Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“I—damn it! What’s going on?!”

Every hair on Lin Yi’s body stood on end, and his scalp went numb. A feeling of being “watched,” mixed with an intense sense of foreboding, poured over him like an ice bucket, chilling him to the bone!

“The homeroom teacher?!”

“Could it be that she didn’t see blue… so she’s going to get rid of me?!”

“Is there also a green version of the homeroom teacher?”

“This distance?!”

“Crap!!”

His pupils first dilated slowly, then violently contracted to pinholes!

His body tensed instantly, adrenaline surged, and he entered a kind of emergency “wartime” state.

However, the expected attack didn’t come. There was only the homeroom teacher’s disordered breathing and urgent voice: “Wait, wait a moment…”

“Don’t… turn your back to me!! Turn back quickly… quickly!!”

“Hurry—”

Lin Yi had only turned halfway, but he could already sense from the corner of his eye that the white mist was coming from the homeroom teacher’s direction.

“Think carefully about the student rules… think about the teaching building rules… think about all your rules!”

“Think carefully… is there any rule that tells you not to trust the homeroom teacher?”

“Hurry… turn back, or I… I won’t be able to hold on!”

Lin Yi rapidly went through all the rules he could remember in his mind, and then, slowly turned around.

Whoosh—

The homeroom teacher appeared behind him like a ghost, possibly having just arrived, or possibly having been there all along.

She stood straight, head slightly lowered, her messy-haired face directly in front of Lin Yi.

At this distance, Lin Yi could even breathe in the hot breath from the homeroom teacher’s mouth and nose, mixed with icy particles…

Cold and violent, stinging and numbing.

Giving a sense of pure malice, but this malice was being met with extreme restraint from its owner!

At this moment, the homeroom teacher gave Lin Yi an extremely complex feeling—a combination of instinctive evil and rational restraint!

But the homeroom teacher was only maintaining an extremely restrained state, and then, as Lin Yi turned around, the cold and violent aura seemed to be turned down by a knob, sharply decreasing at a perceptible rate.

Only then did Lin Yi feel slightly relieved, and he also noticed that the homeroom teacher was now clenching her fists tightly, tensing all her muscles to the limit!

Her hair was disheveled, her head was lowered, and her chest was rising and falling violently, as if she had just experienced an ordeal.

She gradually steadied her breathing, and then slowly raised her head, staring at Lin Yi…

At this moment, Lin Yi noticed that a cold golden light was receding from her eyes like a tide, as if she was forcibly suppressing it with her own will.

After maintaining this for a dozen seconds, the homeroom teacher’s breathing became much more normal.

She looked at Lin Yi, revealing a relieved, forced smile, and said with a mix of complex emotions, bitterness and helplessness: “Lin Yi, you… you only enrolled yesterday, how can you be so calm in the face of what just happened?”

“What on earth did you experience today, you…?”

Faced with the homeroom teacher’s question, Lin Yi only looked at her warily.

He didn’t answer, but instead asked: “Teacher, what… what’s wrong with you?”

The homeroom teacher kept panting, shaking her head: “This isn’t something you should be able to understand… but now it seems that you have a lot of new ‘perceptions’ about the campus experience.”

“You…” Lin Yi narrowed his eyes.

The homeroom teacher added: “Don’t worry, I’ve received rigorous training. Faced with an iron will, this little bit of ‘contamination’ is nothing.”

“What do you mean? ‘Contamination’?” Lin Yi caught a brand new word, “Does this mean there’s something wrong with your body?”

He took a small step back, cautiously trying to reach for the office door.

The homeroom teacher was still breathing heavily, but her chest was gradually rising and falling less violently.

She calmly glanced at Lin Yi’s movements, and then said: “Your ‘will’ is far inferior to mine now. Believe me, you won’t like… the world behind that door right now.”

