Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 981 The Seemingly Sudden Event

Chen Yan and Professor Laoye discussed the matter of the other two [Xun Kuang Elements]. Professor Lao Ye said that he must cooperate closely with them. Although the two people were not very willing to join the [Xun Kuang Denominator], at least they did not stand. On the opposite side of [Xun Kuang] is a force that can be drawn in.

Professor Lawyer has also repeatedly emphasized that the situation in various parts of the empire is very tense now, and even the communication between the nobles tends to be conservative, so the flow of information is very difficult, especially the information about Starlink - due to special reasons, the information from Starlink All the news was intercepted, and almost no one knew about it except the high-level empire.

Chen Yan told Professor Lawyer that it was not that the information from Starlink was intercepted, but that it was not transmitted to the surface at all. The colonies of Starlink have their own independent server rooms, and the information obtained by military operations is stored in the starry sky. In the computer room in the middle, there is no transmission to the server on the surface at all.

——This news hit Professor Lawyer hard, and it also made him realize that the current situation is much more serious than he imagined.

"No matter what, keep in touch with them... and tell them these things."

Professor Lawyer told Chen Yan that he must convey a few messages to them:
1 The empire will soon have an entire fleet departing from the sea outside the imperial capital to station in an unknown part of the Star Chain. At that time, there will be unknown military operations.

2 The Institute of Programming Languages ​​of the National University will be relocated to the STR-2 Starlink Colony as a whole, the purpose is unknown.

3 The pioneering plan for [Dark Zone] has already been planned, and it is very detailed, because [Lagrange's third law] is that in some special cases, it is possible to emit and receive radio without [Lighthouse]. The plan provided a theoretical basis, and the imperial military was able to use special military radios to explore the [Dark Zone]. Although the effect of this exploration is relatively vague, it can roughly obtain a fuzzy topographic map of the [Dark Zone] through the process——

Based on this, Professor Lawyer speculated that the professors and teachers from the Fleet and the Institute of Programming Languages ​​of the National University went to Starlink to carry out the plan and explore the [Dark Zone].

——Professor Lawyer corroborates each other with the news about [Controlled Nuclear Fusion] brought by Chen Yan, and thinks that it may be because the officers of the STR-213 military base accidentally obtained valuable information from the [Dark Zone] This matter contributed to the decision of the empire.

Professor Lawyer told Chen Yan that these three pieces of information themselves might not have any direct value to those two people, but the level of confidentiality of these pieces of information is very high. Tell those two that he has the value of having access to the innermost secrets of the Empire - and he wants them to know his value.

Chen Yan expressed his understanding.

He originally wanted to use the quantum clone to go to the Starlink STR-213 military base and tell Cervantes and Rafael Sansi the news, but his actions were interrupted by a strong hunger—he His body told him that if he didn't eat any more, he was going to faint due to the low blood sugar caused by starvation.

Chen Yan stopped using the quantum avatar, and after waking up in the present world, he received a text message from Thomas Gilbert. He thought it was just time to deal with this urgent matter, and it would not be too late to contact the two [Xunkuang elements] in Starlink.

A few minutes later, when Chen Yan arrived at Area Y, his perception of the storm outside the mechanical hive was already very intense. Just standing on the ground, he felt that the ground and the air were constantly trembling, the air trembling caused by raindrops It even made him feel like those raindrops were hitting his head.

Standing at the entrance of Area Y, you can already see the glass dome at the top of the Ring of Control in Area Z. The lightning is even more shocking at this moment - the lightning comes from the sky and is dispersed when it touches the water flow above the mechanical honeycomb dome. The dispersed light spreads in all directions along the water.

The thunder light outlines the shape of the water flow, like a huge thunder flower blooming on the dome of the mechanical honeycomb. When Chen Yan looked up, the thunder flower covered the entire field of vision, extending from one end of the pupil to the other, like The whole world is occupied.

