Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 897 [Xunkuang elements]

'Although I don't know what this so-called [materialistic weapon] is used for, but it's better than nothing...'

When this thought came to his mind, he suddenly felt something was wrong. When he looked up, the faceless [Xun Kuang] was standing in front of him, his face without facial features was facing the bronze sword.

'This……'

Before Chen Yan could react at all, a slit suddenly opened in the center of [Xun Kuang]'s white face, and the slit gradually became wider until the wrist was thick and thin.

There was an irregular dark blue light in the gap, like... signal lights.

Chen Yan looked carefully at the gap, then at the bronze sword in his hand, and suddenly realized:
'This thing...could it be...a USB flash drive? '

He took two steps forward, raised the bronze sword, and easily caught the blade in the crack on [Xun Kuang]'s face.

Strictly fit!

'Is this called a materialistic weapon?
This thing is really not called a USB flash drive? '

Chen Yan didn't know what was going on with this thing at all. He saw data floating points with a dark blue halo appearing on the bronze sword, spreading along the blade to [Xun Kuang]'s face, forming a circle on his face. A strange mask that looks like some kind of toy maze.

A little light on the mask lit up, spreading from the periphery of the mask to the center of the mask like dominoes, until the USB flash drive slot was fully lit, [Xun Kuang]'s body disintegrated bit by bit, and in front of him became a body less dense than air. of the fluid—

I don't know whether it was liquefied or vaporized [Xun Kuang] floating in front of him, spread out like milk spilled on the waxed alder tabletop, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a screen... like a water curtain.

The reason why Chen Yan knew it was a screen was because a picture was displayed on the screen.

A big face appeared in the picture. There was not much hair on the forehead of the big face. Because the screen was too big, the aquiline nose was very conspicuous.

Chen Yan was shocked for a long time before he had the concept of the picture of this person displayed on the screen in his head - this person was obviously a Luke native of the empire, he looked like he was in his 50s, his hair was gray and thin, and the center of his head The Mediterranean Sea is even more eye-catching than the hooked nose in the center of the display.

This person was wearing a khaki sweater. Seeing that the neckline of the sweater had already had numerous pimples, and the black-rimmed glasses on his big eyes had faded, he looked extremely shabby.

His background seems to be much older than his. The fireplace originally made of reddish-brown square bricks has been completely covered with a layer of soot that needs to be broken with a chisel. The reason why Chen Yan can still see that the fireplace is red It is brown because a part of the fireplace is not covered with soot, but just a layer of dust.

This person occupies most of the entire display screen, and the lower right corner of the display screen is occupied by a bowl—a bowl with a hole on one side, which looks like it is only used by beggars. There is also a tattered iron bowl with a little yellow paint.

A clean spoon leaned against the rusted wall of the bowl, and there was even some mushy residue on the wall of the bowl.

'This is [Xun Kuang] ah!

This is too shabby! '

It's completely different from the super hacker Chen Yan imagined, who can get tens of thousands of pounds into his account with just a flick of a finger!

Chen Yan immediately noticed the expression on the old bald man's face——

It was a kind of distorted expression that was trying to restrain the excitement, and because of it, his face was flushed, and he couldn't express the inner burst of emotion for a while!

"I have been waiting here for a long time."

The old bald man opened his mouth to speak, obviously still restraining his emotions.

Chen Yan didn't respond, because he knew that this person appeared in a concrete form in front of him because the quantum avatar was a data life, and the vision of a data life in the online world was concrete.

But people in the real world can't see the concrete online world, so what this person sees him should be just a string of jumping strings displayed on a certain screen.

Chen Yan looked at the bronze sword that had "integrated" into the fluid screen in front of him, and realized that he had activated something extraordinary, so he was very cautious in his heart, not wanting to reveal his identity because of any actions or words that did not match his "identity" .

After an extremely long wait (a few seconds) for the life of the data, he realized that if he didn't respond, he was missing a great opportunity.

'Forget it, just ask, the other party doesn't seem to be difficult to communicate...and I'm just a string now-the quantum avatar has no identity and will not reveal the identity of the main body. '

He simply asked casually:
"What is [Xun Kuang]?"

