Strange Rules: It doesn't matter, the system will take care of it.

months ago.

Cihang City, Nanshan Police Station.

Old Li's office is always filled with the smell of smoke.

Zhang Ruobing covered her nose and said, "Master, didn't you promise Master's wife you would quit smoking?"

Old Li put away his beloved windproof lighter and chuckled dryly, "I've already said, you have to use your job title when you're working, and this is the last one."

Another one of the last hundred million?

Zhang Ruobing stared at her master and asked, "Master, are you aware of Captain Hu Qingsheng's matter?"

"Know."

Zhang Ruobing couldn't help but speak up, "I don't understand. In terms of seniority and case-solving rate, how is Hu Qing better than you? He's only been here a few years ago. This captain's position should have been yours!"

Team Leader Li said calmly, "Ruobing, things in this world aren't something that can be decided just by 'should'."

But Zhang Ruobing still disagreed, saying, "Hu Qing often eats with the bureau chief and the others, so it must be..."

"That's enough!"

Old Li interrupted sharply, "I don't want to hear that kind of talk again."

Zhang Ruobing bit her lower lip in grievance. She thought of her father, who was also a veteran policeman. He was also pushed aside by someone with connections when it came to promotion. He fought on the front line every day and eventually lost his life.

"Sigh, what do you know?"

Old Li sighed and changed the subject, saying, "Alright, alright, tell me about the two cases you're in charge of."

After calming herself down for a while, Zhang Ruobing said, "First, near Guangming Hospital in Nanshan District, four women have disappeared after midnight. There were no bodies, no extortion calls, it's like they vanished into thin air."

Old Li asked, "So what do you think?"

Zhang Ruobing paused for a moment: "According to my investigation, the four women had just left the hospital and were planning to take a taxi home before they went missing."

"so?"

"Therefore, I suspect the killer may have posed as a driver to abduct the victims to mountainous areas or for organ harvesting."

"So what do you plan to do?"

"Of course it's a sting operation, with people posing as passengers."

Zhang Ruobing thought her idea was brilliant, but to her surprise, Captain Li vehemently rejected it:

"No! Here's what you should do: go to the hospital and post safety notices reminding patients and their families not to go out alone late at night. That way, the killer won't have a chance to strike."

"But this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause."

"Do as I say," Captain Li said firmly. "What about the second case?"

"Oh, that guy is mentally ill. He's already been sent to the Sixth Mental Hospital."

"What did he say?"

Zhang Ruobing flipped through her notebook: "He called the police, saying that the entire city was controlled by a monster, and what ordinary people were seeing was just an illusion. Tell me, isn't that insane?"

"What else did he say?"

He also said that if you wash your eyes with cow tears or holy water from the church, you can see the true forms of those monsters.

"You didn't go to wash, did you?" Upon hearing this, Old Li became very nervous.

"Of course, I'm not crazy." Zhang Ruobing didn't understand why her master was making such a fuss.

"That's right." Old Li took a deep breath and said with unusual seriousness, "Listen to me, no matter how curious you are, no matter what the reason, never try to do it."

"Okay."

Zhang Ruobing felt that her master was really getting old. "Am I that foolish in your eyes?"

"Hard to say."

This matter had originally been resolved.

But one night a few months later...

The police received a report that people were gambling in groups.

Zhang Ruobing followed the main group, rushed into the magnificent arcade, broke through the partition wall, and revealed the underground casino inside.

"Police! Don't move!"

"Hands on your head! Crouch down!"

The crowd erupted, and in an instant, the sounds of staff resisting, customers pushing and shoving, the crackling of Tasers, and the scattering of chips mingled together.

Zhang Ruobing tied the captured gamblers with disposable police nylon cable ties.

One of the men in the black priest's robes caught her attention: "You, a priest, gamble? Can your God forgive you?"

The pastor chuckled awkwardly, "Finish gambling first, then confess... Hey, easy, easy, I'm the one who called the police."

Zhang Ruobing asked in surprise, "You submitted it?"

Capturing yourself?

Are you bored and looking to go to jail?

The pastor pointed to the table and explained, "Look at this hand of cards. I have AA (Ace of Spades + Ace of Clubs). The first three cards dealt were the Ace of Hearts, the Ace of Diamonds, and the three of Clubs."

"At that point, I had the bomb in my hand, so I was definitely going to go all in, and the dealer did too."

"When I looked at the hand, I saw that the dealer had the same suit as the King and Jack of Diamonds. I thought to myself, 'God, I'm finally going to make a fortune this hand.'"

"In the end, the last two cards were the Queen of Diamonds and the Ten of Diamonds, making it a royal flush, and I lost everything."

Zhang Ruobing didn't understand Texas Hold'em, but from what the priest said, it seemed that the priest would only lose if he was dealt two cards precisely out of the remaining 45 cards.

"You're really unlucky to encounter something with such a low probability."

