Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Is there a possibility...?"

"That the abnormal weather upon entering the school was a setup by infiltrating forces?"

The school knows so much about the campus; there's no reason for a special case of abnormal weather entering the school, right?

The only explanation is that everything was designed.

Even—

"I am also a pawn in this game... but I don't know if I'm a pawn placed by the authorities or a pawn placed by infiltrating forces, or neither..."

Things are getting more and more complicated...

Thoughts surged in Lin Yi's mind as the team continued to move forward.

Suddenly, the eerie art female teacher slowed her pace.

Lin Yi sensed something and glanced towards the front of the group. In an instant, golden light surged in his eyes, and extraordinary power poured into his pupils...

The white mist gradually disappeared in his eyes, no longer able to affect his vision, and his visual range rapidly stretched, as if he had zoomed in.

Soon, he discovered that this floor of the teaching building was filled with Grinning Angels.

All the Grinning Angels were slightly bowing, covering their faces and weeping, and the feathers on their backs were all petrified with water droplets.

None of them were awake, but their distribution was very particular.

Imperceptibly, they seemed to form a passage, even only allowing the crowd to pass through the path they left open.

The time was just past 10 a.m., when the sun was high in the sky, but the sunlight still couldn't penetrate the thick smog of the teaching building. Lin Yi and the others walked here as if walking in a dusty desert.

The eerie art female teacher led the team through the Grinning Angel crowd. Even though everyone knew that Grinning Angels mainly locked onto targets through sensing, they still held their breath, not daring to breathe loudly.

Lin Yi's approach was very cunning. He cautiously led Li Huiyuan to the middle of the fanatic's team, ensuring that if an accident occurred, the fanatics on the outer circle would absorb the first wave of attacks.

After walking for a while, Li Huiyuan suddenly whispered, "Lin... Brother Xiao Zi, do you think these Grinning Angels won't wake up at all?"

Lin Yi frowned slightly, "I don't think so. That teacher is so cautious, which means there must be something fishy here. Be careful, don't leave me. If there's a sudden situation, I'll take you and run."

【...Don't leave me...】 Upon capturing the keywords, Li Huiyuan automatically extracted them, ignoring the other words Lin Yi said, and many pink bubbles popped up in her mind...

Sure enough, Lin Yi quickly noticed a trace of abnormality.

He heard some "rustling" sounds in the air...

Then he discovered that all these Grinning Angel sculptures were moving along with the movement of their team!

And the road ahead seemed to never reach its end!

"Not good! The layer has been changed!" Lin Yi quickly reacted. The Grinning Angel sculptures collectively twisted this layer. At this moment, they were lost in spatial scale!

"No way!" Lin Yi secretly thought something was wrong. At this moment, he had to choose between "believing that the eerie art female teacher had a way to avoid the Grinning Angel's attacks" and "finding a way to break the situation himself."

Without even thinking about it, Lin Yi chose to break the situation himself—he would never put his hope in others, especially when that "other" was a fanatic.

He slowed down his pace—in fact, pace had no meaning in spatial scale, but in his "mind," it played a kind of suggestion that he was "leaving the team."

Just then, a subtle sound broke the oppressive and deathly silent environment.

"Crack..."

The eerie art female teacher's footsteps paused heavily.

In the next moment, more and more cracking sounds echoed one after another.

"Crack, crack, crack..."

The Grinning Angel sculptures began to shed their sculpted bodies, transforming into flexible, translucent forms...

Lin Yi scanned his limited field of vision with his limited visual range, and then he was surprised to find that among all the Grinning Angels he observed, he couldn't see a single one holding an hourglass!

All the Grinning Angels were old-fashioned Grinning Angels!

"Something's not right! Something's very wrong!"

A sense of unease rose in his heart.

Why would Grinning Angels appear in broad daylight?!

Is there a possibility that the so-called daytime is related to the sun, and at this moment, this place has lost the "daytime" anchor point in terms of "identity"?!

