Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 882 Reincarnation without a Path (8000) ([-]-word chapter)
"What the hell are you talking about..."

Chen Yan understood part of it, but didn't fully understand it. It was just that she couldn't accept the fact that she was born with a handicap—the fact that she was living in this world as "Chen Yan, who was born with a handicap".

Osmandis lowered his head, his one-eyed absent minded stared at the table, his voice was emotionless, as if he was just talking about something that had nothing to do with Chen Yan:

"But all of this—all of what I've said, that seemingly absurd fact—has nothing to do with your life.

You are an ordinary person, what awaits you is everything that an ordinary person must experience... food, clothing, housing, transportation, joys and sorrows, birth, old age, sickness and death.

Everyone is the same.

You will live as an ordinary person in a society that you cannot change, experience everything as an ordinary person, you don’t need to take any responsibility for the changes in this world, you just need to wake up every morning and make sure you won’t be hungry, Then live every day that you can't change.

Just like you have been repeating day after day for countless days and nights.

And you have accepted and got used to this kind of life, haven't you? "

Chen Yan remained silent.

He knew the guy was right.

Osmandis seemed to know what Chen Yan was thinking at the moment, and seemed to empathize with these experiences:

"It doesn't matter what is incomplete and what is complete. We all live in the same world and work hard to make a living. Few people think about the meaning of such a life, because time waits for no one. Time waits for no one. Stopping because you're not thinking about the meaning of life...you'll never have time to think."

"No matter what you've been through in the past, life is what you've been through, and it won't change much anyway."

"Actually, it's good to live like this, isn't it?"

Chen Yan was silent for a long while, but finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart: "But I already know these things."

Osmandis looked up at Chen Yan, his tone remained unchanged: "So what if you know."

He quickly lowered his head again: "So what if you break away from the cycle."

The anger rose to six points with a bang, Chen Yan couldn't breathe, his face flushed, and he said like a cannonball:

"What you said is nothing more than understanding everything as meaningless nihilism. Nihilism ignores people's subjective emotions, which is fundamentally wrong!"

Osmandis looked at him again, and said the same words: "So what if you know."

Chen Yan took two steps forward, slapped his hands on the table, his anger soared to nine points, and he said furiously:
"If you know it, you have to change it! Find a way to do what you want to do!"

What a joke, can you change yourself?Don't you already know who I am?Are you still going to tell me these big things?
Although Osmandis thought so in his heart, when he looked up into Chen Yan's eyes, he couldn't express what was in his heart for no reason.

After looking at each other for a while, Osmandis said in a tone that Chen Yan couldn't understand his emotions:
"The rules cannot be overridden, even those who are out of the cycle cannot change. I have tried countless times, exhausted every method, and ended in failure every time."

Chen Yan's eyes flickered:

"Is that...every generation from the Ice Age to the present?"

Osmandis actually denied this answer:

"It's far more complicated than you think."

Again he didn't explain.

Chen Yan hated this habit of only half-talking, so angry in his heart, he said viciously:
"If you really think everything is so meaningless, you should kill yourself long ago!"

Osmandis frowned:
"I have something to do."

Chen Yan asked:

"what is that?"

Osmandis lowered his head and said without hesitation:
"Nothing to do with you."

Chen Yan propped his hands on the table, and his waist bent towards Osmandis almost made him put his face on the forehead of the one-eyed boy:
"Since I met you, it has something to do with me!"

Osmandis looked at him with no waves in his eyes.

Chen Yan was irritated by his deadly eyes, and his anger became very angry, and he spoke entirely by instinct:
"Since I have met you! I will take care of it!"

Osmandis hadn't been contradicted like this for a long time, and finally there was a slight tremor in his one-eyed eyes. He didn't know if it was anger or other emotions, and he said repeatedly:
"Good good..."

He took out a copy from the messy documents on the desktop, and said to Chen Yan:
"This document records an investigation report just completed by the choral group. Take a look, and you will get the fact that you can't change anything—you can't even change any of your own circumstances!"

