Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“Okay!” Li Huiyuan uttered a nasal sound through gritted teeth, “But… you must not be overconfident!”

“Don’t worry, I only make the most conservative choices.” Lin Yi patted her hand, then suddenly glanced at her mini baseball bat, “Your baseball bat… the style seems a bit off… No wonder you didn’t want to show it to me before.”

Hearing this, Li Huiyuan’s pretty face instantly turned red.

She had only been a sports student for two days. Even with decent talent, she couldn’t condense a proper baseball bat like the other veteran sports students. Being able to condense a short stick was already good enough, but because the size and appearance of this baseball bat were misleading, resembling the name of a certain famous ancient singer, she had never dared to show it to Lin Yi. But now, Lin Yi had seen it anyway.

“Do you want to die?!” She gritted her teeth, squeezing out murderous words between her teeth, and dispelled the baseball bat in her hand, “If you dare to talk nonsense, I’ll snitch to the boss, tell her you ran naked in front of the head teacher, and then tricked her into making you wear someone else’s clothes!”

“Ah?” Lin Yi staggered, thinking, ‘Damn, isn’t your rumor-making precision self-locking? So accurate?’

“Uh… I actually didn’t see anything.” Lin Yi quickly said seriously.

The corners of his mouth twitched fiercely. His original intention was to use a few words to divert Li Huiyuan’s attention, shifting her focus from these fanatics to himself. But he didn’t expect Li Huiyuan’s bizarre female logic to suddenly kick in, causing him to inadvertently lift a rock and smash his own foot.

He glanced at the time on his watch, then took Li Huiyuan’s hand and slowly followed the fanatic’s footsteps.

…

May 10, X023, 9:42 AM, Teaching Building “Forbidden Zone B-5F”.

Thin white mist filled the entire corridor. The mottled, peeling wall skin was like decaying scales, seemingly ready to fall off at any moment.

Lin Yi followed the fanatic past a teacher’s office. He raised his eyes and glanced at the nameplate.

“Teacher’s Office (Class 15, Group B)”.

“This used to be open, right?” Lin Yi asked.

The fanatic in front paused slightly: “Don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask.”

“You can’t even answer that?” Lin Yi asked again.

“You don’t seem to understand.” The fanatic slowly stopped walking forward, then slowly turned around, his expression icy, a strange smile hanging on his lips, his tone extremely cold, “I said, don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask.”

Lin Yi frowned, took a step forward, not giving the fanatic a chance to react. Sky-blue aura directly wrapped around his arm like an invisible wave, then he spread his fingers wide and grabbed the fanatic’s head as if grabbing a basketball, slamming it hard against the classroom wall beside him.

“Bang—!!”

The heavy impact sound caused the fanatic’s head to be flattened a bit, and part of it was embedded in the wall, squeezing out startling cracks in the gray-spotted wall. Some of the wall skin even crumbled down with a “簌簌” sound.

“You don’t seem to understand the situation either…” Lin Yi’s tone became much colder, “What’s allowed to be asked and what’s not allowed to be asked? If I ask you, then it’s a question that’s allowed to be asked. If you can answer, then answer. If you can’t answer, then say you can’t answer. Why so much nonsense?”

“You…!!!” The fanatic was obviously still in a daze and didn’t react for a moment. He wanted to struggle, but found that Lin Yi’s strength seemed surprisingly great. That hand was like a hydraulic cylinder, pinning his head against the wall, and now he couldn’t get it off no matter what.

“Let me down and I’ll talk…” the fanatic said with difficulty.

Lin Yi then let go, but suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, so he grabbed his head and smashed it against the wall again before letting him down: “Speak.”

The fanatic’s face still had a dazed look. You should know that the experience students who accidentally entered here on weekdays, or some experience students who were “invited” up, were all timid and fearful when they saw him. This fueled his arrogant arrogance, making him unable to react from the image of Lin Yi, a harmless-looking college student with clear and foolish eyes.

By the time he realized something was wrong, Lin Yi had already used his head for two headbutts…

The most important thing was that he was beaten, but the companions on the side were indifferent, as if this matter had nothing to do with them.

This scene made him realize that these people didn’t care about his life or death at all. Everyone was just following the “teacher’s” orders.

The fanatic quickly said, “This place was built, and it was naturally in the operations sector at the beginning… Then something happened… and it became what it is now…”

“I don’t know exactly what happened. I only know that it was a disaster, and it happened very early, probably about 10 years ago… I don’t know anything else…”

Lin Yi didn’t expect that this fanatic was really a cheapskate who only responded to force. And he also noticed the reactions of those fanatics.

These fanatics didn’t seem to mind their companions being beaten, but they would show emotional fluctuations if he walked a little slower.

Lin Yi speculated that these fanatics might have some kind of “mechanism”, with individual thoughts but also a common goal. Only when the goal was affected would they show collective behavior patterns.

And this goal, he guessed, might be to take him and Li Huiyuan to a certain place to see someone.

Or he could extend this goal more macroscopically. These fanatics would leave a certain stronghold, such as a classroom, every once in a while to patrol, and then lock down people who entered here due to various factors, and use means to take these people to a certain place.

As long as these people were still on their way to their destination, it wouldn’t matter if they struggled a bit.

But if they showed any intention of escaping, they might take coercive measures.

And Lin Yi, through some actions, almost unmistakably verified the accuracy of his guess.

The good news was that he was now safer than ever. He had time to extract some information from this fanatic, whether it was true or false.

The bad news was that the crisis waiting for him and Li Huiyuan might be more serious than expected.

Speaking of which, he already missed Lao Mo a bit, missed Lao Mo’s knife, and also missed Lao Mo’s deep professionalism, that kind of basic operation of being able to hand-craft light bulbs at the drop of a hat.

