Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Dorm 1414, 23:55. Despite Lin Yi's insistence, everyone still made a trip to the bathroom before 0:00.

Lin Yi was the last to go. After finishing, he planned to check the doors and windows before going to bed.

But just as he touched the doorknob, he subconsciously withdrew his hand.

Cold!

Too cold!

The spot on the doorknob that he had touched was instantly imprinted with the warmth of his hand. The entire dorm door was covered in a layer of frost!

He looked down and saw some mist seemingly seeping in under the door, only to quickly dissipate when illuminated by the light.

Lin Yi hissed in a breath of cold air, but immediately spat it out with a "呸呸呸".

Damn, I was careless. I almost swallowed some of that mist…

He then went to the sink and checked the window. By this time, the window was covered in condensation due to the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the dorm, making it look like a hazy white sheet.

And this time, just as he confirmed that the window was tightly locked and was about to turn around, a black shadow suddenly flashed past outside the window!

“Fuck?!” He subconsciously jumped. He quickly scurried onto the bed, shivering.

If it were his first day, he might have stared at the window to figure out what that big black rat was, but now his approach had changed. He would first ensure his own safety, and then peek cautiously.

His main strategy was to furrow his brow and retreat behind everyone else.

He first glanced at the pendulum clock on the wall.

23:57.

Then he looked at his watch. The time matched.

Only then did he look out the window, silently counting down the seconds.

He only gave himself 30 seconds. If he didn't see anything within 30 seconds, he would stop looking, ensuring that he closed his eyes and went to sleep between 23:58 and 23:59.

Based on his understanding of himself, one minute, barring any accidents, would be enough for him to fall asleep.

If there were any accidents, it would be too late to fall asleep even if he started now.

Did those 30 seconds matter?

It could only be said that they did.

Suddenly!

Another black shadow flashed past, but Lin Yi realized that the shadow…

「Why was it leaping from the bottom up?」

If something were jumping out of the window from upstairs, then it would definitely be falling from top to bottom. How could it be from bottom to top, and with such incredible speed, as if it had been given a boost?

「Did I run into a failed 'man'?」

Lin Yi muttered to himself, adjusted his sleeping position, and closed his eyes to sleep.

The dorm beds had a unique design. With steady breathing, one could feel a slight rocking sensation, like ripples pushing the body, making one feel relaxed all over.

Before long, Lin Yi fell into a deep sleep. At this time, the pendulum clock on the wall ticked to 23:59:43…

「Tick… Tock… Tick… Tock…」

The pendulum clock was still swinging slowly, soon completing its final cycle.

When the time reached 0:00:00, with a "啵" sound, the three incandescent lights in the dorm went out simultaneously.

The entire dorm was instantly plunged into a vast darkness, and the originally hazy window glass became the brightest thing in the dorm, like a fluorescent screen, emitting a faint cold light…

Black shadows still flashed past outside the window from time to time, but at one moment, a dark shadow slowly emerged from the upper edge of the window, climbing down from top to bottom like a humanoid spider, using both hands and feet…

…

Lying on the bed, Lin Yi gradually felt his body become lighter and softer, and then he heard the sound of "whooshing…"

Gradually, a sense of falling acted on Lin Yi, causing him to "wake up" in an instant.

He found himself surrounded by countless pieces of broken clouds, shuttling through the clouds like a skydiver, but he did not feel the acceleration of gravity, only the uniform, slow breeze blowing from bottom to top.

“I…” He tried hard to recall, and then slowly realized, “I’m dreaming.”

“Amazing… I realized I was in a dream so quickly this time.”

Some people dream but only realize they are dreaming when they wake up or encounter some major change in the dream, and they wake up quickly, but this time Lin Yi maintained an incredibly clear consciousness and appeared in the dream.

「Could it be that I have ‘adapted’ to my kind of dream?」

「Adaptation」 was the definition Tian Bufan gave him, but he didn't expect that he could even adapt to dreaming.

He looked down at his watch, and his eyes lit up.

0:03.

The watch in the dream… was actually still ticking?!

「Interesting… This is really getting interesting!」

「I wonder how long it will take to ‘fall’ into someone else’s perspective?」

Lin Yi curiously looked around, but found nothing but fragmented clouds.

But even though it was a fragmented environment, he couldn't see any other scenery appearing here.

Suddenly, he felt his foot touch something, followed by a feeling of being supported by the ground, which flowed up his legs from the soles of his feet and fed back to his body.

The mist suddenly dissipated, and he found himself in a certain place in the teaching building.

The environment was very familiar. He recognized at a glance that it was the corner of the stairwell.

「Could it be Young Master Tian's perspective?」 He guessed it was the scene of Tian Bufan "playing barbecue" during the day.

Sure enough, from Lin Yi's perspective, two PE students wearing blue and white striped tracksuits carried the huge mirror from the bathroom, panting, and walked out of the corner.

“Be careful, don’t break it!” One of the PE students urged anxiously as they passed the corner.