"It wasn't bad luck, it was just that there was something wrong with the cards. I wanted to check the cards, but they wouldn't let me, so I brought out something even bigger than a royal flush."

"Oh?"

Zhang Ruobing looked puzzled. Although she didn't play Texas Hold'em, she had heard that a royal flush was the highest hand.

What is bigger than a royal flush?

With a snap.

Taking advantage of Zhang Ruobing's distraction, the priest suddenly broke free of the cable ties, turned and ran: "That's the Royal Police, of course! Let's go!"

"stop!"

Zhang Ruobing's pupils contracted. This person was incredibly strong; he could actually break free of the cable ties with brute force.

The two chased each other and soon exited the gate, arriving at a dark alleyway.

At that moment, the pastor tripped over some trash on the ground and fell to the ground.

"You slippery fellow, you can't escape!"

Zhang Ruobing was panting heavily in the back.

But the pastor simply sprang to his feet and, relying on his familiarity with the terrain, quickly disappeared from sight.

That's incredible speed! The stamina and strength are even better than an athlete's.

Zhang Ruobing was so tired that the two C4 tubes on her chest were trembling. She looked down and found a small glass-like bottle on the ground.

This looks like it was dropped by that guy.

Zhang Ruobing bent down and picked it up.

The glass bottle was found to be cold, containing a clear liquid labeled as holy water.

Is this the holy water of the church?

Zhang Ruobing suddenly recalled what the mentally ill person had told her a few months ago, as well as her master's attitude at the time, and fell into deep thought.

The idea that cow tears and holy water can ward off evil spirits is just a folk legend.

Why was Master's reaction so strong?

A seed of curiosity sprouted in Zhang Ruobing's heart, so she did not hand over the bottle.

After get off work, Zhang Ruobing returned home with a heavy heart and began searching for information about cow tears and holy water.

One of the forum posts caught Zhang Ruobing's attention:

[If you have used holy water or cow tears and discovered the truth of the world, please contact me immediately! You are in grave danger!]

Below is a group number.

Anyway, I'm just idling around.

As Zhang Ruobing joined the group, she muttered to herself, "For a moment, I actually believed there was danger. It seems Master was right; I was a bit foolish."

The application was approved almost instantly.

Zhang Ruobing opened the group chat list and found that there were quite a few people in the group, more than a hundred, but it was very quiet. She greeted them, but no one spoke for a long time.

Wait, what's this profile picture?

Zhang Ruobing suddenly discovered that the group administrator was actually her colleague Hu Qing, the bastard who stole her mentor, the captain, through nepotism.

I never expected that Captain Hu would be such a superstitious person.

Zhang Ruobing smiled and planned to share this story with her master later as a joke.

But an hour passed.

Boom boom boom!

A knock came at the door.

Zhang Ruobing opened the door and saw two colleagues: "Hello, police officers, please come with me... Ruobing?"

"Why are you here?"

"We received a mission that someone was spreading harmful information online and we needed to arrest them."

"Me? Spreading harmful information?"

"That must be a misunderstanding."

After seeing off two colleagues.

Lying in bed, Zhang Ruobing felt increasingly uneasy: "Today, I only did one thing online, which was search for information about ox tears and holy water. So, my colleague's visit is related to that group?"

Master's strong reaction.

Captain Hu is the group leader of a paranormal enthusiasts group.

There were also colleagues who arrested people.

All signs indicate that there is definitely something wrong here.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ruobing took out the bottle and recalled the madman's words: "As long as you apply the holy water, you will be able to see the truth."

Is that the truth?

Zhang Ruobing placed the bottle on the table and scoffed, "Anyone who believes that is crazy."

A bottle of unknown origin, just because it's labeled "holy water," is it holy water? What if it's just a drug for addicts?

But after a while...

"Just believe it once, and see what kind of scam it really is."

Zhang Ruobing whispered to herself, trying to convince herself.

Upon opening the bottle cap, no odor was released.

"It doesn't seem to be anything random."

Just in case, Zhang Ruobing first dripped the holy water onto the table to make sure it wasn't corrosive before applying it to her eyelids.

It feels cool and refreshing, similar to eye drops.

Just as Zhang Ruobing had predicted, nothing happened. Her eyes didn't light up, and she didn't exhibit any special abilities like X-ray vision.

I opened the window, and the city lights were dazzling; there was no monster the madman had described.

"Identified as fake."

Zhang Ruobing shook her head, turned on her phone, and prepared to browse some news before going to sleep.

But at this moment...

An accident happened.

Without any warning, fear suddenly struck.

Zhang Ruobing rubbed her eyes. On her phone, the city leader who had been talking about Cihang City's future plans was gone. In his place was a spider-headed monster.

Its body barely retained a human shape, but its face had eight hairy appendages that kept wriggling, like the legs of a spider.

Like spiders, their eyes are compound and red.

Zhang Ruobing was momentarily dazed and realized that not only her vision, but also her hearing was affected.

