Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi ran back to the dormitory entrance and reread the two copies of the dormitory rules carefully several times. Then, with a sullen face, he plopped back down in his chair.

“It’s completely different from what I initially thought…” He gritted his teeth, his expression unsightly, and slammed his fist on the table.

“That’s why I said this paper is quite interesting.” Tian Bufan seemed to always be one step ahead of Lin Yi. He had taken the paper and read it while Lin Yi was showering, and seemed to have already guessed some truth. “What did you discover?”

Lin Yi said in a deep voice, “Very contradictory.”

“First of all, before the dormitory lights are turned off, which is 0:00, non-human students actually cannot enter the dormitory at all. Only Song Rentou, who uses his student ID to swipe the door open, can enter.”

[Dormitory Rule 1], Article 5: Absolutely do not extend an invitation to the person knocking on the door. Only people with student IDs can return to the dormitory, and they will open the door themselves.

“If those non-human students want to meet the condition of ‘breaking into the door’ before 0:00, there are only two possibilities. First, they have student IDs…”

“However, what they are chanting is the identity information of Song Rentou’s roommates. If they have the student IDs of Song Rentou’s roommates and can swipe them to enter, then what's the deal with Song Rentou's roommates?”

The dormitory building rules have strict regulations:

[After exiting the elevator, please find your dormitory according to the dormitory number and swipe your student ID to open the door to enter.]

There is also a regulation:

[Do not go to the wrong dormitory!]

“To enter the door, you must be a person from this dormitory and swipe his student ID to open the door and enter.”

“But, according to this sentence, ‘I don’t know why they can open the door at this time,’ it means they didn’t open the door with a student ID at all.”

“And what needs to be noted is that he wrote ‘they,’ and ‘they’ means that the quantity is at least two or more!”

When entering the dormitory, it is one person at a time. After entering, the door is closed, and the next person swipes the card to open the door again. There is no situation where they enter together.

“So they don’t even have student IDs.”

“And they can enter the door because they ‘received an invitation,’ and the inviter… is Song Rentou!”

“And that sentence is a kind of misdirection, which is why I felt something was strange, and I didn’t think of this at first.”

In [Dormitory Rule 2 “Special Edition”], the first rule is: If you feel that the dormitory door has been opened, do not doubt it, that is because the door has been opened.

It is because of the existence of this rule that Lin Yi did not immediately doubt what Song Rentou said about them coming in. But this point became more and more wrong. The reason for this is that the situation corresponding to Dormitory Rule 2 “Special Edition” has a very harsh premise—

[If your mental state is abnormal and you still cannot fall asleep after the lights are turned off, please remember the following rules to prevent you from being unable to stay in a ‘safe’ state].

Dormitory Rule 2 Special Edition corresponds to the experience of probationary students who cannot sleep in bed after 0:00 and are still hovering on the edge of the “safe” state.

At this time, the dormitory is in a period of “lights off and water supply stopped,” and it is impossible to have “a roommate taking a shower in the bathroom.”

These two contradictory situations indicate one thing: Song Rentou “invited” non-human students into the dormitory at some point before 0:00, directly killing his roommate who was taking a shower in the bathroom.

And everything he said was to avoid the fact that he killed his roommate.

[“I don’t know why they can open the door at this time…”]

Of course he doesn’t know, because it wasn’t non-human students breaking into the door, but he opened the door himself.

On the whole piece of paper, only this sentence, which is used to exonerate him, is false, and it is precisely this sentence that has the strongest sense of disharmony.

But if this sentence itself is a lie, then everything makes sense.

Lin Yi told Tian Bufan the conclusion he had analyzed. After listening, Tian Bufan nodded slightly: “That’s right, and not only did he do this, but he also used this method to kill all his roommates.”

[“My roommate is dead, I don’t have any other roommates…”]

“But why did he do this?” Lin Yi frowned.

What is the motive for killing?

You killed someone, there has to be a reason, right?

