Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"That's not right... Didn't I also not have a student ID when I first entered the school? Didn't they still follow behind me?"

"So, the student ID isn't the root cause. What is the root cause...?"

Lin Yi anchored his gaze within the range of the streetlight, thinking in his mind as he moved forward, taking the opportunity to ignore the calls of the human-shaped statues behind him.

Finally, he stepped into the area covered by the streetlight's glow with Li Huiyuan.

He reached out and grabbed the lamppost, and his body, which had been tense like a drawn bow, slowly relaxed a little.

He leaned against the lamppost and looked at the human-shaped statues chasing after his back, but all he saw were rolling white mists, layered upon layered like water vapor, just like on May 6th. He couldn't see any figures at all.

He could only vaguely see some human-shaped outlines, lurking furtively in the mist, wandering around, ready to pounce, but hesitant to move forward.

It was a very awkward state, exactly the opposite of Fang Tangjing's "I came in, then I went out, eh, come hit me" attitude, and more like "I want to come in but I'm afraid to come in, eh, can you give me a hand, boo hoo hoo."

Something's not right, something's very wrong.

"They are repelled by the light, yet attracted by the light, like... moths to a flame?!"

The instant he thought of this, a vision appeared in Lin Yi's mind as if he were channeling a spirit, and a picture emerged as if he were an enlightened cultivator: countless moths fluttering their wings, circling around a paper lantern.

The paper lantern kept enlarging, and then suddenly shattered, along with the flames inside the lantern, which burst into countless sparks.

These sparks swirled in the air and eventually extinguished, turning into fragmented ashes that fell like snowflakes.

The ashes slowly fell, slowly fell... Lin Yi's attention followed, and then he saw a gray sky filled with snowflakes. His attention followed the falling snowflakes, and he saw a turbulent black sea...

Huge waves rolled on the surface of the sea, crashing one after another on the reefs along the shore. In a patch of rotten marsh mixed with silt and yellow sand near the coastline, one distorted human-shaped creature after another, covered in silt, crawled out, stumbling forward with awkward and deformed figures, running, crawling, or wriggling, and rushed to the bottom of a cliff...

They spread their limbs, clinging to the mossy, slippery rock wall, trying to climb upwards, but the rock wall was too slippery and could not support their actions at all.

But there were too many of them, crawling out of the dim area that was indistinguishable from the sea, the marsh, or the yellow sand, like a swarm of insects, and then, driven by instinct or some kind of mad command, they surged to the base of the rock wall, trampling on each other, and climbing onto the rock wall at all costs.

Finally, some of them climbed onto the rock wall. They let out hoarse, dry roars, as if chanting some kind of painful yet mutually encouraging melody. They climbed and climbed on the rock wall, like ants finding fruit on a rotten dead tree, rushing to it...

In the dim sky, under the fluttering snow, beside the surging ocean, a group of nocturnal creatures crawled on a cliff that was almost perpendicular to the horizon, and some, after rushing up, exhausted their strength and fell down powerlessly.

This scene was like... moths to a flame, but it was so familiar that Lin Yi felt a palpitation in his heart.

This scene... wasn't this the scene he saw when his layer fell and he stood on the cliff?

He vaguely remembered that the one standing on the cliff was the super existence known as the "Night Watchman" by the Department of Arts rules.

"Whoosh--"

The images in Lin Yi's eyes flipped quickly like pages in a book blown by the wind, and the images in his mind began to collapse rapidly. He shook his head, and when he looked again, the scene in front of him returned to the mist he saw when he leaned against the lamppost and the eerie shadows in the mist that were constantly hovering outside the light, eager to move.

"Huff, huff, huff..." Lin Yi breathed slowly, and glanced at Li Huiyuan beside him.

Li Huiyuan's face was also full of solemnity, and she hesitated several times, but finally asked, "You, what's wrong, Lin Yi? Your body temperature was very low just now, but it recovered immediately..."

"I... It's nothing. I had a hallucination just now, but I'm fine now." Lin Yi shook his head slightly, not wanting to make Li Huiyuan more worried, but he suddenly realized something and looked at Li Huiyuan's feet.

