Rules-related weird stories: 4016

At this moment, inside the student cafeteria outside the convenience store, only the three incandescent lamps in front of the convenience store were still flickering. The rest of the area had been swallowed by darkness, leaving only the wriggling, pale white mist, like countless tentacles twisting and writhing.

Within that dark domain, the "rustling" sound, like swarms of sandworms moving, never ceased, making people's hearts palpitate.

"Pfft! Pfft… Pfft!"

As the last three incandescent lamps went out, the entire first floor of the student cafeteria fell into boundless darkness.

Finally, those surging heads slowly emerged from the depths of the mist. Figures stepped through the mist, arriving at the edge of the lamplight in front of the convenience store, hovering like ghosts and specters…

This was a group of nocturnal creatures, some were non-human students, and some were things like the Little Genius sculpture. Their eyes all flowed with a faint golden light, and they surrounded the convenience store like stiff corpses.

At the entrance of the convenience store, the half-zhang domain unfolded by the dim yellow light struggled to hold on in the darkness, as if it could be extinguished at any moment.

Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch.

16:52.

"The sun is about to set…" Lin Yi felt immense pressure. "I must take advantage of the time to leave the cafeteria through the convenience store and return to the teaching building…"

The weather today seemed bright, but in reality, there was a big problem. Lin Yi had never seen the sun set so early… The last time was on May 6th, the day he entered the school.

But that day was abnormal weather. Just after 17:30, the mountainous area was shrouded in rain and mist, and by the time they entered the school at 17:45, the fog was even denser.

He had an ominous premonition, feeling that such a situation was very likely to happen today.

Suddenly, Li Huiyuan beside him let out a soft exclamation: "Lin, there seems to be a note taped here!"

Lin Yi looked in the direction of her voice and, sure enough, saw an A4-sized piece of paper on the back of the convenience store door.

This paper was on the back of the door, and the door opened outwards, meaning that Lin Yi couldn't see it from his angle, but Li Huiyuan happened to see it.

Lin Yi immediately looked over, his expression becoming serious: "Convenience Store… Notice?"

"【Convenience Store Notice (1)】"

"Please remember the following content after entering the convenience store:"

"1. The name of the convenience store is for reference only. Please refer to the actual situation for the actual items."

"No matter what the convenience store you enter looks like, please firmly believe: The convenience store is on the first floor of the cafeteria, and you can leave the cafeteria and return to the campus through the convenience store."

"But to do so, please choose to purchase at least one item, follow the blue exit sign, and go to the self-service terminal to swipe your student ID (be sure it is your own student ID) before leaving."

"2. There is no owner in the convenience store, and there are only daily necessities and food. There are no souvenirs, especially things labeled 'Student Commemorative Coin'."

"If you see someone claiming to be the owner of the convenience store, please first confirm whether their badge is 「Convenience Store Owner - 00X」 (X is a number among 1, 2, and 3, and will absolutely not be any other number), and then leave the convenience store immediately."

"During this process, you can believe the words of the convenience store owner with this badge, and you can also accept the help they provide, but do not follow them. Please maintain the behavior of 「leaving the convenience store」."

"If the other party is a convenience store owner without a badge or with an abnormal badge, please tell them that you need a food containing tomato elements (you can arbitrarily fabricate the food name), and then take the opportunity to leave the convenience store while they go to find the item."

"3. Do not stay in the convenience store for too long. Please pay and leave immediately after selecting your items."

"If you feel your body temperature is dropping, please immediately grab any ready-to-eat snack that is visible by your hand (absolutely do not choose meat snacks), follow the exit sign, pay, and leave."

"4. If you are not a probationary student with a student ID, please ignore this notice and read the part on the back."

Seeing this, Lin Yi suddenly raised his eyebrows and glanced at Li Huiyuan… After reading this side of the notice, Li Huiyuan showed a strange expression when she read the last sentence.

Alright, after reading for so long, it has nothing to do with me.

Li Huiyuan then reached out and touched the note, discovering that it could indeed be turned over. Then, with a hint of inquiry, she looked at Lin Yi: "Lin, have you finished reading it? Can I turn it over?"

