Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Tian Bufan continued, "According to the rules, the way to leave the campus is when you experience symptoms like dizziness, blurred vision, or discomfort from the lights while on campus. You should then find the dormitory administrator or your class teacher, and they will take you to the medical clinic. From there, the school doctor will send you off on the blue school bus, and then you can leave... Right?"

Lin Yi nodded.

"Let's hear your thoughts first," Tian Bufan said. "There's a lot more to it than meets the eye."

Lin Yi said, "The sports student told me last night that while there's still time, I should follow the security guard to the school gate and then take the blue bus to leave."

"So I suspect that besides the leaving route mentioned in the student handbook, there are some other ways to leave."

Tian Bufan said calmly, "First, let's rule out the possibility that the sports student is deceiving you."

Lin Yi was stunned: "This..."

"Don't trust others so easily," Tian Bufan said calmly. "The sports student doesn't know how high your perception is. If you rashly follow the security guard, wouldn't you risk being knocked out by the security guard or something else in an emergency?"

"Ah, this..."

"Don't worry, and don't panic. Based on my initial contact, the sports students are also fighting against something. At least, they are inclined towards 'us', but their suggestions may not be absolutely accurate because they don't understand our situation."

"Let me explain this rule in the student handbook to you."

"This rule is easy to understand, right?"

"It can be summarized as:

First, when you feel unwell, report to your class teacher if they are nearby, or report to the dormitory administrator if they are nearby, and then go with them to find the school doctor.

Second, go to the school gate and take the blue bus, which is the kind of school bus we came in on."

"That's right, isn't it?"

Lin Yi nodded somewhat blankly, already following Tian Bufan's train of thought.

"Let's look at the first point, finding the class teacher and the dormitory administrator," Tian Bufan said. "Note that it's the class teacher, not other teachers, but the 'class teacher'."

"Think back, where have you seen the class teacher today? Besides the class teacher's office, the only other place is the classroom, right?"

"So we can tentatively conclude that [the class teacher only appears in the teaching building], right?"

Lin Yi nodded.

"Now let's look at the dormitory administrator," Tian Bufan said, acting like a tutor. "Turn to the dormitory rules and see what it says about the dormitory administrator."

Lin Yi opened the dormitory rules:

[The dormitory administrator does not have a fixed uniform, but will carry a lamp and wear a dormitory administrator badge on their chest.

If you encounter a dormitory administrator or someone claiming to be a dormitory administrator on your way to the dormitory, please ignore them directly. If you cannot ignore them, please do not easily believe anything they say, and do not respond to their words.

Between 7:40 and 21:00, if you encounter a dormitory administrator or someone claiming to be a dormitory administrator, please ignore them directly.

After 22:20, if you have not found the dormitory administrator's office, please seek help from the dormitory administrator and unconditionally accept any help they provide, and believe anything they say.

Please be sure to abide by the above rules with firm awareness. If you accidentally violate any of the above rules in the dormitory building, please rely on luck to seek help from the security guard.]

Tian Bufan said, "See that? The only time you can seek help from the dormitory administrator is after 22:20 every day. At that time, you must unconditionally accept any help they provide and believe anything they say."

"This is like you must unconditionally obey the dormitory administrator, and even then, whether they take you to find the school doctor is up to them."

"And we can also assume that the dormitory administrator usually only appears in the dormitory building, right?"

Because the dormitory administrators appearing at other times and places need to be ignored uniformly.

In comparison, the situation when encountering a real dormitory administrator can already be described as a narrow escape from death.

"See that?" Tian Bufan said calmly. "This leaving route in the student handbook is very harsh just in the first step."

"Hey, you over there who's pretending to be dead," Tian Bufan shouted at the ostrich with its butt sticking up on the bed.

The ostrich's butt stiffened, and it silently changed to a lying-flat position.

"Stop pretending to be dead," Tian Bufan said. "Tell Lao Lin why you didn't go to find the class teacher or the dormitory administrator during the last two days when you came here."

Wei Liang's voice came from under the pillow: "I love money like my life."

"Love money like your life, my ass," Tian Bufan sneered. "I'll give you one more chance to reorganize your words."

The ostrich under the pillow was silent for a while: "..."

Then, it said: "I didn't dare to go find them..."

"Why?" Tian Bufan asked, pressing on.