“This door really seems to have a lot of secrets.” Lin Yi still kept his hand on the doorknob, tentatively asking, “It wouldn’t be Doraemon’s Anywhere Door, would it? If I insist on opening the door, will I go back to that stairwell? Or somewhere else?”

“Anyway, it definitely won’t be the corridor where the classroom is, right?”

“You can try.” The homeroom teacher said, “But you need to bear the corresponding responsibility for your choice.”

Lin Yi stared into the homeroom teacher’s eyes, and the homeroom teacher also looked at him calmly.

In the end, he let go of the hand holding the doorknob.

“That strange thing is currently in the classroom corridor, right?” He looked at the homeroom teacher, tentatively asking.

The violent knocking on the classroom door had disappeared at some point. Rather than believing that the thing outside the door had left, Lin Yi was more certain that the office had left its predetermined trajectory—it was no longer in the classroom corridor.

The homeroom teacher glanced at him and said, “The corridor lights will drive it away.”

“When it finds that the door can’t be opened, it will also leave.”

“He? She? Or… it?” Lin Yi asked, “Is it the chef wearing a green apron?”

The homeroom teacher didn’t seem surprised at all that Lin Yi mentioned the chef in the green apron: “It seems you’ve even encountered the Green Skin…”

The corner of Lin Yi’s mouth twitched slightly.

This green apron chef, the boss calls him Green Hat, the homeroom teacher calls him Green Skin… Can’t you guys have a more unified name, please?

“Not only did I encounter him, but he also wanted to invite me to eat tomatoes… I ignored him.” Lin Yi said.

“Ignoring him was the right thing to do.” The homeroom teacher said, “Under normal circumstances, Green Skin is unable to cause physical harm to people holding student IDs.”

Lin Yi was slightly stunned, and then said: “Then… what if it’s before you get your student ID?”

Upon hearing this, the homeroom teacher suddenly froze, but she immediately reacted: “You encountered Green Skin yesterday? Impossible, absolutely impossible!”

“Why is it impossible?” Lin Yi asked, puzzled.

The homeroom teacher stared at him intently, lowering her voice: “You got your student ID at 20:05 yesterday, so it’s impossible for you to have been to the cafeteria…”

“There are only a few places in the campus where Green Skin appears, so you almost certainly encountered him in the ‘campus’—you, encountered the meal delivery team led by the security guard?”

Lin Yi was surprised. When he mentioned encountering the green-aproned chef, both the boss and the head teacher immediately deduced that he had a security guard nearby.

Could there be some hidden mechanism to the green-aproned chef?

“I did encounter the green-aproned chef in the security guard's delivery team… but is there a problem with that?”

The head teacher's expression gradually became serious: “The problem is too big… A newcomer to the school, without a student ID, would never be noticed by the green skins…”

“You… you…” She looked at Lin Yi, and a faint, cold golden light flickered in her narrowed eyes, but soon the golden light dissipated. “Your problem… is also not small.”

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She returned to her desk, flipped through the folder, and turned to Lin Yi's page with a rustling sound.

“It shouldn’t be, it shouldn’t be…” She browsed the thin page back and forth, as if searching for some amazing secret between the lines. “Someone like you, whose inspiration is off the charts, applied for the experience qualification. The school and the company would never let you in!”

“What exactly is going on… What exactly is going on?”

“What's the difference between this and letting you in to die?”

“Huh?” Lin Yi's eyes narrowed instantly, and his heart skipped a beat. He thought to himself, could it be that he was hit by Kui Hongji's flag?

【Seven days, 30,000, enough to buy your life.】 These were the words Kui Hongji said to Mao Feiyang, but now they were like a flag stuck behind him.

The head teacher's expression suddenly became恍惚, and her face changed slightly: “No, this direction… is not something I should be thinking about! It's really hateful. Could it be that the company's high-level executives have tampered with the campus?”

“You!” She looked at Lin Yi and asked with some urgency, “Last night, you didn't completely do as I said, did you? I mean… blindly obey?”

