Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 884 [Chen Yan]

A few hours ago, Yanan City, apartment at No. 33 Walker Street, attic.

The cooling evening wind took away the last sliver of warmth accumulated in the good weather without snowfall, and the discolored light pollution coming in from the window made everything in the field of vision psychedelic—those halos came from the newly opened Walker Street of several shops.

Those shops offer a number of strange services, including but not limited to subcutaneous electronic implants, custom electronic pupil replacements, and some sort of "out-of-body" deep-roaming internet service.

The color-changing light pollution coming in from the windows comes from the billboards of these shops. Most of the billboards are simple and easy-to-understand words with rough descriptions. There are not many literate people in Yanan City. If businessmen want to make money from most people, Don't make the ad look too complicated.

Under the influence of such color-changing light pollution, Chen Yan squinted his eyes and finished reading "Investigation on the Identity of the [Incomplete] in the Present World", and his vision stayed on that photo:

Above the photo is the [Chen Yan's face] that has been destroyed in the wilderness - it is the [Chen Yan's face] that he used brute force to forcibly cut off all the cables before, and now it has been swallowed by the wilderness for less than half!
This photo was stitched together from some small photos, and each small photo was stitched together to form a complete face pattern, so Chen Yan recognized it at a glance.

He immediately realized that after he destroyed the cable and left the wilderness to go to the mechanical hive, someone went there and took these pictures.

He is not the only one who can enter the wilderness. Apart from the [Gate of Transcendence], there are many paths leading to a deeper world in this world—this is something Chen Yan has known for a long time.

With the help of [Bai Shu]'s [Ladder BS-1225] chip, he sorted out his thoughts and made it clear what Osmandis wanted to tell him——

"This investigation report means that some people in the choral group have deduced what will happen in the future through the research of [Chen Yan's face] in [Wildness]."

After he finished speaking, he immediately said:

“[Deriving the future] is not impossible. Logically speaking, if the collected variables are enough, the collected constants are objective enough, and the conditions are rigorous enough, it is indeed possible to deduce some things that may actually happen in the future. — like a simulator."

He denies:

"But it's too nonsense to deduce the future of the entire world just through the model structure of one person.

The world doesn't revolve around him. "

Combined with the actual application scenarios in the report, Chen Yan added in a positive tone:

"The world doesn't revolve around me, that's for sure."

If the world revolves around me, why the hell am I still unable to get my body back?Lost dogs generally can't even go home?
Osmandis was noncommittal, but said:

"It's hard to say, this world is actually very weird. You can completely regard the normal society as one plane, the extraordinary society as another plane, and the deeper world where abnormal creatures live is the third plane. , the three planes interfere with each other and penetrate each other, and any change in any one plane may affect the entire world."

Chen Yan frowned and said:
"It's such a fucking mess."

Osmandis added:

"To be more precise, it is not 'certain people' who study these things, but the [Science Academy] of the choral group, which is a group of academic lunatics, the kind who can't even use a spoon well except for research.

The Academy of Sciences of the Choir is also a member of the [Academic School] of the Empire. They have spent a lot of resources in the past few decades since their establishment, but they have not researched anything of great value. Their research is even more It's like a group of scientific madmen's self-promotion, but it can't produce any value to society. "

Chen Yan expressed his most serious question:

"Having said that, the [Forbidden Fruit] series of holy light projections is mentioned in this report. What is that? Is it also a creation of the Choir Academy of Science? Is it a bionic man? Brain machine man? Or?"

Osmandis did not give a very clear answer:
"It's hard to say, the model [Forbidden Fruit] has almost never appeared in the field of vision of the extraordinary society, and now it finally appears, probably because this series of products has reached the stage of practical application-if this is the case, you will soon You will hear new news about the [Forbidden Fruit] model again."

He looked into Chen Yan's eyes, leaned back on the chair, put a thin book the size of A4 paper on the fingertip of his right index finger, and with a light push with his left hand, the book spun around his fingertips:
"So, do you see what I mean?"

After a moment of silence, [Bai Shu]'s brain computer calculated the exact answer, and Chen Yan said in an affirmative tone:

"What they are interested in is not me, but the abstract concept [Chen Yan]."

Osmandis affirmed:

"That's right, you finally understand that it doesn't matter who [Chen Yan] is, the thing behind the concept of [Chen Yan] has real value."

Chen Yan came to a sudden:

"No wonder there are always people downloading counterfeit goods into my body, which means that the only thing that is valuable is the existence of [Chen Yan], not me.

I am Chen Yan, but the counterfeit is also Chen Yan, and any backup can be Chen Yan.

But there is only one [Chen Yan], and this existence that lives in human society as [Chen Yan] is the real problematic thing. "

What is the difference between me who traveled from another world and forcibly occupied the brain of [Chen Yan] in this world, compared to the other backup data that was downloaded into [Chen Yan]'s body?

Osmandis whistled:

"Bingo! That's right!"

He first used the Imperial language, and then the Heavenly Shenzhou language, said "the answer is correct" twice, and then said in relief:
"Actually, their research has nothing to do with your half-penny. They study theirs and you live yours. They won't even interfere with your life—they won't interfere with [Chen Yan]'s life. Any disturbance, because any [disturbance] introduces more variables into their experiments, and more variables just make the experimental results more inaccurate."

Chen Yan understood, Bai Shu's [Sky Ladder BS-1225] made it easy for him to understand all the information collected by the pinna.

Osmandis said:
"So I said, apart from life, what is the truth of the world, what is the exploration of truth, what is the meaning of self-existence, these things that sound lofty are actually completely meaningless.

Even if you know, what can you do?
You can't change anything.

It's better to get back your body as soon as possible, eat and drink, find a wife and have a few children, work hard, enjoy life, and this life will pass like this.

