Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chen Yan didn't want to try crispy balls at first, but his inflated curiosity and Swarm's nostalgia for the stall made him make such a dangerous move now—the thick green soup and Biguolibi soy sauce Getting thick oil is daunting enough.

Swarm expressed a strong desire for crispy balls, maybe because some ingredients in crispy balls are suitable for strains to grow?

The consumption here is frighteningly high, and the crispy balls are relatively cost-effective - what you pay for is not crispy balls, but a "lease right" of crispy ball paper - as long as it costs ten pennies, you can buy it for a meal Within a short period of time, holding this tin crisp ball paper, you can continue the ball indefinitely.

After trying it, Chen Yan had to admit that this thing tastes quite good when paired with the special "green oil sauce" made by the Piper.

After eating the crispy balls, Chen Yan browsed through most of the buildings on both sides of the street, unlike the last time, Chen Yan looked at everything carefully——

Most of the cubicles in the hive are not normal shops, but just warehouses with chalked plaques. This kind of warehouse is used for wholesale by merchants and retail goods for people.

Warehouses of the same type often occupy an entire street or more, such as the "Spice District" that Chen Yan and Swarm are walking through now. This is the second district of District B, and the entire district is almost full of spices. Yes, so the smell on the street is extremely pungent. The sauce in the crispy balls that the flute player sold on the street just now must have been purchased from the B-2 area.

Chen Yan found several "shops" to look at, and found that the spices in the B-2 area are quite complete, from musk, castoreum, ambergris, and muskrat in animal spices, to various essential oils, peppers, and cinnamon in plant spices. , star anise, mint, lavender, sage, coriander, nasturtium...

Almost all the spices that Chen Yan knows are here, and there are many that Chen Yan can’t name, not only air-dried, but also potted plants, and even ready-made hydroponic spices, such as chives, mint and rosemary... just these It is more expensive, and the shelf life is not guaranteed, but the appearance is very good, it looks like something in a painting - Chen Yan thinks they must have fertilized it.

What surprised Chen Yan even more was that there were several shops selling synthetic fragrances at the end of the street in District B-2—Chen Yan was sure that the big plastic jar he saw contained some hydrocarbon or alcohol compound , because the fragrance is so strong that it can be smelled more than ten meters away.

In the case of ignoring toxicity, such raw materials can even be used alone, and the effect will be even better.

But Chen Yan was sure that people only regarded these things as raw materials—he watched as a merchant moved five waist-high plastic barrels from a store and transported them away on a cart.

After passing through the B-2 area, it is followed by the B-2 area with a different scene from the B-3 area.

There are not so many shops engaged in the wholesale industry in District B-3, and there are more small processing workshops inside the area. Chen Yan saw many small refining devices. He has seen similar refining devices in the laboratory before, but The refining devices in area B-3 are more "rough" and there are many modified versions with small devices added, presumably the purity of refining will not be very high.

In the B-2 area, people pull the goods from the store, and in the B-3 area, it is completely opposite. People push the carts to the store, and the goods are processed through the store—refining.

Chen Yan didn't go in to see it, but he could get a general idea of ​​the situation from the smell - in addition to spices, they extracted a large amount of oil and certain liquid compounds. It's hard to say what it is, but the smell is very pungent, so it shouldn't be a good thing .

That is to say, part of the functions of the B-2 area and the B-3 area are matched, and in addition to this part of the matching functions, each also undertakes more complex functions.

Chen Yan did not find a [functional area] shorter than "a street".

During the entire observation process, Chen Yan accidentally discovered something through synaesthesia - after accidentally touching a gang member with his hand, the other party's strong emotions were transmitted to Chen Yan's consciousness.

The synaesthesia told Chen Yan that the gang members had just participated in a fight in a warehouse far away from the street. Both sides in the fight were killed or injured, but they won in the end, which meant that they got the "Tuodi" of the opposing gang.

"Tuodi" is the place where protection fees are collected.

This is... a gang from the southern part of Tianshen State, and the third uncle seems to be from the same village.

Ok?Why did you think of Uncle San again?