The pillow said muffledly: "The sports teacher told me, never go to find the school doctor, but didn't say why... So I didn't go."

Tian Bufan seemed to have gotten what he wanted to tell Lin Yi. His eyebrows slightly curved, he let Wei Liang go, and then looked at Lin Yi, saying: "Did you hear that?"

"'Never go to find the school doctor'?" Lin Yi pondered this sentence repeatedly, but was still very puzzled.

Why shouldn't you believe what the student handbook says?

The student handbook wouldn't lie, right?

Tian Bufan said, "If you don't understand, let's sort out this line of thinking... You found the school doctor, and the school doctor took you to the school gate."

Lin Yi nodded.

"Then, if you didn't see a blue school bus, or, the school bus you saw wasn't blue?" The corner of Tian Bufan's mouth lifted in a hint of mockery, "The student handbook doesn't mention the possible situations that could happen next."

"This...?!"

Lin Yi seemed to realize something, and his whole body shivered violently, instantly covered in sweat.

Many times, the rules would add a sentence for this kind of unknown situation: "You will know what to do", but the student handbook didn't say anything, only vaguely mentioning, "After seeing the blue school bus, get on the bus immediately, and the driver will take you away from the campus."

Then the hidden problem here is really big!

"So what the class teacher said is right," Lin Yi's eyeballs rolled left and right, "If we want to leave, we can only stay here for seven days, or find the logic in it, and find a real path to survival!"

Tian Bufan nodded: "For 'us'... Yes."

"Remember that feeling? The moment we stepped into the school gate, the school gate was already closed to us. Even if we return to the school gate, we may not be able to leave the campus."

"If we want to leave, we can only find the moment when the campus's layer and the outside world's layer are synchronized, and pass through that door."

Lin Yi hammered the wall hard: "How are we supposed to find this kind of thing?"

Tian Bufan said, "Don't deliberately look for it, especially before I figure out the relationship between the various layers of the campus. It's best if none of us go to the school gate."

"Because the person who made the rules obviously knows the problem of the campus, and the school is constantly recruiting experience students, then it means that this place is not 'come as you like, leave as you like'…"

"You can imagine that we have entered a 'game', and our goal is to 'safely leave this game'."

"There are two ways to achieve the goal. The first is to be a player, complete the seven-day experience, and then get the qualification to 'leave'."

“And the other is, as a hacker, to find the game's operating code, find the window left by the developers, and use the secret key to directly 'leave'.”

Lin Yi silently nodded.

Tian Bufan brought up this [Game Theory] the moment he entered the school gate, which made it very convenient for him to understand.

Regarding leaving, he no longer thinks about it much now.

Thus, the two of them perfectly concluded the discussion on the first question.

One: [The school district's layer is an independent space, but the campus layer fluctuates with abnormal weather, but the bottom line of the layer is currently unknown] — √

“Continue talking,” Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi nodded, thought for a moment, and said, “Should we finish talking about the buildings first?”

“No need,” Tian Bufan shook his head, “Just talk in the order you entered the school district.

We can expand on topics, but don't jump around haphazardly, otherwise it's easy to miss details.”

“Okay.”

Just as he was speaking, the bathroom door slowly opened, and Wei Shan, who had changed into clean clothes, walked out of the door, panting heavily.

“Wei Shan, are you okay?” Tian Bufan glanced at Wei Shan.

Wei Shan coldly glanced at the bathroom, and then said, “If something happened, it wouldn't be to me.”

As he spoke, he walked to the washing machine, opened the door, and stuffed all the clothes he had taken off inside.

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Lin Yi suddenly noticed that there seemed to be some blood stains on the clothes Wei Shan had taken off.

“Wei Shan, are you really okay?” Lin Yi asked with concern.

“I'm fine,” Wei Shan got into bed and lay down directly, “My internal heat was too high, so I just had a nosebleed.”

“Heh… it's good that it was just a nosebleed,” Kuai Hongji sneered sinisterly.

「Dong!」

Wei Shan hammered the wall, and the entire dormitory seemed to shake.

“You coward, if you went, you might have lost your life!

Aren't you going to thank me for paving the way for you?”

Kuai Hongji shrugged: “Oh, I thank you.”

“Alright, stop bickering!” Seeing Kuai Hongji and Wei Shan start arguing as soon as they opened their mouths, Lin Yi, who was thinking about the problem, felt like his brain was about to explode, and quickly stopped them, “Kuai Kuai, go take a shower quickly!”

