Rules-related weird stories: 4016

May 7, 2023, 13:24, Teaching Building B.

Lin Yi stood before the steps like a statue, his gaze fixed on the moss in the cracks, but his eyes were empty, as if his soul had been stolen.

"Indeed, there's moss, indeed, there's moss…" He repeated this phrase, seemingly lost in thought.

A gentle breeze blew from the foothills surrounding the campus, slowly caressing his ears, the rustling of leaves sounding like waves crashing against reefs…

"Swish, swish, swish…"

"Swish, swish… Bang!"

"Swish—Bang!"

"Swish—Bang!"

Lin Yi was in a daze, his pupils dilating, his focus blurring…

His vision was filled with a patch of dark green moss covered in mud, and the moss… gradually twisted.

"Swish—Bang!"

The sound of the waves persisted, as if right beside his ears.

"Whoosh—"

The gentle breeze from the foothills suddenly turned into a fierce gale, tearing at his clothes like countless hands.

He felt like someone standing at the crest of a wave, able to embrace the sea with open arms.

"Swish—Swish—"

The waves grew larger and larger, the sunlight above Lin Yi's head dimmer and dimmer, and a terrifying storm gathered above him, as if a tempest was about to descend.

"Boom—Crack!!!!!"

A bolt of pure white lightning appeared in the storm, as if a giant axe had cleaved the sky, and a huge rift appeared in response.

Lin Yi was startled awake by the thunder, and he looked up at the rift…

"?!" His eyes widened, his mouth slightly open.

The lightning froze before him, the storm stilled, and the torn sky became like a scroll painted in the depths of the heavens…

As if someone had grabbed a corner of the scroll and was tearing it away, the broken blank space formed the frozen lightning.

And behind the broken painting, he saw a clock tower, he saw a campus, he saw a person standing in the campus gazing at the sky, that was…

Him.

Him standing in front of the teaching building.

He was gazing at the sky.

He was looking down at the moss.

He didn't know what he was doing, but his gaze, and the "him" of this moment… were meeting.

"I…?!!"

Lin Yi felt an unprecedented sense of dizziness, like overlooking the earth from the clouds, or hanging upside down from a cliff, staring into the abyss.

His mouth widened, his heart already a storm of emotions.

"That's me?"

"Then who am I?!"

"That's the teaching building… Then… where am I?!"

He stumbled back a step, looking at his hands in a panic.

The skin on his hands was somewhat dark, and his wrists were thinner than "his own." Judging by his palms alone, he was a somewhat slender person.

"Wait, my clothes…?"

Lin Yi noticed his cuffs. It was a very loose yellow knitted sweater, not what he wore, but it had a strange sense of familiarity.

He grabbed the fabric at his chest and pulled it up, confirming again and again that it wasn't his own clothes.

He touched his face.

His face was a bit square.

His whole person was a bit square.

"I… how am I not me?"

Horrified and frightened, he looked at the broken painting, staring through the blank space of the lightning, looking intently at the campus in the blank space, searching for "his own" figure in front of the teaching building…

"Wait…?!!"

"That teaching building…!!"

He suddenly realized something!

"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven… eight!"

"Eight floors!"

"An eight-story teaching building!!"

【The teaching building only has four floors, where did the extra four come from?!】

"I! I… where am I, am I dreaming?!"

Lin Yi looked around.

Around him… was a castle-like building full of Gothic style.

Sharp turrets, arched roofs covered in colorful prism glass, a pitch-black clock tower, dim moonlight, and… a night raven perched on top of the clock tower.

"I… am I in a castle?"

"Rumble—"

A storm swirled in the sky, thunder rumbling within.

"Swish—Swish—"

Waves crashed at his feet, constantly washing against the reefs.

He rushed to the edge of the castle's cold, blue-gray bricks covered in moss, stretched out his neck, and looked down.

A cliff.

This damned castle was built on a damned cliff.

Below the steep, moss-covered cliff, was a swamp filled with water vapor and mist.

Beyond the reefs…

Was a sea shrouded in a gray, dense fog.

