Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 938 Questions and Answers ([-])

In the next two weeks, [Chen Yan]’s second-hand electronic waste—now it’s about electronic products. His second-hand electronic product refurbishment and sales company has been basically completed, and online and offline sales and after-sales channels have been opened. Since the maintenance technicians are all very professional electronic technology graduates, the repair parts are all high-quality materials purchased from the high-tech zone of Yanan City, coupled with the blessing of professional maintenance equipment, the overall quality of the products almost surpasses the products of other second-hand electronic waste sellers in the mechanical hive.

【Chen Yan】With irresistible momentum, he quickly occupied the second-hand electronic waste market of the mechanical hive, but he did not want to monopolize it by himself. Based on the unique ecology of gangs in the mechanical hive, he distributed the cake to several influential gang leaders in this industry-he let them own the company shares in the form of equity participation, so they could enjoy dividends, but he did not let them touch the business.

[Chen Yan] relied on Swarm and Ogami to resist the invasion of several waves of gangs—more precisely, after killing the intruders, they killed them back. Both [Chen Yan] and Chen Yan did not reject the "use of violence" itself, so the gangs got the lesson they deserved.

[Chen Yan] Relying on "one's own strength" has caused the gang to suffer a lot, so they know that he is not easy to mess with.

After the gangs lost the means of violence they depended on for their livelihood, they finally realized that most of their business had been taken over by [Chen Yan], their e-waste refurbishment workshop had practically lost its market, almost existing in name only.

[Chen Yan] gave them decent steps, so most of them walked down the steps.

The few disobedient ones were also punished by other people with Daoist means, and they quickly silenced.

Klein was very satisfied with the result. He told [Chen Yan] to secretly collect the criminal evidence of the gang bosses, and told [Chen Yan] that these people would be liquidated at a special time in the future.

Klein also told [Chen Yan] that apart from liquidating these people, there is no better way for him to distance himself from these gangsters.

And if the relationship cannot be separated, these people will not only become a further stumbling block for him in the future, but also stain his company, so there is a possibility that it will be liquidated.

Facing the pressure brought by Klein's hidden threat, [Chen Yan] discussed with Chen Yan and found that the two people still had the same point of view - the move to share the cake with these gang bosses was originally out of helplessness for survival. It was a measure to avoid the threat of survival brought about by "one family dominating". They all understood how those gang bosses became gang bosses, and they understood even more that capital punishment was too kind to those people.

Therefore, Chen Yan and [Chen Yan] used cooperation to collect criminal records of gangs, and at the same time used the profits from the second-hand electronic product market to support the night school.

Based on careful consideration of cash flow and deposits, in the next month, Chen Yan and [Chen Yan] carried out a small-scale expansion of the night school——

The evening school in Yanan City has two additional school buildings, which are located in other blocks than Walker Street;

The mechanical hive night school has three school buildings, not only because the first island chain itself has a huge population base, but also because the mechanical hive has several orders of magnitude more people than Nan City. A much larger flow of people means more service needs, but three school buildings are already the limit of what Chen Yan, [Chen Yan] and the teachers who have just recruited can operate.

"This kind of business model is not good, very bad..."

Even though Kosciranfo Krapeter has become the mainstay of the night school in the island chain, and the principal of one of the three night schools newly built in the island chain, he has always expressed his concerns about the operating mode of the night school.

"Most people are still poor, but the intensity of the willingness of the poor to receive education varies, which means that those who want to receive education are not all particularly eager to learn. Students who come to night schools may want to try their luck, or just to take advantage of it - I have found many such people."

Xiao Ke's tone was terrible, and his attitude was even more pessimistic.

"Our resources are limited. How can we have so many resources for these troubled water fishers? We need a better student screening system—or greater investment! The investment reaching the level of [universal compulsory education] is enough to allow us to ignore differences in attitudes towards education among individuals!"

"Also, more importantly, the night school can only rely on blood transfusions from other companies, which means that after the establishment of the group, the status of the night school must be very low within the group - the supportee must be restrained by the supporter, depending on the face of the supporter.

