Rules-related weird stories: 4016

This… what?

What's going on now?!

A strong urge to look around and see where she was kept bursting from within her, but the sound of the wind in her ears extinguished her impulse like a bucket of cold water.

Because she suddenly realized that this cold wind sounded different from ordinary wind, seeming more like some kind of breathing.

She also suddenly realized that something cold had climbed onto her shoulder at some unknown time, blowing cold breaths into her ear, constantly sending a cool breeze towards the back of her neck.

Her pupils began to slowly dilate, and she realized she was losing focus, so she refocused her gaze, and then, keeping her face facing forward, slowly rolled her eyes to look at her shoulder…

In that instant, she shuddered. She saw a pale hand, as white as ice, resting on her shoulder. This hand faintly emitted a ghostly white aura, indistinguishable as cold or mist.

And her first reaction was that a stone was pressing down on her shoulder.

What is this thing…?!

It looks like some kind of… sculpture?!

“Student, you dropped your student ID.”

In the murmuring sound that was blowing cold air into her ear, a voice that struck the soul was suddenly added.

Hearing such a voice, Li Huiyuan's original fear and panic were suddenly suppressed a lot.

Student ID?

My… student ID?

A strong desire and urge to look back sprouted in her heart, but she had one last instinct of resistance left. This instinct told her—don't look back, Li Huiyuan! Don't look back, Li!

“Take a look… is this the student ID you dropped? Seems to be called… Li… Hui… ”

The voice seemed to be reading the name on her student ID. The deep voice had a strange, bewitching quality, as if it could soothe people's hearts, or as if it could hypnotize her actions.

But just as the word "Yuan" was about to sound, and her will began to slacken and she prepared to turn her neck to look in the direction the voice came from, suddenly another hand fell on her shoulder.

This time, the hand was completely different from the cold, stony texture of the previous one, warm and strong, as if it had grabbed her entire shoulder.

Li Huiyuan's eyes flickered slightly, as if a pool of stagnant water had suddenly been rippled by the wind…

“Li Huiyuan… Li Huiyuan…”

A call faintly echoed in her ears. The voice became louder and louder, more and more serious, like a storm sweeping in, making her whole person shake violently like a small boat in the wind and rain…

And with this strong shaking sensation, she felt the dim colors in her vision suddenly become brighter, and the cold, uncomfortable feeling around her gradually began to melt away like ice and snow.

Gradually, a human-shaped outline appeared in her field of vision. The human-shaped outline became clearer and clearer, as if it was… Lin Yi.

…

On the cobblestone road, Lin Yi was violently shaking Li Huiyuan's body, constantly calling her name. Wei Shan, who was beside him, watched for a while, then frowned and raised his hand, intending to give her a refreshing slap to wake her up: "Lin, you get out of the way, I'll slap her awake."

“Damn it! No, no, no…” Seeing Wei Shan's fan-like palm, Lin Yi was startled and quickly stopped him, “I'll do it!”

He wiped a handful of cold sweat. With Wei Shan's strength, even if he controlled his force, wouldn't this slap turn Li Huiyuan into hero fragments?

So he raised his hand, and just as he was about to give her a gentle, awakening slap, Li Huiyuan's scattered pupils slowly focused, and she muttered, “Lin… Lin Yi?”

「Huff—」

Lin Yi's palm stopped abruptly at a place still a stack of books away from Li Huiyuan's cheek.

“Lin Yi, you…?” Li Huiyuan looked at Lin Yi's palm with some confusion.

Lin Yi skillfully lowered it, patted her shoulder, and sighed, “Were you okay just now?”

“I just now…” Li Huiyuan's eyes flickered, and she seemed to subconsciously start recalling the scene just now, but Lin Yi immediately interrupted her recollection with violent shaking.

“Don't delve into too many details, it's good that you're okay.” Lin Yi said.

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and nodded lightly: “Okay… thank you, Lin Yi.”

