Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi's hair stood on end. The dormitory building gave him a feeling he had never experienced before. There was no emotional fluctuation, neither goodwill nor malice, only a pure, indifferent, and condescending feeling.

No, there wasn't even condescension.

He suddenly paused…

“No… Wait!”

“Why is my subconscious anthropomorphizing the dormitory building?”

“Why do I think the dormitory building is looking down on me?”

“Is it just because my first impression was that it looked like a giant standing there? Is that why…?”

The evening breeze was cool, blowing across his back, causing him, who was already sweating, to instantly feel a sense of icy invasion.

He shuddered, and his whole person instantly returned to his senses.

He focused his vision by blinking repeatedly and then looked at the time.

20:35.

“20:35…” He looked serious. “So, I was just spacing out?”

Wei Liang beside him asked, “What's wrong?”

Lin Yi shook his head: “I'm fine.”

“Oh.” Wei Liang responded, and the two continued walking towards the dormitory.

As they walked, more and more students appeared on the road. Lin Yi guessed that they must have been joining up with people from other classes.

Theoretically, Tian Bufan, Wei Shan, and Kuai Hongji should also be among these people, but Lin Yi had no intention of looking for them.

The real gathering should happen when they reached the dormitory, not halfway to it.

The image of the teaching building in his hallucination floated in Lin Yi's mind. What made him feel unbelievable was that when he thought of the dormitory building, he didn't feel much fear or dread. Instead, he felt an extreme sense of shock and awe.

As they walked, the fog on the road gradually thickened, and the pale white fog surged up to their calves like a rising tide.

If he couldn't still feel the uneven texture of the pebbles under his feet, he would have suspected that he had walked onto some kind of black stage covered in dry ice.

The cold evening wind caused the fog to constantly float, and the rustling sound of wind blowing through the trees could be heard from the darkness beyond the streetlights.

But a chill came over him, causing Lin Yi to suddenly stop.

His keen hearing captured a “shasha sha” sound that was different from the rustling sound of leaves swaying in the wind. This unfamiliar but familiar sound awakened his damned memories, instantly reminding him of a scene of a stone rubbing against a cobblestone ground.

But the essence of this sound wasn't like that.

Lin Yi clearly remembered that the strange students made this kind of sound when they walked after the lights in the classroom were turned off!

Those strange fellows in the cafeteria also made this sound when they moved.

So, in other words…

“Outside the streetlights, there are unknown numbers of… strange students lurking?!”

“Wait… Shouldn't they be in the classroom at this time?”

“Or is it… that what's in the classroom is just the tip of the iceberg of their vast numbers?”

He bathed in the light of the streetlights, looking at a certain area of darkness.

Outside the field formed by the light, the thick fog was faintly visible, overlapping like mountains, constantly floating with the evening wind, like smoke on the river and snow wind on the glacier, concealing mysterious and eerie figures.

An intense sense of unexplorable crisis invaded him along with the water-like darkness, as if a giant abyss was about to swallow Lin Yi.

But under the orange-yellow light, these terrifying atmospheric sensations couldn't invade even a tiny bit.

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze and quickly walked forward.

“Shasha sha…”

“Shasha sha…”

In the surging fog, there seemed to be strange figures following Lin Yi's back and moving slowly…

…

May 7, X023, 20:40.

The pale white fog was becoming increasingly thick. Lin Yi's vision was compressed to less than a hundred meters. Outside the light, there was only darkness, and the “shasha sha” sound was becoming increasingly clear.

“The fog… is starting to get thicker.” Wei Liang's voice sounded with a hint of tremor.

“Liangzi, would this be considered 'abnormal weather'?” Lin Yi asked.

Wei Liang replied: “This definition is difficult to classify, but it's not abnormal enough yet… The real 'abnormal' is the kind of situation where you can clearly sense that something is wrong.”

“For example, a lamppost suddenly appears without a light, or the lampposts that were originally on both sides of the road…”

“Only one side is left?” Lin Yi said this.

Wei Liang paused slightly.

Immediately afterward, as if he had a premonition of something, a look of panic and horror suddenly surged on his face.

He looked ahead.

He saw the orange-yellow light enveloping the cobblestone road, but the source of that light was… a single lamppost.

“This… this this this…” Wei Liang quickly rushed to the nearest lamppost and grabbed it with both hands.

Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat: “This… when did it become like this?!”

“I don't know.” Wei Liang said in a low voice, “It would be good if I knew… No, no, no, that's not right. It might be worse if I knew.”

A look of horror flowed in his eyes. He seemed to have thought of something, but he tried his best to restrain himself from thinking too much.

“Liangzi, don't be nervous.” Lin Yi put his hand on his shoulder, “Today's situation is different from yesterday!”

“Different?” Wei Liang asked nervously.

His thoughts were already a bit chaotic. He didn't know what he was thinking, but he just mumbled: “Yes… you're right, it's different! We're about to reach the dormitory building, it should be in front of us!”

