Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 406 The Road
"I want some money in exchange."

When Chen Yan said this, he didn't feel the slightest embarrassment. His excessive motivation for survival prevented those unnecessary emotions from him.

Cocklebur's answer was short and direct:
"You have to see it in detail to evaluate the value. I probably know the forces that participated in that night. Except for those monster transformations from the Machine Repair Society, which are already worthless waste, the things used by other forces are valuable."

When mentioning the "Mechanical Society", Xanthium showed obvious contempt.

Chen Yan thought to himself that among the corpses stored on the second floor, the most valuable should be the enchantment spirit of the chant group, but the enchantment spirit has no heart or brain now, so the estimated price will be greatly reduced.

Chen Yan wanted to do business sincerely, and he couldn't be too shrewd in front of people like Xanth, if the cooperation failed, it would be troublesome if he wanted to get anything from Xanth in the future.

He truthfully told Cocklebur the situation of the spirit of enchantment.

Xanthium stroked his beard:

"Is that so... the heart of the spirit of enchantment is not important, anyway, the body and the heart are made of the same material, but without the brain... the price will be reduced by half."

Chen Yan's heart was bleeding.

The brain of the enchantment spirit is now stored in Ogami's prosthetic hand. Chen Yan has long planned to never sell that thing unless it is absolutely necessary.

Chen Yan didn't know whether he was losing or gaining in this transaction, he only knew that at this moment, the role of money was infinite for him.

He must buy [Gap Touch] before tonight to complete the promotion.

He didn't want to endure that damn "Spirit Vision Wanderer" ability for a second.

Chen Yan had counted the number of each kind of weird creature before, and now, he described the characteristics of those things to Cocklebur, and got a fairly satisfactory quotation:

"5 pounds 2 shillings 25 pence. This is the price of treating them as medicines. The price is clearly marked in the medicine shop in the upper city."

Counting Chen Yan's deposit of 7 pounds, once the corpses were sold, he would have a little over 12 pounds.

If you spend 10 pounds to buy the touch of the gap, you will have a little more than 2 pounds left, and you will become poor when you pay the land tax next month.

But Chen Yan couldn't wait any longer, and it happened that he had other ways to get money, so he didn't hesitate any longer and planned to complete the deal with Xanthium annuum.

Xanthium was not afraid of his repudiation, so he gave him the money directly.

Tai Shenghe was never afraid of being owed debts, and they had a hundred ways to turn debts owed by others into usury and bondage—from this point of view, they quite liked being owed debts.

Chen Yan returned to the apartment and entrusted Jack Baldo to transport the corpses to the entrance of Walker Street in Taishenghe, and then came to Green's clinic on High Street again and bought [Touch of Gap].

Green, who was clearly interested in what was left in his apartment at 33 Walker Street on Sunday night, could not buy or sell a Byron Wiss Zoo employee.

Chen Yan returned to the apartment, locked the bedroom door, came to the table, put the three parts into the drawer, and then opened the box used to hold the [Touch of the Gap].

A strong fishy smell of the sea filled the nostrils, and the icy mist condensed into substance and overflowed from the box.

A black-purple tentacle appeared in front of Chen Yan among a large number of finely crushed ice cubes.

Chen Yan cut the tentacles into eight equal parts with a knife, and swallowed the first tentacles after 1 minute of mental preparation.

The greasy tentacles turned into water after entering the mouth, and the water gradually became transparent as it descended along the esophagus until it turned into nothingness.

At the moment when the water flow completely turned into nothingness, Chen Yan's eyes flickered.

The table in front of me was full of books, "High School Chinese Compulsory Three", "Five-Year College Entrance Examination"...

Beyond the table is no longer a wall, but the slender back of the classmate at the front table, and the ponytail that swayed countless times in front of Chen Yan every day...

He seems to have returned to the carefree summer of that year, the days in the school were infinitely lengthened, and the noisy play around him was no longer harsh. At this moment, he began to yearn for the hateful sound of cicadas coming from the window.

It's...a scene from my memory.

【The Touch of the Gap】activated his intracranial eyes, and it is making the 【Intracranial Eyes】that has been trained enough to evolve towards the next stage. The greatly strengthened spiritual vision not only allows him to see through his own memory " The real past" also gave him a "synesthesia" about the past——

He felt that the scene in front of him was completely real!

"Chen Yan, play ball!"

A basketball was thrown towards him, and the feeling of hitting his shoulder was so clear that almost completely unfamiliar memories were mobilized from his mind, making him almost respond.

After desperately restraining himself, he finally broke free from the strong sense of nostalgia and gained the strength to think.

'If I catch the basketball, am I going to be part of the scene forever? '

'If you are integrated into this scene, what is the difference from returning to my hometown? '

"Living forever in such a real illusion, what is the difference between going home..."

