Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 911 Darwin's Choice
At the moment of enlightenment, Lindsay gained a precious sliver of sobriety.

It was also at this moment of sobriety that he suddenly saw his own face in the mirror covering the entrance of the cave——

That was not his face.

It was the face of a [human] born from a [mother].

Pale and haggard, dull and strange.

It turned out that he—Lindsay Robert Darwin—had not been [reborn] in this world as Lindsay.

He just occupied someone's body.

The next moment, the mirror in front of him shattered, and a face covered his face—it was the face of the [doll] who had killed someone before!
It's following... It's better to say that it has been following him - after the previous glance, it has locked him as its prey!
To his horror, at such a close distance, he finally saw the face fixed by cables on the side of its neck—although the face was stained and stained, the facial features were still clearly visible at close range— That face was exactly the same as his own face he had just seen in the mirror!
There was a "boom" in Lindsay's head, and an incredible idea appeared in his mind——

'All [people] born from [mother] are carved out of the same mold. [people] are not born naturally, but only artificial creations, and [mother] is just a discarded tool. The [people] I have seen here... are all exactly the same since birth!It's just that the subsequent transformation made them unrecognizable! '

He also finally understood that this "doll" monster was not a monster at all, but just a "human" who lost his mind and became a monster because he had adapted himself to the environment.

The howling sound erupted against the gap between the broken mirror and the stone wall. Lindsay punched it, and [Doll] was hit in the face by this punch without any defense, and was sent flying.

Lindsay's eyes flicked over the silicon crystal on the damaged skin on his fist, and the data strings flowing in the silicon crystal according to the rules he didn't know. With a realization in his heart, he jumped out of the pothole and rushed towards the other end of the pipe. go.

'This is not the real world. '

He suddenly became enlightened, and thought of a way to solve the situation in front of him.

'I'm Lindsay, Lindsay Robert Darwin. '

Lindsay's body erupted with unimaginable power like a flash of light. He fled through the complex terrain in the pipeline, as if he was running on the field illuminated by light.

'I am from Yanan City, my father is a furniture maker in Morgan Carpentry, and my mother is a nurse at the Third Birmingham Street Health Unit. I went to junior school in Birmingham Street in Yanan City, then entered a missionary school, and passed the exam with honors. Entered Pythagorean University of Electronic Technology, High Street, Yanan City. '

The body began to peel off inch by inch-he soon lost his body, and the unfettered dense string became his new carrier-it looked like a transparent butterfly wing.

'I, Lindsay Robert Darwin, a scholar, an electronic biologist pursuing the highest science and technology, I will definitely return to Yanan City, return to my station, and show the world the incredible future. '

'I want to go home!I want to go back to Yanan City!All my emotions make me want to go back home!Every cell in my body - every string makes me want to go back to my world! '

When a few thoughts appeared, the last part of his body—the cheek, shattered, revealing Lindsay’s original face—a face composed of data floating points!

He made the right bet—by confirming his identity as "Lindsay Robert Darwin" and the experience of the first half of his life, he locked the [self] that represents personal subjective consciousness, which is equivalent to confirming his own in a virtual world. "X-axis coordinates".

By determining his life pursuits, he has locked the [superego] representing the moral part of his personality, which is equivalent to determining his own "Y-axis" coordinates in a virtual world.

By determining the strongest desire in his subconscious—homecoming, he has locked the [id] that represents instinctive desires, which is equivalent to determining his own "Z-axis" coordinates in a virtual world.

And this world is obviously three-dimensional, so if this virtual world is really created by White Snake, it should be able to determine the location of his data through [coordinates], so that his data hidden by [White Snake] can reappear In front of him.

Lindsay did it.

He not only recovered his "body", but also obtained the qualification of "freedom" in this world made up of data—a string of data entered the world made up of data, like a fish swimming into the ocean.

Lindsay's body made of data floating points broke off the ground and swam into the air. The huge pipe under his feet was getting farther and farther away from him, and he was finally able to see the real appearance of the surface——

Where is the surface? It's just a pile of abandoned garbage!

Lindsay saw countless garbage being poured down from several huge pipes on the upper floor of the city. The appearance of the pipes was almost the same as the pipes he had entered before.

'The pipes...the bottom of the city originally had pipes, which means that the bottom of the city was not the bottom of the city. '

Lindsay felt an unexplained chill.

Part of the liquid poured from the pipe hit the surface of the buildings at the bottom of the city, becoming [people]'s food and daily necessities, and the other part of the liquid was scattered due to the long time of falling, eventually forming the acid rain he had seen before.

What a doomsday scene this is...

Even if Lindsay saw it, she still felt absurd.

A thought suddenly came to him:
Where is this doomsday?This is clearly purgatory!

He kept flying upwards, and he didn't know how many kilometers he flew, and finally saw a normal human society—a human society like Yanan City, where there are factories everywhere, and the smoke from countless huge chimneys forms a thick layer. clouds, so there is no trace of sunlight here.

He flew upward again for an unknown amount of time, and the surrounding buildings gradually cleaned up, and a large number of life forms appeared, but they seemed to be different from the carbon-based creatures he had imagined—these life forms—like human life forms, the body There are few carbon-based parts anymore, most of their bodies are made of materials he can't understand, and their buildings and entertainment methods are beyond his comprehension.

He continued to fly upwards.

Until the surroundings became very cold, until the sky became dark, until an abnormal light appeared on the horizon.

Lindsay suddenly looked back, and saw a huge black sun hanging on the horizon, like a solar eclipse, with pitch black in the middle and surrounded by white light.

All the buildings illuminated by the black sun turned into black shadows, and the whole world seemed to have turned into a void made of shadows.

He looked at the black sun, realized something important, and flew in the direction of the black sun.

