Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"What's the matter?" Lin Yi asked.

"Regarding Song Rentou's matter, what are your plans?"

"Huh? What do you mean by 'what are my plans'?" Lin Yi was taken aback. "Isn't it just handing the paper over to the homeroom teacher as we discussed, and then letting the chips fall where they may?"

Tian Bufan said, "If that sound of water hadn't appeared after midnight, that's exactly what we would do..."

"But, the sound of water echoed in the bathroom at one in the morning. What if Song Rentou woke up at that time and mistook the sound for someone taking a shower...?"

Lin Yi suddenly stopped in his tracks. The information on Song Rentou's paper appeared before his eyes again, like a scrolling screen.

["I saw them looking for my roommate..."]

["My roommate is taking a shower..."]

[...]

Tian Bufan seemed to guess that Lin Yi was thinking about Song Rentou's matter again, so he interrupted, "Don't overthink Song Rentou's matter for now. The dream last night brought a lot of information. The key is to digest it properly."

As he spoke, his expression became more serious: "As for Song Rentou, his matter is very suspicious... The real situation may be even more bizarre than what we can infer from just a piece of paper. You must be careful, and don't let the chips fall on you."

Lin Yi's expression tightened, and he nodded solemnly.

Tian Bufan added, "Today's exploration... let's focus on communicating with the sports students and the homeroom teacher."

"Exploring the gymnasium is the priority, but... don't force it. Just get what you can!"

"Okay," Lin Yi replied.

They had explored the teaching building area pretty thoroughly, and other buildings were difficult to explore. All things considered, focusing their plan on the gymnasium made sense.

"That's about it. I'm leaving. If all goes well... see you at noon." Tian Bufan waved goodbye to Lin Yi and walked towards Building C of the teaching building.

"I'm leaving too." Kuai Hongji said faintly, then walked towards Building A of the teaching building on his own.

Watching Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji's backs, Lin Yi rubbed his brow and said, "Let's go too."

Tian Bufan was right. He had too much information to integrate right now. There was no need to waste a lot of energy trying to solve Song Rentou's mystery based on a piece of paper with unknown information.

He would leave this matter to the homeroom teacher - 040.

Lin Yi then walked towards Building B of the teaching building with Wei Liang and Wei Shan.

During the day, Building B of the teaching building looked completely normal from a distance, and the way back was very safe.

By 8:03, Lin Yi and his group had already arrived at the steps of Building B.

Wei Shan greeted Lin Yi and went up the steps, heading towards Class 3 of Group B.

Lin Yi nodded and also went up the steps, but just then, he suddenly noticed something that was different from usual.

So he walked down the steps again, pondered for a moment, and then went up again.

Then he went down the steps again and went up again.

After doing this three times, Wei Liang couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but interrupt Lin Yi: "Lao Lin, what's wrong with you? What bug are you trying to exploit by doing some fancy footwork here?"

Lin Yi hesitated and said, "I feel like there's something wrong... Do you feel it?"

Wei Liang puffed out his cheeks, a little speechless: "What could I possibly feel?"

"Right, asking you is like asking nothing..." Lin Yi thought, since you've turned everything into a passive thing, there's no point in asking you.

"Oh, come on up! If there's nothing wrong, report to the teacher, do what you need to do." Wei Liang said and walked down to pull Lin Yi up.

But as soon as he walked down, he somehow stepped on some moss, and his whole body suddenly slipped, almost falling into a ground Thomas Flair, but fortunately he pulled himself back with a backbend.

"Ouch, damn... This ground is a bit slippery!"

Wei Liang patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, still shaken.

Lin Yi then subconsciously glanced at the steps.

The steps weren't too long or too short, but it wouldn't be a joke to slip and fall.

But his action caught Lin Yi's attention, and when Lin Yi focused his attention on it, his whole body suddenly shook!

「Moss!」

"It's moss!" His pupils shook, and he exclaimed.

"Huh? Yeah, it's moss..." Wei Liang was stunned for a moment, a little confused, "What else could it be if it's not moss? Lao Lin, are you bewitched?"

