Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi felt that Tian Bufan was like a compressed file containing a lot of secrets. As the time spent on campus increased, the content being decompressed also increased…

But if Tian Bufan knew everything, why would he still explore the campus?

He couldn't figure it out…

Lin Yi secretly shook his head. At present, one thing that can be determined is that Wei Shan definitely has unique achievements in the area of "beating inhuman entities."

Moreover, he also wanted to ask Wei Shan if he knew anything related to the green mist mark.

After attacking the Night Walker, he was branded with the green mist mark, and the green mist mark cannot be erased by conventional means… In addition, Wei Shan has been attacking them, so he must have also been contaminated with the green mist mark.

So he wanted to know how Wei Shan viewed this.

Wei Shan paused his hand-washing motion: "Is there any problem with this?"

Lin Yi then slowly explained his doubts. He even suspected that Wei Shan had already "comprehended the mysteries of the green mist mark," otherwise, how could he kick Night Walkers and stomp on green hats?

"Old Lin, you've asked the wrong person about this kind of question." Wei Shan shook his head and replied without thinking, "You should ask Young Master Tian for systematic and theoretical answers."

"Fatty is right about this." Kuai Hongji said from the side, "Fatty relies on 'instinctive intuition' to handle things, not his brain."

"Instinct…" Lin Yi frowned slightly. The biggest difference between humans and beasts is reason. If he relies on instinct to do things, what's the difference between Wei Shan's actions and those of a beast?

Kuai Hongji smiled, not knowing whether he was praising or scolding Wei Shan: "'Blind foolishness' is sometimes better at resisting pollution than 'reason.' Fatty is probably the strongest among us in this regard."

"Of course, the main reason is that he's brainless…"

Before he could finish speaking, a pillow smashed over like a sandbag. Kuai Hongji easily dodged the pillow, but someone cried out:

"Damn it! My pillow!"

Wei Liang, who was lying on the bed, poked half of his head out and looked at the super rivals below like a resentful little ghost.

Lin Yi coughed dryly and picked up the pillow for him.

After receiving the pillow, Wei Liang muttered something like, 'You guys are really awesome. One likes to pull the threads on my bedsheets, and the other likes to pull my pillow. Next time, tell me in advance what you're going to pull so I can prepare it for you…'

He turned over and buried the pillow under his head.

"However…" Wei Shan said, "Attacking inhuman entities will invite pollution, and pollution will attract the attention of inhuman entities. Therefore, once you attack them, you will fall into a vicious cycle."

"So… the rules don't say a word about whether you can actively attack them?" Lin Yi said thoughtfully, "Because in some cases, you have to attack them in self-defense. It's better to knock them down and be forced to absorb the pollution than to be killed by them directly."

Wei Shan nodded: "If you have to analyze it, it's almost like that, but I didn't think so much… I get very irritable when I see them, and I can't wait to tear them apart, just like…"

He frowned and looked at Kuai Hongji.

"Hey, hey, hey, that's not funny at all." Kuai Hongji raised his hands in surrender. "I'm not the same as them."

"You're not the same, but I always want to beat you up."

"Just think about it." Kuai Hongji smiled sinisterly, "Don't make it real, otherwise… hehe hehe… I won't hold back."

"Alright, alright, Kuai Kuai, don't change the subject." Lin Yi rubbed his eyebrows. These two guys can't talk three sentences without wanting to fight.

"Wei Shan… do you have a 'green mist mark' on your body?"

The green mist mark was his summary of the pollution from the green mist produced when the Night Walker was killed, but he had already explained this concept just now, so there was no need to explain it further, just ask directly.

Wei Shan shook his head: "Actually, I don't really understand what you're saying the mark is… What does that thing look like?"

This was easy to say. Lin Yi took off his pajamas and pointed to his chest: "Look, it's this… but it can only be seen in special circumstances."

Wei Shan shook his head: "I can't see it, and I don't feel anything unusual."

"You shouldn't be able to see it now…" Lin Yi said.

"But… I don't feel any problems." Wei Shan insisted, "Maybe it's gone?"

"What's there to argue about!" Wei Liang turned over on the bed and said speechlessly, "Judging from your tone, it's not a tattoo. Maybe it washed off when you took a shower!"

