Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi stood at the highest step at the end of the student passage, facing the passage densely covered with incandescent lights like stars. His eye sockets contracted and pulsed rhythmically as if breathing, his piercing eyes focused blankly on an unknown place.

At this moment, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, his eyes seeming to roll with endless information.

Moss thrives in shade and moisture, requiring a humid and dark environment to grow.

If the growth of moss was solely due to the environment of dense fog and deep mountain night rain, then there should be moss outside the passage as well…

The current situation is that within the cafeteria area, only the student passage and the first basement level have moss, while the flat ground in between has nothing!

Lin Yi thought of the village he lived in as a child.

The steps and stone bricks along the river were covered in moss due to changes in water levels during the rainy season, but the areas above the water level were dry and without moss.

If you compare the steps to the student passage, you can understand why the moss in the student passage grows to the end of the steps…

That's because the student passage is often flooded.

Why isn't there any outside the student passage?

Because the water flows up from the first basement level.

But there's no moss on the floor of the first basement level either, only on the walls…

That's because…

The water doesn't exist!

"So… either some kind of wet creature directly climbed from the first basement level across the floor tiles into the passage!"

"Or… there's an non-existent water, that often floods the student passage and the first basement level… like a tide!"

Both of these are extremely crazy guesses, especially the second one!

As for the first one… considering that he encountered some kind of indescribably terrifying creature in the dense fog yesterday, it's not unacceptable for this thing to exude a lot of water.

Moreover, it's not just one, but a group, hiding in the dense fog, prowling at night, with unknown motives and purposes…

"Is it something from the deep mountains? Or something else…"

Lin Yi thought of the security guard.

The first and only time he saw the security guard, he remembered that the security guard was not only wrapped in an iron chain, but also held a club that looked like it was made of plaster.

No, rather than calling it a club, it was more like a mace in the shape of a club.

"Wait! Wait?! That club…"

The scene of his first encounter with the security guard flashed through Lin Yi's mind, that plaster club in the security guard's hand…

"That club isn't metal. In essence, it should be… some kind of sculpture!"

"A sculpture in the shape of a mace!!"

"No no no… The student rules state that all the sculptures in the school are busts and are kept in the art building… So the one in the security guard's hand is just a simple plaster product, not belonging to the ‘sculpture’ category."

Lin Yi realized that he was thinking too much, not only too much but also chaotically. These things that appeared in his mind like flashes of inspiration lacked logic and unified organization, and were more of a brain supplement and conjecture, lacking sufficient reference value.

He took a deep breath.

"There's also the second guess…"

"A… non-existent water."

Flooding the student passage like a tide, then receding, then coming over again. Under the repeated scouring of the water, moss grows all over the passage.

This is an absolutely irrational guess!

But this is the only answer Lin Yi could think of based on the current environment.

The reason is not just empty talk. It is precisely because when he observed the dense fog spreading onto the steps of the teaching building during last night's dense fog, he twice felt a scene where the teaching building was like a warship, lost in the deep sea under the moon covered with dense fog.

He seemed to hear the sound of waves and the distant song of the sea sirens…

He also felt that it was a hallucination, an auditory hallucination, a delusion.

But the strangely growing moss seemed to be reminding him that if his hallucination was real, then the cafeteria, like the teaching building, was being washed by some kind of water wave at some moment…

Lin Yi tried his best to recall the scene of observing the steps under the corridor when he left the classroom. Unfortunately, his attention was all on the white powder, and he didn't pay attention to whether there was moss on the steps at all.

But even if he had seen moss at that time, without the bizarre layout distribution of the cafeteria, he wouldn't have had too many thoughts.

But now it's different. If he returned to the classroom and could find moss on the steps of the corridor, it would be enough to give this almost outrageous guess a bit of evidence.

Especially—when the security guard used the iron chain to pull the creature on the podium, and it rolled down the steps, it was impossible for the surrounding steps and ground not to have any scars!

But if… they fell into the water, then everything would seem to make sense!

Thinking of this, he didn't even feel like eating. If he hadn't only eaten half a roll of biscuits in nearly 12 hours, he would really want to return to the teaching building now to see if there was moss on the steps!

"Old Lin, Old Lin! Are you okay?" A hand waved in front of Lin Yi's eyes like a windshield wiper.

Lin Yi's attention was pulled back, and he saw Wei Liang's panicked face.

"Liangzi, what's wrong with you? Why are you so flustered?"

