Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Seeing that the bus door remained stubbornly closed, the female teacher's tone couldn't help but become hurried: "Students, it's going to be dark soon, please hurry up and get off the bus!"

"Yeah, driver, why aren't you opening the door?" The passengers panicked upon hearing this, urging the driver to open the door in a cacophony of voices. Seeing that the driver was unmoved, some even threatened to report him.

"Everyone, listen to me, this driver might have mental problems! I was sitting right behind him, and all the way here, I heard him muttering some driver's rules. I don't think he's going to open the door for us!" A girl couldn't help but speak up, then shouted towards the passengers at the door, "Hey, open the door! If we keep wasting time like this, it'll be dark soon!"

"Yeah, hurry up and open the door! Don't waste time! I heard this school is quite eerie after dark." The passengers urged anxiously.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang were sitting in the back, watching the aisle of the bus filled with large and small bags. Since they couldn't get out anyway, they simply sat in their seats and waited.

While waiting, Lin Yi pressed his face against the car window, looking at the people outside. Although their tone was urgent, their figures in the fog were motionless, like statues.

After waiting for a while, Wei Liang couldn't help but frown, muttering in confusion: "This driver is acting strange. Last time I came, that driver opened the door as soon as we arrived. Why is this one like a block of wood?"

Just then, a passenger near the driver's seat, taking advantage of the driver's attention being focused on the female teacher, spotted the door opening button. With a quick hand, he reached out and pressed it.

"Tss—"

The bus door opened outward in response, and a faint mist poured into the carriage like a tide, quickly making the interior like a cloud-covered mountain.

"Let's go! Get off the bus!" As the first passenger rushed off the bus, many who had been waiting for a long time also followed suit.

The driver immediately reacted and closed the door in time, but several passengers had already gotten off the bus. Watching these people enter the school gate and walk straight towards the female teacher, he still rolled down the car window and shouted loudly: "Hey! Make sure to see if they have name tags!"

Some of the passengers immediately stopped, then retreated out of the school gate to the bus. Just as the driver was about to speak, that person gave the driver the middle finger: "Asshole!"

Then, without looking back, he plunged into the fog.

The driver's face was ugly, and he slammed the steering wheel heavily: "Damn it! A bunch of fools courting death!"

"Name tag?" Lin Yi was slightly stunned, then immediately remembered the second rule of the student handbook—Except for students, all staff members in the campus wear specific uniforms and name tags. Be alert to people without name tags and do not believe anything they say.

"Before I see clearly, none of you get off the bus!" The driver said in a low, gritted voice, "Don't worry about the time. As long as you don't enter the school, you don't have to abide by the rules. Those few people, I feel like something's not right. In this foggy weather, you can just spend the night on the bus and go to school tomorrow."

"Driver, you're so dumb, do you really believe in that kind of weird stuff?" A girl wearing a sailor uniform and a pink cartoon cat hairpin, blowing bubble gum, shrugged her shoulders with a disdainful look, "Those things are just pretentious and sensational to grab attention. It's already 2023, how can anyone still believe them?"

Hearing these remarks, the driver couldn't help but say: "Little girl, you came here but don't believe the student handbook? You probably haven't even memorized it, have you?"

The girl tossed the booklet in her hand and smiled, shaking her head: "Driver, these rules are all nonsense, what's so good about reading them? I'll just follow everyone else. So many people together, it's always safer, right?"

The driver was speechless: "It's hard to persuade a ghost who wants to die. Little girl, you're very brave."

The girl wanted to say something to despise the driver, but the voice of the passenger who got off the bus earlier came from the fog: "Driver, they have name tags, no problem!"

"Have name tags?" The driver muttered, still frowning. He thought for a moment and asked again, "The fog is so thick, did you really see clearly? Did you see the number?"

"Driver, stop being so suspicious!" The girl muttered, chewing gum, and came to the bus door with her bag slung over her shoulder, impatiently saying, "That's about enough, you can open the door now, driver!"

Voices of urging came from the fog from time to time, and the driver, under pressure, could only slowly open the door with hesitation.

The remaining passengers began to get off the bus one after another, but the driver still did not forget to remind them to look carefully.

Lin Yi went to the back row and patted his roommates: "Maozi, Wei Sang, Young Master Tian, Kuai Kuai, wake up, it's time to get off!"

Wei Liang shouted at the bus door: "Lao Lin, hurry up, you're the only one left!"

