Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

"Strange, didn't my brother go in? Why is the door still locked?"

Li Fan gently touched the locked door. Because the door also carried some eerie energy, he couldn't pass through it to take a look.

He called softly through the crack in the door.

"No sound? Big brother? Are you inside?"

A faint, panting sound came from inside the door.

"Well, I'm here."

Li Fan asked with some concern.

"What happened to you? How did you get locked inside? Where's the key? I'll go get the key and get you out."

Wuyin answered Li Fan's questions one by one.

"I'm fine. Someone ambushed me. I have the key. I'll pass it to you from under the door. Can you open the door for me?"

"it is good."

Li Fan responded.

Soon, a gleaming silver key was handed out from under the door. Li Fan picked up the key, unlocked the ward door, and the two of them looked into the ward together.

Wuyin stood to the side, hands on her hips, panting heavily.

In the center of the ward, six stiff corpses lay sprawled on the floor.

Their legs were stacked together, tightly intertwined like a woven basket. Because the limbs of the corpses were stiff, they could not be separated at all when stacked like this, and could only writhe helplessly on the ground, struggling.

Lucas was taken aback when he saw this.

He had heard before that the Wuyin from the Dragon Kingdom was extremely powerful, but seeing it with his own eyes today still left him somewhat shocked.

He entered the world of supernatural tales earlier than the chosen ones from various countries, and progressed faster, so he also fought against these corpses.

It was clear that these corpses were impervious to pain and their bodies were stiff, making them difficult to handle.

I never expected that Wuyin could take on six corpses single-handedly and win completely. He's practically a monster.

Lucas pulled out an IV bottle that was hidden behind him, with an IV set attached to it. He smiled helplessly.

"It seems we won't need this."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a deep, cold voice came from behind him.

The three of them looked over at the same time.

It was that cleaner again, completely wrapped in medical protective clothing.

He stared at the three men with a sinister gaze, then swept his eyes over the chaotic ward, thick smoke billowing from his body.

Before the others could react, he quickly reached out, grabbed Li Fan by the collar, and dragged him like a dead dog to another locked ward.

Li Fan could only desperately tug at his collar to barely breathe, but he couldn't utter a single word.

Lucas's eyes were serious. He wanted to shout, but he deliberately suppressed his voice.

"Does anyone have a knife? Cut his clothes open, quick!"

Upon hearing this, Wuyin leaped forward and quickly appeared beside the cleaner. He summoned a scalpel from his toolbar with his right hand and swung it fiercely at the cleaner.

Chapter 142 The Simplest Maze

The cleaner quickly grabbed Wuyin's wrist with his other hand.

Wu Yin had fought this cleaner before and knew that he was extremely fast and had terrifying strength.

So what he did was just a feint. The instant the cleaner made his move, he had already darted behind the cleaner and slashed the protective suit.

Lucas also rushed over. He had been worried that Wuyin might be at a disadvantage in fighting the cleaner, but seeing that Wuyin was handling the situation with ease, he breathed a sigh of relief.

As expected of Wuyin, she truly possesses great skill.

He immediately raised the needle, ready to pierce the tear in the protective suit that had been silently cut open.

But when Lucas saw the cut that had been made without sound, his lips twitched violently.

"No, Wuyin, couldn't you have chosen a normal place to strike?"

"What the hell is this about you chopping someone's butt?"

But the situation was urgent, and he didn't have time to complain. He had no choice but to grit his teeth and insert the IV needle into the cleaner's buttocks through the tear in the protective suit.

The moment the needle pierced the skin, the cleaner froze on the spot, and black mist quickly flowed back along the needle, surging into the dark red IV bottle.

Within seconds, the cleaner completely lost her strength and collapsed to the ground.

The liquid inside the IV bottle had turned pure black.

Li Fan loosened his collar, coughed violently a few times, and then took deep breaths of fresh air.

When he came to his senses, he angrily stood up and kicked the cleaner on the ground twice.

"Why are you grabbing my collar and not theirs? Do you think I'm easy to bully? I'll kick you to death."

