Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Seeing Old Mo nod, Lin Yi, who was standing beside him, knew that his analysis should be correct, even though he couldn't understand the strange expression on Old Mo's face.

At this moment, some noises came from not far behind him. It turned out that the purebred Nightwalkers who had been following them all the way had finally passed through the corridor and entered the hall of the art building. Following closely behind were the Grinning Angels, who ignored the laws of physics and whose bodies were as illusory as semi-transparency.

The Grinning Angels floated through the blood mist without any resistance, still chasing after Lin Yi and the others, while the purebred Nightwalkers, after sensing the presence of the art students, rushed towards them like starving ghosts breaking into a rich man's banquet, disregarding everything else.

Lin Yi felt a little anxious and broke out in a cold sweat for the art students closest to him: "Not good, they're being attacked by the Nightwalkers!"

Old Mo grabbed him: "Don't worry, watch what happens next."

Sure enough, before Old Mo could finish his words, the purebred Nightwalker closest to the art students had already extended its grayish-nailed, viscous palm towards the art student.

However, before it could touch the art student, the outstretched arm seemed to touch an invisible force field, and it began to dry out from viscous at a speed visible to the naked eye.

During the process of continuous drying, patches of dry, dead skin-like substance began to peel off from its body surface, and this drying speed was spreading to its entire body at an even more rapid pace.

The entire diffusion process was completed in almost one or two breaths. Finally, the purebred Nightwalker's body turned into a stiff, gray-black sculpture.

Strangely, as the "skin" on its body surface peeled off, the gray-black surface gradually turned bluish-gray, then turned white like mutton fat jade, but this white quickly disappeared. Then, the entire body began to scatter like yellow sand in the desert and quickly annihilated in the blood mist…

Such changes were not limited to that one purebred Nightwalker. The "matrix" formed by the art students seemed to possess some kind of powerful plundering ability, like a pulverizer, destroying all the purebred Nightwalkers that invaded its killing range, turning the extraordinary power in their bodies into part of the blood mist, becoming energy that could be used to prevent the hole from expanding.

However, the large amount of mixed gray and black aura carried within the purebred Nightwalkers' bodies also became pollution that the art students could not digest. During the process of absorbing and transforming extraordinary power, these auras were also constantly eroding their bodies, blurring the boundary between them and the "Obsession Sculptures."

【Hiss——】

In the blood mist, the Grinning Angels' eerie laughter resounded. They didn't fly with wings, but by other means. Their wings always maintained the posture of being folded behind them, but they floated with unparalleled flexibility, staring firmly at Lin Yi and Old Mo's direction, flying over unhurriedly.

However, just as they flew past a certain dark corner, the "Obsession Angel," which was originally almost frozen, suddenly stretched out its bloodless, bluish-gray palm from the darkness like lightning.

"Swish——"

Like a hand suddenly reaching out from the bars of a dark prison cell, even the Grinning Angels' ghostly speed couldn't avoid their attack.

"Chih——"

When the "Obsession Sculpture's" palm reached the Grinning Angel, it unexpectedly passed through as if it had touched air. However, the next moment, a cold golden light floated on the "Obsession Sculpture's" palm. When this golden light appeared, the "Obsession Sculpture's" palm easily grabbed the Grinning Angel's ankle.

【Hiss? ? ? 】

The Grinning Angel instinctively froze. A trace of doubt appeared on its petrified face with a strange smile, but before it could react, the "Obsession Sculpture's" palm exerted force, dragging it entirely into the dark corner…

Many Grinning Angels that approached the dark corner couldn't escape the "Obsession Sculpture's" attack, and the remaining Grinning Angels instinctively moved away from that corner.

However, when they approached the murals, a similar scene appeared.

The flesh wriggling on the murals also began to hunt the Grinning Angels like man-eating flowers blooming.

