Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"I'm only saying what I mean literally, don't overinterpret," Tian Bufan said nonchalantly. "The main thing is I'm worried you won't be able to sleep well."

"After all, your dreams are currently the only way we can obtain information about the Art Department."

"Alright..." Lin Yi spread his hands, "So, did you guys see anything?"

"We can see, but we can't see," Wei Shan said. "We can only pretend to be asleep, sensing their locations and actions."

"When we find them, it means they've also found us," Tian Bufan shrugged. "The action of force is mutual."

"So... what did you sense?" Lin Yi asked.

Tian Bufan said, "The three of us woke up at different times. Let's go in order, Wei Shan."

Wei Shan began, "I fell asleep at 2:30."

"After the lights went out, I lay on the bed pretending to be asleep..."

"At first, nothing happened. Around 0:40... I felt the dormitory start to shake little by little."

Lin Yi was slightly startled. The bed in the dormitory had a design that he found very interesting. Saying it was just for shock absorption wouldn't be enough to describe it.

The connection structure between the mattress and the bed frame looked a bit like a tourbillon, meaning that no matter how the bed shook, the person sleeping on the mattress wouldn't feel anything unusual; they would only feel like they were lying flat.

That's why, when he woke up at 1:30, he saw the ceiling, which meant his bed had flipped one hundred and eighty degrees...

But this... If you can't feel any abnormality, then in your perception, there's no change at all. How did Wei Shan feel the shaking?

"How did you feel it?" Lin Yi was very shocked. In his impression, Wei Shan had always been the kind of person who... didn't go the intellectual route.

Wei Shan didn't think much about it and said a little embarrassedly, "Old Lin, it's not like you don't know, my sleeping habits aren't very good. I like to put my feet on the edge of the bed... So I clearly felt the dormitory shaking around 0:40."

Wei Shan's words struck Lin Yi like a bolt from the blue, giving him a sudden realization—Wei Shan's so-called 'feeling' was a real feeling, not the 'sensing' he had always relied on.

Yes, what could be more profound than the feedback from direct contact!

"I see... Wei Shan, please continue," Lin Yi said, feeling sorry for his interruption.

Wei Shan didn't care about these small details and continued, "I felt the bed under me flip one hundred and eighty degrees like a dump truck. I almost fell off, but luckily, at the critical moment, I firmly believed I was still sleeping on the bed."

"After flipping over, I knew we were all facing the floor tiles with our backs to the ceiling."

"At that time, I felt gravity was still downwards, but I couldn't tell which way was 'down' anymore. I couldn't open my eyes, so I couldn't judge whether the positional relationship between the bed and the bed frame had a problem, or whether the bed hadn't changed, but the dormitory had been turned upside down..."

「The dormitory turned upside down!」 Lin Yi thought quietly, and a vague bottle-like structure appeared in his mind, but this flash of inspiration was really elusive. After it flashed, he couldn't catch anything, like grasping smoke...

"Moreover, I felt that perhaps it wasn't just the up and down relationship between the ceiling and the floor tiles of the dormitory that was completely reversed, but more like... the entire dormitory was pulled up like a stick, then turned upside down and re-erected on the ground."

"And the design of our beds is to prevent us from being affected by this... I don't know if my guess is right, but that's how I feel."

Wei Shan scratched his head and smiled憨厚ly: "I'm the dumbest, the least good at thinking about these things... Old Lin, Young Master Tian, you guys think about this and then tell me what's going on."

"Yeah," Tian Bufan nodded, "Our default idea is correct. Now, continue talking to Old Lin about what happened after the dormitory was turned upside down?"

"Okay, after the dormitory flipped over, it was very calm at first, but after about 10 minutes, I heard some tapping sounds from outside the window..."

"The window is made of glass. The tapping sound is different from knocking on a door, and it came from the direction of the sink, so it was easy to distinguish."

