Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 936 Self-Ask and Answer ([-])

"Jack...Jack..."

The light of the sky entered the eyes, [Chen Yan]'s vague memory began to recover, and consciousness gradually appeared in his mind clearly——

He went to prison for killing Leonard Adams, and was eventually forced to leave the land of the empire forever and enter the island chain. When he left, he contacted a down-and-out newspaper clerk named Ned Roddie, wanting to be in the Yanan City opened night schools and has already put them into practice.

"It's a good thing."

【Chen Yan】Looking at "Jack Baldo" beside him, recalling what this partner has done to me, I can't help feeling grateful——

Jack Baldo, who has been of great help in most of the events he has been through in the past two months, and has been able to propose effective solutions to most of his present problems, has become his indispensable and important partner today.

Most importantly, he doesn't ask for anything in return.

'He's an idealist. '[Chen Yan] thought to himself.

"According to Mr. Ned Roddy, the enrollment in the night school is going smoothly. There are almost no students who come here to dawdle, and they are very serious about their studies." Jack Baldo told [Chen Yan] about this situation, and carefully observed [ Chen Yan's expression.

"This is a good thing. The students only appeared after my screening. They are a rare literate group among the huge population of Yanan City. They have a relatively high level of education and morality. They are the easiest to cultivate."

[Chen Yan]'s eyes are very serious, he just discusses the matter, and he is not as impetuous as before.

"Jack Baldo" stared at his eyes, thinking several times in his heart:

'I copied the counterfeit's mental state data into [Lucid Dream 2.0], but modified part of his cognition in this lucid dream, so that his cognitive state returned to the one he just entered the island chain. when. '

'Judging from his current reaction, although his mental state has gone wrong, he can still maintain his rationality when facing some occasions that are not easy to cause emotional fluctuations. '

At this moment, it is Chen Yan himself who controls the body of "Jack Baldo". He borrowed Jack Baldo's body data out of consideration that "it would be too abrupt to force a stranger in a lucid dream", and Use [Lucid Dream 2.0] to set this "Jack Baldo" as [Chen Yan's soul partner] to get close to the counterfeit and correct the perception of the counterfeit.

"Jack, I get lost sometimes."

[Chen Yan] Lying on the railing of the ship, facing the endless sea level, his tone was full of confusion:

"I sometimes don't know if what I'm doing makes sense... the sense of meaning depends on whether it will work out, right?"

Chen Yan answered him:
"I haven't done it yet, why do I feel like I won't succeed? At most, it's more difficult to do."

[Chen Yan] lowered his head, his eyes fell on the sewage under the high-pile wharf, and his voice was deep:

"I had a dream."

Chen Yan was quite surprised:

"Ok?"

He was very surprised, how could the counterfeit have a dream?Dreaming in a dream?Or? ? ?
Chen Yan didn't understand the operating principle of [Lucid Dreaming 2.0] at all, only knew how to use it, so he couldn't tell what was going on with the counterfeit product.

"I had a very long dream..."

The counterfeit’s voice was very low, and when the voice came out of the ship’s side, it had been blown away by the sea breeze:
"I dreamed that I started doing business with some bad guys and got some big growth through networking."

Counterfeit dreamed reality in lucid dream!
"I dreamed that I did something... very bad."

There was even a tremor in his voice.

At the moment when his voice trembled, the air in front of Chen Yan suddenly appeared a trace of "disorder" similar to the imbalance of electric waves.

Chen Yan was startled, and immediately said in a calm voice:

"It's just a dream, forget it."

He used [Lucid Dream 2.0] to appease [Chen Yan]'s spirit, so the trembling on [Chen Yan] gradually subsided.

Chen Yan diverted the topic to other places to prevent the counterfeit from continuing to think wildly:
"Speaking of which, have you thought about how to guide the night school?"

Speaking of this, 【Chen Yan】immediately gained strength:
"I've almost thought about it. In fact, when I first had the idea of ​​establishing a night school, I probably thought about the future development of the night school."

