Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Despite saying that, Old Du's attention remained fixed on Old Zhang. Seeing that things were almost over, he quickly shouted, "Alright, that's enough playing around, Old Zhang!"

"Got it!" Old Zhang sneered, exerting force to pull it out of the green belt again, throwing it directly into the sunlight.

"Chi — —"

Once exposed, the remnants of the Night Walker's frame rapidly steamed out a large amount of mist, like water being poured onto hot stones in a sauna, then quickly turned into a pure white sculpture.

The transformation from a human-shaped sculpture to a pure white sculpture is a magical sight. At first glance, it seems as if the human-shaped sculpture has become purely static. However, upon closer inspection, one would find that the original human-shaped sculpture gives off an eerie sense of discomfort, while the pure white plaster-like sculpture does not.

Old Zhang swung the baseball bat, smashing it to pieces, and the wind blew it away completely.

After doing this, Old Zhang clapped his hands, intending to leave, but as if sensing something, he suddenly frowned, turned his head to look into the green belt, and sneered, "Were you staring at me just now? Are you unhappy?"

"The hell you daring to glare at me?!" Old Zhang cursed, swinging the baseball bat and walking directly into the green belt. A few seconds later, a human-shaped sculpture covered in cracks was ejected from the green belt like a sandbag, followed by a second, a third…

A dozen or so flew out in a row, and Old Du couldn't help but frown and shout to stop him: "Old Zhang, that's enough! Don't get carried away!"

However, there was no response from the green belt.

Old Du clicked his tongue, and all the sports students around him stood up at once, and the atmosphere became stagnant.

Fortunately, Old Zhang, enveloped in sky-blue steam, immediately emerged from the green belt and swung his baseball bat to smash all the human-shaped sculptures exposed to the sunlight into white powder particles.

"Damn, I was minding my own business, but these bastards dared to glare at me from the green belt! I can't stand this temper of mine!" Old Zhang walked back cursing.

"But… don't those things just have that one glaring expression?" Old Du wiped away sweat, "If your hands are itchy, just say so, don't make excuses!"

"Whatever." Old Zhang carried the baseball bat and sat down on the steps to bask in the sun. "I'll take a break, you guys continue."

Old Du reluctantly withdrew his gaze and said to Tian Yifan: "You've also seen that the existence of the framework allows the Night Walkers to continuously self-repair, thereby maintaining the pure Night Walker form or human-shaped sculpture form in the darkness… However, the framework's 'underlying code' is very crude and will constantly erode the Night Walkers' remaining humanity."

"Of course, this is only limited to those Night Walkers transformed from living beings; it's useless for Night Walkers transformed from dead people."

"Precisely. Those Night Walkers transformed from living people after being contaminated will gradually become pure Night Walkers. The kind you saw in the elevator is beyond saving."

Tian Bufan nodded slightly: "But if they seize the experience student's student ID and become non-human classmates… um… Pseudo-humans, yes, it's easier to say it that way. So even if they become Pseudo-humans, they still can't transform back into humans, right?"

"That's right." Old Du nodded. "Let's put it this way, anyone who loses their identity anchor and is contaminated into a Pseudo-human can still be saved, but if they've transformed from a Pseudo-human into a purebred Night Walker, then their 'framework' has been washed clean and imprinted with the purebred Night Walker's 'underlying code'. No matter what happens in the future, they can't escape the concept of a purebred Night Walker."

"Oh, Tian, you seem troubled? Is this logic difficult to understand?" Old Du looked at Tian Bufan, somewhat puzzled that this seemingly intelligent fellow would be rubbing his temples.

Tian Bufan shook his head slightly: "I'm just thinking about how to gradually guide this logic to my roommate… His current IQ, how should I put it… emmm… should still be recovering."

"Oh, Tian, you seem to trust your roommate very much… Why not have him become a sports student too? We're short on manpower," Old Du said with a smile.

"We have arrangements," Tian Bufan smiled, not saying much on the topic.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes upon hearing this.

«No wonder Young Master Tian can get so much information from the sports students. Could it be that he told this Old Du about 'his intention to become a sports student'?»

However, based on Tian Bufan's personality, his desire to become a sports student wasn't really to get information from Old Du and the others.

The reason Tian Bufan hasn't become a sports student yet is probably because he hasn't figured out the way to transform back from a sports student to an experience student, or rather… hasn't found the optimal solution.

