Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

Li Fan listened to Wu Yin's words without any surprise.

"If that's the case, then all these unusual phenomena can be explained."

"No wonder my sister said the flowers in the small garden grow so lushly all year round, but I always felt that these flowers had a gloomy feeling. It turns out there was a pile of human fertilizer underneath."

Wu Xin spoke with some surprise, but more so with confusion.

"But these flowers have been like this for five years, and no one went missing back then. So who was buried underneath?"

Wuyin uttered two words in a low voice.

"Dean."

He paused for a moment, then continued.

"The dean fell ill around this time five years ago and has been resting on the second floor ever since. Even his meals are served by the dean's wife."

The director's wife never allowed the other children from the orphanage to visit. We haven't seen the director since then, but who can know if he really was always on the second floor?

Wu Xin's expression was somewhat complicated upon hearing her brother's words.

In her memory, the director always seemed very kind and approachable. At the beginning, the director's wife was just a volunteer aunt who came to the orphanage to work.

Later, as the director's health deteriorated, this volunteer aunt came to the orphanage rain or shine to take care of the director and the group of orphans.

Later, the director would have them call the volunteer aunties "Director Auntie".

However, both the director and the director took very good care of them, so she was very grateful to them from the bottom of her heart.

However, in ghost stories, everything seems to have changed, yet everything seems to remain the same.

Suddenly, a chilling voice came from behind the three of them.

What are you doing to my little garden?

The voice clearly carried a hint of murderous intent.

Wu Yin turned her head nonchalantly, looking at the dean's wife, whose expression was somewhat distorted, with a polite smile on her face.

"Oh, I came to the backyard to look for the clue you mentioned. I was just attracted by these flowers because they were so beautiful."

The dean's wife's distorted expression suddenly turned into a strange smile. She tilted her head slightly and spoke in a sinister tone.

"Oh? Really? You see this flower every day, so why are you only attracted to it tonight?"

Wu Xin took a step forward, a silly smile on her face.

"Auntie Dean, Wuxin wants to see the flowers, so my brother brought me here."

Upon hearing this, the dean's wife lowered her pupils and stared at Wuxin's face.

She chuckled softly, walked up to Wuxin, and gently stroked Wuxin's hair with her cold hand, a hint of jealousy flashing in her eyes.

"If Xiaoxin likes it, she can pick one to take home."

The dean's wife said this with a smile, but there was not a trace of gentleness in her tone.

Wu Xin waved her hand, pretending to be flattered.

"No, thank you, Dean. Flowers are more beautiful when they are in the soil."

"Ah……"

The dean's wife chuckled softly, then turned and walked to the garden.

Wuyin's eyes followed the dean's wife closely. She saw that Li Fan had picked up his scalpel and restored the soil that the two of them had just disturbed. He then handed the scalpel back to Wuyin with a touch of arrogance.

Wuyin looked at the scalpel with two bark beetles crawling on it and couldn't help but shudder again. She didn't dare to take it and instead used her mind to put the scalpel back into the toolbar.

Wu Xin, standing beside him, looked at Li Fan with a hint of fear and disgust in her eyes, as if she were telling Li Fan something with her eyes.

“Brother Li Fan actually touched so much mud and insects with his hands. I never want to sleep in the same bed with him again.”

Li Fan understood his little sister's disdain and quickly raised his transparent hand to convey it to her telepathically.

"My entire soul is transparent; insects will only pass through my body and will never crawl onto me!"

When Wu Xin saw Li Fan's transparent arm, she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The dean's wife's voice came from behind. Her expression was somewhat unnatural, but she still maintained a smile.

“Xiaoyin, I thought about it carefully when I was at the orphanage, and I think I might have been hallucinating. There was actually no crying in the orphanage, so you don’t need to check the source of the crying. Go back to sleep early.”

Wu Yin sensed a hint of panic in the Dean's wife's words and understood.

That little garden indeed held a very important secret, one that could even be said to be directly related to the mystery of how to pass the game.

But now that the dean's wife had spoken, he couldn't refuse, so he helplessly spread his hands.

"Alright then, Aunt Dean, I hope you'll listen more carefully next time before coming to me for help."

After he finished speaking, he took Wuxin's hand and led her back to the small room on the first floor of the orphanage.

After closing the door to the small room, a hint of worry flashed in Li Fan's eyes.

"It's clear that the body in the small garden is definitely a very important secret in the conversation."

