Rules of the Strange: Starting with the Weird Peppa Pig

Wuyin's eyes lit up with joy; the scalpel had indeed worked this time.

Without further thought, he quickly used a scalpel to continuously sever the thin lines along the edge of the coreless shield.

During this time, the shield shattered in another place, and Wuyin immediately sped up, soon cutting all the thin lines.

The thin threads landed one by one, turning into wisps of black mist that floated in the air. Then, the black mist surrounding the coreless protective shield also dissipated completely.

Li Fan and Wu Xin breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Wuyin said, "Let's go upstairs first."

The two nodded, but just as Wuyin took a step forward, Wuxin spoke up strangely behind him.

"Brother, are there any trees inside this house?"

Silent heartbeat paused, and a bad premonition surged in.

"No, what's wrong?"

"Then why is there a leaf on your shoulder?"

The moment Wu Xin uttered those words, Wu Yin's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, died completely.

He tried to remove the leaves from his shoulder, but before he could make any move, everything went black.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back under that lush, green tree.

The tree still stands upright in the orphanage's yard, just as it did at the beginning, with lush branches and leaves, and its roots intact, showing no signs of being dug up.

Wuyin knew that he had fallen into another cycle.

He could no longer bear it and cursed the ancestors of the strange rule-making theory in his mind.

After venting his anger, he looked at the big tree beside him again with a complicated expression.

He was completely out of options.

A gasp came from behind.

"Brother, how did we end up back here again?"

I remember we dug this tree down, didn't we? How come it's back up again?

Li Fan's face was filled with terror, and his voice was urgent.

Upon hearing this, Wuyin didn't know whether to be happy or sad; Li Fan had actually entered the loop as well.

He really wanted to laugh out loud and say to Li Fan: You've entered the cycle too, finally someone's with me.

But then I felt sorry for Li Fan. He had gone a little crazy after just a few days of looping, while that guy had been looping Peppa Pig Strange Talk for years.

Suddenly, he thought of his younger sister and turned to look at her.

Wu Xin stood there with her head down, seemingly frozen in place, not saying a word.

Both of them looked at the silent Wuxin strangely. After a long while, Wuxin finally raised her head, tears on her face, her voice trembling slightly.

"Brother, are we going to never escape?"

"I...I remember everything..."

Li Fan, puzzled by Wu Xin's cryptic words, asked her a question.

"Remembered what?"

Wu Xin wanted to explain to Li Fan, but before she could say anything, a hand covered her mouth.

Wuyin shook his head with a serious expression.

According to his guess about rule two, as long as he talks about the cycle, he might be able to summon all four of the strange creatures.

Last time, they had shovels and barely managed to defeat the four monsters. This time, they haven't even had time to make shovels yet, and the coreless protective shield is even more fragile. If the four monsters come, they are doomed.

Therefore, he must remain vigilant at all times.

Wuyin also understood the two of them. One of them had been drawn into the loop and only remembered what happened in the last loop.

The other one had all their previous memories unlocked.

Although he didn't understand why the two of them were doing the same thing, but different things had happened, there was no time to think about it now.

The coreless shield has developed a major problem, and if it is not resolved soon, it will inevitably lead to its demise.

But one thing is almost certain.

The falling leaves are the trigger for the cycle, and trying to avoid this trigger by avoiding the leaves is completely futile.

Seeing Wuyin's deep expression as she stared intently at the tree, Li Fan recalled the time when his older brother looked sadly at that note.

He thought his older brother was reminiscing about someone while looking at the tree, so he went up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said...

"Brother, don't be sad. What if your old friends are still in this orphanage in some form? Maybe you can see them again."

Wuyin was already having a headache, and her mind was a complete mess.

Upon hearing Li Fan's words, the interrupted thoughts in my mind seemed to be suddenly reconnected, and all the clues were linked together.

His face was filled with undisguised surprise as he stared intently at Li Fan, inwardly marveling.

"As expected of Li Fan, the King of Desperate Situations, he can always point out the only way out in a seemingly hopeless situation."

