Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Right now, the only way to break the situation is this: before the fog swallows them, forcefully rush back to the teaching building, or maintain the perception that they are "on the road."

The faintly visible teaching building in the distance, within the fog, is the goal that Lin Yi has never abandoned. From the beginning, he designated the teaching building as an anchor, ensuring that he was always "heading towards the teaching building" in any state. Therefore, even though the cobblestone road had twisted into a braid, he never lost his way in the fog.

Facts have proven that this is an effective way to prevent getting lost, but they cannot return to the teaching building by relying on this alone.

But it doesn't matter if they can't return to the teaching building, because what Lin Yi wants to achieve is to ensure that they are "on the road."

Student Rule No. 7: [If you cannot find a numbered street lamp immediately, please look down and stare at the ground under your feet, looking for any reference object that can confirm that you are still on the road. If you find that the ground is twisting, stretching, or undergoing any abnormal changes, please quickly hold your student ID and map tightly in your hands, and repeatedly remind yourself of your name and student number. Remember you are a student (this sentence is bolded and underlined).]

[Staring at the ground under your feet] is to anchor yourself in the campus, thereby [ensuring that you are still on the road], so as not to get lost as the layers fall.

Now there is a problem with the ground, but it doesn't matter. I can't anchor the ground anymore, but I can directly anchor the teaching building.

Lin Yi just led Li Huiyuan forward unhurriedly on the twisted cobblestone road. When he confirmed that there was a problem with the cobblestone road, he completely gave up the idea of returning to the teaching building along the cobblestone road, because it was impossible to go back.

The only thing he can do now is to hold out on this road until 18:00, and then find the nearest lit street lamp, and then return to the teaching building in the direction of increasing street lamp numbers.

And what he is most worried about now is that Li Huiyuan's unstable state will be continuously amplified due to the fall of the layers, eventually causing a series of chain reactions.

He looked down at his watch.

17:52.

"There are only 8 minutes left... Please don't let anything go wrong. Please don't let anything go wrong..."

Lin Yi muttered something in his heart, and then suddenly realized that Li Huiyuan's hand was a little cold.

"Damn it, it never rains but it pours!"

"Li Huiyuan, are you okay?"

"I... I'm okay, just a little cold."

"The school is in the mountains, and it's foggy again. It's normal to be a little cold, just don't think too much about it." He tried to make his tone sound calm.

"Yeah." Li Huiyuan nodded.

"Wait..." Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. He just tried to rationalize the abnormal weather on campus by using the mountainous terrain and climate. Why does it feel a bit inexplicably familiar...?

[The climate in the mountains is like this, rain and fog are common. It is not dangerous to stay inside during abnormal weather.]

He suddenly recalled this sentence, but this sentence... wasn't it what Wei Liang said to him on the blue bus before he entered the campus?

"Damn, did Liangzi realize the abnormal weather at that time, and then started trying to give me a preventive shot? I just didn't react at first?"

He thought of Wei Liang's fear when he entered the school, but later he didn't show the kind of fear he had when he entered the school...

This strong sense of division, could it be... Wei Liang was acting?

"Liangzi pretended to be scared, so that I would focus my attention on him and the street lights, to prevent me from falling into the layers from the beginning?"

Lin Yi was stunned again and again, but now he firmly believed in this speculation.

Wei Liang does have his own set of unique skills, just like repeatedly causing the green bib chef to fail in the cafeteria.

It's just that Lin Yi now realizes a truth: Wei Liang's unique skills are not an "active skill", but a "passive skill".

"I have to use some topics to draw Li Huiyuan's attention away from the surrounding environment..." Lin Yi pondered for a moment.

"Speaking of which, Li Huiyuan."

"Hmm?"

"Are you a student? I mean, were you a student before you came here?"

"Hmm... yes."

"I am also a college student, what is your major?" Lin Yi tried to distract Li Huiyuan from the current environment by chatting.

"Are you a science student or a liberal arts student?"

"Ah?" Li Huiyuan was stunned, as if she couldn't understand Lin Yi's question.

Lin Yi was also stunned for a moment: "Ah? What's wrong?"

