Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi saw this and didn't know how to comfort him.

Wei Liang's sneakers were a collaboration between the Flying Man brand and the famous idol trainee Ai Kun, a limited edition called 'Flying Kun'. The shoe tongue featured a very distinctive Ai Kun dribbling logo, and the side of the shoe had Ai Kun's signature 'Iron Mountain Lean' pose.

When wearing these shoes and shaking his legs, the 'Iron Mountain Lean' pose seemed to come to life.

Wei Liang would therefore shake his legs intentionally or unintentionally.

But now, this collaborative limited edition sneaker was about to be retired.

Filled with reluctance, Wei Liang drooped his head and walked behind Lin Yi, following Lin Yi towards the employee通道 [tōng dào] (passageway).

At this moment, the sunlight outside the passageway was just right, and the two walked under the sunlight, feeling enveloped by a warm current.

The employee passageway and the student passageway were on opposite sides of the cafeteria. It was dozens of meters from the exit of the student passageway to the exit of the employee passageway, requiring them to walk along the floor tiles over a small slope, going around the side of the cafeteria.

The side of the slope was covered with dense camphor trees, and between the trees were sometimes arranged street lamps.

Lin Yi looked down at his watch.

12:48.

"It's already 12:48?"

He frowned slightly, remembering that it was just after 12 when he was queuing, but he didn't expect more than 40 minutes to pass so quickly.

"But I shouldn't be considered 'inside the cafeteria' right now, right?"

Lin Yi pondered for a moment.

"But…"

"Although the cafeteria's lunch opening hours are 10:40 ~ 13:20, to be on the safe side, I should quickly throw away the shoes and then get out of here at light speed!"

He scanned the nearby street lamps, seeing the street lamp numbers painted on with white paint: "Cafeteria - 002", "Cafeteria - 031", "Cafeteria - 014"…

"As expected, the order is still chaotic." He muttered to himself, continuing to walk towards the employee passageway.

But just as he was passing through a shaded area of camphor trees, he suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blowing through the trees.

A feeling of being watched silently fell upon him.

A chill attacked, and he shivered subconsciously.

At this moment, Wei Liang's voice suddenly came from behind him:

"Old Lin."

Lin Yi was startled, and his spine straightened up immediately.

But he didn't answer the voice. He didn't know if he should turn around, so he gritted his teeth and quickened his pace towards the employee passageway.

"Damn, Old Lin, slow down, wait for me, wait for me…" The voice suddenly became hurried, "I feel a chill, this road doesn't seem right, why don't we walk closer to the sunlight!"

"He's acting too much like it!" Lin Yi felt a sense of pressure.

He took a deep breath, then gritted his teeth and rushed down the slope, heading straight for the employee passageway.

"Hey, what the heck!" Wei Liang's voice became hurried.

"Da da da da…"

A series of rapid footsteps sounded behind Lin Yi, and Lin Yi's hair stood on end, almost fluttering in the wind.

After rushing down the slope and running for a distance, he quickly arrived at the entrance of the employee passageway.

He didn't care about the voice behind him and the strange feeling of being watched. After confirming the location of the trash can, he quickly squatted down and began to take off his shoes.

But just as he was taking off his shoes, his eyes subconsciously looked at the ketchup on the shoes.

He paused slightly.

After pausing, he was shocked.

"Huh? This—"

Lin Yi couldn't believe what he was seeing. The ketchup that was originally on the shoes had now turned into a patch of white solid substance.

"This is?!"

He rubbed his eyes and leaned closer to observe carefully again, and then he discovered that this white stuff seemed to be…

"Plaster?" He narrowed his eyes. "Wasn't this ketchup? When did it turn into plaster?"

He remembered it as ketchup…

No, wait, was it really ketchup?

He recalled…

Did he really notice anything on the shoes before?

"It seems… not?"

"Did I or didn't I…?"

He looked at the plaster-like substance on the shoes, falling into a brief state of confusion.

At this moment, Lin Yi didn't notice that the floor tiles under his feet faintly showed a slight sense of distortion…

Like the patterns of a python.

An indescribable sense of crisis quietly enveloped him.

Even though it was a clear and sunny day with the sun high in the sky, when Lin Yi experienced cognitive impairment, the whole world seemed to distort with his confused state.

The shadows of the trees covering half the road slowly crawled towards Lin Yi with the distortion of the floor tiles…

"No, no, Liangzi reminded me to look at the shoes. I remember very clearly that it was clearly ketchup at that time!"