The homeroom teacher - 039 once mentioned that the people who apply for the experience have been screened by the company or the school.

Moreover, the dormitories are not randomly selected, but are reserved after the school application is approved and before entering the school. Basically, the people in a dormitory are familiar with each other.

“So why would a person kill another person, no, several other acquaintances?” Lin Yi couldn’t figure this out, and even the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the things recorded on the paper were confusing.

Sometimes he thinks it was the roommates who attracted them, and sometimes he thinks it was he who attracted them.

Sometimes he thinks he is Song Rentou, and sometimes he says he is not, it’s like…

“Mental breakdown?”

“Could it be that Song Rentou’s will was on the verge of collapse? In this case, he is extremely sensitive to all things in the outside world, and his mind is also wildly thinking, so…”

“He opened the dormitory door when the layering was unstable?”

Tian Bufan listened to Lin Yi’s reasoning with interest. Seeing that Lin Yi stopped talking here, he said, “Actually, there is a situation that can be used to explain why he opened the door… I don’t know if you heard the calls of those humanoid sculptures on the way back to the dormitory building?”

“Probably… ‘Stay away from one of your companions, I am him, he is a fake,’ something like that?”

When Lin Yi heard this, a dazzling white light flashed across the back of his head. He did hear a similar sound!

It was when he looked back and found a fake Wei Liang lying on Wei Liang’s body.

“Are you saying… Song Rentou returned to the dormitory, and his roommate went to take a shower. At this time, he heard a call from outside the door, roughly saying something like ‘Old Song, he is not your roommate, I am your roommate, he stole my student ID, let me in, I will deal with him,’ and then he opened the door?”

“Yes.” Tian Bufan said, “Do you think there is such a possibility?”

“This…”

“Don’t rush to deny it, listen to me finish.”

“First of all, let’s simulate an environment… This situation is impossible under normal circumstances, so let’s assume that it was a foggy day similar to tonight.”

“Song Rentou and his roommates came back in the fog. In order to prevent losing themselves, they would definitely repeatedly chant their names, student IDs, and the fact that they were on their way. When they arrived at the dormitory building, they would change ‘on the way to the dormitory building’ to ‘returning to dormitory number so and so.’”

“This also gave those humanoid sculptures the opportunity to capture this information.”

Once they returned to the dorm, Song Rentou, already in a state of high mental tension from the day's events, heard voices outside the door saying things like, 'Song Rentou, don't trust so-and-so, he's fake, I'm the real one, open the door quickly, I'll deal with him.' He didn't even need to believe it; even a hint of suspicion would plant a seed of doubt.

And that seed, when a person's will isn't strong enough, can be triggered by small details that would normally go unnoticed, like... one of his roommates always brushed his teeth and washed his face before bed, but didn't tonight.

Once he starts doubting his roommates' authenticity, he'll gradually be seduced by the voices outside, eventually opening the door.

Once he opens the door, it's like inviting them in.

You can't predict whether someone who's already becoming neurotic will make irrational decisions out of impulse… put yourself in that situation and think about it. A foggy day, shadowy figures, the whole dorm is unsettling, your ears are filled with mind-bending noise, good and bad sounds mixed together, and a voice tells you that your roommates aren't your roommates. Could you sleep?

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Think about that girl who had a mental breakdown at the cafeteria entrance. Do you think she could have overcome that suspicion and not opened the door?

Impulse is like a demon. Once that thought takes root, it can't be controlled.

Lin Yi pondered, "Wouldn't his roommates stop him?"

Tian Bufan shook his head slightly, "From a behavioral psychology standpoint, once Song Rentou has that thought, unless several roommates violently restrain him, it's impossible to stop him. Because the more you try to stop him, the more Song Rentou will believe that the one outside the door is his real roommate, and the one in front of him isn't."

"When you wholeheartedly believe a lie, the truth becomes an excuse."

"What's more… what if the situation back then was even stranger? For example, everyone in the dorm heard similar voices, but only Song Rentou left a note. And if Song Rentou hadn't left a note, we wouldn't even know about this?".

