Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 992 The Little Theater of Desire ([-]): Several Lifetimes
"But the war changed almost everything. The planet Betus was devastated. The town where we got married has turned into a desert that can only be used to bury bones. I can't even find the ruins of the barber shop. "

It tells a tragic thing, but there is no sadness in the tone. It seems that it has recalled the past again and again in its long life, so that it has been completely numb to the tragic memories.

Its cloudy eyes reflected the firelight of the boiler, and the blazing firelight also appeared dim in its eyes.

"Luck always plays tricks on people. During the search, I encountered a local rebel force and almost lost my life. Fortunately, they took a fancy to my skills, so I became one of them - I Became a ship maintainer again.

That group of rebel troops and I...we were rebel troops at first, and they would follow whoever was more powerful, so the troop numbers changed several times. Until the day when the planet Betus was destroyed, they had not yet formed their own interest system.

I spent many years in the desert of the destroyed planet Betus... many years, almost a third of my life.

The desperate days passed day after day, and I worked day and night in the air-raid shelter under the desert. Fortunately, I was very good at what I did, so even though I went through a very difficult period, they did not stop me. of food.

During this period, I took in a woman... not a human being, so there was no barrier to communication between me and her... Another 80 years have passed, and I have almost forgotten my original wife and fell in love with her.

Because she is not human, and there is no mother on the planet Betus, so she and I have no children... But this does not hinder the love between us... It was such a happy time that I even forgot about it all year round The pain of being trapped underground.

Is happiness long-lasting or short-lived?I remember the theory of a very powerful scientist. According to that theory, when I enjoy time, time must be short, and when I am tortured by life, time becomes painfully long.

Good things are always short-lived. "

There was a slight distortion in its tone.

After just a moment of distortion, its tone returned to its dull decay - just like the time left on it.

There is no sun in this world, and day and night cannot be distinguished inside and outside the factory, so Xixi doesn’t know what time it is now. She only feels that the whole world has darkened. Only the light brought by the flames from the boiler can illuminate the darkness, but that’s not it. Just in the blink of an eye, the darkness brings coldness, and even the fire cannot dispel it.

In the darkness, the decay in its voice intensified.

“She aged before me.

Except for the new humans born from the mother's belly, other species need material materials to maintain their life forms. When material materials cannot be used, other species will inevitably come to the end of their lives - endlessly falling into the world. In the process of the end of the world, the most vulnerable new human being in the entire universe turns out to be the one with the longest life span.

I buried her in quicksand. That was the result she wanted. She said that the quicksand would take her to the center of the planet, and the fire in the center of the earth would make her and the planet merge into one. In this way, when I return to my motherland one day, Star, when you look up at the sky, you might be able to see her shining brightly due to the refraction of the nebula's light. "

He actually laughed.

There was a sweet smile on his lips, as if in the face of romance, separation between life and death was nothing to fear.

Wishes understood his smile and open-mindedness.

The wish was greatly shocked.

“After she left, my heart closed again.

From then on, my life was very difficult, and I even suffered from a certain degree of autism. In such a state, I was almost given up by them.

But the plan never changed quickly. One night, there was a loud noise in the sky. My commander quickly came to find me and took me and two other colleagues onto a shuttle.

We left Planet Betus. When I turned around and looked back, the entire planet had turned into a flowing black spot - Planet Betus was turned into a small black hole by an inexplicable force!
Perhaps it was due to the collapse of the planet caused by the bombing, or perhaps some kind of weapon against the center of the earth that caused the planet to condense into a nucleus... In any case, Betus, which was too massive, formed a black hole. As long as we take half a step at night, we will never be able to survive again. Can't leave.

The chief told us that not only Betus was gone, but the entire Furnace Nebula was gone. A certain party on the cosmic battlefield used a forbidden weapon, and civilization officially began its irreversible decline.

My commander - he saved me, but he wasn't an honest man - he sold me on the black market.

This sale was the second time he saved my life - after the black market ship went to the home planet, the [Big Crunch] began that spanned the entire universe. I saw with my own eyes the universe where his shuttle was collapsed. The storm swept into it and dissociated into countless electrons.

At that moment, I was thinking, why didn't he return to his home planet with the black market ship?Do you have low self-esteem about your own identity, so you think you can't integrate into the society of your home planet?Or is it because you disdain war and think that you can find a place away from war and disaster no matter what?

I didn't know the answer then, and I don't know it now. "

When it said this, it seemed to be a little sleepy, but because the body was almost completely decayed, it could not even do such a simple action as stretching. It just twisted its damaged body slightly in place, looking like A poor dying worm.

"The sudden war destroyed civilization, and new humans soon tasted the consequences - the collapse of the universe almost destroyed all star colonies outside the home star, and any server that existed in any form was therefore forever lost in the process of civilization - along with those precious The knowledge that cannot be copied will disappear without a trace forever.

Despair is still to come - when the black market ships returned to the home star, the land and oceans were already in devastation - the war also broke out on the home star. Since all parties have restrained, the home star has been damaged. Not to the same extent as other galaxies in the starry sky.

I still remember that when I first got off the ship, there were radiation zones everywhere inside and outside the ruins of the city under my feet. The black market gave us protective clothing and signed a contract with us, requiring us to work for a certain number of years before we could repay the money for the work clothes.

That's ridiculous, don't they think this contract is actually protecting our interests?
No one knows what they think. "

Its tone returned to calmness.

