Rules-related weird stories: 4016

The penguin-like artificial art student's sunken eyes flashed with a cold, golden light: "Could he be one of the two who escaped from Teacher Buze?"

"It's him," Zhang Lingzhen nodded.

"Looks like a tough customer…" the penguin-like artificial art student mused, "We need to prepare for 'Physical Buze'."

The bandaged artificial art student nodded slightly: "Leave it to me, don't worry."

Strangely, when the bandaged artificial art student nodded, there was a stiff, slightly bowing motion.

The figures of the group gradually disappeared into the other passageways.

… …

When the slightly threatening aura disappeared from Lin Yi's perception, he raised his head again and looked towards the other passageways.

Watching the scattered "people" entering them, he gradually narrowed his eyes, thoughtfully.

"There seem to be a lot more people taking the other passageways today than usual…" Wei Liang said beside him.

Lin Yi nodded: "Indeed…"

"Looks like they all lost their student IDs," Wei Liang said.

Lin Yi seemed to be reminded of something, and suddenly turned to look at Wei Liang.

Wei Liang was stunned, and spread his hands in confusion: "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

"You didn't say anything wrong, I was the one who was mistaken," Lin Yi murmured.

He had made a mistake, and it wasn't until Wei Liang casually spoke that he remembered.

Because of the broadening of his perception, he had defaulted to the assumption that the people entering the other passageways were physical education students, art students, and artificial art students, but he had forgotten about the group of people who had "lost their student IDs."

Could Zhou Yuting that day have lost her student ID and been afraid of the thing that took her student ID, so she begged Xu Shunkang to take her through the other passageway?

This also means that another artificial Zhou Yuting was born?

The birth of an artificial person is, after all, based on a person losing their identity or… their life.

He looked down at his watch.

10:39.

"Is it almost time? Should we wait at the entrance of the student cafeteria?" He glanced at Wei Liang.

"Sure, I'm up for anything."

A minute later, after confirming the signs for the student passageway, Lin Yi stepped into the passageway with Wei Liang.

Just as his body crossed the boundary between the entrance of the passageway and the outside, whether due to the structure of the passageway or something else, a gust of wind howled down the steps from inside the passageway, shaking his body slightly.

The wind circled around his ear, and then, like a ghost, a low and eerie call appeared:

【Lin Yi… Hehehe…】

【Lin Yi…】

Lin Yi's footsteps suddenly became heavy, but by the time he realized it, the sound had already drifted away, as if it were just a whirlwind that had greeted him and then whizzed away…

But despite this, the seed of strangeness seemed to have been deeply buried, and Lin Yi began to feel a strange itching in his heart, a feeling of not knowing what was going on, but just feeling uncomfortable.

He looked at the student passageway he had already entered and began to feel that something was wrong.

In fact, he had always felt that the problem hidden in the cafeteria area was the most serious, whether from the perspective of the units that existed, or from the hidden areas within it, or… from the perspective of its layers.

Especially the angle of the layers.

If each door in the teaching building was like crossing a layer after entering, then in the cafeteria area, in addition to things with the nature of "doors" such as plastic air curtains being the boundaries between layers, the student passageway, which itself did not have a door, also seemed to carry the attribute of a "door."

Just as he realized this, he suddenly seemed to understand something—"That's right!"

"Layered stratification!"

"It's because there are different levels, and countless branches exist at the same spatial point, so… when Liangzi and I 'teamed up' to enter the student passageway, there were only two of us in the entire passageway!"

He looked around. The crowd from before seemed to have faded away at this moment and was no longer visible!

And when he thought of this point, he seemed to see shadows around him, each shadow being an experience student, but those experience students and Lin Yi were like people from two different time and space.

Those people only had vague outlines, passing by Lin Yi and Wei Liang, the whole scene like a slow-motion shot used specifically to highlight the protagonist's movement in a flowing crowd.

