Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 728
Chen Yan never expected that the underground affairs could develop to this point.

However, from his current perspective, since the head of Spyro Industries, James Parrett, decided to supply energy for enterprises on the ground instead of engaging in a complete closed-loop ecology, Spyro Industries itself has been developing. In the process, it integrated into Yanan City and became a part of the huge social ecological circle of the entire Yanan City.

Everything that happens in Yanan City will have an impact through the interconnected channels with the underground, especially social incidents of the level of marches and riots. The depth and breadth of the underground will inevitably be greatly affected.

"The original company is now divided into several shares, and the engineering department occupies a large share. Most of them are mechanical maintenance engineers. They need skills and labor. They basically follow them."

"The mining machine research and development department has a share. They originally had powerful thermal weapons. Now that the company is gone, they used weapons to prevent the riot from spreading to their workshop... It has not yet resumed normal operation, but they released the news , as long as everyone is sincere, they can also produce mining machines for everyone to buy.”

"The presence of the other departments is not so strong...Oh, yes, there is another department that is more powerful. There was no such department underground. Part of this department is the original office staff in the company, and part of it is speculators from the surface. Merchant—sales department, they call themselves that, and use the name of the company to buy ore from everyone.”

Chen Yan, who had just picked up another cardboard box, blurted out:
"Second dealer!"

Good guy, these speculators really have a good sense of smell.

"Your description is too accurate."

George Lebster had also read books, but Imperial was not his mother tongue, so his use of some words was stiff.

"They bought ore from everyone—an independent miner team—especially the miner team with mining machines, and now they report to the team for warmth. They took this opportunity to become independent individuals, no longer attached to the company or more Big groups—everyone has guns and has experienced the era of corporate domination, so it’s not easy to work for anyone.”

"And after the company collapsed, no larger groups were established except for the engineering department, which was not aggressive. Therefore, no one can threaten the miners who have free shuttles in the mine veins."

"Oh, by the way, there is also the most important house of wandering souls.

The Home of Wandering Souls was originally a city spontaneously organized by miners. It had been suppressed by the company before, and even its development was a problem.

Now that the company has been disbanded, the Home of Wandering Souls has become the largest underground organization—after the disintegration of the company, the Home of Wandering Souls has become a shelter for new workers who do not want to join other forces, so many miners gathered in the Home of Wandering Souls, Until now, the House of Wandering Souls has become synonymous with free will.

After looking at the influx of new workers, the Wandering Soul House has regained its vitality, many old houses have been occupied by people, and the business of the whole city seems to be flowing... In short, it is a waste of time, everything is because of People's episodes are very dynamic. "

Although George Lebster said something that sounded more exciting, his tone was not easy.

"But... the price of freedom is chaos. There are too many people gathered in the Wandering Soul House. When I arrived there last time, some workers had already started to form cliques... Sooner or later, forces will appear. It’s a company-like existence.”

"I felt this trend, so I panicked... You know, I'm timid, I dare not stay in such a chaotic place, even though the Home of Wandering Souls is indeed becoming more and more prosperous... So I I'm back."

A simple sentence made Chen Yan look at this shrimp guy with admiration. He has already started to think about the future based on the current social situation and put it into practice.

George Lebster didn't feel Chen Yan's surprise to him, and continued to tell the underground situation:
"Until now, the underground has probably returned to calm... Relatively calm, everyone is no longer huddled in their own homes and dare not go out. The Home of Wandering Souls has stabilized the sense of security for most people. They have even begun to organize workers to form armed forces. Defend this city built on groundwater and promise to shelter anyone."

"The situation underground is probably like this."

George Lebster made the whole thing very simple.

Chen Yan thought, the details of the whole process must be extremely complicated and bloody, and George Lebster just stated the simple result.

"How about the giant restricted area?"

Facing Chen Yan's question, George Lebster said:

"The restricted area of ​​the giant began to retreat a few days ago, and this time it should be over like this... The casualties caused are not large."

"Also, I've heard people say that the restricted area of ​​giants has started to recede deep underground, and the impact on the Omega sector has become less and less, and there is almost nothing... This is a very rare thing, and it has never happened in the past many years. It happened...it means the underground mining environment is getting safer, which is a good thing.”

The impact of Fungus City on the other side of the universe on Yanan City on this side of the universe is basically over with the return of Chen Yan and his teammates.

According to his current knowledge, Chen Yan recalled the situation at that time, and thought that the influence of Juncheng on Yanan City has become smaller, probably because they destroyed most of the things in the rice laboratory that fell in Juncheng. As a result, the connection between Juncheng and Yanan City has become weaker.

"What's next?"

