Rules-related weird stories: 4016.

第680章 5月12日，6:00
It seemed that the girl's slight movements touched the sensitive nerves of others, and another boy on the sofa became impulsive. At that moment, the boy whose arm had been burned by Kuai Hongji also rushed off the sofa, pounced on the old kerosene lamp, and firmly grasped the "Dormitory Rules" in his hand!
But the others were no pushovers either, and seeing this, they all pounced on them.

The boy's expression changed drastically. His mind raced in an instant. He had an injured arm and was no match for the group. If he fought over it, he would inevitably get beaten up again. So he shouted, "Wait! Wait! The rules don't say that only one person can watch. Let's watch together! Let's watch together!"

Upon hearing this, the other three calmed down.

"That seems... to make sense."

"Let's watch it together then..."

Indeed, we can watch it together... If a fight really breaks out, there won't be enough time to watch it all, so it's better for everyone to make money peacefully...

The girl was also tempted. She quickly put down her backpack, then timidly got off the sofa, wanting to join in.

But just then, she heard Mao Feiyang's voice in her ear: "If I were you, I wouldn't go and join in the fun."

Upon hearing this, the girl paused for a moment.

But after only a brief pause, I still wanted to go and take a look.

Seeing this, Mao Feiyang said nothing more.

Someone as despicable as him would never waste words with strangers under normal circumstances, so his words of reminder are just a case of retaliating.

All that remains is to set aside any maternal instincts and respect the fate of others.

The girl slowly approached, then, still feigning timidity, asked softly, "Um... can I... take a look too?"

Four boys surrounded the round table, but none of them answered her, as if they were intently admiring a beautiful work of art.

"Um... hello, excuse me..." the girl gently patted one of the boys and asked cautiously, "May I take a look with you?"

The boy finally heard it, stopped admiring the appendix to the "Dormitory Rules," and slowly turned his head away.

“Of course you can…” he said slowly, his face already a sculpted bluish-gray, his eyes now resembling stone beads, making him look incredibly eerie.

The other three boys also slowly turned around, their faces and bodies now completely sculpted, a bluish-gray color...

"what--!!"

The girl's expression changed drastically, revealing an unprecedented look of terror. Her face was contorted with fear as she stumbled back onto the sofa, clutching her schoolbag tightly.

At this moment, she was truly terrified to the point of being chilled to the bone. Her whole body felt as if it were being stimulated by icy cold air and electric currents, convulsing and trembling. She was so frightened that she completely lost her composure...

In just a short while, the four boys who had gone to look at the appendix of the "Dormitory Rules" have now all turned into human statues.

Even so, they seemed unaware of their own folly, a fervent light emanating from their eyes and brows, their expressions becoming incredibly bizarre.

Those who receive the power of angels will ultimately become mere phantoms of angels.

The stark contrast terrified the girl, but in retrospect, she also felt incredibly lucky.

If she hadn't been a little late and had gone to see it sooner, it would have long since become a grotesque, sculpture-like creature.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at Mao Feiyang in horror.

This low-budget version of Fu Hang mimics human movements like a monkey, crossing his legs, which looks somewhat ridiculous.

But it was only now that she realized that, whether it was because the light was too dim or because her attention was entirely focused on Kuai Hongji, she hadn't noticed at all that Mao Feiyang was wearing the dark green robe that art students wore.

An art student was taken back to the dormitory manager's office. Was he an art student who got lost in the dormitory building?
But the main body of the "Dormitory Management Rules" doesn't mention it at all... Could it be from the appendix?
For a time, Mao Feiyang was filled with an elusive and mysterious aura in her heart.

She couldn't understand what was wrong with this person. Why did other people's copies of the "Dormitory Rules" end up like this, but Mao Feiyang was able to read them without any damage, not even a single hair was missing?

But Mao Feiyang never looked at her again.

After the warning, the girl's life or death was no longer his concern.

