Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

"The radar system of the shuttle ship has been interfered with...perhaps because of the geomagnetic changes caused by the apocalypse, or perhaps the space above the earth's surface is no longer suitable for radio propagation in the past."

Klein made this judgment with an ugly face:

"We have to pick a place to land... where at least we won't crash due to loss of power."

Ogami said:
"And then freeze to death?"

Before Klein could tell him his plan, he continued to say something that Klein couldn't understand at all:
"You must go into the wilderness after freezing to death, but it's different for me. I no longer have the power of Long Yin, so I don't know where I will go after I die. This is the worst thing."

Klein had no idea what Ogami was talking about. He watched the red fuel tank warning light on the dashboard flashing faster and faster. He no longer hesitated and began to descend toward the surface.

Ten minutes later, they finally reached the ice-covered surface before the shuttle boat's fuel tank reached its lowest level.

Outside the porthole window, the whole world is a blur, and it is completely impossible to distinguish between east, west, north and south.

"I will increase the radio wave output frequency so that the radar can detect it as far away as possible. If human structures can be detected, we may have a chance to move forward."

Both of them understood that if there were no buildings that could serve as supply stations, they might be left in the snow forever.

The two stood in the cabin in front of the center console, nervously watching the radar chart.

As Klein inputs operating instructions to the center console, the radar's radio wave output power continues to increase, and the spread range of the radio waves on the radar map becomes larger and larger.

But until the center console screen flickered due to unstable power, no similar building was detected on the radar map.

At this moment, Klein's mood was actually very calm.

That's it.

He thought to himself that if this was his fate, it might not be too bad. He heard that people who freeze to death do not suffer any pain before death, and only die in their sleep due to low temperature and lack of oxygen...

It's a pity that what he has always wanted to do cannot be done successfully. If the mechanical hive is still there, maybe Chen Banyan can continue to do what he wants to do.

But is the mechanical hive really still there?

Until now, Klein already had a vague idea of ​​the answer in his mind——

When they left the stratosphere, they followed the map in the direction of the mechanical hive, but they still haven't arrived at the mechanical hive yet, which means that the mechanical hive has been submerged in the tsunami...

"southwest!"

Ogami's sudden serious growl woke up Klein, who immediately focused his attention on the radar chart.

The moment before the radar stopped working due to insufficient power supply, Klein saw the building graphics displayed on the radar map - just southwest of their current location!
The two people who survived the desperate situation quickly calmed down. They put on the aerospace-grade simple insulation suits equipped on the shuttle boat, carried the rations prepared by the ship's logistics staff before departure, and turned on the shuttle through the emergency manual switch. Boat pressure door.

They walked into the wind and snow and headed southwest. What hindered them was not only the disaster-level storm, but also waist-deep snow and joint stiffness caused by extreme low temperatures.

Klein, who has a modified body, can calmly cope with this situation by relying on the insulating suit, but it is difficult for Ogami who has lost his extraordinary body. A simple insulating suit and a set of equipment have become a problem in such extreme weather. His stumbling block was that he had to discard his backpack before he could barely continue moving forward in the wind and snow.

After walking for an unknown amount of time—probably a distance long enough to turn a person's inner hope into despair—a huge shadow finally appeared in front of them in the field of vision that was darkened by the violent wind and snow.

It is the shadow of the city!

The existence of the shadow injected new impetus into them, and they continued to move forward with hope. After a difficult hour, they finally saw clearly where the shadow was——

In the howling wind and snow, half of the huge building like a giant corpse has been buried in the snow. The former prosperity has also been completely buried and disappeared under the cover of snow. Only the hugeness of the corpse itself is telling people. It tells of its former glory, but such glory has completely died, and is gone forever like the death of any life.

The only remaining half of the giant's body was riddled with holes. Even if the huge explosion marks on the building in mid-air had been frozen, they were extremely conspicuous against the oval surface of the entire building. It was obvious that he had not only experienced more than [-] years of life before being buried. After experiencing natural disasters, we must also experience unstoppable man-made disasters.

