Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

Just after he finished speaking, the door to the doctors' lounge was suddenly slammed shut with a "bang" for some reason, followed by the sound of a lock clicking shut.

All three were startled, and the room was plunged into darkness in an instant.

Wuyin folded Xiya's medical record and put it in her pocket, then looked seriously at the door of the lounge.

Li Fan frowned.

"Why did the door suddenly close? We didn't hear any footsteps at all."

The doctor would usually make a sticky sound when he gets out of a non-Newtonian fluid, but we didn't hear a thing.

Wuyin stared into Li Fan's eyes and slowly spoke.

"Perhaps it wasn't the doctor who closed the door."

Lucas was somewhat puzzled.

"If it wasn't the doctor who closed the door, then who was it?"

All the other patients were locked in their rooms; only the doctor was outside.

Wuyin paused for a moment, then spoke.

"It could be a gate in Seattle."

Li Fan was startled.

“Seaja? But we didn’t find Seaja on this floor, so how do you know it was Seaja who closed the door?”

Wuyin stroked his chin and pondered for a moment.

"Actually, I'm not entirely sure either; it's just a guess. I need some things to verify my guess. Please come with me."

Since the door to the lounge was locked, I decided to explore the entire lounge.

As he spoke, he groped his way to the innermost door of the doctors' lounge in the dark.

Standing in front of the door, Wuyin felt inexplicably nervous, as if she was about to discover a huge secret.

He took a deep breath, placed his hand on the doorknob, and gently turned it.

The inner door wasn't locked either, and it was opened silently.

Upon opening the door, the three of them were all taken aback by the scene inside, their mouths agape in unison, stunned for a moment.

Wuyin spoke slowly.

"Finally found it."

"What the hell is that monster?"

Li Fan looked terrified, his eyes wide open as he stared at the thing in front of him.

Lucas paused, then softly uttered three words.

"It's Seattle."

The innermost room resembled a laboratory, illuminated by lights of various colors.

There were many experimental supplies on the table, and many cylindrical petri dishes filled with culture medium on the floor.

The floor, the ceiling, the walls—everywhere was covered in dried blood, a testament to the horrific events that had transpired there.

In the very center of the laboratory, there is a huge, sealed cylindrical petri dish containing a butterfly.

This butterfly has only its wings made of paper; the rest is made entirely of human flesh and blood.

However, the wing was not soaked and softened in the nutrient solution at all; instead, it remained very dry, just like a real wing.

The paper butterfly has a thin membrane on its abdomen, and if you look closely, you can see the butterfly's bodily fluids inside this membrane.

There were also many black, blocky objects floating and swaying inside; it was unclear what they were.

Its abdomen rose and fell gently, a feature that told everyone that this was a terrifying creature with life.

The butterfly's two long antennae are made up of connected arms, with many hands interspersed in between, opening and closing like flowers blooming on the antennae, creating a strange and beautiful effect.

The butterfly's head is pieced together from pieces of flesh covered in blood, with an amber eye on each side of the head, and its mouthparts are made from a coiled intestine.

From a distance, this terrifying creature does indeed look somewhat convincing.

Lucas looked into the butterfly's amber eyes and genuinely thought those amber eyes were indeed beautiful.

Li Fan stared blankly at the strange creature.

"Big brother, didn't you say that Xiya was at the door? But I feel like you guessed wrong. The thing in front of us that has been turned into a butterfly should be her, right?"

Wuyin pondered for a moment with a serious expression.

Indeed, apart from the butterfly, he also paid special attention to the eyes of the other female patients as he passed by their wards, and none of them had amber eyes.

He couldn't see the woman's eyes except for the one who was squinting.

His guess was actually based on some reason, because the moment he took the medical record from Lucas, he glanced at Sean's record, which read:

Sealy: A patient with dissociative identity disorder.

Therefore, he guessed that Seaya must have a second personality, which was why she didn't react to the name Carter.

But now it seems he was wrong; the terrifying butterfly in front of him looks more like Seaa.

Li Fan turned to look at Wuyin.

