Rules-related weird stories: 4016

#411 - The occult section of the library

Subconsciously, he seemed to understand more of the campus's secrets. No matter what kind of secrets they were, he wanted to understand them, like understanding some kind of mystery he had never understood before, solving a high-level problem that he could not solve before... …

As for "leaving"... …?

Lin Yi suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. For a moment just now, he had actually put down the idea of "leaving."

"I was just now... subconsciously attracted by the campus!"

No matter what in the campus attracted him, it was still an attraction, and it made him have the idea of "staying." Once this idea took root in his heart, it would immediately turn into complex roots, making him take root in the campus like a tree, and he would never be able to leave!

Realizing this, he couldn't help but shudder.

He thought that perhaps something was subtly modifying his subconscious, making him no longer resist the campus, no longer resist the world of those incredible majors... …

Why is it that his major is different from others since he was a child?!

No, Liang Zi's is the same as his, both are architectural design.

But why are the seniors, Li Huiyuan, and the female dormitory administrator all those majors that only exist in fantasy... …mysticism?!

【The library of our school contains books on all professional courses in the world. You can browse any books on the premise of ensuring your own safety until the light in the library turns red. 】

The first rule of the library appeared in his mind.

"I have an idea... since it contains all the majors, why don't I just take a look?" Lin Yi thought, since his memory has been modified, then it is possible that he did learn it, but he can't remember it, but it's like a language, once you learn it, you will know it, even if you don't speak it at first, you will be able to communicate when you come into contact with people who speak the same language.

"I can 'dream build', so I might as well go and take a look at something like 'Dreamland Boundary Studies', maybe I'll remember something!"

Once he made up his mind, Lin Yi immediately set off and began to walk towards the surrounding bookshelf area.

"Hey, hey, hey! Where are you going?" The female dormitory administrator saw this and chased after him, carrying an old kerosene lamp.

"Going to read!" Lin Yi didn't need to hide anything.

"Wow, you actually read when there are books?" The female dormitory administrator's expression was strange, like Cao Shaolin played by Hei Gu saying "I told you to eat it, and you actually eat it?"

"Isn't that what the rules say?" Lin Yi asked back, but his steps didn't stop.

The female dormitory administrator quickly said: "Don't go too far. The safest way is to wait for the light to turn red in the bookshelf area near the counter, and then leave immediately when the security guard comes."

The female dormitory administrator, as a hang-up dog who had retreated completely from the second visit to the library, shared the optimal solution to the answer of "leaving the library."

Lin Yi expressed his respect for the second-visit player: "You are right, but I really have something to do."

"Then I won't accompany you..." The female dormitory administrator said, "I'll be more conservative and wander around here..."

Lin Yi nodded: "Then why don't you just wait at the counter?"

The female dormitory administrator's expression changed slightly, and she lowered her voice and said: "This is the weirdness of the library... I'm fine in the bookshelf area, but if I don't do anything at the counter, I will hear some calls urging me to flip through the books or something."

"But, as long as I wander around in the bookshelf area, the voice disappears, and it doesn't matter whether I read the books or not."

"So magical?" Lin Yi showed a look of surprise.

The female dormitory administrator was speechless and said: "Magical my ass! Wouldn't you be afraid if it were you? Void sound transmission, so ethereal!"

"Uh... for me, it's okay..." Lin Yi's heart unknowingly produced a strange sense of superiority of a high-end player... …

"As expected of someone who has experienced the wind and rain in the art building, their horizons have broadened and they have become a little different." Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Then be careful..." The female dormitory administrator saw that Lin Yi really had something urgent to do, so she didn't delay any longer and turned around and walked into the bookshelf area.

The two went their separate ways.

Lin Yi also knew that for people like the female dormitory administrator who only wanted to leave the campus, it was the most correct thing to not care about anything.

He also wanted to become such a person, but something went wrong as soon as he entered the school, and then he was pushed step by step to the current point by an invisible hand and some completely unknown "momentum."

