Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“I seem to be in…” He wanted to say "Art Student Handbook," but immediately stopped himself. His mind raced, and he changed his words, “I seem to have seen his title on some scraps of paper. I don't know if that's his title, but my intuition tells me it is.”

“He is…”

“'Night Watchman'!”

「Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang…」

The moment he said the words "Night Watchman," he heard a rapid whistling sound in his ears. His vision flickered rapidly and zoomed towards the end of the pool.

The darkness seemed to want to swallow him, but the "camera sense" in his eyes was like the scene in "Avengers 3" where America's ass emerged from the darkness. A figure turned around in the darkness…

A black trench coat, an indistinguishable face, a flickering oil lamp, and a figure with a storm and waves surging behind him…

Night Watchman.

It was him.

As if hearing Lin Yi's call, he turned from the darkness and cast a scorching gaze like the blazing sun.

「Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang…」

The vision flickered, and the scene before Lin Yi's eyes immediately returned to normal.

The end of the pool was just the pool.

There was nothing else.

“I… I seemed to have another hallucination just now, no, a delusion…”

Lin Yi shook his head and took a few deep breaths.

The boss slowly withdrew his gaze from the end of the pool, looking at Lin Yi with a rather complicated expression.

“I will give you a copy of the 'Sports Student Handbook' as soon as possible, and then you will retain your trial student status. When you encounter some unexpected events, you can choose to abide by the 'Sports Student Handbook,' and when the contents of the rules conflict, you can choose to abide by the 'Sports Student Handbook' and violate the 'Student Handbook'…”

“I'll explain the specifics to you slowly when I give you the handbook.”

Lin Yi's eyes lit up with some joy, but seeing the boss's expression, he couldn't be happy.

“What? You're happy to get the 'Sports Student Handbook'?” The boss's eyes had a hint of playfulness.

“Uh… I can't be happy.” Lin Yi tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth, but found it was much harder than suppressing a gun.

The boss didn't make things difficult for him, gently pressed his temples, and sighed softly.

“Adjust to the water temperature, and then start swimming with your goggles on.”

Lin Yi asked, “Isn't there any training content?”

“There's no need for training content anymore…” The boss glanced at him faintly, his gaze falling on the water, “If nothing unexpected happens, you will have an accident midway.”

A few black lines drooped from Lin Yi's forehead: “Boss, what you said is so hurtful…”

The boss glanced at him: “You know your own situation. If you finish swimming smoothly, who would be the most scared?”

“Me…” Lin Yi replied muffledly.

Having experienced so many things, even washing his face could cause hallucinations. If swimming went smoothly, he would feel abnormal instead.

“Huihuizi and I are ready to save you.”

The boss reached out to Lin Yi beside him: “Okay, it's getting late… I'll give you a little boost.”

“Okay… Eh—?!” Lin Yi reached out and grabbed the boss's hand, but as soon as his hand came out of the water, the boss grabbed his wrist…

The next moment, he was pulled out of the pool by the boss like a radish, and thrown out like a sandbag…

The outrageous thing was that after throwing Lin Yi, such a big person, the boss still sat steadily by the pool.

While Lin Yi was drawing an arc in the air, the boss even leisurely flicked the ripples on the water's surface.

“Go watch Lin Yi, don't get too close to him… Be careful not to be accidentally injured by him.”

The boss glanced at Li Huiyuan. Li Huiyuan understood and, putting on her goggles, plunged into the pool and swam towards Lin Yi's landing point.

「Splash—Thump!」

Lin Yi landed like a depth charge somewhere fifty meters away, and the huge waves stunned the trial students who were swimming nearby.

Some trial students who hadn't noticed at first and were swimming with their heads down suddenly jumped out of the water, yelling and cursing, “There's a torpedo in the pool!”

Outside the gymnasium on the second floor, Xu Shunkang, Yi Hang, and Tian Hengyu watched the situation inside through the transparent glass of the swimming pool, wiping away sweat at the same time.

“The boss is still so fierce…” Yi Hang shrank his neck, “But she really has confidence in Lin Yi…”

“He was trained by hand, how could she not be confident…” Tian Hengyu muttered in a low voice.

Xu Shunkang's expression was awkward: “Honestly, the last time the boss trained a freshman like this, the freshman's arm broke in the boss's hand…”

“…”

“But tell me, is the boss training Xiaohuiyuan… or Lin Yi?”

