Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 187 Rewind
In front of Chen Yan's eyes, there was constant light and darkness, and countless chaotic voices appeared in layers. It was completely different from the channel link in Vidya Gandhi's leather shoes before. The link in front of him was not safe——

Chen Yan felt those chaotic voices approaching him. Those voices came from all directions, getting closer and closer to him, and they were completely malicious.

Realizing he couldn't let those guys get close to him, he started running through the tunnel links.

As he ran, there were also running sounds around him, and countless running sounds came to him together, and the tense pressure almost made him suffocate.

He didn't know what the consequences would be if he was caught up.

He could only run as hard as he could.

Fortunately, this passage is not long. After running for a while, Chen Yan reached the end.

With a burst of ripples, the eyes gradually brightened.

When his vision recovered, he only felt that the scene in front of him was somewhat familiar—it was a small, Asian-style room.

All kinds of stuffed animals hang on the four walls of the room, mostly processed limbs and feathers of various colors.

There are also relatively complete animals, but Chen Yan can't name those weird creatures.

He looked at the complete orangutan skeleton not far away, and finally remembered where this room was——

This is the reception room of Tai Sheng and Goddess Cocklebur!
The difference from memory is that the furnishings in the reception room have changed a lot. The bookcase against the wall opposite the door before is gone, and the biological specimens hanging on the wall are even weirder, they don’t look like ordinary animal specimens.

Isn't this... the reception room of the [current] cocklebur?

Chen Yan thought to himself, according to the experience last time, [Through the link, you can enter someone's head] - the one he entered now must be the third uncle's head.

The vision in front of him must also be the vision of the third uncle.

At this moment, Xanthium sat opposite the third uncle, and there was only a small table between him and the third uncle. There was a candle on the corner of the small table. Light—it was night now.

In the center of the small table are two reagent bottles, one of which contains a liquid that looks like [burned out ashes].

The other bottle contained bright red and viscous blood. The blood looked like a jelly with a high density. It was placed there quietly, but the blood in the reagent bottle was constantly "squirming".

That bottle of blood seemed to be alive.

At this time, the third uncle was watching the cocklebur, and Chen Yan was able to see the face of the cocklebur.

The cocklebur in front of him also looked strange—he was very young, with a handsome face, bright eyes, no gray hair on his temples, and no collagen on his face, but he was still well-maintained.

This is a young cocklebur.

The old Xanthium was a handsome old man, and his masculinity was obvious, but this young Xanthium... was too beautiful, and his femininity made him look like a woman.

Looking at the cocklebur like this, Chen Yan realized that this time, what he entered through the channel link was not the "now", but a certain memory in the "past" in the third uncle's head.

When did the scene in front of you happen?
He could feel Uncle San's mood at this moment:

Uneasy, exhausted, fearful, confused, crazy...

"Before using [Sacrament], I need to tell you something."

The young Xanthium spoke, with a soft and terrifying voice, very much like an old glass that Chen Yan had seen on the ferry.

He pointed to the glass reagent bottle containing [burned ashes].

"This one, extracted from the body of a living corpse named [Undead], was preserved by a special method. It is one of the inheritance of the gods, and it is called [The Torch That Will Be Extinct]."

Listening to Xanthium's words, Chen Yan immediately remembered that he seemed to have heard these words somewhere before.

It's... the story I told my third uncle at the zoo at night when he was lying on the glass door of the public telephone booth after his corruption occurred in the zoo!
In other words, the time when this incident happened was about 20 years ago, when the third uncle had just come to the empire for a few years.

I actually entered a certain memory of my third uncle 20 years ago...

Chen Yan still remembered the story that the rotten third uncle once told him at night in the zoo—the content described by the third uncle at that time was different from what Chen Yan saw and heard in front of him.

Did the third uncle lie to me?
As expected...

Amidst the slight "crackling" sound from the burning candle, the cocklebur spoke again.

"Inheriting [the torch that is about to go out] will cause you to be ignited by the torch. If you survive by luck, you will become an undead person who can carry the flame."

The third uncle didn't even ask 'what kind of abilities will you get from becoming an undead', and directly denied the suggestion, with a hoarse voice: "I don't want to be a monster that eats people like Solal."

Xanthium smiled, pointing to another bottle:
"This bottle is extracted from the dead horse boy... Actually, I was quite surprised. At the end of the life journey, the horse boy showed an amazing desire to survive. Even before he was almost completely deconstructed, he was still begging me for mercy. "

"Such an exuberant vitality."

There was only admiration in the cocklebur's tone.

He looked at the twinkling eyes of the third uncle, and his voice was full of temptation:

"I've never seen such sub-human blood. At present, I can only roughly locate the lycanthropy virus that it carries as [Diapora, Squamata, Snakes], which are close relatives of broken snakes."

The third uncle's mood fluctuated obviously: "Broken snake... is it the kind of snake that can survive if it is broken in half?"

Xanthium affirmed: "Yes."

He went on to say: "Although the snakes that this blood belongs to are close relatives of broken snakes and have a strong recovery ability, the bottle of blood in front of you has been diluted, and it doesn't have such a strong life force——

Perhaps it is because the owner of this bottle of blood is a mixed race, one of his parents is a normal human, and the other is a demihuman. Humans and demihumans breed, resulting in impure blood.

It may also be because the owner of this bottle of blood has poor genetics, or even suffers from certain trait defect diseases, resulting in the blood concentration not reaching the standard.

In short, the concentration of this bottle of blood has not reached the point where people can regenerate severed limbs. "

Uncle San listened silently.

There was temptation in Xanth's words, Chen Yan couldn't tell the truth from what he said, and third uncle must also not know whether Xanth was cheating.

But at this time, the third uncle obviously had no choice—Chen Yan could feel the loneliness of the third uncle—he had to choose between the two bottles of blood tonight.

"The concentration of dirty blood in this bloodline is not so thick anymore, and it can't reach the recovery effect of [Severed Limb Regeneration], but the most basic recovery ability is still there. You can use this thing to heal your injuries."

Uncle San stared at the dark red blood that continued to wriggle slowly in the test tube. There seemed to be long strips of worms wriggling in the blood.

Chen Yan somehow felt that the worm in his blood felt the gaze of the third uncle, he felt that the worm was looking at the third uncle...

"I choose this bottle."

Third Uncle pointed at the squirming crimson blood.

Cocklebur laughed.

"Okay, then, let's get started."

(End of this chapter)