Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“The rest isn't important.” Xia Lian's tone carried a hint of threat.

Wei Liang nodded quickly, the only sound from his covered mouth being “Ugh, guh, ugh, guh.”

Li Huiyuan seemed moved.

Lin Yi also glanced at Wei Liang, who was winking and raising his eyebrows, appearing quite pleased with himself.

Xia Lian put him in a headlock, and Wei Liang immediately stopped talking.

“I don’t believe what he says.” Xia Lian said, “How could that green-aproned chef be so easily dealt with?”

“Alright, alright, I get it…” Lin Yi knew Wei Liang too well. But if he were to discuss strange skills and tricks with Xia Lian, she would definitely think they were out of their minds.

Come to think of it, it seemed only Lin Yi firmly believed in such strange skills and tricks.

“You guys continue your love-hate relationship, I still need to read and learn…” Lin Yi didn't want to bother with them anymore. As far as he was concerned, knowing Wei Liang was alright was enough.

As for Xia Lian, she had a sharp tongue but a soft heart. Although she expressed disgust and impatience towards Wei Liang, he had never 'sensed' any real malice from her.

On the contrary, the faint malice emanating from some people in the surrounding stands was as clearly discernible to him as the stench of foot odor in a flower garden.

“Learn positions?” Wei Liang's interest was piqued immediately upon hearing this. “What positions? Let’s learn together!”

“Know! Ledge! Not positions!” Lin Yi was speechless and quickly corrected him.

“It’s all the same…” Wei Liang waved his hand, and as he was about to say something, Xia Lian kicked him again, frowning, “Come sit down, stop fooling around!”

“Hey, hey, hey, that’s my brother!”

“Tch, sit down or not?!”

“Sit! I’ll! Sit!” Wei Liang sat down sulkily.

But this little interlude made Li Huiyuan a little restless.

Just a moment ago, Li Huiyuan was interested in the content of the rules and consciously wanted to take a good look at them, but gradually, she became distracted, her eyes constantly glancing at Xia Lian, with a kind of thirst for knowledge…

“Clap!”

She closed the book and gently exhaled.

“Finished reading.”

Lin Yi was stunned: “? ? ? ”

Li Huiyuan got up, smoothed her pleated skirt, and ran to Xia Lian's side, grabbing Xia Lian's arm and snuggling it into her chest.

“Senior Xia Lian, let’s chat!”

Watching Li Huiyuan's back, Lin Yi stood there dumbfounded: “No, you, I, I haven’t, and you already…”

Lin Yi thought, if you're not going to read it, give it to me…

Wei Liang winked at him: “Old Lin, why don’t you come sit over here too?”

Lin Yi sighed helplessly and sat down silently: “I say, Liangzi… don’t you think you look like a little eunuch in the palace?”

Wei Liang was furious upon hearing this, mimicking Xia Lian's tone: “Bullshit! What little eunuch, are you looking down on me!”

Finally, he patted the chair hard.

“At least I should be the chief eunuch!”

Lin Yi was embarrassed: “No, Liangzi, are you serious?”

Wei Liang grabbed Xia Lian's other arm: “Look! See that! Or do you want to go too?”

Li Huiyuan's eyes lit up, and she happily glanced at Wei Liang, thinking that Boss Liangzi was indeed hiding his strength and was truly a good person.

Lin Yi pretended not to see the light in her eyes and pulled Wei Liang aside, whispering: “No, Liangzi, the situation is very wrong now, how come you aren’t worried at all?”

Wei Liang's face was indifferent: “What am I worried about! Don’t you see where we are?”

“Huh?”

“This is the base camp of the sports students, Old Lin. Even if the sky falls, the sports teacher will hold it up. Don't think too much, just honestly be a shrinking turtle like me.”

Wei Liang looked like an experienced person, patted him on the shoulder earnestly, and imparted his experience.

Lin Yi asked in surprise: “Looking at you, did you encounter this kind of situation when you came last time?”

