Chapter 202 Book of Rules
Even though she knew it wasn't real, just a recorded illusion, Shen Sangning didn't want Lin Xi to come into contact with the white mist. She took Lin Xi and prepared to leave. But Lin Xi grabbed Shen Sangning and said, "Ningning, we have to go inside. We have to see what's going on."
“…” Shen Sangning is so smart, how could she not know.
Until Gui knew, Shen Sangning didn't want Lin Xi to be in any danger. Shen Sangning frowned and said to Lin Xi, "Then you wait here for me. I'll go in and see what's going on."
Lin Xi shook her head again: "No, Ningning, I have to go and see... or rather, someone alive has to go."
Shen Sangning also knew that the target of the book "History" was very clear, and that was Lin Xi. Otherwise, Xia Cui and Shen Sangning would not have been able to open the book so quickly, but Lin Xi would have opened it so quickly.
Its target was so obvious, it was obviously to let Lin Xi go and find out the truth alone.
Shen Sangning pursed her lips and could only say, “Okay, but if you encounter danger, you must leave immediately, even if you leave me where I am.”
Lin Xi didn't like to hear such words, but if she didn't agree, Shen Sang Ning would definitely not let her go into the white mist.
He is a strong species. In this situation, Lin Xi was the first to give in: "Okay, I promise you, I will definitely put my life first."
After hearing Lin Xi's agreement, Shen Sangning nodded. She took Lin Xi's hand and led the way, going against the flow of people and slowly walking into the area covered by white fog.
Lin Xi asked Chen Sangning, "Ningning, how is it? How is it different from real white mist?" Chen Sangning frowned, then shook her head. "I don't know, but it's obviously fake. Real white mist makes people feel... close to crazy. It's like something is peeling away from your body, and it's a very uncomfortable feeling. But that's not the case here."
The two held hands and walked forward a few steps. Soon, they saw a living person being absorbed by the white mist.
At this moment, Lin Xi's eyes widened. She had never dreamed of seeing such a scene. A human soul was torn from its body, and the body fell to the ground, while the soul floated above it. White mist passed through the soul, suddenly disappeared, and then reflected from its mouth and nose.
After going through these steps, its soul became whiter and whiter, closer and closer to the white ghost seen before.
At the same time, Lin Xi smelled the stench of corpses. The smell was too choking and disgusting. It was like the smell of a garbage dump in July or August, with a bit of blood and sticky disgust, making people want to vomit. Even if he covered his mouth and nose, the smell was pervasive and invaded Lin Xi's heart and lungs.
Shen Sangning came over, she stretched out her hand and covered Lin Xi's nose.
Chen Sang Ning had a cool fragrance on her body, which was completely different from the stench of a corpse. It was a cool smell like moss or pine wood in the depths of a forest. It was so cold that Lin Xi felt that his nose was about to be frozen. It was undeniable that this smell completely overwhelmed the stench of a corpse.
This made Lin Xi breathe a sigh of relief, but then she heard Shen Sangning's voice in her ears: "Don't breathe, the flow of time is not right. I don't know if the white mist has accelerated the decay of the corpse, or if the book has sped up time. In short, everything is happening too fast."
Lin Xi blinked her eyes, and nodded as Chen Sang Ning covered her mouth and nose. She looked around, and those souls had already drifted away and turned into white ghosts, and the corpses that originally bound them had also turned into dry bones, weathering and turning into residue without her noticing.
The buildings shrouded in fog remained unchanged.
"No, there are changes." Shen Sangning reminded her. Shen Sangning's observation skills have always been very good, much better than Lin Xi's. She is good at capturing tiny changes and quickly summarizing the rules.
"The white mist is turning everything into energy, including the buildings. They are becoming something like 'sweet home.'"
After a while, the entire world seemed shrouded in white mist. They walked for a long time in it, and when Lin Xi couldn't walk anymore, Shen Sangning carried her on her back. Away from the stench of corpses, Lin Xi was finally able to breathe independently.
Shen Sangning's speed was much faster than hers. Before long, they had toured Binjiang City thoroughly, including their home, the funeral home, the hospital, and the library. But apart from the vast white fog and the white ghostly figures, there was nothing else; even the buildings were a blanket of white.
At this moment, a little light bloomed in the sky. Lin Xi looked up first and told Shen Sangning, "It's Chapter 2."
The world also changed slightly from that moment on. Buildings, or rather, strange architectural phenomena that had been transformed into energy bodies and thus had their own thoughts, began to repel the white mist. As if dissatisfied with the white mist, they pushed the white mist away from their surroundings, driving it onto the empty road.
