Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 975
In Cervantes' description, the actual start time of the imperial military plan is actually much earlier than the time when Starlink was put into operation—that is, after the Starlink project was born—even before the entire Starlink project appeared , the empire's exploration of the universe has already begun.

Cervantes emphasized the word "exploration", from which Chen Yan learned the nature of the empire's military plan - "exploration", which is the purpose of the empire to enter outer space and carry out military operations.

Outer space is not the cold starry sky that people usually imagine, but is divided into [light] and [dark].

Light or darkness does not depend on the area that the [Light] can illuminate, but only on the area that the [Radio Signal] of the [Lighthouse] can cover.

[Lighthouse]——Each Starlink military base has an independent lighthouse. In fact, the lighthouse was built before the space station of the military base. After the radio signal of the [Lighthouse] covered a certain area, this area became Only when the part of [brightness] is acquired can it be set foot by human beings.

When Chen Yan heard this, he thought to himself, this is not a question of whether to be an egg or a chicken, because the [Lighthouse] was originally built on the surface, from the surface to the sky, and then from the sky to space, the construction of the [Lighthouse] Always within the coverage of 【Light】.

The reason why the terms [light] and [darkness] are full of religious connotations are used to define it is because according to the safety of this world is given by the Holy Light-the hymn group has the final right to interpret everything in this world.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan couldn't help but think of the secret news that Klein said before - the head of the choral group died and kept it secret - what kind of effect did this fact have on the superstructure of the empire? What about the impact?Chen Yan couldn't imagine it.

Forcibly pulling back the distracted attention, Chen Yan couldn't help asking:
"The place where the radio signal is not covered, that is, the [dark] place, if humans enter, what will happen?"

Cervantes answered him in one word:

"fear."

The place of [Darkness] is called [Dark Zone] by the imperial military——as the name suggests, it is the "dark zone".

Most of the people who enter the dark area are lost in the darkness forever. Even if they come back by chance, they will suffer from severe phobias, and it is almost impossible to live in human society.

Chen Yan knew about this disease.

Phobia, formerly known as "phobic psychosis", has an unknown pathology. Patients usually show unusual fear and strong anxiety without warning. And syncope, those with severe symptoms will have different symptoms depending on their own conditions. Some patients will have serious suicidal behaviors, and even pose a serious threat to the lives of others, and make unimaginable bloody events——

This process has been explained as "fear transfer", in which "fear" is transferred from the patient to other people-but there are not many cases of "fear transfer" in history, and it cannot be regarded as a typical symptom of phobia.

[Dark Zone] Wherever it is located, fear follows like a shadow.

The first person who strayed into the dark area was an ordinary worker at the Starlink engineering base. He lost his way after get off work one day and accidentally entered the area covered by the [Lighthouse] radio signal.

A week later, people found him on the edge of the dark area. At that time, he was so dehydrated that he looked like a mummified corpse. He didn't know how he survived.

Since the empire has spaceflight history, he is the first carbon-based life individual who enters the dark area by himself and walks out of the dark area by himself in a non-experimental state.

Because this was a very rare sample, doctors at the Starlink military base treated him for three months.

It is not quite accurate to say that it is treatment. To be precise, it is "observation", "captivity" and "experiment".

The [phobia] on him is extremely strong, and will spread through various channels—yes, you heard that right, the special [phobia] he suffers from is a vicious infectious disease! "

Listening to Cervantes' terrible tone, Rafael Sansi looked stubborn, obviously disdainful of what Cervantes said.

"This phobia doesn't spread like normal carbon-based viruses, and we don't even think it's a virus because it's transmitted by radio signals."

Cervantes said more and more outrageous.

"It will invade a certain frequency band without warning, find the terminal equipment connected to the frequency band along that frequency band, invade the terminal equipment, and then affect people through the terminal equipment—it affects people's brain waves, but until The patient died, and the experimenters were unable to determine the principle of its invasion, as well as the specific mechanism of selecting the frequency band—its pathology is completely unknown!
He was euthanized, dissected and deconstructed at the military base three months later, after treatment failed, his condition deteriorated rapidly, his phobias made him aggressive, and he died in large numbers.

But the military base did not get any results—the only result was that the "pineal gland" between the eyebrows of this person turned into some kind of malignant tumor.

To put it simply, the pineal gland has changed, but it has not become an eye in the brain, but has become cancerous. "

Listening to this outrageous plot, Chen Yan couldn't help asking again:

"What about complicated?"

Cervantes replied:
"To put it more complicatedly, because he saw some kind of unknown knowledge—an unknown knowledge completely different from the unknown knowledge seen by the superhuman beings on the surface, the pineal gland evolved away from the supernatural direction.

But the human body is too weak, and the normal and slow extraordinary process can kill people, let alone such a drastic evolution?

The human body cannot withstand such a violent evolution, and the entire evolution process cannot proceed smoothly, so it goes in a bad direction and becomes cancerous. "

Chen Yanguang felt uncomfortable just listening to it, so he didn't speak.

"After that, the Starlink military base strictly prohibited staff from entering the [Dark Zone], and all research on the Dark Zone was therefore stopped."

"Until this time, Raphael violated the order and carried out data docking with the ship returning from the dark zone... This is very dangerous, because from the research on the first phobia patient, this special [Phobia] itself is [contagious]——according to the current situation, if the [phobia] from [Dark Zone] really has the nature of a virus, then the two of us are already infected !"

Chen Yan was startled, and hurriedly manipulated the quantum avatar to conduct a self-screening.

