Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 37 The Shadow of the Colleague's Pharmacy and the Scene of the Car Accident
Chen Yan learned to be smart this time. What time does he let get off work?

At 5:[-] p.m., Chen Yan was waiting at the bus stop in Tiger District on time.

Get on the bus when it comes, and get off at 5:5 in front of the gate of the zoo.

Passing through the ticket gate again, he saw that the colleagues in the ticket gate had changed.

"Ah, hello."

Inside the ticket gate was a girl with many freckles, a pair of round glasses, and a white one-piece cashmere jacket.

Her face is not quite the same as that of a native girl in the empire, and the color of her eyes and eyelashes is also unclear at once. She looks like an immigrant, but she definitely does not belong to the Asian ethnic group.

Chen Yan responded: "Hello..."

The girl was already packing up her things and getting ready to leave work. After meeting Chen Yan, she immediately showed great surprise, as if she didn't expect to meet a new colleague.

Her expression was a little embarrassed: "I'm really sorry... I'm going to get off work soon, let's talk another day, okay? You understand, the colleague who takes over is coming soon, I can't meet him..."

Chen Yan froze for a moment.

Immediately, he realized, [the ticket inspector on the day shift cannot meet the ticket inspector on the night shift], this is the rule of the zoo.

He immediately expressed his understanding and walked out of the gate of the zoo.

The girl glanced at her watch and put a few books into her bag in a panic. Chen Yan vaguely caught a glimpse of the titles of those books:

"Introduction to Astrology and Divination", "Handbook of Witch Rituals"...

It's something girls like...

The girl left the ticket gate and glanced at the sky in panic.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the winter night in the empire always came very early, and the lights in the houses on the other side of the street were already lit, but the street lights were still not on before it was dark.

The girl smiled at Chen Yan with a flustered expression:

"I'm going home... I'm really sorry, I have to go home before dark... Another day... When is the holiday, let's have a meal together, okay?"

She didn't even give her name.

Chen Yan especially wanted to ask her, do you know who I am?Just want to date me?

He didn't say that.

He just nodded.

The girl reluctantly showed a friendly smile, turned around and ran into the twilight of the city.

Chen Yan was no stranger to the girl's reaction.

In this zoo, no one is normal.

He walked a few steps forward, saw the No. 306 bus stop at the gate of the zoo, hesitated for a while, and decided not to go home for the time being.

He needs to buy medicine for the little tiger first.

The empire's control over medicines is quite poor. A large number of counterfeit medicines manufactured by unscrupulous businessmen have flowed into the market, and the supervision of medicines has not kept up, making it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of medicines from fake ones.

The pharmacies in the old town where Walker Street is located are filled with a large number of such fake medicines.

When Chen Yan first came to the empire, he caught a cold from the cold, which caused him to have a fever. He bought aspirin at the pharmacy on Walker Street. After taking it for a whole week, the fever worsened, and he almost confessed himself to the bed.

Later, I took a car to a regular medical clinic in the city center for an infusion, and then I got better.

Counterfeit medicines are so rampant, but they have not caused harm to society, probably because these medicines, although fake, do not kill people—at most, they are useless.

There are also counterfeit medicines that are slightly useful, and some real medicine ingredients will be mixed in them.

Fake, but not completely fake.

But if you want to give medicine to a newborn, injured and feverish cub, you must use 100% real medicine with strictly controlled doses.

Such medicine can only be bought from the city center.

Things like tigers have strong immunity, and they hardly get any diseases.

Some special subspecies of tigers can even find medicinal herbs to cure diseases by themselves, which is an ability evolved over thousands of years.

But the situation of the little white tiger in the zoo is a bit special...

Chen Yan didn't know where the injury on its leg came from. It stands to reason that a place like a zoo would deliberately control sharp objects to avoid causing harm to animals.

The injury on the little white tiger's leg was obviously caused by some kind of sharp weapon.

What hurt it?
Perhaps Lawrence knew about it.

I'll ask after work tomorrow.

Chen Yan walked along the road next to the Central Forest Park, and arrived at the East Avenue of the High Street after 10 minutes.

He thought of Vivian's family.

Entering the interior of High Street East, the scene in front of you is much more prosperous than Walker Street.

Now is the time when most universities end the second get out of class in the afternoon, and the streets are crowded with pedestrians.

The dense crowd and the colorful neon lights shining in the row of shops, a certain shop in the dark on the lined street is even more abrupt——

A protective fence was pulled up in front of the shop, and inside the protective fence was a messy facade.

The facade was clearly damaged by a vehicle, and a large amount of blood can be seen.

There was no trace of the body, presumably because the undertaker had already visited.

It's Vivian's toy store.

Poor Vivian family...

Chen Yan wanted to turn around and leave, but the moment he turned his head, he saw a shadow in the toy store watching him.

When he looked carefully, he could only see a piece of ruins and various dolls scattered all over the place.

He didn't think too much, and continued to walk into the high street.

What he couldn't see was that after he turned his head, the shadow inside the ruins of the toy store appeared again.

The shadow was hidden in the shadows that the neon lights couldn't reach, moving towards the direction where Chen Yan was walking.

Shadows seem to be afraid of light, so they can only hide in people's shadows.

As the shadows of passers-by intersect, it melts from the shadow of one into the shadow of another.

Until I followed Chen Yan's footsteps——

It entered the shadow of Chen Yan.

Chen Yan felt dizzy.

He just thought that he was tired and didn't think too much about it.

Then he walked into the High Street for a few minutes, and he saw a "Green Clinic".

The empire's medical practice system is not yet standardized, and most licensed doctors name the clinics with their own names.

The doctor in this clinic is probably surnamed "Green".

Chen Yan pushed the door open and came to the counter.

"Hello, do you have an aspirin?"

The salesperson in the pharmacy is a tall, tall young man who looks like a work-study student at first glance.

The young man replied: "Hello, yes." He looked at the ground behind Chen Yan - there was Chen Yan's shadow there.

"What price?"

"Twopence a piece, sir."

The young man kept staring at Chen Yan's shadow.

Chen Yan hesitated for a moment, took out 20 coins from his wallet with difficulty, and handed them to the young man.

The young man took the coin, still staring at Chen Yan's shadow intently.

Chen Yan couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Is there any question?"

The young man opened his mouth expressionlessly, as if holding back his words, and finally said, "It's nothing, sir."

Chen Yan saw that he was suffering very hard, so he turned his head and took a look.

Nothing?
Turning around, the young man had already put the packaged medicine into his hand.

"Take one tablet at a time, after meals."

The young man's straight gaze was placed on the ground behind Chen Yan again.

(End of this chapter)