I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 208 - 208 207. I am Feng Yu_1

Chapter 208: 207. I am Feng Yu_1 Chapter 208: 207. I am Feng Yu_1 The face looked as if it had suffered from some skin disease, covered in pustules and traces of ulceration, with even stitches marring the bridge of the nose.

It lay between Lu Ban and Feng Yu, compelling one to glance to the side and make every effort to avoid it.

“If I look at it now, will I be captured by the weird entity and moved forward a row?”

Lu Ban calmly inquired.

“That’s its ‘Rules’.”

Feng Yu responded.

“An entity of this scale always has its own ‘Rules’ that bind the people who come into contact with it as well as itself. It will only harm you in the ways prescribed by the Rules, and likewise, you can use the Rules to evade it.”

“Then let me give it a try.”

Lu Ban immediately looked toward the side where the face had appeared.

In the movie, Lu Ban was suddenly dragged into the shadows by a horrifying face that extended a hand out of the darkness, screaming tragically.

This made Remington and Zi Tang shudder slightly, seemingly startled.

But the next moment, Lu Ban was already seated in the row in front of Feng Yu, right where Zi Tang had just been sitting.

“So that’s how it works?”

He looked toward the movie, and in the film next to Feng Yu’s shadow, another ragged figure appeared, slightly leaning over, getting closer to Feng Yu.

But Feng Yu didn’t react to this figure at all, and instead stood up straight away.

Ignoring the monster beside her, she walked over to Lu Ban’s side and sat down calmly.

“You can do that?”

Lu Ban found it incredible.

“No, you can’t.”

Feng Yu pressed down on Lu Ban, who was about to stand up.

“You have to follow the Rules.”

“?”

Lu Ban expressed his confusion with a question mark.

“So, you don’t have to follow them?”

“What do you think?”

Feng Yu retorted as if it were obvious.

She glanced at the two people in front and whispered in Lu Ban’s ear in a voice only he could hear.

“In this world, there are many strange entities beyond your imagination. Most of them will dissipate over time, while only a few will be solidified in some special form, forming a set of ‘Rules’ unique to themselves.”

“So, you’re saying the whole cinema is weird, but so many people have been watching movies before.”

Lu Ban looked around the theater. Under the illumination of the screen, the cinema looked dilapidated and decayed, with some areas bearing the blackened traces of a major fire, almost as if it had been abandoned for many years.

“They don’t stay fixed in one place. You know about ghost possession, right? Legends say ghosts can possess people and cause them harm. These things work similarly.”

Feng Yu said in a grave tone.

“Are you saying you’ve possessed Feng Yu?”

Lu Ban immediately replied.

“…”

Feng Yu was momentarily at a loss for words.

“I am Feng Yu.”

She said and then gently patted the seat.

“You can think of this weirdness as the remnants of an abandoned cinema or one that has met with disaster. It has been contaminated, mutated into an entity unique to this world, and formed ‘Rules’.”

“Mutation… even buildings can undergo it?”

Lu Ban had always believed that inanimate objects wouldn’t be affected by the “Corrosion” or “Pollution” from the Silent Lands, but now it seemed that even non-organic stones could be contaminated.

“As long as the intensity is strong enough, even planets can be polluted, haven’t you already seen it?”

Feng Yu chuckled lightly.

“Then, could we just find a demolition team and blast it away with a cannon to solve the problem?”

Lu Ban remembered the Nanhua Private Renji Hospital, although the building’s concrete itself had been mixed with the monster’s blood and bones and was part of the ritual that eventually led to the existence of such an anomalous space. But now, he thought, perhaps it was the monster’s presence that polluted the entire hospital, forming that place.

Based on the experience at the time, as long as they found the right moment, using some gunpowder on this building could solve most of the problems.

Otherwise, the cinema standing in the center of Jiangcheng City always left Lu Ban feeling uneasy. The thought that he, a common citizen, had to pass by such a haunted place every day made his limbs feel cold and caused him to tremble with anger.

“If it hasn’t fully formed yet, it’s possible, but not this one. And I told you, it’s like being possessed by a ghost, only happening to descend here today. As long as you abide by its rules, then it won’t do much harm to you.”

Feng Yu shook her head.

“Just wait until the time ends. After dawn, everything here will return to its original state, and the cinema will appear in some other corner of the world.”

She spoke lightly, not as if discussing the supernatural unknown but more like chatting about where it might rain today.

“We can’t eliminate it?”

Lu Ban asked again.

This was something that touched on the very nature of the world, naturally, the more he understood the better.

“At least you can’t, these are caused by pollution. Only stronger pollution can cover them up.”

As Feng Yu spoke, something happened on the silver screen.

Ding ding ding—

A certain sound rang out in the projection hall, and Lu Ban realized it was the notification tone of his cell phone.

The moment he took out his phone, Lu Ban felt the surroundings blur. When he came to, he found himself sitting in the same row as Remington and Zi Tang.

In the film, Lu Ban’s phone suddenly exploded, his hand became a bloody mess, and he let out a terrible scream.

“As time goes on, the movie’s influence on reality will get stronger,” Feng Yu said from right behind Lu Ban.

“So, the rule here is not to respond to what happens in the movie?”

Lu Ban repeated his recent conjecture.

All three of them had reacted in some way to situations that had appeared in the movie—turning heads, standing up, taking out phones—and that’s why they were forcibly moved forward. So, as long as they sit here quietly and watch till the end, everything should be fine, right?

This was truly a case of curiosity killed the cat.

“As long as we sit here and finish watching this thing, that’s okay…”

Remington seemed to have forgotten that Lu Ban and Feng Yu were NPCs in the mission. To him, these two were quite mysterious, almost like the ‘Transcendents’ of this world.

“No, that’s not right, I can close my eyes and cover my ears.”

Remington suddenly had an epiphany. Even if he knew he shouldn’t respond, just seeing some images and hearing some sounds could make his body move involuntarily. The best solution was to completely block his senses, not reacting to any stimuli, whether active or passive.

Using the techniques he learned from Hei Tower, he immediately sealed his sense of sight and hearing. Just as he was about to blur his sense of touch, Remington felt a tearing sensation in his muscles. When he opened his eyes, he saw his arms covered in claw marks, as if they had been scratched out forcefully with five fingers.

Looking around, Remington realized he had been moved forward another row.

“Looks like it’s not possible to avoid this by closing your eyes,” Lu Ban muttered to himself.

Watching a horror movie with closed eyes and covered ears is definitely breaking the rules.

After all, can a horror movie viewed through fingers still be called a horror movie?

Moreover, it seemed that continuing to move forward would result in more severe physical injuries.

Remington just now had claw marks on his hands, so next time, would there be strangle marks on his neck or even direct bleeding?

As he pondered, the scenes in the movie changed again.

This time, the movie’s scene moved to the corridor outside the cinema.