Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Chapter 40 Sea Breeze, Thunder, and... Sculptures

Lin Yi looked at the words on the notice board, feeling like he recognized each individual character, but couldn't understand them when put together.

It was like doing some kind of strange reading comprehension, with the questions written in a foreign language.

"The road to the gymnasium is one and only...?"

He craned his neck from in front of the notice board, looking towards the gymnasium.

Not counting the section of road they had already walked before the notice board, there was indeed only one road leading from the notice board to the gymnasium, and there were streetlights on the side, so there was no road without streetlights.

"Since it's a non-existent road, why bother writing it down specifically?"

"Is it because of the reason behind it?"

"If it rains on the way, you need to rush to the gymnasium or the teaching building as soon as possible..."

"This is also consistent with the description in the student code. Rainy and foggy weather is abnormal weather, and you need to avoid danger as soon as possible when you encounter it, but..."

But [Physical education class is canceled in case of rain.]

"Clearly, physical education class is canceled in case of rain, but the notice board writes about emergency measures in case of rain..."

"Writing these things specifically indicates that this situation is common and happens frequently."

He looked up at the sky, which was clear, with not a single rain cloud in the sky.

He also felt the environment. There was a gentle breeze, and there was no strong wind.

"Could it be... the weather was good when leaving the teaching building, but the weather is bad when you get to the gymnasium area?"

That "strong wind" that needs to be specifically marked on the notice board may be related to the weather...

"It's a bit strange, but... it's rare to have such good weather right now, so I won't think about it too much for now."

He shook his head, then repeatedly observed the content on the notice board several times, confirming that he had clearly remembered several emergencies, before preparing to set off.

Wei Liang had been waiting for him for a long time.

"As expected of someone who has been here once, Liangzi has obviously memorized the rules by heart."

While Lin Yi was sighing in his heart, he noticed that Wei Liang's eyes were constantly staring at the street light poles on the road, as if he wanted to imprint the positions of those street light poles firmly in his eyes.

"Liangzi, let's go!" Lin Yi reminded him.

"Let's go, let's go!" Wei Liang also said, "Oh, right, have you memorized everything? Time is tight. If you haven't memorized it, it doesn't matter..."

"I've memorized it," Lin Yi interrupted him.

The corner of Wei Liang's mouth twitched slightly, and he swallowed the sentence "It doesn't matter if you haven't memorized it, I have special skills."

He changed his tone and muttered, "Uh... you memorized it even with so many twists and turns?"

"Ah?" Lin Yi was stunned, "Didn't you memorize it?"

Wei Liang shook his head and said, "I memorized my ass."

"Gah...?"

"It's too convoluted," Wei Liang waved his hand, "This is actually simple to understand. Listen to me, this whole page of content, in the final analysis, only needs one approach."

"Ah? One approach?" Lin Yi was greatly surprised.

He had always thought that Wei Liang was in the lying-flat layer, but he didn't expect that Wei Liang had already gone up many layers.

Damn!

Chang Wei, you still say you don't know martial arts?!

Seeing Lin Yi's surprised look, Wei Liang instantly became proud, so he talked eloquently: "You see this whole page of rules, seemingly comprehensive, but in reality, we only need to look at this one."

He pointed his finger at Article 4, focusing on the point "Hold on tight to this lamppost."

"As long as it rains, we don't do anything else. We simply give up searching for the teaching building or the gymnasium! We go directly to hold the lamppost, and then hang up on the spot, waiting for the security guard or the PE teacher to come."

"Ah, this..." Lin Yi was shocked. This crazy method sounds outrageous, but... it doesn't seem impossible?

"Are you right?" Wei Liang said triumphantly.

Lin Yi was still stunned. Wei Liang's approach was equivalent to skipping the first three options and directly "actively" choosing the fourth one.

That is to say, in Wei Liang's world, there are only two situations:

First, the weather is good, and you naturally arrive at the gymnasium;

Second, the weather is bad, hang up under the tower and ask for jungle support.

It's not about summarizing several options into one, but directly crossing out all options except hanging up.

From the root, he chose two techniques for lying flat.

Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang, and a sense of admiration arose spontaneously.

He slowly raised his thumb and uttered a word: "Six."

"But... if you really encounter the second situation, it should be windy and rainy weather, right? Are you sure you won't be drenched like a drowned rat holding the lamppost?" He raised a fatal question.

