Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi retracted his gaze from the outer wall of the cafeteria and looked around.

The cafeteria area was already packed with experience students, both familiar and unfamiliar, all crowded together. There were quite a few of them, all waiting for the cafeteria to open like chicks waiting to be fed.

Although the cafeteria wasn't said to close, no one dared to enter the student通道 (channel/entrance) early. They all waited at the entrance of the student通道 (channel/entrance), behaving very well.

Lin Yi glanced down at his watch.

15:59.

Less than a minute until the cafeteria opened.

Just then, he suddenly heard a pleading voice not far away, the voice intermittent, carried to his ears by the wind.

The voice… was coming from the other 通道 (channel/entrance).

Lin Yi followed the sound and saw a girl slumped at the entrance of the other 通道 (channel/entrance), trying to grab Xu Shunkang's sleeve, desperately begging for something.

"That girl…?" A strange look flashed in Lin Yi's eyes. He recognized her. Wasn't that Pan Jian's female companion, the one who said the digital camera was an ominous object this morning?

Lin Yi quickly gleaned some information from the pleading voice. Roughly, the girl was very scared, felt terrified and uncomfortable with life on campus, and hoped that Xu Shunkang could take her through the other 通道 (channel/entrance) into the student cafeteria. She also said things like "She only trusts sports students" and "Please, sports students, help me…"

Lin Yi sighed inwardly. This person was only highly nervous this morning, very sensitive and fearful of the outside world, but after a day, she had become somewhat neurotic. Although she still had her student ID, her will seemed to have been destroyed.

"Hey, could it be that she hasn't had breakfast or lunch?" Lin Yi suddenly realized that he had only met Li Huiyuan and Pan Jian in the classroom after he had dinner yesterday.

Before that, when he returned to the classroom from the gymnasium, he hadn't seen them yet!

In other words, they didn't have dinner… and this morning, only a limited number of people went out for breakfast, and some didn't even see the sun today.

And… in Lin Yi's memory, that girl didn't seem to have left the classroom either.

"So, this is her first time eating in the cafeteria since entering the school? And it's her first time in 24 hours!"

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes.

Although the rules for experience students didn't explicitly state, like the rules for art students, that students must eat in the cafeteria once every 24 hours, but… judging from Wei Liang's last visit, not eating in the cafeteria at all would inevitably cause problems.

Realizing this, Lin Yi suddenly felt a trace of curiosity towards this girl, wanting to know what would happen to her next… a sense of anticipation.

"Perhaps… I can observe the boundaries of the rules from her perspective."

"Wait!"

Just as he had such an idea, a sense of panic flashed through his mind.

This feeling of panic was not because he had sensed something again, but a reaction to his self-awareness: "I… actually had the feeling of watching a lab rat when looking at her?!"

Towards that girl whose 'layer' was extremely unstable, he no longer had any pity, replaced by thoughts like "Let's see what happens to this girl next" and "What will she be polluted into."

He felt a burst of fear and unease at the indifference and coldness that surfaced in his subconscious when considering the life and death of others, followed by a burst of lingering fear and horror.

"Is this really my thought?"

"Could it be that I was shocked by the idea of 'using others as pawns to test the rules' that Tian Gongzi said, and then some similar thoughts arose in my subconscious?"

At this moment, the sports students in front of the other 通道 (channel/entrance) didn't bother with the girl anymore, ignoring her and entering the other 通道 (channel/entrance). Then, the girl scrambled up from the ground, and as if making up her mind, gritted her teeth and followed the sports students into the other 通道 (channel/entrance).

But before she could enter the other 通道 (channel/entrance), she was impatiently kicked out by a sports student, and even from a distance, Lin Yi could hear the sports student's scolding: "Can't you understand what people are saying? If you're a student, go to the student 通道 (channel/entrance)! Get out!"

After being kicked out, the girl's emotions exploded and she sat down on the spot and cried.

