Rules-related weird stories: 4016

On May 8, 2023, at 18:15, Lin Yi was walking with Li Huiyuan in the corridor leading to Class 2 of Group B.

Most of the incandescent lights in the school area had already been turned on, and the orange-yellow light formed an area that propped up a piece of pure land. A large amount of fog filled the world and constantly penetrated under the lights. However, no matter how the fog penetrated, as long as it entered the corridor, it would visibly become thinner and eventually dissipate.

But when the two arrived at the "Teacher's Office (Class 2 of Group B)," Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "Why don't we tell the class teacher about your situation first?"

The class teacher would come to call the roll before the classroom was locked at 21:00, but there were still more than 2 hours left.

Lin Yi believed that this kind of thing must be notified in advance so that the class teacher would have enough time to make some arrangements in advance.

From his understanding of the class teacher - 039, the class teacher had received strict training, and the "Class Teacher's Code" might have ways to deal with various situations.

However, all of this was definitely affected by time, and if problems were delayed, the problem would be big.

As it concerned her own safety, Li Huiyuan naturally would not object and nodded immediately.

Lin Yi then helped Li Huiyuan to the door of the teacher's office and then stepped back a little.

Li Huiyuan glanced at Lin Yi, and Lin Yi nodded to her with encouraging little eyes.

Li Huiyuan then took a deep breath and knocked on the door of the teacher's office.

About half a minute later, the voice of the class teacher - 040 sounded from inside the door: "Who is it?"

"Teacher, it's me... Li Huiyuan, the one who lost her student ID at noon, the Li Huiyuan you asked to go to the store to buy student commemorative coins," Li Huiyuan said somewhat uneasily. She held the door with one hand, and her posture was slightly awkward, as if her right foot could not bear any weight.

"Li Huiyuan..."

With a "click," the peephole on the office door was opened from the inside by the class teacher 040, and a large eyeball looked at the outside environment through the peephole.

"Is Lin Yi by your side?" the class teacher - 040 suddenly asked.

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the class teacher 040 would remember him. He nodded immediately: "Yes, teacher, I'm here. My student number is X0230..."

"No need to report it. It's good that you're still there," the class teacher - 040 interrupted. "It's getting foggy. Take good care of your student ID and don't say your real student number in an abnormal environment."

"Uh... Okay, teacher."

"Are there any other people around?"

"No, it's just us."

"..." The class teacher - 040 was silent for a moment, "No... Okay, Li Huiyuan, you... Wait, Lin Yi, do you need to avoid the following conversation?"

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes subconsciously because this sentence was not expressing a definite request, but an inquiry.

From a commanding tone to a negotiating tone...

"Class Teacher - 040 guessed that Li Huiyuan and I are acting together?"

It was not difficult to guess, but what surprised Lin Yi was that Class Teacher - 040 did not object to such an "ordinary experience student" intervening in such a highly polluted game.

"Could it be that Class Teacher - 039 left her some information about my high inspiration?"

Lin Yi had some guesses all of a sudden, but since Class Teacher - 040 said so, he could save a lot of roundabout steps, so he shook his head: "No need to avoid it, teacher. I believe I have enough will to anchor myself."

He deliberately said "will" and "anchor" to make Class Teacher - 040 sure that he did have the confidence to know some information.

Class Teacher - 040 then asked Li Huiyuan about what she had encountered in the store. Li Huiyuan told everything, from the "As If" blue apron chef to the humanoid spider-shaped green apron chef, then to the weird art student inviting her to eat tomato meat sauce spaghetti, and then to the moment when the cafeteria lights flickered and she followed Lin Yi to find the location of the store and enter the store...

And then, in the store, encountering the fog pouring in, escaping from death...

The whole process was thrilling and exciting, as if a Tomb Raider or Raiders of the Lost Ark was being staged. The only regret and deficiency was that she did not find the student commemorative coin that benchmarked the treasure.

