Rules-related weird stories: 4016

The gym teacher who took me to the office was very calm… He even greeted other people. After greeting them, he went to his desk, took out a folder, and started registering me…

Then, he took me to the third floor of the gymnasium…

The third floor of the gymnasium… At the very end, there was an office with a sign that read 'Infirmary'…

The gym teacher knocked on the door of the infirmary…

The person who opened the door was an old woman who looked very old…

She was wearing a white coat, and a badge was pinned to her chest. The badge said 'School Doctor,' but there was no number on it…

She took me into the infirmary, and the gym teacher stayed at the door…

There were many doors in the infirmary… The walls all around were doors…

I couldn't see clearly. As soon as I entered the infirmary, I felt dizzy and couldn't tell where the direction of gravity was…

I felt very uncomfortable, like I was being roasted on a grill…

The school doctor asked me about my condition and then did a simple check-up… I was already dizzy and couldn't tell east from west. I was like a soulless puppet being led by her…

After a while, she sent me out of the infirmary…

The gym teacher was waiting at the door. He listened to the school doctor, and then… then he took me to the basement…

Speaking of this, Li Huiyuan's body trembled uncontrollably, as if she had thought of some terrifying experience.

Lin Yi quickly reached out and gently pressed on her shoulder, comforting her: "If you don't want to talk about it… just skip this part…"

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and shook her head, continuing: "The basement… you go in through the passage on the swimming pool side."

"There's a passage there full of old, old kerosene lamps. At the end of the passage is a door, and behind the door is the basement… I don't know if the basement there is connected to the basement entered from the outside…"

"Its internal space is very large, like a lightless dungeon or maze, damp and dark, with bursts of rapid and sharp sounds, very much like the sound of wind whistling and swirling in a cave, but I didn't feel any wind flowing…"

"Some stones that glowed were hanging on the walls of the basement, a bit like torches, but I'm sure I wasn't mistaken, they were stones… a kind of round, luminous pearl-like stone…"

"There were also some disgusting smells in the basement that made me feel very nauseous… That kind of smell… like the burrows where carrion rats live and the amphibians that eat corpses have…"

"My professional knowledge tells me that there must be something from the mysterious diagrams here… but I've never seen it… I always thought the theories in textbooks were divorced from practice…"

"The teacher took me to one of the rooms…"

"It was a room like a prison cell, covered with dry grass. The walls were full of keyholes, and many iron chains hung down from the keyholes…"

"He pulled those chains over and tied me up, hanging me in the middle of the room, making me look like I was bound by a spider web made of iron chains, unable to move…"

"The teacher told me… that the pollution in my body would turn me into a creature very similar to the 'Green Bib Chef,' but as long as I could last one night in this room, I wouldn't turn into that thing, and I could still live."

"He told me that I didn't need to think about anything next, just keep chanting my name in my heart…"

"After saying that, he left a spherical stone and left…"

"That stone… was very similar to the glowing stones in the basement corridor. The only difference was that it didn't glow…"

"I just waited like that… but I immediately discovered a problem. The room was very dark, with only a glowing stone on the wall providing faint illumination… There was no way to judge the passage of time at all…"

"So I couldn't determine how long the so-called 'night' was. So I could only keep shouting 'I am Li Huiyuan, I am in the gymnasium' in my heart, and every time I chanted, I reported a serial number…"

"I didn't know when I arrived at the gymnasium, so I directly used 20:00 when I left the teaching building as the time. In this way, I only needed to calculate the passage of a maximum of 10 hours to determine that it was definitely after 6:00 the next day…"

"That way, I would definitely be considered to have 'spent the night'…"

"But I miscalculated. I made a very low-level mistake—I didn't take the environment and human factors into account."

