Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"How do you know… *cough cough!* Don't talk nonsense!" Wei Liang coughed into his fist, "You're being too careless. Don't forget we have other classes to attend. Reading manga comes after that!"

"Otherwise, what else is there to do in class? Even though the classes at S City University are just for show, I can't play video games. Besides reading manga, there's nothing else to do!" Wei Liang argued.

Lin Yi felt that what Wei Liang said wasn't entirely unreasonable.

So, he silently took 'Ikki Tousen' and 'Taimanin Asagi', and began reading them seriously.

As he became increasingly immersed in his reading, his brain's perception of the outside world began to weaken at a slow pace.

Soon, he was completely absorbed in the stories within the manga.

The classmate who had previously 'locked on' to Lin Yi, who had been staring blankly at the reflection on the classroom window, suddenly sensed something while Lin Yi was immersed in reading manga. He stiffly turned around and slowly focused his gaze on the rows of seats in the circular lecture hall.

He looked left and right, his face passing over Lin Yi's position several times, but he never noticed anything.

Lin Yi had successfully eliminated the classmate's attention, but he himself was completely unaware of it.

And in reality, he didn't need to know about it.

Because once he knew, he would re-enter this paradoxical cycle.

After Lin Yi finished reading the first volume of 'Ikki Tousen', he stretched his body and neck, and glanced at his watch.

1:39.

‘Unknowingly, more than an hour has passed… Reading manga is indeed a good way to pass the time.’

Lin Yi's thoughts returned, and he subconsciously recalled the classmate, finding that his memory of him had become very vague.

Turning his head, he noticed another stack of books had appeared beside him.

It was the rest of the 'Ikki Tousen' series that Wei Liang had found for him.

Lin Yi smiled and picked up the second volume to read.

After reading three volumes in such an immersive way, the time had reached 4:27. Lin Yi recalled the previous night, and the only impression he had of the classmate was a blurry shadow.

The feeling of being watched had completely disappeared. Besides a bit of drowsiness, he felt no discomfort mentally.

But physically, he felt somewhat cold, especially in his lower body, where he felt a chill, as if the cold air from the ground was spreading to his legs.

This was caused by staying up late reading and not moving around.

Lin Yi stretched, yawned, and stomped his feet.

After briefly stretching his muscles and adjusting his posture, he prepared to continue reading.

But at this moment, some movements around him caught his attention.

‘Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap…’

Someone was leaving their seat, and not just one person, but a group.

These synchronized movements undoubtedly belonged to those strange classmates.

Lin Yi glanced at his watch.

4:30.

‘4:30 AM…’

Lin Yi didn't know if this time had any significance, but he immediately jotted it down in his notebook: "4:30."

This time was more than 4 hours after the security guard wrestled with that thing.

The security guard who had rolled down the stairs with that thing had now disappeared without a trace.

The classmates who had been standing and staring at the window glass had all returned to their seats, but now they were standing up one by one again.

Lin Yi maintained his manga-reading posture, but his eyes darted around, observing the surroundings from his seat in the lecture hall, using his peripheral vision and listening to supplement the details.

The reason he dared to do this was because, according to his deduction of the killing mechanism of these classmates, as long as he didn't look at them after the lights went out, he wouldn't attract their attention.

He saw the classmates dragging their stiff bodies, walking with dull steps, down the steps of the lecture hall, and towards the classroom door.

‘Could it be that they are leaving the classroom at this time?’

‘But the teaching building rules stipulate that leaving the classroom is prohibited after 9:00 PM, and the class advisor has also given the same warning…’

‘Wait a minute, I think I understand!’

‘If the class advisor's warning is for "protection", then the source of danger is those strange classmates in the classroom, and the unknown creatures in the fog outside the classroom, right?’

‘When the classroom door opened, those strange classmates didn't seem to be affected, so perhaps I can classify them as the same?’

‘The only difference might be that the classmates who remain in the classroom still retain some "student" characteristics.’

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

‘Indeed, staying overnight in the classroom can only be considered an "option", not the "correct answer".’

‘No wonder Xu Shunkang said he hoped to see me again tomorrow…’

Lin Yi was happy with his new discovery, but just as he was about to change to another book, the corner of his eye suddenly caught a glimpse of a foot slowly stepping into his field of vision.

"Hmm?"

