Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Hiss…"

Realizing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but gasp, his heart seemingly skipping a beat.

His pupils contracted slightly, the teaching building rapidly enlarging in his eyes…

But the teaching building was actually fine; the real problem was the green belt surrounding it.

The setting sun slanted, casting its remaining light, causing a thin mist to rise from the green belt, like a giant steamer.

A gentle breeze stirred, the branches and leaves in the green belt swaying, the leaves rustling as if something were crawling between the branches, ready to emerge at any moment.

Lin Yi thought of something, then placed his hand on Wei Liang's shoulder, just about to call out to him…

"Ouch, damn it!" But Wei Liang was startled by Lin Yi's sudden action.

He reflexively dodged, shifting half his body away, his arms instinctively raised, assuming a posture ready to unleash a wave of attacks.

But when he realized it was Lin Yi who had tapped him, the powerful aura that had just been like a drawn sword quickly deflated like a punctured balloon.

"Lao Lin? Why did you suddenly stop me? Damn, you almost scared me to death!" Wei Liang exhaled deeply, staring at Lin Yi with wide eyes, "Hey, hey, hey, why aren't you talking?"

He waved his hand in front of Lin Yi's face.

Lin Yi wasn't distracted; he was just looking at Wei Liang in disbelief, his hand still frozen in the air in the posture of patting his shoulder, not yet recovered from the scene just now.

For a brief moment, Wei Liang had given him a feeling that was completely different from usual, and he even wondered if Wei Liang would have unleashed a devastating barrage of attacks if he hadn't seen him.

After all, that aura was just too damn strong.

"Liangzi… are you still saying you don't know martial arts?"

Wei Liang's mouth twitched slightly, he shook his hand, coughed dryly in embarrassment, and then said, "Martial arts my ass… I was obviously just bluffing!"

Seeing Lin Yi's strange expression that clearly said, "I don't believe you," he had no choice but to spread his hands helplessly, and then strike the pose from just now again.

"If you don't believe me, see for yourself…"

He began to move, muttering some combo incantations, and upon closer listening, Lin Yi discovered it was—

"Ara Haki starting hand! AAA… connecting to Kyusho transitioning to Yae Kizu… One, two… retreating step dive… then connecting to Kototsuki Yo… I AAAAA…"

Wei Liang's "combo" was too smooth, as if he had practiced it diligently day and night for two and a half years, but… Lin Yi gradually realized that this wasn't the King of Fighters arcade combo?!

His expression gradually twisted, then turned into the subway grandpa looking at his phone .gif…

This combo, as flashy as it is… but isn't it fake?

"Finish with the pose!" Wei Liang ended his movements, took a deep breath, and then exhaled a long breath of stale air, "The combo is just that combo, but if you really want me to, help me imagine some special effects, and you'll feel like I'm very powerful."

"If you're willing, you can also imagine me adding a 'Hyakushiki Oniyaki' at the end… That's how I used to do combos with people when I was a kid."

The corners of Lin Yi's mouth twitched, he always felt that Wei Liang was covering up the fact that he was a peerless master.

But thinking that this peerless master almost followed that fake female teacher as soon as he entered the campus yesterday, he felt a dreamlike sense of contrast…

"Okay, okay, hurry up and tell me what you wanted to say just now, if there's nothing else, let's go eat dinner!" Wei Liang touched his rumbling stomach.

He was too embarrassed to tell Lin Yi that when he went to the second floor of the gymnasium with the idea of practicing gymnastics with a beautiful gymnastics girl, he ran into a gymnastics giant, and then was caught by that giant and made to practice for more than forty minutes…

Compared to Lin Yi, he felt that all of his good luck today had been transferred to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi put his hand on his shoulder, then looked towards the green belt, and said in a deep, serious voice:

"Liangzi, give me a hand, if I 'doze off' later, pull me back."

"Uh, Lao Lin, are you going to…?" Wei Liang suddenly realized something, his gaze instinctively about to follow Lin Yi's, but Lin Yi stopped him.

"Don't look yet!"