How did Osmandis get this report?Chen Yan didn't know, and he didn't ask. Osmandis had lived long enough, and the long years must have allowed him to accumulate some unimaginable means. It might not be necessary for him to get some documents from the choir. not difficult.

Chen Yan took the document and just held it in his hand without opening it. There were many doubts in his heart that had not yet been resolved, and he could not be diverted by this document that moved his heart.

"At the end of the Ice Age, I met a demihuman, one of the thirteen people you brought out back then."

While talking, Chen Yan noticed the changes in Osmandis's face.

"He told me that you led them to the legendary place where all things reincarnate... I know it's the wilderness... He said that you led them to struggle to survive in the wilderness, but in the end you got lost in the wilderness because you wanted to save them among."

Osmandis lowered his head, Chen Yan had no synaesthesia, and he didn't know what kind of emotions Osmandis would have at this moment.

"From what he said, he lived for a long time...According to what he said, he obeyed your will and survived."

"He said that he is already the only remnant in the world of the Cyber ​​Zion generation... that is, the Glacier generation."

When saying this, Chen Yan glanced at the "former demi-human king" in front of him.

When the one-eyed boy heard "the only thing left", he denied it like a nervous reflex:

"That's not the case. At least three of those thirteen people must have become out-of-cycle people like me, because I have already found their traces in this world!"

At least three people.

Chen Yan wrote down this key figure, and then asked:

"What is there in the wilderness?"

Osmandis said:
"There are things you never want to touch. You can call those things [Desolation]. You can regard the desolation as a source of pollution. If you are damaged by that thing, you will be infected with a particularly serious desolation disease...Desolation disease is not If you are cured, you can only wait for death in the pain day after day."

Novel information... Chen Yan originally thought that the barrenness was just some ferocious strange creatures in the dark that would cause harm to the body. He never thought that the barrenness would cause more trouble.

Osmandis didn't fall into some kind of memory, he obviously didn't want to answer Chen Yan's question:
"Everything about the wilderness will be very troublesome to talk about, because the wilderness belongs to another world... You can even see it as another dimension. In that dimension, all the rules of the world you live in are invalid. The cognition established through experience of the world is completely incapable of explaining the various phenomena in the wilderness.

It's not that I don't want to explain, but even if I explain, you still can't understand... So why waste your words? "

But there are some things that must be clarified.

"I met a face in the wilderness."

Chen Yan said:

"That face is inlaid on the ground that can swallow everything in the wilderness. The surface looks like dry bark with thorns, and many cables are connected to the eyes of that face."

Chen Yan kept observing Osmandis's expression, and the pupils of [Bai Shu] faithfully recorded the changes in Osmandis's expression every frame.

"I tried to dig down and it created a hole, I jumped in and I came back."

Osmandis interrupted:

"Life is incomplete, but the world is a closed loop, so life cannot be detached anyway."

Um?What does this have to do with my previous in-place loop where that face was?
Chen Yan didn't know why, but fortunately Osmandis didn't mean to refuse to listen, so Chen Yan was able to continue:
"I was very confused at the time. Because of the confusion in my heart, I was full of fear, and because of the fear, I was angry."

Chen Yan paused here and explained:
"I always seem to get angry out of fear."

Osmandis explained:

"This is a self-defense mechanism in the human heart, and it should be a product of natural evolution."

Chen Yan immediately understood the implication of the words: Logically speaking, it should be a natural evolution, but it is actually the creation of the Creator God... Is it the creation of the Creator Evil God...

Chen Yan calmed down and said:
"I cut those cables."

[Bai Shu]'s pupils clearly caught a trace of astonishment in Osmandis' eyes.

"Cut off? Can that thing be cut off too?"

Chen Yan frowned:
"You know what those cables are connected to."

is an affirmative sentence.

Osmandis did not deny it, but said:

"I've seen that thing... for the first millennium I've been out of the loop, I've been obsessed with deciphering the truth of the world.

I have searched for the existence of that face several times in the wilderness, and have touched many people through that face—that face has linked countless people.

[Those cables come from countless individuals, and finally connect to the eyes of a person], in this strange scene, the eyes are not just an organ, but more of a [symbol]—from countless The human cable ends up in a person's [eye], which means that this person may observe every move of countless people.