"Your feet..."

Li Huiyuan's stance was a little strange, and her right foot had a hint of unnatural stiffness.

She pursed her lips: "After getting under the light, I lost feeling again..."

Lin Yi was silent for a moment.

"It's okay, Lin Yi... I'll be fine once I get used to it."

"..." Lin Yi took a few deep breaths, and then looked at his watch.

18:03.

"Only a minute or two has passed. It seems I only spaced out for a moment."

"It's a good thing I'm under the streetlight..."

He propped himself up, looked around, and quickly searched for the locations of other lampposts in the mist.

The fog was already very thick now, but it was still a bit less than on May 6th. Lin Yi saw several lampposts at a glance. The closest one seemed to be only a dozen meters ahead, and he could still vaguely see the number on the lamppost, while the farther ones looked like only a hazy little sun.

As he shifted his attention to the lampposts, the originally blurred outlines of the teaching building were completely submerged in the mist, and he could no longer find any trace of them.

He wasn't worried about this. As long as he found the lampposts, he would find the way back to the teaching building.

He stared at the lamppost closest to him, trying to see the blurry number on the lamppost clearly, but because the mist was constantly floating in the evening breeze, he couldn't see it clearly.

Just as he was squinting and observing carefully, Li Huiyuan beside him suddenly said, "Teaching Building - 106."

"Huh?" Lin Yi glanced at Li Huiyuan in surprise, and suddenly realized that Li Huiyuan's eyes had turned golden at some point.

It was a golden luster that even colored contact lenses could not show, like a pool of water reflecting the cold moonlight, floating with a touch of alienation.

This golden color quickly melted like ice and snow, and then Li Huiyuan was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, she said a little confusedly, "I just wanted to see that number clearly, and then my vision zoomed in like a telescope... It sounds incredible, but I feel like I shouldn't be wrong."

"I believe you. Let's go that way." Lin Yi said decisively, then supported Li Huiyuan, and led her along the orange-yellow light, towards "Lamppost - 106."

"Zoomed-in vision, huh..." Lin Yi muttered to himself.

He had experienced a similar situation to Li Huiyuan before, and judging from the current situation, had his eyes turned golden at that time too?

"When using abilities that don't belong to normal people, do the eyes turn gold...?"

Lin Yi had always thought that golden eyes were a sign of corruption, but now perhaps he guessed right. Being able to manifest golden eyes does indeed indicate exposure to corruption, but perhaps at that time, he was in some kind of special state.

He thought of those inhuman classmates, huddled in the rows of seats in the lecture hall, their eyes were normal colors, but when the lights in the classroom went out, their eyes turned gold, and then they began to hunt those experience students who fell into the layer because they saw them.

As the two walked, the surrounding fog also made "rustling" sounds. This was the human-shaped sculptures following their figures and moving. When Lin Yi knew what was in the fog and initially understood their mechanism of action, he no longer felt fear of them.

The unknown is what causes fear.

The two arrived safely at the second lamppost. Looking at the lamppost number, it was indeed "Teaching Building-106."

And in the direction forward from the lamppost "Teaching Building-106", there was indeed a lamppost "Teaching Building-107", which shows that this road is indeed correct.

"Let's go, if there are no accidents, we will be back to the teaching building soon." Lin Yi supported Li Huiyuan and continued to move forward.

The corner of Li Huiyuan's mouth suddenly twitched.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing... I just feel like you were just frantically planting flags behind you..."

"..."

...

May 8, X023, 18:12, Lin Yi supported Li Huiyuan and stopped in front of the lamppost "Teaching Building-108."

Looking at the steps of Teaching Building B, which were close in front of him, Lin Yi felt a dreamlike incredibility at this success.

He looked up at the teaching building.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...

"Well, goddamn it, eight floors."

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Lin Yi felt a sense of calm for no reason, as if he was saying "I knew it", completely different from May 6th.

"So the teaching building was indeed folded by four floors, which will be revealed after the layer falls."