Wei Liang's words startled Lin Yi. He did remember scrubbing off a lot of dirt when he took a shower today, and he thought it was because he had sweated more during the day, but maybe… the green mist mark was indeed washed away by the water?

"Taking a shower" has always been a way to purify pollution, but he overestimated the adhesion of the green mist mark.

"You make sense, Liangzi." Lin Yi said seriously.

"Damn, I was just talking nonsense." Wei Liang turned over, rolled back into the face-the-wall pupa posture, and buried his head under the pillow.

"Liangzi, pretending to cover your ears is only good for fooling us. Don't fool yourself…" Lin Yi reminded helplessly.

"I can't hear what you're barking about." Wei Liang's voice rolled down from the bed.

At this time, Tian Bufan had finished his shower and threw his change of clothes into the washing machine: "Kuai Kuai, it's your turn to wash."

"Okay." Kuai Hongji, who was leaning against the wall and scanning the piece of paper left by Song Rentou, gently arched the wall, straightened himself with the recoil, put down the piece of paper, picked up his change of clothes, and exchanged places with Tian Bufan.

"Do you have any thoughts?" Tian Bufan suddenly asked.

"What?" Kuai Hongji paused.

"The paper."

"Oh." Kuai Hongji raised his eyebrows, "A clumsy attempt to conceal something."

"It seems to be about the same as what I thought."

"Hehe." Kuai Hongji glanced at Tian Bufan, "What are you trying to test?"

"It's nothing, I'm just looking forward to your interpretation."

"It's best to just be looking forward to it… You guys talk first, I'll come back to see how your chat is going after I take a shower." Kuai Hongji smiled coldly, took his clothes, and walked towards the bathroom.

After Kuai Hongji entered the bathroom, Lin Yi turned to look at Tian Bufan and Wei Shan and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong with you guys?"

"It's nothing big, it'll be fine after Kuai Kuai takes a shower." Tian Bufan pointed to the desk, "Let's talk about this Song Rentou's matter first? It looks quite interesting."

Lin Yi glanced at the clock on the wall.

21:48.

"Okay."

The dormitory lights go out at 0:00, there is still plenty of time to talk about it.

After Lin Yi sat down, he asked first: "Were you followed by inhuman classmates on the way back?"

"Yes." Tian Bufan nodded, "Wasn't there yesterday too? Actually, it's like that every day, it's just that today is more special."

Lin Yi was stunned when he heard this, but he immediately reacted.

Tian Bufan was right, the Night Walkers have always been in the darkness and thick fog, that "rustling" sound is the sound of them moving behind them…

"No, that's not what I meant." Lin Yi was almost led astray. He explained how he encountered non-human classmates in the stairwell today and how a fake Wei Liang, also a non-human classmate, was following them.

Wei Liang, who was lying in bed, couldn't help but peek half his head out upon hearing this.

"… …"

But he didn't say anything, revealing a thoughtful expression. After a short while, he silently shrunk back, burying his head under the pillow again, unsure if he was actually asleep.

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Lin Yi was sitting with his back to Wei Liang, so he didn't notice his little actions. "When I looked outside through the peephole just now, I could still see those non-human classmates in the stairwell. Did you guys encounter them when you came back?"

"Peephole?" Tian Bufan was slightly stunned.

"It's over there, it's pretty obvious." Lin Yi got up and went to the door, then fumbled around and found the location of the grille.

"No need to pry it open, I see it." Tian Bufan stopped him.

His expression was slightly solemn, his brows were slightly furrowed, and his serious appearance startled Lin Yi.

"Is there something wrong with this peephole?" Lin Yi sensed something.

Tian Bufan said helplessly, "Isn't it obvious that something is wrong with the location of that peephole? Who in their right mind would design a peephole in the lower middle part of the door, requiring you to bend down to see outside? It's like it's been installed upside down."

"Now that you mention it, it does seem a bit odd…" Lin Yi nodded seriously. "So, did you guys encounter those non-human classmates?"

"We did." Tian Bufan nodded. "I don't know why, but the road back today was full of them. I even had the feeling that they were all out in force."

"The teaching building, the road back, and the stairwell, there are too many of them. Moreover, they didn't come up by elevator."

