Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi took a heavy step forward.

As he took this step, the entire world in Lin Yi's view seemed to be on the verge of collapse. He knew that his vision was finally starting to fail. In a world of fragmented light and shadow and twisted grayness, it was truly difficult to maintain a normal visual state.

He incessantly told himself, "I am a student, my name is Lin Yi, and my student ID is X0230506098." He focused all of his attention on the streetlight pole labeled "Dormitory Building - 096."

He took a step, as if turning a cog in a machine.

The rotating gears drove the puzzle pieces that made up the world. The streetlight pole in front of him folded outwards in all directions like blooming petals, along with the base and the cobblestone pavement. Eventually, the entire world seemed to lose its X, Y, and Z axes, turning into a soft, drooping mass of dough.

Lin Yi felt like he was trudging through a swamp, each step incredibly difficult.

He could feel "Dormitory Building - 095" disappearing behind him, while "Dormitory Building - 096" remained far ahead, still out of reach.

He walked forward step by step, the ground beneath his feet subtly beginning to lose its inherent characteristics.

When his foot landed, a dense, spiderweb-like pattern of cracks clearly spread outwards from the point where his foot met the ground.

However, this phenomenon should have given him the feeling of walking on thin ice, but instead, it felt like stepping onto a glutinous rice dumpling.

Soft, sticky, and even with a strange sense of imbalance, he almost stumbled.

He clenched his teeth tightly, exerting so much force that he felt like he was about to shatter his molars.

He breathed heavily, a scorching airflow faintly escaping from his mouth and nose, and a low growl began to emanate from his throat.

As if truly sensing the heatwave emanating from him like a steam locomotive, Wei Liang's hand, which was tightly gripping his shoulder, subconsciously loosened, as if he had been burned.

"Don't let go!"

Lin Yi pressed down on Wei Liang's hand with his own.

"I said I'd take you, and I will!"

He stared intently at the streetlight pole labeled "Dormitory Building - 096" in front of him, a difficult yet determined sound escaping his throat.

At that moment, the snow-white mist surged wildly, writhing and clawing outside the twisted and fragmented field of light.

Beneath the lamplight, layers of mist twisted like dark tentacles, pursuing Lin Yi's back. They did not truly exist, but Lin Yi's heart seemed to sense something, foreseeing the presence of something incomprehensible, indescribable, and strange behind him!

"Shushushu..."

"Shushushu..."

"Shushushu..."

Lin Yi seemed to have become the most delicious and tempting thing, a beacon in the darkness, attracting undisguised, greedy, evil, and purely malicious gazes filled with bloodlust!

The abnormal weather finally arrived, darkness surging like a tide, sweeping in from all directions like a storm.

Lin Yi suddenly noticed that the twisted and soft "cobblestone road" beneath his feet had become slippery and sticky. He guessed what was happening, he foresaw what was coming, but his will, tempered by a day of hardship, had become much stronger than it was 24 hours ago. He immediately told himself:

"I'm almost at the dormitory building, screw this abnormal weather!"

He didn't dare to look at what the road beneath his feet had become, nor did he dare to think about anything related to it.

He was already enveloped in an icy, biting wind, the howling wind carrying the sound of swirling air currents. Vague, intermittent slapping sounds permeated from the vortex, like waves crashing against reefs, breaking into countless droplets of water.

Within those fragmented sound waves, a completely discontinuous and evil noise was vaguely mixed in.

Beasts have their roars, plants have their sounds, mountains, rocks, and water each have their own rhythms. However, when the sounds of nature intertwine and twist together, accompanied by the wailing wind tearing out a completely different and bizarre rhythm, a chilling sensation instantly enveloped Lin Yi's heart like a tide.

The low roars and piercing shrieks seemed to surge from an endless abyss, a storm of agony singing wildly in the black tide, as if emanating some strange, manic, and insane sense of ritual.

