Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi opened his mouth, but ultimately decided against pressing the issue.

The gym rat glanced at the student tunnel and reminded him, "It's getting late, you should hurry up and go… otherwise, you won't be able to get out of the cafeteria when the fog rolls in."

With that, he carried his plaster arm and walked along the edge of the cafeteria towards the other tunnels.

"Fog?" Lin Yi was stunned, following the gym rat's gaze, and he was immediately taken aback.

He saw a layer of fog had inexplicably filled the student tunnel. The fog wasn't particularly thick, but under the illumination of the fluorescent lights in the tunnel, the entire student tunnel looked like a bathhouse filled with steam.

The steps nearby were still clearly visible, but the middle and back sections gradually extended into the fog, making it impossible to see clearly.

As for the exit, it was even more blurred, just a dark shadow, like a giant opening its mouth to block the way. Looking from here, even with the light of the fluorescent lamps, nothing could be seen clearly.

Lin Yi hesitated for a moment…

His intuition told him that if he were to walk into this student tunnel alone today, he would likely never come out.

He had a precedent of getting lost on the way to the gymnasium, so who knew where this tunnel led now.

"Why hasn't Liangzi come out yet?" he muttered.

As soon as this thought popped into his head, the plastic wind curtain behind him "swished" open, and Wei Liang rushed out, panting, patting Lin Yi's shoulder, gasping for breath:

"Lao Lin, are you okay? I just saw it! Did you learn some kind of Qinggong? How could you dart so fast? I couldn't keep up!"

He was saying as he “huffed and puffed”, breathing heavily.

Feeling the hot air almost spraying on his ear, Lin Yi was slightly relieved.

"You saw it?!" Lin Yi asked in surprise.

"I saw it!" Wei Liang nodded seriously, "A few greenish chefs suddenly popped out of nowhere and rushed towards you like crazy, and then I saw you dart off without a trace!"

"Then did you see what was behind me?" Lin Yi asked.

"I did!" Wei Liang said, "A chef, seemed like a chef with a green apron! I saw him following you to the entrance and then someone hit him, and he ran away!"

Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still a little puzzled. Wei Liang saw him being chased, but he was completely fine? What was going on?

But Wei Liang seemed to be just recounting a fact he saw.

"It's good to see you're okay." Wei Liang said with relief, "Why are you frowning?"

Lin Yi shook his head: "It's nothing."

Before he finished speaking, he blurted out abruptly: "Lolis have three virtues!"

Wei Liang was stunned.

Then, he looked at him with a strange expression: "Uh… light body, soft… easy… to push down?"

"Damn, are you okay?" He reached out and touched Lin Yi's forehead.

"It's nothing, it's nothing, I'm just saying the code to see if you're really you." Lin Yi shook his head.

"I thought you converted from the Black Silk Mature Woman Sect to my White Silk Loli Sect…" Wei Liang curled his lips and muttered in a low voice.

Lin Yi's mouth twitched, he didn't continue this topic, but quickly got back to the main point:

"Liangzi, we have to leave quickly, the tunnel is getting foggy."

Wei Liang was stunned when he heard this, then immediately glanced towards the student tunnel, and then habitually jumped in fright, shouted "damn", and then suddenly realized something, patted his chest to comfort Lin Yi:

"Oh my, you scared me to death!"

"Don't panic, don't panic, this concentration of fog is normal, small scene, small scene…"

"Oh?" Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang in surprise, "Is there a saying for this?"

"You're panicking about a visibility of tens of meters, come on, come on, follow me." Although Wei Liang said this, a hint of worry clearly appeared in his eyes, "Come on, if we don't leave now, it will be really too late when the fog gets thicker."

"But…" Lin Yi hesitated, "The student handbook says… when encountering abnormal and foggy weather, the first priority is to find the nearest building to take shelter, right?"

"What you said is true, but Lao Lin, look…" Wei Liang pointed to other areas, "It's not 'abnormal weather' now!"

Lin Yi was a little surprised, following Wei Liang's guidance.

He saw—

The sun had already set, and the current campus was shrouded in darkness, all the vegetation was like distorted human figures, and thin fog was spreading out from the mountains in a menacing manner.

But even so, the visibility was not blurred…

There was fog in other places, but not much fog.

Only the student tunnel, perhaps due to design problems, caused it to condense a large amount of fog in the tunnel as soon as it got dark today.

Obviously—this does not conform to the description of abnormal weather in the student handbook.

"Lao Lin, you are a scaredy-cat, overthinking things." Wei Liang comforted him, "Don't panic, I've walked this student tunnel many times, I'm very familiar with it, put your hand on my shoulder, I'll lead you."

Lin Yi didn't hesitate, and immediately nodded: "Okay."

"Let's go!" Wei Liang took the lead.

Lin Yi reached out and put his hand on his shoulder, and glanced at his watch.

18:20.

The two walked into the student tunnel one after another.

…

On the pillar of the student restaurant, the green-aproned chef's severed arm had disappeared, replaced by an arm sculpture exactly like the severed arm, completely carved out of plaster.

