Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

Wuyin shook her head, but her eyes were very serious.

"Although I don't know where the cafeteria is, it's definitely not a place we can easily get to."

At this point, Wuyin thought of Rule Three and felt a little relieved, since she had indeed intended to cut off one of the strange mushrooms by the pond to see what it was like.

Li Fan, standing beside him, was also thinking seriously and guessing.

"I think the canteen might be a small wooden hut, or perhaps a villager's basement?"

It's still a while before dark, so I can sneak into other people's houses and look for the cafeteria mentioned in the rules.

Wuyin glanced at the sky, estimating it to be three o'clock in the afternoon, and nodded in agreement with Li Fan's statement.

The two returned to their cabin, quickly ate the remaining bread, and drank water.

After replenishing their energy, they began searching every corner of the village together.

The search went very smoothly for the two.

Even the villagers busy in the room, as long as Wuyin and Li Fan didn't touch him, he treated them like air, concentrating on his own work, seemingly unaware that someone had broken into his room.

So in just one afternoon, the two of them had searched almost every house, but still couldn't find the canteen mentioned in the rules.

All the wooden houses had basically the same layout. Although Wuyin couldn't tell anything from them, Li Fan could identify which villager from his previous village lived in each house by looking at the subtle differences.

But now, apart from Da Niu Niang, he doesn't recognize anyone in the village. It's as if a group of strangers have replaced the villagers that Li Fan used to know.

However, speaking of Da Niu Niang, the two of them haven't seen her for a long time since they first saw her washing clothes at the door. She's very suspicious, and they don't know what she's doing.

As it was getting dark, the two decided to return to their room to summarize all the clues they had gathered.

Li Fan was somewhat discouraged, and as soon as he returned to his room, he spoke up.

"We searched all the cabins, but there was no canteen mentioned in the rules at all."

Either the rules were deceiving us, or the cafeteria was actually just an ordinary little wooden hut, so we couldn't recognize which hut was the cafeteria.

Wuyin shook her head, her eyes carrying a deep meaning.

“We didn’t search every corner of the village; there’s one place we didn’t search.”

Li Fan asked in confusion, "Then where else could it be? You're not going to tell me the canteen is underground in this village, are you? We're going to dig it up."

Wu Yin nodded, and Li Fan, who was next to her, thought Wu Yin was joking, so he casually said something as well.

"If it were underground, we could just be buried together too."

Wuyin: "To be precise, it's not underground, but in the pond."

"pond?"

Li Fan was slightly taken aback, and muttered softly to himself.

"The pond, the canteen."

Indeed, there was only one place they hadn't searched: the pond. And the two words sounded very similar. Could it be a coincidence?

"But we can't breathe underwater, and we can't swim like Patton, so how are we going to get to the pond?"

Chapter 82 Pierced into My Eyes

Wuyin smiled slightly.

"Haven't we already had someone help us look for it?"

Li Fan: "Barton, even if he's a great swimmer, he can't stay underwater without breathing for long. Besides, he was dragged away while unconscious, so he might have already..."

As he said this, he made a throat-slitting gesture.

Wuyin then asked Li Fan earnestly.

“We asked that farmer today, and he said the village is in a drought year-round, so where do you think the water in the pond comes from?”

Upon hearing this, Li Fan fell into deep thought and asked.

"You mean the water in the pond might not be real, but just our hallucination?"

"After experiencing the last ghost story, he became more sensitive to hallucinations, after all, he didn't want to experience that kind of hallucination again."

Wuyin merely frowned slightly.

"This is just my guess, and it's not certain yet."

Li Fan scratched his head, looking somewhat troubled.

"The trail ends here. The pond is so dangerous, we can't possibly go into the water to check..."

Before he could finish speaking, Wuyin's expression turned serious. She quickly gestured for him to be quiet and then turned off the light.

Li Fan immediately noticed that something was wrong, and his heart suddenly clenched as he looked at Wuyin.

Wuyin mouthed the words, "There's someone outside the window," before quietly retreating to the wall on the other side of the window to make sure the person outside couldn't see him.

The cabin already had curtains, and once the lights were turned off, the cabin became completely dark. The moonlight from outside shone on the curtains, and Li Fan could clearly see a shadow cast on them.

The shadow's edges were blurry and indistinct, indicating that the other person was still far from the window, and both of them held their breath.

But then, a faint sound suddenly came from outside the window.

The sound was like something sticky crawling on the ground, and the shadows on the curtains became clearer.

It's a monster from outside, it's coming!

Li Fan wanted to use his soul's advantage to peek through the curtains and see what was outside.