Lin Yi instantly understood: "In fact, everyone is here, but because of cognition or other levels… everyone only has their own 'instance'!"

Wei Liang didn't seem to notice that Lin Yi had stopped, and was still walking silently ahead.

After Lin Yi saw this, he quickly followed.

But when he tried to catch up, he found that Wei Liang always seemed to be one step ahead of him, and although it seemed like he was catching up, he couldn't catch up at all!

【Hehehe… Lin Yi…】

A gust of cold wind swept over, blowing on the back of his neck, making his hair stand on end, and his whole body shivered, his scalp tingling.

"Liangzi!" Lin Yi called out to Wei Liang, but Wei Liang didn't seem to hear him at all and continued walking forward.

At this moment, a violent wind suddenly surged from the student passageway, as if it had experienced some treacherous plateau terrain, gained speed in a canyon, and then rushed towards him, penetrating Wei Liang's figure and slamming into Lin Yi!

"That wind… passed through Liangzi?!"

"No! Crap—I fell through a layer!"

Lin Yi woke up instantly, but before he could react, the violent wind blew him backwards. At this moment, relying on his strong core strength, he directly twisted his body on the steps, then fell to the ground, barely avoiding the tragic situation of his back of his head hitting the ground.

However, before he could catch his breath, he found that his hand was pressing into a splash of water…

"Whish, whish, whish—"

The violent wind had already moved away from him, but he heard the sound of gurgling water in his ears.

The steps… the steps were flowing with water!

His palm penetrated the water and touched the steps in the water, but the steps were not ordinary steps, but stone slabs that had been eroded by the water to be incomparably smooth, yet full of pitted potholes!

He wanted to stand up, but found that as soon as he straightened his spine a little, he was immediately subjected to the scouring of the strong wind!

The wind was still there!

It was just because of the terrain that a layer existed half a meter above his head!

As long as he lay down, the wind couldn't blow on him!

But… where was this wind from!

Wasn't this the student passageway?!

"The student passageway…?!"

His pupils trembled violently, as if he had thought of something, trying to anchor his position, but the environment didn't give him any chance to focus on himself.

The strong wind above his head surged like waves, one after another, as if a machine spraying water vapor in a scenic spot on a hot day had been overturned by the wind.

Lin Yi heard the clanging of chains again and again, and the sound… was right above his head!

It's the wind!

The wind is blowing through the incandescent lights above!

It must be the wind!

The student passage was filled with incandescent lights overhead, those star-like things, at this moment, would undoubtedly become his greatest anchor!

Relying solely on imagining daylight might not be enough to anchor himself back at this moment, but if there was a light from a normal layer, it would be different!

At this moment, he was like a person in a turbulent current who had discovered a branch on the shore, overjoyed beyond words, and he quickly looked up.

"Clang, clang…"

What came into view was a broken human-shaped sculpture with a crooked neck, staring at him with a pair of gray stone eyes.

"?!"

Lin Yi was startled, and his body faltered, almost slipping and falling.

His gaze darted around, and he saw a scene so terrifying that even hair-raising was not enough to describe it!

The star-like incandescent lights had completely disappeared, replaced by countless broken human-shaped sculptures chained up, suspended above the passage like lights, the chains clanging in the wind, the terrifying and powerful wind, like a blade, slicing across their bodies, occasionally peeling off some fragments from them…

"Clang, clang—clang, clang—"

The entire passage was filled with countless human-shaped sculptures, and these human-shaped sculptures seemed to exist between "life" and "death"!

[Lin Yi… ]

[Tell me where you are… ]

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[Hurry… ]

The human-shaped sculpture closest to Lin Yi suddenly spoke, smiling sinisterly at Lin Yi.

It seemed extremely eager for Lin Yi to anchor it away!

[Lin Yi… ]

[Lin Yi… Hehehe… ]

[Take us away… ]

[Or—stay here with us… ]

[Hehehe… ]

[Lin Yi… Lin Yi… ]

[You can't leave… you can't leave—]

The wind grew stronger, the water more rapid, and the sound of the chains became clearer, like a strange music, striking people's bones, chanting a terrifying and mournful funeral song.

