Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Xia Lian calmly said, "This entire giant egg is like a boiler... Students at the second stage and above will capture all invaders during the gray fog invasion and throw them into this furnace to be burned."

"At the same time, in order to alleviate the frontal pressure from the angel statues on the gymnasium, we often guide the trial students or first-stage students who take refuge here to the giant egg, attracting the descent of the angel statues here."

"In this way, we can solve them all in one fell swoop to the greatest extent."

"When the giant egg is closed, the positions of food and diners are reversed... The 'pollution' carried by the angel statues and those invaders will be discharged from their bodies during the burning process, becoming 'original pollution', and we can take the opportunity to attract the 'original pollution' into our bodies and turn it into our own strength."

"I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying."

She was sharing her experience with Li Huiyuan, but also popularizing science for Lin Yi.

"I seem to understand a little... It's like in novels, where some ancient alien beasts are boiled into food, and then applied externally and eaten internally!" Lin Yi said, "Then, in that case, they seem to be full of treasures!"

Xia Lian rolled her eyes: "The food chain is not the only thing... They are food at this moment, but at other moments, aren't we also food in their eyes?"

"Believe me, once the gray fog invades, if you leave the gymnasium... the smell of meat can drift for miles."

Lin Yi shuddered: "Senior Sister Xia Lian, your sudden humor makes my back feel chilly..."

"Rumble!"

The dome closed with a rumbling sound. The boss and the gym teachers hung the iron chains above the dome and then entered the giant egg before the dome closed.

"Is it time to start the 'furnace' next?" Lin Yi asked expectantly.

Xia Lian shook her head: "It's not time yet. Wait a little longer. There are still guests who haven't arrived."

"'Guests'? What's that?" Lin Yi asked.

"You'll know soon enough," Xia Lian said.

"No, can't you just tell me directly?" Lin Yi was a little speechless.

Xia Lian smiled and said, "You're guessing quite accurately, why don't you guess again?"

"Could this guest be irony? Are there still invaders who haven't arrived? Other angel statues?"

This also makes sense. After all, the gymnasium really has a "Lun Yu" feeling.

Just like Van Gogh was once an art student, who dares to say that Confucius couldn't be a sports student?

Confucius said: 'It is a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar, to divide and eat with them.'

It's simply hanging the way of hospitality on the gymnasium's signboard!

But Xia Lian shook her head.

Lin Yi tentatively asked, "Then it's a real guest?"

Xia Lian nodded.

"Could it be... a chef? Someone who both cooks and dines, doing both at the same time?"

Xia Lian shook her head again.

"Uh... it's so hard to guess!" A wry smile appeared on Lin Yi's face, "It can't be inviting art students as guests... Eh? Senior Sister Xia Lian, that expression of yours... Could it be?"

Xia Lian raised her eyebrows, looking at him with interest, but did not answer his question.

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat. He knew he might have guessed correctly, but... art students coming to the gymnasium?!

Isn't it in the rules that they shouldn't go to the gymnasium?

[The gymnasium is a building composed of a stadium and a giant egg. If you accidentally enter the gymnasium area, please leave as soon as you realize it.

Absolutely do not stay in the gymnasium area (the area can be confirmed by the street lamp poles)]

—《Art Student Rules》

The contents of the "Art Student Rules" immediately flashed in his mind.

Xia Lian teased, "Why are you so sure that art students won't come? Unless you... have read the Art Student Rules?"

Lin Yi's mind wavered, but his face remained calm: "What? I just felt it was impossible..."

After he finished speaking, he turned his gaze to the playground area below the stands.

Song Rentou was thrown to the edge of the playground area. At this moment, he was constantly squirming his body. His body was severely injured, and his spine was almost directly broken. He didn't know how many bones in his body were crushed.

Even so, with the help of the gray fog in his body, his body was still recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Gray fog"... Staring at Song Rentou's figure, Lin Yi's brow furrowed slowly.

Gray fog... What exactly is going on?

What is the connection between the units filled with gray fog and the "gray fog invasion" event?

