Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Two unrelated scenes!"

Lin Yi felt like he'd been struck by lightning, a deafening roar in his ears, and his mind buzzed instantly.

The internal structure of the dormitory flashed in his mind, and then he separated the rotating part from the original part, instantly obtaining two independent scenes.

Cafeteria, napkin, layer penetration…

Tian Bufan's deduction about the cafeteria was also recalled at this moment, and then applied to the dormitory like a formula!

"The dormitory is also composed of multiple layers!"

"After falling asleep, the layer where one is located changes!"

"But the layering of the cafeteria is related to the plastic air curtain. What does the dormitory rely on to divide the layers?"

"No, no… In the same cafeteria, the chef with the green apron could penetrate…"

"Shadow!"

"It's related to 'light'!"

"After midnight, the dormitory enters another layer after the lights are turned off, and this layer is inherently a 'safe layer' 'independent' from the dangerous environment of the dormitory, just like the circle drawn by Sun Wukong!"

"And the penetration of those night roamers is like the green-aproned chef offering tomatoes, a kind of layer penetration. That's why sleeping in the dormitory, or even just pretending to sleep, doesn't matter, because the underlying logic… is still 'do not interact with anything'!"

"It's still the meaning of 'ignore'!"

Lin Yi didn't expect that the value of "ignore" would continue to rise.

Thinking about it this way, the school's "one-size-fits-all" approach to the rules has a kind of clumsy beauty to it.

"But in that case… which layer is the dormitory manager in?"

"Is it the layer of the night roamers, or… does it also have its own layer?"

"And since layers are mentioned… then the 'door' attribute has to be mentioned. Although the bathroom is small, if you have to say it, it is also something with a 'door' attribute in the dormitory. Should there also be a layer inside?"

Lin Yi felt a little itchy on his scalp, as if he was about to grow a brain…

But at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a little excited. Originally, he thought that this video could provide very few clues, but he didn't expect that Li Huiyuan's reminder would instead lead to a crucial "hidden clue"!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Li Huiyuan with burning eyes, thinking that Hui Hui Zi was really a lucky charm, and she woke him up with a casual remark!

Wonderful, wonderful!

But at this time, Li Huiyuan was no longer paying attention to him…

After she finished speaking, Lin Yi was overjoyed but showed no expression on his face, so she weakly started doing her own thing, fiddling with a small notebook that he didn't know what it was.

Lin Yi silently withdrew his burning gaze and continued watching the video.

The things in the back of the video seemed "ordinary", and the time was finally fixed at "00:42:39 / 7 / 8 / X023".

When watching the video, he also thought of another thing, the matter of "Dorm Manager - 28 - X0230503021".

That dormitory manager was the blond dormitory manager Mao Zi encountered in the dormitory building corridor on the morning of May 7th. The dormitory manager was carrying an old kerosene lamp, and he was shivering, not knowing what he was afraid of.

That dormitory manager took Mao Zi to the art office and left. Lin Yi also believed that it would be difficult for him to have any more interaction with him.

But he never expected that the grinning angel who had been following him for almost a day, hiding in the shadows and pestering him, was actually this dormitory manager.

"This is too much of a coincidence, right!"

Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh, but after this thought emerged, he felt that something was wrong again.

Can there really be such a coincidence?

All coincidences are inevitable.

"Could this be inevitable?"

"Did I miss some clues that could connect things…?"

He put the digital camera aside, took out his notepad, released Li Huiyuan's hand, and took out a pen to write:

“Dorm Manager…”

“Art Building…”

“Mao Zi…”

“Me…”

After writing, he circled the few words including himself, and then drew lines to try to find the connection between them…

"That's right! There's one more thing!"

He wrote down two more keywords:

“Hourglass…”

“Kerosene Lamp…”

"I understand!" He had a flash of inspiration.

"Among all the grinning angels I know, I only remember two grinning angels holding hourglasses in their hands!"

"One is the one following me… and the other is the one that appeared on the evening of May 7th, no, after midnight, so it was at zero o'clock on May 8th… at the corner of the staircase in the teaching building."

