Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Countless distorted figures mingled together, a black mass so dense it was impossible to discern the number of heads. It was like a patch of boiling asphalt seeping from the abyss, surging upwards along the moss-covered, slick cliff face.

Their movements were minimally affected by the rock face environment, as if they were born to climb. Although they were still a considerable distance from Lin Yi, it wouldn't be long before they reached his altitude.

Not to mention what would happen if Lin Yi lost his grip and fell from the cliff…

"Shh… shh… shh…"

They surged like a tide, causing the entire cliff face to tremble slightly. As they crawled in grotesque postures, they hissed some obscure syllables, their voices mingling with the sea breeze and the sound of the waves, reaching Lin Yi's ears in fits and starts:

【fanTome… fRa forRidEn…】

【fanTome… fRa… forRidEn…】

These chilling syllables felt like a rusty, blunt knife scraping slowly against Lin Yi's bones. A spine-tingling sensation, like icy liquid, flowed through his spine, leaving him both chilled to the bone and filled with intense dread…

He couldn't imagine what kind of fate awaited him if he were engulfed by them.

Lin Yi averted his gaze, unwilling to waste any more time on these jagged climbers.

"I must anchor back before they engulf me…"

He gripped the crack in the cliff face tightly, wishing he could bury his body in the moss, pressing himself as close as possible to the slick rock wall. Then, he took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes.

According to the rules, one is not allowed to close their eyes for extended periods outside of sleeping, because individuals with high sensitivity are easily influenced by their surroundings when their eyes are closed, inadvertently losing their anchor and falling from the layer. But he had already fallen from the layer, so he had to do the opposite.

He began to calm himself, carefully listening to all the sounds around him, separating the sounds that had been mashed together, unraveling them bit by bit…

First was the most violent sound of the wind, howling in from the sea, constantly echoing among the mountains around the cliff, and finally crashing onto this section of the cliff…

He carefully felt the sound of the wind, merging with it. Then, he could no longer hear the wind, and the remaining sounds in the wind began to gradually become clearer.

The sound of the Night-Kind "Abyssal Crawlers" climbing up the cliff, and the evil whispers coming from their mouths…

The low, thunderous roar of the clouds flowing deep in the sky rubbing against each other…

The sound of the waves crashing and breaking on the shore…

And…

"Swish… swish… swish—"

The boundless black sea, the waves pushing each other's sounds.

"Found it!" Lin Yi's heart suddenly leaped. "That's it!"

"This is not the sound of the waves, this is not the sound of the waves, this is not the sound of the waves…"

He repeatedly told himself in his heart.

"This is the sound of pages turning, this is the sound of pages turning, this is the sound of pages turning…"

Then, he suddenly opened his eyes!

He saw an open book.

This book was none other than the sticky note notebook that he had lost his grip on and dropped into the stairwell the moment he fell from the layer!

The notebook was open, the pages swaying slightly, making a crisp "swishing" sound…

Seeing this book, Lin Yi's heart was filled with unspeakable joy.

This is a book?

How could this be a book?!

This was clearly an anchor!!!

At this moment, the sticky note notebook appeared on the cliff, floating there in a manner incongruous with this world, turning its pages unhurriedly, as if greeting Lin Yi.

"My name is Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098, I am in front of dormitory 1414… My notebook fell beside me…"

"My name is Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098, I…"

He stared intently at the sticky note notebook, reciting this sentence aloud in his heart, his vision highly focused on the sticky note notebook, gradually blurring the surrounding scenery.

Like a student covering his ears and reciting a Chinese text, he used his own voice to interfere with the outside world's influence on him, while solidifying his understanding of the current environment, continuing the iron chain between the ship and the heavy anchor bit by bit.

"Shh… shh… shh…"

【fanTome… fRa forRidEn…】

【fanTome… fRa… forRidEn…】

The distorted Night-Kinds swarmed over, soon reaching the cliff face twenty or thirty meters below Lin Yi. At most, it would take less than half a minute to reach his altitude.

