Rules-related weird stories: 4016

May 8, 2023, 20:02.

Lin Yi took the lead, stepping out of the classroom and into the heavy fog.

As he walked out, the light from the classroom shone through the crack in the door, and immediately some subtle "rustling" sounds appeared on the ceiling of the corridor.

Lin Yi's scalp tingled, and he exclaimed 'Damn it!' His intuition told him that some rubbery, soft nocturnal species were curled up in the dark corners of the corridor ceiling.

The fluorescent lights in the corridor had shades, and there were areas of darkness where the shades connected to the ceiling. Those places had probably become the lurking grounds for nocturnal species.

He subconsciously reached out and touched the wall beside the classroom door.

The smooth, painted wall was now full of twisted marks, exactly like the wall he had sensed in his hallucination before.

"The outside of the classroom has already begun to fall into the layered space. It seems that the exposed area of the teaching building is no longer safe. We have to leave quickly."

Soon, Wei Liang also walked out of the classroom.

Lin Yi noticed that Wei Liang seemed a little afraid of the foggy campus.

To be honest, he felt that Wei Liang was not that simple, but it seemed that in this environment, the 'weakness' that Wei Liang showed did not seem to be an act.

It was as if the abnormal weather suppressed him, weakening his skills and making him very 'unstable'.

When passing through the classroom door, the thick fog wrapped around him like being covered in rice husks, initially giving him a feeling of almost suffocating, but he quickly adapted.

The fog had already invaded the corridor of the teaching building, and the light from the corridor lights was weakened a lot but still effective, but Lin Yi felt that Wei Liang's body seemed to be trembling slightly.

"Let's walk side by side," Lin Yi suggested, "If anyone feels something is wrong, tell the other person in advance, and then lean on the other person's shoulder."

"Don't be so humble. You should be prepared. I'll definitely be leaning on your shoulder later," Wei Liang touched his arm. He got goosebumps in this kind of environment.

Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then tentatively said, "Or... shall we hold hands again?"

"..."

"Alright..." Wei Liang said with a straight face, "At this time, I won't insist on the principle that men and women shouldn't touch, but I must solemnly declare that I have no interest in the same sex at all!"

"You motherfucker... Get out!" Lin Yi's face darkened, and his mouth twitched. "Even if you become a trap, I will be immune. I only like black silk stockings and beautiful legs!"

"And the boss's jade feet," Wei Liang subconsciously added.

"Okay, okay, consider it that way."

"And the white silk loli's pink and round little toes..."

"Get out! Don't impose your fetish on me, hey!" Lin Yi couldn't bear it anymore and really wanted to punch Wei Liang a couple of times. He said angrily, "Hey, let's go! Let's take it one step at a time... Give me your hoof!"

"Damn, what hoof? These hands of mine are comparable to soft荑!" Wei Liang said unwillingly.

"Don't disgust me," Lin Yi retorted, baring his teeth. Then, gritting his teeth, he took Wei Liang's hand, found the direction of the "Teaching Building - 108" lamppost, and then led Wei Liang slowly down the steps.

As Lin Yi and Wei Liang left, all the people in the classroom were divided into four groups.

The first group consisted of those who were called by name by the homeroom teacher and immediately followed in the footsteps of Song Rentou and Lin Yi as soon as 20:00 arrived;

The second group consisted of those who were dissuaded by the abnormal weather outside the classroom;

The third group consisted of those who were not called by name and could choose to stay in the classroom for evening self-study until 7:40 the next morning, but some of them chose to take a gamble and left the classroom with the first group;

And the last group was the remaining experience students.

These four groups happened to correspond to the four choices Lin Yi thought of.

......

May 8, 2023, 20:08. Having arrived at the "Teaching Building - 098" lamppost, Lin Yi, while looking for the location of the "Teaching Building - 097" lamppost, briefly observed the surroundings and then discovered an "interesting" phenomenon.

When he walked out of the teaching building, some people obviously went down the steps with him, but as they walked, those people disappeared.