“Just watch your side, don’t make wild guesses about our side…”

「Crack… Clang!」

The two PE students froze in unison, with a sense of embarrassment like a couple returning home to find their house had been robbed.

Even through the dream, Lin Yi could feel the scorching atmosphere in the air at this moment.

Especially since there were several PE students watching them.

“It’s okay… We’ll take another one from the women’s bathroom.” One genius slapped the back of his head and immediately offered a brilliant plan.

“You idiot! You’re a man, how can you enter the women’s bathroom?!” A PE student punched him, then scurried away, “I’ll go for this kind of good thing. If anyone asks, just say it was said by Junior Tian! Hehehe…”

“Hey, I say, you kid!” Several PE students next to him also followed under the guise of supervision, seemingly very interested in removing the mirror from the women's bathroom.

Lin Yi was speechless, thinking, please, aren’t the mirrors in the bathrooms all on the corridor side outside? What are you guys getting so excited about!

At this time, he noticed Tian Bufan slowly squatting down, then picking up a few larger pieces of broken mirror, and using them to reflect the light onto the elevator door in the sun.

“Junior Tian, the mirror is broken, should we just wait for a new one?” A tall PE student next to him asked.

“Complete ones are needed, and broken ones are also needed.” Tian Bufan continued to gesture with the mirror, muttering to himself, “I’m missing some glue that can stick the mirrors together now…”

“Glue?” The PE student frowned, “We really don’t have any glue. Should we just wait for them to bring the big mirror over?”

“Don’t worry, I have a way.” Tian Bufan whispered, “I saw you guys deal with some Nightwalkers before, can we… do it like this… to ‘make the most of everything’”.

Listening to Tian Bufan's words, the PE student's eyes gradually widened, looking at him with some fear: “You… you’re really a pervert! But, I admire it!”

“Then let’s start.” Tian Bufan smiled.

“Start, we must start!” The PE student stretched his muscles, a wicked smile hanging on the corner of his mouth, and walked towards the elevator with a hehehe.

Then, under Lin Yi's somewhat curious gaze, the PE student reached out and pressed the elevator's open door button.

With a crisp "Ding", the elevator vibrated slightly, and then the elevator door slowly opened, revealing a nauseating scene of flesh and blood mixed together.

Countless Nightwalkers were intertwined in the form of rubber men. In this form, they completely lost the outline of humans. The abstract and disgusting scene made one's scalp tingle. As the elevator door opened, the eyeballs on the outermost layer, hanging outside the flesh like fruits, rolled around one by one, then turned their gaze to the PE student.

【Is it night?】

【Huh… Why aren’t they opening the door, who are you…?】

The PE student calmly looked at the Nightkind crammed into the elevator car, a cold smile curling at the corner of his lips: “Help a brother out with a small favor!”

He finished speaking, then reached out and grabbed the blood vessel connecting one of the Nightkind's eyeballs to its flesh, and tugged outwards with force, trying to yank it out.

But that Nightkind also sensed the danger, shrinking back desperately in the elevator, its countless flesh and blood extending into muscle strands, distinct and tangled tentacles lashing out towards the PE student.

The Nightkind in the elevator seemed to have merged into one, launching an attack on the PE student.

If a test subject who accidentally triggered the elevator door switch were facing them at this moment, they would probably already be turned into human sieves.

“Damn it… trying to embarrass me in front of my junior?” The PE student sneered, swinging his arm and directly trapping several tentacles under his armpit, then letting out an angry roar, actually pulling a portion of the Nightkind inside the elevator out as if in a tug-of-war!

More and more tentacles began to attack the PE student. From a distance, it looked as if the elevator had opened a mouth full of tentacles, engulfing and wrapping the PE student like a carnivorous plant.

Just then, another PE student rushed forward, raising his baseball bat high as if possessed by a war god, and slammed it down fiercely.

In that instant, from Lin Yi's perspective, this PE student was erupting with sky-blue vapor, some of which was entangled on the baseball bat, covering it with a layer of energy blade like a beam saber.

「Clang—」

The energy blade-covered baseball bat fell like a guillotine, severing all the tentacles probing out of the elevator car. The PE student who had been playing tug-of-war with the tentacles let out a series of “Ouch, ouch, ouch” sounds, staggering backward, then falling to the ground with some of the Nightkind's remains.

“Old Du, don't take on a porcelain job if you don't have the diamond drill.” The PE student holding the baseball bat unceremoniously ridiculed.

Old Du spat: “I just wanted to show off a little in front of Junior Tian, okay?”

He got up from the ground and kicked the still-wriggling Nightkind corpses to Tian Bufan's feet: “Junior, your showtime.”

“Thank you, senior.” Tian Bufan looked at the mud-like Nightkind corpses not far away and smiled.

He picked up a piece and walked into the sunlight. As soon as the Nightkind's corpse saw the light, it immediately evaporated a large amount of mist composed of white powder particles, and these mists, in Lin Yi's current perspective, were actually green.

As the pollution disappeared, the exposed Nightkind corpse began to rapidly solidify into a sculpture, and Tian Bufan quickly used this corpse to fix the mirror fragments, eventually using them as glue to stick several mirror fragments together.

