Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

The next morning, just as dawn was breaking, Wuyin opened her eyes in bed and quickly got up.

Nothing dangerous happened last night, but he still cautiously checked the house again. Apart from the bread and water being refreshed in the cupboard, nothing else had changed.

After checking all that, he quickly washed up and then grabbed some bread and bottled water from the cupboard to replenish his energy.

Next, he removed Li Fan from his personal toolbar, since he should be awake by now after a night's sleep.

With a thought, a soul floated beside him.

Li Fan started cursing as soon as he came out.

"Holy crap, where's my note? The note I almost lost my life to get is gone!"

"What kind of weird story is this? Are you trying to make us finish the game? They won't even give us a note."

Wuyin rubbed his temples and said.

"It's good enough that people are still alive."

However, after I added you to the toolbar yesterday, the note fell to the ground, and the white mist took the note away and stopped attacking me.

We could try it: read the note, and then throw it away quickly. But I can't guarantee 100% safety. After all, you only disturbed the mushrooms last time, and the white mist is still subtly drifting towards you.

Li Fan slapped his forehead.

"That's right, I could memorize the note after reading it, so I wasn't afraid of losing it."

He now deeply regrets not having taken a moment to read the note when he was running away.

Perhaps the moment I received the note, my mind was foggy and I was sleepy, which is why I didn't think of that.

However, Li Fan's voice became somewhat solemn as he thought of this.

"Wuyin, I started to feel sleepy after I got the note, but I suspect it wasn't the note that made me sleepy, but some kind of item on the note."

Wuyin looked at Li Fan.

What do you mean by that?

Li Fan: "Because when we were next to the mushroom forest, after Barton disturbed the mushroom forest, the mushrooms started to keep shaking their 'heads', and I seemed to vaguely see some white mist rising from the mushroom forest."

Wuyin's gaze also became serious.

"You mean it might be the mist emanating from these mushrooms that made you sleepy by getting it on this note?"

Li Fan nodded.

"But this is just my feeling, and I'm not 100% sure."

Wuyin seemed to have thought of something.

"When mushrooms sway their heads, they release white mist. Do you think this white mist might be mushroom spores?"

Although he knew that mushroom spores couldn't be white mist rising upwards, for some reason, when he heard Li Fan say that mushrooms swayed their "heads," he thought of mushrooms releasing spores.

Li Fan didn't know what it was either, and he didn't answer Wuyin, since these were all just guesses between the two of them.

After pondering for a while, Wu Yin decided to change the subject and ask Li Fan, since more clues were needed for this matter.

"Yesterday we took a walk around the village. Did you see those taciturn villagers? Do you recognize them?"

Li Fan replied.

"I don't know them. If I did, I would have greeted them already."

They might be villagers who moved here later. Of all the villagers yesterday, I only recognized Aunt Da Niu.

Wuyin nodded, but her heart was filled with doubt once again.

Would anyone really move to this village, which is surrounded by mountains and has no flowing water?

However, you could try asking these villagers directly, since they didn't show any aggression when I passed by them yesterday.

However, he wasn't confident he would get an answer; he was just testing the waters.

Chapter 78 Exchanging Clues

As soon as Wu Yin and Li Fan stepped out the door, they saw Barton passing by their door and casually greeting them.

"Good morning, Wuyin. You're up so early, haha."

Wu Yin frowned. Barton's words seemed particularly strange in the world of supernatural tales, especially since the two weren't very familiar with each other.

Li Fan looked at Barton and spoke.

"What's this guy up to? He got up so early to greet you so enthusiastically."

But Wuyin didn't show any reaction on the surface, only responding with a faint sound and saying.

"Okay, let's get up early and look for clues."

At this moment, Barton suddenly lowered his voice and whispered mysteriously.

"You know what? Yesterday I got a very important clue, a way to pass the level."

Wuyin raised an eyebrow.

"Oh? A clue about clearing the level?"

He looked at Barton, feigning surprise.