"About after the teacher walked away, some very terrifying sounds began to appear in the basement… At first, it sounded like the screams of people being tortured, but after a while, it didn't feel like it…"

"That kind of shouting… easily makes people think of some bloody and painful things. More like the roar of an unknown beast than a human voice, or like the sound of a ship passing through a canyon full of rushing hurricanes…"

"Those sounds made me feel uncomfortable all over, like something was being torn out of my bones…"

"At that time, I seemed to hear some kind of strange call… like a intermittent flute sound coming from the depths of a vast ocean, mixed with the sea breeze and the whispers of some mysterious creatures…"

"I had never seen so-called 'mysterious creatures' anywhere other than in textbooks, but since X999, everything has changed, so I never doubt that these things really exist…"

"My mentor calls them 'Precursors'… things that have been influenced by transcendent or unknown forces and have taken the first step on the biological evolution chart…"

"I feel like I might have heard the call of this kind of creature… or had a similar auditory hallucination… because I'm not sure if I had a clear perception at that time… The only thought I had left was to chant my name and blindly record the passage of time…"

"About ten minutes later, I heard some heavy sounds in the corridor outside the room… like a huge crowd of people, pressing against the wall and crawling forward…"

"That kind of vibration was transmitted along the walls to the chains on my body… like a butcher sharpening a knife over there, the rustling sound gave me goosebumps all over…"

"That feeling continued, probably until 22:30… It seemed that a strange wave passed over my body."

"That feeling was like… when swimming, being pushed by the water waves of the people next to you…"

"Then, the spherical stone that the teacher left before leaving began to glow…"

“When that light first appeared, the room became scorching hot, as if it were on fire. It was like a fireball had ignited, and I felt like I was going to be burned to death…”

“Later, I gradually lost consciousness. When I came to, Big Boss was standing in front of me…”

… …

May 9th, X023, 6:13 AM, gymnasium basement.

In the dimly lit room, filled with dry grass, the spiderweb-like chains suddenly trembled. Li Huiyuan slowly opened her sleepy eyes… …

“Ugh…”

As her blurry vision gradually cleared, a figure wearing a black, form-fitting suit with blue and white stripes, over which was a loose blue and white school uniform, slowly appeared before her… …

“You, you are… …a teacher?”

“Call me… …‘Big Boss’,” Big Boss slowly said. “Do you remember your name?”

“I… …I am… …” Li Huiyuan’s eyes were hazy, as if lost in a long recollection. “I am Hui… …Hui… …Li… …Li Hui… …”

“I… …I… …”

She stammered, as if lost.

“If you can’t remember clearly, from today on, you’ll be called… …‘Huihui Li’… …”

“‘Hui… …Huihui… …Li’… …?” Li Huiyuan was confused. “It sounds… …a bit unpleasant…”

“Then call you ‘Huihuizi’.”

“I… …I seem to be able to remember… …my name… …I… …I am called… …Li Hui… …Li Hui… …Yuan… …”

The moment she spoke her name, a light seemed to flash in Li Huiyuan’s eyes, and she suddenly became clear-headed.

“My name is Li Huiyuan! Big Boss, my name is Li Huiyuan!”

“However, you can also call me ‘Huihuizi’… …Hehe… …”

… …

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“Later, I learned that Big Boss used ‘Huihuizi’ to initially anchor my muddled mind. If I really couldn’t remember my name, I would have become a physical education student named ‘Huihuizi,’ but fortunately, I relied on my own thoughts to anchor myself back… …”

Li Huiyuan said with a grin.

“So, ah, next time if you encounter this situation, if I call you ‘Linlinzi,’ you must remember your name!”

“The anchor that you find yourself is the most effective. The anchor that others give… …needs to be ‘maintained’ from time to time, otherwise, there is a risk of it failing.”

“Then, I obtained the ‘Physical Education Student Certificate’ and officially became a physical education student. Big Boss also handed over the Physical Education Student Handbook to me.”

“Physical Education Student Certificate?” Lin Yi said in surprise. “Don’t physical education students not have student IDs? Oh, I get it! Student IDs are only for probationary students. The Physical Education Student Certificate is a kind of thing called ‘Physical Education Student Certificate’… …I’m stupid.”

