Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi was somewhat surprised: "Liangzi took a shower, what's wrong?"

Tian Bufan withdrew his gaze: "It's nothing, you should go wash up too."

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded, "The dormitory rules are behind you. After you finish your shower... let's have a good chat."

Tian Bufan nodded: "No problem."

Lin Yi frowned, always feeling that Tian Bufan had something to say, but he couldn't quite grasp his meaning, so he didn't say any more and plunged into the bathroom.

...

Tian Bufan put his hands behind his back and turned to look at the dormitory rules.

After reading it once, Wei Liang hadn't finished drying his hair yet.

He walked to the desk, pulled out a chair, sat down, and looked at Wei Liang.

Wei Liang felt uncomfortable being watched by him, so he hastily finished drying the last few stray hairs, then put on his baseball cap and pulled the brim down a bit with his hand.

Seeing Tian Bufan, he seemed a little uneasy, and even his eyes were a little evasive.

Tian Bufan asked, "Is your class teacher doing well?"

"Ah?" Wei Liang was obviously surprised that Tian Bufan would talk to him. He shook his head, "Class teacher? I don't know..."

"Don't know? That's a pity... I thought you would know more than Lao Lin."

"Ah?" Wei Liang asked in confusion, "Lao Lin? What's wrong with Lao Lin?"

Tian Bufan shook his head: "It's nothing."

Wei Liang was stunned for a moment, then shivered and couldn't help but touch his arm, which was covered in goosebumps.

Damn, is this the Young Master Tian that Lao Lin was talking about... What is he saying? I don't understand anything...

Tian Bufan smiled, got up, left his seat, and walked towards Wei Liang.

Passing by Lin Yi's desk, he casually flipped Lin Yi's notepad on the desk to a blank page, tore off a piece of paper, scribbled a few strokes, then pressed it on the desk and pushed it in front of Wei Liang.

"Wh..." Wei Liang subconsciously looked over, "...at?"

"You...? !"

Immediately afterwards, the look of doubt in his eyes showed a strong fluctuation, as if some kind of consciousness was struggling to break free from his body...

Tian Bufan quietly watched his changes and glanced at the bathroom door.

The sound of rushing water came from the bathroom.

"Alright."

He withdrew his gaze and looked at Wei Liang calmly.

"Time is short... let's chat for a bit."

...

May 7, 2023, 21:36.

Mist curled in the bathing area. Lin Yi maintained the back-leaning hair-washing posture he had learned from Wei Liang. Someone who didn't know better would think he was doing something indescribable.

Feeling the comfort brought by the warm water flowing over his body, Lin Yi's tense body relaxed a little.

His eyes were fixed on the pattern on the ceiling of the bathing area, washing while organizing his thoughts, so that he could communicate with Tian Bufan later.

Suddenly, he frowned.

He felt that the pattern on the ceiling... seemed a little familiar.

There were two incandescent lamps in the dormitory bathroom, one on the ceiling of the bathing area and one on the toilet side. This design was so that there would be no impact after the waterproof curtain was pulled up.

"Whirr, whirr, whirr..."

As the water mist spread to the ceiling, the incandescent light in the bathing area became a little hazy, and along with the haziness, there was also the pattern on the ceiling.

"Eh, this pattern...?"

Lin Yi suddenly realized something and shuddered subconsciously.

This pattern... is extremely similar to the strange relief pattern in the student passage of the cafeteria!

Lin Yi didn't know if there was any connection here, but aside from the design issues during construction, his subconscious always had some bad premonitions.

He hurried to finish washing his hair and then began to rinse his body.

But at this moment, he felt the water mist in the bathing area suddenly move in a very unnatural way.

It was as if something had blown a breath at the mist.

At this moment, a chill spread out from Lin Yi's heart without warning, and no matter how warm the water flowing from the showerhead was, it could not wash it away.

He felt that the water mist in front of him was tumbling like scalding hot water, and something was watching him intently from behind the water mist.

"? !"

He immediately reacted.

"It's the window!"

"Outside the window... is there something spying on me?"

Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly, and his scalp tightened suddenly.

【If you hear something knocking on your window, or calling your name outside the window, don't doubt it, there is indeed something outside the window.】

"But... isn't it before lights out yet?"

