Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Watching Lin Yi suddenly slump into her arms and fall asleep, the Boss's expression was initially somewhat unnatural. Then, that hint of unnaturalness melted away like ice and snow, replaced by a helpless yet relieved sigh.

She helped Lin Yi up and placed him on the seat beside her.

"Boss, Lin Yi, he...?" Li Hui Yuan also noticed Lin Yi's problem, but the Boss had appeared too suddenly; otherwise, she would have helped Lin Yi.

The disappearance of the Cemetery of the Dead and the Pseudo-Human Physical Education Students, and the dissipation of all the aura within the Giant Egg, all signified the end of the "Feast." Not only had Li Hui Yuan emerged from that ravenous state, but the other physical education students had also recovered.

"He's fine, just... overate," the Boss said. "There's still time. Let him rest here for a while. If he wakes up early, let him leave the gymnasium. If it's late, have him stay and give us a hand."

As she spoke, the Boss raised Lin Yi's hand.

"Come here, hold his hand."

"Ah? Okay~ Okay~" Li Hui Yuan quickly came over and took Lin Yi's hand. "Then what, Boss?"

"Just hold it like that, making sure a part of his body remains in contact with you, and then wait for him to wake up."

"Okay..." Li Hui Yuan responded.

"I have something to attend to and must leave first. Xia Lian, you and Hui Hui Zi will look after Lin Yi. Absolutely do not leave him alone."

Xia Lian nodded quickly, "Okay."

After the Boss spoke, she turned and left. Just then, the loud voice of the physical education teacher, Hong Liang, echoed beneath the Giant Egg.

"All the trial students on the second floor of the stands, listen up!"

"In my capacity as a physical education teacher, I am rescinding the three directives I issued!"

"You may open your eyes and follow the guidance of the physical education teachers to either stay or return to the gymnasium!"

Wei Liang, on the second floor of the stands, opened his eyes as soon as he heard the order. After looking around, he got up and went down the steps.

He saw the sleeping Lin Yi on the first floor of the stands, but he did not go over. Instead, he called out from afar, "Xia Lian, my girl! Hey~ Over here, over here~ Look at me, look at me~"

Xia Lian rolled her eyes and walked over to Wei Liang, "What is it?"

Wei Liang said, "I have to go back to the gymnasium according to the teacher's arrangements. Is Old Lin okay?"

"He's sleeping soundly. What could happen?"

"That's good, that's good..." Wei Liang seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, then said, "Then tell Old Lin for me that I'll wait for him at the gymnasium."

"Go, go..." Xia Lian waved her hand impatiently, her expression seeming to say, 'Should have come down with us earlier. Now look, you need a middleman to pass a message.'

Wei Liang scratched the back of his head somewhat sheepishly and then walked into the safety passage.

At that moment, several physical education teachers were already standing at the safety passage, "screening" the trial students' departures and stays according to the Boss's arrangements. Wei Liang easily passed through their screening and returned to the gymnasium.

As the trial students left, the water on the sports field slowly disappeared as if seeping into the ground. The dome of the Giant Egg began to open to both sides, like a crack splitting the sky. The radiance in the sky, along with the misty dust, scattered down.

With the dome open, the sky was a dim sight. Judging from the light, it was already late. The western sky was filled with purplish-red clouds, and the setting sun was above the mountains, like a fried egg ready to be taken out of the pan.

Night was falling.

And Lin Yi was still asleep.

In a corner of the stands, the art students were still sitting. Although they had participated in the "Feast," their presence was very low. If one did not observe carefully, they would not be noticed at all.

And strangely, from the time the art students entered as "guests" at the beginning until now, at the end of the "Feast," no one had interacted with the art students in any way.

...

Time passed quietly. Looking out from the open-air area of the Giant Egg, the sun had already set, and night had arrived.

The cold night wind blew gently, mixed with some post-rain chill, falling like twilight, making people feel a trace of cold.

Li Hui Yuan shivered, unable to resist smoothing her arms, her brow slightly furrowed, "It's so cold... Why hasn't he woken up yet?"

