Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Hmph!!" Wei Liang gritted his teeth, the sound grating, and squatted down to pick up the books scattered on the floor.

Lin Yi thought this explained everything clearly. To Wei Liang, the more you explain, the more he'll fantasize. If you admit it directly, he won't believe it.

"Your books!" Wei Liang gathered the books, opened the folding desk, and slammed them down heavily. Immediately after, he began distributing them, quickly slapping a stack of books in front of Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan recalled the appearance of the white, plaster-like fragments, pondering the words Lin Yi had said to her. Without realizing it, she accepted the books Wei Liang handed her and absentmindedly said, "Thank you."

She sat down and began flipping through the books casually, her mind still replaying the events that had transpired earlier.

Lin Yi observed her state and gradually confirmed something in his mind—the conditions for being able to think weren't as rigid as Xu Shunkang had suggested.

The conditions for thinking weren't fixed but were actually very flexible.

【Only under the sun can one think.】

This was a general statement, or rather, a "reasonable suggestion" given by Xu Shunkang, a sports student, to ordinary experience students.

In reality, sunlight represented a state of safety. Under such conditions, the experience student's mental will seemed to be strengthened, effectively resisting the impact of the layer collapsing.

In other words, the condition 【under the sun】was fundamentally to prevent cognitive collapse caused by thinking.

That is to say, once cognition has been overwritten, the parts that would have been distorted originally become highly adapted, greatly avoiding the possibility of cognitive collapse.

This was precisely why Li Huiyuan was able to think in the classroom. Of course, another reason was…she happened to be partially bathed in sunlight streaming through the window.

However, as Lin Yi observed, Li Huiyuan quickly began to show some abnormal reactions…for example, her neck seemed to be getting a little red, and this reddening was steadily spreading to her face…

「?」 Lin Yi narrowed his eyes subconsciously.

And Li Huiyuan's speed of flipping through the book became faster and faster, finally slamming the book shut with a "thwack…"

She had initially been thinking about the events of the day, then casually looking at the manga in her hand—a story about the Chinese Empress Wu Zetian. But gradually, she noticed that the manga's plot seemed to deviate from logic, with the addition of scenes that shouldn't have been drawn.

Then, she realized that there was a major problem with this manga, and after closing it, she glanced at the cover…

Wow~ Well, well, well!

《The Erotic History of Wu X Tian》?!

She was stunned for a full three seconds, then looked at the books below…

《Magical Girl Warriors vs. Tentacle Monsters》…

《A 16-Year-Old Student's Virginity: Let Big Sister Spoil You More》…

《Pollen Girl Party (Collector's Edition)》… Collector's, Collector's Edition?

The more she looked, the more something felt off, and she couldn't help but flip through a few more at random. As a result, she began to blush from her neck upwards, until even her ears were turning red…

Lin Yi subtly averted his gaze, thinking he had overthought it. It was good if it wasn't a pollution issue.

Lin Yi then gave Wei Liang a strange look. At this moment, Wei Liang was engrossed in flipping through the doujin series manga he was focusing on today…

「This guy Liangzi…could he be born with a constitution for adult comics? How can he find any H-manga?」

He muttered to himself, then peeled open a few H-manga he had on hand, opened his notebook, took out a black pen, and scribbled some thoughts onto the page.

“The ‘As Is’ blue hat is unknown, definitely not in this layer.”

“The glass skywalk and black tiles are interesting ideas, but perhaps they are both wrong.”

“There was a line where the green-hatted guy grabbed me. When exposed, it looks like a scar emitting green gas, but it doesn’t feel like anything when touched.”

“I don’t know what’s on the other side of the mountain.”

“……”

This information could basically only be perfectly interpreted by Lin Yi himself.

Because when these thoughts were being recorded, out of a subconscious protection of his cognition, Lin Yi used the shortest possible sentence structure…

He had a bad feeling, as if he was worried that this notebook might be lost and picked up by someone else, who would then have their cognition shattered directly by the information he had left behind…

But if they couldn’t understand it, there wouldn’t be a problem…hmm, there shouldn’t be, right?

So…

Lin Yi closed his notebook, carefully tucked it into his pants pocket, and then patted his pocket.

You’re already a mature secret codebook, you must learn to protect yourself…

He moved the H-manga aside, then got up and left his seat.

“Going to sneak off for a leak again?” Wei Liang didn’t even lift his head, but his voice rang out near Lin Yi.

Unexpectedly, Lin Yi nodded: “Together?”

“Since you sincerely invited me, then I’ll reluctantly agree!” Wei Liang grinned, closed the Sword Art Online doujin he had been reading, stood up, and straightened his pants. “Let’s go~”

“Wait a moment.” Lin Yi then looked at Li Huiyuan, whose face was flushed red but was still flipping through 《A 16-Year-Old Student's Virginity: Let Big Sister Spoil You More》. “Are you going?”

“Hey—” Wei Liang grabbed Lin Yi’s shoulder, “Damn it, Lao Lin, are you possessed? Asking a girl to go to the bathroom together?!”

