Rules-related weird stories: 4016

The tree trunk was bare, with no branches growing near the ground. The places where branches should have grown looked as if they had been violently torn off, and the wounds hadn't sprouted new buds, but had instead turned into patterns resembling "eyes."

For a moment, Lin Yi couldn't tell if the tree looked like this naturally, or if it wasn't the tree full of large eyeballs he had seen at first glance.

Or perhaps, his brain was forcibly generating "an ordinary tree" to quickly stabilize his sanity, just like when he saw the conceptual sculptures in Tian Bufan's dream.

Just then, the "camera" shook quickly again, and the humanoid sculptures struggling to crawl on the rugged slope entered Lin Yi's field of vision once more.

[Damn it... Damn it... Huff, huff, huff...]

The "cameraman," scared out of his wits, scrambled to his feet again and ran with all his might towards the light.

The "camera" shook wildly, and the screen was filled with trembling, unsteady images, along with the noise of the "cameraman" and the surrounding environment.

Lin Yi could feel the "camera" becoming increasingly blurry, but it was also getting closer to the light.

Finally, after running for who knows how long, the "camera" burst out of the green belt, and then the "cameraman," losing his footing, stumbled and rolled down a slope. When the "camera" became stable again, Lin Yi could see a slightly dim sky and clouds in his vision.

Besides the sky and clouds, he could also see... a battered person collapsed on the ground.

This was the "cameraman," and Lin Yi's perspective, the "camera," must have been some kind of miniature camera attached to his head by the expedition team.

When the "cameraman" rolled out of the green belt, the "camera" separated from him and rolled to the side, so Lin Yi's vision, the "camera," also rolled to the side.

Lin Yi didn't have time to think about why he could see things filmed by someone else's miniature camera in his dream; he focused on observing the "cameraman" in front of him.

The "cameraman" was probably in his twenties, wearing a brown-yellow windbreaker and sneakers. His clothes were tattered and covered in mud and fallen leaves.

Beneath his clothes, bloodstains seeped out, as if his body had been slashed.

He collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily.

[Huff, huff, huff...]

His breathing became more and more rapid, then cooled down quickly as if reaching its peak.

Suddenly, a blurry, backlit figure appeared in the dim sky. When the figure appeared, Lin Yi heard the "cameraman's" hoarse, intermittent plea through the "camera": [Save... Save me...]

But the figure said nothing, only looked down at him coldly.

Through the "camera," Lin Yi could almost feel the cold and indifferent gaze of the backlit figure.

But suddenly, the figure seemed to have a moment of pity, bent down, and reached out a hand to "him."

[Thank... cough, cough... Thank you...]

The "cameraman" thanked him with difficulty, coughing up some bloody phlegm.

However, the figure's hand passed over the "cameraman" and reached for... the "camera."

As the hand grew larger in the "camera," the "camera's" focus and fill light began to adjust automatically. The image quality scaled repeatedly on the edge of blurriness, and finally, at one moment, the image flashed as if overexposed. In that moment of light and shadow, Lin Yi's vision passed through the "camera" and captured the figure's face...

It was a face so familiar that it felt strange to him.

It was...

"Kuai Kuai?!"

Lin Yi's pupils trembled violently. The person looking down at the "cameraman" indifferently was actually... Kuai Hongji.

Before Lin Yi could think, the "camera" went black.

Lin Yi felt the ground beneath his feet suddenly soften, and then a sense of falling enveloped him instantly.

When his vision returned, Lin Yi found himself back in the thin clouds.

"So..." Despite being greatly shocked by the strange tree, Lin Yi quickly sorted out the cause and effect of this matter. "Even in a dream, it's impossible to dream of a camera for no reason, right?"

The main thing is that Lin Yi's dreams... aren't just random dreams, but seem to be re-walking through someone else's experiences through the dream.

And why would he dream of something filmed by a miniature camera?

"It should be that Kuai Kuai found the miniature camera, saw the contents inside, and what I just dreamed of was actually Kuai Kuai's experience..."