“At that time, the war on the home planet was coming to an end, the remaining forces had formed a new dynamic balance, and the number of remaining new humans could no longer support a decent war.

Radiation causes everything to deteriorate rapidly, and malignant genetic mutations make new humans suffer bitter consequences. The remaining knowledge of civilization is no longer enough to create real mothers, and only an inferior mother can be used to give birth to new lives - the births of the new era may have They have strong bodies, but due to the incomplete gene pool, they are prone to injuries and illnesses, are more prone to mental trauma, and are more prone to extreme behaviors and... weird habits than previous new humans.

Things are getting worse and worse - the collapse of the universe finally affects the home planet one day. The cities on the entire planet that can accommodate human habitation turn into a desperate situation more vicious than a radiation swamp in a short period of time, and people begin to flee.

Most of the escapees failed and remained in the Collapse Zone forever, with no one knowing what became of them.

A small number of people succeeded. They became survivors, entered the area surrounded by the collapse zone, and had the qualifications to live.

Doomsday and despair have not spared mankind - religions based on doomsday beliefs have begun to wreak havoc in the safe zone, and mutant monsters that occasionally enter the safe zone can easily take away human lives.

The most frightening thing is not the outside world, but human beings themselves - human beings' malice towards their own kind has rapidly expanded in the apocalypse, and killings are rampant in the markets.I don’t know how long the chaos lasted. "

It was almost asleep.

"The world in chaos existed for who knows how long. Finally, finally, the original group of survivors were almost dead. Countless years later, their descendants finally realized that killing could not solve the problem, so they made an important decision - —

They deactivated and destroyed all functioning moms.

Although mothers who have not been destroyed still exist in every corner of the safe zone, they are no longer able to give birth to normal humans. "

The hair on Wish's hair stood up when he heard it, and such fear was simply unspeakable.

“Finally, finally, the whole world is at peace again.

From that time on, there was no longer a ruler in this world, because the number of humans was small enough, the living people usually achieved immortality by uploading their consciousness, and the number of immortals was gradually decreasing - committing suicide, or Choosing to let go when your body reaches its limit is the destiny of the immortals. "

Just like you are now, Wish thought.

“The remaining humans gather together to help each other, support each other, and struggle to survive in the apocalypse.

Some programmers dug out some valuable knowledge from the dust of history, and that knowledge formed today's city, as if it had recreated the glory of the empire.

Everything suddenly became beautiful.

Such beauty did not last long.

After high-rise buildings rose from the ground, the safety zone was suddenly divided into layers. People on the upper and lower floors could not see each other for 80 years. Everyone did not know what happened today. They only knew that there was a company responsible for the operation of the city. Everyone was there. I have a job under the company's arrangement and contribute to the future of mankind through work. "

It pauses here, as if resting.

But it obviously knew that it didn't have much time, so it spoke again, its tired tone that could not be concealed revealed even more urgency that could not be concealed:

"When the world ushered in peace again, I was still working diligently - I was arranged to become a maintenance worker and entered a factory with a good reputation, responsible for the operation and maintenance of equipment in the factory - that was My old profession.

Work seems to have become a part of my life. I don’t know what the meaning of my work is. I only know that as long as I work, I can live - living in a confused way.

I get up at seven o'clock every morning, wash up, have breakfast, and then embark on my commute.

After checking the equipment according to the established route every day, report, apply, receive approval, start maintenance, and then have lunch.

After lunch, I find a place to rest for a while - I always find one.

I was busy again in the afternoon, and then in the evening, after dinner, if there was any unfinished work, I had to work overtime - there is never a break in maintenance work. Once there is a problem with the equipment, it will affect production, and it will affect production. It will affect profits, and affecting profits will affect the operation of the entire factory. As one of the few senior maintenance technicians in the factory, I must keep working at all times.

In fact, it’s not that difficult. I’m used to this kind of life.

One morning, when I looked in the mirror, I looked at myself in the mirror and suddenly realized that I had been living this way for hundreds of years. "

It choked.

Wish doesn't know what to do.

It spoke faster again:
"I started to learn some knowledge and started to explore the deeper aspects of the Internet. I wanted to figure out what the world was like. I wanted to know what the company that arranged all the people was. I wanted to know why I had lived for so long... …I want to know, in this hell on earth, why didn’t I bury myself and my wife together in the desert of the planet Betus?”

"But I can't go back to the past. Radiation clouds cover the sky. Even if I look up, I can't see the girl who is integrated with the planet and shining in the night sky..."

“I learned a lot along the way.

I know that the world has begun to recover. The entire city has been built by the company to more than 9000 floors, and it has already towered into the universe.

I know that a large number of new-age humans have been born in this city of more than 9000 floors. They are different from us in that they are born with disabilities.

I know that the natural environment in the radiation zone outside the company is now capable of survival. Even if the people there live in purgatory every day, they are still struggling to survive.

I know that everything I do is to serve those who stand at the top of the city, building this city with my life to take them to the stars and the sea.

I know that my beauty has been buried in the past forever. "

It looked up at the dark ceiling of the factory, its eyes seeming to see beyond the darkness and the radiation clouds, to see a star twinkling in the distant nebula.

Its tone is searching.

"My girl is waiting for me..."

Finally, finally, it looked up at Wishes, and its cloudy pupils suddenly became clear at this moment, with a beautiful look of surprise blooming in its eyes.

"August, did I find you!?"

Desire hugged it as it fell forward, so it fell into her arms and lost its breath.

(End of this chapter)