Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 763 Convergence of the World Line ([-]): Origin
The neon lights that fell into the darkness illuminated Klein's pale face, and the inexplicable "strangeness" coming from him made Chen Yan feel a little horrified, because he found that his strangeness towards Klein was even more strange than his hands. The cat here is even heavier.

What happened to Klein?
Chen Yan thought to himself, maybe he could use synaesthesia to find out what happened to Klein, but that would require direct contact with Klein. Judging from Klein's current situation...direct contact is impossible.

"tell me the story."

Chen Yan decided to accept Klein's "invitation", even though he still doesn't understand what such an invitation will bring him.

Klein obviously didn't notice Chen Yan's thoughts. He pinched the deformed cat with one hand, and said in a low voice:

"I need you to contact a man named Li Shoucheng, who used to run a business of refurbishing and selling second-hand electronic products from the empire... They call that stuff parallel imports."

Klein obviously didn't know much about this person named "Li Shoucheng".

"Everyone calls him Uncle Li, but he is very old, in his 50s. I don't know what his background is. After District C was wiped out by the [Advent Faction] yesterday, Uncle Li took the parallel imports from District C overnight. All the business has been taken over, and it has become the largest parallel importer on Days Island."

"Days Island has just opened its port, and the sales agreement for regular channel electronic products has not been finalized, so it is impossible to enter the market of Days Island. Therefore, the parallel import market in Days Island is very large. The entire first island chain, even the second island chain, is All electronic products on the islands in the island must pass through the port area of ​​Days Island."

"I want you to find a way to join Uncle Li's camp and become a resister."

Klein stopped.

Klein's words actually stop here?
Chen Yan frowned and said:
"and then?"

Klein said:
"I can assure you that you have my help - the help of a Commander of the Dyce Island Logistics Center Air Port Area."

"You have to keep in touch with me at all times and keep yourself safe."

Chen Yan asked:

"For a commander, violence is a more direct means of obtaining information, and using an informant like me trained from scratch is the least efficient way."

The neon lights made Klein's complexion very deep, and the eye sockets of his Luke native of the empire were even deeper, and the words he said surprised Chen Yan:
"The empire has decided to incorporate the island chain system into the empire's federal government system as a federal province."

Chen Yan instantly understood what Klein meant:
Incorporating the island chains into the federation as provinces means that the island chains—or perhaps each island chain—will have their own parliament, and members will be elected through elections.

Any outright violence, then, would lead to a drastic drop in the number of votes a member of parliament could get - no one wants to cast their votes for a violent maniac!

This is why Klein does not want to use violence to achieve his goal.

"I can't see clearly what happened this time. What happened in Area C and those who died have shown that there are serious divisions and intrigues within the [Resistance Faction], and our group of so-called [Advent Faction] is not monolithic. "

"Things became confusing because of the two massacres, and I had to investigate all of this."

"There are still many people like Uncle Li. They joined the initial construction of Days Island by chance, and gained a lot of resources as a result and established their own forces."

"They have performed quite well in the past - paying taxes on time, cooperating with policies, even if they have to sacrifice some interests, they will not hesitate."

"But it's different now. The power vacuum created by the massacre has activated their ambitions. They rely on their connections to do whatever they want, and even want to participate in the upcoming elections as members of parliament."

Klein said in a very affirmative tone:

"They will succeed."

Chen Yan blurted out almost without thinking:

"why?"

This time, Klein changed to a statement that Chen Yan could fully understand:
"They—those big bosses, big businessmen, those who own a large number of shop titles, they control the means of production of the entire Days Island, and even completely own the labor force itself—

They can get a lot of votes because of it, and people are blind, people can't even read, and they can only obey when the big bosses ask--

People fear them because they hold all the means of production on which people live--

Unlike the factory owners in Yanan City who control the workers, the big bosses on the island chain have 'absolute' control over the lower classes, because the people here are ignorant enough.

All these deformities are entirely because Days Island has not experienced the industrial revolution, has not experienced the development of productivity, and there is not even a school here! "

Chen Yan thought of many things from the simple four words "not even a school", and he couldn't breathe because of the despair brought about by those things.