It wasn't Kuai Hongji who was escaping.

Instead, Kuai Hongji read the content filmed by the "cameraman," and he read the content that Kuai Hongji read through the dream, and under his own brain's imagination, he entered it in the first-person perspective and truly felt the experience of the "cameraman."

"But... I didn't dream of Kuai Kuai yesterday. Is it a matter of time?"

He muttered to himself and looked down at his watch again.

In the dream, the watch was still ticking, and the time was... 1:23.

Suddenly, he heard intermittent sounds in his ears...

"Swish, swish, swish..."

"What's that sound?" He was stunned.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

"Huh?" In the falling clouds, there should only be the sound of wind. How could there be this kind of... water sound?

"Swish, swish, swish..."

The sound of water remained, but it was getting clearer and clearer.

Then, Lin Yi, who should have been converting dreams by falling through the clouds, gradually felt a sense of support appearing behind him.

"This is...?! Not good!"

Lin Yi suddenly realized something, but it was too late. When he realized it, the sense of support was directly maxed out. The next moment... he woke up on the bed in the dormitory while falling.

In fact, when that sense of support appeared, he had a premonition that he was about to wake up from the dream. However, waking up from a dream is sometimes like not being able to wake up at all, and it is impossible to control. So the surrounding clouds suddenly disappeared, and darkness enveloped him.

When he was about to open his eyes, he felt that his "senses" had returned to the bed in the dormitory.

He should have opened his eyes immediately, but some dormitory rules immediately appeared in his mind, and then he made himself re-enter a state of drowsiness in order to maintain his safe state.

At the same time, he planned to fall asleep again to continue the precious dream VR time...

After all, although the things in the dream are very real, they are not tiring, and sleeping is really something that can adjust his physical and mental state.

However, just as he was preparing to adjust his breathing to fall asleep, the sound of water crossed over from the dream into reality.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

"Swish, swish, swish..."

The sound was getting louder and louder, disturbing Lin Yi's ability to calm down and fall asleep.

But Lin Yi suddenly realized that the sound of water... didn't seem to be coming from the dream.

So he patiently listened.

It is now about 1:30 a.m. on May 9th, and the entire dormitory building is in a pitch-black environment with no lights at all, but in a world that should be completely silent, the sound of "swish, swish" suddenly appeared.

Lin Yi captured the direction of the sound, which seemed to be... over by the washbasin?

But the sound of water didn't sound like washing hands, but more like…

"Taking a bath?!"

Lin Yi's heart trembled violently.

At half past one in the morning, something… was taking a bath in their dorm?!

"What's going on here?"

"That's not right!"

This wasn't the weirdest thing, the weirdest thing was—

After 12:00 AM, the dorm not only stopped supplying electricity, but also stopped supplying water. Where the hell did the water in the bathroom come from?!

At this moment, countless thoughts should have flooded Lin Yi's mind, but among these thoughts, one voice overwhelmed all the others, like a resounding bell.

Song Rentou's paper slip:

["I don't know why they can open the door at this time..."]

["I saw them looking for my roommate..."]

["My roommate is taking a bath..."]

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"My roommate is taking a bath."

Lin Yi's heart seemed to skip a beat.

"Wrong!"

"Completely wrong!!"

"Song Rentou isn't the biggest problem… the one who's truly plagued by the bizarre is his 'roommate'?!"

"Damn, there really is a weird roommate among Song Rentou's roommates, and he's really trying to use wolves to drive away tigers, to get rid of this weird roommate?!"

Lin Yi realized that Song Rentou's paper slip might have a completely different interpretation, and this interpretation was the key to deducing the truth!

A picture exploded in Lin Yi's mind—Song Rentou, who should have been asleep, was disturbed by the sound of water at some point in the early morning, and then, in a daze, discovered that there was actually a 'roommate' in the bathroom who he didn't know was human or not, taking a bath?

This was the biggest mental shock! How could his sanity not drop when encountering such a bizarre thing!

In ["I don't know why they can open the door at this time…\