Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Although she had been unable to resist getting close to Lin Yi before, now that she was actually being approached, she subconsciously felt a sense of resistance.

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment.

He hadn't noticed it when he was holding her, simply thinking of her as a soft cushion, but when Li Huiyuan jumped away on her own, the cool and soft sensation vanished in an instant, and he began to feel a sense of loss.

"I just now..." His eyes flickered as he tried to recall what had happened.

That's right...

Just now, he had seen the reflection in the water, and then he saw that reflection reach out a hand?

He wanted to take advantage of the fact that Boss was still around to solve the problem once and for all!

"But how did I end up grabbing Li Huiyuan?"

"No, no, no... That hand... was Li Huiyuan's hand!"

"What's going on...?"

"What exactly is going on?"

"The boundary!"

"The hand that reached out was either faceless or Li Huiyuan's, but... when did the hallucination end?"

His thoughts suddenly became somewhat chaotic, because he felt that the boundary between what he perceived as "real" and "illusory" seemed to be blurring...

Just as he was about to start thinking about these things again, a song with a very strange tune suddenly began to play:

"A moment of恍惚 ~ a feeling of 若有所失 ~"

"Unconsciously已变淡 ~ the love in my heart ~"

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and his thoughts, which were about to sink into confusion, were suddenly interrupted.

On the one hand, the singing was really indescribable; apart from the rhythm being on point, the Cantonese flavor in it was really awkward.

On the other hand, he followed the sound of the singing and saw a timid figure swimming along the edge of the pool...

It was Wei Liang.

"Forgive me for being unrestrained and loving freedom all my life ~"

He seemed very happy, swimming over to show off.

"I'm also afraid that one day I will..."

A lifebuoy flew over from far away, drawing an arc and "splatting" onto his dog head.

Xia Lian on the shore pulled the lifebuoy's rope, pulling him back like reeling in a fallen kite.

Coincidentally, at this time, he sang the "ohoh ~" after "I'm also afraid that one day I will fall", so this embarrassing appearance, coupled with that "ohoh", sounded like "oh ~ ON!" no matter how you listened to it.

This back-and-forth made Lin Yi dumbfounded.

"Isn't... Liangzi specially swimming over to give me a BGM? What the hell..."

Lin Yi was stunned by this absurd feeling, and Li Huiyuan was also dumbfounded, forgetting for a moment to question Lin Yi about what he was doing, you big idiot.

At this time, Boss opened his mouth and said, "What happened just now?"

Lin Yi then climbed up from the ground and said, "I... I seem to have had a hallucination."

"Hallucination?" Boss was slightly taken aback. "What did you see?"

"A faceless me," Lin Yi replied.

"Don't say that about yourself. Although you were indeed a bit excessive, a bit rude, and a bit impolite just now, I forgive you!" Seeing Lin Yi reflecting on himself, Li Huiyuan's inflated arrogance deflated on its own.

"No... I mean, I saw myself in the pool, without a face," Lin Yi shook his head and said.

Boss frowned slightly: "No face? Any other details?"

"There are no other details in terms of appearance..." Lin Yi shook his head regretfully, "But I also saw that the ceiling reflected in the pool didn't have incandescent lights. The places where the incandescent lights were originally were all sculptures tied up with chains and hanging down."

"And they were the kind of broken human-shaped sculptures with missing arms and legs," he added.

Boss narrowed his eyes, lost in thought.

"Boss, have you seen those sculptures? Where are they?" Lin Yi asked.

Boss glanced at him: "Do you know where they are?"

Lin Yi pondered for a moment: "When I had the hallucination, I seemed to see them in... Class 18, Group C."

He said this while observing Boss's expression, but he saw that there was no ripple on Boss's face.

"Boss really knows too?" he thought to himself.

"Class 18, Group C?" Li Huiyuan opened her mouth wide, "Did you go exploring the teaching building again this morning?"

"Did you enter other classes? That's not right. The teaching building only has 4 floors, and it ends at Class 12. How could there be Class 18?"

Hearing this, Boss just looked at him, seemingly waiting for his answer as well.