"You go first, we'll be right there." Mao Feiyang yawned sleepily and waved his hand.

Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then quickly got off the bus: "Liangzi, wait for me, I'm coming!"

After Lin Yi got off the bus, the driver looked at the back row with some doubt, then, as if thinking of something, silently withdrew his gaze.

The mountain fog was very thick. As Lin Yi and the others walked on the ground, each step created a ripple, as if stepping on smoke rings.

Entering the school gate, Lin Yi suddenly had the illusion that the world was leaving him, and the ground behind him seemed to be stretched countless times in an instant.

He turned his head, and that strange sense of spatial stretching disappeared instantly. The bus was still faintly visible in the fog, but for a moment, he couldn't tell whether it was blue or another color. He shook his head violently and took a closer look to confirm that it was still the blue bus.

He turned to look ahead, only to see that the first batch of passengers who got off the bus had already disappeared into the fog with some student leaders, leaving only the female teacher and a few students to greet them.

Lin Yi looked at the female teacher's chest, and saw a name tag clearly pinned there, but just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief and walk over, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

He took a step forward to catch up with Wei Liang and grabbed his hand: "Liangzi, wait a minute! Don't go over!"

Wei Liang jumped a bit from being pulled, turning his head in confusion: "What's going on?"

Lin Yi leaned in and whispered in a low voice: "Don't go over, she doesn't have a name tag!"

"Ah?" Wei Liang was stunned.

"Look carefully, that name tag… it looks like it's drawn on paper!" Lin Yi lowered his voice, "Haven't you been here before? Take a look, is that name tag real or fake?"

Wei Liang quickly composed himself and cautiously glanced at the female teacher, then retracted his gaze like lightning. He shivered, instinctively shrinking behind Lin Yi: "Damn! It really is fake! Fake as hell! What the hell is going on?!"

"Wait! Teacher, student, teacher, student…" Wei Liang's mind raced, his eyes rolling frantically, "Damn, could they be the legendary art teachers and art students?!"

"Student handbook! Student handbook!" Wei Liang muttered to himself, the anxious and dangerous atmosphere making Lin Yi feel the same way, like the smell of garlic.

Wei Liang quickly said: "Streetlights! Right, Lao Lin, find the streetlights!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yi felt a clear breeze brush through the fog. The fog not far away cleared a little, revealing a black streetlight pole.

When Wei Liang saw the lamppost that seemed to appear as if summoned, a cold air rushed to the top of his head, and his body trembled slightly. He grabbed Lin Yi's wrist and said in a trembling voice, "Old Lin, don't be fooled! Look for the lit lampposts!"

His voice was extremely low: "I remember! In abnormal weather, the only thing you can trust is the lit lampposts!"

At this moment, some of the surrounding classmates noticed the abnormality of Lin Yi and Wei Liang, and the female teacher began to urge: "Students, come over here quickly! There isn't much time left!"

The female teacher's calm voice sounded particularly harsh at this moment, stimulating Lin Yi and Wei Liang like a demonic sound.

The other passengers also began to chatter, urging Lin Yi and the others to go over and not waste everyone's time.

Wei Liang was anxious, but he didn't dare to show any abnormality.

At the critical moment, Lin Yi had an idea and immediately said loudly, "Teacher, wait a moment, we still have roommates on the bus, we'll go and call them!"

"You… tsk! Hurry back!" There was a bit more urging in the female teacher's voice.

"Okay, teacher!" Lin Yi quickly tugged at the corner of Wei Liang's clothes, and the two quickly walked towards the bus at the school gate.

But they hadn't walked a few steps when they heard a "rustling" sound behind them, like stones scraping against the ground.

Something was hiding in the fog, approaching them. The speed wasn't fast, but it was enough to give them a strong sense of oppression.

At this moment, the female teacher's urging voice sounded behind them: "Too slow! Walk a little faster!"

The voice was a little stiff, but it revealed an unquestionable tone.

"If it's too late, just turn back."

Lin Yi and Wei Liang felt a chill run up and down their spines, making them shiver.

「Don't turn back! Don't turn back! Absolutely do not turn back!」 The content of the student code suddenly appeared in Lin Yi's mind.

Student Code, Article 3: At any time, if you hear footsteps and calls from behind, no matter how close the footsteps are or how urgent the calls are, please do not turn back. The footsteps will disappear after you return to the lamplight or building.

