Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Just like 'Qi' in metaphysics, 'waves' in science, and so on, complex concepts must be artificially defined before people will forcibly accept their existence... Just like rules, we abide by rules, we understand rules, we gradually overwrite the cognition associated with them, and then gradually accept this world that is so different from 'reality'."

"No, who says that what we knew at the beginning was 'reality'? Just like in 'The Matrix', maybe the world outside the campus is the Garden of Eden, and the campus is the way to access 'truth'?"

"Could it be that the world we gradually overwrite is the real world?"

"That's going too far."

Tian Bufan shook his head slightly, returning to the main topic.

"This kind of conceptual thing... is in my exploration plan, but my cognitive domain is not enough to support me to directly face 'It'."

"We cannot directly face things that exceed our cognition, and students cannot try to do a problem full of advanced formulas... We don't even know what the symbols of advanced formulas mean, so we don't even have the qualification to read the problem. When encountering this kind of thing, the best choice is not to touch the problem."

"This is not a compulsory question, so you can wait and come back later, and try to read the question with more knowledge."

Lin Yi nodded.

"Speaking of which, did you all see Zhou Yuting when you went to the cafeteria?" The matter of the paper scraps and Song Rentou's matter came to a temporary end, and Lin Yi began to bring the discussion back to what happened today, "It's that girl in front of the cafeteria."

Lin Yi briefly introduced what he knew about Zhou Yuting.

"By the way, when I left the teaching building area, I also saw her in the cafeteria area licking the paint on a lamppost. The way she looked, she didn't look like a human anymore. She might have already had her identity taken over by a humanoid sculpture and replaced."

Tian Bufan said: "I also saw her when I went to eat dinner. Her behavior was very noticeable. She was slumped at the entrance of the other passage, trembling and crying. It was hard not to notice her."

"But when I left, she was gone."

"I did see her when I left."

Kua Hongji's voice came from the bed, attracting Lin Yi's attention, "At that time, I happened to see her staggering to her feet, as if summoned by something, leaving the road and plunging into the green belt."

"Judging from Lao Lin's statement, her identity should have been taken over by a humanoid sculpture."

Lin Yi sighed: "Her state is extremely unstable, and her emotions have already collapsed. She is completely the opposite of Li Huiyuan. There's no saving her."

"Don't say there's no saving her. Even if she could be saved, it shouldn't be us who saves her."

Kua Hongji said coldly, "It's impossible for an idiot who sacrifices himself for a stranger to leave the campus alive."

"You seem to be implying that I helped Li Huiyuan."

Lin Yi frowned.

Kua Hongji said coldly: "You helped too much. 'Cannon fodder' should be 'cannon fodder'. A pawn can only be a brilliant move if it makes a key step at a critical moment. If I can sell soldiers for cannons, then I will definitely make that step."

"That's what I think too."

Lin Yi corrected, "It's just that I haven't encountered a time when I need to use Li Huiyuan as cannon fodder."

"No, you're quibbling."

Kua Hongji shook his head slightly, "You are soft-hearted. You may not be able to do it when the time comes. It's only the third day, and there are still four days, Lao Lin... If I were you, in order to test the boundaries of the rules, I would definitely sacrifice her without hesitation, for example, to obtain more information in the convenience store."

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, his tone slightly solemn: "I haven't told you about Li Huiyuan yet. How do you know this?"

"Does that need to be said?" Kua Hongji sneered, "You didn't escape when the cafeteria lights flashed. If you want to leave, you must go through the convenience store. And a person without a student ID in the convenience store is simply a perfect landmine material. If it were me, I wouldn't let it go."

"You... your ideas are too dangerous!" Lin Yi was startled by Kua Hongji's ideas, but he suddenly realized that perhaps it was Kua Hongji's thinking that allowed him to stand from the perspective of the sinister human heart and piece together the information left on the paper scraps left by Song Rentou into a story that was closest to the truth.

"Dangerous?" Kua Hongji sneered, "Compared to the unknown dangers in the campus, all my other dangers are not worth mentioning."

"If our collective pollution intensifies and the situation continues to deteriorate, what will you do?"

"Use 'mercy' to influence pollution?"

"Do those Westerners believe in God because God is merciful?"

"Of course not, but because they know that God can easily destroy a world, and then use His so-called 'mercy' to give every species in the world a way to survive."

"If all the species in the world can only have one pair left, what do you think those species who are 'destined' to die will do?"

"Noah's Ark, people pray for God's mercy, but God unleashes a flood that destroys the world, making the whole world wet. Do you think those people who were drowned by God's wetness will be grateful for mercy?"

"Heh, bloody mercy."

"Don't be a Bodhisattva if you don't have the ability. If you want to be a Bodhisattva, be a Gatling Bodhisattva."

Kua Hongji sneered.

Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, six pure depleted uranium bullets, three thousand six hundred revolutions per breath, great compassion saves the world.

