Rules-related weird stories: 4016

But Lin Yi quickly said, "Don't! I'm actually more interested in hearing how a sports student and an art student got into a fight."

"Indeed, it's 'quite interesting'." Tian Bufan said bluntly, "But let's save that story for the dorm. Tell me what I want to know first."

"Same old rules: whoever's information provides more help gets to listen to the other person's story."

Seeing Lin Yi's reluctance, Tian Bufan delivered the final blow.

Lin Yi opened his mouth, speechless, "Isn't this blatant bullying?"

"It just means you lack confidence in your own intelligence," Tian Bufan said calmly.

"Damn it!" Lin Yi said seriously and earnestly, "I'm smarter than you. Fine, go ahead and talk!"

Tian Bufan: "..."

"Alright, stop fooling around," he frowned slightly, "Hurry up and tell me. We still have gym class to attend after this."

Lin Yi curled his lips.

"Fine, fine, I'm defeated by you."

He slightly organized his thoughts, and then told Tian Bufan about his encounters with Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang in the classroom last night, as well as meeting Xu Shunkang in the cafeteria at noon.

After listening, Tian Bufan raised his eyebrows slightly, a playful smile appearing on his lips: "Don't think at night, you can think freely under the sun... what an interesting summary."

"He even helped you fend off that green-aproned cook."

His gaze shifted from the old kerosene lamp to Lin Yi, his eyes slowly narrowing: "Looks like... you've been 'noticed'."

"'Noticed'? What do you mean?" Lin Yi asked, puzzled.

Tian Bufan shook his head slightly: "Don't misunderstand. It's just the literal meaning. Some characteristic of yours must have caught his attention."

"What characteristic could I possibly have?"

"I don't know, maybe... profound wisdom that appears as foolishness?"

"That's Liangzi."

"Idiot, you're the same," Tian Bufan sneered, "You two, one with profound wisdom appearing as foolishness, the other with great foolishness appearing as wisdom. Just assign yourselves accordingly."

Lin Yi: "..."

Tian Bufan patted him on the shoulder: "Alright, I'm leaving. Remember to come back to the dorm tonight. We need to pool our information together."

"Got it, got it~" Lin Yi waved his hand helplessly, "Oh, right, you saw the sports student and the art student fighting with your own eyes?"

"More or less. Let's talk about it back at the dorm." Tian Bufan turned to leave.

Lin Yi sighed softly, looking at the old kerosene lamp with a wry smile.

Speaking of which, even though it's just a kerosene lamp, those strange, intertwined thorn-like patterns seem to indicate that it's a relic left over from some extremely distant era...

"Oil lamps, they've existed since the dawn of humanity. The ancients often used oil lamps lit at night to replace the power of the 'sun'. There are shadows of 'lamps' in many myths and legends..."

Tian Bufan's voice slowly came from behind him. For some reason, he suddenly stopped his departing footsteps.

"That's not a kerosene lamp, but something similar. But if you look closely, you'll notice that the fuel in the lampshade is an unknown substance."

"You can imagine that this lamp seems to have been abandoned by the times, but some powerful force contained within may still remain... It's a product of some distant era, modified by people of the old era, and passed down to the present."

Lin Yi was shocked: "A legacy of a distant era! But the security guards are holding this kind of lamp too, right?"

"They are still producing effects... seemingly flickering like sparks, but in reality, they are eternally indestructible," Tian Bufan said calmly, "You must know that in a certain vaguely recorded history, only documented in murals and runes, oil lamps dared to compete with the sun for glory..."

"Although they were presumptuous, it cannot be denied that their light did illuminate a dark period of time."

As he said this, Tian Bufan's eyes seemed to be filled with radiance. This old kerosene lamp seemed to be filled with stories in his eyes.

"This is so interesting... a corner of history, hung on the wall in this way, for later generations to observe."

Lin Yi didn't understand but felt it was profound. At this moment, Tian Bufan seemed to have changed souls. He seemed to know the history of the old kerosene lamp like the back of his hand, as if... he saw the marks that time had left on the old kerosene lamp!

At this moment, Tian Bufan in Lin Yi's eyes seemed to become much more ethereal. The feeling the latter gave him also suddenly became profound.

