Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Starving! Starving!"

"We need food!"

"We need our own kind!"

"No, we need everything!!"

The fog rolled, and restless voices never ceased, seeming to blend with the wind and sand, making a constant "shasha" sound.

"Stop the noise!" Nie Yun, the 'inhuman classmate,' said in a dry voice, the mechanical tone devoid of any extra emotion. "The invasion has only just begun; more people will pass by here."

"There are plenty of opportunities, don't be impatient!"

"Just wait…"

Nie Yun, the 'inhuman classmate,' and Ge Qing, the 'inhuman classmate,' faced the lamppost, showing no sign of moving. If the fog weren't still floating, it would have seemed as if time had frozen.

In reality, Nie Yun's experience had some similarities to Lin Yi's deductions, but the details differed greatly…

Suddenly, excited voices came from the human-shaped sculptures in the surging fog:

"It's here! Someone's here!"

"It's my turn this time!"

"No, it should be my turn!"

"Idiots, all of you shut up!" Nie Yun, the 'inhuman classmate,' shouted. "You're too noisy!"

The fog immediately returned to silence.

In the fog not far away, a trainee was crossing the sparse area of fog with a look of horror on his face. When he saw "Lamppost - 067," he became excited and rushed over in three steps.

He entered the illuminated area of "Lamppost - 067" breathlessly and then noticed that there were two people standing in front.

He was stunned for a moment. Thinking about the eerie and bizarre misty environment he had encountered along the way, and then thinking that it was safe under the lamplight, he mustered his courage and couldn't help but ask, "C-classmates… what are you doing here? Why aren't you continuing forward?"

He thought of what Class Teacher - 040 had instructed before leaving the classroom:

"During this process, you will definitely encounter various interferences. This interference includes, but is not limited to, 'seeing a lamppost with the light off,' as mentioned in the rules… Some interferences I can't even tell you about, but please remember that your safety is in your own hands. Don't pay attention to any external interferences. The only things you can trust are the security guards, the lampposts, and yourselves!"

He guessed that the two people in front had discovered some problem, encountered some interference, and were hesitant to move forward. Out of caution, he decided to try asking.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the classmate in front say in a somewhat dry voice, "Classmate, we've encountered some difficulties… We want to ask you for a favor…"

As they spoke, they slowly turned around like mannequins standing on a platform, eventually meeting his gaze.

"Help us… to die!!!"

Nie Yun, the 'inhuman classmate,' looked ferocious, and his entire face was covered with cracks due to his狰狞 and exaggerated expression. He approached step by step with stiff steps like a robot with insufficient power, while the original classmate's soul had already flown away, scared stiff on the spot, his legs trembling but unable to move…

"Y-you… you you you… you are the interference… you are…"

He guessed a lot and foresaw some things, but he subconsciously forgot one thing. Class Teacher - 040 also said that he could only trust himself and those who had a life-or-death friendship with him, but the two "people" in front… had not encountered any interference.

They themselves were the interference.

He realized this before he died, but it was already too late.

Fear spread in front of his eyes like a tide. He trembled and couldn't say a complete sentence. He only saw Nie Yun, the 'inhuman classmate,' crossing the distance and pushing him out of the illuminated area.

"Pfft…"

He staggered and fell into the fog, like a stone thrown into a lake, splashing a piece of water.

"Mine!"

"No, it's mine—"

The fog churned, and the human-shaped sculptures swarmed like ghouls. Only the classmate's miserable and terrified screams were left in the fog.

"Drag him further away! Someone's coming!" Nie Yun, the 'inhuman classmate,' seemed to sense something, glanced at the distant lamppost, and quickly shouted.

"Shasha… Shasha…"

The human-shaped sculptures under the fog quickly dragged the classmate's corpse into the depths of darkness.

Ge Qing, the 'inhuman classmate,' glanced at that direction and then withdrew his gaze.

The two inhuman classmates slowly moved their bodies back to their original positions and then faced the lamppost again, like sculptures.

…

"Liangzi, did you hear any screams just now?"

Lin Yi, who had just left the "Teaching Building - 070" lamppost, looked at the somewhat distant lamppost in front and looked at Wei Liang with some confusion.

Wei Liang shivered and said with some fear, "Damn it, Lao Lin, are you hallucinating? Why are you scaring me for no reason!"

