Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Damn it!" Lin Yi broke out in a cold sweat. "Liangzi, what are they?"

Wei Liang trembled and said, "I, I don't know... It wasn't this eerie when I came last time. Or, should we run? While we're still at the school gate..."

Lin Yi glanced at the lamppost and bitterly reminded him, "But Liangzi, we're not at the school gate anymore..."

Wei Liang's face turned pale, and he pursed his lips, leaning against the lamppost in silence.

"Hey... you guys are walking fast." Just then, a voice sounded in Lin Yi's ear.

Four figures emerged from the thick fog, and in the dim light, they walked to their side.

It was Lin Yi's roommates. They dragged their luggage and carried their backpacks, leisurely walking towards Lin Yi in the light cast by the lampposts.

Lin Yi looked at them in surprise, "Tian Gongzi, how did you guys get here?"

"Walked, what else? Flew?" Mao Feiyang's thin, dark face wore a look of disdain.

Mao Feiyang wanted to say something, but Tian Bufan interrupted, "We saw the lights and followed the road. Are you guys okay? Why do you look so frightened?"

"We almost had something happen," Lin Yi asked, "Didn't you think it was strange on the way here?"

"It's normal for it to be strange. Would a school without any problems offer a seven-day trial for 30,000?" Mao Feiyang sneered. "Do you think the school is stupid and has too much money?"

The gaunt Kuai Hongji sneered coldly, "That's right, 30,000 for seven days is enough to buy a Maozi's life."

"Stop yapping, this place makes me feel very uncomfortable. I can't stand it for a second longer!" Wei Shan clenched his fists, his burly figure tense, like a ferocious bear, eager to tear something apart.

"I should have brought my baseball bat!" He breathed heavily, exuding a strong hostility towards the figures in the fog.

"Alright, we're just getting here, don't be so violent, Wei Shan." Tian Bufan gently placed his hand on Wei Shan's shoulder, and Wei Shan's heavy breathing eased a little.

Tian Bufan closed his eyes and raised his head. He took a deep breath, the thick fog entering his nostrils and exiting from his mouth.

He slowly opened his eyes, a look of calm excitement in them.

"This is really a place worth exploring, much more interesting than just reading the rules."

His roommates' conversation did not dilute Lin Yi's fear of the surrounding environment. He looked around, his eyes full of worry.

As night fell, the fog would only get thicker, and the "domain" initially formed by the lights was being eroded by the fog step by step. Before long, they would also be swallowed by the fog.

Those female teachers exuding a strange aura were slowly approaching them with the student cadres.

Beneath the fog, there seemed to be something trying its best to conceal its figure while approaching them, not fast, but with a strong sense of oppression.

Wei Shan seemed to sense it, and his breathing became heavy again.

His eyes were bloodshot, like a beast that would go berserk at any moment.

"Don't be afraid, we're all here." Lin Yi held Wei Shan's other shoulder.

As Wei Shan's roommate, he knew that Wei Shan was easily angered and had claustrophobia, and this fog was just like a black box, constantly oppressing Wei Shan's emotions, making him likely to go berserk after extreme suppression.

"Hehe, Wei Shan is finally going crazy!" Kuai Hongji said coldly.

"You little shit, believe it or not, I'll tear you apart first later!" Wei Shan's throat emitted a low growl, and he stared at Kuai Hongji, his eyes bloodshot.

"Alright! Kuai, Wei Shan, now is not the time to bicker." Lin Yi suppressed his discomfort and lowered his voice.

"Hehe." Kuai Hongji twitched the corner of his mouth, ignoring Wei Shan's threat.

"I'm so scared now, Lao Lin, what should we do?" Wei Liang's back was pressed tightly against the lamppost, and he said fearfully.

Lin Yi looked in the direction Tian Bufan and the others had come from, thought for a moment, and pondered, "If we go back along this road, can we reach the school gate and then leave?"

Although the fog was thick, a lamppost could be faintly seen in the distance, standing like a lighthouse.

The lamppost cast a yellowish-orange light, twisting like cloth, and continuing all the way to the lamppost at their feet.

Wei Liang's eyes lit up, as if he had found a life-saving straw.

"What, you want to leave now?" Mao Feiyang said.

Lin Yi shook his head, not expecting to encounter such a strange thing as soon as he arrived at S City University. Wei Liang's face under his baseball cap was already so dark that it was impossible to see clearly.

"I'm not leaving, but maybe I can let Liangzi leave."

