Rules-related weird stories: 4016

The fabric of the student uniform tore with a "rip," and several pieces of cloth fluttered down in the student cafeteria.

“Are you alright?” Lin Yi asked, scrambling up from the ground somewhat awkwardly, his expression quickly turning to concern as he looked at Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan's face was deathly pale, and she gasped for breath in a panic. After touching her chest and back to make sure she wasn't injured, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems I'm okay… No, wait! The pocket?!"

“The pocket is ruined! Lin Yi, my… my student ID is gone!!”

“What?!” Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat.

Li Huiyuan checked again, but her eyes quickly became anxious and uneasy, and beads of sweat already covered her forehead.

“My student ID… was in my clothes pocket. When that chef tore my clothes just now, the pocket seemed to split open… My student ID, could it have fallen into the cafeteria?!”

Looking at the torn clothes and pocket, countless emotions such as anxiety, helplessness, and fear intertwined in her heart, leaving her at a loss, in disarray, and muttering, "What to do, what to do…"

Lin Yi didn't have time to comfort her and immediately turned his head to look at the plastic wind curtain.

However, the plastic wind curtain was indeed like a dividing line between two worlds. Looking at the inside of the student cafeteria through the plastic wind curtain, there was nothing to see at all.

The green-aproned chef was clearly behind the plastic wind curtain, but nothing could be seen through the transparent plastic wind curtain! Only by lifting the plastic wind curtain could the true situation inside the student cafeteria be seen!

Suddenly, the plastic wind curtain fluttered.

Lin Yi's gaze passed through the gap and saw a row of green-aproned chefs standing behind the plastic wind curtain like zombies. Their movements and expressions varied, some with their necks tilted, some with fierce eyes, and some with rampant smiles. One of the green-aproned chefs, whose head was somewhat flattened, was holding some tattered strips of cloth in his hand.

Judging from the pattern of the cloth strips, they were clearly torn from Li Huiyuan's student uniform.

He had obviously seen Lin Yi and the others looking anxious through the plastic wind curtain, and then he dropped the strips of cloth in his hand, revealing a white acrylic card.

The card had a thorny wreath pattern on it, which was clearly Li Huiyuan's student ID!

“That’s my student ID!” Li Huiyuan shouted anxiously. She wanted to rush in and grab it, but seeing the row of green-aproned chefs, she was immediately dissuaded.

Going in to get it would definitely be a one-way trip.

The green-aproned chef put the student ID to his mouth and licked the card with his tongue, as if he was licking a delicious milk chocolate, but his expression was rampant and wretched, as if he was deliberately trying to anger Lin Yi and the others, so that they would rush in.

“Lao Lin, don’t be impulsive!” Wei Shan, the most impulsive and violent of them all, held Lin Yi back at this moment.

“Yeah…” Lin Yi gritted his teeth and nodded. He had absolutely no confidence in snatching a student ID from a group of prepared green-aproned chefs, so he naturally couldn't risk it.

Seeing that Lin Yi and the others were unmoved, the green-aproned chef opened his mouth and swallowed the student ID…

Li Huiyuan clenched her fists, grabbed the corner of her clothes, and trembled with anger and fear, but her reason ultimately suppressed her impulse, so she could only rage helplessly and be powerless to do anything about it.

The wind stopped, and the plastic wind curtain closed, and the two worlds seemed to be isolated again.

The expressions on everyone's faces were not good.

【It will be very troublesome if you lose your student ID.】

The sentence with bolded and underlined text on the notice board in front of the teaching building appeared in Lin Yi's mind.

He began to quickly flash through all the rules related to "losing student ID" in his mind, but Tian Bufan stopped him: "Lao Lin, don't think too much here!"

“Her student ID probably has no chance of being recovered. Let's leave here first and then think of a solution!”

Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan was still trembling slightly. Her face was pale, and her brain seemed to have crashed and lost the ability to think. She was already in disarray. Seeing Lin Yi turn his inquiring gaze to her, she could only purse her lips and then silently said: “I don’t know what to do… I’ll listen to you guys…”

“This place is not suitable to stay for long, let's leave first!” Lin Yi said with an ugly expression. He glanced at his watch. The time was 11:29.

