Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi once again examined the surrounding environment, even taking steps towards the corridor bridge, reaching out to gently touch the structure in this world.

Feeling the rough grains of sand on the cement wall scraping against his palm, Lin Yi was shocked by the realistic feedback of this imagined world…

It was just this simple action that caused a faint sense of fatigue to well up in his heart.

"Fatigue…?"

The vision before his eyes suddenly blurred, and the feeling of fatigue seemed to intensify.

He seemed to understand something, and suddenly rushed towards the corridor bridge.

The twisted surface of the corridor bridge was uneven, and in just a few meters, Lin Yi stumbled and almost fell, finally grabbing onto the cement wall to enter the bridge with difficulty.

He leaned on the corridor bridge, enduring the call of fatigue in his heart, straining his neck to look down below!

"Just as I thought…!"

Lin Yi's pupils contracted slightly, as he saw a world filled with white mist beneath the corridor bridge, the mountain terrain and cobblestone paths that should have been there were gone, and not even a trace of the green belt could be seen!

The white mist did not rise upwards, but remained at the bottom of the corridor bridge, extending a little further up.

The line formed by the white mist overlapped perfectly with the straightened line of moss, becoming the dividing line between the blank area and the mossy area on the corridor bridge.

As he looked at the white mist, the slightly surging mist moved slowly like waves on the beach, submerging the area almost completely covered with moss in the lower part of the corridor bridge.

At the same time, a chilling sensation that had never been felt before began to spread from the white mist.

"This isn't mountain mist!" Lin Yi instantly reacted, "This is 'contamination'! It's white mist formed entirely from the aura of contamination!"

Within the surging white mist, there seemed to be a rhythm like waves surging onto the shoreline, "Swish—swish—swish—" as if an ocean was hidden beneath it…

At the same time, a strong sense of weakness began to surge into his heart, and the intense fatigue seemed to permeate his body.

"I have to leave! Go!"

Incredibly, as soon as he firmly decided to "leave," he suddenly felt a sense of relief, and the spine that had almost been crushed by the weight of the world he felt when he saw the white mist and heard the sound of the waves straightened up at once.

He felt like a spirit, "whooshing" across the rough, uneven surface of the corridor bridge for a few meters, then passing through that layer of "gauze," overlapping with his "real" self…

…

October 23, 2023, 14:50, Teaching Building C, corridor bridge entrance.

Lin Yi's eyes suddenly focused, and he suddenly came back to his senses.

As soon as he came back to his senses, he saw a pair of uniforms that were violently "DuangDuangDuang-ing," as if some magnificent beast was being suppressed beneath…

But before he could recover, he was shaken like a small boat in a storm, and he felt his brain was also being shaken "DuangDuangDuang."

At the same time, he heard Li Huiyuan's anxious call: "Lin, wake up! Lin, Lin…"

Lin Yi quickly said, "I'm back, I'm back…"

Hearing Lin Yi's voice, Li Huiyuan breathed a sigh of relief and let go of his hands, her eyes seeming to have little pearls circling in them.

She was anxious just now, thinking that if shaking you doesn't wake you up, I'll be dizzy myself… Wake up, wake up, if you don't wake up, I'll have to slap you awake…

Then, just as she was about to make up her mind to go against her heart and give Lin Yi a big slap in the face, Lin Yi woke up.

She breathed a sigh of relief, but was still a little worried, and asked with concern: "Lin, are you okay?"

Lin Yi waved his hand while panting: "It's not a big problem, just a little tired…"

Lin Yi was very surprised, because the feeling of fatigue did follow him back, but it didn't affect his body, but his mind… or rather, his senses.

He felt a little mentally exhausted now, as if he had been studying a math problem that he couldn't solve for a long time and still got it wrong. Although there was no physical exertion, he just felt it was very mentally draining, or rather, mentally draining.

Lin Yi guessed that this mental exhaustion was because he not only had to imagine a teaching building, but also had to twist it into another form and maintain it… This mental exhaustion was a great torment to his mental strength.

Just like maintaining the operation of a server, he opened a "Minecraft" in his brain. Originally, it was just a mosaic version, and he could just look at the whole thing, but when he walked towards the corridor bridge and began to feel the real details of the world, his brain immediately pulled up the consumption in order to really create that sense of reality.

Therefore, it caused his energy to be consumed quickly, producing a strong sense of fatigue, as if his energy had been pumped away by a water pump.

But all of this was worth it.

Because he took a look at the mist at the last moment.

This was something beyond his imagination, a scene he couldn't have imagined at all… something that seemed to have invaded his "lucid daydream!"

A… virus!

"'Contamination'…" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and guessed, "The contamination I'm subjected to seems to have penetrated into the world I imagined…"

"That white mist filled the area under the corridor bridge, like the border of a world!"

One side is the imagined world, the other side is the contaminated world…

"No… it's not that kind of sense of division, it's more like the boundary between reality and imagination!"

Lin Yi was thoughtful, vaguely feeling that this imagined world was very important, and even had a counter-logical inference—could it be that he was once again attracted by the "abnormal environment of the campus," thus carrying out a "daydream that he thought he was leading," but in reality was "guided by the strange environment"?

Just like the thoughts he had on the night of May 6, that vague sense of boundary made it difficult for him to tell whether he was active or passive.

Could it be the same now?

It's just… that he thought he was acting on his own?

Although he now and he on May 6 are completely different people, but… contamination is also gradual!

The Tao is one foot high, and the devil is ten feet high. While Lin Yi is growing, the contamination in his body may be growing more and more and more imperceptibly!

Otherwise, why could he see the boundary of the world and feel the existence of the sea waves in the world of lucid daydream?

It must be because those terrifying, dangerous, dark, and bizarre... all indescribable things are hidden beneath the white mist, lurking beneath the covered bridge!

