Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"To be honest, I can't tell either," Xu Shunkang said, spreading his hands. "I can't see any characteristics of an art student in her, nor can I see any characteristics of a Night Walker. It's like... an art student who lost their identity certificate. If I had to say, maybe a 'unstable art student'? If they continue to sink, they will also become 'Night Walkers'."

"Ah?" Lin Yi was a little confused.

Xu Shunkang shook his head: "Don't be surprised. Night Walkers are not a species, but a broad collection. They don't just have one transformation path. All creatures that become that state, whether alive or dead, belong to the Night Walkers."

Lin Yi seemed to understand. It seemed that Tian Bufan's speculation was also correct.

"So, chess pieces that lose their identity certificates will become Night Walkers, and Night Walkers are the kind of ghosts you just mentioned that wander on the chessboard?" Lin Yi summarized.

Xu Shunkang nodded: "Yes."

"Then, Night Walkers will become sculptures if they continue to be contaminated?"

"Yes, not... There's something wrong with you, buddy. How did you know so much in one night? Is your brain not going to explode?" Xu Shunkang stared at Lin Yi, his expression extremely serious.

Lin Yi didn't want to talk much about this topic: "But you said that Night Walkers are, in a sense, sculptures?"

"The difference between a tadpole and a frog," Xu Shunkang said concisely, transforming into a summarization master.

Lin Yi couldn't help but narrow his eyes: "Explain in detail?"

Li Huiyuan added: "If possible, let's use me as an example..."

Xu Shunkang glanced at Li Huiyuan and continued: "If you can't find your identity certificate, you will undergo physiological and psychological mutations in the process of being constantly eroded by the 'mist', becoming a 'Night Walker', just like those people huddled in their seats during evening self-study in the classroom."

"Your body will gradually adapt to the 'mist', and your need for the 'mist' will become as eager as a person's need for food. But at the same time, normal natural light will drive away the 'mist', so that sunlight will be like a highly toxic substance to you."

"In extreme cases, you may even develop a strong desire to devour things containing 'mist', and these impulses and bloodthirsty instincts will gradually occupy your mind until you completely become a monster between life and death."

"Your body will also become a substance with a certain ability to shape. In the sun, because of insufficient 'mist', you can't maintain your human form, and in order to avoid the sun, you need to hide as much as possible in places without light."

"And when the sunlight starts to weaken in the evening, your body will become extremely hard, like a stone soaked in ice water."

"Especially in abnormal weather where 'mist' is pervasive, your bodily functions will be extremely active, even reaching a peak state."

"'These Night Walkers, draped in mist and chasing light, are diurnal and nocturnal, and eventually become fleeting bubbles'."

"This is the 'Night Walker'."

After hearing this, Lin Yi was thoughtful, and then asked: "Then how do they become sculptures?"

"Not sculptures, but similar to sculptures," Xu Shunkang corrected.

"'Similar to sculptures'?" Lin Yi frowned slightly, his expression a little puzzled. "Is this sculpture not the sculpture I understand?"

He thought that the so-called tadpole turning into a frog in Xu Shunkang's mouth was that process.

Xu Shunkang said: "There is still a level of pollution depth between 'Night Walker' and 'sculpture'."

"Still a level away? That much?" Lin Yi said in surprise.

"That's how much it is." Mentioning sculptures, Xu Shunkang's expression became much more serious. "Don't ask too much about things related to 'sculptures'. They are terrifying things located at the center of the magnetic field."

"The more you know about sculptures, the closer you will get to them, thus creating a connection with them... This connection is relatively fatal, and known conventional methods cannot disconnect you from this connection in the low pollution range."

Lin Yi was slightly silent. This time, he stopped at the right time and didn't ask any more questions: "Then can you talk about the petrification of Night Walkers?"

"This is no problem," Xu Shunkang nodded. "Night Walkers are afraid of sunlight because their bodies are not completely shaped. To put it bluntly, they have not developed well."

"Their bodies cannot store 'mist', nor can they transform 'mist' into their own power, so as long as it is daytime, they will lose mist like a leak, from barely maintaining a human form to that soft, stinky state."

