Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi also wanted to look, but he restrained himself.

Yet, the more he suppressed it, the more restless he became.

Finally, he decided to do something that would definitely pull his attention back – a review.

So, he took a deep breath, closed the comic book, and stared at the nurse on the cover. In his mind, he reapplied his deduced survival conclusion to the entire incident after the classroom lights flickered, starting to analyze and find the reason he was targeted by that classmate.

… …

Fortunately, Lin Yi had the habit of checking his watch, allowing him to match most of the details with specific times when he started his review.

"If I remember correctly, the classroom lights completely went out before 22:00. At exactly 22:00, that thing outside the door entered the classroom."

"Based on the security guard's later actions, it seems that the thing outside the door stayed at the podium after entering the classroom…"

"It's also possible that the thing moved, but I'll assume it stayed at the podium for now."

That thing didn't affect the review, so Lin Yi's attention wasn't on it.

"At 22:02, that little genius turned on the flashlight… and then that classmate found him and took him out…"

"The flashlight fell to the ground, shining on me. The classmate saw me when bending over to pick up the flashlight, and then there were three rounds of pulling and tugging with me…"

"After the pulling, that classmate dragged the little genius's body around the classroom, and the other strange classmates gradually left their seats. Then the classroom was filled with screams…"

"Around 22:43, the security guard came and took that thing from the podium out of the classroom. After the classroom door closed, the lights gradually returned to normal…"

"Before the security guard appeared, the lights seemed to flicker. It's temporarily impossible to determine if this is related to the security guard…"

The first review flashed through his mind like a fast-forwarded movie, and it seemed like nothing was discovered.

"Something seems wrong. I seem to feel like I've missed something very crucial?" Lin Yi couldn't help but frown.

Fortunately, the evening self-study lacked everything but time, so Lin Yi quickly started the second review.

After the second review, he found three points:

[1. The little genius turned on the flashlight, attracting the first classmate who left their seat, and was taken out by the classmate.]

[2. The classmate picked up the flashlight and saw him, but didn't find him or take him out.]

[3. The other classmates seemed to be injured.]

However, there was no logical connection between these three points, so Lin Yi could only continue with the third, fourth, and fifth reviews…

But after multiple reviews, he suddenly realized a problem – that the classmate didn't actually see him when picking up the flashlight!

"That classmate is blind! They can't see me at all!"

"Wrong, wrong, wrong!"

"My review logic was wrong from the start!"

"So, while ensuring the survival method remains unchanged, add the additional condition that the 'classmate has no vision' and review to find the logic…"

The survival method is:

[Mentally, do not think; behaviorally, ignore reality.]

The additional condition is:

[The classmate has no vision.]

Then… the flashlight's light isn't the reason for inducing the classmate to deal with the little genius.

"So, what is the trigger that caused that classmate to start acting?"

Lin Yi carefully recalled…

Immediately afterward, he discovered that he had missed another crucial condition – the words that the classmate said when looking for him.

Those words may not have been spoken by the classmate, but they did ring in his ears.

"If I remember correctly, the words were probably… asking me to look at him?"

["Look at me…"

"Look, look at me…"

"I know… you can see me…"

"Hurry and look at me…"

"Please…"]

"'I know you can see me,' 'Hurry and look at me'…"

Lin Yi muttered these sentences repeatedly in his heart.

Suddenly, as if a flash of inspiration pierced the vast night, a silver-white light streaked across the back of his mind!

"Clang—"

His eyes lit up suddenly, and he seemed to hear the BGM of "The scheming child keeps touching your belly."

It was as if the bespectacled boy detective had sorted out the logical chain before and after and was about to launch the final reasoning.

The truth is—

"Only by seeing that classmate clearly will you be found and killed by that classmate!"

"The little genius turned on the flashlight, causing him to see the classmate, triggering some kind of mechanism belonging to that classmate, leading to him being killed by the classmate!"

"The classmate picked up the flashlight not because the beam of light attracted their attention, but because they heard a strange noise and wanted to capture it."