Lin Yi shook his head and said, "I haven't been there, so I said it was a hallucination..."

"Boss, do you know about this class?"

"Of course I know," Boss said calmly, "Just an abandoned classroom."

"Uh... Anything else?"

"Nothing else," Boss said, "Whether it's a hallucination, or you really ran over there but thought you hadn't been there... This is not a good thing."

"It seems that absorbing 'Ashes' as an 'Experience Student' can indeed bring some uncontrollable negative changes..."

Lin Yi hesitated and said, "Boss, are you saying that all of this is the influence of 'Ashes'?"

Boss shook his head: "It's hard to say, but since you entered the campus, all the abnormal changes can be attributed to 'pollution', and pollution naturally includes the part from 'Ashes'."

"It's just... the changes that have appeared on you seem to be much more dangerous than I imagined."

Lin Yi subconsciously pursed his lips.

Boss looked at him and said, "Get in the water first, we'll talk more in the water."

"Okay." Lin Yi decisively squatted down by the pool, but just before he got into the water, he suddenly thought of something and looked at Li Huiyuan and said, "Did I squat down just now?"

Li Huiyuan rolled her eyes: "Otherwise, would I have stretched my hand out in front of you for you to pull? Do you think I'm a stretchable person?"

Lin Yi was speechless for a moment, but his heart sank.

"Squatted down?"

"Really squatted down!"

He had only seen the "faceless version of himself" reflected in the pool squatting down, but the truth was—it wasn't just that the "faceless version of himself" had squatted down strangely, but that it had reflected his own behavior!

He squatted, and the shadow squatted.

But he didn't know he had squatted.

"Could it be that the situation in Class 18 of Group C is also like this...?"

"I've been there, but I don't know I've been there. Even when I recall it, the first thing that appeared in the mirror was the faceless version of me, and then Tian Gongzi's face!"

"Even Tian Gongzi's face... is an illusion created by my brain to protect my cognition, just like... the glass-like human outline that I saw that resembled an angel or 'He - I'?"

Some confusion appeared in his eyes. He couldn't tell the difference anymore.

Really couldn't tell the difference anymore.

Why is it that the more information I understand, the more chaotic it becomes, even though the train of thought should be becoming clearer and clearer?!

Boss looked at the confusion and struggle constantly emerging in his eyes and said, "Lin Yi."

Lin Yi's spirit was shaken.

"Boss?"

"Get in the water."

"Uh... Okay."

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Lin Yi responded blankly, then went down into the water along the pool wall.

As soon as he entered the water, the pool's coolness stimulated his brain, making him feel much clearer and refreshed.

He felt the 'Primal Contamination' flowing through his body seemed to become more active. At the same time, a part of the 'aura' within him seemed to be awakened, creating a strange stir in the depths of his soul...

He subconsciously tried to sense this aura and immediately discovered that some faint green aura had emerged within his body...

These auras, like some kind of mist, permeated his body. Unlike the sky-blue aura that was integrated into his bones and flesh and could be sensed instantly, these green mists seemed to lurk in a deeper part of his body, only to be stimulated when he entered the pool.

This green mist felt very cold, like wearing summer shorts during the beginning of autumn.

The Boss asked again, "When did you say these hallucinations started appearing?"

Lin Yi thought for a moment and said, "It should have been on the second day after I entered the school..."

"Little Xu told me that you entered the school on May 6th, which means you started experiencing this problem on May 7th?"

"Perhaps it's related to the fact that I didn't make it back to the dormitory that night?" He had actually seen the 5th floor and above of the teaching building on the first night, but at that time, it felt more like 'seeing with his own eyes' than a hallucination, so he didn't mention it.

"External factors are part of the reason, but it's definitely more related to your nature. A sparrowhawk can't climb trees."

Lin Yi was silent.

"I'm a little curious, what do you see in your hallucinations?" The Boss asked again.

Lin Yi subconsciously wanted to speak, but suddenly remembered that the last time the word 'Sea' was about to come out of his mouth, the Boss had kicked him into the pool...

So this time, he cautiously asked, "Boss, is this something I can talk about?"

"This is something you can talk about this time," the Boss said calmly.

