Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 868 Mortal ([-])

After finishing everything, it was early morning.

When Chen Yan returned to the boat, he thought he would sleep soundly after a fulfilling day.

He was wrong, outrageously wrong, and the nightmare once again occupied his brain arbitrarily, this time it was the same strange dream as last time... This kind of dream is more like some kind of parallel world that only exists in fantasy.

In this strange dream, he did not follow his father's arrangement to study in the coast, nor did he go to the empire after finishing his studies, but stayed in Baihuyuan.

The flames of war quickly raged, and Baihuyuan became a purgatory. The Chen family gave up their fields and ancestral house, and hid in the deep mountains, but the deep mountains were not a good place. They had to build a wooden house by themselves, relying on an "Old Black Gail" single-shot pistol hidden by their father, hunting wild animals in the mountains, and lived a life of almost vellus hair drinking blood.

A year later, a distant cousin went to the mountains to collect medicine, and by chance, he met the old man, and told the old man that the flames of war had already passed, and a new military marshal had arrived in the county. , is a foreigner with blond hair and blue eyes. Foreigners do not collect food, as long as the villagers plant black fruits.

One-third of an acre of land can pay enough black fruit for a whole year. The villagers who survived the war are only responsible for planting and harvesting the black fruit. Marshal Wu is different. Marshal Wu, who is a foreign soldier, is paid for the black fruit, which is weighed by the catty.

Only a year has passed since the war, and the surviving villagers all lived a good life relying on the wages given by the recruit Marshal Wu.

When the Chen family left the mountain, they found that the old house had collapsed. They built a new house on the ruins of the old house, and at the same time pleaded for the wasteland allocated by the village to plant seeds that could bear black fruits.

A few years have passed, and the villagers have become rich. They can change into the clothes of the four seasons a year, and they can eat three full meals a day.

Big chimneys are built in the countryside, schools are free, cement roads are paved to the villages, railways are connected to the villages, and the train station is only 10 minutes away from home. People's food and clothing are replaced by cheap and useful industries The products are full, but no one thinks it's wrong, everyone's life is better, and the foreigners who came to the village to open the show have made money, a win-win situation.

Everything seems to be getting better.

Heiguo is a delicate thing, and if you want to grow it with good appearance, you need to take good care of it. Watering, weeding and pest control is not sloppy. In dry weather, you need to water more, and when there is more rain, you need to put it in a greenhouse. The fruit needs direct sunlight, so the villagers dare not use a greenhouse to cover the field all the time.

On this day, while Chen Yan was weeding in the field, a crappy voice suddenly came from the edge of the field in front of him:

"My fellow, how is the harvest this year?"

When Chen Yan looked up, he saw that the person who spoke the crappy Tian Shenzhou dialect was actually Klein Justus, who was wearing a traditional Tian Shenzhou rich man's satin and cotton clothes.

Why is Klein here?

Chen Yan subconsciously thought so, but it was just that. He was confused in his dream, so he didn't think about what he was facing now.

He nodded and bowed, with a flattering attitude:

"Returning to my lord, the weather will be good this year, and the harvest must be good."

Klein Justus nodded and left satisfied. Chen Yan looked at his back and listened to the familiar Imperial language. He probably heard him saying to the accompanying foreigners, "This year's production value must reach... ...", "The higher-ups will be very happy...", "We can also go further..." Such words.

He only heard a few words vaguely, but they were not clear, and he couldn't understand the complete imperial language sentences. His memory far enough away was no longer enough for him to understand those complicated inverted sentences.

When Klein Justes was gone, he crouched down and started weeding again.

Two years later, the road leading to the county town was built in the village. He was too old to marry a wife, so his father spent a lot of money on matchmaking, and finally arranged a marriage for him in the next county town.

Chen Yan hadn't even seen the girl's face, so he paid his respects in a daze, and got married. It wasn't until the wedding night, when he lifted the red hijab, that he felt that the marriage was right.

Although the girl is not very beautiful, she is very kind to him, and she is extremely dexterous. She can cook five flavors of rice in one pot, and everyone will praise her when she sees her.

Girls like to wear fairy-like white clothes. Although Chen Yan doesn't know what's going on, he still buys them for her.

