Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 320 The Sacrificial Knife from an Unknown Civilization
The moment his finger touched the bony dagger like the forearm bone, a dynamic picture flashed in front of Chen Yan's eyes.

The original noisy human voices echoed in the dark cave, and an old-fashioned steam bus track submerged in shallow water crossed out from a city-like ruin.

On the track, several ghosts flew past.

One of the ghosts suddenly looked back.

In a daze, Chen Yan clearly saw the cowardly face of Alice at the gate of the zoo, and the faintly timid and fierce, non-human face on the ghostly face overlapped with Alice's face in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, the ghost turned around, and disappeared under the water surface that submerged half of the ruins in an instant, without a trace.

"Have you... repented?"

He was awakened by Alice's desperate voice, pulled the dagger away, and his eyes returned to clarity:

"I won't think about it until you tell me something."

He put the dagger into his sleeve, looked at Alice's obviously hostile expression, and said:

"I won't kill my colleagues because of some news, that's what a lunatic would do."

He leaned forward, wanting to tell her something in a softer voice, but she only thought he was going to use a dagger against her, and tried to dodge in a hurry, but slipped and fell to the ground because of the snow on the ground.

He frowned and squatted down, lowering his voice:

"But you are also my colleague, I will find a way to save you...if I have the ability to save you."

Alice listened to his words, as if she had grasped the last straw, reached out and grabbed his arm, tremblingly said:

"Hurry up... I spend less and less time awake, and more and more time for her to control this body... After get off work today, be sure to wait for me!"

Chen Yan nodded.

It was already working time, he pulled her up, watched her open the door, and walked inside.

He didn't communicate with Gottlinde. He found that Gottlinde seemed to be very taboo to discuss personal issues in the zoo, which made him wonder, who would hear him talking in the zoo?

He thought of Lawrence Argent, the first agent of the zoo. That guy seemed to be observing some things in the zoo all the time, but until now, he had never even seen his face.

The zoo is still as weird as it was on the first day at work.

Along the way, Chen Yan paid attention to the ground dug up by the construction team, but whether it was the rabbit area or the tiger area, there were no traces of construction on the ground near the breeding park.

Chen Yan even stepped on the place he passed by twice, but the soil under his feet was very solid, without any feeling of softness at all, as if it had never been dug up.

As expected, the network cable went to the "second floor of the zoo".

The second floor of the zoo... what kind of place is it?

In chaotic thinking, Chen Yan entered the warehouse in Tiger District.

As soon as I opened the door, I felt something was behind the door. With a cry of pain, the figure of Wish appeared behind the door.

It looked at Chen Yan with an apologetic look in its eyes, and let out an obvious cry of grievance.

"Ah, I'm sorry..."

Has it been waiting for me behind the door?

Chen Yan originally wanted to hug it to comfort her, but she gave up this idea when she thought of the glimpse at the dinner table last night.

Fortunately, Wish soon came to his feet, rubbing against his trouser legs.

That seems to be what "forgive you" means.

Eh... the consciousness of desire is quite cute.

Another consciousness of a little girl, not so cute.

If treatment can bring back the symptoms of schizophrenia, perhaps some of Wish's character can be salvaged?
He stroked its head: "When I go back, I will check the information and see how to treat the tiger's schizophrenia..."

I don't know where to find this kind of unreliable knowledge.

Another voice soon rang in his mind.

'Again, I am not a tiger. '

He closed the door behind his back and asked first:
"Are you hungry?"

'Although I am not a tiger, I am not a pig either. '

Looks like eating at night is really working!

Chen Yan got up and opened the refrigerator, and the meat and bones in it were obviously different from yesterday.

"Tell me, who comes to change the ingredients for this refrigerator every night? Is it Zoo Hunter Wilson?"

She replied:
'Hey, when it comes to that, I really don't know.

The Tiger Warehouse is locked all the time except when you are there, not even the cat can get in. '

Chen Yan asked strangely: "No one came in, so who changed the ingredients?"

He subconsciously said jokingly: "These fresh ingredients can't be replaced from the other side of the refrigerator!"

After he finished speaking, Wish immediately shuddered.

He lowered his head, just in time to see the panicked eyes of Wish.

"Damn it, no way..."

When Chen Yan looked at the refrigerator again, his face became quite grim.

Inside the refrigerator...

Is it leading somewhere...

He was silent for a moment, and began to reach out to pick the bones in the refrigerator.

All kinds of meat bones, big and small, were scattered all over the floor. The deeper he grilled, the more and more bones he pulled out, until a moment later, he was already halfway into the refrigerator.

Even so, there is no sign of reaching the inner wall of the refrigerator at all.

Although he was wearing a cotton padded jacket, he was still terribly cold. He crawled out of the refrigerator, anxiously circling around and said:

"Don't worry..."