"Emmm…" Lin Yi was silent for a moment, and a sense of vigilance arose in his heart.

"Hey, there are people under the lamppost in front!" Wei Liang exclaimed.

"Something's wrong, they don't look like people." Lin Yi shook his head slightly.

"Damn it, what do you mean…" Wei Liang felt a chill, and goosebumps appeared all over his body. "Can you say something auspicious in the middle of the night? That lamppost is lit!"

"The classroom is theoretically still safe, but didn't Class Teacher let us out?" Lin Yi said in a deep voice, "A lit lamppost is safe, but the things under the lamppost are not necessarily safe…"

Wei Liang was shocked: "What… what do you mean?"

"Inhuman classmates." Lin Yi paused, "Inhuman classmates are in the same classroom with us. When the lights are on in the classroom, they won't do anything, but when the lights go out, they are the biggest threat."

He pointed to the lamppost over there.

"And the feeling they give me is very similar to those inhuman classmates in the classroom."

Wei Liang hissed: "Damn it, are you worried that they will chase us out?"

Lin Yi nodded slightly: "I have some concerns in this regard, but the inhuman classmates didn't show any aggressiveness when the lights were on in the classroom. I don't know what will happen when they leave the classroom."

"But the two in front are obviously squatting people…" Wei Liang hesitated, "What should we do? Can't we just detour?"

"Even if we detour, where can we detour to?" Lin Yi patted Wei Liang's hand, "I have a way, maybe we can try it. Besides, even if it doesn't work, I believe you have some unique skills."

Wei Liang: "Gah? ? ?"

Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang without speaking.

This guy… kept saying that he only listened to the information he could listen to, but he stubbornly covered his ears and listened to all the information.

Lin Yi couldn't imagine how Wei Liang was able to overwrite his knowledge of S City University while pretending not to know anything, completely rationalizing all the strange phenomena that had already occurred from the perspective of a "Muggle."

The two chatted intermittently. Not long after Lin Yi shared his initial thoughts with Wei Liang, they passed through the area illuminated by consecutive streetlights and arrived within the light of the streetlight pole labeled "Teaching Building - 067."

Just as Lin Yi approached the "Teaching Building - 067" streetlight pole, he suddenly experienced the rapidly skipping frames in his vision. Within this skipping vision, he distinctly saw a faint double image flickering around Nie Yun's 'inhuman classmate' and Ge Qing's 'inhuman classmate'.

The double image consisted of two masses of soft, limp, humanoid plaster-like substance writhing and twisting. From a distance, it looked as if a bucket of white, pasty substance had been poured over a humanoid wooden frame, and as the substance slowly flowed down, it formed the thing Lin Yi was seeing.

At the same time, he seemed to hear them muttering something, one sounding like it was saying, "I am Nie Yun, my student ID is...", and the other like it was saying, "I am Ge Qing, my student ID is..."

This frame-skipping vision lasted for a few breaths before returning to normal, but Lin Yi was already certain of their identities.

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"As expected, they are inhuman classmates, and...they seem to be anchoring their identities?"

Lin Yi instantly thought of the scene he had deduced in the classroom, and his heart sank: "Ge Qing and Nie Yun were killed and replaced by them?"

Despite the discrepancies in details, the reality was just that.

"So...they are staying here to lure and kill more people?"

Lin Yi realized the problem and discovered that the area around "Teaching Building - 067" was eerily silent. The "rustling" sound of being followed, which he had heard all along the way, had also completely disappeared.

"Something must be wrong."

Lin Yi felt that this hurdle would not be easy to overcome, but after considering it, he found a starting point.

So he whispered, "Liangzi, I have a plan..."

"Hurry up with your fart... Oh no, Father is above, quickly tell Liang'er what brilliant plan you have?" Wei Liang said with a flattering face.

Lin Yi: "..."

Lin Yi leaned in and whispered the plan. Wei Liang's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "Damn!"

"Stop 'damn'-ing, Liangzi. Use your years of experience in ingenious trickery to analyze my plan. What do you think?"

Wei Liang frankly said, "Old Lin, you are truly cunning and dog-like!"

Having received such high praise from Wei Liang, Lin Yi felt more confident. Then he began to approach the streetlight pole. Suddenly, he paused...