Lin Yi remembered.

"That's ketchup!"

He strengthened his own thoughts—it was indeed ketchup before, but now it had turned into a plaster-like substance.

When his thoughts were no longer confused, that indescribable feeling turned into a wisp of breeze and dissipated…

"Whew—"

A breeze brushed Lin Yi's face. He was completely unaware, and he didn't even realize that there had been a slight distortion in the ground under his feet…

He took off his shoes, looked at the plaster-like substance on the shoes, and couldn't help but tap the ground lightly.

"Bang bang bang!"

The plaster-like substance clung to the shoes like solid steel, and the entire pair of shoes seemed to have turned into hard stones.

"This is really strange." Lin Yi couldn't help but smack his lips. "Ketchup can actually turn into plaster, it's hilarious… Wait!"

"Wait wait wait wait!!!!!"

He suddenly thought of something, and almost jumped up from the ground.

"Ketchup!"

"This is what ketchup turned into?!"

An image flashed through his mind—the trash can in the teachers' office!

He remembered that there was a lunch box in the trash can with a dark red substance on it!

He remembered that the trash can was placed in a dark corner of the office, so he didn't see clearly what it was at first. He only remembered that it was some dark red, viscous substance. Now it seemed—

"It's ketchup!!!!"

"So the homeroom teacher ate food containing ketchup elements!"

"Yesterday?!"

His memory began to flash back at light speed. He thought of the scene of the security guard leading the chefs with iron chains walking in the mist.

He thought of the green-aproned chef mixed in with the blue-aproned chef team!

That chef was carrying a lunch box containing spaghetti with tomato meat sauce!

And the first destination or stop of that team was—the teaching building!

Strands of clues suddenly intertwined in his mind. He, his roommates, and Wei Liang rushed out of the team when they were close to the teaching building, and then entered the scope of the teaching building.

They seemed to have arrived before the security guards and the others, but in reality, it took them almost half an hour to travel the distance of two street lamps to reach the teaching building, and it took them more than twenty minutes to go down the stairwell to the basement.

And if the security guard led the chefs to walk through the thick fog, they would have arrived at the teaching building far earlier than them, plus… Class 2 of Group B's teacher's office was actually on the first floor, only needing to walk up that step to arrive.

So—

"Before I saw the homeroom teacher… that green-aproned chef took the lead and delivered the spaghetti with tomato meat sauce to her!"

"She… ate it?!"

Lin Yi's pupils trembled. He recalled the gloomy, closed-off feeling and the bizarre time difference he experienced last night in the teacher's office. For a moment, he couldn't tell if the source was the ketchup in the trash can, or… the homeroom teacher?

But regardless, the unsettling pressure the homeroom teacher brought was undeniable.

Moreover…

"The homeroom teacher's eyes, they glow! Ugh, no, they don't glow. The homeroom teacher's eyes have a color like a security guard's, but… the feeling they give me is extremely cold!"

"Although cold… there's no hostility, unlike those strange classmates and the weird chef…"

"Strange, so strange…"

Lin Yi shook his head, slowly putting the thought away—he only dared to think a little more now that he was under the sun.

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"Wait, if it's on the way, I still have to go back to the classroom to record some of my latest thoughts on sticky notes."

Sticky notes are a good thing. To prevent myself from missing anything, I write things down on sticky notes and flip through them before going to bed every night, which has the effect of "reviewing the old to learn the new."

Indeed, you can write sticky notes anywhere, there aren't that many fussy rules, but writing them right here on the spot…

Even though it's under the sun, it's a bit too bold.

The classroom is still better.

At least during this time, the classroom is a relatively safe "stronghold."

But as soon as he mentioned the classroom, Lin Yi immediately thought of the white plaster-like substance under the podium and the plaster streaks dragged all over the classroom floor.

"If the white plaster-like substance is transformed from ketchup by the sun, then that means last night, something was dragging ketchup around in the classroom?"

"And the ketchup…"

A series of chaotic and disorganized inspirations floated into Lin Yi's mind. There must be a lot of connections between these inspirations, but he couldn't connect them all together for the time being.

He couldn't deduce where the ketchup entered the classroom from.

He only had a vague guess, but there was no evidence to prove that the ketchup was related to "that thing."

He took a deep breath, deciding not to continue thinking about this issue.

"Lao Lin! What the hell are you hiding from?" Just then, Wei Liang's voice rang out behind him, followed by a hand on his shoulder.

