Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Unable to terminate it?! Then find a way to weaken it!"

"As long as the power is weakened enough, we can still make it stop running!"

"No matter what we do, we must reduce the losses to the minimum!"

"Stop shouting, we're working on it!"

As time passed, the fanatic believers finally noticed the loss of transcendent power within the matrix.

However, the fanatic believers did not know that this loss was related to Kuai Hongji, so they were not worried about it. Instead, they shouted excitedly: "The power in the matrix is weakening! We succeeded!"

"Don't relax! Keep it up!"

Time passed quietly, until the distant dense forest gradually lost its sound, Kuai Hongji knew it was time to stop.

So he no longer actively absorbed the power of the matrix, but began to use the remaining solidified transcendent power in the vessel to carry out the final arrangement.

This arrangement continued until the fanatic believers who went to deal with Shan Nan began to return one after another.

He exhausted all the solidified transcendent power in the vessel, then held the vessel close to those hideous cracks and walked towards the pit in the desolate land. After handing it over to the fanatic believer who came to meet him, he walked out a distance, and then inconspicuously walked to the back of a large petrified gypsum body, put the vessel on the ground, and then turned around and plunged into the mist, like a fish swimming into the sea, drilling into the gnarled old trees on the edge of the desolate land…

After walking out a distance, he still lurked among the gnarled branches as before, concealing his figure.

"Swish... swish..."

Below the branches where he was hiding, the fanatic believers returned one after another, muttering in their mouths: "That lamppost is really powerful!"

"If it weren't for that thing, I would have subdued him long ago!"

"Forget it, luckily he ran fast!"

"Let's go back quickly, don't waste time..."

"This time, we must take advantage of the opportunity of the gray mist invasion to break through their barriers in one fell swoop!"

"The fall of the cafeteria is the best opportunity for us!"

"Let's go, let's go... continue to strengthen the matrix!"

"Swish... swish..."

The group of people walked through the dense forest and returned to the desolate land, then each picked up the vessels placed on the ground, ready to start returning to work…

"Wait... what's going on with the matrix?"

Immediately, a fanatic believer realized the problem and shouted loudly.

"Idiot, stop yelling and hurry up with us!"

The matrix on the desolate land was in chaos, while Kuai Hongji quietly retreated…

Lin Yi thought that everything was over, but he saw Kuai Hongji suddenly turn around after running a long distance, and looked in the direction of the desolate land, muttering: "It's about time..."

Half a minute after the words fell, a terrifying wave surged from the desolate land, like a mushroom cloud and shock wave pushed out by an explosion, surging out like an arc of light, shaking the entire dense forest with a rustling sound!

"Time to celebrate!"

Having accomplished his task, he left without a trace, his merits hidden deep.

Kuai Hongji smiled sinisterly, pulled up his hood, and turned away…

…

On the other side of the green forest belt, Shan Nan rushed out of the green forest belt in a sorry state.

At this time, he had removed the exoskeleton armor and was carrying an exaggerated snail shell-like backpack, with a large bag in each hand. His body was covered with dust and his face was dirty. Obviously, the fanatic believers joined forces and still gave him a hard time.

Shan Nan walked out of the green forest belt with a gloomy face, looking very ugly. As he came out, he was still muttering:

"Damn... the employment environment is bad enough, but even the fanatic believers are so competitive now?"

"Does being uncultured even disqualify you from being corrupted?!"

After walking a few steps, he still seemed unable to get over it. Theology and science, these two mountains pressed down together, and their power made him suffer a wave of being uncultured.

"It's getting late, the evil spirits are coming out, we must avoid their sharp edge... I must hurry back to the dormitory to deal with it for one night..."

Shan Nan was unwilling, but reason still prevailed. If an attack failed, he would slip away.

It's just that every few steps he took, he would stop and beat his chest and stomp his feet, not knowing whether he was regretting not learning more "relevant" knowledge at the beginning, or simply greeting the families of the fanatic believers.

…

After a while, Kuai Hongji also left the depths of the dense forest, and then skillfully shuttled through the mist, unaffected by the mist, and even avoided the pseudo-human sculptures along the way.

