Rules of the Strange: I Can See Through All the Weird

Insert the key, turn it, and the room door opens.

Qi Tong went inside, and it looked exactly the same as what she had secretly seen that day, except there was still a lot more inside.

For example, there are photos of her sleeping, and even photos of other children. There is also a small crystal wooden statue placed in the corner, which is not visible unless you turn your head to look. It is hidden in the corner of the wall, and there are piles of "her" things around it.

Qi Tong walked over and saw the little figures inside the crystal wooden palace.

She was a beautiful little girl, but now she lay lifeless in the cold wooden chamber.

The moment I saw the little girl, all the photos around me, including the one of "Qi Tong," all transformed into the little girl's appearance.

This is the original "daughter".

"This is a world created by your mental power, right?"

The people inside the crystal wooden palace did not react at all.

Qi Tong began to talk to himself.

"You want a happy family, but you never have one. Your mother has mental health issues. The skin on her face is dry, cracked, and peeling because she is always angry. She often shouts at the top of her lungs and makes exaggerated facial expressions, which is why she has this strange bug."

"My father was killed by my mother, but because of his evil thoughts, he was punished by fire after his death. He committed one of the seven deadly sins—lust, and was even a pedophile, so he had blisters and scars on his body."

"You don't actually love your father as much as you do in the diary, because the diary wasn't written by you, but by your father. His purpose might have been to satisfy his own twisted psychology, or it might have been to make things difficult for the players, making them feel like they have to wait for the diary and stay here for more than seven days, deliberately misleading the players. We don't know for sure."

"And you, you can't read, you've never been to school."

The little bear kept clutching Qi Tong's clothes, anxiously saying, "Stop talking, don't upset my master."

Qi Tong ignored it completely and continued talking.

"From the first day I arrived, I was curious why a child would keep saying 'go to work' instead of 'go to school.' I searched everywhere, and I turned your bedroom upside down, but I couldn't find any school supplies, not even a pen, let alone a schoolbag."

"You've never been to school, you have no friends, your life consists only of your parents and this teddy bear." Qi Tong waved the teddy bear in her hand.

The little girl in the crystal wooden house twitched her eyelids slightly.

Qi Tong continued, "Your mother knew about your father's unusual love for you a long time ago, but she always forgave him, even brainwashing herself into thinking that it was love for her because of love for her."

"One of the rules is wrong; it's wrong that the parents are very loving, right?"

"They are not loving; on the contrary, they often quarrel. Your mother doesn't divorce you because she doesn't want to lose you. She knows she doesn't have a way to make money, and if they divorce, you will definitely go with your father who has a stable job. She doesn't divorce you because she doesn't want to lose you as a money-making tool."

"Of course, these are all just my guesses, and you are welcome to stand up and refute me."

Seeing that the girl still wouldn't get up, Qi Tong sighed.

"You started to feel scared because your father was constantly spying on you. You felt like there were ghosts in the closet, in the mirror, and outside the window. Oh no, the outside of the window is real. Your address has been exposed. Moreover, your parents do not protect your privacy at all. There are always people taking pictures of you outside the window."

"However, it's not as bright as I am here. This is all because you've aggravated the resentment you've carried with you in your experiences. There's no scratching sound in the closet; it's just the harsh scraping sound left by your father moving the closet in the middle of the night. The person you see in the mirror and the sounds from the window are all your imaginations."

"All you wanted was a normal, warm family, but you didn't have any. The gentle parents here are just your imagination, the parents you most wanted. Your father is a scumbag because he coveted more than just you. Your mother found out and couldn't reason with herself anymore. In the last argument, she killed him."

"And what about you and your mother? How did you die?"

"I knew you'd get up. Stop pretending to be dead. You're the real boss here." Qi Tong couldn't help but reach out and pat the girl.

The girl then sat up, her face devoid of childlike innocence, instead filled with gloom.

"You're very smart, but you should be able to guess how my mother and I died, so why don't you tell me?"

Is it something to be proud of to have someone tell you about how you died?

"...I hate my mother. She always mentions my father in front of me. That man doesn't deserve to be a father at all!" The girl's eyes were filled with hatred when she talked about her father.

"But I didn't kill her. Just like you said, Mom always hugged me and cried, saying that Dad loved her too much, which is why he treated me that way. She asked me to forgive her, again and again."

"Have you forgiven me?" Qi Tong asked.

The girl remained silent for a long time.

"I didn't, but I had no other choice."

"So when my mother discovered that my father had videos of him abusing other children, not just girls, but even boys, she went crazy. She killed him, hid his head and limbs in the closet in my room, and cooked and ate his flesh. It smelled terrible, but she said it was because of love that she didn't want to separate from him."

"I can't understand. All I wanted was a normal family. My mother starved to death. After eating the last bit of meat from my father, she stopped eating and drinking until she died. When she was first hungry, she still had the strength to hurt herself, but later she was too weak to continue. Before she died, she was like a dried-up corpse with very little good flesh left on her body."

The girl held out her hand, revealing a noticeable scar on her fair wrist: "I committed suicide. I didn't want to stay in this stinking world any longer."

"This world will never come again," the little girl said, raising her head with a look of relief.

"Kill me again, and you can get out..." Before he could finish speaking, someone slapped him on the head.

"Because scum doesn't enter reincarnation? Are you stupid? Besides, I've read the novel, don't lie to me, there's no need to kill anyone, just uncover the truth and solve the secret." Qi Tong put down her hand with a look of disgust.

"I'm not advising you to live your life again. Besides, you're already in this instance, so you shouldn't be reincarnated again, right? I just want to tell you that you are loved by someone. You are not without anything; you just met the wrong person. You always have a chance to start over."

Qi Tong stuffed the teddy bear into her arms: "Look, isn't this it? It loves you the most in this house, calling you 'little master' all the time. It was being all whiny and clingy just now because it was afraid I'd upset you. You're in this dungeon, and it's not just your doing, is it?"

"It deserves the most credit, because it feels sorry for you and its resentment is even stronger than yours. Its wish is to fulfill your wish, so it accompanies you in this instance again and again. You are not without love, you know."

The girl hugged the teddy bear, then seemed to suddenly realize something, collapsed to the ground, buried her head in the teddy bear, and burst into tears.

Qi Tong did not disturb her.

In my mind, the sound of "666" was much softer than usual; I even forgot to send the emoticon.

[Host... I feel her pain. It's so painful. So this is what "home" is?]

"You can still feel this?"

[I don't know either... I just... my heart aches. It feels like something's blocking my chest.]

Qi Tong did not answer.

She suddenly realized that although this system was incompetent and only knew how to act cute, it wasn't entirely useless.