"But, after the thing outside the window tapped for a while, there was no sound again. I didn't feel any changes in the airflow in the dormitory, so I could tell that nothing had entered the dormitory until then."

"But not long after the tapping on the window subsided, I seemed to hear some movement in the bathroom, like something had slipped in the bathroom, hit some basins, or bumped into something..."

"After that sound disappeared, some water sounds started to come from the bathroom..."

"That kind of sound, it sounded a bit like someone was taking a shower, but not quite. Anyway, it was splashing and splashing, sounding like water was rinsing something..."

"This sound lasted for a long time, and then, I heard some knocking sounds."

"That knocking sound wasn't the knocking sound of the dormitory, but the sound of the person in the bathroom knocking on the door from the inside, as if trying to enter our dormitory from there."

"About 20 minutes later, around 1:00, the window lock next to the sink seemed to loosen, and then the window was opened from the outside by something..."

"Something crawled in from there and opened the bathroom door... The thing inside the bathroom seemed to be dripping wet all over."

"That thing was wet all over, and maybe there were some sticky things, because the dormitory was upside down at that time, so it tripped over the upper edge of the door when it came out of the bathroom. When it fell, I heard a 'slurp' sound..."

"Then they wandered around in the dormitory, not knowing what they wanted to do, or what they were doing..."

"Later, Old Lin woke up..."

"Old Lin should have woken up around 1:30. After he woke up, a mass of something approached. I didn't know what happened, but I could feel they were there, so I pretended to turn over and knocked that thing away with a pillow."

Lin Yi nodded slightly. The experience of nearly an hour was a little short of being terrifying, but it was too torturous and煎熬.

"Then the dormitory supervisor came... I only knew that the dormitory supervisor brought an old kerosene lamp and went to close the window and the bathroom door again before leaving."

"For a period of time after the dormitory supervisor left, the dormitory was very quiet, nothing happened. After Yin Bi woke up, I fell asleep."

Kuai Hongji chimed in, "I woke up at 2:30 AM. After waking up, I coughed a few times and then started my 'shift'."

"At first, I didn't know the dormitory had inverted, but I could feel that the atmosphere in the dormitory was very oppressive…"

"How should I describe this feeling? It's like being held down and submerged to the bottom of the sea…"

"Suffocation?" Lin Yi murmured.

"Not suffocation, but a feeling of pressure and blockage. There's an indescribable pressure squeezing in from all directions… The surrounding environment became quieter and quieter, but the sounds from the windows and outside the door became more and more intense."

"That's right, it should be the feeling of being in a diving capsule."

"The storm outside the window kept hitting the window, and the window made a very harsh squeezing sound due to the pressure, but it didn't break. There were constant rubbing sounds outside the door. I don't know what was moving back and forth in the corridor, and then it brushed past the door."

«Brushed past the door…?» Lin Yi was a little surprised. «Could it be something like a wave of Nightwalkers? That's not right… Isn't there a dormitory supervisor checking the rooms?»

«Strange…»

So, with some doubts, he continued listening.

Kuai Hongji continued, "I just lay in bed, and this sound continued. Nothing abnormal happened in the middle. At about 5 o'clock, I heard movement from Tian Gongzi's side, so I went back to sleep."

Tian Bufan chimed in, "That's right, it was me."

"I woke up at 5 o'clock. After waking up, I coughed a few times. This is our signal to hand over the shift."

"After I woke up, the dormitory had calmed down. 5 o'clock is actually relatively safe, but I didn't relax…"

Lin Yi nodded slightly.

After 4:30, it was almost the time when the Nightwalkers and Pseudo-Humans began to retreat from the classrooms… And it was probably the same for the dormitory.

It was not an exaggeration to say that 5 o'clock was relatively safe.

"I don't have Wei Sang's habit, but I could still vaguely feel something. But I didn't realize it until Wei Sang said it. That should be the dormitory beds returning to normal."

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"After that, there were no problems, and then I woke up at 6:00."

"Uh… Is that it?" Lin Yi was stunned.

