Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

Shen Xingzhu silently turned over, facing the dormitory corridor.

The first rule of the strange tales is: never expose your back to the enemy.

She rubbed her cold arms together, then, in a defensive posture of hugging herself, drifted into a light sleep.

The night was quiet.

As dawn broke, sunlight streamed into dormitory room 404.

Shen Xingzhu rubbed her sleepy eyes, and only when she came to her senses did she feel a dryness and itchiness in her throat.

"Cough cough..."

Shen Xingzhuo coughed uncontrollably.

Afraid of waking her roommates, she quickly pressed her fingertips into the hollow between her collarbones and made a swallowing motion.

"Luckily, I learned a few tricks from the old Chinese medicine doctor back then," Shen Xingzhuo thought to himself.

She got up quietly, walked to the desk, and picked up the water glass on the table.

Just as the rim of the cup touched her lips, she stopped.

Are you a pig? Why do you have to be so greedy?!

Shen Xingzhu recalled the vivid phrase he had seen in the woods.

He immediately poured the water from the cup along the edge of the flowerpot of the plant next to him.

Shen Xingzhuo turned her head and glanced at it, her eyes widening in shock.

"Good heavens, has this... corroded the soil?"

Shen Xingzhuo covered her nose and cautiously crouched down to examine the flowerpot closely.

White smoke was still hissing from the soil, but the plastic flowerpot was completely undamaged.

Shen Xingzhuo lowered her eyes, her thoughts drawn into memories.

At the time, she received an invitation from the authorities to solve a "haunted incident" at a high school.

According to officials, the person who filed the report was a senior high school student at the school.

He recounted how he was unable to sleep all night because he was being harassed by a vengeful ghost. It just so happened that it was the seventh day after his girlfriend's death, so he immediately believed that his girlfriend's ghost had returned to the mortal world and, because she loved him so deeply, wanted to drag him down with her to die.

Shen Xingzhuo was speechless. What did he mean by "it just so happens to be the seventh day after his girlfriend's death"? Could the word "just so happen" even be used like that?

She raised her objections at the time—

First, the fact that this person could use a description like "it just so happens to be the seventh day after his girlfriend's death" raises doubts about their relationship; second, the fact that she didn't sense any ghostly energy indicates that this male student hasn't had any contact with ghosts, at least not in the short term.

But because of this, the parents of the deceased girl, who were originally filled with complicated emotions, suddenly seemed to realize something and appealed to their superiors that there must be something else going on in the girl's death case!

After further investigation, it was discovered that the girl's death was related to the boy who reported it...

With the college entrance examination approaching, the boy's grades were mediocre, so he began to look for other options early on.

Just then, a guy from a wealthy family took a liking to him and asked him to break up with the girl.

He did as instructed for the sake of his future, but he didn't expect that the guy with connections felt uneasy about him coming out of the closet halfway through his life. So, he went all out and made a move on the girl.

……

"The girl's cause of death was... what was it again?"

Shen Xingzhuo dug deep into her memories and finally found the answer in a corner of them.

"It's hydrofluoric acid!"

Hydrofluoric acid should theoretically have a strong, pungent odor.

The chemicals in her cup that could easily corrode the soil were clearly not diluted.

However, since this is a ghost story, hiding some scent is a piece of cake for him.

However, it is even more obvious that someone must want to kill her!

Shen Xingzhuo's gaze swept over the five sleeping people. 'Who could it be?'

Or perhaps... someone sneaked into 404 without anyone noticing?

Shen Xingzhuo put down the cup in her hand.

A muffled thud was heard!

Hua Jiuyue rolled off the bed and landed heavily on the floor!

Shen Xingzhuo's lips twitched, but she still stepped forward and asked with concern, "Are you alright?"

She checked on Hua Jiuyue's condition, her tone teasing: "Did you have a nightmare?"

Shen Xingzhuo's words only made Hua Jiuyue's face turn deathly pale!

She silently pushed away Shen Xingzhuo's hand that was supporting her, and like water, she moved step by step out of the door!