Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 910 Another World

"Regardless of human beings, there is nothing wrong with knowledge, and I want to bring that knowledge back into the world.

As a scholar and a technician, I want to develop unknown knowledge and take root in my own world. "

Wolfe understood, but Wolfe couldn't understand.

Lindsay said:

"So, little Wolfe, I want to come back, to this world, and even to the company that abandoned me.

I've already died for this company once, and that's the poor leverage I have now. "

By the time he finished speaking, Wolfe had selected the body of a brain robot—he had selected the product activation code.

It was a brain-machine body that looked much more mature than him, with an old face, even about the same age as his father.

Wolff didn't want to be a kid anymore.

He wants to grow up quickly, and now is his chance to realize his wish.

"Okay, then, let's go to the warehouse now."

Lindsay grabbed Wolff as before, and rushed into the labyrinthine mechanical corridor.

"Now, let me tell you why I should help you."

Although Lindsay said so, in the following statement, he did not directly state the reason for helping Wolfe.

Three years ago, in the underground mining area, inside the Black Paradise, after being killed by the [White Snake], Lindsay did not experience the [death] that normal human cognition would recognize, but was [reborn] in a strange city.

The city looks like a city inhabited by humans, but its sense of decay and technology is too strong. The black buildings made of glass and resin block out the sky, and the huge and complex buildings are entrenched like vines. In the transparent tube, there is a stream of light that shuttles non-stop.

Lindsay couldn't see the tops of the huge buildings, the elevator-like means of transportation, or any steps leading to the upper floors of the city.

The upper layers of the city seem inaccessible - at least not to those who live on the lower levels of the city.

In this city made entirely of silicon-based materials, Lindsay can no longer see pure carbon-based life forms, and most of the [people] he sees have become grotesque—[people] carry out experiments on themselves. After the transformation, the transformation process is extremely rough, and it doesn't even need to be carried out in a sterile environment.

[People] transform themselves not by using omnic prostheses, but by using all substances that people can use—including but not limited to various types of metals and alloys.

These prosthetic bodies... can no longer be considered as prosthetic bodies, they can only be said to be some parts of the body - [people] don't care about the rust on various parts of the body, or how the bacteria attached to them will affect themselves.

They themselves were not even flesh and blood from the day they were born—[people] were born in some kind of strange device, which looked like a bathtub, and there was no sterile environment at all. The vines spreading on the top of the bathtub, and the fungus that grew from the bottom of the bathtub did not know what kind of substance was used as the medium.

[People] call this device [Mom].

[Mom] does not mean mother, nor does it have the meaning of mother, it is just a title - [people] know that they are born here, and [mother] represents the term "birthplace".

But [people] don't have any emotion or even emotion towards [mother] in their heads at all. They just know what [mother] is used for, and therefore maintain a kind of savage awe and worship for [mother].

Lindsay has witnessed the birth of "new babies" - [people] put glass and discarded rusty electronic components into the [bathtub], and then issue qiblas and prayers to the [bathtub], these qiblas and prayers seem to activate [ Bathtub] command, so the [Bathtub] started to operate, decomposing and resynthesizing the waste materials put into the [Bathtub].

Until an electronic cry appeared from the old buzzer on the side of the [bathtub], a baby-like "sticky floc" appeared in the [bathtub], and grew rapidly in a few seconds, like a fungus Mycelium emanated, and those hyphae grouped together to form muscle tissue and organs—organs that Lindsay could name, or not.

The "stuff" inside the container continues to grow as the mycelium spreads until it becomes an adult.

The adult was unclothed, and Lindsay saw at a glance that the man had no reproductive organs, but his facial features were more masculine.

The newly born person has not been modified yet, so it seems that there is not much difference from the human beings in Lindsay's cognition. The main difference lies in the ability of this person - after being born by [mother], this person has been able to communicate with other people. People can communicate with each other, and can judge things with naive but normal logical ability.

When a newborn enters the crowd, it is assimilated by the crowd, accepts the values ​​of the crowd, and becomes a member of the crowd.

After a brief exchange, Lindsay found that most of the crowd had gone out of their minds, and their speech had little logic, which seemed to be related to their frequent transformation of their bodies.

Lindsay, who just came here, still doesn't quite understand why people want to transform their bodies at will. They also know that transformation will cause damage to the body. Most transformations will even affect the brain, resulting in people's behavior and speech. They all became crazy.

It wasn't until he stayed for a long time that he gradually understood some things.

The place where [people] live is located at the bottom of the entire city. It seems that it has not been repaired for many, many years. Everything has gradually decayed over time. It has become a dilapidated and decayed look, and people seem to have I am so used to this kind of living environment that I take it for granted, because Lindsay has not heard anyone complain about it.

It often rains here, and the dilapidated streets full of all kinds of garbage will be flooded by the rain, and the things in the sewers will take advantage of this opportunity to come out for food. Some kind people warned Lindsay not to go out on rainy days.

The residence Lindsay found was originally a shelter for a group of mutated wild dogs. Earlier, there was a ventilation duct blocked by cement, with a depth of about 3 meters. After setting up a tent with plastic sheets, it was barely protected from the rain. Lindsay killed the grotesque mutated wild dog and occupied the place, and was awed by [people] because of such a "feat" - mutated wild dog is a plague in this area, and people often ignore it or When they are weak, they are taken away by them.

Lindsay lived in the kennel, he was confused but not afraid, he was not intimidated by the predicament in front of him, because he had experienced even weirder and weirder things than this.

He just doesn't know what to do next, he doesn't know where this is, he doesn't know whether his mission has been completed, whether [White Snake] is bound by the opportunity he bought with his life, and he doesn't know what the future holds for him. Can I go back to my hometown...