Li Huiyuan also noticed the situation over there, and a look of empathy appeared on her face, but just as some thoughts popped up in her mind, Lin Yi's words poured cold water on her: "A clay Bodhisattva can barely save himself, so don't meddle in other people's business."

"It's time, let's go in."

He glanced at his watch.

16:01.

One minute late because he wasted it observing that girl.

And in just this one minute, some of the experience students around Lin Yi had already entered the student 通道 (channel/entrance).

After Lin Yi finished speaking, Li Huiyuan nodded obediently and followed them into the student 通道 (channel/entrance).

The instant he entered the student 通道 (channel/entrance), Lin Yi suddenly felt something and glanced towards the west, then narrowed his eyes.

Today's sun seemed to be a little lower than at the same time yesterday. It was only four o'clock in the afternoon, but it was almost like five o'clock yesterday…

He stepped into the student 通道 (channel/entrance), ascended the steps under the illumination of the incandescent lights, and walked towards the end of the 通道 (channel/entrance).

But before he had gone far, he noticed that Li Huiyuan was using her hand to shield her eyes.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yi asked.

Li Huiyuan hesitated and said, "It's nothing, I just feel like the lights here are a bit dazzling."

"Huh? Dazzling?" Lin Yi looked around the 通道 (channel/entrance) in surprise, then nodded, "It is a bit dazzling."

He lied.

The incandescent lights were actually not much different from yesterday, but such lights seemed to be a bit dazzling for Li Huiyuan…

He hadn't expected this, because the lights in the teaching building turned on at 18:00 like the streetlights on campus, but the incandescent lights inside the student 通道 (channel/entrance) were on 24 hours a day.

But the student cafeteria was just ahead, and as long as he found the convenience store, there would be room for maneuver, so there was no need to say anything to make Li Huiyuan even more nervous.

A moment later, the exit of the student 通道 (channel/entrance) was already in sight.

Lin Yi suddenly felt something touch his palm, and he subconsciously retracted his hand, avoiding it.

"Lin, can you… can you hold my hand?" Li Huiyuan asked weakly beside him. She had just felt an uncomfortable sensation of being watched, so she subconsciously reached for Lin Yi's hand, but Lin Yi's subconscious avoidance was immediately maxed out.

Lin Yi realized something and took Li Huiyuan's hand.

Li Huiyuan's hand was still smooth and soft, but it was already a little cold. When he took Li Huiyuan's hand, Li Huiyuan held his hand tightly, as if grabbing a life-saving rope.

"Are you afraid of that blue-aproned chef at the tunnel exit?" Lin Yi asked softly.

Li Huiyuan nodded: "He's been staring at me since just now…"

"Don't worry, we'll go around a bit later and avoid the area around him."

"Okay."

… …

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The group quickly arrived at the exit of the student tunnel, but this time, the "As Is" blue-aproned chef did not have that familiar, signature smile on his face. Instead, his eyes were wide open, staring intently at Li Huiyuan. Before Li Huiyuan could even get close to the exit, his hands, which were originally folded in front of his stomach, reached out towards her.

"Ignore him, let's go!"

Lin Yi took Li Huiyuan's hand and quickened his pace, walking out of the tunnel on the other side, avoiding the "As Is" blue-aproned chef.

However, just as he was about to exit the student tunnel, he suddenly heard a low, dry voice in his ear.

At the same time, Li Huiyuan's pace suddenly faltered, and the hands they were holding together tightened instantly.

Lin Yi felt like he was holding a stone. The moment it tightened, instead of pulling Li Huiyuan, he was pulled back a step by Li Huiyuan!

"Li Huiyuan? Li…" As soon as he turned his head, he saw Li Huiyuan had already turned to look at the "As Is" blue-aproned chef!

«Damn it!» A chill instantly pierced his scalp like frost.

