Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Tomato sauce... is flowing out of the keyhole?!"

Lin Yi retracted his hand with lightning speed, and the powerless napkin fluttered down.

Before it even landed, the tomato sauce emanated an extremely faint, dark red mist, like steam from a sauna.

At the same time, the tomato sauce hardened at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into white, plaster-like fragments that shattered on the ground with a "啪!" sound.

The part of the napkin that had touched the tomato sauce vanished.

It looked as if a hole had been torn in the napkin.

Lin Yi subconsciously took a step back, his gaze fixed on the white powder near the keyhole.

"So, the tomato sauce flowed out of the keyhole, turned into white powder in the sunlight, and then... drifted away?"

"But, where did the tomato sauce in the keyhole come from?"

He couldn't figure it out, not at all.

This question was beyond his capabilities. Even if he could make assumptions, he wouldn't know where to start.

He was completely clueless.

He went down to the steps, picked up two small dry twigs, carefully picked up the napkin, and threw it into the trash can between the classroom door and the classroom office door.

He returned to the classroom, crestfallen, flipped open his desk, and sat back down.

He let out a long breath, looking at the only understandable reasoning symbols in the booklet, and couldn't help but feel agitated.

"There are still too few clues! I have no idea what's going on!"

"I must go back to the dormitory to sleep tonight!"

The more he knew, the more dangerous he felt staying in the classroom.

He now even had a paranoid feeling, and even the homeroom teacher... didn't seem so trustworthy anymore.

Seeing Lin Yi like this, Wei Liang couldn't sit still.

He patted Lin Yi on the shoulder and said, "You weren't thinking of knocking on the homeroom teacher's door just now, were you? Looking at your hesitant and apprehensive appearance, you look just like me when I want to confess but am afraid of failing."

Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang in surprise.

Wei Liang shook his head helplessly and continued, "Don't worry, even if you fail, it doesn't matter. When I become successful, I will pass on my treasured 'S City Rich Women's Directory' to you."

Lin Yi opened his mouth in astonishment.

"No... what are you even talking about? I was just thinking about something, how did you come up with such a strange scenario?"

"Also, where the hell did you get a directory like that from?"

Wei Liang shrugged his shoulders and waved his hands repeatedly, "Oh, don't worry about so much, none of that is important... You go chase your black silk OL homeroom teacher first!"

"..."

Looking at Wei Liang's cheap, dog-headed strategist appearance, Lin Yi suddenly felt a little itchy, really wanting to press his head on the ground and give him two bangs.

He folded the paper and clipped it into the booklet, then slammed the booklet shut and stuffed it into his pants pocket.

After doing all this, he looked at his watch and checked the time on the pendulum clock on the wall.

Both were 14:00.

At this time, students in the classroom began to get up one after another and walk out of the classroom.

Lin Yi guessed that they were leaving for the gymnasium, so he looked at Wei Liang and said, "Liangzi, physical education class starts in half an hour, shall we go too?"

Xu Shunkang said to arrive 15 minutes early was about right. Counting the time on the road, Lin Yi estimated that going now was about right.

Wei Liang glanced at the pendulum clock on the wall, then glanced at the situation in the classroom, and then nodded, affirming, "Then let's go, but try not to get too close to them."

He paused, then suddenly leaned in and whispered warily, "Who knows if they're normal or not?"

Lin Yi instantly leaned back tactically, revealing a surprised expression: "Liangzi, you're starting to 'think'... ?"

"I'm thinking what der! Isn't that what you said?" Wei Liang stared at him with wide eyes.

"Ah? When did I say that?" Lin Yi asked in confusion.

Wei Liang curled his lips: "Consider it an extension of your foundation. It's actually very simple, just treat everyone in the classroom except us as abnormal people."

"Blanket statement?"

"Anyway, there are no allies, what's the difference between a blanket statement and not?"

Lin Yi was slightly taken aback, suddenly feeling that Wei Liang's statement... seemed quite reasonable.

