Chapter 76
For the entire day, Lin Yi felt a little dazed and he couldn’t focus in class. While he was in class, he opened the campus rulebook and stared at Rule 4-4.
Rule 4-4: Time does not go back (to be added)
Compared to other Rules that have yet to be supplemented with a countermeasure, this rule was somewhat vague and didn’t point to any particular direction for thought. Lin Yi took out his Rule level list once again. A quick glance told him that the Student Union had ranked it as mid-level. This made Lin Yi heave a sigh of relief. It was a Rule he could handle. Even if he asked Qin Zhou directly, it shouldn’t make people suspicious.
But right now, he was in class, Lin Yi couldn’t go and immediately ask about Rule 4-4. He was left to speculate on his own.
Time does not go back.
Then there must be a time regression.
Just as he was pondering this matter, Lin Yi felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. Lin Yi paused and then secretly took out the phone.
The only ones who can contact him as of now are the patrol team, Ou Ying and Qin Zhou.
But seeing the newly received text message, Lin Yi fell silent.
It was one of those garbage clubs he had long forgotten about.
Rules Research Club: Member Lin Yi is invited to participate in club activities in Room 301, Building A at 18:00 today.
Lin Yi: “…”
There were even club activities.
Cheng Yang next to him looked amused. He poked Lin Yi on the shoulder. “Hey, Lin Yi Xiong, let me tell you something funny. You remember that first day at school, I joined…”
Lin Yi interrupted, “a club.”
“Yeah, yeah, that’s right.” Cheng Yang said happily, “Now, guess what –”
“You received a text message from the club.” Lin Yi guessed, “They’re inviting you to participate in club activities in Room 301, Building A at 18 o’clock today.”
“Oh, yeah, right, right.” Cheng Yang paused, then covered his mouth suddenly. “Oh shit, how do you know?”
Lin Yi said, “If I’m not mistaken, the club you joined is called the ‘Rules Research Club’.”
“Yeah, yeah, yeah.” Cheng Yang’s shocked voice slipped out from between his fingers. “Lin Yi Xiong, are you omniscient? You know even this? Did you peek at my text messages? Oh no, my cell phone has a privacy film.”
Lin Yi said, “Because I also received it.”
Cheng Yang was momentarily stunned and then he realized, “It’s fate. If you and I didn’t treat each other as brothers, it would have gone against the rule of heaven.”
The last class ended at five in the afternoon. Lin Yi and Cheng Yang went to the cafeteria to have a meal and then headed to classroom 301 in Building A.
When they arrived, the president of the Rules Research Club, who had met them once during freshmen registration, welcomed them warmly.
Lin Yi had underestimated this Rules Research Club. He thought that there would only be three members: him, Cheng Yang and the president. He didn’t expect that there would be two more members.
One other freshman and the president’s roommate.
Five people gathered in room 301, which Classroom 301, which was already small to begin with, look quite empty.
“And so,” The president cleared his throat, “It stands to reason that I should have contacted everyone earlier for all of us to get to know each other but the Student Union has been very busy during this time and the phone permissions I applied for has only now been approved. So, I hurried and contacted everyone.”
The president said, “Let’s introduce ourselves first, alright?”
Lin Yi has never been keen on self-introductions. Cheng Yang, seeing that Lin Yi was indifferent and made no move to introduce himself, also didn’t move. The other two also seemed to lack any interest.
The president said, embarrassed, “Well, let me introduce myself first. My surname is Zhang, just call me Club President.”
Cheng Yang said: “President, then your surname would seem meaningless.”
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Seeing that everyone still seemed disinterested, the club president said, “I have a secret piece of news to reveal. There’s been progress regarding Rule 16-8 that’s been troubling everyone recently.”
This gossip finally interested the other two besides Lin Yi and Cheng Yang. The president looked at the silent Lin Yi and Cheng Yang and continued his efforts, “According to my reliable source, Rule 16-8 has already been broken. The whole plot has been discovered and now we only need to wait for the Student Union to summarize the countermeasures and the campus rulebook will be updated.”
“Lin Yi, Cheng Yang, aren’t you two excited?”
