Rules-related weird stories: 4016

The S City University cafeteria's lunch hours are from 10:40 to 13:20, but morning classes don't end until 11:00.

Despite this, students still have plenty of time to eat lunch.

May 7, X023, 11:02, Lin Yi and Wei Liang walked out of the classroom one after the other.

The moment he stepped out of the classroom, Lin Yi's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He subconsciously glanced back at the classroom, at the doorframe.

Even though it was just the distance of a door, Lin Yi felt a strange sensation—as if once that door closed, the entire classroom would be isolated from the world.

Inside and outside the door seemed to be two different worlds.

He looked down at his surroundings. The grayish-white corridor walls were covered with tiles carved with exaggerated patterns, like the kind of bas-reliefs carved under stone bridges in ancient villages to suppress evil spirits, giving him a strong sense of cosmic horror.

He looked ahead and could clearly see the sign for Class 1 of Group B in front of the teacher's office. Behind it were another teacher's office and the sign for Class 3 of Group B.

While there was some distance between the classrooms, it shouldn't have taken as long to walk as it did last night.

He looked at the area near the classroom door, then narrowed his eyes and squatted down.

He saw residue on the ground near the classroom door, similar to the debris from the sculpture by the podium. There were also many hardened fragments scattered around, indicating that the security guard hadn't held back last night.

But what puzzled him was that the stairs were just outside the corridor. If he remembered correctly, the sound last night suggested that the security guard had rolled down the stairs with the unknown creature. However, this entire flight of stairs showed no signs of damage.

‘With a build like the security guard's, plus that thick iron chain, even if he was holding a bucket of water, let alone an unknown creature, the stairs couldn't possibly be undamaged, right?’

‘At the very least, there should be some scratches...’

He pondered, suddenly recalling the scenes he had vaguely sensed last night.

When the thick fog rose, the entire campus was as if covered by a quilt, so dim that even the moonlight couldn't penetrate it.

In that environment, the teaching building eroded by the thick fog was like a ship lost on the vast sea under a misty moonlit night.

The bottom of the stairs seemed like a deep ocean, as if the security guard had fallen into the ocean with that thing.

‘But... this feeling is just a ‘feeling’ after all. Could it be that there's something strange hidden beneath the fog? That's absurd... impossible.’

He shook his head. How could such a situation, which almost overturned reality, happen around him?

Just then, his gaze fell on the door of the teacher's office, and his expression suddenly froze.

‘Overturn reality...’ He didn't know what he was thinking, but he suddenly hesitated and muttered, ‘...Is it really impossible?’

‘If it's impossible, then what's the deal with that stairwell?’

His eyes stared blankly at the door of the teacher's office, but his gaze wasn't focused.

He thought of something that had happened to him that overturned reality—

Known:

[After arriving at the teaching building, they first saw a sign, and then followed the sign's guidance to enter a stairwell. They walked down the stairs in the shape of the Fibonacci sequence for 20 minutes, and then turned left after exiting to arrive at the door of the classroom office.]

And:

[After entering the teacher's office to obtain the student ID and the teaching building rules, the first door to the right after exiting the teacher's office is the door to Class 2 of Group B.]

Then please answer:

[What is the spatial relationship between the stairwell and the location of Class 2 of Group B...?]

No brainstorming was needed, only judgment based on his knowledge to arrive at an extremely subversive answer:

‘The door to the stairwell is the door to the classroom of Class 2 of Group B!’

‘Taking the teacher's office as the frame of reference, the positions of these two things are overlapping!’

“Crap!” Lin Yi couldn't help but curse, “How the hell is that possible?!”

Illogical!

What logic? There's no logic at all!

Just as Lin Yi's brain gradually started to buzz with thought, Xu Shun Kang's voice came from inside the classroom: "So... what exactly happened last night? Looking at you now, I'm getting more and more curious."

Xu Shun Kang and Xie Hua Yang walked out of the classroom, stretching luxuriously in the sunlight: "The sun is so good! It's warm, it feels like my whole body is full of power!"

He shook his body, then turned his gaze to Lin Yi, looking forward to his answer.

