A mysterious realm descends, and I defy fate in comics.

Chapter 78 Strange Tales of Rules?

Just as the two girls were looking at each other, hesitating and pushing each other, unsure whether to continue.

Zhao Henshan, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly moved. He was already lifeless—truly lifeless.

His skin was bluish-white, and based on Jiang Xingni and Xiao Jiming's understanding of the dead, it could be basically confirmed that Zhao Henshan was already dead at this time.

But the cause of death...?

Jiang Xingni's gaze swept over her almost imperceptibly. The amount of bleeding from her wrist alone was not enough to kill a nearly adult girl in a short time.

Does she have other illnesses?

Or is it a problem with the school? Was there already a hint of trouble in the so-called "us" back at this point?

Jiang Xingni made guesses based on the limited information he had obtained.

Then, the next second, those gloomy black eyes, with bloodshot whites, fell on her.

The eyeballs swung around extremely wide inside their sockets, almost as if they were about to fly out.

Her gaze swept over Jiang Xingni and Xiao Jiming's group of people standing there, and finally landed on the two girls closest to her, right above her head.

Zhao Henshan, whose face was usually expressionless and calm, suddenly broke into a smile.

"Can she see us?"

Logically speaking, the scene before us could be described as terrifying.

The high school girl who had come back from the dead gave a chilling smile to the person who had bullied her.

But among those present—aside from the two girls who were still arguing about whether to move her into the toilet, and who didn't even know when Zhao Henshan slipped out of their control and fell to the ground—who was truly an ordinary person?

Even Jiang Xingni, who had the least experience among everyone, encountered a humanoid embryo the first time she met a monster.

Under the strange impact of what was either an embryo or an infant, even Zhao Henshan, who had been resurrected from the dead, did not seem so terrifying.

As for Xiao Jiming and the others, needless to say, as superhumans trained by Taixu Academy and as the main characters of this comic, if they could be frightened by such a scene, then Jiang Xingni would have to suspect that this monster had some kind of mind control ability that she was unaware of, but it just didn't work on her.

"Who knows?" Jiang Xingni replied casually.

If this is truly just an echo of what happened six years ago, then Zhao Henshan from six years ago shouldn't have seen them, a group of people from six years later.

However, considering that Zhao Henshan had been relentlessly pursuing them and demanding to know where Xu Niannian was before they entered the stadium, perhaps the afterimage they were witnessing was a trap left behind by Zhao Henshan.

Moreover, under the influence of the Eye of Truth, Jiang Xingni can see more than just the afterimage from six years ago.

At the same time, Jiang Xingni can also see the real images inside the stadium in the timeline they are in six years later.

When Zhao Henshan looked up at them, a new figure suddenly appeared in the previously empty spot.

—It just so happens to be Zhao Henshan, who had been chasing after them all along.

Wearing the familiar fluorescent green school uniform, with a small red badge on his shoulder, his dark eyes stared at Jiang Xingni, and they met eyes.

Then she gave Jiang Xingni a familiar smile, wanting to see Jiang Xingni's fearful expression.

As a result, Jiang Xingni neither dodged nor flinched, and even calmly rolled her eyes at her.

Zhao Henshan disappeared in a fit of rage.

It's not an echo, not an afterimage, or rather, it's more than that.

Jiang Xingni thought to himself.

Six years later, the monster Zhao Henshan disappeared because he failed to scare Jiang Xingni, but the Zhao Henshan from six years ago, who had just transformed into a monster, was still lying on the ground.

Her head was twisted in an abnormal position, with her face replacing the back of her head, and she stared maliciously at the two girls above her, waiting to see when they would realize that she had become like this.

The two girls didn't disappoint her for long. They started arguing again about whether to take Zhao Henshan into the restroom, and what to do if they were discovered while trying to fool Tan Shu—questions like these.

Until one of the voices, trembling, asked, "Where is Zhao Henshan?"

Another person lowered their head shakily, and their eyes met Zhao Henshan's dark, bloodshot eyes, which could be described as black and red.

Zhao Henshan gave her a bright and cheerful smile.

She wasn't as calm and composed as Jiang Xingni.

Her eyes widened suddenly, and she tried to scream, but in the end, she could only open her mouth in vain and make a hoarse, unintelligible sound.

Then blood appeared in her eyes, and then—before anyone present could react—her eyes suddenly burst open, spraying blood all over the girl opposite her.

"It's hopeless," Jiang Xingni concluded almost instantly, drawing on her experience.

time is too short.

The girl opposite hadn't even reacted yet. She opened her mouth, but before she could even ask a harmless question, her whole head was drenched in blood.

Her pupils trembled, and almost instinctively she reached out and touched the sticky liquid on her face in a daze.

When I brought my finger up to my eyes, I saw large patches of scarlet blood.

Only then did she snap out of her daze, screaming almost uncontrollably, "Ah—"

But even that scream was abruptly cut off. The moment she lowered her head and met Zhao Henshan's gaze, the same scene unfolded before their eyes.

This time, however, it wasn't the eyeballs that exploded, but the tongue.

—Like Mary Shaw.

The thought flashed through Jiang Xingni's mind for no apparent reason.

But he quickly rejected that idea himself.

Mary Shaw is fine as long as she doesn't scream, but Zhao Henshan... the first girl who died didn't scream; she was too scared to even scream.

But she still died.

So, what exactly is the mechanism that triggers death?

Jiang Xingni recalled the time when he first met her; the Eye of Truth reminded him not to answer her.

For a moment, she wondered if the death mechanism was related to the conversation.

But just now, the Eye of Truth did not give her a warning—although Jiang Xingni did not intend to speak, he simply rolled his eyes at her silently.

Or perhaps, there is no such thing as a death mechanism.

"Guess what I'm thinking about?" Jiang Xing asked suddenly, glancing at the two unnamed high school girls—who were also upperclassmen in a sense—who died one after another within minutes.

Su Yanzhi was the first to chime in: "What?"

"A strange tale of rules," Jiang Xingni said. "But now we are the first to explore the rules for those who come after us."