"Right, they didn't use the elevator." Lin Yi pondered. "Even if they did take the elevator, one elevator wouldn't be able to hold that many people. And… they seemed to emerge from some corner, then pour out endlessly."

"Yeah, that's the problem." Tian Bufan said.

"You mean…?!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up.

"I suspect that this problem might be related to 'corners'. Of course, this is my conjecture based on all the known conditions so far. Do you remember what the dormitory rules said?"

Lin Yi then carefully recalled…

[Each floor of the dormitory building has a circular structure (the corridor appears to be a smooth arc). The first dormitory on each floor is next to the last dormitory, connecting end to end. There is absolutely no right-angle turn.

If you find a right-angle turn ahead when looking for your dormitory, please turn around and tell yourself that there is no right-angle turn ahead, then turn around again.

Only continue forward after you confirm that the front has returned to normal.

Never assume that you are seeing things and try to find your way to the dormitory by closing and reopening your eyes.]

"'There is absolutely no right-angle turn'." He seemed to have grasped a certain point.

Tian Bufan said, "Things that truly don't exist wouldn't be so defensively mentioned, just like how the rules tell us that the teaching building only has four floors."

"I speculate that when the stratum is unstable, this unstable corner will appear in the dormitory building's corridor. Its location should be random, or perhaps it uses our 'anchoring' of our own position to graft itself over…"

"Then, those non-human classmates will walk out of this corner and attack the experience students according to some mechanism."

"These are all my conjectures. To make them reasonable, I've added the two characteristics of 'randomness' and 'dependence'. Just listen to them, and we can verify them later if we have the chance."

Lin Yi followed Tian Bufan's train of thought and then said, "Perhaps there really are traces to follow. After Mao Zi left the stairs, he arrived at the dormitory building's corridor. The staircase he took was definitely not the staircase that originally belonged to the dormitory building."

"Perhaps the location corresponding to the door he opened was the 'corner'?"

"Moreover, humanoid sculptures slowly turn into non-human classmates under the light, and Mao Zi's staircase has countless sculptures, including many humanoid sculptures."

Under Tian Bufan's guidance, Lin Yi suddenly connected many fragments of memory and deduced a very reasonable line of thought.

Then, referring to how the humanoid sculptures in the campus read the words of self-identification that they said in their hearts, then these non-human classmates should also have this ability.

On campus, what they read was "I am so-and-so, my student ID is so-and-so, I am going to the so-and-so building" in order to track the experience students to that destination.

During this process, once the experience student is disturbed by this voice and turns around, seeing a humanoid sculpture that looks very similar to themselves, it is easy to experience strong mental fluctuations, triggering a crisis of dropping the stratum and triggering the humanoid sculpture's "void enemy seeking" mechanism.

And after arriving at the dormitory building, as long as they haven't completely arrived at the dormitory, what they read is "I am so-and-so, my student ID is so-and-so, my dormitory is number so-and-so".

With this anchoring method, they can also slowly and steadily arrive at the corresponding dormitory.

"But…" Lin Yi stroked his chin, seeming to have discovered some problems, "But looking at it this way, they can only arrive at the dormitory door at most, because they can't enter the dormitory without a student ID!"

"That's right." A playful smile appeared on the corner of Tian Bufan's mouth. "So, have you thought of anything?"

Lin Yi quickly rushed to the desk, grabbed the piece of paper that Song Ren had thrown, and carefully looked at it again and again from beginning to end.

But with repeated reading, Lin Yi's brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and his expression became more and more solemn. He said that the first time he saw this piece of paper, he felt so strange. He could clearly imagine the course of an event based on the information on the paper, but he always felt that the whole thing seemed to be shrouded in a mystery, full of indescribable strangeness.

And now, he finally knew where these strange feelings came from.

Because—

"The things written on this paper… seem to be a bit off!" Lin Yi seemed to have touched the corner of the truth, and his expression suddenly became ugly.

(Adding a sentence temporarily, delete this sentence after tomorrow's update: I wonder if any大佬 can deduce the truth of the matter written on the paper thrown by Song Ren before the next chapter update (welcome to join the group to discuss, hehehe), the clues and hints have actually been given, and will be revealed in the next chapter. This paragraph was added after I published the chapter, because the chapter points are calculated according to the update time, so this paragraph will not affect the word count payment, everyone can rest assured.)

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