Chen Yan realized that the third uncle had become a shadow in his heart like a nightmare. The image of the third uncle wearing a tattered and faded purple tuxedo, holding a green barnacle cane, and wearing shackles and black iron boots seemed to be nailed into his mind. , no matter what.

Fortunately, the third uncle was trapped in the zoo.

Thinking that the zoo is basically full of perverts like Uncle San, Chen Yan felt that it was a very wise decision for the director to hide the zoo in the [wilderness].

Klein caught the No.18 month. I don’t know if there are any perverts like the third uncle on the No.18 month. If there is, I hope that Klein will not release those monsters when he explores the No.18 month...

Chen Yan could only hope so.

After wandering through another block, Chen Yan led Swarm to a slightly larger cubicle.

Swarm glanced at the tungsten billboard atop the cubicle.

"Rental and sales center? Are we going to buy a shop?"

Swarm couldn't figure it out, didn't Chen Yan still have to go further by boat?Why did you buy property here?Is he going to settle here?

Chen Yan replied:
"Where we make money, we spend it. We don't have the pressure to survive. What else do we use the money for?"

Swarm didn't quite understand it, but he knew that Chen Yan was not as vicious and distorted when he asked questions like the section chief, so he didn't restrain his curiosity:

"Eating, drinking and having fun?"

Chen Yan said:

"It depends on the person. I don't like eating, drinking, and having fun... It's not that I don't like it, but I don't like it that much, and I don't pursue these things."

Swarm said to himself:
"What am I looking for..."

Chen Yan was afraid that he would lose his mind when thinking about these issues, so he continued his words:
"A free and undisciplined life is itself a kind of enjoyment of life, and there is no need to deliberately pursue anything."

Swarm asked:

"Then why do you go to such lengths to do these things?"

Chen Yan replied:
"Because that's what I'm after."

Swarm looked blankly:
"I can not understand."

Chen Yan just said:

"The joys and sorrows of people are not the same."

When he walked into the rental and sales center, he saw that the walls were full of housing information and rental and sales information. This was obviously a second-hand dealer, not an official agency.

In other words, is this street a black intermediary street...

He turned his head and was about to leave.

A familiar eager voice behind him stopped him:

"Hey fellow stay here!"

If the clerk was from an imperial family, Chen Yan would definitely leave without looking back.

He turned around, looked at the young man who came to him in a crappy gentleman's suit that was not too flat, and came to him with a thin booklet, and said in Tianshenzhou dialect:
"I'm here to buy a house. No matter how bad it is, I'm renting from the first landlord. I don't want to intrigue with the second or third landlord."

The other party saw that he was not Kai Zi, and did not go through the detours with him, saying:
"The people of Tianshenzhou don't lie to the people of Tianshenzhou! Although we are second-hand dealers, we do have official certification qualifications, you see!"

The young man was in a hurry, obviously not good at business, so he handed Chen Yan the paper certificate of "Real Estate Agency Certification Qualification" directly upside down.

After he flipped the paper certificate over in embarrassment, Chen Yan took a photo with his mobile phone without mercy.

When the photo was taken, the young man did not show any timidity, which added a bit to the credibility of this proof.

Chen Yan put away the phone:

"what's your name?"

The young man laughed and said:
"Brother, just call me Awei."

Swarm was listening to the two of them talking. Although he couldn't understand their language, he could "feel" the meaning of their words through the vibration of the voice vibrating the skin.

This feeling is very strange, and Swarm likes it very much.

Chen Yan said:

"Awei, I need a larger workshop with an area of ​​about [-] square meters, at least two floors, not in a downtown area, try to be as quiet as possible."

After hearing this condition, Ah Wei immediately realized that the other party was a big customer, and the hive itself was built according to the standard of warehouses, and those target customers who needed super-large warehouses could not be received by a small intermediary like his work. The intermediary company that works has the highest level of resources, which is the three-story beehive lattice room.

Chen Yan needs two floors, which is basically close to the limit they can bear.

So in the following conversation, Ah Wei's waist unconsciously bent a little bit, with a flattering attitude:

"Yes, there are. Look at these places. They are all located close to the central logistics hub under construction. There are two-story and three-story grid rooms. They are all excellent road sections. There are few gangs around, many worker bees, and ordinary taxpayers. The people are extremely friendly, and if you have children who want to go to school in the future, only these districts may build academies, the three districts B, C, and D..."