He noticed that there seemed to be a mud pit at the junction of the reef and the cliff face. The fishy, stinky, nauseating smell that mixed with the sea breeze and entered his mouth emanated from that mud pit.

Even though there was a terrible distance between them, he could still clearly see the rotten fish, shrimp, crab shells, and fish bones piled up in the mud pit…

"Gulp…"

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and staggered backward.

"Click… da!"

An easel was knocked over, and the drawing board and paints fell to the ground.

He looked around in a panic, and suddenly discovered a large number of rough texts painted on the brick walls of the castle with yellow paint.

In the dim environment, such writing was out of tune with the atmosphere.

The twisted writing, the rough lines seemed to outline…

【Welcome to the Art Building.】

Lin Yi's pupils contracted to the size of a pinhole at this moment, and a whirlwind slammed around in his body, then poured into his head, leaving his brain blank.

"Art Building!"

"This is… the Art Building?!"

"I'm in… the Art Building?!"

Already dizzy, a strong feeling emerged in his heart, a feeling that told him he was here.

"No, no, no, no!!!!!"

"I'm not in the Art Building! I'm in front of the teaching building, I just finished eating, I… I just returned to the classroom with Liangzi!"

He kept recalling everything, he raised his head to look at the sky, trying to find the blank space torn by the lightning in the sky!

He felt like a ship about to be blown out of the harbor by a storm, he needed to drop his anchor hard.

But the dark sky was filled with Yin energy, the moonlight spilled over the brick walls of the castle, and the cold air chilled his limbs.

There was no storm in the sky, and no lightning.

"How… could this be?"

His head throbbed and ached, as if something was about to break through his head.

The cold air surged from all directions, and the pale white sea fog spread up from under the cliff, embracing him.

He touched the palette that had fallen on the ground.

He saw the painting that had fallen on the ground.

The painting depicted a clock tower shrouded in a storm, with lightning tearing through half of the sky.

The broken painting was exactly the sky he saw.

In the depths of the sky… was the campus of S City University.

A sentence popped into his mind:

“When you gaze into the abyss… the abyss will devour you.”

He murmured to himself, his eyes panicked, his gaze shifting from side to side, faster and faster.

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“I…”

Just as the fog was about to embrace him, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then slowly squatted down, and whispered with unwavering determination:

“I'm in front of the teaching building.”

“My name is Lin Yi…”

“My student ID is X0230506098…”

“I'm in front of the teaching building.”

“My name is Lin Yi…”

“My student ID is X0230506098…”

“I'm in front of the teaching building…”

He squatted down, his fingers touching something sticky and wet…

He opened his eyes.

Teaching Building B, at the bottom of the steps, Lin Yi squatted down, his fingers touching moss.

“I… am in front of the teaching building.” He muttered to himself, his tone light and soft, but incredibly firm.

He stared firmly at the moss, a glimmer of light seemingly fading deep within his eyes.

“L… Lin?" Wei Liang's trembling voice rang out behind him.

Wei Liang's hand hung in the air, giving the impression of wanting to pat him but hesitating.

“You… are you okay?”

He gently placed his hand on Lin Yi's shoulder, feeling the temperature transmitted from Lin Yi's shoulder to the palm of his hand. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Hoo…”

“I… have a slight problem.” Lin Yi immediately realized something was wrong and added, “But I'm fine now.”

“That's good, that's good.” Wei Liang patted his chest and said, “Then let's go back to the classroom to rest. After eating and taking a walk, it's better to sit down and rest.”

Wei Liang walked up the steps to the classroom door.

Lin Yi looked down at his watch.

13:25.

Only a minute had passed, but the feeling… was as long as an hour.

“Liangzi, do you remember what was happening to me just now?” He walked up the steps, confirmed the classroom number “Group B Class 2”, and asked while reaching out to open the door.

Wei Liang said: “You gave me a shock just now. I don't know what's wrong with you. I just saw you standing under the steps in a daze.”

“After spacing out for a while, you started looking at the sky and then at your feet… and then after a few seconds, you squatted down.”

“What? Don't you remember yourself?”

Lin Yi opened his mouth, then shook his head helplessly: “Maybe I had a bit of low blood sugar and couldn't stand properly…”

“I thought so too.” Wei Liang nodded, still not mentioning the fact that Lin Yi's body had turned ice-cold.