"Yes, turn it over, hurry up." Lin Yi nodded.

Li Huiyuan then turned the paper over, and Lin Yi also leaned over.

Li Huiyuan was stunned: "Lin… this side, are you also looking at it?"

Lin Yi said calmly: "Just taking a look, it's good to understand more. It just fits my exploration goals."

Li Huiyuan immediately stopped talking and silently looked at it.

Lin Yi also looked over immediately:

"【Convenience Store Notice (2)】"

"If you are currently in the state of 「Student without a Student ID」, please remember the following content after entering the convenience store:"

"1. You can take away any item in the convenience store (note that it must be an item with a label), but it must not exceed three items and cannot be repeated. After selecting your items, please immediately follow the blue exit sign and leave the convenience store."

"2. The convenience store owner has a badge, and the badge number is 「Convenience Store Owner - 00X」 (X is a number among 1, 2, and 3, and will absolutely not be any other number)."

"Believe the convenience store owner's words and obey all the arrangements of the convenience store (priority overrides teachers)."

"3. If the other party is a convenience store owner without a badge or with an abnormal badge, please try to divert its attention before it shows strong malice towards you (about one minute of time), and immediately escape quickly along the direction of the blue sign."

"When you see an exit with a 【No Entry】 sign in the direction of the blue sign, enter it immediately. You will shake it off and may encounter security guards."

"If you encounter security guards, tell them about this, but do not follow the security guards back."

"During the entire process, remember:"

"Do not try to attack or anger it, this will speed up the rate at which it generates malice!"

"You are not and absolutely cannot be its opponent!"

"Run! Run fast!"

"4. If you are a probationary student with a student ID, please treat the content on this side as a joke made by an idiot to prank you, ignore this notice, and read the part on the back. That part is the real rule, oh… dear~"

The end of the notice even had a cute little heart-shaped emoji, the cute style was out of place with the dark and eerie content of the note.

The content was very short. Compared to the art student rules that were like short essays, the convenience store notice can be said to be simple and clear.

Lin Yi also expressed his understanding, because the people who saw this notice had already accepted the rules corresponding to their identity, so accepting the convenience store notice could also be said to be a natural process.

Lin Yi realized that the people entering the convenience store could be divided into only two categories, which meant that sports students and art students... seemed to belong to the "same category" as far as the convenience store was concerned.

Lin Yi couldn't help but narrow his eyes, but he didn't think too much about it, and just memorized the two notices after reading them.

Time was tight now, and the first thing to do was to follow the rules and leave the convenience store, and then think about the twists and turns inside after it was safe.

Lin Yi briefly went through the two notices in his mind, and then turned to look around.

Although the air-raid shelter-like convenience store was lined with rows of shelves, it was still very empty overall. In addition, the high-hanging incandescent lamps cast fragmented light curtains, giving people a sense of emptiness and coldness.

On the ceiling of the convenience store, there were rectangular blue signs hanging like the exit signs in an underground garage, with the words: [Exit (with an arrow)]

In the shelf area, there were also signs indicating the four categories of goods: snacks, beverages, daily necessities, and others.

Lin Yi looked down at the roll of biscuits he had taken earlier and found that a food code was indeed affixed to the biscuit packaging, labeled as "Biscuits", and there were some identical packages of food on the snack shelves not far away.

"The things at the entrance of the convenience store should be taken out from here, so student souvenirs... should belong to the 'other category', right."

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"Yes." Li Huiyuan nodded, and she couldn't help but get excited when she thought that she would soon get the student souvenir.

"Time is tight, but we better not separate." Lin Yi looked down at the time. The time on the watch showed 16:59. It took them 7 minutes to read the convenience store notice. "I'll go with you."

A person can buy up to three items. He took a roll of biscuits. Theoretically, he can take two more. Of course, it doesn't matter to him whether he takes them or not. The main thing is to abide by the rules for leaving.

Li Huiyuan nodded.

So the two followed the guidance of the exit sign and walked towards the other goods shelf area.

