Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Thomas Gilbert goes on to explain:

"Second, starting from today, you must remember to carry a gun when you go out.

Third, don't fall into the sea, or I won't be able to get you back.

Fourth, this evening, after dealing with Michael Jr., come to Block D-2 and call me. "

Jack Gilbert excitedly said:
"Are you going to expand your business?"

Thomas Gilbert nodded, pulled out the drawer and took out a bottle of rum and two wide-mouthed glasses, poured out the wine, and handed the glass containing the light golden rum to his brother.

After Jack Gilbert took the glass, Thomas Gilbert raised it:
"Everything is at the behest of the Razor Party."

The two clinked glasses and drank it all in one go.

……

……

At this moment.

Wish stood at the bottom of the sewer in area A of the mechanical hive, staring blankly at the huge voids on the left and right, and couldn't figure out where he was for a while.

She was originally looking for the driving engine of the mechanical hive, but when she followed the clues contained in the world memory fragments from all corners to find it——when she drilled into a picture in a certain world memory fragment, she came to When I got here, I found that it was not a driving engine, but a place very similar to a sewer——

The dark void in front of him presents an obvious spiral structure. The cylindrical wall is covered with dense barnacles and various seaweeds that cannot be named. The void is full of thick ammonia gas, which is not Not from domestic waste, but from some kind of slime-stained inorganic matter.

Fortunately, wishes can fly without having to come into contact with these things.

Wish examined the inorganic matter and found a large number of broken snail shells and some contaminated and mutated barnacles.

'This kind of thing...should be the product of some kind of incomplete digestion. '

'Slime should be something similar to digestive enzymes, but stronger than digestive enzymes, it can corrode metals that are not too hard. '

She raised her head suddenly, looked at the dark void, and shuddered.

'damn it!Is there some kind of unknown monster here? !A monster that mutates like a mermaid in the sewers? '

A foul-smelling wind regularly blows from the other end of the spiral cavity, but fortunately, Wish can control his perception so that he won't smell the stench.

'I'm afraid of a hammer!I am invisible! '

The wish comforts itself and automatically filters out the fact that "certain supernatural beings have the ability to cause harm to spirit bodies".

On the other hand, Wish found that not only could he not find the way to continue down, he could not even find the way to go back.

But she was not discouraged, on the contrary a little excited.

'I know that there are ghosts in the innermost part of the mechanical hive!There must be some kind of device to shield the extraordinary power here!Just... just...'

She looked at the huge circular wall inside the sewer cavity.

'right here! '

She put her hands on the wall, but she couldn't feel what was on the other side of the wall.

'Hmm...blocked me...how did it work? '

After thinking for a long time, she finally mustered up the courage and slammed her head against the wall.

"boom!"

She slammed into the wall firmly, feeling dizzy all over.

'Oh shit! '

She gritted her teeth, but there was nothing she could do.

'Look again...'

She went all the way along the spiral downward sewer, walked down for an unknown amount of time, and finally saw a maintenance valve.

The maintenance valve is set up to deal with emergencies, and it is opened from the inside out, and the wish side is "outside", so the maintenance valve cannot be opened by normal means.

'Since it is a setting to shield extraordinary power, then this valve should be the same. '

She tried to touch the maintenance valve, but she couldn't get her palm through.

She stared fiercely at the valve, then suddenly squatted down at the maintenance valve, and said to the valve:
"Fortunate people, guess what is floating in the sewer beside you is a gold wrench or a silver wrench?"

Strange sound waves that do not carry supernatural power penetrate the maintenance valve and reach it directly.

She kept repeating this sentence, and after a full three hours, footsteps finally came from behind the maintenance valve.

The next moment, the air pressure valve leaked from inside the valve, and the valve was opened immediately.

A maintenance worker in a yellow protective suit appeared behind the door. He looked into the dark sewer with a searchlight, but saw nothing.

"It's an evil door..."

He recalled the sound he just heard, and his whole body was terrified. He hurriedly retreated into the maintenance valve and repressurized the valve.