He raised his wrist—his quartz watch was still on his wrist, something he hadn't taken off since entering the campus.

He wiped the water mist off the surface with his thumb and glanced at the time.

21:40.

"Still within the safe time period."

"Wait..." He also realized something, "The thing outside the window didn't knock on the window, nor did it call my name..."

Don't doubt it, there is indeed something outside the window.

"Damn it..."

"So, there's always something outside the window, but it can only act after the lights are turned off, right?"

Lin Yi couldn't help but shudder. He immediately thought of the one that twisted the lock and entered the classroom after the classroom lights went out!

According to the class teacher, that thing was not her, but something that even she couldn't stop.

Now it seems that such unknown creatures have actually been wandering around the campus. They are expelled by the lights and attracted by the lights. They chase the lights because they know that there are prey under the lights.

Once the lights are turned off, the prey will be presented in front of them in an unprepared state!

Thinking of the hot shower, Lin Yi immediately thought of the sentence in the cafeteria rules: 【The cafeteria with the lights off is different from the classroom, there are no safe areas.】

The cafeteria with the lights off is different from the classroom, but the dormitory with the lights off... may be similar to the classroom to a certain extent, and not only is it similar, but it also increases the safety factor.

That's why you need to crawl under the table in the classroom, but you can just lie on the bed in the dormitory.

It is also for this reason that the student rules clearly state the priority of overnight stays—dormitory is greater than the dormitory management room is equal to the teaching building!

"If that's the case—"

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something.

"It's 21:40 now..."

"First of all, it is now the safe time period before lights out."

"Secondly, I am in the dormitory, which is known as one of the safest places in the entire campus, where I can even think and discuss unscrupulously."

"Finally, I currently meet all the conditions to maintain myself in a 'safe' state."

"So..."

He raised his hand towards the window, and the mist gathered in front of him was pushed away, revealing a... closed window.

The built-in blinds on the window were even pulled down, so the outside couldn't see the inside, and the inside couldn't see the outside.

"What the hell..."

The window was closed, the blinds were down, and it was completely opaque inside and out.

So, where did that feeling of being spied on... come from?!

So he narrowed his eyes and stopped moving.

After a while, the water mist spread again, and that strong, spied-on feeling climbed onto his body like tentacles once again...

He waved his hand again, and the mist and the feeling of being watched disappeared once more.

“This…”

He couldn't help but look at the window, which appeared hazy and unreal behind the mist.

The window in the mist seemed… different from usual.

“Wait?!?”

He shuddered and retracted his gaze as if drawing a knife—

“I understand!”

“Layers!”

“The mist can affect the layers!”

“Damn! No way…” Lin Yi broke out in a cold sweat, which was immediately washed away by the shower. “Does the mist produced by the water vapor have the same effect as the mist outside?”

“Don't tell me…?”

Just as he was looking at the window, hesitating, the mist spread out from under the waterproof curtain.

Illuminated by the incandescent light, layers of mist twisted and overlapped, projecting a distorted, humanoid silhouette onto the waterproof curtain.

This silhouette twisted its form constantly as the mist spread, as if some unknown creature was really standing there, separated from Lin Yi by only a curtain!!!

That feeling of being watched enveloped Lin Yi once again, making his hair stand on end.

“Behind… me?!”

Lin Yi's pupils instantly constricted, and he turned around alertly.

The movement of turning caused the mist to fluctuate, and the outline of the unknown creature reflected in the mist immediately dissipated, leaving nothing behind.

But the feeling of being watched grew even stronger, and the feeling it gave Lin Yi was still behind him, and this time behind him was clearly… the window.

He turned around at an extremely slow speed, trying his best to keep the mist in its “original shape.”

Based on the judgment of the killing mechanism of the weird classmates in the classroom, Lin Yi suddenly believed that these creatures described by the rules should all possess their own unique mechanisms.

First of all, the most basic point is not to question its existence, believe that it exists.

Believing in their existence and ignoring them at crucial moments are two completely non-conflicting things.

In other words, if there really is something ghostly lurking on the window peeking at him, it's just that the conditions haven't been met yet, so it can't knock on the window or climb in.

“Open the window and take a look.”

These four words popped into his mind out of nowhere.