Lin Yi reluctantly said, “Oh! I’m excited.”
Cheng Yang nodded: “I’m excited too. Club president, please quickly elaborate.”
“According to the information I’ve gathered, the 16-8 Rule World tells the story of a psychiatric patient.” The club president said, “This patient has a special yearning for eternal life and he injected the genes of regenerating animals into humans to try to achieve immortality.”
Lin Yi was still thinking about Rule 4-4. While listening to the club president’s narration, the only thing he could say was that the club president’s gossip was quite reliable.
This made Lin Yi think a little more.
After the club president finished narrating the 16-8 Rule World’s main plot, he talked about the Rules of Death. He then said, “So for our club activity today we will discuss possible countermeasures for Rule 16-8.”
Cheng Yang was interested in this topic, and took the lead to say, “Rule 16-8 says that there has always been and always will be only one you on campus. If another you appears (to be added). Then, the countermeasure should be to just ignore it?”
“That makes sense.” The club president’s voice first rose and then grew restrained, “However, I heard that the 16-8 Rule World had been tackled by our Student Union President himself. The solution probably isn’t so simple. If you ignore it, how can you guarantee that it won’t come and provoke you? The countermeasure has to be connected to the main plot.”
The boy on Lin Yi’s right said, “Could it be to cover your face so that he can’t see us and won’t have another us from a split mind?”
Cheng Yang said, “What if the 16-8 Monster rushes over and sticks to your face?”
The boy was taken aback by Cheng Yang’s words.
After thinking for a few seconds, the club president said, “I agree with Cheng Yang.”
After saying so, the club president urged his roommate to say a few words so his roommate thought about it and then said, “I can’t think of anything.”
Lin Yi said, “Club President, I think it might be, insisting that I am a unique individual.”
Everyone looked at him.
The club president’s eyes lit up: “Student Lin Yi, can you elaborate on that?”
“I can.” Lin Yi said, “To every participant, the 16-8 Monster looks exactly the same as themselves. Why is the 16-8 Monster set up like that? Is there a possibility that it’s intentional? Not only does it look the same as them, but even its clothes are the same. This triggers the idea that there’s another of themselves.”
“And the main plot of the 16-8 Rule World is related to a split mind disorder. So long as we think it is another us or believe that it is exactly the same as us, isn’t it line with a ‘split mind’ in a literal sense?”
Cheng Yang was no man of culture and learning. And so, all he could say was, “Fuck.”
“That makes a lot of sense.”
The president looked at Lin Yi in surprise. To put it bluntly, the Rules Research Society was just for fun. Although their original intention was to solve problems for the Student Union, they had limited ability and never gave any decent advice to the Student Union.
But the club president found that things seemed to be different now. Looks like he’d found a treasure.
The president quickly found pen and paper and wrote down Lin Yi’s countermeasure for the 16-8 Rule. He then said, “I think what Lin Yi said makes sense, so I’ll contact my friend in the Student Union and put this in as a suggested countermeasure for Rule 16-8.
The club president excitedly took out his mobile phone to contact his friend.
“My club has come up with a solution to Rule 16-8. As long as you are firm…” The president paused, “The Student Union already has a countermeasure? So what is the solution to Rule 16-8?”
Listening to the answer on the other end of the phone, the president’s eyes on Lin Yi gradually turned into admiration.
“What is it? What?” Cheng Yang couldn’t help asking.
The other two members also looked at the president expectantly, waiting for the president to announce the final correct answer.
The club president gulped and under the eyes of everyone, he said, emphasizing each word, “Be firm that you are a unique individual.”
It was exactly the same as Lin Yi’s guess.
The club president remained dazed for a long while. “Student Lin Yi, you…you are amazing.”
Lin Yi, who has personally experienced the 16-8 Rule World, scratched his head and said, embarrassed, “It just happened to be right.”
Although Cheng Yang knew very well that Lin Yi had employed a dimensionality reduction strike but he still, basking in his glory, “My Lin Yi Xiong is amazing.”
The solution to Rule 16-8 has been released, which indicated that the Rules Research Society’s first club activity was coming to an end; though it had lasted all of 20 minutes.