"If they are exposed to sunlight again, their bodies will petrify, turning into the plaster-like appearance you see."

"I can't really explain this clearly either. I can only say that the body structure of Night Walkers is like that."

"If you want to know more specifically... you can ask the chef." Xu Shunkang raised his eyebrows slightly, revealing a strange smile. "Provided you can enter the staff passage of the cafeteria. If you encounter the chef in areas outside the cafeteria, then you have to be careful. They are not good people."

Lin Yi was thoughtful: "Okay, I'll keep that in mind."

"Yeah." Xu Shunkang nodded. "Is there anything else you want to ask? If not, we'll go back to the classroom first."

Lin Yi tentatively asked: "By the way... would you like to chat with me more about the chef?"

"Get lost!" Xu Shunkang waved his hands repeatedly. "I already feel like I've overstepped my bounds by telling you about Night Walkers. You want me to talk to you about the chef? Heh heh, why don't you twist my head off and use it as a magic mirror to ask? Okay, okay, I'm going back to the classroom to read comics. If you have any questions, you can ask others, such as the boss... Okay, I'm leaving!"

After Xu Shunkang finished speaking, he pulled Xie Huayang away from here.

Lin Yi looked at the backs of the two, and there were actually many doubts in his heart, but Xu Shunkang was already benevolent and righteous enough to tell him about the Night Walkers, and he couldn't pester Xu Shunkang to ask any more questions.

After all, the baseball bat of a sports student is not a joke.

As for asking the boss... Lin Yi suddenly felt a sense of awe, fearing that the one answering him would not be the boss, but the boss's foot.

He looked down at his watch.

2:30 PM.

After chatting for 17 minutes, he got a wave of useful information, which was a bloody profit.

"There's one hour left. Time is tight. Let's go to the next place."

Lin Yi said, then took Li Huiyuan away from here.

...

After Lin Yi walked away, Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang slowly walked out from the corner of the teaching building.

Looking at Lin Yi's back, Xu Shunkang frowned slightly and sighed: "The boss is right... There really is a big problem with Lin Yi."

Xie Huayang twitched his nostrils, baring his teeth like a wild beast: "His pollution is really too severe. I can smell that polluted stench from several streets away. If you hadn't stopped me several times, I'm afraid I would have pulled out my baseball bat and given him a few whacks."

Xu Shunkang pondered: "It is indeed a very strange state. His pollution is so severe that it even overshadows that girl named Li Huiyuan next to him. We didn't even notice her problem."

Lin Yi actually missed a detail—Xie Huayang and Xu Shunkang came here and went back without even going to the toilet, as if they were hunters who noticed the abnormality of a trap and came to take a look.

Xu Shunkang added: "The boss also said that even the water in the swimming pool couldn't purify his pollution. Even… he even dropped a layer in the pool once, and then, before the boss could pull him back, he pulled himself back."

Xie Huayang was silent.

Xu Shunkang continued: "The boss suspects that after the Big Head incident in our class, we lost a large number of sports students and art students. We can't replenish our combat power in time to fight against the Nightwalkers and Sculptures, so the school deliberately let in a guy with high inspiration, so that he can quickly adapt to the anomalies of the school area and become one of us…"

Xie Huayang hesitated: "How long has it been? He entered the school on the evening of May 6th until now. How long has it been? He has been polluted to this extent? His speed is not aimed at the Art Department or the Sports Department at all, but more like… directly heading for the Sculptures."

“Moreover, he knows too much. I always feel that there is someone around him constantly instilling knowledge into him, so as to promote his rapid growth, just like…”

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"Just like planting a tree." Xu Shunkang took over the conversation, "Because of the chessboard problem, the 'Advisors' and 'Ministers' outside cannot directly interfere, so the school put a 'Pawn' in, and then used the characteristics of the chessboard to induce him to become an 'Advisor' or 'Minister'…"

"So you deliberately used the strategy of playing hard to get, and told him the information about the 'Nightwalkers'?" Xie Huayang asked.