There are too many symbols for [observation], maybe it symbolizes [learning], maybe it symbolizes [surveillance], maybe it symbolizes simple [watching]. "

Chen Yan's eyes shook:

"That face is watching."

I, "symbolized" by that face, was observing.

What the hell is "I" doing?
Osmandis said:
"Yes, that face...actually symbolizes the existence of [Chen Yan], who is observing.

As for the purpose of the observation, it is not known. "

The so-called "existence that symbolizes [Chen Yan]'s identity", isn't it just me?
At least in this generation, isn't it just me?

Who else but me?
Chen Yan shivered suddenly.

It can't be those counterfeit goods!

Chen Yan thought about it:
"Observing... as the wandering eye observes?"

The Eye of Youyi, the totem believed by Cyber ​​Zion, means "the eye of the gods", and what it sees is also seen by the gods.

The Eye of Youyi, also known as [Salongmeier], means [Ark of Salvation], and Chen Yan once summoned it himself.

The Wandering Eye, after the era when Cyber ​​Zion was destroyed, for some unknown reason became an "existence that looks exactly like an anglerfish" and now exists in the ruins of Cyber ​​Zion under the northern glacier, namely In the [Sangkraken Tomb], some of them were brought back by the Byron Weiss Group and stored in the aquarium of the Byron Weiss Zoo. They are called [monitors] and record everything they see in their genetic material. .

The three definitions of Wandering Eye represent three almost completely different things, the first two were born in the Cyber ​​Zian generation, while the latter was not a creation of the Cyber ​​Zion generation.

According to Osmandis, [The Eye of Youyi] is almost similar to [the face of [Chen Yan] covered with barbs in the wilderness], which is why Chen Yan asked this question.

Osmandis said in a very positive tone:
"Yes, as you can imagine, the [Wandering Eye] that has become the [Monitor] is a parody imitation of that face in the wilderness by a certain generation in the future.

That generation... I don't know which generation it was, they also touched the essence of the world when their civilization developed to a certain level.

[Wandering Eye] is a failure example of their research on the nature of the world. They tried to imitate it, but failed.

They failed because that face was not just observing and recording.

And the [Wandering Eye] they created just used tenacious vitality to observe and record mechanically.

Essentially stupid stuff. "

Osmandis's experience is enough for him to make an accurate judgment on everything, and he has full qualifications for ruthless ridicule.

"Their failures are precious, and that's proof that:

The world is observing everyone in a certain way, but the observation of the world is more than just [recording]. "

That's all?

The most cutting-edge technology of a generation, the only creation passed down to future generations, its function is only to rule out a simple wrong inference?

Chen Yan had never experienced that era, and could not have any empathy for the people of that era, so when faced with Osmandis' judgment, he felt a huge sense of emptiness in his heart.

He suddenly understood the loss of Osmandis before—a generation that once gave birth to a brilliant civilization, once possessed the power to resist the world, and even gave birth to a generation of technology that was passed down to the post-apocalyptic civilization before the end. Got it.

This kind of unknown may have been repeated countless times in front of Osmandis, and this has become the reason why he does not take everything to heart now.

Chen Yan only felt that the sense of emptiness made her heart agitated, so she frowned:

"Did you spend so long only to come to the simple conclusion [nothing can be changed]..."

Osmandis snapped his fingers:

"Yes, history is just a constant cycle over and over again. Everything is running according to the established rules of the world, and no one can change it."

Osmandis laughed, but the object of the ridicule did not seem to be Chen Yan:

"This world is far bigger than you can imagine. As far as the [Ice Age] I was in back then, there are hundreds of organizations like Cyber ​​Zion, each of which produced a different human civilization.

As far as Cyber ​​Zion is concerned, the knowledge contained in its existence time is difficult to be accepted by a person's brain. How much knowledge can be born from hundreds of such organizations?
How difficult should it be for me to find the answer from the vast sea of ​​knowledge? "

He stated the result directly:
"I looked for it, but I couldn't find it, so I gave up. The world is immutable, and the answer is as simple as that."

