Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“So… if I happen to run into that guy, I should destroy it… uh, I mean, take it down?” Lin Yi asked.

The homeroom teacher - 040 nodded, a rare hint of killing intent flashing in her eyes: “You can act first, report later.”

Actually, she had made a mistake. The correct approach would have been to capture that non-existent person when she first encountered it.

It's just a pity that she realized it too late.

“Wait, what did you just say?” The homeroom teacher - 040 seemed to catch a spark of inspiration.

“Ah? Take it down? Happen to run into it?”

“No, no, no…” The homeroom teacher - 040 narrowed her eyes, her brow furrowed, “Those two words seem to remind me of something… ‘Destroy’! That's it, ‘destroy’!”

“I've got it!”

“What if it's a kind of ‘creation’? Wouldn't that make it seem human but not human?”

“‘Crea…tion’?” Lin Yi chewed on the word, and for some reason, he felt a strange sense of familiarity, as if it had also sparked a flame of inspiration in him.

The homeroom teacher - 040 continued: “In 《Architecture》, there's a side branch of constructing puppets that involves disassembling and reassembling parts from dead bodies or non-human entities to form a completely new entity…”

“An entity constructed in this way is, in the common sense, a ‘puppet’. They have brief periods of mobility, and because dead things don't feel pain, they can, to some extent, ignore the damage caused to the body by sunlight.”

The homeroom teacher - 040 frowned again, saying with some puzzlement, “But what I don't understand is that if you were to do this, you would still need an energy source to drive the puppet… This method of constructing puppets originates from the occult, so it would naturally require some ‘mystical substance’ as a raw material.”

Hearing this, Lin Yi's inspiration expanded, and he suddenly remembered that Mu Daxian seemed to have used a similar operation back then, except that Mu Daxian used bizarre art students, that is, zealots!

And when Mu Daxian was building, he also had Maozi watch in place while he went out for a trip!

Thinking of this, everything seemed to come to a perfect closure—Mu Daxian went to get the mystical substance!

Lin Yi couldn't help but exclaim: “In the depths of the Green Forest Belt, on the road to the art building, there is a basin that produces ‘mystical substances’, but it is occupied by zealots!”

“I know!”

“It's Mountain Man! Uh no, it's that Yuan Lijian!”

“I saw Mountain Man go to that place. He stole some energy substance and then built that puppet in the classroom!”

The real closed loop appeared!

Everything also matches up!

“Wait, wait, wait…” The homeroom teacher - 040 was a little confused, “What are you talking about?”

Her information was not as rich as Lin Yi's, so naturally, she couldn't keep up with Lin Yi's thinking.

Lin Yi quickly told her about seeing Mountain Man in the Green Forest Belt. The time was yesterday… but because he saw Mountain Man in Kuai Hongji's illusion, he “modified” the time to when Lao Mo took him to the art building.

Overall, it was all at night, so there wouldn't be any impact—at least in Lin Yi's opinion, there was no problem in logic.

“So, all of this was done by Yuan Lijian?” The homeroom teacher - 040 rubbed her brow, as if saying that this year's students were really hard to manage, “Then his purpose doesn't seem pure.”

“Perhaps it's very pure, everything might be part of his plan,” Lin Yi analyzed rationally, “You said before that people are selfish…”

“Wait, I didn't say that,” the homeroom teacher - 040 said.

“…” Lin Yi paused, “Okay, that's not important. I mean, people are selfish, maybe he came in with the purpose of infiltrating the force and collecting ashes, but that's his organization's mission, no one can say that he doesn't have the idea of doing personal work.”

In Lin Yi's impression, Mountain Man was fiddling with his small parts whenever he had time, just like some miserable authors who secretly code during work hours, not letting go of a single bit of free time.

“Yuan Lijian's private affairs… Could it be related to Yuan Datou's death?” the homeroom teacher - 040 guessed.

Lin Yi shook his head slightly: “I'm not sure about that, anyway, we have to be careful of him, I feel like his motives are impure.”

The homeroom teacher - 040 gave him a deep look, thinking that your motives also seem very impure, but of course, she couldn't say it out loud.

“Well, in any case, narrowing the scope of suspicion to Yuan Lijian is also a good thing.”