And he... under the care and guidance of the pollution, completed a fantasy without sensing any danger?

Daydreaming, the real danger isn't the daydream itself, but the gaze from the real world hidden behind the daydream!

Lin Yi realized this, but once this thought emerged, it became difficult to understand logically, like several conflicting rules suddenly intertwined, forming a paradoxical loop...

Lin Yi didn't dare to continue thinking about it. Thinking about this now was like a ball of yarn that had been played with by a cat. It seemed like there was a thread, but in reality, the inside was a mess. Pulling the thread blindly would only entangle oneself to death.

Xu Shunkang's reminder played a crucial role at this moment—walking by the river is okay, getting your shoes wet is also okay, but remember to control the degree. Falling into the river is really the end.

And Lin Yi had already sensed the logical problem within. The logic was contradictory and couldn't be self-consistent, but when singled out, each could prove itself... It was too chaotic. The problem here was definitely beyond his current capabilities.

"I'll save it for when I return to the dormitory at night and discuss it with Young Master Tian..."

Lin Yi made up his mind and buried all that he had seen and heard in his heart.

He glanced at his watch.

2:52 PM.

"It's almost three o'clock. After I rest for a bit, we'll go to the 'next stop'." Lin Yi squatted down on the spot, leaning against a pillar to rest. "Let's not waste time, just a three-minute rest to catch my breath."

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and nodded.

"By the way, when you were shaking me just now, did you feel any problems with my body temperature dropping or anything like that?" Lin Yi suddenly asked.

"No," Li Huiyuan shook her head.

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Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little more at ease.

But Li Huiyuan's expression was a little unnatural. After hesitating for a moment, she did say the two words that Lin Yi didn't really want to hear: "But..."

"But what?" Lin Yi's heart thumped like a train on a track.

"But when I was shaking you, I seemed to see smoke coming from your body..." Li Huiyuan blinked her eyes.

"..." Lin Yi pursed his lips slightly. "Is there a color?"

"It's mostly white, and then it seems to be mixed with a little green..."

"Smoke? Are you talking about mist?"

"Ah? Oh, oh, oh, right, it's mist. Huh, Lin, don't you find it strange?"

Lin Yi sighed faintly: "Hey, it's a common occurrence, what else is there to feel?"

Li Huiyuan thought seriously for a moment, then shook her head slightly: "It seems like there's nothing else."

"Phew..." Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was good that there was nothing else.

"So that means that all the changes that just happened are within the range of 'symptoms' that I usually experience. As for the mist coming out... that's worth paying attention to."

Even though, considering the depth of his pollution, it was normal for mist to come out, but he didn't seem to have this problem before.

He continued to rest, and the two of them fell silent.

Lin Yi maintained a squatting posture, leaning against the pillar, raising his head and resting the back of his head on the surface of the pillar, slowly recovering his mental strength.

Suddenly, his brow furrowed, and then he narrowed his eyes.

In a dark corner on the ceiling, he seemed to see a black shadow wriggling...

"Nightwalker?" He was startled, and then immediately reached out and rubbed his eyes, trying to pretend to cover up the fact by rubbing his eyes before the Nightwalker noticed that he was looking at it.

But he was clearly unsuccessful.

The Nightwalker, like a pool of rotten flesh, stuck to the corner of the wall, and in the distorted lines that barely formed a human face, he saw a large, bloodshot eyeball.

This large eyeball rolled around, and before Lin Yi discovered it, it had already been staring at Lin Yi!

"Damn it!"

Lin Yi cursed inwardly, good, good, good, it's starting to spy on me unscrupulously, is it?

Good, good, good, since you're playing like this, don't blame me for flipping the table!

Mirror, come!

"Li Huiyuan, lend me the mirror." He stood up slowly, with a plan in his mind, and reached out to Li Huiyuan, with the feeling of a Confucian scholar raising his hand to borrow a sword, chanting 'Sword, come!'

Li Huiyuan quickly rummaged through her pleated skirt, then took out the mirror and handed it to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi took the mirror and came to the sunlight. After opening the lid, he directly adjusted the angle with one hand. A ray of sunlight suddenly pierced into the dark corner like a blade, and slammed heavily on the large eyeball!

【Ah——】

Lin Yi seemed to hear a scream. Immediately afterward, the large eyeball rolled down from the Nightwalker's body, giving people a sense of a lizard sacrificing its tail to survive.

After the large eyeball fell to the ground, it first splattered like an exploding egg pancake, and then sizzled with white mist in the sunlight. Soon after, it hardened into a plaster-like substance.

Li Huiyuan was shocked by this scene, but Lin Yi's expression was normal. He continued to shine the light on the Nightwalker hiding in the corner.

He hadn't figured out why he was being targeted by the Nightwalker yet, but since the other party had targeted him, it was a situation of endless conflict. If he didn't strike first during the day, and waited until night, when this thing turned into a non-human classmate and used Void Enemy Search, then he would really be in grave danger.

【Let me go... Please let me go——】

The Nightwalker's body kept wriggling, like it had lost a certain frequency of pulse fluctuations, and its slimy state became more and more unstable.

Lin Yi heard its voice, but ignored it and continued to coldly bake its body with sunlight, causing it to sizzle with white mist, like a slice of beef that was becoming more and more cooked on a baking pan.

【Ah—— Ah——】

The Nightwalker screamed in pain, but as its body hardened, it gradually lost its ability to adhere to the corner of the ceiling and began to fall down like putty that was affected by gravity, separating from the ceiling bit by bit, and finally turned into a large piece of solid-liquid mixed matter, falling down with a thud.

The corridor was full of sunlight, so when it fell, Lin Yi put away the mirror and watched coldly as it changed in the sun.