Chen Yan couldn't understand what A Wei said after listening to it, because all his attention was focused on the blueprint in front of him.

There are not particularly complete honeycomb structures distributed on the drawings.

In the barrel-shaped cross-section of the circle cut up and down, Chen Yan saw that a large part is hollow——the "core area" of the entire mechanical honeycomb, a perfect giant cylinder, is empty, and there is no marked building.

what is this?
He pointed to the hollow area on the drawing and interrupted Ah Wei's eloquent talk:

"Why is this place empty?"

Awei didn't care about his interruption, and replied with a serious look:
"This is the airport!"

Chen Yan repeated in a doubtful tone:
"Airport?"

Ah Wei nodded heavily, and said in a proud tone:
"This is the core hub of the entire mechanical hive and Days Island, the airport linking the island and the mainland!"

Based on this nonsense, Chen Yan judged that Ah Wei's performance must not be very good.

Chen Yan pointed to the X number on the hollow area and asked:

"How is this marked on it?"

Ah Wei pointed to the hollow area and explained:

"Inside this large cylinder, the part of the 20 large areas located in the lower AT area is the airport of the logistics center.

The large column is located in the small part of the UZ area on the upper floor of the mechanical hive. It is under construction. It is said that it is a large equipment that was pulled up by many professor-level figures in the imperial capital of the empire...

So the number of rooms in the UZ area has increased fivefold in two days!Now the price is sky-high, so our small shop will not fight with those big intermediary gods. "

A Wei quickly glanced at Chen Yan nervously, afraid that Chen Yan would be unhappy, because the last thing many bosses like is to be regarded as poor, even if they really don't have much bad money in their pockets.

Chen Yan looked at the T area closest to the U area, and said:

"How do the houses here sell?"

Awei said:

"You have really good eyesight! Our agency just listed a house in the inner circle of the T zone today! It only costs 2800 pounds per square meter! Buy it and earn it!"

Chen Yan's eyes widened:
"Say it again... How much is it?!"

……

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At this moment, Zone Z, the topmost floor of the mechanical hive.

This place is densely covered with honeycombs like every corner of a mechanical honeycomb. What is different from other areas is the unique road design here. The division of various areas in the entire Z area has been transformed into a huge maze by the unique road design. Affected by what happened in this labyrinth, all the ugliness is also spawned by every action of the people in the labyrinth.

At the moment when the order of the empire is destroyed, a more primitive rule ruled the labyrinth of Zone Z before the arrival of the new order. Under the domination of the original rules, the well-dressed people are doing transactions closest to primitive humanity, and all of this is completely in harmony with The word "civilization" has nothing to do with it.

At this very moment, within Area Z, an office whose location is unknown.

Although the office is on the top floor of the mechanical hive, the lights are always off, the curtains are closed tightly, and the light cannot come in, so the room is gloomy.

There were messy documents piled up in the corner, and the titles of those documents were probably important documents like "Material distribution of the logistics center from January to March", but these documents seemed to be completely ignored and discarded as garbage.

The desks in the office are neatly arranged in the center of the office. On the four desks, a seal is drawn with black smoke, and in the center of the seal lies No. 18, which has been completely dissected——

The cat, which does not look like a cat at all, is "completely spreading out" its limbs, lying in the middle of the cracks between the four desks, which is also the center of the black smoke seal. There is no fluctuation in the cat's open eyes.

It's like a dead thing with no life at all.

Klein lowered his head and walked slowly around the desk. He walked round and round, but he couldn't figure out one thing——

Why is there no way to the zoo in No.18 Yue's body?
This is unscientific and does not conform to the definition of "Lagrangian time".

According to the information obtained by Klein, No. 18, as the creation of Byron Weiss’s most cutting-edge technology, should have a “solidified” Lagrangian time inside itself, and there should be a imitation [Gate of Transcendence] , Only in this way, No.18 can carry the functions of the zoo aquarium, can keep those "animals" that are used as consumables enough for the zoo to consume, and can be used as a cooling device for the large database to keep running.

But now, everything revealed by the facts is different from the information obtained by Klein.