Rules-related weird stories: 4016

From the spiral staircase of the Fibonacci sequence to a straight, upward-leading stone path resembling an ancient European castle, then to a mountain stone path with winding peaks, and finally to this stalactite-like stone cave path with flowing water...

If it were simply a transition from a stairwell passage to a cave stone path, he would definitely have been able to react. However, the several transitions he experienced were incredibly smooth, penetrating all the way through until he suddenly woke up at the bottom.

It was as if some existence beyond reason had pressed the "ins" key and then entered text, gradually replacing the original information. By the time the owner of the text realized it, the information presented before him was completely different from before.

‘Cognitive Override’!

Lin Yi's heart trembled violently. Mao Feiyang's fear was rapidly amplified in his perception, instantly filling Lin Yi's heart, causing him to shudder subconsciously.

However, Lin Yi quickly found the source of Mao Feiyang's trembling—the shadow.

When "they" looked back at the path they had come from, a humanoid creature appeared behind Mao Feiyang. The light from the old kerosene lamp cast its shadow onto the world in front of them, stretching it very, very long.

The humanoid creature opened its hands, slowly extending its claws towards "their" backs like a ghostly demon...

Driven by fear, Mao Feiyang subconsciously looked behind him. As Lin Yi's first-person perspective, he also took it into his eyes.

A sculpture.

A pure white female sculpture draped in a thin gauze scarf.

It was making a gesture of opening its arms to attack Mao Feiyang, but its own state was completely static. It seemed that it had not come here on its own, but had been suddenly placed here by someone.

This sculpture was completely different from the sculpture that invaded the classroom that Lin Yi encountered from Tian Bufan's perspective. It looked like a pure plaster sculpture, but its strangeness lay in the scarf on its body, which was forever frozen in a state of fluttering in the wind.

Mao Feiyang did not stop for a moment, instinctively running away—[Leave immediately when you see the sculpture standing at the stairwell].

“Stairwell, this is the stairwell!”

Mao Feiyang roared as he bypassed the sculpture, and he actually saw a door on the stone wall not far behind the sculpture.

“There really is a door!” Mao Feiyang was overjoyed, rebounding from the trough of despair, and was about to burst into tears.

‘There really is a door?!’ An extremely shocking thought emerged in Lin Yi's mind, but he suddenly realized that the style of this door was extremely familiar.

This was not an isolated fire door, but a dark brown alloy door, which looked like a hotel room door.

The door was hidden in the pitted stone wall, and there was even a layer of flowing water curtain on the door. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see it at all, but Mao Feiyang locked on to this door at a glance, as if only this door was left in the whole world.

Lin Yi's perspective also kept approaching the door with Mao Feiyang's actions. Just as "they" rushed towards this door, he took the opportunity to look around at the surrounding environment.

Just like when he entered the stairwell before, the isolated fire door was all Fibonacci sequence spiral staircases going up and down. Now, this door was all the same stalactite cave-like mountain cave paths going up and down...

However, Lin Yi only glanced at the top of the mountain stone path, and the whole person seemed to be struck by an indescribable horror, his body stiff, his limbs cold, and his scalp felt like it was being lifted off, tingling and numb, as if struck by lightning, and even his soul seemed to be submerged in fear at this moment.

He saw densely packed sculptures scattered in the stone paths of the stalactite caves with flowing water. Some were hanging upside down from the top of the cave like bats, some were writhing and crawling on the ground as if suffering great pain, and some were standing there indifferently, lowering their heads, looking at the direction from which the stone path came like the grudge-filled little boy...

These sculptures were not only in human form, but also in the form of some unknown wild beasts. What was even more terrifying was that most of them were incomplete, looking like a garbage dump full of garbage.

Lin Yi's vision moved quickly, he knew that Mao Feiyang had opened the door.

Just as Mao Feiyang's hand reached into the water curtain and grabbed the doorknob, that familiar grip instantly flashed across the back of his head like a thunderbolt, causing him to suddenly remember why he felt such a strong sense of familiarity with this door!

