Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Xu Shunkang sneered: "'Mastery'? It's too early. Let's observe some more."

On the other side, Li Huiyuan also noticed the changes in Lin Yi, and a moving brilliance burst out from her pair of watery eyes.

However, she tactfully didn't disturb Lin Yi.

But at this moment, he heard Lin Yi's voice: "Li... Huihui, put some more weight down."

"Aww! Okay~" Li Huiyuan began to readjust the weight.

"A little more... a little more... Good! That's it, it's enough!"

Li Huiyuan immediately stopped, and at the same time, she was slightly startled.

Lin Yi didn't know, but she knew that the load on Lin Yi's body had already reached one and one-third of a bag.

"Huff, huff, huff..."

At this moment, Lin Yi's back was almost tilted at a 45-degree angle, and his front and back were soaked with sweat, like a construction worker carrying bricks, moving forward at a snail's pace, one step at a time.

Sweat beads the size of soybeans flowed down his nose and jaw, and finally dripped from his chin, falling onto the floor with a "plop"...

Strangely, after the sweat beads dripped, they immediately evaporated in place, turning into a faint mist, as if the floor of the gymnasium was very hot.

"Step... step... step..."

Sweat soaked his bangs, drooping in front of his eyes like a curtain, vaguely blurring his vision. However, he couldn't free up his hands to brush his hair away, so he could only endure this uncomfortable feeling, walking forward little by little.

Therefore, even he himself didn't realize that a kind of sky-blue steam was permeating around his body.

Not far away, the boss's attention fell to his feet. Through the faint sky-blue steam, she saw the water-like "ashes" floating on Lin Yi's shadow.

With the appearance of the sky-blue steam, these "ashes" seemed to be stained with wood chips, and they actually began to emit a faint reddish-golden light, like the color displayed by burning paper before it turns into black ashes.

Those sky-blue vapors that approached the ashes were ignited like paper, and gradually the flame began to surge, with a tendency to rise from Lin Yi's shadow and then scorch the soles of his feet.

"'The mist-chasing light-seeker eventually becomes a phantom'..." The boss narrowed her eyes, "As expected of the power of 'Ashes', it is indeed fascinating..."

The boss's narrow eyes surged with golden light, even more dazzling than the ignited sky-blue steam.

"I wonder how long the pollution in Lin Yi's body can keep the 'Ashes' burning..."

...

Lin Yi, who was not far away, only felt that he had just relaxed a little, but then immediately sank down again. The first thing he thought of was not ashes, but whether he was over-exerting himself, leading to a decrease in endurance, so he couldn't carry the bag.

So he stood still and began to adjust his breathing, trying to recover some strength in this way.

At the same time, he said, "Huihui..."

"Eh~" Li Huiyuan's eyebrows curved, seeming very happy.

"Can you help me wipe my sweat?"

"Okay~" Li Huiyuan immediately freed up one hand, then reached out to touch Lin Yi's neck, and her motives seemed a little impure.

"Wipe sweat, hey!"

"There's a lot of sweat over there."

"Just wipe my forehead... huff, huff..."

"Okay..." Li Huiyuan stuck out her tongue, but still obediently reached out to wipe Lin Yi's forehead, helping him push the bangs that were about to stick together to the side.

Lin Yi felt much more comfortable now.

But at this moment, he found that Li Huiyuan brought the hand stained with his sweat to her face and sniffed it.

"Hiss..." Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat. What's going on?!

But he didn't dare to say anything. Coupled with the increasingly heavy bag, he immediately mobilized his energy to adjust his state back to "peak".

But Li Huiyuan's attention was still on her hand. At this moment, Lin Yi's sweat presented a state in her eyes that was completely opposite to what it looked like...

She felt that there seemed to be some colorful and dazzling light spots in the sweat, like the setting sun shining on the water surface stirred by the evening breeze, rippling circles of brilliance... For her, it seemed to be full of an unknown but strong attraction.

The boss noticed Li Huiyuan's appearance, but didn't say much, just nodded secretly.

