Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 729
But what can people do, people can only bear everything, because people don't know what is going on now, even if they have received relevant enlightenment from the simulator, when they experience all the changes in person, they will not be able to distinguish reality.

People are naturally afraid of chaos and the unknown. Once faced with an indistinguishable chaotic situation, people will naturally subconsciously choose to brainwash themselves. They believe that everything will be fine, and they firmly believe that the just-concluded parade will definitely bring them benefits, just like the House and As promised by the organizers.

Because it's impossible to do it all over again.

Chen Yan already understood where the key problem of the whole thing was before, so he didn't have too many doubts about the current social situation, but just made his own judgment:
"Let's go to 17 Walker Street."

Ten minutes later, Chen Yan walked into the "studio" in person.

The people in the studio were not surprised by his "coming again". It was their job to provide information and help to people like Chen Yan.

After getting a certain contact information, Chen Yan and Jack Baldo found a person who claimed to be "Walker Street Market Manager" in the back alley of the Walker Street Vegetable Market, which was once used for loading and unloading goods. Agent" guy.

The man had already received a call to explain in advance, so he didn't say much, but just opened a small door of the closed market, and asked Chen Yan and Jack Baldo to follow him.

The three of them walked through the dark and damp alleyway that smelled of corruption, and entered the market warehouse along the cracked cement walkway.

Along the way, Chen Yan saw piles of rotten vegetables—the reason why the vegetables rotted in the bitter cold winter was not because of “rot” but severe “frostbite”——Chen Yan saw a large number of leaves turning white Thinned cabbage, those blanched and thinned parts are where the frostbite is.

In addition to cabbage, there are also a lot of spinach, cauliflower and other vegetables. The leaves are rotten due to frostbite, and the roots become rotten due to frostbite, causing the whole plant to wither and die...

The vegetables with the least frostbite that Chen Yan saw in front of him were also covered with white spots like white nebula, so they could not be used for food anyway.

He even found a lot of meat in the corner. Most of these meats are not pure meat, but processed synthetic meat, such as sausage and bacon, and some of them have already rotted. Chen Yan can't tell the type of synthetic meat. steak.

I don't know what is added to these things. In such a bitter cold weather, some meat has already rotted. Chen Yan even saw some small reptiles on it.

And even so—even if these things rot here, they are not sold to the residents of Walker Street.

Chen Yan asked about these things, and the market management agent who led the way didn't seem to want to answer at first, but he also explained a few words.

"The boss said that they won't allow them to be sold. How dare we let these things enter the market? Anyway, these things are cheap goods with small profits and quick sales. They are so bad that they are not worth much."

Chen Yan looked at the rotting piles, at least more than a dozen tons. To a businessman, these were just "so little".

Chen Yan asked:

"It was not allowed to sell before because of the price war between the merchants and the William Adams Group?"

The market management agent glanced at him and was not too surprised, but most people who do business know what happened a few days ago.

"Well... almost, anyway, that's what happened."

This person was obviously aroused by Chen Yan because of these things, and couldn't help but say a few more words.

"It wasn't sold before, but it can't be sold now. I heard that there was a conflict between the boss and the new department.

The boss has too much inventory, and the original price will definitely not be sold for a while, so he wants to sell it at a lower price, but the new department will not allow it, because the wages of the new department are paid from the market tax. less...

How fucking stupid!A group of mud-legged people who don't even know the words are here to compete with the decades-old businessmen in the vertical and horizontal shopping malls!However, with the backing of the House of Representatives, they insisted that several big markets cannot be opened! "

Chen Yan said thoughtfully:

"The new department not only has people who marched, but also people from the House of Representatives. These people finally made this decision, and they don't know what kind of interests are involved in it."

The market management agent led them into a cold storage, with depression and helplessness in his tone:
"Then who knows...it's just a pile of chicken feathers anyway! The most uncomfortable thing is that we are the clerks who are so busy all day and night, and we have to smile with everyone when we see the fuck, and we are angry on both sides!"

He pointed to the inventory in the cold storage and said:
"You look at these things and take them. There are carts outside. You'd better hide it when you leave. Now everyone is eating at home. If you walk on the street with a lot of things...it's not good."