Seeing the "Obsession Sculptures" and murals attacking the Grinning Angels with his own eyes, Lin Yi couldn't help but gasp: "I didn't expect that the 'Obsession Sculptures' aren't just able to fight against the Grinning Angels, but can directly kill them…"

"But the 'Obsession Sculptures' are one thing, but these murals… how are they so terrifying too?"

He felt a chill down his spine. When he thought about how close he was to the murals just now, he felt a sense of fear, afraid that he might accidentally become food for the murals.

He withdrew his gaze and followed Old Mo around "Towards Death and Life" to the front of the spiral staircase.

Although time was limited, he was still very curious to observe "Towards Death and Life." In the blood mist-filled hall of the art building, this World Tree in "Towards Death and Life" simultaneously carried the two qualities of growth and destruction, as if frozen in time.

In front of the World Tree, there was a huge stone platform. There was nothing on the platform except a base.

Lin Yi's attention fell on the broken emblem carved on the long platform. The emblem had a very complex pattern. The remaining part looked very much like a pattern formed by the fusion of weapons and the moon, very similar to the patterns on Tarot cards or the symbols of some ancient rituals.

"That is the totem of the 'Black Moon Outpost,' meaning 'Watch and Struggle,'" Old Mo glanced at the complex lines and carvings on the broken emblem and explained.

After bypassing the World Tree, a wooden stake full of signposts appeared at the fork in the corridor behind.

Lin Yi's eyes lit up. It was clearly a road sign in the art building. The signs pointed to the directions of various areas in the art building. Except for some signs such as "Altar" and "Observatory" that were marked with an "×" symbol with red paint, the remaining slightly damaged signs were:

「Gallery ←」

「Art Classroom →」

「Sculpture Classroom →」

「Lookout Tower ←」

… …

Lin Yi looked at all the signs that had been painted over with red paint, and then asked in confusion: "Old Mo, there is no location for the 'Clock Tower' here. How should we go?"

Old Mo just glanced at the road sign and said: "The Clock Tower is located in the core area of the art building. We can determine the location of the Clock Tower by finding the location of the Gallery."

“Gallery?” Lin Yi was slightly stunned, and the Art Department rules related to it immediately appeared in his mind.

[You can appreciate the works of other art masters in the gallery. The gallery contains more than just paintings, but you can only stop to appreciate paintings.]

[If you want to enter the gallery, please meet at least one of the following conditions: 1. Accompanied by an art teacher; 2. You are being chased by sculptures (limited to alien sculptures or angel sculptures)]

The conditions are met; they are being chased by the Smiling Angel.

Also, the boss said that he could choose to comply with the Physical Education Department rules and not comply with the Experiential Student rules when necessary... Does that also mean he can choose to comply with the "Art Department rules" as appropriate?

Before he could figure it out, Lao Mo had already walked in the direction of the gallery.

Lin Yi quickly followed, thinking to himself that he was being careless. He had already followed Lao Mo to the art building on a path that didn't belong to the rules, under the premise of not knowing what rules he was following. Why the hell was he still following any rules?

In Lao Mo's words, it's "relative rules." For example, whether it's the Experiential Student or the Physical Education Student rules, there is actually a hidden rule—unconditionally obey all orders of the security guard and absolutely trust the security guard.

Because of this, they can blindly follow the security guard when they encounter difficulties, and they don't need to consider what path the security guard is taking them on.

Perhaps Lao Mo is in a similar situation now?

Having a sense of superiority that "my rules are above yours"?

So following Lao Mo is actually the "rule" that should be followed now?

Lin Yi felt that this was the case.

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The art building lobby seemed to be a nearly circular area. Inside, there were corridors like those in ancient Roman arenas. If you didn't look at the signs, it was easy to get lost in the corridors.

Because some corridors actually contained those dark corners where "obsessive sculptures" lurked.

The path to the art classroom was about one hundred and twenty to thirty meters in that direction, and then you would arrive at "Art Classroom - VI."