But with the dean's wife around, we can't just dig her up directly; she appears without anyone noticing.

Wu Xin looked at Li Fan and continued.

“Brother Li Fan, I think directly digging up the body is not feasible, because the body has been buried in the ground for more than a day or two, and it is likely to be highly decomposed. Even if we dig it out, we won’t recognize who it is.”

Also, now that we have a guess about the body in the soil, we can go to the second floor to see if the Dean is still there. If the Dean has really disappeared, then we should be able to confirm that the body in the soil is indeed the Dean's.

Chapter 221 The Strange Skinless Man

Wuyin shook her head and said to Wuxin.

"Let me ask you, if we go up to the second floor and find that the dean is really not there, can you be 100% sure that the body buried in the soil is the dean's?"

"Of course you're right about one thing, we do need to check the second floor, but we also need to find a chance to dig out the body. Only then can we make the most accurate judgment."

He paused, then changed the subject.

"Alright, you all go wash up and go to bed. I'll wake you up later and we'll go up to the second floor together while everyone is asleep."

"it is good."

Li Fan and Wu Xin agreed.

In the dead of night, the three of them lay side by side on a small bed.

Wu Xin and Li Fan were already asleep, their breathing even and deep. Wu Yin's eyes, however, were fixed on the ceiling, her mind wandering to all sorts of things.

He recalled everything that had happened since his birth, trying to find anything unusual. The thought that he might have been set up from birth sent chills down his spine.

Just then, a muffled sound appeared in the room, seemingly both near and far, making it impossible to pinpoint its exact location.

Wuyin cautiously turned his head to stare at the open space in the room, but he didn't make a sound, just waited quietly.

Suddenly, the voice got closer, but the words were still very unclear, like incoherent babbling.

The voice kept lingering in Wuyin's ears, and Wuyin found it quite annoying, so she finally couldn't help but ask a question.

"who are you?"

The moment he uttered those words, everything went black, and he immediately fainted.

When I opened my eyes again, all around me was pitch black.

With a sharp look in his eyes, Wu Yin stood up and shouted into the dark space.

"Who exactly are you, and what is your purpose in bringing me here?"

His voice echoed in the dark space, but no one answered him.

He frowned and continued shouting.

"If you don't tell me what your purpose is, then what is the point of bringing me to this space?"

A few seconds later, a beam of light shone down from the sky, shining directly in front of Wuyin. Wuyin could see clearly that there was a humanoid figure standing in front of him, which looked like a pile of flesh.

Or rather, this is a person who has been skinned alive.

His exposed fat and muscles were covered in a sticky liquid, and his face was embedded with a pair of eyes and two rows of teeth.

There was no malice in her eyes, but rather a hint of hesitation and fear.

She didn't speak, but a woman's voice could be heard coming from inside the space.

"I don't remember who I am. I can only remember if I find my own body. Kind person, can you help me find my body?"

The skinless man in front of me had a pleading look in his eyes, and he looked very pitiful.

Wuyin roughly guessed that these words were transmitted to his ears by her through her own consciousness.

He gave a cold laugh and spoke.

"You disturb my sleep at night and inexplicably brought me into this space. Do I have any room to refuse?"

Upon hearing Wuyin's words, the skinless man lowered his head like a child who had done something wrong, and the woman's voice also became somewhat hesitant.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. I've been wandering around this orphanage for a long time, and you're the only one who responded to my cries for help."

Because my tongue, along with my skin, was removed, I can only communicate with you in my dreams. But you weren't asleep; I only forced you to sleep, I didn't take you to any dangerous places.

Wuyin looked at the skinless person in front of her who hadn't opened his mouth. There was no malice in her eyes, only a cautious attempt to please him.

He sighed helplessly and began to speak.

"Alright then, I can help you, but what's in it for me to go through all that trouble to find your body?"

When the skinless woman heard the man in front of her agree to help her, a glimmer of hope flashed in her eyes, and she hurriedly transmitted her voice to the soundless man's ears.

"If you help me find the body, then within my capabilities you can also ask me for a favor."

Wuyin nodded and asked a question.

"Do you have any feelings about your own corpse, or do you know its approximate location?"

"I can't possibly search blindly for you like this; the orphanage is so big."

The skinless man pondered for a while.

“I had a feeling that my body should be in the backyard of the orphanage, but I didn’t know exactly where in the backyard.”