Chapter 163 "Material"
Chapter 163 "Material" (200 words added)
Because the word "safety" is mentioned in almost all the rules, but most of the "safety" is something superficial that makes people feel at ease. Only the "safety" in the dormitory is the absolute safety that can allow even someone as creative as him to sleep safely.
"So in order to obtain this 'absolute safety', Homeroom Teacher-040 is willing to let us go back at great risk?"
"Although the school building is safe,... it seems that a danger beyond the protection of the school building regulations is approaching."
Does this danger override the Code?
not necessarily.
So, is there a conflict of rules?
not necessarily.
Based on the previous part of the rules, Lin Yi suspected that the abnormal weather this time was very likely to have caused some kind of emergency, thereby triggering some rules with a higher priority.
He speculated that there might be a rule in the "Class Teacher's Guidelines" that says "If a certain situation arises, please ask the trial students to follow the 'emergency response plan' and do what they should do."
Simply put, Homeroom Teacher-040 hinted to them that there was a higher priority rule that they were unaware of, which conflicted with the rule in their student code that required them to "take shelter in the nearest building at all costs when encountering abnormal weather", and they could choose to believe her and abide by this rule.
A seemingly simple decision.
Choose one of two, no, actually it’s one of four.
The head teacher announced the question, hinted at the situation, gave options, and informed the answer.
They just need to follow the steps.
Similar to the process that Homeroom Teacher-039 did before locking the classroom for evening self-study, Homeroom Teacher-040 also gave a wave of suggestions, but the difference was that Homeroom Teacher-040 directly targeted high inspiration... or some kind of division and gave them another option.
And this time, this option seems to be extremely suitable for "this type" of experience-seeking people.
This time, Lin Yi chose to comply first and then figure out the logic behind it when he returned to the dormitory.
He glanced at the time. It was already 19:22. After the homeroom teacher 040 left for a few minutes, the classroom gradually became noisy again. Most of the new students who had just arrived were assigned by the homeroom teacher 040 to the group of people who stayed in the classroom.
Lin Yi guessed that this might be because the homeroom teacher-040 had not yet determined whether their inspiration was high or low, so he followed a certain "default value" and let them do it like ordinary experience students.
Just like the advice given to Lin Yi by the homeroom teacher-5 and Xu Shunkang when Lin Yi first entered the school on May 6.
Perhaps there are some highly inspired trainees among those trainees who just entered the school this afternoon, but if the company does not inform the homeroom teacher-040, then she will not be aware of it and will only treat them as ordinary trainees.
Lin Yi retracted his gaze and took out the student rules, teaching building rules, and dormitory rules to have a look. It was interesting to say that among the numerous rules, it seemed that only these three rules could be carried around.
Other rules are either locked directly in the corresponding building areas, or, like the cafeteria rules and gymnasium rules, are not allowed to be taken out of the corresponding buildings.
"That's quite interesting."
"What interesting thing did you think of that made the corners of your mouth smile?" Wei Liang at the side suddenly asked.
Wei Liang was bored as he had no H comics to read, and was debating whether he should pick up a not-too-thick H comic in the last 40 minutes to read it. But he was afraid that his ability to peer through cracks in people would suddenly awaken, and he would not be able to spare his hawk-like gaze, so he just glanced around randomly.
He glanced at the students who were having another heated discussion because they did not understand the arrangements made by the head teacher, and then glanced at the other students who were thinking calmly and decided not to join them. Then he saw that the corners of Lin Yi's mouth actually slightly raised.
"I suddenly thought of something interesting." Lin Yi told Wei Liang about his discovery.
Upon hearing this, Wei Liang rolled his eyes and pouted, "Is there any need to think about this? The school is not stupid. What they can give you must be worthless. Who would let you take away something valuable?"
"Ah?" Lin Yi was stunned.
"Stupid!" Wei Liang took out a copy of the student code and shook it with his hand. The student code, which looked a bit like a gym flyer, immediately made a "rustling" sound.
"This thing is the same as the flyer, as well as the student rules and dormitory rules. The materials are similar, but the cafeteria rules and gymnasium rules are different!"