Klein did not change because of the collapse of Chen Yan's mentality. He continued to tell:

"All the modernization on Days Island—the entire mechanical hive is the product of the empire's flooding with technology born from powerful productivity.

The powerful productivity conceals the wildness of Days Island, and all the modern technological products that you can see cover up all the ignorance of Days Island, so it looks like a modern island that surpasses the civilization level of the empire itself.

Days Island is a lie, Chen Yan, and my purpose is to turn the lie into reality. "

When he said this, Klein finally had a feeling of "familiarity" with Chen Yan. This feeling was exactly the same as when he discussed those articles in the forum with Klein in the Yanan City Public Prison. This made Chen Yan realize that, Although Klein has undergone tremendous changes, the essence has not changed.

And after he finished speaking, the feeling of "familiarity" on Klein disappeared again.

Chen Yan frowned and said:
"Their power is backed by your violence. As long as you are willing, you can completely change this status quo."

Klein calmly replied:
"If things were that simple, human beings would have realized what you once said about distribution on demand."

Chen Yan suddenly choked his throat and couldn't speak.

Klein said:
"Chen Yan, isn't the rule in the name of justice exactly what you want?"

"Help me... I can achieve the future you want - at least on the island chain - and on Days I can make everything better."

Chen Yan was silent for a moment, did not respond clearly, but just looked at the cat in his hand that had been pinched and deformed, but still opened its eyes without struggling or screaming:
"What is this thing?"

Klein didn't seem to care about Chen Yan's lack of response at all, and even patiently answered his question:

"This thing is a container... The highly automated one is the product of Byron Weiss's highest technology. I suspect that this thing has achieved a high degree of artificial intelligence, so I have to take it back for investigation."

He moved his eyes to Chen Yan's face, so Chen Yan felt a chill in his heart.

"You'd better get out of Byronweiss as soon as possible."

Klein issued his own warning:
"Byron Weiss put themselves in the wrong position, they tried to build a whole world loop - a world loop that could be manipulated by them.

Some of them want to use this to become real gods.

That's wrong. "

Klein spoke ambiguous riddles, which he had never said before.

"And this cat is what they call their 'greatest attempt'—they call it [No.18]."

Chen Yan was stunned.

This cat... is the legendary giant boat that made a pilgrimage around the world? !

"[No.18 Month], its other name exists in an ancient legend, it is called [Salongmeier], which means [Wandering Eye].

It is the eye of the gods, what it sees is what the gods see, and what the gods see is the kingdom of God. "

[No.18], Byron Weiss' technological creation, the legendary eye of the gods, can accommodate everything within the field of vision...

In other words, this cat is actually a passage between the world and the wilderness?Or the one that moves on its own and involves things within its field of vision?

This is much better than the chimney on his boat!
But how does this thing... this cat work?

Klein didn't let the silence last for too long.

"This is a repair workshop that used to be Uncle Li's in the C-17 area. Because it was well hidden, it was completely preserved during yesterday's riots."

Following the direction Klein pointed with his left hand, Chen Yan saw a heavily oxidized metal folding door.

Presumably behind the door is what Klein called the "repair workshop".

"The stuff here can be your starting capital, the deal between you and that little gang can be your starting point."

Klein didn't explain why he knew about the relationship between Chen Yan and the Razor Party, as if it was completely irrelevant even if it revealed that "he investigated Chen Yan".

He explained carefully:

"If you take Uncle Li's things, Uncle Li will find you.

But Uncle Li doesn't like killing people, he likes to restrain talents.

So there is a high probability that he will recruit you.

He will give you an agreement, as long as you give Uncle Li a share according to this agreement, you can get orders from Uncle Li, and orders are the lifeblood of the parallel import business - after yesterday's bloody incident, Uncle Li has put this The lifeline is in your hands. "

Klein said:
"Don't fight against Uncle Li, join them, and keep in touch with me."

After Klein finished speaking, he passed Swarm's vigilant gaze.

