Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Ah?" Wei Liang was taken aback for a moment, puzzled. "What should I have encountered?"

"Uh... nothing." Lin Yi finished panting, suddenly feeling a chill down his spine and a tingling in his scalp. His intuition told him that the Grinning Angel seemed to have dealt with the Bandage Impersonator art student and was now locking onto his location...

"Liangzi, hurry to the gymnasium! There's no time to explain, quickly run with me!" Lin Yi nudged Wei Liang's arm and began to quicken his pace, eyeing the location of the gymnasium and jogging towards it.

Fortunately, this section of the mountain path was downhill, making it easy to jog.

Seeing this, Wei Liang quickly called out and followed: "Hey! Lao Lin, wait for me!"

Before long, the Grinning Angel appeared at the corner of the mountain path where Lin Yi had looked back. Just as it was about to capture Lin Yi's scent and chase after him, the scent it detected seemed to be disrupted, causing it to pause slightly.

It floated quietly there, then slowly descended to the ground, motionless like a sculpture.

A dozen seconds later, it slowly adjusted its position, then gently took to the air, drifting towards the side of the cobblestone road closest to the green belt...

Its body ignored the trees in the green belt as if it didn't exist at all, floating dozens of meters inward until it finally discovered a broken lamppost at the boundary between light and shadow.

On that lamppost, a 'person' was tied up in a fancy knot, all four of their limbs removed and stuck onto the hemp rope around them like flower arrangements.

It struggled desperately, its limbs flailing wildly as if they had minds of their own, but it was unable to break free from its constraints.

If the Bandage Impersonator art student were here, he would surely recognize that this person was the Impersonator art student who had left the convenience store early with him. Together, they had carried the glorious mission of 'Buze' to find trouble with Lin Yi and Wei Liang.

But Lin Yi had only faced the Bandage Impersonator art student, while it seemed to have gone to find Wei Liang...

It's just unknown why it was now bound here in such a dismembered state.

At its dislocated joints, thick, dark red liquid continued to drip, and because this viscous liquid was not exposed to sunlight, it did not evaporate into a dark green mist or turn into a plaster-like substance.

And the mastermind behind this masterpiece, seemingly dissatisfied with their work, had deliberately made many cuts on its body. The cuts were neither large nor small, but they allowed the liquid flowing from them to soak its entire body over time...

And all of this underwent a qualitative change with the accumulation of the viscous liquid, until it became bait sufficient to attract the Grinning Angel.

The Grinning Angel didn't discriminate, floating over to the Impersonator art student upon seeing it and sucking the dark green aura from its body in the same way.

...

Running ahead on the cobblestone road, Lin Yi suddenly felt the pressure lessen, and the ominous premonition that had been chilling his spine seemed to fade.

"Eh... could it be that the Grinning Angel has changed targets?" Lin Yi was stunned, but his guess was quite accurate.

Seeing that the gymnasium and the giant egg were already close at hand, with only a few more sections of mountain road to go, Lin Yi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The Grinning Angel hadn't caught up for the time being, so it was presumably much safer.

As Lin Yi walked, he subconsciously observed his surroundings, feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't actually pinpoint the problem. He just felt a sense of incongruity, as if some details were different from the last time he came.

After walking another section of the mountain road, Lin Yi suddenly slapped his head: "Oh, I know!"

"Ah?!" Wei Liang was startled and quickly stopped. "What do you know?"

"Lampposts!" Lin Yi exclaimed, "I felt something was wrong just now! Liangzi, look closely, along this section of the mountain road... it seems... there are no lampposts!"

"Gah?!" Wei Liang was stunned, then looked around, his body trembling and his legs weakening to the point of almost collapsing. "Erma, damn it! There really aren't any lampposts!"

"But..." he adjusted his mentality, "we're still on the way to the gymnasium, so there shouldn't be any problems, right?"

"Yeah!" Lin Yi nodded. "I'm just giving a reminder."