Before he finished speaking, he saw Wei Liang rummaging around in the pocket at the crotch of his pants for a long time, and took out a ball-shaped thing that looked like a crumpled plastic bag.

"I brought a raincoat."

"Oh, right..." He reached into the pocket behind his butt again and took out a small plastic bag ball and handed it to Lin Yi, "I also prepared one for you."

"Pick one?"

Lin Yi looked at the raincoat in this guy's hand almost blankly, never expecting that he really came prepared.

"Don't be dazed, let's go, let's go!" Wei Liang stuffed a raincoat into Lin Yi's hand, pointed to the students who were gradually embarking on this road around him, and said, "Look, they are all on the road, it's getting late, let's go quickly!"

"Let's go, let's go!"

Wei Liang urged as he crossed the notice board.

When Lin Yi crossed the notice board, he didn't know what he thought of, he looked down at his watch and recorded the time.

14:14.

...

May 7, X023, 14:15.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang walked together on the road to the gymnasium, and many students were advancing along this road with them.

Lin Yi kept in mind the warnings on the notice board, observing the street light numbers on the side of the road as he walked.

After walking like this for 2 minutes, Lin Yi suddenly twitched his nose.

"Liangzi," he said softly, "Did you smell anything?"

Wei Liang continued walking forward as if he hadn't heard him.

"Huh?" Lin Yi frowned subconsciously, rushed over and patted Wei Liang on the shoulder, "Liangzi!"

Wei Liang was startled, turned his head in confusion, and asked in puzzlement, "What's wrong?"

"I said, did you smell any odor?" Lin Yi asked, "Also, did you hear me calling you just now?"

"Did you call me?" Wei Liang pointed to his nose, "I might not have noticed just now. By the way, what smell are you talking about? Why didn't I smell anything?"

"Didn't smell it..." Lin Yi suddenly thought of the fact that he couldn't see the teaching building just now. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Then shouldn't I not tell you?"

Wei Liang was slightly startled, and his expression suddenly became serious.

He squinted his eyes and stared at Lin Yi for a while, then handed the other raincoat to Lin Yi as well.

Just as Lin Yi was wondering if Wei Liang's actions had a hidden meaning, Wei Liang cautiously probed, "Why don't you smell it… could it be the smell from the raincoat? That area was somewhat influenced…"

Lin Yi: "…"

The style suddenly became very strange. Lin Yi's hand trembled, wishing he could shove the raincoat into Wei Liang's mouth.

"Get lost!" he said unhappily.

Wei Liang shrank his neck, sheepishly took back the raincoat, and continued walking towards the gymnasium.

Lin Yi glanced at the raincoat in his hand, hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he didn't have the heart to force himself to smell it.

He closed his eyes, focused his attention on his sense of smell, and then took a deep breath…

The air, like smoke and clouds, drilled into his nasal cavity, entered his lungs through his respiratory tract, rolled around in his lungs, and then slowly rushed out from the gaps in his lips…

「There is indeed a smell…」

He smelled a faint fishy smell, mixed with a thin, rotten stench.

It was as if someone had used a shovel to pat the silt upwind, and then the smell of fish and shrimp corpses mixed with mud floated over and into his nasal cavity.

He opened his eyes, feeling a little strange.

Just then, he heard the leaves rustling in the forest, and gusts of wind blowing through the treetops, the sound of leaves like waves never ceasing.

The wind was picking up.

According to the instructions on the notice board, this was a normal phenomenon and there was no need to be alarmed.

But as the wind rushed towards him, Lin Yi couldn't smell any elements related to "trees."

There was no earthy scent or the fragrance of flowers in the wind, only an increasingly strong fishy stench.

It was like the stench of rotten fish and shrimp that had been exposed to the sun and then thrown into the mud and stirred around.

「Huff —」

「Huff —」

「Huff —」

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and a salty, humid, and dry breath slapped his face with the wind.

He suddenly realized that this wasn't ordinary, this was…

「It's sea breeze!」

「It's a stinky sea breeze!」

The smell of those rotten fish and shrimp was also explained. Since it was sea breeze, it would naturally carry some of the smell of fish and shrimp.

They were all fish and shrimp washed ashore by the wind and waves, which had died from being exposed to the sun because they didn't have time to escape.

Lin Yi found the answer.