"There's a shell-like thing outside the canteen rules, which looks very high-end. The box containing the gymnasium rules is even more outrageous. It can be used as a card reader to swipe open the lockers in the swimming pool. This kind of thing looks very expensive. How could the school give it to you for free?"
When Lin Yi heard this, he actually felt that what Wei Liang said made some sense.
"It seems to be true... what you said is true!"
"Of course not!" Wei Liang raised his head proudly.
Lin Yi didn't intend to think about this problem at the moment, but a word Wei Liang said suddenly popped up in his mind - material.
"Wait? Material!"
A bright gleam of light suddenly flashed across Lin Yi's eyes!
Speaking of materials——
The outer shell of the cafeteria rules and gymnasium rules seem to be made of the same material!
That special material that looks a bit like white acrylic board!
"Wait... white acrylic?!"
He thought of another point, and a cold breath suddenly surged behind him!
A terrifying truth suddenly surfaced. He had never thought of it before, but when he connected it to this point, he suddenly felt a creepy and terrifying feeling from the bottom of his heart!
Because he thought—everyone’s student ID card seemed to be made of this material!!!
No, more than just a student ID!
The name badge of his head teacher and the name badge of the cafeteria lady flashed through his mind at the speed of light, and then he found that these things were all made of this material!
And it seems that there is more than that, the student commemorative coins seem to be made of the same material?!
The image of the student commemorative coins flashed through his mind, and he found that they were actually very similar, and... when the class teacher-040 showed the class teacher's code of conduct, the cover of the class teacher's code of conduct seemed to be made of the same material!
In other words... these things, these identity-related things, are all made of the same material!
This material, which looks like a white acrylic board, is actually very complicated!
"The rules say that you shouldn't be seen by others when you swipe your card in the cafeteria..."
"Ryoko has also mastered the passive skill 'Sword Slash'..."
"And... Li Huiyuan once told me in the canteen that she had a strong urge to snatch my student ID!"
"She lost her student ID card, has been absorbing pollution, and has shown some of the characteristics of a nocturnal creature..."
"So, the nocturnal species will attack those who expose their student ID cards! I don't know their motives or logic, but they seem to want to snatch student ID cards?!"
"If we put student ID cards and other materials like these into one category, and then put nocturnal species, non-human classmates, and humanoid sculptures into another category... we can come up with a guess!"
"If you leave with something like the cafeteria rules, you'll most likely be attacked by the humanoid sculptures when you're walking at night!"
"And since the student ID card is small enough, maybe this problem can be avoided...?" "Wait!"
"not necessarily!"
He thought of the call coming from behind.
The kind of voice that was so accurate that it could call out his name!
Was that voice calling him?
No, not calling "him", but calling "the person holding his student ID card".
They were a group of nocturnal creatures or human-shaped sculptures, hiding in dark corners, using their calls to express their covetousness and greed for the student ID cards!
The moment he thought of this, a picture emerged in Lin Yi's mind as if he had seen it with his own eyes -
Late at night at S City University, with a bright moon hanging in the sky, "he" is walking alone on the rugged cobblestone road. The cobblestones at his feet are so smooth that they reflect the bright moonlight, as if shrouded in a misty light.
An evening breeze blew up from between the mountains, brushing over the treetops, and the whole mountain was filled with a rustling sound. Gradually, thick white fog poured out from the depths of the mountains with the wind, flooding the edge of the green forest belt, and flowing into S City University like a hazy tide and mucus formed by countless sticky liquids entangled together.
As the fog expanded, a formation of human-shaped sculptures began to drag their stiff bodies out of the green forest belt like zombies besieging a city.
"Swish, swish, swish"...
The fog that poured into S City University was exposed after the white mountain fog evaporated, revealing the green color that symbolizes pollution. As time went by, this green color turned into a terrifying dark green.
The green mist, sometimes thick and sometimes thin, lingered in the mountains and the campus, wandering between the square array of human sculptures. The entire S City University seemed to have turned into a Shura hell with floating green light mist...
The wind blew the fog slowly around the cobblestone road. "He" walking on the cobblestone road began to notice the abnormality of the environment and started looking for the nearest street lamp.