However, before he could start thinking about whether Li Huiyuan's change was "subjective" or "passive," the dry voice that had reached his ear suddenly became clear…

【Go… to the convenience store…】

【In the cafeteria… no lights… under the sun…】

【Go find… before they盯上you… hurry… convenience store…】

【Hurry…】

Lin Yi looked at him in surprise, only to find that he was looking into Li Huiyuan's eyes, his lips moving stiffly but not conveying any sound—yes, the blue-aproned chef was talking, but he wasn't making a sound!

His words seemed to be in some special layer of frequency, like a "private message" audio sent to Li Huiyuan, but somehow he had "eavesdropped" on it.

It was like… the time he understood the sounds of communication and curses coming from the wriggling flesh of the Nightwalkers at some strange moment…

He tried to pull Li Huiyuan, and then found that Li Huiyuan's body seemed to be stiff, and her hand was still as cold as before, but it didn't release that cold aura.

A few seconds later, Li Huiyuan withdrew her gaze from the "As Is" blue-aproned chef, and then looked at Lin Yi with a very strange expression, shocked: "Lin! Just now, he… let's go to the side first…"

"Okay." Lin Yi didn't object, took Li Huiyuan's hand, caught up with Wei Liang and Wei Shan, and came to the corner where they had waited for Tian Bufan at noon.

After standing still, Lin Yi asked, "What were you going to say about him just now?"

"Wait a minute!" Wei Liang's expression was very serious, as if he had seen a terrible disaster, scaring Li Huiyuan half to death.

Li Huiyuan quickly closed her mouth, looked at Wei Liang seriously, and thought to herself that there were indeed hidden dragons and crouching tigers around Lin. This Wei Liang seemed to be another big shot. She didn't know what amazing secrets he would reveal next, and…

Moreover, Li Huiyuan found that Lin Yi's expression had also become serious. It was obvious that this Wei Liang was hiding very deeply. He would not act unless he had to, and when he did, it would be an explosive opening.

But she didn't understand Lin Yi and Wei Liang at all, and she didn't know that Lin Yi's serious expression was entirely because he predicted that Wei Liang would say something outrageous next.

Sure enough, he heard Wei Liang grit his teeth and contemptuously say: "Speaking of which, can you separate your hands first? People come and go, and I've never seen you holding hands like this!"

After saying that, he reached out and covered his ears.

A string of ellipses floated over Lin Yi's head. He had predicted that Wei Liang would say something nonsense, but he didn't expect the angle of this nonsense to be so tricky.

Li Huiyuan was also a little embarrassed when she heard this and let go of Lin Yi's hand.

However, at this moment, Lin Yi suddenly noticed that wisps of extremely thin white mist were faintly emerging from Li Huiyuan's palm.

He stared intently and found a hair-thin scar in the lines of Li Huiyuan's palm. This scar was exactly the same as the one on her back, except that the scar on her back was emitting green mist, while this scar was emitting white mist—no, this white mist was a pollutant. It looked like mountain mist to the naked eye, but in essence… it was still green mist!

Moreover, this scar almost overlapped with the lines of her palm. If he hadn't noticed it when she let go of his hand just now, he wouldn't have been able to find it at all.

But Lin Yi thought about it and realized that this was not a coincidence, but a harbinger.

He thought that before, when he held Li Huiyuan's hand, once Li Huiyuan's state became unstable and the layers fell, her palm would become extremely cold. Now it seemed that green mist had been emitting from that time?

«Wait, where is this mist… drifting to?!»

Lin Yi suddenly widened his eyes. The final destination of the green mist emanating from Li Huiyuan's palm… was actually his palm?!

He saw that a wisp of faint green mist was entrenched in his palm. This wisp of mist was dissipating, but while dissipating, it was also wriggling frantically, as if it wanted to burrow into his palm…

«What the hell?! Hey, you son of a bitch!» Lin Yi almost lost his composure and subconsciously shook his hand.

With this shake, the already thin green mist dissipated on the spot.

«So when I hold hands with Li Huiyuan, the green mist in her palm tries to burrow into my hand? Why is that? Is it because I've been marked by the green mist mark? It shouldn't be…?»