Life is only a few decades, why are you so tired?Why are you torturing yourself? "

Chen Yan smiled viciously.

Even he himself didn't know why he was laughing like that.

"damn it."

He didn't know who he was scolding.

"I just want to find out."

Chen Yan looked at Osmandis, but was not talking to Osmandis.

"I just want to figure out what the hell is going on in this world."

What's the use of figuring it out?

What can I get?Can you make yourself better?Can you make the whole world revolve around you?
What cheats can I get?What achievements can be accomplished?What kind of fame and fortune can you get?
How powerful can a physical body be?How high a computing power can you have?How powerful can a weapon with heat be?

Can you eat more than three taels of meat every day?You can sleep with whoever you want?Can you drink what you want whenever you want?

Nothing.

But Chen Yan just wanted to find out.

He just [wanted] to do this, without any motivation, without any utilitarian thoughts, without any complicated motives mixed in.

[Baishu]'s [Ladder BS-1225] clearly and calmly figured out everything.

If he has to be given a motive, it is to seek his true "self"—he needs to figure out who he really is, what role he plays in this world, and what kind of person he is.

Osmandis obviously knew what was on his mind.

But the one-eyed boy still showed a look of indifference:

"That's a big project. Don't wait until you die and still not figure out what's going on. You've been wasting your whole life. You haven't done anything. You're nothing. You're worse than a dog."

He has survived so long in the river of time that his heart is as cold as the forgotten stone in the deepest part of the river bed.

Chen Yan sneered twice in a strange way:
"It doesn't matter if you waste a lifetime, if you waste dozens or hundreds of lives, and you still live for nothing, then your life will be in vain!"

Osmandis said angrily:

"Fuck you!"

He took a deep breath, restrained his anger, and made that "everything doesn't matter" look again:

"Chen Yan, you don't understand."

Chen Yan changed the topic:
"Speaking of which, how could you get this kind of report... This level of secrets shouldn't be accessible to an outsider like you, right?"

Osmandis obviously didn't want to answer this question, so he was perfunctory and imitated Chen Yan's eccentric tone and said:
"After living for dozens of lifetimes, the stone has become fine, so it must mutate to have some supernatural powers?"

Chen Yan knew that he didn't want to talk about it, and Chen Yan didn't care much about this question, so he didn't continue to ask.

"correct."

After thinking about it, Chen Yan decided to tell Osmandis about it.

He looked at the one eye that belonged to him, pointed to the report he had just read, and said:

"The things in this picture were destroyed by me."

He glanced at the photo, pointed to the face, and said:

"These cables originally extended from the [computer room] of the Mechanical Ascension Secret Order, and extended into the eye sockets of this face. I was terrified and confused at the time, so I tore off these cables."

"Before I snapped the cable, the face was still very clear, and it could be seen as my face."

He points at several locations on the photo:

"But after I snapped the cables leading into the eye sockets, the face clearly began to be gradually consumed by the [wilderness]."

"By the time these pictures were taken, the face was no longer recognizable as mine ... the facial features were almost unrecognizable."

Osmandis shifted his gaze to the photo, understood what Chen Yan meant, and said in his own way:

"You destroyed this face, but the choral group still analyzed some useful things from the data on this face... It is indeed the smartest group of people in the most powerful generation."

Chen Yan repeated:
"The most powerful generation."

Osmandis said as a matter of course:
"History is a spiral."

Chen Yan asked again:

"Did you come up with this sentence yourself, or did you read it from somewhere?"

Osmandis replied:
"It's an objective fact...it's my own conclusion."

Chen Yan clearly felt a little disappointment in his heart through the brain machine of [Bai Shu].

Osmandis was silent for a while, with a look of memory in his eyes:
"Each generation has different remnants of existence. The difference lies in whether those remnants exist in this world, and the knowledge left over in this world has more or less achieved the civilization of future generations."

"This is something that not even the ultimate catastrophe of each generation can destroy."

Chen Yan asked:
"What if those leftovers are left in the [wilderness]?"

Osmandis replied:
"You have experienced [Ice Age], so you should know the answer to this question."

Of course Chen Yan knew - the things left in the [wilderness] were smashed by the [wilderness] and then reassembled, and then became fragments and integrated into the whole world.

"Those remnants of previous civilizations may eventually become some kind of inconspicuous single element, which enters the bodies of future generations. Once a certain time comes, those old elements will be activated and bloom again."

After Osmandis finished speaking, Chen Yan asked:

"Do you want to find any answers from these files?"

Unexpectedly, this question made Osmandis a little hysterical.

The one-eyed boy was at a loss for a long time before saying:
"It's just mediocrity."

Osmandis is an old riddler, and Chen Yan has long been used to the tone of talking with him, so he doesn't care at all.

"About the director...Where is William Master? Now that the counterfeit is a big entrepreneur, it should be very simple to meet William Master."

Facing Chen Yan's inquiry, Osmandis immediately showed some helplessness:
"That guy, he's a big shot now, he's busy all day long, and we don't have a chance to see him."

Chen Yan asked:

"Even if you gave him the eye of the demihuman king?"

Osmandis nodded calmly:
"Yes, he is different from you, he is someone who can accomplish great things."

Chen Yan easily heard great ridicule from this sentence, so he said:

"When I get my body back, I will help you find William Master."

Osmandis looked at the problem from a different angle, and was vague when speaking:
"Then you have to think about it carefully, and then hurry up. When he grows bigger, maybe not many people want you to go back."

He lowered his head and looked at the file in front of him again:

"Even now, as far as I am concerned, the help he can give me is different from the help you can give me."

In the windless attic, Chen Yan heard this, and the omnic prosthesis felt a little cool.

(End of this chapter)