Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"According to the student handbook, under these circumstances, the campus should exhibit unnatural distortions and stretching... These phenomena should appear as the layers collapse."

"In my opinion, these phenomena are still within the realm of what can be recorded in writing."

Lin Yi's pupils trembled slightly upon hearing this.

«Information that cannot be recorded in writing...»

He thought of two pieces of information!

【Tomatoes are hearts】 and 【Tomatoes are blood plasma】.

When he recorded these two pieces of information on the sticky note, he suffered a strong and suffocating backlash—he was almost killed by the information he had written down.

Tian Bufan glanced at him and continued:

"Within the confines of this campus, there is much information that cannot be recorded in writing. Hidden within that information that cannot be borne by words are secrets that are devastating and transcend reality and cognition."

Lin Yi questioned in a deep voice: "But if this information cannot even be recorded, why can we pass it down orally?"

"No, Lao Lin, you're wrong about that," Tian Bufan refuted. "When information that cannot be recorded can be passed down orally, it has already lost its 'devastating, indescribable' attributes."

"??" A look of confusion appeared in Lin Yi's eyes.

Tian Bufan said: "Since you're so confused, let me explain a few things simply."

"Let's take the phenomenon of stretching and distortion on campus as an example..."

"When you first read this in the 《Student Handbook》, what was your first reaction?"

"Wasn't it self-doubt and denial, such as 'I'm hallucinating,' 'I misread it'? Especially when the last item in the student handbook mentions dizziness and physical discomfort, it almost guides our thinking in this direction?"

"But in reality? We're not hallucinating at all, the campus does distort and stretch—of course, this phenomenon must occur with the prerequisite of 'abnormal weather'."

"However, even so, your idea changes from 'I'm hallucinating' to 'There's definitely something wrong with the campus'... What kind of process do you think this is?"

Lin Yi was drenched in cold sweat. Under Tian Bufan's guidance, he grasped some inspiration, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.

He felt like there was something very vague floating in front of him. He could grab it as soon as he reached out, but he didn't have the strength to reach out.

He thought of what Tian Bufan had told him in the gymnasium—«There is no 'why', there is no 'how could it be', there is only 'it just is'.»

"So..." he pondered, "This is a process of subverting cognition?"

"'Cognition is subverted'?" Tian Bufan looked at him with interest, a faint smile on his lips. "Considering your current level of thinking, it's pretty good that you've thought of this."

"But the truth is far more terrifying than this."

Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes, his tone turned cold, and a chilling aura emanated:

"Because cognition has never been subverted, but directly overwritten."

"Or rather... overwritten."

«Cognition is not subverted, but overwritten.»

At the moment Tian Bufan awakened him, he saw clearly that vague inspiration, but he was also covered in sweat because of it.

Human cognition can actually be overwritten...?!

"People... to put it bluntly, are just carbon-based life forms with some intelligence."

"Compared to the vast universe and higher dimensions, we are no different from a speck of dust."

"A frog in a well observes the sky from the bottom of the well, but aren't we just another frog?"

"We can silently overwrite the programs of electronic devices, and we can also silently have our thoughts overwritten by other beings, even... just an insignificant symbol from a higher civilization can obliterate the city walls and fortresses we painstakingly built."

"It's like when you're drinking a cold drink in the summer and accidentally drop a drop. This one drop is enough to destroy a colony of ants."

"I'm digressing." Tian Bufan looked out the window. At this time, dark clouds covered the moon, and the fog was rising. The dim sky was as oppressive as if someone had lowered its level.

"The people who made the rules know these things, but they can't convey them through conventional means, so they can only use this almost riddle-like way of expressing the rules."

"This is the meaning of the student handbook."

"But the student handbook only applies to those who know nothing."

Lin Yi asked in confusion: "Like... Liangzi?"

"Heh heh." Tian Bufan smiled without saying a word, but did not delve into this topic, but continued, "The student handbook is for the masses, and what it can write is very limited."

