Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Green Belt?!", Lin Yi's eyes widened. "Is it like not being able to find the school gate? Can't find the library either?"

First, there's the art building that exists without being marked on the map, and then there's the library that's marked but doesn't exist.

This campus is getting more and more interesting… Lin Yi muttered through gritted teeth.

"It's not that outrageous," Tian Bufan gently shook his head. "I stopped in front of the Green Belt, but… that Green Belt is located behind the teaching building."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi felt a jolt of electricity run through him, and several ideas flashed through his mind, but he couldn't quite grasp them.

The three teaching buildings are connected in a row, seemingly with many entrances, but in reality, you can only go up from the steps, and the steps all face the same direction.

In other words, under normal circumstances, you can't go back to the teaching building by going around to the back. And although it's just the back, the teaching building is built on a hillside, so the front and back are completely different routes!

"But Lao Lin, think about it carefully… what's behind the teaching building?"

"Isn't it the Green Belt and the mountains?"

"Think about it carefully again," Tian Bufan said with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.

Lin Yi tried hard to think, and then suddenly realized something, exclaiming, "You mean… the library is in the teaching building?!"

Otherwise, how would he mention unconsciously entering the library?

"Speaking of which, you gave me the inspiration to sort out this logic just now," Tian Bufan admitted frankly.

"Ah?" Lin Yi was stunned again, but this time he immediately reacted. "Wait, Young Master Tian, are you saying… the layer where Teaching Building D is located is related to the library?"

"I even suspect…" Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes, saying each word carefully, "Teaching Building D is the library."

"Hiss…"

A sound of drawing in cold air broke the silence.

But Lin Yi realized that he had just opened his mouth when someone preemptively took a breath of cold air?!

"Hey, weren't you asleep?" Tian Bufan reached out and pushed Wei Liang's bed.

Responding to him was Wei Liang's very deliberate 'snoring' sound.

"…" This operation directly silenced everyone else.

"Teaching Building D is the library…" Lin Yi repeatedly chewed on this sentence as if to break it down and analyze it.

At the same time, the rules regarding Teaching Building D and the library also appeared in his mind one by one.

Okay, no need to list them one by one…

Because there are only three in total:

【The teaching building has only four floors, no basement, no elevator, and no Building D. If you accidentally discover areas other than the four floors of the teaching building, you are forbidden to go there.】

【You can only use the stairs to go up and down the teaching building, and you can only take the elevator to the library…】

【When a classmate in the teaching building invites you to take the elevator, or someone in the library advises you to take the stairs, please ignore them and stay away from them immediately. They are not your classmates…】

Assuming the library is Teaching Building D, then the first rule is valid from another perspective?

The teaching building has no Building D, yes, no Building D, because that's the library, but it's connected to the teaching building by a廊桥(lángqiáo - covered corridor bridge).

What kind of genius word logic is this.

I'm so damn impressed.

Suddenly, Lin Yi also noticed a detail that he had previously overlooked—on this scenic area-like campus map, each building has its own special icon.

The teaching building in the very center has an icon of three connected '目' (mù - eye) characters, labeled as "Teaching Building."

The buildings distributed around the teaching building, the gymnasium has a square with a circle inside, representing the gymnasium and the sports dome, labeled as "Gymnasium."

The canteen's icon is a sun-like icon, a circle representing the canteen, with several light-like things around it that seem to represent many passages, labeled as "Canteen."

The dormitory's icon is a rebar… emmmm… at least, it looks like a rebar. It's a huge axial rod with a simple spiral pattern, labeled as "Dormitory."

The art building's icon is a circle, with a "?" inside the circle, followed by a "×" on the right, and it's not drawn in a fixed position, but just labeled in the corner: "Art Building?"

As for the library… according to the campus map's guide, the library has three paths, two of which connect to the canteen and the teaching building respectively, while the third is a ray.

And the library's icon is actually… a clock face plus a square?

No, that doesn't seem to be a clock face, that seems to be… a clock tower?!

Wait!

Why is it a clock tower?!

Lin Yi stared intently at the library's icon, and one picture after another flashed through his mind.

The appearance of Building D seen from Teaching Building C…

The appearance of Teaching Building D seen on the way back to the teaching building from the canteen…

"It seems, indeed, really… is a building with a clock tower?"

