Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"So."

Tian Bufan said, "Do you still want to talk about this topic?"

"I want to talk, but... I don't want to talk about a broad concept without any contact, like someone suddenly shoving a copy of 'Dragon Subduing One Slap' at me and telling me that there's true energy in the world, and that after cultivating it, I can fly over rooftops and strike cows across mountains..."

"I need too much time to adapt, I want to catch my breath..."

He said with some difficulty.

But he suddenly froze.

Because he inadvertently said the word "adapt" himself.

['Adapt'? Can these concepts also be 'adapted' to?]

['But I... don't seem to remember anything?']

Lin Yi's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he thought of what Tian Bufan had intentionally or unintentionally guided him to say before—"He came here just to earn 30,000 yuan to subsidize his grandma's medical expenses."

But...

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't find any clues related to "grandma" in his memory.

It was as if his world simply didn't have a grandma.

Lin Yi's heart suddenly turned cold, and he thought of two terrifying possibilities.

Either someone used a method similar to hypnosis to make him forget his grandma.

Or... he really didn't have a grandma.

But if that was the case, why was he so sure from the beginning that he came here to "earn money to subsidize medical expenses"?

This motive was too pale, so pale... as if someone had overwritten his motive!

If it was overwritten, then why?

To make it more reasonable for him to enter the campus?

He thought of the boss's words—"It's hard to imagine you could come here alive."

He thought of the class teacher's words—"With your inspiration, it's impossible to pass the selection."

Yes, he shouldn't have been able to get in, but someone rationalized his motive.

Not only did they rationalize his motive, but also... paved every road!

['Who is it?']

He felt chills all over his body, as if he had foreseen a shocking conspiracy, and he was just a person pushed into an infinite abyss in this conspiracy.

['Could it be... someone really wants me to die? Using my life to test the depth of this bottomless abyss of the campus?!']

['What the hell have I done to deserve this?!']

Lin Yi gritted his teeth, and a thought emerged in his mind—damn it, the 30,000 yuan bonus... is definitely too little.

"What are you thinking about? Why does it feel like the whole bed is shaking?" Tian Bufan's voice came, interrupting his thoughts, "There are still seventeen minutes left, is there anything else you want to say?"

"Yes!" Lin Yi said in a low voice, he felt that Tian Bufan must know something.

He knows the most things in the whole dormitory!

If this campus really conforms to the [Game Theory], then this guy Tian Bufan must have read the promotional videos in advance, or even obtained first-hand information from some pioneering teams, or even obtained some walkthroughs in advance!

That's why Tian Bufan told him that he had a secret, but he didn't let him think too much, only saying that he could know it at a certain time.

['So... do I have to experience the difficulty of 'pioneering' myself first?!']

['Damn! Why? Just because Young Master Tian is smarter than me?']

['He's only a little bit smarter than me!']

"Yes? Is there anything else to talk about in the gymnasium?" Tian Bufan asked.

Lin Yi thought for a while, and then said: "I haven't seen the PE teacher at all, the boss's words..."

"The boss's feet, don't mention her feet so many times to me." Tian Bufan interrupted, "When you mentioned the boss to me, you mentioned her feet no less than ten times, if you like them so much, go hug them and lick them next time."

Lin Yi: "..."

"Then... the gymnasium's matter is almost finished."

"What about the dormitory building?"

"Not much to say, I feel." Tian Bufan shook his head.

"So... you actually don't want to talk about it anymore?" Lin Yi asked.

"We can still discuss the matter of various 'identities' within the campus a little bit, but we've already discussed it before, and the remaining priority is not high enough compared to the imminent matter."

"'Imminent matter'? Are you saying... sleeping?" Lin Yi was slightly stunned, and looked down at his watch.

23:43.

['There are still 17 minutes before the dormitory lights go out.']

"You can't possibly fall asleep the second the lights go out at midnight, right?" Tian Bufan said while adjusting his sleeping position, looking like he was going to have a good sleep, "Leave yourself some leeway, go to sleep now."

"We'll talk about the rest tomorrow, maybe we can have more discoveries."

"Okay." Lin Yi responded.

"Oh, right..." Tian Bufan didn't know what he thought of, suddenly lifted the quilt and got out of bed, went into the bathroom, and after a while, the sound of flushing water rang out.

After washing his hands, he said: "If anyone else needs to go to the toilet, don't suddenly feel the urge to pee in the middle of the night."

"Young Master Tian, you're saying it too late, they should all be asleep already..." Just as Lin Yi was about to say this, suddenly—

"I'll go first."

A voice rang out, and Wei Liang got out of bed at the speed of light, and entered the bathroom dashingly under Lin Yi's dumbfounded expression.

['Wait... haven't you been asleep the whole time? You've been listening to me and Young Master Tian discussing things for more than an hour?']

['What about 'only being able to know what you can know'?']

['Are you putting it here? Are you putting it here?']

"Liangzi?" he said.

"Hmm?" Wei Liang, who had just opened the bathroom door, paused, then smiled slyly, "Don't worry, I only listened to the parts I could listen to."

"..." Lin Yi was speechless and confused, "Please, how could you possibly know what you can listen to?"

