Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"You just need to honestly abide by the rules, act like a normal student, and then leave the campus on the seventh day, understand?" Xu Shunkang stared into Lin Yi's eyes, wishing he could write these words into Lin Yi's code of conduct.

Lin Yi opened his mouth slightly, trying to restrain himself from thinking about the meaning behind Xu Shunkang's words, and then stated the trouble he had encountered: "I understand, but my roommate and I got separated, so I want to find him."

"You guys enrolled today... so the person who got separated from you didn't even get his student ID?"

"He... probably hasn't gotten it yet." Mao Feiyang went to the stairwell. Lin Yi wasn't sure what his situation was now.

"Where did you get separated?"

"In the stairs."

"The stairs?" Xu Shunkang was slightly stunned. "Did he go down the stairs on the left-hand side?"

"Left-hand side? No, we got separated in the stairs leading to the basement."

"Basement?" A hint of doubt appeared in Xu Shunkang's eyes. "Strange, the teaching building's rules state that there is no basement..."

He subconsciously began to think, and his mind subconsciously flashed back to his knowledge of this teaching building.

Classrooms, corridors, offices... and then, the image of a stairwell entered his memory.

It was a cyan-gray isolated fire door with a glowing green emergency exit sign on it.

But as soon as he thought of this door, a feeling of exhaustion welled up from the bottom of his heart.

Xu Shunkang's face suddenly changed, and he shook his head violently, then muttered in a lost voice: "Not good! That basement... that thing is beyond my cognitive rules!"

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, a sharp glint flashing between his eyelids: 「Beyond cognition?!」

"Shut up! Shut up!" Seeing that Lin Yi seemed about to say something, a look of nervousness instantly appeared on Xu Shunkang's face.

His eyes flickered, his expression flustered.

After stopping Lin Yi, he immediately closed his eyes and began to chant repeatedly: "The teaching building has no basement, the teaching building has no basement..."

As his thoughts became more and more firm, his understanding of the teaching building began to consolidate again, and the feeling of exhaustion that had just emerged from the depths of his heart was nipped in the bud.

He reopened his eyes, then examined Lin Yi and asked in a deep voice: "Is this the reason why you've been thinking about the campus's problems?"

"Yes."

"So you also felt that there was something wrong with the campus, right? Strange weather, buildings beyond comprehension, and... shadowy figures..."

"Yes, that's why I've been thinking about this problem... Isn't that the point? If there's a problem and you don't think about it, isn't that a problem with your brain?" Lin Yi looked at Xu Shunkang innocently.

"You... hey, you damn..." Xu Shunkang was originally a little angry, but he couldn't get angry at this moment. He turned the phrase "you damn" in his mouth for a long time, and finally he shook his head helplessly.

"What you damn said makes a little sense."

Lin Yi followed his tone and said: "Yes, so can you tell me some useful information?"

"Xu · Shun · Kang · Senior."

"You?" Xu Shunkang subconsciously took a step back. Looking at Lin Yi's expression, he suddenly understood something, and the anger that had been suppressed rose again. "What you're doing is too dangerous!"

Lin Yi shrugged and said helplessly: "There's no way, Senior... I already have a roommate in danger, and the brother next to me really can't give me any useful information."

Wei Liang didn't refute, just touched his nose awkwardly.

Xu Shunkang shook his head angrily: "No way."

"Can't you give me even a clue?" Lin Yi asked sincerely.

"Cannot."

"Why?"

"For no reason!" Xu Shunkang's expression was stern. "That's not something you should know!"

Just as Lin Yi wanted to continue asking questions, a voice rang out from behind him.

"Because the more you understand the secrets of the campus, the more you can't extricate yourself..."

"This kind of inability to extricate yourself is uncontrollable, just like the attraction of a magnet to an iron nail."

"You are now only faintly sensing a little of the magnet's attraction, but once you understand more, you will shorten the distance to the magnet. Once you exceed a critical value, you will not be able to get rid of this magnetic field."

"The moment you step into the magnetic field, your cognition will be subverted and shattered. If you can't re-establish cognition, then you're done for."

A classmate wearing the same blue and white striped sportswear as Xu Shunkang walked up to Lin Yi.

"Xie Huayang, a sports student. I and Fatty are from the same batch." He introduced himself.

Then he looked at Xu Shunkang, frowned and urged: "Okay Fatty, it's getting late, control your emotions, don't get angry, we should go."

"Leaving so early?" Xu Shunkang was a little surprised.