After Chen Yan asked this question, he immediately felt some "depression" from the shrimp.

"Well, I'm an electrician, and I can't work on the surface, so I can only work underground... I'm going to wait for a while to see what's going on underground. If the situation is good, I'll go find a job."

When he said the words "looking for a job", Chen Yan felt a strong sense of "depression" from George Lebster.

The Shrimp Brothers obviously don't want to work underground.

"so."

Chen Yan put his hand on the shoulder of the shrimp man in the electrician's suit:
"You will work for me in the future, responsible for maintaining the electrical appliances in the apartment, and repairing various parts of the apartment. I will be responsible for solving your living needs-housing, marriage, childbirth, raising children, children going to school...etc. such needs.

how about it? "

George Lebster said in surprise:
"This... I have never heard of such an agreement!"

Chen Yan said:

"If you don't want these, I can pay for them."

George Lebster immediately thought of the Snake Kiss Rocks that Chen Yan had obtained before, and if converted into money, it was an astronomical figure.

But what is the use of so much money for him?Even if you have money, you can't take it to Yanan City to spend it, but you have to take it to the dark underground to live in such a dangerous environment...

"I'm going to sea, and I won't be able to come back to Yanan City for a long time, so I need an engineer who can maintain the apartment while I'm away."

George Lebster was taken aback:
"Go to sea?"

Chen Yan nodded:

"To the north, far away... I don't know how far, this apartment follows me."

Listening to his words, George Lebster recalled the changes in the apartment some time ago, and vaguely understood some of Chen Yan's intentions.

"Sea..."

He was a little excited, but most of the emotions in his heart were still panic.

He grew up in an underground river since he was a child, and even after he had a human body, he only heard the announcer's description of the sea on the radio with no picture.

There is always a belief in the sea in the shrimp people's group. This belief is established through "longing for the sea". According to legend, if a shrimp people reaches the sea, they can get real freedom.

As for what "true freedom" is, the shrimp people never know.

Even after countless generations of reproduction in the underground river, they don't even know what "freedom" means.

This leads to their inability to understand this belief even though they have it.

Even if they yearn for freedom, there have been explorers who have embarked on a pilgrimage to the sea, but no shrimpman has ever returned after embarking on a pilgrimage to the ocean.

Therefore, the shrimp people are very afraid. They think that the shrimp people who go to the ocean will die, because for them who have worked all their lives until they die, "death" itself is a kind of liberation and another synonym for "freedom".

As a small, almost personalityless member of the shrimp people, George Lebster now suddenly has the opportunity to "pilgrimage", and it is a very safe opportunity,

"I...my mother said we are freshwater shrimp..."

Chen Yan interrupted his fear:
"When I first saw you, I knew you were a freshwater shrimp. Look at your head, the carapace and the entire cephalothorax are healed, and it does not extend to the ventral surface and does not form a gill cavity, causing the gills to be directly immersed in the water... This is obviously Some kind of krill in the phylum Arthropoda, the class Crustacea, and the order Krill."

Chen Yan said in an unquestionable tone:

"Krill is a freshwater prawn, but the ocean is not full of salt water. For example, near glaciers, it is basically fresh water."

"There is fresh water in the ocean" is beyond the cognition of George Lebster. He stared at Chen Yan with two protruding eyes, and his eyes were full of "who are you fooling!"

Chen Yan explained:
"According to the normal situation, there should be some kind of continental shelf in the glacier zone. The fresh water on the continental shelf condenses to form most of the glaciers, and the part of the glaciers that cannot be frozen is dissolved into fresh water.

Coupled with the influence of ocean currents, and the stratification of salt water and fresh water due to the difference in density, there are large areas of fresh water in the sea area of ​​the glacier zone.

Therefore, krill, a freshwater shrimp, can exist in large quantities in the seas of glaciers. "

Seeing George Lebster's still "unbelievable" eyes, Chen Yan suddenly thought of an example and said:

"You can find a fact from Yanan City - William Adams Group has ocean-going ships to catch krill in the glacier every year - this can prove the existence of krill in the glacier, and it can also prove the reverse Seas in glacial areas are freshwater seas."

That, George Lebster thought, was a verifiable fact.

Chen Yan brought up this fact and said some arguments that he didn't understand, which caused a lot of expectations in his heart. He didn't want to live in the dark underground for a long time. If this continues, after several generations of reproduction, maybe Even the eyes are going to disappear—this is the case with some of his distant relatives who went deep underground. Due to long-term exposure to the dark environment, they have degenerated. The eyes have disappeared, and the vocal organs have also undergone changes. Not like normal shrimp bug monsters...