"Yes… This is not even one of the grinning angels who ambushed Mao Zi in the elevator, the way it appeared is a bit different."

"These two grinning angels… should be the same one."

"It locked onto Mao Zi first, but Mao Zi escaped back to the art building layer, so it followed the ashes to find me…?"

"No… it wasn't it who found me, but… I found it?"

Lin Yi had imagined the teaching building in the rainy night in his mind, and then established some kind of connection with this grinning angel from some unknown level, and then, this grinning angel entangled him like a lingering ghost.

In this case, aside from Mao Zi's problem, the root cause is that he himself unknowingly screwed himself over?

He felt his brain itching again. What exactly is going on?

At first, he thought Mao Zi had a big problem, but then he found that he was also starting to have problems, but now it seems that his problem is even bigger than Mao Zi's.

He looked at the lines on the notepad and sorted out another line:

"Wait, the time when the dormitory manager sent Mao Zi to the art building was around 3 a.m. on May 7th…"

"The appearance of the grinning angel was on the evening of May 7th, no, after zero o'clock, so it was at zero o'clock on May 8th…"

"In just one day, that dormitory manager transformed into a grinning angel!"

"There… must have been some completely unimaginable things that happened!"

"Could it be related to the old kerosene lamp?"

After the petrified hourglass shell broke, it revealed an old kerosene lamp that had already failed.

"Could it be… is the ineffective old kerosene lamp some kind of key 'prop' that induces or promotes the dormitory manager's transformation into a grinning angel?"

Lin Yi wasn't sure. He only knew that the lit old kerosene lamp could drive away night roamers, but he didn't know if the ineffective old kerosene lamp was just "ineffective".

"Or… was the dormitory manager himself already on the path to transforming into a grinning angel, and the extraordinary characteristics of the old kerosene lamp suppressed its transformation process?"

"So, as soon as the old kerosene lamp failed, the dormitory manager became a grinning angel?"

The core point of these two guesses is that “the ineffective old kerosene lamp” may promote the dormitory manager's transformation into a grinning angel.

He wrote a simple formula in his notepad: 【Dwelling + Lamp (X) = Abnormality】.

The core of the second conjecture was that the "dorm manager himself" had already begun to transform into the Smiling Angel. He wrote down the second formula:

【Dwelling → Abnormality】

Finally, he added:

【Dwelling + Lamp (√) = ?】

He looked at these formulas and actually felt somewhat satisfied. Of course, he wrote it this way mainly as a precaution, in case the death note was picked up by someone and caused a sense of cognitive collapse.

Of course, this might just be his wishful thinking. If this notebook is picked up, something could happen with just a casual flip through it, let alone someone reading from the first page to the formulas… …

Suddenly, he had a new inspiration.

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"If the above statement 'Old kerosene lamps can suppress the dorm manager's transformation into the Smiling Angel' is true, then… …"

"Then, who are the old kerosene lamps hanging all over the gymnasium protecting against… …?"

Thinking of this, a strange thought, like a seedling breaking through the soil, uncontrollably sprouted from his heart. The image that flashed before his eyes was a scene he had imagined based on Li Huiyuan's description… …

Inside the gymnasium office, every physical education teacher wore a burlap sack over their head and chained themselves to the wall with iron chains, while constantly emitting blood-colored steam… …

Secondly, when Teacher Wang attacked him, there was indeed a thick, blood-red steam wrapped around the blue flame.

"Could it be… …the P.E. teacher?"

He didn't know if the P.E. teacher resembled a security guard.

He also didn't know if there was any connection between the P.E. teacher and the security guard.

However, he had only seen the blood-red steam on the P.E. teacher in two entities so far: the Pseudo-Human Li Kai and the Wrathful Angel.

The blood-colored aura in Pseudo-Human Li Kai's body was very thin, so it could be temporarily disregarded.

But what about the Wrathful Angel?

The P.E. teacher and the Wrathful Angel must have some connection… …

Could it be that the P.E. teacher would transform into the Wrathful Angel, and the old kerosene lamps could prevent their transformation process?