"You're thinking too much." Tian Bufan bluntly poured cold water on him, "As soon as we got off the bus and entered the school gate, we found that the school gate had disappeared."

"What kind of disappearance? Vanished into thin air?"

Tian Bufan said seriously, "The fog covered the school gate, and then the school gate disappeared. But... I have a strange feeling that the school gate didn't disappear, but was pulled away."

"Can you understand that feeling?"

"The school gate is clearly in front of you, but when you're about to walk over, that little bit of road is stretched like rubber, no matter how you walk, you can't reach the gate."

"Clearly only one step away, but as far away as a world."

Lin Yi couldn't believe it and frowned, "I had that feeling just now too."

Tian Bufan said, "So even if you want to leave, you have to follow the rules to leave... We have to first accept the rules and become people within the rules."

"It's like playing a survival game, using all the rules you can to protect yourself and then survive to clear the game."

"And we don't need to clear it, we just need to... understand the rules and then leave at a suitable time."

Tian Bufan's eyes sparkled, like an excellent player.

Among the members of their 4016 dormitory, Tian Bufan was very adventurous, and he had long wanted to come to S City University.

Lin Yi looked at the churning fog at his feet, and the rules in the student handbook began to scroll through his mind one by one.

Although they had not completed the admission procedures and obtained student IDs, the student rules were the only rules they could follow.

"Some rules may be useful, such as not looking back, or for example..."

"If we walk along the lampposts in the direction of decreasing numbers, we will meet the security guard."

"If we follow the security guard, we can reach the buildings on the map... for example, the teaching building closest to us."

Lin Yi looked at Tian Bufan, "Tian Gongzi, you must have observed that lamppost, what's its number?"

"'Teaching Building - 025'."

"Ah? There's no lamppost number 24?" The lamppost next to Lin Yi was 'Teaching Building - 023'. "We have to find a lamppost with a number less than 23, or..."

"In this fog, it's hard to say whether you'll find a lamppost or find death," Kuai Hongji said rudely.

"I can go in!" Wei Shan's throat made a low sound.

"Don't mess around." Lin Yi frowned, and the restless Wei Shan suddenly calmed down, "Or, we can wait for the security guard here, and then follow him to the teaching building."

"Are you sure you're not waiting to die?" Mao Feiyang said, "We don't have student IDs, will the security guard help us?"

"This is already the only method mentioned in the rules," Lin Yi said. "Do you have a better idea?"

Mao Feiyang stubbornly said, "I'll figure something out."

"Then we'll wait here and see if you come up with a solution first, or if security comes first."

Mao Feiyang curled his lip.

Tian Bufan made a final decision: "It's settled then. We'll wait for security here. During this process, everyone should use this lamppost as a reference point to avoid getting lost."

As he spoke, he placed his hand on the lamppost.

Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang.

At this moment, Wei Liang was squatting on the ground with his back against the lamppost, clutching the student handbook to his chest like a priest holding a bible, hissing and panting.

"Liangzi, are you okay?"

Wei Liang trembled and said, "The last time I came, I saw security from a distance once. They... are very strange, and it's said that their reputation on campus isn't very good."

"But reputation is no longer important... What's important is that we're in the mountains now, and as long as the fog gets thicker, it will definitely rain at night!"

"We must reach the teaching building or dormitory before it rains! Legend has it that the campus is especially eerie on rainy days!"

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Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, gazing at the drifting fog. Layers of fog pressed down like towering mountains, making it hard to breathe.

The thick fog grew wildly around everyone's feet like vines. The group shrunk their circle, trying to stay close to the lamppost.

The small space formed by the lamppost's light screen was filled with heavy breathing.

Dark shadows darted through the fog, making it difficult to distinguish between fog and something else. However, everyone could clearly hear the rustling sound of stones scraping against the ground in the fog, and feel the malicious gazes from the depths of the fog.

It was as if they were being watched by a group of unknown creatures.

Lin Yi glanced down at his wrist.

6:21 PM.

Only eighteen minutes had passed, but it felt like such a long time.

Suddenly, Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. He felt that the rolling fog seemed to be mixed with some kind of strange call, a soft, indistinct sound, like an opera singer singing, but the sound was erratic, like an echo in an empty valley.

He shook his head, and the sound disappeared immediately, but soon the sound slowly rang in his ears again…

This time, it was more like someone was calling his name.

Lin Yi felt irritable, wishing he could rush into the fog.