“Emmm…”

The three of them fell silent.

At first, the boss was indeed training Li Huiyuan, and Li Huiyuan's progress was indeed rapid, but since Lin Yi came, the boss seemed to have been training Lin Yi all the time, and Li Huiyuan was just training along with him.

“Lin Yi is not a sports student, and there is not much time for training, so he is the focus of training, right? After all, there are plenty of opportunities to train Xiaohuiyuan.”

“What you said makes sense…”

“I feel the same way.”

“But I always feel that this Lin Yi is not right!” Tian Hengyu pondered.

“I feel it too.” Yi Hang echoed.

Xu Shunkang was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, “Speaking of this, I feel like I'm the most qualified to speak.”

“The day he entered the school, everyone in his batch, except for the people in his batch, all died, and they obtained their student IDs through the basement of the teaching building.”

“The abnormal weather started that night. I thought about it later and found that that day was almost the day the gray fog invasion began, or the second day… Anyway, it was very abnormal.”

“But I didn't know, so I warned him not to run around according to the usual practice… The next day I found that he really survived.”

“I thought he was an 'obedient' guy, but I didn't expect him to be chased and killed by a green hat when he was eating. From that time on, I felt that this guy was a bit abnormal, and the later physical education classes confirmed this…”

“His inspiration is too high, even higher than Xiaohuiyuan.”

“It is generally impossible for such a person to be sent to the campus as an 'ordinary trial student', so I thought he was a sports talent specially sent by the official, so I took care of him a little.”

“But the class teacher knows nothing about this, there is no instruction at all… On the contrary, Xiaohuiyuan seems… to have a record.”

“What did Xiaohuiyuan say?”

“The official record says her major is 'Mysterious Genealogy' and 'Understanding and Application of Extraordinary Materials'…”

“A major that combines sports and arts!”

“It is estimated that they will choose a path based on her extraordinary affinity after she is sent in…,” Xu Shunkang said, “She should be more suitable for the art route, and the sports route… may be a little less effective.”

“Hey, who cares! Although Charizard's special attack is higher than its physical attack, its physical skills are still more effective than many normal fighting skills…”

“I get it now! You're saying her… her base stats are high?” Tian Hengyu's eyes lit up. After looking at Li Huiyuan a few more times, he felt like he should craft a Poké Ball and throw it at her little head.

Xu Shunkang's mouth twitched violently. He quickly wiped away sweat, “I'm just making an analogy. Her talent means she wouldn't be bad in the sports department. Maybe she could even learn some artistic skills to assist herself.”

“There aren't many students like that…”

“Not just not many, but…” Yi Hang glanced at Xu Shunkang.

Xu Shunkang said in a deep voice, “Don't worry about me, just say it… It's not just that there aren't many, but… since Big Head died, almost no students have had that kind of talent. Even if some seedlings occasionally appear, they haven't been allowed…”

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“After that incident, it was indeed a wake-up call.”

As they chatted, they seemed to touch upon a major event from the past.

Yi Hang patted Xu Shunkang on the shoulder, “If it were me, I would definitely make the same choice as you. The only reason Big Head failed was because man proposes, God disposes.”

“Failure is failure, there are no excuses!” Just then, a figure hurried into the third-floor stairwell. Hearing them discuss “Big Head,” they slowed down a bit, but their eyes were cold.

Xu Shunkang was stunned for a moment, then turned around, worried, “Zhi, why aren't you resting? What are you doing here?”

The person who came was Xie Huayang, called Zhi by Xu Shunkang because of a mole on the corner of his mouth.

Xie Huayang now had bandages wrapped around his chest and a blue and white school uniform draped over his shoulders. If you looked more closely, you would notice that the sleeve of his left arm was empty.

“Something happened upstairs. What are you guys doing here? Where's the boss?” He hurried down the stairs.

As soon as Xie Huayang spoke, the atmosphere of discussion immediately dissipated, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

Xu Shunkang didn't seem to notice Xie Huayang's phrase “Where's the boss?” and subconsciously looked towards the stairwell.

“No need to look. The others are dealing with the incident. This place is closest to the gymnasium, so I came.” Xie Huayang came to them in a hurry, “Where's the boss?”

