Rules-related weird stories: 4016.

Chapter 149 "Instructions for the Convenience Store"

At this time, in the student cafeteria outside the canteen, only the three incandescent lamps in front of the canteen were still flickering. The rest of the area had been completely swallowed up by darkness, leaving only the wriggling white mist, like countless tentacles wriggling and twisting.

And in that dark realm, the sound of "rustling" was endless, as if groups of sandworms were swimming around, which made people feel creepy.

“Puchi! Puchi… Puchi!”

As the last three incandescent lamps went out, the entire first floor of the student cafeteria fell into endless darkness.

Finally, the crowds of heads finally emerged from the depths of the fog. Figures walked through the fog and came to the light at the entrance of the store, wandering around like ghosts...

This was a group of nocturnal species, some of them were non-human classmates, and some were things like little genius sculptures. There was a faint golden light flowing in their eyes, and they surrounded the store like stiff corpses.

At the entrance of the convenience store, a half-meter area of ​​dim light fog was struggling to hold on in the darkness, and it seemed that it would go out at any time.

Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch.

16: 52.

"The sun is about to set..." Lin Yi felt a huge pressure, "I must leave the cafeteria through the canteen as soon as possible and return to the teaching building..."

Today's weather seems sunny but actually there is a big problem. Lin Yi has never seen the sun set so early... The last time was on May 5th, the day he entered school.

But the weather was unusual that day. Just after 17:30, the mountain area was shrouded in rain and fog, and by 17:45 when we entered the school, the fog was even thicker.

He had a bad feeling that something like this was very likely to happen today.

Suddenly, Li Huiyuan beside him uttered a soft exclamation: "Student Lin, there seems to be a note stuck here!"

Lin Yi looked in the direction of the sound and saw an A4-sized label on the back of the store door.

The piece of paper was behind the door, and the door opened outwards, which meant that it could not be seen from Lin Yi's angle, but Li Huiyuan happened to see it.

Lin Yi looked over immediately, his expression becoming serious: "The store...needs to know?"

"【Instructions for the store (1)】"

“Please keep the following in mind when entering the concession stand:”

"1. The name of the store is for reference only. Please refer to the actual situation for the actual items."

“No matter what the canteen you enter looks like, please be sure to believe that the canteen is on the first floor of the cafeteria, and you can leave the cafeteria and return to the campus through the canteen.”

"But if you want to do so, please choose to purchase at least one item, follow the blue exit signs, go to the self-service terminal to swipe your student ID (note it must be your own student ID), and then leave."

"2. The canteen has no owner and only sells daily necessities and food. There are no souvenirs, especially those labeled 'student commemorative coins'."

“If you see someone claiming to be the store owner, please immediately confirm that his name tag is “Store Owner-00X” (X is a number between 1, 2, and 3, and definitely not any other number), and then leave the store immediately.”

"During this process, you can trust the words of the store owner with the badge and accept the help he offers you, but do not follow him. Please keep the behavior of "leaving the store."

"If the other person is a store owner who doesn't have a name tag or has an abnormal name tag, tell him that you need a food containing tomato elements (you can make up any name for the food), and then find a way to leave the store while he is looking for the item."

“3. Do not stay in the store for too long. Please pay and leave immediately after selecting the items.”

"If you feel your body temperature is decreasing during the journey, please immediately grab any ready-to-eat snacks that are available (never choose meat snacks), follow the exit signs, pay and leave."

"4. If you are not a trial student with a student ID, please ignore this notice and read the other side."

Seeing this, Lin Yi suddenly raised his eyebrows, and then glanced at Li Huiyuan... Li Huiyuan, who had just finished reading this page of instructions, indeed showed a strange expression when she read the last item.

Forget it, after reading for a long time, it has nothing to do with me.

Li Huiyuan reached out and touched the note paper, and found that it could be turned over. Then she looked at Lin Yi with a hint of inquiry: "Student Lin, have you finished reading it? Can I turn it over?"