The person's foot was wearing an old-fashioned sneaker, and the shoelaces seemed to be stained with some reddish-brown substance.

Lin Yi's first reaction was that it looked familiar, but as another foot stepped into his field of vision, his previously dormant memories began to attack him frantically.

The hairs on his arms instantly stood on end, and a chill shot up his spine.

‘This…?!’

His vision moved up, and Lin Yi's pupils trembled, first expanding, then instantly contracting to pinpoints.

That classmate was standing right in front of him, no more than three chairs away!

The classmate stared blankly at Lin Yi's location, his face devoid of expression.

The eerie smile that had previously been revealed in the darkness, almost reaching the ears, was gone at this moment.

He was like a walking corpse, slowly approaching Lin Yi.

Lin Yi sat bolt upright, the hairs on his head standing on end, his eyes filled with disbelief.

‘He clearly can't notice me anymore, so why is this happening?!’

‘He's a persistent ghost! It's like he can sense that I'm here!’

Lin Yi didn't dare to make any rash moves, but his mind was racing with ideas.

The classmate moved with stiff steps, slowly passing one chair after another, closing the distance between himself and Lin Yi.

Lin Yi's pupils shrank smaller and smaller. He gritted his teeth, so nervous that he forgot to breathe.

But under absolutely concentrated attention, he suddenly deduced something from the classmate's behavior.

A bold idea appeared in his mind!

He quickly put away all the manga he had, and then carefully folded up the chair.

"Liangzi!" He whispered to the man beside him.

At this time, Wei Liang was too focused, so focused that he didn't even realize Lin Yi had stood up.

Hearing Lin Yi's voice, Wei Liang quickly snapped out of his thoughts.

"What's wrong, Lao Lin… Oh, I #$%@\u0026%*…"

Wei Liang caught sight of the classmate closing in on Lin Yi from behind, and the words he was saying turned into an incoherent monkey-like scream…

"Shhh—"

Lin Yi struggled to free one hand, raised a finger to his lips, and lowered his voice, "Quickly put away the books and run! Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

At this moment, the classmate was only two chairs away from Lin Yi, and a powerful sense of oppression surged from his body like a tide, overwhelming Lin Yi and Wei Liang.

"Holy crap, crap, crap…"

Wei Liang was incoherent, his tongue tied in knots from nervousness.

Seeing his classmate closing in, under the absolute pressure, he suddenly gritted his teeth and pulled off a divine operation that would have made Lin Yi's eyeballs pop out.

The stack of manga books in his hands was more than three times the size of Lin Yi's, but he somehow managed to hug all of them in one go!

Then, under Lin Yi's almost incomprehensible "old man on the subway looking at his phone" expression, he used the precise control of his gluteus maximus and intergluteal muscles to silently pull the chair back!

Lin Yi was utterly shocked, with only four words left in his mind:

"Such frivolous skills!"

"Damn it, it's all frivolous skills!"

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"What are you staring at? Hurry up and go!" Wei Liang glared at Lin Yi fiercely, his voice low and angry.

"Damn it, how can I go if you don't go?" Lin Yi winked at him.

"Aiya! Go, go, go, go!"

So the two geniuses hugged their manga, treading on thin ice between the chairs in the tiered lecture hall, feeling like two brothers walking on a ridge in a rice paddy.

Only after walking out of the row of seats did Wei Liang dare to look back at that classmate, and at the same time, he couldn't help but ask with concern: "Lao Lin, what's going on? Hey, damn it… Lao Lin, you…"

Lin Yi hadn't left the row of seats at all.

To be precise, he had only walked to the chair not too far from his original chair—that is, the second chair to Wei Liang's left.

Then he just calmly watched the classmate's every move.

He saw that the classmate came to the place where Lin Yi had been sitting, and then stretched out a pair of thin, pale hands, constantly exploring that area like rippling water.

It was just like Xiao Qiao in the King of Glory, with three exclamation marks popping out on her forehead, using "top-level prediction" to unleash all her skills at a patch of air.

After a fruitless attempt, the classmate slowly withdrew his hand, then silently left, merging into the stream of people walking towards the classroom door on the steps.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and a flash of light suddenly appeared in the depths of his calm eyes…

It was like a newbie entering a game, successfully cracking a certain mechanism in the level through their own efforts, and then revealing a hint of excitement in their eyes!