You are still here now, what if you leave in the future?Do I want to live by looking at other people's faces? "

Chen Yan gave him a promise:
"If there is such a day, we will use a legally recognized contract to restrain the power of the group, so that the night school will have a legally recognized status within the group."

"As for [compulsory education for all], we are already working hard."

Xiaoke reluctantly accepted Chen Yan's statement.

"Also, with the current class hour system for evening schools, the time for students to study is obviously not enough. I suggest changing it to a full-time system."

Chen Yan accepted Xiao Ke's suggestion.

[Chen Yan] remained silent during their conversation until they left the night school, [Chen Yan] said to Chen Yan:

"Xiao Ke is right. If the night school can be self-financed, not only will our pressure be reduced a lot, but the scale of the night school will also expand rapidly."

Chen Yan reminded him:
"We all know what the downside of being self-contained is."

"For the sake of profit, they will let those seemingly useless thought courses drop out of the curriculum, and for profit, they will add courses that are actually completely useless to employment in the curriculum for profit, and they will focus on skills instead of knowledge itself for the sake of exams—this is contrary to all the ideas we had when we established the night school!"

"Besides, our ultimate goal is not to make profits at all, and self-sufficiency in revenue will only lead to night schools serving profits. Even after the group goes public, it is easy to be coerced by the will of individuals... We do not export ideology to the society, but we cannot be polluted by other ideologies!"

[Chen Yan] affirmed his statement with a heavy nod, and made it very clear:

"That's why I never said anything. I don't want the night school to take such a path...with no results."

At least until now, [Chen Yan] still retains his sanity.

In the next month, the entire empire ushered in another leap in science and technology—brain-computer technology swept across the entire empire overnight, and Chen Yan and [Chen Yan]’s company made venture capital because of this—they purchased machines capable of customizing and repairing omnic prostheses from the imperial capital through the channel of the logistics center, and opened an omnic prosthetic body and limb company similar to a small workshop.

Even without Awei's severed hand incident, the crow still came into Chen Yan's field of vision. Interestingly, after a party, Chen Yan learned one thing from the drunken crow's mouth:

"I have a brother who is much more skilled than me! But his brain is not very good..."

The crow drank too much and was talking nonsense.

"He liked people's brains a few years ago, but then something happened, and his own brain was damaged a little bit. Since then, he has been insane. He can't do normal things, so he can only become a bedbug in the gutter, doing some shady things..."

"His name is Magpie..."

Magpie turned out to be Crow's senior brother.

This is really unexpected news.

Chen Yan didn't continue to ask further questions, he didn't want to cause extra problems in this lucid dream world, since he had written a variable to avoid contact with the superhuman society, this variable couldn't be invalidated because of himself.

Due to the local protection strategy of the first island chain, Chen Yan and [Chen Yan]'s omnic, prosthetic and arthropod company developed rapidly, business was in full swing, orders basically never stopped, and making money was easier than drinking water.

Under such a premise, Chen Yan and [Chen Yan] discussed and set up a laboratory dedicated to researching and trying to copy chips. This is a waste of money, but Chen Yan and [Chen Yan] can afford it now.

Just at the end of this month, one day, a shocking news came from the imperial capital - the [Omnic Disease Pandemic], which caused unspeakable pain to countless omnic reformers, turned out to be a big drama directed and acted by the Byron Weiss Group!
After the news broke, the logistics center took the opportunity to control the Byron Weiss Group branch of the mechanical hive by means of thunder, and suspended all its omnic transformation-related businesses.

As soon as the whale fell, all things were born, and when Byron Weiss Group, the omnic technology company, collapsed, large and small omnic technology companies sprung up in the mechanical hive like mushrooms after rain, and the omnic transformation market became a red sea for a while.

At the same time, the logistics center merged with the empire system without any warning. A group of outsourced stability-maintenance mechanized mobile units from Stavor Heavy Industries airborne the mechanical hive. The gangsters with criminal records were almost wiped out.

