Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

As expected... they value friends more than sisters.

Wuyin looked at her stubborn younger sister and sighed.

Do you know what we're going to do?

Wuxin nodded.

"know."

Wuyin: "There's nothing fun there, why do you want to go with me?"

Wu Xin didn't want to tell Wu Yin her true feelings, afraid of being ridiculed by her brother, so she didn't speak.

Looking at Wu Xin's small figure, Wu Yin suddenly realized that she didn't seem to have any other friends and only threw tantrums in front of her.

Besides, children of this age naturally love to go out and play, but I haven't had time to take her, so I compromised.

"Okay, I'll take you there, but don't wander around. Just think of it as getting some fresh air."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xin happily turned to look at Wu Yin.

"Really? Then you can't lie to me."

Wuyin nodded.

"Can you go out now? I can't hold it in any longer."

Wu Xin happily ran out of the bathroom to report the good news to Li Fan.

He shook his head helplessly. These two guys...

After some time, the group was ready to go.

Since buying a helicopter now would take too long, Wuyin borrowed a heavy-duty helicopter directly from Commander Honglong.

He explained to Honglong the reason for borrowing the helicopter, and Honglong nodded and provided them with a dedicated driver.

After the group boarded the plane, it took about three hours for the plane to arrive at the remote village that Li Fan had mentioned, and landed on an open area.

However, it's still a few kilometers away from the village, and you'll need to walk there after getting off the plane.

Looking at the endless mountain range in front of her, Wu Xin asked Li Fan beside her in surprise.

"Brother Li Fan, are you sure your hometown is here? There isn't a single person here, let alone a village."

Li Fan's eyes also became somewhat uncertain, because he hadn't been back to his hometown for a long time since he went out to work and study.

Furthermore, he was trapped in the ghost stories for several years and has no idea what the current situation of the village is like.

Moreover, the woods here seem much denser, somewhat different from my childhood memories.

He replied.

"Although I haven't been back here for a long time, this is the place where I grew up, so I shouldn't be mistaken."

Wuyin said something from the side.

"Alright, there's no need to doubt it anymore. We'll find out if there's a village or not once we climb to the top of this mountain."

The two nodded.

The climb was somewhat difficult because there were no established mountain paths, and the area was full of vegetation and insects.

The more Wuxin climbed, the more suspicious he became; this place really didn't seem like anyone lived nearby.

Soon after reaching the summit, Wu Xin was so exhausted that she almost lay down, but she only squatted down to rest for a while.

Wuyin, standing beside him, was only slightly out of breath, while Li Fan, in his soul form, floated up without any problems.

Just then, she noticed that Li Fan and her brother were both looking ahead, their expressions somewhat off. She stood up and followed their gaze.

At the foot of the mountain was a large village, surrounded by a continuous mountain range, forming a basin. In the center of the village was a black, stagnant pool of water.

The houses in those villages were all dilapidated and looked like they had been uninhabited for a long time.

And if you look closely, you'll find that some houses have black and green moss growing on the corners of their walls, and the stinky pond is covered with many red mushrooms with white dots on them.

Wuyin also noticed something was wrong. There was a lot of lush green vegetation and chirping insects and birds along the way up the mountain, but once you reached the top, you could hardly hear any sound.

Furthermore, the side of the mountain facing the village is entirely bare rock, making it seem as if once you fall down, you'll never be able to climb back up.

Even if he hadn't studied feng shui, he could tell that the feng shui here must be extremely bad.

Wu Xin couldn't help but speak up at this moment.

"Just as I guessed, this village looks like it has been abandoned for a long time. Brother Li Fan, your parents and younger brother may have moved away from this village to live elsewhere."

Wuyin nodded in agreement, but Li Fan next to him remained silent.

He turned his head to look and found Li Fan staring blankly at a certain spot in the village.

Following his gaze, one could see an ordinary house in the village, its door slightly ajar, the stone steps in front covered in a thick layer of dust.

