Rules Strange Talk: They Say I Have Multiple Personalities

Brady continued to observe. Suddenly, a pair of feet appeared next to Clarissa, also faintly visible, also wearing shoes no bigger than the palm of a hand. The two pairs of feet stood side by side.

Wait! The direction of those toes is a little off.

How… is it… facing him!

……

At this moment, the China team's support team dragged Kang Xiuzhu, the eighth team member who had been painstakingly studying metaphysics in the mountains, out.

"Quick! What do we do now?"

Kang Xiuzhu had barely arrived at the conference room and hadn't even touched the seat when He Hongyuan urged him to find a solution.

He had also been watching the competition and knew how tense the situation was.

"Now it's a copy derived from the rules. The power of the NPCs in the copy is unimaginable. Ordinary methods probably won't work."

"The safest methods are only two: one is to stop the bridal sedan, draw a talisman to extract Zhuang Xueqing from the bride's body, and the other is to catch Zhuang Xueqing's body, expel the possessed bride, and then summon her soul."

"But from the rules, the first method is not feasible, because players can't get close to the bridal sedan, can't touch it, can't look at it, and have to stay away."

"If Zhou Zimo's telekinesis could be used freely, able to retrieve objects with his mind without seeing the target, and not retrieve them into his hand, moving them at will, then there would be room for maneuver."

"Or Qiu Ye's cubic cage could trap the sedan first, which could buy some time."

"The second method would be more passive. It's not easy to catch Zhuang Xueqing's body. It's already been tested and it's hard to catch, unless we set up a formation to lure her over and trap her first."

"However, the players now have to return to the courtyard as quickly as possible. The rules only mention not looking back on the way home after the banquet, but they can go back first and then come out,"

"As Rule Seven states, if you see a pair of embroidered shoes at the door, you must run to the entrance of the village as quickly as possible, which means it's feasible to go back first and then come out."

"But at this speed, only Bi Yi and Xia Xinmei should be able to do it now. Xia Xinmei can't leave Bi Yi alone. If the two mainstays leave together, the players will also be in danger…"

While Kang Xiuzhu was speaking, Gu Jianming had already edited the core content of his words and sent it to the players.

Concise extraction: [You can first use the cubic cage to trap the bridal sedan to buy time. If you can retrieve objects with telekinesis without touching the bride, that's best. Return and come out as quickly as possible, and it won't be considered a violation of the rules!]

Qiu Ye saw this prompt and immediately released the cubic cage, locating it by feeling. The transparent cube quickly flew towards the bridal sedan, encircled it, and moved it to the house next door to the courtyard where everyone was staying.

The sedan carriers at the village entrance were shouting, "What's going on! Can this bride be taken away or not!"

The villagers hurried to chase after them, "Yes, yes, take her away, quickly, get a few more people to help carry!"

The players were also speeding back.

At this time, the support team looked at the villagers running so fast and felt something was wrong.

He Hongyuan raised a question: "Don't you feel like they're eager to send the bride away quickly?"

Kang Xiuzhu explained, "Because they initially thought the bride had committed suicide for love."

"In that era, women who eloped with lovers would be drowned in pig cages. Suicide for love was even more shameless."

"But a bride hanging herself in her wedding dress is very unlucky."

"So they wanted to use the rules to suppress the bride, using righteousness to suppress evil. There's also a saying that ghosts don't dare to provoke fierce people, so they cursed her fiercely all the way, thinking that if she really did something out of line, then she should accept the punishment of being drowned and shouldn't come after them."

"As a result, the bride couldn't be drowned. We can understand this as the bride not accepting this crime, so the villagers suddenly changed their expressions, suspecting that the bride didn't hang herself willingly."

"If the bride didn't hang herself voluntarily, then she died unjustly, and the bride already has resentment. They want to send the bride away quickly. After marriage, she follows her husband. If she's going to cause trouble, she'll cause trouble for her husband's family. They might be able to escape."

Everyone fell silent after hearing this.

He Hongyuan couldn't help but ask, "Then does this bride have to be sent away? Otherwise, the whole village will be in danger?"

Kang Xiuzhu raised his hand and gathered his messy hair on top of his head, tying it into a bun, while answering his question.

"The bride has grievances and won't leave so easily. She will try every means to stay in the village. Her power will become stronger day by day. If her grievances are not resolved, the seventh day after her death will be the day she destroys the village."

"The villagers definitely know this, so they will try every means to make her leave the village. I suspect these villagers are the strange entities that have been competing with us, and the bride is an NPC derived from the rules."

"Our players' position is the opposite of the villagers'. The players can't let the bride leave the village. Once the sedan or Zhuang Xueqing's body leaves the village, Zhuang Xueqing won't be able to return."

"Zhuang Xueqing's role in the team is support. She seems to have no attack power, but she can temporarily improve the players' status and combat power, and can refresh the cooldown of the players' talents. Most people's talents have cooldowns. Without Zhuang Xueqing, they will become very passive."

"So the bride's first target is Zhuang Xueqing. By controlling Zhuang Xueqing, she will control most of the players."

"If everyone gives up on Zhuang Xueqing, she will also use other means to hold other players hostage until all the players are dead."

……

The world of the strange tale.

The players wanted to return to the courtyard as quickly as possible, but along the way, villagers were burning paper money. Almost every road and every intersection had people burning paper money and incense.

The ashes from the burning paper money flew everywhere.

No matter how the players detoured, they could see people burning this stuff.

Xia Xinmei stopped, "These villagers are preventing us from saving the bride!"

Bi Yi took a few steps back and was about to speak.

"Woof!" The dog suddenly barked.

Bi Yi also felt something was wrong under his feet. He looked down and saw that the place he was stepping on was a little wet.

"I seem to have stepped on someone's foot. Look from behind."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at his feet and suddenly realized that his feet were tiptoeing.

His heels were not completely on the ground, with a gap of half a fist's distance from the ground.

At this time, the dog was very agitated, constantly circling Bi Yi, his eyes fixed on Bi Yi's tiptoed heels, baring his teeth fiercely.

"Do you see anything?" Bi Yi asked.

Xia Xinmei directly pushed him, and he took two steps forward. His heels immediately stepped on the ground.

The dog stood beside Bi Yi, pressed against Bi Yi's leg, and snarled at the place he had just stepped on.

There was only water stain there, and nothing else could be seen.

Xia Xinmei put her hands behind her back, quickly sliding one hand across the palm of the other, causing traces of blood to seep out, forming a pattern.

The players all stood still, not daring to move forward rashly.

The next second, the blood imprint on Xia Xinmei's palm detached from her palm and flew towards the watery area, a temporary spell revealing what was there.

It was a pair of embroidered shoes!