「As long as we don't turn back, theoretically we are safe!」

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However, they had only walked a few meters after getting off the bus, and when Lin Yi looked back earlier, the bus was faintly visible not far away. But when they turned around and returned along the same route, they couldn't find any trace of the bus!

A strange feeling, like a tide mixed with fog, enveloped Lin Yi. He suddenly realized that the fog and the brick patterns on the ground had disoriented them. They had just turned around, but it was very likely that they were not walking towards the school gate!

"We're lost…" Lin Yi clenched his fists and bit his teeth unwillingly.

Wei Liang also belatedly realized what had happened, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead.

"Damn it, the first time is unfamiliar, the second time is familiar, and the third time you sprinkle some cumin and put it on the table. If I had known, I wouldn't have been a repeat customer!" Wei Liang's face was extremely ugly. They couldn't find the lamppost, and the bus was gone. They were really screwed this time!

But Lin Yi suddenly discovered something and said in a deep voice, "Liangzi, there's a lamppost ahead too!"

Wei Liang said with a crying face, "But Old Lin, it's not lit!"

Lin Yi lifted his sleeve, and the hands of the old-fashioned quartz watch on his wrist were moving vigorously: "It's 5:58 now. The campus lights turn on at 6:00. If that light turns on in two minutes, we'll go over!"

"What if it doesn't turn on?" Wei Liang asked subconsciously, panicking, but Lin Yi had already lowered his head and stared at the ground at his feet.

"I don't know either… so we better pray it's real."

Wei Liang's lips trembled. Two contradictory emotions, calmness and fear, appeared on his body at the same time. He subconsciously said, "Then… then… what… what do we do now?"

At this extremely dangerous moment, Lin Yi calmly squatted down and touched a pebble on the ground with his hand. "Liangzi, do you remember Student Code, Article 7?"

Student Code, Article 7: If you cannot find a numbered lamppost immediately, please lower your head and stare at the ground at your feet, looking for any reference point that can confirm that you are still on the road.

"Don't worry about what's behind us. As long as we follow the rules, we should be safe," Lin Yi said calmly. "There are 2 minutes left… no, 1 minute and 34 seconds! We can take a gamble! What do you think?"

"At this time, whatever you think is fine. I'll go all-in with you!" Wei Liang could clearly feel something behind him calling him.

The best case scenario was that it was really just the female teacher calling him.

「嚓! 嚓! 嚓! 嚓…」

The friction sound of the quartz watch's hands and Lin Yi's gradually solemn breathing were clearly audible in the fog.

Lin Yi's heart was pounding, stuck in his throat from his chest. He could feel a subtle distorted change in the ground beneath his feet. The texture of the cobblestone ground began to resemble the pattern of a python…

In the flowing fog, there seemed to be eyes watching them…

From behind.

From all directions.

「17:59:57… 17:59:58… 17:59:59…」

Lin Yi bit his teeth tightly, his eyes piercing through the fog like a sharp sword, staring straight at the lamppost in front.

「18:00:00!」

Time's up!

"Poof…"

The traditional incandescent light in the lamppost lit up as it was energized, and the orange-yellow light curtain dispersed the fog, pushing back the eerie atmosphere like a pair of invisible hands.

The two ran away, rushing towards the lamppost.

Under the light, the shadows of the two were lengthened behind them, inserting into the depths of the thick fog.

The thick fog surged from all directions, and the rustling sound became anxious and annoying. The female teacher let out an unwilling growl, like the sound of a crouching beast rolling its throat.

The two rushed under the lamppost, and Lin Yi looked at the lamppost first.

「Teaching Building - 023」

"The range of the teaching building…"

He collapsed to the ground, panting violently against the lamppost.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, Wei Liang's terrified voice trembled.

"Lin… Lin… Lin… Lin Yi! You… you look!"

Wei Liang's eyes were fixed on the front. The female teacher and several students were standing in the thick fog not far away, their eyes staring at them like poisonous snakes. The rolling fog made their figures looming in the dim light.

Even through the thick fog, Lin Yi could see their bloodless, pale, wax-like faces.

And those passengers who had gathered around the female teacher had long since disappeared.

May 6, X023, 18:03.

Under the 023 lamppost of the Teaching Building, S City University.

Outside the orange-yellow incandescent light, heads surged in the vortex-like fog, and figures hidden in the darkness stared at them like sculptures.