Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Later, although we followed the security guard to the nearest lamppost to the teaching building, we ran from the security guard to the lamppost for almost ten minutes.

Throughout the whole process, there must be a problem with the concept of distance and time, or... both are problematic.

And based on my experience just now, the problem should lie in the distance.

I discovered in front of the dormitory building that the lampposts move with the stretching of the ground, thereby extending the distance between them.

So I believe that as the campus layers fall, the lampposts will produce a certain displacement between each other. I don't know the exact distance, but one thing is certain.

Under abnormal weather, the numbering order of the lampposts is continuous.

As Lin Yi spoke, he flipped open the map in the student handbook.

On the "normal" map that is normally publicized, there is a road between buildings, and both sides of the road are filled with lampposts with jumbled numbers.

The order of these lampposts is chaotic under normal circumstances, but under abnormal weather, as the campus layers fall, their location information will change from disorder to order during the movement.

You don’t need to look at the lampposts when walking during the day, so it doesn’t matter whether the lampposts are in the right position during the day, you just need to make sure they are located on both sides of the road.

The same is true at night. As long as the lampposts distributed on both sides of the road are lit, that's enough.

But it's not the same when it comes to abnormal weather.

I believe that the role of lampposts is not only for lighting and shelter, but also as a road sign signal that can guide us to escape when the layers fall, just like... safety exit signs.

Finished?

Tian Bufan raised his eyes and glanced at Lin Yi.

Lin Yi thought for a while, then nodded and said, "That's about it, right?"

Then I'll talk.

Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi looked at Tian Bufan seriously, expecting Tian Bufan's views on the lampposts.

First of all, your understanding of lampposts is very close to mine, but it's still a little bit off.

Are you comforting me?

Is it a little bit, or a whole lot?

Lin Yi made a gesture representing "a little bit" that the Stealth Nation hates the most.

Look at this.

Tian Bufan motioned for Lin Yi to look over.

Beside him was the piece of paper he had taken from Lin Yi, and while Lin Yi was talking, he had already finished processing the paper.

The processing method was actually very simple, that is, he poked two small holes in the paper, and then threaded both ends of the silk thread into the small holes separately.

These two points represent two different buildings, and this silk thread is the road between the buildings.

Lin Yi nodded. This step was the same as what he had thought before. If he guessed correctly, Tian Bufan should crumple the paper next.

Tian Bufan's approach was indeed as he expected. He directly crumpled the paper into a ball and then flattened it on the table.

Then, Tian Bufan used a pen to trace the part of the silk thread that appeared on the paper, and drew some dots on it.

We can think of this as the campus under the normal layer.

Tian Bufan pointed to the flattened paper ball and added, "That is, the campus on the map attached to the student handbook."

These two points represent two buildings.

The line I drew with a pen represents the road between the buildings.

The points I marked on the line represent the lampposts along the way.

Lin Yi nodded. So far, everything was in line with his "cognition."

Tian Bufan slowly unfolded the paper again, explaining as he unfolded it, "This is the process of the layer falling."

When the layer begins to fall, the map begins to stretch and distort... but this distortion and stretching is actually a real unfolding of the campus in the true sense.

As it opens, the originally irregular lampposts will return to order... but the distance between them will become different, which is why we spent ten minutes on the road before.

After he completely unfolded the paper, he found the position of the dots and wrote some numbers in order with a pen.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6..."

After writing, he crumpled the map again, and the lamppost numbers indeed showed a distorted appearance.

After the layer is restored, it becomes like this again.

Lin Yi nodded. Perhaps it was because the previous sense of crisis was too strong, so his understanding of the abnormality of the lampposts and the campus was particularly profound.

Tian Bufan said, "These are also my discoveries, but... I specially conducted a physical demonstration for you, didn't you have any other discoveries? More in-depth discoveries... do you?"

Lin Yi was slightly stunned. He thought about it carefully, but he couldn't understand what Tian Bufan wanted him to discover.

Tian Bufan glanced at the clock on the wall and smiled, "Okay, I've thought about it for a minute. Time is tight, so let me talk about it."