Even though it was the same cobblestone road from "Teaching Building - 108" to "Teaching Building - 001", only Wei Liang was by his side.

This strange feeling was like playing a multiplayer online RPG game, where everyone came to the entrance of the dungeon together, but only those who were in the same team could enter the same dungeon.

But even if the analogy was like this, the real situation couldn't be applied to the game, right?

Moreover, it couldn't be that everyone had a cobblestone road under their feet in the abnormal weather, right?

Lin Yi couldn't figure it out for the time being, so he decided not to think about it too much, put this idea aside, and ponder it carefully when he returned to the dormitory.

The two walked side by side, slowly moving on the cobblestone road shrouded in thick fog. The lamppost gradually became just a blurry outline, but strangely, the number written on the lamppost with white paint seemed to be unaffected by the fog. No matter how far away it was, as long as you stared at it, you could tell what it was.

Lin Yi thought of something. When he arrived in front of the lamppost, he took the opportunity to catch his breath and reached out to touch the white paint.

"As expected!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up. The white paint was as smooth as he had guessed. The texture was not like paint, but more like... some kind of acrylic board material coating.

"This white paint seems to be the same material as the student ID!"

"How amazing, what exactly is this thing?"

Just then, he noticed a "rustling" sound in the surrounding fog. Needless to say, the humanoid sculptures were gathering towards them.

"Lin... Yi..."

Outside the fog, the call of the humanoid sculpture sounded. Lin Yi didn't need to look with his eyes at all. He had the image in his mind.

This scene was almost the same as what he had calculated in the classroom before, but the difference was that he could not possibly respond to such a call.

"Liangzi, are you okay?" Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang.

"I'm okay, I'm okay..." Wei Liang waved his hand repeatedly. "That's how it is in the mountains. As soon as night falls, the miasma becomes thick. We have to hurry back to the dormitory. I can't wait to take a hot shower!"

Seeing that Wei Liang really didn't show any abnormality, Lin Yi calmed down a little and continued on his way with him.

The figures of the two quickly disappeared into the fog, continuing to move forward in the dim and dull light. In the darkness beyond the cobblestone road, in the area submerged by the fog, countless figures stared closely at the figures of Lin Yi and Wei Liang, slowly moving their bodies. Under the thick fog, only the "rustling" sound mixed with the sound of the wind, making it difficult to distinguish whether it was the sound of stones rubbing on the ground or the sound of the wind blowing through the treetops.

And in this sound of the wind, one could still vaguely hear the strange call that seemed to be floating from a distant place.

"Lin Yi..."

"Lin... Yi..."

......

May 8, 2023, 20:13.

Two figures came to the "Teaching Building - 067" lamppost somewhat tremblingly.

"I feel like I'm not going to make it..."

"I really can't make it..."

Nie Yun was similar to Song Rentou, belonging to the experience students who entered the school earlier than Lin Yi and the others. In the classroom, he showed a kind of wooden dullness, not interested in everything that happened outside.

But this was just his disguise. Facing the strange environment, he needed to maintain enough "dullness" to keep himself safe.

"Old Nie, we've been here for four days... If we hold on for three more days, we can get the money." Beside Nie Yun, Ge Qing, his friend who entered the campus with him, leaned against "Teaching Building - 067", panting violently.

"I've been working hard not to think too much... But, but I've been feeling something calling my name recently!" Nie Yun's face was painful, and his spirit seemed a little dazed. "I... I seem to hear it again. It's calling my name..."

"It seems... it seems to be right beside us!"

[Nie Yun... Nie Yun...]

[Nie Yun...]

"Uh..." Nie Yun's face became paler and paler. He held the lamppost with one hand, and rubbed his forehead hard with the other, squinting his eyes and bowing his body, revealing a painful expression. "My head is so dizzy... Ge Qing, my head is so dizzy..."

Ge Qing's face changed drastically, and he quickly supported him, anxiously saying: "Old Nie, Old Nie, the rules say that if you feel unwell, you should immediately tell the homeroom teacher. Should we... should we go back to the teaching building?"