"Your reminder is not without reason... Let's go, let's go to the gymnasium quickly. I always feel that this road has a gloomy feeling today." Wei Liang rubbed his arms, seemingly getting goosebumps.

The two slowed their pace a little, but the problem finally came...

Just as they approached a corner of a certain mountain road, they suddenly heard bursts of fierce wind. The whooshing sound was rapid and hoarse, as if it was coming from the gaps between the gnarled branches of several old trees, howling incessantly on the shaded side of the mountain road.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang exchanged glances.

"'The construction location of the gymnasium is a bit special, the wind will be a bit strong, don't worry, as long as there is no rain or fog, it is a normal phenomenon.'" Lin Yi recited the words on the notice board in front of the gymnasium like a repeating machine, "It's a normal phenomenon, at least... I believe, no, I firmly believe that it is a normal phenomenon."

"I also firmly believe it." Wei Liang said solemnly, then, worried that "firmly believe" wasn't enough, he added, "Just like firmly believing that the boss will arrange a beautiful girl to take me to swimming class?"

"..." Lin Yi was speechless and ashamed, "That's survivor bias... Why don't you try another belief?"

"Emmmm... Then I firmly believe that the boss will definitely treat you like that, gently stepping me into the swimming pool."

"..."

"Why don't you still firmly believe that a beautiful girl will take you to swimming class..."

Wei Liang: "..."

Lin Yi covered his forehead, thinking, "Do you think I'm asking the boss to step on me?! Besides, the boss's strength is completely unrelated to 'gentle', damn it!"

The two teased each other for a few sentences, then walked past the corner together, cutting into the other side of the mountain road...

After switching to this mountain road, the wind suddenly picked up, and the trees on both sides of the cobblestone road rustled in the wind, as if whispering some secret, sometimes blurred, as if conveying some ominous premonition.

The surrounding environment had clearly become different. Lin Yi noticed that a lingering fog permeated the depths of the green belt, and the fog was completely unaffected by the strong wind, still slowly occupying the area, slowly spreading outwards...

The fog shrouded the entire mountain forest, making the distant scenery blurred and indistinct. The more Lin Yi looked, the more he felt a boundless fear and unease. Being in such an ominous environment, Lin Yi felt a creepy sensation in his heart again.

"It can't be this bad, right? That's all according to the rules!" Lin Yi was a bit speechless, but also unable to complain. To be honest, he was a little "used to being abused," but he still felt… that the frequency was a bit too high, wasn't it?

He'd just gotten rid of the bandage-wearing pseudo-art student, and then he encountered the Grinning Angel. He'd barely gotten rid of the Grinning Angel, hadn't even wiped his butt clean, and now the toilet exploded again?!

In the dense woods on both sides of the mountain road, some blurry figures could be faintly seen moving in the mist, as if they were chasing something.

Lin Yi was certain that those things were definitely not Nightwalkers, because first, they didn't have that unique "rustling" sound when Nightwalkers moved, and second, Nightwalkers and humanoid sculptures couldn't move under the sun.

"Wait… the sun?"

Lin Yi suddenly realized something, and he abruptly raised his head.

He saw that the green belt around them had grown into towering trees at some unknown time, and the dense leaves blocked the sky, so that even sunlight seemed unable to penetrate. The surrounding environment was like entering a primeval forest, and floating dust seemed to permeate the entire world. Sunlight hung down from above, giving a feeling of clear skies after rain, but also more like… sinking to the bottom of the sea.

But this scene only lasted for a moment, or rather, that moment was actually the scene Lin Yi discovered when he realized something was wrong. It was just that he captured too much information, thus feeling a kind of "long sense of time." In reality, it was only a breath or two!

The strong wind immediately shuttled through the forest again, almost blowing him backward. Fortunately, he lowered his center of gravity in time, which stabilized his figure.

But Lin Yi quickly noticed a hint of moisture that didn't belong to this point in time.

"Drip…"

He felt something rushing over along the trajectory of the wind, and then hitting his cheek like a rubber bullet.

