Rules-related weird stories: 4016

In the process of walking over, he grabbed the drawing board with his backhand, then pulled it out from behind him, and then quickly manipulated it with both hands. The drawing board was like a sophisticated mechanical weapon, being deconstructed and reorganized in a series of "kacha" sounds, and finally turned into a huge cross.

Then he picked up his paintbrush and began to draw a mysterious symbol in the middle of the cross, as if chanting something.

When he was about three meters away from the door of the store, he completed his work—a giant cross-shaped weapon engraved with a series of mysterious symbols.

"This kind of dirty thing…" He raised the cross-shaped giant weapon high, as if holding up a holy sword. In his eyes, overlooking the grotesque night-walking species, flowed a golden light as cold as moonlight, and a cold arc appeared at the corner of his mouth. "It's best to execute them on the spot."

As the voice fell, the cross-shaped giant weapon heavily struck the grotesque night-walking species.

"Boom—"

Accompanied by a loud noise, the runes on the cross-shaped giant weapon flickered, flowing with a strange, brilliant golden light.

A piece of bright light mist enveloped the grotesque night-walking species. It let out a painful roar, its cyan-gray body twisting and trembling violently, constantly emitting white steam. Its entire body turned into a hard, white plaster-like sculpture at a speed visible to the naked eye.

That twisted appearance was very similar to the painful sculpture in the spiral staircase with the Fibonacci sequence.

Lin Yi looked at him in shock, feeling that this figure was both strange and somewhat familiar. On closer thought, the attire, the drawing board, the posture, seemed to be—

Just as Lin Yi realized something, the figure holding the cross-shaped giant weapon glanced at him: "How is it? Do you want to learn some cool moves like this? I'll teach you?"

The moment he saw that face clearly, the person Lin Yi had guessed in his mind also became clear at once.

"Holy crap, Mu Daxian…?!"

The guy holding the cross-shaped giant weapon in front of him was none other than Mu Daxian!

"Wait, could it be…?!"

Lin Yi looked down.

That familiar yellow knitted sweater, dark and thin little body…

"It's Maozi?!"

"Did I switch perspectives with Maozi again?! Is Maozi now in the cafeteria, no, in the store too?!"

Lin Yi's mind instantly flashed the store notice he had just read!

【The name of the store is for reference only, please refer to the actual product.】

【No matter what the store you enter looks like, please firmly believe: The store is on the first floor of the cafeteria. You can leave the cafeteria and return to the campus through the store.】

"Could it be that the store has multiple layers, and Maozi and I are now in the store, but in different layers, like…like the world on the surface and the world underneath?"

He wasn't sure if his guess was correct. He wanted to check the time on his watch, but Mao Feiyang wasn't wearing a watch. Only he in the group wore one. Even Wei Liang said that the time on campus was based on the pendulum clock, and other timekeeping devices were not accurate enough…

So he had a habit of synchronizing his time with the pendulum clock, and the fact proved that his old tank was quite useful.

He also wanted to find the pendulum clock in the store, but found that the store was surprisingly not equipped with even one pendulum clock.

Just then, a sharp scream caught his attention, and he immediately looked at the source of the sound—the direction of the store door.

He saw figures moving in the tumbling white mist, and suddenly a large number of pale palms protruded out like a gushing spring!

The grotesque night-walking species squeezed in from the narrow doorway like a crowd of people. They were really squeezing, like filling the teaching building elevator with night-walking species, and then filling the subway of the little days. Now that the door was open, the night-walking species, squeezed into various twisted forms, spewed out in a gush.

Then, after these night-walking species came into contact with the thick fog, they quickly inflated like being filled with air, turning into that kind of cyan-gray, stiff, somewhat twisted, walking dead form.

"Damn it…" Facing the twisted tide of night-walking species, there was no fear on Mu Daxian's face. He picked up the cross-shaped giant weapon and stood in front of the store's doorway. One hit at a time, he smashed the tide of night-walking species, scattering them everywhere. There were broken white plaster-like short limbs and tomato sauce from fragments of sculptures that turned into white plaster in seconds…

In the dim air-raid shelter, under the flashing red lights, in the piercing buzzing alarm, Mu Daxian's eyes burned with a cold golden flame. He wielded the hard cross-shaped giant weapon, like a violent exorcist priest who physically exorcised demons, or like a demon god descending to earth, cold and brutal.

