Chapter 129 Restricted Rules
[Attention all units, all students in Class A have entered their designated positions]
[Debugging...Debugging successful]
[Distance - Chen Xiao'er - Within a 10-meter radius, the observation device can operate normally]
The big screen faithfully shows the current situation of the students, transforming them into pixel figures.
Each villain will receive an ID card upon entering a dangerous area. This ID card symbolizes their connection with the Abnormal Overlord, allowing them to attack each other through this connection.
The background behind the little people is extremely gloomy, and the scene style is close to that of a human stronghold, but the walls, doors and windows are made of flesh and blood, and from time to time, abnormal and wriggling growths slide by.
"This is also the master's strategy."
One expert explained, "It deliberately chose a setting it didn't understand. It appears to be favoring humans, but in reality, it's using this extra leverage to set traps. This anomalous area must be filled with numerous trigger traps."
A good conspiracy.
Although it's difficult for anomalies to develop human-like emotions, they often possess a considerable degree of thinking ability. As a shrewd "city lord," it will naturally invest resources where they can cause the most damage.
What's more, the unexpected result is that humans have a deeper fear of scenes that are "familiar but strange and unusual."
If the place is made purely of flesh and blood or primitive monsters, the frightening effect may be far less than if a previously peaceful school, hospital, or even one's own bedroom suddenly reveals an abnormal side.
“It has begun publishing the rules, this time in writing.”
The observer zoomed in on one of the screens, showing a page of parchment rules that a student had received.
There are many different ways to announce exceptions that require rule declarations, which can be roughly divided into: written announcement, oral announcement, and clue announcement.
The more obscure the disclosure method, the less effective it becomes once it is cracked.
On the contrary, if it is written openly on a medium such as a scroll and given to you, it is equivalent to being disadvantageous in terms of declaration, so it is in an advantageous position in other areas such as punishment.
The parchment was opened in front of everyone, and just looking at it made their scalp tingle.
The pages are covered with tiny red characters. Not only is the font harmful to the eyes, but the pollution it contains is also incalculable.
"There is a trap!" Someone from the expert group immediately issued a reminder. She was an expert specifically responsible for checking abnormal rules.
Whenever mutually exclusive items appear in the abnormally published rules, it means that there must be a situation of "different camps" or "lie-partial lie".
For example, the first rule tells you to "Open all red boxes." The second rule says "Only blue boxes are safe." The third rule says "There are no boxes here!"
If this happens, it means the anomaly has invested some of its "advantageous" resources into a trap, setting up trap rules for you. You must use the context and surrounding clues to determine which ones are true and which ones are lies.
[Please note, everyone! The rules for declaring an exception (tentative name: Overlord) contain mutually exclusive clauses, which can be a trap. Please check carefully.]
The eyes behind the screen were fixed on the students on the screen, transmitting a large amount of information synchronously through the strange objects.
The current situation is much better than the worst-case scenario. With a whole team of experts behind the scenes helping to solve the problem, fear and mistakes will be greatly reduced.
…
It's terrible.
Zheng Xiuli stared at the parchment in her hand and couldn't help but look at Lin Lang's expression: Forget it, her eyes are already fixed, let's change it.
Where is Xing Shuyao?
Xing Shuyao's expression was relatively calm. She was discussing in a low voice with Zheng Lu, probably trying to screen out the most easily eliminated repulsive items.
She lowered her head and continued to examine the parchment. This piece of rule paper should be similar to a rule book and would change with the position.
For example, you are now in the corridor, so the entire page is about the rules of the corridor.
There are a total of thirty-six rules, which makes people dizzy.
Zheng Xiuli read it twice, her mind full of trivial rules such as "No noise allowed, but you must greet the administrator by standing close to the wall", "You can run, but you cannot step on the red floor", "You must drink alcohol when eating in the corridor and using props."
This is because she receives regular rule-based training, which allows her to filter out valid information at the fastest speed, and immediately eliminate misleading items such as 12, 14, and 18 that suddenly mention sunflowers and black cats.
Because both rules mentioned no noise, everyone walked slowly through the corridor in relative silence. We didn't encounter the black cat or the administrator, and walked through the first door smoothly.
rustle.
The words on the parchment quickly changed, becoming 50—
"Ah." Zheng Xiuli wailed softly and quickly bit her lips.
She hovered her foot over the threshold with a wronged look on her face, almost triggering the third rule which prohibited stepping on the threshold.
When all the students were in a low mood, a figure passed over Zheng Xiuli's arm and stepped into the room where blood foam was flying before her.
When Chen Xiao'er's shoes stepped on the floor, the blood foam quickly dissipated into light stains. The spiral patterns on the tiles gradually disappeared and turned into ordinary white floor tiles, with only the bonding lines sealed by cement.
The wriggling walls remained silent, the remains of the human body turned into a relief on the brick wall, and the scarlet tentacles twisted twice to form eight large characters.
【Safe production, healthy life】
"Huh..." Everyone stared at the empty track she had stepped on, feeling their heartbeats getting faster and faster in their ears.
Chen Xiao'er walked into the factory and muttered to herself, a little puzzled, "How strange... Isn't this a food factory? Why are we assembling toy dolls?"
Hearing her question, Zero walked over to the assembly line and picked up the body of a doll to examine it carefully.
She held the doll against the light to see its skeleton and internal organs, and whispered, "These aren't just ordinary toy dolls. These are decorations specifically for cakes. So, attention must be paid to hygiene and disinfection during the assembly process."
"These aren't simple dolls. These are humans killed by the anomaly. During the assembly process, it stripped away their abilities and souls to increase its own power."