Lin Yi said speechlessly, “It’s not like I’m dragging her into the men’s room. Besides, I have other things I want to do.”

“Damn! How can you say such a thing so casually?!” Wei Liang reached out and covered his mouth, “Saying it is one thing, but how can you say it in front of her?!”

Lin Yi was speechless and couldn’t help but roll his eyes. “I’m talking about cannon fodder, and you’re thinking about getting laid?”

Wei Liang had covered his ears at the time, so this back and forth only made things worse: “You even brought up ‘cannon fodder’?! Lao Lin, you’re really ruthless!”

Lin Yi’s mouth twitched fiercely. How did this guy Wei Liang manage to have a cross-channel conversation with him from the late-night adult channel?!

“I understand.” Li Huiyuan put down the book in her hand, “I’ll go with you.”

Upon hearing this, Wei Liang instantly saw black and quickly pulled Lin Yi aside, saying earnestly, “Lao Lin, what’s wrong with you? Are you really possessed? The stuff in H-manga is all fake, you must not apply it to reality!”

“What are you talking about, Liangzi? It’s really not what you think… We’re doing serious business.” Lin Yi patiently explained, but seeing the increasingly suspicious look on Wei Liang’s face, he had no choice but to resort to his ultimate move, “Okay, okay, okay… What kind of XP do I have? You have the integrity of a loyal believer in the White Silk Lolita cult, and I also have the integrity of the Black Silk Onee-san cult, right?”

“Now that you mention it, you’re right…” Wei Liang really believed him. Sure enough, when people communicate with each other by mentioning XP, it’s as smooth as driving on the road with a license plate showing your fetish.

“But honestly, I feel like your XP will be twisted by Boss sooner or later.”

“Ah~ That’s all in the future.” Lin Yi waved his hand, and the image of Boss in a swimsuit couldn’t help but flash in his mind, but then the image of Boss delivering a flying kick flashed past, and a chill instantly ran down his spine.

「Boss’s matter… It’s okay to fantasize a little, don’t take it seriously, don’t take it seriously…」

Looking at Lin Yi and Wei Liang walking ahead with their arms around each other’s shoulders, a thick look of incomprehension appeared in Li Huiyuan’s eyes.

What about me being cannon fodder? Why does that Wei Liang seem so interested?

Then… should I leave?

…

May 8, X023, 12:53 PM.

Teaching Building B, first floor. The corridor leading to the restrooms was bustling with people, with experience students returning to the teaching building from the cafeteria one after another, and some sports students beginning to arrive at the teaching building.

As Lin Yi passed Class 1 of Group B, he glanced inside through the window. From the number of figures, he vaguely judged that the number of experience students in Class 1 of Group B was even smaller than in their class, and he also saw some sports students wearing blue and white striped tracksuits.

「Are the sports students from Class 1 already in the classroom so early?」 Lin Yi muttered to himself, 「Speaking of which, I still don’t know which class Boss is in.」

Lin Yi thought that the class Boss was in must be bursting with a sense of security. After all, that was a Valkyrie who could kick a green-bibbed chef into oblivion with one kick.

Soon, he passed the classroom door of Class 1 of Group B, and just then, his brain suddenly experienced a brief dizziness, as if he had experienced some kind of strange sensation.

Bizarre frame rates flickered rapidly before his eyes, the colors shifting between an exposed black and white world and the normal world at a frequency far exceeding 24 frames per second...

Accompanied by the intense flickering, his brain also experienced some dizziness. Feeling unsteady, he subconsciously reached out to support himself against the wall outside the classroom, touching the wall in front of Classroom 1 of Group B.

But this time, the wall covered in plaster did not have the smooth texture he expected. Instead, it felt rough.

"Huh?!" Lin Yi didn't sense any immediate danger. Instead, he used his unwavering will to suppress the dizziness and looked at the wall as quickly as possible!

The things he couldn't observe before, that incredible uneven roughness, were finally about to be revealed!

He looked at the wall and saw patterns on it.

"Eh... This...?"

Contrary to Lin Yi's expectations, the wall didn't stretch and distort as he had previously guessed, revealing a long boundary line that only existed in another layer. Instead, strange patterns appeared, as if they were carvings that had been worn away by some unknown reason.

The patterns were blurred and dim, vaguely resembling some kind of slender creature, with feather-like carvings beside it. It was unclear whether these carvings belonged to the creature depicted by the patterns or were merely decorative...

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The patterns didn't reveal anything special. Seeing them didn't cause Lin Yi to experience any bizarre hallucinations, although seeing such patterns could be considered a hallucination in itself.

It was unlikely that more hallucinations would appear within a hallucination.

However, there was also a possibility... that when Lin Yi used his will to forcefully suppress the dizziness, his anchor had already stabilized in the real layer, and he was observing things from another layer from within the real layer.

It was like he had instilled in himself the perception of a "glass walkway."

Through the glass, he was able to glimpse a trace of the wall's truth, but he himself remained in the real layer.

To see deeper or more bizarre things, given his current understanding, he might need to relax his will and allow the dizziness to dominate his mind again.