Seeing Lin Yi regain his senses, Wei Liang breathed a sigh of relief, and then contemptuously said, "What's wrong with you? Why are you acting like a thief calling 'stop thief'?"

"I'm panicking because of you, aren't I?"

"What happened to you just now? Running back and forth on the steps like crazy? It made me run back and forth with you, I'm exhausted!"

Hearing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but lower his eyes and look at the student passage in a somewhat absent-minded manner, as if he had thought of something again…

But this time, before he could enter thinking, he was grabbed by Wei Liang, who shook his shoulders.

"Hey hey hey! We're talking business! Why are you spacing out again?" Wei Liang's voice rang in Lin Yi's ears with a bit of annoyance.

Lin Yi quickly gathered his thoughts and said, "Liangzi, I found that there's… in the student passage…"

"Something dirty?!" Wei Liang subconsciously blurted out, "I knew it! I was just saying, why is the student passage so gloomy!"

He jumped three feet high, suddenly acting dramatically, posing like the original Ultraman's Specium Ray, shooting left and right, as nimble as the Monkey King of Mount Huaguo.

"Please, do you have to be so dramatic!" Wei Liang's posture dispelled much of the eerie atmosphere surrounding Lin Yi. He helplessly covered his face and said speechlessly, "There's moss in the student passage!"

"Tch~~~" Wei Liang waved his hand, "It's a remote mountain forest, isn't it normal to have moss?"

"But…"

"Oh, don't be so suspicious!" Wei Liang pushed Lin Yi towards the cafeteria, "Let's eat! Why think so much? It's not like moss can turn into demons and monsters and jump out to kill people, right?"

"Hey, hey, hey…" Lin Yi couldn't resist Wei Liang's strength and entered the cafeteria.

"Moss?" Wei Liang looked back at the student passage, lost in thought, and then suddenly shuddered, "Hey, Old Lin, I thought of something!"

"What thing?" Lin Yi asked.

Wei Liang hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I slipped and fell in the dormitory before."

Lin Yi: "…"

「Please… how did you think of this kind of thing?」

Wei Liang added, "I remembered that I stepped on moss on the steps of the dormitory last time and slipped and fell."

Lin Yi's movements suddenly froze.

But Wei Liang quickly comforted him, "Don't make that face. What I want to say is that there's a lot of moss on this campus. Don't think too much! As long as you don't run around outside the dormitory during abnormal weather, nothing will happen!"

But Lin Yi's eyes flickered, and his thoughts surged.

His first reaction was…

"Damn it… even the dormitory steps have moss?!"

His "perspective" was completely different from Wei Liang's. What Wei Liang took for granted, the moss, seemed to him to be a huge problem!

"But… Liangzi slipped on the moss and fell, and he's fine so far…"

"Could it be that I really should 'not think too much'?"

Not thinking might be a safe approach, but he felt there was a loophole in this method.

He was even a little worried about Wei Liang.

Some things couldn't be avoided just by "not understanding."

Like… the thick fog.

He dazedly followed Wei Liang through the air curtain at the entrance of the cafeteria and entered the student dining hall on the first floor.

The cool air from the air curtain woke Lin Yi, and he quickly perked up, first glancing at his watch.

11:45.

Then, he diverted his attention to observing the environment of the student dining hall.

…

May 7, X023, 11:45 AM, S City University Cafeteria, first floor.

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Lin Yi stood at the entrance of the cafeteria, observing the environment of the student dining hall.

The student dining hall had a space of about several hundred square meters. On both sides of the entrance were two symmetrically located tableware collection points, followed by a large area of matching blue plastic dining chairs.

After a quick glance around, Lin Yi noticed that the lighting in the student dining hall seemed to be a problem. Perhaps the geographical location of the cafeteria itself was problematic, so no light could directly shine in.

The only source of light was from the student passage.

Therefore, even though it was noon, the restaurant looked somewhat dim.

Even the large number of incandescent lamps arranged like stars on the ceiling of the restaurant could only guarantee brightness within a small area.

Lin Yi looked to his left, and rows of incandescent lights converged and extended into a dark space like gradient and converging dotted lines.

Very close, yet very far.

There was a strange illusion of staring into an abyss, as if one would fall into it if one wasn't careful.

Lin Yi's body suddenly swayed back and forth.

A feeling of shifting center of gravity suddenly enveloped him. He felt top-heavy and had a strong premonition that he was about to fall into that darkness.

