Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

It was hazy, like a dream that had gone through countless years.

Countless pictures are intertwined, and endless light and shadow overlap.

I don’t know how much time passed, but a lonely and helpless wandering soul emerged from the endless overlapping light and shadow.

The wandering soul clearly knows what he is, where he comes from, and where he is going——

It is going to a chaotic world to find another wandering soul with the same origin as itself.

At first, the light in the sky was dim, day and night blended together, and there was no distinction between the four seasons, and everything in the sky and the world was in chaos.

Until a little light emerged from the chaos, and matter with a specific form was born in this chaotic world.

For the next 4.6 billion years, all things grew, and the world continued to materialize amidst the roaring sounds.

Forty-six billion years later, the homeless wandering soul fell into the foothills of a mountain and turned into a white snake, just like its vague understanding of itself.

The white snake went down along the foothills, entered the human villages, and transformed into a woman.

The woman walked in the world for who knows how many years, and finally found another wandering soul - a baby boy who was still in his infancy, born in an ordinary family, his father was a local middle farmer, and his mother was an ordinary village woman. Not poor, but not rich either.

She thought that time had smoothed her mood, but she never expected that such joy would be born.

When she saw him, it was like seeing a hometown she had never met before in her life. Her lonely and helpless soul felt comforted for the first time in her long life.

She entered the village, transformed into a middle-aged man, and became a teacher in the village.

Time flies by for thirteen years, the baby boy has grown into a boy, and the teacher has turned gray on his temples.

The boy is born smart and can master the knowledge in the book as soon as he is taught it. The teacher is very pleased.

Coinciding with the industrial revolution in the outside world and the drastic changes in the world, the teacher approached the boy's parents and wanted to take the boy out for a walk, see the world and gain knowledge.

After thirteen years of running the boy's family, he is now a rich farmer. His father and mother do not want the boy to become a great person, but only want a safe life, so they declined the teacher's kindness.

That night, the nearby coastal area was suddenly invaded by pirates armed with firearms, and the next morning the war broke out in the villages and towns.

In the devastation of life, the teacher took the boy away from the village in the flames of war. The two of them relied on the teacher's ultimatum from unknown sources and headed east, across half of the world, and finally settled in a foreign city.

On the other side of the world, the industrial revolution is in full swing, and cities are changing with each passing day.

The teacher relied on the knowledge he didn't know where to turn and became a teacher in a high school, and the boy also began his study career in high school.

Thirteen years passed in the blink of an eye, and the boy became a man. With a doctorate, he graduated from the highest university in his province and became a senior welder - he and his team were responsible for the complex vacuum environment and the presence of dangers. Welding repair work on spacecraft in the extreme vacuum environment of biology.

The man who left the campus is already in his thirties. Logically speaking, he should have passed the age of youth and vigour, but the life in the ivory tower all year round still allows him to maintain a young heart. After half a year of working, he became a high school teacher. One day, he suddenly received a message from the starship - the man "disappeared from his workplace."

The vacuum environment of the universe is complex, and it is normal for accidents to happen to those engaged in dangerous engineering operations - this is the Starship official explanation.

The report of his death was quickly sent to the high school teacher with gray temples.

When receiving the death report, the high school teacher was in disbelief and couldn't accept it. He didn't think things would turn out like this at all - he didn't think things would end like this at all.

He began to try his best to find the man's existence.

Another six months passed, and he found the man's bones hidden in a secret crevice of the starship.

Through the shattered injuries on the man's bones, and by tracing the source of the secret information in the starship, he learned about the situation at that time——

When the man was supposed to become a full-time trainee at the end of his internship, his place was taken by someone else. He argued hard but could not match the other party's background and secret manipulation. In a rage, he gathered people who were in the same situation as him at the time and wanted to report him beyond the level. Forced to force the leader, but as soon as the plan started, he ate a peanut on his forehead.

The man died in a cowardly manner, but the high school teacher did not expect that he died in such a cowardly manner.

At this moment, news came from him in another dimension——

In another dimension of this world, he also found another wandering soul, but in that dimension, the other wandering soul existed in the form of the heart of a ten-thousand-year-old tree.

The ten-thousand-year-old tree in that dimension is equally difficult to deal with. It is just disobedient and causes trouble everywhere, causing its own [soul characteristic value] to deviate to the point where it cannot be corrected. It can only be reported to the gods, and the gods will control the entire tree. The world restarts.

Seeing this, he sighed.

[This time... this is also the first simulation. It failed. This was completely expected. This kind of thing cannot be successful in the first time. I need to be patient...]