"Eh!" Wei Liang shuddered violently, his neck, which had been turned halfway, was forcibly pulled back, "Okay, okay, okay, then you be careful, I'll help you keep watch…"

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded and began to shift his attention to the green belt.

But he felt that Wei Liang seemed a little restrained, so he comforted him, "Liangzi, don't panic, I'll just take a look."

"You said the same thing in the classroom last time!" Wei Liang couldn't help but say.

"Then I can't just stare out a foggy day this time, can I?" Lin Yi retorted speechlessly, "Do you think I'm Storm?"

"Damn, don't randomly plant flags!" Wei Liang widened his eyes anxiously.

"Give me a few seconds to observe, and we'll go eat dinner after I'm done!" Lin Yi said seriously, and then closed his mouth.

He looked at the green belt, and then noticed that the thin mist lingering in the forest, although it occasionally drifted out, was quickly evaporated by the sunlight.

However, when he looked deeper into the green belt, the light and shadow gradually transitioned from dim to pitch black.

The remaining light of the sun was fragmented and sparse by the branches and leaves, scattering in the mist-filled green belt.

Looking from a distance, it was like a person sinking to the bottom of the sea looking up at the blue sky, and then seeing one hazy pillar of light after another between the sea and the sky.

It was hard to tell whether it was the sky or the sea.

"Huff… Huff… Huff…"

A wind blew, the mist gently churning, and there seemed to be figures wandering in the depths of the forest.

"Sha— Sha— Sha—"

That harsh sound, like stones dragging on the ground, drifted intermittently into his ears like an auditory hallucination.

A faint, cold feeling was wandering in the depths of the green belt, gathering in the darkness, shuttling through the shadows… but it never completely overstepped the green belt.

The twilight glow formed a clear boundary around the teaching building.

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze from the green belt.

"I'm done looking." He said to Wei Liang, "Let's go, let's go eat dinner."

Wei Liang said in surprise: "You didn't even doze off this time?"

Lin Yi thought for a moment, and hesitated: "Maybe it's… because it's not dark yet."

He glanced at his watch.

17:00.

"5:00 PM… plus standing in the sun, so… everything is still normal so far."

He glanced at the west again.

In the western sky was a brilliant sunset that dyed half the sky red, like a giant wave spread out over the mountains.

"The weather is much better today than yesterday, if we eat quickly, maybe we can leave the cafeteria before the sun sets."

"How coincidental, that's exactly what I was thinking." Wei Liang said earnestly, "However, the mountain weather is unpredictable, especially at night. There's a big temperature difference between day and night. I wonder if the fog will be heavy when we return to the dormitory later."

Lin Yi nodded slightly.

The two walked towards the cafeteria while chatting.

… …

Mist lingered in the green forest belt, and a gentle breeze brushed through the treetops, parting the thin fog… …

Deep within the green forest belt, some slightly stiff footsteps could be heard. A row of terracotta warrior-like figures, dragging their heavy steps and bodies, slowly moved towards the edge of the green forest belt… …

The soles of their shoes rubbed against the gravel ground, making a low and harsh friction sound.

"Sha — — Sha — — Sha — —"

… …

May 7, X023, 17:16.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang walked along the cobblestone road lined with disordered streetlights. After more than ten minutes, they arrived at the area in front of the cafeteria from the teaching building area.

Along the way, they also encountered many students. These students were in a hurry, and seemed to have no problems other than being highly nervous.

However, when Lin Yi saw the notice board in front of the cafeteria, he suddenly froze as if he had been immobilized!

He looked at the notice board in front of him, and a hint of fear appeared in his eyes.

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His limbs felt faintly cold, and a layer of fine sweat began to appear on his forehead.

His pupils seemed to breathe, dilating, contracting, dilating, and then contracting… …

His gaze was fixed on the area behind the notice board… …

He… …didn't see the cafeteria!

Just like he couldn't see the gymnasium in the teaching building area, he couldn't see the cafeteria now!

But from the teaching building to the gymnasium, you need to walk a few steps after passing the notice board, and then overlook the foothills from a certain angle.

And the cafeteria… …should have been directly behind the notice board, there was no need to take any detours!

But now, he didn't see the cafeteria!

