Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 329 The [door] in the sacrificial knife

She felt that the surrounding environment began to become humid, the air became heavy, the light gradually disappeared, and the smell of mud and moss rushed into her nostrils, and the surroundings were surrounded by moss-covered granite at some point.

She walked down the granite floor until she came to an old-fashioned elevator at the end of the road.

Underground...how could there be an elevator?
In her sleep, her head was muddled and she was not awake at all, so that as soon as this thought arose in her mind, it quickly dissipated.

She entered the elevator in a daze, and found that there were buttons on the elevator from 1 to -100 floors from top to bottom.

She felt some fear in her muddled heart, but her body in the dream was out of control, she could only watch herself stretch out her hand and press the button for the -100 floor.

With a "bang" sound accompanied by the sound of trembling steel hitting the granite wall, the elevator began to fall——

Even in the dream, she was sure that it was "falling", not the downward movement of a normal elevator.

She waited in confusion and fear for an unknown amount of time before the elevator finally stopped.

The elevator door opened, and when she stepped out of the elevator, what she saw was not the dark underground, but the crowded streets of human society!
It's just that this street is completely different from the street she knew——

The streets are three-dimensional, and there are roads leading in all directions, which leads to the dense buildings in the whole city. Those dense and strange buildings are crowded in the small underground space, as if to use every inch of space.

This place seems to have a similar social environment to normal human society - she clearly saw the existence of some kind of store.

And most of those stores have billboards made of bright neon tubes, and some billboards are even dynamic, like an animation being played——

Alice once saw something called a "television" at her uncle's house, in which black and white "animations" were played.

But compared with the dynamic billboard in front of me, the animation on my uncle's TV is like a child's silly joke.

The beauty of that thing was completely beyond her imagination.

Humans in strange costumes walked on the streets in all directions. They were no different from ordinary humans, but most of them had bad complexions.

The people here...

They all seem to be sick.

Out of nowhere, she tried to strike up a conversation with the man closest to her.

Hearing her greeting, the expression on the man's face suddenly became very surprised - from astonishment to surprise, from surprise to surprise, the man began to speak to her excitedly.

She couldn't understand the man's words, because she was completely attracted by something in the man's neck——

They were some dark green cysts, as ugly as toad eggs, hidden under the skin of the man's neck.

The man realized that she couldn't understand his words, so he reached out his hand in desperation, trying to grab her by the shoulder.

But this catch, but caught empty.

She didn't even have a body.

The expression on the man's face turned into astonishment again.

After the astonishment, it was gloomy.

He said something loudly, and actually took out a small bone knife from his pocket.

She was frightened and didn't realize that she had no body now. She turned her head and tried to escape, but was stabbed in the shoulder by the man.

She actually felt the pain in the dream!

She screamed in panic and fled to the elevator, but there were many people chasing her behind her.

After all, she failed to escape into the elevator.

Before entering the elevator, her body became light and ethereal.

She looked down and saw that her body had disappeared.

Before her body completely disappeared, she saw that the people chasing her had turned into some kind of monster——

Black fangs protruded from the lips, and after the eyes exploded, dark green pus and blood flowed out from the eye sockets. Countless eyes grew on the swollen and thickened arms, and those eyes were quickly squeezed by the exploding flesh...

Before her vision disappeared, she vaguely saw those monsters start biting each other, and the whole underground street was in chaos.

And then……

She woke up.

She was lying on the bed in the dormitory. According to her roommate, after she passed out in the classroom, she was sent back to the dormitory by her classmates, and she has been in a coma until now.

She told her roommates what she dreamed about, but they all said she was just dreaming.

If it was a dream, it would be too real.

She told the people close to her about her dream, but no one could understand her or believe her.

It made her miserable.

The pain lasted until she told Colin Frankenstein about it.

"I believe you."

When Colin said this, she fell into his deep blue sea-like eyes.

She became his girlfriend and helped him sort out some materials.

He is already a graduate student of Miskatonic University, and his major is different from hers, but she is still willing to help him with all her heart.

She is still taking the medicine he gave her, because she is inseparable from that medicine, and only after taking the medicine, she will not have the symptoms of sleepwalking.

Until one day, one morning just after waking up, when she looked in the mirror, she in the mirror spoke:

"I've already prepared the identity for you. In half a month, after graduation, you will go to work at the Byron Weiss Zoo."