‘This grip…?!’ Just as he was shocked, the door was opened, and Mao Feiyang rushed behind it without hesitation, and then slammed the door shut with a "clang".

“Huff! Huff! Huff! Huff…” Mao Feiyang was completely soaked in cold sweat, leaning against the door with his eyes closed, breathing heavily, relying on the surrounding wind to calm his emotions.

However, Lin Yi had already turned his head back to look at this door with an extremely strong desire to verify it, only because whether it was the grip of this handle or the style of this door, it was extremely similar to the door in his memory!

‘2820’

The door number… 2820!

Lin Yi's pupils contracted sharply, then quickly expanded. No matter what, his brain couldn't get around a hurdle, but his subconscious had already guessed what place this was!

‘Dormitory!!!’

‘Dormitory building, 28th floor! Dormitory number 20!’

‘This door!’

‘This corridor!!’

‘This is actually… the dormitory?!’

Countless thoughts surged in Lin Yi's mind in an instant, each thought carrying a strong emotion.

The strongest of these emotions, far exceeding fear, was called… shock.

‘The staircase on the first basement level of the teaching building, going up in reverse, actually leads to the dormitory building?!’

‘How could this be?!’

‘Doesn't this mean that the teaching building and the dormitory building are the same building?!’

Lin Yi's eyes kept rolling.

‘The teaching building has a total of four floors. After the layer falls, floors above the fifth floor begin to appear… If this ‘stairwell’ is inside the teaching building, then that is to say, the floors above the fifth floor are actually the dormitory building, or… at least on the layer level, they are in a ‘overlapping’ relationship?!’

‘Then, if I go upstairs along the stairs of the teaching building when the fog is misty, will I walk to the dormitory building?!’

‘This this this this…’

An incredibly absurd idea rose in Lin Yi's mind, feeling unbelievable but also seeming to contain some kind of evil law.

He couldn't help but grab his hair and think.

‘Is it really like this?’

‘The teaching building is forbidden to leave the classroom after 9 PM, but the incandescent light is always on.’

‘But the lights in the dormitory building are completely turned off after 10:20 PM!’

‘If they overlap, then how is the lighting explained?’

‘Wait a minute…?!’

‘The teaching building delays turning off the lights!’

‘The teaching building lights flash!’

‘Could it be… is there some relationship here?!’

"The teaching building after lights out... overlaps with the dormitory building? After the lights are on, they don't overlap?"

"But... does the concept of 'overlapping' layers really exist?"

Lin Yi thought about this and couldn't help but glance at the shoes on his feet.

The sneakers he changed out of in the dormitory had thick, dense, and damp moss on the soles, completely different from the moss in the school area. Could there really be a kind of "spatial overlap" that causes different layers to appear in a quantum superposition under certain special circumstances?

Lin Yi felt that the 'him' in the dream had an IQ that 'transcended' his own. He didn't know if it was because the dream was too outrageous or his own thoughts were too outrageous...

Unfortunately, this kind of thinking can only remain at the level of speculation. At this stage, it is impossible to verify.

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"Wait a minute..."

"If it's not spatial overlap, is there another interpretation?"

"Thinking from the perspective of layers..."

Lin Yi thought of a sentence Tian Bufan had said: [A separate, closed spiral passage is really suitable for making a fuss about.]

"A 'separate, closed spiral passage'!"

He repeatedly chewed on these words. This was Tian Bufan's summary of the stairwell, directly describing the characteristics of the stairwell.

Independent and closed.

But after following Mao Feiyang's perspective and experiencing four hours or even longer of climbing the stairs, Lin Yi had a completely different view of "independence and closure."

That's not independence, but "infinity."

Infinitely upward, infinitely downward, with no beginning and no end.

Compared to a closed environment, its characteristics are more like... a non-existent road to some extent.

The thing in the stairwell is like the terrain that unfolds when the layer of the stairwell falls.

