AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 267 - 124 Did Wei Shan Visit?_3

Chapter 267: Chapter 124 Did Wei Shan Visit?_3

"You tell me, just take it slow, I think everything should be okay," Lin Yi comforted, assured that what Li Huiyuan could now know certainly wouldn’t exceed his own understanding.

Having received Lin Yi’s affirmation, Li Huiyuan fell silent for a moment as she collected her thoughts before speaking: "The teacher meant that after losing my Student ID card, my identity in the school is no longer the previously registered ’Li Huiyuan’..."

"Even though I am still here... but during roll call and check-in, they use my Student ID card... I can no longer use it for anything that requires the Student ID card, not even swiping it to enter the dormitory..."

Lin Yi’s brows raised...

"Oh right, I almost forgot, you need to swipe the Student ID card to open the dormitory door!"

"And for the lockers at the Swimming Hall during PE class!"

"Does this mean she can’t even attend PE class?"

"And, she can’t buy food at the cafeteria... No, she can’t even use the Student Passage to enter the cafeteria? Wait, what is her ’identity’ now, can she still use the Student Passage?"

These thoughts flashed through his mind, but he didn’t rush to interrupt Li Huiyuan. Instead, he continued to listen.

"Then, the teacher told me, to go to the Convenience Store in the cafeteria tonight for dinner, and then... and then..."

"And then what?"

"Then, to purchase... the Student Souvenir Coin..."

Lin Yi revealed a look of surprise: "The ’Student Souvenir Coin’?"

"You... why do you not find it odd at all?" Li Huiyuan looked puzzled at Lin Yi’s expression. She was completely dumbfounded when she first heard about it from the class advisor, 040, almost having her perception distorted.

Yet Lin Yi appeared nonchalant, as if he wasn’t surprised in the slightest, almost as though he had anticipated this.

Lin Yi hadn’t anticipated a damn thing.

He was just surprised, and he also realized this point that he had never paid much attention to before—the Student Souvenir Coin.

About the Student Souvenir Coin, the Student Rules mention only a limited rule, but... it also specifically coined a rule for it!

[The Convenience Store is located on the first floor of the cafeteria, with no owner. To complete a purchase, simply use the Student ID card at the self-service terminal. The Convenience Store only offers daily necessities and food, no souvenirs, especially items labeled "Student Souvenir Coin." If you encounter someone claiming to be the Convenience Store’s owner, regardless of what he says or does, please ignore.]

"’The Convenience Store has no Student Souvenir Coin’..." Lin Yi sighed quietly to himself, "Of course, the Convenience Store does have Student Souvenir Coins."

If it didn’t, they wouldn’t specifically say so.

If it were his first time entering the school, he would surely have faced a cognitive conflict, but not anymore.

It was an extremely simple method to simply cover the parts that exceeded reality with the formula of "layers" in his mind first.

Whether it was correct or not, he’d treat it as such, like setting an unknown "X."

It’s not a big deal if he hadn’t figured it out yet. He would set it first, and if by chance it was the correct answer, when it came time to verify, he would be struck with an even greater sense of sudden clarity.

Clearly, the Student Souvenir Coin was something that a regular Experience Student wasn’t supposed to see; it must be visible in the Convenience Store only when a person’s perception had a problem, or, in other words, when he had already accepted the "fact" that "the Convenience Store has Student Souvenir Coins."

Therefore, the Student Souvenir Coin probably wasn’t an item from a normal layer.

Moreover, he had heard the term "Student Souvenir Coin" from someone else—the Dormitory Supervisor.

The image of the somewhat cowardly-looking but decisively acting Dormitory Supervisor from his dream, as well as the scene from that time, surfaced in his mind.

The yellow-haired Dormitory Supervisor wearing a somewhat dirty jacket and with dark circles under his eyes was in conversation with Mao Feiyang...

"Please... show me your Student ID card."

"I... don’t have a Student ID card."

"Then... could you please show me... the Student Souvenir Coin?"

"The Student Souvenir Coin? Isn’t that supposed to be an item we’re not allowed to purchase? I don’t have it..."

"Are you a Sports Student... or an Art Student?"

"I just enrolled today... I haven’t received anything."

"Are you looking for an Art Teacher?"

...

Lin Yi speculated, "The Dormitory Supervisor first confirmed whether Maozi had a Student ID card as an Experience Student, and then asked if he had a Student Souvenir Coin. After confirming that Maozi didn’t meet any of the above conditions, he asked whether Maozi was a Sports Student or an Art Student... and eventually took him to the Art Building."

"And the class advisor telling Li Huiyuan to go to the Convenience Store to purchase the Student Souvenir Coin... is she being led down the path of an Art Student?"

Among all the rules other than the Art Student Rules, there’s only a limited one in the Student Rules.

But in the Art Student Rules, the Student Souvenir Coin didn’t seem like a term with a taboo connotation, but rather like a relatively "normal" item.

"According to the description in the Art Student Rules, the Student Souvenir Coin is the identity credential of an Art Student. Hence, after Li Huiyuan lost her Student ID card, thus losing her ’Experience Student status,’ the class advisor 040 immediately directed her to acquire a Student Souvenir Coin from the Convenience Store."

Lin Yi carefully recalled the reactions of the Dormitory Supervisor and the Art Teacher upon encountering Mao Feiyang, seeming as though "an Experience Student who hadn’t yet obtained a Student ID card going directly to the Art Department via the Art Building" was an exceedingly rare occurrence. Thus, it could be deduced that an "Experience Student who obtained and then lost a Student ID card" was very likely to embark on the path of the Art Department after obtaining a Student Souvenir Coin...