Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Suddenly, he heard a rustling sound near his ears. The rolling fog layered upon layer, resembling figures wandering about.

At that moment, Lin Yi's last bit of wishful thinking shattered. He was certain that this fog was not mountain mist, but a dense fog carrying the essence of pollution.

But what was fortunate now was that the fog had just begun to rise. It would take a considerable amount of time to reach the concentration it had on May 6th. Moreover, the raindrops symbolizing abnormal weather had not yet begun to fall, and he ensured that the teaching building was within his sight—this alone was enough to anchor him to this path.

A path of 'I am heading to the teaching building'.

"Li Huiyuan!" Lin Yi called out loudly. Li Huiyuan's body immediately trembled. "Wait for me where you are, but don't turn around!"

Don't turn around in the fog. This was stated in the student rules. Referring to when they first entered the school, they could abide by the student rules. Lin Yi believed that some of the rules in the student handbook might still be effective for Li Huiyuan.

His words were like iron laws, causing Li Huiyuan to stop immediately.

He quickly caught up with Li Huiyuan and then took her hand. "I have a way to anchor myself. Hold my hand, and if you feel something is wrong, tell me immediately. I will try my best, cough, I will take you back to the teaching building."

"No need to force yourself if necessary," Li Huiyuan had long been accustomed to Lin Yi's way of thinking and ruthlessly exposed him.

Lin Yi lowered his eyes and coughed dryly, not responding.

Then he took a deep breath, held hands with Li Huiyuan, and walked side by side toward the teaching building. At the same time, he began to use his traditional skill—

"I am Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098, I am on my way to the teaching building..."

"I am Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098, I am on my way to the teaching building..."

"I am Lin Yi, my student ID is..."

No matter the time, no matter how many times he chanted this information, as long as he spoke, Lin Yi could feel his will as if it had received some kind of blessing.

Strangely enough, this blessing had a domineering feeling, like "Those who chant my true name will find eternal life in reincarnation."

He certainly knew that this was a psychological effect, but it was precisely this kind of self-suggestion that allowed him to maintain a firm will at critical moments, unmoved by external things.

He walked and chanted this sentence, like a Taoist priest holding a talisman and treasure order, delving into the Yellow Springs, ordering all ghosts to avoid the path.

But not far along, Li Huiyuan suddenly said uncomfortably, "Lin Yi, can you stop saying that sentence? I feel... a little uncomfortable. Can you just recite it in your heart?"

The "uncomfortable" Li Huiyuan spoke of was literally uncomfortable. Lin Yi could feel that Li Huiyuan's tone was a little hurried, and her breathing was also very unstable.

"You...?" Lin Yi seemed to realize something.

"Lin Yi... when you say that sentence, I feel my heart beating very fast..." Li Huiyuan said through gritted teeth, "I have an uncontrollable urge to snatch your student ID..."

"I... I even know the exact location of your student ID..."

Li Huiyuan raised her hand, and the five fingers of that hand were constantly grasping at something in the air. "I feel like my hand isn't my own, and it keeps wanting to take your student ID."

Her face was pale, even unsightly. That thought did not belong to her, or rather, did not belong to her subjective will, but she could not stop wanting to do it, as if her mind was being controlled.

That kind of greedy, eager emotion, when she heard Lin Yi chanting his name and student ID, sprouted from the ground like Jack's magic beanstalk, and then grew wildly and barbarically in her heart, occupying her conscious will.

Lin Yi frowned tightly. After Li Huiyuan lost her identity certificate, it was not obvious under the sun, but after the sun set and the night came, her condition began to deteriorate sharply.

No wonder "cannot stay overnight." This situation was not just "cannot stay overnight," but simply "no way" to survive a night under the continued erosion of pollution.

"Let's go back to the teaching building first. We'll talk to the homeroom teacher when we see her."

Lin Yi stopped chanting his name and student ID and walked step by step toward the teaching building, holding Li Huiyuan's hand.

From an angle that Li Huiyuan could not see, his face was terribly solemn.