"Everyone is abnormal..." He pondered the sentence, then nodded seriously, "...except us."

Wei Liang got up with a smile, patted his pants: "Hehe, let's go, let's go to physical education class."

"Ouch!" He suddenly let out a scream, startling Lin Yi.

"Ah?"

Wei Liang suddenly slapped his forehead: "I forgot I don't have shoes!"

"Don't you have them in your bag?" Lin Yi asked.

They had brought a backpack, which they had casually placed at their feet after entering the classroom last night.

"Please, do you put your shoes in your bag?" Wei Liang said speechlessly, then continued, "I only put a few pairs of underwear in my bag, and this time I didn't even bring compressed biscuits."

"Okay..." Lin Yi shrugged, and finally added, "I'll have to see what I have."

"Huh?! You fucking... stuff shoes in your bag?" Wei Liang was very surprised.

Lin Yi looked around, found the seat he was sitting in last night, went over and turned over his and Wei Liang's bags.

Then he opened his bag, took out a stack of socks, and took out a portion to hand to Wei Liang.

"I don't have shoes, but I have socks. Wear a few pairs to make do?"

"Okay, socks are better than bare feet... the ground in this school is quite rough." Wei Liang didn't hesitate, reached out and took the socks, "Hey, you even brought your phone with you?"

"There's no electronic signal coverage in this campus at all, it's useless even if you bring it."

"And there are no sockets in the dormitory at all... I don't know if the school did it on purpose or accidentally."

Lin Yi glanced at his phone.

"Oh... I know, you told me before, but I didn't want to hand it in, so I brought it."

Hearing Lin Yi say this, Wei Liang thought that Lin Yi might want to turn on the phone and contact his family as soon as he left the campus, so he didn't ask any more questions.

He lowered his head and put on his socks, and soon asked again: "Are there any more?"

"Any more what?"

"Socks!"

"Didn't I give them to you?"

"For the other foot."

Lin Yi was slightly stunned, silently glanced at him, only to see that he had wrapped his right foot tightly in three or two strokes, at first glance like a big pig's trotter.

"..." Lin Yi couldn't help but say, "Brother... don't give them all to one foot!"

Wei Liang smacked his lips and reluctantly began to change his socks.

Suddenly, Lin Yi sensed something, he glanced out the window.

It seemed that another cloud had floated over from the mountains.

"It's going to be windy... Liangzi, we're going to fa... huh??"

He withdrew his gaze from the window, only to find that Wei Liang was no longer in his original position.

"What wind are you talking about, let's go, let's go!" Wei Liang waved to him on the steps, urging, "Oh, leave your bags in the classroom, if someone takes them, you can cash them out with the school... ah no, ask the school for compensation, let's go, let's go!"

"Damn! Are you a ghost, you just floated out after turning your head?" Lin Yi quickly put down the book and followed Wei Liang's steps.

After leaving the classroom and going down the steps, the two followed the route marked on the map, along a cobblestone road full of street lamps, towards the gymnasium.

Interestingly, according to the map given in the student handbook, the distance between any two buildings on the S City University campus is about the same.

Walking on the road, Lin Yi observed the numbers of the street lamps while moving forward.

"Teaching Building - 054", "Teaching Building - 065", "Teaching Building - 099"... "Gymnasium - 005", "Gymnasium - 071"...

Lin Yi's eyebrows twitched.

"It seems that we have reached the range of the gymnasium!"

He looked forward and saw a winding slope, and at the foot of the slope, on a relatively flat mountain, stood a huge, egg-like building.

Without accident, that was the gymnasium.

But just at this moment, Lin Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

He glanced back.

All the previous rules said not to look back in abnormal situations, so Lin Yi turned his head back this time in a normal situation.

But he was still stunned by the scene.

There was no teaching building behind him.

It was clearly just a few steps away, but the teaching building had disappeared.

The distance between the teaching building and the gymnasium, as marked on the map, was not far, about a fifteen-minute walk under normal circumstances.

