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

"As expected, the seemingly harmless child is the most dangerous one."

Shen Xingzhuo took a deep breath.

Why is it that even though her guesses matched, she wasn't happy?

The imposter shop owner switched to an innocent and bewildered expression, which, combined with his nauseating facial model, almost made Shen Xingzhuo vomit up last year's New Year's Eve dinner.

At this moment, Piao Piao spoke softly, breaking Shen Xingzhuo's understanding.

"But he was also Richard."

A hint of doubt flashed through Shen Xingzhuo's mind, and he asked, "What do you mean? One body, two souls?"

Piao Piao didn't answer; instead, she remained motionless with a blank expression.

Shen Xingzhuo didn't expect a strange person to open up to him.

Sensing something was wrong, he quickly recalled his memories, vividly replaying the scenes he had experienced before.

She sometimes thinks that it's fortunate she has a good memory and can retrieve key information she has seen with her own eyes at any time.

The scene freezes on the moment after the king walks in.

At the time, Lia was sitting peacefully in her seat, playing her game by herself, while Richard, the imposter shopkeeper wearing an apron, only came out from the back room after hearing the commotion...

Then, the sleepless night began, and Liya disappeared into the darkness.

He's become Richard, a man obsessed with slaughtering more people?

You can become a new person, but you have to live with the characteristics of other people.

This rule from the third section of the code popped into Shen Xingzhuo's mind.

"Piaopiao, are Richard and Liya's souls crammed into one body?"

"Yes……"

Piao Piao's body twitched slightly.

Shen Xingzhuo's expression turned cold. "Tell the truth!"

Piao Piao felt extremely sore and numb all over, and his head was throbbing. He tried to press his temples, but found that because the puppet's arms were too short, it couldn't reach his head at all.

He could only force himself to endure the pain of lying.

"This woman is not easily fooled!"

He muttered a complaint to himself, but still answered Shen Xingzhuo's question with a sense of frustration.

"no."

"Their faces and bodies are now intertwined and merged together."

Fusion?!

Shen Xingzhuo caught the key word and then thought of the incident she had encountered three years ago.

At the time, she was invited to a child's birthday party as a Taoist priest.

When she arrived at the house, she learned that the reason she had been invited was because the child's parents suspected that their child had been murdered.

Since the child did not do well on a test, he has isolated everyone in his family all by himself.

His family initially thought it was because the child was under too much pressure to get into high school, but they didn't expect that he would later develop pica.

They only eat yellow paper and incense.

The child's parents heard from relatives that the child might have been possessed by a spirit on the way to offer incense.

So he inquired around and asked Shen Xingzhuo for help.

After examining the child, she concluded that the child's condition had absolutely nothing to do with being possessed by a ghost.

Because her Taoist master certificate was so dazzling, the child's parents had no reason not to believe, so they took the child to the hospital's psychiatric department for another checkup.

He was eventually diagnosed with DID, or dissociative personality disorder.

She also followed up on the child's treatment progress and gained some understanding of this special mental illness.

This is different from possession by a ghost, which is an invasion by an external spirit.

This condition is more like the soul automatically splitting into several "souls" to protect the body's owner, each managing different fragments of memory.

To prevent the body's owner from being triggered into pain again.

Multiple personality disorder is undoubtedly a painful condition.

They can switch to different personalities anytime, anywhere, depending on the "trigger condition" they see.

Almost every "person" lacks a complete memory.

In more severe cases, one might inexplicably fall into a deep sleep for ten years. Upon waking, one not only has to adapt to the physical changes that occur over time, but also faces the fact that the entire world has undergone tremendous changes.

……

At this moment, recalling all the explicit hotel rules he had seen before, Shen Xingzhuo was able to piece together a complete logic.

A sleepless night = confronting subconscious trauma.

This therapy directly forces the personalities to meet face-to-face and regress to the moment of trauma, re-experiencing and completing the process of spiritual healing.

[A sleepless night is safe; once someone falls asleep... death will be permitted!]

This is to tell her that it's not scary to meet someone face-to-face, as they are in a safe environment.

Feeling safe is very important.

Under the constraints of the rules, there is no possibility of violating this clause.

However, in this treatment approach, the personality may experience a psychological breakdown, leading to the self-destruction of personality fragments.

This is why Byron suddenly "committed suicide" in the darkness of a sleepless night.

But what triggered his traumatic memories...?

Shen Xingzhuo has reason to believe that this is an internal war between personalities!

Kill him, kill him, and then take his place!

This is almost an explicit statement.

Whenever one of her personalities experiences a significant emotional fluctuation, she can hear this voice in her ear.

And those inexplicable heavenly sounds that announce the start of the sleepless night are probably warnings from the body.

The body's owner's sanity was already on the verge of collapse...

However, his personality is not necessarily only comprised of kind-hearted characters.

Characters like Gregor, the King, and Richard in front of us may all have dark personalities, with tendencies toward violence, antisocial behavior, and the like.

They hope the whole world will collapse and be destroyed.

Shen Xingzhuo felt a chill run through him from the bottom of his heart.

The ghost story initially described her as a pig who would eat anything, and later she was subjected to mental pollution, being guided to eat her own excrement...

The experiences of a person are the real lives of the body's owner.

It's easy to imagine what this poor child had gone through.

She could only cope with that terrible world by hypnotizing herself and splitting off a pig-like personality.

And Charlotte.

Shen Xingzhuo didn't have much contact with her.

But judging from how she helped herself out of that predicament, she is also a kind-hearted girl.

Her charm is innate...

They all hated the fishy smell...

Shen Xingzhu could hardly bear to think about it anymore; a tear fell from the corner of her eye and slid down her cheek.

Her pupils contracted sharply as she suddenly remembered the perspective she had taken in that illusion!

That's Snow White's perspective!

It's from the perspective of the sleeping princess!

Therefore, Snow White is the main personality of this body!

Has her will to live become that weak?

No wonder the condition for awakening the princess is love, and only love can do it.

No wonder she chose to shut herself off, telling herself that the world outside the hotel was not important.

No wonder death doesn't mean disappearance, but rather an expression of love...

What could revive Bai Xue was nothing other than her love for herself.

But almost all of these have disappeared.

……

Shen Xingzhuo's analysis was dictated to the ghost story enthusiasts, and those watching the celestial canopy naturally heard it all.

Holy crap! Shen Jie's analysis is phenomenal! I can't even imagine how many times I would have died if I had gone through what she went through!

No wonder the rules are so contradictory... no wonder she kept killing him... did she simply not want to live anymore?

[I'm not feeling well because of the student counselor T^T]

Shen Xingzhuo slowly raised her head.

She could only hear her own clear heartbeat.

"Now, the treatment has truly begun..."

"My dear Snow White, please save yourself from this predicament a thousand times over."