Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Don't be nervous, Liangzi, I'm just looking," Lin Yi quickly reassured him.

"Looking at what? You can't just look at this thing too much. If you accidentally open the wrong door, who knows what terrible things might happen!" Wei Liang said quickly, his heart in his throat.

But he quickly relaxed.

Because he found that Lin Yi was really just observing the doorknob. To reassure him, he even put his hands behind his back. From his perspective, it looked like a presbyopic, hunchbacked old man inspecting a door lock.

Lin Yi was indeed inspecting the door lock. Following the visual residue from the Exposure and Frame Dropping Vision, he found the corresponding area on the doorknob.

Soon, he found some residual white plaster-like powder on the doorknob.

Unlike the white powder particles that Mao Feiyang absorbed and then transmitted to the four of them, which were similar to white mist, carried pollution abilities, and were invisible to the naked eye, these white plaster-like powder particles looked like dried and hardened chalk dust that had been partially blown away and left behind.

Lin Yi believed that this should be tomato sauce that had been transformed into gypsum fragments after being exposed to sunlight, and then shattered.

"Just now, this thing was emitting green gas…" Lin Yi stroked his chin and pondered, while Wei Liang beside him didn't urge him.

There was no way, after all, he wasn't in a desperate hurry to pee.

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something and asked Li Huiyuan, "Li Huiyuan, can you tell what this is?"

Li Huiyuan glanced at the doorknob, didn't feel there was anything wrong, and said naturally, "Isn't this a doorknob?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi could only laugh at himself in his heart, thinking that he was overthinking things. How could Li Huiyuan see clues that even he hadn't noticed?

So he noted down the clues here and prepared to go to the bathroom, but just then, Li Huiyuan seemed to be attracted by something. She suddenly frowned and leaned closer, letting out a soft "Huh."

"Student Lin…" Li Huiyuan suddenly spoke, "It seems like there's green smoke coming out of here."

Wei Liang reacted even faster than Lin Yi. This guy was originally looking around, but when he heard Li Huiyuan's words, a trace of alertness flashed in his eyes, and then he shook his head helplessly, shook his sleeves like an old general in an opera, and raised his hands to cover his ears.

Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang, and then said, "Oh, where is it?"

"Right here," Li Huiyuan pointed to the keyhole on the doorknob.

But Lin Yi couldn't see anything in his eyes. Even so, he still showed a look of contemplation: "What else did you see?"

"Nothing, just green smoke," Li Huiyuan shook her head.

"Then what about the door? Is there anything unusual on the door?"

"Nothing on the door."

Nothing… Lin Yi couldn't help but feel confused: "Okay, I got it."

"Oh! It's gone!" Li Huiyuan suddenly exclaimed, "That green smoke is gone again!"

"No, wait…" Lin Yi interrupted, "I'm a little confused, let me sort things out."

Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not…

What the hell?

Could it be that Li Huiyuan is also hallucinating?

"It's like when a fire burns out and is extinguished," Li Huiyuan said softly.

Fire burns out? Extinguished? Lin Yi suddenly felt a flash of inspiration.

"It's tomato sauce!"

After the tomato sauce flows out of the crack of the door, it will be petrified into plaster-like fragments when exposed to light, and then the gypsum fragments will be crushed and disappear…

"If this process is a 'burning' process, then what emerges in the process is this 'green smoke'?"

"The reason why I could see this green smoke just now is because I was hallucinating, and it was constantly emitting smoke."

"And Li Huiyuan can see the green smoke because she… after being contaminated, she has been in a state where she can see more things than me?"

"After she noticed the green smoke, the tomato sauce 'burned' out not long after, so it stopped smoking."

Suddenly clearing his thoughts, Lin Yi felt that his range of knowledge had become wider.

But there were still some things he couldn't figure out, such as… He could see the almost dried-up green bloodstains on the door, but Li Huiyuan couldn't find them in her eyes.

"Perhaps… her and my vision are limited for our own reasons. To some extent, she can act as an extension of my vision!"

