Chapter 50
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At this moment, Lin Yi realized that his question was too brusque.
If he couldn’t come up with a reason to appease Teacher Sun, Teacher Sun might go and tell the student union, Lin Yi would be placed in a very awkward situation.
“I saw these two names in the Rule World.” Lin Yi told Teacher Sun that he had entered the Rule World twice. He said, “I’m sorry, Teacher Sun. I wrote down these two names and when I realized that you seem to know them, I came to ask you about them.”
Teacher Sun looked at him and Lin Yi said, “It’s because I shared the same surname as Lin Zhen, so I was very curious. There’s no other meaning to it.”
After saying so, Lin Yi clasped his hands together and pleaded, “Teacher Sun, the student union asked me to sign a non-disclosure agreement preventing me from revealing anything about the Rule Worlds. Can you help me keep it a secret?”
Teacher Sun thought of the current student union president; considering that and what Lin Yi said, he nodded.
Lin Yi hurriedly said, “Thank you, Teacher Sun.”
Teacher Sun warned: “But since you signed the non-disclosure agreement, you must abide by it. I can promise you I won’t tell anyone but if it were anyone else, this might not necessarily be the case. A lot of thing can cause panic and the student union will severely punish you for disrupting order.”
Lin Yi obediently listened to his reprimand. “Teacher Sun, I understand. It won’t happen again.”
By the time Lin Yi arrived at the cafeteria, he had already missed the lunch rush.
Cheng Yang hadn’t started eating, simply waiting for Lin Yi to join him.
“Did you clear up it now?” Cheng Yang handed the chopsticks to Lin Yi.
“Ahhh.” Lin Yi said, “…More or less.”
Cheng Yang sighed: “Are cells so difficult? Even Lin Yi Xiong doesn’t completely get them.”
But for academic underachievers, this was a good thing. If he can’t do it, he would rather everyone be unable to do it together.
Lin Yi gave an ‘en’ and hunkered down to eat.
He was deep in thought and hardly tasted what he ate; he also ate very slowly. In order to wait for Lin Yi, Cheng Yang ate two extra bowls of rice.
While eating, Lin Yi heard someone urging them to leave quickly. He looked up to find that it was the seniors from the student union.
Just like when they went to class in the morning, Lin Yi found that they were recording something down.
“Classmates,” They noticed Lin Yi and Cheng Yang, “We need to ask you to leave quickly.”
Cheng Yang said loudly, “Okay, we’ll leave right away.”
Lin Yi took a last mouthful of rice and swallowed it whole, almost choking himself to death.
When he left with Cheng Yang, he secretly peeked at what they were recording.
5-3 rule occurrence rate: 28%
5-3 Rule Involvement Rate: 1%
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This time Cheng Yang saw it as well. When the two left the cafeteria, as they were on their way to their dormitory, Cheng Yang opened the campus rulebook and said, “Isn’t there already a countermeasure for the 5-3 Rule? What is the student union doing?”
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Lin Yi guessed: “Probably the probability that the patrol team will be selected to be possessed by the Monsters.”
Hey. Cheng Yang thought of something, and said with a sly smile. “Text messaging is really useful!”
But Lin Yi regretted it a little bit. He should wait for a while before sending a text message to Qin Zhou. He thought to himself that he could take advantage of Qin Zhou’s dejected period to find a way to verify what Teacher Sun said.
Thinking about, Lin Yi suddenly stopped. Cheng Yang looked at him. “What’s wrong?”
Lin Yi said, “Didn’t Senior say that you can join the patrol team even after signing the non-disclosure agreement?”
“Yeah.” Cheng Yang said, “So what?”
Lin Yi wanted to join the student union and more specifically, the patrol team.
Chen Jinnan and the others were also in the student union, but they knew very little. But the patrol team was different. The patrol team was the core of the student union. If he could join the patrol team, not only would he be able to enter the Rule Worlds honestly and aboveboard, but he might also be able to check the records collected by the student union.
Teacher Sun had said that Yuan Yuan had also been a member of the student union.
Therefore, the student union must have relevant information about Yuan Yuan.
Lin Yi had a feeling that Qin Zhou’s worked very fast. Sooner or later he was going to be found out. It was useless to be hiding from Qin Zhou in fear. Better to conduct his investigations before Qin Zhou fully realizes his oddity.
This was Lin Yi’s original purpose for coming to the Unnatural Engineering University.
Back in the dormitory, Lin Yi hesitantly contacted Ou Ying. When Ou Ying gave him the access to contact Qin Zhou, she had also given Lin Yi access to contact her as well.
Lin Yi squeezed his phone and asked nervously, “Ou Ying Jie, are you busy now?”
