Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Tian Bufan leaned back slightly, gradually shifting his weight onto the back of the chair, looking at Kuai Hongji with a smile that wasn't quite a smile: "Why would I think they needed to drag people out of the dormitory before killing them?"

"You go first, I'll dry my hair." Kuai Hongjie rubbed his hair with a towel, "Fatty, it's your turn."

He pointed to the bathroom, leaving some space for Wei Shan to pass, and then threw his changed clothes into the washing machine.

Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at him, his brow furrowing slightly. He noticed that Kuai Hongji's shirt seemed a little dirty, but his school uniform was very clean.

However, this was just a fleeting thought, and Kuai Hongji had already closed the washing machine and pressed the button to start the wash.

As Kuai Hongji began to dry his hair, Tian Bufan said, "Don't forget, even if the layers of the campus are collapsing, the non-human students still don't have much fighting power when the lights are on."

"I speculate that this happened after 22:00, when the lights in the dormitory hallway were off, but the lights in the dormitory were still on."

"After Song Rentou opened the door, those non-human students swarmed in, dragged Song Rentou's roommates into the darkness, and then killed them."

Kuai Hongji finished drying his hair and said with a grin, "Although the swarm is weak, when there are enough of them, they can still overwhelm a small number of people."

"Non-human students are like robots, tireless and without pain. As long as there are enough of them, they can still inflict enough damage even under the lights…"

"And don't forget, if the layers collapse, it's very likely that the phenomenon of fog and wind mentioned in the rules will appear in the dormitory hallway. In this case, the fog will also invade the dormitory."

"Remember the day we entered the school? Enough dense fog can suppress the illumination range of the streetlights, so I don't think the non-human students have no fighting power in the dormitory, especially since they are not facing a group of people with unwavering will, but a group of people whose spirits are on the verge of collapse."

Tian Bufan's eyebrows curved slightly, and he said with a smile: "Interesting… Keep talking, let me see what you're thinking."

"Tch, can't you think of what I'm thinking of?" Kuai Hongji sneered.

"Come on, let's use your way of thinking to guide Lao Lin." Tian Bufan pointed to the chair next to him, "From today onwards, the campus shouldn't be peaceful anymore. It's time for Lao Lin to experience your way of thinking…"

Lin Yi had a confused look on his face: "? ? ?"

What does… 'use your way of thinking to guide Lao Lin' and 'let Lao Lin experience your way of thinking' mean? Am I a Dragon Warrior who can switch forms, or a Kamen Rider who can insert cards to change costumes?

In normal state, I'm 'Lin Yi Dragon God', and at critical moments, I can switch to 'Tian Bufan Dragon God' and 'Kuai Hongji Dragon God'?

Wouldn't that make my 'Lin Yi Dragon God' look very lowB?

"Let's look at it from my perspective." Kuai Hongji said, "When I saw this piece of paper, the first thing I thought of wasn't what happened, but how did this 'Song Rentou' who left the paper maintain his 'safe state' after the non-human students entered the dormitory?"

"Tian Gongzi believes that he didn't think about his identity information… therefore avoiding the attack of the non-human students." Kuai Hongji glanced at Tian Bufan, "I don't think so."

"Let's use what Tian Gongzi said, the dormitory after 22:00 as the time point… after the door is opened, the safe state of the dormitory is broken."

"At this time, there is only one place that can maintain the 'safe state'—lying in bed sleeping or pretending to be sleeping."

"That is to say, if Song Rentou wants to continue to maintain a safe state, he must return to bed after the door is opened and before the non-human students enter. That is to say, his bed must be close enough to the door, preferably this one…"

Kuai Hongji pointed to the bed closest to the dormitory door.

Friends who often act as adoptive fathers in the dormitory all know that the bed closest to the dormitory door is usually responsible for turning off the lights. But sometimes, if you encounter an adoptive son who doesn't come home at night but suddenly does and forgets to bring the key, when you don't want to get out of bed to open the door, you often use some special auxiliary means on the bed to reach the doorknob, such as…

Kuai Hongji rummaged around the cabinets, and then found a clothes drying pole in the corner.

Looking at the clothes drying pole in Kuai Hongji's hand, Lin Yi's scalp went numb.

He and Tian Bufan were still at the level of deduction, but Kuai Hongji had already started looking for evidence?!

The key is, he actually found it!

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"So, let's put aside whether Song Rentou and his roommates had a mental breakdown, and regardless of how the non-human students killed the roommates, the bottom line is that the person who opened the dormitory door and 'invited' the non-human students into the dormitory was the person who used the clothes drying pole to open the doorknob."

"And this person is still maintaining the safe state of pretending to sleep in bed. Only in this way can he avoid the attack of the non-human students and become the person who survived as a result."

"This person is the one who finally wrote this piece of paper. For the time being, based on the information on the paper, let's call him… 'Song Rentou'."

"So, as I said, why drag the roommates out? Once the door is opened, just lie down on the bed and you don't have to worry about anything else. The non-human students will take care of everything, except for the roommate who is taking a shower in the bathroom."