"Yeah... Okay... I, I really feel very uncomfortable." Nie Yun gritted his teeth, trying his best to keep himself calm, but no matter how he breathed, he felt that his breathing was getting heavier and heavier.

Just then, the call in his ear began to drill into his cochlea like a poisonous snake:

"Nie Yun! Don't go back! Don't trust him!"

"I am Ge Qing, I am the real Ge Qing!"

"Don't trust the person beside you… It's not Ge Qing… It's not!"

"Quickly look behind you, the real me is in the mist behind you!!"

"I'm trapped! Save me! Save me…"

Nie Yun was stunned and quickly looked at Ge Qing beside him.

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"Lao Nie, what's wrong, Lao Nie? Are you okay?" Ge Qing looked at Nie Yun with concern.

But in Nie Yun's eyes, the current Ge Qing was a "Ge Qing" with a pale, grayish-blue face, like a white plaster statue. Although the person's face was exactly the same as Ge Qing's, in his eyes, it was a wriggling plaster-like face.

"Push him away quickly! Push him away!!"

Nie Yun seemed to be suddenly possessed, relying on the strength of leaning against the lamppost, he suddenly burst out and pushed Ge Qing, who was supporting him, away fiercely!

"Lao Nie, you…?!" Ge Qing's face was full of disbelief. In the instant he was pushed away, he subconsciously tried to adjust his center of gravity, but the cobblestone ground under his feet had long been soaked by the mist, making it so slippery that he couldn't gain any leverage at all.

Not only did he slip, but he also fell out of the area where the light from the "Teaching Building - 067" and "Teaching Building - 068" lampposts connected, plunging into the shadows…

"Lao Nie—"

His terrified and puzzled cry came from the mist, and then completely disappeared after a few tragic screams.

Before long, the cool night breeze carried a faint bloody smell to the lamplight, reaching Nie Yun's nose, first making him stunned, but gradually he realized he had smelled it wrong. It didn't seem to be the smell of blood, but the smell of fresh tomatoes…

Nie Yun's mind was muddled, as if he hadn't recovered from the scene just now, and the voice in his ear hadn't disappeared, still calling out to him incessantly.

"Well done, Nie Yun, well done!"

"I'm behind you, quickly pull me up! Hurry!"

The voice became more and more urgent, as if it couldn't wait any longer.

After Nie Yun gasped for breath, he touched his still somewhat dazed head and slowly turned around…

Behind him was a dark area that even the orange-yellow lamplight couldn't penetrate. Only intermittent calls poured out from the mist, like waves crashing onto the beach, reaching Nie Yun's ears.

"Can you see me? Come and save me!"

"Yes… yes, yes… just like that… come and save me…"

In the mist, it seemed as if someone stretched out a pair of hands, reaching out towards Nie Yun's position as if begging for help.

Nie Yun approached in a daze, stepping stiffly, little by little, to the edge of the mist.

Just as he reached the dividing line between light and darkness, the mist in front was suddenly split apart by a great force, and a figure standing as upright as a tombstone suddenly flashed in front of him.

It was a real humanoid sculpture, its stiff limbs seeming to make it difficult to make any big movements. The whole face was also as if carved with a real knife, with distinct edges and corners. Its body was entwined with thick mist, and at a glance, it was impossible to tell whether it was gushing out from its body or connected to the surrounding mist…

It was facing Nie Yun's face, with only the distance of a fist between them. The dividing line between light and mist between them was like window paper, easily broken with a touch.

The humanoid sculpture's stone-carved eyeballs suddenly collapsed like a power furnace, and then icy golden flames emerged as if a bonfire had been lit. Its lips began to slowly stretch towards the ear roots, and the plaster-like hard face cracked inch by inch because it couldn't bear this force. Half of the face was instantly covered with black cracks.

