Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Lin Yi's reaction made Wei Liang feel as if he was facing a formidable enemy. He quickly craned his neck to inquire, "What's going on?"

Lin Yi pointed to the symbols on the map representing the teaching building and the school gate, gesturing at the route between the two, and then said, "Liangzi, look..."

"On the road from the school gate to here, there are streetlights on both sides, and based on the distance between the streetlights, the entire journey isn't actually that long..."

"But do you remember how long it took us to get to the teaching building?"

Wei Liang paused for a moment, then wore a look of deep contemplation, even making calculating gestures with his hands, before stammering, "Ah, this...it seemed like an hour? Oh no, it must have been almost two hours, right?"

"It was one hour and forty-five minutes," Lin Yi corrected helplessly, rubbing his forehead. "But according to the route on the map, the entire journey should only take about a dozen minutes on foot at most."

Wei Liang said, "But Lao Lin, don't forget, the fog was very thick when we came, and we also followed the security guard for a while."

He offered his opinion, "Could it be because we went in circles?"

"Going in circles is unlikely," Lin Yi refuted. "The security guard has an iron chain tied to him, and that iron chain was pulled straight by the chef. If we were going in circles, the iron chain couldn't have been like that."

"Ah? Oh, you're right," Wei Liang closed his mouth and began to think.

Lin Yi said, "And haven't you noticed that the streetlight numbers on the map are actually chaotic? I've looked at them many times, and I can't find any pattern in them at all."

Wei Liang grabbed the map and also began to observe it carefully. He saw a pile of streetlight poles scattered along the not-so-long road between the school gate and the teaching building.

The distribution of these streetlight poles was completely irregular, as if the person planning the streetlights grabbed a handful of rice and scattered it, planting a streetlight pole wherever it landed.

"With such dense streetlight poles, it's impossible to only see one at a time, right?"

Wei Liang hesitated, "Could it be...a ghost wall?"

"..."

Wei Liang continued, "If it can't be explained by science, then can we only use metaphysics to break it?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang with utmost seriousness, his tone sincere and genuine, "Then I wonder, Venerable Wei Liang, Heavenly Lord of Fortune, do you have any great supernatural powers?"

Wei Liang's expression instantly became awkward. "Lao Lin, aren't you making fun of me! Lao Lin...Lao Lin, what are you doing again?"

Lin Yi was only joking, but he didn't dwell on it. At this moment, he was using a pen to connect the numbers on the map from highest to lowest.

Soon, a picture resembling a tangled ball of yarn appeared on the map.

Lin Yi frowned as he looked at this picture, unable to make any sense of it.

Just then, a classmate walked up to Lin Yi and Wei Liang, pulled out a chair, and sat down.

He seemed to have deliberately come over. He glanced at Lin Yi's masterpiece and couldn't help but say, "I advise you not to over-investigate the secrets of this campus. Just honestly abide by the rules, and leave after seven days."

"If you're too bored, there are comics on the bookshelves in the back, both serious and unserious. Just flip through them to pass the time."

This voice interrupted Lin Yi's thoughts. He turned his head and saw a male student wearing a blue and white striped tracksuit, looking at them with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.

This male student had a buzz cut, a lollipop stick in his mouth, and a muscular physique vaguely visible under his tracksuit. He was holding a Hong Kong-style comic book in his hand.

"All the experience courses on the schedule, except for physical education, only require you to go through the motions in the classroom, so...just read comics."

Lin Yi asked curiously, "Excuse me, classmate, who are you?"

「Glug.」

The lollipop stick moved from the left corner of his mouth to the right corner.

"I'm Xu Shunkang, a sports student," he extended his hand. "Nice to meet you, newcomers."

Lin Yi was slightly stunned.

「This is...a sports student?」

Wei Liang excitedly grabbed Xu Shunkang's hand, shaking it up and down, "Sports student master! Nice to meet you! I'm Wei Liang, and he's Lin Yi. We're classmates...uh, I mean, we're classmates from other schools, here together to experience university life."

Xu Shunkang waved his hand, "It doesn't matter where you come from. What's important is, did you hear what I just said?"

"Yes, yes, we'll definitely listen to the master!" Wei Liang nodded and bowed, responding with a smile.

Seeing Lin Yi still frowning slightly, standing still, Wei Liang couldn't help but nudge him with his elbow.

Lin Yi came back to his senses, met Xu Shunkang's gaze, and nodded, "I heard you."

