Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Is there a problem?" Lin Yi retorted.

"Do you know what you just…" The female dorm manager opened her mouth, but didn't continue, "Forget it, whatever…"

"I know," Lin Yi said.

The female dorm manager was stunned.

"I've always known," Lin Yi said, "Those things surrounded me, and I heard their chattering… I just didn't have time to bother with them. Still, thank you."

The female dorm manager's expression gradually changed.

"So, from the beginning… you really wanted to touch my leg, right?"

She put her hands on her hips, staring at Lin Yi fiercely.

Lin Yi's expression changed drastically. 'No way, sis, what is it with women's logic? What kind of connection is that? How could she deduce that…'

Seeing Lin Yi's expression, the female dorm manager knew that he had been completely exposed, and immediately snorted: "Pervert."

Lin Yi's mouth twitched: "How about we talk about something serious?"

"I'm telling you, in a place like this, apart from chatting about some unimportant things, things can easily fall apart once you start talking about other things, understand?"

"Oh! You've reminded me!" Lin Yi suddenly understood, the female dorm manager's approach was actually very similar to Wei Liang's, "Indeed, that's what I should do!"

"Otherwise, why do you think I keep bringing up lewd things?" the female dorm manager retorted.

"Ah? Isn't it just using that as an excuse to be openly lewd?" Lin Yi was taken aback.

"Get out!!!" The female dorm manager's pale, somewhat unnatural face flushed a faint red.

Lin Yi curled his lips: "Fine, I'll get out."

He began to wander around the Dreamscape Sector, but didn't go too far, lest he accidentally go too far and enter some collection area that he shouldn't see.

Without even thinking, he knew that the collection area must be extraordinary, and there must be great secrets inside, but now time was very tight, and he had to find a way to return to the campus area first. As for the secrets of the library, he could only leave it for another time.

The prerequisite for exploration is always to ensure one's own safety first.

He wandered around casually, thinking that if there was any book that particularly interested him, he would take it down and flip through it.

As for the areas above the second floor of the library… he didn't have any intention of going there for the time being.

As he moved, the zealots also moved slowly with him, seemingly waiting for him to become engrossed in reading again.

They didn't plan to let go of this piece of meat, after all, Lin Yi was now within reach, enough for them to live off for three years.

Lin Yi completely understood the zealots' thoughts, and also knew that they had no way to deal with him now. As long as he remained rational, their level of "bewitchment" couldn't deal with him at all.

As he was walking, he suddenly noticed that something seemed to be sticking out from the bookshelf in front of him, like a piece of paper that had been partially clipped in.

「Yo, a little note!」

「Huh, why did I say 'Yo'? Damn it, have I gotten so used to it?」

【When reading, do not scribble on the books. If you see small pieces of paper falling out of the books, do not believe their contents. They are just nonsense written by others. Just clip them back into the book.】

That's what the "Library Rules" said, but Lin Yi knew the underlying logic of the notes, so he wasn't afraid.

What is the underlying logic of the notes?

Naturally, it's the things written by the corrupted based on their own cognitive situation and the environment they were in at the time, with a certain timeliness and absolute subjectivity.

Writing notes is to remind oneself after forgetting, otherwise, who would write small notes?

Therefore, since he wasn't afraid, he didn't need to avoid it.

So he walked to the bookshelf, reached out and took down the book, and then opened it to the page with the note clipped in.

The female dorm manager had been following Lin Yi, and couldn't help but want to remind him when she saw this, but she pursed her lips and didn't say anything, just silently watching Lin Yi, curious about what this "gentleman" wanted to do.

After all, she had only just remembered that Lin Yi was not a dorm manager at all.

A person who possessed the identity of a dorm manager and an old kerosene lamp, but abandoned his identity and discarded the old kerosene lamp when the elevator arrived at the library, just this one behavior alone, the secret hidden behind it was very fascinating.

Lin Yi also knew that the female dorm manager was following him, but he didn't know what she was thinking.

