AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 386 - 177 The "Truth" About the Paper Slip... Version 2.0

Chapter 386: Chapter 177 The "Truth" About the Paper Slip... Version 2.0

Lin Yi ran back to the entrance of the dormitory building, thoroughly reading the two sets of dormitory regulations several times before sitting back at his desk with a grave expression.

"This is totally different from what I first thought," he said through gritted teeth, his face a mask of distaste as he slammed his fist onto the table.

"That’s why I said this piece of paper is quite interesting," Tian Bufan always seemed to be one step ahead of Lin Yi. He had read the paper while Lin Yi was showering and seemed to have guessed a certain truth, "What did you find?"

Lin Yi said gravely, "It’s completely contradictory."

"First of all, before the dormitory lights out at midnight, non-human classmates actually can’t enter the dorm at all. Only Song Rentou with a Student ID card can enter by swiping the card."

[Dormitory Rule 1] Article 5: Never issue an invitation to someone knocking at the door; only those with a Student ID card can return to the dorm, and they will open the door themselves.

"If those non-human classmates want to meet the condition of ’breaking in’ before midnight, there are only two possibilities. First, they possess a Student ID card..."

"However, what they chant is the identity information of Song Rentou’s roommate. If they have the roommate’s Student ID card and can swipe it to come in, then what is this about Song Rentou’s roommate?"

The dormitory regulations are strict:

[After exiting the elevator, please find your dormitory according to the room number and enter by swiping your Student ID card.]

It also stipulates:

[Don’t go into the wrong dorm!]

"To enter, one must belong to that dormitory and use their own Student ID card to swipe and enter."

"But according to this, ’I don’t know why they can open the door at this time’, it means they’re not opening the door with a Student ID card."

"And it’s important to note that he used ’they’, and ’they’ implies that there are at least two or more!"

Entering the dormitory is always one person at a time; once one enters and closes the door, the next person has to swipe their card to open the door again. There’s no case of two people entering in a row.

"So they don’t even have a Student ID card."

"And they can enter because they were ’invited’, and the inviter... is Song Rentou!"

"And that sentence is a kind of misdirection, which is why I found it strange at first and didn’t think of this."

In [Dormitory Rule 2 ’Special Version’], the first article is: If you feel the door of the dorm has been opened, don’t doubt it, it has been opened.

Because of the existence of this rule, Lin Yi didn’t initially doubt Song Rentou’s claim about them entering, but the more he thought about it, the more something seemed off. The reason lies in the very stringent prerequisite of [Dormitory Rule 2 ’Special Version’] —

[If your mental state is abnormal and you still cannot sleep after lights out, please remember the following rules to ensure you remain in a ’safe’ state.]

The special version of Dormitory Rule 2 corresponds to the Experience Students who are unable to sleep in bed after midnight, and who are also hovering on the edge of a ’safe’ state.

At this time, the dormitory is in a period of ’lights out and water supply stopped’; there simply could not be ’a roommate who is bathing in the restroom’.

These two mutually contradictory situations make it clear that it was Song Rentou who ’invited’ non-human classmates into the dormitory some time before midnight, directly leading to the death of his roommate who was in the bathroom.

And everything he said was to avoid the fact that he had killed his roommate.

["I don’t know why they can open the door at this time..."]

Of course, he didn’t know, because it wasn’t the non-human classmates who broke in, but he himself opened the door.

On the entire paper, only this sentence which was used to absolve himself of guilt was false, and it was also this very sentence that had the strongest sense of discordance.

But if this sentence itself is a lie, then everything makes sense.

Lin Yi shared his conclusions with Tian Bufan, who nodded slightly after listening, "Indeed, and he didn’t just do that, but he also used this method to kill all his roommates."

["My roommates are dead, I no longer have any other roommates..."]

"But why would he do such a thing?" Lin Yi frowned deeply.

What was the motive for murder?

If you kill someone, there must be a reason, right?

Class Teacher-039 had mentioned that those who applied for the experience were all screened by the company or school administration.

Moreover, the dormitory assignment was not random but reserved before enrollment after the application was approved. Generally, people in the same dormitory are acquaintances.

"So why would one person want to kill another person, no, several acquaintances?" Lin Yi couldn’t understand this, and the more he thought about it, the more the notes on the paper seemed convoluted and enigmatic.

One moment he thought the roommates invited them, the next he thought he invited them himself.

One moment he thought he was Song Rentou, the next he denied it, like...

"A mental breakdown?"

"Could this have been written by Song Rentou during a mental breakdown? Otherwise, how could it be so logically disordered and contradictory?"

If it was due to a mental breakdown, then it suddenly became much more rational.

"Young Master Tian, what do you think, could it be that his will was on the verge of collapsing and under such conditions, he became extremely sensitive to everything outside, his mind filled with rampant thoughts, so..."

"He opened the dormitory door while in an unstable mental state?"