Lin Yi touched his nose awkwardly.

Tian Bufan said, "The problem with the layers."

You see... when the campus layer falls, the map unfolds, and when the layer is restored, the map is restored, right?

"Yeah."

Lin Yi listened.

"The problem lies here."

Tian Bufan said, "Have you noticed that whether the layer falls or is restored, we are all on this piece of paper."

A few question marks appeared on Lin Yi's forehead: "???"

"Don't understand?"

Tian Bufan asked.

"Not really."

"emmm..."

Tian Bufan was silent for a while, thinking about how to express it, and then said, "Let's put it this way."

"This is a layer of the campus."

He held the paper in one hand and opened the other hand, placing it under the paper, "This is another 'world'."

"I originally thought that when the campus layer fell, the campus world would appear with 'cracks' as it stretched, and then after we fell from the cracks, we would enter another world."

"But now I have another guess that after the layer falls, the campus is still the campus, but it changes its form of expression in a way that I cannot yet understand... like a Transformer that does not fully transform."

"But regarding the conjecture about the layers, I have not yet found enough information to serve as a problem-solving condition."

Just as Tian Bufan wanted to end this topic, Lin Yi suddenly thought of something: "Wait a minute, Young Master Tian!"

He looked at Tian Bufan's palm and said in a deep voice, "Another world may exist."

It seems like I stepped on moss somewhere with my foot.

Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes suddenly: "Moss... Okay, I understand."

Tian Bufan's calm appearance made Lin Yi stunned for a moment, and he couldn't help asking: "Young Master Tian, have you also seen that world?"

"I had a chance to see it once... I don't know if it's the same place you're talking about."

Tian Bufan said.

"Young Master Tian, you...?!

A deep look of solemnity appeared in Lin Yi's eyes.

He almost died to see those things, could it be that Tian Bufan also experienced these things?

But... it doesn't feel like it!

"Don't be curious about how I know, you have to eat one bite at a time, and some secrets have to be known little by little."

Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi was silent for a moment.

Tian Bufan's knowledge and the way he obtained it have always been a mystery.

On one hand, as someone who entered the campus for the first time like him, Tian Bufan displayed a vision far beyond his own, which could perhaps be explained by differences in intelligence and thinking.

But on the other hand, Tian Bufan locked away some secrets in a box and placed it in front of him, then explicitly told him that he would be able to know the secrets inside in the future.

"How contradictory! What secrets does Young Master Tian have that he can't reveal now?"

Tian Bufan seemed to have mind-reading abilities, directly saying, "I told you that 'you will know these secrets in the future' to prevent you from wasting your limited energy on wild guesses."

"And the reason I'm not telling you what secrets I'm hiding now is because you're not qualified yet."

"When will I be qualified?"

"When you demonstrate enough 'adaptation' to this campus."

"'Adaptation' again?" Lin Yi asked, puzzled, "What exactly do I need to 'adapt' to?"

"What to 'adapt' to, it's useless if I tell you," Tian Bufan shook his head.

"This…?" Lin Yi was at a loss, with more and more question marks popping up in his mind.

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"This stuff is beyond your comprehension. I'll give you thirty seconds to adjust your thinking, or we'll end all discussions… and then go to sleep," Tian Bufan said coldly.

After saying that, he focused his attention on the paper again.

"Interesting…" Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes, as if one idea after another was emerging, "…very interesting."

Lin Yi took a deep breath, no longer dwelling on things related to the secrets Tian Bufan mentioned.

He looked at Tian Bufan and asked, "What ideas do you have now?"

Tian Bufan played with the crumpled paper ball: "Look… this campus was almost entirely built by the person, or group of people, who wrote the rules, right?"

"I'm very curious… how did they manage to build things between the layers?"

"Even, they built things into another world?"

"Putting those aside, just laying a road with streetlights and making those streetlights successfully appear on the surface layer, while maintaining illumination during the layer collapses, is not simple at all."

Lin Yi was silent for a moment.