After entering the classroom, Lin Yi found a seat by the window that was exposed to the sun. After sitting down, he took out a small notebook from his pocket.

This notebook contained his memos, and he now planned to take advantage of the lunch break to re-examine the previous memos and add some new discoveries.

But just as he was about to open the notebook, the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of green.

That was the green belt outside Teaching Building B.

He glanced over there and then continued to focus on the notebook…

「Huh?!」

He suddenly shifted his gaze back, staring intently at that green belt.

After searching in vain, his brow furrowed, and he felt his heart turn cold.

The Little Genius sculpture was there this morning.

But now it's gone.

「The sculpture disappeared during a meal?」

「Everyone went to eat, who would move the sculpture?」

But the sculpture is just gone!

「Could it have run away on its own?」

Lin Yi felt very strange.

He also thought of the feeling of being watched from behind when he was walking in the tree-lined path when he walked towards the staff passage…

And also thought of the gloomy wind blowing out of the woods, as if hiding many weird things.

He shivered, feeling a chill run down his spine.

He looked up at the sky.

That cloud had finally drifted away, and the sun cast warm sunlight, shining on him, dispelling his persistent cold.

He calmed himself down and then focused on the small notebook in his hand.

He opened the notebook, and the previously recorded memos with their scribbled traces reappeared before his eyes:

— — — 【Considering the suspicion of padding the word count, I put the previous memos in this chapter, everyone can see it when they click it open (I am so conscientious, woo woo woo…)】 — —

He read the previous memos from beginning to end, confirmed that there was nothing to be corrected, then turned the page, recalling the experience of leaving the teaching building to go to the cafeteria to eat and then returning, and began to supplement the record from memo number 10.

During this time, he hesitated and thought for a while on item 5 【The sports student "seems (the word seems has been crossed out)" is a good person, believe the sports student's words.】 here, and then gave up supplementing it.

He flipped back to the front and reread item 5, then flipped back and wrote:

“10. The sports student is very fierce and can deal with those weird things.”

“Under the sun, the sports student's combat power is very strong, very strong. (It is currently unknown whether every sports student has a baseball bat.)”

Then, he officially began to write:

“11. The cafeteria's food is like a health pack in a game, with a purification effect. As long as the weather is good, you must go to the cafeteria to eat.”

“Walk through the [Student Passage] to the student restaurant on the first floor, queue at window number 3 to buy food and eat, and immediately leave through the [Student Passage] after dropping off the plate.”

After writing this sentence, he thought of the green-aproned chef coming out of window number 10, so he pondered for a while and modified the last half of the sentence to: “After eating and dropping off the plate, immediately run to the [Student Passage] to leave the cafeteria.”

Then he added:

“During this time, no matter if you encounter a green-aproned chef or a blue-aproned chef, or other people sitting next to you, ignore them.”

Then he wrote:

“12. If you step on a green-aproned chef or those weird classmates, your shoes will get tomato sauce on them.”

He thought to himself: 「If that's the case, then theoretically, countering them might also get tomato sauce on them?」

Thinking that if you get tomato sauce on you, you must throw away the clothing or other items that have tomato sauce on them, Lin Yi thought for a while, and then added:

“Try to avoid them, don't fight them… maybe you can ask the sports student for help?”

He turned his pen and thought for a while, feeling that there was no problem in writing that way, so he continued to write:

“13. The trash can is at the entrance of the staff passage, and the staff passage leads to the basement of the cafeteria.”

“If you want to go to the trash can to throw away trash, don't dawdle in the middle, throw it away quickly, and leave quickly after throwing it away.”

「Oh right! I almost forgot the most important point!」

Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and he quickly wrote in bold:

“14. Tomato sauce turns into plaster under the sun (the principle is temporarily unknown).”

【Note: There is no time travel in this book, so the protagonist's experiences are all… well, you guess. I hope everyone is mentally normal when reading the first half of this chapter, anyway, I felt a little abnormal when writing it…】

Thank you to book friends "Ink Spirit Fish" and "A Zhe is Me" for their rewards!!