At this moment, he found that Li Huiyuan's body began to feel cold. He glanced at her and found that her pupils were shrinking as she looked at the teaching building in front of her, her face full of shock, as if she had seen something that subverted her understanding.

"Li Huiyuan." Lin Yi shook her, bringing her back from her absent-minded state.

"Lin Yi, this...?!" Li Huiyuan pointed at the teaching building, hesitant to speak, but suddenly found that Lin Yi's expression was very calm, "You... knew it all along?"

"That's why I wanted to explore the teaching building." Lin Yi said calmly, "As you can see, the teaching building does indeed only have four floors under normal circumstances, but when it's abnormal, the other floors under the glass corridor will emerge."

"Anyway... don't think too much, just think 'this is how it should be'."

He believed that Li Huiyuan still remembered the concept of the glass corridor.

Li Huiyuan nodded as if she understood.

"Let's go."

The light of "Teaching Building-108" stopped before the steps, but after that, the corridor lights of Teaching Building B continued the light for them.

Lin Yi supported Li Huiyuan and slowly moved forward, taking his feet out of the thick fog and stepping onto the steps of the teaching building.

Lin Yi had a habit of subconsciously looking at his feet when going up the steps, and when he looked down, he found that the fog, which was high enough to cover his knees, just covered part of the steps, like the steam floating on a steamer.

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something, and a flash of inspiration came to his mind. When he got to the corridor, he looked at this section of steps with the help of the orange-yellow incandescent light.

The scene outside the teaching building gave him a feeling of unreality. He saw that the steps slowly extended downwards from his feet and then disappeared into the thick fog, like the ladder in a swimming pool.

And the distant sky had completely fallen into the thick fog. The moonlight was invisible, and the outline of the mountains was also invisible. The whole world seemed to be only this building under his feet.

The night wind swept through the mountains, and the whole world was foggy. In addition to the teaching building, the only thing visible in his vision was the lampposts that were sinking into the foggy world, giving Lin Yi a sense of錯亂(cuòluàn) of being in the world of the European Industrial Revolution, where chimneys were filled and constantly emitting black smoke that covered the sky.

This lonely teaching building was like an isolated island built in the steel torrent of the misty world.

"This fog..."

Lin Yi bent down and brushed the edge of the steps with his hand, brushing away the nearby fog like splashing water.

"Sure enough!"

On the steps under the fog, there was indeed a patch of moss growing.

"The moss in the teaching building and the cafeteria only grew after the fog spread!"

As the fog floated, Lin Yi seemed to hear the sound of splashing water in his ears, as if his palm had penetrated the fog and truly touched a non-existent water surface hidden under the fog...

Lin Yi quickly withdrew his hand, looked at his fingertips, and found nothing unusual, and then secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"We're back in the teaching building, we should be safe now." Lin Yi patted his chest lightly and exhaled, "emmm... relatively safe."

Li Huiyuan looked back at the spreading fog with some fear, and said with lingering fear: "They... won't chase after us, will they?"

"No, they won't." Lin Yi shook his head, his eyes fixed on the rolling fog, "They are afraid of the light, and they dare not approach the teaching building until the lights in the teaching building are turned off."

Li Huiyuan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this.

But before Lin Yi finished speaking, one after another eerie figures wandering in the dark fog were slowly approaching the teaching building in the areas not covered by the lamplight, surrounding the entire teaching building like a dark siege of zombies.

"Ah, this..."

Lin Yi had a bad feeling.

"Go, go, go, go! Goddamn it, something's wrong, something's very wrong!" Lin Yi grabbed Li Huiyuan's hand, looked for the location of Class 2, Group B, and then hurried over.

The three classrooms on the first floor of Teaching Building B are on the same corridor. With Lin Yi's current knowledge, it is easy to find Class 2, Group B.

Not long after Lin Yi left with Li Huiyuan, those eerie figures wandering in the fog became clearer and clearer...

Finally—

The fog surged.

"Huff..."

A pure white sculpted foot broke through the fog like tearing a silicone soft film, and heavily stepped on the steps in front of the teaching building.

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