He seemed to see the hem of Tian Bufan's clothes fluttering, as if the wind that had blown through the old kerosene lamp had blown onto Tian Bufan.

His pupils shrank slightly. When that invisible wind blew past Tian Bufan, it seemed to blow in front of him as well.

A distant and profound aura, as if born from the void, slowly came before him.

Vicissitudes, remoteness, mystery, antiquity...

He seemed to see the ancient prophets holding scepters high on the peaks of alien lands, singing great chapters to the ancient gods. The dust of history blew past, and individual figures were as small as a drop in the ocean.

He seemed to see into the clouds through those ancient eyes...

Just by raising his vision a little, an indescribable, intense, chaotic, and uneasy emotion crashed down, and he was attacked as if the sea of clouds had collapsed...

Just as that indescribable and terrifying force was about to fall, he shuddered and shook his head violently.

A particularly solid feeling came from under his feet, and he found that he was in the same place.

"The feeling just now was...? ! Not good!" He broke out in a cold sweat, and suddenly realized something, and hurriedly looked at Tian Bufan, and reminded him aloud: "Terrible! Young Master Tian, you quickly... uh?"

Tian Bufan was looking at him calmly, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Young Master Tian, you...?" Lin Yi was instantly stunned, "You... how are you so normal? Aren't you lost?"

"Lost?" The corners of Tian Bufan's mouth couldn't help but show a hint of teasing, "Because this knowledge is still within my 'cognition'."

Tian Bufan glanced at him and said plainly: "Fortunately, you just followed my feeling to 'feel'. If you had obtained the 'feeling' from that lamp, then I would have a big headache..."

He rubbed his brow and reminded: "Alright, you can feel it, but don't stare at it for too long, be careful of having your shadow distorted by the fire."

Lin Yi was stunned in place. How did Tian Bufan's words... suddenly become so profound?

Tian Bufan didn't say much, just slowly said: "Everyone has their strengths, don't think too much, if you have any questions, we can talk about it when we get to the dorm tonight."

"It's almost time, I'll go first. A beautiful sports student just invited me to study the techniques of gymnastics."

The sudden change in style caught Lin Yi off guard: "Please! You could have left out that last sentence!"

Tian Bufan shrugged: "You should also hurry up. If there isn't a cute girl to practice with you, finding Wei Liang to spar with is also fine. Generally speaking, physical education class definitely has its purpose."

"I'll go research it. You shouldn't be idle either."

"Oh right, your socks are quite unique." Before leaving, Tian Bufan glanced at Lin Yi's shoeless right foot and gave it a high evaluation.

Then, without waiting for Lin Yi to get angry, he turned around and waved his hand elegantly.

"I'm leaving, good luck to you."

After saying that, he put his hands in his pockets and slowly walked towards the stairs leading to the second floor of the gymnasium.

Watching Tian Bufan's dashing back, Lin Yi unhappily clenched the toes of his right foot and couldn't help but complain: "Seriously, we agreed to exchange information, but he just came over to get some information from me and then left!"

"He didn't say a word about the fight between the sports students and the art students!"

"Sigh!" He sighed, "I'll just wait until tonight to have a good exchange."

After physical education class ends, I'll grab dinner and then go to the classroom to AFK for a bit, and then arrive at the dormitory building before the fog rolls in. Thinking about it carefully, time will pass quickly.

"Speaking of which, this physical education class…" Lin Yi refocused his attention and began to look around.

Most people had gradually started moving around, and he also pondered in his heart that he should start moving too.

After all, whether it was what Tian Bufan said or the rules mentioned in the code regarding physical education class, they all showed the importance of physical education class.

He lowered his head and looked at his watch.

2:48 PM.

His heart stirred slightly. Putting aside the time spent reading the code and observing the gymnasium, he had spent almost ten minutes just chatting with Tian Bufan.

He suddenly felt pressed for time. An hour of physical education class had lost nearly a third of its time just like that.

He quickly took out the gymnasium code and read it again, deepened his impression, and then decided to find a sports student to borrow some equipment to practice with.

Cute sports student? He hadn't thought about it.

Sparring with Wei Liang? Even if he wanted to, Wei Liang would have already gone to gymnastics class.