He didn't even talk about money.

Chen Yan probably understood that No. 17 Walker Street should have greeted this agent through some channel, and the money they came to buy ingredients today might have been counted in the account of a certain force.

After the market management agent finished explaining, he looked at Chen Yan more, hesitated and said:
"Brother, I look at you a bit like that...that Chen..."

Chen Yan said:

"My surname is Zhang."

The man apologized:
"Ah, I'm sorry, all Asians look similar..."

Chen Yan immediately changed the topic:
"Do you know where I can buy a refrigerator?"

Faced with Chen Yan's question, the market management agent was not surprised. There are too many rich people wanting to buy refrigerators these days, and the streets are chaotic. It is very important to have a refrigerator that can store food at home.

"You call this number...they deliver it directly to your home."

People who can manage the market more or less have such social connections. This person did not help Chen Yan out of obligation, but out of interest——Chen Yan speculated that every time a refrigerator is sold, the Everyone will have a share - from this point of view, this person can also be regarded as an intermediary.

The synesthesia that followed the polite "nice cooperation" between the two quickly proved this point.

Chen Yan learned from the synaesthesia that this person is quite kind and only charges one point of rebate, which made the price of a refrigerator even much lower than the retail price of refrigerators on the market—the wholesale price plus Lower brokerage fees, which add up to a lower retail price.

Chen Yan ordered five refrigerators by phone. It seems that because the intermediary has a higher level of agency and a higher reputation, not only did they discount the unit price of the order, they didn't even charge a deposit.

Whose reputation did No. 17 Walker Street use to endorse Chen Yan?Is it Great William?

Chen Yan thought to himself that a cautious person like Great William would not allow an intelligence agency that does dirty things to do things in his own name at will.

Chen Yan didn't think too much about it.

He deliberately selected some frozen pure meat and vegetables stored in the fresh room, plus some fruits to prevent vitamin deficiency, loaded a whole cart, covered it with two layers of felt, and piled up some sundries on the felt as a cover , left the market with Jack Baldo.

When he returned to the apartment, the refrigerator had been delivered, and Chen Yan asked Jack Baldo to sign for it, because the money was not with him, and because he no longer had the concept of such a nihilistic thing as money.

After the refrigerator is installed, all the ingredients are processed and stored in the refrigerator by category...

By the time all this was done, the time had come to 4 pm.

It is now the earliest dark month of the year in Yanan City. It was just 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky has already dimmed. Even if there is no blizzard, the night that spreads from the sky is gradually covering the whole city.

Chen Yan just wanted to rest for a while, but inadvertently saw the fading outside of the house——

Outside the house, on the opposite side of the concrete street, in the dark alley that has not melted the dirty ice due to the shade, a few dark shadows appeared at some point.

Even though the genius has just started to darken, the black shadows under the shadow of the eaves look very dense. At first glance, they look like the shadows of the eaves, but Chen Yan understands that they are not as simple as shadows.

They just stared at the apartment at No. 33 Walker Street from a distance across the street, without any other actions.

So he knew that they were "insurance measures" to ensure that he would definitely leave Yharnam tonight.

As the twilight deepened, the number of shadows gradually increased, but in the ten seconds Chen Yan watched them, three or five shadows had already "grown" from the darkness under the eaves.

Suddenly, Chen Yan saw a blurry figure passing across the street from the roof, and a dim cold light flashed past those shadows.

The figure disappeared across the street after a flash.

And the shadows were intact.

Then Ohgami came down from upstairs.

"No, I can't kill them. I don't know what those things are."

Ogami usually has nothing to do with intangible things.

Chen Yan nodded:

"It's okay, we... just set off early."

Ogami learned about Chen Yan's plan from Nuomi Guo, and already had his own plans, so he remained calm.

"Glutinous rice fruit has already made progress."

The good news brought by Ogami shocked Chen Yan and revived him.

When the three of them came to the attic, they saw Nuomi Guo standing in the middle of the attic, and Osmandis was also there, and the evil eye ring was suspended between them.

Chen Yan thought about it, but still didn't find an excuse to dismiss this guy.