George Lebster was terribly opposed to that future.

But the fear of the unknown life in the future still makes him hesitate:

"But...but..."

Chen Yan patted his shoulder vigorously:

"Even if there is no fresh water or krill there, if you go out with me for such a big circle, you can take it as a relaxation! After going out for a few months, when you return to Yanan City, maybe there will be a new social ecology underground. It has already been established, and the technology in your hands will not be forgotten, and it is not too late if you want to go back to the underground to find a job at that time!"

George Lebster thought to himself, this is really the truth.

He is not worried about the maintenance of the apartment's power lines, which is his line of work-plus he has learned a lot about new technologies on the Internet these days, and the precision circuit repair technology is not too much if he has tools. Difficult—at least those new technologies for repairing electronic components on the Internet can be completed with the existing tools.

After thinking about it, he finally mustered up the greatest courage in his life, and said:
"Then... alright! I'll go to sea with you!"

When he said these words, Brother Shrimp felt that his whole being had been sublimated and transformed.

This feeling is even far better than when she shed her shell back then.

Chen Yan patted his shoulder happily:

"Get ready, let's leave Yanan City before the end of today."

After explaining to the shrimp man, Chen Yan came to the second floor of the basement.

After the apartment was fully modularized, the cockpit of the original mining machine was disassembled to form the entire second floor of the basement. Apart from the engine floor made of huge nautilus shells, the most eye-catching thing here is the "nebula" floating in the air. "——The arthropod otters are embodied in the [Data Star Sea] in the real world where Chen Yan lives.

Just like the stars that Chen Yan saw inside the first-generation mining machine representing the arthropod otters, countless illusory stars filled the entire second-floor underground space.

After Chen Yan observed for a while, he knew that the arrangement and combination of these illusory stars was regular and seemed to be scattered, but judging from the distance between them, it seemed to form a channel formed by the links of stars.

According to the previous experience of remodeling the apartment through modular prayer, Chen Yan has already obtained the authority to renovate the apartment modularly, and there is no need to use [Modular Prayer] again. (Chapter 634 or so)
He looked at this [Data Star Sea], and recalled everything he had experienced in the illusory [Data Star Sea] in the console of the first-generation mining machine.

At the beginning, the process of his modular prayer was to send a "modular prayer" to a certain location in the universe—Chen Yan guessed that it was the "host machine" of the arthropod otter group—through the [data star sea] inside the first-generation mining machine. ", and then get the program command fed back by the [host] (probably an unlocking command for some kind of modification authority), and then the modular modification process can be carried out.

'Judging from the form of the modular prayer last time, there must be a similar network among the various ethnic groups in the arthropod otter civilization, linking them together.

However, in their network, the connection method between each terminal is not understood by people—through a certain [special Internet that is not limited by physical space] in the star sea of ​​the universe, different groups of arthropod otters interact with each other. Link. '

Chen Yan thought wildly in his heart:
'The process of [modular prayer] is the process of sending program instructions to the [host] through the [arthropod otter network] that exists in the universe. '

'As for whether the [host] will feed back commands, and what kind of commands it will feed back, it is uncertain. '

'I don't know what this [host] is, but it is a logic gate program that can judge the content of prayers by itself?Or some kind of artificial intelligence? '

'Or maybe the [host] is alive—the [host] is operated and controlled by humans. '

'Judging from the historical span of the arthropod otter civilization, this [main machine] is estimated to be quite old, and it has not broken down for such a long time, which means that there have been people maintaining it. '

'Or maybe the [host] is really some kind of god-like existence, immortal... But if the [host] is a god, this god is too idle, waiting to deal with the prayer requests of believers at any time when he is idle?This kind of god is too fucking dedicated...'

Chen Yan recalled the previous prayer.

'Do I need to pray to the [host] again...'

'Last time, I made a request to [Data Nebula] [I hope my apartment can become a module that I can control], so I succeeded. '

'After I succeeded, there were two more things in the quantum clone's head, a nebula console for operating the entire apartment, and a small apartment model. By manipulating this model, I was able to modularize the apartment. ' (Chapter 634)
'My last quantum clone has been [killed] in the online world, and the Nebula console and apartment model in my head have also been shattered. '

He took out his cell phone.

'Fortunately, the app for the Nebula console has been written in the mobile phone before. ' (Chapter 635)
Chen Yanqi was glad that he didn't procrastinate at that time, and used his quantum avatar to write and complete the Nebula Console APP, and that APP is now on the second page of his mobile phone.

He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened the Nebula Console APP, and entered the target he wanted to adjust—to transform the part inside the apartment wall into a ship.