Lin Yi was unhappy and contemptuously said: “What do you mean by ‘narrowing the scope’? Teacher, you just said ‘low probability events are likely to occur on campus’. I think, before determining the instigator, it's okay to default to Mountain Man—anyway, I temporarily recognize it as such.”

“Then what do you want to do, compete with him in secret?” the homeroom teacher - 040 asked, her tone somewhat concerned.

“Oh, are you concerned about me? Teacher.” Lin Yi's eyes rolled around.

“Get lost!” The homeroom teacher - 040 instantly showed a bad face as if she had been stepped on her tail, “I'm just worried that you'll affect my investigation plan!”

Lin Yi shrugged: “Then you can rest assured, I don't plan to pay attention to him at all, I have a lot of my own things to do.”

“Sure enough, everyone who enters the campus has problems…” the homeroom teacher - 040 said helplessly.

Lin Yi also looked helpless: “At least from the current situation, the problems are coming to me.”

“People who have problems themselves usually don't think they have problems,” the homeroom teacher - 040 shook her head, “Forget it, let's not talk about this. If you think the problems are coming to you, then the problems are coming to you. Be careful when doing things, I don't want to see you fall into the ranks of pseudo-humans one day.”

“Do you have anything else? If not, you can leave.”

“Yes, of course there is. Now that I'm here, I might as well fleece you clean before leaving.” Lin Yi said the truth shamelessly.

Three black lines hung on the homeroom teacher - 040's forehead: “You really aren't polite at all… Okay, what else do you want to do?”

She lowered her voice: “But your little friend is still here, I advise you, don't go too far with whatever you want to do.”

Lin Yi was stunned: “I just wanted to ask about the things above the 5th floor of the teaching building, where did your mind go?”

“You…?! ” The homeroom teacher - 040 was so angry that she was speechless, her beautiful eyes behind her golden glasses widened, but she couldn't get angry, “Spit it out!”

Lin Yi thought to himself that this woman's temper was really strange, why did she always misunderstand, so he asked: “I plan to go to the area above the 5th floor of the teaching building to take a look, that's right, I'll go after I leave later, I want to ask you what's going on above the fifth floor?”

The homeroom teacher - 040 frowned: “What are you doing over there for no reason?”

“So my guess was right.” Lin Yi said, “The teaching building does indeed have 8 floors, just like I saw when I first entered the school at night. But because of the layer issue, it only appears when abnormal weather arrives, or rather, going to the 5th floor and above of the teaching building requires crossing layers.”

Homeroom Teacher - 040 looked at Lin Yi: “You really know a lot.”

“If it's not abnormal weather, can you go to the 5th floor?”

“Didn't you just say it? Crossing layers.” Homeroom Teacher - 040 said, “You also know that the appearance of abnormal weather will cause the gray fog to carry extraordinary power into the campus, and the various layers will become unstable. The teaching building will float like a buoy in the water, and the area above the 5th floor will also appear and disappear…”

“But if there is no abnormal weather… as long as you are ‘abnormal’ enough, you can artificially achieve that condition, but doing so is also a violation of the rules.”

“That is to say, if I actively violate the rules, I can go to the 5th floor?” Lin Yi asked.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 explained: “The rules are a ‘safe behavior code,’ and their applicability has a range. What you want to do doesn't fall under the rules.”

“But the rules clearly state, [If you violate any of the above rules, please find a way to seek help from the homeroom teacher as soon as possible, inform them of the details, and then unconditionally trust and obey the requirements of the homeroom teacher]…”

“Yes, so I came to discuss the violation of the rules with you in advance…” Lin Yi's old face was thick as can be.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 raised her eyebrows slightly: “Since you have brought out the 《Student Handbook》, I may take the opportunity to make some ‘requirements’ that you ‘unconditionally trust and obey’.”

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, thinking that things were bad, he had shot himself in the foot!

Damn it!

As expected of a woman who has mastered the ‘power of the rules,’ can it be used like this?

“You can't use your position for personal gain, teacher!” Lin Yi couldn't help but say.

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“You're anxious.” Homeroom Teacher - 040 curled her red lips, looking at him with a smile that was not a smile.

