The entire world has entered a phenomenon where supernatural events and urban legends randomly appear everywhere. Governments are beginning to disintegrate, the public is in panic, and world order no longer exists. Objects can attack people at any time. Asian and Eastern Urban Legends:
Red-Clad Girl: A famous mountain ghost from Taiwan, often appearing in footage from hikers. Believed to be a "demon child" that lures people astray.
Kuchisake-onna (Slit-Mouthed Woman): A classic Japanese legend. A woman wearing a mask asks, "Am I beautiful?" Regardless of your answer, you will be attacked.
Hanako-san of the Toilet: A Japanese school legend. Knock on the stall door in the school bathroom and call her name, and she will appear and pull you into the toilet.
Ningen-gyo (Human-Faced Fish): A Taiwanese legend from the 90s. A tilapia caught has a human face on its body, which asks in Taiwanese, "Is the fish meat delicious?"
Bride's Pool, Hong Kong: Legend has it that a bride drowned here, and since then, there have been frequent supernatural car accidents and sightings of a bride in red.
Western Urban Legends:
Slender Man: A legend born from the contemporary internet. Exceptionally tall and thin, faceless, wearing a suit, it abducts and brainwashes children.
Bloody Mary: A classic mirror curse. At midnight, light a candle in front of a mirror and chant her name three times to see her ghost.
Alligator in the Sewers: A classic New York urban legend. It is said that people flushed pet alligators down the toilet, and they mutated and reproduced in the sewers by eating garbage.
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: You pick up a mysterious woman on a desolate road late at night. After dropping her off at her destination, you look back to find the back seat empty.
The Hook: A cautionary tale passed among teenagers. A couple is dating in a car late at night when the radio broadcasts that an escaped convict is nearby. Suddenly, a blood-stained iron hook appears on the car door.
Twisting Thing: It usually appears as a pure white (rarely black) shadowy humanoid figure. Its body is boneless, and it twists and contorts madly in distant fields, bushes, or by the water.
Appearance Time and Location: It usually appears at noon in midsummer, typically in wide-open, sparsely populated rural farmlands or coastlines.
Core Rules (Curse Mechanism) of the Legend:
The most chilling aspect of this legend is its "understanding curse":
Harmless from afar: If you only see it twisting from a great distance, not knowing what it is, you will not be harmed.
Cannot look directly and understand: Once curiosity strikes, and you use binoculars to observe it closely, or get too close to "see and understand" what it is, your mind will instantly collapse and you will go completely mad.
Classic Ending: In most versions of the story, the protagonist goes to the countryside with his brother or friends. After one of the companions looks at it through binoculars, he reveals an extremely fearful and eerie smile and becomes a madman from then on, while the protagonist escapes unharmed because he didn't look.