Wuyin then turned to look at Lucas. He had many questions to ask, but he asked the most crucial one first.

"Both you and this cleaner seem to see Li Fan."

Upon hearing Wuyin's words, Li Fan suddenly remembered something and happily spoke up.

I roughly know the reason.

The nurses in that ward couldn't see me at first, but later they could see me too.

She and the cleaner had something in common: when she was extremely angry, a large amount of black mist would emanate from her body, and then she could see me.

I suspect that the eerie mist exposed my soul.

Lucas nodded in agreement after hearing Li Fan's analysis, thinking that Wuyin's younger brother was also very intelligent, no wonder the two of them were able to win consecutively.

He then began to explain.

"I can see Li Fan because of my talent, S-rank: Infinite Healing."

I can not only heal my own body, but I can also heal supernatural beings and spirits. That's probably why I can see Li Fan clearly.

And that's why I was able to live for so long even after my skin was peeled off.

Wu Yin nodded. It was pretty much what he had guessed, except that Lucas's talent was even stronger than he had anticipated.

Li Fan was stunned when he heard about this talent.

"Can your talent cure supernatural phenomena? Why weren't you the one I matched with in the last duo dungeon? Otherwise..."

Li Fan paused here, then shut his mouth again.

When Lucas saw that Li Fan stopped halfway through his sentence, he frowned but didn't ask any further questions.

He turned to look at Wuyin, and was about to ask her what clues she had found in that locked ward when he suddenly heard a pair of hurried footsteps.

Wuyin's face darkened.

"Oh no, the cleaning staff made too much noise and attracted the other medical staff as well."

Li Fan quickly scanned his surroundings and spoke to the two of them.

"They came from the left, so we quickly ran to the right."

Without another word, the group immediately sprinted to the right.

However, the speed of the pursuers behind them was extremely fast, forcing them to run desperately, which made a bigger commotion and attracted even more medical staff.

The footsteps behind me grew denser and closer.

The sound of "tap tap tap" rose and fell, as if it were stepping on their hearts.

At first, the group thought they should keep quiet for now, conserve their energy, and discuss their next move after shaking off the medical staff.

But when they turned around, they saw a group of medical staff with strange smiles, all of whom had their hands stretched straight forward, trying to grab them.

And the distance was getting closer and closer, with less than half a corridor left, and the sharp claws of the medical staff were within reach.

Now everyone can see it.

Running alone, no matter how fast you are, won't shake them off. We need to quickly analyze and come up with a strategy.

Wuyin spoke quickly, panting heavily.

"The six corpses found in the morgue each had a character on them, and when put together, they form the sentence:"

The simplest maze.

Lucas, unable to decipher the meaning behind those six seemingly nonsensical words, then proceeded to discuss the clues he had discovered.

"The needles stuck in the patients' bodies in the ward could also be inserted into the bodies of medical staff to draw out the strange mist flowing back from their bodies, but there are just too many of them, and it's too late."

Li Fan knew that what Lucas said was completely unworkable, so his brain raced to recall Wuyin's words.

The simplest maze.

"Isn't the simplest maze just one with only one path? If there's a wrong path, then it's not the simplest anymore."

Upon hearing Li Fan's words, Wu Yin's eyes suddenly lit up, and a smile appeared on her lips.

Lucas was startled when he saw Wuyin's expression.

"Damn, bro, don't mess with this! Did they bite you?"

Wuyin was speechless after hearing Lucas's words, but still spoke up.

"I know what that 'simplest maze' means now."

"Li Fan, you've done a great job this time."

Listen to me, just keep running down the corridor. This isn't an infinite loop, so don't talk and conserve your energy.

Although Li Fan didn't understand why Wu Yin said that, he was happy to be praised. Anyway, he would just do as his older brother said.

Upon hearing Wuyin's words, Lucas suddenly seemed to realize something, his expression showing a hint of understanding.

After running around the hospital ward corridor a few times, the group noticed that the corridor had become shorter.

Lucas was now completely certain of his hypothesis.