Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 727 Preparations before departure, and unexpected news about the zoo
A bland sentence, without pretentiousness, and without emotional ups and downs, as if it was only a trivial judgment on a trivial matter.

[You'd better do what you agreed to do. 】

Mia whispered to Chen Yan, as if her voice would be heard by William Adams.

Chen Yan knew that there was no room for maneuver in this matter, and he could only find a solution from other places, so he did not deny it.

'Mia, I'm leaving...bye. '

【goodbye. 】

It felt weird to say goodbye like this.

Chen Yan manipulated the quantum clone and returned to the online world.

Chen Changsheng watched William Adams walk back to the airship, and after listening to him explain, "I'm going back to the imperial capital, I will leave the rest to you", then turned his gaze to Mia.

"he's gone?"

Mia nodded.

She doesn't have the buzzer and audio output hardware, so she can't make a sound.

"How was it talking to him?"

Mia touched his ear.

Chen Changsheng nodded, and there was something similar to "relief" in his eyes.

"There are too few data beings, and there are even fewer data beings with normal humanity. Therefore, the normal data beings who can communicate with you... may only be Chen Yan now."

Mia leaned on his shoulders, and the emerald-colored pixels from her breath blew on his neck, but he couldn't feel it.

"Soon, Mia, we unpacked a large amount of encrypted data from William Master's server, and we will soon be able to know the truth about the data spirit."

"At that time, I will be able to hear your voice."

……

……

When Chen Yan opened her eyes in Room 33, 3rd Floor, No. 305 Walker Street Apartment, it was already nine o'clock in the morning.

He left the bedroom and came to the attic, where he saw the glutinous rice fruit still sitting in front of the desk.

It seems that because of the riots, the church school was temporarily closed.

When Nuomi Guo saw Chen Yan's flustered eyes, she knew that the real Chen Yan was back.

"It's a long story..."

Ou Gami obviously didn't tell Nuomi Guo what happened just now, so Chen Yan made a long story short and told her the key part of the whole thing.

"In short, that guy committed suicide, but there is no guarantee that a similar guy will appear next time."

Chen Yan felt a headache.

"According to your guess, we need to go to the prison website on the Internet again at that time tonight—at that "Lagrange time" and pass the sub-link that may have [Entrance to the Wilderness]."

Chen Yan nodded:

"Only in "Lagrangian time" can data exchange be carried out between the present world and the wilderness - this conclusion can be drawn by applying this property to the online world."

He said solemnly:

"I have to leave Yanan City before tonight...but because of my quantum clone, even if my physical body is not in Yanan City, I can still enter the prison building in the online world to verify my conjecture."

"What I want to ask is...do you want to go with me?"

Chen Yan turned on the phone and showed Nuomi Guo the chart that "Chen Yan" had taken.

"I'm going to this place to get something."

"Chen Yan" once told everyone about the "deal" between him and William Adams the night he returned to the apartment at No. 33 Walker Street, so Nuomi Guo probably knew about it.

And now, when she saw the place on the map, there was a momentary trance in her eyes.

"It's here..."

Nuomi Guo's voice was so low that Chen Yan couldn't even hear it clearly.

He said:
"I think so:
I once got a ring in Fungus City, which can open the channel between the two worlds, but I don't know how to use this ring to set the addresses of the two worlds. "

He took out the evil eye ring he had just brought from the bedroom, and handed it to Nuomi Guo.

"If you can use this ring to open a passage between the apartment and a certain location in Yanan City, then even if you go overseas, you can return to Yanan City at any time - without delaying your study and work. "

Everyone knows that apartments are safer than other places, and people in apartments are more trustworthy than people in other places.

"Preferably the [door] of the apartment."

Chen Yan told his plan as if whimsical:
"If the evil eye ring can use [the door of the apartment] as a carrier, and build a passage in the [door], one side of the passage is the apartment that left Yanan City and went overseas, and the other side is the street of Walker Street—— It is no different from opening the door and walking out now.

The only difference is that those of us who live inside the apartment have the [key] and the authority to pass the [door].