And at this critical moment, Lin Yi made a move that would terrify anyone who saw it.

He… released his grip on the crack in the cliff!

Was he seeking his own death?!

No, he… he didn't fall, he—he was suspended on the cliff, as if there was some powerful connection between his chest and the cliff, fixing him there!

"My name is Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098, I am in front of dormitory 1414… My notebook fell beside me…"

He supported himself with his hands against the rock wall, pushing himself away from this cliff bit by bit, and then, like Spider-Man, he stood on this cliff with both feet…

In front of him were the upright sky and ocean, but his somewhat unfocused pupils seemed unable to see the scenery before him, focusing instead on the void in front of him.

"I am in front of dormitory 1414… My notebook fell beside me…"

"I am in front of dormitory 1414…"

He slowly reached out his hand and gently grasped in the void.

He grasped an icy doorknob.

"I am in front of dormitory 1414…" he murmured firmly.

"Po…"

The entire space fluctuated violently, like a calm lake suddenly broken, ripples spreading rapidly around Lin Yi's hand grasping the doorknob, crushing the patterns originally reflected on the lake surface bit by bit.

As the lake light shattered, the world that had sunk beneath the lake surface was also slowly lifted up by Lin Yi.

That world was like a sculpture carved from ice. Invisible in the water, but as it emerged from the water and came under the sun, its outline became clear again.

A door, a corridor, a building…

Lin Yi repeatedly murmured, "My name is Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098, I am in front of dormitory 1414," like an ancient cultivator performing Qimen Dunjia, raising an entire world.

Gradually, he was also covered by the ripples, and his body, originally stuck in the cracks of the layer, finally began to slowly withdraw.

Below the cliff, the countless Night-Kinds sensed Lin Yi's increasingly dim aura, and roared one after another, eventually engulfing Lin Yi like a torrent. However… when they engulfed Lin Yi, they passed through Lin Yi's body one after another, Lin Yi's body was like a virtual image projected here…

…

On May 8, 2023, at 21:13, in front of Room 1414 on the 14th floor of the dormitory building, Lin Yi stood like a statue, clutching the doorknob of the dormitory, his scattered attention slowly coalescing.

"I'm in front of Room 1414…"

He slowly raised his head, the doorplate reading: "1414."

He glanced at the ground beside him, where a notepad lay open, its pages drooping listlessly, not having been flipped at all.

However, the lights in the dormitory hallway seemed to have dimmed somewhat.

Lin Yi bent down, picked up the notepad, dusted it off, and put it away, then took out his student ID and swiped it to open the dormitory door.

"Di Di… Ka Ka Ka…"

The lock tongue turned, and the door opened.

Lin Yi entered and quickly closed the door behind him, then leaned his entire body against the door, sliding down weakly until he was sitting on the ground.

"Huff, huff, huff…"

"Finally safe… Hahahaha…" He laughed weakly, then heard the sound of rushing water from the bathroom, indicating that Wei Liang was already taking a shower.

He rested for a good while before slowly using the door to help himself up and went to his wardrobe to prepare his change of clothes.

The school uniforms in the wardrobe were neatly stacked together, each set wrapped in a nylon bag, and as Lin Yi took out a brand-new bag, an inconspicuous small piece of paper fluttered down from between the bags…

Lin Yi paused slightly and picked up the piece of paper.

He saw that this not-so-large piece of paper was covered in messy handwriting, and that this handwriting, starting with some trembling strokes, became increasingly潦草 towards the end, until some words were completely unrecognizable.