Because he did indeed recite his name and student ID, but he did not make a sound at all, but Li Huiyuan seemed to have heard his words and was attracted to him.

In order to prevent Li Huiyuan from doing something evil, Lin Yi gritted his teeth and did not continue to recite in his heart.

The wind in the mountains was getting stronger and stronger, but the dense fog wandered in the air like cotton wool that could not be blown away, and then accumulated thicker and thicker like snowflakes.

Lin Yi felt a sense of suffocation. He seemed to see a road under his feet leading to the teaching building, but on both sides of the road were two rows of tsunami-like giant waves.

These waves were all composed of thick layers of smog, like high walls piled up with gray-white foam under the dim moonlight, and a faint halo faintly floated on the surface of the high walls.

At this moment, he began to hear again the echo of "whoosh whoosh" like a train speeding past his face, and the scene in front of him began to flicker again like skipping frames.

He found that his vision began to stretch continuously, and the ground under his feet leading to the teaching building seemed to be pulled by a huge force like rubber, and then infinitely extended. The two rows of fog walls around him also began to penetrate into the high sky like wild growth.

He realized that the whole world seemed to be stretched, and he became a tiny speck of dust in the long spatial scale.

In his rapidly flickering vision, a ghostly green light began to surge in the fog, and these ghostly green lights all came from the Nightwalkers!

Countless elongated Nightwalkers were hidden under the green fog, like bamboo rafts, looking down at them.

In another layer of fog, there were also some figures with stiff limbs. They were sculpture phalanxes...

"Rustle, rustle..."

"Rustle, rustle..."

The sculptures in the sculpture phalanx stepped on their own steps, dragging their bodies across the uneven ground, making a "rustle, rustle" sound...

They lurked under the bamboo raft-like Nightwalkers, and from a virtual road parallel to them, they slowly cut into the road they were on, like merging in a car.

Lin Yi's pupils shook slightly, and he couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion for a while.

He then realized that this frame-skipping vision was the same as the black and white vision he had entered before, but the reason why he didn't see a black and white frame now was because there was too much pollution in his vision.

The green halo almost submerged the black and white, and the whole vision looked like being in the underworld.

Adding that kind of night-walking species lined up like bamboo and the sculpture phalanx accompanying them like a hyakki yagyō, it really gives off a sense of collapse, like "accompanying a hundred demons on a night walk in the Yellow Springs."

When Lin Yi noticed the sculpture phalanx, the "people" in the sculpture phalanx seemed to notice something as well, stiffly turning their necks and slowly looking in his direction.

Lin Yi's scalp went numb, and he quickly looked away.

With this turn, he fell out of this kind of vision again. The illusion of infinite stretching around him began to quickly recede. The fog wall inserted into the high sky was taken back, and the teaching building that had been stretched almost to the end of the world also moved back at once, re-erecting itself in the thick fog, furtively revealing its top floor.

With his vision restored, Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But before he could relax, he suddenly noticed that Li Huiyuan's hand had subtly increased its strength, as if she was very nervous.

And he also suddenly realized that on the originally deserted road, some sparse figures had appeared since who knows when.

These sparse figures were very close to them, some even right next to them. They walked on the cobblestone road where the lights had not yet come on, taking stiff, fragmented steps…

This zombie-like physical form and strange pace instantly made Lin Yi realize a fact—"The humanoid sculptures in the sculpture phalanx have entered this road?"

"No, the current situation is more like I'm being forced to walk into the sculpture phalanx? Damn it…"

Feeling the cold aura emanating from these humanoid sculptures around him, Lin Yi didn't dare to breathe loudly. His pace was somewhat restrained, like a passerby who had mixed into a team of walking corpses, trying his best to control himself from showing anything abnormal, but the more he controlled himself, the more abnormal he seemed.

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The artistic department's rules regarding sculptures gradually emerged in Lin Yi's mind, but the problem was that he was neither an art student nor in the art building, so he couldn't use the art student rules as a reference now.

The only thing he could do was to abide by the most basic student rules.