Wei Shan lowered his body, a low growl, "Frr... Frr... Frr...", coming from his throat, like a wild beast about to go berserk.

Just then, the distant fog suddenly rolled violently, as if someone was wading through the sand at the bottom of the sea, breaking out a field.

Within the field, faint yellow light flickered.

"Rustle, rustle…"

A more rapid rustling sound rang out in the fog. The creatures in the fog seemed to have encountered a natural enemy and began to retreat like a tide.

The fog dissipated a little, and Lin Yi turned his head and saw a towering figure like an iron tower walking unhurriedly in the fog, like a giant mechanical warrior breaking through the waves in the Pacific Ocean.

As the distance got closer, Lin Yi noticed that it was a burly man wearing a black coat.

The burly man held an old kerosene lamp in his left hand, and the light curtain formed by the kerosene lamp was like a sharp blade, splitting the fog.

His right hand held a white baseball bat that seemed to be made of plaster, and at the tip of the bat, there seemed to be some dark red viscous substance mixed with white powder.

"It's security!" Wei Liang said, both frightened and excited.

"As expected, it's security…" Lin Yi looked at the security guard with curiosity.

But just as he looked at the security guard, the security guard suddenly turned his head, and a pair of golden eyes met his directly.

Under the thick fog, the security guard's golden eyes were as bright as the sun, and the depths of his eyes seemed to be flowing with molten gold, stinging Lin Yi so much that he immediately turned his head away.

"Clang, clang, clang…" The security guard came to the lamppost like a heavy tank and entered the light curtain.

This security guard was more than two meters tall, and seemed like he could grab the lamppost with a single lift of his hand. He looked down at Lin Yi and the others, his eyes narrowed, as if in thought.

Wei Shan's sturdy build of nearly 1.9 meters was already considered tall among ordinary people, but in front of the security guard, he was still like a child.

He growled lowly, "Frr... Frr... Frr...", his eyes warily fixed on the kerosene lamp in the security guard's hand, but still emitting great hostility towards him.

The security guard lowered his body and sniffed gently in front of Lin Yi, then turned around and stepped into the thick fog without saying a word.

Seeing that the fog was about to engulf the security guard's figure, Lin Yi helped Wei Liang up and quickly whispered, "Quick, follow the security guard!"

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May 6, 2023, 6:33 PM.

S City University Teaching Building Area, thick fog filled the campus like cotton balls. Lin Yi and the others followed the security guard through the fog.

Lin Yi vigilantly looked around. Every so often, he could see a lit lamppost in the distance, but the security guard did not step into the field formed by the light.

Lin Yi noticed that the old kerosene lamp held by the security guard, although not bright, cast a light curtain like a lamppost.

They were like an icebreaker, cutting through the waves under the leadership of the captain.

Suddenly, Lin Yi noticed something. He lowered his head and looked in the direction of the "Clang, clang, clang" sound, only to discover that the security guard was actually wearing a shackle around his waist, and the end of the shackles was a thick and long iron chain.

Part of the iron chain was dragging on the ground, and the other part… was being held in someone's hand!

Lin Yi's pupils suddenly dilated, and a chilling aura suddenly rushed up his spine to the top of his head. Looking in the direction of his gaze, he saw that there was another figure in the fog!

It was a cafeteria worker wearing a white chef's uniform and a blue apron. He was carrying a lunch box in one hand, and the iron chain in the other, and that iron chain…

"Wait…!!"

Lin Yi looked back along the iron chain and saw that there were more chefs behind the chef, and the chefs were like a long dragon hidden in the thick fog.

They carried lunch boxes in one hand and grabbed the iron chain in the other, like heretics carrying oil lamps and walking in the long night before the Middle Ages.

Everyone maintained a neat and uniform pace, slowly advancing under the leadership of the security guard, seemingly completely unaware of Lin Yi's existence.

Lin Yi suddenly realized that this was a complete team, and they were the intruders!

Just as he had this thought, a voice suddenly rang out from the fog beside him:

"Student, have you had dinner yet?"

A chef released the iron chain and walked towards them with a lunch box.

"This is our cafeteria's best-selling dish, spaghetti with tomato meat sauce. You can sample it for free."

The chef had a smile on his face that was clearly normal but always felt a little off, as if it had been squeezed out after precise calculations.

Lin Yi felt very uncomfortable, his heart full of resistance. He blinked hard, and suddenly noticed that the chef was wearing a dark green apron.