Seeing Lin Yi like this, Xu Shunkang knew that Lin Yi definitely hadn't taken his words to heart. He could only open his mouth, then shake his head and sigh, "Ah, good luck to you."

After he finished speaking, he glanced around, sweeping over each of the students who had been surrounding Lin Yi earlier, finally landing on the comic book in his hand.

While flipping through it, he muttered, "Stupid author, only drawing these disgusting NTR plots that even dogs would be disgusted by!"

Lin Yi glanced at the cover of the comic book. The title was roughly something like "Mountain and Sea Green War"...

"Do you want to read it too? If you want to read it, I'll go get some over there?" Wei Liang whispered, leaning closer.

Lin Yi rolled his eyes. "I'm still thinking about the student rules..."

"As long as you stop dwelling on the strange things on this campus," Wei Liang breathed a sigh of relief. "Lao Lin, let me tell you, when you're on campus, the words of the physical education teachers and sports students can sometimes be harsh, but good medicine tastes bitter, so you should still listen."

Lin Yi looked at Xu Shunkang, muttering, "Judging from his tone, it seems like he knows a lot of the campus's secrets?"

Wei Liang quickly said, "I heard that sports students and art students are actually students of this campus, and not like us experiencers, so they definitely know more secrets, but I also advise you not to inquire..."

"If the school is preparing to cover up any secrets, they will definitely keep their mouths shut from top to bottom, and...how could a school that gives 30,000 yuan for seven days of experience courses not have any secrets?"

"My idea is that we obediently attend classes, and then obediently take the money and leave."

"Isn't your grandma still short of money for medical treatment? Just don't think so much!"

A look of confusion appeared in Lin Yi's eyes. "Grand...grandma?"

Wei Liang's expression became serious. "Damn, you forgot even that?"

Lin Yi couldn't help but frown.

Wei Liang quickly emphasized, "You came here to subsidize your grandma's medical expenses, Lao Lin!"

Hearing this, the confusion in Lin Yi's eyes faded a lot, and then he nodded, "Oh...it seems so."

He then remained silent for a while, and then opened his mouth, "Then at least...we have to wait until we confirm Maozi's safety, right?"

When Mao Feiyang entered the stairwell, he felt like he had lost something. That feeling of being isolated from the world, at the moment Mao Feiyang closed the door, was really too strong, so strong that Lin Yi felt that Mao Feiyang had left this world from that moment on.

This subconscious sense of completion was like an indescribable will, urging him to find Mao Feiyang back.

"Before that, I still want to try my best to sort out some things."

"Even if we don't think about that muddy fog, and don't care about the strange figures in the fog, the bizarre streetlights, at least we have to figure out what that endless staircase was, right?"

"I'm afraid Maozi is trapped in there and can't get out."

Wei Liang hesitated for a moment: "Then… at least we have to wait until we get back to the dormitory, right?"

Lin Yi and the others knew before coming here that they would be randomly assigned to different classrooms, but the dormitories were optional, so they decided that the six of them would live in the same room, so that it would be easier to take care of each other.

Wei Liang heard the words and glanced out the window.

Outside the teaching building, it was pitch black, and a thick fog covered the entire campus like a quilt. The pattering rain kept hitting the glass windows and then sliding down in the direction of the wind, as if someone was scraping the windows.

"It's raining." Wei Liang's expression became serious. "The rain isn't heavy, I don't know if it will stop by nine o'clock…"

The student rules stipulate that you can only return to the dormitory between 21:00 and 22:00. If you can't go back, you have to stay in the classroom overnight.

Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at his watch.

20:34.

He glanced out the window again.

It was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything, only the raindrops hitting the window glass bit by bit.

He didn't know what he was thinking, he narrowed his eyes, then got up and walked to the window.

He breathed on it, then wiped the glass with his sleeve, and then pressed his face against it to look out the window.

But at this moment, he saw his own reflection in the glass. The distance between the reflection and himself was very far. Conservatively estimated, the thickness of the window glass was more than 6cm!

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"This kind of specification?!"

His pupils suddenly dilated, and he was startled!

"Is this military-grade blast-proof glass?!"

He quickly went to observe the other window glass, but the more he observed, the more frightened he became.

"The glass in this entire classroom is of this specification, even the side near the corridor!"

He took a deep breath, slowly suppressed the shock in his heart, and then leaned his face close to the glass again, observing the environment outside the window.