"I don't know..." Xia Lian shook her head slightly. "Judging from this, I'm afraid he won't wake up for a while, but according to the Boss, he'll probably wake up before the night is over. Let's wait a little longer."

"Okay..." Li Hui Yuan pursed her lips and then wanted to take off her school uniform to put it on Lin Yi.

Xia Lian gently stopped her, shaking her head, "Don't do that. These are our clothes... 'Physical Education Student's clothes'."

Li Hui Yuan was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood. She hesitated for a moment, then brought her thighs together and laid Lin Yi down on her lap.

"This should be better, right..." Her face was a little red, and her small heart was thumping, seeming a little guilty, but feeling Lin Yi's even breathing, she calmed down again.

She held Lin Yi's hand with one hand and placed the other on his body, feeling Lin Yi's body temperature, occasionally stroking him like petting a cat, using friction to make him feel warmer.

Xia Lian looked at Li Hui Yuan's appearance and smiled, "You seem to care about him quite a bit."

Li Hui Yuan's face flushed slightly, then she smiled sweetly, "Care?"

"Don't you think so?"

"I don't know... He cared about me a lot before, compared to that, this isn't much."

Xia Lian curled her lips and said nothing.

But Li Hui Yuan said to herself, "Lin Yi, he... is just a little contrary. Although he always has 'cannon fodder' on his lips, he doesn't do that at the crucial moment..."

"He helped me a lot, and I don't know what I should help him with... Helping a little is helping a little..."

"Your relationship... is really strange," Xia Lian said as she looked at her.

"Strange?" Li Hui Yuan brushed away the strands of hair that had fallen down as she looked down at Lin Yi, and murmured as she looked at the evenly breathing Lin Yi, "Not strange, right?"

...

May 9, 2023, 19:33, Cafeteria Area, end of the student passage.

In a hazy area where the boundaries between light and shadow were indistinguishable, Lao Mo was frozen there like a statue. He maintained the posture of a thinker, his eyes seeming to be looking at the petrified light bulb he had obtained from Lin Yi, yet also seeming empty and unfocused, not knowing where they were focused.

At some moment, his body suddenly trembled, and then he seemed to sense something. His empty and somewhat scattered eyes gradually gathered brilliance.

He straightened his body and gazed in a certain direction within the campus. In that location, surging dense fog resembled thick smoke rising from a boiling pot, writhing ferociously, enveloping half of the turbid night sky.

After a moment, he slowly moved and gradually arrived at the entrance of the student cafeteria, lifting the plastic curtain and walking inside.

"Whirr..."

As he lifted the plastic curtain, it was as if he had uncovered a corner of some turbid realm. The cold wind followed him and surged in from the cracked area, disturbing those shadowy and evil things...

After he entered the student cafeteria, all the green-aproned chefs shuddered violently. Those who were originally wandering around the cafeteria like specters, trying to bewitch the experience students, all restrained their demonic and eerie tones, retreating to the dark areas not covered by the lights.

The shadow in the No. 10 food window quickly closed the window, as if it had never existed.

Some of the pseudo-human art students who were eating also seemed to be shrouded in a strange atmosphere. They lowered their heads and shrank their necks, covering their eyes as if burying their heads in the sand, as if as long as they didn't pay attention to Old Mo, Old Mo wouldn't sense them.

All non-human entities were terrified and faced a formidable enemy because of Old Mo's sudden appearance.

But Old Mo's attention was completely not on them. He didn't seem to take these guys to heart at all.

He walked non-stop through the student cafeteria, quickly found the location of the convenience store, and then walked in without hesitation.

Looking at Old Mo's figure disappearing into the half-open door of the convenience store, which was floating with a gray mist, all the entities that "could see" Old Mo breathed a long sigh of relief, especially some pseudo-human art students, who were already sweating profusely and their limbs were trembling.

Inside the convenience store.

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Old Mo looked around while constantly walking through the shelves. He seemed to be looking for something, but there didn't seem to be anything on the shelves that could make him stop.