"Early my ass." Xie Huayang leaned over and lowered his voice, "Today we don't have enough manpower. You just maxed out the hatred. The timing, location, and people aren't on our side. If we don't leave early, are we staying to die?"

"Uh..." Xu Shunkang was choked for a moment, and his anger suddenly dissipated a little.

He looked at Lin Yi and Wei Liang and hesitated: "Then what about them?"

Xie Huayang glanced at Lin Yi and Wei Liang lightly: "They made you angry, and you're still thinking about them?"

"If you ask me, what does their life or death have to do with us!"

"You've advised them a couple of times, and I've said a couple of times. The rest is up to them whether they want to listen or not!"

Xu Shunkang was obviously still a little hesitant, but Xie Huayang suddenly said again: "It's hard to persuade a ghost who wants to die. If they're like Yuan Tietou, no matter how many times we try, it's useless."

Knowing that Xie Huayang was deliberately trying to anger him, Xu Shunkang's anger, which had just dissipated a little, erupted again when he heard the name Yuan Tietou.

He grabbed Xie Huayang's collar and roared: "Shut up! Don't mention Datou again! Do you think that's really the case? We originally had a chance to save him!"

"What chance? He thought he understood the rules, he understood shit!" Xie Huayang slammed Xu Shunkang's hand away. "Didn't we try to persuade him? Didn't we tell him not to do that? But he didn't listen!"

He pointed to Lin Yi and Wei Liang: "Just like those two self-righteous idiots, they won't listen! We just met by chance, why are you wasting your words on them?"

"Excuse me for interrupting... I didn't not listen..." Wei Liang raised his hands and said weakly.

Xie Huayang pointed to the quartz clock on the classroom wall again: "It's 8:43 now, are you leaving or not? If you're not leaving, I'll leave first!"

"If you want to leave, then leave!"

"Then I'm leaving! I won't keep you company!" Xie Huayang turned around without hesitation.

"You damn wait for me!" Xu Shunkang was like an air pump, his anger being drawn up and then suppressed in his body.

And at this moment, it was just drawn up and then suppressed.

His face was full of unwillingness.

He clenched the comic book in his hand and gritted his teeth: "I haven't finished reading this comic book yet."

"What's so good about NTR comics?" Xie Huayang snatched the 《Mountain and Sea Green War》 from Xu Shunkang's hand. "Hong Kong comics can't get rid of this disgusting reader-brain-dead NTR plot. I've already finished reading this one. The more you get to the end, the more crotch it becomes. The ending is even more of a pile of shit, pulled to pieces. If you ask me, it's better to go watch some pure H comics!"

"I still have several treasured works by Oda Non-sensei. I'll lend them to you to appreciate later." He patted Xu Shunkang on the shoulder and urged, "Come on, let's go, let's go! Hurry!"

Xu Shunkang's anger had indeed dissipated quite a bit by now. He hesitated for a moment, but still said, "There's still some time. I want to say one more thing to them."

"Hurry up then." Xie Huayang also knew he couldn't push too hard.

Xu Shunkang then came to Lin Yi and Wei Liang, and said with utmost sincerity, "We're leaving. You two be careful."

"Where are you going?" Lin Yi asked subconsciously.

"Be careful of what?" Wei Liang blurted out almost at the same time as Lin Yi.

Xu Shunkang said, "You're not allowed to leave the teaching building after 9 PM, so we have to take our leave first."

"After we leave, be careful of everyone except yourselves."

"Because…"

He looked around, his cold gaze sweeping across the faces of those classmates who had gathered around earlier.

"The night is their home field…"

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Lin Yi and Wei Liang were shocked.

"Remember, following the rules is the only way you can protect yourselves."

After saying that, Xu Shunkang followed Xie Huayang towards the classroom door.

Before leaving, he seemed to have thought of something again, turned to look at Lin Yi, and smiled, "However, theoretically speaking, staying overnight in the classroom is still relatively safe. I hope to see you tomorrow… Good luck."

After saying that, he opened the door and walked out with Xie Huayang.

The moment the classroom door opened, wisps of thick fog drifted in from the crack, like smoke from a kitchen chimney at noon.

Outside the classroom, the biting cold wind mixed with icy water vapor constantly lashed against the campus, making the entire classroom seem like a sailboat sailing on the Caribbean Sea at night, ready to capsize in the waves and thick fog at any moment.

Following the departure of Xie Huayang and Xu Shunkang, some students in the classroom also left one after another.