When the time comes, he and Kuai Hongji will leave this place.

After startling the girl by turning around, the four statues-like boys made no further move and continued to look at the appendix of the "Dormitory Rules," as if a huge secret was hidden there.

Time passed quietly.

The monotonous and irregular ticking of the pendulum clock echoed continuously in the dormitory manager's office, while the four boys' sculptural appearance became increasingly pronounced.

Suddenly, a faint "click" sound came from the ticking of the pendulum clock.

Then came more "click" sounds.

The girl curled up on the sofa seemed to realize something and immediately looked at the four boys, and sure enough, she found that their bodies were covered with cracks due to some small movements.

When cracks spread all over their bodies, they become as fragile as rocks eroded by wind, and finally, with a "bang," they shatter into pieces scattered all over the ground.

A broken fragment of a head sculpture, complete with stone eyes, rolled to the girl's feet, as if watching her.

The girl's expression changed again. She didn't even have the courage to kick it away. She pulled her feet back onto the sofa, trembling and breathing heavily.

She stared intently at the clock, waiting for the time to come.

……

[Tick-tock...tick-tock...tick-tock...]

Time slipped away quietly in the intervals between the swings of the clock, and finally, the hour on the clock face jumped to the most crucial moment!
"6:00".

"Ring ring ring ring—!"

The enormous pendulum clock emitted a groan like an alarm clock, or like a tiger in a deep forest letting out a meow.

The underestimated Kuai Hongji suddenly opened his eyes.

"Time is up."

Without hesitation, he stood up and walked towards the exit of the dormitory manager's office.

Mao Feiyang followed silently.

The girl on the sofa also jumped up quickly and followed Kuai Hongji's steps quietly.

As the three left, only an old kerosene lamp, still emitting a pale yellow light, remained in the dormitory room. The surrounding darkness fluctuated, expanding and contracting back and forth, like... a heart beating regularly.

……

May 12, X023, 6:00 AM, Green Belt, somewhere deep in the dense forest.

A murky cloud of air filled the air, turning the nearby mountains into a gray-blue world. As the first rays of dawn shone into the green forest, the gray-blue cloud of air slowly dissipated.

As the gray-blue mist dissipated, large swaths of plaster-like material emerged from the rugged earth. This material appeared very solid at first glance, but was actually somewhat soft, like gray flesh and blood, even with some strange textures, and was slowly writhing and expanding under the influence of the breath.

However, as the sparse rays of dawn pierced through the branches of the dense forest and fell upon these materials, they finally stopped pulsating, slowly becoming hard and textured, and eventually turning into large slabs of sculpture.

If someone were to follow the texture of the sculpture at this moment, they would see a small mountain-like object at the center of this group of sculptures.

This is a pile of corpses built from the remains of countless bizarre creatures, sculpted under the sunlight.

At the top of the pile of sculpted corpses, there was a burly figure kneeling on one knee, leaning on a stick. His body was charred black, his skin cracked like parched earth, and within those dense cracks, a thick, scarlet blood flowed.

His body was covered in countless sharp thorns, like a hedgehog, making it impossible to tell whether he was deliberately kneeling or had been impaled by these thorns.

He seemed to be dead, yet he also seemed not to be completely dead...

"call……"

Thick, white smoke was billowing from his mouth and nose, making him appear as if he were a human-shaped piece of charcoal, which, when blown by the wind, would rise into the sky with clouds of smoke and ash.

"The sun is coming out……"

"Finally... it's over..."

The last glimmer of light in his already lifeless white eye sockets began to dim...

But just then, a voice suddenly rang out, as if it came from some extremely distant place, or as if it appeared directly in his ear:

【Weisang...Weisang...!】

[I can't fall here yet...]

【Weisang!】

【Weisang…!!】

"...?!"

Suddenly, a spark flew from the eyes of the charred figure, which had been extinguished, like a flint striking a stone in the darkness. Then, his eyes lit up instantly.