Of course, he wouldn't do that.

It was too dangerous, and the potential gains were not worth the risk.

He took a deep breath and slowly withdrew his gaze from the wall, but just then, he discovered the source of the sensation!

The source wasn't the wall, but... the classroom door of Group B, Class 1!

Following the feeling in his heart, Lin Yi slowly shifted his attention from the patterns on the wall to the classroom door of Group B, Class 1. In the process, the dizziness began to stimulate his cerebral cortex like labor pains, causing the world he saw to experience intense frame skipping and the visual sensation of exposed film!

He saw that the classroom door was covered in green marks, as if someone had splashed green paint on the door, and the paint had slowly flowed down under the influence of gravity, forming a strong and bizarre graffiti, or like traces of a large amount of blood after it had dried.

And the doorknob was constantly emitting green mist. This mist rose slowly, becoming fainter and fainter, and finally turned into countless tiny particles of green powder, dissipating from his perception.

When he noticed these tiny particles of green powder, the cold feeling that he hadn't felt before descended upon him once again.

"Hoo..." It felt as if an陰 wind blew across his bare back, raising goosebumps.

"Someone is watching me?!" Lin Yi suddenly shuddered. In this rapidly skipping frame of vision, he turned his head and glared fiercely in the direction of the cold wind.

"I'm in the corridor, I'm in the corridor, I'm in the corridor..."

As he glared, he frantically reinforced his mental defenses, anchoring himself firmly in reality.

He saw a corridor, saw a dark area at the end of the corridor, and saw a figure in that dark area...

That figure looked like a person wearing a hooded sweatshirt, or a person wearing a cloak, or an enlarged teru teru bozu... It stood alone in the darkness, leaving only a blurred outline, but Lin Yi felt that it was staring straight at him.

Lin Yi couldn't feel the other party's existence, and couldn't even distinguish whether it was emitting green mist in the exposed vision. He could only vaguely see its outline in the darkness and collapsing light thanks to the skipping frames.

But just that outline made him feel a terrifying sense of being in an extremely cold hell...

However, it was just cold, unlike the inhuman classmates who contained desire, infatuation, madness, and greed, and unlike the green-aproned chef who carried a strong resentment and bloodthirsty aura.

It seemed to be just staring at him, just... locking onto him.

Gradually, the sense of collapse in Lin Yi's vision began to disappear, and the rapidly flickering frame skipping began to recover, and that figure also disappeared from his sight.

He shook his head sharply and blinked, and found that the corridor was still the corridor, and even the shadowed areas were gone—the midday sun perfectly covered the corridor, and even the corners were evenly touched by a ray of sunlight.

After regaining his senses, he couldn't help but frown.

He looked at the wall. The wall was normal, white and tender and smooth, and it felt like, emmm... like a freshly painted wall.

Li Huiyuan was still behind him, silently following him and Wei Liang.

Wei Liang asked suspiciously, "What's wrong, Lao Lin?"

Lin Yi shook his head: "Nothing."

He frowned tightly: "In the vision just now... I didn't see Li Huiyuan standing behind me."

"Could it be that I didn't turn my head?"

"Or did I look in another direction?"

"Or does Li Huiyuan have other problems that I haven't noticed?"

His brows furrowed tighter and tighter, twisting into a frown.

"And that figure... Wait, could it be him?"

His eyes lit up, as if he had seen a glimmer of light.

When he went to the toilet on the evening of May 6th, he seemed to have seen a figure in a dark corner, which seemed to have some similarities to today's!

Could it be him, um... it?

"If it really is it, was I targeted by it that night?"

"Hiss..."

He took another breath of cold air and felt uneasy again.

This feeling of being stared at made his heart palpitate more than being targeted by the inhuman classmates and the sculpture phalanx, because he had at least figured out the locking logic of the inhuman classmates and the sculpture phalanx, but he really didn't understand anything about this figure with a humanoid outline!

He didn't know its details at all!

Damn it, it's better to be robbed than to be targeted by a thief!

"Eh, wait, but come to think of it, the reason why it hasn't attacked me all this time, could it be because I don't understand it?"

Just because he couldn't see it clearly, so he didn't know what it was!

Only by knowing it would there be "unforgettable things must have echoes". He doesn't understand it very well now, so there can be no "echo"?

"Could this be the benefit of ignorance?" Lin Yi experienced the joy of a normal life for the first time.

"Lao Lin, you're not moving, did you pee your pants?" Wei Liang saw Lin Yi staying in place with a serious expression, and his two eyebrows were twisted into one, so he couldn't help but move his eyes and slowly fell to Lin Yi's crotch, "Huh, didn't pee his pants?"

He scratched his head, a little unsure.

Lin Yi said: "Liangzi, wait for me for a while."

After saying that, he took two steps forward, stood in front of the door of Class 1 of Group B, and looked at the doorknob.

When Wei Liang saw this, his hair stood on end, and he quickly stopped him: "Damn, Lao Lin, are you crazy? You want to open the door of Class 1?!"

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