Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“That, I don't know.” Xia Lian shook her head and said, “Since I became a sports student, I haven't seen Boss leave the gymnasium area much. Occasionally, he would leave for a while, but he would never spend the night outside, always returning on the same day.”

Lin Yi exclaimed, feeling a chill in his heart. He suddenly felt that Mu Daxian, who had returned from the teaching building to the art building with Maozi in front of a group of grinning angels, had gained even more significance.

But as soon as he thought of Mu Daxian, Lin Yi couldn't help but connect several clues related to Mu Daxian…

Mu Daxian's life was shrouded in mystery, but if some clues were singled out from these mysteries, it would be discovered that Mu Daxian knew Boss, had been a dormitory manager for a period of time, had interacted with the Night Watchers, and had learned some precepts.

Originally, it was difficult to connect these clues, but when he personally saw the grinning angel being personified by the old kerosene lamp and extracted a dormitory manager from it, the originally fragmented puzzle seemed to find its frame. When Lin Yi put these clues into the frame, he came to a guess.

Mu Daxian encountered the gray fog invasion after entering the school, then met Lao Mo at that time, and later became a dormitory manager for some reason. He followed the path from dormitory manager to grinning angel, and was eventually "returned to his original form" in the gymnasium, then went to the negative first floor of the gymnasium…

As for how he became an art student and what he experienced from the gymnasium to the art building, it is unknown.

Judging from his mention of Boss, they probably met in this way. Moreover, Mu Daxian's methods not only included those of the art department, but also seemed to incorporate some "tricks" from the sports department, making him look like an art student who had also learned some "basic sports skills."

「If we use game class changes as an analogy, the sports department and the art department may share a set of basic skills, but after changing classes, the two paths have essential differences in direction.」

For example, both sides have 「Perception」, but the sports department is obviously not as good as the art department.

However, even common basic skills do not seem to be something that any sports student or art student can learn.

「It seems that Mu Daxian's experience is also very legendary…」 Lin Yi rubbed his forehead, becoming more and more curious about Mu Daxian's "background."

At this moment, Lin Yi was attracted by a series of 「rustling」 sounds. He looked up and saw that the dozens of sports teachers standing beside Boss on the dome of the giant egg also dropped iron chains in unison. The chains were uniformly hung with pseudo-human sculptures, and some chains were even strung with a raging angel.

Countless iron chains swayed in the wind, like a wisteria flower sea cast from fine iron.

The iron chains swayed, constantly bursting out a series of sparks. The rusty smell mixed with some damp and dark气息, gradually spreading throughout the giant egg with the breath of the wind…

「Could these be the 'achievements' that Boss and the sports teachers made while staying in the gymnasium?」

“Boss and the others have come, what about the gymnasium?” Lin Yi asked softly.

At this moment, the flow of sports students was still moving towards the first floor of the stands. Lin Yi didn't know anything about the sports teachers' subsequent actions, nor could he guess anything.

Xia Lian said: “There should be nothing wrong with the gymnasium.”

「Since there's nothing wrong, why not let the experience students leave, but instead have them stay here, close their eyes, and recite their own positions…」 Lin Yi thought to himself, 「There must be another hidden reason.」

Li Huiyuan whispered: “Senior Xia Lian, what will happen next?”

“Next, naturally it will be…” Xia Lian's gaze slowly fell from the iron chain wisteria waterfall to the snow piles on the playground, and a cold smile filled with anticipation appeared on her face, “Waiting for the feast to begin.”

…

Just as Lin Yi walked towards the first floor of the stands, Song Rentou, who had been staring at Lin Yi, finally stood up slowly and walked towards the stairs step by step.

Its speed was very slow and it was close to the shadow area, so even the sports students who were moving their positions didn't notice its movements at first.

However, just as it walked along the steps towards the stairs of the stands and passed Wei Liang, Wei Liang stretched out his foot, seemingly trying to trip it.

Song Rentou wasn't a fool. Seeing Wei Liang's obvious operation, its expression was a little strange. It stopped and looked Wei Liang up and down, its eyes seeming to say, you idiot, you think you can trip me?