"Damn, am I… …having problems?!"

Fine beads of sweat collided and gathered, turning into a bean-sized drop of sweat, which slid down from the brow bone along the bridge of his nose, all the way to his chin, and then dripped down… …

His pupils trembled constantly, he felt that his vision had a morbid distortion, and light and shadow seemed to have a strange confusion… …

"How could the cafeteria be gone?"

"Isn't the cafeteria behind the notice board?"

"Did I… …remember it wrong?"

A hint of doubt appeared in his eyes, and he subconsciously thought about this question, a trace of doubt appearing about the location where the cafeteria should have been… …

"No, no, no!!"

"I even came to the cafeteria for lunch!"

"Behind the notice board is the cafeteria! There is a [Student Passage] leading to the cafeteria!"

"Yes, yes, yes! That's right!"

He took a deep breath, and he realized that he had some confused cognition about the cafeteria.

But when he realized this, he immediately began to affirm the location of the cafeteria in his mind with a firm will.

"The cafeteria is in front of me!"

"The cafeteria is in front of me!!"

"Damn it!! The cafeteria is right in front of me!!!"

Although he firmly believed that the cafeteria was in front of him, there was nothing behind the notice board!

The mountains were still there, the breeze still moved, the forest trees hurried between the mountains and fields, and the ashes of the setting sun dyed the forests.

Only… …the cafeteria that should have been there was gone!

No—not just the cafeteria, the student passage was gone!

The road was gone!

Everything was gone!

Lin Yi suddenly realized that the notice board was standing on a cliff!

"Damn… …"

"What the hell… …?!"

"When did this happen… …?!"

He looked down at his watch.

17:17.

"Time… …is running normally! Where am I? No, no, no… …I can't question my location!"

"I'm in front of the cafeteria!"

"I'm in front of the cafeteria's notice board!"

"I didn't go anywhere! I'm right here!"

"I… …I'm here! I must be here!"

Although Lin Yi told himself with certainty, the distorted light and shadow constantly impacted his vision, and his brain produced a dizzy feeling. He found that he was losing his sense of gravity!

He wanted to stabilize his cognition by closing his eyes and concentrating, but he immediately thought of the scene where he walked on that non-existent road because he breathed in a mouthful of sea breeze with his eyes closed, so he clenched his teeth tightly, no matter what, he would not close his eyes!

But the consequences of not closing his eyes came immediately.

He seemed to feel colorful spots of light floating on the cobblestones under his feet, and the elliptical, highly physically regular appearance was strangely distorted… …

An indescribable and intense visual conflict, as if applied from the void, or as if gushing out from his heart, constantly eroded his will.

He felt a little short of breath, he felt a little hypoxic… …

The feeling of suffocation accompanied by the visual conflict fell on him, making his feet soften for a while, and he was about to fall down staggeringly.

At the critical moment, he suddenly thought of something!

"Reference object!"

【If you cannot find a numbered street lamp at the first time, please lower your head and stare at the ground under your feet to find any reference object that can confirm that you are still on the road. If you find that the ground is twisting, stretching, or undergoing any unreasonable changes, please quickly hold your student ID and map tightly in your hands, and repeatedly remind yourself of your name and student ID number in your mind. 】

"The student rules mentioned a 'reference object' that would allow me to confirm that I am 'on the road'!"

The situation is very different, and it cannot be copied blindly, but—the reference object should be the only way to self-redemption!

In this critical moment, Lin Yi's thoughts turned sharply, and his brain surged with countless ideas like a dam that had opened to release floodwaters!

And now, he needs to find a way to determine his position in a very short period of time—

Before he gets lost in this twisted and unknown world!

Before he loses the ability to breathe due to the distortion of his senses, and even suffocates to death!

Before his spirit collapses and goes crazy due to the collapsed cognition!

"Reference object, reference object, reference object… …"

"Cobblestone?!"

The cobblestones under his feet have already been distorted, and it is impossible to use them as a reference object!

"Reference object!!"

"Damn it, where the hell is this damn reference object—?!"

He realized that his vision was beginning to become blurred, his will was beginning to become vague, and he was about to lose his last bit of sanity!

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