While smashing the night-walking species, he muttered "Damn it," as if Fahai was subduing demons, chanting the Great Might Heavenly Dragon, which actually gave the four-character swear word a sense of ritual for subduing demons and saving all living beings.

Mao Feiyang and Lin Yi were dumbfounded.

Damn, are art students so fierce?

Do they still need to listen to the sports students' requests to cooperate with them to deal with the night-walking species?

Isn't it just to open the blood rage berserk on the spot and say, Wukong, step back and let me do it?

"Don't stand there! Take this opportunity to quickly find the student commemorative coins!" Mu Daxian shouted to Mao Feiyang in the midst of his busy schedule.

"Okay, okay…" Lin Yi heard Mao Feiyang's voice, and then the perspective began to shift, running towards a certain shelf.

And when Mao Feiyang's perspective shifted out, Lin Yi suddenly found that the surroundings began to become quiet. The piercing buzzing sound gradually left him…

He realized something and looked up at the ceiling. Sure enough, the originally flashing red lights gradually returned to normal, turning into the ordinary incandescent lights as before.

And his vision also shook once again. He knew that this illusion was over.

In the next moment when he had the thought, everything around him began to fluctuate. The scene around him quickly disappeared like a quilt being pulled away. When his vision recovered, a white light flashed in his mind, and then only the door of the store remained in front of him.

The door of the store in the layer he was in.

He looked down at the time on his watch.

17:01.

He glanced at Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan was looking at him by his side. Seeing him look over, she asked, "Is there any problem over there, Lin Tongxue? I saw you seemed to be in a daze for a minute. Did you think of anything?"

Lin Yi didn't speak, but the shock in his eyes was hard to hide.

In this illusion, he spent at least three to five minutes from Mao Feiyang's perspective, but in this layer, only a little over a minute had passed.

"It's nothing…I just feel that the store is not safe enough," Lin Yi said with a very serious expression.

"Yeah…It's possible to encounter that fake store owner," Li Huiyuan nodded.

"No, I'm talking about more than that," Lin Yi looked at the door of the store.

From Mao Feiyang's perspective, the area outside the store, formed by the orange-yellow light, had been almost completely eroded by darkness, and then the pale white mist directly attacked the entrance of the store.

From his perspective now, the area in front of the convenience store was still illuminated by the lights, but just like when they entered the campus on May 6th, the area illuminated by the streetlights was gradually compressed and shrunk as the abnormal weather intensified. It was hard to say how much area would ultimately remain.

The same was true for the entrance of the convenience store now.

“I feel… the dense fog will eventually flood into the convenience store, which is why the convenience store notice told us to hurry up with our shopping and then run,” Lin Yi said with a grave expression. “The dense fog is a crisis from the cafeteria, and it also belongs to the convenience store's crisis.”

Li Huiyuan shuddered upon hearing this and followed Lin Yi's gaze to look outside the convenience store door. With this one look, she seemed to see faces filled with infatuation and greed in the mist outside the light. Among them was the green-aproned chef hanging upside down from the ceiling like a human-shaped spider.

Li Huiyuan felt a chill and felt her body become somewhat cold. Lin Yi was right, these treacherous things traveling on the dense fog were really approaching the convenience store.

So she pursed her lips and followed Lin Yi toward the shelf area labeled with other merchandise.

…

May 8, X023, 17:05, Other Merchandise Area of the Convenience Store.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan weaved through rows of shelves, their eyes scanning each shelf like radar.

The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ said ⊥ is ⊥ at ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥ ⊥ book ⊥ ⊥ bar ⊥ ⊥ first ⊥ hair!

Their pace became faster and faster, gradually developing a perfunctory feeling, but at the same time, their expressions became more and more unsightly. Every time they walked past a row of shelves, it felt like stuffing a handful of flies into their mouths.

It wasn't because the merchandise in the other merchandise area was too intellectually challenging, but because… they couldn't find the Student Commemorative Coins in the other merchandise area!

“It's not here… it's not here either.”

“There aren't any.”

The two stopped in front of the last row of shelves.

This was nominally the “last row,” but in reality, there were countless shelves ahead. However, going forward would be entering the dark area not covered by the lights. In that shadowy area, rows of shelves extended into the dim area and then completely disappeared into the darkness.

The two stood on the dividing line between light and darkness.