They left the student cafeteria at 11:27, and then stayed at the entrance of the student cafeteria for two minutes.

“Yeah.” Everyone nodded in agreement.

When about to enter the student passage, Lin Yi glanced again, without leaving a trace, at the blue-aproned chef standing at the entrance of the passage. At this time, the blue-aproned chef was still locking his gaze on their group, especially on Li Huiyuan, as if nothing had changed.

But Lin Yi vaguely felt that the nature of the blue-aproned chef's eyes had undergone some subtle changes.

Lin Yi continued to feel the burning and stinging sensation, like a wildfire spreading behind him, all the way until he entered the student passage, as if it was because Li Huiyuan had lost her student ID.

…

May 8, X023, 11:33, the group walked out of the steps of the student passage.

Feeling the warmth brought by the sun overhead, Lin Yi could feel physical comfort, but he was mentally very depressed.

“First, check if there is any ketchup on your body.” Lin Yi slowly opened his mouth, like a general ordering his soldiers to count the number of casualties after a battle.

Wei Shan didn't hesitate to take off his right shoe, then took off his clothes and checked them, and finally confirmed that only his shoe had ketchup on it.

And Lin Yi, Tian Bufan, Wei Liang, and Li Huiyuan all had no ketchup on them.

“I’ll go throw the shoes away.” Wei Shan said calmly.

Lin Yi nodded slightly: “Okay, we’ll wait for you here to leave together.”

“Okay.” Wei Shan took this battle-hardened shoe and walked down the mountain road with ease, heading towards the entrance of the staff passage.

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze, then looked at Li Huiyuan, and said seriously: “Let me check your back.”

“…” Li Huiyuan was silent for a moment, then immediately nodded, “Okay.”

The reason why Lin Yi made this request was because he found that Li Huiyuan was wearing a close-fitting sports vest.

Logically speaking, it was a little unreasonable to wear a sports vest inside a student uniform.

And it was precisely the existence of this sports vest that left only a shallow white scratch on Li Huiyuan's back, and she was not scratched by the green-aproned chef's sharp plaster-like nails.

“It should just be the clothes that are ruined, right?” Li Huiyuan said.

Lin Yi nodded: “This vest had some effect.”

Li Huiyuan was afraid for a while, but there was still a complex and regretful look in her eyes: “This vest was underwear prepared in the closet. There was originally a set of casual clothes in the style of a school uniform, but I didn’t choose to wear it… Instead, I wore the uniform I brought…”

"If, if I had worn my school uniform and kept my student ID properly, I definitely wouldn't have lost it..."

She hung her head dejectedly, her regret overflowing.

"The student ID is already lost, regretting it won't turn back time," Lin Yi sighed. "But don't worry, losing your student ID will cause you to lose your 'experiential student' status, but it won't lead to death, because you..."

Speaking to this point, Lin Yi suddenly realized something, and his words stopped abruptly.

Because [Those who lose their student IDs will be taken to the art building and become art students.]

This information came from a dream and was related to the art building. If he were to say it now, it would cause Li Huiyuan, who had already begun to lose her "current identity" due to losing her student ID, to have a cognitive breakdown.

These were words that he logically couldn't say.

"Because of what?" Li Huiyuan looked at Lin Yi with confusion.

"No reason, I misspoke just now," Lin Yi shook his head.

Li Huiyuan didn't believe him, but she chose to remain silent.

Lin Yi thought for a moment and pondered, "Perhaps we should tell the class advisor about this. I almost forgot... Although the student handbook doesn't mention what to do when you lose your student ID, it does say this—"

"[Forgetting to register and staying overnight is a very troublesome matter. The school will continue to help you solve the problem until you retrieve or confirm that you cannot retrieve your student ID.]"

"Forgetting to register refers to accidentally swiping someone else's student ID and needing to register with the class advisor, but the handbook ends by saying 'until you retrieve or confirm that you cannot retrieve your student ID.' In other words, you should tell the class advisor about this, and the school will do its best to help you find your student ID."

Li Huiyuan's thoughts had been in chaos ever since she realized her student ID was lost. Now, hearing Lin Yi's analysis, her eyes instantly lit up, and she quickly said, "Yes, yes, you're right, I'll go back and register with the class advisor right away!"

