Chapter 1 Student Code_2

Wei Liang, however, did not pay him any more attention. He rubbed his neck, relieved the muscle soreness for a moment, and continued to flip through the Student Handbook.

The Student Handbook consisted of just a few pages, but Wei Liang read it over and over again, without pause, as though he was about to enter an examination hall.

Lin Yi also took out his copy of the Student Handbook from his pocket and began to leaf through it page by page.

The mountain rain gradually became heavier, the mist thickened, and a muffled rumble of thunder rolled across the sky, illuminating the university deep in the mountains with flashes of lightning.

Startled by the thunder, Lin Yi peered through the rain-splattered window, seeing the vaguely visible campus, its main building towering in the dark like a bell tower shrouded in the mists of the Middle Ages.

The oppressive and stifling atmosphere affected the passengers on the bus, and soon the only sounds in the silent vehicle were the looped announcements mixed with the static and the rustling of pages being turned.

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze and looked at the Student Handbook in his hands.

The rules within this Student Handbook had always seemed peculiar, and reading them in this atmosphere only intensified their eerie quality to the maximum.

"[S City University Student Handbook]"

"Dear experimenter, welcome to S City University."

"As our school is located in a suburban area with complex terrain and poor mobile phone signal, please carry a map with you at all times for accurate location information. For your safety, please follow these rules while experiencing life at our school:

1. To enhance the experiential feeling, you will be issued a Student ID card upon enrolment. Please keep your Student ID card safe and remember your student number (it can be written on a sticky note in case you forget)."

"All expenses within the campus must be paid with your Student ID card. Before swiping the card, please confirm the student number to ensure you are using your own Student ID card. If you accidentally use someone else's Student ID card, please register with your class teacher (make sure it is your class teacher, not another teacher, and certainly not someone who claims to be the class teacher) before overnight. "

"Forgetting to register and staying overnight can be troublesome, and the school will continue to provide corresponding help to solve it until you retrieve or confirm that you cannot retrieve your Student ID card."

"2. Apart from students, all staff members within the school wear specific uniforms and have their own name badges. Be wary of individuals without name badges, and do not believe anything they say."

"3. All sculptures in the school are busts and are kept in the Art Building. If you see a complete human sculpture anywhere else within the school grounds, please find a nearby lamp post with a number (the lamp posts have conspicuous white paint numbers such as 'Teaching Building-001', 'Library-098', etc. If the lamp post does not have a number, or has a number painted in red, you must immediately get away from it) and follow the lamp post back to the nearest building."

"At any time, if you suddenly hear footsteps or calling voices from behind, no matter how close the footsteps or how urgent the voices, please do not look back. Once you are under the lamp post or inside a building, the footsteps will disappear."

"4. The coordinates of each building on the map are absolutely accurate, and all campus buildings are marked on the map. If you see a building that is not on the map, especially the Art Building, do not panic, mark its location on the map, and report it to your class teacher. Do not attempt to approach it."

"5. At any time, in all campus buildings, use the staircases by sticking to the right-hand side."

"To go up or down floors in the Teaching Building, you must use the stairs; to move through floors in the Library, you must use the elevator. If you see an elevator in the Teaching Building or stairs in the Library, pretend you did not see them, even if you see other students using them."

"When a student in the Teaching Building invites you to take the elevator or in the Library encourages you to use the stairs, please ignore them and immediately move away from them; they are not your classmates."

"6. Please leave the dormitory between 6:00 and 7:40 in the morning and return between 21:00 and 22:00 at night. Do not leave the dormitory outside of these times after returning."

"If you fail to leave the dormitory before 7:40, make your way to the Dormitory Management Office by any means necessary, and stay there until after 12:00; if you fail to return to the dormitory before 22:00, make your way to a classroom by any means necessary. The classroom lights will not be turned off, so please spend the night in the classroom."

"During this time, if you notice any abnormal situation outside the Dormitory Management Office or classroom, please ignore it, especially if you hear a voice calling your name."

"Be wary of roommates who do not spend the night in the dormitory, especially when they ask you anything related to the Student ID card."

"7. As the university is located in a suburban area, if you encounter unusual weather conditions such as rain or fog within the school, please ignore Rule 4, seek shelter in the nearest building as quickly as possible, and wait there until the weather returns to normal before leaving."

"If you happen to get lost in abnormal weather conditions, find the nearest lamp post with a number."

"If you cannot find a numbered lamp post immediately, look down and keep your eyes on the ground, searching for any reference point that confirms you are still on the right path. If you find that the ground is twisting, stretching, or undergoing any unrealistic changes, quickly grasp your Student ID card and map tightly in your hands, and keep reminding yourself of your name and student number in your head. Remember, 'you are a student'—this sentence should be bold and underlined."

"After 18:00, the streetlights in the school will light up. At this time, you can find the closest streetlight to you and walk in the direction where the numbers decrease until you meet a Security Guard."