Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

The enthusiasm in the magpie's eyes almost set Chen Yan on fire.

Chen Yan had long realized that he could not be alone among the so-called [answers] that seemed to have nothing to do with him. Those seemingly useless connections were telling him the fact that "you can't escape everything" all the time.

His desire to know the answer even surpassed existing in this world itself.

Maybe... maybe taking risks for the answer, although the risk is high, is not the right choice...

When Chen Yanzheng was almost about to agree to him, Thomas Gilbert next to him suddenly said:
"Boss, don't be fooled. I'm most familiar with this kind of ambiguous language."

Chen Yan, who was almost unable to think after being hit by a large amount of heavy information, raised his head and looked at Thomas Gilbert who spoke with red eyes.

The latter grabbed the magpie's shoulders and spoke contemptuously:
"This kind of old liar throws out some facts that seem to be bluffing, and hides the real key facts from you. This makes you never know what they are thinking in their hearts and what their purpose is. The facts revealed are shocking, but they don’t know what the truth behind the facts looks like—usually, the truth behind the facts will be completely different from what they said! This is their ability!”

Chen Yan listened to Thomas Gilbert's words and felt the coldness caused by the rapid cooling of the air due to the intrusion of the typhoon. He shivered hard, and the thought of leaving the magpie in his head had faded by five minutes.

Magpie looked at Chen Yan and his expression became a little sinister. He sneered and said:
"Thomas Gilbert, bugs that grow on rotten things, what right do you have to criticize my knowledge?"

He spoke quickly, blurting out some unacceptable truths before Thomas Gilbert stopped him.

"Do you know that the thing you called [Aunt] when you adopted you is not even a human in nature, it's just a piece of rotten flesh that popped out of nowhere. It’s just a thing!”

Chen Yan stood in front of the chair, and Thomas stood behind the chair, so Chen Yan could easily see the drastic change in Thomas Gilbert's face.

"It feeds you milk, making you think that you are being nourished by it. In fact, there is something wrong with the milk. That is, because you feed it, it seems that you will not die. Every time it dies, there will be traces of traces from its body. It grows out of it - this itself is its imprisonment of you! This means that you can't stay too far away from her - you can never leave its side!

The distance is up to two island chains!Thomas!Once you are two island chains away from its body, phew!You will spontaneously combust into ashes and then be [reborn] from its body! "

Chen Yan listened to this weird thing, looked at Thomas Gilbert's increasingly gloomy face, and looked at his trembling index finger on the trigger due to scruples.

After a moment of silence, Chen Yan pressed the trigger without warning.

Magpie had expected everything before, but he didn't expect Chen Banyan to shoot at him so blindly.

A bullet broke the conversation that he thought he would win, and also disrupted his plan.

This inexplicable conversation just ended in such an ugly manner.

Thomas Gilbert's arm holding the gun slumped down. He looked at Chen Yan with bloodshot eyes and opened his mouth as if he wanted to explain something, but in the end he still didn't make a sound.

"If what he says is true, we will find a way to resolve this matter."

Chen Yan looked at the heavy look in Thomas Gilbert's beautiful blue eyes, and his tone was low and solemn.

"If what he said is false, then screw him!"

Thomas Gilbert's eyes flashed with gratitude, and then he returned to his usual calm.

He knew that Chen Yan didn't smoke, so he took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took two puffs, leaned against the quartz pillar next to the front desk, and fell into silence.

What Magpie said, whether true or not, has already shattered his worldview, and essentially denied his fundamental motivation for sacrificing and fighting for the family. If what Magpie said is true—it is very likely to be true— —Then, most of what he's doing now—most of the struggles he's had in his life, are completely pointless.

His overly cautious character made him think about how he should respond if what Magpie said was true.

Chen Yan didn't speak any more.

He digested the knowledge brought by the magpie and found that it was impossible to judge the authenticity in some places.

Maybe Klein can help verify these words?

Klein plays an important role in the collection plan of [Embers of Generations]. He was previously restricted by the Northern Bureau, but now the chip with restricted functions in his head has been destroyed. Now after being rescued by the director, It stands to reason that he is already free.

If you find Klein, you might be able to get some reliable knowledge from the Northern Bureau's [Generation Embers] project, and also verify the truth of what Magpie said.

Chen Yan glanced at the phone subconsciously.

There was still no signal on the phone screen, which meant that he couldn't contact Klein now.

Chen Yan shivered again and felt the surroundings getting colder. He took out another piece of waste paper from the shredder and threw it into the almost extinguished trash can.

The flames grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, radiating heat to the surroundings, but Chen Yan still felt no warmth this time, and instead felt colder. The flames did not dye the surrounding air fiery red. In this place, the light icy blue that represents cold spreads almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like the color of most areas of the world during this long cold winter.

It’s weird.

At this time, the crow and the strange guest also came out.

"The backup battery is empty."

Crow explained the current situation. "But the information has probably been checked out. This man has fatal injuries on his body, and he has undergone illegal intelligent transformation in an unknown small workshop. Now his brain has been infected with severe intelligent disease, and surgery must be performed as soon as possible."

Fatal injury?Illegal omnic modification?
Chen Yan immediately built an image of a gang member from this information——

A young gangster who was injured in a gang fight has no money to find a big company for intelligent robot modification, so he can only go to shady small workshops to buy cheap services, cheaper intelligent robots, and even brain machines——

He was obviously unlucky. He got a second-hand brain machine that had not been cleaned, so he was infected with omnic disease while uploading his consciousness. Until now, he had no choice but to find a larger company for treatment...

The only problem is money - if he is as rich as he said, why would he go to a small workshop?Because his identity cannot be seen in the light?Or is it because you want to save money because of your narrow horizons?still?