The club president reluctantly announced the successful conclusion of their club activities. However, Lin Yi didn’t leave immediately. He waited for the other two to leave before asking the club president who’d stayed to clean up the classroom, “Club President, do you know Rule 4-4?”
The club president stopped and looked at Lin Yi. “I know of it. And not just Rule 4-4. I have the entire rulebook memorized, it can recite it forwards and backwards.”
“I’m not talking about that.” Lin Yi said, “I mean, does Club President know how long Rule 4-4 has existed?”
The club president smiled. “I know.”
Lin Yi looked at the president expectantly.
The club president rarely ever got to show off his knowledge to the members. He cleared his throat and said, “Rules 2-6, 4-4 and 4-5 rule have existed for exactly ten years.”
Cheng Yang knew the level of difficulty of Rule 2-6, so he couldn’t help asking, “Are Rules 4-4 and 4-5 rule as difficult as Rule 2-6?”
“As far as I know…” the club president said, “they should around the same. Otherwise, how could the Student Union allow these three rules to exist for ten years? But the most difficult rule, I think should be Rule 1-3. That’s the one that has existed for the longest time. It’s been around so long that no one knows how long it’s actually existed. Some people say that Rule 1-3 has existed since the school was founded.”
Cheng Yang recalled every detail of the 2-6 Rule World and shivered, “Oh my god.”
Lin Yi wasn’t interested in Rules 1-3 and 4-5 for the time being. All his attention was on Rule 4-4. He asked nervously, “Club President, does Rule 4-4 have a high death rate?”
The club president said, “The former Student Union had a student death list although our current President Qin no longer uses it. According to the previous death list, of the three Rules that appeared at around the same time, Rule 4-4 has the lowest death rate. .”
Cheng Yang couldn’t believe it. “Rule 4-4 with the two ‘4’s, such an unlucky number, and it has the lowest death rate?”
The club president nodded, “Yes, because Rule 4-4 doesn’t appear frequently.”
This made Lin Yi pause. “Club President, how often does the 4-4 Rule appear?”
“Let me think.” The club president tried to recall. Rubbing his chin, he said, “Rule 2-6 used to appear once at the beginning of each semester. That’s why there was a three-day suspension at the beginning of each semester. This is by rule of the Student Union and it’s their delivery period. In the middle of each semester, there will be a one-day suspension of classes. This is the delivery period for Rule 4-5…”
Cheng Yang guessed, “Rule 4-4’s delivery period is at the end of each term?”
“That’s not it. There’s a 10-day suspension at the end of the semester. That’s delivery period for Rule 1-3.” The club president directly vetoed Cheng Yang’s guess. He was still trying to recall. “En, the Student Union hasn’t announced a specific release period. But as I remember, every other year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be a class suspension for around three or four days. Because it follows the Mid-Autumn Festival, I don’t remember it very clearly but that should be the delivery period for Rule 4-4. ”
The club president nodded and confirmed his statement. “That’s right, Rule 4-4 should appear every other year during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It’s only for the trickier Rules that the Student Union has the university cooperate with them and announce a suspension of classes. Only Rules 1-3, 2-6, 4-4 and the 4-5 give the Student Union a headache.”
Lin Yi quickly took out his phone and opened the calendar to check the Mid-Autumn Festival. This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival will be in late September and there were still about 20 days left.
Cheng Yang accidentally glanced at Lin Yi’s cellphone and saw that Lin Yi had clicked on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Counting the time, his heart started beating in double time from fright. “Fuck, doesn’t that mean that Rule 4-4’s coming in around 20 days?”
The club president said, “It depends on whether it appeared last year. If it appeared last year, then Rule 4-4 won’t appear during this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival.”
Lin Yi and Cheng Yang asked in unison, “So did Rule 4-4 appear last year?”
“Let me think about how many days off we got for last year’s Mid-Autumn Festival.” The club president checked his memory again. “If it’s three days, it won’t appear. If it’s four, it will.”
Lin Yi stared intently at the club president. Cheng Yang too stared at him.