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"I killed someone… I killed someone…"

"My roommate attracted them… I killed him… No, he killed himself…"

"They are at the door… repeatedly saying my roommate's name and student ID, and then disguising themselves as my roommate…"

"I don't know why they can open the door at this time…"

"I saw them looking for my roommate…"

"My roommate is taking a shower…"

"They can't find the bathroom door, and they are getting more and more angry… I'm afraid they will hurt me… I'm extremely scared…"

"I opened the bathroom door…"

"They rushed in and took my roommate away…"

"I killed my roommate… No, they killed my roommate, not me… not me…"

"He attracted them, if I didn't do this, I would be the one who died…"

"They are at the door… Why aren't they leaving… Why…"

"Could it be that my roommate didn't attract them… I attracted them…"

"No… No, it's not…"

"I have to find a way to distract them, or not let them know my name and student ID…"

"It's too late, it's too late…"

"My roommate is dead, I don't have any other roommates…"

"Why isn't it enough…"

"It's my turn soon…"

"I feel like I'm doomed…"

"My name is Song Rentou, my student ID is X0230402017…"

"If you see this message, tell the class teacher about the murder of me and my roommate, my class teacher is "Class Teacher - B2-037", she might have a way to save me…"

"I'm so scared… What should I do… Who will save me…"

"They're here again…"

"They're knocking on the door…"

"They're starting to call my name…"

"I'm not Song Rentou, don't call me, don't call me, I'm not Song Rentou, I'm not…"

The fragmented and messy handwriting, scattered here and there, but vaguely constructed a framework of events. Lin Yi looked at the piece of paper, and the beginning and end of the matter appeared in his mind…

A group of non-human classmates were wandering outside the door of this dormitory, repeatedly chanting [I am so-and-so, my student ID is such-and-such], and then began to violently open the door…

And this person named Song Rentou was shrinking on the bed, trembling under the covers.

Then the dormitory door was violently opened, and several non-human classmates who looked exactly like Song Rentou's roommates walked into the dormitory and began to look for his roommate, who temporarily escaped because he was taking a shower in the bathroom.

However, these non-human classmates did not leave because they could not find his roommate, but stayed in the dormitory and did not leave. Moreover, Song Rentou should have been able to feel that they were becoming more and more irritable. In the end, he could not withstand the pressure and opened the bathroom door, allowing the non-human classmates to find his roommate and take him out of the room.

The matter originally ended here, but he felt guilty for harming his roommate because of his impulsiveness, or maybe he didn't feel guilty, but was just afraid, so he recorded some things on this piece of paper, because some people do record some things because they have no one to tell, feeling that writing it down is like telling an non-existent self.

Whether it's for peace of mind or whatever, at least it can have some psychological effect.

But what Song Rentou didn't expect was that those non-human classmates not only did not leave because of this, but instead became even more aggressive, still wandering outside the dormitory door, targeting him.

This is the "first version" that Lin Yi imagined after reading the piece of paper, but even Lin Yi himself felt that this version was too rough, and many details were missing, so he could only rely on speculation to supplement the truth.

But putting aside the matter that happened to Song Rentou, there is a logic that can be affirmed - those non-human classmates will forcibly break into the door by capturing the identity information of the trainees, and then drag the trainee whose name they have written down out of the dormitory and kill him.

"Wait… Does that mean?!"

"The 'fake Wei Liang non-human classmates' who were following behind Liangzi just now were the non-human classmates who satisfied this mechanism!"

"Hiss… Damn it!"

Lin Yi gasped, he just had a strong ominous premonition when he was preparing to swipe his card, and then he discovered those fake Wei Liangs.

His first instinct when he saw the group of fake Wei Liangs was danger, extreme danger, and at the same time, his subconscious also formulated a counterattack strategy at the speed of light at that moment, instead of letting him escape.

His intuition told him that those fake Wei Liangs had applied a kind of "void enemy search" mechanism to Wei Liang. If he didn't find a way to deal with them, Wei Liang would encounter misfortune.

But even so, he didn't make the decision to take the initiative to attack on impulse, but decided after careful consideration.

Because the non-human classmates were greatly restricted by the lights, and he also had a precedent of reverse-polluting non-human classmates, so he decided.

Otherwise, if the lights in the dormitory hallway were turned off at 22:00, it would be truly hopeless if they were still wandering outside.

So that means… He accidentally twisted the "fatal tracking" of those non-human classmates on Wei Liang, and not only that, but also collapsed their cognition?!

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