I took a step while staring at the shadow outside the curtains, but then I felt like I couldn't move another step.

He felt a strange tingling sensation on his scalp, and his whole body became somewhat stiff, as if countless gazes were focused on him.

But the situation seemed to be getting worse, because his eyes were fixed on the shadow of the curtains and he couldn't look away.

He seemed to be hallucinating; he felt that he was no longer in the same place, but was walking forward, about to see the terrifying thing outside the window through the curtains, when suddenly everything went black.

Wuyin covered his eyes.

Wu Yin noticed that Li Fan had suddenly stopped halfway through their journey and sensed something was wrong, so she looked at his profile.

Li Fan's face was filled with deep despair and fear, but his eyes seemed somewhat dull, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the curtains.

He was startled and immediately stepped forward to cover Li Fan's eyes.

Li Fan's body trembled for a moment, then he suddenly knelt on the ground, panting heavily.

Seeing this, Wuyin breathed a slight sigh of relief and released his hand from Li Fan's eyes. But what happened next made him frown deeply.

Li Fan's condition was not much better; he was kneeling on the ground, tears constantly welling up in his eyes.

It's water, not tears.

He felt all his strength rush to his eyes, turning into water that dripped continuously onto the ground, as if he were merging with the puddle of water.

The monster's shadow outside grew darker and darker. He walked directly to the window of the hut and let out a series of eerie laughs.

"Hehehehe...hehehehe..."

Wu Yin looked at Li Fan's current state with a fierce look in his eyes. Just as he was about to bend down to find a scalpel to stab the monster outside the window a thousand times and trigger the fatal damage, Li Fan suddenly grabbed his wrist tightly.

Wuyin turned to look into Li Fan's eyes. In the moonlight, his eyes were round and wide open, with tears constantly welling up. His brows were furrowed in pain, and his hand holding Wuyin was trembling uncontrollably.

His voice was filled with helplessness, as if he had made a very painful decision and was speaking with great difficulty.

"Please... plunge it into my eyes..."

"I can't hold on much longer..."

Li Fan's condition was very strange. He was just trembling, but now his face and lips were pale, and his soul was beginning to become transparent.

Wu Yin frowned deeply. He had a premonition that if Li Fan's eyes continued to flow, his soul would perish.

What flowed out didn't seem to be water, but rather his spiritual energy.

Wu Yin's eyes were dark and unreadable. He looked around the room, trying to find a sharp object to pierce Li Fan's eyes and lessen his pain.

After all, the scalpel has a chance of triggering a fatal condition, and piercing both eyes requires two attempts, which doubles the probability.

Just in case, we must use other items.

But Wuyin looked around and found that there were no sharp objects at all, as if the strange tales of rules had foreseen this scene and forced him to make that choice.

Li Fan's hand, which was gripping Wu Yin, was still trembling, but the strength was gradually decreasing, and it was clear that he was about to give up.

At this moment, Wuyin only has two choices.

First, by using a scalpel, one gambles that the certainty of death will not occur.

Second, personally... remove his eyes...

Wuyin clenched his fists tightly, lowered his eyes, and dared not look at Li Fan again. His nails dug deep into his palms, and his whole body was trembling.

Images of his time with Li Fan kept flashing through his mind.

That cunning and treacherous dead rabbit Richard, and that arrogant, somewhat insecure, sometimes unreliable, sometimes very dependable Li Fan.

After all, they were brothers who had gone through thick and thin together, and Wuyin suffered immense pain when he made his choice.

Finally, with his eyes bloodshot, he slowly stretched out his hands towards Li Fan...

With a scream of extreme pain from Li Fan, the monster outside seemed to realize something, stopped its grotesque laughter, and slowly left the front of the hut.

Inside the dark cabin, only Wuyin, with his hands stained with blood and a cold expression, and Li Fan, who was lying weakly on the ground with blood streaming from his eyes and had already gone blind, remained.

"What the hell is this crappy game? I'm not playing it anymore!"

Wu Yin received news of his sister's disappearance during the day, and then Li Fan had an accident that night. He felt a deep sense of powerlessness and self-blame.

If it weren't for his insistence on playing the great hero who saves the world, yet being so useless, it would have been impossible for these two to end up in this situation.

Wuyin slammed her fist into the table in front of her to vent her anger. The table was so old that it collapsed to the ground, leaving a trace of bloodstains on it.

Two drops of water had appeared on the ground in front of them at some unknown time, and these two drops were no longer from a strange source of water, but from tears of pain.

Chapter 83 The Merchant Who Arrived Ahead of Schedule

The Red Dragon Commander off-screen frowned deeply, his face filled with worry.