Before Lin Yi could start thinking about this question, he felt that the ground beneath his feet seemed to be shaking...

This slight shaking was a subtle but undeniable change, like a person standing on the earth, who could feel the slope of the ground no matter what.

And in Lin Yi's keen perception, this change was magnified many times.

He felt that his body's center of gravity had shifted slightly, and this shift was irregular, feeling like he was standing on a boat, and the originally calm lake was blown by a gust of wind, causing the entire lake to gently ripple.

Before he could adapt to the magnitude of this swing, he immediately discovered that gray fog was beginning to seep out of the playground on the first floor of the giant egg!

Gradually, the gray fog covered the entire ground, and the green grass on the playground was obscured by the gray fog, as if the entire earth was shrouded in a cloud.

"Whirr... Whirr... Whirr..."

Faintly, under the gray fog, there seemed to be the sound of flowing water.

Lin Yi tried to concentrate and look over, and then he saw the faintly flowing water under the gray fog at the edge of the first floor of the stands.

"Water?!" he exclaimed, "How can there be standing water?"

He looked at Xia Lian, trying to find the answer on Xia Lian's face.

"Don't look at me, I don't know the principle either," Xia Lian shrugged. "I only know that this is part of the 'process'."

"Don't worry too much, even the first floor of the stands is much higher than the ground, this water can't spread to the first floor."

Lin Yi didn't listen to Xia Lian's comforting words. He seemed to have thought of something and quickly rushed to the railing on the first floor of the stands.

"Hey, what are you doing? Don't you want to live?!" Xia Lian quickly grabbed Lin Yi, but just as she was about to grab Lin Yi, she saw a string of blurred afterimages and then lost Lin Yi's figure.

"?"

Xia Lian was stunned for a moment, and then found Lin Yi lying on the railing, his eyes staring at the outer wall of the first floor of the stands.

"It's really like this! Moss!"

Lin Yi murmured to himself, his eyes flickering.

"There is also moss on the walls inside the giant egg..."

"I felt something was wrong just now, I should have noticed it just now... I ignored it..."

"So 'water' really appears in the campus!"

"In this way, the moss that appears in many places on campus seems to be explained!"

“The moss on the outer walls of the teaching building's corridor bridge, the moss on the steps of the teaching building, the moss in the student union passage of the cafeteria…”

“Too much, too much… The moss in those places seems to be similar to the situation here!”

“When the gray fog invades, it will drag the entire campus into the ‘water’ of a certain layer!”

“So now those experience students on the stands are not simply acting as bait to attract the descent of the angel statues, but also using them as a kind of cognitive anchor to stabilize the giant egg that is constantly sinking on the ‘campus’ layer?”

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Then, according to this… where exactly is the campus itself located?

“Could it be that the entire campus is on the sea?!”

“Could it be that I have been misunderstanding from the beginning?”

“It’s not the abnormal layer of the art building, but the entire campus layer is not right, like a floating island on ice. The entire campus is underwater, and the part that emerges from the water is the so-called ‘normal’ part, which is… the campus!”

“And when the layer becomes abnormal, the waterline fluctuates on the layer, so the campus will sometimes experience the phenomenon of ‘seeping water’…”

“If this conjecture holds true, then ‘moss’ would be another kind of ‘coordinate’ within the campus!”

Just then, he discovered that some figures were appearing beneath the water's surface…

He blinked, but then found that the figures underwater had disappeared again.

“There’s something underwater?” Lin Yi whispered, his tone carrying some uncertainty.

“Underwater?” Li Huiyuan widened her eyes, constantly looking at the water's surface beneath the gray fog.

The current water surface had completely submerged the playground and was about an ankle's height higher.

“No… Are you seeing things?” Li Huiyuan glanced at Lin Yi with suspicion.

Lin Yi was silent for a moment: “Then perhaps… I was mistaken.”

Before he finished speaking, some movement came from not far from the stands. Lin Yi followed the sound and found that the movement came from the emergency exit.

No, not the emergency exit, at least, not the emergency exit they came from.