In the next two years, Chen Yan lived an ordinary life like all peasants. He went to work in the fields when the farming was busy, and wrote some small books when the farming was slack, and asked his cousin in the county to help print them out, and sold some copper coins to subsidize the family. .

Two years later, their child was born.

After having a child, life suddenly started to speed up. After a few months of frenzy, everything was back on track. Apart from work, Chen Yan was taking care of the child. He was busy all day long, but in reality I didn't bother to come up with something famous.

The days that are too ordinary remind him every day that he is just an ordinary person, using an ordinary life to experience an ordinary life that ordinary people experience, such an ordinary life has never changed under the sun.

So ten years have passed.

The children have grown up, and the village has changed a lot compared with ten years ago. Every family built a western-style house, and a civil airport was built in the wilderness not far from the county seat. Heiguozi was banned a few years ago. Afterwards, Chen Yan began to work in the civil airport, mainly doing some manual work of moving goods. The wages were not bad, and besides supporting his family, he had a surplus.

The child went to school in a distant place, and Chen Yan discussed with his wife, otherwise the child would not be allowed to come back. There is no industry in his hometown, and there are more opportunities in big cities.

In the next few years, the child has been going to school outside, and then went out to sea, and never came back. He only heard the news on the phone, and only received a large gift package from the child during the holidays. A large number of postcards let Chen Yan and his wife know the life of their children over the years.

It is also very difficult outside, and children are also living a life that ordinary people must go through—admitted, studied, graduated, unemployed, found a job, found a girlfriend, unemployed again, and found a job again... …

Later, with a smart phone, Chen Yan quickly learned it, but it is not very useful, because the child is often busy, has to work overtime, catch up with the schedule, study in his spare time, and have to do research... Life is like a computer that is stopped. A millstone that does not come down, even if you want to stop, inertia will take you forward.

Chen Yan and his wife live an ordinary life together that is not particularly hard, and as they grow old, they can be regarded as close friends.

One day, after his hair turned gray, Chen Yan fell ill. He was lying on the bed with a high fever burning in his head. In his trance, he heard his wife tell him that she was not a human, but a monster, and a snake. demon.

He touched her face with a dizzy smile and said she was talking nonsense.

She rubbed his hand and said that she lived hundreds of years longer than him, and the reason why she spent her whole life with him and gave birth to him was to repay his kindness.

Now she is leaving, taking away all the disasters of his life. She told him that according to his original condition, this serious illness would take his life away, but she pity him, and she will take away the incurable disease together with him. Take it with you.

When Chen Yan woke up, the high fever had subsided.

The wife has also disappeared.

Chen Yan felt sad, he thought about suicide, but he didn't have the guts to hold a knife, he was as cowardly as every ordinary person.

A few months later, he packed his luggage, went to burn incense on his parents' graves, contacted the child, and went out to sea. After a long sea journey, he came to the city where the child was.

The child welcomed him warmly. The daughter-in-law is a beautiful woman with black hair and blue eyes. She can't understand Tianshenzhou dialect very well. If she wants to communicate, she has to talk and gesture.

The city where the child lives has six months of winter a year, but Chen Yan's body has become very good after that serious illness, so he will not be hit by the cold.

He planted a vegetable garden behind his child's yard to offset the pressure of life brought about by high vegetable prices. After having a grandson, he helped take care of his grandson, changed diapers and played with him a few years ago, and then took his grandson to school and read books with him. Teach your grandson to speak the Chinese language of Tianshen.

Many years later, the grandson had a child, and the grandson happily put the child in Chen Yan's arms. Chen Yan hugged the great-grandson, looked into the eyes of the great-grandson, and felt that the world was so wonderful.

He touched the great-grandson's forehead, and the great-grandson smiled at him.

A few years later, on a cold night, Chen Yan was wearing a quilt, sitting by the burning fireplace, and saw his wife in a trance.

She is still so pretty.

She kissed his cheek and put her hand in his chest, holding his heart.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the next journey."

At the moment when there was darkness in front of him, Chen Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

"Grass!"