"The 'cannon fodder' that Young Master Tian said, is that what it means?"

Cannon fodder isn't just for sacrifice.

Being in a dangerous situation to eliminate risks for those who come later is also a type of cannon fodder.

It's just that calling it cannon fodder is an exaggeration of the danger.

And the key is… Tian Bufan had already predicted the current situation the moment he saw Li Huiyuan.

"Fortunately, Young Master Tian is one of us…" Lin Yi couldn't help but think. If Tian Bufan was a schemer, then every step he took would be calculated by Tian Bufan.

Even, Tian Bufan can immediately deploy new strategies as soon as he comes into contact with new "chess pieces"…

This feeling of strategizing is the scariest thing about him.

Lin Yi had a whim, wondering what Tian Bufan was doing today.

How much valuable information and resources can he get when they communicate in the evening?

Thinking of this, Lin Yi suddenly became excited, but in the next moment when excitement and anticipation arose in his heart, another thought suddenly rushed into his mind—

"Lin Yi, why are you starting to be curious about the campus?"

This thought was like a bucket of cold water pouring down, instantly extinguishing the emotions he had just ignited.

"Yeah! Isn't exploring the campus something that Young Master Tian wants to do? Why has it become something that I'm 'interested' in?"

"I should have to explore the campus in order to save Maozi, how did I start turning passivity into initiative…?"

"Is it the indescribable things in the campus that are affecting me? Or… or am I really starting to have an uncontrollable curiosity and desire to explore the campus?"

"I…"

Lin Yi's breathing gradually became rapid, and his will began to be in a state of division, as if there were two little people arguing in his mind, one little person told him to continue to explore passively, and the other little person instigated him to use Li Huiyuan to explore the boundaries of the rules in the campus…

His head started to feel dizzy again, and his breathing became more and more rapid.

He saw the doorknob beside him, and seemed to hear Li Huiyuan's concerned greetings.

"I…" He held his breath, suppressed the two little people who were arguing in his heart, and interrupted his increasingly rapid breathing rhythm.

"Calm down."

"Calm down!"

"Calm down!!!"

Lin Yi took a deep breath, as if he wanted to inhale the breath of the whole world into his abdomen.

He held his breath, letting the air, mixed with the fragrance of grass and the scent of soil, swirl in his chest. He kept telling himself to calm down, and then slowly straightened up.

In this process, the various complex emotions that were constantly stirring in his heart were gradually swept away, and he felt the noise in his ears diminishing…

Finally, only Li Huiyuan and Wei Liang's somewhat anxious calls remained.

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"Lao Lin (Classmate Lin)… Lao Lin (Classmate Lin)…"

Their voices were very distant, and then they got closer and closer, until Lin Yi completely recovered, and the voice was already close to his ear.

Lin Yi realized that Li Huiyuan was indeed calling him, and Wei Liang was indeed calling him, but only he, after falling into a vortex of thought, pulled his feet out of the vortex on his own.

He patted his head with his palm, feeling a psychological headache: "Is there something wrong with my body? The frequency of exposure to high-definition images is getting higher and higher these days…"

"I'm fine." Lin Yi waved his hand and glanced at his watch.

13:02.

He comforted, "Let's go, let's go to the toilet."

Wei Liang couldn't help but mutter in a low voice: "Lao Lin, do you think you are clashing with the toilet? Why does every trip to the toilet trigger extra plots?"

"Maybe…" Lin Yi was also a little helpless. Some warnings suddenly appeared in front of him, and he couldn't control them at all.

"If it really doesn't work, let's get a bottle, and you can handle it quietly in the classroom?"

"…" The corner of Lin Yi's mouth twitched slightly, "Have you tried it?"

Wei Liang shook his head directly: "I haven't tried it, mainly because I'm afraid of being beaten."

After passing Group B Class 1, there is a corner. Going straight along the corner leads to a fork in the road. One side is the toilet, and the other side is the teaching building elevator.