"Brother, what do we do now? Should we kill this butterfly?"

Wuyin nodded and walked towards the control panel in the center of the laboratory.

"If she really is Sea, this must be quite a torment for her. Besides, keeping this butterfly around would introduce many uncertainties, so it would be best to kill her directly."

Chapter 169 Possessed

Looking at the many buttons on the control panel, Wuyin noticed a very conspicuous red button with two large characters written below it.

"Extract".

"This should be the button for extracting the culture medium."

He muttered to himself, about to press the button, but his hand hovered above the red button, hesitating to press it.

It was because another hand was holding his hand tightly.

The person who grabbed his hand was none other than Li Fan.

Wu Yin frowned and looked at Li Fan beside her, asking with some confusion.

"What's wrong? Is something the matter?"

Li Fan's face showed worry as he stammered.

"Why don't we keep this butterfly for now? I have a feeling it might still be useful. What if it really holds some clues?"

When Lucas heard Li Fan say this, his expression showed some disapproval, and he retorted.

"Li Fan, stop messing around. What clues could this monster possibly have? We'd be lucky if it didn't come out and kill us all."

Li Fan lowered his head and said after hearing Lucas's words.

“Okay, but before I draw out the culture medium, I’d like to take a closer look at this butterfly.”

After he finished speaking, without waiting for a reply, he turned and walked towards the butterfly petri dish.

Wuyin, her eyes fixed on Li Fan's back, suddenly shouted.

"Lucas, hurry up and catch Li Fan, he's not Li Fan anymore."

After saying this, Wuyin suddenly pressed the red button.

The culture medium in the petri dish was being continuously drained at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The wing tips that left the culture medium first softened at a visible speed, indicating that this butterfly would not survive long after leaving the culture medium.

Upon hearing Wuyin's words, Lucas realized why Li Fan was acting so strangely, and he rushed forward and grabbed Li Fan.

Li Fan's expression twisted for a moment, then he suddenly threw a punch at Lucas.

Lucas dodged to the side and then pinned Li Fan down from behind.

Looking at the unfamiliar Li Fan in front of him, Lucas frowned deeply.

Has Li Fan been possessed?

Is it that skinning demon? Can the real Li Fan still come back?

After pressing the red button, Wuyin immediately rushed over to help control Li Fan.

Li Fan, now possessed, glared fiercely at Wu Yin who had rushed over.

He knew that if this kid came over, he would be completely under his control and there would be no way for him to turn the tables.

Although Lucas knew he was no longer Li Fan, he deliberately controlled his strength to avoid harming Li Fan's body, giving the fake Li Fan an opportunity.

He stomped hard on Lucas's foot. Lucas hadn't expected Li Fan to be so fierce after being possessed, and the pain caused him to loosen his grip for a moment.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Fan turned around and kicked Lucas in the chest. Lucas was kicked backward and fell to the ground with a thud.

He clutched his aching chest, feeling a sense of relief.

"Fortunately, Li Fan himself didn't have much strength. If it had been Wu Yin who was possessed, he would probably be dead by now."

Seeing this scene before him, Wuyin didn't dare slow down at all and rushed over quickly.

But Li Fan was even faster; he was in a soul state and was rapidly drifting towards the butterfly petri dish.

Upon reaching the petri dish, he didn't pause for a moment and smashed the entire apparatus with a single punch.

In an instant, all the remaining culture medium in the petri dish gushed out, and the giant butterfly inside fluttered its wings a few times, flew into the air, and looked down at the three people on the ground.

"Success."

Li Fan watched this scene with a sinister and vicious smile on his face, and laughed loudly at Wuyin and Lucas, whose pupils were trembling slightly.

"Hahaha, it seems Carter hasn't disappointed me. He actually raised such a powerful monster. I'm going to repay you tenfold for the harm you caused me. Just wait to die."

As he spoke, he looked at Wuyin with murderous intent.

Looking at Li Fan's smug expression, Wu Yin felt a sense of disconnect, which made him pause for a moment.