"Well, go ahead and turn it over. Hurry up." Lin Yi nodded.

Li Huiyuan turned the paper over, and Lin Yi also came over.

Li Huiyuan was stunned: "Student Lin...you also see this side?"

Lin Yi said calmly: "Just take a look, it's good to learn more, which just fits my exploration goal."

Li Huiyuan stopped talking and started watching silently.

Lin Yi also looked over immediately:
"【Instructions for the store (2)】"

"If you are currently in the "Student without a Student ID" status, please keep the following in mind when entering the store:"

“1. You can take away any item in the store (note that it must be a labeled item), but no more than three items and no duplicates. After selecting your items, please follow the blue exit sign to leave the store immediately.”

“2、小卖部老板拥有胸牌，且胸牌编号为「小卖部老板-00X」（X为1、2、3之中的一个数字，绝对不会是其他数字）。”

"Trust the canteen owner and obey all the arrangements of the canteen (which takes priority over the teacher)."

"3. If the other party is a store owner who does not have a name tag or has an abnormal name tag, please find a way to divert its attention before it shows strong hostility towards you (about one minute), and quickly flee in the direction of the blue mark."

"When you see an exit with a 'No Entry' sign in the direction of a blue sign, go into it immediately. You will outrun it and may encounter security."

"If you encounter security, inform them of this, but do not follow them back."

“Throughout this process, remember:

Don't try to attack or provoke it, as this will only speed up its malicious behavior!

You are not and can never be its opponent!
Run! Run! "

"4. If you are a trial student with a student ID, please treat the contents of this page as a joke played by an idiot to trick you. Ignore this notice and read the part on the back. That part is the real rules... Dear~"

There is even a cute little heart emoticon at the end of the note, which is incompatible with the dark and strange content of the note. The content is very short. Compared with the art student's rules that are like a short essay, the canteen instructions can be said to be simple and clear.

Lin Yi also expressed his full understanding, because everyone who saw the instructions had already accepted the corresponding rules for their identity, so it was natural for them to accept the convenience store instructions.

Lin Yi discovered that there were only two categories of people entering the canteen. In other words, sports students and art students... seemed to belong to the "same category" as far as the canteen was concerned.

Lin Yi couldn't help but squint his eyes, but he didn't think much about it. He just memorized the two pieces of information in his mind after reading them.

Time is running out now. The first thing we should do is to follow the rules and leave the store. Wait until it is safe before thinking about the twists and turns here.

Lin Yi simply went over the two instructions in his mind, then turned around and looked around.

Although there were rows of shelves in the air-raid shelter tunnel-like store, it was still very empty on the whole. Coupled with the fragmented light curtains cast by the high-hanging incandescent lamps, it gave people a feeling of emptiness and coldness.

On the ceiling of the store, there are rectangular blue signs like the exit signs in the underground garage. The signs read: [Exit (with an arrow)]

In the shelf area, there are signs indicating four categories of goods: snacks, beverages, daily necessities, and others.

Lin Yi looked down at the roll of biscuits he had in his hand and found that there was indeed a food code on the biscuit packaging, marked as "biscuits". On the snack food shelf not far away, there were some foods with the same packaging.

"The things at the entrance of the canteen should have been taken out from here, so the student commemorative coins... should belong to the 'other category'."

"Yeah." Li Huiyuan nodded. She couldn't help but get excited at the thought that she would get the student commemorative coins soon.

"Time is running out, but we'd better not separate." Lin Yi looked down at the time. The time shown on his watch was 16:59. It took them a total of 7 minutes to read the instructions for the canteen. "I'll go with you."

A person can buy at most three items. He took a roll of biscuits, and theoretically he could have taken two more. Of course, for him, it didn’t matter whether he took it or not, the main thing was to abide by the rules of leaving.

Li Huiyuan nodded.

The two then followed the exit sign and walked towards the shelves where other goods were sold.

But just as he was about to start moving, he suddenly felt the light behind him dim...

