Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“Ha… Hahaha… It really worked, haha… Cough cough cough… Cough cough!!”

Lin Yi had just wanted to cheer for his own wit, but the heavy breathing immediately overwhelmed him, causing him to cough violently.

He had indeed devised a plan to use the least amount of physical strength to turn those inhuman classmates into a pile of limp, rubbery figures devoid of humanity, but the mental energy he expended for this was simply immeasurable.

Firstly, based on his experience traversing the abnormal layers in the gray fog weather, he speculated that the human-shaped sculptures and the inhuman classmates possessed a certain level of perception, capable of capturing the information used by the experiencers for self-anchoring.

Therefore, he attempted to mentally suggest that his identity information was "Li Huiyuan."

The reason he used Li Huiyuan's identity information instead of Wei Shan, Kuai Hongji, or even fabricating one at random, was also carefully considered.

Because he couldn't trust a fabricated character.

How could a fake identity that couldn't even deceive himself convince him to believe it?

Secondly, Li Huiyuan's student ID was lost, and she should be with the class advisor now, unlike Wei Shan and the others who still had to return to the dormitory.

What if using Wei Shan's identity information to deceive the inhuman classmates ended up harming Wei Shan and the others?

Furthermore, the Li Huiyuan he envisioned in his mind was not Li Huiyuan's true appearance, but rather a creation based on Zhou Yuting's face with Li Huiyuan's charm, and he deliberately distorted it later on, purely to mislead the inhuman classmates.

In addition to this, he dared to do so because of his experience with the reverse contamination under the streetlights of Ge Qing and Nie Yun, whose identities had been seized by the human-shaped sculptures; otherwise, he wouldn't have been confident in launching such an attempt.

Because the biggest problem in wanting to do this wasn't how to design the trap, but how to make the trap real.

Although it seemed like he only needed to repeatedly chant "I am Li Huiyuan, my student ID is X0230507046" in his mind, the reality wasn't that simple.

Instead, Lin Yi needed to forcibly overwrite his own understanding of his identity, making himself believe that he was Li Huiyuan, and believe that he was the "Li Huiyuan" he had envisioned, in order to lure the fake Wei Liangs to take the bait, and then attempt to seize that layer of identity from him.

It was like a strategist entering the game himself, drinking the champagne laced with poison during the toast; only if he drank it first would his opponent drink it, and drink it all in one gulp.

And now, he needed a stomach pump—a stomach pump before he died.

Before his understanding of his own identity was completely subverted, he needed to complete the reconstruction of his identity!

The method was actually very simple, requiring only two steps.

"First…"

“Cough cough… Cough…” His body trembled incessantly from the violent coughing, his breathing growing heavier and heavier, and his complexion turning increasingly unsightly.

He trembled as he reached into his pocket, and only when his fingertips touched the cold acrylic card did he pull it out.

"Name: Lin Yi"

"Student ID: X0230506098"

"Class: Group B, Class 2"

He looked at his student ID, but because he was too immersed in the act, his cognition had been eroded a lot, so even though he was holding his own student ID, looking at his own identity information, he still felt a complex sense of resistance.

"This is me…? No, this is not me, I am Li Huiyuan, my student ID is… No, this is me…"

A storm raged in Lin Yi's mind, and his tense spirit rapidly depleted again, even his breath began to exhale scorching air…

He shook his head violently; he had anticipated this step, so in order to reconstruct his self-awareness, he still needed a second step!

"There's also the se-second step…"

He gritted his teeth, trying to adjust his breathing to make his body feel more comfortable, and then he took out his notepad from his pocket, and tremblingly flipped to a certain page.

"Where is it, where is it, where is it…"

His vision was somewhat scattered, his spirit was somewhat collapsed and difficult to control, but he still followed his previously reserved "obsession," quickly searching for that keyword in the pages!

“Shua shua shua! Shua shua shua! Shua shua shua…”

Only the sound of pages flipping rustled in the silent corridor.

Finally, he found it!

It turned out that this one wasn't in the back, but in the front!

Notepad Entry #4:

【My name is Lin Yi, and my student ID is X0230506098.】

He trembled as he clipped his student ID to this page, looking at the identity information on the student ID while looking at himself, written in his own handwriting in the notebook, took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to cough violently, and then twisted his somewhat collapsed mental strength like a hemp rope, forcing his somewhat scattered vision to refocus!

Having done these preliminary preparations, he glared fiercely at his own portrait on the student ID, and then began to chant like an old monk reciting scriptures: "My name is Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098, my name is Lin Yi, my student ID is X0230506098, my name is Lin Yi…"

As he continued to chant, the anchor used to anchor his self-identity information in his heart was finally pulled out of Li Huiyuan's harbor and re-entered his own harbor.

“My name is Lin Yi, my student ID is… Ha… Haha… Hahahaha…”

He was anchored back, he was finally anchored back!!!

He covered his face and smiled, tears of joy almost streaming down his face, laughing like a child who had won against an adult in a game.

The notepad that was originally used to record ideas had finally become the bullet that was fired, and after flying for a while, it circled back and became the key foreshadowing for his victory!

“Huff…”

He let out a long sigh of relief, his breathing was no longer heavy, his mind was no longer muddled, his vision was clear, and his whole person seemed to have been reborn!

He pulled the student ID out of the notebook and put it back deep into his pocket, then leaned against the wall trying to stand up, but his hand grabbed empty air, and his body staggered as a result, and the notepad in his hand fell down all of a sudden, opening on the ground with a "thud."

A strong sense of dread instantly enveloped Lin Yi, and the muscles that had just relaxed tensed up again in an instant, like a bowstring fully drawn.

Damn it… the wall was gone!!!

And on the wall was the door to Dorm 1414!!!

In other words, the door was gone!