Lin Yi quickly said, "That's not what I meant! I mean... Ah, you wouldn't care even if I told you!"

Knowing Liangzi's style, he didn't say anything more, but instead looked around again.

After a night of heavy rain, the moss in front of the steps seemed to have been nourished and became even greener, and the color had an unspeakable richness, as if it had been put on a color palette.

This immediately reminded him of the moss in the student passage of the cafeteria. Under the water vapor and mist, the moss in the student passage showed a strange gorgeousness, which was particularly妖异 in that gray environment.

And the moss in front of the teaching building steps now had some of the feeling of the cafeteria moss.

And what's strange about this is not this, but that although there is a large area of moss growing on the steps of the teaching building, there is none on the cobblestone road!

And not only that——

He rushed to the lamppost second closest to the teaching building, bent down, parted the weeds, and looked at the base of the lamppost.

「As expected!」

「The base of the lamppost, which is clearly the most suitable for moss to grow, doesn't have any traces of moss ever existing!」

The distribution of moss growth in this campus completely does not conform to its growth law!

Lin Yi couldn't wait to rush to the corridor bridge to take a look at the moss there, to see if there were any such changes there.

If so, then it could be determined that the moss throughout the campus seemed to have some kind of same law!

And 「law」 is an extremely precious thing in this campus!

"And..."

Lin Yi walked back to the steps. He didn't know if he was attracted or if he had this subjective behavior. He slowly bent down, turned his face to approach some moss...

「Huff——」

He seemed to feel a faint, unannounced yin wind blowing past his ear.

He sprang up from the ground as if he had been electrocuted, looking at the moss with a face full of horror.

「Wind!」

「There really is wind!」

But the surroundings were silent, and even the leaves of the green belt hadn't swayed. There was no sign of any wind blowing.

Lin Yi slowly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and a certain guess in his heart was confirmed somewhat.

「The moss in the campus... is not necessarily something from this layer!」

The moss is not here, but it can be touched by the people here... Why is this happening?

Could it be another form of 「penetration」?

「But... what's going on with this kind of penetration?」

「What is its logic?」

「What is its origin?」

"What… what does it represent?"

"Wait!"

"In this place where even tomatoes aren't tomatoes, could it be that even moss isn't moss?!"

"Could it be that this moss is just the moss that exists within our ‘cognition’?"

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"Could it actually not be moss, but something… originating from another layer, yet exhibiting the characteristics of moss in this layer?!"

A three-dimensional sphere becomes just a circle in two dimensions. Who knows what moss is like in another layer?!

Lin Yi felt a bit disoriented. Just as he began to ponder this, the surrounding light seemed to subtly dim, as if an invisible hand was adjusting the color palette of the entire world, gradually shifting the colors towards gray…

As the world changed color, the moss became even more vibrant. It twisted and grew, like seaweed from the deep sea, the ribbons of a siren, swaying without wind, twisting, growing, deforming… Then, as if tentacles, it spread out, and the ends split open, slowly revealing its thorn-covered maw like a man-eating flower…

At the same time, Lin Yi's school uniform also began to sway, as if blown by a wind from nowhere, gently fluttering.

“Hiss… hiss…”

A sound like leaking gas drifted along with the eerie wind, wrapping around Lin Yi's ears, invisible and intangible, extremely strange.

And precisely because this sound was so faint, his subconscious amplified the auditory input. Thus, Lin Yi's attention was unknowingly heightened. Within this wind, he seemed to hear a "whooshing" sound, like waves crashing onto the beach, revealing a taste of bubbly foam…

Lin Yi's pupils contracted sharply, and his body trembled almost reflexively.

He abruptly pushed against the ground, pulling himself out of the state of leaning in and listening, leaping up like a fitness fanatic.

As he suddenly regained his senses, the eerie and chilling aura surrounding him snapped and broke like sticky liquid, falling into an unknown void.

Those invisible tentacles, like man-eating flowers, also collapsed weakly, then fell into the dark abyss.

