Rules-related weird stories: 4016

He noticed a red and white mixed substance flowing in the cracks of the pebbles. To observe more closely, he slowly bent down, bringing his face closer to the pebbles.

At this moment, these pebbles were like gummy candies, undergoing some indescribable distortion along with the changes in the layers, but the speed wasn't fast, so at first glance, there wasn't that sense of cognitive dissonance and explosion.

He discovered that the gaps between the pebbles had become slightly larger, accompanied by varying degrees of distortion.

In these blank areas, a magma-like substance seemed to be flowing.

"Eh... what's this?"

As soon as this question popped up, a faint smell entered his nostrils.

"...? !" Lin Yi's pupils suddenly contracted, and then he reflexively jumped up from the ground.

"The smell of blood!"

He smelled a bloody scent that was masked by the earthy smell of the soil and the fragrance of plants!

However, this bloody scent wasn't initially a bloody scent, but rather the smell emitted from freshly cut tomatoes.

And because it was the smell of tomatoes, Lin Yi didn't notice anything at first, simply treating it as a natural scent mixed with the air, without feeling anything strange.

But when the bloody scent within the tomato was gradually broken down by Lin Yi's sense of smell, that somewhat nauseating aura slowly enveloped him like an omnipresent drizzle.

At first, you wouldn't feel anything, but when he noticed it, it meant that the storm had already submerged him.

Just then, he surprisingly discovered that as the pebble road twisted, the magma-like blood didn't turn into a white plaster-like substance under the sun, but continued to flow, as if covered with a layer of golden light.

This layer of golden light, in Lin Yi's current "vision," was gradually beginning to reveal another color—

"Blue... this?!"

He had seen green mist emerging from tomato sauce several times, then turning into white powdery particles and dissipating in the wind, but... tomato sauce emitting blue vapor was a first for him!

And this blue-gold luster, produced by the interplay with the golden sunlight, easily reminded one of a weed-playing fellow.

And the tomato sauce containing the sky-blue vapor didn't solidify under the sunlight. On the contrary, this flowing sensation looked like magma, even more like molten gold.

This scene stunned Lin Yi, but what shocked him even more was yet to come.

He discovered that when these tomato sauces were flowing, they were actually surging towards a certain contact point as if they were conscious. There was more than one such contact point. He saw three in his "vision" alone, and the closest one was next to him...?!

"That is...?"

What did Lin Yi see?!

He saw that the contact point... was actually a lamppost!

The tomato sauce obtained a supply of extraordinary power from the sunlight, and then injected it into the lamppost, climbing up along the lamppost, and finally... all the sky-blue aura was injected into the light bulb under the lampshade!

"Could this be... the energy of 'light'?"

"The sun... contains extraordinary power?"

And that blue extraordinary power... was extremely similar to the power displayed by the sports student, no, it might be something of the same origin or the same nature!

"'Daytime is our home field.'"

Xu Shunkang's words, like a boomerang, shot out from May 7th, drew an arc in the air, and accurately hit Lin Yi at this moment.

"'Tomato sauce' is the form manifested after 'blood' has its cognition overwritten... so seemingly identical tomato sauces will also exhibit two different directions—'being restrained by sunlight' and 'being able to absorb sunlight'—due to the different characteristics of the extraordinary power they contain!"

Could it be that sports students are really supermen who can be charged by solar energy?

But from a scientific point of view... isn't moonlight also reflected sunlight?

Why is nighttime the home field for nocturnal species?

While finding a phased answer, Lin Yi also discovered new questions.

It's like the sunlight's attack on nocturnal species is greatly reduced after being reflected by a mirror. Could it be that the middleman is a vampire, who can consume so many extraordinary characteristics at once?

At the same time, Lin Yi also discovered that the initial "malice" had become extremely thin at this moment, feeling as if it had been covered by a cotton quilt.

"That malice... came swiftly, but disappeared in an instant, like a thunderstorm. I can't feel it anymore."

Lin Yi was thoughtful, unable to figure out the reason.

"Could it be the 'napkin effect'? That malice comes from another layer? And the 'place' I sensed has been covered by tomato sauce emitting sky-blue mist, so that malice cannot invade?"

"The extraordinary power represented by 'blue' is indeed something that can suppress the eerie aura of the campus on the front..."

He seemed to have understood something, so he looked around.

Upon closer inspection, he really found that the area of the magma-like tomato sauce exposed in the gaps of the entire pebble road would also increase with the twisting and stretching of the layers.

And as the exposed area increased, the originally faint aura would turn into sky-blue vapor, permeating the entire road on a level that ordinary people could not observe, and continuously spreading to the surroundings.

The coverage of the sky-blue vapor diluted the power that caused the layer distortion, so the gaps began to shrink again.

It can be said that the existence of this magma-like tomato sauce hidden beneath the layer of the pebble road restricts the collapse and fall of the layer, firmly restraining the cafeteria's layer within a "safe" range.

A very magical linear relationship.

—At least, this is the case during the daytime when there is sunlight.

But it can also be imagined that when the sunlight is greatly reduced at night, the tomato sauce will not be able to efficiently produce this sky-blue vapor, and the fall of the layer will become an inevitable result.

After understanding this, he slowly adjusted his breathing, consciously withdrew from the state of "My Vision," and planned to immediately tell everyone about this discovery.

As the vision was withdrawn, the sky-blue vapor that could be observed by him gradually dimmed, and the bloody smell was once again covered by the earthy smell.

The sunlight on his body began to emit a warm aura, and Lin Yi had the feeling of returning to the human world from a gray world.

He looked down at his watch.

6:48.

The "perception" just now didn't seem to take up too much of his time.

He had the feeling that time had been stretched.

"What do you say?" Tian Bufan asked.