"…"

"Perhaps…"

He narrowed his eyes and subconsciously said, "These were built jointly by people from the surface and inner layers? Just like… how athletes and normal art students would work together?"

Tian Bufan revealed a hint of surprise.

"Uh… what's wrong?" Lin Yi rarely saw Tian Bufan with such an expression.

"It's nothing," Tian Bufan shook his head slightly, "I'm just surprised you would say that."

"Let's not talk about this question for now."

"Let's get back to the topic. We can finish discussing the third question here and continue on."

"Okay," Lin Yi nodded.

Three: [Streetlights will spread out as the campus layers collapse, and then they will be arranged in an orderly numbered sequence.] — √

He adjusted his thoughts and continued, "The homeroom teacher doesn't eat in the cafeteria, the security guard brings the chef to deliver food to the homeroom teacher."

"The basis is that yesterday we encountered the security guard and chef's food delivery team, and there were also food leftovers in the homeroom teacher's office trash can."

"Moreover, I haven't seen anyone with a homeroom teacher's badge in the cafeteria."

"But, I haven't seen the physical education teacher yet, so I don't know what the physical education teacher is like."

Tian Bufan nodded.

Lin Yi asked, "Young Master Tian, do you have anything to say here?"

"There is one thing," Tian Bufan said, "The security guard hasn't appeared in normal weather so far, so I'm not sure if the security guard only appears in abnormal weather?"

Lin Yi also realized this.

In all the rules, almost all the rules mentioning security guards are related to abnormal situations.

"That's not right, there's a rule in the cafeteria rules that if you see someone entering another passage and the security guard is nearby, you can tell the security guard," Lin Yi said.

Tian Bufan said, "That's right, but this cannot be used as evidence that the security guard will appear in the normal layer."

"Because the rules also say, 'and there is a security guard nearby', so the issue of whether a security guard will appear is itself pending."

"Hmm… right," Lin Yi agreed with Tian Bufan's words.

"By the way."

"When I went back to the classroom after dinner today, I seemed to see Building D of the teaching building."

"Building D of the teaching building?" Tian Bufan seemed to become interested, "Tell me more about it."

"Didn't you see it?" Lin Yi was delighted, thinking he had finally found something that Tian Bufan hadn't discovered.

"Just pretend I didn't see it," Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi gritted his teeth and said, "You used the word 'pretend' really well!"

Tian Bufan shrugged: "I'm also doing it to give you a sense of participation."

"…" Lin Yi showed a resentful look, "My sense of participation is already overflowing… it doesn't need this little bit more."

"So Young Master Tian, you even saw Building D of the teaching building?"

Tian Bufan said, "Don't forget I'm in Building C."

"After returning to the classroom last night, I vaguely saw the existence of Building D through the window."

"It's hidden in the thick fog, and the architectural style is completely different from Buildings A, B, and C. I suspect that when the layers collapsed, the corridor connecting Teaching Building C to Building D was unfolded along with it."

"The principle is similar to this," he raised the paper ball, "Even the art building that doesn't exist on the map, I think it has a similar principle to Building D of the teaching building."

Lin Yi's eyelids twitched.

"That's right! I almost forgot there's also an art building!"

Tian Bufan continued, "I suspect that the teaching building itself is also an independent layer that can be unfolded. It can not only extend Building D in the vertical direction, but also extend the floors above the fifth floor upwards."

"But even so, the degree of distortion of the teaching building's layer should not be as perverted as the roads and streetlights."

"When you entered the campus yesterday, how many floors did you see the teaching building have?"

"Seven floors," Lin Yi said, "However, I feel that the teaching building may have an eighth floor…"

Tian Bufan said, "Maybe there's even a ninth floor, anyway, there are more than four floors in the abnormal layer. Have you noticed that the teaching building has both stairs and elevators, but they don't let us take the elevators."

"If you want to know the secrets of the teaching building, maybe you'll know if you enter the elevator once." Speaking of this, Tian Bufan couldn't help but have a playful and mocking smile on his lips, not knowing what he was thinking of.

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