Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“Perhaps…” Lin Yi said, then stopped talking, carefully observing the surroundings.

【Lin Yi…】

Just as he began to survey the area, a voice called out to him.

This sudden call made his scalp tingle. Immediately following, he heard a series of rapid sounds, like a train speeding through a narrow tunnel, close to his face—'clang, clang, clang.'

This long-unheard sound made Lin Yi's heart clench with tension.

【Lin Yi…】

【Lin Yi…】

Mixed within the sound of rushing wind was a faint, ghostly call, growing more urgent and louder.

Lin Yi's vision flickered incessantly. He seemed to see another world hidden beneath the student passage. Architecturally speaking, the underlying frameworks of these two worlds were nearly identical, but one world was constructed to resemble the student passage, while the other was built as a different kind of passage.

The two passages were like overlapping afterimages, flashing rapidly before his eyes along with the sound of rushing wind and the calling voice.

He looked at Li Huiyuan beside him and Wei Liang in front of him. The three of them were still ascending at a steady pace, heading towards the exit of the student passage, but it seemed that only he could see these flickering afterimages.

【Lin Yi, ah, Lin Yi…】

【Lin Yi…】

【You've come…】

【Take us away…】

Within the passage, countless tattered sculptures bound by chains and hanging upside down suddenly appeared. They swayed in the wind that Lin Yi could not feel, waving their arms or heads, and then chanted eerie verses:

【Nr den…】

【svarte mnen…】

【vissner… kommer…】

【srgemoerne… tilbake fra…】

【det… uendelige…】

【dyphavet…】

The fragmented chants drifted in the wind, vaguely coalescing into an ancient precept:

【Nr den svarte mnen vissner… kommer srgemoerne tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet…】

This murmuring seemed to be etched into Lin Yi's soul. Gradually, Lin Yi noticed that the blood within him seemed to boil along with it, then galloped like a runaway horse within his body, converging towards his left hand, which was holding Li Huiyuan's hand.

“Buzz… buzz… buzz…”

In the constantly alternating and flickering vision, a faint golden纹路 appeared, as if sketched from the void, suspended above Lin Yi's left arm…

Lin Yi felt his head swell, and his breathing became heavy.

He couldn't bother to observe the appearance of the faint golden纹路, and wanted to rub his temples, but as soon as his left hand released Li Huiyuan's hand, Li Huiyuan grabbed it back.

“Nr den svarte mnen vissner… kommer srgemoerne tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet…”

“Nr den svarte mnen vissner…”

“kommer srgemoerne tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet…”

The eerie syllables seemed to ring in his ears, making his head even more swollen.

He could only support his temples with his right hand, trying his best to stay calm.

But more intricate and bizarre worlds began to appear before his eyes. He seemed to see the art gallery in the art building, the dimly lit corridors beneath the clock tower, and the corridors where the small room that exiled the Law-Defying Master was located…

“Clang, clang, clang… clang, clang, clang…”

The sound of rushing wind drowned out the calling voice.

【Nr den…】

【svarte mnen…】

【vissner… kommer…】

The calling voice drowned out the sound of rushing wind.

Lin Yi felt that he could no longer move forward. His layers were fluctuating violently. He felt that every step he took was like breaking through waves on a turbulent sea, and he didn't know whether the step he took next would lead to an abyss or azure waves.

Hallucinations…?

Perhaps it was no longer just that.

Layer dropping?

Dream weaving?

He tried to find the pattern here, but the sound of rushing wind and the calling voice made it impossible for him to stay focused, like a mixed doubles match. The boiling blood also seemed to burst out of his body.

He clenched his teeth tightly, looking at the end of the passage.

The end of the twisted student passage suddenly turned into an unknown and deep cave; the end of the other vision was… 'The Law-Defying Master Says'!

The Law-Defying Master Says!!

Again… 'The Law-Defying Master Says'?!

The cafeteria… why would such hallucinations occur?

Is it dream weaving, or something else?

What exactly is wrong with me?

“Where… am I?”

“No! Not good!!”