“Okay, okay, okay…” Kuai Hongji got up from the chair, picked up the change of clothes he had prepared, and walked towards the bathroom.

He opened the bathroom door, and then paused slightly.

“Wei Shan…” He glanced at Wei Shan, who was sitting silently on the bed and not speaking, and said with a smirk, “If you're bad, you need to practice more.”

“Get out!” Wei Shan threw a pillow over, Kuai Hongji closed the door, and the pillow 「duang」 slammed against the door like a battering ram.

Lin Yi sighed.

Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji were inherently incompatible; one was irritable and easily angered, and the other had a heavy Yin aura.

The two of them had a feeling of being like fire and water, and they could easily start fighting if he wasn't careful.

He glanced at Tian Bufan and got back to the main topic: “Let's continue…”

“We entered the school district during abnormal weather, which means we weren't in the normal layer from the start.”

Tian Bufan listened.

“After we got off the bus, we encountered some fake teachers and students,” Lin Yi said, “I haven't encountered anyone similar to them so far, Young Master Tian, what about you?”

“I have seen them,” Tian Bufan said, “They are art students.”

“They are art students?” Lin Yi asked suspiciously, “How did you determine that?”

Tian Bufan said, “I saw people similar to them in the classroom yesterday.

According to the sports students, they are art students… Moreover, from the tone of the sports students, it seems that there are different types of art students.”

Lin Yi remembered that Tian Bufan said that the sports students and art students had fought yesterday when they were in the gymnasium.

“Is it related to the ‘fight’ you mentioned?”

Tian Bufan nodded.

“Can we talk about this matter now?”

“Then let's take this opportunity to talk about this matter that you've been curious about.”

So Lin Yi sat up straighter.

Tian Bufan then said, “My class is on the 2nd floor of Building C.

There are a total of 95 people in the class, including 33 sports students, 17 transfer students, and the remaining 45 are those abnormal people.”

Lin Yi's eyes lit up: 「Could it be that those strange guys are art students?」

He had suspected it for a long time, but he was never sure.

Tian Bufan seemed to have guessed what he was thinking and continued, “You should have encountered those abnormal people too, right?

Every class has them, and they always have three characteristics.”

“The first is that their eyes are empty, as numb as rotten wood.”

“The second is that their eyes are crazy, as patient as beasts lurking and hunting.”

“And the third… You can't see any problems with them normally, but like the sports students, they have clearly identifiable uniforms.”

“Their clothes are yellow and green, and their clothes are covered with many white powder particles… That type is the normal art students.”

Lin Yi said in surprise: “I have only encountered the first two types of people, I haven't encountered the third type.”

「That's not right…」 Lin Yi seemed to have thought of something, and an image gradually appeared in his mind—the sailor-suited girl who walked away with the fake teacher yesterday evening.

When he saw that girl in the cafeteria area today, the latter's sailor suit… seemed to be dyed with paint, showing some strange yellow-green colors…

「That girl became an art student after leaving with them, after just one night!」

「But… why aren't there any of those art students in my class?」

Tian Bufan said: “Don't rush to think, listen to me finish.”

“According to the sports students, there are also categories of art students.”

“Those students whose clothes are normal but have yellow-green colors are normal art students.”

“Those people with crazy eyes are abnormal art students.”

“Finally, those people with empty eyes… are not our classmates.”

Lin Yi's pupils shrank, and he thought of many things: “Wait a minute, isn't it too arbitrary to judge students by the color of their clothes?”

“No,” Tian Bufan shook his head, “Color is a sign to distinguish identities.

The color of the sports students is ‘blue’, and the color of the art students is ‘green’.”

“‘Green’ represents abnormality?!” Lin Yi thought of the green-aproned chef and the blue-aproned chef.

“‘Blue’ and ‘green’ are two different directions of expression in pollution,” Tian Bufan said, “I heard that there was originally no blue and green in the school district.

Because there is pollution, these two colors appeared.

I haven't completely figured out the logic of this part, so let's not discuss it for now.”

“Oh… okay.

But, according to you, these three types of strange people all appeared in the cafeteria, and they were all getting food and eating.

I understand the first two types of art students, so what about the third type of people who are ‘not our classmates’?”

“I'm not sure about those either, but, according to the sports students, they are the most dangerous group.”