Now, he is an arrow on the string, and he doesn't know whether the person who put him on the bowstring is the "he" in the watchman's mouth, or the "they" including him and Young Master Tian.

But he knew that by tonight, everything would come to light.

The truth about the modified memory, Young Master Tian's purpose in exploring the campus, what they came here for, everything, everything, will be revealed.

He looked down at his watch.

4:32.

In theory, the campus at this point is already safe. As soon as the security guard comes, he will immediately follow the security guard back to the campus and end this thrilling and long night.

Looking away from the watch, he thought of the rule about time in the "Library Rules":

【There is no clock in the library. If you see anything that can reflect time, please ignore it and don't be affected by their timing.】

【Time is inaccurate. The only way you can know the change of time is to ask the security guard who arrives at the library.】

"The only way..." Lin Yi groped for the watch on his wrist. He knew that the "code" of his watch was above the campus rules.

If this watch didn't have a very righteous origin, Lin Yi would definitely think it was some kind of extraordinary creation.

But if it is an extraordinary creation, why would he have it?

So funny... …

Lin Yi shook his head helplessly and groped into the bookshelf area.

The layout of each floor of the library is very similar. Basically, it is centered on a circular counter, extending outward to a blank area of nearly ten meters in radius. The blank area extends outward to the bookshelf area.

The extension of the bookshelf area is adapted to the spherical surface inside each floor of the library, and the bookshelves are not rectangular, but are shaped like tiles standing up. In this way, all the bookshelves are uniformly facing the circular counter, and everyone entering the bookshelf area can use this as a basis to judge whether they are entering the depths of the bookshelf area or returning to the counter.

The bookshelf area on each floor is divided according to sectors. Different sectors correspond to different majors. Looking out from the counter, looking along the spherical surface to the top of the head, it is like looking at a colored ball that is equally divided.

Of course, the sectors of the library are not equally divided.

On the periphery of the bookshelf area, there is a distribution map indicating the majors corresponding to the bookshelves in each sector.

The sectors were quite diverse, roughly divided into: [Mysterious Genealogy (Mysteriek genealogikk)], [Astrology (Astrologi)], [Secret Pattern Studies (Hemmelig mnster - lre)], [Dream Studies (Drmmelre)], [Forging (Smedkunst)], [Word Spirit Studies (Sprkndelre)], [Ritual Studies (Ritualleie)]… … [Other], and [Historical Academic Literature (Akademiske dokumenter innenfor historie)].

… …

Besides the [Other] category, there was actually an independent sector named: [Historical Academic Literature].

Lin Yi was stunned when he saw this, and confusion immediately arose in his heart.

Logically speaking, shouldn't everything that isn't specifically categorized fall into the "Other" category? Why is there a separate "Historical Academic Literature" sector?

"That's a little strange…"

Lin Yi muttered to himself. Driven by a trace of curiosity, he stopped walking towards the "Dream Studies" sector and quickly headed towards the "Historical Academic Literature" sector.

The color of that sector was sky blue, like the walls of a kindergarten. After arriving, Lin Yi plunged in without hesitation.

A minute later, he came out of this sector scratching his head, his forehead covered in question marks like a Buddha's head.

"What's going on…"

The newest novels are first published on 6 9 books!

A rare look of clear, college-student-like foolishness appeared in his eyes.

He turned to look at the name of the sector.

[Historical Academic Literature]

He scratched his head, wearing a "I can't understand" expression.

This Historical Academic Literature sector was filled with unsorted books, all of which were commonly found in ordinary libraries, such as "Journey to the West," "One Hundred Years of Solitude," books on humanities and geography, as well as some very serious comics and novels.

The books in the bookshelves of the teaching building were basically these books.

Very "normal."

But placing them here was extremely abnormal.

He seemed to have guessed something, and rushed to the [Secret Pattern Studies] sector next to the [Historical Academic Literature] sector.

In less than ten seconds, he retreated from the [Secret Pattern Studies] sector with a very strange expression.