She observed Lin Yi again, but the more she looked, the more she didn't understand.

There were indeed some things on Lin Yi's body that exceeded her expectations, so much so that she still hadn't come to a conclusion and could only continue to observe.

"However, he doesn't seem to have noticed that he has stimulated the pollution in his body...?"

This guy is so sensitive to others, why is he so slow to himself?

"Hmm...?" The boss's eyes suddenly narrowed, and she seemed to have discovered something different.

It could be seen that Lin Yi's body was indeed surrounded by a layer of sky-blue steam, but outside this sky-blue steam, there was also a layer of steam that had no color, or rather pure white...

"'Original Pollution'?"

The boss's phoenix eyes narrowed into a slit, and golden brilliance flowed beneath her eyelashes, blending coldness and heat, as if flashing an unknown emotion.

"That's impossible..."

She carefully observed Lin Yi, or more precisely, she looked at the steam around Lin Yi.

As the golden flames burned in her eyes, her vision began to change... At this moment, the trajectory of the extraordinary power change was clearly visible in her eyes, and Lin Yi's body almost became a transparent substance with only a human outline.

Next to Lin Yi, Li Huiyuan also turned into a similar thermal image, but the transparent her body contained free-state blue particles, and it could be clearly observed that Li Huiyuan's body was like a switch, constantly taking in the white aura and some blue steam that were free in the air, and then, after an inexplicable substitution reaction in the body, finally discharged the sky-blue steam...

Absorbing the pollution (extraordinary power) in the air that cannot be observed with the naked eye, and then turning it into sky-blue steam, some accumulates in the body, and some is discharged from the body.

This is the assimilation power of sports students to pollution.

But Lin Yi, in addition to similar changes, also directly discharged a part of the original pollution, that is, the white aura, after absorbing it into his body, just like his body was just a channel, no matter how much came in... it didn't matter...

Unlike Li Huiyuan, who absorbs as much "original pollution" as she replaces, Lin Yi is absorbing "original pollution" all the time, but... only replaces the amount he needs.

Moreover, the boss found that Lin Yi seemed to be able to increase his conversion rate when needed, which led to... the Ashes simply couldn't burn up the sky-blue steam in Lin Yi's body!

"His body... is too strange..." The boss rubbed her brow. "No wonder he could last so long in the hands of the angel statue..."

Ignoring the berserk angel is one thing, but the grinning angel exists solely to devour the extraordinary power within the contaminated. Even a pseudo-art student couldn't withstand its absorption, yet Lin Yi managed to hold out for so long. There must be a reason for that.

And now, the boss has found the reason.

It's like a vampire constantly sucking your blood. Once you're drained, you're done for. But you, while being drained, release your body's absorption of surrounding energy, causing your body to constantly regenerate blood to replenish what the vampire is taking. This prevents you from reaching a state of 'death by blood loss.'

"No wonder the contamination within him can't be completely removed. External forces have little impact on the increase or decrease of contamination in his body..."

"Is he even human...?"

A thought that shouldn't have arisen suddenly occurred to the boss. For a moment, she had the idea of dissecting Lin Yi to study his body structure...

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Of course, this terrifying thought was only fleeting.

Sure enough, when the azure vapor around Lin Yi was burned by the ashes to a level below a certain concentration, his body would subconsciously accelerate the absorption of 'primordial contamination,' thereby replacing it with more azure vapor to maintain his most basic strength, enough to carry the sack...

In this way, within the limit allowed by Lin Yi's physical strength, the weight of the sack he can carry is his body's endurance. As long as he doesn't exceed the limit, he can complete the carrying through 'adaptation.'

But the interesting thing is that in Lin Yi's 'perception,' he seems to be a person with 'very normal physical fitness.'

"However... if he isn't given enough 'adaptation' time, even a weight within his body's endurance should be able to crush him..." The boss made her final judgment.

It's like a manual transmission car. You can't just floor the accelerator. You have to press it down little by little, giving the car enough adaptation range.