"Don't be anxious!" Lin Yi interrupted, "To be safe, it's better if you walk with us."

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and nodded.

But Lin Yi could tell from her constantly trembling body that she was actually terrified.

In fact, no one wouldn't panic in this situation.

Li Huiyuan entered the school yesterday evening. After entering the school, she accepted the abnormality of the campus through thinking in the dormitory, unconsciously overwriting her understanding of the campus. Otherwise, if this had happened today, her cognition would have definitely broken down because of thinking while not in a safe state.

"Huh..." Lin Yi suddenly paused.

"If it were a normal entry into the school, shouldn't the school use a blue bus to take the experiential students to the school gate on a relatively good day?"

"After entering the school gate, a class advisor would come to pick them up, and then, under the guidance of the class advisor, they would walk along the cobblestone road with streetlights all the way to the teaching building, register, and obtain their student IDs?"

"Then, between 18:00 and 20:30, even if they noticed a trace of strangeness, they wouldn't feel too threatened because of the incandescent lights. As long as their inspiration wasn't enough, and they didn't think about things involving the underlying logic, they wouldn't lose themselves at all."

"Next, they would stay in the classroom until around 20:30 and leave the classroom to return to the dormitory building before the abnormal weather arrived."

"Once they reached the dormitory where they could think freely, it wouldn't matter how much they thought. Before going to sleep, they would have enough time to find some clues about the campus's abnormality from the clues in various rules and silently complete the overwriting of cognition using the 'safe state' of the dormitory..."

"Damn, is this the correct way for 'normal experiential students' to open S City University?!"

Lin Yi seemed to have deciphered the mysteries of the runes, his whole body shone with inspiration, and his thinking became clear.

Compared to this "correct way to open," their way of opening was indeed very problematic!

First, they arrived at the school gate in dense fog, and then they came directly to the teaching building in a state of layer collapse under abnormal weather, entering the office from the negative first floor before arriving at the classroom.

Then, they couldn't return to the dormitory because of the abnormal weather and stayed in the classroom all night!

In this way, even if they vaguely noticed the abnormality of the campus, they wouldn't have the time to think freely and complete the overwriting of cognition, causing their "copy" to directly switch from hell mode to nightmare mode!

[With your inspiration, it is impossible to pass the screening.]

Class Advisor 039's words echoed in his mind like morning bells and evening drums.

"There's a big problem here!" Lin Yi had a feeling of cold sweat, and he suddenly felt that his coming to S City University... seemed to have been pushed into a huge conspiracy by an invisible hand!

Moreover, whether leaving or not leaving the classroom, there was a way out. In comparison, Li Huiyuan was the one who actually lived the experiential life in S City University with a little bit of inspiration!

She was the one who earned 30,000 in seven days!

And they... were the ones who risked their lives to earn 30,000 in seven days!

"Damn it! We've been tricked!" Lin Yi's forehead twitched with veins, and an unnamed fire rose in his heart.

He glanced at Tian Bufan. He felt that Tian Bufan might know something, but he didn't open his mouth to ask at this time... because his intuition told him that he also seemed to know something, but he himself didn't know why he had forgotten.

"Old Lin," Tian Bufan suddenly said.

"Hmm?"

"You can now think about any questions you haven't thought about before," Tian Bufan said calmly.

Lin Yi was slightly stunned, then shook his head: "Actually, I've thought about it pretty much."

Tian Bufan raised his eyebrows slightly, seemingly a little surprised: "Oh? It's actually faster than I expected."

Lin Yi: "?"

"Wait, I really have a question to ask you."

"Ask away."

Lin Yi then reached out and pointed to Li Huiyuan: "I remember the first time you saw her, you said 'Anyway, she won't live for a few more days.' What did that mean?"

Could it be that Tian Bufan could also predict the loss of Li Huiyuan's student ID?

But even if losing the student ID should be transformed into an art student through some means, it shouldn't be "won't live for a few more days," right?

Tian Bufan seemed to see through Lin Yi's conjecture and shook his head: "That was what I thought at that time, and it cannot be generalized to the current situation. Think carefully about what I said at that time?"