Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

Wuyin and Lucas were both gone, leaving only him and the cold medical machines in the empty ward.

The hospital bed was very cold, so cold that his hands and feet went numb. He tried to call out to the two people, but found that he had a breathing tube inserted into his throat.

The tube was supplying a large amount of air into his lungs, forcing them to heave violently.

My throat was burning with pain, and I felt extremely nauseous and wanted to vomit, but because the tube was blocking my mouth, I couldn't vomit at all.

Not only that, but he was also covered in other tubes, with an IV needle in each of his hands, and the liquid in the IV drip was still dripping into his body.

Li Fan struggled incessantly, but his limbs were firmly bound to the hospital bed, and his struggles only exacerbated his current pain and did nothing to help.

He suddenly remembered an idiom that his teacher had taught him in his Chinese class when he was a child.

Life is better than death.

Now he finally understands the meaning of this idiom firsthand.

He also realized that struggling mindlessly would only waste his energy and exacerbate his current pain, serving no other purpose.

He then began to adjust his breathing rhythm, his brain racing as he thought about how to save himself.

But then, something even worse happened.

Suddenly, several footsteps came from outside the door.

Upon hearing the footsteps, Li Fan turned his head sharply, staring nervously at the doorway, his palms damp with sweat.

He didn't know if it was a human or a ghost outside, and at this moment he could only pray that it wasn't something supernatural.

He is now like a fish on a chopping board; if anything strange happens, he will surely die.

But the more you try to avoid something, the more likely it is to happen.

The doorknob of the ward turned slightly and then creaked.

The door slowly opened.

Behind the door were several men wearing green sterile caps, masks, and sterile gowns, who looked like doctors preparing to perform surgery.

Yes, they are indeed preparing to perform surgery on Li Fan.

They appear to be wearing sterile gowns, but they are actually wearing fully sterile gowns.

Because their bodies were stained with blood from who-knows-who, their hair had dried and turned black.

The doctors' eyes were also grayish-white, clearly indicating they were not normal people.

Several doctors saw Li Fan on the operating table with a ventilator attached and all gathered around him.

They stood by Li Fan's bedside, heads bowed, looking at him with excitement in their eyes, discussing where to begin.

"Let's cut open his chest first and see what his heart looks like."

"No, I want to open his skull first; his brains must taste especially delicious."

……

As Li Fan listened to this group of eerie people discussing how to dissect themselves, his pupils trembled uncontrollably, and extreme fear spread through his heart.

Oh no, am I really going to die here this time?

The strange final agreement was also finalized: to first cut open Li Fan's chest to see what his heart looked like.

One of them strangely picked up a small scalpel he was carrying and raised it, preparing to stab Li Fan in the chest.

In a fit of extreme fear, Li Fan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and discovered something very strange.

Why... does the scalpel in the doctor's hand not reflect light?

The lights here are so bright they're almost blinding, and scalpels are made of stainless steel, which is the most reflective material, yet they don't reflect any light at all, looking like matte scalpels.

Li Fan suddenly realized.

He got it.

This is not the real world at all, but a strange illusion created for him!

After realizing that this was not reality, Li Fan was no longer afraid.

After all, death in a fantasy world isn't real death; perhaps dying in a fantasy world will bring you back to reality.

But he had no interest in experiencing death, so he gently closed his eyes.

Since it's an illusion, he simply won't look at it.

And indeed, the pain from being stabbed in the chest did not come for a long time.

The moment he closed his eyes, it was as if all the doctors had vanished.

Li Fan slightly moved his bound wrists and found that his wrists, which had been immovable no matter how much he struggled before, could now be easily lifted.

He tried to sit up again and found it to be very easy.

After Li Fan curled the corners of his lips, he raised his hand again, placed it in the spot he remembered, and then suddenly opened his eyes.

He returned to the operating room.

The moment Li Fan closed his eyes, it was as if the doctor had pressed a pause button, and only then did his body resume its movements, attempting to plunge the blade into Li Fan's chest.

The spot where Li Fan had just closed his eyes and raised his hand was exactly where he remembered the doctor holding the scalpel. He snatched the scalpel from the doctor's hand and shouted.

"Don't perform cataract surgery on people!"

The doctor was completely taken aback when the person who had just been strapped to the operating table suddenly sat up and snatched the scalpel from his hand.

Other doctors with grayish-white eyes were all stunned when they heard what Li Fan said, and then looked at each other as if to confirm something.

Li Fan seized the opportunity and swung his matte scalpel forcefully at the doctors in front of him.

The doctors in front of them all vanished into thin air after being touched by the scalpel.

"They're nothing special, just a bunch of noobs."

Li Fan said smugly.

A few seconds later, a hole appeared in the ward, and then the hole slowly widened until the entire ward disappeared.

Another flash of white light, and he found himself back in the same corridor.

He was standing at the door at that moment, not yet inside the ward.

Chapter 145 The Lying-Down Patient

When he looked around, he saw that his older brother and Lucas were both looking at him with worried expressions.

Li Fan paused for a moment, then prepared to raise the matte scalpel in his hand with a smug look on his face.

Just as he was about to show off his heroic exploits in the illusion, he discovered that the scalpel had disappeared.

That's true, since it's something from an illusion, it's normal that it can't be brought back to reality.

But that doesn't stop Li Fan from showing off his heroic achievements.

"Let me tell you, it felt like something pulled me into a hallucination. My hands and feet were tied up, and I even had a breathing tube in my throat. The situation was very critical."

But facing six or seven strange doctors, I wasn't afraid at all, and then…

Before he could finish speaking, Lucas burst out laughing.

"Excuse me, please continue."

Li Fan glared angrily at Lucas.

"why are you laughing?"

Wuyin said with a faint smile on her lips.

"Is the doctor's eye a little different from a normal person's eye?"

Li Fan nodded and asked with great excitement.

"Brother, how do you know that strange doctor's eyes are grayish-white? Were you also pulled into the illusion?"

Wuyin replied.

"Lucas and I were also pulled into the illusion, but we quickly realized something was wrong and came out."

But you're still trapped in the illusion, and I was a little worried that you might be in danger.

But then you suddenly…

Wuyin chuckled softly at this point and then stopped talking.

Unexpectedly, Lucas clutched his stomach, wanting to laugh out loud but not daring to do so, and said between laughs.

"Li Fan, you're really talented! You actually said those weird doctors have cataracts, hahaha..."

Li Fan was somewhat puzzled.

"Those doctors have such white eyes, don't they look like they have cataracts?"

Lucas, having finished laughing, stood up and explained.

"Strange eyes, it's normal that they're not normal. I just think your description is so apt, it's brilliant. With you by my side this time, I definitely won't feel so depressed coming to the dungeon."

"Everyone was pulled into that illusion just now. Brother Wuyin was the first to come out, and then I was."

As we stood there looking at you with worried expressions, you suddenly blurted out something so funny with a serious expression that I couldn't help but laugh.

Li Fan glanced at Wuyin sideways and said in a slightly unnatural tone.

"When I was in the dungeon, didn't you take him in as your underling? How come he calls you 'big brother' so casually now?"

Oh, he's good, I'm bad, go away, you can be with him instead.

Silent facepalm, what on earth is all this?

Of course, this was just a little joke between the three of them. After all, in a very oppressive world of supernatural rules, if the way people get along is also very oppressive, then sooner or later they will get corn syndrome (depression).

But Li Fan suddenly spoke up and asked.

"Why are you two so worried about me? Isn't that an illusion? Maybe we can just tear it up and go back to reality."

Wuyin shook her head.

"That's an illusion, that's true, but have you ever heard of it?"