Li Fan was initially startled by his older brother's appearance, thinking he had gone mad, but upon hearing the compliment he received, he scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly.

"Hehe, it's nothing, it's nothing."

Wuyin stopped staring at Li Fan and instead sorted out all the thoughts in her mind.

In fact, this strange rule has already given many clues, all pointing to the same path.

That is, this orphanage is the same orphanage he stayed in when he was a child.

He had always treated this orphanage as a thorny, bizarre place with strange rules, never imagining that it was the very orphanage where he had once lived, and that everything in it might be people or things he had known before.

Including this tree.

The tree holds traces of the Dean's wife's past. Does that mean that the tree is actually the embodiment of the Dean's wife?

A long time ago, he remembered that the orphanage was not very big. Besides her and her sister Wuyin, there were four other children. Could that be the four strange ones?

Perhaps he should treat this ghost story the way he used to live here.

With that thought in mind, Wuyin bowed deeply to the big tree and spoke as if she were meeting an old acquaintance.

"Long time no see, Madam Dean. How have you been lately?"

"I miss my old friends who used to live here. I've come to visit them. They're in the little house, right?"

However, the tree did not react at all, and nothing strange happened.

This only made Wuyin even more excited.

Chapter 217 The Puppet Life

This just proves that his speculation was correct!

Because at this time of year before, a leaf would always fall onto his shoulder, but this time, no leaf fell.

He may have already broken free from the cycle.

But just then, a mechanical voice rang in Wuyin's ears.

"Congratulations to both of you for passing the tutorial. Now, you two need to maintain your established personas and make sure no one notices anything amiss!"

As Wuyin heard the increasingly anthropomorphic feel of the mechanical voice, his brows furrowed slightly.

He looked at the two people beside him, only Wu Xin showed the same expression as him, but Li Fan acted as if nothing had happened.

It seems that only he and his sister can hear these notification sounds.

Just then, a thick cloud of black mist suddenly surged out from the orphanage rooms, and the three of them instantly looked warily in the direction of the orphanage.

……

In an unknown world.

Inside a dark, black laboratory, there was a huge screen displaying images of Wuyin and her two companions under a tree in the orphanage.

The bottom of the screen has countless densely packed electronic buttons, making it look very complicated.

A giant human head was floating in front of the screen. The head looked very strange, with half of its face being male and the other half being female.

At this moment, a cloud of black mist separated from the edge of the head and pressed the mute button on the keyboard.

Then, the female face chuckled softly, and a voice that was neither male nor female came out.

"Test sample number 199, I wonder if it will pass the test this time?"

The male face stared intently at the figure on the screen, and made the same sound as the female face.

"Back then, our first experiment broke the loop after more than two thousand cycles, while the 199th experiment broke the loop on just the fifth try. Perhaps he really has the potential to become a key tool for us to dominate other planets."

The female prime minister pondered for a moment, then stared at another floating, somewhat silly-looking figure on the screen, her tone becoming more serious.

"But haven't you already detached most of the emotions from Experiment 199?"

But I feel he has a deep affection for some soul on this planet. Can he really be used by us?

The male prime minister snorted coldly, his tone full of disdain.

"It's just a soul. If we hadn't introduced the supernatural into this world, this soul wouldn't exist."

As for Experiment No. 199, if it truly develops a consciousness that opposes us, we will simply eliminate it.

After all, killing him is as easy as crushing an ant for us, and cultivating a new experimental subject won't take much time either.

A hint of impatience appeared on the female prime minister's face.

“It does take a short time to cultivate new experimental subjects.”

We've already trained 199, taking over four thousand years. If we still haven't succeeded, our resources will be exhausted.

Upon hearing this, the male prime minister remained silent for a full ten minutes.

When he looked up at the three figures on the screen one last time, a murderous glint flashed in his eyes, and he muttered to himself.

"Since Experiment No. 199 has something he cares about, we should make use of what he cares about, even if it means eliminating all of those things."