Lin Yi wanted to cry without tears, but his perception was strangely amplified, and then he seemed to perceive the psychological activity of Homeroom Teacher - 040, and then a phantom appeared behind her. The phantom proudly raised its head, then pouted its mouth, triumphantly saying, watch carefully, child, this is how the power of the rules is used!

Then she added an evil Soul Palace laugh.

Heh heh heh heh…

“Okay, let's get back to the topic.” Homeroom Teacher - 040 straightened her expression, “Under normal circumstances, you theoretically cannot reach the 5th floor, but you can exploit some bugs…”

“Exploit bugs? Is it an official bug?” Lin Yi became interested, “The officials really left some backdoors!”

“A backdoor is a backdoor, don't look where you shouldn't.” Homeroom Teacher - 040 rolled her eyes, secretly moving her body. For some reason, she always felt that this guy's words had a hidden meaning.

She asked herself, she still had a bit of insight into Lin Yi—at least, on the level of a pervert.

“Teacher, please respect me. Under normal circumstances, I am a gentleman.” Lin Yi glanced at where Homeroom Teacher - 040 moved with boundless seriousness.

“Just such a gentleman?”

“I mean, if I want to see, it will be open and aboveboard, like a gentleman.”

Homeroom Teacher - 040 pursed her lips: “Then may I ask, does the little gentleman still want to know the bug?”

“The gentleman wants to know, and the little brother also wants to know.” Lin Yi nodded seriously.

Homeroom Teacher - 040's teeth itched. If Li Huiyuan wasn't here, she would really take out her secret纹 dagger and stab Lin Yi a few times to vent her anger.

This guy is not serious when he should be, and pretends to be serious when he shouldn't be.

I wonder who he learned it from!

She opened her mouth and said: “The layers of the campus are actually not in a stable state. The so-called ‘stable state’ is the mutual anchoring of the ‘safe state of people’ and the ‘safe environment of things.’ There is a state of mutual locking between them.”

“However, when abnormal fluctuations occur on campus, the layer will also fluctuate accordingly.”

“It's like the draft depth of a ship. When the wind and waves are high, there is a high probability that areas that were not originally submerged will be hit.”

Lin Yi suddenly understood: “That is to say, the area above the 5th floor of the teaching building is in a submerged state, and if I want to enter the submerged area, I need to wait for the layer to fluctuate and use that wave to sink into the water?”

Homeroom Teacher - 040 said: “That's right.”

“When is it considered a layer fluctuation?” Lin Yi asked further.

Homeroom Teacher - 040 said: “During the gray fog invasion, the fluctuations of the layers are relatively frequent. The most common one is when the clouds block the sunlight.”

“Clouds blocking the sun?!” Lin Yi was taken aback. Wasn't that the weather when he interacted with Maozi Vision on the afternoon of May 7th?

Could it be…?!

Homeroom Teacher - 040 didn't know what Lin Yi was thinking, and just continued to say: “When the sun is blocked, the areas without light will be in a state of ‘sub-shadow.’ The layer fluctuates between normal and abnormal, and that is also the only time you can step into the 5th floor of the teaching building.”

“Of course, this is my opinion based on my understanding of you. If you have some hidden methods that I don't know, you can also try to use them, but no matter what, you need to first ensure your own safe state.”

“Be sure to avoid enough risks, and don't do things you're not sure about.”

Lin Yi nodded seriously when he heard this.

“Is there anything else?”

“Not for now.” Lin Yi glanced at the clock on the wall. The time was already 9:16. The cafeteria opened at 10:40. Subtracting the 15 to 20 minutes for the journey, he didn't have much time to explore the 5th floor of the teaching building.

He had to hurry.

“Oh, that's right!” Just as he turned around, he saw the door of the office and suddenly thought of a question, “What's going on with this door? Is there anything mysterious about it?”

Lin Yi had actually felt the problem with the door from the beginning, but had forgotten to bring it up.

The door of the teacher's office is closed during the day, and you need to have the corresponding identity to enter it, but such a tightly controlled door is actually unlocked at night when it is so dangerous.

Isn't that a bit too contradictory?!

Locked when it's safe, unlocked when it's dangerous.

Who exactly is it… defending against?