Is a "daytime" without "sunlight" still considered "daytime"?!

The unease in Lin Yi's heart grew stronger and stronger. He began to observe the surrounding situation, ready to run away at any time.

Just then, the eerie art female teacher's "coping method," which he had been looking forward to, was finally revealed by her.

He only heard the eerie art female teacher give an order: "Everyone who still remembers their name, follow me. The rest of you, rest in place! We will remember the sacrifices you have made!"

After the eerie art female teacher finished speaking, she left with Ren Jianxiong, Zhang Lingzhen, and the others without looking back, even speeding up her pace...

"Huh?" Lin Yi was shocked by the eerie art female teacher's arrangement. "Is this her way to avoid the Grinning Angels?"

"Damn it!"

What kind of method is this? Isn't this just risking lives?

And saying such high-sounding words as "We will remember your sacrifices." When such words were spoken by the head teacher and others, they were so admirable, but when they were spoken by the eerie art female teacher, Lin Yi felt incredibly absurd and laughable.

Go die for me, and I will remember you. What is this?

Lin Yi took a breath, feeling that he really overestimated the fanatics sometimes.

But a large part of the fanatics really did slowly walk towards the Grinning Angels.

Lin Yi realized that these fanatics were like zombies, very similar to the pseudo-human sculptures, but there were significant differences between them and the pseudo-human sculptures.

It's like... pseudo-human sculptures within the fanatics!

Ordinary pseudo-human sculptures are usually transformed from experiential students or night-walking species that have taken student IDs, while the pseudo-human sculptures here are transformed from fanatics.

Strictly speaking, these are all "pseudo-fanatic sculptures."

Sculptureization and night-walking speciesization seem to be two extreme dehumanizing transformations after contamination...

Lin Yi slowed down his pace, and his perception spread out like a tide, quietly spreading along this almost stagnant space.

The road he had come from gradually appeared in his perception, and the roads that had not yet been touched gradually became clear...

The space here was elongated, but it was only elongated. The changes in the layer were not too strange, perhaps caused by the collective descent of the Grinning Angels.

It was unclear whether the Giggling Angels sensed the perception power released by Lin Yi, or were stimulated by the fanatical believers, but they accelerated their awakening. The already dim environment began to flicker, as if the lights were flickering.

This was an illusion.

In reality, within Lin Yi's perception, as the Giggling Angels awakened, invisible ripples began to emanate from them in all directions. These ripples seemed to exhibit wave-particle duality, interfering with each other, either overlapping or canceling out. When crests and troughs appeared, the light flickered accordingly.

Following this, Lin Yi vaguely sensed that with the appearance of the Giggling Angels, a volcanic ash-like substance began to fall in the air. That familiar feeling from before came from this volcanic ash…

He looked at the volcanic ash and discovered that it contained "Ashes!"

Of course, the volcanic ash was only the size of snowflakes, and the proportion of "Ashes" within it was even finer than a strand of hair, but even this insignificant amount was captured by Lin Yi's perception.

This was normal, after all, his body had survived the ravages and erosion of the Aberrant Angel lurking in the black sea of the Art Building's stratum.

Because of this, his perception of "Ashes" had already surpassed most units in the school district. After all, he was the only one who bore "Ashes" in a "mortal" body.

Emmmm… "Mortal body?" Lin Yi paused slightly, then chuckled self-deprecatingly, "I guess… so…"

Meanwhile, the Ash Apostle who also carried Ashes had already transformed into a non-human, non-ghost conceptual sculpture.

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At that moment, the fanatical believers who had stepped forward began to release the dark green aura within their bodies, using it to attract the snowflake-like volcanic ash. Magically, the volcanic ash was indeed drawn to them.