He looked at Chen Yan:

"You cut off the cable connected to that eye, which means you interrupted the [observation] of [the existence symbolizing the identity of Chen Yan]—at least the [observation], and there may be other processes .”

He seemed to have paused because he was too awkward, and after a brief pause, he continued:
"As for the result of the interrupted observation, I don't know."

He looked at the document in Chen Yan's hand and said:

"What's interesting is that now someone has started another investigation - someone has come into contact with the truth of the world again."

He wanted to guide Chen Yan to look at the document again.

Chen Yan touched the document in his bosom, and after a moment of patience, he finally couldn't bear to open it.

When he saw the header of the article and a picture under the header, he couldn't take his eyes off it:

"Investigation on the Identity of [Disabled Persons] in the Present World"

Above that picture was the "Chen Yan's face" that was half submerged in the wilderness.

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[Note: This is the end of this chapter]

[Note 1: There are easter eggs after the article]

[Note 2: The following is the beginning of the next chapter]

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At this moment.

Days Island, pier, on Chen Yan's boat.

After Chen Yan finished another fulfilling day, he lay on the bed, recalling what he accomplished today, and couldn't help laughing out loud:

After the logistics center suddenly delivered an email "Announcement on the Opening of the First Island Chain to Foreign Investment and Investment Promotion" to everyone's mobile phone, [Byron Weiss Group Robotic Prosthesis Customization Company] in the First Island Chain Quickly registered and laid out the store. In order to avoid market monopoly, the logistics center official injected a large amount of capital into the omnic prosthetic service company he just opened——

This capital injection was led by Klein Justus, and the investment document was personally signed by the governor of Days Island, Fernando D. Magellan. The grassroots team he built turned into a state-owned enterprise within half a day!
As for the benefits, there are too many to count, including but not limited to the logistics center official—representing the high-tech talent support plan of the empire (Chen Yan can choose the professionals he wants from the graduate registration list, and even choose from the logistics center's high-tech talent support plan. Select the high-level talents you want from the enterprises supported by the center), material support (land, logistics, raw materials, etc.), and even tax relief to a certain extent.

Although these are not free and require the company's subsequent profits as compensation, and even because of the huge investment, the logistics center has become the company's largest shareholder, but Chen Yan does not think this is a bad thing, and the deep binding of interests means greater power skewed.

Chen Yan got a lot of money, but he was still very clear-headed, and he didn't take himself too seriously, because judging from the hundreds of entrepreneurs gathered in [Ring of Domination], it is obvious that he is not the only company invested in the logistics center .

It was also within this day that almost all the big companies in the empire had completed a certain degree of contracts with the local companies in the island chain. Chen Yan even saw people wearing William Adams Group's custom-made gentleman's clothes start to enter and leave the Z area of ​​the mechanical hive, the logistics center There are obviously people serving these big capitals internally.

Today's second achievement was originally unexpected by Chen Yan - due to the opening of the island chain, the folk education system and the empire's local education system were merged, which led to the strict imperial education system regulations for the folks who grew wildly on Days Island. The training institutions were dealt a devastating blow, and within a day there was a lot of grief. I don’t know how many private vocational and technical schools were closed because of this—they couldn’t meet the standards of the imperial education system for education itself—the simplest one: the empire recognizes and awards practitioners Certificate in Educational Talent.It makes most vocational and technical schools a headache.

The vocational education school, where Mr. "Jack Baldo" was the chairman, survived the bloody purge.

This is not only because his company has been registered by law graduates through the formal company process, but also because it has provided sufficient educational qualifications when registering the company-about a dozen graduates of teacher training colleges who have registered in the empire. A copy of the practicing certificate was submitted at the time of company registration.

Chen Yan once had a question. He didn't know how those wild liar vocational schools were established, and how they openly recruited students in the mechanical hive.

This question was quickly dispelled, because after walking through the [Ring of Dominion] at the top of the mechanical hive again, he sensed all kinds of people through his synaesthesia, which made him probably want to understand that all kinds of people in this world have their own unique characteristics. Each has its own tricks, each has its own way, and no one knows who has any supernatural powers.