The customer’s attitude is stiff:

"Then let's make some changes as soon as possible."

Chen Yan said to Crow:
"I remember we don't have brain robot bodies in stock anymore."

In fact, there were a lot of counterfeit goods stored in the past. On the second underground floor of the Z Group hive, there were more than 50 general-purpose civilian brain-machine human bodies. However, Chen Yan felt that there was something wrong with this person, so he Before we figure out the situation, we don't plan to rashly transform him into omnics.

With just one look, Crow knew what Chen Yan was thinking and said without any trace:
"The batch of goods that the company ordered before will be delivered tomorrow morning, but even if the goods are available, it will still have to consume electricity, use a machine to perform calculations, and then adapt the parameters to his brain. Otherwise, he will directly suffer from mental illness after uploading his consciousness. If you have a mechanical disease, even the gods will not be able to save you."

The guest did not speak. The data stored in his head told him that the two people in front of him were talking about some objective facts - the data he copied from the large database showed Z Group's purchase plan. If it were not for this typhoon, tomorrow In the morning, there was indeed an order for brain robots and human bodies that would be delivered by the high-tech zone factory in Yanan City to the Z Group's Intelligent Prosthetics Company.

Because it was linked to taxation, once the purchase invoice for the brain robot body was created, it was already in the database of the logistics center, so he immediately knew the key.

Z Group’s own sales of brain machines and human bodies belong to the company’s own information. In order to keep user privacy confidential, Z Group encrypts all users’ treatment information and stores it in its own server database and does not connect it to logistics. The center's large database meant that he could not intuitively calculate the stock of Z Group's brain-machine bodies.

But he could see some clues from the overall data of the first island chain at a macro level - the approximate number of people on the island who undergo omnic transformation every day, and the approximate number of people who may have undergone omnic transformation and circulate between islands. , the number of people admitted to public hospitals for treatment due to omnics, the exclusive physical addresses of general-purpose civilian brain robots connected to the island chain Internet, etc...

Some of these data are accurate, some are inaccurate, and some are very vague.

He organized and calculated the data according to the algorithm in the large database, and finally came to a conclusion:
There is an 87% chance that Z Group’s omnic prosthetics company now has stock of brain robot hardware.
This is not the final result. According to the algorithm principle of big data, data conclusions need to be combined with real variables, so it is inevitable to compare with the dialogue between the two people in front of you:

Judging from the big data analysis of the personality of Z Group founder Chen Yan, he is a pure businessman. Taking into account the nature and definition of a businessman, and substituting the function formula used to calculate personality variables, the previously calculated probability is reduced to 46%.
Judging from the conversation between the two people in front of them and the situation of "the power outage of the mechanical hive causing the equipment to become unusable", there is no need for them to deceive on the issue of "whether they have the inventory of brain-machine human bodies", because the "power outage" itself is already "unable to use". surgery", so the previously calculated probability is reduced to 13%
Then, the authenticity of the information in their conversation is as high as 87%.

This means their conversation can be trusted.

——After calculating the probability in a few milliseconds and drawing conclusions from the probability, he did not question the plans of the two people in front of him.

He obviously has no understanding of the twists and turns of normal human thoughts.

Chen Yan said to him:

"Then we can only wait until the power of the mechanical hive is restored."

A standard "discomfort" appeared on the guest's face, but he didn't say anything. He just sat down near the trash can and absorbed the warmth of the flames with his body.

He made such an expression because big data calculated an important characteristic of human beings - "Awe of power but not moral", which means that in most interactions between people, they have a bad temper and bad attitude. The side that always occupies a favorable position.

He's still young, he needs to develop, he has to be careful enough.

For some reason, the inside of the Z Group lobby was getting colder and colder. He judged the impact of temperature on his body in a short period of time, and quickly came to the burning trash can, stretching out his hands to try to warm his body.

Chen Yan glanced at the magpie's dead body irritably, then dragged the chair and placed the body on the wall away from the flames.

When he returned to the fire, the other three were already gathered around the fire - even so, they were still shivering to some extent. Although Chen Yan felt cold, he was not as cold as them. , so I feel very strange.

Crow looked at the flames, then at Chen Yan's face, as if he had noticed something, his eyes changed a bit, and after hesitating again and again, he said:

"Boss, are you... stained with something dirty?"

In this quiet and dark environment, Chen Yan's eyebrows jumped:
"It's better not to say anything about this now!"

The crow hesitated again, and there was a flash of struggle in his eyes, but he finally said:
"When I was in Yanan City, I discovered a strange microorganism... This microorganism has a long historical lifespan, and its nature is very bad. It relies on a subtle assimilation to reproduce itself - this thing will Infect carbon-based organisms, slowly erode the brains of carbon-based organisms, and allow carbon-based organisms—mainly people and cats and dogs in the city—to give them some negligible power in exchange for their own violent reproduction."

Chen Yan frowned and said:
"Didn't we discuss this in your medicine house before? It's the strain of the Spring God."

Crow was surprised that Chen Yan was so blunt about this, that even the words were interrupted:

"Well... this thing... is quite evil. Usually... evil gods like the Spring God who are dying or dead in various senses will have an ultimate goal - to be resurrected or reincarnated. This This is almost the purpose of all such evil gods—advanced carbon-based life forms.”

In one sentence, Crow had recovered from his surprise:

"Using the words of our ancestors, for most living things, if they are old but not dead, they will become demons. Becoming a demon means possessing a spirit and being able to communicate with heaven and earth——Using the supernatural schools of the supernatural society of the empire The scientific system explains this sentence, that is, any carbon-based life has a higher-level form of existence, and the advanced form of life of carbon-based life usually exists in the form of energy that extends outside the body—such as synaesthesia.”