"But the clock tower… the art building also has a huge clock tower!"

"Hmm, it seems a little different… Well, the art building can have a clock tower, and the library can also have one!"

"Hiss, wait a minute…"

Lin Yi felt like he had missed some details, and then stared at the library's icon and thought carefully. Then, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him!

When he entered the school, he looked at the campus through the bus window and saw the shadow of the clock tower. But after entering the campus, he never saw a similar building in the normal layer of the campus.

And the day he entered the school… was an abnormal weather!

On the evening of May 6th, Teaching Building D revealed itself from the layer in the form of a library?

So, the "Library-102" lamppost ends at the back of the teaching building, because if it extends further from the back of the teaching building, it would be Building D!

And precisely because it is Building D, there will be situations where people inadvertently walk across the廊桥(lángqiáo - covered corridor bridge) and mistakenly enter the library, or they know there is no Building D but still have an explosion of curiosity to go and see Building D!

And the library must also have library rules, but in order to prevent people who mistakenly enter from mistakenly going upstairs, the rules specifically state—you can only take the elevator to the library!

"So, it seems… it makes sense?"

Lin Yi's gaze slowly left the campus map and looked at Tian Bufan with some surprise.

Tian Bufan nodded: "Your speculation about Building D inspired me to connect them together. However, whether this speculation is accurate or not needs to be verified by personally going to Building D."

"Of course, I mean, don't go now. At any time, unless you have relative certainty, don't do things that exceed your understanding."

"Okay," Lin Yi nodded.

Tian Bufan glanced at the grandfather clock.

23:12.

A long conversation with intense thinking made time pass inadvertently. Now there are less than 50 minutes left before the dormitory lights go out.

"Time is running out. Let's talk about the canteen and then go to sleep," Tian Bufan asked.

Lin Yi said, "Okay."

Lin Yi then narrated in detail what happened when he was looking for the convenience store in the canteen. This part was explained in detail, and it was already 23:25 after he finished. Tian Bufan didn't interrupt a word and listened to his narration silently.

"Finally, when Li Huiyuan and I escaped from the convenience store, we found that we had actually appeared in the student passage."

"Also, the 'As Is' blue bib chef standing at the entrance of the student restaurant and in the student passage actually told Li Huiyuan the location of the convenience store. I couldn't determine which side he was on for a while, and I could only think that he didn't belong to the non-human category for the time being based on the color of his bib…"

"Secondly, the entrance of the convenience store doesn't exist in the normal layer, and the convenience store itself must be in another layer…"

"According to the 'As Is' blue bib chef's description, the convenience store is located in 'an area that is illuminated by sunlight but not by lights'. To enter the convenience store, you need to find a… hidden corner."

“As for how to enter the convenience store and give Li Huiyuan the task, the homeroom teacher - 040 said nothing. Instead, it was the blue-aproned chef who spoke, which is so strange…”

“And the inside of that convenience store made me feel like a bomb shelter filled with shelves. Moreover… there was even an area in the convenience store that wasn't illuminated by any lights!”

“Li Huiyuan stepped part of her foot inside, and as a result, that part was immediately turned into a sculpture.”

“It was like there was a transparent barrier there, not stopping you from passing through, but if you actually did pass through, you would be finished.”

“Also… I noticed that whether it was the cafeteria or the classroom, there was a process and pattern from the lights flickering to going out.”

“The order in which the lights went out wasn't random, but followed a pattern, like a ‘wave’ condensed from a certain point. As this ‘wave’ brewed and took shape, the lights began to flicker.”

“And when this ‘wave’ was triggered from that point, the area it passed through turned dark one by one.”

“And the path of the area where the lights went out is equivalent to the path of the wave.”

“Moreover, I reverse-engineered the path of the ‘wave’ and finally discovered that the origin of this ‘wave’ seemed to be that mysterious window number 10…”

“And coincidentally, when the ‘wave’ began to advance, a large amount of fog, as if seeping out from nowhere, appeared in the cafeteria, and the green-aproned chef and those non-human students began to close in, taking advantage of the fog.”

“I even seemed to have spotted the shadow of the bizarre art student in the fog…”

“After Li Huiyuan and I escaped into the convenience store, the fog also seeped in not long after, which was truly eerie.”

