Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 966 Unsolved
While sitting up straight, Ogami slammed between his toes, and then slapped his hands viciously on the keyboard:
"I don't want to be sat on my head by mutants when I sleep at night again!"

When Chen Yan raised his head and saw his computer screen, the white screen was torn apart by an unknown force again, revealing the scene behind the paper like a hole in the paper——

A few flashes of lightning flashed from time to time in the dark sky, illuminating the dark clouds that even lightning could not penetrate. It was also in this glimpse that a small aircraft flashed high above the sky.

It was raining heavily under the sky, and a tattered little robot was carrying a broken sack. Its single hand—that was obviously a hand that didn’t belong to it—was longer than its body. The tallest building in China is several times taller, and the giant e-waste mountain picks up e-waste.

Its body is almost entirely a skeleton—a skeleton cobbled together from assorted electronic junk.

The core of the driving framework is a mobile phone.

An ordinary smartphone.

The smartphone is already very tattered, most of the circuit board is exposed, but it is carefully wrapped together with the battery in plastic tape that I don’t know where to find it. Rainwater drips from the gaps in its body, just avoiding the circuit board and part of the battery.

There are multiple ugly solder joints on the board that usually lead to a flying lead with the board on one side and its torso on the other - that's how it manipulates its body .

After being busy for an unknown amount of time, it suddenly gained something——

In a small sealed box, it found an old game console.

It connected the game console to a junk power supply found before, and found that the game console can still be turned on.

But it doesn't have a display, so it's impossible to immediately know what data is still in the game console.

It also found a nearly intact disc inside the game console.

"se...sekiro"

It calls the ancient database in the smartphone, and reads out the name on the CD very clumsily and slowly:
"Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice"

It seemed to recognize something familiar from this name, and an excited voice came out of the speaker in its mechanical head that was almost covered with clogs:
"Seki... se... Ogami!"

"Ogami!"

The scene of the little garbage robot holding up the CD is torn apart again by an unknown force, and the rainy night in front of him is like a hole in the paper, revealing the scene behind the paper——

When a room of about ten square meters occupied his field of vision, the feeling of "owning a body" returned.

Chen Yan raised his head in a daze, and saw that the light in the room was dim, except for a spotlight in the center of the room. Opposite him, at the other end of the spotlight, there was a man of short stature sitting on the sofa. On the right hand side beside the sofa was a A broken goblet.

The spotlight was directed at him, and only half of the body of the man on the sofa could be seen, his face completely hidden in the darkness.

"You shouldn't be coming back now."

That was...the sound of sobbing?

The sobbing of a woman.

Hearing the sobs, Chen Yan suddenly felt empathy—empathy not based on synaesthesia—but he didn't know what to say.

"Even so, I will still fulfill my duties."

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."

Chen Yan's trembling mind finished concentrating in a short time, so there was no hesitation when he reached out to pick up the blue pill.

Before he swallows the blue pill, the woman asks in a voice that is "totally incomprehensible" but full of "emotional surprise":

"Why...don't you want to see the real world?"

real world?
Is it the BIOS?

Or something... deeper than the BIOS?
Chen Yan realized something, so he became more determined in his heart.

"Everything I've experienced is my life."

He said, swallowing the pill.

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

Chen Yan'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 an urgent call appeared, Chen Yan suddenly opened his eyes.

The light at noon shines into the porthole from the south, casting golden reflections throughout the cabin. Chen Yan's dilated pupils began to shrink when he opened his eyes, until the reflection of the light entered the pupils, and he saw his companions Anxious face.

"You finally woke up!"

Ogami blamed himself all over his face, and his tone was full of remorse:

"I shouldn't have led you into such a deep place..."

Chen Yan glanced at the tense-eyed glutinous rice fruit, calmed down, and told them the few scenes he had just seen.

A face with a shocked expression flashed out from behind Okami, it was Osmandis:

"So that's it! No wonder the line of sight is broken! So it's because the driver was touched!"

Looking at the suspicious eyes cast by everyone, Osmandis explained:
"Let me explain in plain language:
If the world we live in is compared to a complete computer system, then the place you are going to is similar to the driver between hardware and software.

BIOS is solidified in the chip and used to manage the basic input and output system of hardware settings. As software, it has the deepest level and belongs to the bottom layer of the software system, providing the most direct hardware settings and control. For us, BIOS means The underlying rules that exist in the deeper world—even the [deepest world], are the basis on which our entire world operates.

In modern science, logic simulates some of the basic rules of BIOS, and mathematics digitizes them, but the degree and method are very shallow. Except for a few more powerful people, other scholars have almost never touched the core. part.

The driver is the bridge between the hardware and the software operating system. A software must pass through the driver to run on the hardware-[bridge], you must understand this meaning.

The driver is a bridge, and you stand on the bridge. On one side of the bridge is the software operating system-[the world we live in], and on the other side is the BIOS-[the deepest world].

It stands to reason that when you come to the bridge, you should be able to see part of the real appearance of the BIOS. "

Osmandis quickly frowned:

"You stand on the bridge and see those scenes, which may happen in [the world we are in], or it may happen in the BIOS.

If those scenes happened in [the world we live in], it should be the real experience of Ogami in previous generations.

But if those scenes happen in the BIOS..."

Osmandis' complexion gradually became ugly:

"I can't imagine what the hell that is."

Okami said in a deep voice:

"Is that my [destiny]?"

After saying this, the people in the cabin didn't react at once.

Okami spoke again:

"If this world is based on BIOS, we who live in this world should also have a predetermined [destiny]—for me, it is countless struggles and failures—if the BIOS stipulates that I can only Failure, then, is this my fate in [the world we live in]?"