“Ah?” Wei Liang was stunned for a moment, “No… If there were any problems, why would I come back as a repeat customer? I would definitely pull you along and not let you come!”

“That’s right…” Lin Yi nodded.

The two exchanged a few simple greetings, but then they heard Xia Lian lower her voice and say: “You guys stop chatting for now, be quiet for a while…”

“Okay, okay, we’ll listen to you!” Wei Liang said with a grin, decisively selling out Lin Yi, “You saw it too, it’s all Old Lin who insisted on talking about trivial matters…”

“I’m talking about you.” Xia Lian glared at Wei Liang speechlessly, “If you keep muttering over there, believe it or not, I’ll shove my baseball bat in your mouth?”

Wei Liang quickly shrank his neck, glancing at her long legs: “Baseball bats hurt my teeth, why not change to something else…”

“Are you courting death?” Xia Lian raised her leg slightly, pretending to kick him.

Lin Yi covered his face, thinking that you were falling right into his trap…

Wei Liang's eyes widened, both eyes filled with little stars.

Xia Lian seemed to realize something, put down her leg, and sneered: “If you dare to jump again, I’ll ask Zhou Mingche to cure you.”

“Zhou Mingche? Who is Zhou Mingche, another girl?” Wei Liang became interested.

“Zhou Mingche is Little Zhouzi.” Xia Lian sneered.

“Hiss…” Wei Liang knelt down, “I was wrong.”

“If you know you’re wrong, then shut up.” Xia Lian snorted.

Wei Liang quickly shut his mouth, placing his hands on his knees, like an obedient child, which stunned Lin Yi.

Suddenly, Li Huiyuan asked softly: “Lin Yi… do you want to sit over here with me?”

She asked very carefully, seemingly after deep consideration.

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment.

Wei Liang elbowed him wildly, almost elbowing him off the seat.

He walked silently to Li Huiyuan's side and sat down.

Li Huiyuan seriously held his hand, put on a stern face, and said with a guilty conscience: “It was Boss who told me to keep an eye on you! It has nothing to do with me!”

Lin Yi nodded silently.

Li Huiyuan lowered her voice again and said: “There are many imposters here, I can already sense it, we have to be careful.”

Xia Lian, standing beside him, added, "That's right, some students have already been converted, and the number is higher than usual... But that's not the worst part. The worst part is that almost all the trainees on this second floor have been rained on."

"If they've been rained on, shouldn't they just take a shower?" Li Huiyuan asked.

"It's not that simple," Xia Lian said. "They can't return to the gymnasium to shower until things are over here."

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"And even if they could shower, almost every single one of them needs to wash their hair, and the number of shower stalls is limited. Plus... the problems with the shower area itself mean that probably less than thirty percent of them will survive."

"Ah?" Li Huiyuan's mouth fell open.

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.

Out of the 36 classes of trainees in the whole school, aside from those like Young Master Tian who left in time, about 80% of them stayed here.

If each class has twenty or thirty trainees, there are about 800 people here!

A survival rate of less than 30% means that... less than 200 people might leave alive?

Lin Yi looked around, his gaze sweeping over the terrified faces of the trainees. He felt a sense of sorrow in his heart, but he couldn't quite bring himself to be truly sad...

For some reason, a cold, horrifying thought arose in his mind.

"What will happen to those who can't escape...?"

Will I have the chance to see them being corrupted, little by little... the process?

Lin Yi didn't say these words; they only echoed in his mind.

But as soon as they surfaced, he felt a chill run down his spine.

«How... how could I have such thoughts?!»

This absolute rationality was treating everyone like lab rats!

Even though he himself was in the lab, he didn't seem to care!

«How... how could this be?»

This insane and indifferent thought didn't seem like something he would come up with.

"Lin... Lin Yi..." Li Huiyuan's worried voice suddenly rang in his ears. "You're squeezing my hand too hard..."

Lin Yi suddenly snapped back to his senses and realized that the hand he was holding with Li Huiyuan seemed to have tightened with some kind of "excitement."

