Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

This isn't a square, enclosed corridor, but rather a paperclip-shaped corridor. (Image in the author's notes)

As long as you keep walking along this square, the shape of the square will gradually shrink until it disappears at the final center point.

That place is most likely the exit or entrance on the first floor.

Now, the fingertips of the medical staff can even lightly touch the back of some people's heads.

As the distance between the corridors became shorter, the group could no longer move quickly.

They circled frantically, unleashing the maximum energy of their bodies.

"arrive!"

Li Fan looked at the white dot of light that had appeared around the corner and a smile appeared on his face.

The group quickly rushed into the point of light.

Chapter 143 Hospital 4th Floor

The group walked into the white light, and a few seconds later the light disappeared, and they found themselves in a dilapidated elevator.

The elevator's exterior was rusty, and its internal structure was somewhat different from that of a regular elevator.

It doesn't have any floor buttons, only two buttons, red and green, and above the two buttons is a display screen.

Two lines of text were displayed on the screen.

Green: Doors open on the original floor.

Red: The door opens after ascending to a random floor.

Lucas paused slightly when he saw the two lines of text.

"This elevator doesn't have a down button, so if you choose to go up, you might get further and further away from the hospital entrance, and we don't know if we'll be able to get back to the first floor."

Li Fan said confidently from the side.

"Brother, don't worry about that. There are only two outcomes if you follow us: either you die or you succeed."

Lucas was embarrassed: "Hearing your words is like hearing a lecture from a wise man."

Translation: Isn't what you're saying just nonsense?

Wuyin turned to look at Lucas.

"Li Fan and I will definitely go upstairs, since we have already explored the entire first floor and found no particularly special clues."

Perhaps the higher the floor, the closer one gets to the secret of this strange tale.

If you don't want to go upstairs, I can press the green button to let you out. If you want to explore with us, then I'll press the red button.

Looking into Wuyin's eyes, Lucas felt that this person was always so cold and distant, but his behavior was very measured and never made people uncomfortable.

He smiled and said.

"Then press the red button. I, Lucas, am not someone who backs down easily."

Wuyin nodded and pressed the red button.

The elevator started with a rumble and slowly ascended.

Suddenly, an electronic smiley face appeared on the display screen above the elevator, which then kept changing before finally settling on the red number "4".

Finally, the elevator stopped, and the doors slowly opened, as if inviting everyone into a new world.

Li Fan glanced at the scenery outside the elevator and couldn't help but move a little closer to Wuyin.

"Is this still a hospital? What have they done to us?"

Wuyin also observed the structure on the 4th floor, and had to admit that it was indeed somewhat eerie and terrifying.

Outside the elevator was a long, dark corridor, with only faint green lights illuminating the doors of each ward.

And there was the constant beeping of medical machines, indicating that they were working non-stop.

Lucas then spoke up.

“There was a man downstairs before I came in. He said his grandfather was in the ICU on the 4th floor, so this must be the ICU.”

A dying person can sometimes be more unsettling than a dead person.

After hearing Lucas's words, Wuyin did not rush to leave, but instead pressed the red button in the elevator again.

If he could continue to rise, he wanted to go to the top floor first.

Besides, he was also very curious whether the 18th floor was actually the top floor.

As expected, the elevator stopped responding and seemed to be a "disposable" elevator.

Wuyin turned around and looked at Lucas.

“This elevator should be one of the few safe places, so I’d like to combine the clues we’ve found and ask you a few questions, Lucas.”

Lucas nodded, telling him to ask whatever he wanted.

"How did you know that when the needles were inserted into those strange bodies, they could draw out their eerie mist and cause it to flow back into the IV bottle?"

Upon hearing this, Lucas replied with a sincere expression.

"When I came in from the hospital, I was spotted by a strange nurse."

After she found me, she didn't hurt me. Instead, she registered me for hospitalization and then tried to inject that dark red, unknown liquid into my body.

Of course I disagree, but I don't have any weapons to fight back. The only thing that could hurt the nurse is the tiny needle she's holding.

So when she wasn't looking, I shoved the needle into the back of her hand, hoping to buy myself some time to escape. But the nurse just... just like what you're seeing today.

I don't know the specific reason.

After Lucas finished speaking, he thought for a moment and decided to tell the rest of the story as well. After all, the two were now in a cooperative relationship, and the more they knew, the better.

"Later, I used this method to find the key to the locked morgue, opened it, and I wasn't thrown in by the cleaners~"

Wuyin: That's enough... Just say it, why the Versailles act?

Lucas: "Just as I was fighting the corpse, a doctor suddenly appeared behind me."

Perhaps I underestimated him. I used the spare IV set I had on me to prick the doctor, but I found that the doctor was not an ordinary weirdo at all. He was completely unaffected by the IV set.

And then...you all know what happened next.

Li Fan: "That doctor was the black mist that skinned you, wasn't he? It's a pity we couldn't kill him and he got away."

Lucas's eyes flashed with a hint of ruthlessness.

"Yes, it's him, and he's extremely cunning. If I were to run into him again..."

He didn't say what he was about to say; instead, he lowered his head and suppressed his emotions.

Li Fan also told Lucas about what the two of them had experienced.

After he finished speaking, Wuyin spoke to the two of them.

"Alright, don't think about that too much right now. Our most important task is to find the location of the 'one-time use' elevator on the 4th floor. I guess the way to get through should be on the top floor."

After saying that, she turned around and walked lightly out of the elevator.

The two followed closely behind.

After everyone had come out, the elevator turned into a white mist and dissipated, and the place where the elevator had been turned into a solid wall.

The corridor on the fourth floor was very quiet and a bit cold, with only the heartbeats and breathing of a few people in the entire corridor.

After walking for only a few minutes, they reached the end of the corridor, where there was a solid wall.

Li Fan couldn't help but speak in a whisper.

"Is this the entire structure of the 4th floor? Just one corridor?"

Lucas suddenly said mysteriously.

Sometimes, the simplest things are the hardest.

Wuyin felt that this kid seemed to have some chuunibyou (delusional) tendencies, but he also agreed with his point of view.

"In the realm of rule-based myths, this is generally true: the fewer the rules, the harder the dungeon."

Li Fan continued speaking.

"Then the 'disposable' elevator that you mentioned must be hidden in a hospital room, since there's nowhere else here."

After he finished speaking, he prepared to float into each ward to check.

He discovered that all the walls on the fourth floor were covered with an eerie aura that he couldn't penetrate at all.

Chapter 144 It's an Illusion

Li Fan felt a little annoyed. Why was the skill of passing through walls useless when it came to crucial moments?

Wuyin looked at Li Fan, who was blocked outside the door by the strange wall, and went over to comfort him.

"Let's go in together. There's nowhere else to go but the wards."

Lucas nodded in agreement.

"Yes, it's safer to explore together."

After saying that, Wuyin pushed open the ward door and walked in one after the other with Lucas.

Li Fan quickly followed.

But just as Li Fan stepped into the ward, a blinding white light suddenly enveloped his entire vision.

His eyes could no longer see anything clearly, and he felt lightheaded, as if he were dreaming.

After a few seconds, the white light gradually shrank and faded, and Li Fan's vision gradually became clearer.

The white light eventually shrank into a small oval, transforming into the ceiling light on the ward.

Wait... why am I staring at the ceiling of the hospital room right now?

This was the first thing Li Fan thought of when he came to his senses.

The second thing is that I find myself in extreme pain and discomfort.