The "vigilance" and "horror" on Swarm's body completely overflowed, and these overflowing emotions were quickly sensed by Chen Yan, as if static electricity had passed through his entire arm.

After Klein's figure completely disappeared at the end of the neon lights, Swarm's overflowing emotions began to subside.

"Is this the guy we are going to assist in this mission?"

Facing Swarm's question, Chen Yan didn't react immediately.

"what?"

Swarm said in a positive tone:
"He is an executor... I can smell the stench on his body from 100 meters away!"

Klein... is the executor of the North Bureau? !
When did this happen again? !

Chen Yan realized that his information was too lagging.

"He is different from ordinary executors...different from previous executors."

Swarm said in a positive tone:
"He is... an upgraded version."

Chen Yan continued to ask, but Swarm couldn't tell why. His expressive ability was not good, and he didn't have many advanced vocabulary, which was not enough to describe what an executor looked like in his mind.

"Sir, let's not get involved in this matter..."

Swarm was actually scared.

You are afraid of a hammer!If you kill the first one, you will definitely be able to kill the second one. Even if there is a conflict, there is no need to be afraid at all!
Although Chen Yan thought so, he actually didn't want to have a conflict with Klein. His views on Klein were very complicated, too complicated to make a judgment on Klein.

So he didn't answer Swarm's words, but just took a few steps forward with a sullen head, and came to the oxidized metal folding door.

The door lock had been broken, and the door was ajar, so Chen Yan could enter the workshop without pushing the door.

The dark workshop is filled with the strong smell of fresh plastic bags and electronic components. These smells are like inferior rubber with less pungent smell, and more bitter than inferior rubber.

The overhead light used for lighting in the workshop could not be turned on, so Chen Yan could only use the flashlight of his mobile phone to illuminate. After bypassing a multi-person workbench covered with anti-static blankets, he saw a few animals placed neatly against the wall on the machinery. The plastic boxes on the load-bearing trolley are full of brand new white thick plastic bags of different sizes. The plastic bags contain various styles of electronic components, and the models of these electronic components are written on each plastic box .

He passed the plastic box and came to the innermost part of the workshop. There was a machine that Chen Yan could not name. A disassembled mobile phone was fixed on the central workbench of the machine with a small mechanical arm. The pen-shaped device was aimed at the circuit board of the disassembled phone.

Presumably this machine is the large-scale electronic product maintenance equipment in the workshop.

"We moved these things back to the ship."

According to the design of the roads in the mechanical hive, there are roads directly leading to the outside world in the C-17 area, but there are so many people on Days Island. - Area 17 took Uncle Li's property.

Swarm realized what Chen Yan was thinking, so he didn't ask any questions, but just followed suit.

The two piled up electronic components and half-person-height electronic product maintenance equipment on a mechanical load-bearing trolley, covered it with two layers of white insulating foam from the workshop, took the straps to fix it, and then left the workshop to start over again. Come within range of the neon lights of the C-17 area.

While walking forward, Chen Yan suddenly said:
"If you solve people's most essential problems, you solve all the problems we face."

Swarm didn't understand what he was talking about.

Chen Yan said in a thoughtful tone:
"If people had the knowledge, they would know that the ballot system of the empire has been used by the elite to fool people.

With knowledge, people can judge who can represent their own interests, and know who to vote for in order to benefit themselves the most. "

"If people have knowledge, they will know that what they want to protect is only their own interests, and they will not be deprived of all rights by those 'big bosses' as Klein said-the right to vote is their greatest personal right."

"If people have knowledge, they will rebel against lumpen proletarians like Uncle Li, so that people like Uncle Li cannot gain benefits and status through them, and rulers like Klein cannot use people like Uncle Li to benefit, thus It can only please the people themselves—that’s the very essence of something like a vote.”

"People ... people will rebel, and then they will get the life they deserve."

"People will use their knowledge to make a living, instead of doing simple manual labor day after day, not knowing where their way out is, and being in a daze..."

"Dyes Island needs schools...Dyes Island needs evening schools!"

"Swarm, I feel like everything is back to square one again."

(End of this chapter)