The Lightning Lightning Flower is not static. Whenever there is a thunderbolt in the dark clouds, the Lightning Lightning Flower will burst into a blinding light in an instant. Chen Yan subconsciously hides when the Lightning Lightning falls, so that he does not end up alone. The end of blindness.

Under the shocking spectacle, Chen Yan saw Thomas Gilbert hiding from the light under the arch at the entrance of Area Y.

Seeing him coming alone, the latter showed a little astonishment on his face:

"You... came alone?"

Thomas Gilbert was not the same as usual. He had a parrot standing on his shoulder. At a glance, Chen Yan felt that the beast looked like a brown-headed parrot from the tropical south of the empire. subspecies, one of the quieter small birds of prey.

Very ordinary.

While observing the parrot, Chen Yan felt a strong "distrust" in the air.

Such strong emotions made Chen Yan know what Thomas Gilbert was thinking in an instant:
"Is what you are going to do dangerous?"

Thomas Gilbert thought he had nothing to hide, so he told Chen Yan about it.

After hearing this, Chen Yan frowned and said:

"This kind of thing sounds like their internal struggle... I advise you not to get involved, isn't it good to make money safely?"

Thomas Gilbert smiled:

"Don't you Asians often say that the bold are starved to death and the timid are starved to death!"

Chen Yan said:

"That's what speculators use to deceive themselves. It doesn't make any sense at all. In fact, no matter how timid or brave, they all die. It's just that some people survived, which makes others have a survivor bias in their perception."

Thomas Gilbert made a "stop" gesture and said:

"Tell me if you can help!"

Chen Yan thought for a while and said:

"You wait."

He took out his phone and dialed Lindsay Robert Darwin.

When the phone was connected, Chen Yan asked:

"Good evening. Are you with A1 now?"

Chen Yan skipped the word "Turing". He didn't want Thomas Gilbert to know about his relationship with the William Adams Group for the time being.

After Lindsay sent the confirmed information, Chen Yan continued:

"Ask it for me. There is a big data processing center in the logistics center. Something bad has happened there. Can it retrieve the surveillance video for me?"

"Yeah, it's hacking in."

"It says it has no authority? This is already a lie, which means that it can do things that violate the life rules of Turing chip data just like lying."

"I'm not free right now, I have to let it come."

"You tell it, I will authorize it this time, and I will bear the responsibility if something goes wrong... Just try not to leave any traces of it."

Under Thomas Gilbert's puzzled gaze, Chen Yan turned off his phone, opened the text message page, and a text message with a surveillance video attached had been sent to his phone.

Chen Yan beckoned Thomas Gilbert to come closer, then opened the surveillance video in the text message, and put the phone sideways.

The surveillance video was divided into four parts, which happened to be the four surveillance patterns of the big data center. The time marked on the video was 6:10 this afternoon. Chen Yan played the video at 8x speed.

At [-]:[-], the big data processing center was brightly lit. Five staff members were in charge of the server room, a huge mechanical sphere, the equipment management room, and the office. It seemed that they were just doing some daily work.

At about 06:30, the lights in the big data processing center suddenly dimmed, and then flickered continuously.

A staff member went to the server room for inspection, and the moment he touched the server hardware, he suddenly stood still in front of a server device.

Another staff member noticed something was wrong and went to pat him on the back. Suddenly, his whole body twitched, and he turned around and bit another staff member, biting off the man's neck.

The scene was bloody, the flickering lights were completely dimmed, screams came from the video, and the camera with night vision function obviously captured the horrifying scene in the dark - two staff members biting each other The injured parts fused together, first the skin, then the flesh and bones, they fused into a lump of deformed creature like a sarcoma.

A hand made of bones broke out from the fused mass of deformed creatures. It violently waved and destroyed a server on a support frame. During the flickering of electric sparks, the bone arm pulled out. A certain device in the server was inserted into a certain position of the deformed creature's body.

"That's mass memory."