After Kua Hongji finished speaking, he stopped there, like a cold and ruthless swordsman. He could have killed him directly, but he inserted the sword into a place an inch away from his heart, and then drew the sword and turned away chicly.

Lin Yi was silenced, but he also understood that Tian Bufan brought Kua Hongji over to discuss Song Rentou's paper scraps in order to give him a warning—to distinguish the boundaries clearly. Pure mercy will only harm others and yourself, and armed mercy is true mercy.

How big the truth is depends on how big the fist is.

Indeed, he still has the ability to forcibly take Li Huiyuan to escape from the convenience store, but what if it's more dangerous?

If it's more dangerous, he will use Li Huiyuan as cannon fodder.

But will he really?

He... can't bear it, and not bearing it will not only fail to rewrite Li Huiyuan's dead end, but will also drag himself in.

Under the disaster, those who show mercy will inevitably suffer the backlash of mercy.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit tense, Tian Bufan took over the conversation and broke the silence: "Let's talk about Li Huiyuan's matter. What happened to her in the end?"

Lin Yi sorted out his thoughts and said succinctly: "Li Huiyuan's student ID was eaten by a green bib chef. The head teacher asked her to find the location of the convenience store in the cafeteria during dinner and buy student commemorative coins."

"We found the location of the convenience store without any danger and entered the convenience store, but there were no student commemorative coins in the convenience store. All the grids where student commemorative coins could be placed were empty, as if someone had looted all the student commemorative coins that could be purchased."

Lin Yi planned to take out the convenience store separately and discuss it with Tian Bufan, so he used the foreshadowing narrative method to skip the convenience store when talking about Li Huiyuan's matter.

"Later, the head teacher took Li Huiyuan away. She doesn't have a student ID and doesn't have student commemorative coins, so she definitely won't be going back to the dormitory, but I don't know what arrangements the head teacher has for her, and I don't know if I can see her tomorrow."

"If we can see her tomorrow, we can answer many questions."

"Before that, I took her to explore the teaching building. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we only looked at the elevator and the stairwell of the teaching building, and then went back and forth to Building C through the廊桥."

After hearing this, Tian Bufan said: "I also explored the teaching building today and made many discoveries. I will tell you in detail after I finish talking about Li Huiyuan's matter."

"Okay."

Lin Yi nodded.

Tian Bufan then said: "After listening to your description, I don't think you have handled anything improperly except for the convenience store incident. If it were me, I might have left her alone."

Tian Bufan didn't show any embarrassment or other emotions when he said this. His tone was as calm as a game player who directly sold a passerby teammate who was being ganked in order to counter a buff monster.

But Lin Yi knew that reality was not a game, and you couldn't be resurrected in the spring after death, but he didn't forcibly explain anything. Kua Hongji had already said it very clearly. You are a jungler, you survived the opponent's first invasion, kept your life, and defended the jungle, developed a little, and saw that your teammate was being ganked. If you think you can go, you can go and try to find a way to catch your teammate so that she won't be killed.

But from a purely profit-driven perspective, the "cost-effectiveness" might be less than selling off a teammate who's unlikely to be saved, to bait out some of the enemy's skills, allowing oneself to gain more enemy intel through her sacrifice, and even potentially steal some enemy jungle resources.

"As for Li Huiyuan's situation, what you do is your choice. Although I rationally disagree with your strong desire to save people, your handling of other aspects is correct, especially using her to probe the fluctuations of the layers and comparing them with your own experiences."

"Moreover, the matter is already in the past. Looking back with hindsight, the situation is not bad at all, but has actually improved. It can be considered a stroke of luck that we've discovered some new pathways."

"However, harsh words are hard to hear. Kuai Kuai's words were a bit heavy, but don't forget that you just escaped from the rainstorm yourself. The umbrella isn't big enough; it's enough to shelter yourself. Don't think about sheltering others."

"You must remember that we are a team, and we have more important things to do right now."

Lin Yi nodded slightly: "I understand… I'll act according to my ability next time."

"I think it's better to protect yourself," Kuai Hongji said gloomily. "Haven't you noticed that the situation in the campus seems unstable, especially the frequency of abnormal weather seems to be getting higher and higher…"

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"I feel like there's a powerful source of pollution approaching, similar to a comet passing Earth once every few years, or a solar storm that's rarely seen even in many years…"

"For you, self-preservation is more important than anything else."

"Then… what about you guys?" Lin Yi asked疑惑.

Kuai Hongji said bluntly: "Our self-preservation methods are stronger than yours. Just take care of yourself and try to delay your own problems as much as possible."

Lin Yi rolled his eyes speechlessly. Kuai Hongji's words were poisonous, even with a strong sense of self-interest, but such words often hit the nail on the head, and even pierced a little deeper, making people feel very deeply.

Deep in a physical sense.