Kuai Hongji tossed the clothes rack and put it aside, as if finding this thing was just an ordinary little thing.

"So here also answers another question… Why did Song Rentou kill his roommates? Please note that the meaning of what I said is not to discuss with you whether Song Rentou killed his roommates, but to say that his killing of his roommates was the result of a subjective will."

"Think carefully, why would a dormitory where dirty clothes are directly stuffed into the washing machine for destruction need a clothes drying pole? And how would a clothes drying pole appear?"

"The only explanation is that someone bought a clothes drying pole from the convenience store, with the purpose of doing a 'proper' thing at a 'proper' moment, and this thing… is to use the non-human students to kill his roommates."

"What do you… think?"

After listening, Lin Yi felt a chill down his spine, feeling cold all over.

On the contrary, Tian Bufan, who was on the side, didn't have much change in his expression, as if such a deduction was still within his expectations.

But Lin Yi felt a little terrifying.

Was this Song Rentou's premeditated act of borrowing a knife to kill someone?!

"But I still don't understand his motive! I can't figure it out. Did his mental breakdown and disturbed his mind, causing him to doubt the authenticity of his roommates before deciding to do this?"

Kuai Hongji shook his head slightly, picked up the piece of paper, glanced at it, and said: "So I said that what we thought at the beginning was similar, but I think that this matter went through two days… On the first day, everything was relatively normal. Such a sound rang outside the door, but no one in the dormitory opened the door, at least… Song Rentou didn't open the door."

"But Song Rentou became suspicious of his roommates. He decided to get rid of them. For this reason, he planned this matter and went to the convenience store to buy a clothes drying pole… Clothes drying poles are daily necessities and are one of the things that can be bought in the convenience store by swiping the student ID."

"Until the night of the second day, or maybe the third day… Because this kind of situation must not have happened only once or twice in this campus. After all, since we entered the school these past few days, we have been chased by humanoid sculptures and non-human students almost every day, haven't we?"

Lin Yi's face was a little pale, but he also looked at Kuai Hongji with some trepidation, and pondered: "These… are all things you deduced from the beginning? You were so sure before you found the clothes drying pole?"

"The clothes drying pole is just corroborating evidence. Finding it only means that my speculation is closer to the truth. It doesn't matter if I don't find it." Kuai Hongji said, "Because the most interesting part of the whole piece of paper is actually this section about the bathroom, and this section is the most powerful evidence to prove that he killed his roommates."

Lin Yi nodded slightly.

Song Rentou opened the door to the bathroom, allowing the non-human students to kill his last roommate. This was written by himself and is a self-confession, an indisputable fact, so both he and Tian Bufan did not focus on this point as the focus of discussion.

But Kuai Hongji focused on this.

"If I just say it like this, you may not be able to feel the scene I deduced."

"Let me tell you the truth I pieced together…" Kuai Hongji took the piece of paper, and a gloomy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Watch carefully…"

"First, the background is a heavy fog that lasted for several nights. On the day before the incident, Song Rentou, whose mental state was already unstable, tossed and turned in bed, carefully capturing the movements of the inhuman classmates outside, staying up all night while formulating a plan to buy a clothes drying rack and kill his roommates… We've already discussed this point, so we don't need to talk about it again. Let's get down to business."

"On the night of the incident, a thick fog blanketed the area, similar to today's situation. Song Rentou and his roommates returned to the dormitory one after another and began to shower…"

"Don't worry about the timing."

"Song Rentou listened to the calls outside the door. When he heard them accurately calling out his roommates' identities, he, already hiding in bed, used the clothes drying rack to push the doorknob and open the dormitory door, then hid in bed pretending to be asleep…"

["My roommates attracted them…"]

["They were at the door… repeatedly saying my roommates' names and student IDs…"]

"He was trying to state the facts."

["I don't know why they could open the door at this time…"]

"But here he lied. He opened the door, but he could completely pretend not to know about it, standing from the perspective of a victim. No one would question a mentally unstable survivor."

"And the next sentence…"

"[‘I saw them looking for my roommates…’] and [‘My roommates are showering…’]"

"The biggest problem and misleading aspect of these two sentences is that they lead people to connect them."

"In reality, these are two independent events… After he opened the door, he hid in bed and observed through the cracks in the blanket that these inhuman classmates were ‘looking for his roommates.’ Here, ‘roommates’ refers to all roommates except the one showering."

"After they killed those roommates, they didn't leave. Perhaps they heard the sound of water in the bathroom and were reluctant to leave."

"Song Rentou, hiding in bed, began to feel anxious… At the same time, the inhuman classmates also noticed Song Rentou lying in bed, but they didn't attack him. Here, I believe that the dormitory's ‘safe state’ was still protecting the mentally disturbed Song Rentou—of course, this is questionable. Let's continue to look further."

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"Song Rentou should have been safe, but his mind was extremely vulnerable. He was afraid of being attacked by the inhuman classmates… because there was a sentence in the special version of the dormitory rules—"

"[Don't care who they are, as long as you pretend to be asleep, nothing will happen, even if they have climbed onto your bed.]"

