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

Is it enough to just quietly accompany my brother through this meal?

Looking at the red soup with murky yellow fat floating in front of him, Shen Xingzhuo simply couldn't believe that this was an absolutely safe space.

Silently lowering her hands from the cutlery, Shen Xingzhuo's gaze quickly swept across the entire restaurant.

Every time a rule appeared, a large amount of Yin energy would surge at the corresponding location. Her "Qi Observation Technique" had been cultivated to its peak, not to mention that she had already opened her "Mind's Eye" when she inherited the Celestial Master's Degree.

Shen Xingzhuo can see ghostly aura and yin energy with the naked eye.

However, even after scanning the area, she still couldn't detect the sudden surge of yin energy she had felt before.

How can there be no rules?

Shen Xingzhuo couldn't help but press her palm.

She remembered that she had entered a B-level mystery tale that wasn't particularly difficult. Even if there were incomplete rules, conflicts, or trigger conditions, it was all within reason.

But it doesn't make sense for blank rules to appear in a low-level ghost story.

The candle flame suddenly popped.

Shen Xingzhu instinctively dodged to the side, but her elbow accidentally bumped into the silver fork next to her, making a crisp sound.

The older brother, who was elegantly sipping his red soup, suddenly looked up, his venomous gaze instantly meeting his.

"Didn't you say you were starving? Why haven't you eaten yet?"

His face was covered in red soup, making him look like a bloodthirsty monster. Leeches crawled out of his cheeks and fell into his bowl one by one.

Shen Xingzhu pursed her lips and quickly replied, "The soup is a bit hot. I want to wait until it cools down before I drink it."

The brother's bizarre behavior did not stop.

She was certain she had broken some rule.

Shen Xingzhuo was thinking quickly when she saw the servants attending to them as usual.

Her eyes lit up, and she realized she had fallen into a fixed mindset.

Previously, whenever she entered a new area, she would always find the corresponding rules, so she had been looking for the restaurant's dining rules.

New rules may still exist, but the existing rules still need to be followed!

My younger sister is very well-mannered.

Therefore, my younger sister must place great importance on dining etiquette!

The younger sister won't waste her older brother's hard work.

Therefore, it won't ruin the aesthetics of the table that my brother had carefully arranged.

Just now, she knocked the cutlery askew, which violated both of these rules!

"etc!"

Her brother's eyes locked onto her almost the instant the cutlery tilted.

Shen Xingzhu quickly connected the rules he had seen before in his mind.

The younger sister and older brother are two pitiful little ones who find warmth in each other. They live together, with the brother taking on the responsibility of caring for and educating them. And for some unknown reason, the brother is very concerned about his sister's manners and rules, so he constantly emphasizes that she should be obedient, that she is a good girl…

If the younger sister does something contrary to her brother's wishes, it will anger him.

Just like now!

Shen Xingzhuo looked up and met the eyes of that distorted, worm-infested face.

A flicker of panic flashed in Shen Xingzhuo's eyes; it was an act.

She then quickly straightened the tableware and put it back in its place, looking at her brother with a well-behaved and obedient demeanor.

The older brother suddenly grinned, "Why are you still as picky about food as you were when you were little?"

He scooped up some soup with a spoon, blew on it to cool it down, and then brought it to Shen Xingzhuo's lips.

"Can you eat it now? I'll blow on it to cool it down for you."

Shen Xingzhuo rarely showed any discomfort; the solidified grease looked even more disgusting.

"Eat quickly!"

The older brother kept urging her on, and he shoved a spoon into Shen Xingzhuo's face.

The red soup slid down her skin.

Shen Xingzhuo inexplicably felt a burning pain.

By the reflection of the glass candlestick, she saw what she looked like now.

The skin on his right cheek, stained with the red soup, quickly ulcerated, but beneath the blood and gore was not bone, but some kind of dark substance.

She instinctively raised her hand to touch the strange wound.

The next second, her brother pulled out a rough hemp rope soaked in dark red blood from somewhere and quickly put it around Shen Xingzhuo's wrists, binding her hands tightly to the heavy back of the chair!

The older brother approached with a bowl of soup in his hand.

At the critical moment, the little paper figure, which had grown 0.5 centimeters taller, jumped out from under the table and tripped the older brother.

The red soup spilled all over the ground, and the corrosive acid fumes made it impossible for people to open their eyes.

Shen Xingzhuo felt a stiffness spreading rapidly from deep within her body. This time, even the "Disarming Spell" seemed to have lost its effect. So she stopped resisting and watched helplessly as her limbs gradually lost sensation.

[Warning! The Chosen One's physical rigidity has reached 50%! Once it exceeds 70%, the rigidity will be irreversible!]

[Hidden storyline unlocked...]

[Warning! The Chosen One's physical stiffness has reached 80%!]

[Warning! The Chosen One's physical stiffness has reached 90%!]

【warn! 】

Warning beeps masked the prompts for unlocking hidden story content.

Besides the ghost stories, those watching the live broadcast were on the edge of their seats.

What is she doing?! Wouldn't it be fine if she just ate it? Does she have to make a scene until she fails?

I think she's just having a hard time and wants to drag us down with her!

[Shen Xingzhuo is in trouble. Everyone said Hu Shuo did a great job when he illegally seduced the Buddhist monk.]

This is a dead end; whether I eat it or not, there's a problem. Perhaps I should just die first as a sign of respect?

[Calm down! Calm down! Let's wait and see! Sister Shen definitely has a plan!]

[Just wondering, why didn't Sister Shen use any items? Shouldn't she have received a reward for clearing the first kill zone?]

The anxiety and questions expressed in the live chat also permeated the command room.

"What on earth is she insisting on?!" Su Anyu growled in frustration.

"Not everything in ghost stories can be overcome with magic! You have to use tools when necessary! What's the point of just toughing it out like this!" Su Anyu roared angrily.

Lu Qianling frowned slightly, and said thoughtfully, "Captain Guan spoke with the girl who talked to Xing Zhuo before to find out more. The girl said that Xing Zhuo might not have seen the live broadcast of the Sky Screen before. Do you think... she might not even know about the existence and use of the props?"

"That's impossible!" Su Anyu retorted decisively. "Even if she didn't watch the live stream, the system would have given clear instructions on how to use the rewards when they were distributed! She's not..."

Halfway through her sentence, Su Anyu suddenly slapped her thigh: "Wait! Did any of you actually see the reward being given to Shen Xingzhuo?"

"no."

"I didn't notice either."

The other team members shook their heads.

Lu Qianling frowned even more: "The probability of everyone just missing it is too low."

"Could it be... that she wasn't given any personal reward at all during this ghost story?" she suggested, making a startling conjecture.

"That possibility cannot be ruled out."

Guan Shanyue habitually pressed his temples and calmly said, "I've been thinking that the reward for 'avoiding danger' in the beginning was too generous when it was given to the country."

"But if that was obtained in exchange for 'not giving the chosen one a personal reward afterward'... it makes logical sense."

"But...why?" Lu Qianling asked, puzzled.

Guan Shanyue also shook her head; she was completely clueless at the moment.

Just as Guan Shanyue gritted his teeth and decided to exchange the ranking legend for Shen Xingzhuo's personal props, a sharp, loud warning sound came from the sky.

[Warning! The Chosen One Shen Xingzhuo's body has reached 100% stiffness!]

The rigidity is irreversible!