She was terrified, looking at herself in the mirror, a complete stranger, speechless.

"You... who are you?"

The girl who looked exactly like her in the mirror smiled:
"My name is Turin Lagrange, and I am the legitimate daughter of the Lagrange family blessed by the god of abundance in the northern plateau."

Alice yelled at the mirror like crazy:
"What are you talking about! I'm Alice!"

The girl in the mirror asked her:

"So, what's your last name?"

Alice opened her mouth to answer, but she suddenly realized that she had forgotten her last name.

She didn't know what was going on, and the fear that filled her body and mind made her speechless.

It was the girl in the mirror who broke the silence.

"You have no surname, no identity, you are my shadow."

Listening to her words, Alice suddenly remembered the double image of the star that she saw through the telescope that day.

That double image is Turin Lagrange in this mirror.

Do not……

If this continues, she will soon become that ghost that does not exist!

She begged:

"I'll find another body for you, okay? I didn't do anything, can you let me go?"

Turin Lagrange said in a calm tone:
"I have always had a body, why should you come looking for it?"

She raised the corner of her mouth:
"However, I can be merciful and give you some time - when I am asleep, the power to manipulate this body will be given to you."

Alice was silent.

She thought to herself that when she was awake, there was always a way to kill that Turin Lagrange.

She found Colin Frankenstein and told him about it.

But he showed a ferocious face to her, grabbed her collar with both hands, and asked her with red eyes, where did he hide his Turin Lagrange?
At this moment, Alice almost thought that she was the "fake".

But she clearly remembered most of the memories after birth, and knew every major decision she had made in recent years.

She can be sure that the Turin Lagrange is fake.

But the changes in the body are real——

Her dreams became clearer and clearer, where and what she did, without exception, was extremely clear in her memory.

This means that after she falls asleep, Turin Lagrange wakes up instead of her.

Some things began to appear around her, sometimes books, sometimes specimens, which were definitely not her own.

She tried to hold on not to sleep, but the drowsiness that flooded in like a tide always made her fall asleep in any corner.

Most importantly, she was sleeping longer and longer.

Things turned around one night.

She was so busy preparing for the graduation ceremony that day that she forgot to take her medicine.

When she realized that she forgot to take her medicine, it was already two o'clock in the morning——

She stayed awake until two o'clock in the morning!
That medicine is problematic!
That medicine... Wasn't it originally intended to cure my sleepwalking?

Colin Frankenstein... has been killing me? !

The next day, she refused Colin Frankenstein's medicine.

Colin was furious at this, but there was nothing he could do about her, and he seemed to dislike violence.

She was overjoyed because after stopping the medication, her sleep time stopped increasing - she was able to stay at about 12 hours!

Soon, she completed her graduation ceremony.

On the day after graduation, she felt something from under her pillow.

Maybe it's because Turin Lagrange forgot to put that thing away, maybe it's something else...

In short, the bone dagger that had been inserted into her back in the world under the elevator appeared by her side again.

Her expression was cloudy, and she finally decided to hide the bone dagger in a dark corner under the bed that only she knew.

She began to enter the library of Mida University when she was awake, trying to find knowledge about the dagger from the library.

Fortunately for her, after a long time of unremitting efforts, she did find the knowledge about that dagger——

That dagger is a knife used by some kind of ancient sacrifice.

That sacrificial ceremony is a ceremony to open a [door] in a certain mystical sense.

The specific method is very simple, that is, to plunge the dagger into someone's body.

The effect achieved by the sacrifice is to transmit the human consciousness to the other side of the [door].

Only then did she understand that when she entered the ground in her sleep, the person who stuck the sacrificial knife behind her was going to send her to the other side of the [door]—to send her out of the dream.

……

……

By the time Alice finished talking, Chen Yan had already missed a bus.

"Did you see the dim red star above the moon near the moon?"

"That's your destiny."

"Did you see the dull dust next to the star of fate?"

"That's my life star...it's about to be destroyed and turned into dust."

"My fate star surrounds your fate star, which shows that your actions can greatly affect my fate."

She looked at Chen Yan with pleading eyes:

"Please, help me, use that knife, Turin Lagrange, to the other side of the [door]! Then I can be free!"

Chen Yan frowned and said:
"Where does the [door] lead to?"

Her eyes flickered:
"I don't know... In short, she must be able to leave my body!"

(End of this chapter)