Rules-related weird stories: 4016

As these sonar-like ripples continued to explore and provide feedback, he captured the aura fluctuations of everyone within the giant egg.

The ordinary trainees had human-shaped outlines entangled with wisps of thin green mist.

The sports students, including injured ones like Xie Huayang and Xia Lian, had human-shaped outlines filled with varying degrees of rich blue aura.

Among the sports students, Li Huiyuan had become an anomaly because, in his perception, Li Huiyuan's body not only contained sky-blue aura but also some pure white aura…

That was 'Primal Contamination'.

But the sports students themselves didn't seem to carry 'Primal Contamination,' and the situation of that 'Primal Contamination' within Li Huiyuan's body was somewhat similar to its situation within his own body, both floating around as if ready to be used at any time?

"Could this be a change brought about by absorbing impurities from the ashes?"

Lin Yi felt somewhat surprised but couldn't quite grasp it.

Besides, those Pseudo-Human sports students were clearly distinguishable in his perception. They 'looked' like they had a blue aura beneath their human-shaped outlines, but inside they were full of green aura.

"Wait… I seem to have missed something?"

Lin Yi seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but look towards Wei Liang's position…

However, Wei Liang, who was clearly still sitting there, was completely absent from his perception.

It was as if he didn't exist at all.

"Liangzi, he… doesn't exist?!"

"No, no, it's not that he doesn't exist, but that I simply can't perceive him…?!"

Everyone else had a color in Lin Yi's 'perception,' but Wei Liang was the only one who had no color and was just a void. If Wei Liang's human-shaped outline wasn't still there, he would have started to wonder what kind of ghost Wei Liang was…

"What's going on?"

All the units within the campus were carriers of contamination. Even the flowers, plants, and trees were tainted with a trace of contamination, and the deeper the contamination, the deeper the color within their bodies.

Even the class teacher had categorized him as a highly sensitive individual, and he had maintained a near-crushing advantage in the face of the green-aproned chef and many strange situations by relying on an endless stream of ingenious tricks…

Lin Yi believed that when he perceived such a person, a hodgepodge of colors within their body wouldn't be an exaggeration, but Wei Liang's situation was completely different from what he had expected.

It was as if he were a transparent man, withstanding thousands of contaminations without being tainted?

In a xuanhuan novel, this would be an Immaculate Dao Body, right?

But this… this is outrageous!

It's so normal that it's abnormal!

Just as Lin Yi's heart was in turmoil, he suddenly discovered another abnormal thing in his perception!

From a certain direction behind him, he sensed a… gray aura!

"This…"

He pretended to casually look around, but his attention was secretly focused on the direction where he had sensed the anomaly.

In that direction, he sensed a human-shaped outline carrying a gray mist!

He had been too careless to observe it the first time, and it wasn't until he had just looked at Wei Liang that he seemed to have vaguely sensed the existence of that guy.

He quickly confirmed the existence of that guy from the vast sea of people, but was startled the next moment because the unit carrying the gray mist was actually—

"Song Rentou?!"

Lin Yi had long known that Song Rentou had big problems, but he didn't expect his problems to be this big.

This guy was actually a contaminator carrying a gray aura?!

Moreover, what made him even more shudder was that just as he 'casually' saw Song Rentou, he found that Song Rentou's attention had been focused on him from beginning to end!

Just imagine, when he was communicating with Li Huiyuan, when he was communicating with Wei Liang and Xia Lian, there was always a guy with a cold and strange gaze, shrinking in his seat and staring at his every move.

Ordinary people would likely notice the gaze of others, let alone someone as spiritually sensitive as him.

But it just so happened that if he hadn't specifically looked, he wouldn't have known until now that he was being secretly observed by Song Rentou.

However, Song Rentou seemed to know that Lin Yi was looking at him, and when their eyes met, a faint light flashed in his eyes, and his mouth exaggeratedly spoke silent words, and after speaking, he revealed a provocative smile.