Lin Yi retracted his thoughts, glanced at him, and asked curiously: "If you're so curious, why did you leave last night? Why not just stay and see what happened?"

Xu Shun Kang noncommittally said: "I personally wanted to stay and see, but there was no way, if I didn't leave..."

"Cough!" Xie Hua Yang slapped him on the head, reminding him, "Don't talk nonsense!"

Xu Shun Kang shrunk his neck, then smiled and said: "Almost said too much... Anyway, I had to leave, but I'm still very curious about what the scene was like."

Lin Yi curled his lips and said: "If I knew what happened, how could you see me here today?"

Xu Shun Kang was stunned, but immediately understood the meaning of Lin Yi's words, and couldn't help scratching the back of his head, laughing: "You're right! That was careless of me! Hahaha... Let's go, let's go, shall we go to the cafeteria together to eat!"

"You guys are going to eat too?" Lin Yi asked.

Xie Hua Yang said angrily: "Damn it, Xu Fatty used the biscuits to show off and feed you guys, are we not going to eat and just stay here to gnaw on the tables?"

Lin Yi awkwardly didn't say anything.

Wei Liang came over to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, let's go together, but I'll say the ugly words first, we're paying for our own meals!"

Xie Hua Yang sneered: "Hey, you little brat, I have plenty of money on my card."

Wei Liang didn't say anything, not because he wasn't willing, but because the student rules stipulated that you shouldn't hand your student ID to others.

...

May 7, X023, 11:12.

Lin Yi glanced at the time and walked down the stairs of the teaching building, heading to the cafeteria following the route marked on the map.

Walking on the cobblestone-paved road, Lin Yi carefully paid attention to the location and number of the lampposts along the way, while comparing them one by one with the map.

Then he discovered that the numbers and positions of the lampposts on the ground were exactly the same as those given on the map.

But this raised a problem.

‘Since the location information is exactly the same as on the map, then that means the journey from the school gate to the teaching building isn't actually that long... But I actually walked for a long time.’

‘And after the fog rose yesterday evening, the distance between the streetlights was obviously different from what was on the map, and even the positions seemed to have changed...’

Lin Yi walked and thought about the problem.

"Could it be that some of the streetlights aren't working? Like the lights in the classroom, do they burn out?"

Thinking this, he shook his head again.

"It shouldn't be like that."

"The fact that the classroom lights flicker and go out is written in the teaching building rules. And the student rules clearly state 'After 18:00, all the streetlights in the campus will be turned on,' so there should be no situation where the lights are off!"

"Then what exactly is going on?"

He frowned, unable to figure out the problem no matter how he thought about it.

The reason wasn't that his logic was wrong, but that the situation he encountered in reality conflicted with the rules, making the whole problem subtle... …

And there was another question that had been bothering Lin Yi, and that was this:

【After 18:00, the streetlights in the campus will be turned on. At this time, you can find the streetlight closest to you, and follow the streetlights in the direction of decreasing numbers, and you will meet the security guard.

Please follow the security guard until you reach the building on the map, and leave the security guard before other students find you.】

Following the streetlights in the direction of decreasing numbers will lead you to the security guard.

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However, judging from the S City University map attached to the teaching building rules, the layout of the streetlights on campus is completely chaotic. For example, "Teaching Building - 017" is surrounded by "Teaching Building - 016" and "Teaching Building - 012," and the positional relationship between them is completely opposite.

If you really followed the streetlights in the direction of decreasing numbers, you might go crazy.

Lin Yi walked and thought, and suddenly found some strange marks on the cobblestone ground, then he stopped and squatted down.

"What's the situation, Lao Lin?" Wei Liang asked.

Lin Yi squatted on the ground, looking at the gaps between the cobblestones, frowning, and said, "Liangzi, look, is there plaster powder on here?"

"Ah?" Wei Liang exclaimed, quickly looking down, only to see the gaps in the cobblestones filled with hardened white plaster-like substance, as if someone had rubbed plaster on the cobblestone road.

This plaster-like substance was scattered in the gaps of the cobblestone ground, extending to the end of the road.

Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang saw that Lin Yi had discovered something, but they only glanced at the plaster-like substance and said nothing.

The four walked towards the cafeteria.

Lin Yi saw that there was this kind of substance all the way, and his face immediately darkened. Even under the sunlight, he still felt a cold feeling.

He didn't know how it was formed, but a very unpleasant feeling was planted in his heart at this time.

Walking and stopping, at about 11:12, the silhouette of a building emerged from behind the green belt in the distance.

According to the map, that was the cafeteria of S City University.

Since S City University was built around the mountains in the suburbs, the ground not only has a tendency to slope, but some of it has also been directly hollowed out of some gentle mountains to build teaching buildings attached to the mountain.

The cafeteria was also a similar building.

The cafeteria looked like a two-story building from a distance, but it actually had three floors.

Due to the location of the mountain, the floor that Lin Yi saw with his naked eyes was actually the second floor of the cafeteria, which could only be reached by stairs or elevator.

The overall appearance of the cafeteria was very common, looking like a long box embedded in the mountain, and then painted with some orange-yellow paint full of school style.

But due to its attachment to the mountain, the walls of the cafeteria were covered with vegetation, and some areas could not even open the windows.

"The cafeteria is almost here, Lao Lin, how long have we been walking?" Wei Liang asked with concern.

Lin Yi looked at his watch, and then said, "So far, we have walked for 10 minutes. Judging from this, it will take about 15 minutes to reach the cafeteria."

"Well, about the same as when I walked it." Wei Liang nodded.

Lin Yi's heart moved: "What do you mean? Didn't you take this road at that time?"

A hint of doubt flashed in Wei Liang's eyes, and then he said uncertainly: "I can't remember clearly, but it feels like there is a little difference... but it may also be my 'Mandela effect', so I remembered it wrong."

Lin Yi nodded silently and said nothing.

May 7, X023, 11:16, Lin Yi and his group of four arrived at the cafeteria.

On the only way to enter the cafeteria, there was a huge and conspicuous notice board with very simple content:

【Cafeteria opening hours:

5:40 ~ 8:00;

10:40 ~ 13:20;

16:00 ~ 20:00】

Then, there were four rows of warnings with strong exclamation marks:

【It is forbidden to enter the cafeteria outside of opening hours!

It is forbidden to enter the cafeteria under abnormal weather conditions!

It is forbidden to enter the cafeteria without a student ID!

Please abide by the cafeteria rules in the cafeteria area!】

In addition, there was a line of small print:

【See the shelf below for the cafeteria rules. Before entering the cafeteria, please make sure you have read the cafeteria rules to understand the relevant content. You can also bring the cafeteria rules with you to prevent forgetting the rules, but please return the cafeteria rules when you leave the cafeteria and return here.】

This huge notice board was like a demon-exorcising archway inserted on the ground. The four warnings seemed ordinary, but in such an environment, they revealed a strange flavor. There was obviously a feeling of alarmism, but Lin Yi didn't feel strange at all.

He walked to the notice board and saw a large number of "Cafeteria Rules" on the shelf below the notice board.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang followed the reminder on the notice board and each picked up one.

Just as Lin Yi was about to read it, he found that Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang were standing aside indifferently.

"Aren't you reading it?" Lin Yi asked in confusion.

Xie Huayang was too lazy to speak, and Xu Shunkang said with a smile but not a smile: "You can read it, we don't read the 'Cafeteria Rules'."

"Then... do you want to carry one with you?" Wei Liang handed over two copies of the "Cafeteria Rules".

Xie Huayang directly slapped his hand away and said impatiently: "Don't talk so much nonsense, you guys hurry up and read it. If you dawdle, you won't have enough time to eat a meal."

"Okay, okay, okay... don't be angry, don't be angry." Xu Shunkang smiled and dispelled Xie Huayang's displeasure, and quickly said, "Anyway, you can read it, we will wait here for you to finish reading and then walk together."

Although he talked about the "Cafeteria Rules", his eyes avoided the "Cafeteria Rules" from beginning to end.

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