This should be Li Fan's original home.

Wuyin called out.

"Li Fan?"

But Li Fan didn't react at all, as if he was attracted by some kind of gravity.

Helpless, Wuyin stretched her hand out in front of his eyes and waved it twice.

Li Fan's gaze was interrupted, and he came back to his senses, noticing the two people looking at him with strange eyes, which puzzled him.

"W-what's wrong?"

Wu Xin: "I was about to ask you what happened just now, it was like you were possessed by a ghost."

Wuyin frowned and said to Wuxin.

"Don't talk nonsense."

Although it seemed like a reproach, only he knew that saying that word in such an eerie place would be heard by "them".

Wu Xin shut her mouth when she saw her brother's stern gaze.

Li Fan perhaps realized that he had been daydreaming for a moment, and gave an awkward smile.

"I just saw my old house and it made me think of some things, but it's okay."

He turned to look at Wuyin, a little embarrassed.

"Hey, big brother, can I go down and take a look? Maybe my parents left me a note before they left."

Wuyin rejected him.

"No, this place looks rather unsettling. Even if you're in spirit form, you might encounter danger going down here."

Chapter 70 My sister has a fever

"And I have a feeling that anything that goes down there will most likely only end up dead."

……

The men's expressions turned somewhat unpleasant upon hearing this.

Li Fan did not bring up the matter again.

As the group descended the mountain to return to the helicopter, Wuyin felt uneasy. The image of the village kept replaying in his mind, and he felt inexplicably restless.

Wu Yin wasn't sure if he was the only one with this feeling or if everyone felt it, so he looked at Wu Xin and Li Fan.

Li Fan kept his eyes down, seemingly deep in thought, while Wu Xin frowned.

When Wu Xin saw her brother looking at her, she finally couldn't help but speak up.

"Brother, I don't know if it's because I'm tired, but I always feel uneasy."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm home now."

Wuyin's words were both a comfort to her sister and a comfort to herself.

For some reason, he always had a feeling that the village was a hundred times more dangerous than the two ghost stories he had encountered.

The helicopter quickly flew to the capital of China, and the group returned to the villa.

Wu Xin said wearily as soon as she returned to the villa.

"Brother, I'm a little sleepy, I'm going to go to sleep now."

Wuyin nodded, turned to look at Li Fan beside her, who had been in poor condition ever since they saw the village, sighed, and didn't say anything more.

After all, Wuyin could guess that he was probably troubled by his parents' situation, and she didn't have the ability to comfort him.

Wuyin felt weak after returning from that eerie village, probably because she hadn't rested well the night before and had climbed the mountain for so long.

He then went back to his bedroom and took a nap.

But I didn't sleep well.

He had a dream.

In his dream, he was in a village surrounded by mountains. The village was inhabited by many villagers who farmed and raised livestock, and they had also dug a large pond to raise fish.

Because it takes so much time and effort to get over the mountain, they basically don't go out except for necessary trips to town to collect supplies.

One day, a merchant carrying an ostrich passed by. Since the villagers had never eaten ostrich meat before, they were very curious about it.

So the vendors cut off pieces of fresh meat from the ostriches that were tied to sticks and were still alive, and sold them.

The ostrich's belly was still heaving, and its eyes were wide open, but it didn't struggle at all.

Even after all the flesh on its body had been snatched away, the ostrich, covered in blood, was still clinging to life, its bloodshot eyes fixed on the vendor.

Wuyin felt that there seemed to be a trace of human emotion in its eyes, so she stared curiously at the ostrich covered in blood.

Suddenly, the ostrich rolled its eyes and stared straight at Wuyin, and the ostrich's beak mimicked a human's grinning expression.

……

"Huh...huh..."

Wuyin suddenly sat up in bed and realized it was just a dream, but the dream felt incredibly real.

He was covered in cold sweat and it took him a long time to regain his heart rate. The clothes on his back were completely soaked, as if they had been soaked in water.