While Li Huiyuan was reporting the "battle situation" to the class teacher, Lin Yi suddenly felt something. He couldn't help but squint his eyes and glance slightly, his eyes squinting at the steps of the teaching building.

At this point, the outside of the teaching building was already full of fog. The entire teaching building was like a toy isolated by a glass cover in the fog. The area propped up by the lights provided a safe environment without fog inside the glass cover, while outside the glass cover, the fog was surging. Except for the wandering shadows, nothing else could be seen, and even the moonlight could not be seen.

But at this moment, something seemed to be infinitely approaching the glass cover, and its momentum did not diminish at all. Finally, it penetrated the glass cover and stepped into the field formed by the lights from under the steps filled with fog...

A foot.

A pure white sculpture-textured foot wearing sneakers.

Lin Yi's pupils instantly shook, and his hair stood on end as if electrified, as if he could plug it into the sky.

The humanoid sculpture is on the steps!

"Damn it!"

"Don't panic," Class Teacher - 040, who was listening to Li Huiyuan's report, observed Lin Yi and the situation outside the corridor through the peephole and said in a very calm tone, "They are harmless under the lights. Don't worry about them."

Although Class Teacher - 040 said so, Lin Yi did not relax at all, but chose to quietly approach some walls, ready to take Li Huiyuan to Class 2 of Group B at any time.

And then, an incredible scene appeared in Lin Yi's eyes. The calf of the sculpture material actually showed obvious muscle lines. It didn't look like a stiff plaster-like substance at all. Instead, it began to be full of flesh, just like a human body cosplaying after applying special materials.

The legs of the humanoid sculpture exerted a little force, and then, as if climbing the steps, the entire body was pulled out of the fog, crossed the field formed by the lights, and entered the light from the dark and misty world.

This was indeed a humanoid sculpture. Its limbs were still a little stiff, and it stopped moving after standing on the steps.

It closed its eyes and did not move. At this moment, it was really exactly the same as a sculpture.

【They are harmless under the lights.】

Lin Yi seemed to hear the words of Class Teacher - 040 echoing in his ears, but at the same time, another voice covered up this sentence: 【When you or the sculpture are within the range of light, you are safe, and the sculpture is harmless.】

This is the description of the safe state of the art building in the Art Student Code.

The highlight is that it is safe under the lights.

And this safety is still valid even when the sculpture appears!

Lin Yi's heart trembled. His focus was more on the commonality between the rules and what the homeroom teacher -040 said. This suggested that, regardless of a person's identity, being "under the light" meant being in a relatively safe state.

This was one of the underlying logics of safety, and it should also be helpful to Li Huiyuan.

He then looked at the almost completely still sculpture. Gradually, he noticed something was amiss, because although the humanoid sculpture had reached the part of the steps covered by the corridor lights, wisps of mist were floating around its body as if entangled.

These mists were like the banded aura that lingered around the peaks of snow-capped mountains, surrounding the humanoid sculpture, with the ends connected like umbilical cords to the mist shrouded in darkness behind it.

As the humanoid sculpture stood still, these mists were continuously peeled away from its body and then returned to the mist behind it at an extremely slow speed.

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As these mists dissipated, the pure white, plaster-like texture on the humanoid sculpture gradually weakened, slowly changing from pure white to grayish-white, then from grayish-white to bluish-gray, and finally, to the skin color of a normal person…

With this change, the clothes on the humanoid sculpture also slowly transformed into normal attire.

When this mist completely disappeared, the humanoid sculpture in front of him looked nothing like a humanoid sculpture, but instead became something Lin Yi was very familiar with—

"'Inhuman classmate'?!"

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat. What did he see?

What did he see?!

The humanoid sculpture… transformed into an inhuman classmate in front of him!!

Nothing is more shocking than a transformation happening right in front of you!

Like Ultraman's human host shouting "Jier" to your face, Kamen Rider shouting "Hexin" to your face, or the female Ultraman's human host having her suit torn off in front of a monster… cough, that doesn't count.

