Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

The water dripping experiment on death row inmates.

When Li Fan first heard this new term, he shook his head.

"What the hell is this water drop experiment? I don't know what it means."

The absence of sound explains the Dao.

“Blindfold and tie up a person, pretend to cut his wrist with a blunt instrument, play a dripping sound in his ear, and tell him that his blood is dripping away, and that although he is not injured at all, he will die from excessive blood loss.”

This means that illusions can kill through psychological suggestion; if you don't realize it's an illusion before you die, you will truly die.

Hearing Wuyin's words, Li Fan nodded with lingering fear.

In the illusion, you can only rely on yourself; no one else can help you break the deadlock.

So, in the illusion, the doctor had already raised his scalpel. If he hadn't noticed in time that the doctor's scalpel wasn't reflective, he might already be dead.

Having rested enough in the foyer, the group went inside to explore the dimly lit room.

The indicator lights of many medical devices in the ward were flashing, and the breathing sound of the ventilator was very deep.

Hearing the sound of the ventilator made Li Fan feel uneasy, nauseous, and want to vomit.

After all, although the illusion didn't actually harm him, he would never forget the feeling of being worse than dead that it gave him.

The three of them split up and first explored the relatively safe areas around the bed, such as the bedside table, the headboard, and the window. After a few minutes, none of them found any clues.

Wuyin spoke to the two of them.

"Since there are no clues anywhere else, the only clue should be on the hospital bed."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the hospital bed.

The blankets on the hospital bed completely suffocated the person inside, and only from the outside could one see a human shape bulging out of the blankets.

Although the incident at the morgue left Wuyin with some psychological trauma from lifting other people's blankets.

After preparing himself mentally, he slowly reached for a corner of the blanket and suddenly pulled it off.

The moment the blanket was pulled back, all three of them widened their eyes simultaneously.

The person in the hospital bed wasn't actually lying down.

Instead.

He lay flat on the hospital bed, completely still.

Li Fan frowned as he looked at the old man on the hospital bed and spoke.

"Can he still breathe in this state? He may have already suffocated to death."

Lucas, with a serious expression, remained vigilant, watching the movements of the person on the hospital bed, and spoke softly.

"He's not dead."

All three of them fell silent for a moment.

But the person in the hospital bed remained unmoved by their conversation, lying motionless on the bed.

Li Fan couldn't help but nudge the old man on the hospital bed and said something.

"Hey? Grandpa, aren't you feeling suffocated sleeping like that? Why don't you turn over and sleep a little longer?"

The old man lying face down on the bed finally stirred.

He suddenly looked up, his eyes fixed on Li Fan, his voice filled with intense killing intent.

"Get lost! Don't bother me."

After saying that, she buried her head in the pillow again.

Although it was only for a few seconds, Li Fan was able to clearly see the old man's face. He stood there stunned for a long time, unable to say a word.

The old man was otherwise normal, but his eyes were unusually strange.

The eyes were dark red overall, with bloodshot veins covering the entire eyeball.

Moreover, the entire surface of the eye looked very dry, and there were a few lints from the hospital bed stuck to the cornea. The fabric texture from the pillow was also imprinted on the surface of the eyeball.

The eyelids were turned outwards, revealing the rotten flesh inside.

Wuyin, standing nearby, also clearly saw the old man's eyes and fell into thought.

Lucas muttered a complaint under his breath.

"This doesn't look like an ICU patient at all; they seem to have a lot of energy."

Chapter 146 Someone Under the Bed

Wuyin looked at the strange old man lying on the bed and spoke softly.

"So he wasn't sleeping at all, he was just looking at something."

Li Fan said this half-jokingly.

"His eyesight is practically ruined. With his eyes pressed against the pillow, what can he possibly see?"

Wuyin tilted her head and looked at Li Fan.

“He may not need to ‘see’ but for some reason, he needs to keep watching.”

Li Fan scratched his head, somewhat unable to understand Wuyin's words.

Lucas looked at Wuyin, who had already squatted down, with a serious expression. Wuyin's fingers gently touched the sheet covering the bottom of the bed, and then she suddenly lifted it off.

As the lid was lifted, an old, wrinkled face rushed out and lunged at Wuyin.

Wuyin reacted extremely quickly, instantly raising her hand to grab the old man's neck and pressing him to the ground.

The old man was still struggling, his mouth opening and closing as if trying to say something, but no sound came out.

Wuyin impatiently summoned a scalpel from the toolbar, held it to the old man's neck, and said coldly.

"Don't move. If you struggle again, you'll die."

The old man seemed to understand Wuyin's words. A hint of fear flashed in his eyes, and after nodding, he stopped struggling.

Lucas looked at the old man lying on the ground. Although he didn't know who the old man was, he could tell that the old man was a doctor because he was wearing a white coat.

No wonder this floor only has a monotonous corridor, surrounded by wards, with no doctors or nurses' offices.

It turned out that these doctors were hiding under the patients' beds.

Lucas also squatted down, his eyes fixed on the old man on the ground, and the old man looked at Lucas.

His nose twitched slightly, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He then seemed to want to say something to Lucas.

But he was also afraid that Wuyin, who was choking him, would get angry and kill him, so his expression was one of extreme inner conflict.

The others also noticed the old man's unusual behavior.

Without a word, he coldly uttered a sentence.

"Say what you want to say now. If you spout useless nonsense, I'll kill you on the spot."

After Wuyin finished speaking, he released his hand from the old man's throat. The old man coughed twice and then quickly gestured to Lucas.

Li Fan raised an eyebrow.

"And he's a mute doctor. Are all the doctors at this hospital a little bit sick?"

Lucas, watching the old man's constant hand gestures, quietly translated what the old man was trying to say.

"I am not the doctor here, but the patient."

I can smell my grandson's scent on you. I miss my grandson who lives outside, but I can't leave this hospital right now. Please help me check on my grandson. His name is Owen.

In exchange, I can tell you how to get upstairs, which is…

When Lucas read this part, the patient on the bed suddenly jumped up.

Before the others could react, he seized the opportunity to bite the throat of the old man in the white coat.

A large amount of blood instantly flowed from the mute old man's throat.

He struggled for only a few seconds before his hand fell to the ground.

The moment the old man was bitten, Li Fan was about to step forward and pull the crazed patient away, but Lucas stopped him.

Li Fan spoke, both angry and anxious.

"If we don't go save that mute old man soon, he'll die. He hasn't told us how to get upstairs yet."

Lucas shook his head, grabbed Li Fan's shoulder, and looked seriously into his eyes as he spoke.

"It's not that we don't want to save them, it's that we can't."

Wuyin watched this scene indifferently and nodded.

"That's right, because the old man said he wasn't a doctor, but a patient. So guess who the real doctor was?"

Li Fan calmed down after hearing Wuyin's words.

"A real doctor..."

He turned to look at Wuyin and slowly spoke in surprise.

"Could it be the patient in the hospital bed?"

Wuyin looked into Li Fan's eyes.

"This is the only possibility; otherwise, there's no way to explain where the doctor is."

Do you remember the rules we found on the first floor? One of them was that medical personnel must not be harmed.

So if you had actually harmed the 'patient' while trying to save the old man, you would have died instantly for breaking the rules, and no one could have saved you.

When Li Fan heard what Wu Yin said, he remembered the rule, but there was still one thing he didn't understand.

"But didn't we also hurt that fake Dr. Lu before, and nothing happened?"

Lucas previously killed a nurse on the first floor with an IV needle in the ward, and nothing happened. I thought those rules were fake.

After thinking for a while, Wuyin spoke.

There are no false rules, only rules with pitfalls.