He looked up at the turbulent sea level, scattered light reflected in his eyes, and his voice seemed to be alive:
"To put it bluntly, employment is the end point of night school students, so it is necessary to ensure that students can be employed-this does not seem to be something that night schools need to manage-most schools in the empire are only responsible for teaching, not for student employment. I think this is wrong, for most poor and unconnected students, in such a fierce employment environment, how to find a job? Do you just rely on your own resume?"

"Especially the students in the night school - I screened these students because they have no social resources and can't find a job on their own, but they are capable and want to study, so I want to give them - to give them this kind of hope. people a chance."

"anyway."

[Chen Yan] Emphasize again.

"I don't care about other schools, and I have no ability to manage them, but night schools must be able to provide students with employment—at least employment opportunities!"

Hearing this, Chen Yan felt mixed feelings in his heart.

Why didn't he think so at the beginning?

But after entering the island chain, he was so busy with successive incidents that he couldn't concentrate on running the night school at all.

Until things got completely out of control and the counterfeit goods were downloaded into his body, Chen Yan could no longer decide the direction of the night school.

"I've heard before that there is something called CO-OP in Imperial City, the full name is Cooperative education, that is, [cooperative education], which is an employment opportunity provided to students by certain schools with relatively high energy—cooperation between schools and companies, Send the students who are about to graduate into the company for internships, and if the students can perform well during the internship, they can get employment contracts-this thing is more reliable than the students' own resumes! You say no!"

Of course it is...

Chen Yan can even recall his mental state when he first learned about CO-OP—"If I could also enjoy this kind of social service, I wouldn't have entered the zoo because of Haitou's resume!" '

[Chen Yan] Still talking:

"Of course, the night school has just been established, so it definitely doesn't have that much energy, so we need to continue to recruit people—we need to recruit some teachers who are responsible for CO-OP, and let these teachers talk to the factory."

He emphasized his tone:

"At this stage, we must be vigilant against the development of night schools into intermediaries - we must sign very strict contracts with these teachers in charge of CO-OP, and use imperial laws to restrain their behavior!"

Chen Yan sighed:

"To recruit such teachers, and to make them face the temptation of huge intermediary fees at any time, then we must give them very high salaries and benefits."

[Chen Yan] Embarrassed immediately:
"Yes, so our priority now is still..."

The two said in unison:
"make money!"

Things inevitably return to this disgusting topic.

Chen Yan doesn't want to talk about making money, he wants to talk about other things:
"Actually, there is another possibility - we can meet more people who are close to idealists like Mr. Ned Roddy. These people don't need high treatment, but more for ideals... for the same , common ideals, and do what they want to do.”

[Chen Yan] His eyes dimmed a little:

"This...is too difficult."

"Why do we let a person endure the sufferings of life for the sake of ideals..."

He lowered his voice, as if even just talking made him guilty.

"Even if we know that Mr. Ned Roddy is a person with ideals, even if we know that it is because our career matches his values ​​that he becomes one of us..."

"As far as Mr. Ned Roddy is concerned, we are able to do so only when we have given him enough living expenses—when we have guaranteed his basic life, and it can even be said that he has guaranteed a more decent life. ...We are embarrassed to make a request to him to [become a teacher and contribute to the evening school].

You and I both know that Ned Roddie's potential is far more than that. With his ability, he should have achieved greater achievements... Even if he doesn't have any achievements now, it's just because he didn't meet the right opportunity.

But, but, once he chooses to devote himself to night school, he may never achieve much. A person's energy is limited, and his time is taken up by hard work, so how can he go about learning?
He's an academic type of talent, you and I both know that, he should... he deserves to sit in a room with a fireplace and bookshelves in a winter like this, writing articles, doing scholarship, not... not Giving service to a group of people whose future is uncertain. "

He is thinking.

Chen Yan was also thinking.

The things they were thinking in their heads were almost exactly the same.

"We let a person have the choice to pay for his ideal, we will tell him what the ideal is, we will explain to him how difficult it is, let him understand what he may lose, and what he may gain .”