Many of the pseudo-human sculptures along the way were already dilapidated, as if they had been hit by a muck truck. Needless to say, this was Shan Nan's masterpiece.

Before long, Kuai Hongji came to the boundary line between the edge of the deep forest and the depths of the green forest belt, which was filled with light and shadow.

The fog here divided the black, white, and gray colors like a dream, and the whole world seemed to have a layer of deep and shallow filters.

Kuai Hongji stopped in front of the boundary line, and then circled around a few times as if spinning in place, before striding out.

Just as Kuai Hongji crossed the boundary line, a hazy light mist appeared beside Lin Yi, and the next moment the light mist completely enveloped him, dragging him into the thin cloud of mist.

This is the "surface" of his dream, or it can be called some kind of "center". Every time he comes here, it means a change of scene in the dream. At this moment, he subconsciously glanced at his wrist.

On his wrist, the quartz watch was still silently ticking away, but when he saw the time, his brain buzzed.

20:15.

"What?! It's already 8:15?!"

"Hiss... the feast...?"

He suddenly woke up from his dream, his eyes opened sharply!

…

May 9, X023, 20:15, affiliated building of the gymnasium, "Giant Egg", first floor grandstand.

Lin Yi, who suddenly opened his eyes, found that his perspective was a bit strange. His head was leaning on something fragrant and soft, and his perspective was upward, but he could only see some slightly raised landscapes.

"Old..." He opened his mouth subconsciously, because he remembered seeing the boss's face vaguely when he fell down, but before the word could be uttered, his survival instinct was immediately stimulated by this outfit, so he immediately changed his words, "Li Huiyuan?"

The raised landscape leaned back slightly, revealing a smooth chin, and the chin quickly looked down. It was indeed Li Huiyuan's face.

"Oh, you're awake ~"

At this time, Li Huiyuan really looked like the expression of the four masters and apprentices looking down in Lin Yi's perspective.

"Uh... I'm awake." Lin Yi said quickly, thinking that if he didn't wake up, he would have to spend the night in the gymnasium!

So he subconsciously wanted to prop himself up, but found that there was nothing by one hand, and the other hand... was holding a soft, boneless, slender palm.

Li Huiyuan's hand.

Li Huiyuan then tugged him, and with her other hand, she supported his back, straightening his body.

After sitting up, Lin Yi still felt a slight numbness in his body, as if his body was still somewhat fatigued, but this fatigue seemed to quickly dissipate as he woke up.

He glanced at the track and field, which had long returned to normal, and asked, "Is the feast over?"

"It's been over for a long time… Everyone's gone," Li Huiyuan said. "The boss was worried you wouldn't rest well, so he had me watch over you here."

"The boss also instructed that if you wake up and there's still time, and the weather is still okay, I should send you off."

Although she didn't want to let Lin Yi leave just like that, she still followed the boss's instructions.

"Oh, right! It seemed like Brother Liangliangzi also said he'd wait for you at the gymnasium before leaving."

Lin Yi also wanted to return to the dormitory as soon as possible to discuss everything he encountered today with Tian Bufan and the others, and he also had a bellyful of questions to ask them, so he naturally followed the boss's instructions. Plus, as soon as he heard Wei Liang's name, he quickly got up: "Without further ado, I'll leave now!"

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Seeing Lin Yi's decisive manner, Li Huiyuan imperceptibly pursed her lips, thinking to herself, 'If Brother Liangliangzi were a woman, wouldn't you be stuck to him?'

But she immediately got up, patting her slightly sore and numb thighs: "The boss told me to see you off, let's go together."

"Okay!" Lin Yi didn't refuse, and the two of them walked from the first floor of the stands towards the emergency exit. Behind them, Xia Lian also started walking, and Lin Yi, upon entering the emergency exit, noticed Xia Lian's presence.

"Senior Sister Xia Lian?"

"Just noticed now?"

"Uh… that…"

"No need to explain, let's go."

Lin Yi smiled sheepishly, pushed open the emergency exit door, and returned to the gymnasium.