Lin Yi didn’t ask any more about the Physical Education Student Certificate.

He pondered silently… …Li Huiyuan had repeatedly mentioned “Mysterious Genealogy” in a serious manner, and now it seemed to be true.

However, regarding “time,” perhaps Li Huiyuan’s calculations were wrong.

“Is the stone that the teacher left in the room a fist-sized stone with some concentric circle-like patterns on it?” Lin Yi asked while gesturing.

Li Huiyuan asked in surprise: “Eh, how do you know?”

「It really is a light bulb!」 Lin Yi’s heart trembled, and he said: “I’ve seen it. That thing is actually somewhat similar to the light bulbs in the campus…”

“Light bulb?” Li Huiyuan was stunned, a blur appearing in her eyes, but it quickly cleared up.

Lin Yi regretted it as soon as he said it, fearing that his subconscious, unrestrained words would collapse Li Huiyuan’s cognition, but seeing her quickly recover, he breathed a sigh of relief… …

「It seems that the wave that Li Huiyuan sensed is very likely the kind of fluctuation generated by the dormitory building turning off the lights at midnight… …」

The dormitory building turns off the lights at 0:00, at that time a strange fluctuation will be released, and then the elevator in the teaching building can lead to the art building… …

Lin Yi was not sure, but he guessed that it was probably like this.

「If that’s the case… …」

「Li Huiyuan started timing from 20:00, and 22:30 in her cognition is 0:00 in reality… …That is to say, she arrived at the gymnasium around 9:30… …」

「The security guard’s route, after walking through each floor after Class 2 of Group B in the teaching building, and then passing through the D Building library, and walking through the campus green belt to reach the gymnasium… …takes a total of one and a half hours.」

Lin Yi silently noted this time value.

In fact, there were many, many details in Li Huiyuan’s experience, but he didn’t have time to get to the bottom of it now.

Because he had too little time, he hadn’t even watched the video taken in the digital camera!

At this time, Big Boss walked out from the direction of the changing room and came to them.

“How’s the chat going?” Big Boss said lightly. “If it’s about time, go take a shower and then go to swimming class.”

“I’ve already found a classmate to supervise you during the rain, you’ll see him when you go in… …Li Kai, you should have already met.”

“Uh… …Okay, Big Boss.” Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

“Looks like there’s still something you haven’t said?” Big Boss glanced at the two of them.

Putting aside the experience, Lin Yi actually wanted to ask Li Huiyuan some details about the school doctor and the basement, and of course, the most crucial point—

“Big Boss, I want to see the 《Physical Education Student Handbook》… …I don’t know if that’s possible?”

“You can.” Big Boss said lightly, this reaction made Lin Yi stunned.

“Huh?”

「It’s actually that easy?」

Big Boss glanced at him: “Apart from ‘identity’ and not being a physical education student and not having a Physical Education Student Certificate, your other comprehensive conditions are no worse than a physical education student, and even, to some extent, you have surpassed the stage of a physical education student like Huihuizi… …”

“So, I will give you a copy of the 《Physical Education Student Handbook》. You can regard it as a more detailed and broader range of rules, and you can also use it as a reference when the situation is appropriate.”

“However, except in the gymnasium, I still recommend you choose some relatively conservative approaches in other situations… …”

“Uh… …the kind where you don’t fight back when you get beaten?” Lin Yi asked.

Big Boss shook his head slightly: “The ‘being beaten’ angle is too one-sided. The real danger often doesn’t come from an individual, but from the environment, the layers, and even the spiritual level of pollution that can seep in silently… …”

“Let’s go, take a shower and go swimming, absorb the remaining 「ashes」 before anything else.”

Just as Big Boss was about to turn around and leave, Lin Yi didn’t forget Wei Liang and quickly said: “Big Boss, Liangzi wants to take swimming class together too… …”