I see.
Chen Xiao'er nodded thoughtfully: The factory owner should also know that we came with bad intentions, and he only let us in for the sake of the school's face.
So naturally, we weren't allowed to do the most important work at the food factory, but were assigned to the humble task of assembling dolls. Even if they didn't trust us, they could just not use these doll-shaped cakes and resell them cheaply.
It was still early and the supervisor on the assembly line hadn't arrived yet.
Chen Xiao'er was just about to pull a stool over and sit down when she saw Ling holding a thick stack of A4 papers. She pulled one out and asked, "When was this sent out? Let me see... Uh..."
No need for a zero answer, she understood it as soon as she saw the title.
Factory Rules—sacred and inviolable.
No, you dare to use this sentence in the factory rules of a food processing factory? What is even more ridiculous is the exaggerated thickness of the factory rules.
Chen Xiao'er had known from a young age that the Chixing people loved to make all kinds of rules. Both the orphanage and the school had a rulebook that repeatedly emphasized trivial matters.
But the factory manager here is obviously not a normal person.
She looked up and looked around, and found that every student had a thick book of "Factory Rules" in their hands, which was at least 30 pages long. If you didn't know, you would think it was everyone's graduation thesis.
Chen Xiao'er read two lines of words, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "First, no smoking near the machine. Second, you must wash your hands before assembling toys..."
She had just read the third one when the classmate next to her suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute!"
Zheng Xiuli ran over anxiously, bumping into a stool without even noticing. She braced herself on the conveyor belt with both hands and asked loudly, "Are the first and second ones really like that? Look at mine."
After saying that, he handed over an identical copy of the "Factory Rules".
Chen Xiao'er took the factory regulations, checked them over, and nodded naturally, "Yes, you wrote it here, right? Look, the first rule is no smoking near the machines."
…
The monitoring center* was silent, and a few seconds later a pen fell to the ground.
As the parchment on the screen began to twist, the original [1. Do not use superpowers when there are human corpses around.] changed in just a few seconds to [1. Do not smoke near the machine.]
This, this is——a superpower that bends the rules!
"No, wait a minute!" A white-haired old man from the expert group pressed down on the assistant's shoulders and said in a trembling voice, "It's not over yet. Look at the fourth and fifth items!"
The original fourth, fifth, and subsequent fifteenth are a set of mutually exclusive rules, which inevitably contain fallacies and lies.
Now, this piece of parchment was held in Chen Xiao'er's hand, and the three rules that needed to be checked disappeared directly.
Crash, crash.
The parchment continued to twist and deform, from one sheet to more than thirty sheets, and then from parchment to the shape of A4 printing paper.
The old man narrowed his eyes and said, "She...she forcibly materialized the rules that the master held in his hands."
"T-In that case—" The assistant's eyes lit up surprisingly. "Many abnormal operations will be blocked. We won't be able to use the method of [Rules of other areas are unknown but effective] to link the hidden rules of this area to punish us!"
This condition is extremely rare but disgusting.
For example, the abnormal area divides humans into three camps: police, thieves and civilians.
In the bathroom, clues are used to indicate the rules: the thief can freely pass through the mirror, but each time he crosses the mirror, he must carry a civilian with him, otherwise he will be punished.
But there are mirrors in every room, so humans in the thief camp will be punished for accidentally touching the mirrors.
Chen Xiao'er's superpowers showed three powerful functions at this moment: she could distort the effective rules to a certain extent, she would subconsciously reject mutually exclusive rules, and she could also make all the involved rules public at once!
“This is really too...powerful.” The old woman wiped her glasses. She was about to say it was amazing, but the word “amazing” rolled on the tip of her tongue twice and didn’t come out.
"That's not all, look!" The assistant rushed to the front of the screen and pointed his finger at the lower left corner.
"What..." Is there something about Chen Xiao'er's superpowers that I haven't noticed? The old man clutched his glasses and took a closer look. He realized that this time it wasn't Chen Xiao'er who had developed any new abilities, but rather those students... who had found a better way to use them.
…
Zheng Lu had been paying attention to Chen Xiao'er's movements. The moment she saw the parchment deform, she immediately pulled out a stack of white paper from her bag.
These blank papers are not ordinary blank papers, but man-made wonders exchanged for contribution points: scattered rule books (fake).
Because it is a counterfeit, it cannot customize the rules like the real one, and can only record the known rules. Its common usage is to record abnormal rules and temporarily lock the rules to prevent abnormal consumption costs from being arbitrarily changed.
This effect is not weak, but it is useless to use.
Not only does it consume supernatural powers, but it also lasts only a short time, making it only a temporary lifesaver to deal with the inevitable death rule in extreme situations. However, everything is different now. We have Chen Xiao'er!
Zheng Lu placed the scattered rulebook in front of Chen Xiao'er in front of everyone and asked earnestly, "Xiao'er, could you help us copy a copy of the factory rules? Actually, many of us have dyslexia. If you copy it once, everyone will definitely memorize it carefully."
"Xiao Ai, please help us identify the abnormal rules. Just copy them down. As long as we have your superpowers, we can maintain the advantage in this battle of abnormal rules!"
After seeing the white paper in her hand, the classmates also started to cheer.
"Yes, please~"
"Sorry to bother you, classmate Chen."
"There's also this trick! Awesome!"
Huh? How could you possibly have dyslexia?
Chen Xiao'er looked at the thick stack of "Factory Regulations" in front of her, and fell into deep confusion when she saw her classmates' sincere expressions of "please".
Could it be... today is April Fools' Day?
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