Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Class 2, Group B...?"

Although his vision was hazy, Lin Yi's will was incredibly clear. Seeing the number plate of his class, his heart was shocked.

Looking again at "his" current state, a feeling of horror instantly spread through his heart.

"Could it be...? !"

Before he could react, he saw himself reach out and press down on the door handle. The next moment, the sound of the lock tongue turning, "kakaka..." echoed from inside the door. The sound was long, as if the door had been locked more than a few times.

This made the unease and eeriness in Lin Yi's heart even more intense.

Finally, the door opened...

"Squeak--crack--"

With a strong expectation to see what was happening, he followed his wavering vision and slowly entered the classroom.

At this moment, the lights in the classroom were off. A large number of experience students were huddled under the desks at the back of the tiered classroom, hugging the desk legs and staring intently at the ground. A strong sense of fear spread out like gasoline on the water.

In the dark classroom, there were also figures like tombstones. These were all pseudo-human sculptures. In the darkness, they regained their vitality, making rustling sounds as they moved...

Outside the moisture-covered explosion-proof glass windows, a torrential rain was pouring down, and the white lightning that tore through the sky caused the classroom to constantly change between black and white. The whole environment was as gloomy as a dark trench that light couldn't penetrate.

Suddenly, Lin Yi saw a beam of dim, flickering light...

The light of a flashlight!

A pseudo-human sculpture holding a flashlight was slowly dragging itself across the classroom. Beside it, there was also a dark lump of humanoid mass...

Little Genius!!

"No way...? !"

"This is actually the classroom on the evening of May 6th...? !"

"When Little Genius died, I was hiding in the classroom over there...?"

No wonder Lin Yi was so clear about the moment the lights went out...

Because the "Concept-Level Sculpture" contained the "will" of his future self?!

Lin Yi's scalp felt as if countless needles were constantly stimulating it. He was unwilling but also wanted to see if there was a "himself" squatting by the desks, in order to make a final confirmation.

So he stared expectantly at the back row of the classroom...

Until this moment, he had not realized that a kind of evil and bizarre sense of closed-loop, with a strong and indescribable fear of being shrouded in fate, was slowly falling on him...

No wonder the "Concept-Level Sculpture" seemed to be looking for something. He didn't expect it was the "present me" looking for the "past me"?

Or rather, for me who had just entered the school, was I completely unaware that the future me was looking for myself?

He thought of the premonition he had felt before repairing the city wall in the gymnasium, but it was not as strong as it was now.

Just then, he heard "himself" seemed to be saying something...

It was a language similar to precepts, obscure, lengthy, and intermittent, but at this time, Lin Yi seemed to be able to hear something, as if it was saying...

"Listen to me..."

"Say..."

"Don't..."

"Save..."

"Maozi..."

"Run away..."

"Tomorrow..."

"Time..."

"Run..."

"Not..."

"This time..."

"Run..."

"Run away..."

Unexpectedly, there was also a voice from the third will!

Lin Yi's mind was shaken, and he felt as if he had fallen into some kind of terrifying cycle.

He thought of the 《Flash Paradox》--people will never know how many Flash were in the house on the night the Flash's mother was murdered.

"Could it be... I'm also caught in this paradox?"

There is also a me from the more distant future, conveying a message to the past (evening of May 6th) at this moment? Or is it conveying a message to the present (noon of May 10th)?!

The meaning of [Leave tomorrow]... is it telling me to leave tomorrow, or is it saying that I should escape the campus on the second day of May 6th, that is, on the morning of May 7th?

May 7th...

"Wait a minute...!"

A dazzling light flashed through Lin Yi's mind again.

"Young Master Tian seemed to have said that he tried to leave the campus on May 7th, but found that he couldn't leave..."

"Evening of May 6th... The Concept-Level Sculpture, that is, the Ashbringer, that is, 'I'... did indeed go to Young Master Tian's classroom. Could it be that Young Master Tian got some information from it...? !"

What exactly happened in the future that made me leave immediately after entering the school?

But there is no way to leave on May 7th!

What the hell is going on?!

Lin Yi's mind was shaken, as if he had fallen into some kind of terrifying time loop.

At this moment, the vision in front of him began to collapse and blur again, filled with fleeting lights, phantoms, and some unclear illusions.

He tried to look at the back of the tiered classroom. For some reason, his subconscious wanted him to look over there...

But when he looked over there, he found that he couldn't see anything clearly. The dark classroom seemed to be filled with a strange power. The aura emanating from that power made him feel palpitations and terror. But is there anything beyond common sense over there?

Could it be... Wei Liang?

"Liangzi on the evening of May 6th... Could it be that he has done something unknown?" Lin Yi was a little shocked. He felt that he could never guess how much Liangzi was hiding.

But what if this feeling doesn't come from Wei Liang?

In the classroom on the evening of May 6th... Is there still an expert?!

Just then, he heard a burst of fierce whistling in his ears.

"Whirring whirring--!!"

A chain shimmering with faint light shot in from outside the door, wrapping around "him" like a flexible snake!

At the door of the classroom, senbai-colored mist was constantly surging. The end of the chain extended all the way into the hand of the iron tower-like figure in the mist.

"Security guard!"

Lin Yi immediately thought of the "plot" of the evening of May 6th. The security guard used chains to drag the "Ashbringer" out of the classroom, and then the classroom was safe.

At this moment, across the distant distance, Lin Yi could only see the flowing mist wandering around the security guard like a thick quilt.

Under the mist, the security guard's golden eyes were like the reactor in the chest of a super mecha, flowing with deep golden brilliance.

"Boom--"

Thunder tore through the night sky, and the security guard at the door was like a high mountain emerging from the sea level in the black ocean. The powerful sense of oppression made all the pseudo-human sculptures in the entire classroom lose their mobility.

