Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

Chapter 193 Big Brother, I'm here to save you.

Jack's voice gradually softened in the darkness, as if he were seriously considering Wuyin's suggestion.

Seeing that his words about his daughter had an effect, Wuyin continued to speak.

"It's just to prove something; it won't hurt her. If you can prove that the little girl is indeed your daughter, the three of us will leave immediately. But if you can prove she isn't your daughter..."

Wuyin changed the subject at this point.

What do you think you would do?

Jack was taken aback by Wuyin's words.

But the little girl always smelled like her daughter, and it never changed. How could she not be her daughter?

His daughter had changed a lot, and her attitude towards him had also turned upside down. How could he not have had doubts? It was just that he simply didn't dare to face the answer behind the question. Whatever the truth was, it was a consequence he couldn't bear.

More importantly, he doesn't know why, after becoming a monster, his brain feels like it's being pricked with needles every time he tries to think deeply, which makes it impossible for him to think much. Perhaps soon he will become a complete monster, and his consciousness will be completely extinguished.

Now that things have come to this, we have no choice but to face it.

After a long silence, he finally agreed to Wuyin's suggestion.

"it is good."

Jack uttered a single word in a deep voice.

The truth must always be faced; one cannot run away from it forever.

If you can find out the truth before your consciousness fades, you'll be a wise ghost even after death.

No... I guess I can't really say I'm alive now.

Thinking this, he turned and left the stairwell, his figure and presence gradually fading away.

The stairwell fell silent again, so quiet that you could clearly hear your own heartbeat.

He tentatively stepped down, and when he reached the bottom, he saw the faint glow of the elevator buttons.

He reached out and pressed the open button. The elevator door slowly slid open, revealing two unconscious people inside, neither of whom had a single injury.

Wuyin breathed a sigh of relief.

He guessed right.

We've reached the eighteenth floor; even a fool wouldn't believe there's an elevator that leads directly to the outside world.

However, by now, he has roughly figured out the structure of the entire 18th floor and above.

The so-called infinite variations are nothing more than three relatively fixed spaces.

The first one was the real eighteenth floor, the floor they first entered. It was empty, with only rows of identical wards.

The second one is the top floor above the eighteenth floor, which is the nineteenth floor where the little girl is;

There is a stairwell on each of the two sides.

An elevator spans the middle of the staircase on the left, while the entire staircase on the right remains unobstructed.

The walls at both ends of the corridor appear to be solid, but they actually conceal a secret: they disappear at night and reappear during the day. Therefore, if you want to leave a certain floor, you must do so at night.

Previously, Li Fan inexplicably arrived in another space, perhaps only reaching the 19th floor. This might be due to the little girl's special ability.

Therefore, it can be deduced that the place Jack mentioned that "can teleport everyone to the hospital gate" is most likely this elevator.

Because there is only one elevator on the entire 18 floors.

However, it only leads to the first floor and not to the hospital entrance.

Wuyin stepped into the elevator and gently patted the two people's cheeks, and they quickly woke up.

As soon as Li Fan opened his eyes, he looked around in a panic. When he saw his older brother squatting in front of him, he immediately complained in a pitiful tone.

"Big brother, I thought I'd never see you again, sob sob! I didn't even finish my sentence before I passed out! Where is that damn monster? I'm going to beat him up!"

Wuyin couldn't help but smile.

"Isn't your older brother here to save you?"

After Lucas slowly woke up, he reached out and touched the IV drip in his body. Finding that the IV drip was indeed gone, he looked up in confusion and asked.

"My IV set seems to be fake. I remember feeling a prick on the back of my hand, but why didn't the monster react at all?"

Wuyin also spoke up to explain.

"Because that monster is Jack."

"What does this have to do with Jack?"

"Think about it carefully. Didn't you say before that Jack was paying for his daughter's medical treatment in the hospital with his own hard-earned money?"

This rule of the instance might have been tailor-made for him; how could it possibly control him?

Upon hearing Wuyin's explanation, Li Fan nodded in sudden understanding.