The fog outside the teaching building was thick and heavy, like a quilt covering the campus, so heavy that even the moonlight could not penetrate it.

He kept moving his gaze, and finally found sparse lights in the rain and fog…

Those were the lights of the street lamps. Looking out from the windows of the teaching building, the scattered lights were like scattered pearls.

"It is indeed a bit intricate, and the same as on the map… very scattered. Then why couldn't we see such street lamps when we came before, but one by one?"

He narrowed his eyes again and couldn't help but recall the scene at the beginning.

Was it that he missed it, or… is reality really like that?

He felt that his perception had become a little distorted… but the facts are either black or white, it won't get stuck in the middle and jump back and forth, right?

At this moment, that strange feeling of guiding thinking appeared again. It silently penetrated into Lin Yi's thinking, guiding him to make such a thought—

"What's going on?"

So he began to think in a situation where he was completely unaware.

But as soon as he started thinking, that feeling of exhaustion rose from the bottom of his heart again.

He felt a little strenuous, a little tired, and seemed to want to stop thinking and just fall asleep…

A strong sense of vigilance arose in his heart, forcing himself to break away from thinking and pull his will back to reality.

Gradually, as he gradually woke up, he also heard Wei Liang's voice in his ear.

"Lao Lin! What do you want to do! Lao Lin, Lao Lin!!!"

At this moment, a hand was placed on his shoulder, shaking him frantically.

He was shaken awake.

"Liangzi? I just now…?!!" Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang in surprise.

At this moment, Wei Liang's face was full of anxiety and fear. Through his eyes, Lin Yi suddenly realized—

He was surrounded again!

The same situation as before appeared. His surroundings were suddenly crowded with classmates.

They gathered here densely like sunflower seeds, blocking him at the window.

And these students still had that kind of weird standardized smile on their faces, as if they had been copied and pasted!

Such a smile, coupled with those waxy white faces that seemed to be malnourished, gave Lin Yi a strong illusion of being in a wax museum.

And this time, not only Wei Liang came, but Xu Shunkang, the sports student named Xu Shunkang, stood beside him at some point.

Xu Shunkang protected him and Wei Liang behind him, while he put on a posture ready to strike at any time, his eyes vigilantly confronting this group of dense people.

But when Lin Yi woke up, these people once again stepped away slowly and slowly.

"Hey." Xu Shunkang spoke, stopping a group of students alone.

All the students turned around neatly and slowly. That movement was as stiff as a puppet.

A warlike smile appeared on the corner of Xu Shunkang's mouth. He rolled up the "Shan Hai Green War" book and held it in his hand, pointing at the group of people like a sharp blade, and said:

"I've already remembered it, none of you can escape."

The students looked at Xu Shunkang coldly, as if they wanted to engrave Xu Shunkang's appearance in their eyes.

"Sports student, mind your own business." One of the students said coldly, "Go back to the gymnasium and stink!"

"Our business, mind your own business! Take care of yourself!"

"Hehehe…" Xu Shunkang smiled with a calm face, "Just wait and see."

The group of people did not respond to Xu Shunkang's words next, but turned around and slowly walked back to their seats.

Looking at the scattered students and their stiff backs, Lin Yi was a little puzzled. How could they approach so quietly in their dying state?

Or… is the problem with himself?

Xu Shunkang looked at Lin Yi and naturally knew that Lin Yi had fallen into a sleep-like state again because of thinking about problems.

So he warned seriously: "It seems that you really didn't listen to what I just said at all… Listen, Lin Yi, I am very seriously warning you, please don't think about some messy things anymore!"

"The things in this school are not something you can understand!"

"If you have to try to understand with your little brain…" Xu Shunkang pointed to the students who had retreated back to their seats and were looking at them intently, "They will be your role models!"

"I…" Lin Yi was also a little embarrassed, and first apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. I don't know what happened just now… It felt like something was guiding me to think…"

"But, am I not even allowed to think about problems?" He raised a question.

He also remembered Tian Bufan's almost precognitive warning to him when they parted—keep thinking and don't trust others easily.

Compared to Xu Shunkang, he certainly unconditionally trusted Tian Bufan.

Xu Shunkang narrowed his eyes. He took a deep breath and then warned: "This campus does not need people who think about problems. Don't think too much, and don't try to understand things you can't understand…"

"Every place has its secrets, but once you understand the secrets, you will become part of the secrets."

"Once you become part of the secret, you can never escape."