For a while, the sky and air cleared up on the First Island Chain, as if everything was getting better.

It was also during this month that more and more people joined the night school, including teachers and students, so the scale of the night school expanded again, to the point where it would go bankrupt without the subsidy of the logistics center.

Under the new parliamentary system, Chen Yan and [Chen Yan], who paid the nomination certificate with the criminal records of the gang bosses, have the qualifications to join the logistics center interest group representing the Empire Advent faction.

Finally, after becoming their own people, they continued to operate in multiple ways, and finally made [compulsory education] one of the basic policies of the logistics center. The First Island Chain will establish a complete education system based on compulsory education in the next ten years.

And the night school of Chen Yan and [Chen Yan] became the starting point of the island chain's compulsory education - the night school transformed into a full-time public school, and further expanded its scale to recruit talents...

Since then, Kosciranfork Klapeter has never said anything about letting the school pay for itself.

—after a period when evening schools became full-day public schools.

Today is the day when all the heads of [Chen Yan]’s schools signed the contract to establish the group. At the banquet, [Chen Yan] attended the banquet dressed in costumes and expressed his passion from the bottom of his heart. He listened to the thunderous applause from the audience and murmured in a voice that only he could hear:
"Idealism will prevail..."

After making unimaginable efforts in the past, now he finally has everything in front of him-university lecturers and high-end technicians from the Northern Federation and even the imperial capital, an omnic technology company that occupies almost one-third of the island chain market, the chip research and development laboratory with the most powerful technology in the first island chain, and a public school-a public school that was also created by his hard work!That is the proof of his ideal!That was the ultimate display of his life value!
【Chen Yan】Looking at the smiling faces of everyone in the audience, he can call out everyone's full name, he can recall the details of working with everyone, and he can clearly see every moment of victory when he accomplished something with them.

They have the same ideals as he.

They made him everything.

In a trance, he only felt that reality was like a dream.

He raised his wine glass, bowed deeply, and paid respects to everyone who was working hard for a common ideal, and then he was going to drink the red wine in the glass.

'I hope I won't wake up after being drunk...'

Everyone is drunk when the wine is not drunk, [Chen Yan] glanced down the stage, his eyes were blurred, and suddenly saw Chen Yan in the corner.

He raised his wine glass towards Chen Yan.

Jack, my brother, why don't you come and drink with me.

He looked at Chen Yan and lowered his brows, as if sighing.

There was a sea of ​​people between them, but he could hear Chen Yan sighing.

"Ugh……"

With a sigh, the whole world spins.

……

……

He was muddled, as if he had experienced a dream that lasted for endless years.

Whispering words flooded into my mind, and colorful lights and shadows appeared one after another.

Until a piercing electronic sound flooded into my mind, 【Chen Yan】suddenly opened his eyes.

He stared at the constantly jumping orders on the computer screen in front of him, his eyes vibrated violently in their sockets, and his entire world view completely collapsed.

"Why am I here...how am I..."

"Where's my public school? Where's my... my teachers? Where's Jack? Where's my clique?"

He stood up abruptly, a bell ringing in his head.

"Me! My public school has become a private vocational school for Xiao Ke! My teachers... I can't name each of them! I... I'm not Chen Yan! Who am I?!"

He staggered to the window, looked at the huge [Z] Group logo on the billboard outside the window, and finally realized what had just happened.

"So... is it really a dream?"

But everything in the dream is so clear, so logical, so...real!
Even though he was smart enough to be on the verge of madness, he quickly understood the truth of the dream——

"That's... a lucid dream! A real dream that might become reality!"

"Am I... all wrong?"

While mentally fluctuating, a voice came from the phone:
"Yes, you are all wrong."

[Chen Yan] Shocked, it turned out to be his own voice! ! !
He is completely insane!
"You could have done better, but every time you made a wrong choice, you did everything wrong, until now it is irreparable."

"Only by ending your miserable life can you have redemption."

The completely insane [Chen Yan] rushed to the desk in great pain, took out a pistol, put it in his mouth, and pulled the trigger.

(End of this chapter)