Unfortunately, because the oppressive atmosphere was too strong at the time, Lin Yi was unable to concentrate when he took Li Huiyuan away from the convenience store, and his last impression of the convenience store was only of the fog invading.

On the contrary, the fact that he came to the student passageway after leaving the convenience store shocked him even more.

After listening to Lin Yi's account, Tian Bufan digested the overall details, and then slowly opened his mouth and said: "In other words, the lights in the building… can be regarded as a kind of observation tool used to reflect the ‘wave’ and observe the ‘wave’ to some extent!"

“Considering our previous guess—that the lights are not provided by the power supply system, but by energy containing extraordinary characteristics—I suspect that this ‘wave’ is very likely to have a certain interference effect on the extraordinary characteristics in the light bulb, just like causing voltage instability…”

“Do you think… could it be the influence of that concept-level sculpture?”

“Oh?!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up, "How do you mean?"

“Energy field hypothesis, or… some kind of interference similar to matter waves.” Tian Bufan said, "Didn't I say before that kind of concept-level sculpture might be something in a ‘quantum state’? It itself is a very powerful source of pollution, and it is very likely to carry extraordinary characteristics…"

“I suspect that 「He」 is the existence deep in the fog. When 「He」 moves, the pollution spreads around it in the form of fog, advancing in all directions with it as the center, forming a field similar to light… But this field merges with the fog, so we can't see it, but…”

Lin Yi's body trembled: “But, it can be reflected by the lights in the form of a ‘wave’!”

“If the street lights in the campus are always on between 18:00 and 6:00 the next day, then the effect of the incandescent lights is not only to drive away nocturnal species, but also to provide a warning effect, using the flickering of lights to warn of the appearance of 「He」, and using the brightness and darkness of the lights to show the presence and departure of 「He」!”

“This is a method that doesn't need to consider the danger of directly facing 「He」, and can directly reflect the movement route of 「He」!”

“Moreover, the security guards can also use this as a criterion to quickly reach the dark areas!”

“Speaking of which… the security guards should have the ability to defeat 「He」, right?”

Security Guard Emperor is the most powerful entity that Lin Yi currently knows will appear on campus. He has an almost blind trust in the security guards. Of course, he can only believe that Security Guard Emperor can suppress everything.

“The security guard carrying the old kerosene lamp seems to also have something similar to a domain.” Lin Yi said, “But it’s hard to say whether it’s the security guard’s domain or the old kerosene lamp’s…”

“It should be the security guard’s personal one.”

“How are you so sure?” Lin Yi asked in surprise.

“The dormitory manager is also carrying an old kerosene lamp, but doesn’t have that kind of domain.” Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment: “Wait… you’ve seen the dormitory manager?”

“Isn’t that what you described?”

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“Even if it’s what I described, did I describe it in such detail?” Lin Yi was a little confused. He thought to himself, could it be that you, kid, didn’t sleep at night and pretended to be asleep to observe the dormitory manager doing room checks?

This is too outrageous, but it fits Tian Bufan’s behavior logic very well.

However, looking at Tian Bufan’s appearance, he doesn’t look like he hasn’t slept for two days and two nights!

“Maybe what I imagined is wrong. The skinny dormitory manager with dark circles under his eyes that you described really doesn’t make me associate him with a security guard.” Tian Bufan added, trying to turn the topic over.

Lin Yi vaguely realized something. Tian Bufan had definitely seen the dormitory manager.

But… with so little time, when exactly did he see the dormitory manager?

“So, if the lights going out really follows this logic, then we can even calculate the range of 「He」’s domain based on 「He」’s movement speed in the layers and the time it takes for the lights to flicker and completely go out, and then extrapolate more data. In this way, maybe it can help us avoid some dangers at critical moments, and it might have miraculous effects in desperate situations…” Tian Bufan muttered to himself.

When Lin Yi heard this, he couldn’t help but give a thumbs up. Buddy, are you a data emperor? You can even start calculating this?

“But…” Tian Bufan denied himself again, “Our understanding of 「He」 is too shallow. This crude calculation is still too pale. As long as there is a little variable, it will completely collapse. It’s not very advisable…”

“Hey.” Tian Bufan reached over his head and patted Wei Liang’s bunk.