As he spoke, he had a tendency to sprint forward, but Lin Yi grabbed him and suppressed his behavior.

Lin Yi said in a deep voice: “That's not right, Liangzi… It's not like that! Don't rush!”

Lin Yi noticed that after the fog became thick, Wei Liang, who was originally joking around, started to panic… It seemed that he had been lost in the fog and returned, and it seemed that he had experienced some terrible, indescribable things in the fog.

“I should know how to go, you follow me!” Lin Yi said in a low voice.

“You… know?” Wei Liang showed a surprised and doubtful expression, “Isn't this your first time here?”

“Don't think too much, I have my own way.” Lin Yi interrupted Wei Liang's thoughts, “This time it's my turn to lead you, put your hand on my shoulder and just follow me.”

“Uh, okay, then I'll rely on you…” Wei Liang trembled as he put his hand on Lin Yi's shoulder.

Lin Yi frowned slightly, subconsciously turning his head halfway, his eyes moving down, falling on the hand that Wei Liang had placed on his shoulder…

“Liangzi's hand… seems a little cold.”

“And…”

He didn't know if it was the problem with the light, but the color of Wei Liang's skin seemed to have some small problems.

His hands became fairer, and his skin also showed an unnatural bluish-gray color, as if a very thin layer of faint white mist was permeating his hands.

Lin Yi secretly thought it was bad, and his heart seemed to skip a beat.

“Liangzi.” He suddenly said.

“Hmm?” Wei Liang's voice came from behind him.

“Do you prefer stockings or bare legs?”

“Of course, it's white silk, why are you suddenly asking this?”

Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“It's nothing…”

“It seems that Liangzi's mind is fine…”

“But why are his hands so cold?”

“And his skin…?”

“Old Lin…” Wei Liang trembled and said, “I… I seem to be a little cold. I thought of some bad things. We have to get to the dormitory building quickly.”

Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang's hand, kept a close eye on it, and then withdrew his gaze.

“Okay.”

He took a deep breath and then looked at the number on the lamppost next to him.

Dormitory Building - 094.

He also looked at the surrounding lampposts.

The fog was already very thick, but it was far from the situation yesterday where the visibility was less than ten meters. Looking around, he could still see many lampposts.

It's just that these lampposts are no longer scattered on both sides of the cobblestone road, but are scattered on the road ahead in a seemingly random manner, like scattered stars.

Moreover, with the fluctuation of the fog, these lampposts gave people the illusion of drifting and moving, like buoys on the sea.

But soon, Lin Yi realized that this was not an illusion. Those lampposts… were really moving!

“Damn it! These things… can move?!”

But he immediately reacted.

"No, it's not the lampposts moving, but... the ground is stretching!"

A rule flashed through Lin Yi's mind like a conditioned reflex:

【If you find the ground is twisting, stretching, or undergoing any abnormal changes, please quickly hold your student ID and map tightly in your hands, and repeatedly remind yourself of your name and student number. Remember you are a student (this sentence is bolded and underlined).】

"So the distance between the lampposts... is getting longer!"

"The road leading to the dormitory building is undergoing an abnormal change!"

"Liangzi must have been affected by this change! He might be sinking like me, walking on a non-existent road, or... deviating from a predetermined course!"

"Student ID!" His eyes lit up, and his spirits lifted.

"Liangzi, take out your student ID and hold it in your hand! Remind yourself that you are a student!" he said in a commanding tone, while also taking out his own student ID and holding it tightly.

He wasn't sure if Wei Liang could respond to him, but he could only try to call out first.

Unexpectedly, Wei Liang actually responded to his call.

"...Okay."

Wei Liang also took out his student ID and held it tightly in his hand.

Just as Lin Yi held the student ID in his hand, he clearly sensed a strong sense of crisis. The mist outside the lamplight kept churning, and ghostly figures accompanied by the rustling sound kept appearing.

An indescribable force permeated from the mist, constantly pressing on the field formed by the lamplight.

Lin Yi noticed that the surrounding lampposts were becoming blurred at an extremely slow speed. This was caused by the continuous stretching of the ground, coupled with the constant erosion of the lamplight's boundaries by the mist.

Once the distance between the lampposts stretched to a certain extent, a dim area would appear in the field laid by the lamplight. Once the mist caused a blockage in this area, they would usher in the same abnormal weather as yesterday.

He glanced at his watch.

20:43.

"Xu Shunkang said they would leave the classroom at 20:30 and head to the dormitory building."

"That is to say, if I stop moving forward, I will be caught up by them, thus forming some kind of scene of 'walking with the PE students'."

But walking with the PE students...

The notice board in front of the gymnasium clearly stated that it was forbidden to walk with the PE students.

Xu Shunkang also made it clear that the effective time left for the experiencers to leave the classroom was only 15 minutes.