Since the self-screening does not call the data of the server, it is only the data flow inside the quantum avatar, so the speed of data retrieval is much faster than Chen Yan's speed of shuttling through the server, and the screening has been completed almost in an instant——

There is no strange code in the quantum clone.

Chen Yan suddenly had an association from his behavior:
"Since it is transmitted through radio signals, it must eventually be effective in the form of data, so can the firewall block this virus?"

Cervantes said:

"This is one of the original experimental ideas. This idea has not been realized, because the condition of the experimental subject is deteriorating too fast, and there is no time for follow-up experiments."

People in this world are really full of disasters. People who don’t change their brains will be tortured by various diseases. With such a [phobia], I don’t know how many people will be harmed in the future.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan has actually accepted Cervantes' idea - the behavior of Rafael Sansi rashly exchanging data with ships coming out of the dark zone is particularly dangerous, and it is entirely possible that it will cause serious problems in the entire human society. A dangerous act of a great plague.

And Rafael Sansi himself didn't care at all——

"I think the program firewall is perfectly capable of defending against the virus carried by [phobia]-if this so-called [phobia] virus really exists."

Rafael Sansi finally spoke in this conversation, and he obviously had a certain pride that could not be persuaded by others:
"According to our genre, everything can be digitalized, even normal carbon-based viruses can still be digitalized to construct a data model, so as to carry out targeted elimination, similar to [phobia] through radio signals Of course, the transmitted binary virus is also included in this list."

Cervantes obviously knew enough about him, because she interrupted his violent talk in such a simple and rude way as changing the subject:
"You have made this matter now, and the higher authorities have tasted the sweetness from the controllable nuclear fusion. They will definitely send more exploration teams into the [Dark Zone] in the future. If the [Phobia] spreads due to this, I am afraid there will be no way to end it." gone."

Her next sentence was to Chen Yan:

"But we can't do anything—soldiers like me, and programmers like Raphael, we are just terminals used by the superstructure of the empire to execute orders. All we can do is execute orders."

Chen Yan heard her hidden meaning and asked:

"What if I go back to the surface and get your family to safety?"

Raphael took over the conversation:
"As long as the [Ark of Salvation] plan is still being implemented, we will not be able to survive safely for a day. On the contrary...as long as we are still serving, our families will be protected by the Imperial Military Affairs Law, and our high salaries will be used to pay for our lives needed."

Chen Yan finally understood their plight——

From a short-term point of view, they are very likely to be infected with [phobia] because of the exploration of the [dark zone] by the imperial ships, and they will disappear immediately;
From a long-term point of view, as long as they cannot get the tickets for the [Ark of Salvation], they will be abandoned in this "old world" sooner or later, and will fall into disaster with the arrival of the end.

Extending the head is a knife, shrinking the head is still a knife!

It's been a damn hard day too.

Thanks to the fast thinking speed of the quantum avatar, Chen Yan quickly found the blind spot:

"What I want to know is, what will we face after the [Ark of Salvation] is built, and those people selected by the high-level empire leave this world on the [Ark of Salvation], and thus sacrifice the world we are in?"

When Chen Yan said this, he was not embarrassed at all:
"I mean, my life is only a few decades. As far as I am concerned, I feel that I will live to be 60 years old... at most 70 years old, which is almost enough. At the end of the day, it is meaningless to live any longer. I am old. It’s inconvenient, what’s the point of being alive! With this calculation, I’ll almost have 30 years left, and it doesn’t matter if he comes to the end or not?”

Cervantes showed clear disdain for his blind optimism:

"If you said this before the birth of brain-computer technology, no one would pick on you, but now the times have changed, and the cost of becoming an omnic human has been greatly reduced—even a loan is only needed Contract, you can get a customized brain robot body from William Adams Group, and become an omnipotent human-human life is greatly extended by silicon-based substances, so the meaning of doomsday is infinitely magnified for everyone-doomsday is for everyone Human beings are closely related.”

Rafael Sansi took up the conversation:
"Even wise and rational human beings will fear death, and no one has been an exception since ancient times. You are so disdainful of death now, just because you have not really faced death. In the words of your Asians, It’s just standing and talking without backache.”

Chen Yan was ridiculed by the two people, and he became angry from embarrassment, so he said to them:

"Let's stop today's conversation. I'll discuss it with another person and hear what he thinks about these things."

After he finished speaking, he unilaterally cut off the connection—Chen Yan let the quantum clone stay in an unknown corner of the STR-213 military base server, and then opened his eyes in this world.

The dark white halo of the Z symbol came in from outside the blinds, illuminating Chen Yan's slightly irritable face.

He rubbed his face to clear his mind, drank a cup of cold tea on the table, burped, and glanced at the time on the computer screen——

It is already six o'clock in the afternoon.

He touched his already deflated stomach, decided to have a meal first, and then come back to communicate with the night school in Yanan City—this is something he has long wanted to do, but has never had time to do—then go to Talk to Professor Lawyer about the Starlink military base.

……

……

Not at the same moment, but happening simultaneously—

Wishing to see the ice in front of the ferry getting thicker and thicker, I am very worried about whether the power of the ferry can continue to break the ice. After all, this old guy does not know what era the BIOS was driven by. The algorithm must be very slow, and the program optimization must be It's too bad, otherwise, how could it be left here without being activated for such a long time?

Wish thought to himself, the strange thing is that the BIOS driver has not been completely deleted or split and reorganized, but has been discarded here forever, which cannot be explained.

'Maybe the old guy's BIOS function is not completely disabled, it's just because the function is too old, so it has been idle for a long time. '

(End of this chapter)