"It seems there are several subdivisions of Pseudo-humans."

Old Du said, "Yes, Pseudo-human can only be regarded as a general term, like a certain degree on a thermometer. It could be a degree reached by cooling down or a degree reached by warming up."

"Everyone or every Night Walker located at this reading is a Pseudo-human."

"Pseudo-humans are very dangerous, so we almost always need to join forces with the art students every period of time to clean up the Pseudo-humans."

"Our cleanup will also mistakenly kill some Pseudo-humans who have the opportunity to transform back into experience students, but there's no way around it. For the safety of more people, we can only rather kill by mistake than let go."

"Because… the Pseudo-human contamination zone is the easiest place for 'Aberrant Sculptures' to be born. Once an Aberrant Sculpture appears, its characteristics can even affect us, making it very difficult to deal with."

"'Aberrant Sculpture'…?" Tian Bufan pondered for a moment, and Lin Yi also pondered for a moment.

He immediately thought of Ge Qing's «non-human classmate» and Nie Yun's «non-human classmate»… no, the chaotic state of mutual entanglement and fusion that appeared after he and Wei Liang designed to disrupt the cognition of Pseudo-human Ge Qing and Pseudo-human Nie Yun looked like an aberrant sculpture. Could it be that that's how 'Aberrant Sculptures' are produced?

But Pseudo-human Nie Yun and Pseudo-human Ge Qing… didn't seem to want to fuse into an aberrant sculpture.

Immediately afterwards, Tian Bufan stood up and walked unhurriedly towards the elevator.

However, just as Tian Bufan moved, Lin Yi suddenly noticed something was wrong. Following his senses, he looked up and suddenly saw a large amount of green mist condensing and not dissipating on the ceiling of the floor!

«This is…?!» Lin Yi's pupils dilated slightly. This green mist was like the smoke rings exhaled by smokers, with countless smoke rings suspended in front of the ceiling, showing no signs of dissipating.

In this mist, he could feel a strong sense of malice and resentment.

«This is the Green Mist Mark!» Just as he realized this, these green mists seemed to have found their target and wandered towards Old Du and Old Zhang!

These green mists were emitted by the Night Walkers that Old Du and Old Zhang had killed. Now, according to their 'hate value', they were rushing towards them.

Old Zhang, who was sitting on the steps basking in the sun, glanced faintly at the huge green mist and couldn't help but sneer. At the next moment, those green mists arrived above his head.

Just as they were about to pour down, Old Zhang suddenly erupted with a large amount of sky-blue vapor, like a Saiyan powering up. This vapor surrounded him like a cloud, making it look like… he was protected by the sky-blue mist in advance!

"It's that sky-blue vapor again!" Lin Yi widened his eyes in surprise, watching as the sky-blue vapor directly clashed with the oncoming green mist.

Before long, the green mist capable of imprinting green marks was completely neutralized, but the sky-blue vapor around Old Zhang also dimmed considerably, and he seemed somewhat drained.

From a normal perspective, Old Zhang was clearly sitting on the steps resting in the sun, but he looked not only unrested but even more tired.

Old Du also dissipated the portion of green mist entangling him, then glanced at Old Zhang, laughing and scolding, "You felt it, right? Don't underestimate the Nightlings. Enough of them can still contaminate you. The number just now, plus those dozen or so humanoid statues, was almost your limit… If you really get contaminated because of carelessness, be careful of a day trip to the basement."

"Damn, don't you scare me with the basement!" Even a muscular man like Old Zhang shuddered upon hearing the word 'basement,' feeling a chill down his spine.

"Alright, alright, I got it. I'll be careful next time," he quickly said.

Old Du and Old Zhang chatted casually, while Lin Yi was suddenly drawn back by a scorching heat wave, quickly shifting his gaze from Old Du and Old Zhang to the elevator, following Tian Bufan.

As soon as he approached the elevator, Lin Yi felt a wave of heat. The surrounding air seemed to retain a vague, burnt smell from the collective roasting of the Nightlings, like tea leaves sprinkled during a barbecue.

Since Tian Bufan only played a supporting role in the "annihilation" of the Nightlings, he didn't get any of the green mist on him along the way.

Lin Yi's perspective also began to follow Tian Bufan into the elevator.