The arm sculpture was lifelike, and on the back of the hand, one could even clearly see the slightly raised blood vessels. At its fracture, one could still see blood-like stone carvings maintaining a downward dripping posture.

…

May, X023, 18:20.

The moment he entered the student tunnel, a cold aura, accompanied by a thin fog, slowly enveloped Lin Yi. A faint sense of discomfort gently stimulated all the pores on Lin Yi's body, making him feel a sense of resistance to the student tunnel.

At this moment, Lin Yi's hair stood on end, and his spine felt cold. He felt as if he was being watched…

It was a cold, indifferent gaze, without any extra emotions, like a lion lying on the ground staring at your back in a daze, like some unimaginable existence, inadvertently glanced at you.

"Is it… that 'existing but not completely existing' blue-aproned chef?"

"Or something else…?"

When this conjecture came to his mind, he had the idea of turning back to take a look.

As soon as this idea appeared, it immediately grew uncontrollably and wildly, turning into a strong desire.

But he immediately generated an even stronger desire to restrain it:

"Don't look back! Absolutely! Absolutely do not look back!"

He clenched his teeth, using his firm will to rationally restrain this desire. He felt the temperature of Wei Liang's shoulder coming from the palm of his hand, maintained an even breath, and followed him step by step down the steps of the student tunnel.

Just walking step by step, Lin Yi silently counted the number of steps in his heart.

When he counted to the thirty-sixth step, each step he took down would make him feel even quieter.

This silence was not normal, as if the entire world had lowered its pitch, and then highlighted some subtle sounds…

"Creak… creak… creak…"

He could clearly hear the sound of his feet stepping on each step, hear his own not-so-fast heartbeat, hear the sound of the fog slowly spreading, and the cold air spreading on the cold walls of the student tunnel…

He heard the extremely subtle sound of trickling water coming from the inner wall of the student tunnel, like water flowing out of the cracks in the stone wall, slowly sliding along the cracks, and then dripping on… moss.

"Moss…"

Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly.

"This is the environmental factor that nourishes moss?"

"That's not right, where does the water come from in the student tunnel…?"

"Wait… could it be that non-existent water, taking advantage of the fog, has seeped into the student tunnel?"

His nostrils flared, and vaguely, he smelled a… faint, salty, and slightly fishy smell in the student tunnel.

The smell of the sea.

"Damn it! Here we go again!"

He rubbed his temples hard, controlling himself not to think too much, and focused on following Wei Liang's movements.

But Wei Liang's speed also began to slow down, as if every step was taken after a lot of calculation.

He followed silently, if he got lost at this time, he would be doomed!

His world became more and more silent, but the sounds he could clearly hear became more and more numerous…

The ultimate of silence is noise, and the end of noise is as if the whole world that has left you suddenly stuffs every subtle sound into your brain.

He heard the sound of his feet landing on the steps, Wei Liang had a "kuo kuo kuo" footstep sound because he wore ill-fitting shoes, and his footsteps were slightly lighter…

He heard the faint sound of wind blowing from a distant world, carrying the sound of waves and the sound of bubbles emerging from the sand…

He heard a "rustling" sound—

Not behind him, but from all directions.

The sound originated from the inner walls of the student passage. In the thin mist, he seemed to see some slight distortion in the walls. Not only were there trickles of water on the walls, but also faint outlines of abstract and bizarre reliefs…

Those outlines… twisting and wriggling, as if performing some ancient ritual. Just the sight of those outlines could evoke a strong curiosity to get closer, to scrutinize, to explore…

Lin Yi didn't dare to look any further, quickly averting his gaze and focusing it tightly on Wei Liang's back.

The fog grew thicker and thicker, and the sounds Lin Yi captured also increased. However, these sounds contained nothing useful, as if the clamor of the entire world was being crammed into his brain.

He gradually felt short of breath, overwhelmed by this nothingness.

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The lights in the student passage appeared even more blurred in the fog. If he hadn't firmly believed that Wei Liang could lead him out of the passage, he would have already leaned against the inner wall of the student passage and become lost in some dark corner…

He was still counting the steps non-stop, but he had already forgotten whether he had counted to the seventy-oddth step or the ninety-oddth step.

He only remembered that he kept walking down the steps.

His hand was always on Wei Liang's shoulder.

The fog became denser, the sounds became clearer, and the shadows cast by the fluorescent lights were distorted by the fog, projecting a chaotic array of shadows on the walls, like dancing claws, closely following behind them, as if they would be devoured as soon as they stopped.

Lin Yi felt his breathing becoming more and more difficult. The pervading fog was like a gradually rising water level, step by step eroding his breathing space and undermining his will.

Just as he felt his will about to succumb, the oncoming fog suddenly became as thin as clouds, and a gust of evening breeze brushed his face. The chaotic vision suddenly became clear…

Under Wei Liang's guidance, he walked out of the student passage.

“One hundred steps, no more, no less!” Wei Liang wiped the sweat from his forehead, his back already soaked.

He turned to look at Lin Yi, patted the latter's somewhat cold hand, and said with a sigh of relief, “We're out,” then turned back into his usual carefree self, triumphantly saying, “How about it? Believing in Brother Liang grants eternal life!”