Lin Yi, his whole body radiating heat, seemed to be pulled into a storm. A strong sense of suffocation enveloped him, and he gradually felt his limbs becoming cold, and a chill condensing on his spine. He struggled to reach out to the streetlight pole labeled "Dormitory Building - 096", the wailing sea breeze roaring incessantly in his ears, an invisible vortex trying to devour his soul.

In his mental haze, Lin Yi captured some sounds that he shouldn't have heard. These sounds were mixed in with the storm of agony, as if coming from some extremely distant, abandoned, and dilapidated world. It seemed to be composed of dry,涩, and indescribable ancient scales, sometimes sharp and sometimes low, like a witch doctor chanting some soul-corroding, chilling words or rituals with crying and a hoarse voice:

"I AvgruNnen av tKe og mrke jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome"

This incomprehensible and unbearable sound wave seemed to tear apart his spirit. In this critical moment, Lin Yi's wartime stress-induced reflexes instinctively began to take control of his body, and a low roar began to emanate from his throat.

"Move!"

He stared intently at the only beacon in the twisted, collapsing, and fragmented space ahead—the streetlight pole labeled "Dormitory Building - 096". A faint golden light flickered in the depths of his dark eyes, as if reflecting the lamplight.

It was also as if a cluster of crimson-golden flames had been ignited.

"Move! Lao Lin... Move!!!"

Lin Yi seemed to hear Wei Shan's voice in his ears, and a heavy, mountain-like force seemed to appear on his back. He exploded with an unknown power, dragging Wei Liang out of the black tentacles formed by the shadows, and charged towards the streetlight pole labeled "Dormitory Building - 096"!

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Each of his steps was firm and powerful, and he firmly believed that this was the "only" path.

The wind in his ears grew stronger and stronger, the sound of the waves swirling back, trying to drag him into a deeper abyss, but his firm steps propelled his resolute figure, gradually surpassing the entanglement of darkness.

"Five meters... three meters... two meters..."

"Lao Lin!" Behind him, Mao Feiyang's surprised cry suddenly rang out, "Lao Lin!"

Lin Yi paused slightly.

"Maozi...? No, you're dead, Lao Lin! Maozi isn't here at all!"

He broke through the last meter in one breath, reaching out and firmly grasping the streetlight pole labeled "Dormitory Building - 096" in front of him.

The moment his hand grasped the streetlight pole labeled "Dormitory Building - 096", a brief moment seemed to become infinitely long, and countless fragmented lights and shadows began to shrink towards the joint between his palm and the streetlight pole at a speed beyond perception.

It was like the Big Bang in reverse, happening at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just an instant, the shattered fragments were completely repaired, the distorted lines returned to normal, and the chaotic, indescribable scene was filled with order. His world regained its spatial X, Y, and Z axes…

In a moment of daze, Lin Yi found himself standing with Wei Liang in front of the "Dormitory Building - 096" streetlight.

Beneath his feet was a normal cobblestone path, with another streetlight on the other side.

Outside the light, darkness loomed, and mist floated.

The leaves rustled in the green belt, and the moonlight overhead was faint, ultimately obscured by the mist.

But beneath the mist, the solemn dormitory building stood before him like a tower, extremely tall, extending into the depths of the clouds. A quick glance suggested it was at least twenty stories high.

At the same time, he suddenly noticed a large crowd gathering in front of the dormitory building, seemingly others heading to the dormitory.

He quickly looked down at his watch.

20:51.

"20:51…? !"

"Only… eight minutes have passed…? !"

He felt like he had struggled forward through time, he felt like he had even traversed a boundless world after destruction.

That period of time felt like millions of years, but… only eight minutes had passed?

"Damn…"

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He thought of his form teacher's warning:

"Sometimes, being too clear about the concept of time can limit your perception. Especially when you are traveling in foggy weather."

"Damn, there's too much knowledge in this! Even the form teacher is tight-lipped!"

"I can't think about these issues at this time!"

He cursed inwardly, deciding not to think about it for now.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that, after breaking through the abnormal weather, Wei Liang's hand was recovering its temperature at a perceptible rate. Before long, it emerged from that strange, icy corpse-like state, and became human again.