Glutinous Rice Fruit's face was extremely ugly, and Ogami's failure was almost completely equal to her failure.

Osmandis lowered his head and thought for a long time, frowning and unable to speak.

No one can give a precise answer to such a desperate and complicated question.

As the only person who witnessed from entering the cemetery to standing on the [bridge], Chen Yan expressed his thoughts according to his own understanding:

"The only thing we can be sure of now is that the answer you want is likely to be in the BIOS——the corpses in the [cemetery], the corpses representing [the life of a certain generation], paved the way to the BIOS , this strong abstract thing itself has a strong implication—Ogami's life is run according to certain rules of the BIOS."

Under the tacit affirmation of others, the fatigue in Okami's eyes disappeared, and then his eyes became hot:
"So, let's go to the BIOS and kill everything."

The sound from outside the cabin door attracted everyone's attention.

"That...I seem to have heard someone say that...BIOS."

It was Big Wolf Reibert. With a height of more than two meters and a rough voice, he looked like a delirious drunk, and his childish tone created a strong sense of contrast.

Fortunately, Big Wolf Reibert was already a person who had seen the world and experienced big scenes. He quickly overcame his nervousness and said what Lindsay had described to him in a very simple way. (Chapter 908)
"The place Lindsay described is very similar to the place you just described...even the world that Professor Lawyer showed us through that [Octopus] back then."

He emphasized "feeling," which meant he wasn't sure.

As soon as Chen Yan thought of Lindsay's identity and what Lindsay had experienced, his spirits were lifted for a moment, as if he had caught the tail of some important clue, and said to Big Wolf a little excitedly:
"Thank you for your reminder, Wolfe, I would like to ask you to contact Mr. Darwin, can you?"

Of course Big Wolf would not refuse this small request:

"no problem."

Chen Yan didn't want to talk about such an important matter over the phone, so with the help of Wolfe, after connecting the phone, he asked Lindsay out—it was in the office on the third floor of Group Z in Area B.

Ohgami did not participate in this conversation. They seem to have got some other inspiration from the experience in the [cemetery], and they need to verify some things.

Osmandis continued to be forced by Messiah to stay with Nuomi Guo, just like she had always insisted on in the previous two months-Chen Yan was actually a little nervous about this, he had never thought about it before. No, but since he has been to the deeper world, he always associates some phenomena - he will abstract the identity of people, so the Messiah's coercion of Osmandis has completely changed its meaning .

Nobody can talk about the Messiah.

Messiah also refused to speak.

She lived so silently, as if she was completely indifferent to the outside world.

Chen Yan clearly knew that she shouldn't be like this.

When leaving the cabin, he couldn't help but try to focus the [Eye of the Demihuman King] on her—this dangerous idea was quickly abandoned because he "felt" the unspeakable Danger.

Maybe... the answer is always around.

Perhaps, waking up the girl who claims to be my sister can get the answer I want.

So, at what cost?
Chen Yan didn't want to pay the price, so under Osmandis's strong instructions, he gave up continuing this dangerous move:
[You Asians have an old saying: It doesn’t matter if some things are not rated, they won’t be able to handle a thousand catties!

You are with her now, you don't know anything, and you can live in peace.

But if you know everything, not only will you not be able to stay together peacefully on the surface, you may not be able to live in peace from now on! 】

Osmandis' motives are very clear, he is not trying to be a peacemaker:

[It's one thing for you to ask the answer, it's another thing for you to find out the answer by yourself, no matter what, you have to bear the consequences yourself, the latter at least has a process, even if you die, it can make you die clearly , not a sudden death in a daze... so you better choose to investigate yourself! 】

Chen Yan tried to ask:

【Then, Lord Demihuman King, what is the answer? 】

This title reminded Osmandis of a very bad past, so his tone became particularly bad:

[That's the worst thing you can ever experience. 】

Chen Yan understood the meaning of this sentence: he actually didn't know either.

Chen Yan didn't hesitate, and gave up activating the Eye of the Demi-Human King.

[I want to investigate some things with them. Due to too much interference and too high delay, your vision cannot be synchronized. You can only be careful yourself. 】

It sounds like [Demihuman King's Eye] is some kind of long-distance wireless communication device.

Chen Yan is hard to say.

[Also, remember your promise to me, I have a hunch that day is not far away. 】

The target of Osmandis has always been the director. The counterfeit once saw some scenes of grievances and grievances between the two when receiving the "Eye of the Subhuman King", but that was not enough to judge the exact relationship between the two. relation.

Chen Yan himself really knows some "real" grievances and grievances between the two. What he saw and heard in the Glacier Generation is still vivid in his mind. He was deafening.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan once again had a feeling in his heart that something big is about to happen. This feeling does not seem to come from synaesthesia, because when he was still in Yanan City, when Yanan City began to lay When I was working on [Lighthouse], this feeling appeared.

In any case, let's meet Lindsay first.

……

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One p.m.

The office of the chairman of Z Group is located on a higher floor, but it is far away from the external glass wall of the mechanical honeycomb. In the morning and evening, the light from the glass wall of the mechanical honeycomb can directly shine in through the shutters.

But now it is one o'clock in the afternoon, the scattered light from the sun can't get in, the incandescent lights in the dome of area B are slightly dim, and the lights are not turned on in the office, only one computer is turned on, and the screen has been adjusted to a darker brightness by Chen Yan In order to adapt to the darker environment, the whole office looks a bit gloomy.

(End of this chapter)