At this moment, the wish has entered the [bottom engine] of the entire mechanical hive.

There are two mechanical plank roads extending to the left and right in front of you. The surface of the mechanical plank road is hollow, so Wish can easily see the upper and lower areas through the surface of the plank road——

About 5 meters above and below the mechanical plank road, there are exactly the same mechanical plank roads.

'The mechanical walkway around the bottom engine is a helical structure. '

Wish thought, this is the same as the external structure of the engine at the bottom of the mechanical honeycomb. The entire bottom of the mechanical honeycomb can be regarded as a cone with a downward tip and a large bottom area. The mechanical plank road she sees now is this cone. body's internal structure.

'The entire bottom engine, from the outside to the inside, the first floor is the sewer, the second floor is the mechanical plank, so the third floor should be able to reach the core of the bottom engine? '

Wish probably knows that the mechanical honeycomb uses some kind of [power transformation technology], which can use the power generated by the water flow to make the mechanical honeycomb suspend above the sea water, and she can probably guess that this technology comes from a foreign god—the same point She came here to confirm the identity of the Outer God who had a certain technology tree.

But she is no longer the spirit of the universe, the punishment of [World] made her unable to continue to observe the world through the perspective of [World], but the instinct of being the spirit of the universe is still there, and she still instinctively and tirelessly explores this world. The world, exploring the unknown and taking it as the greatest pleasure in life...or fun.

She looked at the workers who appeared on the mechanical plank road from time to time, inspecting the meter box or maintaining the plank road. After confirming that they were ordinary mortals, she thought deeply:
"The maintenance worker just now, including the current maintenance worker, is a normal maintenance personnel. It can be seen that the technology of the core engine of the mechanical honeycomb can be mastered by ordinary people at the very least-this means that the technology tree pointed out by the evil god and the human beings in this world The tech tree is not much different. '

'Is this evil god a refined data life? '

She walked on the mechanical plank road, recalling what she saw in the sewer, she thought to herself:

'Actually, the place I just walked by is not a sewer, because there is no domestic garbage there, and all that can be found there are digested seafood residues... But if it is not a sewer, what is it for? '

She suddenly thought of a possibility, and then her mind was shocked.

"That place, wouldn't it be used to raise barnacle-eating monsters..."

'It's crazy, why have I never seen such a monster? '

She walked towards the centripetal direction along the mechanical plank road, and after walking a certain distance, she saw a door with the sticker "Only for maintenance personnel".

She opened the unlocked door, and a [Universal Passage] appeared in front of her eyes—very similar to the passages she had seen in the upper area of ​​the mechanical hive before. There were many [doors] on both sides of this passage, and each door had a sticker The department leading to the passage behind this door——

"Energy Supply Cabin", "Tide Observation Room", "Sonar Control Room", "Suspended Core", "Ocean Current Docking Channel"...

There are about a dozen departments, and the wish list cannot judge the exact functions of these departments from the names of these departments.

She simply checked one by one:
She entered the "Energy Supply Cabin" first, and found that this was the "sewer" she had just been to.

'The fish, shrimps, crabs, and barnacles that died in the energy supply cabin are the energy to be supplied, which is biological energy...Could it be that they are raising extraordinary creatures that serve as [batteries], and then use these extraordinary creatures to provide the power of the mechanical hive? Suspension power? '

Wishes cannot be determined.

She returned to the [Universal Passage] and entered the "Tide Observer".

This department is very much like some kind of laboratory, but there are not as many experimental instruments as in ordinary laboratories. In the center of the spacious hall is a holographic projection of Days Island and the surrounding sea areas. Marked on the holographic projection, those data are constantly changing as the waves fluctuate.

The experimenters wearing electrostatic isolation suits observed, recorded and calculated the data around the holographic projection. Wish stood behind the experimenters and watched for a long time, but did not understand what they were calculating.

'Why care about tides?
Is it to judge the state of the moon by the tide?