Lin Yi's calm and composed appearance surprised Wei Liang, and all the words that had already reached his lips were thrown to the back of his mind. At this moment, he only had one question:

"Lao Lin, what was going on just now? That guy…"

Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang and raised an eyebrow: "Are you curious about things outside the rules again now?"

"Heh heh, I'm curious about a hammer! I don't want to be dragged into the pit by you," Wei Liang curled his lips and sneered. "I mean, did you find a way to eliminate that guy's attention?"

Lin Yi nodded, and was about to tell Wei Liang that the other party should have a certain "sensing ability," but was interrupted by Wei Liang in time: "Okay, okay, okay, stop, stop, you just need to know the way, don't tell me."

Lin Yi knew Wei Liang's worries, but still said: "Liangzi, I feel like you should know a little about the 'mechanism', just in case…"

"Damn it, stop! I advise you not to put a flag on me!" Wei Liang quickly said, "There's no 'in case', I wouldn't be noticed by him before, I won't be now, and I certainly won't be in the future…"

"If I knew how to eliminate it, I'd probably accidentally get noticed by him instead."

"…" Lin Yi opened his mouth, speechless. "Then… okay, I can only say that reading manga is really a good method."

"Ah? ? ?"

"Emmm… it's nothing."

"Oh, okay… Oh, right, Lao Lin!" Wei Liang suddenly thought of something, and his expression suddenly became excited. "Did you see my operation just now?"

"That, that, that…" He put down the manga and gestured, pointing to his thigh muscles and patting his butt, looking more and more like a monkey from Mount Huaguo.

"Full marks! My operation was really full marks!"

Lin Yi rolled his eyes and could only cooperate with an echo: "Ah, 66666…"

Then he flipped open the chair and sat down, casually put down the manga, and looked towards the entrance of the classroom, while glancing at the pendulum clock hanging above the podium and his own watch.

The time was 4:46.

"Just one staircase, and it took a full 16 minutes!"

"This speed can't compare to after the lights are turned off!"

Lin Yi looked at the ceiling.

"It seems that 'lights' are a very big restriction for them…"

He thought of the corridor, the lights flickering on and off, and the ball of shadows curled up in the darkness disappeared.

He also thought of the streetlights in the thick fog, which seemed to have the ability to drive away that kind of unknown creature.

Thinking of this, he immediately shook his head, preventing himself from continuing to think in this direction, and at the same time, he opened his notebook and wrote "lights" next to "4:30".

This was a note he had jotted down to prevent himself from forgetting key clues, and when he had the time and place to think properly, he would think about this question.

Wei Liang hugged the manga back and glanced at the classroom wall, following Lin Yi's gaze.

"It's almost five o'clock, it's going to be dawn, do you want to go to the cafeteria for breakfast together later?"

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded, but then asked, "But will we make it in time?"

The teaching building rules included a map, and the map marked the opening hours of the cafeteria, which were 5:40~8:00, 10:40~13:20, and 16:00~20:00 every day.

"Why wouldn't we make it in time?" Wei Liang said subconsciously, "It opens at 5:40!"

Lin Yi corrected him: "But the teaching building rules stipulate that if you stay overnight, you have to study until 7:40 before you can leave the classroom. You can only leave at 6 o'clock if you stay overnight in the dormitory."

Wei Liang was stunned again, and then realized the problem, and couldn't help but scratch the back of his head and laugh awkwardly: "Aiyo, I almost remembered the time wrong just now, luckily you reminded me!"

"But thinking about it this way, we really might not have enough time…" Wei Liang muttered.

Lin Yi waved his hand and comforted him: "It's okay, we'll talk about it later, if it really doesn't work, we'll just skip a meal and eat more at noon."

"Yeah, that's the only way…"

Just at this moment, the strange classmate in the front reached out and grasped the doorknob of the classroom door.

"Click! Click!"

After the unknown creature was dragged away by the security guard, the classroom door was not locked. Although the classmate's movements were slow, he still opened the classroom door naturally.

"Drip drip drip…"

The door opened, and the mountain's fresh morning wind, mixed with the fragrance of morning dew and flowers, flowed in like a stream, dissolving the turbid air that had accumulated in the classroom overnight.

As the door continued to open, Lin Yi saw a deep blue world floating with mist…

May 7, X023, 4:53.

The slightly bright sky reflected the blue of the sea, and a thin mist flowed through S City University, as if it had sunk into the deep sea.