The books in the Secret Pattern Studies sector were indeed very mysterious, such as "The Secrets of Secret Patterns: The Sanxingdui Totem and the Origin of the Universe," "Secret Pattern Totems: The Mysterious Journey of the Aztecs," and so on.

But why weren't the books in the Historical Academic Literature sector "historical" at all?

The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't understand. At this moment, the female dormitory administrator emerged from the bookshelf area.

"Wow, are you stalking me?!" The female dormitory administrator was startled.

"Huh?" Lin Yi was also a little dazed, pointing to the Astrology sector not far away and asking in confusion, "Weren't you over there? How did you get here?"

The female dormitory administrator looked disdainful, crossing her arms in front of her chest: "I just wanted to secretly avoid you. I didn't expect your nose to be so sensitive. You managed to chase me here?"

"I was just walking around, don't flatter yourself," Lin Yi said speechlessly. "What are you doing here?"

The female dormitory administrator said: "Among all the books in the library, only the books in this sector won't affect inspiration. Of course I'm here to read them, otherwise what? Read other books and wait to go insane?"

"What do you mean?" Lin Yi was a little surprised. This female dormitory administrator actually directly mentioned inspiration. Did this batch of new students all vaguely know about the problems in the campus?

Knowing there's a problem, but still wanting to experience it?

And now wanting to leave the campus?

Isn't that contradictory?

Then why come here?

The female dormitory administrator looked at Lin Yi's face and asked in confusion: "That's strange, you really don't know? Are all those who practice 'Dream Weaving' like this? I seem to understand… The teacher once mentioned that Dream Weavers often use some kind of fictional reality to anchor themselves. Could it be that you are too?"

"Huh? What fictional reality?" Lin Yi was a little confused.

The female dormitory administrator said: "I don't really understand either. Anyway, it's some kind of anchor established to escape the dream. This anchor is anchored by all the Dream Weaving students, so it's called 'fictional reality'… The deeper someone is in the dream, the more they believe in the existence of fictional reality."

"These books are all things that exist in the 'fictional reality'…"

"Huh? 'Fictional reality'… If it's fictional, how are there so many real books? Are they going to make them up on the spot?" Lin Yi became more and more confused. He knew those books, but he didn't read them much because he didn't like them.

The female dormitory administrator sized up Lin Yi suspiciously, and then said: "Of course they don't have to make them up on the spot. All the books here are historically real, but since the X999 cataclysm, there has been a break in the 'trajectory of history'. In the words of textbooks, it's 'civilization in the water slowly emerges from the surface'."

"If there hadn't been that major event, or if the outbreak of that major event had been stifled, human history would have continued to advance along the established trajectory for a period of time, maybe hundreds or thousands of years… But now, transcendence has gradually infiltrated reality from higher dimensions, and the wheels of civilization have been knocked off course by a stone."

"The Dream Weaving students have uniformly anchored out a 'fictional reality' where the timeline progresses normally and there are no strange things. They firmly believe that they live in that real 'reality', and then, whenever they encounter a crisis while Dream Weaving, they can use this anchor to pull themselves out of danger."

"Wait… Aren't you playing 'Dream Weaving'? Why do I have to explain this to you? Are you lying to me? Are you a fake Dream Weaver?"

Lin Yi's mouth twitched: "Isn't your questioning a bit too intense? So, those of you in Astrology, can you really 'observe the celestial phenomena tonight and know the great events of the world'?"

The female dormitory administrator nodded: "I can…"

Lin Yi: "…"

The female dormitory administrator stuck out her tongue: "Okay… Not entirely, but I know a little bit."

Lin Yi: "…"

Seriously, A-Zhen, are you for real?

The female dormitory administrator elbowed Lin Yi: "Seriously, although everyone signed a confidentiality agreement when they entered the school, do you have to act so convincingly?"

Lin Yi sweated profusely, unable to resist reaching out to support his forehead to hide his embarrassment. Seriously, there's even a confidentiality agreement? Isn't that too outrageous? How come I don't know anything?

Am I the loophole in the confidentiality agreement?!

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