Rules-related weird stories: 4016

May 10, 2023, 7:33 AM, Teaching Building B, "Class 2, Group B" faculty office.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 quickly finished breakfast, wiped her lips with a paper towel, and then said, "It's almost time, I'm going to the classroom. Are you done eating? Also, don't leave even a speck of tomato residue in my office. If any tomato juice drips, you'll have to lick it clean."

Lin Yi perked up, immediately sat up straight, and licked the corner of his mouth.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 tidied up her desk, picked up the attendance folder and a black pen, and prepared to leave.

Lin Yi quickly and obediently got up from the sofa, planning to return to the classroom with Homeroom Teacher - 040.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 suddenly thought of something.

"Wait here for me."

After saying that, she went back to the small room. After a short while, she came out with a few pieces of clothing and threw them to Lin Yi.

"Change your clothes. What do you look like in that outfit?"

"Uh…" Lin Yi paused, but still decisively grabbed the clothes and walked towards the small room.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 didn't stop him. Two minutes later, Lin Yi came out wearing a set of casual clothes.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 scanned him up and down, then nodded slightly, and commented, "Not bad, it barely fits. I don't know which homeroom teacher left it behind. Just wear it for now."

"Okay, okay." Lin Yi nodded repeatedly. If Homeroom Teacher - 040 hadn't reminded him, he would have almost gotten used to his "naked" state.

There was no helping it, the downside of being adaptable was that one could easily adapt to even running around naked.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 opened the office door, and the warm sunlight shone on her face, giving her a bit of a Korean drama female lead vibe. She turned her head to look at Lin Yi: "You go first."

The way she smiled back at him in the sunlight made Lin Yi slightly stunned. He quickly shook his head, slung two bags over his shoulders, and left the office.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 followed closely behind, and before leaving, she glanced at the clock on the wall.

7:38.

The time was just right.

After closing the door, she reminded Lin Yi: "Don't open the door yet, wait until 7:40."

Lin Yi nodded, knowing that the school district was very strict about certain times.

Two minutes was actually a very short time.

But Lin Yi sometimes felt that every second was very long.

Losing the sense of time seemed to be a sequela of high-level perception and dream building.

Because when building dreams, the passage of time was non-linear, like a continuously magnified plane. The deeper you went, the more the plane was stretched, and the time scale was relatively distorted.

And during high-level perception, one would fall into "fields" similar to bullet time and time stop, and the perception of time would be replaced by the scale of stretching.

But now, it was a rare moment of tranquility.

He bathed in the sunlight, looking in the direction of the rising sun, and suddenly felt that the daytime was so wonderful, and his body and mind seemed to relax.

He wanted to close his eyes and feel the warmth of the sun, but he didn't feel at ease, so he had to look into the distance, watching the golden light fall between the forests, the ripples like the ocean.

"Whirr… Whirr…"

The wind blew through the leaves, and the fresh air was mixed with a faint smell of blood, which smelled so… huh?

The smell of blood…?!

Lin Yi's heart jolted, his gaze narrowed, and he quickly discovered shattered humanoid sculptures in the green belt…

"Some pseudo-human students have been smashed!" Lin Yi exclaimed subconsciously.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 heard Lin Yi's exclamation and quickly urged in a low voice: "It's almost time, are you coming into the classroom? I know something about the sculptures."

Lin Yi didn't withdraw his gaze, but still said, "Okay, let's take attendance first, and then talk about the matter."

He glanced at his watch, 7:40, the evening self-study session was over.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 reached for the doorknob, but just as she pressed the doorknob down, before she could exert any force, the door was pulled open.

A pale-faced, sleepy-eyed student appeared behind the door, trembling, and tried to come out to bask in the sun.

His lips were constantly trembling, mumbling something, and the moment he opened the door, he saw Homeroom Teacher - 040, and immediately cried like a wronged child, opening his arms to rush over and complain.

"Ghosts… there are ghosts… Teacher…"

Homeroom Teacher - 040 obviously didn't expect this, but she reacted extremely quickly, stepping aside and turning around to push Lin Yi's waist to meet him.

"Hey, I'm going…" Lin Yi pressed the head of this trainee with one hand and pushed him aside, while helplessly saying, "That's not very kind, Teacher…"

"Don't panic, classmate, bask in the sun for a while, things will be fine soon…" Lin Yi glanced at the student and comforted him, then pulled out a tomato from his pocket and subconsciously asked, "By the way, do you want to eat a tomato to calm your nerves?"

As soon as he saw the tomato, the student jumped up from the ground as if he had been injected with chicken blood, then hugged himself in fear, shrinking his head and burying it between his knees, shivering and shouting words like "No, no, help me."

"Hey, are you trying to scare people to death?" Homeroom Teacher - 040 elbowed Lin Yi, blaming him.