In short, Lin Yi was incomparably shocked, and countless inspirations flashed through his mind in an instant, but the emergence of these inspirations made him feel a chill all over his body, making his hair stand on end.

"After the humanoid sculpture enters the range of the light, the light expels the pollution within it, turning it into a 'inhuman classmate' with a shallower degree of pollution?"

He immediately restrained his impulse to think in this direction, and instead gave himself a mental suggestion to dilute the negative impact of this layer of cognition.

['The humanoid sculpture under the light is the inhuman classmate.' Do not question, do not think, do not overthink.]

He silently repeated it several times in his heart, then took a deep breath, forcibly defaulting to this layer of information.

He understood that this kind of thing that touched on the essence of transformation, involving the core logic of pollution, absolutely could not be thought about or reasoned about in this place. Even a little thought related to it could not be produced.

So he "sealed" everything he had just seen in his mind, to be "analyzed frame by frame" after returning to the dormitory, and he would definitely study the humanoid sculpture's underpants thoroughly, or rather, overwrite his cognition at that time.

Just like when overwriting the cognitive relationship between tomatoes and hearts.

After the humanoid sculpture turned into an inhuman classmate, it slowly opened its eyes.

At this time, its eyes were normal, but its gaze was empty and scattered, unable to focus at all, as if the sculpture's eyes themselves had no pupils, so even if they were transformed into "people", they could not see anything at all.

The inhuman classmate took stiff steps and climbed up the steps like a marionette. After walking up these steps, it came to the corridor.

It seemed not to see Lin Yi, and just passed by them. The hazy feeling of brushing past was very similar to the male and female protagonists walking at a crossroads in a brainless romance drama, pretending not to see each other even though they could see each other, with the feeling of "just passing by your whole world"…

It was outrageous, but that was the truth.

Not only that, but as time passed, Lin Yi found that more and more humanoid sculptures in the mist began to penetrate this boundary between light and darkness, standing on the first step with light like soldiers from an alien planet landing on Earth, and then began to walk up the steps, enter the corridor, mechanically shuttle in the corridor, and finally push open the door of the classroom and walk in.

"Some of my classmates are actually these things?!"

The thought that some of the humanoid sculptures in these sculpture phalanxes were his classmates in Class 2 of Group B caused an uncontrollable sense of horror in Lin Yi's heart, and goosebumps rose on his arms layer upon layer.

Lin Yi still didn't think too much about what the transformation conditions between the humanoid sculpture and the inhuman classmate were, but he thought about one thing—the humanoid sculpture would turn into an inhuman classmate under the light, so could it be conversely thought that when the map layer fell and the mist surged again, the inhuman classmate would turn into a humanoid sculpture?

That is to say…

After the lights are turned off in the classroom, the mist pours in from outside the door, and after the inhuman classmates absorb it, they turn back into humanoid sculptures, and then begin to slaughter the trainees whose cognition is unstable because they saw them?

Because the trainees don't have the cognition of the Art Department's rules, they don't understand what "sculpture" is, let alone what kind of cognitive impact it would have to see a moving sculpture.

Once the trainees have questions such as "Is that a moving sculpture, or a person dressed up as a sculpture?", "Didn't you say that all the sculptures are half-length sculptures and are all in the art building? Then am I in the teaching building or the art building now?", their cognition will be problematic, and then they will be invaded by the mist representing pollution, then the humanoid sculpture can sense their location.

Then, once the trainees make eye contact with them, they can launch a void lock-on attack on the trainees and then kill them.

And after the trainees are killed… because the pollution still remains in the corpse, it will turn into that white plaster-like thing under the sun?

So, will the trainees also become night walkers or inhuman classmates after being killed?

Li Huiyuan, who was on the side, was still explaining the details of eating dinner in the cafeteria to the homeroom teacher -040, completely unaware that the temperature around Lin Yi's body had slowly dropped.

Lin Yi did restrain himself, but he underestimated the "pollution value" and his inspiration brought by this information, so he still uncontrollably thought to this level…

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