Tian Bufan then said: "Leaving aside Lao Lin's actions, simply analyzing the Li Huiyuan incident, we can vaguely deduce two pathways."

"After entering the school, trial students usually leave the school smoothly after seven days."

"If a student ID is accidentally lost, you need to report the situation to the class teacher and buy a student commemorative coin from the convenience store. After obtaining the student commemorative coin, a transformation pathway should be opened, perhaps becoming an art student."

"And if you don't get a student commemorative coin, then there will be other arrangements… I guess it's transformed into a sports student through some means, because through the rules of the gymnasium, we can know that sports students themselves don't have student IDs."

"However, what these two 'transformation pathways' specifically require, whether it's simple or complex, we don't know yet."

"However, if Li Huiyuan becomes a sports student, then you still have a chance to see her. When you see her, find a way to get a good wave of information. If you can't uncover the secrets of the sports students, you should at least figure out eighty or ninety percent of her existing information."

"In Wei Liang's words, it's to strip her bare."

Wei Liang jumped up from the bed on the spot: "Damn, I was sleeping soundly here, how can I get shot while lying down?"

"Sorry, I thought you were asleep," Tian Bufan said calmly, without a trace of apology.

"I was just sleepwalking," Wei Liang laughed, fell back to sleep, and the snoring started again immediately.

"…"

Tian Bufan asked again: "In the exploration of the teaching building, did you have any new discoveries?"

"I seem to have seen Teaching Building D," Lin Yi said in a deep voice. "I'm not very sure, but I'm sure I saw a corridor leading to Building D."

"Speaking of which, probably because of the increased pollution, I have some strange symptoms. Simply put, I always feel a sense of danger in my subconscious, and I see some special pictures…"

He described to Tian Bufan the scene when his vision turned into a black and white exposed photograph, and he could see the green mist representing the aura of pollution.

"This vision ability was particularly strong during my convenience store crisis. I even seemed to see some things that happened to Maozi… I don't know if it happened in different layers at the same moment, or the same layer at different moments, or different layers at different moments…"

"It's very real, like… some kind of fiery golden eyes."

Tian Bufan didn't laugh, but was silent for a while before saying, "Listening to your description, your vision should not be stable enough. I currently have two guesses…"

"One is that the pollution has indeed had some impact on your body, causing you to acquire or awaken this vision ability. From your current usage, in addition to making your layers unstable, there are no more adverse effects, and it can even play a certain warning role, so the benefits outweigh the disadvantages, but how it is specifically, it needs to be observed again."

"The other is that your body can receive signals of some special 'wavebands'. Let me give you an example, the activities of many animals are affected by the Earth-Moon tides, while human daily routines are less affected by the tides… That is to say, there is something in the campus or a certain layer of the campus that is constantly releasing pollution."

"This force field of pollution may fluctuate like a tide, and when this wave passes through your body, you will have that vision."

"In this inference, the vision is not controlled by you, but depends on the other party, but the intensity of the vision is still affected by the depth of pollution you suffer… I would rather you be the first type, and I don't want you to become a human version of the Dragon Ball radar."

Lin Yi sighed helplessly: "I'd rather hope this is a mutation caused by pollution… But thanks to this vision, I saw Teaching Building D. It's on the extension of Building C, and you can reach it through that corridor hidden in the layers."

"The appearance of Building D is very similar to the art building I saw in my dream, but there seems to be some difference, like two different buildings, but the styles are biased towards European, especially the spire castle style of Northern Europe."

Tian Bufan nodded slightly: "It seems that Teaching Building D and the art building are related… However, there are still not enough clues, only the location of Teaching Building D can be determined."

"By the way, I suddenly thought that when I went back to the teaching building yesterday, I seemed to see the security guard carrying a lamp, leading a group of people towards Building D… However, the fog was too heavy, I could only judge that the person carrying the lamp was the security guard, and I couldn't judge who was following behind, I don't know if it was a cook delivering food, because that time point was quite subtle."

"Are you sure that was the security guard?" Tian Bufan asked, "Through your incredibly real dream, we probably know that the person carrying the lamp is not just the security guard, but also the dormitory manager."

Lin Yi's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Yes, how could I forget this!

It's only because my first impression of the dormitory manager was a yellow-haired man with a terrified look on his face, which was very different from the image of the security guard, so Lin Yi subconsciously missed the dormitory manager.

But now that I think about it carefully, although the dormitory manager looks like a weak chicken without the strength to restrain a chicken, what he is carrying in his hand is a genuine old kerosene lamp!

The same old kerosene lamp as the Security Emperor!

Moreover, in that incredibly real dream, the dormitory manager was still checking the dormitories with Mao Feiyang, one dormitory after another, until all the dormitories were checked, then he left!

That is to say… the seemingly thin dormitory manager, in the dormitory building corridors and after the dormitory lights are turned off, still enjoys absolute domineering deterrence in the layer he is in!

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