Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 22 Rule Confrontation
"If you guessed right, why isn't Chen Yan in the phone booth?"

Uncle San pointed to the phone booth, and quickly pointed to the bus stop sign.

"Rabbit area, look, damn rabbit area."

On the top of the bus stop sign, on the bright yellow bottom plate, the logo of "Rabbit" is printed with black paint.

"It was before, and it is now. It means that since we entered the bus stop, we have been spinning in circles!"

The silent missionary suddenly spoke:

"Maybe it's simply because we went the wrong way, so we went around and came back to this bus station again."

The missionary clutches his naked stomach.

He was obviously frozen. Although the little girl's grab hadn't harmed his body, it exposed his entire chest and abdomen to the blizzard.

Now, his belly has been blackened by the blizzard.

But he's clearly resilient and has a lot of patience.

He explained:

"Zoos are like this. For the convenience of play, a circular road will be set up in each area so that tourists can fully visit the entire park."

The third uncle reminded: "You may have forgotten, we can only go straight now, or turn right."

"And after we left the bus stop for the first time just now, there was only a straight one-way street ahead, and there were no more roads."

"There's only one way we can go... back to this platform!"

William asked in a low voice, "Can we go back?"

The third uncle said with a sullen face: "Go back, even if you can walk back to the gate of the zoo, you must turn left to leave the zoo. That will violate the rules...you have seen the consequences."

William swallowed.

"What's more, the current situation."

Third Uncle looked at where he came from.

"Can you get out? Won't you come back to this goddamn bus stop again?"

"If that little girl keeps chasing us, and we turn back, we'll run into that little girl head-on—and then, what do you do?"

The three were deadlocked.

At this moment, in the phone booth, next to Chen Yan's ear, a snicker mixed with the sound of electricity came from the microphone.

"Look, how miserable they are!"

Chen Yan thought about it: "Is there any good solution? They are indeed in a desperate situation."

A man's playful voice came from the microphone: "Mr. Chen, what do you think?"

Chen Yan carefully considered his words.

"There are two situations."

The man on the phone was obviously interested, and let out a rising "Oh~"

"The first case:
After the little girl used the power of [Tainted Blood], [the original rules still apply]. "

"If the original rules are still in effect, the third uncle and the others are equivalent to falling into [the original rules] + [the new rules formulated by the little girl].
The two rules are superimposed, and they are even more disadvantaged than before. "

"Under such circumstances, Third Uncle and the others have nowhere to go - they can only follow this road and finally return to this bus station."

"The infinite cycle goes on and on, and their physical strength will always be exhausted."

"When they run out of strength and the little girl catches up, it will be their death."

The man on the phone was about to praise, but Chen Yan continued to say:

"if it was me……"

Chen Yan touched his chin.

"In the case where the two rules are superimposed, if it were me, I would find a way to induce girls to turn left-this is not difficult to do-if there is a violent conflict, it is difficult to avoid [turning left]."

"If the girl [turns left] again, it's against the rules."

"And those who break the rules will be punished."

There was the sound of a Christmas cannon exploding over the phone, followed by a murmured cheer from the man.

"It seems that Mr. Chen, you don't just go to work with your brain!"

Chen Yan didn't seem to hear this cheap compliment, and continued to speak according to his own ideas.

"When the girl was at the gate of the zoo before, she violated the rule [no left turn], and the punishment was that the soles of her feet were twisted to 90 degrees."

"According to what you said, she used the power of the [tainted blood] in her body, um... the power of the [corrupted] [tainted blood], resisted the punishment of the rules, and made her feet return to normal."

"But I think it comes at a price."

Chen Yan's tone was determined.

"What's the price?"

There was no sound from the phone, only the continuous sound of electricity coming from the microphone.

Chen Yan asked and answered by himself.

"[Using the power of dirty blood to resist the punishment of the rules] - the price for doing this is the intensification of [corruption] - I think this is the root cause of the little girl becoming a monster."

A moment of silence.

"Crack, snap, snap—"

Loud applause came from the microphone.

"You are amazing! Mr. Chen... Since you are so awesome, I even want to tell you the rules to solve this matter directly!"

really.

Chen Yan was not surprised by the news revealed by the man on the phone.

When he came into contact with the rule of [no left turn], he guessed that there must be more rules in the zoo——

How can such a large zoo have only two or three simple rules?
And what the man said made Chen Yan affirm one thing:
The intensification of [corruption] on the girl is really caused by resisting the punishment of the rules...

Before, he was really just guessing.

With the affirmation of the man on the phone, Chen Yan can confirm his guess.

The man on the phone must have known about Chen Yan's temptation, but he did not pierce Chen Yan's careful thinking, but directly affirmed it——

This shows that the man doesn't care about telling Chen Yan the truth.

Even, the "truth" might be what the man wanted to tell him all along—Chen Yan obviously noticed this.

Chen Yan curled her lips, thinking, the man on the phone is now so half-covered, half-talking and half-talking, maybe it's just to satisfy his own bad taste.

This is a guy who likes to make people guess riddles.

Now, the guy's voice was a little urgent.

"You only mentioned the first case, Mr. Chen, what about the second case?"

Chen Yan still carefully considered his words.

"In the second case, after the little girl used the power of [Tainted Blood], [the original rules were replaced]."

"The old rules are invalid,

New rules for little girls come into effect. "

"The little girl created this circular path, and created this piece of...circular space."

"In this space, everything is cyclical."

"Blizzard can return to the sky, and roads can be connected back and forth."

"From the time when Uncle San and the others entered this path, to when Uncle San and the others left this path——

The space in it...maybe even including time, has become a cycle. "

There was an affirmative answer on the phone.

"Bingo! Mr. Chen guessed it right again! And then?"

Chen Yan looked at the heavy snow outside the phone booth, estimated the time in his heart, and looked in the direction of the gate of the zoo.

It was also the direction in which the four of them had come.

A dark figure appeared at the end of that direction, appearing in the snowstorm.

It's that little girl.

"Where does the loop end?"

"How to break this cycle?"

Chen Yan held the microphone.

"This is the most desperate situation:
The original rules are invalid, we normal people have no way to fight against the girl who turned into a monster——

There is no way to fight girls with the rule of [no left turn] as I thought just now. "

"There is no solution to this situation. We can only fight the girl desperately."

Chen Yan paused and added:
"It's just under the existing rules."

"If there were more rules, maybe things would turn around."

(End of this chapter)