"Uh... then you shouldn't physically interrupt me again, right? Like, kicking me into the water or something..." he asked weakly.

Seemingly anticipating this, a hint of awkwardness flashed across the Boss's face, but she quickly regained her composure: "I will use my discretion."

Lin Yi: "..."

「Well, it seems there's still a risk...」

He shrank his neck into the water, like a crocodile with only its nostrils exposed.

"Tell me, I'll listen," the Boss said, but seeing that Lin Yi was still hesitant, she explained, "The reason I interrupted you last time was because I had my own considerations... The situation is different now."

"Did I give you any training when you came last time?"

"Glug glug... Ah, that's true, okay then." Lin Yi slowly emerged from the water.

He briefly recalled, then first put on his armor: "I... sometimes I can't tell if what I'm seeing is real or if it's just something that popped up in my hallucinations. I'll try to speak slowly. If you're going to interrupt, try to give me a warning sign. I'm good at reading expressions, so I'll stop myself..."

The Boss leaned down, sat on the edge of the pool, and glanced at Li Huiyuan beside her.

"Huiyuan, you should get in the water too."

"Ah? Oh!" Li Huiyuan was listening intently, hearing about kicking people into the water and such, which made her eager to try it. Her feet were even itching.

So she took a step towards the edge of the pool, and her whole body plunged into the water like a needle, without making much of a splash.

Lin Yi had almost finished recalling, so he began to speak: "Besides seeing the C Group Class 18 and the broken sculpture hanging from the ceiling that I mentioned before, I also seemed to see the path to Building D on the side of Teaching Building C... But then I couldn't see it anymore."

"Later, I also saw the staircase going up from the 4th floor on the internal staircase of the teaching building, but it seemed like the staircase was blocked by Nightwalkers..."

"Then, I also saw a sky in the corridor of the dormitory building..."

"It was a black sky covered in mist, and there seemed to be a black sun in the sky, and black seawater or something. The light was too dim, so it all looked black..."

"Then, I feel like I haven't been to the Green Belt in the campus, but I sometimes have images of running in the Green Belt... Uh, right, this only started happening today."

"Then... I seemed to see something very large in the depths of the Green Belt. That thing was hidden in the woods, and when it moved, it would make some heavy scraping sounds of metal pieces and other things..."

"I also saw a light in the deepest part of the Green Belt, and behind the light, I saw a sea..."

He cautiously observed the Boss's movements, and seeing that the Boss didn't move, he continued: "...coastline, there seemed to be a mountain on the coastline, and there was a castle on the mountain..."

"In different hallucinations, I saw many details of the castle..."

"There were no lights in the castle, only candlesticks... Each candle on the candlestick was very short, as if it was about to burn out, but it just wouldn't burn out."

"There were also some murals... Strange patterns..."

"There was a model that looked like a 'World Tree' in the castle's hall... and a spiraling staircase..."

"I also saw a... a person standing on a cliff!"

"That person was wearing a windbreaker, standing in a storm, and seemed to have a... very old copper lamp in his hand..."

If the Boss's expression was only slightly solemn when Lin Yi was saying the previous content, then when Lin Yi said this sentence, the calmness on her face showed a ripple for the first time, and a gleam flashed in her eyes.

"But this is actually not the first time I've seen him. No, the first time I saw him in a hallucination was actually on May 7th."

"It was the last time we had class, right here, in this place... by this swimming pool!"

"I stared at the end of the pool, and I seemed to see a deep black hole. I heard a very rapid wind sound in my ears, and then... I saw him."

"That was the first time, the second time..."

"There's a second time?" The Boss couldn't help but ask.

"The second time was when I was going back to the dormitory that night. I had a hallucination in the corridor of the dormitory building, which was the time I saw the black sky and the sun. I didn't mention my 'position'…"

"At that time, I found that I was standing vertically on that cliff. I felt that the cliff was the cliff I saw on the coastline..."

"The cliff was covered with moss, and there seemed to be some strangely shaped Nightwalkers in the sea below. They crawled upwards from the bottom like a swarm of insects... He was on that cliff!"