“I’ve got time to talk.” Ou Ying asked, “What’s the matter?”
“En.” Lin Yi said softly, “I want to join the patrol team.”
“Of course, you can.” Ou Ying knew Lin Yi’s strength and naturally welcomed Lin Yi’s joining. She said, “Do you have class in the afternoon?”
Lin Yi said, “I have classes the whole day. We only get Sundays off.”
Ou Ying thought for a bit and said, “Well, how about this? Come to Room B-101 to find me after class this afternoon. First fill in the form and I’ll brief you on the specific situation.”
Lin Yi: “Okay, sorry for the inconvenience, Ou Ying Xue Jie.”
Ou Ying said, “Lin Yi, you’re too polite.”
After two more classes in the afternoon, Lin Yi handed his textbooks to Cheng Yang and asked Cheng Yang to help bring them back to the dorm. Cheng Yang nodded, agreeing. “I suddenly understand why top students get such good grades. Lin Yi Xiong, you deserve to get good grades.”
Lin Yi didn’t hide it from Cheng Yang and told him about wanting to join the patrol team.
Cheng Yang was surprised but felt that Lin Yi joining the patrol team was normal.
He actually wanted to go with Lin Yi, but thinking about what Ou Ying said, that they only send one member of the patrol team to join the participants in a Rule World, Cheng Yang lost his courage. He was well aware of his own strength and save for hugging big thighs and winning while lying down, he had no other actual other abilities.
Cheng Yang had no choice but to support Lin Yi in other ways. “Then, I’ll bring you dinner.”
Lin Yi nodded.
Cheng Yang: “How many tea eggs?”
Lin Yi: “I want soy marinated eggs for dinner.”
Cheng Yang: “Okay! Is three enough?”
Lin Yi: “That’s enough.”
Lin Yi didn’t know if he would bump into Qin Zhou while looking for Ou Ying. On the way, he kept brainwashing himself — Qin Zhou is not scary, Qin Zhou is not scary, Qin Zhou is not scary at all.
When he arrived at Room B-101, Lin Yi knocked on the door and snuck his head in, “Ou Ying Xue Jie.”
Only Ou Ying and the deputy captain of the patrol team were in the meeting room. Qin Zhou was nowhere in sight.
Seeing his arrival, Ou Ying waved to Lin Yi. “Come in.”
Lin Yi walked in. “Xue Jie, Xue Chang, hello.”
Ou Ying handed a document to Lin Yi and then asked him, “Would you like hot or cold water?”
“Oh, no need.” Lin Yi said awkwardly, “Xue Jie, no need to bother. I’m fine.”
Afraid that she would put pressure on Lin Yi if she was too polite, Ou Ying didn’t insist. She sat down again and said to Lin Yi: “Lin Yi, please read this document first. This document contains some data regarding the patrol team for the past ten years. After you read it, you can consider whether to join the patrol team or not.”
Lin Yi nodded.
The data included the casualty rate of the patrol team and the long list of captains who’ve served for the past ten years.
Lin Yi saw Qin Zhou’s name on the list. Qin Zhou had served as the captain of the patrol team for half a year.
Ou Ying told the truth, “The patrol team has gone through 35 captains in the past ten years. Luo Yi held the position longest. He served for nearly two years. Among the thirty-five captains, only Zhou Ge is still alive.”
This was a very scary statistic.
“Student Lin Yi.” The deputy captain said, “Being a member of the patrol team is a very dangerous post. I think you should be very clear about this. In order to reduce unnecessary casualties and also out of responsibility for your life and the lives of other students, the student union needs to do an assessment for potential members. This is also to verify whether you have the ability for it. Although you’ve already been in two Rule Worlds since coming to this school three or four days ago, the first time you entered the 7- 7 Rule World, you had Zhou Ge with you and when you next went in, you were accompanied by core members of the student union. It will affect our ability to judge your personal ability and thus affect the difficulty of tasks assigned to you in the future.”
“Yes, yes.” Lin Yi nodded to express his understanding. “Xue Chang, the assessment is…”
The deputy captain took out the school rulebook and pushed it in front of Lin Yi. Lin Yi saw that there were additional marks on this school rulebook. Different colors represented the difficulty of each rule.
“You need to enter a Rule World alone. Of course, there’s no need to be afraid. We won’t let you enter a Rule World that doesn’t have a countermeasure yet.” The deputy captain said, “And after you choose which Rule World to enter, I’ll give you hints regarding the corresponding Rules of Death. We will assess you based on whether you make it out alive and how long you take to clear it.”
“However, I need to tell it to you straight.” The deputy captain said, “Because this is an assessment, the hints we give you can’t be very obvious and we cannot guarantee whether you will be picked and possessed by the Monster so there is a mortal danger here.”