“It's nothing, it was agreed upon before.” Lin Yi shook his head slightly, “Let's go back to the classroom first, you walk in front of me, follow Liangzi.”

“Okay…” Li Huiyuan nodded in response and followed behind Wei Liang. She took a deep breath and focused her mind to keep her attention highly concentrated.

Lin Yi glanced at Li Huiyuan's back, his brows furrowed slightly, and then he looked at the sky again.

In the sky, there were no clouds, the sun was shining brightly, and there were no anomalies.

「Strange… the weather is normal, and the sun is high in the sky. Even if Li Huiyuan is overthinking, theoretically, she shouldn't encounter anomalies and fall into a crisis.」

Lin Yi frowned tightly, thinking in his heart.

「How could this be? She can lose her 'safe state' even under the sun?」

Lin Yi saw Li Huiyuan's smooth back and dark close-fitting sports vest, and suddenly his eyes lit up: 「Wait a minute… she just lost her student ID!」

「More accurately speaking, what she lost was the identity of 'Li Huiyuan - X0230507046'!」

「So, she is not even a 'normal trainee', but a 'trainee who lost her student ID'!」

「In that case, could it be that only people holding student IDs can maintain a 'safe state' of being able to think under the sun?」

「That is to say, if the speculation is true, then the student ID is one of the necessary conditions to maintain one's own, no, to maintain the 'safe state' of the trainee!」

Lin Yi stared at Li Huiyuan's back for a long time, and finally regretfully found that the kind of "perception observation" of the special environment that he could occasionally "display" when he was in the student restaurant could not be used on Li Huiyuan.

That seemed to be a very meaningful ability, allowing him to observe the green mist permeating the environment like an art student at certain moments.

「Could it be that when Maozi was contaminated, he not only transmitted the white powdery particles representing the contamination to me, but also transmitted part of the 'perceptual ability' belonging to the art student to me?」

It's not impossible, but it still needs to be verified.

After all, what they are doing now is a desperate survival that does not allow any major mistakes. Any experience that wants to be applied to the survival process must be adequately tested to ensure its accuracy.

This requires mentioning a certain "Information Pervert Sage" adult. Before the "Water Shadow Ninja" Gundam was popularized, collecting enough information and then analyzing and cracking the opponent's methods could be considered a true fighting style.

The same principle applies here.

But at this moment, I don't know if it was because he had been staring at Li Huiyuan's back for a bit too long, but he actually saw a faint green thread on her back in a trance…

In that instant, Lin Yi seemed to trigger some kind of special empathetic power. Influenced by Li Huiyuan's aura, he felt a different kind of aura!

A wisp of starlight suddenly floated in his eyes, and at that moment, he felt that the world in front of him had a different picture quality, like a photo being overexposed, in the blink of an eye!

He saw a broken picture of black and white interlaced. In that picture, Li Huiyuan was surrounded by a faint green mist!

The green mist entangled around her shoulders like a phantom genie from a magic lamp, as if greedily sucking some delicious aura.

At the same time, he also observed a bright emerald-like spot of light, which was on Li Huiyuan's back, but he could only discover it in the exposed vision.

However, this vision only appeared for about one frame, causing the remaining shadows to disappear in Lin Yi's eyes, and he could no longer capture any clues related to it.

But he was sure of one thing—

「The green-aproned chef must have caused some kind of damage to Li Huiyuan that cannot be observed with the naked eye!」

「I have to check her back carefully!」

Lin Yi also had his own selfish motives. If Li Huiyuan was also contaminated and turned into another source of contamination, it would be too dangerous for him.

He took a deep breath, maintaining the state of guarding the rear, and finally returned to the steps of Building B of the teaching building with everyone.

He looked down at his watch.

11:54.