Lin Yi noticed that these leaving students were almost all wearing the same blue and white sportswear.

In other words, they were all sports students.

After the sports students left, the classroom door closed again.

The cold wind outside no longer blew in, and the large, empty classroom gradually became warmer again under the yellow light of the incandescent lamps.

Watching the departing figures of the sports students, a sentence from Xie Huayang floated in Lin Yi's mind: [Because the more you understand the secrets of the campus, the more you can't extricate yourself… This kind of inability to extricate yourself is uncontrollable, like a magnet's attraction to iron nails.]

「Can't extricate myself? Is that the sense of guidance I felt before?」

「Don't think…」

「Keep thinking…」

「Damn it, is this how you want to play?」

Lin Yi glanced at the clock on the wall and then at the time on his watch.

8:47 PM.

「It's almost nine o'clock…」

Lin Yi took out the student handbook and flipped through it, finding the section on overnight stays.

[Student Rule No. 6: Please leave the dormitory between 6:00 and 7:40, and return to the dormitory between 21:00 and 22:00. After returning to the dormitory, do not leave the dormitory outside of this time period… If you have not returned to the dormitory before 22:00, please return to the classroom at all costs. The classroom lights will not be turned off. Please stay overnight in the classroom.

During this period, if you find any abnormal situations outside the dormitory or classroom, please ignore them, especially when you hear a voice calling your name.

Be wary of roommates who are not staying overnight in the dormitory, especially when they ask you anything related to your student ID.]

Then, look at the rules in the teaching building handbook regarding this time period.

[Evening self-study time is after 18:00, but the school does not force students to participate in evening self-study, unless the current time is already past 21:00.

After 21:00, leaving the classroom is prohibited. Please study until 7:40 the next day. You can browse any books, but remember not! To! Sleep! In! The! Classroom! (The last sentence is bolded, underlined, and marked with a large number of conspicuous exclamation marks).

During this period, if you see any abnormal situations outside the window or someone calling you outside the door, please ignore them.]

Lin Yi stroked his chin and thought.

「The student handbook says that the time to return to the dormitory is between 21:00 and 22:00, while the rule in the teaching building handbook is that leaving the classroom is prohibited after 21:00.」

「In other words, under normal circumstances, we should leave the classroom before 21:00 and then arrive at the dormitory before 22:00. There is a whole hour in between that can be used to travel…」

He then flipped the teaching building handbook to the end, opened the map, and observed the positional relationship between the teaching building and the dormitory.

The teaching building on the map is exactly the same as described in the teaching building rules. There are three buildings in total, built side by side, connected to each other by bridge corridors, just like placing three "目" characters together.

The distance from the teaching building to the dormitory is about the same as the distance to the school gate, and the road is also scattered with street lights like sprinkled rice.

「Judging from the rules, one hour of travel time should be more than enough.」

「However, the student handbook says that if you don't return to the dormitory after 22:00, you should return to the classroom to study until 7:40 the next day, but the teaching building handbook says that leaving the classroom is prohibited after 21:00…」

「Isn't that a conflict?」

「No, no, no, no conflict… Prohibiting leaving the classroom doesn't mean prohibiting entering it, so people who don't have time to return to the dormitory can return to the classroom to study. Yes, yes, yes, that's right.」

「However, leaving is prohibited after 21:00…」

Lin Yi looked down at his watch. The current time was 8:52 PM. From the time the sports students left until now, he had been thinking about things for a total of 5 minutes.

But in those 5 minutes of thinking time, he didn't feel the previous sense of fatigue.

「Why am I not tired or sleepy now, but I was so tired before?」

Lin Yi took a deep breath, then looked around, taking in the environment of the entire ring-shaped classroom.

There were still sixty or seventy students in the large classroom now, and there were probably forty students who had previously gathered around Lin Yi and put pressure on him.

These people all had a very obvious characteristic, which was that they were shrinking their bodies in their seats, wishing they could embed themselves in them.

They were drooping their heads, some staring blankly and lifelessly at the air, while others were staring straight at the other students in the classroom.

The other students were the ones who looked relatively normal like Lin Yi and Wei Liang, numbering about twenty or thirty.

Lin Yi told Wei Liang his discovery.

After listening, Wei Liang said in confusion, "I have no problem with you saying that those thirty or forty people are problematic, but how can you be sure that the remaining people are normal? Some of them are neither yin nor yang, and you can't see anything abnormal just by observing, right?"

Lin Yi shook his head: "I didn't make judgments based on this level of observation."

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