In other words...

Once the PE students set foot on the road to the dormitory building, the entire road would be full of unknown dangers!

Or is it...

The twisting and strangeness of the road was caused by the PE students setting off?!

It's 20:43 now, it's possible that the PE students have already set foot on this road, so they were affected!

At this time, if you were reckless, you should desperately run towards the lampposts in front, or stay under the lampposts and wait for rescue.

But Wei Liang's body obviously had some kind of incomprehensible and strange change. For ordinary people, the mere fact that the body lost its temperature was enough to constitute a fatal threat.

So he had to find a way to take Wei Liang away from here.

With this thought in mind, Lin Yi did not act rashly, but took out the teaching building rules from his pocket, and then directly opened the campus map attached to the end of the rules.

This is a campus map under normal circumstances, but based on the fact that the lamppost numbers on the map are chaotic, and the ground is undergoing some kind of supernatural change, so theoretically speaking, this map does not have any reference value now.

But he clearly remembered one thing, the student rules clearly stated: 【The location coordinates of each building on the map are absolutely accurate.】

And absolute accuracy meant that there was a pattern—this was exactly what the head teacher reminded him.

Therefore, even if there were major problems with the lamppost numbers, there must be some kind of predetermined pattern in the chaos.

This was the guess he made when he first observed the map. In order to verify this guess, he carefully paid attention to the numbers of the lampposts all the way from the teaching building to the canteen, and then from the canteen to the gymnasium this day.

And he did find that for every building in the campus, the lamppost closest to it was the one with the largest number!

The teaching building was "Teaching Building - 108", the gymnasium was "Gymnasium - 099", the canteen was "Canteen - 098"...

And he was now confirming the lamppost numbers in front of other buildings on the map.

As a result, it was as he expected, the lamppost number in front of the library was "Library - 102", and the one in front of the dormitory building was...

Dormitory Building - 096!

"'Dormitory Building - 096'?!"

The lamppost in front of Lin Yi was "Lamppost - 094". He looked around, his sharp eyes sweeping over the lampposts in front of him one by one, searching for the location of "Dormitory Building - 095".

Although there were many lampposts in front of him, and he couldn't find any trace of the dormitory building at all, there were too many illogical things. Once the campus started to appear, the most important thing to do was not to subconsciously discover the problem and think about the problem like he did when he first entered the campus, but to tell himself—this should be the case, and then follow this logic to grasp the current situation, and then review the problem after it was safe enough!

This was the lesson he learned from a night's experience, and it was also the change he had already made!

Finally, he found the one marked "Dormitory Building - 095" among the many lampposts!

"Liangzi, I'm about to set off!" He reminded Wei Liang.

"Okay..." Wei Liang's slightly weak voice came from behind, "I will definitely follow closely..."

Lin Yi patted Wei Liang's hand on his shoulder with some worry, comforted him, and then gritted his teeth and took him towards the "Dormitory Building - 095" lamppost.

An incredible scene began to appear as he left the "Dormitory Building - 094" lamppost.

As he took his steps, the entire field of vision in front of him began to undergo a world-shattering and terrible change!

The "Dormitory Building - 095" lamppost was getting closer and closer to him, but the other lampposts began to move away from him at a speed that could be observed with the naked eye.

It was as if his feet were a switch. When he moved, the world moved with him.

This strange sense of space constantly impacted his perception from the visual level, making his whole world begin to distort, as if someone was stirring black and white Alpine syrup with a stick, interlacing, collapsing, chaotic... Countless negative emotions began to impact Lin Yi's heart.

"Liangzi, look at my back! Don't pay attention to anything else!!!" Lin Yi's eyes were fixed on "Dormitory Building - 095", and a vein burst out on his forehead.

This reminder to Wei Liang was also reminding himself to stay focused!

He walked towards "Dormitory Building - 095" step by step, and the flowing world seemed to distort his figure.

He felt the darkness eroding towards him, he seemed to hear the "rustling" sound hovering around his body, he seemed to hear distant songs...

He suddenly grabbed the "Dormitory Building - 095" lamppost.

The orange-yellow light shattered everything, and a warm atmosphere enveloped them again.

Lin Yi gasped violently. In the blink of an eye, the world that had been falling apart was pieced together perfectly again and placed in front of him. Those lampposts that had moved away from him seemed to have returned, but the positions... were all wrong.

Lin Yi gasped and slowed down. He could feel that Wei Liang's condition was getting worse and worse. He was a little anxious, but he told himself not to be anxious.

His eyes kept shuttling among these "returned" lampposts. Finally, he found the lamppost that had not appeared in the previous observation.

"Dormitory Building - 096".

The last lamppost that symbolizes the arrival at the dormitory building.

"Liangzi, follow me!!"

Lin Yi took a deep breath, a look of determination appeared in his eyes, he took a breath, and took Wei Liang to the last stop!

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