Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Bathed in sunlight, the Night Walker emitted white mist as its body visibly hardened.

This process lasted only a minute, transforming the Night Walker into a pure white, plaster-like sculpture.

Just as Lin Yi thought it was over, a sudden dizziness struck, plunging his vision once more into that exposed film-like state.

In this altered vision, he clearly saw the green mist within the Night Walker desperately leaking out like a dam had burst. In the real world, it evaporated like white mist, but here, it appeared as a green substance.

This time, however, Lin Yi caught a new change in the green mist. The evaporating green mist gradually coalesced into green powdery particles, which then floated towards him like snowflakes!

"Huh…?!" A glint of wariness flashed in Lin Yi's eyes, and his body instinctively reacted, attempting to dodge.

But the green powdery particles seemed to "excite" at this reaction, accelerating as if drawn by some force, tracing a tricky arc directly towards his chest!

"Damn it? It's tracking?" Lin Yi's scalp tingled, an subconscious sense of being locked on arose—impossible to dodge, utterly impossible!

The next moment, these green powdery particles struck his chest like a swarm of miniature missiles, shattering into a thin green mist with a series of 'puff puff puff…' sounds, adhering to his skin!

"Damn!" Lin Yi quickly felt his chest, pulling open his collar to peer inside.

What he saw made his hair stand on end. A nail-sized green mark had appeared on the area where the green mist had adhered. He tried to scratch it off but found it different from the nail mark left on Li Hui Yuan's back when she was attacked by the green hat.

Li Hui Yuan's mark could be scratched off, but this one seemed impossible to remove, like a tattoo…

And at that moment, his vision returned to normal, flickering on and off like Duan Yu's Six Meridian Divine Sword in its early stages…

After returning to normal, he discovered that the nail-sized green mark on his chest was invisible to the naked eye, as if there was no problem at all.

But just because the problem was invisible didn't mean it was nonexistent. His face immediately darkened.

In such situations, not being able to find the problem was the biggest problem.

"Hiss… Damn it, what the hell is this?"

Lin Yi subconsciously clenched his teeth, the muscles in his jaw tensing.

"Calm down, calm down, calm down…"

"Although this green mark looks different from Li Hui Yuan's, they should both be some kind of contamination mark…"

This green powdery particle seemed different from the white powdery particle. He remembered that the strange art student and art teacher absorbed the white powdery particles and released the green ones…

Just like contamination has depth, Lin Yi suspected that these marks might also have "levels." His mark was clearly a bit more troublesome than Li Hui Yuan's…

"For now, let's call it the 'Green Mist Mark'… No, damn it, Green Mist Mark!" Lin Yi suddenly felt ashamed. When did he develop this habit of subconsciously defining names for such things?

But to be honest, this name… seems a bit apt.

But now was obviously not the time to gloat over his naming ability. The real issue was to find a way to erase this Green Mist Mark…

Lin Yi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and tried to set aside his position as a party involved, standing from an observer's perspective to re-examine the matter, hoping to find any overlooked clues.

If the Green Mist Mark had to mark a unit, there were him and Li Hui Yuan here. Why didn't it fly indiscriminately towards him and Li Hui Yuan, but specifically targeted him?

Did it dislike him?

Impossible.

"There must be some logic to it."

"For example… is it because I used the mirror to kill that Night Walker? So, the green powdery particles in its body turned into the Green Mist Mark and attached to my body?"

"But if that's the case, why didn't it happen when I burned the Night Walker in the stairwell with the mirror before… No, wait, it seems like it did!"

Lin Yi recalled the scene at the time. He did attack the Night Walker, but he didn't kill it. Instead, he petrified the outermost part of its body, but the deepest part retained something like a blood vessel. If Xu Shun Kang and Xie Hua Yang hadn't come to "clean up," that Night Walker might not have died completely.

And when Xie Hua Yang smashed it with a baseball bat, his vision didn't turn into exposed picture quality, so even if there was, he couldn't see it, and… logically speaking, that Night Walker's mark should have been for Xie Hua Yang!

Lin Yi pondered. Could this Green Mist Mark really be a mark left by a Night Walker upon death to lock onto the "murderer?"

But wasn't it already dead?

So, it was used to locate and show to others?

It's like playing a game. Originally, it was a 5V5 team fight. Both sides fought back and forth with full-screen effects. In the end, only one unlucky person died. Originally, everyone didn't know who killed him, but at this time, a broadcast suddenly popped up on the screen—

['Black and White Contrasting Stocking Lolita' killed 'Internet Cafe War God Yellow Pubes'!]

Okay, now everyone knows what they should and shouldn't know. "Internet Cafe War God Yellow Pubes" was killed by that 'Black and White Contrasting Stocking Lolita'.

After a long time, others may not remember who the Internet Cafe War God Yellow Pubes is, but the Black and White Contrasting Stocking Lolita will always have a kill count over her head.

And Lin Yi is now this Black and White Contrasting Stocking Lolita. Even if others don't know how he killed the Night Walker, the Green Mist Mark on his body, representing the "kill count," is real.

And this Green Mist Mark is also equivalent to telling the Night Walkers that I killed one of your guys.

"Damn…"

Reaching this point in his deduction, Lin Yi only felt a chill down his spine. This Green Mist Mark is okay during the day. If it's on me, so be it. At worst, I'll bask in the sun and be invincible.

But the sun is not always out. Once night arrives, or during abnormal weather that causes the light to drop, even the usually arrogant and imposing athletic students have to retreat. When the Nightwalkers take over, my green mist mark is as obvious as a lighthouse on my head.

Not only that, but it's like there's Alim on top of the lighthouse, dancing the Shin Takarajima and shouting, "Hit me~ Go on, hit me~~"

It's practically a high-hanging 'looking for death' gold medal!