He looked blankly at the silver-gray ceiling of the cabin, breathed in the icy cold air with the smell of the sea, then suddenly took out the mobile phone from under the pillow, looked at the time and date displayed on the mobile phone, and gradually relaxed his tense body.

'It's just a dream...just a dream...'

He sat up and felt that the quilt was soaked with sweat, so he tore off the quilt, put on his pajamas and went to the bathroom, and stuffed the quilt into the front-loading washing machine.

As the washing machine was turned on, Chen Yan leaned on the washing machine with empty eyes, still not recovering from that unbelievably real dream.

'Is it really just a dream...'

Chen Yan didn't know.

'Perhaps... I should try Miao Shuisheng's [Lucid Dreaming]?If you master lucid dreaming, you will be able to explore in the dream world in a waking state...'

Chen Yan hesitated for a long time, shivered solidly, and gave up this idea.

'Why bother yourself?It's just a nightmare... a nightmare for no reason. '

He leaned against the washing machine, felt the vibration from the washing machine, and slowly calmed down.

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At this moment, the mechanical hive, Area A, Awei's home.

A Wei was lying on the bed, listening to Tang Ya's heavy breathing beside him, unable to fall asleep no matter what.

She is very tired now, not only because of the imminent labor, but also because of his hand - she realized what happened the moment she saw his right hand, but she didn't say anything, just made him a meal, carefully soothed his emotions.

He couldn't lift his head, just hugged her gently, ate the food she cooked, and reported to her the progress of the medical treatment of his hand-the whole course of treatment has ended, and the operation went smoothly, his The body fully accepts the chip, and the omnic prosthetic hand can do much more than his original flesh and blood right hand. He can even regard it as a weapon to resist bullets.

She quietly listened to him finish everything, and then smiled in return - Tang Ya would always find a way to understand him and accept his actions, even though these actions sometimes seemed inappropriate to her.

He has always known this.

He didn't think he deserved such treatment from her.

He thought he was sorry for her, because the moment he sensed the crisis before, his first thought was to leave by boat.

Guilty overwhelmed him in the middle of the night under the ferment of unreality in his right hand, and the fear of the future followed——Chen Yan spent a lot of money to connect his limbs, so there must be more pictures, and he saw Su Su with his own eyes. The fate of the Kabritan gang and the sudden killing can still clearly appear in front of him until now.

The blood that suddenly exploded in front of him brought unspeakable fear. Even after dreaming back at midnight, the fear still circulated in his heart, like maggots that ate bone.

He knew that he was tied to Chen Yan's warship, and he couldn't escape no matter what.

He turned his head to look at his sleeping wife, and looked at her difficulty sleeping due to the approaching childbirth - Tang Ya could no longer find a sleeping position that would allow her to spend the night peacefully for even two hours.

According to the practice of the aboriginals on the island, she made a belly support belt for herself, which relieved part of her pressure, but that was all. The thriving fetus was absorbing nutrients from her body every moment and returning them. Put pressure on her.

He felt he had to figure out a way.

Think of a way to let Tang Ya and her children live a better life.

Awei slowly and carefully sat up from the bed, quietly went outside the house, squatted at the door, and lit a cigarette.

He has been bound by Chen Yan now, and with Chen Yan's means, as long as he is still needed, he will not be able to escape no matter what.

His sales work can only continue, which means that he will be exposed to more dangers. He may need to borrow some power from Chen Yan, or he may need to let Chen Yan know how strict the gangs are in their respective places. , how difficult it is to infiltrate, so that Chen Yan might give him a helping hand... Even if Chen Yan would regard this action as incompetent, for his own safety, there is nothing he can do.

While smoking a cigarette, he looked at the right hand of the omnic that was just holding the cigarette holder, lowered his head, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind until the first ray of dawn spilled into the residential area of ​​Area A through the gap of Sunset Boulevard, until Tang Ya's faint panting came from the room.

He felt something was wrong.

When he rushed into the room, a faint fishy smell came over his face, and he saw Tang Ya lying sideways on the bed with her legs curled up, her face full of pain, and her eyes full of pleading towards him.

With a "boom" in his head, he realized the current situation——

Tang Ya is going to give birth prematurely!

(End of this chapter)