He finally stopped at the shopping terminal.

"I don't have time to play hide-and-seek with you. I know you're back..." He suddenly spoke, his speed was very normal, even more like a normal person than when he was chatting with Mu Daxian, but he was talking to the air, "...Boss."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire interior of the convenience store seemed to twist. The light and shadows were chaotic, and the shelves were twisted like swaying seaweed.

Old Mo's shadow was also stretched very long under the illumination of the lights behind him.

And gradually, another figure slowly appeared, judging from the position, it was right behind Old Mo.

"Can I turn around?" Old Mo asked.

"That depends on you," the convenience store owner's voice slowly sounded.

His voice was very calm, without too many emotional fluctuations, only a magnetic male voice could be heard.

Old Mo thought for a moment, then slowly turned around.

In the next moment, a touch of sadness flashed in his eyes: "Boss, you..."

"Don't be sad, this is inevitable..."

Old Mo was silent for a moment, and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the convenience store owner: "My affairs, you don't need to consider too much, just tell me your affairs, what are you here for?"

Old Mo then said: "I want to go to the art building."

"Once you leave the cafeteria, your power will rapidly drain away, you are courting death."

"I know, but I have to go..." Old Mo said in a low voice, "I don't have many friends, that kid counts as one. If he dies, I will be very sad."

"If you die, he will also be very sad."

"But I'm already dead. The current me is just an undispelled ghost, a remaining will... I also know that I am your puppet for exercising the power of guarding. Now that you are back, I think I should fight once again for the sake of the last will..."

"Then do you have a plan? If you just fight to the death, it means you haven't improved at all."

"No plan... You also know that all plans are empty. I can only deal with it according to the 'framework', keeping the direction of a major event, and the rest is all improvisation. But..." He glanced at the light bulb in his hand, "I won't die over there... That's why I came to you. I can't do this move alone."

The convenience store owner stared at him, the entire convenience store seemed to be twisted into a braid, and even Old Mo's body seemed to have become a part of the braid.

There was a silence all around, and finally a sighing voice appeared in the darkness.

"I understand..."

As the sigh fell, a wisp of gray flame pierced through Old Mo's body.

Strangely, after being burned through, the charred parts of Old Mo's body immediately recovered, immediately turning into tender buds, and then wriggling and twisting to heal.

In just a few breaths, Old Mo stood there like nothing had happened.

"Thank you..." Old Mo was not angry at all that his chest was burned through by the convenience store owner, but instead said thank you.

"After you get there, send a message to the 'Night Watchman' for me... Also, bring me back some spoils of war."

"Okay."

"Since that's the case, then go, but I still have to remind you... Their invasion will reach its peak in the nights of these two days. You must ensure your safety, otherwise even if you reach the art building, it won't be of much use."

"You don't have to worry about that. I've already found a guarantee." Old Mo played with the light bulb in his hand, "Time is of the essence, I'm leaving."

The convenience store owner did not respond, only the originally twisted convenience store gradually returned to normal, and the light and shadows were no longer strange.

The convenience store was empty, as if the convenience store owner simply didn't exist.

Old Mo walked to the exit of the convenience store, and seemed to have thought of something. He turned back and took a bed sheet from the shelf area, and then looted a pile of biscuits and water from the shelf like a thief making a zero-dollar purchase, and after wrapping them all up, he left the convenience store like a snail...

...

Year X023, 20:03, at the notice board in front of the cafeteria.

Old Mo's figure flashed past the notice board. I don't know where he went after leaving the convenience store. There was actually one more package behind him than before.

He came to the "Cafeteria-001" lamppost non-stop, and his eyes swept across the entire campus like radar. Under the vast mist, it seemed that nothing could escape his insight.

Finally, his gaze fell on the direction of the gymnasium.

"Found it..."

He muttered, crossed from the cafeteria area into the gymnasium area, and then disappeared in two or three steps on the cobblestone road that was already shrouded in dense fog.