Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

The doctor seemed to notice that Lucas was sweating profusely, and suddenly a very strange smile appeared on his lips.

Lucas's heart skipped a beat, but before he could think any further, a loud bang came from the door of the ward, making both of them feel numb.

Suddenly, the doctor slammed the spiked club hard against the ward door, smashing it open with many piercing holes.

Fortunately, the door was made of iron and was very sturdy. The two were only slightly numb from the shock and were not injured.

Lucas stared at the doctor outside the window, who was smiling eerily at them. His hands began to tremble, and he even began to doubt whether Wuyin's actions were right or wrong.

Should he hide in a corner of the room now and wait for the right opportunity to escape?

But Wuyin remained pressed against the window. He believed that Wuyin would not joke with his own life, so he forced himself to keep his expression unchanged as he watched the doctor outside the door, despite his trembling limbs.

Seeing that the two were not moving, the doctor outside the door suddenly let out a maniacal laugh.

Hehehehehehe~

"puff."

He suddenly spat a thick wad of phlegm into the glass in front of the two men's faces, his expression turning fierce again, but he didn't attack. He dragged his spiked club away.

As the ear-piercing scraping sound of metal faded into the distance, and the doctor's figure disappeared from their sight, Lucas could no longer hold on, his legs buckled, and he collapsed to the ground.

Wuyin frowned, looked at the disgusting object on the ward window, took two steps back, and went into the bathroom to wash her face with water.

That phlegm was disgusting; he would remember that grudge.

Li Fan also stood up, calming his wildly beating heart, and asked after a while.

"This doctor has been on this floor for so long, there's no way he wouldn't know that this ward is empty."

He just banged on the door with a spiked club, clearly indicating he noticed there were more people inside. But why didn't he come in and attack us? Is he not allowed into the ward?

Lucas heard Li Fan's guess and gently shook his head.

"At first, he dragged the woman into the ward, then went in himself, and came out without any problems."

This means he was allowed into the ward. As for why he didn't come in and attack us with the spiked club... you'll have to ask your older brother.

Lucas looked at Wuyin with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

"It was so dangerous just now, why did you make me press my face against the window of the ward door like those patients?"

Did you discover some clues, which is why you said that?

Was that why the doctor didn't come in?

Wuyin looked at the two curious people and spoke calmly.

"Actually, I'm just taking a gamble. If I guess right, we can both live; if I guess wrong, neither of us will escape."

Upon hearing this, Lucas instantly realized that he had trusted Wuyin too much; he had just gambled with the lives of two people.

Fortunately, the gamble paid off, and everyone survived.

But then I thought about it again, and given how dangerous the situation had been, we had no choice but to take a gamble.

If you do nothing, you're just waiting to die.

There was no further explanation.

“Except for the ward on the first floor where I was initially teleported, the wards on the fourth and seventh floors were all full. We couldn’t find any extra empty wards at all. The only exception was the 1th floor, which had an empty ward.”

This suggests that the ward was likely not originally empty; another patient was living there, but for some reason, that patient moved out.

Lucas thought for a moment and guessed as well.

"Could it be... that this ward was originally prepared for us?"

Upon hearing Lucas's analysis, Li Fan instantly became angry and spoke up.

"What? So this ghost story is basically calling us mentally ill? You little ghost story, just you wait, I'm going to beat you to a pulp."

Lucas and Wuyin couldn't help but chuckle when they heard Li Fan's words, and the tense and fearful atmosphere from before dissipated considerably.

Silently spoke.

"Alright, in that case, let's do it the same way as before and explore this ward to see if there are any clues."

The three nodded and began searching the ward.

Wuyin first checked the bedside table of the first bed, and unexpectedly found an item in the first drawer.

A pink diary, it looks like a girl's.

Chapter 165 Unexplained Traces

Wuyin opened the diary, and on the first page was a name.

Seattle.

This must be the name of the diary's owner.

He continued flipping through the pages and, after a quick glance, he roughly understood that this diary entry was started by Seaya when she arrived at the mental hospital.

