AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 35 - 35 16 Law of Survival_2

35: Chapter 16 Law of Survival_2 35: Chapter 16 Law of Survival_2 Lin Yi mentally recited the student regulations one by one, searching for all content relevant to the Teaching Building…

Eventually, he found only one rule, and it was the last:

[Please take your health seriously.

If you experience symptoms such as dizziness, blurred vision, or nausea during your time at school, please find the Dormitory Supervisor or your homeroom teacher before overnight.

He will take you to the infirmary, and the school physician will escort you to the school entrance.]

But the rules for the Teaching Building also stated:

[After 21:00, it’s forbidden to leave the classroom.

Please study on your own until 07:40 the next day.

During this period, if you see anything unusual outside the window or hear someone calling you from outside the door, please ignore it.]

“The rules are conflicting again…?”

At times like these, he couldn’t help but want to understand the connections between the rules, but having learned his lesson from several setbacks, this time he decisively chose to prioritize the rules of the Teaching Building based on his current location—within the Teaching Building itself.

But beyond that, he couldn’t find any other officially given rules from the school authorities.

What remained for reference were only the homeroom teacher’s occasional remarks and the few minutes of conversation that he had with Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang.

“Xu Shunkang’s words had two key points, first was to obey the rules, and the second was not to think…”

“I’ve already grasped the meaning behind obeying the rules.

As for not thinking, it should also be understood as not contemplating ‘problematic things’…”

“Thoughts like these are clearly not an issue.

Xu Shunkang wasn’t clear in his instructions in order to avoid guiding me towards such contemplations…”

Just as when speaking, A always emphasizes with a negative structure that B should not buy a blue pen, should not buy a blue pen, and yet in the end, B ends up buying a blue pen regardless.

If you don’t want B to buy a blue pen, the simplest way is not to tell B about blue pens at all.

Xu Shunkang’s method had its own kind of crafty trick.

If there wasn’t time to explain something, it was better not to mention it at all.

That way, people wouldn’t overthink from hearing too much and thus risk accidents happening.

“Then there’s the homeroom teacher’s words…

The most crucial point in what the homeroom teacher said is actually ‘ignore’.”

Ignoring something seems simple, but in reality, it’s quite difficult to do; only someone like Wei Liang, who has focused his talents on such crafty tricks, could manage it.

“So, if I combine the limited clues I have, what I get is—”

“Don’t think in terms of thought, ignore reality in terms of behavior…

and then follow the emergency rules when accidents occur, to create a ‘safe’ environment!”

When Lin Yi reached this conclusion, he suddenly looked at Wei Liang beside him, engrossed in his comic book, and a big word “Respect” rose slowly from the bottom of his heart.

“This is…

isn’t this Liangzi’s approach?”

The reaction that Wei Liang had come up with subconsciously was exactly the same as the survival method Lin Yi had concluded after much analysis!

Chang Wei, you say you don’t know martial arts?!

Feeling the intense gaze from Lin Yi, Wei Liang subconsciously shivered.

“What’s wrong, Old Lin?

Your look is making me feel uneasy…” he shrunk his neck.

“Nothing…” Lin Yi said.

“Is Liangzi truly a simpleton…

or just pretending to be one?

Can it really be such a coincidence?”

“But still, I feel like something isn’t quite right…”

Lin Yi felt the phenomena were one way, but the principles behind them were something else; there must be some logic, and he had only skimmed the surface.

He wanted to delve deeper, but felt that the moment he did, even a little bit, a bizarre and indescribable terror would invade his will and…

tempt him to think further!

I mustn’t overthink it…

While it was necessary to maintain thought, it seemed as if there was a shackle within the range of thought, forcing him to reason only within a limited range and utterly forbidding overstepping it.

“Damn it.”

Lin Yi shook his head slightly, reluctant to settle for the half-baked conclusion he had deduced, and re-inserted it into the events that had occurred after the classroom lights flickered, to briefly review the situation and see if he could identify why he was being targeted.

Just then, Lin Yi suddenly noticed the classroom lighting flickered again.

“?!!” Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat, and he quickly looked up towards the ceiling.

But this time, after staring at the ceiling for a full thirty seconds, he still saw no flicker in any of the incandescent lights.

Just as he was beginning to wonder, the light in the classroom flickered again!

His pupils shrank sharply, and he realized in an instant, “It’s not the lights in the classroom that are flickering!

It’s…

the corridor!”

He turned his head towards the corridor and indeed, the lights there were pulsing at some strange frequency.

“How many lights would have to flicker together to affect the lighting in the classroom like this?”

While Lin Yi was feeling alarmed, a faint ripple transmitted through the classroom’s wall tiles, reaching the soles of his feet.

In the drinking fountain at the back of the tiered classroom, a slight ripple also appeared on the surface of the water.

“Thud…”

“Thud…”

“Thud…”

Something outside seemed to be colliding, each impact causing the entire classroom to tremble slightly, and the incandescent lights in the corridor pulsed with each collision.

He looked at the classroom windows, and due to the temperature difference inside and outside, a layer of white vapor had formed on the glass of the windows.