"Get out!"

The majestic voice was like thunder exploding in the low air, echoing in the classroom. The next moment, the chain tightened with a "clang", and a huge force struck. Lin Yi felt "himself" being dragged out.

His vision flashed quickly, leaving the classroom in the hazy light and distorted illusions.

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As his vision reached the corridor, a figure there immediately caught his attention!

"Teacher - 040?!"

"No, it's Teacher - 039!"

The figure was slender and graceful, its lines almost perfectly outlined in the mist. She wore a uniform similar to that of Teacher - 040, covering her entire body. It was difficult to perceive her, but Lin Yi's keen insight allowed him to see her at a glance…

In the next moment, his vision rapidly collapsed, and all that remained in his ears was the sound of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." He seemed to fall into a weightless tunnel, the walls covered with countless swirling patterns like a starry night. These were distorted images formed from countless blurred scenes, depicting the experiences of the "Concept-level Sculpture," but he couldn't grasp any of it, as if those scenes were unrelated to him.

Suddenly, he sensed something from one of the swirling patterns…

He seemed to see a person in tattered clothes floating in mid-air, holding a cane and confronting "him." On the other side, dormitory buildings rose from the ground like a chasm, standing against "him" like ancient giant swords…

He also saw Mu Daxian's figure appearing at the corridor of the teaching building…

This was a scene from the evening of May 8th…

It was blurry, but he could still make it out.

Before he could observe the convenience store owner closely, the swirling pattern left him, but soon another swirl crashed into him…

This time, he saw a shattered glass window, and ashes rained down from the void, slowly falling…

And "he" stood before the broken glass window, blankly watching the trajectory of the ashes, like a statue.

Suddenly, a noise from behind attracted his attention.

He turned around and saw… himself!

The "him" who had taken Li Huiyuan into the abandoned classroom that morning!

"Ah?!" Lin Yi was shocked and suddenly realized that his perspective… had shifted to that of the "Ash Apostle · Fire Man" (the non-existent one)!

"What's going on?!"

He was dumbfounded. If there was some connection between the "Concept-level Sculpture" and him, he could understand, but what relationship did the "Ash Apostle · Fire Man" have with him?

Could it be a "crossover"?!

"Perhaps I can communicate…?" Lin Yi's eyes lit up. What would happen if two versions of himself communicated across time and space?

Before he could react, the "Ash Apostle · Fire Man" shot towards the "him" from that time.

Lin Yi quickly said, "The other me, we should talk!"

But his voice didn't seem to be transmitted, and the "him" from that time made that incredibly familiar move.

"Come on, let's fight to the death!" The "him" from that time showed an appearance of "high fighting spirit."

【Don't—】Lin Yi shouted, but the "Ash Apostle · Fire Man" let out a long howl that sounded like "battle lust."

Then came the scene of him being ruthlessly thrown out the door by the "him" from that time…

As soon as he was out the door, his vision collapsed again, and he quickly returned to the tunnel with the sound of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."

At this time, everything around him was leaving him, as if being peeled away little by little.

Finally, when the wind subsided and the light and shadows dissipated, he found that his vision had returned to the entrance of the convenience store.

At this moment, his flesh was constantly growing from the burning ashes, and his muscle fibers refracted a glass-like brilliance, like diamonds, like glass, but more like some kind of substance that had been tempered.

His body was constantly reshaping, and his flesh drew strength from the burning ashes during the reshaping, constantly tempering and sublimating itself.

The burning ashes no longer seemed to be able to harm him. Looking at these ashes, he felt a sense of affinity, and even a strange illusion of "my mind merging with the ashes."

As time passed, his body was being reborn into an increasingly strange and extraordinary form…

He suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but glance at his wrist.

11:20.

Time was passing.

That was good.

But in the burning ashes, he found that his watch was not affected at all—no, his clothes were not affected either.

Inanimate objects… seemed to be unaffected by the ash flames?

He didn't waste time on this issue, but instead took advantage of the time when his body was being reshaped by the burning ashes to "make time" to review the scenes he had just seen…

If the scene from the perspective of the "Ash Apostle · Fire Man" hadn't appeared later, Lin Yi would have really thought that the "Ash Apostle · Concept-level Sculpture" was related to his future self, and he might have even thought that it was related to the dimension of time, but the "Ash Apostle · Fire Man" was simply something fabricated by Yamanaka, and had nothing to do with him at all.

In this way, the conjecture that the "Ash Apostle" was "the future him" was negated.

But in that case, how to explain the connection between him and the "Ash Apostle"?

Through the limited information currently available, he found some clues.

First of all, the "Ash Apostle" is unique. At least, no matter how many units have entered the "Ash Apostle" path, the final "Ash Apostle" can only be one.

This is like countless cultivators chasing the only place to become an immortal. He is currently just a member of the "immortal path." Only by completing this "immortal path" can he be called an "immortal," that is, the "Ash Apostle."

Then what is the "glorious evolution" pursued by the eerie art female teacher?

"Wait!"

Lin Yi suddenly realized!

"Is there a possibility that 'Ash Apostle' is not an independent individual, but… some special 'state' of him?!"

Could it be that "Ash Apostle" does not refer to the person who has completed the "immortal path," but refers to… the "immortal path" itself!

All units that have entered the "immortal path" are "Ash Apostles." It is a special state of "bearing ashes without being destroyed," especially… units in the "ash burning state"!

He thought of the appearance of the "Concept-level Sculpture," and also thought of Tian Bufan's previous guess—"The concept-level sculpture is a quantum-state projection of some high-level existence in the real world"!

"Concept-level" is indeed correct, and "quantum-state" is also correct!