But in the classroom and in the teaching building, no matter how he looked around, he could not see the location of other buildings. What he saw was either a green belt or a green space, and more than that, it was a series of overlapping peaks.

Then, now that he was here, he couldn't even see the teaching building anymore.

"Strange…" Lin Yi muttered.

"What's so strange?" Wei Liang asked.

"The teaching building is gone," Lin Yi said.

Wei Liang gave him a strange look and pointed to the way they had come: "There, isn't it right there? That big row of buildings."

A look of doubt appeared in Lin Yi's eyes, and he suspiciously looked in the direction Wei Liang was pointing…

There was no teaching building.

There just wasn't a teaching building!

「Damn… I can't see the teaching building?!」 Lin Yi's eyes widened slightly, and a drop of cold sweat seeped from his forehead, slowly sliding down the bridge of his nose.

He thought of the scene last night when Mao Feiyang couldn't see the office on the first basement floor.

And his inability to see the teaching building now… wasn't it exactly the same?!

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「How could… this happen?!」

His throat rolled slightly, and even though he was under the sun, he felt a chill.

"Lao Lin, what's wrong with you? Did something scare you again?" Wei Liang reached out and waved his hand vigorously in front of his eyes.

"Liangzi, I haven't been distracted…" Lin Yi said with difficulty.

He looked down at his watch.

2:06 PM.

「There are still 24 minutes before physical education class starts…」

He looked up at the sky again.

The afternoon sun was good, and although there were clouds on the horizon, they were still a long way from drifting over.

He had a guess in his mind.

He looked at Wei Liang and said, "Liangzi, don't move from here, wait for me."

With that, he walked towards the way they had come.

Looking at Lin Yi's back, Wei Liang suddenly felt that his seniority had inexplicably dropped a bit. For some reason, he felt that Lin Yi should be holding an orange when he came back.

"Hey, wait for me, don't get separated, let's go together!" Wei Liang quickly called out to Lin Yi and hurried to catch up.

But after only a few steps, he found that Lin Yi had stopped again.

"Hey, what the heck… are you playing red light, green light?" He couldn't help but say, "Huh, is there something wrong with the teaching building?"

He noticed that Lin Yi was staring at the teaching building.

"No problem… there's no problem now," Lin Yi replied.

He could see the teaching building again.

"I think I know what's going on…"

He glanced at the lamppost by the side of the road.

「Teaching Building - 099」.

He turned and walked towards the gymnasium, observing the changes in the lamppost numbers. When he saw the lamppost number change to 「Gymnasium - 005」, he looked back at the teaching building.

Sure enough, the teaching building disappeared from his sight again.

「So… I can only see the teaching building when I'm within the teaching building's area, and I can only see the gymnasium when I'm within the gymnasium's area?」

「Why isn't Liangzi like this?」

「Is there something wrong with me… or is there something wrong with him?」

Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang suspiciously.

Being stared at by Lin Yi with a strange look, Wei Liang suddenly felt a little unnatural, and his feet, wearing super thick socks, subconsciously curled his toes and scratched at the ground…

"You you you you… what are you looking at me like that for?"

"Uh… it's nothing," Lin Yi said without changing his expression, directly changing the subject, "Let's go to the gymnasium!"

「Liangzi probably doesn't have a problem…」

「So…」

At an angle where Wei Liang couldn't see, he quietly let out a breath…

「So when did something go wrong with me?」

…

May 7, 2023, 2:12 PM, Gymnasium area, a lamppost-lined road surrounded by lush camphor trees.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang walked side by side.

He suddenly missed Tian Bufan very much. He felt that Tian Bufan must have realized something. If he could discuss it with Tian Bufan, his confusion would definitely be resolved a lot…

「Young Master Tian…」

He sighed faintly.

Originally, he had thought too optimistically, wondering if he could run into Tian Bufan or other roommates while eating in the cafeteria.