Xu Shunkang's expression changed slightly, “The boss went to the swimming pool. What happened upstairs?”

“A few brothers have been corrupted into Green Hats, but when we found them, we didn't know how long it had been since the first Converter appeared. The students upstairs are already dealing with it, but… you know the characteristics of Green Hats. We're all injured and can only focus on containing them.”

“The containment has just been completed upstairs, and I immediately freed myself to come downstairs.”

“We've dealt with some for now, but we don't know how many escaped… This matter must be reported to the boss and the teacher.”

Xie Huayang looked at Tian Hengyu and said, “Lao Tian, go to the gymnasium and call a few brothers to go upstairs. You'll know when you get there. Time is of the essence. The rest of us will go to the boss, and we'll talk as we go.”

“By the way, Lao Tian, remember to prepare your gear in advance.”

“Okay!” Tian Hengyu immediately rushed into the gymnasium, while Xie Huayang paused slightly and rushed to the first floor.

Tian Hengyu, who had just entered the gymnasium, could still hear Xie Huayang's voice coming from the stairwell.

It seemed that mentioning “Big Head” touched some nerve in him, and he couldn't help but curse again: “Big Head was too impatient. I advised him countless times about that matter, but he just wouldn't listen!”

“It's not like no one was willing to work with him. Why was he so eager to prove something to the boss?”

“He's just a self-righteous and stubborn idiot who really thought it was that easy to understand the rules!”

Although Xie Huayang cursed severely, his eyes were full of sadness.

Xu Shunkang opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but saw that Xie Huayang had already ended the topic: “Okay, let's not talk about Big Head's matter…”

“You go find the boss, and I'll report to the teacher to see what the boss says… Yi Hang, you go call some more brothers.”

Xu Shunkang asked, “How serious is it?”

“Now it's just the beginning, and the situation will be serious when the beginnings take shape… especially at this critical moment.” Xie Huayang said, “For the time being, it can be determined that because of the existence of the old kerosene lamp, all the Green Hats have not left the third floor.”

“That's not right, Zhi.” Xu Shunkang suddenly thought of something.

“Hmm?”

“Lao Yan is dead.”

“Ah? Is it related to this?”

“Lao Yan encountered a Green Hat in the bathing area of the gymnasium and died with it.”

“Damn!” Xie Huayang waved his only arm heavily, “When did it happen?”

“I don't know.” Xu Shunkang shook his head, “It should have been around the time Lin Yi arrived at the gymnasium, about half an hour ago. Could it be related to what's happening upstairs now?”

“I can't see the connection for now, but the problem on the third floor only appeared about ten minutes ago! It can't be that far off, right?” Xie Huayang frowned.

“Report to the teacher and the boss first.” Xu Shunkang knew that this matter could not be delayed, and after speaking, he rushed towards the swimming pool.

… …

15:13, Gymnasium First Floor, Swimming Pool.

「Splash—」

This was the second time Lin Yi had been thrown out by the boss. Compared to the last time when he choked on water, he was much more adapted this time.

After entering the water, he quickly moved the waves, causing himself to emerge from the water surface, and then adjusted his rhythm, starting to swim towards the shore.

His whole body was wrapped in pool water, giving him a unique sense of coolness, as if he was sliding in some kind of silky colloid. The green mist inside his body was taken out of his body along with this process, forming an invisible white powdery particle on the water surface.

This swimming rhythm didn't consume him at all, and he began to enjoy this comfortable feeling.

Li Huiyuan was paddling beside him. So far, she still couldn't understand what the boss's intention was.

Was it really just simple swimming?

Or was the problem not exposed yet?

She didn't dare to be careless, staring at Lin Yi, and then a thought popped into her mind for no reason—this guy's body is quite well-managed!

Moreover, she seemed to be able to feel some kind of strange aura emanating from Lin Yi, causing her to subconsciously have a sense of closeness, wanting to get a little closer…

She quickly shook her head, dispelling this somewhat rebellious thought, and then… couldn't help but take a few more glances.

But at one moment, she seemed to have blurred vision and found it difficult to capture Lin Yi's figure, feeling that his surroundings were filled with a floating light mist.

But after a few glances, she saw Lin Yi's figure again, and also saw countless broken lights and shadows in the surrounding waves. Those lights and shadows lingered around him with the rippling waves, like a Saturn ring.