At first glance, there was nothing particularly unusual inside the elevator. Although purebred Nightlings had that slimy, soft, and rubbery physique, they didn't secrete that disgusting mucus.

So the inside of the elevator looked very clean. He then looked at the button panel.

The button panel was quite straightforward. The number sequence was "1-8", and above the eighth-floor button was an "↑" button identical to the one in the dormitory elevator, with a red cover marked with a "" symbol.

But unlike the dormitory elevator, this cover didn't look as sturdy, as if it had been opened and closed countless times.

"Disappointed, right? There's not much in the elevator," Old Du said with a smile. Although he came here with Tian Bufan, he wasn't interested in the elevator. He was just bored and wanted to play the little game of barbecuing Nightlings.

However, Tian Bufan didn't come out but held the elevator door to prevent it from closing immediately, then stood there silently for a while.

Old Du was puzzled: "Junior, isn't this the same as the dormitory elevator? Do you need to look at it for so long?"

Tian Bufan smiled mysteriously: "Some things are not for me to see."

Old Du: "???"

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"Hiss… Junior Tian, don't scare me!"

Lin Yi, who had been looking at the interior of the elevator and felt there was nothing special about it, felt his hair stand on end when he heard Tian Bufan's words.

"'Not for me to see'!"

"Damn, doesn't that mean it's for me to see?!"

"Young Master Tian, he… did he predict that I would dream about him?! No way?!"

"That's impossible, right?!"

Lin Yi re-examined the elevator, trying to find some subtle clues in the elevator, but no matter how he looked, it was just an ordinary elevator.

But he was unwilling to give up just like that, so he could only try his best to remember all the details in the elevator and find a way to imprint it in his mind, and then conduct deductions in 'My World' to find clues again.

"The craftsmanship of this elevator seems quite high…" Tian Bufan suddenly praised, "Old Du, please give me some light."

"Old Zhang, give Junior Tian some light!"

Old Zhang turned his head: "Little Li, give Junior Tian some light!"

Little Li was stunned, looked around and found that no one was catching the ball, so he had to curl his lips helplessly: "Coming…"

After saying that, he carried the mirror and ran to the sun, reflecting a piece of light into the elevator.

When the light shone over, countless shiny lines suddenly appeared on the inner wall of the elevator.

It was like a piece of transparent tape was stuck on the glass, and you could only see the edge of the transparent tape at a specific angle of reflection.

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly began to observe these lines. However, the elevator issued a "beep beep beep" warning sound because it had been open for too long.

"It's closing! Junior Tian, come out quickly!" Old Du suddenly said anxiously, then suddenly thought of something and quickly said, "Adjust it to another floor!"

Tian Bufan frowned slightly, took one last look at the interior of the elevator, and then quickly left the elevator.

At the moment he left the elevator, he quickly pressed the "6" on the elevator.

As Tian Bufan left, Lin Yi's main perspective also withdrew from the elevator.

"Which floor did you press?" Old Du asked curiously.

"6th floor."

Old Du opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything for a long time. Finally, he helplessly gave a thumbs up: "Okay… you're awesome."

"Is there a problem?" Tian Bufan smiled.

"Uh… no problem, it's all the same anyway," Old Du shrugged. "Let's go, it's getting late, let's grab a meal together."

"We can walk together on the way, but I have an appointment with my roommates."

"Introduce us?"

"The time is not ripe."

"Okay…"

Lin Yi was about to move with Tian Bufan, but as soon as he took a step, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shattered, and he fell down with a whoosh…

"Damn, the ground collapsed? No! This is…?"

He immediately realized that there was no basement under the broken floor, not even a floor. There was only a vast expanse of thin clouds, and he… was falling!

This is the dream's "scene transition animation"… Lin Yi thought thoughtfully, but he didn't know which roommate the perspective would switch to next from Tian Bufan's body.

The clouds quickly dissipated, and the feeling of being on solid ground reappeared on the soles of his feet. His vision quickly broke away from the clouds and began to observe the surrounding environment.

But before he could start observing, what came into view was a familiar streetlight pole.

His attention was immediately drawn to the number on the lamppost.

"Library - 102".

Thank you to book friends "usjdnshhs" and "琳 skylark" for the reward!!

Add 300 words, then take a day off to catch my breath and sort out and adjust the details in the subsequent plot.