The men's toilet faces the corridor, while the women's toilet requires a ninety-degree turn around the men's toilet to reach it.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang entered the men's toilet, Li Huiyuan hesitated for a moment, and still walked towards the women's toilet.

The men's toilet didn't seem to have any problems. Lin Yi didn't encounter any accidents when he went to the toilet, and even no hallucinations occurred. Everything was so normal that he, who was already used to encountering danger, felt a sense of unreality.

Beside him, Wei Liang, who had obtained "Shikai," was raising his eyebrows, making the mothballs in the urinal spin around, like a cheerful little top.

Lin Yi was thinking about what to do next, whether to go to the elevator or to the廊桥, or to climb the stairs?

After he finished, he went to wash his hands, but when he finished washing, he found that Wei Liang was still urinating.

"Liangzi?" He called out, but Wei Liang didn't seem to hear him, maintaining the "Shikai" posture in front of the urinal, motionless.

An ominous premonition instantly spread in his heart. After washing his hands, he suddenly saw "Wei Liang" standing in front of him expressionlessly.

Lin Yi was taken aback, and his pupils contracted sharply, but he didn't speak. Instead, he silently took a step back, allowing his body to enter the area covered by sunlight.

The sink in the teaching building's toilet is not inside the toilet, but in a public area. There is a mirror above the sink, and a vent window next to the mirror on the side of the men's toilet.

"Wei Liang" stood on the side of the vent window, looking at Lin Yi like a soulless shell. It opened its mouth dully, but didn't make any sound.

Its appearance seemed to have big problems. Lin Yi subconsciously had serious doubts about its identity as "Wei Liang," so he didn't respond to him at all. He just stood in the sun to maintain a safe state, and then shifted his gaze away from him.

"When did the problem occur this time?" Lin Yi frowned and couldn't help but recall the scene just now, "When did the layers fall? Hmm… is this a problem of layers falling?"

It doesn't seem to be.

Because if it was a layer falling, there would definitely be some visual problems such as light and shadow collapse, and auditory problems such as the sound of sea breeze and waves calling. But he didn't encounter these situations.

"Could it just be a 'ordinary' hallucination, allowing my sight to once again penetrate the layers and see things I shouldn't see?"

"But why the hell does it look like Liangzi?"

"He's not Wei Liang, definitely not." Lin Yi shook his head secretly, affirming this idea in his heart.

Sure enough, when his thoughts were determined, the facial features of "Wei Liang" behind the vent window began to wither like a balloon with the air sucked out. The facial features began to be disordered and wriggling, and finally turned into a paste-like abstract appearance.

It slowly retreated backwards, until it retreated into a dark corner, and then disappeared as if melting into the darkness…

With its disappearance, Lin Yi's originally dim vision seemed to brighten a lot, as if the clouds had drifted away from the sun, allowing the originally dim earth to regain its light.

Lin Yi seemed to "sense" its departure, raised his head and looked at the vent window, and then saw its appearance before it completely disappeared—a pure white, wriggling liquid creature.

If the metal liquid robot in Terminator is used as the closest analogy, the form shown by "Wei Liang" after its shape could not be maintained was a bit like a "plaster liquid humanoid creature."

In fact, Lin Yi was not sure whether he could crown it with the definition of "creature."

"Damn it!" He couldn't help but curse in his heart, "What the hell is that thing?!"

"When I thought it was Liangzi, it looked like Liangzi. When I determined that it was definitely not Liangzi, it couldn't even maintain the outline of a person!"

"Could it be a layer creature that anchors its own form with my 'cognition'?" Lin Yi directly gave two conceptual names in a guess. The appearance of these two names was so smooth that it didn't seem like he had come up with them by accident.

This kind of precise naming ability is more like what Tian Bufan usually shows in order to facilitate his handling of things…

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, and while silently reciting his name, student number, and "Liangzi is in the toilet" in his heart, he walked into the men's toilet and looked at the urinal where Wei Liang was originally urinating.

However, Wei Liang was not there at all.