"The entire dorm was full of people who were mentally unstable, everyone was suspicious, and then, these sounds rang out outside the door. So… opening the door became the consensus. Everyone tacitly agreed to opening the door."

"So… someone opened the door. This person might not necessarily be Song Rentou, for now."

"Once the door was opened, the non-human classmates poured in, dragging the people in the dorm out one by one."

"Those who were dragged out must have struggled to return, but those who remained in the dorm must have desperately closed the door, leaving them to be killed by the non-human classmates."

"Perhaps there were still people left in the dorm, or perhaps only Song Rentou remained… As for why he survived, perhaps he hid in bed and pretended to sleep—you have to know that even pretending to sleep, as long as you ignore what's happening outside, you can still achieve a state of safety."

"Once the non-human classmates left, he quickly closed the door."

"He thought he was safe, but after the non-human classmates killed his roommates, they turned their attention to the roommate who was showering."

"But, Young Master Tian…" Lin Yi thought of a loophole, "How did Song Rentou avoid being targeted by the non-human classmates?"

"Do you want to hear a somewhat outrageous but also very reasonable explanation?" Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes mysteriously.

"You… tell me?"

"In the entire dorm, only Song Rentou didn't mention anything related to his name and student ID during the entire return trip. He might have only said things like, 'I'm returning to the dorm,' 'My dorm is 1414, I'm returning to the dorm'…"

Lin Yi felt a chill down his spine, "Are you saying that Song Rentou bypassed the tracking logic of the humanoid sculptures and non-human classmates?"

"It's not impossible," Tian Bufan said. "This is what's interesting. He was able to maintain his focus on his dorm while mentally unstable, without focusing on his identity, so that in a critical moment, he could use his roommates' lives to fill his own pit."

"How outrageous is that? So it's reasonable to say 'I killed someone,' right?"

"But, after he closed the dorm door, the non-human classmates didn't leave. They were still lingering outside, and still chanting the identity information of his roommate who was showering."

"At this time, Song Rentou knew that no matter who outside was real or fake, someone would eventually get a student ID and swipe it to get in."

"And he had to find a way to fall asleep before that, because in the dorm, only 'sleeping' was an absolutely safe state."

"But, he was afraid that the roommate in the bathroom would find it strange when he came out. After all, the entire dorm had been harmed, and only you, Song Rentou, were still sleeping soundly. Does that make sense? It doesn't make sense at all."

"To eliminate this factor, he secretly opened the bathroom door, then opened the dorm door, and when the non-human classmates came in, he chose to 'ignore' them and went to bed, pretending to sleep, waiting for the non-human classmates to find the bathroom and eliminate the last roommate before closing the door after they left."

"After doing all this, his mental state didn't improve at all, but became even more unstable, so he hastily wrote this vague note."

"But when he was writing the note, he found that those non-human classmates still hadn't left…"

"But his roommates were all dead, and he finally began to doubt himself, which led to the things he said later."

"Am I right… Kuai Kuai."

As Tian Bufan finished speaking, the bathroom door suddenly opened. He immediately looked up, a questioning look on his face.

Lin Yi was stunned, only then noticing that the sound of water in the bathroom had stopped a while ago.

Kuai Hongji, having dried himself and changed into pajamas, walked out of the bathroom, glanced at them, and then offered his own opinion: "I heard… the initial part. It's not much different from what I thought, but… why do you think they need to drag people out of the dorm to kill them?"

"Huh…?" Lin Yi was stunned.

Kuai Hongji narrowed his eyes slightly, "You guys are still too naive. The kind I imagined is… much darker than yours."

He looked at Tian Bufan, "I don't believe you couldn't think of it. You just deliberately wanted to wait for me to say it, didn't you?"

Thanks to the book friend "usjdnshhs" for the reward!!

Slightly added 200 words, just to leave another suspense so that everyone won't be idle even when they are sleeping…