Unexpectedly, there was a frenzy on the face of the other party, he stepped back, stretched out his hand and clenched his fist on his chest, and shouted in a low voice:

"It is the blade of salvation that saves mankind from danger!"

This……

This guy won't be the kind of old baby who has not yet adapted to the Internet age, is dazzled by the large amount of information on the Internet, and thus suffers from the second disease of angry youth...

Chen Yan soon realized that the other party probably regarded his question as a test, so he couldn't wait to express it.

Chen Yan thought of the bronze sword integrated into the screen again, looked at the frenzied expression on the old bald man's face, thought deeply, and asked:

"Who are you."

Although the old bald man looks poorly dressed, but when he speaks seriously, he has a chilling feeling:
"Dean of the School of Information Technology, Imperial National University, thirteenth-level professor of academic certification, chief engineer of the first Starlink Network Maintenance Department of Stavor Heavy Industry, Lloyd I. Damocles Knightford."

Due to his ignorance, Chen Yan didn't seem very shocked, but felt as if he was very powerful, and immediately thought:
This Laoyer... is he the chief engineer of Stavor Heavy Industries?Then why are you still killing people at the military base of Stavor Heavy Industries?
Chen Yan didn't know the other party's motive for cheating him, but that didn't mean the other party wouldn't cheat him.

Fortunately, the other party had no doubts about what Chen Yan said—the program characters displayed on the screen by Chen Yan's words, so Chen Yan thought that he could get sufficient information from the other party.

"How did you come into contact with [Xun Kuang]?"

Regarding this question, the other party still had no doubts, and said slowly:

"Under a very coincidental circumstance."

There is reminiscence in his eyes:

"At that time, I was invited by the Imperial Enterprise Qualification Management Association to visit the experimental department of the Byron Weiss Group, and found a hijacked [Meteor] in a room.

That is a data stream that does not belong to this world... More precisely, it is a dormant stream of consciousness captured by the satellite of the Byron Weiss Group outside the planet by a very accidental opportunity.

They hijacked it while it was still in a dormant state, and traced some of its program instructions to the source, thus mastering a small part of its unique program instructions.

That is a very advanced thing, so advanced that this world will not be able to catch up in another ten thousand years. "

Judging by the meaning of these words, the hijacked meteor... that data flow that does not belong to this world is probably Baishu.

Because Bai Shu once clearly said that he is just a passer-by in this world.

Not sure though.

The Byron Weiss Group itself is a company that studies the extraordinary world, and it is within the expected range to get any weird things.

The old bald man...Professor Lawyer, still in a very excited state, continued to tell:

“[Meteor] is a stream of data that does not exist in this world. It is obviously based on the data that can only exist on silicon-based chips, but it flows in this world like a liquid——I have not understood the principle of this until today. Only rough judgments can be made:
Because that data flow does not exist in this world, so, in the vision of people in this world, that data flow is absurd, unbelievable, and incomprehensible.

Based on certain rules of our world, in our eyes, that [absurd] expression becomes [data that exists in liquid]. "

The last sentence was very abstract and difficult to understand, but Chen Yan forced himself to accept the literal meaning and did not delve into it.

At the same time, Chen Yan immediately thought of another proof: From another point of view, the bronze sword given by Bai Shu opened the authority to use [Xun Kuang], which also showed that Bai Shu was a "shooting star that does not belong to this world" .

Professor Lawyer fell into some kind of very exciting memories, and there was a lot of emotion in his words:
"As a carbon-based creature, I [heard] the [sound] of the data stream through the signal isolation window of the laboratory.

After going back, I started dreaming repeatedly.

The scenes in the dream are more absurd and incomprehensible than what I have seen in reality.

The dream is vague, and every time I wake up, I will forget the important information in the dream.

Therefore, I had to use some extraordinary means to manipulate the dream, to make the dream clear, so as to better understand what I saw and the things in the dream.

【Lucid dreaming】——This is a new technology discovered by a colleague of mine who studies brain wave technology. Although it is still in the experiment, the danger is unknown, but it is very practical. "

This……

Chen Yan suddenly got unexpected news.