"No… no, no, no…" Lin Yi withdrew his gaze, no longer looking at them.

But when he turned his gaze back, he found that the surrounding environment seemed to have changed again…

The light in the passage gradually weakened, and the darkness began to oppress him as if it were a substance, after the incandescent lights disappeared, even the light source seemed to be fading…

He found that the entire student passage no longer existed, or rather, he had fallen out of the layer where the student passage was located, as if someone had pressed him from the surface of the water to below the surface.

The walls around him were no longer the pitted yellow stones and bricks, but almost smooth rock walls, the stone walls were full of flowing water, but the source of the water could not be seen.

At the junction of the steps and the wall, there was a thick layer of moss, occasional cracks appeared on the smooth wall, and a faint green light shone from the shadows in the cracks, as if some kind of fluorescent algae plant was wriggling, but it could not be seen clearly upon closer inspection, but it seemed like will-o'-the-wisps flickering there if not carefully observed.

The wind came "whooshing" from the front, seemingly carrying some broken water droplets.

Lin Yi's heart gradually sank to the bottom, but he immediately perked up.

He knew that the more real the scene he saw, the deeper his resonance with this layer, once he really came to this layer, the hope of returning would become slim.

"Anchor! I must find an anchor!" Lin Yi's mind raced, this was no longer a simple hallucination, the flowing water and broken water droplets at his feet, the howling wind, everything directly affected his five senses, rather than just being a hallucination.

If it was a hallucination, he could just imagine Old Da to divert his attention, but he had just been hit by a combo from this environment, missing the best opportunity to imagine Old Da.

He could actually use his identity information to do a wave of anchoring, but the problem was that he was not lost at all… anchoring would only allow those human-shaped sculptures hanging above his head to use him!

"There must be another way!"

"The key is… I need an anchor!"

"So what can be used as an anchor?"

Lin Yi thought frantically.

The so-called "anchor" is some element that can determine my "location".

"If the layers have boundaries, then two layers must touch each other before I can transfer! So what I need now is… 'return the way I came'? !"

"Wind!"

"Wind is the key!"

Lin Yi took a deep breath, and then slowly stood up.

The fierce wind blew from the front like a spiral, constantly hitting his body, trying to break his spine!

He squinted his eyes, and then vaguely saw a figure in front…

It was Wei Liang.

Wei Liang was still climbing up the steps, seemingly unaffected by the wind at all!

It's 'napkin'!"

Lin Yi thought of what Tian Bufan had once told him, he and Wei Liang were originally on the same piece of paper, but he had been affected by, and even accepted, pollution from another layer!

So this strange place covered his original layer, and even tried to use his way of establishing anchors to return to his layer with him!

He found the anchor, those broken human-shaped sculptures bound by iron chains and floating in the wind, found the link to return!

This is a dead end!

Either Lin Yi doesn't go back, or… they go back together!

[Lin Yi… ]

[Hehehe… ]

[Lin Yi… where are you?]

[Hurry back… hurry back… ]

[My name is Lin Yi… I am in the classroom… My name is Lin Yi… ]

[Hehe… ]

Seemingly hearing Lin Yi's inner voice, those human-shaped sculptures also showed their cards, mocking and jeering, like countless lonely ghosts hanging in the wilderness, clamoring and laughing strangely, the voices rising and falling, like demonic sounds.

Lin Yi gritted his teeth, enduring the scouring of the wind, trying to abandon these noises, but he couldn't isolate them.

He watched Wei Liang's figure gradually receding, and finally squatted weakly on the steps.

But at this moment, touching the steps, he suddenly burst out with a huge inspiration!

He thought of something that could be used as an anchor!

This anchor doesn't need to know where he is, nor does it need identity information, no, this may not be an anchor at all, but it can take him out of here!

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