“I’m asleep, I’m asleep, hualulu…” Wei Liang mumbled in his sleep, but his legs kept kicking, seemingly trying to kick away Tian Bufan’s hand, but Tian Bufan had already retracted his hand.

“Wei Liang, when you came last time, did you buy anything from the convenience store?” Tian Bufan asked.

Wei Liang’s body shook, as if waking up from a dream: “Bullshit, I didn’t buy twelve breads, six rolls of biscuits, and eighteen bottles of water from the convenience store for four consecutive days!”

“…”

“Isn’t that…? Liangzi, you f*cking… know the location of the convenience store very well?” Lin Yi widened his eyes, looking at Wei Liang with disbelief.

And when he thought about it carefully, he found that things were even more outrageous.

Wei Liang stated that he hadn’t left the dormitory for the last two days, and the twelve breads, six rolls of biscuits, and eighteen bottles of water he bought were exactly thirty-six items. In other words, the four consecutive days he mentioned meant that he went to the convenience store to buy three items for every meal for four consecutive days!

There was a total of seven days of trial period. Subtracting the two days in the dormitory and the four days of buying things, that means—good heavens, Wei Liang only took one day to adapt last time, and he was able to freely enter and exit the convenience store on the second day?!

“That’s not the case, listen to my excuses!” Wei Liang quickly said, “Isn’t there a pile of goods placed at the entrance of the convenience store? I bought things and swiped my card directly at the shopping terminal at the entrance. I didn’t even go inside!”

“That convenience store… is pitch black inside, it’s too eerie, I don’t want to think about it again.”

“Hualulu—”

“Liangzi?”

“Hualulu! Hualulu! Can you hear it, my loud hualulu!” Wei Liang turned over and covered his head with the quilt.

Tian Bufan shrugged: “It seems he can’t give any useful information for the time being.”

"Old Lin, you just said that you entered Maozi's perspective in the store. Did you find anything?"

Lin Yi's expression was solemn as he said, "The picture from that perspective was extremely limited. I only know that Maozi lost the student commemorative coin and is buying a student commemorative coin with that art student named Mu Daxian in the store... Oh, right, from that perspective, I saw the lights in the store change from flickering to bright red, and then the whole store started ringing with a buzzing sound, just like those air-raid sirens in movies!"

Wei Liang's body trembled violently.

"Eh, Liangzi, you have something to say?" Lin Yi noticed Wei Liang's movement.

"Have a hammer to say, my butt itches, so I scratched it! You guys, don't be so alarmed. We agreed not to 'deify' me, what's wrong with you all? Do you really think I'm the Celestial Venerable Wei Liang of Fushēng?" Wei Liang revealed half of his face from the blanket, showing a look of disdain, "If I really had that ability, I would just go and tell fortunes to earn money. Why would I come here as an experience student?"

"Didn't you come here as an experience student just to show off in front of me?"

"Uh... Please, being so blunt will make my show-off seem very pale, okay! You guys chat, I'm really going to sleep! Damn, it's almost 0 o'clock, you guys hurry up too!" Wei Liang couldn't help but remind them, then he turned over again and started snoring...

There's a shopping terminal at the entrance of the store? Lin Yi couldn't help but recall, and then realized that there didn't seem to be one, at least not in his memory.

However, the things at the entrance of the store are all moved out from the inside, so maybe the shopping terminal was also moved out when Wei Liang came, it's hard to say.

Lin Yi no longer dwelled on this point and continued, "But speaking of which, that Mu Daxian is so awesome. He directly deformed a drawing board into a cross-shaped axe, and smashed those night-stalking species that broke in one by one!"

"It's a pity that I didn't see more of the picture, otherwise I might have been able to understand the art student's fighting style, but looking at Mu Daxian's technique, it's a bit like the traces of Xu Shunkang and the other sports students..."

Tian Bufan pondered for a while, and then said, "But, the fighting style of the art students that I saw on the evening of May 6th is completely different from what you said about Mu Daxian..."

"Ah?" Lin Yi was surprised, "How is it different?"

"On the surface, it looks like setting up a drawing board to paint. Only a few art students and sports students worked together to attack the non-human students."

"Painting? No, can painting even be called a fighting style?"