"Damn it!" Lin Yi cursed inwardly, exerting all his strength to shift his center of gravity backward.

So he really felt that his head weighed a thousand pounds, driving his body to stagger backward, passing through the air curtain and plastic door curtain at the entrance of the cafeteria, and then falling to the ground with his butt.

Behind him, the soft light from the incandescent lamps in the student passage sprinkled down, dispelling the icy coldness emanating from the depths of Lin Yi's heart to his whole body, shattering the terrifying engulfing feeling brought by the dark abyss.

Lin Yi gasped violently, his forehead covered with sweat.

A gust of wind blew in from the student passage, and he felt a chill on his back—it was already soaked with cold sweat.

"Lao Lin… Lao Lin… I… damn…" A panicked and urgent voice sounded in Lin Yi's ears.

The voice seemed to float over from a very distant place.

His gaze shifted away from the depths of the cafeteria and then saw Wei Liang's face gradually enlarging.

He saw Wei Liang's mouth moving, but he could only vaguely hear some intermittent sounds.

"Lao Lin… Lao Lin…"

"Lao Lin! Lao Lin!"

As his attention recovered, the sound in his ears suddenly became full.

Only then did he experience a feeling of matching picture quality and sound…

"Lao Lin, are you okay?" Wei Liang grabbed his hand anxiously, trying hard to pull him up from the ground.

Lin Yi borrowed Wei Liang's strength to stand up again, and then gasped for breath: "Liangzi, I…"

Wei Liang waved his hand repeatedly to interrupt: "You kid, you still say you're not weak? You get dizzy from hunger after skipping one meal? Also, you damn… how are you so heavy!"

"I…" Lin Yi glanced at the time on his watch.

11:49.

He wanted to say something, but the corner of his eye suddenly caught sight of the dark corner of the restaurant just now, and then he suddenly froze.

Where was there any dark corner in the student dining hall?

Within the reach of the incandescent lights, there was only a dimly lit wall with tiles of a similar shape to the reliefs in the teaching building. There was nothing else.

"Just now…"

He was a little confused.

Just now, he clearly saw a bottomless abyss, but now… it's back to normal?

"What exactly is… over there?"

Just as he had this question, a long-lost, strange and familiar feeling of exhaustion suddenly spread from the bottom of his heart!

When cognition went wrong, the abyss spread in his heart!

An indescribable sense of horror enveloped him again in a very short time!

"Damn it!" Lin Yi suddenly realized something, but he had no way to reverse his current direction of thought!

The sense of horror quietly arrived, making him feel cold all over!

"Pa!"

At the critical moment, a hand heavily patted him on the shoulder.

As if waking from a nightmare, Lin Yi twitched violently, then closed and opened his eyes, finding himself standing in front of the plastic door curtain at the entrance of the cafeteria.

"Why didn't I realize before that you kid is so weak?" Wei Liang sighed helplessly, "I always thought that Kuai Kuai was the one with the heaviest Yin energy among you guys, but I didn't expect you to be the weakest. Young man, you're not doing well!"

Lin Yi was rarely silent at this moment. There was only one thought in his mind—

"Damn it, I was careless!"

"It's not that you can think freely during the day, but that you can only think freely under the sun! You can't think about things that cross the line in places without the sun!"

Xu Shun Kang was right, you have to think under the sun, but he accidentally confused "sunny day" with "under the sun"!

The student dining hall in the cafeteria, although it has light because of the daytime, is fundamentally different from the concept of "under the sun"!

Lin Yi also understood this the moment that indescribable sense of horror enveloped him, but if Wei Liang hadn't woken him up, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

He looked at Wei Liang.

Under Wei Liang's baseball cap were some scattered hairs. After staying up all night cultivating immortality, he looked lazy all over now.

Even so, it was just a sunny laziness.

He looked down at his watch.

11:50.

"Less than a minute has passed since just now?" Lin Yi was shocked in his heart, but at this moment he restrained the thought of thinking about this question.

He shook his head and quickly followed: "Hey Liangzi, wait for me, I'm coming!"

Just as Lin Yi was chasing after Wei Liang, a person slowly walked out of the dark corner in the position he had originally looked at.

It was a chef wearing a green apron. He turned stiffly like a marionette, then turned his gaze to Lin Yi.

He lifted his foot and slowly walked towards Lin Yi…

Given everyone's positive feedback, as an excellent author, I will definitely not get stuck with 4000 words of updates, so this chapter will release a few more words and then… end the chapter.