After a few pats, Lin Yi seemed to have his soul return to his body, retreating from that strange state.

Like a person who has been squatting for too long suddenly stands up, causing the blood to not reach the head in time, Lin Yi's brain experienced a brief blankness, and his ears also experienced a brief disappearance…

After he recovered, his senses of sight, hearing, touch, and smell gradually returned to normal.

…

May 7, 2023, the exit of the student passage.

A gust of evening wind swept through, and the cool air dispelled all of Lin Yi's suffocating feeling. He felt refreshed, with clear ears and eyes, and the turbid air accumulated in his chest was completely cleared away.

He glanced at his watch, and his clear mind suddenly paused.

18:24.

“18:24…?”

“Only 18:24?!”

He remembered that it was 18:20 before entering the student passage, so this long student passage, which felt like a century, actually only took… four minutes?!

Four minutes?

He felt like it was almost forty minutes!

“What's wrong? Still spacing out?” Wei Liang waved his hand in front of Lin Yi's eyes, “Wake up, wake up, we're already out!”

Lin Yi asked doubtfully, “Liangzi, did you notice how long we were walking?”

“How long did we walk? You mean… this passage?”

“Yeah.”

“Maybe… possibly… a few minutes?” Wei Liang hesitated, “I feel like you have a bit of claustrophobia, and you were very nervous while walking with me… You wouldn't have felt like we were walking for a long, long time, would you?”

Lin Yi said, “It felt like we were walking for a long time.”

“Claustrophobia can indeed make you feel uncomfortable in that kind of environment, and some abnormal reactions are normal.” He patted his chest, “I was taking you down non-stop.”

“If it weren't for the fog being a little too thick, and I was afraid you would slip and slowed down a bit, we might have come down in one or two minutes.”

“Anyway, it's all good now!”

“Claustrophobia…?” Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, “Why would I have claustrophobia?”

He turned his head and glanced at the student passage, only to see the student passage filled with fog, and the light and shadow presented a morbid sense of distortion, looking like a mine tunnel full of dust particles hundreds of meters underground.

Oppressive, suffocating, making people feel crazy and chilling.

Lin Yi frowned slightly, but immediately shook his head.

Night had already fallen, so it was better not to think about so many things for now.

He and Wei Liang took off their clothes to carefully examine them, and after confirming that they had not been stained with ketchup, they put them back on.

The two walked to the bulletin board to return the cafeteria rules, and then left the cafeteria area.

…

May 7, 2023, 18:33, on the school road.

As night fell, a thin layer of fog permeated the campus, and the cobblestone road also floated with a stage-like dry ice effect.

This was the norm for the mountain campus. In Wei Liang's words, there was no need to be vigilant about fog below a certain concentration, but no matter what, don't linger on the roads of the campus—especially don't get close to the green belts and shrub areas.

The easiest thing to do was to quickly return to the building, for example, after dinner, you could go back to the classroom, and after waiting in the classroom for about the right time, you could go to the dormitory.

The dormitory's stipulated return time was 21:00 ~ 22:00 in the evening.

The classroom was prohibited from leaving after 21:00.

That is to say, as long as the weather in the evening was still normal, that is, there was no too much fog or rain, you could leave the classroom at about 20:30 and rush to the dormitory to wash and sleep.

This was the experience taught to Wei Liang by his senior.

The two walked along the cobblestone road with street lights, and soon came to the teaching building.

The fog was not very thick tonight, and Lin Yi could clearly see the layout of the fourth floor of the teaching building by the light of the street lamps.

The teaching building was an ordinary teaching building, and the fluorescent lights were also simple fluorescent lights. From a distance, you could vaguely see figures shuttling in the corridor and entering their respective classrooms.

There was a teacher's office at the entrance of each class, and next to Classes 1 and 3, there was also a staircase and a toilet.

There was no seven- or eight-story teaching building, there were only four four-story teaching buildings.

Lin Yi shook his head helplessly, only feeling that the seven- or eight-story teaching building from yesterday seemed to appear in a dream.

Wait a minute!!

Lin Yi suddenly realized something, and his footsteps suddenly stopped in the distance.

“Four… four floors? Why would I say four?”

He suddenly looked at the teaching building.

The moonlight shone on the mountainous area, and the mountains and plains seemed to be covered with a layer of silver frost. The thick white fog spread out from the depths of the mountains and forests, leaving only a thin layer in front of the teaching building.

And the teaching building… looking from near to far, there were clearly only one, two, three… four…

Four?!

“Four… the fourth teaching building?!”

Lin Yi looked at the back of Building C of the teaching building as if he had seen a ghost, only to see a slender corridor bridge extending from the back of Building C at some point, and the corridor bridge extended all the way until it disappeared into the thick fog.

And under the thick fog, the blurred outline of the fourth teaching building could be vaguely seen.

It was an extremely wild and abstract architectural style, standing at the junction of moonlight and gray fog, giving people a strong dreamlike sense of unreality in terms of vision.

Like a mirage, a castle in the air.

Like the reflection of a chaotic world.

Under the moonlight, you could vaguely see a shadow of a clock tower on this fourth building…

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