"Liangzi… Liangzi?" He gently patted Wei Liang's hand, reminding him, "We're here."

"Uh, ah! Here?" Wei Liang seemed to have been released from a time pause. He first froze, then shuddered violently, and then instantly came back to his senses. He looked up and saw the dormitory building standing like a sea-stabilizing needle in the dim moonlight and mist.

"I—damn!" A strong look of shock涌现 appeared in Wei Liang's eyes. "Lao Lin, you… you actually did it?!"

Lin Yi also breathed a long sigh of relief.

To be honest, he didn't have absolute certainty, because he could only say that he had slight doubts about the roads in the campus, but he didn't really put much thought into it.

He had already experienced the distorted ground several times during the day. Even the regular oval cobblestones could be shaped into strange shapes by that indescribable force, let alone at night when the mist was dominant.

Lin Yi actually had a very simple and conservative deduction:

Since the campus was built by humans, who would randomly place numbered items when building something?

If that were the case, there would be no need to include numbers!

Since it has a number, it must have a meaning!

So what is its meaning?

It is guidance.

Think carefully, when do people need to use a map?

Of course, it's when they don't know the way. When they can see the road clearly, why would they need a map?

During the day, just follow the street lights, who cares about the numbering?

Only when you don't know the way do you need a map.

On this map, the placement of the street lights is like grabbing a handful of thumbtacks and scattering them randomly on the road. But after careful observation, Lin Yi discovered that all the streetlights had a connecting pattern.

The streetlight with the largest number was built in front of the teaching building, and the one numbered "XXX-001" was built on the edge of the area.

Therefore, Lin Yi had a conservative and crazy deduction:

[When the roads in the campus undergo illogical changes such as stretching and distortion, the streetlights that were originally entangled together will be stretched along with the ground… ]

[One end of them is "XXX-001", and the other end is "XXX-099" or other larger numbers. In abnormal weather, ordinary roads will no longer exist, and the only remaining road is the one where the numbers are absolutely ordered… the road from the zero streetlight to the largest numbered streetlight! ]

[The normal space is actually twisted and folded. In abnormal weather, the part of the space that was originally folded and twisted will slowly unfold! ]

[So the street lights are disordered during the day, because when daytime arrives, the other streetlights, along with the ground they are on, will shrink in entanglement! ]

It's like… some kind of magical sponge that hardens and softens.

Despite this, Lin Yi didn't mention much about the nearly tortuous process, but simply said, "I did what I said I would do."

"Hehehe, believe in Lao Lin and you will gain eternal life." Leaving the range of the mist, Wei Liang immediately became energetic, the trembling and panic-stricken appearance from before was gone, and the whole person seemed to have been reborn.

He stuffed the tightly clenched student ID back into his pocket, and then looked around with a smile, suddenly saying, "Wow, what time is it? Why are there so many people?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at his watch.

20:53.

Only two minutes had passed since just now.

Everything was normal.

"20:53," he said.

Wei Liang quickly said, "Then it seems the elevator won't open for another seven minutes, Lao Lin, let's go, I'll take you to get the dormitory rules!"

After he finished speaking, he led Lin Yi towards the front of the dormitory building, trying to separate the crowd as he walked:

"Excuse me! Excuse me, please!"

Lin Yi cherished this hard-won icebreaker and quickly followed.

Before long, Lin Yi found a huge, upright notice board in front of the crowded dormitory square. The lower part of the notice board was blocked by the crowd, but the part that could be seen read:

[Dormitory Elevator Allowed Riding Time:

6:00 ~ 7:40

21:00 ~ 22:00]

[It is forbidden to ride the elevator outside of these times!]

Walking a little further, he saw more content, but suddenly, he saw a sentence on the notice board that almost sent him straight to heaven:

[Dear Experience Participants, Welcome to the Dormitory Building.]

[Please Note!!! (Super eye-catching underlined symbol):

Due to the existence of certain irresistible factors, the dormitory building is one of the most dangerous areas of the school!!!

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