Lin Yi clearly remembered in his review that after the classmate bent down, they didn't immediately see the flashlight accurately, but touched it a few times on the ground before finding it.

Furthermore, after the lights in the classroom returned to normal, that classmate didn't turn off the flashlight but held it in their hand and kept touching it, as if they were curious about this thing.

"So, they clearly looked at me, but didn't find me at all."

"However, because my line of sight vaguely captured some images of them, it produced a 'grazing' effect with their killing mechanism."

"They begged me to look at them. As long as I saw them, they would kill me immediately!"

"But I didn't look at them, so I didn't enter their killing mechanism, which is why I survived!"

After figuring out this logic, all the details were matched by Lin Yi one by one!

The way that classmate reached under the desk to grab Lin Yi was very similar to the way they groped on the floor tiles to find the flashlight.

Sure enough, there's no such thing as a terrifying supernatural attack; it's all just a limited survival game constrained by rules!

You must try to believe in science as much as possible—even if reality slaps you in the face, even if science can't explain why these rules exist.

And all the inferences also prove that the homeroom teacher's warning of "ignoring the principle" is correct.

[Don't close your eyes!

Don't look around or look up!

Keep your eyes on the patterns on the ground or the legs of the desk, and silently recite your names and student numbers in your hearts!

Don't communicate with anyone!

Ignore any sounds!]

"As long as you ignore everything, you naturally won't enter the classmate's killing mechanism!"

"Moreover, the other classmates were discovered because they saw him!"

Originally, in the dark environment, once attention was focused on the desk legs, it was basically safe. But unfortunately, a little genius with a portable flashlight appeared in the huge classroom!

A beam of flashlight light was enough to suddenly allow the normal classmates hiding under the desks to see those strange classmates, thereby being harmed.

"Liangzi was right again. What a damn pit-like little genius!"

"A wave of reverse operations showed a total team wipe!"

"Hurting others and oneself!"

"But why did the homeroom teacher warn us ‘don't close your eyes’?”

Normally speaking, closing your eyes is the easiest way to ignore something, right?

So why shouldn't we?

“It seems there are also rules about ‘closing eyes’ in the student handbook…”

One is about abnormal weather:

[If you are lost in abnormal weather, please look for the nearest street lamp with a number.

If you cannot find a numbered street lamp immediately, please look down and stare at the ground, looking for any reference object that can confirm you are still on the road. If you find that the ground is twisting, stretching, or showing any changes that do not conform to common sense, please quickly hold your student ID and map tightly in your hands, and repeatedly remind yourself of your name and student number in your mind.

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Remember you are a student.]

There is also one about the dormitory. Compared to the one about abnormal weather, the dormitory and classroom are indoors, which seems to be more relevant:

[The dormitory is equipped with a bathroom. If you want to wash your hair, do not close your eyes when washing your hair. Make sure you can see the bathroom tiles, patterns, and everything else that can confirm you are still in the bathroom.]

“Judging from the rules, although I don’t know the reason yet, it seems that closing your eyes will encounter unexpected dangers…”

But these things are not what he should be thinking about now.

So, Lin Yi didn't think too much about it. Now that he has roughly deduced the killing mechanism of his classmate, he should find a way to start from the triggering mechanism and try to eliminate his classmate's attention to him.

Otherwise, the existence of this classmate is like a sharp sword hanging over his head at any time, giving him a strong sense of crisis.

Lin Yi thought:

“That classmate wants to see me, first I need to see him.”

“And the reason why he can notice me is precisely because I noticed him…”

“So he can vaguely sense my position through this point. This is also the reason why his attention can keep up no matter how I hide in the bookshelf at the beginning…”

Lin Yi came to a guess:

“In that case, if I want not to be noticed by him, I just need to dispel my attention to him?”

He recalled that the existence of this kind of attention is actually bidirectional.

When he noticed that classmate, that classmate received feedback, and then noticed him through this feedback.

And once that classmate noticed him, he would naturally have a feeling of being watched.