There were many emergency exits inside the giant egg, and now some of them were making strange noises.

Soon, a dark mass of people poured out of the passage. Those people were wearing green school uniforms, and they were—

“Art students?!” Lin Yi exclaimed subconsciously. Moreover, not only that, but he also saw Yan Jinming and… Mao Feiyang among those art students!

“Maozi?!”

Lin Yi was both surprised and delighted, and wanted to shout hello from afar, but he quickly realized that the situation seemed a little off. After Maozi and the others came out, they didn't seem to have arrived in the giant egg and started taking their seats. Instead, they continued to walk in a certain direction, and only after a while did they sit down one after another.

“The things that Maozi and the others ‘see’ seem to be different from what I see. He doesn't seem to be able to see me!”

“Wait!”

“Maozi and the others… weren't they walking in that staircase just now, and being chased by the grinning angel? They kept walking and walking, and finally came to the gymnasium?”

Lin Yi felt his brain was a little overwhelmed.

What's going on? Are the art building and the gymnasium connected?

Or is it that the staircase, seemingly a “staircase,” is actually a “passage” on some layer level?

His heart filled with doubts, Lin Yi decided to watch patiently.

“Are they the art students?” Li Huiyuan looked at Maozi and the others, her eyes full of curiosity.

Xia Lian nodded: “A meal is too rich. Inviting them to eat together will not waste a single bit… It’s starting.”

Lin Yi's spirit perked up when he heard this, and he quickly looked around.

At this moment, the entire giant egg, except for the stands, was shrouded in gray fog.

Beneath the gray fog, the Wrathful Angels had taken shape, but were still wrapped in wings. Their bodies trembled slightly, rising and falling rhythmically, like people in deep sleep.

Above the gray fog, the pseudo-human sculptures strung together by iron chains and the Wrathful Angels became manic after absorbing the gray fog, struggling to break free from the shackles of the iron chains, but some glyphs between cuneiform, oracle bone inscriptions, or some distorted numbers faintly floated on the cold iron chains with metallic luster.

When this kind of symbol appeared, the gray fog they gathered collapsed as if it had been scattered.

This kind of text similar to graphics seems to be a kind of “font” with extraordinary characteristics, like the talismans in Chinese mythology, the spells in European magical civilization, etc., containing a very special extraordinary power.

“The time has come!” The boss’s clear and cold voice echoed within the giant egg. She stood on a wall that protruded from somewhere below the dome of the giant egg, higher than the second floor of the stands, holding an old kerosene lamp in her hand, like a female general on an expedition, “Form ranks! Raise the lamps!”

At a position almost as high as where she was standing, a group of physical education teachers stood out, each holding an old kerosene lamp, forming a circle of old kerosene lamps above the giant egg.

I don't know why, the boss's action of turning around and opening her arms, coupled with that clear and cold voice, actually gave people a sense of sight of the Yellow-browed Great King shouting “Since you see the future, why not worship” in Little Western Heaven, plus the circle of physical education teachers holding “magical instruments”, that's a gymnasium, it's clearly the Great Electronic Music Temple…

Moreover, when this circle of people stood there, for some reason, it also gave Lin Yi a different kind of feeling of a necropolis…

In the next moment, only the boss and the physical education teachers slowly opened their mouths, and a magnificent and mysterious ancient syllable, like an ancient painting, slowly spread out above the giant egg…

The sound was mixed in the rapid wind, mixed in the fluctuating water, as if they had been guided out of a broken time, slowly echoing in the giant egg, the sound, for Lin Yi, was so strange and familiar…

All the physical education students quieted down, and they sat down on the chairs nearby, listening to their voices, as if listening to an ancient teaching.

Gradually, Lin Yi also heard a familiar rhythm from it, which seemed to be the precept that the Night Watcher and Mu Daxian had said—the precept from “The Iron Law of the Night Watcher”:

“「De som jager lyset i tke blir til slutt fantomer」!”

【「Those who chase the light through the fog will eventually become phantoms」】