He turned to look at the evil eye ring.

This ring has obvious changes from the previous one. The obsidian-like stone inlaid on the ring actually "opened its eyes", and the eyes seemed to burst out of the black lacquer. There are no exact pupils, but the messy gold flecks still make this eye look alive.

After Chen Yan and the other three entered the attic, the Xieyan turned as if alive, focusing its "sight" on them.

Chen Yan's heart trembled after being watched:
"Is this thing working?"

Glutinous Rice said:
"Yes...but there are risks."

Chen Yan asked:

"How to say?"

It was Osmandis who answered the question:
"We need to clarify one thing first - this thing used to be the pupil of some kind of creature."

Chen Yan glanced at Osmandis's one-eyed inadvertently.

The latter seemed not to notice his gaze, and continued:

"There is a very ordinary existence among human superhumans. After a few awakenings, they will have the ability to [transfer space with the line of sight]."

Chen Yan himself is such an extraordinary person, and he has known this ability before.

Osmandis explained:

"There are also creatures with this ability among non-human beings—in your terms, extraordinary creatures—this extraordinary creature can use [line of sight] to communicate with [two different spaces].

When they open their eyes, their line of sight can penetrate the boundary between spaces, allowing the line of sight starting from one space to fall into another space.

When this line of sight appears, the two spaces will be temporarily connected, and a [road] will appear.

In the process of opening the eyes, matter can be transferred through this [road]. "

Chen Yan asked:

"What is this creature?"

Osmandis did not answer directly:
"This is also the first time I have encountered such a thing. It stands to reason that from the appearance point of view, this ring can match the civilizations that have appeared in this world-the [ring] itself is a [human] A unique product of civilization."

He specifically emphasized the word [human being].

"Maybe it was some extraordinary creature killed by humans, whose eyes were taken out and made into this ring--the one who killed this extraordinary creature was probably an undead person, because basically this thing can only be used by undead people." A kind of blood activation with a strong life force."

Chen Yan glanced at Osmandis's one eye again as if casually.

The latter still seemed to have not discovered it, and talked freely:

"Now by activating the original state of this eye, we have canceled the restriction [must use a lot of vitality to activate]."

"This kind of operation was originally relatively dangerous, because once there is any remaining consciousness of the original owner in this evil eye, things will become very difficult... Who knows what strange abilities the extraordinary creatures of that era have?
Just like some viruses that were sealed in glaciers in ancient times, the bodies of modern people are completely irresistible-the abilities of ancient extraordinary creatures are also completely irresistible and can only be tolerated by modern people. "

What a strange metaphor.

Osmandis looked at Chen Yan's "unbelievable" eyes, and added:

"Some abilities that existed in ancient times are unimaginable to modern people. It's not that they are so strong, but they are so weird that modern people can't understand."

Chen Yan no longer maintained his interest in the one-eyed Osmandis, and turned his attention to the evil eye:
"[Road] will only appear when this evil eye opens, so, can the opening time of this evil eye be manipulated?"

Osmandis replied in a 'natural' tone:
"Of course, the aura of the owner of this evil eye Uehara has long since disappeared. Now it is purely a tool. If you want to activate it, you only need to give it enough energy."

He looked at Jack Baldo.

"Like undead blood."

He looked at the wireless charging terminal in the attic again:

"It may also be able to output stable power."

Chen Yan thought, in this way, he can completely do:
Only the empty shelf of an apartment is left on Walker Street. The other parts of the apartment form the ship to leave Yanan City, and place the evil eye on a door inside the ship. Once the people on board need to return to Yanan City, activate the evil eye , to create a [road] connecting the boats to Yanan City.

When you don’t need to return to Yanan City, keep the [Evil Eye] closed. At this time, the [Road] is closed. If people from Yanan City enter the apartment at No. 33 Walker Street, they will only see the empty s room.

Chen Yan glanced at everyone's faces, and then glanced at the black shadow with upturned faces under the eaves on the opposite side of the street outside the window.

Then he turned his gaze to his companions, took a deep breath, and said:
"Then, next, I will bring the Messiah over, and then I will tell you one thing."

(End of this chapter)