Once an outsider opened the door from the outside of the apartment, there was no way to enter the apartment—or into a fake apartment. "

When it came to the end, Chen Yan couldn't express clearly.

But the glutinous rice fruit still knew the general meaning.

"I could try it... but there's no guarantee it will work."

Facing her conservative answer, Chen Yan was grateful.

"We have a whole day today, and it doesn't matter if we don't succeed."

If it doesn't work, Chen Yan will run away in the apartment by himself, which will be one of the worst situations for everyone.

Glutinous Rice Fruit obviously understands this, and no one wants to let things go to that point.

When Chen Yan went downstairs, he saw a one-eyed boy named Osmandis slumped on the sofa, holding a mobile phone in one hand, his one-eyed eyes filled with boredom.

"Ah, you're back!"

Chen Yan listened to his tone, realized something, and said to him:
"You also know that guy was a fake last night."

Osmandis nodded:
"Messiah also knew it, but she was afraid that that guy would attack him, so she didn't act rashly."

Chen Yan thought about it, and said to him:

"I'm going to take a long trip next time, you can't stay here anymore... go home."

Osmandis asked curiously:

"Where are you going?"

Chen Yan thought for a while, and felt that there was no need to deceive him, so she answered truthfully:

"Going to the sea area northwest of the empire, it's very far away, it's close to the glacier area... Actually, I don't know where it is, anyway, it's very far away."

After listening to his description, Osmandis thought of his situation and past, and suddenly, a strange feeling arose in his heart.

[Could it be... everything is predestined? 】

Osmandis patted his head, and put on his usual grinning expression that didn't care about anything:

"What a coincidence! My home is on this waterway!"

Chen Yan said in surprise:
"Are you from outside?"

Chen Yan realized that he had asked a very stupid question, and began to carefully examine the boy's face.

The face that originally looked no different from that of the native Lukes of the empire, but now that he looked carefully, he did not have the obvious features of the Lukes in the past. Compared with the normal natives of the empire, Osmandis's nose was flattened a bit , the freckles on the face are less, and the color of the eyes is darker...

But appearance cannot fully express a person's attributes, and Chen Yan realized that his efforts to identify the features on his face were completely useless.

"That's not OK."

Chen Yan's tone was decisive.

"You are still a student of the church school. If I take you out of the empire, what will happen if the church school comes to trouble me?"

This is of course just an excuse.

Osmandis obviously knew he was making excuses, so he snapped his fingers and said instead:
"Don't you want to save that tiger! I have a way to let you enter the zoo without employee status!"

Chen Yan scolded:

"You kid is really spying on me!"

Chen Yan looked like he was joking on the surface, but he didn't feel like joking in his heart at all, instead he was taken aback——

The two incidents of [wish’s dilemma] and [Chen Yan’s willingness to save her] happened entirely between wish and Chen Yan, and it stands to reason that it would be impossible for a third party to know about it.

But this young man named Osmandis still knows, which shows that he has the ability to know other people's secrets.

This is difficult.

Fortunately, it's not all bad news about this kid, at least he provided a solution to the big trouble Chen Yan is facing now——

"According to my understanding, without an employee status, it is impossible to enter the zoo."

Chen Yan said slowly.

According to his previous understanding, [Employee Status] itself is equivalent to some kind of [Certification Qualification]. Only with this [Certification Qualification] can one move unimpeded in Byron Weiss Zoo.

But if you don’t have [certification qualifications], it will be very troublesome to enter the zoo. When Chen Yan saw the programmers laying network cables in the zoo, they were cautious for fear of their own bodies and everything in the zoo, including the air. in contact with each other.

Chen Yan didn't know why they acted that way, but only knew that it would be very dangerous to enter the zoo without [employee status].

"There is no rule without BUG in this world."

Osmandis blinked, and the phone flipped back and forth between the five fingers of his right hand, drawing countless beautiful flower shadows.

"A highly logical and regular geometry like a program is full of bugs. How can there be no bugs in the edge of the world that was forcibly opened by man?"

