This is not a weird story

According to the normal instructions, after the ten coffins in the lobby are filled with corpses at the same time, he needs to blow out the oil lamp immediately, then close the door of the lobby and leave Yizhuang as soon as possible.

The current situation is simply abnormal, and the eighth instruction cannot be implemented at all, because the oil lamp will ignite itself if it is blown out.

Now it seems that the corpses in the coffins have obviously shown signs of movement after the oil lamps were lit twice on their own.

Wei An did not blow out the oil lamp for the third time, but walked directly to the lobby door and closed the temporarily repaired door.

But the moment the door closed, he had already controlled the golden wing flying blade he had just obtained to hang out in the air and stab the wick of the oil lamp on the table quickly.

After operating it, Wei An found that the flying blade responded very quickly and was easier to control than the heavy halberd and axe.

With a swish, the wick of the lamp was pierced by the flying blade, and the burning flame was immediately extinguished. Then Wei An retracted the flying blade just before the door closed.

Looking through the crack in the door, Wei An also put "Liu Gui's eyeballs" into his eye sockets. He saw that the wick remained extinguished for a few seconds, and then a faint light appeared, but it did not appear exactly at the wick. But a little above the wick.

At the moment when the faint light appeared, the wick was obviously lit by it, flickered for a moment, and soon the fire lit up again.

Seeing this scene, Wei An's eyes narrowed, recalling the faint light that appeared above the lamp wick he just saw. Although it appeared for a short time, because Wei An had been observing with "Liu Gui's eyeballs" in advance, so Only then can you see clearly.

That bit of light seemed familiar.

At this time, the oil lamp was lit for the third time, and the coffins on both sides of the hall once again heard strong movements. A thumping sound was heard, and the lids of four coffins had been pushed up.

A strong smell of corpses filled the lobby.

An extremely horrifying hoarse sound came from one of the coffins. It seemed like a person who had not spoken for a long time finally opened his lips and made a sound like a hacksaw rubbing metal.

At this time, Wei An had already left the lobby door, walked through the passage, and walked quickly towards his residence.

He did not leave Yizhuang because the method according to Article 8 was not feasible now. If the oil lamp was not extinguished, he could not leave the 100-meter radius of Yizhuang. Otherwise, the rules would come and he would surely die like the man just now.

After arriving at the residence, he grabbed the unfinished bundle of incense on the table. There was a lot of incense in the bundle. Wei An had speculated before that even if he spent ten days here normally, he would have to go to the hut every day. I changed the incense over there, and even after the ghost story was over, I still couldn't burn through so many incense sticks.

Taking the bundle of incense in his hand, he quickly left the residence and approached the hut.

When he came to the incense stick that had been burning in the soil, he bent down and pulled out the incense stick that had not yet burned out. He exerted force with his fingers, and the remaining half of the incense broke and went out. His hand turned into a ball of unburned incense ash and a broken wooden stick inside.

"Okay, it's time to interrupt the timer!"

Just now, Wei An discovered the problem through "Liu Gui's eyeballs". The oil lamp should have been extinguished, but it was rekindled by the faint light.

This light looked very familiar. After thinking about it for a moment, it turned out to be the incense stick that had been burning next to the hut!

Combined with the entire "Instructions for Left Behind", it seems that all the rules seem to be narrated around the oil lamp, but in fact Wei An discovered that the incense stick that kept burning and could not be interrupted was the protagonist.

However, the "Instructions" did not clearly state that participants should wait for the incense and not cut off the incense. Instead, participants were asked to time it themselves, with the purpose of patrolling the night on time during the "third watch" and "fifth watch".

This rule forced the participants to time the incense and keep the incense burning.

And this is the center of the entire rule.

This rule center seems not to exist, but in fact it has always been consciously maintained by the participants. On the contrary, it is better maintained unknowingly than the oil lamp that cannot be extinguished, and even they are not aware of it.

If Wei An hadn't seen the faint light like the incense tip when the oil lamp was relit, he wouldn't have thought of this.

It's like a disappearing blind spot that everyone knows but doesn't care about because it already exists safely in everyone's blind spot awareness.

Of course, even though the place was destroyed and the burning of incense was interrupted, Wei An was still uneasy because he still had such a large bundle of incense in his hand, and these incense might be ignited again through some unknown method.

He immediately grabbed the bundle of incense, crushed it into pieces, and rushed to the lobby.

Hiding the rules within the rules, the brilliance of this special rule-based ghost story is now fully revealed.

The incense stick is the center of the rules. If the burning incense stick is extinguished, there is no guarantee that it will not be relit when the next participant arrives and the timer starts, so all must be destroyed.

It neither allowed it to re-ignite nor gave it a chance to light the oil lamp again.

Arriving at the door of the lobby, as soon as he pushed the door open, a strong yin energy hit his face, making Wei An feel suffocated and even stopped breathing for a moment.

Looking up, I saw that the kerosene lamp was still burning. After losing the support of the incense stick, the wick flame had completely turned green, just like the flame produced by the burnt workbook paper just now.

At the coffins on the left and right sides, the lids of four coffins have been opened, and four corpses are standing upright next to the coffins.

These corpses were three men and one woman. They were all in ragged clothes, unkempt, and their cheeks were covered in dirt. They looked like refugees who had died somewhere.

The moment the lobby was opened, the four corpses slowly raised their heads. Their eyes were dark, like endless abyss, and their cold and cold eyes were cast on Wei An.

At the same moment, the coffin boards of the other six coffins seemed to be unable to hold them down and began to shake one after another. The innermost coffin let out a shrill scream, which hurt Wei An's eardrums.

A strong wind was generated in the middle of the lobby, and the dust on the ground swirled, rose up, and suddenly dispersed.

But the green light of the burning oil lamp on the wooden table did not move at all.

Wei An stood at the door and said as if he suddenly realized: "So, taking away sixteen coffin nails at a time will trigger the eighth item of the instructions, and the oil lamp will not go out and is irreversible."

Hua Luo lowered his head and glanced at the bundle of incense in his hand, and said quietly: "But... you don't have a rule that you can't cut off the burning incense."

Wow…

The other six coffins were all opened at this moment, and hands that were either rotten or pitch black stretched out.

Wei An stepped into the lobby with one step, and the halberd and ax appeared in his hand. At the same time, the golden wing flying blade was suspended beside him, shaking slightly and making a vibration.