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze, his eyelids drooped slightly, and his thoughts churned in his heart.

He couldn't understand how he had been targeted by Song Rentou when he and Song Rentou had only had a "one-sided encounter" this morning.

But he vaguely felt that there was something wrong here, after all, the first time he approached Song Rentou, he did sense a "strange and familiar" smell from Song Rentou.

However, there was a problem, but he couldn't find where the problem was at all.

That was the real problem.

"Could it be that I saw him in that 'memory that I don't know if it exists'… ?"

"Could it be something outside of school?"

Lin Yi had actually felt that as he entered the campus, his memories of the outside world became increasingly blurred, just like Mao Zizheng, who went to the art building, was being forgotten by the world. He, who entered the campus, also seemed to be forgetting some memories related to the outside world…

But strangely, the boss and the others didn't seem to have forgotten anything.

The boss clearly remembered those seemingly abnormal but seemingly real majors, and Mu Daxian also knew about the exoskeleton technology, only he, his memories of the outside world seemed to be only… that vague school, his dormitory, his major…

Wait, why doesn't he have much of an impression of his previous school anymore?

The only thing he remembered was his dormitory.

Wait… what was his dormitory number again…?

Lin Yi suddenly felt his head buzzing a little, not the kind of shock of waking up from a dream, but a sense of confusion about the blurring of memories.

At the same time, he began to hear the "clang, clang, clang…" sound in his ears again, but this time his vision didn't change in any way, only some vague images began to appear in his mind…

A door frame, there was a sign on the door frame, the words on the sign seemed to be changing, presenting various incomprehensible styles, sometimes turning into a kind of font symbol that looked a bit like cuneiform or oracle bone inscriptions, sometimes turning into a completely incomprehensible ghost drawing, but among these countless changes, the only one he could understand was a stroke similar to a number appearing in it…

"…4…0…1…6…"

— — — —

— — — —

“Zero One… that sounds terrible…”

“Then what should we call it…?”

“One, two, three, four, five? Hahahaha…”

He seemed to see some blurry figures, like shadows cast by the overhead lights, each shadow twisting and writhing…

“What do you think?”

“Whether I think so or not doesn't matter anymore. First come, first served. Since none of you are speaking up, I'll go first… Double Moon as 蒯… I'll be called 蒯鸿基.”

“Then I… Wei San?”

“A homophone?”

“Wei Shan?”

“What about you guys?”

The figure was blurry, intermittent, sometimes near, sometimes far, like being held underwater, listening to people talking on the surface.

“Since Young Master Tian isn't speaking, how about you guys are called Tian Lao Si and Mao Lao Wu?”

“Mao Lao Wu is hilarious, more like Mao the Useless… ”

“Mao… Use… less… Fei… Wu… How about… Mao Feiyang?”

“Mao Feiyang is alright… Tian Lao Si, what about you?”

Lin Yi was in a daze, the scene in front of him sometimes near, sometimes far, but completely unclear. The scene kept shaking, and then that string of numbers appeared again—「…4016…」.

The number flashed for a moment and then disappeared. Then he seemed to see a book on a desk…

The cover of the book was a castle, and the words “Architectural Design” were faintly visible…

Under the book, there seemed to be a rough design drawing, blurry and unclear, a bit like a copper coil, and a bit like a reactor, but from the overall perspective, it looked like… some kind of bizarre, surreal, geometric architectural structure…

The scene became more and more blurred, and the sound became more and more distant.

“Names aren't important, let's talk about the division of labor…”

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Suddenly, a faint voice drifted over…

The blurry scene in Lin Yi's mind shattered all at once. He shook his head, his thoughts and attention uncontrollably withdrawing from the scene in his mind, like a student who was daydreaming in class suddenly waking up.

「This…?」

Lin Yi subconsciously pinched his face. He tried to recall the scene in his mind again, but found that the originally blurry scene didn't even have a shadow left this time, as if it had all been buried. No matter how hard he tried to recall, he couldn't even grasp a trace.