“I understand now. Is it because an IV drip is essentially equivalent to ‘paying medical bills’? For an ordinary supernatural being, the ‘hard-earned money’ in the IV drip bottle would crush them, but for someone like Jack who already has enough money, he wouldn’t care about such a small ‘medical bill’, so when you prick him, he’s fine.”

Lucas's eyes practically sparkled with excitement. Li Fan explained Wuyin's words in a simple and easy-to-understand way, and Lucas immediately grasped the meaning.

"This hospital, 666, also discriminates based on money."

Li Fan smiled knowingly, but didn't say anything more.

However, Lucas was still very curious as to why Li Fan could understand such abstract words as "no sound." Perhaps they really had a tacit understanding.

He looked up at the dark stairwell, his face turning bitter again.

"We've come so far, and now we have to start all over again. Who knows if someone will suddenly sneak into the group again?"

As he spoke, he suddenly thought of a plan and stared straight at Li Fan.

Li Fan shuddered as a man stared at him so intensely.

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, I had no choice but to compromise.

"Alright, alright, this time you go in the middle, and I'll bring up the back."

Wuyin: "This time, unlike last time, the person behind doesn't have to put their hand on the shoulder of the person in front, because there's only darkness left in the stairwell, and nothing strange."

Lucas shook his head repeatedly.

"I'm already traumatized by this, so please let me have my way."

Wuyin sighed helplessly.

"Alright, alright."

The three of them climbed the stairs again, with Lucas in the middle and Li Fan at the rear, forming a straight line. This time, they made it all the way to the top of the stairs without any problems.

However, the top of the stairs did not lead to the 19th floor at all; instead, there was a cold wall blocking the way.

Wuyin raised her hand and touched the wall in front of her; it was solid.

He frowned: "Could my guess be wrong?"

Could it be that this wall doesn't appear during the day and disappear at night, but rather appears and disappears under certain special circumstances?

Li Fan frowned.

"I remember the stairwell was open last night, how come it turned into a wall again? It seems like we're trapped in the stairwell."

Lucas collapsed instantly.

"No way! I'm already traumatized by this kind of pitch-black darkness. Being trapped here for so long is worse than death."

Wuyin glanced at him and made a joke.

"Then I'll call Jack over now to fulfill your wish."

Chapter 194 The Principles of Light

Lucas was surprised that he actually took his criticism to heart and quickly waved his hand.

"I suddenly don't really want to die anymore."

Besides, you saved my life, and I can only die because of you.

Li Fan, with a deep gaze, teased him.

"When did you become so good at flattering my older brother?"

Lucas was perfectly justified.

"So what?"

Wuyin stared at the cold wall in front of her, ignoring the bickering between the two people next to her.

His brow furrowed slightly as a crucial detail he had just overlooked flashed through his mind.

The flashlight in the little girl's hand.

On the first night, when they were being chased by monsters, the little girl shone a flashlight on them, and the wall materialized.

So the reason why the wall suddenly became solid at night is very likely that the little girl is standing outside and shining a flashlight on the wall.

As Wuyin thought of this, a hint of displeasure flashed in her eyes.

She was the one who asked them to get the IV set, but now she's not letting them go back to this floor. What is she up to?

Or perhaps she and Jack had already conspired to trick Jack into letting them all "pass the level," leaving only the IV set that would be useful to her.

Wuyin lowered her eyes slightly.

The little girl's thoughts are no longer important, but the three of them can't stay stuck in the stairwell forever.

If lighting is a special variable, then we should carefully consider the lighting conditions corresponding to each appearance and disappearance of this wall.

The wall will harden when there is sunlight during the day, when a flashlight shines on it, or when the lights in the rooms between the two ends of the 19th floor are on.

The wall disappears at night when there is no light.

Therefore, as long as the little girl doesn't move the flashlight, they will never be able to escape.

Li Fan walked to Wu Yin's side, looking at his elder brother who was bowing his head and remaining silent, with a somewhat worried expression.