Lin Yi was silent, while Li Huiyuan beside him pursed her lips, her beautiful face as pale as paper ashes.

On the shelves behind them were rows of cubbies, and the cubbies were filled with some infrequently used tools and painting supplies such as brushes and pigments.

Each of these cubbies had a label, but the cubbies labeled "Student Commemorative Coin" were empty.

The Student Commemorative Coins on every shelf they had passed on the way had been taken, as if they were being targeted.

But that wasn't the case. Lin Yi sensed that something must have happened in the convenience store.

「Mu Daxian asked Maozi to take the Student Commemorative Coins… which means they are also looking for the Student Commemorative Coins! Could they be in the convenience store on another layer?」

The ominous feeling in Lin Yi's heart grew stronger and stronger.

With the help of the dim light, he could vaguely see that there seemed to be some currency-like things on the shelves in front. The things were not big, but they made him feel somewhat familiar.

「Student Commemorative Coins?」

Student Commemorative Coins were actually placed on the shelves in the darkness?

“Lin… Lin student… does that look like…?” A hint of joy appeared in Li Huiyuan's eyes.

“It looks like Student Commemorative Coins,” Lin Yi said seriously. The Student Commemorative Coins on the shelf in front were exactly the same as the ones he saw in his dream, with the World Tree pattern branded on the side facing them, while the side they couldn't see should be blank.

Li Huiyuan was about to walk towards the shelf, but just as Li Huiyuan crossed Lin Yi's position and put half a foot into the shadow area, a wave of extreme cold suddenly surged from Lin Yi's heart, causing his heart to skip a beat!

“Be careful!”

Lin Yi quickly grabbed Li Huiyuan's shoulder and pulled her back.

A strong look of puzzlement appeared in Li Huiyuan's eyes, but before she could speak, her beautiful eyebrows suddenly furrowed, and she let out a painful cry.

“Ah!”

She immediately squatted down, took off her black square-toed leather shoes that matched her uniform, peeled off her lace-trimmed socks, and then looked at her feet.

She saw a hair-thin bloodstain on her snow-white little foot. The bloodstain crossed the back of her foot and formed a circle around the arch of her foot, as if an invisible air wave had cut it from top to bottom when she stretched out her foot, forming a cross-section.

The area where the bloodstain extended towards her toes began to show a grayish-white color that was very different from her normal skin tone, while the area where the bloodstain went to her heel and calf was still normal snow-white skin.

“This, this… it hurts, it hurts…” Li Huiyuan looked at her foot and hissed, sucking in cold air.

Lin Yi's expression changed slightly, and he quickly squatted down to hold her foot, then carefully observed it in shock: “The part of your foot that stepped over that dividing line… its color has changed.”

“It's not just a matter of color!” Li Huiyuan said, enduring the pain. “I feel like my foot has been cut, my toes are sore and painful, it's like… wait, it doesn't hurt so much now… no, no!”

Li Huiyuan touched her toes, then pressed and pinched them. Finally, her pretty face turned white with a "唰" sound: “My toes… my toes seem to be losing sensation?!”

“What?!” Lin Yi was shocked and quickly touched her toes, only to find that the part of the bloodstain towards her toes still had some fleshiness but had become icy cold. It didn't feel like flesh and blood, but like touching some smooth rubber.

Li Huiyuan looked at Lin Yi, and said blankly: “If… if you hadn't pulled me just now…”

She didn't continue. If she hadn't been pulled, it wouldn't just be this part now. She might have directly undergone this strange and terrifying change!

“Is it a trap! Or something else?” Lin Yi thought of the streetlights that wouldn't light up mentioned in the student rules. Could the shelves in front also be like that?

But why didn't the convenience store notice mention it at all, as if it was deliberately released to let people step into the pit?

「Damn…」 Lin Yi cursed inwardly, but he couldn't show too much negativity, lest Li Huiyuan, who was already frightened, become even more unstable.

“Do you still have feeling in your foot now?” he asked.

“There's still a little… I can vaguely feel that these are my toes…” A bitter look appeared on the corner of Li Huiyuan's mouth.

Thanks to book friends “azazel”, “Jianghu www”, and “Xiaofanfan” for the reward!!

PS: I will take a day off tomorrow to recuperate and sort out some plot details in the short term, and then there will be no more leave this month.