The twelve-character survival mantra: [Don't look back], [Find streetlights], [Get close to buildings].

"Li Huiyuan, are you okay, Li Huiyuan?"

Lin Yi said softly, while turning his head to look at Li Huiyuan. As a result, as soon as he turned a little, he saw a pale humanoid sculpture standing next to Li Huiyuan.

This humanoid sculpture was white all over, but it maintained a certain stiff posture, looking like someone who had applied plaster all over their body and then went to the streets to do performance art.

When Lin Yi's gaze caught the outline of the humanoid sculpture, he subconsciously avoided it.

"Don't look at their faces!" Lin Yi told himself in his heart. One of the mechanisms of these damned sculptures is "void target acquisition." As long as you see their faces, they will lock onto you and trigger some kind of killing mechanism.

"I… I'm here," Li Huiyuan's trembling voice sounded weakly.

"Lower your head and focus your attention on me. Ignore these guys around you, especially, don't look at their faces."

"Okay…"

Lin Yi took a deep breath, then steadied his gaze and walked towards the gradually blurring teaching building.

He looked down at his watch.

17:50.

"17:50…" Lin Yi's heart gradually cooled down, slowly sinking to the bottom.

As the fog thickened, he estimated the time to reach the teaching building based on the time points of walking in the normal layer. The latest should be around 17:50. Considering that the fog blocked the line of sight and affected the speed of progress, even if the actual situation was different from the calculation, there shouldn't be such an outrageous thing as "walking for a long time and the teaching building is still far away".

The only explanation is that the campus layer has fallen unknowingly.

"Li Huiyuan, wait a moment." In order to verify this guess, he stopped Li Huiyuan, then squatted down and put his hand into the thick fog that had passed his knees, touching the cobblestones laid on the road under his feet.

"Damn it… It really is like this!"

The cobblestones that his palm touched no longer had the smooth, oval regularity. They were directly twisted and stretched into some kind of weird maltose shape. Just by this touch, there was no way to understand what kind of torture this cobblestone had suffered to be kneaded into this ghostly appearance that was neither a cobblestone nor a plasticine.

He sighed quietly, then slowly straightened his body again.

Throughout the whole process, he kept his eyes looking forward and firmly locked onto the outline of the teaching building in the "distant" fog.

He was really scared, afraid that if he blinked even once, the teaching building would disappear without a trace. Then they would be in a state of lost safety where they couldn't [keep an eye on the cobblestone ground under their feet] and [the streetlights hadn't turned on]. That would be really over.

What?

Keep an eye on the cobblestone ground under your feet?

Are these still normal cobblestones? If you dare to use this kind of twisted cobblestone with an abnormal layer to anchor your cognition, I'm afraid even the word "death" will be twisted into a twist and slapped on your face.

Lin Yi's face became more and more ugly. He should have been able to detect the changes in the campus layer, but because the layer that fell wasn't their layer, but the layer of the campus they were in, and because his perception was mostly used to guard against the surrounding humanoid sculpture phalanx, he gradually diluted and ignored this change from the campus layer, which led to this predicament.

Li Huiyuan seemed to be able to feel Lin Yi's self-blame, and couldn't help but say, "Lin Yi… Otherwise, why don't you leave me behind and find a way back to the teaching building yourself?"

"What are you talking about?" Lin Yi interrupted her without hesitation, "You're the only chess piece I have right now. Am I just going to send you to their mouths to eat? Even if I want to send you, I have to exchange it for a chance to sacrifice a rook to checkmate!"

"Relax."

Feeling the warmth from Lin Yi's hand, Li Huiyuan pursed her lips tightly and said nothing more, but her heart was warm.

Li Huiyuan's heart was warm, but Lin Yi's heart was cold.

He had comforted Li Huiyuan, but he couldn't deceive himself.

They were now in a desperate situation.

The campus streetlights would turn on in 10 minutes, but they would be completely submerged by the fog in less than 10 minutes.

The worst thing was that with the spread of the thick fog, the campus layer had already fallen.