Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Vincent Willem van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci," Mu Daxian said. "Historically, there shouldn't be people with the same names."

"But they... don't they seem to be from different eras?" Mao Feiyang was completely ignorant of history, let alone European art history.

As common knowledge, he only remembered that Van Gogh was the one who painted 'Sunflowers' and 'The Starry Night', while Da Vinci seemed to be a Ninja Turtle.

"The two lived about 400 years apart," Mu Daxian explained.

Mao Feiyang's mind was a little muddled: "Wait, even if that's the case... I checked online before, and S City University seems to have been built in X999. The school has only existed for more than 20 years, so how could it be related to Van Gogh?"

Mu Daxian smiled: "The art building was later assigned to the S City University area. You've probably heard that some universities merged into other universities for various reasons, and then became affiliated colleges of those universities, right?"

"Isn't this easy to understand?"

Mao Feiyang was stunned for a moment: "It seems to be the case..."

Mu Daxian said calmly: "Van Gogh... his ability to control color is unmatched. He had an extraordinary understanding of 'color', and because of this, he suffered from the torment of supernatural power throughout his life..."

"Being able to touch supernatural power requires talent, but at the same time, it is also a curse."

"He spent his life in pain and torment, but despite this, he still maintained a clear understanding of himself and was full of love for life..."

"'The Starry Night' is a work formed by him enduring pressures that we cannot understand and depicting his feelings about supernatural power."

"The real 'Starry Night' is in the observatory of the art building. It is ten times larger than the 'Starry Night' known to the world, and it is painted on the inside of the observatory..."

"'The Starry Night' exudes unparalleled contamination. Later, the observatory was closed and not open to ordinary art students."

"As for Da Vinci, he was almost fanatical about the study of sculpture. The school's secrets about sculpture come from his original manuscripts, but it is said that his later research direction became increasingly incomprehensible and bizarre, so the art building at the time stopped his research..."

Listening to Mu Daxian introducing historical figures who were completely different from the public's perception but full of confusing details, Mao Feiyang's brain circuits were in a dreamlike state, and he couldn't say a word for a moment.

Even Lin Yi was shocked and didn't know what to say.

When he heard Li Huiyuan say that she was studying 'Mysterious Genealogy', he jokingly said that he was slaying dragons at the Kassel College. Now, looking at it, he was actually being conservative when he said he was studying dragon slaying!

Mao Feiyang couldn't help but say: "Then... what about the sports student route?"

Mu Daxian put down his chopsticks and wiped the corner of his mouth: "Compared to those who tend to perceive supernatural power, sports students are better at combining supernatural power with themselves through long-term training, so that they can have super high explosive power at any time. They have a physique stronger than wild beasts, and their physical fitness is comparable to steel."

Mu Daxian thought for a moment, and then suddenly blurted out a name: "Van Helsing."

"Ah?" Mao Feiyang was stunned, and then immediately realized something, and couldn't help but blurt out, "Damn, don't tell me that Van Helsing was a sports student from some session!"

"Van Helsing was the most outstanding scholar of the X887th session... of course, there was no concept of a gymnasium at that time."

"He wandered in Europe all his life, chasing the traces of 'angels', during which he defeated Count Dracula, but eventually died on the road of hunting 'angels'..."

Mao Feiyang opened his mouth wide: "Isn't the story of Van Helsing and Dracula fabricated?"

Mu Daxian glanced at him: "What do you think many books mean by 'This story is based on real events, and any resemblance is purely coincidental'?"

Mao Feiyang looked strange: "Europe also eats that?"

"Van Helsing had a good friend who spread his story. One of his descendants, named 'Bram Stoker', was the author of the later horror novel 'Dracula'..."

Mao Feiyang opened his mouth wide and couldn't say a word.

Mu Daxian sneered: "Should I tell you again that in Van Helsing's time, a doctor named Victor Frankenstein created a pseudo-human patchwork monster based on Da Vinci's original manuscripts for studying sculpture? That thing was also named 'Monster Frankenstein' and once caused a panic in Romania on a small scale..."

Mao Feiyang supported his forehead: "Wait, wait..."

"I was stupid to really believe you, or is this world crazy?"

"My mind is a bit messed up, let me slow down..."

Mu Daxian packed up the tableware and said, "The entire campus is, to some extent, a huge screening field, but some people have choices, some people have no choices, and some people don't even have the chance to see the options."

He spoke very slowly this time, trying to give Mao Feiyang time to digest the information slowly.

"Look at me, the dark green aura is burning like a flame, right? This is the symbol of an art student."

"If you look at sports students, you will see a blue aura. The darker the color, the greater the pollution."