Because through the obstruction of Nie Yun's and Ge Qing's 'inhuman classmate' figures, he clearly saw the number on the streetlight pole—Teaching Building - 067.

"Huh?" Lin Yi was taken aback. He remembered the "Teaching Building - 070" streetlight pole he had just left. Why wasn't the current streetlight pole "Teaching Building - 069", but "Teaching Building - 067"?

But he didn't have time to think about how the two streetlight poles in between had disappeared. He was already not far behind Nie Yun's 'inhuman classmate'.

Lin Yi first exchanged a look with Wei Liang, and then, without making any sound, he said with lip movements: "Stay put for now and see if we can walk to the next one without disturbing them..."

He hoped that Wei Liang could understand his words from his lip movements.

Sure enough, Wei Liang nodded solemnly.

"If not, then immediately proceed according to the plan!" he added.

Wei Liang still nodded solemnly.

Lin Yi felt relieved, thinking that Wei Liang and he were indeed on the same wavelength.

So the two walked to the "Teaching Building - 067" and implemented "Plan A - Secretly Bypass": ignoring the two inhuman classmates facing the wall, choosing to quietly bypass them and go directly to the next streetlight pole.

But the plan quickly failed. Accompanied by a voice, "Classmate, we have encountered some difficulties... We would like to ask you for help...", Ge Qing's 'inhuman classmate' slowly moved in stiff steps in front of them.

And Nie Yun's 'inhuman classmate' also slowly moved behind Lin Yi and Wei Liang, sandwiching them.

As the two inhuman classmates surrounded them, the "rustling...rustling..." sound echoed again in the surrounding mist.

Lin Yi calmly looked at Ge Qing's 'inhuman classmate' in front of him and pondered, "Nie Yun, what difficulties have you encountered?"

Ge Qing's 'inhuman classmate' had originally planned to slowly approach Lin Yi while he was off guard, and then try to repeat the old trick, pushing Lin Yi into the group of humanoid sculptures waiting to be fed, just like they had done with the previous exchange student.

But when it heard Lin Yi's words, it was slightly stunned, and a slight crack appeared in its self-awareness. So it quickly said, "No, I am Ge Qing, he is Nie Yun."

Nie Yun's 'inhuman classmate' nodded and said, "That's right, I am Nie Yun, he is Ge Qing."

Wei Liang exchanged a look with Lin Yi, and then curled his lips in disdain and said, "Damn, Ge Qing, could it be that your brain is broken? You don't even know who you are anymore?"

"Yes, Ge Qing, we can understand if you are under a lot of pressure, but forgetting who you are is very dangerous." Lin Yi also solemnly affirmed, while looking at Ge Qing's 'inhuman classmate' and saying, "Nie Yun, you two should take a good look at each other and see who is who."

"Uh... ah?" Ge Qing's 'inhuman classmate' was originally transformed from a humanoid sculpture. Although its thinking was somewhat flexible, its knowledge of its identity all came from its student ID and the preconceived notion of that scene. Now, Lin Yi and Wei Liang sang in harmony, catching it off guard, causing the original constant muttering of [I am Ge Qing] and [I am Nie Yun] to become entangled, and for a moment, it really felt a little confused...

"Ah?" Nie Yun's 'inhuman classmate' was also stunned.

At this time, the "rustling" sound kept coming from the surrounding mist, and countless humanoid sculptures were anxiously shouting over there:

[Don't let them confuse your cognition, you are Ge Qing!]

[You are Nie Yun, he is Ge Qing! Don't mess it up!]

[Keep your mind clear! You are Ge Qing! He is Nie Yun!]

[You are Ge Qing...]

The humanoid sculptures said one sentence after another, some were speaking to Ge Qing's 'inhuman classmate', while others were speaking to Nie Yun's 'inhuman classmate'. It seemed that all of them were kind reminders, but precisely because these two inhuman classmates were standing together, they couldn't hear clearly which sentence was being said to whom.

For a moment, the two inhuman sculptures became more and more confused and more and more irritable.

Thanks to book friend "usjdnshhs" for the reward!!

PS: I had acute gastroenteritis and a low fever today. I don't know what the state will be like tomorrow. The update on the 7th may be a little late, depending on the state tomorrow. Anyway, I theoretically ask for leave twice a month, and I will try not to ask for leave if I can.