A sense of uneasiness suddenly arose in his heart, so he turned around and looked at the door of the convenience store.

When he saw this, he was immediately shocked.

I saw that the area formed by the orange-yellow light outside the store had been eroded by the darkness, and there was little left. The gloomy white fog was like an invisible wall blocking the door of the store, as if it would invade at any time.

And within the fog, one can clearly see the outlines of human figures. They have arrived at the door of the store in the darkness, but seem to be blocked by the lights and finally stop at the door.

Suddenly, Lin Yi felt a slight distortion in his vision, and the door began to sway like a ship sailing on the sea being washed by wind and waves.

Then, the lights around him began to dim, and a long and harsh beeping sound began to sound in the air-raid shelter. The incandescent light on the ceiling suddenly lit up after dimming, but it released a light color that he had never seen on campus before -

red!

This red light instantly drowned out the original color of the incandescent lamp, and the entire store instantly turned into a closed arc-shaped air-raid shelter with flashing red lights, like the evacuation alarm when doomsday strikes, directly increasing the sense of oppression and tension in people's hearts.

Lin Yi's vision became increasingly distorted. He wanted to move, but found that he couldn't, as if his body didn't belong to him.

Then, the invisible barrier above the convenience store suddenly disappeared, and the dark white mist poured into the portal like a tide.

"call--"

It was like a sealed container storing liquid nitrogen was suddenly opened, and thick fog poured out instantly. A patch of ice cracks formed by frost spread out from the center of the store's door to the surrounding areas...

“Crack, crack, crack…”

Frost spread, the temperature of the entire canteen dropped sharply, and coupled with the flickering red lights and the shrill and long beeping alarms, the door connecting to the student cafeteria on the first floor of the cafeteria instantly turned into a gate to hell.

Behind that door, it was as if an indescribable, incomprehensible, and terrifying existence that could not be looked at directly had slowly awakened from a long dream...

“Swish, swish!”

“Swish, swish!”

“Swish…”

Within the frost and white mist, dark eerie shadows wandered around like a swarm of insects. They seemed to be the advance ghosts of the Lord of Hell, ready to make a move in the shadows.

Suddenly, a bloodless hand stretched out from the door and then slammed heavily on the ground.

It grasped the ground tightly, with its hideous blood vessels throbbing on its blue-gray arms, and it looked like it was clinging to the rock wall with all its might.

Then, its twisted body crawled out of the mist, croaking like a snake-like human monster. It closed its eyes, and its head trembled like a sparrow. Its smelly and sticky saliva dripped from between its teeth, landing on the floor tiles with a "pat pat" sound...

It seemed to want to open its eyes, but its moving eyelids seemed to be stuck and it couldn't open them no matter what.

It seemed to want to stand up, but its slightly limp blue-grey body allowed it to crawl on the ground like your spineless reptilian freak.

Its nostrils flared as if it smelled something, and it grinned and hissed, looking ferocious and terrifying.

“What… is this?!”

This thing looks like a monster that is somewhere between a non-human classmate and a nocturnal species, but in terms of threat, it is far greater than both the nocturnal species and the non-human classmate. To Lin Yi, it even feels more terrifying than the weird art student!
At this moment, a cold voice rang in his ears: "Nothing to see..."

He was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, he saw a figure walking out from his right side.

The figure was wearing a dark green Western-style school uniform and carrying a square drawing board on his back. He looked like a squashed Ninja Turtle.

He walked as fast as the wind, passing Lin Yi like a phantom, and walked quickly towards the strange nocturnal creature.

Thanks to book friends "琳skylark" and "顺流而下666666" for their rewards! !
PS: The tinnitus is back again. I originally wanted to take a leave today, but considering the instructions for the canteen, I still gritted my teeth and coded it. Tomorrow's chapter is also very interesting, so I gritted my teeth and held on. I will take a leave on March 3.20th the day after tomorrow to make some adjustments.

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(End of this chapter)