Just like when he accidentally walked onto that non-existent road, Mao Feiyang, following the guidance of the notice board in the teaching building, walked into the "folds" of the layer, and then, like a train changing tracks, walked into the layer folds of the dormitory building. And after the dormitory building's lights went out, that is, after the dormitory building's layer began to fall, he seamlessly connected and walked into the dormitory through the door...

"Could it be like this?"

Lin Yi deduced this conclusion, and then he was slightly stunned, thinking that if Tian Bufan were here, he would probably come to the same speculation?

He thought of the crumpled piece of paper, thinking that the two points marked on the paper might have a special path link after unfolding?

In addition to the shock, Lin Yi suddenly realized something again.

"Wait... doesn't that mean that Maozi arrived at the dormitory building yesterday?!"

"But he doesn't know this is the dormitory building at all!"

"No, no, no, at this point, he doesn't even know anything!"

Up to "now," Mao Feiyang only has the student code and the notice board in front of the teaching building. He knows nothing else!

"He only knows that he will meet the art teacher, and then 'start an art journey'!"

"Theoretically, he will become an art student after leaving the stairwell on the first basement level. He may even reach that legendary 'art building that doesn't exist on the map,' but, no matter what, he shouldn't come to the dormitory building!"

Lin Yi's heart suddenly became a mess. He felt that what Mao Feiyang had encountered had already exceeded his cognitive scope—this was still his feeling after experiencing one more day of events and dreaming back to yesterday!

God knows what Mao Feiyang experienced last night!

Lin Yi took a deep breath, trying to keep himself calm. Now that things have come to this, his random thoughts are not a solution to the problem. Instead of this, it is better to calm down and take a good look at the situation in front of him. After all, the time left for him is not much. Who knows when he will wake up from this dream, and whether he will continue this dream after waking up.

However, he was not thinking wildly, but Mao Feiyang was thinking wildly.

He hugged his legs tightly and curled up behind the door of dormitory "2820", leaning against the door, constantly exhaling one breath of cold air after another, while thinking about the scenes just now, while muttering something in his mouth as if he were talking in his sleep.

Lin Yi found that all the problems Mao Feiyang was thinking about were all the things he had subconsciously thought about yesterday when he was in the teaching building.

He also saw Mao Feiyang absorbing the forest-white powder particles that permeated the dormitory building corridor like a vacuum cleaner, and then those powder particles left his body, like following an invisible infusion tube, dividing into four and extending into the air...

Lin Yi was silent, but a huge wave was set off in his heart. Looking at these four lines, he had "personally witnessed" the scene before, and now he undoubtedly knew where they extended to—Tian Gongzi, Wei Sang, Kuai Kuai, and him!

"So... from the moment Maozi separated from us, he became a huge source of pollution absorption, and the rest of us are still uncontrollably acquiring the pollution source he is sending out?"

"But I have never felt anything wrong?"

"No, no, no... I... I seem to have had problems from the beginning!"

A layer of cold sweat slowly appeared on Lin Yi's forehead.

Those thoughts that he had in the teaching building last night—the things he thought about were almost exactly the same as what Mao Feiyang was muttering now!

When he was in the gymnasium during the day today, Tian Bufan emphasized again that he needed to take time to "adapt" first.

He never knew what he needed to adapt to, until this moment he realized that Tian Bufan wanted him to "adapt to pollution."

And this is not the pollution he is suffering, but the pollution originating from Mao Feiyang!

After being infected, he has more or less begun to be polluted, but its root cause is actually Mao Feiyang?!

The most crucial point is that he doesn't even know that he is being polluted, and he doesn't even feel that there is interference from other people's will when he is subconsciously thinking about problems. Everything seems to be from his heart...

"What exactly is going on...?"

Lin Yi's heart became more and more chaotic, his mind became more and more unclear, he felt that he had lost the ability to think about problems, he felt that his breathing became more and more rapid.

Mao Feiyang's state began to interfere with his current emotional fluctuations!

He felt that the surrounding world was undergoing indescribable and irregular distortions, and he seemed to see the cracks in the world and the collapsing corridors.

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