"To put it bluntly, every word in the student handbook has been revised countless times before it is finalized."

"It must be able to make anyone accept this information after seeing it, without producing a 'rejection' reaction."

"You can see that?" Lin Yi asked in surprise.

"You can't see that?" Tian Bufan asked back.

"Uh..." Lin Yi was speechless, and a deep female voice sounded in his heart: «You have been slain!»

"But for people with high inspiration like you, the ambiguous parts of the student handbook, coupled with the thought-provoking factors of this campus, the effect of these two superimposed is greater than two... is deadly..."

Lin Yi thought of the thrilling night he had spent yesterday, and the whole person was silent.

Tian Bufan continued: "But, just like this line, your 'adaptability' is our only advantage."

Lin Yi looked at the intersecting "√" and "——" on the table. At this time, Tian Bufan's finger was on the first half of the "√", slowly moving towards the trough.

"When you get through this stage, and the state changes from 'negative' to 'positive', we will switch offense and defense."

"'Switch offense and defense'?" A strong look of doubt appeared in Lin Yi's eyes. "Wait... what are we attacking and defending? How did we 'switch offense and defense'? Wait, isn't exploring the campus your idea? I'm just here... just here..."

He "just" for a long time, but the sentence "to raise 30,000 yuan for grandma's medical expenses" seemed incredibly strange at this moment, so that he couldn't say it at all.

Wei Liang carefully showed his eyes from under the pillow, looking at Lin Yi at this moment with incomparable complexity and worry.

Tian Bufan raised his eyebrows slightly, with a faint smile on his lips.

Even Kuai Hongji, who had no sense of existence, was looking at Lin Yi with his arms crossed at this moment. His gloomy eyes carried a strong look of anticipation, as if he was waiting for Lin Yi to say the next words.

"Just... just for 30,000 yuan." Lin Yi grabbed the edge of the bed tightly, and the blue veins on the back of his hand popped out, as if he had exhausted all his strength to say this sentence.

A look of disappointment could not help but appear in Kuai Hongji's eyes.

"Damn it!" In the bathroom, Wei Shan's low roar sounded, and it was not known whether he had slipped on the soap.

Wei Liang silently shrank back.

“Is that so? Heh heh…” Tian Bufan ended the topic with a single sentence, “Thirty thousand yuan it is then.”

“We digressed too far just now… Let’s refocus our thoughts and continue talking about this problem.”

He pointed to the two overlapping threads.

“Now, they represent the layer state of the campus again.”

“We entered the campus under the ‘negative state’ of the campus, so we came into contact with things beyond our understanding ahead of time, and that's why the Russian got separated from us.”

“Remember the distortion and stretching I mentioned before?”

“These abnormal phenomena appear along with the falling of the layers. We can assume that the changes in the campus layers are ‘visible’ to a certain extent. And how much we can see is determined by our inspiration.”

“Ordinary people can't see too much, so they can only memorize the rules by rote, strictly defining themselves within the yellow lines formed by the rules, thereby forming a most basic form of self-protection.”

“For them, knowing this is enough.”

“Because when the yellow lines of the rules can no longer protect them, no matter what they do, they cannot avoid the arrival of the end.”

“But for us, knowing this is far from enough.”

“Our inspiration is higher than ordinary people, we see far more than them, and we are affected far more than them. They can anchor themselves with rules, but we can't.”

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“Our rule's yellow line, like this thread, will fluctuate. We need to comprehend some of the logic of the fluctuations so that we can withdraw completely when we become aware of the problem.”

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, as if lost in thought.

In fact, he understood this point as well, but he didn't see it as clearly as Tian Bufan.

Others just need to memorize “1+1 = 2”, but he, Lin Yi, can't.

Because he will not only encounter the situation of 1+1 = 2, but also the situation of 1+2, so he must break down 2 = 1+1, so that he can have a chance to fight back when facing 1+2, and even when facing 2+2 and 2+3 later, he won't be grasping the basic rule of “1+1 = 2” and waiting for death.