These "Ashes" fell on them and quickly melted like rain, rapidly permeating their bodies.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle — sizzle sizzle sizzle —"

Upon contact with the Ashes, their bodies began to emit steam as if they had been ignited, but their faces showed no abnormality, as if it were unrelated to them.

At the same time, the awakened Giggling Angels revealed hideous and terrifying smiles at these fanatical believers. In groups of three or five, they gathered around the believers and began to suck the steam emanating from their bodies.

Their expressions were distorted, perverted, obsessed, and enjoying themselves, like inhaling some terrifying powder, and their transparent bodies began to flow with an eerie color.

Strangely, the fanatical believers showed no abnormal reaction when the Ashes permeated them, and the Giggling Angels showed no signs of pain when sucking the steam. On the contrary, their expressions became more and more ecstatic, as if they were about to take off.

However, within Lin Yi's perception, the Ashes continued to accumulate within each fanatical believer as the volcanic ash piled up, causing their bodies to gradually begin to glow red…

If this continued, the bodies of the fanatical believers would burn like cotton wool touched by a spark.

"The situation is not good!"

"Let's go! When the wind is strong, take cover!" After observing the problem, Lin Yi no longer intended to stay. He grabbed Li Huiyuan's hand and retreated.

Li Huiyuan did not resist at all, letting Lin Yi grab her and lead her away, but curiously asked, "Where are we going?"

Lin Yi replied, "I don't know, let's separate from them first. Those people are about to become dangerous."

"Okay, I also think it's better to separate." Li Huiyuan nodded. Zhang Lingzhen had deep hostility towards her, and she also wanted to smash Zhang Lingzhen's head with a baseball bat.

Lin Yi pulled Li Huiyuan and retreated along the way they had come, constantly avoiding the falling volcanic ash to avoid attracting the attention of the Giggling Angels.

Not long after they escaped, the first fanatical believer who could no longer bear the accumulation of Ashes and reached the limit appeared.

With a "poof" sound, a cluster of flames erupted within the believer's body, and then the fire instantly engulfed the believer's entire body.

"Ah…"

The fanatical believer finally couldn't bear the pain and let out a roar.

But the fire and steam quickly enveloped him, and within the flames, only the shadow of the skeleton remained. Soon, the skeleton was also reduced to ashes.

The Giggling Angels turned a blind eye to this, still greedily sucking the steam, but soon the fire swept up, flowing into their illusory bodies along with the steam…

"Boom boom…"

The Giggling Angels seemed to be bellows blown by a strong wind, and the raging flames suddenly burned up.

The illusory Giggling Angels seemed to have become some kind of fuel, but within this fire, it seemed that some kind of crystalline substance was being slowly cast…

Lin Yi withdrew his perception, silent.

He seemed to have discovered some kind of secret.

A secret of the Ash Harvesters.

He secretly remembered this location and led Li Huiyuan out of the distorted space without looking back, returning to the normal—no, relatively normal—"Forbidden Area - B-5F" of the teaching building shrouded in white mist.

…

May 10, X023, 10:05, Teaching Building "Forbidden Area - B-5F".

Lin Yi stopped with Li Huiyuan at the side of the corridor, his brows gradually furrowing.

"Tsk! Damn…"

Lin Yi rubbed his brow, only to see a row of Giggling Angels appearing deep within the corridor.

However, these Giggling Angels had not yet been activated and still maintained the sculpted state of covering their faces and weeping.

Lin Yi was startled and looked towards the stairwell.

Without looking, one wouldn't know, but upon looking, several Giggling Angel sculptures with the standard face-covering and weeping starting gesture appeared very cooperatively in the stairwell.

He also looked at the bridge.

The corridor section they were in was relatively close to the stairwell, and on the other side were bridges leading to Building A and Building C, but they were all hidden in the mist.

The bizarre art female teacher had led the science explorers to Building A, which was closer to the green belt. Lin Yi guessed that their destination was to enter the green belt and seek the protection of the Matrix in the desolate land deep within the green belt.