Otherwise, it will backfire, causing the car to shake, emit black smoke, and then stall.

The boss crossed her arms and continued to observe.

But the clueless Lin Yi was still gradually increasing the load through 'adaptation,' and the efficiency of that adaptation surprised even Li Huiyuan beside him.

But no one except the boss noticed that the layer of ash floating on Lin Yi's shadow, while constantly igniting the azure vapor, was also being gradually worn away by the azure vapor. Then, along with Lin Yi's absorption and emission of white particles, it seeped into his body, bit by bit...

Of course, the amount of ash worn away was much smaller than the amount of azure vapor ignited. It felt like a drop of water melting on an ice layer...

The main reason why Li Huiyuan felt an irresistible attraction to Lin Yi's sweat was that when Lin Yi's body absorbed the white particles mixed with ash dust, some of the ash particles were still not completely absorbed in the one-time replacement, and mixed in the sweat, evaporating out of his body, forming some crystals.

These crystals contained a trace of ash aura, but were still a fairly pure... 'resource.'

If Li Huiyuan hadn't helped Lin Yi wipe his sweat, it would have been impossible to sense the existence of these ash auras.

After Lin Yi, carrying the sack, passed her position, she looked at her hand stained with Lin Yi's sweat with a somewhat complicated expression. Her eyes flickered a few times, as if struggling for a moment, before cautiously bringing it close to her palm, her delicate nose wrinkled slightly, sniffing the scent of the sweat...

The ash aura was inhaled into Li Huiyuan's nasal cavity along with her breath, entering her body through the respiratory tract, and quickly dissolving into wisps of light-gold specks within her.

Her eyes lit up, and a layer of slightly darker gold immediately swept across the depths of her pupils, which already had a light-gold halo...

She moved a little closer to Lin Yi, then carefully sniffed Lin Yi's scent, her delicate eyebrows twitching, like a girl smelling the aroma of cake, pursing her lips and revealing a small tiger tooth, her eyes full of enjoyment and joy.

Next, Lin Yi had a strange illusion—he didn't know what was wrong with Li Huiyuan, but suddenly she became much more proactive, wiping away his sweat before it even dripped down, as attentive as a little maid.

... ...

May 9, 2023, 13:02, gymnasium, shower area.

"Swish—swish—"

The sound of water echoed in the shower area, and the heat filled the non-slip floor mats, forming a misty feeling.

"Xiao Li, are you done yet? Hurry up, change with me after you're done!" In front of a waterproof curtain in a certain bathroom, a physical education student with a bath towel wrapped around his waist patted the waterproof curtain and urged impatiently.

"Almost, almost!" Inside the bathroom, Li Kai was closing his eyes and bending over to wash his hair. "Stop rushing me! I don't believe you don't take this long to wash your hair!"

"Alas, you wash as you please, who can wash like you!" The physical education student outside curled his lip.

Just then, an inexplicable gust of wind blew in from the entrance of the shower area, and the nearby water vapor seemed to be stirred, scattering to both sides like a reversed wave...

Crack, crack...

A chill quietly seeped in, and transparent ice crystals spread like spider webs on the non-slip floor mats, gradually approaching the back of the physical education student.

Swish, swish...

Swish, swish...

A green-aproned chef with stiff limbs, like a zombie stepping on ghost steps, entered the shower area. However, the sound of 'swishing' water and the two physical education students chatting diluted the sound of 'swishing' movement.

By the time the physical education student outside the bathroom noticed the cold chill coming from behind, it was already too late.

"Student..." The green-aproned chef called out softly.

The physical education student's pupils contracted fiercely, and his whole body trembled violently.

"Crap!"

His perception wasn't great, but his reaction was top-notch. In that instant, he reflexively threw a blind elbow strike, hitting hard!

Thud!

Along with a heavy impact sound, the green-aproned chef's body, as frozen as a wooden block, was elbowed away fiercely, and the physical education student also felt a strong stinging sensation from his elbow joint.

He felt something was wrong and his expression turned ugly.