Barton concealed his emotions well, wearing only a faint smile on his face.

Li Fan was also a little puzzled. Could it be that this kid had really found a clue to pass the level?

The mouth opens silently.

"Then tell me, what clue is it?"

Seeing Wuyin ask this question, Barton's smile deepened.

"Didn't you say we were going to exchange clues? Did you find any clues yesterday?"

Wuyin glanced at Barton and answered seriously.

"You're asking about that? I didn't find any useful clues yesterday. If you really want to change it, that's fine, you can tell me first."

Barton frowned slightly. Wuyin had clearly mentioned the contents of the Mushroom Forest note when she was talking to Li Fan outside the door yesterday.

They must have looked at it, but they deliberately lied to themselves and said they didn't find any useful clues. How despicable!

But he quickly regained his smiling expression and continued.

"How am I supposed to know if you're lying to me? What if you don't tell me after I tell you?"

Wuyin: "Whatever, say it or not, it's up to you."

After saying that, he turned to leave.

Wu Yin didn't want to waste time with Barton. Although it was possible to deduce something from Barton's clues, what Barton said might not be true, and the clues he obtained might not be true either.

"Hey, wait."

Patton called out to him from behind, but there was no response.

"Alright then, I'll tell you first. I told you you have to tell me all the clues you found yesterday."

Wuyin turned around, and the faint expression on her face turned into a fake smile.

"Ah."

Barton ignored Wuyin's expression and spoke.

"The information I received yesterday is that a meat merchant will be passing through the village this weekend, so if we can survive until the weekend, the merchant can take us out of the village."

Barton was actually angry and wanted to turn around and leave when he saw Wuyin acting indifferent.

But he also knew that he had too little information. He had no idea what would happen in the long run. The more clues he had, the greater his chances of survival.

But he left some things unsaid, such as that the merchant sold ostrich meat and that you had to buy the merchant's ostrich meat before he would agree to take you out.

Hmph, if Wuyin goes directly to the merchant to ask him to leave, who knows what might happen in this world of strange tales and rules? If he dies, then he can't blame me.

Wuyin pondered his words for a moment, nodded, and spoke.

"Yesterday I circled the village and found that there were dead branches all around, and it was impossible to get out by manpower alone."

Also, the villagers are all very dull-witted.

Beside the pond was a cluster of mushrooms with eyeballs on them, and inside was a note. However, if they were disturbed, the white mist floating above the pond would attack.

After Wuyin finished speaking, Barton was completely dumbfounded.

"And then?" Patton pressed.

Could he really be planning to hide the clue about the note in the mushroom forest? That would be incredibly unethical.

"What then?" Wuyin asked, somewhat puzzled.

Barton: "I can see these clues myself. Is that all you know?"

Is there some other clue that you deliberately haven't told me?

Wuyin shrugged.

"I told you from the beginning that I hadn't found any important clues, but you insisted on exchanging them."

These are all the clues I have, and I've told you everything. If you insist that I'm lying, then I don't think there's any point in us working together anymore.

Wuyin wasn't lying; these were the only clues they found yesterday. Barton could have seen these clues anyway, so there was nothing wrong with him saying them.

But the clues Patton gave him seemed to contain even more important information, and he struck gold.

Barton couldn't control his expression, and his face twisted for a moment, but he had already given Wuyin the clue, and it wouldn't be good to fall out at this point, so he patiently continued to ask.

"I went to that mushroom forest yesterday and saw what looked like a note inside. Do you know what was on the note?"

Wuyin replied, "I don't know, didn't I already tell you?"

Approaching the mushroom forest would trigger a white mist attack, preventing me from getting close enough to retrieve the note, and naturally, I didn't know what was going on.

Now that the clues have been exchanged, may I leave?

Barton was furious when he saw Wuyin preparing to leave. He was about to question her when he suddenly stopped talking.

If he were to reveal the things Wuyin and Li Fan had said on the note at the door, it would prove that he admitted to eavesdropping on their conversation.