Lin Yi kept chanting in his head. ‘It can’t have appeared last year, it can’t have appeared last year. I am going to the 4-4 Rule World, please.’
Cheng Yang thought to himself. ‘It must have appeared last year, it must have appeared last year. Let me be safe for this year, please.’
It didn’t show up.’ The club president said, “We had three days off last year.”
Lin Yi heaved a sigh of relief and Cheng Yang let out a ‘sigh’.
“You’ve been really curious about the 4-4 Rule. Is something the matter?” The club president felt that something wasn’t quite right.
“It’s nothing, Club President. Just asking.” Lin Yi said casually, He then asked another question. “Club President, does the school have anything like a forum?”
Wang Feihang said that student information can be checked on the mobile phone. Lin Yi’s guess was that the student union must have something similar to the intranet of the Public Security Bureau. But instead of directly asking about the internal network, he used asking about the forum as an opener.
The club president said, “There is.”
Cheng Yang never expected that. “There’s even a forum?”
The club president sighed. “Yeah, although our school might not be normal, the Student Union has been working hard to make it seem normal. They’re the ones who set up the forum.”
Hearing the forum was established by the Student Union, he didn’t continue to ask about the intranet. He asked the club president for the address of the forum.
The club president gave it to them. “Are there any other questions? I don’t know when the next club activity will be and I can only contact you one-way. If you have any questions, better to ask them all at once.”
Lin Yi: “Not anymore, thank you, President.”
Lin Yi had gained a lot today and after returning to the dormitory, he couldn’t wait to log in to the forum address given to them by the club president.
On the login interface, Lin Yi made a new discovery.
The login asked for: Student number/Account number.
That is to say, you can log in to the forum with your student number or you can log in with your account number. But the only ones Lin Yi knew to have account numbers in the school were the professors. But the professors were students before, so they could just log in with their student number. The Student Union creating a special account number just for them to log-in seemed a little superfluous. Lin Yi thought about it and came to conclusion that this account number should be the account number of the student union members. After all, the Student Union loved to assign numbers to things they don’t understand.
But Lin Yi didn’t know his student union account number, so he sent a text message to Ou Ying to ask.
Ou Ying must be busy, so she didn’t reply to him right away.
Lin Yi first logged into the forum with his student ID.
He took a look around and found that the school forum was no different from any other ordinary forums. It was divided into several sections: General chat, Spam, Learning and Suggestions. There was nothing else. Nothing that Lin Yi wanted to find could be found here.
Lin Yi logged out of the forum to see if Ou Ying had texted him back.
Just as he logged out, he received a text message from Ou Ying.
[Ou Ying]: Lin Yi, your account number isn’t ready yet.
[Ou Ying]: Do you need to log in to the forum?
[Ou Ying]: If you don’t mind, you can use this account for now.
Seeing this, Lin Yi pursed his lower lip.
He thought in his heart, ‘Probably not. It can’t be.’
He read on:
[Ou Ying]: Account: qinzhou Password: 111222
Lin Yi: “…”
He knew it, he knew it!
The phone rang again:
[Ou Ying]: Feel free to use it. I got permission from the account owner. I didn’t steal this account.
Qu Ying, our resident matchmaker 😀
Ou yung our ship captain
“I didn’t steal this account”
I love the emphasis. Like, she was actually concerned he would think she gave him the credentials on the sly lmao
what the heck is this password, is he not scared of getting hacked 😂
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
She is a hardworking matchmaker.. lol
2 days of updates ! Thanks for the chapters 😀
All hail Ou Ying, the captain of our ship 😂
Anyway THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH FOR THE HARD WORKS IN TRANSLATING THIS NOVEL TO THIS FAR ALREADY !!! 🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
I’m glad I read when I already introduced to the first ‘Replay’ LY had gone through.
I’m truly enjoying this novel so far. Smart MC and ML and yet not OP… But that’s also make this novel more intense…
I pray the mystery of LY’s parents revealed!!! I’m most curious with that more than I want to see the ‘it’. And I’m into the ‘it’.
Pray OY and CY won’t dieeee in the future!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
pfft ..haha she did not….i love her,,