The original broadcast script sounded to her like the chirping of insects that didn't sound human.

"what!"

Zhang Ruobing instinctively threw her phone away.

The next day, Zhang Ruobing, who hadn't slept all night, arrived at the police station with dark circles under her eyes.

Zhang Ruobing's colleagues were all puzzled, since she had been on duty last night and didn't need to report for duty today.

But Zhang Ruobing walked toward the director's office with a preoccupied look on her face.

She wanted to report her findings to the bureau chief.

As soon as I opened the door, I was greeted with a pleasant surprise.

A spider-like humanoid monster sat in the director's chair, facing her.

Hello there.

It is through life and death that one can grow.

If it were the Zhang Ruobing of the past, she would have already screamed and shouted for everyone to come and destroy the monster.

But the police uniform the other person was wearing made her realize: "It wasn't a monster that killed the chief, but the chief who was also a monster."

To the crowd who hadn't applied the holy water, the bureau chief looked exactly like a normal person.

If you shout, you'll just be treated as mentally ill and sent to the hospital like that madman.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ruobing quickly came up with a solution and said, "Excuse me, I went to the wrong place."

Just as Zhang Ruobing left the director's office, she turned her head and saw another spider monster.

Although she couldn't make out the other person's appearance, Zhang Ruobing recognized him from his police uniform: "Two bars, two stars, second-level police inspector, it's Captain Hu Qing."

In an instant, Zhang Ruobing seemed to understand something.

No wonder his mentor, Captain Li, failed to win the election.

No wonder my father made so many contributions, and he was always on the front lines.

It turns out the police station had long been controlled by the monsters; they only elected their own people to positions of power.

The truth has been revealed.

Zhang Ruobing felt no joy, only despair.

Even the police station, which represents safety, has been infiltrated by monsters and turned into a sieve. So where is there any place that is safe?

A hissing sound rang out.

The spider-like monster Hu Qing was saying something, perhaps asking if everything was alright, or perhaps asking why Zhang Ruobing was coming to work despite being on break.

But Zhang Ruobing couldn't hear a single word.

"Sorry, I feel a little dizzy."

Finding an excuse, Zhang Ruobing rushed to her master's office.

Push open the door.

Good luck!

Seeing her master's familiar face, Zhang Ruobing breathed a sigh of relief. If her master was also a monster in disguise, she really didn't know what to do.

"Ruobing, isn't today Ghost Festival? Aren't you taking a break?" Old Li laughed, "That's perfect. Your master's wife made too many qingtuan (green rice dumplings), and we can't finish them all at home. Come back with me for lunch today."

"Master!"

Zhang Ruobing interrupted, "I, I, I."

Old Li noticed something was wrong and quickly asked, "What's wrong? Don't worry."

Zhang Ruobing whispered, "I used holy water."

"What?"

Old Li was taken aback. He made a shushing gesture and rushed towards the door to check if anyone was around.

Experienced people are always cautious.

With a loud bang!

As soon as I pushed the door open, I bumped into something.

It was Hu Qing, the newly appointed captain. After noticing that Zhang Ruobing's expression was off, he followed her and eavesdropped through the crack in the door.

Hu Qing raised his head, but before he could speak, he heard a loud bang.

Without a second's hesitation, to Zhang Ruobing's astonishment, Old Li drew his gun and fired rapidly, blowing the spider monster's head off.

"run!"

Old Li grabbed Zhang Ruobing, who was standing there in a daze, and rushed out of the police station.

Less than ten seconds later, Hu Qing, whose brains had been shattered on the ground, stood up completely unharmed.

"Sigh, another batch of colleagues is coming."

Noticing the surprised looks around him, Hu Qing sighed and then strode out of the police station to chase after them.

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For the next hour, Zhang Ruobing felt like she was having a nightmare.

First, her master chose to cover her retreat in order to save her, and was captured by the spider monster.

Next, Zhang Ruobing took a taxi to the newspaper office, only to find countless spider faces staring at her as soon as she entered.

In desperation, Zhang Ruobing had no choice but to publish the truth online, but her account was banned instantly and her posts were deleted immediately.

"Police station, monster! Newspaper, monster! Government, monster!"

"That madman is right, the entire Cihang City has indeed fallen into the hands of monsters."

Just then, ring ring.

The phone rang.

It was an unfamiliar number.

Happiness Internet Cafe at this time.

Chen Feng couldn't help but ask, "One number was unreachable, and the other hung up. Did you give the wrong number?"

Li Guolong said no: "That's impossible, my dad and my sister have those two numbers."

Chen Feng scratched his head. The number was fine, so why didn't he answer?

Zhang Ruobing certainly didn't dare to accept.

After all, she's currently wanted by monsters all over the city, so when her phone rings, she thinks it's a location tracking her.

So she hung up decisively and prepared to turn off her phone and throw away the SIM card.

Just then, a text message arrived:

[Zhang Ruobing, you idiot, I'm here to save you!]