Based on the solidity of the solidified sculpture, the newly assembled mirror was also extremely stable.

In this way, Tian Bufan used the Nightkind's remains as an upgraded substitute for solid glue, piecing together most of the mirror fragments.

He didn't reassemble the broken mirror into a flat mirror, but formed a multi-faceted mirror with various planar folding angles. This kind of mirror can effectively focus light into one area, equivalent to reflecting light from several mirrors in different positions to the same place.

The main point is to “make the best use of everything.”

After finishing, Tian Bufan adjusted the distance so that the converging light could perfectly focus on a small area after the elevator door opened, and at this time, the PE students just happened to move another mirror over.

Tian Bufan then used the large mirror to refract the light beam to perfectly cover the elevator door, while the multi-faceted mirror was used to focus on a certain point, so that he could adjust the roasting angle at any time.

After completing the preparations, Tian Bufan signaled the PE students to spread out a little, and then began the roasting plan.

What happened next was almost the same as what he told Lin Yi, except that the mirror holders changed from Tian Bufan to the eager PE students…

The PE students were having a great time playing with this extremely imaginative toy. It seemed childish everywhere, but it was really interesting, like rural children roasting leeches with a magnifying glass, the main point being fun.

Under the double roasting, none of the Nightkind in the elevator survived, and all were roasted into pure white plaster-like sculptures.

And whenever the outer Nightkind completely turned into sculptures, the PE students would swing the baseball bat covered with sky-blue vapor and smash them heavily, so that the surviving Nightkind hiding behind were re-exposed to the light.

Finally, the PE students also smashed the sculpture fragments with baseball bats, turning them completely into white powdery particles and scattering them away.

After doing all this, the PE students also destroyed the part of the sculpture in the multi-faceted mirror.

And when dealing with this part of the sculpture, Lin Yi discovered that blood vessel-like thing again.

“What is this thing?” Tian Bufan also noticed and asked the PE students.

PE student Old Du said directly: “This is their 'framework'.”

“Oh, a vascular… 'framework'?” Tian Bufan raised his eyebrows.

“Something that all Nightkind have.” Old Du said, “You can understand it as their information capsule, or… identity code.”

“The underlying code of each Nightkind is the same, but due to the differences in transformation paths and various external factors, the final appearance is different.”

“However, at the 'Nightkind' level, the essence is almost the same.”

“The existence of the 'framework' is the fundamental reason why they can continuously repair themselves and transform back and forth between 'human,' 'humanoid sculpture,' and 'pure Nightkind'.”

“Look.” Old Du said while practicing, focusing on combining theory and practice. He threw the Nightkind framework to the PE student next to him holding the baseball bat, “Old Zhang, throw it to the Green Belt over there, and show it to Junior.”

“Damn, I don't want to be a errand boy!” PE student Old Zhang disliked, and was about to throw the Nightkind framework back.

“I don't want to say it a second time, Godfather.” Old Du said seriously.

“You should have said it earlier, my son, wait here for a moment, your father will be right back!” Happy to have a adopted son, Old Zhang's energy and spirit soared, and he rushed down the steps and ran towards the Green Belt shrouded in thin mist.

But after running only two steps, the Nightkind framework in his hand was directly sculpted due to exposure.

“Oops, careless!” Old Zhang patted his head, smiled embarrassedly and returned to the teaching building. Before Old Du could say anything, he directly swung his baseball bat and smashed a pure white plaster-like sculpture, found the Nightkind framework from inside, then took off his school uniform to block the light, and rushed towards the Green Belt.

“Old Zhang, just play around, don't really let it run away.” Old Du reminded from the steps.

“Your father knows!” Old Zhang's voice came from afar.

Old Du coughed and continued to explain to Tian Bufan: “Nightkind use the 'framework' to absorb pollution to restore their bodies. As long as the framework is not damaged, no matter how broken the body is, it can slowly recover.”

“Look…” He pointed to Old Zhang.

I saw Old Zhang grabbing one end of the Nightkind framework, and then throwing it into the Green Belt like a fishing cast.

Entering the Green Belt, the Nightkind framework immediately began to absorb the white powder particles in the mist, causing it to adhere to the framework, and then little by little it turned into wriggling flesh and blood like a mosaic repair, like growth, and gradually, after this part of the flesh and blood recovered almost, it directly transformed into a humanoid sculpture.

Old Du imparted knowledge: “You see, at first they can only recover into pure Nightkind, but with excessive intake of pollution, they will begin to transform into humanoid sculptures. However, that kind of humanoid sculpture is already the limit they can transform into. Even if they plunder identity in the future, they cannot transform back into a person like you, they can only become… what did you call it?”

“Non-human classmates.” Tian Bufan said.

Old Du nodded: “That's the definition you gave, I suggest you change your words to a more official definition… pseudo-humanoid polluters, abbreviated as 「Pseudo-Human Polluters」, or 「Pseudo-Humans」.”