"This is... a mechanical hive?!"

When he set foot on Sunset Boulevard, Klein was almost in disbelief at what he saw:
As far as the eye can see, there are ruins. The once bustling streets and gorgeous buildings have now become dilapidated icy ruins. Blizzards swarmed in through the cracks of the huge mechanical door at the end of Sunset Boulevard. Ogami turned around and looked back, only to see I saw countless human corpses piled up in the ice within the crack of the hundreds-meter-high gate at the end of Sunset Boulevard. The corpses looked like they were trying to push the gate open with their bare hands.

——People’s last action before death is to escape from here.

"Not right."

Ogami said:
"We have only been away for two weeks. Bodies should not rot under such extreme low temperatures. How can these people be completely reduced to skeletons?"

Klein mused:

"Maybe it's because of the fire? The signs of burning of the building are very serious. Maybe there was a large-scale explosion here."

The mood of the two people was extremely depressed. They did not expect that the mechanical hive would become like this in just half a month. They thought that the tsunami must be the starting point of all disasters - the tsunami made everything worse, so the cause of destruction was destroyed. This begins.

They tried to find human traces in the mechanical hive, so they entered the residential area of ​​Area A from Sunset Boulevard. As the lowest level of the entire mechanical hive, this place had completely collapsed. Because the entire mechanical hive had tilted, more than half of Area A had been destroyed. The ice enters the sea water.

They entered Area B along the almost unrecognizable remains of the hive. They searched according to their memories in this heavily tilted city, and found the location of the Z Group with great difficulty——

This place has become a ruin!
"Ruins?! How is that possible?!"

The two of them found it completely unbelievable that the building where Group Z was originally located had been razed!
This is the hinterland of Area B and cannot be reached by wind and snow, so it is easy to identify the traces of the explosion - the Z Group building was destroyed.

Perhaps it was because of the turmoil in the mechanical hive. During the turmoil, some of Chen Yan's enemies retaliated against them...

The two of them had already been mentally prepared to face the worst outcome after entering the mechanical hive, so after seeing such a scene, they were barely able to remain calm.

"Perhaps they had moved before the explosion. It's possible." Klein said solemnly.

The two quickly found the entrance to the Z Group's basement.

Since the basement was transformed from the alloy mechanical mechanism of the mechanical hive itself, even if there was an explosion on the first floor, the damage to the first underground floor would not be significant.

The two knew that the degree of damage to a building and the degree of harm caused to people were two different things. If an explosion of this magnitude occurred on the first floor, people on the first floor underground would definitely not be spared.

They did not find any living creatures on the first floor. At the same time, good news emerged - they also did not find any bodies on the first floor - which meant that when the explosion occurred, the people on the first floor had already Moved!

What exciting news.

In a room on the ground floor, they found a message on a bedside table that read:

"Good luck happens when people come together to follow a common path. 》

What is this... Ogami whispered:

"It's not Chen Yan's handwriting...and the attribution method is wrong. Chen Yan would not simply attribute the success of things to [luck]."

Klein stroked the paper:

"The paper has not been seriously oxidized, and the writing is very clear. It seems that it did not take too long from the completion of writing to now.

It may be because the temperature is too low, or it may be other reasons.

The only thing we can be sure of is that the writing on this piece of paper must not have been written half a month ago - it seems that it has been a long time. "

Ogami thought:
"Maybe the truth is not what it seems."

Immediately afterwards, Ogami briefly and concisely stated what he saw in the BIOS.

Klein was stunned when he heard this, and his brain couldn't react for a moment.

After a few seconds, Klein said:

"In other words, the space we are in now may not be the space we were originally in - it may be a [deeper world] parallel to the space we are in."

Ogami thought:
"I think so."