Lin Yi whispered, "His mind is already messed up. I'm scaring him a bit. If I'm lucky, it might give him a shot of adrenaline to save him. When he comes to you, it will be in accordance with the way to leave the school district in the 'Student Code', but I don't think he can be saved."

"Then you shouldn't have tricked him with a tomato. Who can stay calm when they see a tomato?" Homeroom Teacher - 040 glared at him.

Lin Yi smiled strangely: "Tomato? What tomato?"

He moved his hands, his palms empty.

"That's why I said he can't be saved… As soon as I probed, he saw a non-existent tomato himself." Lin Yi glanced at the trainee, feeling an indescribable strangeness in his heart, "His mind has crushed himself, and now he is panicking at the slightest sound or movement."

"Alas…" Homeroom Teacher - 040 looked at the curled-up trainee and sighed quietly, "Forget it, let's go into the classroom and take attendance first."

"Yeah." Lin Yi nodded and followed her into the classroom, "By the way, Teacher, there were no new students admitted to the school yesterday evening, right?"

"No." Homeroom Teacher - 040 shook her head and said, "Even if the driver delivers them when abnormal weather arrives, they won't easily let the trainees get out of the car."

"Not good!" Lin Yi suddenly turned around to open the classroom door, then looked outside. The trainee who had been shivering in fear before had already disappeared.

"Damn it!" Lin Yi couldn't help but swear, "Damn it, I've been tricked!"

"What's the situation?" Homeroom Teacher - 040 quickly followed him out of the classroom. Seeing the empty corridor, she couldn't help but frown.

"He… where is he?"

"That person! He's not a student in our class!" Lin Yi's face was gloomy, "I was just wondering why he felt so strange just now. There's an indescribable strange aura about him, and I'm sure I remember the faces of everyone in the class, except for him!"

"There were no new people in the class yesterday, so where did he come from?"

"Moreover, he couldn't open the door himself. He only escaped after you pressed the doorknob!"

Hearing this, Homeroom Teacher - 040 couldn't help but say: "He's not human!"

Lin Yi also subconsciously rubbed his arm: "I just felt that he was a little off, but I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong… But because he wasn't afraid of sunlight, I didn't suspect too much."

Whether or not they fear the sun is the simplest basis for judging whether or not they are those strange creatures.

"That's really strange…" Homeroom Teacher - 040's face was serious. Suddenly, she reacted to something and quickly returned to the classroom, "Not good! That guy has been in the classroom all along. Nothing happened last night, did it?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi's expression also turned stern, and he quickly entered the classroom again.

There were a total of seven people in the classroom, all trainees, both new and old.

The homeroom teacher - 040 walked up to the podium and tapped the blackboard. After everyone had shifted their gaze from their books to the blackboard, she cleared her throat and said, "Class, perk up! After the evening self-study session, come up one by one to sign in!"

"You go first," she said, looking at Lin Yi. "The necessary formalities still need to be done."

Lin Yi nodded and went up to sign in. As he was about to head back to his seat, the homeroom teacher - 040 said in a voice only he could hear, "Come to my office later."

"Huh?" Lin Yi was taken aback.

"It's serious business!" She glared at Lin Yi.

"Alright, alright, I didn't say it wasn't serious..." Lin Yi muttered under his breath, then stepped down from the podium and walked up the tiered classroom.

As he walked, he observed the remaining students in the classroom. Then, in a hidden corner, he spotted Mountain Man "Yuan Lijian."

「Huh? He's actually in the classroom?」 Seeing Mountain Man, Lin Yi was clearly surprised.

Based on his understanding of Mountain Man, this guy wasn't usually so well-behaved at night. Last night, he even braved the abnormal weather to leave the class and seemingly didn't return all night. Who knows what he was secretly up to.

But today, he was actually in the classroom, not even returning to the dormitory.

At that moment, Mountain Man was still fiddling with his watch, as if the time could never be properly adjusted. Beside him were some small tools, as if he had just finished assembling something.

He turned a deaf ear to the homeroom teacher - 040's call, but when Lin Yi looked at him, he quickly sensed it. Immediately afterward, he put down the tools and watch in his hand and looked at Lin Yi.

When he saw Lin Yi, a hint of surprise flashed imperceptibly in his eyes.

Then, unexpectedly, he actually nodded slightly to Lin Yi. Only then did he continue to fiddle with his small parts.

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Mountain Man's unusual behavior quickly aroused Lin Yi's vigilance, and it also made the homeroom teacher - 040, who was currently calling out names for sign-in, narrow her eyes slightly.

「What does this mean?」 Lin Yi quickly became suspicious, and many thoughts flooded his mind.

Because Mountain Man being in the classroom was already somewhat "illogical."