"I... I don't seem to have heard the terms 'science' and 'liberal arts' for a long time..." A hint of doubt appeared in Li Huiyuan's eyes.

"Then what is your major?" Lin Yi thought, it doesn't matter if you can't remember, I just want to grab your attention.

Besides, once you enter the gate of S City University, it is rare for your brain to remain normal.

Li Huiyuan thought seriously for a moment, and then said: "I majored in 'Paleobiological Origins' ..."

Lin Yi was surprised: "Are you studying archaeology?"

Archaeology is a niche subject among niche subjects. He never expected that Li Huiyuan would have this professional background.

"Not archaeology..." Li Huiyuan shook her head, "I also minored in 'Mysterious Genealogy', but since X999, many things have changed, and some things can only be learned at specific schools..."

Lin Yi: "???"

Looking at Li Huiyuan's serious nonsense, Lin Yi's forehead was full of question marks. He wondered if Li Huiyuan was crazy, or the world was crazy?

Mysterious Genealogy?

What the hell is this major?

"What about you? What is your major?" Li Huiyuan asked back.

"I'm studying dragon slaying at the Cassel College!" Lin Yi originally wanted to say something normal, but Li Huiyuan said so, so he turned his head and blurted out.

"Dragon... Dragon slaying?!" Li Huiyuan's eyes widened.

The corner of Lin Yi's mouth twitched, thinking that he had scared you.

Unexpectedly, a hint of excitement gradually appeared in Li Huiyuan's widened eyes: "I knew there were 'dragons'! My tutor didn't believe it, saying that the 'dragon' species has huge differences between the East and the West, and it is a speculated and unverified category even in 'Mysterious Genealogy'."

"Aren't you getting carried away?" Lin Yi was speechless, but Li Huiyuan's attention was indeed diverted, so he continued to chat with Li Huiyuan about this topic.

After all, the method he initially thought of to divert attention was to ask Li Huiyuan, "Li Huiyuan, do you like to wear black silk or white silk, or nothing at all...", but this kind of question with strong XP characteristics is really too abstract, and there is a sense of collapse that you have to watch another movie when the end is coming.

And although this topic is also a bit abstract now, at least the abstract angle is very unique.

Lin Yi chatted with Li Huiyuan while silently calculating the passage of time in his heart - he didn't dare to look at his watch, because he needed to lock his eyes on the looming outline of the teaching building in the fog.

At the same time, he also observed the movement trends of those humanoid sculptures around them, so as not to accidentally see their faces.

To Lin Yi's surprise, although the sculpture phalanx surrounded them, none of the humanoid sculptures seemed to show any malice towards them.

It was strange, so strange that Lin Yi almost suspected he had misunderstood their logic of action.

Time flowed slowly, and the 10 minutes felt as long as a century.

Finally, the time point Lin Yi had calculated arrived: 17:59. If his perception of time was correct, then there was only one minute left before the campus lights came on.

50 seconds…

40 seconds…

30 seconds…

Lin Yi's heart slowly rose to his throat.

"If the streetlights on campus don't turn on when the time comes… will we be stuck walking down this road indefinitely with this sculpture phalanx?"

Imagine a sculpture phalanx endlessly advancing towards a mirage-like building on a twisted cobblestone road shrouded in thick fog.

A sharp light flashed in Lin Yi's eyes: "The sculpture phalanx isn't hostile to us. Could it be… that it sees us as ‘one of them’?"

The moment this thought emerged, he felt goosebumps all over his body, and every bone and muscle seemed to tremble.

He couldn't even imagine such a scene.

Countdown: 20 seconds…

10 seconds…

5 seconds, 4 seconds…

3, 2, 1…

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Lin Yi held his breath.

18:00:00.

"Time's up!"

As if in response to Lin Yi's call, a yellow-orange light suddenly lit up under the thick fog not far away with a "pop…" sound.

The ball of light hung there like a small sun, and the brilliance it radiated seemed to inflate a balloon in the darkness, forcibly propping up a small area in the misty world.

Below the small sun was a dark round base, and below the round base was a dark pillar with a number written in white paint:

"Teaching Building - 105".

"It's on! It's finally on!"