But just as he was about to move, he suddenly felt the light behind him dimming a little...

A sense of unease suddenly surged in his heart, so he decisively turned his head to look at the door of the convenience store.

At this look, he was shocked.

I saw that the area formed by the orange-yellow light outside the convenience store had been eroded by darkness and there was little left. The森 white mist was like an invisible wall blocking the door of the convenience store, as if it would invade at any time.

And in that mist, you can clearly see the outlines of those human figures. They have come to the door of the convenience store with the darkness, but they seem to be blocked by the light, and finally stop at the door.

Suddenly, Lin Yi felt some slight distortion in his vision. The door shook like a ship sailing on the sea being washed by wind and waves.

Immediately afterwards, the lights around him began to dim, and a long and piercing buzzing sound began to sound in the air-raid shelter. The incandescent lamp on the ceiling suddenly lit up after dimming, but it released a color of light that he had never seen in the campus before—

Red!

This red light instantly submerged the original color of the incandescent lamp, and the entire convenience store instantly became a closed arc-shaped air-raid shelter flashing red lights, like an evacuation alarm when the end of the world is coming, directly filling people's hearts with a sense of oppression and tension.

The vision in front of Lin Yi became more and more distorted. He wanted to move, but he found that he couldn't move, as if his body didn't belong to him.

Immediately afterwards, the invisible barrier on the door of the convenience store suddenly disappeared, and the森 white mist poured into the door like a tide.

"Whoosh—"

It was as if a closed container containing liquid nitrogen was suddenly opened with a crack, and the thick mist poured out instantly. The convenience store spread out from the center of the door, forming a ice crack pattern formed by frost...

"Crack, click, click..."

The frost spread, the temperature of the entire convenience store dropped sharply, coupled with the swaying and flickering red lights and the harsh and long buzzing alarm, the portal connecting the student restaurant on the first floor of the cafeteria instantly turned into a gate to hell.

Behind that portal, it was as if an indescribable, incomprehensible, and unseeable terrifying existence was slowly waking up from a long dream...

"Swish, swish, swish!"

"Swish, swish, swish!"

"Swish, swish, swish..."

In the frost and white mist, the dark and strange shadows wandered like a swarm of insects. They seemed to be the vanguard imps of the Lord of Hell, ready to move in the shadows.

Suddenly, a bloodless palm stretched out from the portal with a "swish", and then slammed heavily on the ground.

It gripped the ground tightly, and the hideous blood vessels bulged on the blue-gray arm, looking like it was using all its strength to cling to the rock wall.

Immediately afterwards, its somewhat distorted body crawled out of the mist, calling "Fu Fu Fu" like a snake-shaped human monster. It closed its eyes, its head twitching like a sparrow, and smelly and sticky saliva dripped from between its teeth, "thumping" onto the floor tiles...

It seemed to want to open its eyes, but the squirming eyelids seemed to be stuck together and could not be opened no matter what.

It seemed to want to stand up, but the slightly soft blue-gray body made it able to crawl on the ground like a reptile freak without a spine.

Its nostrils fluttered, as if it smelled some kind of smell, grinning and exhaling with a "hiss", looking ferocious and terrifying.

"This is... what is this?!"

This thing is like a kind of monster whose form is between non-human classmates and nocturnal species, but in terms of threat, it is far greater than nocturnal species and non-human classmates, and even gives Lin Yi the feeling that it is even more terrifying than the strange art students!

Just then, a cold voice sounded in his ear: "There's nothing to see..."

He was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, he saw a figure walking out from his right hand side.

This figure was wearing a dark green Western-style school uniform with a square drawing board on his back, looking like a flattened Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

He walked like the wind, like a phantom, passing Lin Yi's position and walking quickly towards the strange nocturnal species.

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PS: Tinnitus is back again. I wanted to ask for leave today, but considering the convenience store notice, I gritted my teeth and wrote it out. The next chapter will also be very interesting, so I gritted my teeth and held on again. I will ask for leave on 3.20 the day after tomorrow to adjust it slightly.