Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

Lucas was also eager to hear what Li Fan had said.

"Since we have a clue, let's not delay and go check the corridor."

The three exchanged a glance and then walked out of the ward one after another.

But when they arrived at the location of Sea's body, they all fell silent.

They stared solemnly at the clean corridor ahead, without a trace of blood or signs of a struggle, as if nothing had happened.

Sea's body... has disappeared.

Lucas muttered to himself.

"Could it be that the cleaning staff from the first floor came up and cleaned this place?"

Wuyin shook her head.

"Impossible. Let's not even talk about the fact that they can't get into the elevator."

Even if the cleaner could come up, he would still make noise while sweeping, but we haven't heard a sound in the hallway for the past few hours.

Chapter 175 Metamorphosis

Li Fan looked at the clean corridor floor, thought for a moment, and then spoke.

"If the floor wasn't cleaned by a cleaner, then there's only one other possibility."

That is, the blood on the ground returned to Sea's body on its own, and then Sea quietly left after being resurrected.

That explanation makes everything make sense.

Wu Yin glanced at Li Fan, her eyes showing a hint of approval.

Since he abandoned his inferiority complex, he feels that even his mind works better.

Thinking of this, Wuyin smiled again.

Actually, Li Fan wasn't stupid to begin with. In the first save file, he almost got caught by that damned rabbit.

Wuyin spoke.

"Indeed, if we eliminate other incorrect options, then the remaining option, no matter how impossible it seems, must be the correct option."

Lucas then posed a question from the side.

"If that's the case, does that mean Sia will go back to the doctors' lounge?"

Wuyin shook her head.

"No, she will never go back to that lounge, but will return to the ward where she originally was."

Because she'll definitely go to where she thinks is safest now.

Li Fan spoke seriously.

"Let's hurry up and go, lest that Sia pulls some tricks again."

Wuyin stopped the two.

"Wait, I need to get something first."

After saying that, Wuyin quickly walked back.

Li Fan and Lucas exchanged a glance, waited a moment, and then saw Wu Yin dragging a spiked club out of their previous ward.

Wuyin walked up to the two of them.

"Let's go."

The three nodded and went to the ward where Xiya was.

The other patients were almost always peering out of the ward window, but their bodies would tremble slightly whenever they heard the sound of a spiked club scraping against the ground.

The three of them quickly arrived at the ward where Xiya was located. The scene inside the ward could be seen directly from the window on the ward door.

After seeing the scene inside, all three of them were slightly stunned.

Inside the room was a giant, semi-transparent cocoon. Sia was inside, her eyes closed, her body curled up, as if asleep.

The cocoon was surrounded by a very thick black mist, which looked very eerie.

The Sealy inside is also somewhat different from her previous state.

Serrated insect legs grew from her sides, and her initially slender antennae on her head transformed into long, thin whip-like appendages composed of sharp spikes.

The sharp spikes were so black they looked like they were about to drip ink; just by looking at them, you could tell they must contain potent toxins.

The biggest change is in her wings.

The wings, originally made of white paper, turned into a deep black ink color, and the material also changed to slightly reflective fibers, just like real butterfly wings.

Lucas stared intently at the scene in the ward, and suddenly felt a tightness in his heart, as if a fatal crisis was about to strike.

He turned the doorknob of the ward, pale-faced, trying to find a way to resolve the crisis, but found that the doorknob was completely locked.

He turned back and spoke urgently to the two of them.

“I feel that if we don’t stop her from hatching, all three of us will die a terrible death when she comes out.”

Li Fan swallowed hard and said.

"Remove the feeling."

Before she hatched, if it weren't for her extreme love-struck nature and the fact that Carter's corpse happened to be right next to us and could be used as a shield, we wouldn't have been able to escape even the doctors' lounge.

Now they want us to evolve even more? Where can we escape to?

Wu Yin was ruthless and taciturn; he swung his spiked club and slammed it against the ward door.

Going to find the key now would be a huge waste of time; it would be better to just break down the ward door.

The first blow of the spiked club struck the glass of the ward door, shattering it into countless fragments.

Silently increasing his strength, he slammed the second hammer blow directly near the door lock.

The door handle was smashed off, and the iron door was covered with small dents caused by the spikes on the spiked club.

With the third hammer blow, a loud "bang" was heard, and the entire ward door was smashed open.

Lucas stared in disbelief at Wuyin beside him. Although he already knew that this person was incredibly powerful, he never expected that someone who didn't look particularly strong could be more ferocious than a muscular man with a body full of muscles.

Wuyin sensed Lucas's gaze and turned to speak to the two of them.

"Go in."

When the three entered the room, the first thing they heard was a "gurgling" sound coming from inside the cocoon, like some kind of liquid flowing.

Immediately following was a strong, pleasant smell of fresh grass and earth.

Li Fan's eyes lit up.

"This is the same scent I smelled on Seattle before."

Lucas twitched his nose twice and thought for a moment.

"Isn't this the smell of that mark on the last page of the pink diary?"

Although the scent on the notebook was very faint, this one is more than ten times stronger, but I can still smell it; it's the same scent.

Wuyin didn't speak, but silently dragged the spiked club and struck the semi-transparent cocoon covering Xiya's body again.

But this time, Wuyin used all her strength, and the spiked club was directly bounced back by the cocoon.

Wuyin frowned and swung the spiked club again, but it bounced back.

This cocoon appears translucent and thin, yet it is incredibly hard, so much so that even a special weapon like a spiked club cannot budge it.

He rested for a while, then turned to the two of them and said.

"It seems there's no way to forcefully break out of this cocoon; we'll have to think of another way."

He paused for a moment before continuing.

"I think I know what those unidentified marks are; it's the scent of hormones produced by butterflies."

Butterflies typically produce fluids during egg-laying, cocoon-building, and mating processes. Therefore, the unidentified residue on the notebook must be a scent left from one of these three events.

Li Fan scratched his head and said.

"But even if we know what those marks are, we can't control Sia in her current state."

Lucas looked at Li Fan.

"Don't think like that. The clues are connected. Perhaps we have discovered the source of the unknown traces, and the method to control Seattle will come to us unbidden."

Since Wuyin says there are three scenarios: laying eggs, spinning cocoons, and mating, let me analyze it.

As for laying eggs, I think it's unlikely, since we've only seen one butterfly in this ward.

After it died, Sealy, with her love-struck mind, transformed herself into a butterfly. No other small butterflies appeared, so it couldn't have been left behind from laying eggs.

As for mating, there are no other butterflies here that can mate with it.

So it seems that the butterfly was originally a caterpillar, leaving a puddle of liquid on the notebook when it spun its cocoon.

Chapter 176 Trapped in a Dire Situation

"It absolutely cannot be a cocoon."

Wuyin looked into Lucas's eyes and spoke.

"Have you forgotten? It's written in Sealy's diary that butterflies are made of folded paper."

The diary also said that Carter broke a pair of huge wings.

Therefore, that giant butterfly was very likely born as a butterfly and never went through the pupal stage.

As soon as Wuyin finished speaking, the semi-transparent cocoon in front of her suddenly made a "crackling" sound as it shattered.

The three of them looked over and discovered that the cocoon had cracked open in several places.

The black mist around the cocoon thickened, and the Sealy inside seemed even more eerie than before.

The three of them stepped back a few paces, and Lucas continued to ask.