Wei Liang leaned out half his body from beside him, panting heavily, and said indignantly, "What's wrong with you? I've been calling you for a long time and you didn't respond?"

Lin Yi was slightly stunned.

Having experienced so many instances of eerie calls from behind, coupled with the chilling wind blowing through the woods, he naturally assumed that it wasn't Wei Liang's voice at first.

He didn't expect his prediction to be wrong.

But facing Wei Liang's bright eyes, coupled with the tragic emotions of "I can follow behind you, sleepwalking like a shadow chasing the light" hidden deep in his eyes, Lin Yi didn't know what to say for a moment.

But even though he clearly didn't know what to say, the ultimate nonsense blurted out without thinking:

"Well… the slope was too steep, I couldn't brake in time."

Wei Liang was stunned.

Wei Liang was stunned again.

Wei Liang looked at Lin Yi's serious expression of "the facts are just like this, you and I don't need to argue," his eyes blinked again and again.

He looked down at the somewhat worn soles of his limited-edition Feikun sneakers, thoughtfully, and then said:

"This slope… is indeed a bit steep."

"And it's a bit hard on the shoes."

Lin Yi: "…"

"Cough."

"Right, I felt that way too." Lin Yi smiled wryly and scratched the back of his head, then picked up his shoes and walked towards the trash can.

Just then, he suddenly sensed a faint tremor.

From the soles of his bare feet.

He was slightly startled.

Immediately afterwards, a faint sound suddenly spread through the air.

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

"Thump…"

The sound came from far to near, initially very slight, but before long, it turned into something the size of a heartbeat.

"Thump!"

"Thump!!"

The sound grew louder and louder, and the tremor grew stronger and stronger.

Eventually, it turned into a heavy sound like a drumbeat!

This huge sound drifted from the depths of the staff passage, and the air seemed to be filled with materialized sound waves.

"Thump!"

"Thump!!"

This sound was deafening, making Lin Yi feel that his internal organs were faintly resonating.

His complexion began to turn ruddy;

His blood began to churn;

His heartbeat began to beat in rhythm with this.

"Gurgle!"

"Gurgle!"

"Gurgle…"

Lin Yi gradually felt his heart beating in his chest, and the hot blood all over his body seemed to be boiling, about to burst out!

"What the hell is this?!"

A terrifying sense of oppression spread from the staff passage. If the green-aproned chef and the strange classmates brought a sinister sense of weirdness, then the current drumbeat was a direct sense of terror.

It was as if some indescribable giant creature lurking in the abyss of another world was awakening!

No!

It couldn't even be called awakening, but… snoring!

"Lao Lin! Lao Lin, I can't take it anymore, what is this sound, I'm so uncomfortable!!" Wei Liang tightly covered his ears, but he couldn't resist the drumbeat at all.

This was not a sound at all, but a sound wave, a powerful sound wave that shocked the body and mind!

"Drop… drop the shoes! And leave! Quick!" Lin Yi's eyes were slightly bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth and roared.

"Okay, okay!" Wei Liang struggled to take off the shoes on his feet, and then held them in his hands.

The two gritted their teeth, resisting the erosion of the sound waves, and struggled to get close to the trash can.

The distance between the trash can and them was only a few meters, but this distance of a few meters seemed to be separated by a vast river, difficult to cross!

"Damn! We rushed out of the cafeteria, but I didn't expect to be folded here!" Lin Yi felt a deafening feeling in the impact of the sound waves, and even his steps were unsteady.

Wei Liang was no better than him, the two stumbled, like a pair of fitness failures hesitating on a treadmill.

At the critical moment, Lin Yi suddenly felt something against their backs, pushing him to the trash can.

"Huh…?!" Lin Yi was slightly stunned.

"Idiot, aren't you going to throw things away? I'm not talking about you, but about both of you." A flat voice rang out behind him.

Xu Shunkang carried a baseball bat covered in plaster powder, pushing Lin Yi with his left hand and Wei Liang with his right hand, one against two, sending them to the trash can.

"Damn it, what are you spacing out for? Do you think I'm making light work of it? I can't hold on for long either!"

The veins on Xu Shunkang's forehead bulged, golden light rippled in his eyes, and the sound waves cut through his body like knives, outlining the muscle lines under his sportswear clearly.

It's going to be on the shelves tomorrow, a bit rushed, I haven't written the on-shelves speech, and there is no manuscript, but I plan to stay up late to write the first chapter on the shelves, so the little friends who are asleep should be able to see the first chapter when they get up tomorrow morning. Wait for me to write some on-shelves speech~