At this moment, Wei Liang was holding the handrail with his eyes closed. His outstretched foot made it unclear whether his foot was itching and he wanted to stretch it out, or whether he was really deliberately trying to mess with Song Rentou.

But Song Rentou didn't need to understand Wei Liang's intention. A fierce killing intent quickly appeared in its eyes.

Since you stretched out your leg, then let it break here!

A grin appeared on its lips, and then it raised its foot and stomped hard on Wei Liang's leg bone!

However, just as it was about to step on Wei Liang, Wei Liang's foot suddenly retracted, and before it could react, Wei Liang kicked it in its seemingly unstable lower body, causing it to lose its balance and fall out of the shadow area, then rolled all the way down the steps.

At this moment, Song Rentou realized that Wei Liang's outstretched foot was not to trip it, but to fish!

Casting the rod depends on awareness, raising the rod depends on technique!

But by the time it reacted, it was too late. The noise of it rolling down the steps was too loud, and coupled with the loss of protection from the shadow area, it was immediately exposed to the sports students' view.

“Huh?” Xie Huayang was slightly stunned, his gaze immediately locked on, and then a brilliant golden light burst out from the bottom of his eyes, “Pseudo-human? Nightwalker? No, what the hell is that?! Quick, catch him!”

Xie Huayang took the lead and directly pounced on Song Rentou. Although he had lost an arm, his actions didn't seem to be greatly affected.

Some of the surrounding sports students also reacted immediately, and the sports students on the stands near Song Rentou also surrounded it.

Before Song Rentou could get up, it was surrounded. It didn't have time to think and immediately flipped over the railing.

“Damn!” Xie Huayang suddenly pounced on the railing and couldn't help but curse, “You dare to flip over this?!”

…

“‘Feast begins’?!” Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan exclaimed in unison.

“Is it a feast for eating things?” Lin Yi couldn't help but add.

「Feast」, Lin Yi had heard Xia Lian say it once before, but he didn't know what it was all about.

But the word feast definitely sounds like it has something to do with "eating"… Could it be that the sports teachers are going to barbecue raging angels here on the spot to eat?

Speaking of barbecue, it seems to be a consistent tradition of sports students. Don't you see Lao Du and the others playing a good hand at barbecue, but that doesn't seem to have anything to do with eating!

Just then, they heard some noises from upstairs and immediately looked towards the sound.

"Huh, that's... Song Rentou?" Lin Yi, on the first floor of the stands, inexplicably recognized Song Rentou.

Song Rentou, who had climbed over the railing of the stands, should have fallen down due to gravity, but he didn't. Instead, he stuck to the outer wall of the stands and scurried away, like a version of Quicksilver using both hands and feet, as if he had modified the direction of gravity acting on him.

He tried to avoid the encirclement of Xie Huayang and the others, but as a result, he attracted even more attention.

"Song Rentou?" Li Huiyuan was taken aback. "Who's that?"

"A classmate. I called his name during roll call before. It's normal that you don't remember..." Lin Yi said.

Li Huiyuan said "Oh." She really didn't have much of an impression. After all, not everyone would specifically remember other people's names like Lin Yi did.

"But how is he... scaling walls like that spider chef?"

Song Rentou's current appearance was indeed very similar to the green-aproned chef, and in Li Huiyuan's memory, that green-aproned chef had indeed left a deep impression on her.

However, compared to the abstract appearance of the green-aproned chef, the current Song Rentou was more like some kind of crawling alien species.

"He's not 'Green Chef'..." Xia Lian said in a deep voice, "But he's clearly not a normal thing either."

"Senior Xia Lian, can you roughly tell what kind of thing he is?" Lin Yi asked, "A Pseudo? A Nightwalker? Or something else?"

Xia Lian thought for a moment, then shook her head slightly: "I can't tell. He has the characteristics of both 'human' and 'Pseudo', and also some characteristics similar to 'purebred Nightwalkers', but he's completely different from them..."

"Moreover, his body is filled with a gray aura, like something carrying 'Gray Mist'..."

"Like something that doesn't belong to our layer."

Lin Yi's heart trembled slightly: "Something from the Art Building layer?"

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"How do you even know about the Art Building?"

"The boss told me." Lin Yi quickly used the boss as a shield.