The door was gone, there was no door to go back to the dormitory!

“Something still happened!”

Lin Yi's pupils shook, such a big door, how could it just disappear?!

His body trembled slightly, and his breathing was a little rapid, like a frightened beast, tensing his body and showing a high degree of vigilance towards everything around him.

However, if one were to carefully observe Lin Yi, one would find that it was not his body that was trembling, but the outline of his body.

It was as if someone had drawn him here, and the outline, which should have been a clear line, had become a fuzzy line with subtle fluctuations at this moment.

This sense of collapse, intertwined with the feeling of blur and reality, was the reason why Lin Yi's body was constantly trembling.

He seemed out of place here, ostracized by the very layer he was in, yet he was desperately trying to stay.

The roar of a train speeding past filled his ears, accompanied by a whistling wind as sharp as a blade, the kind of sound produced by a high-speed object tearing through the air…

“Kuku kuku… Kuku kuku…”

He felt like the Flash in Zack Snyder's cut, enduring the cataclysmic shockwave as the Mother Box exploded. Violent ripples spread around his body, a sensation of being within the layer yet utterly alien to it, that was everything he felt now.

But gradually, the sound faded from his ears.

The whole world seemed to fall silent, and he… he felt stuck in the rift between two layers.

Then, a powerful gust of wind, mixed with an indescribable odor, slammed into his face!

The stench was like a mountain of fish and shrimp rotting under a closed window in the sun for days, and then suddenly that door that had sealed the world's stink was opened!

That long-sealed turbid air, carrying the putrid stench of rotten fish and shrimp that had practically encrusted the air itself, instantly invaded Lin Yi's senses.

The odor went beyond what his sense of smell could register, beyond what his brain could process. It was a tragic scent no human should endure, exceeding the limits of perception, leaving only endless sorrow…

The feeling was worse than the death of his own mother.

Lin Yi's body convulsed uncontrollably, the indescribable, imperceptible feedback from the stench sending shivers down his spine. He felt like his life was flashing before his eyes, blurring his vision and blanking his mind.

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But the blankness soon began to ripple. He saw a void, and his vision was like being strapped to a rollercoaster through a dark tunnel, catching glimpses of an intense, blinding white light.

“Whirr, whirr, whirr…”

He thought he heard the sound of pages turning, like his notepad falling on the stairs, the crisp sound of pages flipping in the wind, but gradually it sounded less like that. The "whirr, whirr, whirr" sound began to sound more and more like the sound of waves…

The biting wind he felt grew stronger, and the sound of pages turning grew more frantic, until finally—

“Whump—splash!”

The sound was crushed by the sound of waves crashing against reefs, and Lin Yi even felt the sensation of water droplets splashing on his face…

He felt himself leave the stairwell and appear in some dark, damp wind tunnel.

The howling wind made him feel like he was in some kind of dark, damp wind tunnel!

Finally, the white light that had been consuming his vision shattered, and his vision suddenly cleared.

He saw a pitch-black sky.

The sky was covered with thick, comforter-like clouds.

Above the clouds hung a clear yet blurred black sun.

Clear in its golden outline, blurred in its black interior.

“It’s the layer where the art building is located…”

Lin Yi knew where he was, even though it was only the second time he had seen such a scene, the second time he had seen such a subversive, abstract, and absurd picture.

An ocean stood upright.

To the left was a black cliff, at the end of which was a sea, the black water constantly crashing against the reefs.

To the right was a chaotic sky, in the depths of which a black sun with a golden outline was depicted.

The ocean and the sky extended endlessly in his world, eventually meeting each other at the horizon, vaguely outlining a turbulent wave line in the mist.

And beneath his feet was a mossy, scarred, and riddled cliff face.

Where was he?

He was on that cliff in the art building layer.

Or rather, the layer beneath his feet was now here.

He suddenly realized something and quickly lay down to his right…

Just then, the gravity of the layer fell on him, trying to drag him into the black abyss.

Fortunately, his subconscious was a step ahead of his awareness, making him lie on the cliff face before he fell. His hands gripped the cracks in the cliff, his whole body rubbing against the moss, like a daredevil stuntman dangling from a steel cable in front of the Empire State Building, passively wiping the glass with his chest.

But he didn't want to be a stuntman, he just wanted to find the anchor point and return to the dormitory building layer.

However, the gravity that gradually increased with the solidification of the layer did not give him this opportunity. He felt the force on his arms getting stronger and stronger, and the tearing sensation on his muscles was getting more and more painful.

At this moment, the wailing, icy sea breeze, accompanied by a thin mist, surged towards him. The sound of the waves in the wind continued to harass his willpower, making his psychological defenses weaker and weaker.

Gradually, faint cries began to appear in the sea breeze, whispers that seemed to come from the distant sea:

“I AvgruNnen av tKe og mrke jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome”

This painful cry, which did not belong to humans, seemed to have been empowered in this layer, attacking Lin Yi's brain like a drill, eager to drill open his skull and stir his brains!

Lin Yi was extremely uncomfortable at this moment, like Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, suffering a mental attack from Tang Sanzang's tight fillet, while watching Zhu Bajie's bloody battle with Gao Cuilan in Gao Village…

But if that was all, Lin Yi was planning to use yesterday's trick to forcibly anchor out the door of the dormitory. However, another sense of crisis was also descending at this time!

“Rustle, rustle, rustle…”

“Rustle, rustle, rustle…”

The sound of nocturnal creatures crawling gradually rang out around Lin Yi. His pupils trembled slightly, and when he looked down, his pupils suddenly widened by a factor of two, and then violently contracted into the size of a pinhole in the next instant!

In the broken waves, countless twisted figures swarmed out like insects, and began to climb up the slippery cliff face at all costs!

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