A look of embarrassment appeared on Lin Yi's face, and he said somewhat shyly: “I… I thought about some things, and almost something happened, but overall, I still obeyed.”

The head teacher breathed a long sigh of relief, but said something that confused Lin Yi: “You shouldn't blindly obey… I don't know what you were thinking, but since you were able to get through that night safely, whether it's luck or something else, it shows that you didn't do anything wrong.”

“For someone with high inspiration like you, blindly obeying will only lead you into a situation of eternal doom unintentionally. Only by maintaining enough 'thinking' can you survive.”

Lin Yi was greatly puzzled. He didn't expect that after he revealed that he hadn't obeyed, he wouldn't be met with the head teacher's sarcasm and ridicule for his stupid behavior, but instead… “You did the right thing”?

This was completely contrary to his expectations.

Could it be that the head teacher is going to teach students according to their aptitude?

Does the rule applicable to the general public not apply to him? Then what is the point of him following the rules?

The head teacher seemed to notice Lin Yi's question and explained, “Are you thinking about the rules?”

Lin Yi was slightly stunned, then nodded.

The head teacher said: “There is a prerequisite for following the rules, and that is that you must first meet the part of the rules that corresponds to you.”

“Remember what I told you yesterday? In different identities and regions, you need to follow the corresponding part of the rules according to your current positioning…”

“And the so-called rules are not actually the 'only truth', but a kind of 'behavior' that the company has summarized from many years of experience, and is the easiest to understand.”

“The higher the inspiration, the more you cannot rigidly adhere to this kind of 'superficial' thing. You must find the logic behind the rules. Only in this way can you truly obtain 'safety'.”

Seeing Lin Yi silent, the head teacher thought he didn't understand, so she opened the teaching building rules, pointed to one at random, and explained: “For example, here… 'It is forbidden to go to Building D of the teaching building', 'It is forbidden to go to the fifth floor of the teaching building'.”

“It is clear that the teaching building only has three buildings and four floors, so why specifically mention Building D and the fifth floor?”

“This is written for people with high inspiration. This is to remind you that you need to think about the problems here, because you will definitely encounter this kind of situation under abnormal weather.”

“It's not that you encounter it, but that it comes to you.”

“It is foolish to be a moth drawn to a flame, but it is even more dangerous to actively move to the fire in front of the moth.”

“But if you can discover the rules of the fire, you can avoid this danger to a certain extent.”

“Obey the rules, understand the rules, and then… you can use the rules to leave here.”

The head teacher's words shocked Lin Yi, and the “advice” she gave now was completely opposite to Xu Shunkang's!

Xu Shunkang told him not to think, but the head teacher told him he must think!

And the difference here lies in—the head teacher believes that he is a “high-inspiration” person.

“High inspiration…?”

If the “high inspiration” leads to his weird “time travel” at any time, then the head teacher is right.

And Xu Shunkang's “don't think” advice, given without knowing the situation, is also correct for “ordinary trainees.”

So… both of them are right.

It's just that he should listen to the head teacher's opinion now.

“So… what exactly are the green skins?” Lin Yi took the initiative to ask his question for the first time. “Can only people with high inspiration see them?”

He subconsciously looked at the office door, wondering if that thing was still at the door.

“Green skins…” The head teacher also sorted out her thoughts before saying, “According to the company's internal information, blue-aproned chefs will transform into green-aproned chefs after being polluted. This is currently the only known way for green skins to be produced.”

“However, various signs indicate that green skins are not entirely transformed from blue-aproned chefs. Their appearance is still a mystery.”

“So although its root is in the cafeteria, theoretically it can be born in many places on campus…”

“When you encounter it, try to avoid it as much as possible or ask the physical education department for help. Never attack it actively…”

“It is very fragile, but its pollution is extremely high. Once polluted…” The head teacher paused here, then looked at her name tag, sighed faintly, and said in a low voice, “…there is most likely no saving it.”