He looked at the note, which only had some messy handwriting on it, like chicken scratch. After some identification, he roughly distinguished a few words:

"Do… not… approach… collection… area… all… corpses… moving… help…"

There were also some that he couldn't identify, which seemed to have already deviated from the category of words, like some strange symbols drawn in an unknown mental state, faintly emitting a kind of evil power that did not belong to words.

"Collection area? All moving corpses…?" Lin Yi was slightly stunned.

How could corpses move?

How could moving things be corpses?

Could it be the pseudo-human sculptures?

Lin Yi thought for a moment, and felt that it wasn't.

The pseudo-human sculptures shouldn't have a way to enter the library, right?

Could it be that after they left the campus area, they had a third way, that the layers were connected to the library?

He pondered for a moment, then clipped the note back into the book and put the book back.

Compared to that sentence, those strange symbols were more valuable for research.

For Lin Yi, those symbols seemed like an archaeologist who accidentally fell into the ice layer and saw a corner of the mysterious world that was eternally frozen under the ice layer. After the archaeologist escaped back, he recorded a part of what he saw based on that fleeting glimpse, and finally formed such symbols on paper.

"What's written on the note?" Just as he was about to leave, the female dorm manager curiously came closer.

Lin Yi curled his lips: "The note says there are many large-scale works of art in the collection area."

The female dorm manager's eyes lit up: "Did it say how large the scale is?"

"You really get excited about this kind of thing?" Lin Yi couldn't help but rub his forehead, as if he saw a female version of Wei Liang.

"Judging from the wording, it's estimated to be very 'explicit', if you're interested, you can go take a look."

Many times, he felt that the female dorm manager's desire for the flesh didn't seem to be acted out.

"I'm not going." The female dorm manager, who was still excited a second ago, turned her head and refused, "The security guards will be here soon, I don't have time to waste."

"Oh, you know that? Is this not your first time here? You seem to have a lot of experience?" Lin Yi probed.

The female dorm manager shook her head: "No… what? Can't you have intuition the first time?"

"Alright, alright, you're amazing." Lin Yi didn't say any more. He even suspected that this female dorm manager wasn't coming to the campus area for the first time. All of her performances, apart from giving him some "newbie" feeling at the beginning, now exuded an aura of a "second-run war god" between her gestures.

This female dorm manager is very likely a deeply hidden, highly skilled 'second-timer,' or at least, she has been to other places similar to S City University.

How should I put that feeling... He always felt that this female dorm manager had some kind of ultimate skill.

Just having an old kerosene lamp wouldn't give her that much confidence.

Moreover, judging from the fanatic's tone, it seemed the old kerosene lamp in the dorm manager's hand was a bit different from the ones the security guards had; perhaps it was slightly different in 'power'.

He composed himself and wandered randomly through the Dream Studies sector, occasionally glancing at some scraps of paper.

"There's a calling sound at the end of the corridor… but that corridor has no end… That door… can't be reached…"

"Don't trust the administrator's words…"

"The director eats people on the eighth floor…"

"I want to eat spaghetti with tomato meat sauce…"

"Be careful… There's someone above…"

"Chains… It's all chains…"

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"Snakes… So many snakes…"

"Help…"

…

After reading several scraps of paper in a row, Lin Yi frowned. Although the information in these scraps wasn't entirely useless, it was too fragmented… They all said different things… It was impossible to make any sense of it.

He shook his head helplessly, but thinking about it, it made sense. With his current depth of understanding, how could he be contaminated by scraps of paper?

He continued to move, slowly wandering through the Dream Studies sector, his eyes constantly scanning the bookshelves.

The number of incomprehensible characters on the spines of the books on the bookshelves increased. Some books didn't look like they were written in Chinese, but as he walked among them, he didn't seem to notice anything unusual…

The female dorm manager, who was following Lin Yi, suddenly noticed that Lin Yi had stopped in front of a certain bookshelf, maintaining a certain moving posture, a hazy mist rising from his body, as if his figure was hesitating…

"This…?!" The female dorm manager opened her mouth in shock, "Could this be 'Dream Weaving'?!"