Just as he began to doubt the area he was in, the entire layer became extremely unstable. He cried out inwardly, knowing things were bad, and quickly stabilized his cognition.

He quickly looked at the hand in his hand!

“I am Lin Yi, I am in the student passage of the cafeteria! Beside me is Li Huiyuan, in front of me is Wei Liang! I…”

But he was suddenly dumbfounded.

He found that the hand he was holding was not Li Huiyuan's, but…

A disheveled little girl.

Law-Defying Master?!

The little girl was wearing a Gothic Lolita uniform, her fair skin covered with oily, dirty, sticky substances. She slowly raised her head, revealing an incomparably eerie smile to Lin Yi. She tilted her head and slowly uttered the call that had been lingering in his ears:

“Nr den svarte mnen vissner… kommer srgemoerne tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet…”

When this call sounded, Lin Yi's vision flickered rapidly. The little girl's face and Li Huiyuan's face seemed to overlap in disarray. The shadow of the student passage overlapped with the shadow of the passage in the library. Then, the constantly intertwined afterimages faintly revealed the atmosphere of the art gallery…

Such a bizarre change gave Lin Yi a sense of déjà vu, as if he had never escaped from a certain dream!

It was as if he had always been in the art gallery and had never left!

He felt a chill run down his spine. The uncertainty about the unknown and reality brought fear and dread, as if trapped by the ink sprayed by a giant octopus, plunging into extreme cold.

“I have to go back! I have to go back!!”

“But I am clearly in the student passage, why can't I anchor myself?”

“Why?”

“Why?!”

“Where exactly is the problem?”

“Time!”

“That's right, time!”

He looked at the watch on his wrist.

The little girl seemed to realize something and quickly reached out to block it, but she was already too late. Lin Yi saw the time.

10:47.

Time!

There was a problem with time!

No, it wasn't that there was a problem with time, but that time had broken the deadlock!

When he arrived at the notice board in front of the cafeteria, he made a point of checking the time. It was 10:46 then. After taking the "Cafeteria Rules" and entering the student passage, there's no way only a minute could have passed!

That's the problem!

"I'm not even in the student passage?!"

The moment Lin Yi thought of this, the constantly flickering vision suddenly collapsed and disappeared into a blurry afterimage.

The countless calls also vanished in an instant, and even the "whooshing" sound of rushing wind disappeared without a trace.

Everything was as if it had never happened.

And he was holding Li Huiyuan's wrist, standing on one of the steps in the student passage.

"Are you okay?" Li Huiyuan asked with concern, "You were grabbing me so hard just now..."

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Lin Yi didn't speak, just silently looked at Li Huiyuan.

The look of doubt in Li Huiyuan's eyes deepened, and she waved her hand in front of Lin Yi's face again and again: "Hey, hey, still daydreaming?"

"Liang Liangzi is already walking far away, let's hurry and catch up?"

As she said that, she pulled Lin Yi's arm to chase after Wei Liang's back, but Lin Yi remained rooted to the spot like a stone, no matter how hard she pulled.

"You...?"

"Double dream..." Lin Yi muttered to himself, "You're too good... If it were before, I would have been deceived, no, you already succeeded, but, it's a pity..."

"Just a little bit... really just a little bit..."

"You are not Li Huiyuan."

Li Huiyuan's expression changed slightly, and she quickly said, "Lin Yi, are you crazy?! What are you talking about?"

"The rules say, most of the time, 'don't look back'..." Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan and said to himself, "But..."

He let go of Li Huiyuan's hand, then turned around and looked back at the way he had come.

He saw three people standing outside the student passage.

They were Wei Liang, Li Huiyuan, and... him.

The reason he couldn't anchor himself back was indeed because he wasn't in the student passage at all, but outside the student passage!

With a thought, everything around him quickly blurred, and he "returned to his body"...

Just before he left, he seemed to hear the "whooshing" sound of rushing wind again in the rapidly blurring environment, and the strange calls rang out again. The countless voices and the environment were like some kind of terrifying deep-sea vortex, but he had already withdrawn.

In just a few breaths, he returned to his body, but at the last moment, that voice still seemed to be branded and engraved in his soul.