The appearance of this feeling will deepen his attention to that classmate.

This forms a vicious circle, and that classmate relies on Lin Yi's constant focus of attention to continuously strengthen his lock on Lin Yi.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but shudder!

If he hadn't deduced this causal relationship, then once the lights in the classroom went out, even if he hid well, he would eventually follow in Xiao Tiancai's footsteps as his attention deepened.

“So, to untie the bell, you must tie it. As long as I ignore him, he will lose my ‘coordinates’.”

Turning around, it goes back to the warning given by the homeroom teacher at the beginning—ignore it.

“But what is the logic in this?”

“Is it just simply not thinking about it?”

It's not that simple.

He couldn't help but glance at Wei Liang.

Wei Liang's face was almost pressed against the book, aiming at the cracks with a very dialectical gaze.

Lin Yi sighed in his heart. Comparing Wei Liang with other normal classmates, he suddenly understood the key to the problem—execution.

What's the use of having a student handbook in everyone's hands?

Everyone's execution is different, so the degree of compliance with the rules is also different.

How to absolutely abide by various rules in this weird atmosphere, and to what extent these rules can be followed, is the real big problem.

Ask yourself, who can remain rational when encountering such outrageous things? No, who can remain dull and not think?

Even Lin Yi himself almost fell into the trap several times after receiving Xu Shunkang's warning.

Those behaviors that may violate the rules made subconsciously are the most deadly.

Lin Yi took a deep breath and decided to use practical actions to dissolve attention first, and get through the current difficulty first.

So he put Volume 1 of 《Night X Ward (Hardcover Edition)》 on his hand, and then found one of his comics from the migrant worker comics he had selected.

《Water Shadow Ninja: Kawaki Biography》.

Lin Yi watched 《Water Shadow Ninja》 when he was a child. He heard that this 《Kawaki Biography》 is a sequel, telling the story of the protagonist's son, Whirlpool Kawaki, fighting against his father's enemy, Otsutsuki Boruto.

He prepared to turn out his childhood memories and have an immersive reading experience to dilute his attention to that classmate.

After reading it a few times…

“Pa!!!”

Lin Yi slammed 《Water Shadow Ninja: Kawaki Biography》 heavily on the ground.

“What is this drawing! What a坑爹!”

“Has the reader's feelings really been considered when putting this kind of book on the shelf?!”

Hearing Lin Yi's complaint, Wei Liang looked over in surprise, and suddenly felt relieved when he swept to the 《Water Shadow Ninja: Kawaki Biography》 on the ground.

“I reminded you when I took it. This Kawaki Biography was drawn by the original author's assistant. It's too serious to mix private goods. It's better to use it as waste paper.”

“What's wrong? Don't you like 《Night X Ward》?”

Wei Liang frowned slightly, not expecting Lin Yi's taste to be quite picky.

But when he thought that Lin Yi liked something more passionate, he went through the catalog on the bookshelf in his mind and said, “Lao Lin, wait for me!”

He left his seat like a whirlwind, and then passed through the upright, strange classmates as if nothing had happened, while muttering: “Hey, sorry, let me through!”

“Damn, I'm not sleepy in the evening self-study, right? Are you all standing up as wood?”

He cursed and walked through the crowd, came to the bookshelf, and brought back a set of comics after a few minutes, and patted them in front of Lin Yi.

“《Ikki Tousen》, passionate fighting H manga, maybe it's the type you like.”

“If you don't like it, there's also this, 《Taimanin》, which also has some ninja elements, but the taste is a bit heavy, not suitable for newcomers... Do you want to try it?”

Lin Yi widened his eyes and opened his mouth to look at Wei Liang, thinking of his flexible figure wandering in front of the bookshelf before, and couldn't help but ask: “Liangzi... Last time you came, didn't you read comics for seven days?”

Thank you to book friends “人生 在 世十有 八十九不如意” and “江湖 www” for their rewards!!

In addition, I don’t know if the killing mechanism of “that classmate” is satisfactory to you readers?