AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 255 - 120 Losing Student ID Card_2

Chapter 255: Chapter 120 Losing Student ID Card_2

Wei Shan swiftly took off his right shoe, then undressed to check and finally confirmed that only the shoe had tomato sauce on it.

Lin Yi, Tian Bufan, Wei Liang, and Li Huiyuan, on the other hand, had not gotten any tomato sauce on them.

"I’ll go throw away the shoe," Wei Shan said calmly.

Lin Yi nodded slightly, "Good, we’ll wait here for you so we can leave together."

"Okay," Wei Shan said, taking the shoe that had earned its battle scars, and made his way down the cobblestone path toward the entrance of the Staff Passage.

Lin Yi shifted his gaze and then turned to Li Huiyuan, saying seriously, "Let me check your back."

"..." Li Huiyuan paused, then quickly nodded, "Okay."

The reason Lin Yi made this request was that he noticed Li Huiyuan was wearing a tight sport vest.

Logically, wearing a sport vest under a student uniform didn’t add up.

It was precisely because of the presence of this sport vest that there was only a faint white scratch on Li Huiyuan’s back, which hadn’t been scratched by the sharp plaster-like nails of the Pocket Chef.

"It must be just the clothes that are damaged, right?" said Li Huiyuan.

Lin Yi nodded, "The vest did have some effect."

Li Huiyuan shivered with fear, her eyes filled with complexity and regret, "This vest was one of the undergarments prepared in the wardrobe. There was also a casual outfit in the style of a school uniform, but I chose not to wear it... instead, I wore my own uniform..."

"If, if I had worn the school uniform, and kept my Student ID card safe, it definitely wouldn’t have been lost..."

She hung her head low, her face a picture of deep regret.

"The Student ID card is already lost; regret won’t reverse time," Lin Yi sighed, "But don’t worry, losing your Student ID card means you lose your ’Experience Student’ status, but you won’t die because you..."

He suddenly stopped mid-sentence, realizing something.

Because [those who lose their Student ID card are taken to the Art Building to become an Art Student.]

This information came from a dream and related to the Art Building; if he revealed it now, it might cause cognitive dissonance for Li Huiyuan, who was already beginning to lose her "current identity" due to the loss of her Student ID card.

It was something his logic simply couldn’t allow him to reveal.

"Because of what?" Li Huiyuan asked suspiciously.

"No reason, I misspoke," Lin Yi shook his head.

Li Huiyuan didn’t believe him but chose to remain silent.

After thinking, Lin Yi murmured, "Perhaps I should tell the class teacher. I almost forgot... While the school rules don’t mention what to do if a Student ID card is lost, there is this rule—"

"[Forgetting to register and staying overnight can be troublesome, and the school will continue to provide help to resolve your issues until you retrieve your Student ID card or confirm it cannot be retrieved.]"

"Forgetting to register refers to accidentally swiping someone else’s Student ID card and needing to register with the class teacher, but the rules ultimately say ’until you retrieve or confirm you cannot retrieve your Student ID card,’ implying, you should inform the class teacher, and the school will strive to help you recover your Student ID card."

Li Huiyuan’s thoughts had been a mess since she realized she had lost her Student ID card. Now hearing Lin Yi’s analysis, her eyes lit up immediately: "Yes, yes, you’re right, I’ll go to the class teacher to register right away!"

"Don’t rush!" Lin Yi interrupted, "For safety sake, it’s better to stick with us."

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and nodded.

But from her trembling, Lin Yi could tell she was actually terrified.

Indeed, no one could remain calm in such a situation.

Li Huiyuan had entered the school the previous evening. After settling in the dormitory, she had accepted the anomaly of the campus through contemplation, inadvertently overriding her perception of the campus. Otherwise, the current situation would have already caused her cognitive state, due to unsafe thinking, to collapse.

"Huh..." Lin Yi suddenly paused.

"If it were under normal circumstances to enter the school, shouldn’t the school use a blue bus to bring the Experience Students to the school gate on a nice weather day?"

"After entering the school gate, a homeroom teacher would come to meet them, and then under the guidance of the homeroom teacher, they would walk along the cobblestone road lit by street lamps to the Teaching Building, register, and obtain their Student ID card?"

"Then, between 18:00 and 20:30, even if they sensed something strange, the threat was minimal because of the incandescent light, and as long as their inspiration wasn’t enough, they wouldn’t think about things involving underlying logic and wouldn’t lose themselves."

"Next, they would stay in the classroom until about 20:30, leave the classroom, and return to the Dormitory building before the abnormal weather arrived."

"Once they were in the dorm, which allowed for wild thinking, no matter what they thought, it wasn’t a problem. Before falling asleep, they had ample time to detect some unusual signs about the campus from the minutiae of various regulations and subtly complete the cognitive rewriting under the ’safe status’ of the dorm..."

"Damn, could this be the ’normal Experience Students’ proper way to approach S City University?!"

As if he had deciphered the secrets of the runes, Lin Yi was illuminated, his thoughts clear.

Compared to this ’proper way,’ their method was definitely problematic!

Firstly, they arrived at the school gate shrouded in dense fog, then directly reached the Teaching Building in its staggering layered state under abnormal weather, entered through the basement floor one office, and finally reached the classroom.

Then, because of the abnormal weather, they were unable to return to the dorm and stayed in the classroom all night!

In this scenario, even if they vaguely sensed something was off about the campus, they didn’t have the freedom to think and do the cognitive rewriting, making their "copies" directly begin in a hellish nightmare mode!

[With your insights, you definitely couldn’t pass the selection.]

The words of Homeroom Teacher 039 echoed in his mind like a gong.

"There’s a big problem here!" Lin Yi felt a cold sweat running down his back, suddenly feeling as if he had been pushed into a grand conspiracy by an invisible hand upon arriving at S City University!

Moreover, whether it was leaving or not leaving the classroom, there was a way out. In comparison, Li Huiyuan was the one who truly experienced life at S City University with a little bit of inspiration!

She was the one who got thirty thousand in seven days!

And them...they spent seven days gambling with their lives to earn thirty thousand!

"Dammit! We were duped!" Lin Yi’s temples throbbed, a nameless anger rising in his heart.

He glanced at Tian Bufan, feeling that Tian Bufan might know something, but he didn’t ask at this moment... because his instincts told him that he should also know something, only he didn’t know why he had forgotten.

"Old Lin," Suddenly, Tian Bufan spoke.

"Huh?"

"You have something you hadn’t thought about before which you can think about now," Tian Bufan said calmly.

Lin Yi was slightly startled, then shook his head, "Actually, I’ve already thought it through quite a bit."

Tian Bufan raised his eyebrows slightly, seeming a bit surprised, "Oh? That was quicker than I expected."

Lin Yi: "?"

"Wait, I do have one question to ask you."

"Ask away."

Lin Yi then pointed at Li Huiyuan, "I remember the first time you saw her, you said ’she won’t live for several days anyway,’ what did you mean by that?"

Could it be that Tian Bufan could predict the incident with Li Huiyuan losing her Student ID card?

But, even if losing a Student ID card, one should supposedly convert to an Art Student, not ’won’t live for several days,’ right?

As if seeing through Lin Yi’s guesses, Tian Bufan shook his head, "What I thought then cannot be compared directly with the current situation. Think more carefully about what I said at that time?"