But for some reason, even though it looked very late at night, the street lights around "him" were not yet on.
As the green mist continued to grow thicker, the clouds in the sky also grew thicker. The cold moonlight was gradually obscured by the thick fog, and only the outline of the moon remained in the sky.
The fog gradually deepened, and "he" began to lose his way. Looking at the fog that visibly covered his instep, submerged his ankles, and then rose to his calves, "he" frowned tightly, then squatted down, touched the pebbles at his feet with his hands, and began to repeat in his mind, "My name is Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I am on the cobblestone road on campus... My name is Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I am..."
When "he" silently recited these sentences, in the scene deduced by Lin Yi that "he" could not see, in the thick dark green fog, the human-shaped sculptures seemed to smell a delicious smell, dragging their stiff steps, accompanied by the sound of "rustling" footsteps, and slowly gathered around Lin Yi...
Their bodies swayed slowly in the evening breeze like seaweed, surrounding "him" like a strange choir. In this underworld-like environment, they also looked like countless slender human-shaped tombstones.
They stood beside him, as if they had heard the words he was reciting in his heart, and then one, two, three, four... the corners of their lips began to raise a stiff arc, followed by a hoarse and dry voice:
[My name is Lin Yi...]
[My student number is...X0230506...098...]
[I am…on the cobblestone road…on campus…]
[My name is Lin Yi... I...]
But Lin Yi was sure that the "him" in his mind did not make any sound at all, and all the words were spoken silently in his heart. However, these human-shaped sculptures seemed to be able to hear his voice and said the same words as "him".
As if by repeating these words over and over again, they could become "him", or...rob him of his identity.
I don’t know how much time had passed, but somewhere on the cobblestone road, a street lamp suddenly lit up.
As the street lights came on, the orange-yellow light immediately pierced through the thick dark green fog, expanding a hemispherical area like a big mushroom emerging from the flat ground.
The human-shaped sculpture immediately retreated to the surroundings with a rustling sound like a sandworm, as if it was afraid of such light.
"He" raised his head and looked at the lamppost.
Because all the human-shaped sculptures along the way had escaped, he could see almost nothing except the rolling fog.
"He" then stood up and started walking towards the lamppost.
When "he" faced the lamppost, a dark shadow was cast behind him. Seeing this shadow, the human-shaped sculptures scrambled to get up. They stuck close to the shadow and followed "him" as he slowly approached the lamppost.
They crawled on the ground, wriggling forward, and some of the human-shaped sculptures simply stepped on the backs of the first group of human-shaped sculptures, pressing their bodies heavily on the cobblestone road.
But they seemed to have no sense of pain and no change in expression. They just desperately followed "his" shadow and climbed towards the lamppost.
Their bellies were rubbed bloody by the cobblestone roads - but their flesh and blood was a plaster-like substance.
The cracks in the cobblestone road where they crawled and rubbed were filled with plaster-like powder. This powder was exactly the same as the powder that Lin Yi had observed when he squatted down on the road!
“Swish…”
“Swish…”
There was a strong greed in their eyes, and they huddled in "his" shadow and moved closer to the lamppost little by little.
Finally, "he" broke out of the dark green mist and entered the area of the street lamp wrapped in the amniotic fluid-like mist as if breaking through the fetal membrane.
He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
But at this moment, an anxious voice called out from behind him: "Lin Yi."
He didn't know whose voice it was, but it felt very familiar to him.
So "he" subconsciously turned his head away.
At this moment, the humanoid sculptures that were originally curled up in his shadow suddenly arched their bodies strangely, and before he could react, they swarmed over and pinned him to the ground like a pack of wolves, then attacked him while shouting:
[I am Lin Yi, I am Lin Yi...]
Suddenly, one of the human-shaped sculptures tore "his" clothes, and the student ID card was exposed to the air.
"boom--"
The human-shaped sculptures seemed to explode, no longer paying any attention to "him", and rushed directly towards the student ID card.
Thanks to the book friend "usjdnshhs" for the reward!!
I was exhausted yesterday, so I will add 200 words today.
(End of this chapter)