Klein said slowly:
"In other words, in the process of entering the subatmospheric area from the stratosphere, we [crossed] with the shuttle boat, so we came here."

Okami nodded:
"Probably."

If the entire server has really begun to decline, will there be operational errors inside the server due to the unstable physical conditions of the server itself?
Apparently it's possible!
If they were forced to travel to a space parallel to their current world due to a program error caused by unstable server operation, then everything would be explained - the mechanical hive in this world was rapidly deteriorating due to the advent of the apocalypse, and human beings has perished.

Ogami looked at the message on the paper and thought for a long time in the dim space before suddenly turning the paper to the back.

He immediately saw another few lines of words:

"It is not matter that leads to destruction, but humanity itself.

Hunger, desire, riot... everything erupted in the madness of despair, and quickly drowned the last bit of hope.

Doomsday and complete destruction turns out not to come from the apocalypse, but simply from humanity itself. 》

"really."

When the two of them saw this line of writing, they roughly understood that their guess was probably correct.

It is completely unimaginable who could write such a thing in such desperate circumstances.

The two of them were deep in thought, each with their own thoughts.

They began searching the Z Group's basement a moment later.

A moment later, he found something he expected in a room on the second floor of the basement - a sword with seven branches.

Klein asked:
"what is this?"

Ogami looked at the seven swords in his hand, stroked the handles, and said in a deep voice:
"Someone knows we're here...someone is helping us."

The one with seven swords is Nuomiguo. Is this sword left by Nuomiguo?
How did Nuomi Guo know that I would come back - how did she know that I would use this sword at some point in the future?
He looked at Klein and said:

"This sword is the reason why I went to the BIOS. We may be able to find a way to reactivate it, but I don't guarantee that you can enter the BIOS."

Ogami still clearly remembers that the programmer in the BIOS said that one must have a complete [soul characteristic value] to be qualified to enter the BIOS.

The programmer may be lying, but it is a proven fact that this sword allows him to enter the BIOS.

Ogami seemed to be asking himself: "If I go to the BIOS again, can I return to the world I am in through the BIOS?"

When the two were on the shuttle boat, they had compared their respective timelines and event axes, and determined that they were in the same world——

This is a very important thing for Ogami, because according to his vision, he may not enter his own world, but a [deeper world] that is very similar to the world he is in.

Klein said:
"There is no point in entering the BIOS... There is no point in simply surviving."

Ogami obviously agrees with this statement:

"Yes... let's go find Chen Yan's ship. If this world is really a [deeper world] parallel to our current world, there should be a gate of transcendence on his ship. We can go there through the gate of transcendence. Wilderness, and then go back to this world where we are!”

Although the two made this decision together, they did not have high hopes for this decision.

The two highly mobile people soon saw Chen Yan's ship at the power plant of the Mechanical Hive. They used flashlights to go down the chimney of Chen Yan's ship.

Fortunately, their suspicions turned out to be true, and there was still a long way to go below the chimney.

They soon realized that their suspicions were only half true, for as the view darkened, they had not reached the wilderness.

——They arrived at a desolate but not dark land, with the bright starry sky above their heads.

They stared at the starry sky in front of them, and the first person to react was Klein:
“There may be many [deeper worlds], but there must be only one [wilderness]. This is an objective fact recognized by countless extraordinary schools and verified countless times.

Our location must be a wilderness, and the reason why we see the starry sky is because we may be on a planet on the edge of the wilderness... We are in the [Dark Zone]! "

Speculating on such a frightening fact, the two of them raised their vigilance at the same time.

Within a few words, they already felt a slight sense of suffocation.

Fortunately, the suffocation feeling remained at a certain level and did not get worse.

This means that although the oxygen concentration here is not high, it is not too low either, and the space is not a vacuum.

Klein looked around, and when he saw what was behind him, he was horrified——

The exit of the chimney disappeared before his eyes at an extremely fast speed visible to the naked eye!