But he also suddenly realized a serious problem:

「That's not right!」

「I'm in the mountains, where did the sea breeze come from?!」

He looked around and suddenly noticed that many of his classmates had disappeared from the long road.

Only him, and Wei Liang walking in front of him.

「Where are the people?! Where did everyone else go?!」

“Liangzi? Liangzi! Liangzi!”

He quickened his pace to catch up with Wei Liang, but he hadn't even run a few steps when the wind speed around him increased at a speed visible to the naked eye.

「Whoosh… Whoosh —」

The strong wind raged, like thousands of troops and horses rushing out from directly in front of Lin Yi, pushing him and making it impossible for him to move forward.

The leaves in the forest rustled, like countless people making difficult, cold laughter.

「Wind! The wind is rising!!!」

He suddenly felt that the light around him had dimmed at some point, and he suddenly raised his head to look at the sky.

The cloud on the side of the mountain had somehow floated to the top of his head!

「Was it blown over by the wind?」

「Or…? !」

He looked down at his watch.

14:18.

「One minute, only one minute has passed!」

In the space of a minute, it got dark?!

「Impossible! Absolutely impossible!」

“Liangzi… Liangzi! Liangzi!!!” Lin Yi took a deep breath, mustered his strength, and ran against the strong wind, rushing towards Wei Liang's back.

Wei Liang walked in the strong wind as if walking on flat ground.

It seemed that this strong wind was only falling on Lin Yi's head.

Lin Yi didn't care about this situation. He sensed that something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.

「Whoosh —」

「Whoosh —」

All that was left in Lin Yi's ears was the sound of the wind and the sound of the forest leaves. The stinky sea breeze poured into his lungs in large gulps from his mouth and nasal cavity, giving him a sense of oppression close to suffocation.

He ran against the strong wind, alternating between shoes and bare feet, step by step, closing the distance between him and Wei Liang.

Wei Liang really seemed to be suddenly unaffected by the strong wind. Lin Yi didn't know whether he or Wei Liang was the one with the problem.

“Liangzi!”

He struggled to catch up with Wei Liang, gritted his teeth, and with great effort, stretched out his hand and patted Wei Liang on the shoulder.

Wei Liang's body was very stiff. When he patted it, it felt like he had touched a hard stone.

Lin Yi was stunned.

And Wei Liang also suddenly stopped.

Immediately afterwards, he slowly turned around with a stiff movement, like a pair of invisible hands twisting a huge piece of rubber.

An unfamiliar face appeared on "Wei Liang's" face and fell into Lin Yi's eyes.

Little Genius.

「? !」

Lin Yi's pupils shook, his feet stumbled, his body was unstable for a while, he staggered back in the strong wind, rolled twice, and sat down on the ground with his butt.

The person who should have been "Wei Liang" in front of him turned into a Little Genius sculpture wearing Wei Liang's clothes the moment he turned his head!

To be precise, it was a sculpture of Little Genius.

The sculpture of Little Genius with a strong expression of fear and horror on his face, distorting his face!

The sculpture of Little Genius that disappeared in the green belt!

At this moment, the Little Genius sculpture faced Lin Yi, still like a dead thing.

Suddenly, it slowly moved its steps, like a robot with insufficient power, trying its best to walk towards Lin Yi.

But it couldn't lift its feet at all, it could only move little by little with difficulty.

It stretched out its hand with difficulty, as if to strangle Lin Yi's throat, but it was still some distance away from Lin Yi, so it could only reach its hand out of its sleeve.

It was a sculpted arm, constantly covered with fine cracks as it moved, and then flakes of ultra-thin plaster fragments peeled off like skin, "crack, crack."

The plaster fragments shattered as soon as they met the wind, turning into countless white powders and disappearing.

The strong wind became more and more violent, and muffled thunder faintly sounded in the sky.

「Rumble… Rumble…」

A terrible storm was gathering, and the dull thunder seemed to be the sky's last scream before the rainstorm came.

「Boom — Crack! !」

The thunder tore through the storm, and a dazzling white arc of lightning flashed across the dim sky.

The Little Genius sculpture's movements froze halfway, and then for some reason, it slowly and stiffly turned around and continued walking along the road it had just taken.

The strong wind howled, and the Little Genius sculpture was completely unaffected.

Lin Yi suddenly realized why he saw "Wei Liang" walking so easily.

Because the texture of the sculpture was solidified, no matter how strong the wind was, it couldn't blow it.