Lin Yi nodded.
“If there’s no problem, you can choose which rule and sign here.” The deputy captain pushed the “Patrol Registration Form” in front of Lin Yi. “We will inform you of when you’ll have your assessment.”
Lin Yi said, “Okay.”
He lowered his head and looked through the campus rulebook. These rules that already had countermeasure already had their Rules of Death revealed. If he hadn’t destroyed the 7-7 Rule World and the 2-6 Rule World, perhaps at this time, the 7-7 Rule would be: All windows on campus are sealed. If an open window appears, reseal it immediately.
For the 2-6 Rule: There are no ghosts on campus. If there are ghosts, keep reminding yourself repeatedly that there are no ghosts in the world.
However, both these rules have now become: None.
You could roughly guess the Rules of Death from the countermeasures and the deputy captain would give him hints. In this case, Lin Yi wanted to be the giant among the dwarves and choose the most difficult Rule World so that he can enter the student union as soon as possible and become a mole.
By the time Lin Yi turned to the last page, he still hadn’t chosen anything. He then saw the last rule.
It wasn’t typed, but handwritten.
16-8: ?
(Appeared on August 29th, number of occurrence: 2)
(Condition for occurrence: currently unknown)
(Location of appearance: Infirmary*2)
(Number of times processed: yet unprocessed)
The words ‘yet unprocessed’ had obviously been written just now. Lin Yi’s hand touched the handwriting and a little bit of ink rubbed off on his fingers.
Seeing Lin Yi looking at 16-8, Ou Ying said, “This is a new rule. It only appeared on the day you started school. The specific circumstances are still unclear.”
Lin Yi thought for a while and asked, “Can I choose this one?”
“No way.” Ou Ying said, “Even if we do figure out the situation, this is still a rule to still needs a countermeasure. Even if I agree to let you choose that one, Zhou Ge won’t agree. Zhou Ge has already set this aside for his experiment.”
Lin Yi: “Experiment?”
Thinking that Lin Yi would join the patrol team sooner or later, Ou Ying didn’t hide it and said: “Zhou Ge’s speculation is that the reason why the 2-6 Rule has existed for so long is because the 2-6 Monster judges the strength of the people drawn in. The difficulty of the 2-6 Rule World itself is not high. The difficulty lay in the fact that the 2-6 Monster had chosen Zhou Ge, right? Actually, we’ve been trying to find out the criteria Monsters use when choosing which participant to possess. For example, maybe participants with a low sense of presence is preferred. Another favorite might be the gentle ones who can quickly mingle with the other participants. These two types of people can better help Monsters hide.”
“But the 2-6 Rule has existed for so long. There’s a high probability that it had the ability to accurately pick the strongest person every time which led to us being unable to solve it for the longest time. How did the 2-6 Monster judge the strength of the person involved? Is it because it has existed for a long time? Can time also increase a Monster’s strength? Ou Ying said: “We have to figure this out.”
Lin Yi understood.
The 7-7 Monster increased its strength by eating more people. But the frequency of the 2-6 Rule’s occurrence wasn’t high. If it had the ability to judge the strength of the participants, it could only be due to time.
And this 16-8 Rule was a new rule, Qin Zhou wanted to enter the 16-8 Rule World to verify his speculation.
Lin Yi thought for a while and asked, “How will Senior verify it?”
Ou Ying said, “Zhou Ge will enter the 16-8 Rule World with a member of the patrol team.”
Lin Yi pursed his lips: “Has Senior chosen anyone yet… If not, can that person be me?”
Lin Yi recovered quickly! you go babyy
Thank you for the chapter <3
I’m glad that Cheng Yang is at least smart enough to know he’s not smart enough to survive a rule world on his own. He’s much better suited to this assistant role he’s assigned himself. Hopefully his rule world days have ended.
I hope they have ended as well, but if we keep hearing much from him I worry he will keep getting pulled into worlds that suddenly appear
Lin Yi enters 16-8 world..
16-8 monster : … Why me ??? QAQ … Let me live a bit longer T_T
hahah, go for the old ones! This one is just a monster baby, barely a few weeks old
Not even weeks, it appeared the day Lin Yi came to the school — 3 to 4 days ago, novel time
Man I thought it’s been weeks but Lin Yi already managed to solve two rules in a few days…
I wonder if that Rule World is somehow related to Lin Yi? Also, can Lin Yi be possessed by a rule monster, or would it piss itself due to ‘It’? If It is a rule monster, what is its purpose?
And how are rule worlds created, anyway. Based on bad experiences of the students??
The more I think, the more confused I get. Not thinking anymore 😛
Thank you for the chapter.
Thank you for the update ❤️💯