Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Or is it because, starting from 21:00, the nature of the teaching building changes from "teaching building" to "lair of nocturnal species"?

The classrooms have military-grade blast-proof glass on both sides, and the doors are locked repeatedly… it seems like that explains everything!

He originally knew that it was dangerous outside the classroom after 21:00, but now he knows why it's dangerous!

Lin Yi's pupils contracted, but it was clear that although daytime wasn't the nocturnal species' main stage, and they would all maintain a "dormant" state in some way during the day, they would still wake up and become active under certain special circumstances.

Like disguising themselves as someone else in the toilet…

Or waking up when the elevator doors open…

At this moment, he suddenly saw wisps of faint green aura drifting out of Li Huiyuan's body, these auras were invisible to the naked eye, but in his current vision, they were as clear as beacons!

"Smoking? Wait a minute!"

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something, he quickly looked at himself…

Then he discovered that his body was indeed gradually exuding some green mist!

But because of being in his blind spot, he hadn't noticed his own problem!

"Damn it!!"

"Did the green mist on my body awaken the nocturnal species lurking in the corner of the ceiling?"

"But when did I start 'releasing' green mist?!"

"Or are there some reasons I don't even know about?"

Lin Yi's scalp went numb, he suddenly felt that this campus was full of whirlpools and traps, and he accidentally stepped in shit.

"Could it be… that something happened on Maozi's side again?"

"Could it be that Maozi's pollution has upgraded?"

Lin Yi felt an invisible pressure and a sense of crisis, Mao Feiyang is now their sword of Damocles, the source of pollution…

His eyes became a little firmer, compared to Mao Feiyang who was constantly facing the threat of sculptures and members of the bizarre art department, and even had a hell-level start where the layers were not right, his start in the teaching building was simply a hotbed!

emmm… a hotbed for nocturnal species.

But that's not important anymore, what's important is that while it's still daytime, he still needs to do what he needs to do.

He glanced at the sky and decided to include the distribution of sunlight in the teaching building as one of the prerequisites for "deciding whether to continue exploring the teaching building."

As his vision recovered, Building C of the teaching building didn't seem to have any abnormalities, but just as his vision began to return to normal, a sense of unease suddenly surged in his heart, this sense of unease was very strange, like he had finally finished a problem and solved the answer, but felt like he had overlooked a small condition in the problem just as he was about to hand in the paper…

"Did I miss any details?" He couldn't help but ask himself, but unfortunately his vision had returned to normal, and he didn't have a way to actively "turn on" that vision, so even if he wanted to find the details again, he didn't have the ability to do so.

He sighed inwardly, then walked back from the steps with a few stones in his hands, his expression as serious as someone who bought a pound of oranges but always felt that the other party was shortchanging him, but he couldn't produce any evidence so he could only obediently pay.

"You go behind me first." Lin Yi put the stones on the ground, motioning for Li Huiyuan to step back a little, then picked up a stone and smashed it at the sculpture-like substance.

With a "bang", the sculpture-like plaster shattered on the spot, there were no blood vessel-like objects in the middle, and it seemed to have been completely destroyed by the sunlight.

Then, before Lin Yi could pick up the second stone and throw it, the shattered sculpture fragments disintegrated on their own, and finally turned into flying ashes all over the sky, dissipating like chalk dust…

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, feeling that this was similar to the previous shattering of other types of plaster fragments.

"This… is it done?" Li Huiyuan said in surprise and doubt.

"If you didn't see any strange phenomena, then this nocturnal species has probably been completely killed by me," Lin Yi said.

Li Huiyuan quickly shook her head: "At first, there was indeed some green mist coming out of it, but after the green mist disappeared, I couldn't see anything. When you smashed it with a stone, I didn't see anything either."

Lin Yi suddenly had an idea: "What you saw was the green mist dissipating?"

"Ah, didn't you see that too?" Li Huiyuan was stunned.

Lin Yi quickly said: "No, I'm just checking the situation with you, I saw that too."

"Oh, that's good." Li Huiyuan gently patted her chest.

Lin Yi said: "Let's go, let's go back to Building B first, just in case, you go ahead, and I'll cover the rear."

"Okay." Li Huiyuan replied, and then stepped into the corridor bridge, and started to return to Building B of the teaching building.

Lin Yi, who was following Li Huiyuan, frowned slightly.

"Li Huiyuan really can't see the scene of the green mist condensing into green powder particles… just like normal people can't see the green mist hidden under the white mist…"

"It seems that how much you can see depends on the depth of your own pollution… the more severe the pollution, the more you can see."

Lin Yi never thought that his pollution was shallower than Li Huiyuan's, as someone who could fall into the layers at any time, he had always felt like he was walking on thin ice.

It's just that he didn't know that there was an ice layer under his feet before, but now he can perceive the existence of cracks in the ice.

Despite this, the ice layer under his feet still exists.

After waking up on May 7th, he realized that reality was riddled with holes for him, and he still had to find the path and logic between the normal and abnormal layers on the framework of this world on the reality layer that could collapse at any time…

Otherwise, once Mao Feiyang completely sinks, they will also continuously receive the ultimate pollution from Mao Feiyang, and no one will be able to escape at that time.

And Lin Yi actually had another question – if pollution can be transmitted among them, will the pollution he receives also be transmitted to Tian Bufan and the others?

Could it be that it's not just Mao Feiyang who is polluting them, and when they receive Mao Feiyang's pollution and re-pollute themselves, will they also become a new source of pollution and transmit pollution to others?

Originally, Mao Feiyang absorbed the pollution of five people and then divided it equally among them, but in reality, each of them absorbed the pollution of five people and then divided it among the others?