The colleague mentioned by the old bald man... should also be a professor at a university in the imperial capital. Could that person be the one who taught [Lucid Dreaming] to Miao Shuisheng?
The fate in this world is really amazing...

Chen Yan was not distracted for too long, because the old bald man was still talking, and because the information he gave was very important, Chen Yan quickly focused all his attention on his words.

"With the help of some equipment, I quickly mastered [lucid dreaming] and saw some things from the previous generation in the dream.

Not only did I dream about things from the previous generation, I also dreamed about [Xun Kuang]. "

Dreamed about [Xun Kuang]... This [Xun Kuang] should be Baishu.

Baishu himself said that his name was Chen Baishu, but his identity was clearly in doubt.

Chen Yan thought, maybe [Xun Kuang] is one of the identities of Baishu, and the former is a subset of the latter.

“[Xun Kuang] and I chatted a lot, from astronomy to geography, from protons to white dwarfs, from carbon-based biological cells to excited silicon atoms.

I was shocked by his knowledge, which should not be the knowledge reserve that a normal creature should have.

I gradually realized that he was not human.

In my narrow understanding, the existence with such abundant knowledge and broad vision is probably a data life based on large-capacity storage hardware devices.

But [Xun Kuang] obviously not. "

Professor Lawyer emphasized the tone:

"He is a will.

Although there are not many human emotions, the purpose is pure enough and the motive is noble enough.

I have been with him for a long time. It coincides with the dramatic economic changes in the empire over the years. The future deduced by his theories has been verified one by one by reality... He is like a prophet who is sure to say what he says. For the first time, I began to doubt science. authenticity.

This situation had a fundamental impact on my worldview and values.

Based on the fact that he successfully predicted most of the big events that happened in reality, I accept most of his ideas.

He gave me 【Enlightenment】.

Until later, I accepted his will, and thus realized my mission, and also understood the meaning of my coming to this world——

I came to this world, possessed such talents, and reached today's position, in order to realize my value and maintain all good things. "

His tone was firm.

That wretched appearance and temperament became sacred at this moment.

Chen Yan was greatly shocked.

Professor Lawyer changed the subject:
"Later, [Xun Kuang] suddenly lost contact with me without warning, and I could no longer contact him through [Lucid Dream].

I realized that his real body, the meteor, might be imprisoned.

And even worse. "

Professor Lawyer obviously knows some secrets that ordinary people don't know, which is determined by his identity and social status.

Chen Yan thought to himself, according to the later situation, Professor Laoyer's guess was correct, and there was indeed a problem with Bai Shu, because when he came to the internal website warehouse of Byron Weiss Group through his quantum clone, Bai Shu clearly said One sentence: "Thank you for bringing me back."

In other words, Bai Shu couldn't go back by himself, let alone get his armor.

If you can't get the battle armor, your whole body will be in tatters.

After getting the battle armor, Bai Shu immediately became "complete" visible to the naked eye, and possessed the ability to "continue the journey".

Hearing this, Chen Yan was basically sure that the Byron Weiss Group must have done something to Baishu while he was dormant, maybe it was theft, maybe it was sabotage, which caused the procedure of Baishu to be incomplete.

Professor Lawyer looked serious:
"The Byron Weiss Group has always had a bad reputation within the academy, and we often hear about their...dirty things.

I tried to find a way to find an opportunity. During an official business, I entered the branch of the Byron Weiss Group in the Imperial Capital again, but I never saw any trace of [Meteor].

After that, I never contacted [Xun Kuang] again. "

The old bald man's eyes became warm again:

"After that, I carried out [Xun Kuang's] will."

He paused slightly here.

"To be more precise, [Xun Kuang] carried out the mission of [Xun Kuang] privately without the permission of [Xun Kuang]——[Xun Kuang] obviously intended to recruit me, but before officially recruiting me , I lost contact with him..."

In other words, this old brother... In essence, he is actually a fake.

The two were relatively speechless.

A trace of embarrassment overflowed from the screen.

(End of this chapter)