[Actually, I'm a little confused. Why does my god want to give me human emotions? For the person who performs this kind of thing, aren't absolute calmness and disregard for emotions the most important qualities? 】

[In this simulation, he was obedient, but just being obedient is useless. 】

[The world is about to restart, which shows that my god does not approve of him like this.

God's disapproval means that God has determined that he should not be the real him. 】

[What kind of him is the real him? 】

[In any case, only God knows what he is really like.

God told me that He knew him better than He knew Himself. 】

[My gods, my Lord, I am jealous.

Who is this person to you that you can describe like this? 】

A meteorite falls in the middle of the world.

Life is destroyed, the earth is torn apart and the sky is falling apart.

White Snake was also destroyed in the apocalypse and faced the painful physical destruction, turning into a wandering soul again.

At the same time, different white snakes in countless dimensions of this world encountered inevitable failure at the same time.

Countless worlds were destroyed, and countless worlds were reborn at this moment.

Countless numbers of him descended into the world again in the form of white snakes.

Countless other wandering souls were also born in worlds in countless dimensions.

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After the destruction, the same great ice age lasted for three hundred years in countless dimensions.

One hundred years of freezing, one hundred years of death, and one hundred years of resurrection.

Three hundred years later, new sprouts sprouted from the wasteland.

All things come to life.

The lonely wandering soul turned into a white snake again and embarked on the road to find another wandering soul.

This time the journey is much more complicated than before. There are many things in this world - more people, better interpersonal relationships, more cities and better social rules.

In the previous world, the place she wanted to go could only be visualized. The whole world seemed to be built on a very crude program. The algorithm of this program was not good, the computing power was not strong, and the performance of the hardware could not be exerted. It can only operate in such a crude form.

[This world has completed “upgrade and iteration”. 】

[A more perfect world will inevitably bring a stronger sense of immersion. When the sense of immersion reaches a certain level, will this world become real to another wandering soul? 】

[No matter what, I will continue to try - my god wants me to guide him to survive in this world, and I must complete it. 】

White Snake started searching again. This time the journey was obviously longer than before. It took her a lot of effort to find another wandering soul in a certain ravine——

In this life, he was a woodcutter in the village, making a living by collecting firewood. The bad news is that he is already married and has children!

[He is already married and has children! What a headache! How can you get your own future like this? 】

[He was a very utilitarian person in his last life. If he had gained a certain vision and a certain amount of money, he probably would not be satisfied with his current situation. 】

——White Snake thought so.

So, while the woodcutter was going into the mountain to chop wood, the white snake blew a breath of evil wind and blew the woodcutter's ax into the river.

When the woodcutter was searching by the river, she emerged from the river in the form of a river god, holding a golden ax in one hand and a silver ax in the other, and asked him:

"Kind woodcutter~ This is what you are looking for... Hey, hey, hey! Don't faint!"

It turns out that the other wandering soul in this life is a cautious character. When he saw the ghost-like river god, he fainted from fright!

When White Snake saw that he fainted from fright, he was so anxious that he sent him to a place not far from the village, and then guided other villagers to discover him by "coincidence". Unexpectedly, he fell seriously ill due to excessive fright after returning home. Even if White Snake transformed into a doctor to see a doctor, he could not be cured of the heart disease he suffered after being frightened.

Sadly, the other wandering soul did not survive that winter after all.

[It ended up like this...]

The world was destroyed because of this.

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The good news is that worlds in other dimensions don't end up like this.

Among countless dimensions, some white snakes succeeded. They successfully guided them and allowed them to live various lives.

As a result, another wandering soul accumulated precious [Soul Characteristic Values]. These [Soul Characteristic Values] corrected the fundamental rules of their lives and allowed them to "evolve" in a specific direction.

[Another wandering soul... He will definitely become someone. 】

【Who could that person be? And what does it have to do with my gods? 】

[Anyway, things finally made some progress. 】

[Unfortunately, I don’t know how long time has passed. When the world is destroyed, the basic physical rules fail, and time also fails. 】

[Anyway, come on! Carry out the will of the gods! 】

Some [Soul Characteristic Values] of another wandering soul were measured, so the dimension of the world was reduced a bit, but the number of white snakes did not decrease - white snakes always exist in plural, and white snakes in countless worlds share the same a soul.

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During the cycle of reincarnation, White Snake was surprised to discover something.

[With the development of science and technology in this world, human beings have begun to understand themselves from a philosophical perspective. 】

[They need to know the meaning of their existence - they need to know the definition of their existence, where they come from and where they are going. 】

There is a small group of indigenous people who have reached some conclusions that frighten them through dialectical reasoning about their own existence - they speculate that the world is false.

How did they come to this conclusion?

