Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Li Huiyuan was so mesmerized that she forgot to paddle for a moment, and her body slowly sank into the water. It wasn't until the water in the swimming pool covered her nose and choked her that she suddenly snapped out of it and quickly regained her senses.

"Too weird!" Li Huiyuan couldn't help but shiver. When she looked at Lin Yi again, there were still ripples around him, but the feeling of light and shadow breaking and merging was gone.

It seemed that what she had just seen was just her hallucination.

Just then, she saw Xu Shunkang, dressed in a swimsuit, enter the swimming pool and head straight for the boss.

Xu Shunkang said something to the boss, but the boss's expression didn't change at all, as if everything was expected.

Xu Shunkang was stunned for a moment, but then he saw the boss instructing him again, his eyes flashing with strange colors, and finally he quietly retreated.

Lin Yi also noticed this scene, but he didn't know what had happened.

In the moment he was distracted by this, he heard a call in his ear again:

[Lin Yi...]

At the same time, he seemed to feel something cold and sinister quietly entangling his feet...

[? !]

His heart shook, and he found that his feet really couldn't move, and he was about to sink immediately.

He quickly held his breath and plunged into the water, looking down at his feet.

He didn't find anything that could entangle his feet at all, but he immediately noticed that due to the change of light and shadow, a beam of light's shadow was cast on his feet, and the position of that shadow actually produced a strong sense of grip, as if it had wrapped around his feet.

He tried to stir the water, but the light and shadow under the water were not affected by the water.

He felt the shadow's restraint becoming stronger and stronger, and this non-physical thing had exceeded his cognition and confrontation range, so no matter what he did, it had no effect.

[Lin Yi...]

He heard that voice again.

[Lin Yi... I'm Wei Liang...]

[I'm Wei Liang...]

A terrifying call became clearer and clearer in his ears...

His vision suddenly flickered, and he suddenly found that the bottom of the pool, which should have been there, sticking to the tiles, had disappeared at some point. Below him was an endless, deep, black cave...

Even though he was in the swimming pool, the terror of deep-sea phobia instantly enveloped him...

The dark abyss seemed to have some kind of magic, and the shadows entangled his legs like materialized tentacles, and began to spread upwards like tentacles...

At the same time, the deep voice came intermittently from the dark abyss like an echo in an empty valley...

[I'm Wei Liang...]

[I drowned by the sea...]

[You looked for my body... you didn't find it...]

[The one next to you is fake...]

[Don't trust him...]

[Don't... trust him...]

[Trust me... Lin Yi...]

[I'm still here... take me back quickly...]

[I... am right here...]

[Come quickly... come quickly...]

In the dark abyss, the clanging sound of chains was better transmitted through the water, intertwined with the intermittent sound, as if some kind of strange existence was using onomatopoeia to call.

However, in the dim space where light and shadow intertwined, he seemed to see a blurred outline gradually emerging. The thing looked like a corpse or something else, and it was chained, and the other end extended into the dark void.

That figure... seemed to be Wei Liang's appearance.

Its skin showed an unnatural bluish-gray color, like the texture that ancient sculptures would have after a long period of time, and the texture of the clothes on its body was covered with moss...

That was a sculpture...

A broken sculpture locked by chains, like those sculptures in the abandoned C Group 18 class, but this sculpture was locked in the water for some reason, and it was still floating upwards.

If it weren't for being locked by chains, Lin Yi even suspected that it would come directly to him.

[Lin Yi... look at me...]

[Look at me...]

[Come and see me... and you will know everything...]

[Come quickly...]

[Come on...]

A strange feeling arose in Lin Yi's heart. He wanted to go over and take a look, but he resisted instinctively...

He didn't believe it was Wei Liang, but his curiosity was pounding in his chest.

However, the abyss slowly magnified in front of his eyes...

He didn't approach the abyss, the abyss came to him.

He suddenly shuddered.

He remembered that he was in the water!

And in the water... he would sink!

He suddenly raised his head, but his heart turned cold.

[Indeed...]

Obviously, he just held his breath and put his face under the water, but now when he looked up, he found that he was already a considerable distance from the surface of the water, and the feeling of restraint on his feet had disappeared.

He quickly swam up.

Swim up... up...

[Huh?!]

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and his whole body felt cold, and his hair stood on end.

He was horrified to find that he had lost control of his body!

It wasn't that the sense of restraint disappeared, but... he couldn't feel that sense of restraint anymore!

Although he had undergone recovery training, this "special effect" that had nothing to do with "injury recovery" really left him with no countermeasures!

[Gurgle...]

He tried to struggle, and a bubble popped out of his mouth.

[Gurgle... Gurgle...]

He didn't even have a chance to struggle, and he sank down inexplicably.

He felt that his will was frighteningly clear, but his body had lost the ability to resist.

He looked at the ripples on the water, the hazy brilliance, like light fog floating in the primeval forest after the rain, hazy and ethereal.

He was like a big fish quietly suspended between the sky and the water, belly up and sinking down, with a strange beauty of whale fall.

But his size couldn't be called a whale fall, but it could barely be called a shark's demise.

What's even weirder is that he felt that the "primitive pollution" in his body was terrifyingly calm, and he couldn't even sense the flow of supernatural power in his body.

He was more and more like a driver of a large machine. When the whole machine broke down, he could only helplessly watch the machine sink into the abyss while sitting in the cockpit.

A sense of powerlessness deeply enveloped him, even surpassing the horror brought by deep-sea phobia.

"Lin Yi!"

"Lin Yi!!"

Vaguely, he seemed to see a figure appearing on the water, and the rapid call reached his ears along with the water.

But his mood was calmer than ever, as if the other party was not calling him.