"Whether they are art students or sports students, they are all people who have obtained options."

"It's just that some people have made choices, and some people have no choices."

"You are the kind who has no choice. You only have the path of an art student in front of you, guided to the art building by the dormitory manager and through the hands of the art teacher."

"And those people in the same batch as you, who were abducted by the pseudo-human art teacher, are people who don't even have the chance to see the options."

"Without obtaining the corresponding identity, but still being polluted, that unstable aura will emanate from their bodies. Take a look at this cafeteria, almost everyone has a faint green aura, right?"

Mao Feiyang looked around and then nodded.

"Look at yourself again," Mu Daxian said.

Mao Feiyang looked down at himself.

"See the difference?"

Mao Feiyang was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and replied: "Is it that mine is more 'stable'?"

"That's right, 'stable'. For the polluted, it represents a relative 'safe state'," Mu Daxian said. "Just like running, maintaining a stable pace and smooth breathing is much easier to achieve results than those with messy steps."

"Their state is extremely unstable, falling into a vicious cycle, and easily becoming the target of pseudo-human attacks."

"But some people are only slightly polluted, and the rate of pollution is not high, so they muddle through until the time to leave the campus."

"And those who can't make it through are completely trapped in the school, becoming pseudo-humans, or something worse than pseudo-humans."

Mao Feiyang was silent for a moment, and then said: "Pseudo-humans... is that the fate of those in the same batch as me?"

Mu Daxian sneered: "That's already good."

Mao Feiyang was shocked: "It can be worse?"

"The bottom line is like stockings," Mu Daxian suddenly said something profound, "As long as you give enough, you can keep taking them off until there are none left."

Mao Feiyang opened his mouth, thinking that he was indeed doing art, and the words he said were so full of nudity.

"Let's go after we finish eating," Mu Daxian said, then picked up the plate and stood up from the chair.

Although Mao Feiyang ate very slowly, he had already finished eating, so he stood up as well.

Mu Daxian then led Mao Feiyang to the plate recycling area.

What surprised Lin Yi was that there were also several plate recycling areas in the direction of other passages, but the locations of those plate recycling areas seemed to be in the shadow area.

Not the shadow area in the pure sense, but... if viewed from the position where he usually entered the student restaurant, that area should be the shadow area.

But now...

「Wait!」 Lin Yi seemed to have thought of something, 「Could it be that the student restaurant entered through different passages is on a different layer?」

He immediately thought of the student restaurant he saw before and after the plastic wind curtain, which was different!

「That is to say, there is indeed the possibility of multiple layers overlapping in the student restaurant!」

「People in different layers intersect in the same space...」

「Could it be that the green bib chef exists in another layer?」

「Can people in different layers intervene in other layers through some special means, causing pollution or other effects?」

「So the rules mentioned not to care about other people, on the one hand, to prevent interference and pollution from different layers?」

Lin Yi seemed to catch some inspiration. A vague conceptual model even surfaced in his mind. He felt that he only needed some time to figure out the logic here, but now was not the right time.

As Mao Feiyang got up to leave the dining table, Lin Yi suddenly felt a strange sensation. He paused for a moment as if he had seen something.

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Then, he immediately looked again at the place his gaze had swept over before, and followed that strange sensation...

"?!"

Lin Yi was stunned and couldn't help but blink a few more times before confirming that he really hadn't seen wrong.

Window #10.

He clearly saw the location of window #10—right next to window #5!

In the original student cafeteria, that location was just a shadow, and theoretically, even if there was light shining there, it would be the wall. But now, he truly saw the existence of that window!

This eerie feeling was as if the area of the student cafeteria had suddenly been stretched longer by the darkness, and then a window #10 was forcibly inserted into the space between window #5 and the wall!

Even more outrageous was that there were people queuing in front of window #10!

People were queuing!

Those people didn't seem to have any problems, but through Mao Feiyang's perspective, he could clearly see wisps of messy green mist drifting from their bodies.

「They are imposters! No, there's more than just imposters!」

He widened his eyes, trying to seize this hard-won opportunity, to take a good look at what secrets this window #10 held before Mao Feiyang left the cafeteria!

Among the people queuing for food, he found imposter art students, imposter classmates (non-human classmates), and... someone from the same batch as him and the girl with the hair clip and sailor uniform!

It wasn't that Lin Yi had a photographic memory and could remember the faces of everyone on that bus, but because he had a deep impression of this person.

Because it was this big guy who pressed the bus's door opening button at someone else's instigation.

「So, window #10 is actually the exclusive food window for the imposters.」

He looked at window #10 from afar, wanting to see what was inside, but it was too far away. All he could see was a patch of darkness, with only a few blurry figures emitting green mist swaying back and forth.