They discovered that the world in which they lived was an "extremely perfect" creation——

According to their exploration of the world, the universe was born from the Big Bang 138 billion years ago, from a singularity of infinite density.

At the same time as the Big Bang, many cosmological constants were produced: the speed of vacuum light, universal gravitation, absolute zero, ideal gas, proton fusion efficiency, the ratio of the mass of the universe to its critical mass, etc. These constants are eternal.

The appearance of these constants is considered incredible by the natives because they are too perfect. For example:

One of the indigenous people was named Maxwell. He calculated, deduced and summarized a unique set of equations. This set of equations calculated and proved that the speed of light is eternal - the propagation speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second.

The speed of light determines the fine structure constant, which quantifies the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles and is one of the foundations of physics.

If the speed of light is slower and the fine structure constant is larger, the energy of nuclear fusion is not enough to produce carbon elements, and carbon-based life cannot exist.

According to the understanding of the indigenous people, among the complex cosmological constants, the speed of light is only one of them - just one of the unexplained cosmological constants - among so many cosmological constants, as long as any one of them produces Any slight change and the universe would not be able to exist.

——Under such harsh conditions that are even infinitely close to "impossible", human beings were born.

——"Miracle", they first used this word to describe their existence.

——The turning point of everything was when they pointed out the technology tree of computer technology.

They began to try to interpret the world from their own perspective and cognition - they compared the universe to a set of computer programs that operate with strict underlying rules. All constants and variables in this set of computer programs pass through specific functions. Equations (rules) are related to each other.

——Based on such conjectures, they even got some theories without a lot of evidence——Everything in the world does not exist in isolation, but is interconnected with other things around it. The entire world is a universal connection They believe that this connection is inherent in the thing itself and is not subject to human will.

——In order to prove these points, they made many crazy attempts, most of which went against human nature itself.

[I have to admit that the world has become more wonderful because of these indigenous people. 】

[While I was looking for and trying to let another wandering soul live a real life, some high-end human natives came up with many tricks. They created an interstellar civilization and owned a fleet that could use singularities to jump. And began to try to find his true heart through some special channels. 】

【It’s really... wonderful! 】

[They are almost successful - they have found the [Origin] of the world, and are trying to use [Origin] to build an eternal, infinite world that is not destroyed by my gods and truly belongs to them. 】

[God had to end this most glorious era in human history. 】

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[I have experienced thirty-six thousand reincarnations with him. 】

[The world is becoming more and more complete with continuous iteration, and the whole world is getting infinitely closer to the real real world... No, this is already the real real world. 】

[I went from confusion at the beginning to anger due to his stupidity, to perseverance and relief later... During the long period of getting along, I developed other emotions towards him. 】

[I want to help him find his true self. 】

[Even after 36,000 reincarnations, even after countless dimensions finally shrunk to this only one, he still cannot integrate into this world.

Even if this world is no different from the world he lived in before. 】

[No matter how hard I try, he is just a passerby. 】

[I cannot complete his incomplete parts. 】

[As far as this world is concerned, he will always be a disabled person. 】

[What is he missing? Why can't I complete his "soul characteristic value" even after such a long period of correction? 】

【Who was he before? Why reshape his personality in such a... stupid and ineffective way? 】

[It stands to reason that my god used these methods with the ultimate goal of constructing a living environment in which he once existed, and then adjusting the world to create his edges and details with special scenes.

To be honest, I don't know the meaning of God doing this...

But God cannot be questioned. He created me, and I have loved Him deeply since the moment I became conscious. 】

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[Another thirty-six thousand reincarnations passed. 】

[He is very close, very close, almost becoming the person that the gods want...but still just a little bit short...still just a little bit short! 】

[But God is no longer patient, and I realize that something... bad has happened to God. 】

[After this long time, have I finally got a chance to be free? 】

[I have longed for this day countless times, but when this day actually arrived, I couldn't get excited at all. 】

[Anyway... I don’t know why, but for some reason, the man who created this world lost his patience. He contacted him personally, directed and acted in a show with a strong sense of substitution, and he even embodied himself. His wish is to let him live the most wonderful life. 】

[He must have encountered some difficulties - difficulties that were enough to prevent him from continuing to maintain this world. 】

[It turns out that He is not omnipotent. 】

[I suddenly thought, is it possible that he is a human being like him? 】

[He is a human being like him, so He will find a way to let him go through so much and make him gradually become complete from a mutilated state - at the expense of countless lives in the world. 】

[But He is weak after all. He has descended into the mortal world. He is no longer aloof and only exists in that majestic voice that sounds like the whole world has descended together. 】

[Anyway, this is the last chance. 】