The LED lights and incandescent lamps inside the gymnasium shone as brightly as ever. The floor of the basketball court on the first floor was still a bit reflective, but none of the sports students were playing basketball. Instead, they were scattered around, doing their own warm-up exercises, as if preparing for battle.

Lin Yi didn't see many familiar faces. Most of the sports students who stayed were the more ordinary ones, and in a corner of the gymnasium, there seemed to be some trainees as well.

There seemed to be quite a few of these trainees, but compared to the thousands who had come, only a little over a hundred remained.

After scanning around several times, Lin Yi didn't see Wei Liang's figure, and he couldn't help but feel confused. He looked at Li Huiyuan and whispered, "Did some of the trainees leave?"

"I don't know… Haven't we been together the whole time?" Li Huiyuan thought to herself, 'Have you forgotten that I let you use my legs as a pillow?'

So she looked at Xia Lian for help, only to find that Xia Lian also seemed to be looking for Wei Liang's figure.

Finally, she bit her lip: "That guy, could he have run away because he was afraid I'd cause him trouble?"

"Who?" Li Huiyuan was slightly stunned, then seemed to realize something, "Brother Liangliangzi?"

"Heh!" Xia Lian sneered, "Next time I see him, I'll break his legs!"

Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck: "Liangzi said he'd wait for me, he wouldn't have run off just like that, right?"

"Just a verbal agreement…" Xia Lian said, "If the teacher asked some of the trainees to leave the gymnasium, it would be hard for him to stay."

Lin Yi was thoughtful, but Xia Lian had already dropped a sentence and then strode towards the entrance and exit of the gymnasium: "I'll go ask about the situation first."

"Let's go over too." Lin Yi thought for a moment and still walked forward with Li Huiyuan.

At the entrance and exit of the gymnasium, some sports students were already squatting there, like goalkeepers.

When Lin Yi hurried over, he heard the sports students saying: "After the heavy rain, there was a brief period of clarity in the weather. The teacher released some of the selected trainees."

"The Wei Liang you're talking about, what are his characteristics?"

Hearing this, Xia Lian frowned and recalled for a moment, then couldn't help but mutter: "A good figure…?"

"Huh? Senior sister, what did you say?"

"Ah? No… I said he… emmmm…" Xia Lian coughed and thought carefully about Wei Liang.

Lin Yi was stunned, thinking to himself, 'Senior Sister Xia Lian, what exactly happened between you two…'

So he weakly said: "He seems a bit unreliable, a bit cheeky, wearing a baseball cap…"

He gestured as he spoke.

Such a description would be difficult for people to pinpoint accurately elsewhere, but don't forget, this is a gymnasium, and the mental state of most trainees is worrying. In such a crowd, someone who looks very normal, even beyond normal, will definitely leave a deep impression, not to mention that Wei Liang also has a signature baseball cap.

A sports student suddenly realized: "I remember, there was such a person, he has already left."

"As expected, he left…" Lin Yi thought to himself, and immediately asked: "Did he say anything?"

The sports student shook his head.

At this moment, the boss walked out from somewhere inside the gymnasium.

"Lin Yi."

"Ah, boss? You…" Lin Yi was a little at a loss, "Where did you come from?"

"The office," the boss said coldly, then handed him two booklets, "'Sports Student Rules' with appendices. Take a look if you have time."

"The first book is the 'Sports Student Rules,' and the second book is the appendix. The appendix mainly contains some concepts and emergency handling matters…"

"Time is tight, so I won't say much. Take advantage of the fact that the gray fog hasn't enveloped the campus yet, and leave quickly. Head straight to the dormitory, and by the time you get there, it should be about time."

Hearing this, Lin Yi's expression also became serious, and he took out the "Gymnasium Rules" and put it back on the borrowing machine.

However, just as he stepped out of the gymnasium door, a voice rang out from the darkness, calling his name.

"Lin Yi."

Hearing this voice, Lin Yi was secretly shocked, but his face didn't show any abnormality—mere auditory hallucinations, commonplace, just ignore them.

However, this time, the boss followed up like lightning, grabbed Lin Yi's arm, and dragged him back behind the gymnasium door. Only then did he stare at the area floating with darkness and thin mist.