Chen Yan said these completely subjective views to [Chen Yan]:
"If he chooses to join, then the ideal itself becomes shared with him and us.

We - you, me, he, have a common ideal, we have the same thing that we have to work hard and fight for, we have dedicated and paid for this thing, and we will all know the whole process What will it bring us. "

Chen Yan looked into [Chen Yan]'s eyes:

"Regardless of whether Mr. Ned Roddie joined the night school because of pay ... no matter how much effort he has put in for his ideals, we should allow him to have sufficient material life-I think this is right, and we One of the things that have to be guaranteed."

He emphasized his tone:

"But ideals are indispensable. Only with ideals and beliefs can we achieve something in such... today's difficult environment."

"I will summarize the discussion between us today and tell Mr. Ned Roddie the general meaning, and he will know exactly what we have done."

"If he chooses to withdraw, or if he has no choice for the time being, we will respect his thoughts."

[Chen Yan]'s eyes were already very excited, because he thought so too.

Chen Yan said firmly:

"Money must also be earned, but it still needs to be done step by step... The problem of money, leave it to me to figure out a solution!"

[Chen Yan] His eyes trembled violently because of his restlessness, and he nodded when he heard Chen Yan's words, and his restless spirit got a little pitiful comfort.

Chen Yan patted him on the shoulder:

"No matter what, we must believe that we will be able to succeed!"

[Chen Yan] looked at Chen Yan with a little grateful eyes, and his tone was much more relaxed:

"Luckily you're here……"

Chen Yan nodded, and used the [Lucid Dream 2.0] software to suspend the dream.

For a moment, everything is still, the spray splashed by the waves hangs in the air, and the circling seagull spreads its wings motionless, and the solidified shape of its wings is the shape of the wind.

He began to input several variable conditions into [Lucid Dreaming 2.0]:

[Looking for candidates who can serve as evening school CO-OP docking teachers within the scope of Yanan City, and communicate with them according to Chen Yan's fixed personality]

[In-depth exchange of ideas with Ned Roddie and seeking his help on night school work]

[Sell a part of the Snake Kiss Rock ore to the black market in exchange for the night school's development funds for the next three months]

The variable conditions entered by Chen Yan are all things he wanted to do in the real world before, but failed.

Now he has a chance--

On the premise that he connected his general-purpose Crane Brain Computer to the Internet, [Lucid Dream 2.0] used a large amount of real data from the network, combined with Chen Yan's real memory, to form this dream world that is infinitely close to the real world.

This dream world is programmable—

After Chen Yan writes certain events into the program as a process, [Lucid Dream 2.0] can perform display simulations based on these software, and thus change the entire lucid dream world.

In other words, the dream world affected by these variables input by Chen Yan is the appearance that the real world may be affected by them.

After thinking for a while, Chen Yan did not input more variable conditions, but used software to push back the time of the lucid dream world by a week.

For a time, time rotates, day and night alternate, crowds of people rush, and everything speeds up.

In a moment, the time has come to the evening after a week.

Chen Yan entered the cabin along the deck, came to the ship building, and saw [Chen Yan] holding a document, walking towards him excitedly:

"Swuridshid just called me, they just finished the CO-OP agreement with the three factories in Yanan City!"

This strange name is a new character that appeared after Chen Yan added variables to the dream world. He is also a college student and a nobleman.

[Chen Yan] flushed with excitement, grabbed Chen Yan's hand and said:

"Things went much smoother than we expected. According to the survey of Swuridshid, Yanan City has a great demand for skilled workers, but they can't find them. Even if they are recruited, most of them are scammers, so everyone is recruiting. This aspect is very conservative and pessimistic…”

"It's all right now, as long as our first batch of graduates can provide enough technical force for the factory, the night school's reputation will be established and its reputation verified, the road ahead will be easy!"

"Also, I met an interesting guy, his name is Kos... His name is Xiao Ke, he is a very powerful guy, and he has very unique insights into the education industry."

(End of this chapter)