Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

"Since you say it didn't metamorphose, then those marks, could they be from mating?"

It's Carter and the Butterfly..."

Upon hearing this, Li Fan covered his mouth and stared wide-eyed.

"No way, people and butterflies can work too?"

Wuyin rolled her eyes at Lucas.

"Aren't you familiar with the marks left by that kind of situation? Do you think the marks on the notebook are like that?"

Upon hearing this, Lucas blushed slightly and shook his head, but then became even more puzzled.

"So you mean these are traces left from laying eggs? After all, there are only three possibilities."

But the marks left on the notebook had long since dried, meaning that if it were left from laying eggs, the eggs should have already hatched. However, we didn't see a single butterfly in the entire department.

Wuyin stroked his chin and thought for a while, then turned his head to look elsewhere. When he saw those mental patients staring at them from the window, Wuyin's pupils suddenly trembled.

He got it.

But before he could give an answer, the cocoon in Seattle's ward suddenly emitted an even louder cracking sound.

Lucas stared intently at Seaya, who was about to emerge from her cocoon, and said in a trembling voice.

"We...we have to run!"

Li Fan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he spoke.

"Where can we escape to? Every path on this floor is a dead end."

Lucas looked at Li Fan in despair.

"Every second counts!"

But at that moment, Wuyin suddenly blurted out a sentence.

"We may have more than one enemy."

Lucas suddenly turned around and looked at Wuyin.

"What do you mean?"

The moment the words were spoken, a tremendous tremor shook the entire ground.

The cracks in the cocoon grew larger and continued to make cracking sounds, while unknown liquids and black mist kept gushing out from within the cracks.

A few seconds later, the entire cocoon had completely split open.

The curled-up Sia had now fully extended her body, and her wings even took up half the size of the room.

Her pupils emitted a faint golden light, her entire face wore a sickly yet eerie smile, and her lips were still slowly moving.

"Hehehe... Hahahaha."

"You will all die—die, die, die, die, die, die!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly flapped her wings, creating an extremely powerful shockwave that slammed the three of them against the opposite wall.

Li Fan clutched his aching chest and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"She's actually... stronger than we thought?"

No one responded to Li Fan's words.

He looked to the side in confusion, only to see Lucas staring in another direction, his face pale.

The shockwave blew open all the doors to the other wards.

And all the mental patients came out of the ward.

Behind every mental patient grows a pair of paper butterfly wings, and on their head are tiny antennae.

Each of them is a butterfly.

No wonder he kept leaning against the window.

Normal people, even mentally ill people, wouldn't do that.

Because they are butterflies, they have a tendency to move and a sense of community, and are extremely sensitive to changes in movement, vibration, sound, and light.

The butterflies used to tremble slightly when they heard the sound of a spiked club because they are very afraid of high-frequency vibrations.

Now everything makes sense.

But now, the situation is as follows—

Who can save them?

Countless mentally ill patients with paper wings surrounded the three of them, their faces displaying eerie smiles.

These mentally ill individuals slowly raised their hands, their fingertips emitting an eerie black mist, making them appear extremely dangerous.

Sia was standing directly in front of the three of them.

She still wore that sickly, eerie smile as she slowly approached the three of them.

The tentacles on her head were constantly wriggling, as if she was considering where to start.

Li Fan and Lucas stood up trembling, pressed themselves against the cold wall, their minds blank with fear of death, completely unable to think.

Suddenly, they heard the sound of sharp spikes piercing flesh. The two looked sharply toward the source of the sound, only to hear the sound of a group of heavy objects falling to the ground.

Wuyin swung her spiked club and knocked down a group of mental patients from the side, thus opening a path for their escape.

Wuyin continued to swing the spiked club in his hand and shout loudly.

"Hurry up and keep up!"

After saying that, he dragged his spiked club and rushed out quickly.

The sound of the spiked club scraping against the ground froze the "little butterflies" in place, staring intently at the silent figure, without giving chase.

The other two didn't think too much and quickly followed.

The group of "little butterflies" beside them stared intently at the three of them, but did not attack them.

They then understood why Carter had been dragging the spiked club along the ground.

Because these mentally ill people are not human beings at all, but butterflies, they are instinctively afraid of high-frequency vibrations, which is why they are under Carter's control.

Sia, standing behind, tilted her head and watched the three fleeing people, her expression unchanged, seemingly enjoying the process of her prey fleeing in fear.

A few seconds later, she flapped her huge butterfly wings and quickly chased after it.

The three of them ran like madmen down the corridor.

Li Fan asked Wuyin while panting.

"Big brother, where should we hide now?"

Wuyin shook her head.

"I do not know either."

Lucas was dumbfounded.

"If you don't know, then where are you leading us?"

Wuyin turned around, smiled at Lucas, and spoke.

"Didn't you say that every second we live is precious?"

Lucas was completely disoriented as he ran, and he broke down screaming.

"That's true, but I want to live forever!!!"

Sia had now reached above the three of them, constantly waving her spiked tentacles on her head to attack them.

She swung her tentacles more than twice as fast as before they hatched, and they were no longer able to dodge the attacks of these spikes.

Just seconds later, all three of them had suffered injuries of varying degrees.

Chapter 177 The Direction of Freedom

But what's worse is that wherever the poisonous stinger has stung, intense pain keeps spreading throughout the body.

Even with their teeth clenched, the three of them were forced to slow down.

But this gave Seaja an even better opportunity to attack, and the wounds on the three of them increased again, creating a vicious cycle.

Seeing this, Li Fan gritted his teeth and abruptly stopped.

"You guys run first, I'll hold her off from behind. If this continues, none of the three of us will escape."

Just as he was about to rush towards Xiya, he was suddenly pulled hard; it was Wuyin who grabbed his sleeve.

"The three of us will die sooner or later, so there's absolutely no point in you going to send us off now."

"The most meaningful thing now is to figure out where the one-time elevator for this floor is."

Li Fan was forced to pull back and continued to run away with his older brother. By this time, they had reached the corner of the corridor.

Without giving it much thought, they randomly chose a direction and continued their escape.

But this corner greatly slowed them down.

Lucas was the slowest of the three and fell behind when they turned the corner. At that moment, the butterfly's antennae suddenly attacked and struck Lucas's ankle hard.

The two men in front heard a scream from behind them. When they turned around, they saw Lucas lying on the ground with his right heel torn open and blackish-red blood flowing out continuously.

His eyes were filled with despair, as if he had begun to accept the arrival of death, and he lay motionless on the spot.

Without any hesitation, Wuyin threw down the spiked club in her hand, quickly turned around, and ran back.

Seeing this, Xiya's smile deepened, and she suddenly swung the tentacles on her head, flicking them towards Wuyin.

Wuyin gritted her teeth, preparing to withstand the attack, but a small shadow suddenly appeared above her head.

It's Li Fan.

He turned around and saw his older brother going to save Lucas, so he rushed back with his brother and shielded him from the crucial tentacle attack.

Wuyin quickly picked up Lucas, who was lying on the ground, and rushed towards the end of the corridor.

The butterfly's antennae lashed out at Li Fan's back, instantly tearing his skin and causing blood to splatter everywhere.