"S-sorry..." Lin Yi subconsciously released her hand after realizing this, but Li Huiyuan gripped it back.

"I'm fine..." Li Huiyuan shook her head slightly, but the look in her eyes was somewhat fearful. "It's you I'm worried about. Were you okay just now? Your expression... it was scary just now."

«Expression?» Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and his free hand subconsciously touched his face.

"It's back to normal now..." Li Huiyuan said. "Your expression just now... you were smiling so evilly, just like those impostor students in the classroom used to..."

Lin Yi frowned, his eyes flickering. He reached out and rubbed his face, and found that his facial muscles... were indeed a little stiff.

He swallowed and fell silent.

Li Huiyuan hesitated for a moment, then comforted him, "Big Brother said... there's no 'Ash' in your body anymore. Is there still some other influence?"

"Maybe..." Lin Yi looked down at his toes, his mind filled with thoughts.

He had been reluctant to admit it... but he had to say that since he woke up this morning and first saw the faceless version of himself in the mirror, he felt that, to some extent, he had developed some characteristics that only impostors had...

Or rather, characteristics that only deeply corrupted individuals had.

He didn't know what he belonged to. The only thing he could use to define himself was Young Master Tian's so-called landmark theory.

The depth of his cognition broadened his tolerance threshold for corruption, allowing him to possess athletic abilities as bizarre as recovery power compared to ordinary physical education students, even while maintaining his "trainee" status...

But was there really no price to pay for this?

Was it enough to simply broaden the depth of cognition?

Now it seemed... perhaps not.

Broadening the depth of corruption might only represent the ability to remain anchored and return from more bizarre layers of illusion, just like how he was experiencing increasingly strange illusions and occasionally his "soul" would drift out.

But it didn't mean that he could come and go freely in these illusions.

The deepening of cognitive depth meant that an ordinary person would die from one shot, while he could die from ten shots, but it didn't mean he was immune to bullets.

And the scars... might always accompany him, and gradually change him.

Until he couldn't bear it anymore.

Young Master Tian often said to let him "adapt," but what if he didn't have time to "adapt," or if he exceeded the limit of what he could "adapt" to?

The more he thought about it, the more negative he became, and the greater the pressure, as if he was bearing some heavy belief or ideal.

"Old Lin, you're not getting diarrhea too, are you?" At this moment, Wei Liang's voice rang in his ears, pulling him out of his negative state of mind.

"I... I'm fine." Lin Yi took a few breaths, feeling a sense of relaxation when he suddenly broke free from his obsession.

Just now, he was like someone who couldn't solve a problem but was stubbornly sticking to it, and Wei Liang was telling him that he could temporarily not do this problem.

He breathed a long sigh of relief.

Wei Liang couldn't help but say, "Old Lin, with that expression of yours, it's hard for me to believe you're okay. You didn't... shit your pants, did you?"

The corner of Lin Yi's mouth twitched fiercely: "I'm really okay now..."

"However..." He sorted out his thoughts and looked at Xia Lian, "There are so many impostors here, how are you going to deal with them?"

Xia Lian said, "You'll know soon. I think... Big Brother and the others should have already started taking action."

"This will be... a feast."

Lin Yi's expression perked up.

«A... a feast?!»

What does that mean... why does it feel different from what I imagined?

Although his heart was shaken, he calmed down and carefully sensed the changes around him.

In the invisible field of vision, ripples of energy, centered on the soles of his feet, spread out in all directions...

And everything around him began to be depicted in his mind, little by little, like when Lin Yi observed the internal environment of the gymnasium before.

The physical education teacher only thought that this ability to pry came from the Smiling Angel, but he never expected that this was Lin Yi's own characteristic, and the Smiling Angel's ability to spy only revealed itself when spying on the physical education office.

Gradually, all the areas he sensed turned into simple black background white lines-like exposure quality.

In his vision, the giant egg gradually turned into a frame...