"Drip… drip…"

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Soon, a few more drops of water with this moist feeling appeared.

Lin Yi reached out and touched his cheek. For some reason, when he confirmed that these were water droplets, he actually felt a sense of relief in his heart, thinking, "It's a good thing it's just water droplets, not blood droplets…"

It was strange. It was already a very bad situation for water droplets to appear at this time, but he couldn't help but have such an absurd thought.

He glanced at his side and found that Wei Liang was still there.

He breathed a sigh of relief…

At this time, having a guy who had cultivated his minor skills into a passive locking skill was undoubtedly a huge safety guarantee.

Even if he fell through a layer, at least there was Liangzi as a bottom line…

"Drip… drip…"

"Drip…"

Small and cold raindrops began to fall slowly from the sky, and with the blessing of the strong wind, they became like ice particles. They were not ordinary transparent, but with a trace of strange green light, as if they were polluted by some evil force, just like Gul'dan stirring a bowl of poison full of fel energy, and then mixing it with a blizzard to fall down.

Lin Yi looked at the fingertip that had touched that drop of water, but found that it had already evaporated, but a kind of unclear cool or hot breath remained on the fingertip.

It was like accidentally being burned by fire, and then the intuition lost its perception of temperature.

More and more water droplets fell on his body, and he gradually realized that the blood in his body seemed to be ignited, slowly boiling.

Even more disturbing was that he found that a little bit of distorted color began to appear in his vision, and at the same time, he was beginning to lose his sensory perception…

He felt a sense of top-heaviness, but when this feeling showed signs, he quickly shook his head, dispelled the illusion, and kept his will clear.

But the scene he saw in front of him still had some distortion.

This sense of distortion was not a fixed picture, but a strange, wriggling picture, like using special techniques to affect the optic nerve, thus producing a hallucinatory visual error.

Strangely, his thinking was clear.

And it was in this clear thinking that he saw the distorted picture, and his brain gradually appeared in a situation where the cognitive and intuitive feelings could not reach an agreement!

"Damn… how can the pollution of this rain be so great! It's only a few drops?!"

"Liangzi!" Lin Yi grabbed Wei Liang's clothes in a panic, and said in a rapid and nervous tone, "It's raining! This rain is very wrong!"

"I feel it too!" Wei Liang rarely didn't joke around, and said in a trembling voice, "It's not ordinary rain, Lao Lin, it's… sunshower!"

"Sunshower…?!"

Lin Yi's heart trembled, and an ominous premonition instantly filled his body. Yes, it was daytime, although the light was a bit dim, it wasn't considered cloudy weather at all!

This rain… is really a sunshower!

"Is there any saying about it?"

Wei Liang was still shivering: "Speaking of which, don't pinch so hard, Lao Lin! I'm trembling because you pinched me, didn't you notice!"

Lin Yi quickly let go of the hand that was grabbing Wei Liang, and then realized that Wei Liang's trembling was completely caused by himself…

Wei Liang comforted: "Don't panic! The rules say that it's normal 'as long as there is no rain or fog weather'!"

"Besides, the wind here isn't too strong, and there are only a few sprinkles, don't panic!"

"The wind isn't very strong?!" Lin Yi was stunned, thinking, how can you not feel such a strong wind?

He looked at Wei Liang, and then realized that Wei Liang's clothes were only fluttering a few times, but his back was blown up!

"The wind I'm receiving and the wind blowing on Liangzi are completely two different winds…?!"

"Can it be done like this?!"

So it seems that he and Wei Liang are walking together, but in reality, there are still some differences in the layers?!

"So… the sunshower that Wei Liang is getting is completely different in nature from mine?"

"Is he really just… getting a few drops of rain?"

As for him, because he dropped a little bit of the layer, but didn't completely fall down, he was caught between safety and danger, and he could still communicate with Wei Liang?

It's like… the same country path, Wei Liang is walking on the ridge, but he is constantly crawling darkly in the silt next to the ridge?

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