But if Lin Yi remembered correctly, when Mu Daxian took Maozi back to the art building lobby from Art Classroom - VI, he seemed to have come down from a spiral staircase.

At this time, Lin Yi understood that the art classroom was not a single-story building, but at least a large classroom occupying two or more floors. After all, that kind of internal layout similar to an ancient European opera house did conform to the design logic of several floors.

For example, the door that Maozi entered Art Classroom - VI was on the first floor. When leaving, Mu Daxian took him through the door on the second floor, and then went down the stairs to the first floor.

The two cautiously continued to move forward in the dark corridor. The wind in this corridor was also very rapid, and it was pushing them forward from behind. If they were not careful, they would fall to the ground, but even so, he never thought of supporting himself against the wall, because who knows what was hidden in those dark places.

The light curtain propped up by the big eyeballs in Lao Mo's hand had shrunk much smaller than before. The extraordinary power inside those big eyeballs was flowing away faster and faster. Before long, they would only be able to rely on the dim candlelight in the corridor for lighting.

Watching the slowly shrinking range of illumination, Lin Yi's heart slowly rose. Although there were many of those big eyeballs, they didn't seem to last long.

Lao Mo also noticed this, and couldn't help but frown.

“It seems that a fierce battle is ultimately unavoidable…”

Lin Yi heard this and subconsciously clenched his teeth: “I won’t say much… I will definitely cooperate if I need to recharge.”

“Don’t worry, I will definitely leave you with a breath.” Lao Mo was also not polite at all, after all, sincerity is always the ultimate skill.

Lin Yi also realized the power of this ultimate skill. After all, if Lao Mo wasn't restrained, he would really kill him.

After following Lao Mo for a while in the corridor, Lin Yi found that the wind in the corridor had become much smaller, and even the sound of the wind seemed to be calming down.

But what followed was the gray mist that gradually filled the corridor.

“Gray mist…” Lao Mo murmured, “It seems we’re very close.”

He glanced at the big eyeballs in his hand, and then stepped into the gray mist.

“Kid, next… I won’t have so much time to care about you. Follow me closely, and under no circumstances should you use the ‘identity anchor’ to anchor yourself in your heart, otherwise it will be very difficult for us.” Lao Mo’s warning sounded in his ears, “The only anchor you can use is ‘you are by my side,’ understand?”

“Understood.” Lin Yi’s expression was extremely solemn, and he followed Lao Mo into the gray mist.

This gray mist floated on the stone slabs of the corridor like fluffy cotton wool. Walking on it gave a cold feeling and a very slight sense of blockage.

At first, Lin Yi didn't feel anything, but after walking a few steps, he suddenly noticed something was wrong.

“Lao Mo… this mist?”

Lin Yi felt that the flow of extraordinary power in his body below the calf, which was covered by the mist, seemed to be slightly affected, and even the circulation of blood seemed to slow down. It was because of this that he felt that cool feeling.

This was not a change in perceived temperature, but his body's activity was suppressed.

“This is one of the many complex characteristics of gray mist… ‘rejection.’” Lao Mo said, “When they are concentrated to a certain degree, they will suppress all extraordinary powers other than gray…”

“When we are in the gray mist, we cannot get effective replenishment of extraordinary power, especially me. I am not a ‘living person.’ The ‘inducement’ of the gray mist to me is much stronger than to you. Moreover, my ‘domain’ characteristic can forcibly absorb the extraordinary power of all polluters within the domain whose pollution depth is below me, but in the gray mist, my domain will absorb the gray extraordinary power together, so on the side of the gray mist, I am the easiest to be ‘turned against’…”

Lin Yi almost cried out when he heard this. So in the end, I am the nuclear power plant with a nuclear leak, and you are the Indian nuclear bomb. It's okay if the trajectory is random, but even the landing point is random?

As expected, where there is Zhuge Liang, there must be Pang Tong!