「11:54…」

「It was 11:33 when we left the cafeteria, so it took us 21 minutes to come back.」

The round trip time between the building buildings is about 15 ~ 30 minutes. The previous few times he spent about 15 minutes. This time, there were some twists and turns, and it took 21 minutes, which is considered to be in a reasonable range.

However, as his foot stepped onto the steps in front of the teaching building, he vaguely felt a sense of "relative steadiness," as if he had been walking on a floating bridge made of foam plastic in a swimming pool and suddenly stepped ashore.

The emergence of this feeling further confirmed Lin Yi's previous statement of a "lonely island."

"Cobblestone roads do not represent 'safety.' Their purpose, in combination with streetlights, is to provide a path that exists between the normal and abnormal layers, like forcibly opening a passable road on a thorny mountain path!"

The road is indeed a real road, but there are still thorns around it. Carelessly stepping over the boundary can still lead to unpredictable life or death.

As for how wide this road is, whether it narrows or widens, it depends on whether there is a problem with your perception.

After ascending the steps, Wei Shan bid farewell to Lin Yi and headed to Class 3 of Group B.

Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan, who was frowning, and asked, "Li Huiyuan, are you planning to go back to the classroom first, or report the situation to the teacher in the office first?"

Li Huiyuan's gaze flickered, her face showing obvious hesitation, various thoughts surging in her mind, and she was so nervous that her breathing changed slightly.

Finally, after hearing Lin Yi's words, she took a deep breath and finally made a decision: "I'll report to the head teacher first, so I can give you a reply sooner."

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded slightly, in fact, he could accept either decision Li Huiyuan made.

If Li Huiyuan had chosen to return to the classroom instead of reporting to the head teacher, then he would definitely have offered to help her re-examine her back.

Li Huiyuan looked up at the sign on the office door, confirmed that it was "Teacher's Office (Group B, Class 2)," and then knocked on the door.

Soon, the voice of the head teacher 040 came from inside the door: "Who is it?"

"Teacher, I'm Li... Li Huiyuan."

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"Wait a moment."

"Um... okay, teacher." Li Huiyuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly agreed, but Lin Yi could see that she was very nervous, her hands in front of her intertwined, constantly making various small movements, and her feet were constantly moving slightly within a few footprints.

Lin Yi quickly comforted her, "Don't be nervous."

"Lin Yi, do you think the teacher already knows there's something wrong with me?" Li Huiyuan asked nervously and uneasily.

Lin Yi smiled wryly: "The head teacher isn't a god, how could she know? She's probably checking your identity information."

"Ah... that seems to be the case."

At this time, the voice of the head teacher 040 sounded from inside the door: "Li Huiyuan."

"Yes, teacher, I'm here!" Li Huiyuan quickly responded.

With a "click," the peephole on the office door was opened from the inside by the head teacher 040, and then she glanced at Li Huiyuan from inside the door.

"Student ID number."

"The student ID number is... X023050704... 046."

Lin Yi couldn't help but narrow his eyes, and couldn't help but glance at Li Huiyuan.

"Are there other people around you?"

"Uh... yes."

"Who? Report their names and student ID numbers." The head teacher 040 showed an extremely professional vigilance.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang cooperated with the head teacher 040 to report their identity information.

"Alright, what's the matter with you knocking on the door?" The head teacher 040 asked from behind the office door.

Li Huiyuan took a deep breath and then said, "Teacher... my student ID is lost."

The peephole closed quickly with a "click!" At the same time, accompanied by a series of lock tongues turning, the door of the teacher's office "Group B, Class 2" was quickly opened.

The head teacher 040 looked at the three of Li Huiyuan, frowning: "All three of your student IDs are lost?"

"No, only mine is lost."

"You knocked on the door just to report this situation?"

"Y-yes... teacher..." Li Huiyuan lowered her head.

"Don't be nervous, child." The head teacher 040 patted her on the shoulder, "Come in and talk. Do you two want to wait for her or go back to the classroom first?"

