Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

You also said that Dr. Lu was a fake, so our incident didn't count as an attack on medical staff.

An IV needle may be a special tool, and using it does not constitute harm to medical staff.

And the nurse who was stabbed was lying on the ground. Did you think she was killed?

Perhaps she simply lost all her eerie aura and reverted to her corpse form.

Li Fan felt like he was stuck between the two of them, making him look like an idiot, even though he wasn't that stupid.

After biting the mute old man to death, the "patient" lying on the bed returned to the bed, maintaining the same posture and remaining motionless.

Lucas spoke softly.

"The trail has gone cold. Should we go to the next room to check now?"

Wuyin looked at Lucas and said.

"Don't rush, I have another question for you. What's the story behind the old man saying that he smelled his grandson's scent on you?"

Lucas thought for a moment and then guessed.

"Before I came into this hospital, a group of people surrounded me, wanting me to check on their relatives and friends in the hospital to see if they were alright."

At that time, a young man asked me to help look after his grandfather, who was in the ICU on the 4th floor. Perhaps this was the young man's grandfather.

But I never expected his nose to be so sensitive.

I've never even touched his grandson, and I've even been through thick and thin with him, yet he can still smell his grandson's scent on me.

Li Fan pretended to be deep in thought, stroked his chin, and began to speak.

"I think it might be that the eerie fog in this hospital can enhance people's five senses. After all, people who have become supernatural are stronger than normal people, aren't they?"

Wuyin agreed with Li Fan's statement and spoke up.

"Now we can only check other rooms. There are absolutely no clues left in this room. But be careful, as you may experience new hallucinations when you enter the next room."

The group nodded and left the ward.

Chapter 147 The Same Ward

They arrived at the door of the second ward.

Wuyin was more cautious when pushing the door open this time, after all, the illusion behind this door might be completely different from the illusion behind the first door.

He gently pushed open the door, but did not rush in. Instead, he first observed the situation inside.

From the outside, you can see that the interior structure is exactly the same as the first ward.

The machines were running non-stop, and the patient was huddled under the covers with his head not showing. The hem of the sheet covered the bottom of the bed.

Wuyin turned around and said to the two people behind her with a serious expression.

"I'll go in and take a look first. If there's still an illusion at the entrance this time, you don't need to go in yet. I'll explore it by myself. After all, not every illusion can be escaped immediately."

Li Fan wanted to say something, but in the end he kept his mouth shut.

If a new illusion were to appear, requiring him to devise a new way to escape, he might not actually be able to escape.

Lucas nodded, knowing that Wuyin's method maximized the team's interests, and cautiously spoke up as well.

"Go ahead without worry. If you are in danger, I will protect Li Fan for you."

Wuyin glanced at Li Fan sideways but did not answer Lucas's question.

After all, he knew that Li Fan was merely a prop to him; if he died, Li Fan would vanish with him, and he alone could not survive.

But now is not the time to say such things.

Silently and cautiously, he stepped into the second ward, only to find that he had walked straight in without experiencing any hallucinations or strange occurrences.

He turned to look at the two people behind the door, and was about to tell them there was no environment, when he saw Lucas wave at him and mouth "go ahead".

Wuyin helplessly spread her hands.

"There are no illusions here, you can come in."

Li Fan trusted Wu Yin completely and walked in without thinking, without pausing at all, until he reached Wu Yin's side.

Lucas hesitated for a moment. He was initially worried that Wuyin might have been lucky and hadn't triggered the illusion, while he himself might not be so lucky.

But seeing Li Fan walk in as if nothing had happened, he felt a little relieved.

The first thing the three of them did upon entering the ward was to briefly explore the entire room, but clearly, just like the first ward, there were no clues.

Wuyin could only lift the blanket covering the bed and find that the situation inside was the same as in the first ward.

A patient was lying face down, seemingly unaware of the pain, with his eyes open and pressed against the pillow; his eyes were already dark red.

"Then... there should still be someone under the bed, just like in the first ward."

Lucas said softly.

Wuyin also squatted down and lifted the sheet covering the bottom of the bed again.