Xu Shunkang nodded: "Anyway, someone is instilling knowledge into him, so why can't it be us? And I can only talk about these things. Saying more would make me seem too deliberate."

"But there is only that seemingly foolish guy around him." Xie Huayang frowned, "So the only time he can communicate, besides looking for that person, is through his roommates… Is there a problem with his roommates?"

Xu Shunkang rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache: "The problem is too big… Lin Yi is probably just a pawn placed by the school…"

"Yeah…" Xie Huayang nodded, "And recently, the frequency of abnormal weather has become higher and higher. At some moments, I even heard the call of the ocean when I was watching…"

"That layer is getting closer and closer to us…" Xu Shunkang nodded, a deep look of worry appearing in his eyes: "The boss hasn't left the gymnasium area for a long time… The last time I saw her on 'Duty', she tore apart an alien sculpture."

"The owner of the convenience store hasn't appeared for a long time either…"

"The art students said that the strange noises in the castle are getting louder and louder…"

"Recently, the more I think about the Big Head incident, the more I feel that something is wrong. There seem to be many doubts, but they are all covered up by other things. I always feel that there is an invisible force pushing everything…"

"Alas…" Xu Shunkang sighed a long breath, "We are just small 'Pawns'. Even if we realize that we are on the chessboard, what can we do?"

…

May 8, 2023, 14:33.

Lin Yi's face was a little unsightly as he walked out of the corridor from the elevator. He thought to himself that his pollution must be really deep, that even Xu Shunkang couldn't see it with his Golden Eyes?

You have to know that when those eyes are opened, they give people a feeling of being awesome, sparkling like Fiery Eyes.

"They looked at Li Huiyuan for a while and saw the problem, but they couldn't see the problem when they looked at me! Alas…"

He sighed inwardly, unaware that everything was quite the opposite. His pollution was so severe that the other party could feel it without even opening any eyes…

He looked at Li Huiyuan and asked with some puzzlement: "Why did you offer to use yourself as an example just now? Aren't you afraid of hearing some unacceptable answers?"

Li Huiyuan loosened her pursed lips and smiled self-deprecatingly: "This is what cannon fodder should do! Didn't you just want to know that information?"

"Of course, I am also afraid of hearing something that makes me despair, but… I also hope that I can obtain enough information for you in this way."

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and did not speak.

"Because…" Li Huiyuan sighed, "Because isn't this itself a transaction? I will try my best to help you, in exchange for you… pulling me up as much as possible when I am in danger."

In this survival game with related interests, Li Huiyuan gradually understood that only if she really created enough information value for Lin Yi, could she get Lin Yi to help her when she encountered certain disasters.

She actually had an element of gambling, but from the moment she agreed to be Lin Yi's cannon fodder, she had already started a big gamble.

After all, the phrase "Help me when I am in danger" was just empty words from the beginning.

…

The teaching building is oriented north-south, and the three lecture halls are located on this east-west axis. To the east of Class 1 and to the west of Class 3 are toilets, and continuing forward along the direction of the toilets, you can see a north-south axis.

This north-south axis is where the corridor bridge is built.

And on the side of the corridor bridge, there is also a stairwell with the door always open.

After walking through the stairwell and arriving in front of the corridor bridge, Lin Yi stopped.

He is currently located at the intersection of the east-west axis and the north-south axis of Building B of the teaching building. Starting from here, going south along the corridor bridge is Building A of the teaching building, and going north is Building C of the teaching building.

Clearly, it is the first floor of the teaching building, but corridor bridges are built between the teaching buildings for connection. This is because there are ups and downs in the mountainous terrain. Even if the row of teaching buildings seem to be connected together, the distance between each other is still very considerable, so there are corridor bridges elevated above the ground.

Lin Yi came to the entrance of the corridor bridge, stopped and looked up, observing the outside of the corridor bridge.

Although the mountains are undulating, the corridor bridge connecting the teaching buildings is still very straight, just like a pedestrian overpass.

My condition has been a bit poor recently, and I feel that I might take a leave of absence one day…