He couldn't even… remember what he had recalled, vaguely remembering a book about architectural categories and a drawing of something unknown.

“I'm really… a 'retro' architectural design major…” Lin Yi muttered to himself.

He looked at his watch. The time was now 16:33.

He looked at the surrounding environment again. Everything was still so oppressive. It seemed that the entire environment hadn't changed much, except that more and more rain and mist were drifting from the giant egg to the stadium.

To his right rear, Song Rentou's gaze was still present. In that gaze, in addition to some malice, there was also a mixture of greed, bloodlust, and other emotions. When he saw Song Rentou in the morning, his emotions were still very subtle, but at this time, he didn't know why his negative emotions had been strengthened so much.

「Could it be related to the weather…?」

「Or… related to time?」

「This Song Rentou has a problem. No matter how you look at it, he's not a normal person. He was suppressed a lot during the day, but now, with the appearance of the abnormal weather and the sun starting to set, is he finally going to get closer to becoming a Pseudo?」

Lin Yi's mood became a little heavy. Although there were still many athletic Pseudo students around, Song Rentou's situation seemed even more special than these.

After all, this was the first guy he had encountered with gray aura in his body.

「Forget it… I'll adapt to the situation!」

Lin Yi stabilized his mood and continued the induction he had just been doing, constantly spreading invisible waves from himself as the center to the surroundings, and trying to sense the situation on the gymnasium side by sensing the giant egg…

After all, an hour had passed since the abnormal weather appeared.

Just as he was concentrating on sensing the entire gymnasium through the giant egg, Song Rentou, who was sitting on a chair with his head drooping on the other side, was still staring at him without blinking.

Song Rentou took deep breaths from time to time, as if trying to inhale the scent drifting from Lin Yi's side into his lungs.

Then, his eyebrows twitched slightly, as if extremely happy.

He looked at Lin Yi and slowly swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

“So fragrant… so fragrant…”

“So hungry… so hungry…”

He seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes flickered with a look of desire.

…

【—(Foreground)—】

(Originally, this part of the foreground would have been written after Chapter 306, at the location where Lin Yi walked out of the white light in the safety passage, before the beginning of Chapter 307, but considering the smoothness of the plot, it was delayed and written at this location)

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May 9, X023, 14:08, Green Forest Belt.

The towering trees seemed to divide the air into layers. There was clearly still sunlight above the treetops, but under the canopy, there was only a hazy, thin mist.

Among the slightly dim woods, even the temperature exuded a hint of bone-chilling coldness.

Suddenly, the mist in a certain place fluctuated, as if there was a figure running in the depths, and some sounds gradually began to appear in the quiet forest.

「Rustle… rustle…」

A figure broke through the mist, running wildly in the Green Forest Belt, stepping on dead leaves and soft sand, making trivial sounds.

“Huff, huff, huff…”

He kept panting heavily, looking back from time to time, not knowing how long he had been running at this speed.

As he ran, he accidentally ran head-on into a thick tree trunk, shaking himself and falling to the ground, his head heavily hitting the stones on the ground.

He was dizzy for half a minute, then sat up in a daze, reaching out to touch the back of his head.

The place where he hit the stone not only didn't bleed, but didn't even have a scratch.

As if he thought of something, he immediately got up and continued to run along the Green Forest Belt in a certain direction.

「Rustle… rustle…」

Behind him, there seemed to be something following unhurriedly, like a cold, calm butcher with a knife.

After an unknown amount of time, the man finally crawled out of the Green Forest Belt, and accidentally stepped into the air, rolling and falling onto the cobblestone road below the Green Forest Belt.

He fell with wounds all over his body, but those wounds disappeared immediately, as if they had never existed.

He climbed up from the ground, covered in dirt, and a face was revealed in the sunlight.

Song Rentou.