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

"Tick-tock, tick-tock—"

Condensate dripped from the cold metal pipe onto the ground, forming a small puddle.

The room was dark, with only a narrow metal window grille on the east wall closest to the ceiling.

Cold air seeped in through the gaps in the fence.

"cold."

In her dazed state, Shen Xingzhuo's first thought was how cold it was.

She didn't realize she was being held in solitary confinement until she opened her eyes.

Shen Xingzhu rubbed his hands together to warm them, then rubbed them back and forth on his arms in an attempt to keep warm.

But the cold air here seemed to penetrate to her very bones, making it impossible for her to warm up no matter what she did.

"This should be the solitary confinement cell, right? Location..." Shen Xingzhuo paused slightly, using the angle of the moonlight to roughly calculate the location.

Is it located directly north of the teaching building?

I recalled the routes I had noted down at school over the past two days.

Shen Xingzhu nodded secretly, confirming his guess.

She wandered around, trying to find the rules in the solitary confinement room.

Shen Xingzhuo knew that he and Hua Jiuyue were imprisoned here because they had stayed in the water room for too long.

She didn't know where Hua Jiuyue was now, but the two of them were probably in similar situations.

Shen Xingzhuo didn't have the thought, "We've been through so much together, I must rescue her."

If they were truly so closely bound together, the supernatural would naturally not be able to separate them.

After all, this is still within the realm of strange rules; when the two members of a team separate, it signifies the start of their respective missions.

Shen Xingzhuo keenly focused his gaze on the dripping water pipe.

He called out Guan Shanyue's name in his heart.

"Captain Guan, I lost consciousness during the transfer," Shen Xingzhuo said.

Her spiritual energy glowed faintly in the darkness.

She only said this one sentence, and Guan Shanyue immediately understood what she meant.

Soon, Guan Shanyue's voice rang in Shen Xingzhuo's mind.

"From the time you left the water room until you left the dormitory building, you were together. But after you left the dormitory, it got dark for a while."

"It only returned to normal when the two of you appeared in this building. Immediately afterwards, you were separated and taken to different rooms. The whole process took no more than twenty minutes."

"Judging from the aging of the interior decorations of the two buildings, there is now an 80% chance that... the timeline has returned to normal."

Guan Shanyue thought for a moment and continued, "According to Qianling and the others' observations, your several appearances of Shen Xing's state were quite sudden. It might be related to post-traumatic stress. You must be careful in the confinement room."

Shen Xingzhu smiled warmly upon hearing Guan Shanyue's concern.

I'll be careful.

Footsteps approached from afar.

Shen Xingzhuo immediately cut off the communication.

"These don't look like human footsteps! Why are they so crunchy?"

Just as Shen Xingzhu was wondering, a swarm of species that swarmed over answered her question.

This also made her expression completely serious.

"mouse!"

Shen Xingzhuo exclaimed softly.

A group of grayish-brown rats, each as big as an adult's arm, were rushing toward her solitary confinement cell at an incredible speed!

It was called a solitary confinement cell, but it was actually a prison cell.

These rats could easily break through the metal gate.

Shen Xingzhuo wasn't afraid of rats, after all, he had lived in the mountains when he was a child. There was plenty of spiritual energy in the mountains, so naturally there were many of these small animals.

But looking at the densely packed mass, Shen Xingzhuo still felt a chill run down her spine.

The mice were right in front of me.

Shen Xingzhuo sighed and fell straight to the ground!