At the same time, new situations gradually emerged.
After they drove away the white mist, ghosts, or rather, new spirits, emerged within these buildings, much like the ghosts of the current world of ghost stories. They were confused and unsure of what to do. After a while, they began to mechanically repeat the same thing.
Shen Sangning stared at the white mist for a while before saying to Lin Xi, “They came out of the white mist. When one appeared, a white ghost disappeared.”
"Hmm..." Lin Xi responded, but she hadn't expected this to happen. She blinked, pondering for a moment before coming up with a pattern: "So, the white fog turns people into white ghosts. Once the building drives away the fog and secures the 'safe zone,' the white ghosts can transform into ghosts and spawn within the safe zone?"
"You can say that."
Lin Xi, perched on Shen Sangning's back, pointed to a convenience store and asked her to lead him there. The clerk inside was doing things mechanically, looking like a puppet. Lin Xi couldn't help but ask, "Was it a clerk in its lifetime? It looks like it has no consciousness or memory..."
"I don't know, but I don't think so." Shen Sangning answered Lin Xi. Lin Xi slid down from Shen Sangning's back. She walked behind the cashier counter of the convenience store. Sure enough, the screen was black and not in use.
Shen Sangning continued, "I don't think it's like the memory was bleached and the person turned into a ghost. Instead, it's like the ghost became a brand new energy body, and then formed a new ghost, which is not the same thing as before death. And in the Werewolf Killing copy, the latest ghost appeared three years ago, but Lin Lin didn't mention the rule-based ghost game in the past twenty years."
"Based on the behavior pattern mentioned by Sun Ke, I guess it was Zhu Zhu's arrival twenty years ago that made the committee aware of the existence of our world. In the past twenty years, they must have been trying to find a way to go to our world."
"The Rules of Weird Games are definitely not so easy to hold. Otherwise, they would have swallowed up our world long ago."
"No new people died, but new ghosts were born. This shows that ghosts in this world are composed of energy, not people who become ghosts after death."
While Shen Sangning was guessing, the clerk ghost had been mechanically doing the same thing, without changing from beginning to end. At this time, a ray of light appeared outside, and the title was changed to "Chapter 3".
At this moment, the scene also changed.
They returned to the library. After being swallowed by the white fog, the books in the library also changed. They actually had no so-called consciousness, and were not simple individuals, but they would move around unconsciously. They also formed subspaces and various strange small worlds inside according to their own content.
Lin Xi and Shen Sang Ning also saw the prototype of "History" - a document that recorded the gradual development of Binjiang City from an ancient tribe to a city. The most outrageous thing is that it is an e-book.
It changed from an online journal in the computer to a physical book, and was also given unique abilities. The History book also felt very puzzled, but its obsession was to record everything in Binjiang City, so it just stayed quietly in the library and recorded everything.
It also records a magical book and a magical thing.
Next to it, a new book was taking shape. Lin Xi found it difficult to describe what it was. It wasn't physical, but rather a mass of energy, somewhere in between. Above it, countless fragments of blue electrons danced, and paper fluttered.
There was a mysterious feeling, which also told Lin Xi its identity. This was the book of "Rules". It recorded all the information in this world and summarized all the rules into its own book.
But its title page is empty.
There are too many coincidences in this world, just like the white fog that appeared inexplicably, another living person appeared inexplicably in the library.
She was a confused girl whose face could not be seen clearly. Lin Xi didn't know her name or what she looked like. She could only judge from her clothes that she came from an ancient world.
The fear of the unknown world emanated from her body, and then turned into nutrients and entered the bodies of other ghosts, including "Rules" and "History", and even the ghosts who mechanically did repetitive things. They began to undergo a second mutation and realized that fear could become nutrients for their bodies.
In panic, the girl picked up the book of "Rules" as a weapon, and Lin Xi also understood why she chose this thing.
"I would definitely take this one, it looks different from the ones next to it."
The girl escaped, and when the book of "Rules" returned to "History" again, there were different words on the title page.
——There are no ghosts in this world.
This is the little girl's simplest wish. Obviously, there is also the concept of "ghost" in her world, and she truly hopes that there are no ghosts in this world.
At this moment, Shen Sangning understood what was going on.
After this, several more visitors arrived in this world. Some were lucky enough to enter the library and take away the "Rules." Each time they returned, new words appeared on the title page. Gradually, all four main rules were recorded.
The story also enters Chapter 4.
This time, it was Zhu Zhu who came to visit.
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