That's why he hadn't heard of the P.E. teachers leaving the gymnasium, and they didn't even leave the gymnasium office. Most of the time, the P.E. classes were pseudo-study sessions where the P.E. students led the experiential students in training activities.

Lin Yi couldn't help but narrow his eyes. This conjecture was too terrifying and would make his perception of the gymnasium even more horrifying.

And the so-called "safest" place in the gymnasium, could it be a case of 'darkness under the lamp'?

The P.E. teacher, who had more physical manifestation than the Wrathful Angel, coupled with the old kerosene lamps with transcendent characteristics, made the gymnasium impregnable with their powerful combination.

Of course, "the gymnasium is the safest place on campus" does not equal "staying in the gymnasium is the safest thing to do."

Lin Yi had figured out the dialectical relationship here.

Just like "sleeping in the dormitory is the safest thing to do" does not equal "being in the dormitory is the safest thing to do"… …

It was indeed a stimulating and unsettling discovery.

"Sure enough, there is no such thing as absolute safety… … Being relatively safe is already the biggest benefit this campus offers."

Lin Yi sighed quietly. Imperceptibly, he had accepted a certain essential anomaly of the campus.

He put away the notepad, then picked up the digital camera. Just as he was about to put the digital camera back in his bag, Tian Gongzi's words suddenly appeared in his mind.

"… …If you turn the volume to the maximum, you can hear some strange… …noise… …"

"Strange Noise"

A trace of light flashed in Lin Yi's eyes. He pressed replay, turned the sound to the maximum, and then watched it at a faster speed… …

As before, there was nothing unusual before the dormitory flipped, but when the dormitory started to flip, some strange sounds appeared in the picture.

The sound was indeed inaudible, like something rubbing against glass, a low whisper that was hard to hear.

He originally thought he would hear strange calls or garbled, eerie syllables mixed in the storm of pain, but he found that it was different from those, and seemed… …much more normal in comparison.

No wonder even Tian Gongzi only thought it was "some strange noise."

Since he had no clue, he wouldn't listen to it anymore. He would definitely react to such a sound when he encountered it in the future. It was useless to listen blindly now.

He put the digital camera back in his bag and zipped it up, then looked at Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan was still holding the small notebook and looking at it curiously: "Li Huiyuan, what are you looking at?"

Seeing that Li Huiyuan didn't answer, he asked again.

Still no answer.

So he gently patted her on the shoulder.

"Li Huiyuan… …?"

"Hmm?!" Li Huiyuan frowned slightly, displeased, "You were so quick and decisive to shake me off just now, and now you know to call me?"

"And also, forget it, forget it, Li Huiyuan is Li Huiyuan, now is not the time to dwell on such small nicknames. Anyway, no matter what I say, I doubt you'll remember!"

"Eh… …?" Lin Yi didn't understand Li Huiyuan's winding thought process for a moment. After a moment of愣, he remembered that he should have called her Hui Hui Zi, so he could only smile awkwardly.

Li Huiyuan didn't unreasonably hold onto this, took the initiative to resolve the awkwardness, and handed over the small notebook: "I'm looking through the rules to see if there's anything we should be doing now."

"Rules? 'Gymnasium Student Rules'?" Lin Yi was shocked and quickly closed the small notebook. Sure enough, there was a row of large characters on the cover—"Gymnasium Student Rules."

"Damn, you've been reading 'Gymnasium Student Rules' next to me for so long?"

"Ah… …? Otherwise?" Li Huiyuan blinked her innocent big eyes. "Otherwise, would I be reading a pocket book at a time like this?"

"Uh… …" Lin Yi thought to himself that he should have read the digital camera later and let everyone read the rules together!

"So, did you find anything that corresponds to this situation?" Lin Yi asked.

"No!" Li Huiyuan shook her head. Suddenly, she slapped her forehead, "Oh dear! I almost forgot… …"

She reached into her skirt and took out a small notebook from the pleated skirt pocket… …

"Ah? This is… …?" Lin Yi was stunned.

How could there be another "Gymnasium Student Rules"?

And it looks like… …these two seem to be different thicknesses!