When I was in a world of unconventional rules and taboos

My name is Su Ming, and I am a time traveler.

Currently working at Aoyama Mental Hospital, my main responsibility is "being researched".

I have to take my medication every day and play a diagnostic game with a group of lunatics.

Although those lunatics often talk nonsense, saying that I am abnormal, have severe paranoia and a split personality.

But I know I'm not sick, I'm perfectly normal.

The world is sick.

This is a morbid world invaded by strange and unsettling rules.

As invaders, every so often, the Rules of the Strange Tales will randomly select a "chosen one" from each country and forcibly recruit them into the strange tales to participate in a terrifying game of life and death.

The winner will gain everything, escape punishment, and reap the benefits.

If they fail, not only will the chosen one die, but the country they represent will also experience strange occurrences, leading to irreversible consequences.

His Dragon Kingdom had suffered defeats and paid a heavy price in the previous six Strange Tales Worlds because the randomly selected "Chosen Ones" were too bizarre and mediocre. During this period, apart from one Chosen One who turned the tide and survived for one dungeon, the others quickly succumbed. The "hero" who survived for one dungeon also fell in the fourth dungeon.

Currently, five cities in the Dragon Kingdom have been invaded by strange tales and have completely fallen.

The consequence of all this is that the morale of the entire Dragon Kingdom has plummeted to a new low.

However, there is now both good news and bad news.

The good news is that he found the mental hospital too boring, so he chose to "escape" and easily slipped out of the mental hospital's many checkpoints, regaining his freedom.

The bad news is that he was targeted after just regaining his freedom and became the seventh "Chosen One" in the Dragon Kingdom, who was then thrown into the world of supernatural tales.

One second he was at the entrance of the mental hospital,

The next second he found himself in a strange room that had been cleaned tidy and had a desk, wardrobe, bed, and a trash can full of tissues.

The crimson moonlight shone through the window, adding a touch of eeriness and unease to the silent, dark room.

[Dear Chosen One, welcome to the world of Rules of the Strange. Please remain rational and calm; that is key to your survival.]

[Ding! The world of ghost stories is activating a special talent hidden within you...]

[Talent activated.]

[SSS-Rank Talent: Unrestricted]

[Unrestrained (SSS Rank): You are a born madman. Your chaotic and insane thinking makes you immune to the corruption of the supernatural world, allowing you to act without restraint. When you begin to have an episode, you will temporarily gain the ability to harm supernatural phenomena.]

SSS-level talent?!

What does this mean?!

This is a terrifying talent that no chosen one who has entered the world of ghost stories has ever possessed before.

So far, S-level talents are the most outstanding among all countries.

Most chosen ones are able to awaken a B-grade talent only because their ancestral graves are blessed with good fortune.

Now, Su Ming has actually activated an SSS-level talent. If this gets out, it will probably cause a magnitude 19 earthquake and terrify many people.

However, at this moment, Su Ming didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, nor did he feel any fear of being chosen by the strange rules, nor was he overwhelmed by the sudden surprise.

Instead, he remained expressionless, staring with a pair of clear yet somewhat silly dead fish eyes, and said in a serious tone:

"I'm not sick!"

Although obtaining an SSS-level talent is a good thing to be happy about,

However, the description of this talent indirectly implies that he is mentally ill.

This undoubtedly made Su Ming feel slightly displeased and offended.

However, no matter how serious or solemn his expression was at that moment, with his handsome face, people would subconsciously choose to believe him.

However, the glaring mental hospital gown he wore brought everything to a standstill.

Viewers from various countries watching the live stream were completely stunned when they saw the clothes he was wearing.

"Wow, what a handsome guy! I want to have his babies... Wait, something's off about his clothes?!"

"Qingshan Mental Hospital?? Did they randomly pick a mental patient?! Holy crap, is this rule-based supernatural phenomenon going crazy? I seriously suspect that China is being deliberately targeted. None of the previously selected chosen ones were normal, and now another mental patient has appeared?!"

"Wait, could this be role-playing?! Pretending to be mentally ill... Damn, I can't even make this up anymore. How could this be? Who would pretend to be mentally ill for no reason..."

"I'm tired. Let's destroy it..."

At that moment, all the Chinese viewers watching the live stream couldn't hold back their anger when they saw Su Ming; they almost had a heart attack from anger.

Originally, due to the vast territory and dense population of the Dragon Kingdom, the previous random selection of chosen ones in the strange tales of rules resulted in the selection of many mediocre individuals, whose activated talents were mostly very weak, leading to a continuous period of crushing defeats.

The only "hero" survived only one ghost story instance before falling...

The last chosen one was an old man in his eighties...

Even though the Dragon Kingdom has begun to systematically popularize knowledge about rules and supernatural tales among ordinary people, the results are still not very good.

Now, the new Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom has chosen a mentally ill person to join the party. Isn't this just sending them to their deaths?!

Who could stand that?!

While the people of China were wailing in despair, people from other countries began to mock and ridicule them.

"Hahaha, the Dragon Kingdom's luck is still so bad. Last time it was an eighty-year-old man, and this time it's a mentally ill person. It seems your Dragon Kingdom is cursed by strange tales of rules. Just wait to walk step by step towards the brink of national destruction!"

"Our Sakura Country's chosen one, Fujiki Umema, is a powerful chosen one with the S-rank talent 'Limb Replacement.' Not only did he successfully pass the previous round of the Rule-Based Mystery, but he is also hailed as the greatest man in Sakura Country's history, far surpassing what you Chinese from Dragon Country can achieve."

"Damn it, the people of the Dragon Kingdom are nothing special. It seems you won't survive this round of the strange tales. Just wait to die. When the punishment for the strange tales comes, I wonder how many more people will die."

"If you Chinese are afraid, you can consider immigrating to the Bald Eagle Empire. As the world's beacon and the dawn of humanity's hope, the Bald Eagle Empire has always welcomed elites from all walks of life. You can come anytime you want. Of course, poor people are out of the question; we only want elites."

"..."

Despite being deeply disappointed in Su Ming, the audience from China, despite their disappointment, retaliated fiercely with their own sarcastic remarks.

It's fine if we, the people ourselves, say what we want, but what do you outsiders think you are!

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(Fun fact: China has over 600 cities.)

(The author doesn't write ghost stories like the one about a mother's note; the author prefers to write more novel and unusual stories.)