In other words, the pollution that each of them suffers is actually equal to the sum of each individual's pollution?

"What the hell is this... some kind of Nanfu energy ring logic?"

Of course, this is just speculation at this point. Lin Yi hasn't found any evidence to prove this conjecture yet.

He glanced at his watch.

15:06.

The time he could freely control today was running out, but it had been exceptionally fulfilling.

The two of them returned to Teaching Building B without any major incidents, and then headed straight for the stairwell.

The stairwell of the teaching building was on the way back from the corridor bridge to the restroom, just a few steps away.

But just as Lin Yi returned to Teaching Building B, looking at the corridor bridge leading to Teaching Building A, and feeling the corridor bridge behind him leading to Teaching Building C, a chill suddenly ran down his spine, a cold air rushing straight to his head, making his crown tingle, and he couldn't help but shiver.

He suddenly realized what he had overlooked in the high-exposure image!

It was the corridor bridge!

Teaching Building C only has one corridor bridge returning to Teaching Building B.

However!

When he was standing at the foot of the stairs of Teaching Building C, from the black and white exposed photo, he saw that Teaching Building C also extended a corridor bridge in the completely opposite direction to the one leading to Teaching Building B—

"I saw it before... that corridor bridge leading to Teaching Building D?!"

"Damn it!!"

That corridor bridge was indeed there, but it was not visible under normal weather conditions, only when abnormal weather came would it appear from the layers!

"Then... could it be that the Nightwalkers came to Teaching Building C from Teaching Building D?"

This is another completely new speculation, but... Lin Yi felt like he was getting a bit closer to the truth!

Because he had seen the outline of Teaching Building D in the teaching building area before…

It was an extremely wild and abstract building, standing at the intersection of moonlight and gray fog, giving people a strong dreamlike sense of unreality.

Under that moonlight, he could vaguely see the shadow of a clock tower-like structure on the outline of Teaching Building D.

At that time, he hadn't returned to the dormitory yet, so he only felt a slight difference because of the different architectural styles, but since he had been to the Art Building once in a dream and clearly learned that the appearance of the Art Building was a castle, it was difficult not to associate Teaching Building D with the Art Building.

The root cause is because—

"Teaching Building D looks too much like a castle! Could it be that Teaching Building D is the Art Building?!"

The only castle-related building Lin Yi knows about in the campus so far is the Art Building!

"But... isn't the Art Building by the sea?"

Moreover, according to what was written on the notice board in front of the gymnasium:

【If you look up and see buildings other than this one, especially a castle in the Western architectural style, please look around until you find the gymnasium or the teaching building.】

【Please be sure to believe: there are no castles on campus.】

Thinking of this, Lin Yi's train of thought suddenly stopped consciously, and then he looked around.

"The layers are all normal."

He glanced at his watch again.

15:08.

"The time is all normal too."

So he stopped Li Huiyuan, told her not to go upstairs yet, and asked her to let him sort out his thoughts briefly before continuing to act.

Looking at Lin Yi who was thinking on the spot, Li Huiyuan had no objection. She was now a bullet. Lin Yi could shoot her wherever he wanted, and if he didn't want to shoot her, he wouldn't.

"No, no, no!" Lin Yi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of the problem in that sentence on the teaching building notice board.

【If you look up and see buildings other than this one, especially a castle in the Western architectural style, please look around until you find the gymnasium or the teaching building.】

And on the notice board, the original words of this sentence were 【If you find it raining on the way to the gymnasium, please decide where to go based on the first building you see…】

"'Please decide where to go based on the first building you see'!"

"What it originally said here was that if you see the gymnasium, rush to the gymnasium, and if you see the teaching building, return to the teaching building, but if the castle is Teaching Building D, then... when looking at the teaching building, isn't it also possible to see Teaching Building D?"

"Wait, wait, wait... no, no, no..."

"In the direction of the teaching building facing the gymnasium, the buildings are arranged in the order of Building C, Building B, and Building A... In other words, even if you really see something from that side, you should see Teaching Building A, how could you see Building D?"

"Unless... the layers are distorted, and Building D is twisted over here?"

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and took a slow and deep breath.

"Assuming that Teaching Building D is really the Art Building, then there should be a sea nearby, and there should also be a mountain around it, wait... a mountain?!"

He looked out of the teaching building, and saw thin mist lingering on the edge of the green belt. Looking deep into the green belt, the undulating mountains and thick fog intertwined, like a master-level ink painting…

The problem of the mountain is solved, so what about the sea…?

Lin Yi also thought of the scene he saw in "My World", mist rolling under the corridor bridge, and under the mist, there seemed to be waves slowly surging!

"Under the mist, could it really be a sea?!"

"Damn…"

He thought of the scene in the dream. When he left the Art Office to go to the castle, he walked across a stone bridge with candlesticks on both sides, and below the stone bridge was the coastline.

If the layers fell and the corridor bridge and the stone bridge had some kind of spatial overlap relationship, then when the art students took the elevator to a high enough floor in the teaching building, wouldn't it be equivalent to arriving at the lighthouse, and then they could reach the Art Building through the corridor bridge, which is... Teaching Building D?

Lin Yi was stunned by his own speculation. If this hypothesis was true, then he would really be a genius!

Unfortunately, intuition told him that things didn't seem to be like this.

Because whenever he touched the truth, he would fall into the layers, but now everything was normal.

Even the sun was shining warmly on him.

Could it be that the environment in the campus, in addition to guiding him to start thinking unconsciously, would also have the opposite effect, so that even if he guessed correctly, he wouldn't fall into the layers, and thus doubt that he hadn't guessed correctly?