"I have a very magical discovery, just now..." Lin Yi then told him about his discovery.

Tian Bufan frowned slightly after listening.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" Lin Yi asked, puzzled.

Tian Bufan said, "This discovery is very interesting... However, I thought you would find clues related to 'malice'."

Lin Yi initially wanted to shake his head, but Tian Bufan's mention made him realize something: "Did you discover something? Or... do you have an idea?"

"What other ideas could there be? Didn't I just say it?" Tian Bufan said, "Since the malice has faded, it means it's not on this layer. I thought you would search for this layer..."

"Ah? Young Master Tian, are you overestimating me? I can actively search for layers?" Lin Yi asked in surprise, thinking, 'How the hell would I know I have this ability?'

"You said just now that if you fell through a layer, something would happen. I thought that's what you meant," Tian Bufan said speechlessly. "Looks like I overestimated you."

"..." Lin Yi was directly silenced.

Big brother, I'm talking about self-preservation! Why do you think I'm talking about methods?

But... wait a minute, come to think of it...

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Lin Yi thought for a moment, the root of the problem seemed to still lie in... the perception of layers?

"Young Master Tian already thinks I can sense 'layers'? Does he have that much confidence in me?"

Lin Yi actually felt a sense of loss, like not meeting the teacher's expectations during the final exam...

"My inspiration isn't enough to support me in exploring layers... But since you can't do it either, let's forget about it for now," Tian Bufan said calmly. "You still need to continue 'adapting'."

"I'm already like this, isn't 'adapting' well enough?" Lin Yi was a little confused. Compared to May 6th, he had improved so much.

Tian Bufan glanced at him indifferently: "First grade has first grade's requirements, sixth grade has sixth grade's standards... If you use first grade's level to take a second grade test, you'll only get a failing grade."

Lin Yi was stunned: "Are you saying... my speed of adaptation doesn't meet your requirements?"

"Not my requirements," Tian Bufan said, "But... there is indeed a standard."

"Could it be to deal with the 'Gray Mist Invasion'?" Lin Yi couldn't help but narrow his eyes. "Young Master Tian, did you already know about the 'Gray Mist Invasion'?"

"I've said it before, the information I know is also unfolding bit by bit," Tian Bufan said. "But without a doubt, some concept-like things must have already been in my mind, but for some reason, even I can only slowly obtain them..."

"Not bad, but I don't know about the 'Gray Mist Invasion'... But when you just mentioned this concept, I seemed to suddenly 'remember' some information related to it."

Lin Yi's eyes lit up: "What kind of information is it?"

"What kind, it's not important for now... We have to figure out what that 'malice' was all about," Tian Bufan gave Wei Liang a look. "Why did only we feel the malice, while others didn't?"

"It means this 'malice' has a target."

"We don't know why, but we have become their 'target'."

"Lao Lin... this goes against my exploration plan."

"In my plan, we shouldn't attract... at least, shouldn't attract the attention of certain things at this time, it will increase the difficulty of our exploration."

"So, even if we can't find the source of the 'malice', we can't be completely ignorant," Tian Bufan emphasized seriously. "We can be at a disadvantage, but we can't be at a disadvantage without knowing why. Finding the reason will allow us to take precautions in advance."

Lin Yi nodded, but his mood couldn't help but become a little heavy.

The group continued to walk along the cobblestone road, observing the surrounding environment vigilantly.

Only Wei Liang, with his thick nerves, was still speeding up, truly showing that ignorance is bliss.

"Lao Lin, you guys are walking so slowly! If this were dinner, by the time you arrived at the cafeteria with your snail-like steps, the streetlights would be on. Forget about eating, even stealing something from the convenience store wouldn't have enough time!"

Wei Liang patted the lamppost beside him speechlessly, looking like the lamppost he was waiting for was about to thank him.

But his actions inadvertently drew Lin Yi's attention to the lamppost beside him.

"Liangzi!" Lin Yi suddenly called out, and then, as if he had discovered something, strode over.

"Holy crap, Lao Lin, what are you doing?!" Wei Liang's chrysanthemum tightened, and he quickly hugged the lamppost in fright.

"Don't hug it, that lamppost doesn't have a number!" Lin Yi's target was the lamppost, and as soon as he spoke, he scared Wei Liang into pushing the lamppost away, like a heartless渣男.

Lin Yi rushed to the lamppost, repeatedly observing it: "This is it! This is it!"

"Wh-what is it?" Wei Liang was frightened by Lin Yi's actions, wanting to touch him to see if he was being neurotic, but not daring to.

"Young Master Tian, keep an eye on me! I seem to have found that 'malice'!" Lin Yi reached out and lightly touched the lamppost, and then suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he squatted down, following Mu Daxian's method of parting the weeds in the dream, and found a string of numbers on the base.

"Cafeteria - 051"

"'Cafeteria - 051', as expected, it's a numbered lamppost," Lin Yi muttered to himself. "This lamppost had its number erased by a newly born pseudo-human experience student yesterday!"

"So..."

He crossed the lamppost and walked out of the cobblestone road area.

"Lao Lin! What the hell are you doing?!" Wei Liang immediately became anxious when he saw this, and not caring whether Lin Yi was possessed, he quickly rushed over to grab his arm and pull him back.

"Are you possessed? Be careful not to slip into the green belt!" Wei Liang scolded with lingering fear, with a look of genuine worry in his eyes.

Lin Yi said: "Liangzi, I'm fine, besides, there's a flat ground ahead, don't worry."

"What flat ground? Isn't there a small slope over there? Are you... really distracted?" Wei Liang subconsciously reached out to touch Lin Yi's forehead.

But Lin Yi's face turned pale, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the lamppost beside him.

Outside the weeds of the lamppost, there was indeed no flat ground, but... a small slope!

Just now... his perception had deviated!

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