So he observed the personnel situation inside the gymnasium and then found that the student situation in the gymnasium could be roughly divided into two types: one was sports students wearing blue and white sportswear, and the other was trainees (ordinary students) wearing different clothes.

Then, walking from here to the depths of the first floor of the gymnasium, there was also a swimming pool.

The swimming pool and the court were separated by a huge piece of glass. Through the glass, you could see a huge swimming pool, but there were very few people swimming in the pool.

Just as he was observing the swimming pool, he suddenly noticed that many sports students on the basketball court had stopped their movements, and then they all turned their eyes to the direction of the gymnasium entrance…

Lin Yi also curiously followed and looked over.

He saw a few people holding baseball bats walking in through the gymnasium entrance. Some of these people were the sports students who had been guarding the entrance before.

But at this moment, all these sports students were scattered on the side like security personnel, vaguely clearing the way for a certain person.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and the curiosity in his heart couldn't help but increase.

「It seems that there are also levels among sports students?」

The person who was about to appear was obviously highly respected.

「Could it be the physical education teacher?」

But soon his idea was shattered.

The person who came in was not the physical education teacher, at least… didn't look like it.

It was a tall, athletic girl.

She was wearing a black jumpsuit with blue and white stripes, and a pair of pure white sneakers on her feet. The tight sportswear outlined her almost perfect figure to the fullest.

She tied the loose sportswear around her waist, and she didn't know what kind of pendant was placed in the pockets of the clothes, and two corners hung down, swaying slowly with her unhurried steps.

She was carrying a thick stick on her shoulder, with her hands divided on the left and right drooping on the stick. Leaving aside gender, this temperament was very similar to some kind of top stick-wielding martial artist.

Lin Yi couldn't see her face clearly, he could only see her blowing a pink bubble gum by her mouth, and wearing a red and white baseball cap of the same style as the Pokémon trainer on her head.

The brim of the hat and the chewing gum were put together, and from Lin Yi's point of view, only half of her face was left.

And this half of her face was also covered by the bangs that frantically drilled out from under the brim of her hat.

The appearance of this girl instantly attracted the attention of almost all the sports students in the gymnasium.

She walked into the stadium unhurriedly, and the eyes of everyone along the way were attracted to her.

It wasn't until she walked to the rest of the court that Lin Yi noticed that there were several sports students behind her.

The figures of Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang… were also among them.

「Huh? Didn't Xu Shunkang come back a long time ago? Why did he only arrive at the gymnasium now?」 When he saw Xu Shunkang, this question couldn't help but pop up in Lin Yi's mind.

But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that Xu Shunkang's face was covered with a lot of sweat, and the whole person seemed much more tired than at noon.

Not only him, but the others also looked tired, as if they had exhausted a long tug-of-war.

And he also suddenly discovered that all the sports students who came in from outside were holding a ball bat or a stick in their hands, and each of their ball bats was covered with plaster-like substances!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the athletic girl at the head.

His gaze immediately fell on the stick she was carrying on her shoulder.

「Sure enough!」 Lin Yi's heart shook.

The middle part of that stick was wrapped with a tape used to increase friction and grip, and the two ends of the tape were actually covered with plaster-like substances!

Assuming that all the plaster-like substances were transformed from ketchup, then…

「How many green-aproned chefs would have to be killed to wrap so much around it?」

When Lin Yi found Xu Shunkang, Xu Shunkang also noticed his existence, and then waved to him, signaling him to come over.

Lin Yi originally wanted to find sports students for sports equipment, and he was immediately overjoyed when he saw this, and he had a feeling of mutual rushing.

He happily walked towards Xu Shunkang.

However, when the distance between him and Xu Shunkang was close to a certain extent, a strong sense of oppression suddenly passed from Xu Shunkang and his group, causing his footsteps to pause subconsciously.

His subconscious told him that he was being watched.

「Clang!」

The steel bar was placed on the ground, and the powerful shock made the floor tremble.

The athletic girl walking in front of Xu Shunkang and others slowly pressed her gaze onto Lin Yi's shoulders.

Under the baseball cap, behind the bubble gum, under the bangs, when her dark eyes saw Lin Yi, they slowly ignited with golden flames.