Even though Thomas Gilbert had experienced countless bloody scenes, he felt extremely uncomfortable when faced with such a scene.

He looked at Chen Yan, who was puzzled, and explained:

"I bought this thing before...but the configuration of the goods I bought is low, not like this...such a high-end, at least a group-level server can use this kind of memory."

The large-capacity memory in the screen is almost half the size of a normal human head. After the deformed creature installed this thing on its body, more arms and feet broke out from its body—it had the ability to stand.

The other staff had already reacted at this moment-a male staff member held what looked like a shotgun and fired at the thing.

A large cloud of blood mist followed the piercing sound of gunshots. The male staff realized that something was wrong and quickly took out the bullets to replace the shotgun, but it was still a step too late—the deformed creature with a large-capacity memory rushed out of the blood mist Come out and meld the staff after a split second.

The No.4 staff who came to the server room to check the situation immediately saw that something was wrong and wanted to run away, but the deformed creature grabbed the palm of his hand and couldn't break free.

Just when Chen Yan thought that the deformed creature was going to merge with the fourth person, the fifth person—this is a woman—appeared in the field of view of the surveillance camera, holding a machete half the length of an arm—God knows the big data processing center Why would the staff bring in things like machetes! ——She cut off the arm of the No.4 staff member with a knife, dragged the fourth person who fell to the ground due to severe pain, and dragged him to the room where the giant mechanical ball was, and closed the room between the two rooms. Interconnected gates.

'Um?gate?What is a gate?This... should be a setting that can block the radio. The designer of the big data processing center knew that a similar situation would happen, so did he take similar precautions at the beginning of the design...'

The speed at which the gate closed was obviously beyond the expectation of the deformed creature. It rushed over quickly, but still only half of its arm came in - the gate pinched this arm, and the woman chopped that arm into several pieces with a machete. Duan, even if the vitality was too strong, the thing still fell to the ground, and after a few twitches like an arthropod, it died completely.

Seeing this, Thomas Gilbert finally couldn't help but said:
"The person who spoke to me is probably this woman."

Because only this person is a woman among the five staff members.

The parrot on his shoulder did not speak.

Chen Yan didn't speak, but continued to watch the video.

In the video, the No.4 staff member whose arm was cut off was bleeding profusely, and the room where the giant mechanical ball was located obviously had no medical equipment. In the next three hours or so, he fell into a faint due to excessive blood loss. He fell to the ground without a sound.

It was also during these three hours or so that the deformed creature with the memory inserted into its head had "expanded" in the server room - it seemed to have become some kind of sponge with a very small density. Occupies most of the space in the central part of the entire server room, enclosing all equipment.

Chen Yan noticed that during this process, there was no problem with the surveillance camera in the computer room, which meant that the wires and network in the computer room itself were not damaged.

This thing... is it stealing information from the mechanical hive server?
Chen Yan was thoughtful. This thing appeared when the staff touched the server hardware. After it appeared, it first fused the flesh and blood of the staff, then inserted a video memory for himself, and emptied the staff in the server room. After that, it became what it is now...

So what is it?
Is it some kind of carbon-based siliconized monster that uses the [Carbon-based Silicon Neutralization] technology, so it can read the information stored in the server?
The accelerated video quickly played to the end, and Chen Yan determined the location of the server through the information marked on the video—it was in a beehive guarded by soldiers not far from the entrance of Area Y.

When Chen Yan and Thomas Gilbert arrived here, the guarding soldiers had already fallen to the ground. Chen Yan went to check and found that the cause of their death was the explosion of their mobile phones—the damage to key parts caused by the explosion of the mobile phone caused them to die suddenly !
How can something with such a small power as a mobile phone produce a lethal explosion?

Chen Yan couldn't understand, but now was not the time to think about it. He took out a pistol and loaded it. Thomas Gilbert on the other side had already taken out a small submachine gun. The parrot on his shoulder suddenly spoke at this moment.

(End of this chapter)