"Nonsense, the boss wouldn't tell you these things. Even if he did, he wouldn't say it in such detail." Xia Lian stared at Lin Yi's face for a while, then moved her gaze away. "Forget it, it doesn't matter... nothing matters anymore. Anyway, he can't escape from here. We'll soon find out which side he's from."

"As for you... you're protected by the boss, I don't care about anything, and of course, I'm not qualified to care."

After Xia Lian finished speaking, her tone relaxed a little: "Just watch. Someone will bring him down soon... Even if the sports students can't catch him, the teachers won't let him jump around."

"Before the feast, these fleas will be cleaned up."

Hearing the word "feast" again, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel a great curiosity, and a hint of... anticipation.

Sure enough, just when Song Rentou thought he had escaped, a dazzling stream of light appeared under the dark dome, hitting him with pinpoint accuracy as if a shooting star streaked across the sky!

"Dong!!"

Accompanied by a heavy impact sound, dust flew up from the edge of the railing on the second floor of the stands. Song Rentou fell from the dust with a "bang" and hit the ground, convulsing and struggling, seemingly still trying to get up from the ground.

Lin Yi noticed that there was a huge wound on Song Rentou's back, like the kind of crater that appeared when the earth was hit by a cannonball, accompanied by some sky-blue steam...

And under that sky-blue steam, there seemed to be a half-dissipated sky-blue void sphere.

"That's...?"

He seemed to sense something, and suddenly looked towards the location where the stream of light appeared. Then he discovered that Xu Shunkang was carrying a baseball bat, pointing two fingers together, tapping his forehead, and then waving in a certain direction.

Beside Xu Shunkang, there was also a baseball pitcher-like sports student, wearing a thick baseball glove, tossing a spiral-shaped sky-blue light ball upwards.

The one that hit Song Rentou just now was this sky-blue light ball, or rather...

"Baseball?!"

Obviously, that pitcher threw a ball, and with the blessing of Xu Shunkang's home run, the baseball turned into a cannon shot and achieved a super long-distance hit, directly KO'ing Song Rentou.

On the other side, Xie Huayang nodded towards Xu Shunkang, then glanced at Song Rentou on the first floor of the stands, with a hint of sarcasm on his lips, and said again: "Tch, daring to climb..."

He glanced at the surrounding sports students: "Let's go, go downstairs, don't keep the others waiting."

...

Song Rentou was still struggling in place. The gray mist in his body began to repair his injured muscles like threading a needle. His whole body convulsed and wriggled on the ground, seemingly repairing his injuries at an extremely fast speed.

But some of the second-stage sports students around obviously wouldn't give him any chance. Several sports students looked at each other, then walked out of the stands, took out baseball bats, picked him up, and threw him onto the playground.

Soon all the sports students came to the first floor of the stands, and then, Lin Yi noticed that the entire Giant Egg was shaking, as if a beast was awakening and the earth's crust was trembling slightly.

"Lin, Lin Yi, look!" Li Huiyuan pointed at the dome of the Giant Egg, her voice trembling slightly, "The dome is moving!"

Lin Yi quickly looked over and saw that the dome of the Giant Egg was slowly closing.

"This dome can close?" He looked at Xia Lian. His question wasn't whether it could close, but why it was closing now.

Hadn't they already let those angel sculptures in?

Wouldn't it have been fine to close it earlier?

"That's not right..." Lin Yi immediately realized the answer to this question as soon as he asked it.

The dome of the Giant Egg could close, but it wasn't closed at the beginning. Instead, it was deliberately waited until this time to close it. The reason for this was related to the "feast" that Xia Lian mentioned!

His eyes widened and he exclaimed: "The food for the 'feast' wouldn't be... those angel sculptures, would it?!"

Xia Lian had originally planned to answer him, but seeing him talking to himself as if he were switching back and forth between two people, she couldn't help but say: "Didn't you figure it out yourself?"

"It's really like that!" Lin Yi said in surprise.

So that was it!

Because if they just wanted to close it, the Giant Egg wouldn't need this kind of design at all. They could just build a sealed building when they built it. Wouldn't it be a waste to make it openable and closable?

So the answer can only be that the Giant Egg needs to be able to close at any time from a design perspective.