"This shows that the inhuman classmates even climbed onto the bed and called out to him in his ear, and he couldn't bear such mental torture, so he actively gave up the safe state… He got out of bed."

"We said earlier that the behavior of inhuman classmates is limited under the lights, so Song Rentou, in a surprise situation, had the opportunity to quickly escape to the bathroom door after jumping out of bed, then pull the door open and rush in."

"[‘I was afraid they would hurt me… I was so scared…’], so [‘I opened the bathroom door…’]"

"Here is the second lie."

"[‘They rushed in and took my roommate away’]. Don't forget, what was Song Rentou's purpose? To kill his roommates."

"So the situation at the time was not that Song Rentou secretly opened the bathroom door to divert the disaster, because he got out of bed and broke his own ‘safe state.’ So, in reality, he opened the bathroom door, rushed in, and pushed the bewildered roommate who was showering out of the bathroom, while he hid in the bathroom, closing the door tightly, waiting for the inhuman classmates to kill the last roommate."

"That's why there's this sentence…"

"[‘I killed my roommate… No, they killed my roommate…’]"

"Then there's this sentence…"

"[‘They're at the door, why don't they leave…’] You think the inhuman classmates left the dormitory? No, the inhuman classmates are lingering at the bathroom door, not the dormitory door."

"There's an interesting phenomenon. We could see the office door at the beginning, but Maozi couldn't. So, there should be many similar layers in this campus, and these layers have a very significant characteristic—self-enclosure."

"Offices, classrooms, dormitories, stairwells… All self-enclosed spaces with ‘doors’ may be independent layers, or interlayers, and inhuman entities clearly cannot actively open the doors of this layer. Someone needs to help them open it, in short… ‘invitation.’"

"As for these words later…"

"Like ‘inescapable,’ ‘it's my turn,’ ‘my name is Song Rentou,’ ‘they're knocking on the door,’ etc., just have fun with it… Obviously, he ultimately survived."

"How are you so sure?" Lin Yi asked.

Kuai Hongji looked at Lin Yi as if he were an idiot. He waved the piece of paper in his hand: "Because even more outrageous than this incident is this piece of paper itself, Lao Lin!"

"If someone held a knife to your throat, would you be in the mood to record your mental journey?"

Lin Yi's pupils instantly trembled: "Song Rentou wrote this after getting out of danger!"

Kuai Hongji smiled sinisterly and placed the piece of paper on the table: "So, from the beginning, I set the tone for the speculation."

"Lao Lin, you also have a notebook, right? When do you usually write notes? You wouldn't stop to write a note when you're in danger, like those stupid parents who post on social media when their kids are in trouble, would you?"

"So this Song Rentou, out of suspicion, mistakenly killed one roommate after another and eventually wrote this… ‘Confession of a Murderer.’"

Lin Yi's eyelids twitched violently. He looked at the piece of paper in front of him, feeling as if the pure white paper was covered with words written in blood. The short page was like a blood letter.

His point of view was the mental confusion of a severely contaminated person after suffering the torment of inhuman entities.

In his deduction, Song Rentou was a forced perpetrator, similar to a mentally ill person killing someone during an episode.

From Kuai Hongji's perspective, Song Rentou was completely a premeditated active perpetrator, similar to a mentally ill person killing someone while sane and then using mental illness to exonerate himself.

Kuai Hongji glanced at him and suddenly said calmly: "And what I'm talking about as darkness, do you know what it is?"

Lin Yi was silent for a moment, glanced at the piece of paper, and pondered: "Is it… that he always thought his roommates deserved to die?"

"It's not just that." Kuai Hongji said coldly, "The real darkness is that only two lies need to be inserted into ten sentences to confuse the entire truth."

"I'm done talking. I'm going to lie down. Call me if you need anything." Kuai Hongji went straight to bed and lay down. "You guys continue chatting."

At some point during the discussion, Wei Shan finished showering and went to bed, so only Lin Yi and Tian Bufan were still sitting in the dormitory.

Tian Bufan glanced at the pendulum clock on the wall.

"22:23, it's getting late. Let's go to bed and chat about the rest."

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded and got up to go to the bathroom first. "Do you guys need to use the toilet?"

"I went when I was showering, you go ahead." Tian Bufan said.

"Hey, I need to go, I need to go! Excuse me, let me go first~" Wei Liang acted like a little whirlwind, slid down from the bed, went to the bathroom before Lin Yi, and after quickly solving the problem, returned to bed, resuming the state of burying his face with his head, "I really can't hear anything."

Lin Yi then entered the bathroom and closed the door.

He re-examined the ten-square-meter bathroom. After Kuai Hongji's reminder, he increasingly felt that this bathroom was like a simple shelter.

‘Could the bathroom really cope with special situations…?’

‘It's not written on the rules though…?’

Lin Yi did not question Kuai Hongji's speculation, and even felt that Kuai Hongji's speculation was more persuasive and closer to the truth than the one he and Tian Bufan had discussed.

While he was using the toilet, he pondered the state of Song Rentou's mind at the time, and suddenly felt a chill when he walked out of the bathroom after finishing.

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