And the time left for him to comprehend “1+1 = 2”, it is no exaggeration to say, is very short, so short that he is already a little late in subconsciously risking his life to comprehend the rules since he entered the campus yesterday.

This is not a question of time at all.

This is a man-made problem.

Just as the homeroom teacher said, high-inspiration people should not be let in through the company's (or school's) screening mechanism. There is a big problem in itself.

He doesn't know what the problem is, but it is clear that he is now a problem molecule.

Even not just him, Tian Bufan and the others all seem to be problem molecules.

Since they are problem molecules, they cannot stick to the rules.

This is what Tian Bufan wanted to tell Lin Yi, and it is also what he couldn't tell Lin Yi in the gymnasium.

In the final analysis, the gymnasium is not safe enough.

Lin Yi now understands this point.

And these things are just extensions of Tian Bufan's argument that [the layers of S City University are fluctuating].

“But, I still have a question.” Tian Bufan lowered his voice a little, prompting Lin Yi to start thinking as well, “Abnormal weather will lower the layers of the campus, but… I have not been able to determine what the bottom line of the campus layers is so far?”

“In other words, all the known conditions are not enough to support me in calculating…” Tian Bufan pointed his finger at the bottom of the “√”, “What will its appearance be like when the campus completely falls into another layer?”

The things Tian Bufan brought up at this time directly caused Lin Yi's pupils to tremble: 「Is this the thinking that Young Master Tian is doing? This… has already surpassed me so much? ! 」

“Of course, this involves another problem… the abnormal weather problem.” Tian Bufan continued.

“S City University is built in a mountainous area, and mountainous areas, because of their own geographical factors, have weather problems such as mountain fog and rainfall.”

“I have a question that I have already figured out, and I will show it to you.”

Tian Bufan glanced at him, giving him a sense of sight of classmates giving each other test questions.

“Lao Lin, tell me… is the ‘fog’ that causes the campus layers to fall, and the ‘fog’ in the mountainous area, the same kind of fog?”

Lin Yi: 「? ! 」

Fog… is it the same kind of fog?

「This…」

Lin Yi was stunned again and again. He was still shocked by Tian Bufan's argument just now, and now he can't even make any judgment on this issue.

But his thinking quickly started running rapidly. He immediately thought of the black sun in another layer.

That black sun is obviously also something that does not exist on the surface of the present world, so, if we infer from this, the fog under abnormal weather may not be the fog of this world at all!

「Wait…」

「Sea breeze and fog…?」

“This…? That's right!” Lin Yi suddenly woke up and said, “This is not the same kind of fog!”

Tian Bufan showed a faint smile: “Tell me about it.”

Lin Yi nodded and said: “The rules clearly state that the gymnasium is a closed environment, and the dormitory building is also a closed environment, so under normal circumstances, these two places will indeed not have fog — the fog here refers to the mountain fog in the campus.”

“However, if the gymnasium and the dormitory building themselves are also on the campus, then when fog appears, it means that it is falling into another layer!”

“The fog of another layer has penetrated into the layer we are in through the layers!”

“So, they are not the same kind of fog… Eh, wait a minute! Then this also means that when it gets dark, the mountain fog appears at first, and then the fog of another layer appears?”

Tian Bufan shrugged his shoulders: “I don’t know, I haven’t been able to distinguish it for the time being.”

“Perhaps even the people who made the rules can’t distinguish it.”

“Or perhaps, the method of distinguishing cannot be recorded.”

“If these difficult-to-record information are not understood through reasoning, it is easy to ‘go into a frenzy’ if you know the answer first and then reverse-engineer it.”

Lin Yi nodded slightly.

If he knew how to distinguish the fog, then every time he saw the fog, he might subconsciously distinguish whether it was “mountain fog” or “fog of another layer”, which would easily distort his cognition and lead his cognition astray.

“There is one last point left to talk about regarding the layers of S City University.”

Tian Bufan's fingers gently tapped the table.

“Regarding… the question of the way to leave the campus.”

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