He smelled the fragrance from the swaying ponytail on the front table, and almost couldn't restrain himself from looking up.

He desperately restrained himself, fighting against the emotions in his heart that were indistinguishable from reality, and felt that his spine was about to be broken!

'Is this synesthesia! ? '

'Emotions and scenes are fully connected, and you can feel everything in the scene! '

'It feels so real...it doesn't even feel like it's faked! '

'But that's not the case...'

'This scene...is just a memory of what happened...'

'This scene is not real. '

With one thought, everything in front of him shattered.

The students and the podium disappeared, the slight pain caused by being hit by the basketball completely disappeared, the piercing cicadas disappeared, and only the slight sound produced by the water flow in the floor heating pipe rubbing against the pipe wall remained in my ears.

He returned to room 33 of the apartment at 305 Walker Street.

When he returned to reality, his whole body was drenched in cold sweat.

Chen Yan faintly felt that the eyes in the brain had changed. As for the extent of the change, he couldn't describe it. He just had a feeling in his heart——

He felt he had to go on, that if he stopped, all his work would be wasted.

After calming down for a few seconds, he swallowed the second [Gap Touch].

The second part of [Gap Touch] disappeared into his body in the same way, and after a while, the spiritual vision changed under the circumstances he could perceive, and it was no longer a simple vision——

When he looked at something, he had a feeling that he could see more from it.

He searched along this feeling—he saw the tabletop along his field of vision, and then he had a certain feeling about the tabletop.

He felt that he was the table itself, so he felt the warmth of his arms pressing on the table, the smooth pages of the books placed on the table, and the heaviness of the [Touch of the Gap] small box on the table. , he even felt the oppression and friction of the rusty metal chassis of the kerosene lantern against "myself".

"call!"

He suddenly came back to his senses, blinked vigorously, and the synaesthesia for the desktop was no longer so strong.

His synaesthesia for the desktop disappeared bit by bit.

He knew that he needed to further take [Gap Touch] to stabilize this kind of synaesthesia until he completely adapted to this kind of "synesthesia".

After making mental preparations, Chen Yan swallowed the third paragraph [Touch of the Gap].

This time, in addition to stronger synaesthesia, he unexpectedly found that his spiritual vision had been "extended".

His spirit vision saw through the wall the corridor beyond the wall, he controlled the spirit vision to go through the corridor, all the way down, until he came to the basement, until he passed through the small door in the basement and entered the underground cave.

This feeling was amazing, and he continued to move forward while maintaining his rationality and restraint. Soon after, his field of vision gradually widened, and a huge lake with no boundaries appeared in his field of vision.

Although it was said to be a lake, Chen Yan did not see the boundary of the lake. Only the huge stalactites that appeared in the sky tens of meters high proved that this place was still underground, not a smoky lake.

In the center of the lake, Chen Yan saw several giants that resembled offshore oil wells. Next to those giants in the darkness, there were several ships docked, with a faint green light emitting from the ships.

'Under those things... Could it be the Snakesnout Rock Mine? '

[Touch of the Gap] The medicinal power ends, and Chen Yan's spirit vision returns.

In the next moment, he swallowed the next four paragraphs of [Gap Touch].

These four sections of [Gap Touch] did not cause a strong reaction to him, but only strengthened his inspiration.

After taking it four times in a row, the feeling of "synaesthesia" became stronger, especially after taking the seventh paragraph of [Gap Touch], Chen Yan clearly felt that there was a connection between himself and the things he touched. A more stable connection than before.

He didn't take the eighth paragraph [Gap Touch] immediately, but put his palm on the table to mobilize inspiration.

At the moment of "synaesthesia" with the tabletop, a forest appeared in front of his eyes, and the sound of an ax chopping down a tree came from his ear, and then the tree fell in response, and the vision at a height of tens of meters tilted until it fell to the ground.

The sound of axes hammering into the wood continued, and he saw a group of rook woodcutters, who were felling trees and loading them into steam locomotives.

A lumberjack chopped "him" up and lifted him up, half of the field of vision was occupied by the lumberjack's dirty underpants.

Chen Yan saw "myself" being loaded on a steam locomotive, and went through a long journey with other logs to arrive at the smoky wood processing factory.

The moment he was brought down, he saw the sky full of black smoke chimneys—this was the industrial area of ​​Yanan City.

Immediately afterwards, he saw "self" on the assembly line, after being processed through many steps including cutting and polishing, it was stacked and transported into a shop.

After waiting in the dark for an unknown amount of time, one day, he was taken out by the shop owner and placed in front of someone.

'A good pine table, made of logs from the black pine forest on the north side of the high street, waxed and ready to use, only 10p. '

The man handed the penny to the shopkeeper, and he was carried by the man through the dirty and unpaved Walker Street and into the No. 33 apartment building.

(End of this chapter)