"Perhaps it's using painting to anchor the classroom's layers?" Tian Bufan said, "After the classroom lights go out, the layers also become unstable. Coupled with the '「His」 Domain Theory' that we just discussed, maybe the real role of the art students is to weaken the influence of the domain on the real layer, so that the sports students can exert their strength normally?"

"As for that Mu Daxian you mentioned..." Tian Bufan rubbed his brow, "I feel like he's not simple, maybe he's not an ordinary art student, maybe he's similar to 'Boss' that kind of... emmmm, art student boss?"

"I don't know." Lin Yi shook his head. Mu Daxian gave him the feeling of being gentle with some sharpness. Facing the oppression of the strange art teacher, he could directly press down a strange art student in front of her, and his deterrent power was undeniable.

"However, if I can still enter Maozi's perspective in my dream today, I will definitely observe Mu Daxian more."

Tian Bufan: "I wish you a good dream."

"..."

"Then... are we going to sleep?" Lin Yi glanced at the clock on the wall. It's 11:45 PM now, and there are still 15 minutes before the lights go out. "You have nothing to say about the fact that the store exit is a student passage?"

Tian Bufan said, "There aren't too many details to discuss in this regard. The only information that can be obtained is the literal meaning, and we can't find the exit of the store in the student passage. This is almost a one-way passage."

"What I'm concerned about is, if the mist that invaded the store can pour out from the store's exit again, then does it mean that the green apron chef and the night-stalking species at window No. 10 can also leave the cafeteria through this path from the student passage?"

"Could this be the reason why the green apron chef left the cafeteria and appeared in other areas? Because from the current point of view, the green apron chef does not have the ability to move under the sun, and they seem unable to leave the student restaurant through conventional means."

If they could leave, the green apron chef would not be limited to the plastic curtain of the student restaurant.

A small plastic curtain, can it still stop the green apron chef who is determined to leave the student restaurant?

So there must be another reason.

"Hey, Young Master Tian, you reminded me!" Lin Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Night-stalking species smoke when exposed to sunlight and turn into sculptures; and Li Huiyuan also turns into a sculpture when she puts her feet into the darkness of the store..."

"You mean... the dividing line between light and darkness, could it be like a chasm for the contaminated?"

"What I mean is, can this also be compared to the green apron chef, because of this, they can't leave the cafeteria?"

Tian Bufan thought for a while: "We can keep this guess, but don't rely on it to test the green apron chef. The cafeteria is not our exploration target at the moment, keep a respectful distance from it."

"Okay."

"There's a PE class tomorrow, so you can have a good chat with the sports students. If it's convenient, take a stroll around the gymnasium."

Tian Bufan said.

"I also have this plan." Lin Yi also said.

The gymnasium rules also include a map of the gymnasium's interior, and there are clear landmarks, just walk around in the safe area.

"What are you planning? You will definitely be caught by the boss to wash mandarin ducks, no, to be caught by the boss to learn swimming, ah~~~ I also want a fragrant good sister to teach me how to swim by hand!" Wei Liang, who was snoring loudly, suddenly spoke coldly.

For more than an hour, Wei Liang's snoring never stopped, which really makes people suspect how high his sleep content is.

Lin Yi was silent for a while, and then suddenly suggested, "How about... you come to swimming class with me?"

"I have no objection." Wei Liang raised both hands in agreement, but as soon as he finished speaking, a picture immediately appeared in his mind...

In swimming class, the boss took Lin Yi to swim, and next to him was the muscular man whom the boss called "Little Zhouzi" who took off his oversized sneakers and put them on him...

He seemed to foresee the scene where he was splashing around in the pool, and Little Zhouzi on the shore was kicking him into the water one after another, and then frowning and grinning at him, pressing his finger joints with both hands, constantly bursting out with crisp sounds.

"What's wrong, brother? The boss has spoken, you still don't swim, do you want brother to come and take you to swim personally?"

Little Zhouzi's voice seemed to travel back from tomorrow's PE class, buzzing in his ears.

Wei Liang's chrysanthemum tightened, and he subconsciously squirmed his body.

Lin Yi didn't know what kind of picture Wei Liang, who had no objection the moment before, was thinking of, and a big black question mark appeared on his face.

"Are you okay, Liangzi?"

"Get out! Get out! Get out!!! I don't want to swim! Get out of here!"

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