"And it's streetlight number 105. As expected, we had already walked most of the way at the beginning, only missing the last bit. If the sun hadn't set a little faster, there would have really been a chance to safely return to the teaching building."

Lin Yi smiled with relief in his heart, then began to pull Li Huiyuan, subtly moving out of the sculpture phalanx and walking towards the lamppost.

At this moment, he suddenly realized another problem. He and Li Huiyuan were actually walking on the edge of the cobblestone road, deviating from the main body of the cobblestone road. If he hadn't been using the silhouette of the teaching building to anchor himself, they might have already gotten lost. Even if the streetlights were on, they wouldn't be in the area where the lampposts were distributed on campus!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, feeling a wave of lingering fear.

However, just as they were heading towards "Streetlight - 105," the humanoid sculptures, which hadn't shown any extra behavior along the way, suddenly moved with a "rustling" sound. Those humanoid sculptures walking in front of and alongside Lin Yi slowed down their pace and began to curl up to the edge of the road in areas not "affected" by the streetlight's light, as if they were trying to escape these rays.

And those humanoid sculptures that were originally walking behind him began to jostle and squeeze together, all coming to the area directly behind him…

Well, not exactly directly behind him, but rather within a certain range behind him. However, because he couldn't turn his head, Lin Yi could only judge their approximate position by the "rustling" sound of their footsteps.

"They're hiding behind me?"

"If it's just to avoid the light, they don't need to run behind me. Do they have other intentions?"

They didn't have any thoughts about him when the fog was surging, but after the lights came on, they started to stir.

Lin Yi wasn't sure what they were thinking, so he could only attribute it to the mechanism.

Gradually, he felt a gaze as if it had materialized, crawling out of the darkness like a venomous snake, then climbing onto his back and gradually wrapping around his throat.

This was a rather "long-lost" feeling. Sinister, vicious, greedy, bloodthirsty, yearning, crazy… countless negative emotions intertwined into a net, making every step he took towards the lamppost feel like he was sitting on pins and needles, with a strong sense of resistance.

"Lin Yi…"

"Lin Yi…"

Low calls sounded from behind him, as if imbued with some kind of bewitching magic, trying to make him turn around.

"Don't turn around, Li Huiyuan. No matter what calls you hear, don't pay attention to them…" Lin Yi gritted his teeth and warned in a deep voice.

"Okay… but Lin Yi…"

"What is it?"

"I… I didn't hear anyone calling me."

"?"

"?!"

A booming sound suddenly echoed in Lin Yi's heart, deafening like the sky collapsing and the earth sinking.

"Li Huiyuan didn't hear the humanoid sculptures calling out?"

"Li Huiyuan isn't their target?"

"Their target is me?"

"What the f—…"

Lin Yi felt a strong sense of layering and collapse in his heart, and for the first time, his faintly dizzy brain produced a gnashing frustration with the illusion of reality.

It was like the T800 Terminator escaping with John Connor for an entire episode, fighting to the death with the villainous metal liquid robot to protect John Connor, but just as it was about to complete its mission, the villain suddenly said something like "I'll complete the mission by killing you," creating a twisted feeling.

I'm the clown myself?!

This is really f—ing…

A simple and unadorned vocabulary with extremely high maternal brilliance rolled through Lin Yi's mind, but he gradually realized—it wasn't that he was the clown, but… he had mixed things up from the beginning.

It was true that Li Huiyuan was the target in the cafeteria, and it was also true that he had a target component.

But at that time, the two of them were the targets of the Night Walker and the green-aproned chef.

However, on the way back to the teaching building, they had already left the cafeteria area. To put it more simply, they had left the [Cafeteria Instance] and arrived at the [Teaching Building Instance]. And in this Teaching Building Instance, at least on this road, the source of danger had changed from the Night Walker and the green-aproned chef to the humanoid sculptures.

And in the beginning, he and Li Huiyuan had not become the target of the humanoid sculptures.

So what exactly changed this?

Was it… because the lights came on, or because they started walking towards the lights?

No, no, maybe neither!

But rather…

"It's the student ID!"

"Li Huiyuan doesn't have a student ID… but I have a student ID!"

"They're coming for my student ID?"

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