In any case, the result is gratifying——after the inexplicable collective death of the opponents, the students who were kicked out of the classroom halfway through learning came to hear the news, and broke through the threshold of the education company established by Mr. "Jack Baldo" .

Not to mention the profit, because the profit of the education company is more than an order of magnitude worse than that of the omnipotent prosthetic service company, but the education company is a stable and almost completely risk-free industry, and Chen Yan wants to continue this industry well ——Chen Yan wants to keep the education company running well.

Although he no longer remembers, and will never take the initiative to remember why he established such a "company" in the first place.

Today's third achievement is interesting to say the least - Chen Yan accidentally met William Master when he was invited by Klein Justus to sign the contract in the [Ring of Dominion] area Z. The atmosphere between the two was not as tense and awkward as before, and the other party even offered him a precious opportunity——

The construction of the [Moon Orbit Matrix] has reached the stage of test operation, and it is necessary to form an advance team to the moon.

Chen Yan is very interested in going to the moon, but since his two companies have not yet entered into stable operation, he can't get away for a while.

So Chen Yan asked William Master for two places, and they gave them to George Lebster and Jack Baldo respectively.

William Master didn't say anything about the shrimpman's sub-human status. Chen Yan's synaesthesia even captured a trace of "satisfaction" from William Master, which shows that the director wants to let the harbinger who goes to the moon The team possesses some "species diversity".

After talking about things in the [Ring of Dominion], I sat down with a group of entrepreneurs who are well-known on the Internet in the large conference room of the logistics center and had a meeting. In the blink of an eye, it was this afternoon.

After returning to the Omnic Prosthesis Service Company, Chen Yan heard more news from Ah Wei and Wu Ya that was enough to cause a sensation among the people:

The William Adams Group spent a huge amount of money to acquire most of the primary industries in the mechanical hive. From now on, the prices of raw materials consumed by the secondary and tertiary industries may not be as cheap as before;

The price of the island chain has been rapidly lowered due to the entry of local enterprises in the empire. The first island chain has no scissors advantage over the mainland of the empire, and the good days when the hourly salary is tens of pennies higher are gone forever;
In addition to the behemoth William Adams Group, there are several large-scale companies in the empire that have invested in the first island chain. All walks of life—especially the large proportion of Days Island, with small workshops and small companies The main handicraft industry - suffered a devastating blow from the developed light industry of the empire. From now on, everyone will no longer be able to drink hand-made hot and spicy soup in the morning, but will have to drink instant hot and spicy soup in plastic packaging!

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At the same time, the legal system of the first island chain has finally merged with the imperial legal system, which means that everything will be sanctioned by real laws—subjectively conducted in the logistics center [Ring of Dominion]. hard work.

The era of the barbaric growth of all things on the first island chain is gone forever.

The island chain is open when it says it is open, and the competition caused by the influx of big capital that follows requires Chen Yan to be vigilant, but there is no need to worry too much. The entry of big capital is both a crisis and an opportunity. What he has to do is Look for more opportunities to develop yourself in this chaotic era-at least have your own seat in the future when human beings march to the stars.

He was immersed in imagining the future, let exhaustion attack his brain, and fell asleep in the tidal exhaustion.

……

In the dimness, Chen Yan had a dream.

He dreamed that he was back on the ferry to the empire. He was very anxious because of the fact that he had submitted his resume and had no reply. He lost a lot of hair. Fortunately, there was a cat in his arms that would lick him when he was anxious. A lick of his chin made him realize that life is not all about finding a job.

By the way, is that cat a white cat or a tabby?

Chen Yan subconsciously ignored this question, and moved his eyes away from the cat in a blur.

He could only feel the warmth from the cat, and no longer wondered whether the cat was a white cat or a tabby.

Finally, the day before the ferry landed in Yanan City, he received two employment letters!
One of them came from the "Byron Weiss Zoo" in Yanan City. The position is a breeder in the tiger area. There is nothing special about it. Although it is a high-risk job dealing with large beasts, the salary is quite average, and the daily salary during the internship period is even [-]. Ordinary workers are tall.