"Otherwise?" Tian Bufan asked rhetorically, "We're just sleeping. Unlike you dreaming, you can experience far more time than reality in one sleep."

"Okay…"

While the few were talking, they entered the teaching building area.

After some observation, Lin Yi couldn't help but say worriedly, "It seems that many streetlights along the way no longer have numbers…"

Tian Bufan pondered, "The streetlight numbers are supplemented by the black-aproned chef. Looking at this… the problem in the cafeteria is really big!"

"It should be greatly related to the 'Gray Fog Invasion'. I just don't know how much the quality of the streetlights is related to the Gray Fog's invasion of the campus, and how much the loss of streetlights affects the campus's security…"

Lin Yi frowned: "Will it affect our return to the dormitory building?"

"I'm also worried about this," Tian Bufan said.

"If we can't return to the dormitory, we can only spend the night in the classroom or go to the gymnasium."

"The classroom is no longer able to provide sufficient safe shelter for us at night."

"As for the gymnasium… there happens to be a PE class this afternoon. We can find a chance to observe the gymnasium carefully during class."

"Besides, didn't the homeroom teacher -039 once tell you that the gymnasium can serve as a shelter when necessary?"

After being reminded by Tian Bufan, Lin Yi immediately remembered the situation back then.

["I can only say… to you, the dormitory supervisor's office and the classroom are no different in abnormal weather."

"If you encounter abnormal weather, go to the gymnasium while you can still discern the direction."

"The gymnasium is open 24 hours. You can explain the situation to the PE students with your student ID. If necessary, the gymnasium can be used as a shelter."

"In short, except for normal circumstances, at other times, once you find that the visibility is so low that you can't see the distant buildings, don't return to the classroom."]

For some reason, these few sentences appeared extremely clearly in Lin Yi's mind at this moment, and he even remembered the serious and earnest tone of the homeroom teacher -039 at the time.

"Then… how do we judge whether to go to the dormitory or the gymnasium?" Lin Yi asked.

If one person went back to the dormitory and the other went to the gymnasium, wouldn't they be unable to reunite at night? In that case, wouldn't they lose the best opportunity for discussion?

Moreover, the dormitory is the only place mentioned in the rules where one can sleep. If they went to the gymnasium… they didn't know what would happen.

"The PE class is only one hour long. I don't think there's a chance to explore the gymnasium…" Lin Yi said softly.

"Still exploring?" Wei Liang didn't know when he put down his hand covering his ears. Hearing this, he couldn't help but sneer, "As soon as you enter the gymnasium, you'll definitely be grabbed by the boss to wash—no, to swim! What are you exploring for?"

The corner of Lin Yi's mouth twitched slightly.

Tian Bufan also said at this time: "The matter of the gymnasium… still needs to be discussed in the long term. We'll talk about it when there's a chance."

"What I'm worried about is, what position does the gymnasium occupy under the Gray Fog Invasion, and will it have problems like the cafeteria?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi's heart trembled. He couldn't help but think of the boss's appearance, but he also couldn't help but feel some worry: «Gymnasium… Boss…»

He thought of the concept of the "Angel Statue" that was clearly mentioned in the gymnasium rules. In fact, the gymnasium rules were the only ones that mentioned the Angel Statue.

What does this mean?

Ordinary experience students may also encounter Angel Statues!

Moreover, Angel Statues will enter the gymnasium during PE class!

«The interior of the gymnasium is the safest place on campus. Welcome to visit.»

So contradictory…

After experiencing the threat of the Grinning Angel, Lin Yi didn't think that the Angel Statue appearing in the gymnasium would be anything good. It was likely to be the "Wrathful Angel."

Uncertain, uncertain… Lin Yi scratched his head, feeling that if he continued to think about it, he would have to pluck out a few hairs.

The few walked past a mountain road corner, and the teaching building appeared in sight.

At this time, Tian Bufan suddenly said: "By the way, there's one more thing."

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