Soon, Mao Feiyang followed Mu Daxian to the dish return area, and Lin Yi also took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes, staring at window #10.

He never had the chance to observe carefully when he was eating before. Now that it was Maozi's and the green-aproned chef's turn to play an exciting game of cat and mouse, he had to take a good look at what those green hats were all about.

However, even Mu Daxian, who was extremely outstanding among the art students, caused the green-aproned chef in window #10 to stir when he put down his plate.

「Clang—」

The sound of pots and pans clanging immediately rang out from inside window #10...

Mao Feiyang was also attracted by this sound and subconsciously glanced in the direction of window #10.

It was precisely this glance that synchronized Mao Feiyang and Lin Yi's gazes, and a will to "see clearly" appeared in both of their minds.

Then, a golden halo suddenly sprang up in Lin Yi's eyes, and immediately spread rapidly like ink dripping into clear water. In the blink of an eye, Lin Yi's eyes were dyed a brilliant gold.

At this moment, Lin Yi's vision rapidly zoomed in on window #10 as if it had been magnified. The originally dim light also became more vivid and bright at this moment, as if it had been dyed with isotopic DNA fragments, and every breath seemed to be active...

Before Lin Yi could marvel at the change in his vision, he had already clearly seen the situation inside window #10.

He saw a green-aproned chef desperately trying to stuff his body into the gap in the window, twisting and deforming himself with bloodstains all over, without the slightest tendency to stop.

His face was ferocious, his eyes were mad, and he looked at Mu Daxian's figure with a fervor like a starving ghost, struggling to pull himself out bit by bit.

At this time, the plate in Mao Feiyang's hand also subconsciously fell into the dish return area, and then another blue-aproned chef in window #10 who was helping the imposters serve food suddenly stopped his movements as if someone had pressed the pause button.

His hand loosened, and the plate and the spoon for serving food all fell to the ground, making that ear-piercing "clang" sound.

Immediately afterward, his head twitched on his neck, trying to raise his head to look forward like a puppet with a broken head.

That frame-by-frame movement looked like a gecko lying on the wall. The static body and the dynamic head seemed to be controlled by two completely unrelated drives, exuding a strange sense of division.

Finally, he began to adjust the distortion of his body so that his neck could move his head, locking his gaze on Mao Feiyang.

The whole process seemed long, but it only lasted for Lin Yi's two breaths.

In fact, his movements were like compressing everything Lin Yi had just seen into a short two breaths of time using a tape-style skip-frame fast forward.

That was why the strange sense of division was so obvious, giving Lin Yi a chilling feeling.

And when he completed the transformation, the blue apron on his body had turned into a green apron at some point...

"Don't look, let's go!" Mu Daxian grabbed Mao Feiyang's clothes and dragged him quickly towards other passages.

Such urging also awakened Lin Yi, but it did not affect Lin Yi's continued observation.

In the next moment, the green-aproned chef repeated the actions of the previous green-aproned chef, becoming crazy and obsessed, exuding a strong malice, and began to squeeze out of the extremely limited window gap, chasing after Mao Feiyang.

Next was the 'I escape, you chase' segment that Lin Yi was already accustomed to. Lin Yi found that after the green-aproned chef crawled out of the food window, he didn't have a human shape, but directly moved quickly along the ground in the shadow area like a snake.

The muscles under them flowed rapidly like liquid in a water belt, like countless abdominal feet, giving them a movement speed far exceeding the conventional running speed.

They quickly closed the distance with Mao Feiyang, forcing Mu Daxian to change from walking to running, dragging Mao Feiyang out of the restaurant entrance.

「These green-aproned chefs seem to be very different from the imposters, so that Mu Daxian seems so afraid...」 Lin Yi thought secretly, and his vision withdrew from the student cafeteria as Mao Feiyang left.

When the plastic wind curtain at the entrance of the student cafeteria was lowered, Lin Yi couldn't help but find that he couldn't see the green-aproned chef after his line of sight crossed the plastic wind curtain, but saw a very peaceful student cafeteria with very natural light...

And the student cafeteria in this scene was almost the same as what he saw on the student passage side.

In other words... neither he nor Maozi had ever really arrived at "the" student cafeteria "seen before".

That student cafeteria, it looks so safe, as if you won't encounter any danger... Lin Yi suddenly thought in his heart.

But somehow, even though such thoughts popped up in his mind, when his sight crossed the plastic wind curtain and looked at such a student cafeteria again, this seemingly quiet and beautiful student cafeteria suddenly gave him an unknown, creepy, indescribable sense of terror.

That feeling, rather than being safe, is more like... deathly silence.

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