“Where are you taking us?” Lin Yi said.

"Looking for the teacher? Didn't I just say? Uh, I mean... she's in the classroom up ahead." The fanatic realized he'd unconsciously adopted an arrogant tone, and touching his still-flattened head, he immediately became more subdued.

Even the strange smile on his lips looked more like the pathetic expression of a circus clown.

"And then?" Lin Yi continued to ask.

"And then..." The fanatic said, then suddenly, like a phantom, he turned a corner and floated into the classroom. "The classroom's here. If there's anything else you want to know, come inside and you'll find out..."

"Damn it..." Lin Yi watched the fanatic slip away, unable to resist cursing under his breath. If he'd known, he would have hit him even harder earlier.

The classroom door wasn't closed at all. There was still a short distance between them, so Lin Yi didn't rush into the classroom, but instead observed the surrounding environment.

The windows of the classroom were covered in cracks, but they hadn't shattered, as if they had withstood some kind of heavy blow and managed to hold on.

"Is this the real value of explosion-proof glass...?" Lin Yi had long felt that the design of explosion-proof glass was significant, but only now did he truly understand.

Once the fanatic was gone, the surrounding mist seemed to gather a little. With every step Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan took, they stirred up fine dust. There seemed to be some fine, twisted cracks on the walls, as if something was trying to break free from inside.

After reaching the classroom door, Lin Yi first glanced at the nameplate—Group B, Class 15. Then, he led Li Huiyuan into the classroom.

When he stepped into the classroom, he didn't feel the sensation of crossing a threshold. He guessed that this might be because the classroom door was already open. If he had personally turned the doorknob, the situation might have been different.

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As soon as he entered the classroom, a pungent, decaying smell immediately assaulted his face, causing him to frown unconsciously.

At the same time, icy gazes filled with intense hostility seemed to be fixed on his neck.

He didn't continue to move forward, but stayed in the doorway of the classroom, tracing back those gazes...

The general scene inside the classroom quickly registered in his eyes.

The entire classroom was still designed as a lecture hall, but the desks and chairs were dilapidated, as if they had been through a fierce and terrifying battle.

However, that was all in the past. The desks were covered in thick dust, indicating that the decay here dated back years, or even more than a decade. Scattered books and papers were yellowed and brittle, as if they would turn to dust with the slightest touch.

Chalk marks remained on the blackboard, as if an unfinished lesson had once been taught here, making it seem even more strange and distant at this moment.

The atmosphere in the classroom could be described as dim. Not only was there no light source, but it was also filled with the same grayish-white mist as the corridor outside. There was light outside the windows, but the light needed to penetrate clouds as thick as cotton before scattering into the classroom, leaving only a few sparse rays.

The middle area of the lecture hall could be described as darkness. It seemed like an unfathomable abyss, the darkest area in the entire classroom.

An inappropriate thought suddenly popped into Lin Yi's mind. He wondered if it was because he had been influenced by Wei Liang for a long time, coupled with the fact that he had indeed been indulging in H manga a bit too much recently. He suddenly felt that the texture of this layer was somewhat like stockings...

The area outside, filled with white mist, was like a thin white silk stocking on the real world. The further into the classroom you went, the thicker the stockings became, then turning into gray silk, then black silk. And the middle of the lecture hall was as if it was covered by a thick black silk stocking, like a robber's head, where nothing could be seen except the outline.

And in the entire lecture hall, sat all kinds of fanatics.

First of all, all these fanatics looked like "people", but their clothes were different. Like the fanatics who surrounded him and Li Huiyuan, some were wearing slightly damaged, ink-green uniforms like those of art students, some were wearing their own clothes, and some clothes were so tattered that it was impossible to tell what they were.

If Lin Yi hadn't changed his uniform in the teacher's office, his bare-bones outfit wouldn't have seemed out of place here.

It was very possible that at that time, he would have exuded the aura of a fanatic from head to toe.

At this moment, the gazes of those fanatics looking at him were almost all filled with intense hostility. The few gazes that didn't contain hostility actually came from that black silk... no, that middle area shrouded in thick black stockings.

The fanatic who had floated in like a ghost was now standing below the podium, looking at him with a strange smile.

Beside him, the podium stood alone.

On the table, there was also an old globe. The colors on the surface of the sphere had peeled off, and the lines of latitude and longitude had become blurred, appearing faintly in the mist, as if it could break at any moment.

A female teacher was sitting on the podium.

"Wait! Is that her...? !"

The moment he saw the female teacher, Lin Yi's pupils contracted sharply.

The female teacher in front of him was none other than the strange art female teacher who came out to welcome the new students on the day he enrolled!

At the same time, she was also the strange art female teacher who had an argument with Mu Daxian in the classroom, and later had one of her legs removed by Mu Daxian on the stone bridge and used to feed the Night Walkers.

And... just last night, on the way he was taken by Lao Mo to the art building, on the desolate land before entering Guihai Tide, he saw that strange art female teacher!

When he saw the strange art female teacher, he suddenly noticed that the other party was already looking at him, and he seemed to see the look of surprise fading in the strange female teacher's eyes.

"Teacher, we've captured two 'Lost Ones'." The fanatic said to the strange female teacher with a flattering expression while rubbing his flattened head.

Responding to his flattery was a series of actions by the strange female teacher after getting up from the stool behind the podium...

She reached out and pushed the fanatic away, like pushing aside a troublesome onion in a vegetable garden.

Then, her eyebrows curved, and a strange smile with some yin energy appeared on her pale face. A pair of eyes floating with pale golden light stared at Lin Yi: "We meet again... classmate."