In the end, its eyes bloomed with golden light, and the smile at the corner of its mouth stretched to the ear roots like a crazy clown. It was making a sound, and that sound was actually…

"Nie Yun, quickly save me… quickly save me… quickly… hurry ah hahahaha—"

That voice trembled, as if revealing some kind of fear, but gradually became crazy, then became wanton and rampant, and finally, as if unable to suppress the crazy smile at the corner of its mouth, it revealed an unrestrained laugh of a successful scheme:

"You… saw me!!"

Nie Yun was stunned. His originally muddled brain suddenly woke up as if struck by lightning.

But before he could react, the humanoid sculpture's pure white palm pierced through the gray mist like a bayonet, grabbed his collar, and then dragged him out of the lamplight's range and into the darkness!

Terrified screams of Nie Yun came from the rolling mist.

After a moment, a strangely shaped humanoid sculpture, swaying its body, broke through the dividing line between light and darkness and entered the illuminated area of the "Teaching Building - 067" lamppost.

After that, its body began to emit a forest-white mist like a steam train starting up. After these mists were sprayed out, they lingered around it, like the band-shaped aura lingering on the peak of a snow mountain, while another part was connected to the mist deep in the darkness behind it like an umbilical cord.

If Lin Yi were here, he would be shocked to find that this humanoid sculpture was starting to transform into a non-human classmate, just like the humanoid sculpture that had previously stepped onto the teaching building steps.

These mists were constantly being stripped from its body, and then slowly integrated into the mists behind it.

And as these mists flowed away, the pure white plaster-like texture on this humanoid sculpture also began to weaken slowly, gradually changing from pure white to grayish-white, cyan-gray, and finally, finally, to the skin color of a normal person, and some seemingly normal uniforms began to appear on its body.

"I… am Nie Yun…"

It tried to open its mouth, and then made a somewhat dry voice.

Suddenly, it arched its body and opened its mouth wide as if vomiting.

Then a tattered card with mucus-like saliva was spat out by it…

It was a student ID-like card, but it had lost the material of the white acrylic board. It looked like a drawn small piece of paper full of wrinkles.

But Nie Yun, the "non-human classmate," picked it up indifferently and muttered:

"I am Nie Yun, my student number is X0230504032…"

"I am Nie Yun…"

While chanting this sentence, it stepped stiffly, swaying left and right, like a drunk person, slowly walked to the lamppost, and then stood there, as if facing the lamppost and facing the wall.

Before long, another humanoid sculpture walked in from the mist on the other side…

This sculpture that walked in was bubbling with milky white bubbles all over its body, as if it had been infected with a virus, and these bubbles gradually calmed down, eventually turning into a plaster-like substance, slowly transforming its shape with wriggling.

When it took shape, the outline of its face was exactly the same as Ge Qing's, who had been pushed into the mist by Nie Yun before.

"Very smooth." Ge Qing "sculpture" said. While speaking, white mist also began to emerge from its body, and then the kind of change of Nie Yun's "non-human classmate" began to appear.

Finally, Ge Qing, who was transformed from a "sculpture" into a "non-human classmate," also spat out a paper-like student ID that had lost its original material from its mouth.

"From now on, I am Ge Qing… My student number is X0230504049…"

"But this is far from enough…" Outside the lamppost, the mist rolled, and the "rustling" sound was mixed with noisy sounds. This is the voice belonging to the humanoid sculpture, which seems to be the same language as the Nightwalkers.

"More people are needed!"

Adding 1100 words for the leader "Cup-loaded Thinking", still owing 900 words (in fact, cutting meat with a small knife, two hundred and two hundred, is almost paid off, so next time if there are 1000, I will pay 1000, and if it is not enough, I will calculate how much is missing)!

Thanks to book friends "usjdnshhs" and "Lin skylark" for their rewards!

PS: I originally wanted to add a little 200 words to show my appreciation, but I thought it was okay, anyway, I took a day off and simply went all in… Well, that's right, cough cough cough… I took a day off during the Qingming Festival holiday, and I only worked three days this week, but I'm exhausted, so I plan to take a rest and catch my breath.