"Old Lin...?"

"Heh...heh heh...I see..."

"call……"

As if he had been brought back to life, a grayish-blue mist began to slowly rise from his body, which gradually faded and eventually turned into a white, steam-like aura.

"Yes... we can't... collapse here yet."

He staggered to his feet, his body swaying uncontrollably. With each sway, the charred black substance on his body peeled off, as if he might fall at any moment. But in the end, he still managed to stand up.

When all the charred black outer shell peeled off, the figure suddenly transformed into the likeness of Wei Shan.

However, at this moment, Wei Shan's body was still covered with countless sharp thorns.

Upon closer inspection, one would find that all of these spikes are covered with secret patterns, especially where they meet his skin and flesh, where there are even throbbing, ferocious blood vessel-like markings.

"Old Lin, oh Old Lin..."

Wei Shan murmured, reaching out to grab the thorn that had pierced his chest.

The thorn was as thick as a child's forearm, and it pierced through the right back ribs and protruded through the chest.

"call……"

He held his breath, gritted his teeth, gripped the thorn tightly, and slowly pulled it out...

"laugh……"

The sharp spikes, clinging to Wei Shan's flesh, were slowly pulled out of his chest cavity.

After pulling it out, Wei Shan casually tossed it aside, then the second, the third...

When all the spikes were pulled out, countless honeycomb-like holes appeared on Wei Shan's body. The blood in these holes had long since dried, and the shape of his glassy skeleton could be faintly seen inside.

Deep in the dense forest, amidst lush foliage, Wei Shan, his body riddled with wounds, climbed to the treetops and found a spot with ample sunlight.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and silently endured the sunlight.

"Hu, hu, hu..."

He breathed slowly, his body surface taking on a crystal-like texture under the sunlight, his glass-like frame exuding a magnificent translucency, as if he did not belong to this dimension.

Gradually, flesh and blood began to grow and circulate within his body, slowly repairing the damaged areas.

After his body was fully restored, he slowly opened his eyes and then jumped down from the tree.

Looking down at the dense, sculpted, bizarre creatures in the forest below, he gripped the staff-like object in his hand and let out a long howl:
"drink--!"

In an instant, a large cloud of gray-blue mist roared out of his body, and then, with his movement, condensed into a crimson-gold spiral on the rod-shaped object.

The moment it landed, the crimson-gold spiral poured into the long, sculpted mass of people like a cascading waterfall.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom..."

Waves of energy surged outwards like spray, annihilating all the countless sculpted, bizarre creatures into dust.

After that, he walked to a banyan tree next to him that was covered with large eyeballs, and reached out to crush the bark of the banyan tree.

"Old Lin, I'll take you away."

Beneath the bark of the banyan tree, the body of a strange creature was hidden.

At this moment, Lin Yi appeared to be half-dead, his appearance somewhere between a recently deceased corpse and an old, bluish-gray sculpture.

The strangest thing is that Lin Yi is now missing an arm—his left arm.

After digging Lin Yi out, Wei Shan placed the stick-like object in his hand on Lin Yi's left shoulder. The extraordinary substance wrapped around the stick quickly peeled off and then turned into Lin Yi's left arm.

After doing all this, Wei Shan carried Lin Yi on his back and slowly led him toward the shallower part of the green belt.

"Oops, I acted too quickly just now and forgot to leave one alive. I'll have to find a fake human to strip him of his clothes later..."

He muttered to himself in a simple and honest manner, and slowly disappeared into the green belt.

……

X023年5月12日，6:12，宿舍楼一层。

"Ding!"

"Clang—Crack!"

The elevator doors opened, and Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang stepped out one after the other, while the only remaining girl in the dormitory room followed cautiously behind them, carrying her backpack.

Even after leaving the dormitory building, the girl continued to follow them.

The girls followed whichever way they walked.

They didn't move, so the girls didn't move either.

(End of this chapter)