"Today is the 12th, and it's raining."

Today, my parents forcibly sent me to this mental hospital.

I kept kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to them, crying and saying that I would definitely obey.

They say I'm mentally ill and will cause trouble, but I've always been well-behaved. I don't understand why they say I'm mentally ill. Is it just because they don't want me anymore?

"On the 13th, the weather is cloudy."

I was still very afraid of the hospital environment, but then something even worse happened.

A new patient named Carter has arrived in the bed next to mine. Surprisingly, he's a male patient, but I remember the hospital has a rule that only one gender can stay in a ward.

I went to see the doctor and nurses and had a huge fight with them, but they not only called me crazy, but also tied my hands and feet, gave me a sedative, and threw me on the bed.

"On the 14th, the weather is cloudy."

Knowing that resistance was futile, she pretended to be obedient for the time being and stopped causing trouble at the nurses' station.

Fortunately, the male patient in the next bed never spoke to me or bothered me; he was always quietly doing his handicrafts.

Gradually, I became less afraid.

Sometimes I would even stare at him, mesmerized, watching him place a piece of cardstock in his nimble hands and transform it into a lifelike butterfly. It was a truly magical feeling.

"The weather was sunny on the 15th."

The weather finally cleared up today, and I was woken up by dappled sunlight this morning.

I was wondering why there were so many shadows in the sunlight streaming into the ward when I turned my head and saw that Carter had made a bunch of window chains by attaching several paper butterflies to a fishing line and hanging them on the curtains.

The butterflies looked even more vibrant and lively in the sunlight; they were truly beautiful.

But I felt that the man sitting on the hospital bed by the window, gazing outside, was more attractive to me.

"On the 16th, it will be rainy."

Carter actually spoke to me today; this is the first time we've had a conversation since we met.

He stared intently into my eyes and handed me a finished paper butterfly, saying that my eyes were beautiful, like amber, and that they matched his butterfly perfectly.

I took the butterfly and carefully kept it under my pillow.

That night, I was so happy I couldn't sleep a wink.

"On the 17th, the weather will be thunderstorms and heavy rain."

It's been windy and thundery all day, with heavy rain pouring down, making it very noisy.

Since Carter said that to me yesterday, we haven't said anything else.

But today there were so many pieces of cardstock on his desk, and he was constantly folding them with his hands. I was curious about what he was folding that required so much cardstock.

Soon after, the prototype of the origami appeared, and it turned out to be a pair of giant butterfly wings!

18 No.

(A bunch of unidentified traces)

……

This concludes my diary entry.

When Li Fan and Lucas found no other clues elsewhere, they turned around and discovered Wu Yin secretly reading a diary, so they quietly approached her.

After reading the diary, Lucas couldn't help but complain.

"This girl must be a hopeless romantic, falling in love with someone over a paper butterfly."

Li Fan glanced at Lucas sideways.

"What do you know? This is called mutual attraction, pure love!"

Wu Yin glanced at the two people with different attitudes on either side; he had reached an age where he could understand both sides.

Lucas had become a well-known capitalist; in his world, love was wherever money was.

Li Fan was still a young man, and in his heart, he believed that love based on attraction was pure and without impurities.

But what their opinions are is no longer important.

Wu Yin carefully examined the unidentified marks on the last page of the diary. The marks resembled the dried state of something, with some thin, silvery-white lines on them.

Wuyin brought the tip of her nose close and smelled it. It had a faint, unique scent, a mixture of grass and damp earth.

He frowned when he smelled the odor.

Isn't this the smell of grass after it rains?

The smell is so familiar that it's hard to imagine what else could give off this smell besides the air after rain.

He handed the last page of the diary to the two people next to him and asked.

"Does anyone know what those marks are?"

Li Fan and Lucas also observed carefully and even smelled it. After thinking for a long time, they still frowned and shook their heads.

In real life, apart from the grass after the rain, they have hardly ever smelled anything else that has this smell, and this trace could not possibly be compressed air, right?

Lucas thought for a moment.