Lin Yi felt a chill run down his spine at this thought, yet he can't avoid these things!

This time, he wasn't the one who started it!

The Nightwalker targeted him first!

Lin Yi sighed softly… but suddenly, another image flashed in his mind.

Wei Shan… seemed to have beaten up a Nightwalker?

Hmm…?!

That's right, Wei Shan attacked a Nightwalker!

He remembered dreaming that night about Wei Shan and the athletic students fighting the inhuman classmates in the darkened classroom. And those inhuman classmates were still in their Nightwalker-dominant form!

Back then, Wei Shan was throwing kicks and punches, knocking the Nightwalkers out cold with a single blow…

"There's something to it!" Lin Yi's eyes suddenly lit up. "Could it be that Wei Shan has already 'grasped the secrets of the runes'? Does he know something? Otherwise, how could he knock out a Nightwalker with one punch?"

Moreover, Wei Shan had twice volunteered to hold the rear when leaving the cafeteria!

"Wait…?!"

"Speaking of holding the rear… Tian Gongzi stopped Wei Shan once. Could it be that he also knew something all along?"

"No, there's no 'could it be'. Tian Gongzi definitely knows a lot, it's just that…"

It's just that Lin Yi felt that Tian Bufan was like a compressed file containing many secrets. As the time he spent on campus increased, the amount of decompressed content also increased…

But if Tian Bufan knew everything, why would he still explore the campus?

Ah, I can't figure it out…

Lin Yi shook his head secretly. What he could be sure of right now was that the green mist mark couldn't be erased through conventional means, but Tian Bufan and Wei Shan should know some clues related to it.

"When it's time for dinner, I'll ask them about this… I have to ask before going to bed at the latest." Lin Yi didn't want to go to bed with such a big question hanging over him.

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He looked down at his watch.

15:03.

Tsk… He frowned slightly.

The original plan was to rest for only 3 minutes, and then get up and leave at 14:55, but he didn't expect to be delayed by a few minutes because of the Nightwalker issue.

There were only half an hour left before he had to leave for the cafeteria.

"Half an hour… In theory, that's enough time." Although he thought so in his heart, he wasn't confident.

After all, so many things happened just from taking a look at the covered bridge, and there were still two places he was going to "take a look" at next—the stairwell and the fourth floor of the teaching building.

He wanted to go to the fourth floor to look for the stairs to the fifth floor of the teaching building, still using that rule-bending probing method, looking for it, and if he didn't find it, then so be it, but if he found it, he would just take a quick look.

According to the teaching building rules: [If you inadvertently discover areas other than the fourth floor of the teaching building, you are prohibited from going there.]

Therefore, he could "inadvertently discover" it, but not go there, keeping himself on the edge of safety, using the momentum to drift through the drainage ditch.

And going to the stairwell and the fourth floor of the teaching building could actually be summarized as one thing, because going upstairs itself requires walking the stairs.

"Let's go, let's go back to Building A." Lin Yi returned the mirror to Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan put away the mirror, then glanced at the sculpture-like object with some worry, and hesitated: "Lin, should we smash that sculpture before we leave?"

Lin Yi looked at her in surprise: "You want to smash it?"

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips: "Didn't the previous students smash that Nightwalker with a baseball bat?"

Lin Yi hesitated for a moment: "But I don't have a baseball bat…"

"Then what should we do?" Li Huiyuan became worried, "If we don't smash that thing now, will it turn back at night?"

"Emmm…" Lin Yi frowned, looked around, and suddenly thought of something, "Don't move here, I'll be right back."

With that, he walked down the steps of Building C, onto the cobblestone road, to pick up some stones by the roadside.

The sun at 3 PM was still warm, casting a sense of strength on his back. Lin Yi felt like his "years of old rheumatism had been cured."

And just as he had picked up enough stones, holding them in his hands, ready to take them back to Building C, as he stood up from the sunlight, he suddenly felt like he had squatted in the toilet for too long, then suddenly stood up and experienced low blood sugar. His head had a dizzy feeling caused by poor blood circulation. At the same time, his vision suddenly collapsed, and black and white lines began to twist and merge…

Less than 10 minutes!

In less than 10 minutes, he entered this kind of vision again!

He quickly looked down at his chest, and sure enough, he saw the green mist mark again, but this time he didn't observe the green mist mark, but was deeply shocked by another scene in front of him.

He saw that Building C in front of him had completely turned into an X-ray film, as if it had been fluoroscoped. The twisted black and white lines were clearly visible on the overexposed negative. The edges and outlines of the teaching building were instead blurred a lot…

However, what shocked and terrified him was not the image of the teaching building, but those green banana-shaped substances lurking and cowering in the cracks of the teaching building's lines, like living flesh and blood, slowly wriggling!

Nightwalkers!

Countless Nightwalkers!

Lin Yi's scalp suddenly went numb, feeling a current rushing from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head, and then fiercely blowing off his celestial spirit cover!

He saw countless Nightwalkers hanging upside down in the dark corners of the teaching building. The slowly expanding and contracting frequency was as rhythmic as a beating heart, but he still felt a deep sense of horror.

At this moment, Building C in his eyes seemed to have become a nest of Nightwalkers!

Like a bat cave.

The Nightwalkers were like countless bats, densely packed on the top of the bat cave. The dark, humid, and strange atmosphere was like a cold mist slowly eroding, making him feel a trace of coolness.

"Could it be that I was wrong from the beginning?! Is the teaching building the real nest?!"

[21:00 Prohibited from leaving the classroom.]

This rule suddenly popped into his head.

Damn, the reason why it's prohibited to leave the classroom after 21:00 is because… the Nightwalkers collectively come out at night?