On the next rainy day, Lindsay saw something in the water.

Acid rain poured down without warning, the ground turned into a vast ocean in just a few breaths, a low building was quickly submerged in half, and [people] relied on the barriers built by waste materials Not enough to resist the invasion of acid water.

The appearance of things in the water hastened the tragedy—a [doll] made of bones, plastic and tattered cloth broke through the door of the low building, and the screams and howls of extreme discomfort followed Outbursts in low-rise buildings.

The erupting sound soon stopped abruptly.

There was no blood flowing out of the low building with the rain, but engine oil diluted with acid water and white pulp that Lindsay could not name.

Soon, [Doll] swam out from the low building.

[Doll] When he came to the door, he raised his head abruptly, and met Lindsay's eyes who couldn't dodge.

Lindsay felt a chill in her heart.

He knew he was being watched.

The acid rain stopped without warning, and the [doll] returned to the sewer along with the rain.

Lindsay knew he should go out and look for food, he thought, maybe he should eat the protein cubes transformed by [people] through machines, even if the protein cubes that are not of high purity are made by cockroaches and mice, and there will always be With some metal impurities...

Better than dying of starvation.

Soon, Lindsay, who killed the mutated wild dog, received a generous gift from the boss of the area—half a piece of protein, and a piece of black pastry the size of a palm.

Such a piece is equivalent to three days of rations for ordinary people.

Lindsay accepted the gift, and didn't stay in the room of the boss of the area. He always felt that the eyes of the boss of the area looking at him from the red pupils were not right. Those eyes were not looking at people. Some kind of impulse, like a wild beast weighing the danger of its prey...

Lindsay didn't know why she had such thoughts.

He returned to the den of the mutated wild dogs, and after several hours of ideological struggle, he finally couldn't bear the hunger and swallowed the protein lumps.

The protein lump was just swallowed, and the stomach cramps occurred less than half an hour after swallowing.

Lindsay rolled on the ground in pain. The pain almost made him lose his mind. He also destroyed the makeshift plastic tent.

I don't know when the pain disappeared. Lindsay only remembered waking up in a daze—he fell asleep for an unknown amount of time without any safety measures.

A great fear loomed over him like a shadow, causing him some kind of stress trauma from the protein lump.

He decided not to eat this kind of thing unless it was absolutely necessary.

After the acid rain stopped, he searched the area for a long time, but he couldn't find anything to eat.

He heard from a person who lived in a plastic crypt that there was a huge pipe in this area, and at the end of the pipe was connected to an area that could produce food, but the distance was so far that it was almost impossible to reach it with two legs.

This news came back from someone who had been there. It was a long time ago when there were communication equipment in this area. The exact time is no longer available.

After verifying this matter-the legend among several other people, Lindsay decided to set off.

He quickly found what people called the "pipeline"—it was an abandoned passageway that could not be seen from the top. It looked like the previous version of the transparent pipeline far above his head, but he didn't know when it was abandoned. It's broken beyond repair.

Lindsay walked in the huge exhaust pipe, walked on a large amount of broken electronic waste and the corpses of unknown creatures, and his physical strength was exhausted very quickly.

After an unknown period of time, the pipeline was still out of sight, and he couldn't find clean food. Under the hunger and cold, his body soon broke out with omnic disease.

At that time, Lindsay didn't realize that it was an omnipotent disease for the first time, but only knew that the symptoms on her body were similar to omnimechanical disease.

According to his professional level at that time, it was still impossible to imagine that omnipotent disease could occur on a pure carbon-based life body.

He vaguely realized that if he was pushed from the back to the front, the reason why he was sick and showed some symptoms of omnic disease, did it mean that he was no longer a normal human being?

But if I am not a normal human being, what am I?

[White Snake] obviously killed me, shattered my body, and turned me into a data life like her, so why am I [reborn] in this world?

I'm...not actually reborn at all, am I?
From the moment I opened my eyes in this world, I have never [lived]...

Right?

Do I just exist in a virtual world in a [data black box] on the White Snake?
Lindsay didn't know, he couldn't be sure that his idea was correct, and he didn't have enough brain power to verify his idea-he had a high fever due to the aggravation of omnic disease.

I might need something to eat...

he thought.

If you don't eat, where does the body get the energy to self-regulate?
But there is no food here at all, and even the small insects like cockroaches under the cracks in the wall have half of polyethylene in their bodies. Faced with this kind of thing, even if he can swallow it, how can he digest it?
In a daze, he suddenly heard a deformed whistling sound.

He'd heard the whistling before—he'd heard the tingling sound through rain curtains in acid rain.

Something dangerous has appeared, I must get out of here as soon as possible...

But now he has gone deep into the huge abandoned pipeline and cannot escape as soon as possible.

Lindsay tried his best to find a narrow hole in the pipeline that could accommodate his body. He lay down in the hole and used the rest of his strength to cover a discarded one-way mirror on top of himself, leaving only one that could Breathing space comes out.

The howling sound became smaller.

Omnic disease is still getting worse.

Omnic disease caused a rapid rise in body temperature. When the fever reached the point where he was in a daze, Lindsay suddenly realized that [people] didn't take the initiative to transform themselves, it was just because they wanted to adapt to the environment. It is impossible to cause self-adaptive mutations through rapid genetic mutations, so it is necessary to artificially intervene in the physiological mechanism so that one's own physiological mechanism can adapt to this crisis-ridden and energy-deficient world——

[People] have to modify their bodies so that they can adapt to the protein blocks made of polyethylene cockroaches, or they can get energy from glass in order to survive in this world.

(End of this chapter)