Wei Liang said calmly: "Listen once first, and put aside what you shouldn't listen to.

Don't worry, don't worry, you also know that the old man walks the world, the main thing is a knack for tricks, relax, relax!"

After speaking, he slammed the bathroom door shut, washed up a little while later, returned to the bed, and then flew his eyebrows at Lin Yi comfortably: "Good night, Lao Lin."

Lin Yi: "..."

"Good night."

Before the words could fade.

Kuai Hongji and Wei Shan silently lifted the quilt.

It was fine that Wei Shan, who had been looking at the ceiling with his eyes open, hadn't fallen asleep, but Kuai Hongji, who had fallen asleep, also got out of bed, which was the most outrageous thing.

"Wait... Wei Sang, Kuai Kuai, you guys haven't been asleep either?" Lin Yi opened his mouth wide.

Kuai Hongji said indifferently: "It's quite fun to listen to you guys doing cross-talk."

"Hehe, yes." Wei Shan rarely made the same sound as Kuai Hongji.

In the gap between Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji going to the toilet, Tian Bufan lay down and called out to Lin Yi, who was queuing to go to the toilet: "Lao Lin."

"Hmm?" Lin Yi looked back.

"Think carefully... what do you want to do."

"Ah?"

"Think carefully, there's a lot of time, but not that much." After Tian Bufan finished speaking, he didn't say anything more, covered himself with the quilt, and went to sleep by himself.

"Hmm..." Lin Yi was silent for a moment, his eyelids drooped slightly as he looked at the ground.

"..."

"Okay, I will."

After everyone finished going to the toilet, the time came to 23:47, with only 13 minutes left before the lights went out.

During this period, Lin Yi also checked that all the doors and windows were closed and locked.

...

May 7, X023, 23:47.

Lying on the bed, Lin Yi compared the time on his watch with the time on the pendulum clock, and then covered himself with the quilt.

Before he prepared to go to sleep, he took one last look at the dormitory environment.

The darkness under the dormitory door seemed like a sticky asphalt, and the glass of the window was covered with a frost due to the temperature difference at night.

It was no longer possible to see the outside scenery through the window, only a forest-white background remained, indicating the arrival of the thick fog.

"Sleep, sleep."

He closed his eyes, maintaining a steady breath while slowly emptying his thoughts.

The beds in the dormitory had a unique design, and when you slept on them, there would be a slight shaking feeling, like lying down and falling asleep on the deck of a ship.

May 7, X023, 23:58.

"Huff... Huff... Huff..."

The last member of Dormitory 1414 in the dormitory building entered dreamland.

"Tick... Tick... Tick..."

The pendulum clock on the door slowly swung, and under the push of the hand of time, the second hand completed the last lap of May 7th...

23:59:57...

23:59:58...

23:59:59...

0:0:00.

"Pop!"

The three incandescent lamps in the dormitory went out instantly at the same time.

The entire dormitory was immersed in the vast darkness, leaving only a gray light flowing on the windows covered with fog.

Suddenly, a certain dark shadow slowly protruded its head from the upper edge of the window, like a spider slowly hanging upside down.

The outline of its face gradually magnified outside the window, and because it was too close, its face accidentally wiped off the water vapor on the outside of the glass.

A few strands of moonlight struggled to break through the thick fog-covered sky. In the gaps between light and shadow, a pale, gaunt face, like a dehydrated mummy, was pressed tightly against the outside windowpane.

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"Huff... Huff... Huff..."

Lin Yi was awakened by the whistling wind in his ears. He felt like he was in the middle of some kind of fall.

Around him were patches of broken clouds and mist, and he was falling straight down like a stick.

"Where is this...?"

He looked around, but found nothing but mist.

"Where am I?"

"What am I doing?"

He tried hard to remember, but found that he couldn't remember anything.

Not only did he not remember what was happening now, but he didn't remember anything that had happened before.

He didn't even remember that he had fallen asleep in the dormitory, and people who dream often don't know they are dreaming.

Suddenly, the feeling of falling disappeared, and he felt a sense of solidity under his feet.

He subconsciously took a few steps forward, and the fog dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As he continued to walk, he found that under his feet were square floor tiles. He heard a cacophony of noises, like the low growls of people, the sounds of bodies colliding, and the sounds of intense fighting mixed together.

He found that the fog had completely dissipated at some point, and his body was shrinking in a dark corner, his eyes watching everything around him.

In front of him was an extremely familiar lecture hall, where physical education students in blue and white sportswear and art students in yellow-green clothes were fighting with another group of people.

Some of the physical education students were empty-handed, while others were clutching baseball bats, fighting with some humanoid creatures with pale gray skin, like walking corpses.

Those humanoid creatures were also wearing art students' clothes, but white gas was constantly spewing from their mouths and noses, as if it were a mixture of frost and heat.

After they were hit by the physical education students, a layer of fine cracks immediately appeared on the hit area. Some individuals were violently smashed by baseball bats, directly breaking their arms and legs.

The scene was bloody and violent, as if a group of irritable students had strayed into a Shura hell.

