Chapter 66: Rules

“Our reporter just found Ms. Yi, a survivor of the car accident, at the People’s Hospital. She is a teacher. Please switch to the live feed from the scene…”

About the mysterious disappearance of the Eerie Computer in this Mysterious Domain, Lü Yang only had some initial thoughts and wasn’t sure. But when he returned to the Real world, the Eerie Computer appeared again like magic.

At this moment, Lü Yang was sitting in the back seat of a Taxi, with his eyes closed. He brought up the Eerie Computer screen in front of him and used it to watch the news channel of Guishe City TV.

On the screen appeared the female teacher Yi Qiuhong. She had many scratches on her face and body, along with a mild concussion, but overall, she was not seriously hurt. However, she still seemed very shaken. Compared to the college student Sun Yujiao, who remained in the intensive care unit, she was quite lucky.

“Teacher Yi, can you tell us what happened at that time?” The reporter placed the microphone in front of Yi Qiuhong and asked her carefully.

Even though they knew it was cruel to interview survivors and make them recall the horrific scene of the accident, reporters did not care too much in order to get the first-hand news.

“The car accident… we crashed… it hurt… someone broke the car window… and pushed me out desperately… then dragged me to the side of the Highway guardrail… and then… a ‘bang!’ sound… a huge fire…” While speaking, Yi Qiuhong’s body kept trembling.

“You just said… someone pushed you out of the car. Are you sure it was from inside the car?” the reporter quickly asked Yi Qiuhong.

“Yes.” Yi Qiuhong nodded firmly, her eyes a bit wet. “If it weren’t for him… I would have died…”

“It seems that Teacher Yi was likely saved from the bus by that mysteriously missing passenger. After rescuing Teacher Yi, that mysterious passenger also saved Miss Sun, who is still seriously injured and unconscious, from the Minibus… We just don’t know why that brave, life-saving mysterious passenger left alone in a hurry after rescuing them. Heroic passenger, if you are watching our program…” The reporter faced the camera and spoke.

The cameraman suddenly moved the camera lens from the reporter’s face to Yi Qiuhong and signaled the reporter to bring the microphone closer… because the cameraman noticed that Yi Qiuhong was mumbling to herself…

“I seem to have forgotten something… What exactly did I forget? Why can’t I remember?”

Yi Qiuhong’s somewhat bewildered eyes looked into the camera lens, meeting Lü Yang’s gaze as he stared at the Eerie Computer screen in his vision. At that moment, Lü Yang suddenly felt as if she could see him, so he quickly closed the news video window.

“You won’t be able to remember what you forgot, because the Mysterious Domain completely erased your memories from when you were unconscious, just like how Xia Yan doesn’t remember that I touched her butt and got it all over her mouth, and how Sister Mei doesn’t remember that I kissed her passionately…”

“But… it’s okay if you forgot. It’s better not to remember those hellish scenes.”

“So… the Mysterious Domain wasn’t caused by the Eerie Computer. It has always existed, always been in this world. The Eerie Computer is just a medium to open the Mysterious Domain… When people are near death, they have a certain chance of falling into the Mysterious Domain…”

“People who are near death and in a deep coma—some can survive, while others never wake up. Those who don’t wake up briefly return to the Real world from the Mysterious Domain during their final moments. Once they return to the Real world, they forget everything they experienced in the Mysterious Domain. But because this is an unstable return, fragments from the Mysterious Domain still appear in their minds, making them try hard to remember what exactly they forgot…”

“When they finally die, they enter the Mysterious Domain again from the Real world, but this is only for a very short moment, like passing through. For others still in the Mysterious Domain, it seems as if they have become conscious again…”

“So, what they forgot was only their own experiences in the Mysterious Domain before their final moments. After returning to the Mysterious Domain, of course, they immediately remembered…”

“The word ‘die’ doesn’t need an explanation. During their final moments, staying in the seriously crashed Minibus, feeling their severe injuries, and seeing all the other passengers in the car bloody, unconscious, or dead, of course they would say the word ‘die’.”

“The word ‘stop’ only came from the Large Truck driver, the bearded man Zhou Chao. This word didn’t refer to things in the Mysterious Domain, but rather that the Large Truck driver Zhou Chao kept trying to stop the out-of-control Large Truck but failed. This became his obsession before death…”

“‘Hell’—for those who had returned to the Real world during their final moments, the Mysterious Domain they experienced before was just like Hell to them, because they couldn’t understand why they had come to such a terrifying and strange place.”

“‘Truck’ goes without saying…”

“Yu Zhenhua’s despair and helplessness at the last moment were because… what he remembered was ‘you all’ and ‘this’ place. He had been here with everyone and promised to tell them what he had forgotten once he remembered. But… in the end, he found that what he had forgotten was precisely this eerie and terrifying place and the people here, as well as everything that had happened here before…”

“To him… this was completely meaningless and extremely ridiculous, and it couldn’t help everyone’s situation at all. This made him, who had tried so hard to save everyone but found he couldn’t help at all, both laughable and pitiable, even to the point of despair, anger, and helplessness, as if he had been played a trick on.”

“At the last moment, he tried hard to explain everything clearly, but he couldn’t say more words. This made him, a party member, unable to hold back an extremely angry ‘damn’ curse. Finally, he remembered the car accident and felt it was necessary to tell everyone, but he only managed to say the word ‘car’ before he completely fell into the endless darkness of death.”

“I was wrong from the start. I thought that as long as I could figure out what those who died first had forgotten, I could save everyone’s lives. Little did I know… the Path of Survival had nothing to do with that matter. Instead, I had to find a way to die there before the Ashes Urn appeared to return to the Real world…”

“Based on my experience from the last Qingyuan Residential Area Mysterious Domain, dying in the Mysterious Domain would result in being erased in the Real world. This method of seeking survival by facing death head-on in this Gas Station Anomalous Domain was too risky and cruel—it was like gambling with my life. So, even though I considered this point later, I didn’t dare to confirm it or try it. As a result… I failed to wake up myself and them in time, and more people died.”

“Dying in the Mysterious Domain could lead to being erased in the Real world… but dying in the Mysterious Domain could also mean immediately leaving the Mysterious Domain and waking up in the Real world…”

“What are the rules of the Mysterious Domain? Does the Mysterious Domain have rules?”

“Even though I’ve experienced two Mysterious Domains, my current understanding of the Mysterious Domain isn’t even the tip of the iceberg…”