My Rule Is Banned?

[Doctor of Folklore x Weird Tales of Rules x IQ Crushing] My name is Chen Xi, a PhD student in folklore who is about to graduate. The last message my mentor left before he disappeared was: "Don't sing the introduction to Nuo opera in the third tone." I read it. Then, all the lights in the city went out at the same second. From that day on, my perspective on the world changed—— On the last subway train late at night, you cannot look at your phone in the last car, otherwise you will see yourself three days ago. In an uninhabited old house, the sound of wooden fish can be heard at midnight every day. You must maintain a breathing rate of once every three seconds. In the hospital morgue, if the corpse opens its eyes, you must say "You are dead, don't look back"... These are not urban legends, but "rules" in effect. Others struggle to survive in fear, trying to defy the rules with brute force. And I opened the notebook left by my instructor and started my "field investigation"—— I use structuralism to analyze the internal logic of rules, semiotics to interpret the metaphorical codes of rules, and cultural anthropology to trace the origin and evolution of rules. I even wrote a paper: "On the origin, structure and deciphering methods of strange stories about rules - a field investigation based on 142 incidents in a certain city." They say that in the face of unspeakable fear, mortals can only despair. I disagree. Fear can be understood, rules can be deconstructed, gods... Can be written about. ---