The faded world regained its color, the silent world was reborn with some chaotic sounds, the chilling sensation disappeared, and the warm sunlight enveloped him once more.

“Huff, huff, huff…”

Lin Yi, having recovered, slowly gasped for breath, his brows furrowed with solemnity.

“Old Lin, are you okay?” Wei Liang waved his hand in front of Lin Yi's eyes, speechless. “Even if you're not full, you don't have to go so far as to squat down and eat moss, right? Besides, you have food in your bag. Are you already considering backup ingredients?”

Lin Yi: “……”

Lin Yi glanced at him: “I'm fine, let's go back to the classroom.”

Seeing this, Wei Liang smiled and went up the steps, then walked towards the classroom.

Lin Yi also followed, looking at Wei Liang's back, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

‘Liangzi… just how much does he know?’

From leaving the dormitory to returning to the teaching building, Lin Yi's two major discoveries were related to Wei Liang.

One was on the way to the cafeteria, drawing his attention to the unnumbered lamppost, guiding him to discover the sculpted black-aproned chef, the dead freshman pseudo-human experiment participant, and the sculpted angel feathers.

The other was just now, using the excuse of slipping on the steps to guide him to notice the moss.

What a "slippery" fellow!

For Lin Yi, Wei Liang, a classmate who was once extremely familiar, was now gradually becoming a mystery.

His information database is a mystery. You don't know what he knows, but he can always use a seemingly self-deprecating and nonsensical method to open up new discoveries for you at critical moments.

His operations are a mystery. You don't know what he will do next. Even when facing the blockade of the green-aproned chef, he seems to be able to cleverly resolve it with seemingly irrelevant actions.

Moreover, how many other unique skills he possesses is also a mystery. Flipping a plastic curtain almost crippled the humanoid spider-like green-aproned chef, and lifting a dinner plate even resulted in a washing machine shaving the pseudo-human blue-aproned chef's head bald…

Most importantly, he can always limit himself to a concept of "ignorance."

《Great Wisdom Appears Foolish》

Wei Liang, who had arrived at the door of Class 2, Group B, suddenly paused before opening the door and asked, “Are you going to find Teacher Lin first, or go into the classroom first?”

“Teacher Lin?” Lin Yi was first stunned, then immediately realized that he was talking about the class advisor - 040, Teacher Lin Shiling, so he said, “At this time… she should be waiting in the classroom for roll call, right?”

“Eh, that's right! Then let's go in!” Wei Liang patted his head, "realizing."

“Wait a minute, Liangzi, wait a minute!” Lin Yi quickly grabbed Wei Liang, then, under Wei Liang's puzzled gaze, pondered Wei Liang's words, wondering if Wei Liang's words had any hidden meaning…

Wei Liang: “……”

“Damn, Old Lin, are you going against the grain?” Wei Liang curled his lips and suddenly pushed the door open. “I'll emphasize again, I'm the one holding your thigh, not you holding my thigh, okay?”

Lin Yi's gaze passed through the crack in the door, and he saw that the class advisor 040 was indeed sitting in front of the podium, it seemed that he really was overthinking.

So the two entered the classroom one after the other.

When crossing the threshold into the classroom, Lin Yi finally felt the long-lost warmth.

This warm feeling… was like having the heating on, but completely different, as if this classroom was exposed to the sun.

Class advisor 040 sat listlessly in front of the podium, supporting her slightly pink cheek with one hand, puffing out her mouth, wriggling it left and right.

Today, she didn't use a hair bun to tie up her hair. Slightly wavy long hair fell down along her cheeks, and the slightly curled eyelashes had a silky beauty under the morning light from the window.

When the door opened, class advisor 040's gaze followed over, and the black signature pen rotating between her fingertips paused slightly.

“Come and sign in.”

Class advisor 040's lips parted slightly, and her gentle voice drifted slowly.

Hearing this, Lin Yi and Wei Liang closed the classroom door and planned to walk towards the podium, but just then, as if he had a premonition, he glanced towards the tiered classroom.

In the next moment, Lin Yi's expression changed, and his heart skipped a beat.

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