In a trance, a blurred picture appeared in front of his eyes...

In the scene, there was a figure sitting beside him, talking to him.

“Since that's the case… you should at least have a name…”

“A name… is it important?”

“It's very important.”

“Then just pick one randomly.”

“Hey, there's no mistake, I said it's very important! Hey, hey, hey, stop eating snacks, pick a name first!”

The figure seemed to grab a bag of snacks from his hand.

“Snacks…”

“Lin Shi? What a lousy name! This time you're the 'protagonist', shouldn't you be a little more serious!”

“First time… protagonist… then don't call me Snacks, call me Zero One…”

“Hey, you're not really going to be this casual, are you…?”

“It's alright, I guess.”

Blurry images floated before Lin Yi's eyes. Everything in the images was blurry, only the voice was like that of a familiar old friend. And the only thing clear in all the images was when he finally said “Zero One”...

A number appeared before his eyes…

「…01…」

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The edges were blurry, but you could vaguely see a “4” on the left and a “6” on the right.

「4016」.

…

“Lin Yi!”

“Lin Yi!”

「Splash—」

That figure broke through the surface of the water, diving down like a nimble mermaid.

“Lin Yi! Lin… ZI!!”

It was Li Huiyuan.

She swam to him and grabbed his shoulders with both hands.

Their eyes met.

But Lin Yi's eyes were obviously a little dazed.

Li Huiyuan hesitated for a moment, embracing the idea of taking advantage of the situation, and quietly leaned over, wanting to give him air like a mermaid.

The two faces got closer and closer…

And then…

「Clack」, their swimming goggles collided first.

The romantic atmosphere was instantly ended by the goggles. Li Huiyuan first let out an "Ouch" in the water, followed by a series of ruined "Glug glug… glug glug glug…"

She grabbed Lin Yi's shoulders and began to float upwards, quickly lifting Lin Yi out of the water.

Then she took Lin Yi all the way to the edge of the pool, pushed him onto the shore, while her own little heart was jumping 「thump thump」 wildly, her face flushed red, and the heat on her forehead was almost catching up with the scarlet steam of the physical education teacher…

The boss glanced strangely at Li Huiyuan, who was inexplicably "overheating", seeming to see through her little thoughts, pursing his lips and trying not to laugh.

“Boss!!!” Her little thoughts exposed, the red-faced Li Huiyuan immediately glared at the boss angrily, “He didn't notice, you're not allowed to say it!”

The boss flicked her forehead, teasing her rarely: “Goggles touched… does that count?”

“I…” Li Huiyuan was immediately speechless, puffing up like a pufferfish about to explode.

At this time, Lin Yi was lying silently by the pool, not daring to say a word.

In fact, he had begun to recover from the strange atmosphere when Li Huiyuan grabbed his shoulders, but before he could regain control of his body, Li Huiyuan had launched a sneak attack…

Although she missed, uh, missed the mouth, he didn't dare to speak up.

After all, Lu Yunfei once had a bold statement that a real man should submit when necessary.

The boss patted his stomach: “If you've recovered, get up and talk about what happened.”

Lin Yi quickly got up, looking straight at the boss: “I hallucinated again…”

“What did you see this time?”

“…The abyss.”

The boss's hand, which was stirring the water, suddenly stopped.

“Say it again.”

“The… abyss?”

“Be more specific, what did it look like?”

Lin Yi then described the scene he had seen, and then secretly glanced at Wei Liang over there.

Wei Liang… seemed to be having a great time swimming with Xia Lian, howling like ghosts and wolves, looking both pained and happy.

He added: “I also saw a humanoid thing, I don't know if it was a sculpture or something else, locked in that abyss by a chain, seemingly calling my name…”

“That's all.”

“Abyss… chains… figure…” The boss lowered his eyes slightly and sighed slowly, “It's hard to imagine how you could have survived until now.”

“Boss… you seemed to have said this last time.”

“Last time I didn't understand you, after understanding you this time… I feel it even more deeply.”

“I realize now that any training I give you seems to only awaken a part of the abilities you already have, and cannot truly improve you in any real sense.”

The boss's eyes were a little complicated.

“I may be a little abrupt to ask this, but, before you entered the school… what exactly did you do?”

“I am a… construction major in college…”

“Anything else?”

“You don't only remember this, do you?”

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment.

Then, some blurry images seemed to flash in his mind again…

A place like an operating table where someone was lying…

A room full of bookshelves…

A dormitory that looked very normal…

And… recently, that string of… 「4016」 numbers…

His eyeballs began to move rapidly from side to side, his eyes flickering, but his whole body was still like a statue.

“Alright.” The boss's voice interrupted his thoughts.

“Boss…?” Lin Yi asked in confusion.

“Don't think about it.” The boss seemed to have thought of something, “What should be remembered will be remembered.”

“Boss, can we not speak in riddles?” Lin Yi said bitterly.

The boss shook his head: “Riddles? I just said it casually, did you misunderstand something?”

“Uh…”

“Continue swimming when you recover.” The boss said lightly, “The 「ashes」 on your body seem to have been almost absorbed. If there are no accidents, this hidden danger can be resolved without spending too late.”

Lin Yi silently went into the water. Although he was very unwilling, he couldn't help but ask: “What if there are accidents?”

The boss glanced at him: “You better pray that there are no accidents.”

“Just from what I know, there is an enraged angel squatting for you on the way back.”

“Speaking of enraged angels, the physical education teacher seems to have taken down one?” Lin Yi asked. He heard the teacher say that he had repelled it, but he was very suspicious, so he took the opportunity to ask.

The boss shook his head: “Only repelled it.”

“Then… I seem to have felt the teacher dragging an enraged angel into the office.”

“Just a… 「shell」.”