The other letter came from "Stavor Heavy Industry" located in the imperial capital. The position was an intern fitter, not to mention nothing special. To put it bluntly, it was a labor dispatch contract signed with an intermediary company. To put it bluntly, it was a cheap hard labor.

Chen Yan thought and thought, and finally decided that there would be better development in the more prosperous imperial city, so after landing in the imperial capital, he quickly bought a train ticket to the imperial capital from the scalper at the pier.

Huang Niu is an old man who is very interesting. His face looks like a southerner from Tianshen Prefecture, and he has a very amiable smile. He also recommended the real estate in Yanan City to Chen Yan, but Chen Yan refused with embarrassment.

Half a month later, Chen Yan arrived at the Imperial Capital and joined the Stavo Heavy Industry Group at Street 18711, High-tech Zone, Imperial Capital.

It was two months of darkness after entering.

Chen Yan has been here for two months, and screwed for two full months. Not only did his eyes become dizzy, but he also got flat feet due to too much walking every day.

He didn't earn much money, and fell ill first. Chen Yan doubted his life day and night, and also questioned his decision to choose this job in the first place——

It is true that the imperial capital is prosperous, but he can only drive screws in the imperial capital.

The emperor does not belong to him, and he does not belong to the imperial capital.

If it wasn't for what happened later, Chen Yan might have resigned.

On an ordinary afternoon, Chen Yan was suddenly notified to be transferred from the original department to a new department with a daily salary of up to 1 shilling.

In a daze, after signing a non-disclosure agreement foolishly, he followed the large army of workers into an aircraft that looked like a spaceship—Chen Yan later found out that it was an imperial version of a spaceship ——After tensely waiting for several hours, a severe feeling of overweight struck.

Chen Yan knew that he had gone to heaven.

The workers who did not have any aerospace training vomited all kinds of meat and vegetables, and the whole cabin was full of joy.

A day later, the spacecraft reached the end point - the new sector was built on one of the moon's planetary rings.

Looking at the vast starry sky, Chen Yan thought that he was about to reach the pinnacle of his life.

Unexpectedly, he just screwed in a different place - the construction of the starry sky colony is in full swing, Chen Yan is screwing in this building today, and screwing in that equipment tomorrow, non-stop all day long.

Two months later, when the construction of the first phase of the star colony was completed, the colony ushered in the inspection of a big man.

Legend has it that the big man was named William Master, not only a high-ranking empire, but also a pure-blood nobleman with noble blood, and a real business executive of a hostile company.

More importantly, the other party is also the director of Byron Weiss Zoo.

At this moment, Chen Yan had some doubts about his life. If he had chosen to enter the Byron Weiss Zoo, would he have been closer to this legendary big man?

He quickly recovered from the fantasy.

Here is a lifetime of screwing, and there is probably a lifetime of shoveling shit.

　PS: [Note 1] It seems that only one reader has seen this for a long time. I feel that this kind of foreshadowing is not a foreshadowing... It is an easter egg. If you continue to bury it, you will be smothered to death, so I explain here:
　　The name Osmandis, from Shelley's sonnet:

　　"I met a traveler from an ancient land,

　　He said: There are a pair of huge stone feet, no body,
　　Standing in the desert...the yellow sand is half exposed
　　A broken and mutilated face, its brows furrowed,

　　The lips are wrinkled, commanding all directions, and contemptuous of everything.

　　It shows that the sculptor once felt deeply about this kind of passion,

　　They, by leaving marks on this inanimate body,

　　Than the heart that conceived them, the hand that forged them,

　　Both live longer and longer: on pedestals and under stone feet,

　　There is a faintly readable inscription: "King of kings—

　　Osmandis is I, look at my deeds,

　　Even if he is the hero of his life, he will definitely be depressed and despairing! "

　　Around the wreck, nothing else remained,
　　Lonely and desolate, the boundless flat sand stretches into the distance. "

　　------

　　The name, plot and related characters are all based on this sonnet.

　　It's just an easter egg that has nothing to do with the main plot.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)