Lin Yi knew that the teacher's office was not a place that could be easily entered, so he replied, "We'll wait for her here."

The head teacher 040 nodded and led Li Huiyuan in.

The office door slammed shut.

Lin Yi slowly exhaled and looked down at his watch.

11:57.

He stretched his muscles slightly, then leaned against the wall between Group B, Class 2 and the teacher's office, began to recall the things that happened in the cafeteria, and then slowly pondered Tian Bufan's statement about the blue bib chef, waiting for Li Huiyuan's meeting with the head teacher.

But he suddenly felt something, and stood up straight as a conditioned reflex, then turned around and looked at the wall.

The decoration style of this teaching building is a bit old. The walls are covered with tiles that are half the height of a person, and the walls above the windowsill are pure white wall plaster.

In theory, the walls plastered with wall powder should present a smooth texture. Even if the campus is a bit old, at most the wall powder will show some gray changes due to the humid environment in the mountainous area and the erosion of time, and some will peel off, revealing the wall behind the wall powder.

But the wall powder in the corridor of the teaching building did not undergo this change, and when Lin Yi leaned on it, he seemed to be able to feel some textures on his back through his clothes.

And this kind of texture is obviously not because the clothes themselves have wrinkles.

So he leaned closer to the wall to observe it, but with the naked eye alone, he couldn't see anything abnormal, and even when he gently touched the wall with his hand, he couldn't feel any abnormality.

He straightened his clothes again and leaned on it, but strangely, the feeling of something pressing against his back was still there...

"Strange... is there something seriously wrong with this wall?" Lin Yi frowned.

"Lao Lin, what are you doing?" Wei Liang looked at him with a strange expression, "Do you feel like your behavior is very problematic?"

Lin Yi became even more excited when he heard this: "What did you discover?!"

Wei Liang took a half step back and said seriously: "Lao Lin, do you know that the few times you touched the wall just now... almost made me feel like you were doing foreplay with the wall!"

"Has your fetish become so weird?"

"Could it be that you're horny and can even... to a smooth wall?"

Lin Yi's face instantly darkened: "I thought you had an amazing discovery that could suddenly enlighten me!"

"Damn, isn't my discovery 'amazing' enough?" Wei Liang widened his eyes, "You're about to f*ck the wall! F*ck the wall, Lao Lin! Are you having a mental breakdown?"

Lin Yi was speechless: "Please, I just felt that there was something wrong with this wall, so I studied it a little, okay?"

Wei Liang curled his lips, folded his arms around his chest: "This wall is painted so smoothly, what could be wrong? Could it be that someone went to the wall and drew a few lines?"

Lin Yi shrugged helplessly, spread his hands: "Okay, I was overthinking... wait!"

His eyes suddenly lit up: "Liangzi, what did you just say?"

Wei Liang hesitated for a moment, then said carefully: "F*ck the wall...?"

"The sentence after that!"

"Uh... this wall is painted so smoothly?" Seeing that Lin Yi didn't react, Wei Liang tentatively repeated the previous sentence, continuing: "Could it be that someone went to the wall and drew a few lines?"

Lin Yi had already started thinking, his thoughts turning quickly like a turbocharger.

"Someone... drew a few lines... someone... drew a few lines..."

"That's right! That's right!!"

Lin Yi touched the wall, his thoughts gradually becoming clearer!

"There is definitely something wrong with this wall! But the problem shouldn't appear at this time!"

"When the abnormal weather comes, the lights in the corridor go out, conceptual sculptures and some unknown non-human entities wander in the corridor, the head teacher will fight against them, and the passing security guards will also attack them. In that case, even a little scratch will inevitably leave marks of varying depths on the wall. How could it be as smooth as it is now?"

"Abnormal weather... layer..."

"Extension, distortion...?"

Lin Yi's mind flashed back to the scene of going to the toilet on the night of May 6th. At some point, the corridor was so long that it seemed impossible to finish walking!

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