[Nr den svarte mnen vissner, kommer srgemoerne tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet.]

...

May 10, X023, 10:48, cafeteria area, in front of the student passage entrance.

Wei Liang looked at Lin Yi, who was holding Li Huiyuan's arm but hadn't moved for a long time, and couldn't help but burst into骂: "Old Lin! Old Lin! Are you showing off, Old Lin?"

"Why aren't you moving yet? Are you pretending to be stupid?"

He walked around Lin Yi three times to the left and three times to the right, like an old Taoist priest stepping on the Big Dipper with some mysterious steps, but the things he muttered in his mouth were not spells, but curses.

Li Huiyuan's face was full of worry, and she said worriedly, "Liang Liangzi, could he have fallen out of the layer?"

"What layer are you talking about? Why do you always say things I don't understand? If he falls, I'll dig him up even if I have to dig him up. Don't panic." Wei Liang cursed and walked up to Lin Yi, observing Lin Yi's face.

At this moment, Lin Yi suddenly took a breath: "Ha--"

His body trembled.

Wei Liang's body also trembled, and he even took a step back in fright: "Damn! Old Lin, what the hell? Trying to give me a cold shudder? It's good that we're close, but if you have any inappropriate thoughts, I'll definitely beat your dog head!"

Lin Yi started to gasp for breath, and at the same time, he suddenly noticed that the thick cloud above his head was quietly receding...

Some scenes flashed quickly through his mind...

He thought he had entered the student passage, but he hadn't.

But the words he said after entering the student passage were all said by his "body", and Wei Liang and Li Huiyuan even answered him.

All of this happened, but the only difference was that his consciousness entered the student passage, but the real world and the dream produced some kind of strange and inseparable connection.

"Lin Yi, what happened to you just now? I was so worried about you." Li Huiyuan looked at the terrified Lin Yi and asked with great concern.

Lin Yi let go of Li Huiyuan's hand, then looked at his watch.

10:48.

Another minute had passed.

He rolled up his sleeves a little more.

The light golden纹路 on his arm seemed to become a little more active...

"It's you who's playing tricks..."

Lin Yi's face was ugly, the secret纹 that the缔法师 branded on him was floating with a妖异 light.

Everything just now was undoubtedly the power of the缔法师 permeating the layer, guiding him into some kind of dream-building state.

Dark clouds obscured the sky, the layers fluctuated violently, and the缔法师 used the secret纹 to permeate...

It was too smooth, so smooth that there wasn't even a more strange place to find.

If there was a problem, it was that Li Huiyuan, as a sports student, followed him into the student passage.

But he didn't realize this problem at all at first, because in the end, because he understood the underlying logic of the rules, he was sometimes "too confident".

That's why he was tricked by the缔法师.

It has to be said that the缔法师, as the "first apostle" who "created all the laws", is really too terrifying.

Even if she is exiled by time, the marks she left in this world, even a star and a half of power, can cause such incredible changes.

If it was her real body, what level of disaster would it be?

"But speaking of which, could that be... the true power of 'Dream Boundary Studies'?"

The victims can't tell the reality of dreams from reality at all, and the boundaries of dreams are blurred. If they were ordinary people, they would probably fall into an infinite and eternal dream.

Could it be that some诡笑 angels are dream-builders who have fallen into an infinite dream?

They can't wake up until they die, and even until they turn into dead体 sculptures, the consciousness of those dream-builders is still constantly dying in the infinite dream?

"I just... had a wet dream," Lin Yi said. He was almost directly hit by the 缔法师's hand, so it can be considered a wet dream.

"Damn it!" Wei Liang cursed, "It's okay to daydream, but you're still having a wet dream? I, Fusheng Wei Liang Tianzun, am ashamed to be with you!"

Wei Liang roared and snorted, flicked his sleeves fiercely on the spot, and plunged into the student passage without looking back.

Looking at Wei Liang's back, Lin Yi frowned slightly. He always felt that Wei Liang's figure was a bit embarrassed, as if he had spent a lot of effort in some unknown place.