But what was strange was not the hellish classroom, but the fact that every unit fighting in the classroom had a brilliant golden glow in their eyes.

Whether it was physical education students, art students, or those... units that looked inhuman at a glance.

"This is... the classroom?"

Lin Yi's mind was a little muddled. He had never seen this scene before, but he had an extremely familiar feeling, as if someone had described it to him.

He subconsciously wanted to check his watch, but found that there was no watch on his wrist.

So he looked at the blackboard, following his feeling.

A pendulum clock hung above the blackboard. Through the dim moonlight shining in from the window, he identified the time on the clock.

23:16.

"23:16?"

"This time...?"

He glanced out the window. Drizzling raindrops were constantly hitting the window, and faint lightning was traveling in the dim sky.

This familiar scene began to awaken some of his memories, but this memory was extremely vague. It seemed that he had experienced it, or it seemed... that he had experienced it in someone else's body.

Just then, he heard a "crack, crack, crack" sound in his ears.

Almost instinctively, he looked in the direction of the classroom door.

At this moment, the manic and intense fighting atmosphere in the classroom seemed to have been doused with a basin of cold water, and in the blink of an eye, it was on the verge of collapse.

Those physical education students and art students pushed away the inhuman units, and then slowly contracted the circle, each of them clenching the weapons or fists in their hands, looking at the classroom door with somewhat ugly expressions.

"Ho... Ho... Ho..." Those inhuman units showed a fanatical look, as if a humble race was calling out to their monarch.

After the last sound of the lock, the doorknob was pressed down and then slowly pushed open.

"Squeak--"

The long and ear-piercing sound was like a saw blade dragging across someone's bones.

White air flowed in from the crack in the door like a fountain, followed by the "swishing" sound that seemed to be engraved in the depths of the soul, emitting a strong sense of danger like a rattlesnake shaking its tail.

Under Lin Yi's dilated pupils, a human-shaped shadow appeared behind the door.

It was a human-shaped phantom shrouded in white mist, and it would not be an exaggeration to say it was a blurred outline.

Even if you were close, it still looked like that.

It was as if it was a picture composed of countless twisted and entangled lines, or as if countless broken pieces of glass were arranged together using rules that transcended physical graphics, and then the picture formed by the light transmission. Its body seemed to have countless colors, yet it seemed to have no color at all.

It was like putting chopped rainbows into a crystal coffin. All that was left was a human-shaped outline. When Lin Yi looked at it, his brain uncontrollably produced an inescapable sense of fascination.

He found that the things in his vision were faintly distorted, the door frame, the white mist, the light and shadow... everything in the field of vision began to change in an absurd way, as if the meteors were following the moonlight, surrounding the human-shaped silhouette that pushed the door in, as if to manifest some law of the universe...

In that chaotic phantom of light and shadow, it seemed that a painful storm that crushed people's five senses was rolled up, and low roars and sharp hisses came from the painful storm like a hurricane, carrying a sound that did not belong to this world, as if it was left over from a broken and distant era, and slowly fell into the classroom...

That was an ancient syllable, a sound that could not be described in words, dry, astringent, sharp, low... like a wizard shouting a word in a hoarse voice:

【...fan...Tome...】

【...fanTome...】

It opened its mouth.

Or rather, Lin Yi's "cognition" made Lin Yi think it opened its mouth.

The twisted light and shadow seemed to stop jumping, and it seemed that elves were dancing gracefully in the darkness. Their dances were strange and enchanting, exuding a strange, manic, and crazy sense of ritual.

Lin Yi suddenly realized that he could see the figure that had pushed the door in clearly.

That figure... seemed to exist in the distortion, and was realized in the strangeness. The originally fragmented light and shadow became solid, and the originally messy lines seemed to have rules.

When everything was mixed together, the human-shaped outline had its final color.

No, it has no color.

It is pure white, with flawless white skin, like an angel on earth.

It is a pure white human-shaped sculpture.

That mind-twisting and maddening sound that does not belong to this world also comes from its mouth.

Every time it makes a sound, its body surface will jump out like a bristling hair with a frequency unique to Hertz, as if it is making a sound with all the cells in its body:

【...fanTome...】

【fanTome... fRa... forRidEn...】

【fanTome fRa forRidEn...】

If it has cells.

...

"Crack!"

With a crisp sound, it twisted off its finger that had been inserted into the keyhole.

That small half of the finger was immediately broken on the door, and it slowly entered the classroom.

When it moves, the entire unit will make a "swishing" sound, like a rattlesnake.

Lin Yi's hair could no longer be described as standing on end. He felt that the top of his head had been frightened away, leaving only his brain feeling the cold in the cold wind.

"Sculpture...?"

"This... this is a sculpture?!"

He subconsciously moved closer to the wall in the corner behind him, and quickly moved to the window.

"Rumble--"

An untimely muffled thunder exploded in the low sky outside the window, and Jingzhe tore a hole in the dark night like a match striking a matchbox.

Lin Yi's eyes inadvertently swept to the outside of the window, and through the window glass smeared with traces of rain, he saw the green belt swaying in the rain.

In the green belt, there were densely packed inhuman classmates, as if even the treetops were covered...

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