He smiled and said:
"I happen to know a few bugs in the zoo, so if we agree, I don't mind helping you rescue that little tiger."

The insight and abilities shown by Osmandis have far exceeded Chen Yan's imagination. Even if this kid came from a family of extraordinary people, he shouldn't have this level of knowledge.

By this time, Chen Yan already understood that his previous understanding of Osmandis must have been greatly biased.

He had to get to know this kid again, and he couldn't continue to see him as a simple boy.

Before Chen Yan could speak, Osmandis spoke first. He seemed to like to take the initiative in the conversation:
"After you called from the prison last time, I went to Jack Baldo, and he also called back, but he didn't get through. You can't blame me for that."

Chen Yan did not forget this incident. The last time he was going to call to ask Jack Baldo to modularize the entire apartment so that he could save him before the execution, it was Osmandis who answered the call.

But then he was always busy in the online world and had no time to answer the phone.

Chen Yan understood Osmandis' underlying mentality from his explanation:
I want to cooperate with you on an equal footing and maintain respect for you as a partner, so I explain everything clearly and have nothing to hide. You can see how sincere I am.

The reason for such complicated "feelings" is that since returning to his body, Chen Yan felt that even if he did not trigger [Synesthesia], he could still have a certain degree of "feeling" about other people's hearts.

This kind of "feeling" is very strange. He obviously didn't observe words and feelings, nor did he deliberately speculate on other people's hearts, but such a "feeling" did indeed arise.

[Synaesthesia] It seems that the ability has undergone further evolution after being tempered by ideology, and has become something similar to "instinct".

Without thinking too much in Chen Yan's mind, he agreed to Osmandis' request for cooperation, because this is the only way he can think of to save Wish.

"We're leaving before tonight."

After getting this exact answer, Osmandis did not appear very happy, but showed an expression of uncontrollable concern about gain and loss.

Looking at his almost unchanged face, Chen Yan thought, this "expression of worrying about gain and loss" seemed to be subconsciously felt by herself.

Chen Yan came to the kitchen and followed the ladder to the basement floor, where he saw George Lebster, the shrimp man, moving a large box from a small boat docked by the dock in the waters of the cave to the basement.

He went over to help, and asked the Shrimpman:

"what's the situation?"

When he asked this sentence, Chen Yan sensed a sense of loss from the shrimp.

George Lebster's voice was quite normal, not as low as before because of loss:
"Spyro Industries is bankrupt and we're out of a job."

Chen Yan put a box on the ground of the basement, curiously said:

"Why is it bankrupt? Isn't the Snake Kiss Rock mining area still that big?"

He clearly remembered that when he entered the Delta sector, the ore veins were still connected in one piece, and there was no need to worry about not being able to dig them out.

Could it be that the ruins of the original city of overlapping peaks are still expanding?
George Lebster sighed, and while putting a clean-looking cardboard box on the bed, he said:
"The economic downturn in Yanan City has affected the underground."

"After you left some time ago, the underground has been in chaos... You know, at that time, many workers were caught in a loophole in the contract, and they were able to go to the surface and sell private mines."

"There are also conflicts in the management of the company. As a small employee, I don't know the details. I only heard people say that the management seems to want to 'merge shares' with some companies on the surface and become subsidiaries of other companies, but When other managements were unwilling, conflicts broke out."

"Once a conflict breaks out in the management, the chaos below can no longer be suppressed. The shrimp and crab people are fine, they can't go to the ground, they can only live by the company, but those humans are not so easy to deal with."

"I don't know where the news came from, saying that there was a demonstration on the ground. The workers rebelled against the business owners, protested against the courtyard, and killed many big bosses. The entire Yanan City was paralyzed."

"They followed suit. That night - the night before, they stormed into the office building, and the pirates and engineers in the management team killed half of them!"

"In front of everyone, they directly burned the file room where everyone's labor contracts were stored!"

　PS: My son will soon be able to walk. He always knocks on the door in his toddler, and is interrupted countless times. I really can’t write so much, so today I only have more than 4000 words... Tomorrow I will get up early and write...

　　
　
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