors.

It’s best to have the latter, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t have it, it’s just that it’s a little troublesome to operate, and after the completion, the work efficiency of the entire system will drop a little bit.

Listening to the words from the mobile phone, Jack Baldo used a pen to record the names, models, specifications and quantities of electronic components on paper, and finally made a long list.

'It's estimated to cost a lot of money... It stands to reason that these parts will be cheaper soon, but we have to hurry up, there is no way. '

"I'll get these things as soon as possible... If you are bullied, remember to praise the sun."

'... Well, I remember. '

Ohgami said beside him:
"One more thing. This morning, Thomas Gilbert of the Razor Party came again. I didn't kill him, but followed him and returned to his residence.

Unsurprisingly, the members of the Razor Party I killed at the beginning are all alive now. "

Chen Yan listened quietly.

"Three middle-aged men, three young men, a middle-aged woman, a young woman, and an old woman in a wheelchair all came back to life."

"I killed them again, this time more thoroughly."

Ohgami seemed to be saying contradictory words.

"I'll keep watching them."

Chen Yan suggested:
'Maybe we can take a little money... something like 10 quid, to finance Thomas Gilbert, and see what he's up to, and that might reveal his secret. '

Ohgami responded:

"good idea."

The two acquiesced that the Razor Party would be reborn, and they didn't even talk about the relevant reasons.

'Time is running out, let's talk back. '

Chen Yan hung up the phone.

……

……

During dinner that day, a brawl broke out among the hilltops in the restaurant. The scene was extremely tragic, because one of them collectively used a sharpened toothbrush.

In just a few seconds, when the prison guards rushed over, there were dozens of blood holes on the head of the boss on the other side of the hill, and more than half of the other prisoners on this hill were also casualties-the other side was completely facing the head. If you come, you will die.

Chen Yan watched the conflict erupt in an instant, and then ended in a dozen seconds. The prisoners seemed to have turned into crazy beasts in these ten seconds, losing all their sanity.

It was also at this moment that Chen Yan realized what Uncle Sam had said before that "the prison protects the prisoners in Cell 010"—in the back kitchen, the only place where he communicated with the restaurant was that it was so narrow that it could only accommodate rice bowls in and out. Under such circumstances, no matter what happens in the restaurant, it is almost impossible to affect the back kitchen.

Prisoners in public prisons often fight because of disputes, but few hit to this extent. Everyone is a prisoner, but not many have been sentenced to life. Almost all held out the hope of a reduced sentence for good behavior.

And Klein and his like have shown great hope to other criminals who don't know the truth. Most people here are scumbags and completely immoral hooligans, but this does not mean that they are lunatics. Staying here, everyone wants to go to the free world.

Chen Yan didn't know what happened between the two hills, all he knew was that the prison guards took away everyone from the two hills, and the restaurant was in a mess, and he had to clean it up.

After the brawl, the prison guards cleared the scene. Due to the lack of manpower, Chen Yan, Uncle Sam and female prisoners also entered the restaurant to help clean up the blood.

"Then they are a bunch of fucking idiots! A bunch of lunatics with X in their heads! They will all be indefinite in the future!"

The large amount of blood that was difficult to clean up made Uncle Sam furious. He cursed while cleaning. Chen Yan took the opportunity to learn many new words and phrases used to swear.

Uncle Sam finished cursing, and muttered to Chen Yan in a low voice:

"Boy, what do you think is going on with them? Why did they fight like this? Do they all want to stay in this ghost place for the rest of their lives? It's really incomprehensible..."

"The composition of a mountain is very complicated, so there are more than a dozen people, those with backgrounds, those without background, those with long and short sentences, and those with good or bad performance. Everyone's situation is different. ?Those people who obviously hope to reduce their sentences, how dare they poke other people's eyeballs with a toothbrush? Is this something that people with brains can do?"

Uncle Sam didn't understand very much, and neither did Chen Yan.

When the cleaning was about to finish, while mopping the floor, the female prisoner answered Chen Yan's doubts.

"A batch of large goods appeared on the market today, and they are very powerful ores."

He didn't know what she was going to say, but the word "ore" caught his attention.

The female prisoner spoke to herself, as if she was confident that she could attract Chen Yan's attention.

"Those ores are very strange. Their purity is much higher than the ores that flowed out of the market before, and the power that can be extracted from them is dozens of times that of the previous ores."

"These ores threaten the [Lighthouse]—the [Lighthouse] in the lower city has already started to use, and people can use the [Lighthouse] to supplement electricity, plus household appliances such as televisions, mobile phones, and refrigerators distributed by the House to citizens, [ The lighthouse suddenly became a necessity in the lives of the citizens."

Chen Yan interrupted here:

"Wait, what does [release] mean?"

female prisoner said:

"Just sign your name on the loan agreement, pay a few pennies, and have brand new appliances home in no time."

"For most people in the lower urban area, this is completely costless. Most of them are not even registered black households. Even if they sign their names, they don't need to change their money every month for loans in the future."

Chen Yan retorted:
"But electricity needs to be bought with money, and it is impossible for [lighthouses] to be used by people for free."

The female prisoner replied:

"Who would think so much? For people who have nothing, even if they don't use electricity after taking electrical appliances? Just sign your name and you can get so many things for free. Who cares what will happen in the future? People There is no future, why not enjoy yourself in time?"

Chen Yan continued to retort:
“People will soon find out that their lives are going to be hijacked by these appliances, and things will get to the point where you can’t live without electricity, and at that point, everybody’s going to have to buy electricity — everybody’s going to have to take out a loan to buy electricity. "

There was a smile in the voice of the female prisoner:

"You're right."

"Before, this kind of ore named [Snake Kiss Rock] has been popular in the market in Yanan City for a long time, but the price has not been high, because there are no electrical appliances at home, so [Snake Kiss Rock] There have been many other strange uses, and it has even been used as medicine by some Asian doctors."

"But it's different now. Every household has electrical appliances, and every household needs electricity."

"The batch of strange ores that flowed into the market today has really affected the use of [Lighthouse], and the power generation of [Snake Kiss Rock] is dozens of times higher than normal [Snake Kiss Rock]. The amount is almost 0."

"The [Lighthouse] was built by those big groups at a huge price to sell electricity. Now that there is such a strange ore, the electricity of [Lighthouse] cannot be sold, and some people are almost crazy."

“But there are others who are happy with the situation—these are the older businessmen who deal in kerosene lamps and candles and everything that doesn’t require electricity, and when [the lighthouse] comes and electricity goes into everyone’s homes, they The goods were squeezed, the price was cut in half, and they were almost driven to a dead end—the number of this group of people is definitely beyond your imagination."

Chen Yan said:

"It's nothing unimaginable, it's almost half of the market in Yanan City."

(End of this chapter)