'[Black Sun] is a landmark, an identity symbol of this world—as long as I understand what [Black Sun] represents, I will know the truth of this world! '

When he was close enough to the black sun, the white light next to the black sun was clearly displayed in front of him——

Where is the white light? It's clearly a huge white snake—a tail-eating snake that surrounds the black sun and connects head to tail!
'It's [White Snake]! '

But... why is [White Snake] here? !

[White Snake] He should have stayed in Yanan City!
With the cooperation of the legendary [executor] Bei Er of the North Bureau, [White Snake] should have been imprisoned by the North Bureau!How could it be here? !

Here... where is it?
While Lindsay was confused, White Snake suddenly opened his eyes.

Lindsay stared at it unpreparedly, and fell into its kaleidoscopic eyes the moment their eyes met.

In an instant, Lindsay lost all the strength that could be used to resist. He had never felt so weak like this moment, so... there was no room for resistance.

Lindsay's digitized body fell into the vortex-like invisible data fluid, and the data floating points that made up the body fell apart in a very small point of time—he became a part of the invisible data fluid—

Become a part of the world in the eyes of 【White Snake】.

Lindsay lost his sense of direction—more precisely, he lost all senses except his sight—

He became a part of the constantly blooming kaleidoscope in the eyes of 【White Snake】.

The "whole world" "in front of him" is constantly rotating like a kaleidoscope, blooming petals of different colors, and in each petal of different colors, there are countless different pictures blooming close to his pupils. Each of the different pictures is his scene.

He saw countless himself: oil workers, judges, hooligans, unknown liquids, black sticky objects, rabbits, cockroaches, ores, monsters of unknown species, creatures that were obviously not carbon-based life forms, heretics living in the galaxy...

He didn't know why these were all himself.

He just "knows" that these are himself, and at the moment when the kaleidoscope blooms, "these are all himself" becomes an objective fact for him.

He saw countless himself going through different life processes, and those life processes were as bright and gorgeous as a kaleidoscope under the sun.

In the next moment, the blooming kaleidoscope shattered without warning.

The life of Lindsay in all life forms came to an abrupt end because of this—at the moment before the kaleidoscope shattered, Lindsay saw the end of each of herself—

death.

All kinds of unforeseen deaths due to force majeure!

At the moment before the world shattered in the kaleidoscope in the white snake's pupils, Lindsay saw disasters befalling him without warning, earthquakes, tsunamis, meteorites, extreme cold...

The disaster happened without any warning, and everyone in the kaleidoscope, including him, could not escape.

The moment after the kaleidoscope shattered, Lindsay suddenly realized that he was still in place - he was still hanging in the air in the form of a data life, as if nothing had changed from beginning to end.

The only change in the entire field of vision is that the eyes of the white snake—those kaleidoscopic pupils that can reflect the entire world have been completely closed.

Its posture is so beautiful, so natural, as if it has never been opened from the beginning to the end.

While Lindsay felt a huge shock in his heart, his figure continued to move forward, but no matter how fast he flew, no matter how long it took him, he could never reach the position where the black sun was.

It wasn't until he gave up going to Hei Sun's location and observed without a choice, that he finally discovered one thing—the white snake was stiff—its body surrounding Hei Sun had already hardened, and the albino snake scales were protruding toward the outside of the body. Slightly blooming - this is clearly dead.

The White Snake... is already dead?
Lindsay didn't know what was going on.

He came back to his senses and opened his eyes wide to see more clearly.

Until the data floating points that make up the pupils disintegrated, something else finally appeared in his field of vision—he saw countless rivets on the white snake—the light blue rivets that nailed the body of the white snake into the black sun from bottom to top!
'It... was forced? '

Lindsay's pupils trembled.

'What was it forced to do? '

He suddenly woke up:

'Is it...is it being forced to destroy the world?Destroy... the world in the kaleidoscope? '

When this idea fell, the scene in front of him changed again - the pixel blocks that made up the whole world in front of him turned into the other side like a "flop", and the entire space was rapidly compressed towards him upside down.

The entire world in his space was compressed towards him in an instant!

The pressure from the world left him breathless, but fortunately, the compression stopped after a split second.

The place where he was was turned into a room of about ten square meters.

The light in the room was dim, except for a spotlight in the center of the room. Opposite him, on the other end of the spotlight, was a man of short stature sitting on the sofa, holding a goblet in his hand.

"As the second person to come to me, you have two choices."

is a woman.

Should not be too old.

A table appeared out of nowhere in front of him, and on the table were two pills, one red and one blue.

The woman continued:

"Eat red and you'll see the real world."

"Eat blue and you will return to your world."

Lindsay was silent for a moment, picked up the blue pill, and swallowed it without hesitation.

The woman said in surprise:
"Don't you want to see the real world?"

Lindsay laughed:

"The world that belongs to me is the real world!"

The next moment, the lights of the whole world went dark.

Lindsay's consciousness began to blur.

Unexamined, like a dream that has gone through countless years.

Messy and chaotic ravings flooded into my mind, and endless colorful lights and shadows appeared one after another.

Until a noise hidden deep in the memory appeared, Lindsay Robert Darwin suddenly opened his eyes on a crowded street in Yanan City.

……

……

"It was only after I came back that I realized that three full years had passed, and the city of Yanan had undergone tremendous changes. I was fired from the company and disappeared along with my department... The stage that belonged to me back then is gone forever. gone."

After Lindsay Robert Darwin finished speaking, he had already left the mechanical corridor with Wolf Reibert, and returned to the mimic neural network in the Byron Weiss Group building.

"The most important point is also my motivation to save you - I smell the white snake on you."

Wolfe:
"what?"

Lindsay said seriously:

"You have the smell of a white snake on your body, whether you know where it came from or not, this smell can't be faked."

(End of this chapter)