After a short delay, the APP gave the simulation results of the modification, and the data model of a ship appeared on the APP page——

The second basement floor of the apartment, where the nautilus shell engine is located, becomes the hold of the ship. Since the entire ship is structured like a steam tanker, the entire hold looks like the boiler room of an ordinary steam-driven ship. .

'If it is a ship structure similar to a steam tanker, it must have a chimney, and black smoke must be emitted when driving. '

Chen Yan entered the data of [chimney] and the condition of [black smoke while driving] in the APP, so a huge boiler was added to the bilge position on the ship's data model, and an extra huge boiler was added from the position next to the boiler. Some hints:
A certain number of tons of coal is required, as well as the calculation formula for the correlation between coal and black smoke time.

'This is too much, black smoke and burning coal?Can't simulate black smoke?This is too unlike high-tech aliens...'

Chen Yan thought for a while, and entered the condition of [simulating the generation of black smoke when the steam engine burns], so the large boiler in the bilge of the ship model disappeared, and the coal demand and related calculation formulas also disappeared.

'Hmm... It doesn't look like the modular technology is not high enough, it's just that I can't use it... The conditions I entered are not accurate. '

Chen Yan has a new understanding of APP.

He looked at the simulated ship data model again.

The basement of the apartment, where George Lebster, the prawnman, became the cargo hold for the ship.

This is not very good. It is too inappropriate to ask him to live in the warehouse just after he is recruited into the group.

Chen Yan did not modify it immediately this time, but continued to look up.

The first, second, and third floors of the ship are respectively the first, second, and third floors of the apartment. The rooms on each floor have been transformed into side-by-side cabins similar to tube buildings, and the doors have been transformed into special water release doors for seagoing ships. The porthole, where the roof was originally located, has been transformed into a huge deck. The chimney that originally led to the wilderness stands on the deck, which is more than ten meters above the hull and connects to the bottom cabin.

'It is no different from the structure of an apartment... except that the area of ​​each floor has become larger, the height has become lower, and the sides have narrowed. The entire apartment has become flat and long, forming a structure like a coal-burning ship. '

Chen Yan glanced at the raised option of "Start to change the structure", did not click, but entered the condition of "leave Yanan City and enter the ocean" within the simulation frame.

The digitized ship on the APP page quickly became smaller, and then a huge drill bit extended from the data block and appeared on the bow of the ship—that was the drill bit of the first generation general mining machine.

After the map of Yanan City appeared on the bottom of the APP page, a dotted line extended from the tip of the drill bit on the bow of the boat, from the apartment at 33 Walker Street to the sea.

Judging from the data given on the map, the route given by the APP is to enter the sea from the underground waterway. The whole process takes 10 minutes from starting to entering the sea. It avoids the potentially dangerous cave waters and opens up a new underground channel.

After Chen Yan saw this route, he had a plan in his heart.

It was almost noon and he had to do some necessary things before he set sail - like resupplying the ship - he needed to stock up on enough food and fresh water before he reached the first leg of his journey, and for that he needed to buy a few Refrigerator, or build some water tanks or cisterns in the apartment.

What makes him more depressed is that modularization cannot produce precision electrical appliances without materials. That is to say, if he wants to manufacture refrigerators, he must purchase some iron ore and some basic element compounds. It is better to just buy one The refrigerator is convenient.

Elements cannot be created out of thin air, and modularity cannot create something that does not exist out of thin air.

The existing materials in the apartment are limited, and the elements can be rearranged and combined to form a ship. The materials in the apartment have been used to the extreme, and there is no way to generate more equipment.

Chen Yan returned to the first floor, called Jack Baldo who had just returned to the apartment, and informed him of his intention to supply.

"The shops and markets outside are still closed."

Jack Baldo said.

"I just went to someone to inquire about the current situation. The shops and markets have not reopened. It's not because I'm afraid that the parade has not ended, but someone has intervened. They want to use the reopening of the shops and markets to threaten the management of the street. Those who want to get some looser rules in their favor."

Chen Yan asked:

"The superintendent of the streets? Is that the new department that the House is going to form? So soon?"

Jack Baldo nodded:
"One of my workers told me that the department just announced its establishment this morning, and it started to cause trouble. They took the "New Market Management Permission Regulations" covered with parliamentary sealant and unilaterally announced the right to take over the opening of the market."

Chen Yan scolded:

"Where the hell did the parliament get the wax? Now it's all infrared printing! The permission in the hands of this group of people is fake!"

In just a few words, Chen Yan already understood that one of the important achievements of this parade - the new supervision department promised by the House of Representatives to protect people's interests, has been usurped by some people.

(End of this chapter)