From this point of view, this "Extra-period Observer" laboratory is actually the infrastructure of the mechanical hive high-level [Moon Orbit Matrix]. '

She returned to [Universal Channel] and entered the "Sonar Control Room".

There is no holographic projection like before, but only one console and the three-dimensional line graph on the console.

Fortunately, there are detailed markings on the three-dimensional line graph, and Wish can easily see clearly. The marked data is the change of sound waves emitted by the sonar pulse system.

Judging from the three-dimensional line diagram and the engineering tasks marked next to it, the sonar of the mechanical honeycomb core engine will emit a sound wave at 12 noon every day, attracting the surrounding fish to approach.

'Sure enough, something is being raised. '

She returned to the [Universal Channel] and entered the "Ocean Current Connection Channel".

The look and feel of this department is completely different from before. 70.00% of the huge space is covered with glass. Outside the glass is the dark waters. People standing in front of this huge integrated glass are like tiny ants.

At this time, the water outside the glass was pitch black, making it impossible to see clearly, but the glass showed a simulated image of fluorescent ocean currents.

'The ocean current is clearly next to Days Island, how could it be under Days Island...the ocean current docking channel...they didn't guide part of the ocean current into the bottom of Days Island, did they? ! '

Wish can only think of this possibility.

'No wonder... No wonder the uncontrolled discharge of domestic sewage and waste from the entire mechanical hive has not yet caused ecological collapse!It turned out that it was taken away by ocean currents! '

Wish realized that outside the huge glass in front of her, the seemingly empty dark waters were actually the "Ocean Current Connection Channel" bound by some kind of force. On the one hand, part of the ocean current was introduced into the bottom of the mechanical hive to clean up domestic garbage On the other hand, these ocean currents containing domestic garbage are exported and re-enter the main body of ocean currents.

'Good guy!No wonder the waters under the mechanical hive haven't bred deformed monsters until now. It turns out that because there is such a passage, the ecological environment has not been particularly severely damaged! '

She returned to [Universal Passage] and entered "Suspended Core".

This time, she didn't enter a certain cabin immediately, but stepped onto a mechanical path with a slightly smaller arc than the outside.

She spiraled upward along the mechanical plank road, the road in front of her was getting more and more rusty, and it seemed that seawater often passed through here.

It is also because of the passage of sea water that this small mechanical plank road is covered with barnacles. I don't know what kind of barnacles it is, but it looks like a green eye.

When Wish was walking on the mechanical plank road, it felt like countless green eyes were staring at her.

This feeling is terrible. If ordinary transcendents come here, the loss of control will accumulate quickly.

Eventually, she came to a door already covered in barnacles.

She grabs the doorknob and pulls hard—

"Zi! Papa papa..."

The sound of the rusted locomotive turning and the sound of barnacles falling to the ground sounded together. Wishing to step into the door, he saw a bottomless pool inside the door.

She looked at the pool in surprise, lying on the seemingly stable mechanical plank around the pool, looking down, but couldn't see anything.

'It's not that I can't see it, but there's really nothing in it! '

At this moment, part of the memory of being the spirit of the universe has been revived.

'wrong!The problem is the water...it's no ordinary water! '

Wish remembered that she had seen a special liquid in a certain large area of ​​the universe. That liquid had properties similar to amniotic fluid, and at the same time possessed a certain ability similar to [space conductor]—this liquid could It exists in different spaces, and is loved by a certain life form transliterated as [Canduo].

[Canduo] is obsessed with this liquid, and has evolved together with this liquid in the long years - [Canduo] has the ability to control the liquid as a [space conductor], and the liquid has become the habitat of [Canduo] As long as there is a liquid in the homeland, there must be a group of Canduo.

Facing the pool water, Wish took a deep breath and shouted:

"Ahhhhhhhh..."

Her voice was not reflected and diffused by the hollow mechanical wall, but was absorbed by the pool water and gradually diffused in the pool water.

The wish continued to call [Canduo], until about 3 minutes later, a shadow under the pool gradually changed from light to thick.

【Canduo】It's about to appear!