She was both surprised and delighted. She had only ever seen Dream Weaving in textbooks, and now it was actually happening right in front of her!

She quickly quickened her pace to walk over, but before she could take a few steps, she discovered that the familiar bookshelves were beginning to distort, and the ground beneath her feet was also beginning to undergo strange changes.

She felt an incomparably terrifying feeling, as if taking another step forward would cost her her life!

"This, this is the Dream Weaver's domain…?!"

She was too shocked, and an undisguised look of joy appeared on her face.

She picked up the old kerosene lamp, trying to get close to Lin Yi under the protection of its light.

She succeeded. The 'domain' that had trapped her feet like a swamp seemed to weaken somewhat under the light of the old kerosene lamp.

However, at this moment, she suddenly noticed that the layer of light mist floating around Lin Yi subtly fluctuated, and a phantom figure appeared in the mist.

It was a thin, bamboo-like figure, its outline very blurry, and its face was also hazy, but within all the blurred light and shadow, that gloomy gaze seemed to penetrate the layers and fall on the female dorm manager, causing her body to stiffen and cold sweat to flow.

"Gulp…"

She swallowed a mouthful of saliva, a look of fear appearing in her eyes, and then she slowly stepped back, not daring to approach Lin Yi in this state.

However, at this moment, Lin Yi didn't notice anything unusual, and he wasn't even aware that his "body" had stopped.

In his perception, he was still wandering in the Dream Studies sector.

He didn't notice anything unusual at all. His thinking was incredibly clear, as clear as… the "him" on the night of May 6th who thought he hadn't been affected in any way.

Gradually, he seemed to smell a strange odor. This odor was very faint, hidden in the air, and he didn't know where it was coming from. It was an indescribable faint fragrance, but it was like a persistent foot odor that couldn't be traced.

From the moment he sensed it, this smell subtly entered his nostrils.

He stopped walking.

The "Library Rules" state: [On any floor, if you notice changes in the surrounding environment while moving, such as the light starting to dim or abnormal conditions such as wind or mist appearing in the air, please stop any behavior you are currently performing and observe whether the situation still exists. If it does not exist, you can continue to act. If the situation still exists and begins to worsen, please return the way you came immediately.]

"I can't go any further."

He clearly realized the problem, but he didn't know that his consciousness had already left his body and advanced who knows how far.

Seemingly sensing his intention in reverse, the sound of pages turning slowly rang in his ears.

"Whirr…"

The sound of pages didn't stop, like a very thick book being blown by the wind, the yellowed pages flipping back and forth, making a sound like ocean waves.

He wanted to retreat, but countless bookshelves in front of him suddenly began to move on their own as if they had life…

He quickly realized that it wasn't the bookshelves that were moving, but the ground beneath his feet.

This library floor, like a carved ivory ball, began to move!

He didn't need to move, nor did he need to do anything. As the library floor moved, certain hollows in each floor began to align with each other. Finally, a deep passage quietly appeared before him!

He didn't look for the mountain; the mountain came to him!

His gaze thus crossed the space of who knows how many floors of the library, and on a bookshelf somewhere in the passage, he saw a book floating with gray mist and green light.

The spine of the book seemed to be written with strange symbols. He couldn't understand the words, but they squirmed and changed in front of him, eventually presenting a form that he could understand—

"The Lawmaker Says"

The moment he saw this book, he suddenly felt an itch in his left hand, and it uncontrollably lifted up. The five fingers on his palm seemed to each have their own thoughts, and like the joints of a puppet, they twisted "click, click, click", but no matter the rhythm of the twisting, they all pointed to the book "The Lawmaker Says".

At the same time, fragmented musical notes began to sound in the air, "ding-dong, ding-dong", familiarly frightening him.

It was the notes of "Amon's Music Box".

Sure enough, as the sound of the music box rang out, a black nursery rhyme seemed to ring in his ears…

[Children, hide-and-seek ~ One, two, hide away…]

[Small courtyard, good place ~ Brothers and sisters hide their bodies…]

[Dig, dig, turn, turn…]

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