As a result, he did run into them, but he ran into an overly enthusiastic green-aproned chef who wanted to treat him to spaghetti with tomato meat sauce, and a group of enthusiastic classmates who wanted to have lunch with him… he almost died in there.

「I can only hope that Young Master Tian and the others can meet at the dormitory as initially agreed…」 Lin Yi thought to himself.

Long before coming here, Lin Yi knew from the S City University's experience announcement that the dormitory was a place where they could choose to stay, so they had reserved the same dormitory.

As long as they could get to the dormitory, they could meet in that dormitory.

「Hopefully everything will go smoothly…」

He sighed. What he was most worried about was Mao Feiyang. After all, the teaching building was certainly not normal, but at least it was the teaching building. As for Mao Feiyang… he didn't know if he had managed to leave the stairwell and enter the teaching building later.

Just as Lin Yi was missing his roommates, Wei Liang's voice interrupted him: "Lao Lin, we're almost at the gymnasium!"

Wei Liang pointed to a sign in front of them and said, "After we pass that, it's about two or three more minutes!"

Lin Yi immediately looked over and saw a huge sign simply and rudely stuck in the middle of the road, looking like an axe stuck in a tree stump from a distance.

Lin Yi asked, "Is that the sign in front of the gymnasium?"

"Yes!" Wei Liang nodded and said, "The gymnasium, like the dormitory, has a sign in addition to the specific rules."

"Actually… it is said that every place has a sign, but I have never been to the library."

As they spoke, the two arrived in front of the sign in front of the gymnasium.

Lin Yi looked up and saw a large line of words written on the sign:

"【Notice Board 「Gymnasium」】"

"Opening Hours: Open 24h."

「The gymnasium is open 24 hours?」 Lin Yi was slightly stunned.

The classrooms in the teaching building had times when leaving was prohibited, and the cafeteria had opening hours, but the gymnasium was open 24 hours a day.

Compared to the teaching building and the cafeteria, the gymnasium instantly seemed domineering.

Lin Yi continued to look down. Below the opening hours were two lines of huge and eye-catching black bold font:

"There is only one road leading to the gymnasium, and there are lampposts installed on the road (with lamppost numbers). Do not step on roads without lampposts."

"Note: The gymnasium is built in a somewhat special location. The wind may be a bit strong. Don't worry, as long as there is no rain or fog, it is normal."

「Ah?」 Lin Yi felt that the gymnasium was not simple at all when he saw this. He didn't know how much information was hidden in the simple two lines of words. He suppressed the thoughts he shouldn't have right now and read all the remaining rules in one breath.

Below these two lines of font was a hint marked with an asterisk enclosed in a huge box:

"If you find that it is raining on the way to the gymnasium, please decide where to go based on the first building you see:

1. If you are facing the gymnasium, please rush to the gymnasium on the correct road as quickly as possible."

"2. If you are facing the teaching building, please rush to the teaching building on the correct road as quickly as possible."

"3. If you look up and see a building other than these, especially a Western-style castle, please look around until you find the gymnasium or the teaching building."

"Please be sure to believe: There are no castles in the campus area (this sentence has bold underline)."

"4. If you do not see any buildings other than the castle, please follow the instructions in the 《Student Handbook》 to find the nearest lamppost, hug it tightly, and wait for the physical education teacher or security guard to appear."

"Physical education teachers are people wearing blue and white sportswear with a physical education teacher's badge on their chest;"

"Physical education students are people wearing blue and white sportswear without student IDs."

"If you encounter someone who does not meet the above conditions, no matter what he says to you, please do not respond."

"5. It is forbidden to travel with physical education students."

"After arriving at the gymnasium, please swipe your student ID to obtain the 《Gymnasium Rules》 from the automatic borrowing and returning machine at the entrance, and enter the gymnasium from the main entrance. Do not take other doors or stairs."

"The interior of the gymnasium is the safest place on campus. Welcome to your visit."

This chapter has 5000 words, of which 1000 words are added for the leader "Round Moon and Clear Radiance"… Currently, there are still 9000 words to be added.