As soon as these four words appeared, they were like opening Pandora's box, lingering in his mind. Not only that, but they were also drilling madly like a drill bit, trying to drill into the depths of his soul.

Two little men jumped out on his left and right shoulders.

The little devil with two horns kept coaxing him: “Open the window, open the window! Anyway, you're in a safe state, what's the panic? Open the window and take a look, an opportunity like this won't come again!”

The little angel with a pair of wings solemnly advised: “Don't open the window, don't believe his words!”

The two little men chirped and chattered, making Lin Yi's head buzz.

He slowly reached out his hand to the window.

At the window, the cold wind seemed to penetrate the cracks, hissing in like the laughter of ghosts from a gloomy hell.

Just as his hand was about to touch the window, he waved his hand.

The mist was dispersed, and the eerie feeling was shattered to pieces.

Lin Yi looked at the normal window expressionlessly and turned off the shower.

At this moment, he suddenly looked at his hand that turned off the shower and froze for a moment.

Just now, this hand also reached out to the window, but—

“Why don't I feel anything about that obsessive behavior just now?!”

Lin Yi felt a chill.

His behavior of reaching out to try to open the window just now didn't cause any problems at the time, but now looking back, he at that time… seemed to be controlled!

But he himself didn't notice anything wrong!

As he began to dry his body with a bath towel, the mist in the bathroom also dissipated.

At this moment, Wei Liang's cheap and cheerful voice rang out from outside the door: “Hey! Old Lin, are you done washing? Don't always reward yourself while taking a shower!”

“Okay, okay! Didn't you hear me turn off the shower?” Lin Yi responded.

Soon he put on his clothes and opened the door.

When he left the bathroom, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Immediately afterwards, a strong look of excitement surged in his eyes.

“Wei Shan, Kuai Hongji! You guys are back too?”

In the dormitory, in addition to Tian Bufan and Wei Liang, who were already there, Wei Shan, whose figure was between fat and strong, and Kuai Hongji, who was tall and thin like a bamboo pole, had also returned to the dormitory during his shower.

But compared to Kuai Hongji, who looked no different from when they parted, Wei Shan's clothes were obviously a little damaged, and seemed to be stained with a lot of white stains.

Seeing this, Wei Shan nodded and said sparingly: “Yes, I'm here, Old Lin.”

Kuai Hongji, as thin as a bamboo pole, said with a fake smile: “Of course I'm back, don't you see what time it is?”

Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at his watch, and then at the pendulum clock hanging on the dormitory door.

21:48.

There are only 12 minutes left before the power outage in the dormitory building corridor.

That is to say… once the time is up, it means that Mao Feiyang really can't come back.

Seeing Lin Yi's eyes dim, Tian Bufan said first: “Wei Shan, Kuai Hongji, you two wash first, I'll chat with Old Lin for a while, and then wash later.”

“Then I'll wash first.” Wei Shan had already moved when he spoke. He opened the cabinet door decisively, picked out the clothes he needed, and then walked to the bathroom.

“Hey!” Lin Yi suddenly pointed to the sky, “Wait a minute, I'll take out the dirty clothes first.”

He quickly went to the bathroom and brought the dirty clothes over.

“Throw them here!” Wei Liang helped him open the door of the thing under the sink that looked like a washing machine, indicating that he should throw the clothes directly in.

Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at the washing machine.

This seems to be a washing machine, with a drum inside, but… Wei Liang's clothes and socks that he threw in before are really not there.

“Just throw the clothes in, there is a channel inside that will collect and process the clothes uniformly. If you need them, just ask the school to get them when you leave.”

“Look.” Wei Liang pointed to the washing machine. There was indeed a sign above.

The sign read:

[The dormitory has prepared sufficient changes of clothes for all students. Please put the clothes (all, including shoes) changed daily into the recycling channel.]

Lin Yi didn't expect that even shoes needed to be changed, so he stuffed the clothes in all at once.

When it came to the shoes, his body suddenly stiffened.

His eyes stared fixedly at the soles of these sneakers, only to see that the soles of these shoes were covered with a large patch of moss.

Thank you to book friend "Cheeks are slightly red" for the reward!!

PS: During the New Year's Day holiday, I may take a day off (maybe, or try not to take a day off), thank you, thank you…