Li Fan also stood beside the hospital bed. If the patient on the bed went crazy again, he would still have a chance to stop him.

After all, the "doctor" under the hospital bed must know some important clues.

Wuyin's eyes were sharp; he was ready to grab the monster by the throat and pin it to the ground, but when he lifted the sheet, he found the area under the bed completely silent.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the person lying under the bed was not a living person at all.

It was a corpse.

The corpse lay straight under the bed, its eyes staring blankly at the wooden plank beneath it.

If you ignore the whole bed, you'll find that the "patient" on the bed and the "doctor" in a white coat under the bed are staring intently at each other.

Such a scene is extremely eerie and makes people feel somewhat uncomfortable.

"he died."

Wuyin stood up and dusted herself off.

The two people behind him were both startled, because if they were dead, they would not be able to provide any clues.

Li Fan frowned and offered a conjecture.

"Won't all the next wards be like this one? If there are dead bodies under the beds, then there's no way to find any clues. Where are the clues?"

Lucas comforted him.

"Whether that's true or not, we'll have to go and see for ourselves."

What if other wards are different from this one? After all, in a world of supernatural tales, no clue can be overlooked.

Wu Yin nodded as well. Although he knew that the situation was very likely as Li Fan had said, he also agreed with Lucas's statement.

I'll definitely feel uneasy if I don't explore it myself.

"Let's go, let's take a quick look at all the other wards."

The other two nodded in agreement, made a plan, and then split up to open each ward door and briefly explore the inside.

Fortunately, there weren't many wards here, and about half an hour later, the three of them gathered in the corridor again.

They each recounted the conditions of the wards they had explored, discovering that the contents of each ward were exactly the same as the second ward.

Except for the first ward where there was a living elderly person under the bed, all the other wards had corpses under the beds.

Lucas frowned; his head was throbbing slightly.

"The scene of the 'patient' and 'doctor' looking at each other in the ward must contain some clues, which we have not yet deciphered."

After all, the fourth floor is only so big. Aside from those strange stares exchanged in the wards, I really can't think of anything else worth pondering deeply.

Wuyin summarized all the existing information.

"Based on what the elderly patient in the first ward said, it is highly likely that the real patients are under the bed, and they are all wearing doctors' white coats, while the doctors on the bed have become the real patients."

So why are they staring at each other without moving?

The three of them remained silent for a long time before Li Fan suddenly spoke up and proposed a hypothesis.

"I suspect that the doctors might have been abusing the patients, just like in our fantasy, so the patients collectively rebelled, stole the doctors' white coats, and hid under the beds."

The doctors, stripped of their white coats and forcibly confined to their beds by a strange force, harbor a deep hatred for the patients and keep a constant watchful eye on those beneath the beds.

Lucas looked at Li Fan.

"Your analysis is pretty good, but there are still a few things that don't make sense."

First, you said you were forcibly locked in bed by some strange force, but the patient in the first ward clearly got out of bed and started biting the old man in the white coat.

Secondly, since the patient was wearing a white coat, why didn't they pretend to be a doctor and try to escape, instead of hiding under the bed?

After pondering for a while, Wuyin spoke.

"Whether it's reasonable or not, at least it gave us a general direction."

That is because the "patient" and the "doctor" hate each other, which is why they stare at each other so intently.

Furthermore, we can investigate whether this claim is true or false by going to the first ward.

In the first ward, the "doctor" under the bed has been killed by the "patient," so the "patient" should no longer be staring straight at the bottom of the bed.

But if he continues to stare under the bed as before, it proves that almost everything Li Fan said was wrong.

Chapter 148 The Vanished Corpse

Lucas chimed in from the side.

"That's true. Let's go check out the first ward first."

The group exchanged glances and headed to the first ward together.

Wuyin walked ahead, and before even entering the ward, she was slightly taken aback when she saw the scene inside.

The two people behind him noticed that something was wrong with Wuyin and also peeked over.

The three of them were astonished to discover something extremely terrifying.

The mute old man's body was gone.