He was a highly contaminated individual; staying in the classroom overnight was extremely unsafe.

Mountain Man's presence in the classroom at this moment also meant that he had returned to the classroom before it closed last night and had not left since then.

「No, no, no...」 Lin Yi carefully recalled the rules.

【After 21:00, leaving the classroom is prohibited. Please study until 7:40 the next day. You may browse any books, but remember NOT! TO! SLEEP! IN! THE! CLASSROOM!】

「Leaving is prohibited after 9 PM, but entering the classroom is allowed...」

「No, I must check Mountain Man's sign-in record later!」

Because if Mountain Man had entered the classroom when leaving was not allowed, then the extra student at the beginning was very likely to have entered the classroom with Mountain Man at that time.

And with Mountain Man's vigilance, it was impossible for him to let something sneaky follow him without any reaction.

Almost with just a few thoughts, he deduced that Mountain Man was related to that "extra student."

He silently found the vicinity of his "old seat" and sat down, starting to observe the other students. There was nothing to say about these students; they had no distinguishing features for him and were just regular NPCs, no different from the countless statues in Green Forest.

Lin Yi took out his notepad, wanting to write something, but found himself unable to start.

There were too many things he wanted to write, and too many taboos. He needed to organize his thoughts before he could put pen to paper.

He rested his cheek on his hand, propped up on the folding desk, and fiddled with the pen in his other hand, then casually recalled some things from yesterday.

His day was very fulfilling. It felt like one day was worth several months for others. If he were to write a diary, it would probably be like a novel.

「Some things must be written down...」

For example, some things about the gymnasium...

He flipped through the previously written notes. Some notes had lost their "validity," while others were profound, especially those newly written "code"-like phrases, such as "230509 Gray Fog Invasion," "1414030 Water Sound," "Ta - I, II, III"...

On the latest page of the notepad, it was also written:

"My watch appeared in my dream, and it kept accurate time. The security guard said time is a curse... I wonder if there's any connection."

"Vision Insight seems to have evolved. I wonder if my world has been upgraded..."

"H manga is very interesting."

He thought about it, wanting to modify it several times, but didn't write anything.

In the end, he turned the page and recalled his experiences starting from the gymnasium, starting to extract keywords:

"School doctor in the gymnasium." As soon as he finished writing, he thought of the homeroom teacher - 040's words, so he wrote, "The school doctor is everywhere."

Just after writing this sentence, he felt an indescribable strangeness looking at what he had written.

These two sentences always felt like there was some logical problem... But, they were clearly both correct.

「Forget it, let's keep writing.」 Lin Yi smiled self-deprecatingly. Anyway, he was writing for himself, so why care so much?

If someone were to open this notepad, then congratulations to that person for having the good fortune to ascend to paradise first.

He continued to write, but only wrote keywords:

"Physical education teacher... iron chain..."

He thought of the security guard and dormitory administrator also having similar iron chains, only with different thicknesses. The security guard's was thicker, and the dormitory administrator's was thinner. He wondered if there was any connection between the three, so he wrote "Security Guard +" and "Dorm Administrator -" next to the iron chain.

Then he continued to write:

"Gymnasium... city wall... 「Feast」..."

"Fanatics... matrix... Wrathful Angel..."

"Non-existent road... 「Return to the Sea Tide」... 「Forest of Bones」..."

He pondered for a moment and wrote "「Starry Night」" next to 「Forest of Bones」, then drew a circle and put a "?".

"The old kerosene lamp is an hourglass."

"The grinning angel is the dormitory administrator."

"The obsessive statue is an art student."

After writing these three sentences, he felt a bit abstract, but only a little abstract.

"Teacher 039 became the art teacher."

"Clock Tower = Lobby → Corridor → Outer Wall → Hallway → Staircase → √"

After writing this sentence, he was about to write the next one, but he felt like he had forgotten something. So, he repeatedly observed the sentence and realized that he had actually forgotten the gallery, so he quickly added it.

「That's really strange... How could I almost forget the gallery?」 He pondered for a moment, a little confused, but still continued to record.

"The library is like an ivory carved concentric ball."

After writing this sentence, he thought about it. He clearly felt that there were many points in the library that could be recorded, but when he really wanted to write, he found that there was nothing to record. It seemed that the library's impression on him was just a super huge ivory carved concentric ball.

Ultimately, it was still because he had limited time and hadn't explored it well.

As for the things about returning to the campus, they didn't seem worth recording.

Of course, except for...

"I..."

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and not knowing what mindset he was in, he actually wrote, stroke by stroke...

"Am..."

"Human..."

After writing the word "Human," he had a strong urge in his heart to add a question mark, but he finally restrained himself and then wrote a period in an incredibly difficult pen-holding manner.

【I am Human】

Three words, not many strokes, but it took him a long time to write.