He turned his head sideways to compare the depth of the refrigerator - but half an arm's length.

But the upper body of his body that penetrated into the refrigerator was far longer than half an arm's length.

"What the hell is in here?"

Chen Yan swears, trying to embolden himself with viciousness.

'I don't know...it seems to be a very strong enchantment, some kind of extraordinary shelter, which cannot be penetrated by my vision. '

'But your body can penetrate in, indicating that the enchantment itself does not prevent carbon-based creatures from passing through. '

Chen Yan's face was ugly: "I won't go in and see."

The wish is urgent: "No way!I just stay here all day long!You still lock the door all day to prevent me from going out, what if some monster crawls out of the refrigerator, what will I do! '

Chen Yan said anxiously: "You are a tiger, kill it!"

Wish said angrily: "You fucking..."

Chen Yan raised his middle finger and pointed at her head: "You are so young, who did you learn dirty words from!"

Wish was very wronged, and said viciously: "If it wasn't for this stupid tiger protecting you everywhere, I would have killed you long ago!" '

Chen Yan ignored her yelling, looked at the refrigerator, and thought, sooner or later this thing will be a hidden danger here.

There are cats on the outside, and this thing on the inside. I still have small wishes, and I have schizophrenia. If I am scared into a stupid tiger by these weird things inside and out, it will be too miserable.

After thinking about it, Chen Yan decided to go in and take a look.

He took out the dagger that Alice had just given him, stared at Wish and said:

"If you meet a good person, I'll tell you that if someone else comes to support you, you won't pay attention to this kind of thing."

But the eye of wish fell on the dagger:
'Where did you get this thing? '

Chen Yan said:

"It's a colleague named Alice."

Wish asked:

'You remember the night before, after your apartment was enveloped by an enchanted creature, Ohgami was drawn into many overlapping visions. '

Chen Yan affirmed:
"I remember it."

wish said:

'The supernatural power that Ogami showed when he was drawn into the illusion is exactly the same as the smell on this bone dagger in your hand. '

Chen Yan's face was stiff:

"In other words, Alice... or someone with the same power as Alice, also participated in the siege of us the night before yesterday."

Desire says in an affirmative tone:
'Yes. '

She changed into a thoughtful tone:
'I've smelled this kind of power before, but it's been a long time, and I can't remember clearly... It seems to be somewhere deep underground. '

Her tone is honest:
'The place was too dark, and I don't like dark places, so I only took one look at that time and then looked away. '

'But what I can be sure of is that there was a human city-state that once existed. Its civilization and technology type are completely different from the current empire. I don't know how many years ago the civilization was. '

After Chen Yan listened, he remembered again the day before yesterday—that is, last Sunday morning when he was riding the steam bus, what Donald told about the supernatural events around Miskatonic University.

Then, he remembered the scene when he left Miskatonic University at noon that day:

He was sitting on the steam bus, and the scene in front of him suddenly changed, and a figure flashed in the dark abandoned underground passage...

Under his rich imagination, the figure he saw at the beginning gradually overlapped with the figure he saw just now in front of Alice...

The strange imagination reached its climax, Chen Yan only felt a chill all over his body, he shivered violently, and a cold sweat broke out from his back.

"Fuck!"

He cursed, and then said:

"I've seen images of that place before."

The voice of wish was extremely curious:
'oh oh? ! '

Chen Yan told her what he saw after he came out of Miskatonic University, and also told her the dynamic picture he saw this morning.

'Ah this...can you see these pictures?Without any warning, it appeared in front of my eyes with a "huh"? '

Chen Yan thought about it carefully for a moment, then nodded.

'So you're not such a waste! '

There was some excitement in her tone:

'It seems that this is your extraordinary talent. '

'After each carbon-based life awakens the pineal gland, the [unknown knowledge] they see is different. '

'What kind of [unknown knowledge] is seen, what kind of ability will be awakened. '

'And what to see is entirely determined by the talent or blood of the individual. '

'Let me just say, how can someone become a superhuman without any ability at all? It shouldn't be!I thought you were an untalented idiot...

Ahem, now it seems that your talent is the pineal gland itself! '

Chen Yan said in amazement:
"You mean, my talent is [seeing]?"

Wish replied:

'Yes! '

She hesitated.

'Even if it wasn't, it wasn't much worse. '

Her tone became firmer.

'Before this, did you suddenly see a non-existent picture in front of your eyes, or suddenly see something that did not exist? '

Chen Yan wondered:
"Yes, but isn't this a normal phenomenon after awakening the pineal gland?"

He asked repeatedly:
"After the pineal gland is awakened, isn't it possible to see things that didn't exist?"

Wish sighed, and put on an old-fashioned tone:
"Young man, it seems that you have a deep misunderstanding of the pineal gland..."

(End of this chapter)