Chapter 27 Student Restaurant
Lin Yi stood on the highest step at the end of the student passage, facing the passage densely populated with incandescent lights like stars. His eye sockets contracted and beat regularly as if he was breathing, and his pair of torch-like eyes were focused on an unknown place.
At this moment, countless thoughts flashed rapidly in his mind, and countless information seemed to be rolling in his eyes.
Moss likes shade and moisture, and the growth environment needs to be kept moist and dark.
If the environment of dense fog and night rain in the mountains contributed to the growth environment of moss, then there would be no moss outside the passage...
The current situation is that in the canteen area, only the student passage and the first negative floor have moss, but there is nothing on the flat ground between the student passage and the first negative floor!
Lin Yi thought of the village where he lived when he was a child.
The steps and stone bricks along the river are covered with moss due to changes in water levels during the rainy season, but areas above the water level are dry and moss-free.
If you compare the steps with the student passage, you will understand why the moss in the student passage has grown to the end of the steps...
That's because the student passage is often flooded.
Why isn’t there outside the student passage?
Because the water came up from the first floor below.
But there is no moss on the ground on the first floor, only on the walls...
That's because...
Water does not exist!
"So...either there is some kind of wet creature that climbed directly over the tiles from the first floor to the passage!"
"Or...there is a non-existent water that will flood the student passage and the first floor from time to time...just like a tide!"
These two are extremely crazy conjectures, especially the second one!
As for the first one... considering that he had already encountered some kind of indescribably terrifying creature in the thick fog yesterday, it is not unacceptable even if this thing has a lot of water leaking out of it.
And this is not one person, but a group of them, they are hidden in the thick fog, traveling at night, without knowing their motives and purposes...
"Is it something in the deep mountains? Or something else..."
Lin Yi thought of the security guard.
The first and only time he saw the security guard, he remembered that the security guard was not only wrapped with a chain, but also held a bat in his hand that seemed to be molded out of plaster.
No, it’s not so much a bat as it is a bat-like mace.
"Wait! Wait?! That bat..."
The scene when he first met the security guard flashed through Lin Yi's mind, the plaster bat in the security guard's hand...
"That bat is not metal, in essence, it should be... some kind of sculpture!"
"A sculpture that looks like a mace bat!!"
"No, no, no... the student regulations state that all sculptures on campus are busts and are kept in the art building... so what the security guard has in his hands is just a simple plaster product, which does not belong to the category of 'sculpture'."
Lin Yi found that he was thinking a little too much, not only too many but also messy. This kind of thing that appeared in his mind like a flash of inspiration had no logical and unified arrangement. It was more of a kind of brainstorming and conjecture, without sufficient reference.
He took a deep breath.
"There is a second conjecture..."
"A... non-existent water."
Like a tide, it flooded the student passage, then receded, and then never came back. Under the repeated erosion of the water, moss grew over the passage.
This is an absolutely irrational conjecture!
But this is the only answer Lin Yi can think of based on the current environment.
The reason is not empty talk, it is precisely because when he was observing the thick fog that spread up the steps of the teaching building twice during the thick fog last night, he had a scene of the teaching building being like a ship, lost in the deep sea under the moon filled with thick fog.
In his ears, he seemed to hear the sound of the waves and the song of the distant sea monster...
He also felt that it was a visual hallucination, an auditory hallucination, and an hallucination.
But the strangely growing moss seemed to remind him that if his vision was real, then the cafeteria, like the teaching building, would be washed away by some kind of water wave at a certain moment...
Lin Yi tried his best to recall the scene when he left the classroom and observed the steps down the corridor. Unfortunately, all his attention was focused on the white powder and he did not pay attention to whether there was moss on the steps.
But even if he saw the moss at that time, without the bizarre layout of the canteen, he would not have too many ideas.
But things are different now. If he returns to the classroom and can find moss on the steps of the corridor, it will be enough to give this almost outrageous conjecture a shred of evidence.
Especially - when the security guard pulled out the creature on the podium with a chain, and rolled down the steps, it was impossible for the surrounding steps and the ground not to be scarred!
And if... they fell into the water, then everything seems to be reasonable!
Thinking of this, he didn't even think about eating. If he hadn't only eaten half a roll of biscuits in nearly 12 hours, he really wanted to go back to the teaching building to see if there was any moss on the steps!
"Old Lin, Old Lin! Are you okay?" A hand shook in front of Lin Yi's eyes like a wiper.
Lin Yi's attention came back and he saw Wei Liang with a panicked face.
"Liangzi, what's wrong with you? Why are you so panicked?"
Wei Liang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Lin Yi come back to his senses, and then said disdainfully: "Why are you so fat? Why are you shouting "Catch the thief"? ?"
"Isn't it because of you that I'm panicking?"
"What happened to you just now? Are you running up and down the steps like crazy? I'm tired of running around with you!"
Hearing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but lowered his eyes and looked at the student passage in a daze. He seemed to have thought of something again...
But this time, before he could think about it, Wei Liang pressed his shoulders and shook him.
"Alas! Let's talk about business! Why are you distracted again?" Wei Liang's voice sounded to Lin Yi with a hint of annoyance.
Lin Yi quickly calmed down, and then said: "Liangzi, I found something in the student passage..."
"Is there something dirty?!" Wei Liang subconsciously replied, "Damn it, I'm just going to learn. Why is there so much darkness in the living passage? "
He jumped three feet high, suddenly raised his upper body, and assumed a posture of the first-generation concave and convex manframe, shooting out the light from the left and right, as agile as a mountain of flowers and fruits.
"Please don't play so much!" Wei Liang's posture dissipated a lot of the weird atmosphere that entangled Lin Yi. He covered his face helplessly and said speechlessly, "There is moss in the student passage!" "But..."
"Oh, don't be suspicious!" Wei Liang pushed Lin Yi towards the cafeteria, "It's time to cook. Why are you thinking so much? Moss can turn into monsters and jump out to kill people?"
"Moss?" Wei Liang looked back at the student passage, thinking about everything, and then suddenly got a thrill, "Hey, Lao Lin, I thought of something!"
“What’s going on?” Lin Yi asked.
How did you remember when you fell to the ground? "
Wei Liang added: "I thought about the last time I stepped on moss on the steps of the dormitory and slipped."
Lin Yi's movements suddenly froze.
But Wei Liang quickly comforted him: "Don't make that expression. What I want to say is that there is a lot of moss on this campus. Don't think too much! As long as it's not abnormal weather and you run around outside the dormitory, nothing will happen!"
But Lin Yi's eyes flickered and his thoughts surged.
His first reaction was...
"Damn... there is moss on the steps of the dormitory?!"
His and Wei Liang's "perspectives" are completely different. In his opinion, there is a huge problem with the moss that Wei Liang is accustomed to!
"But... Ryoko slipped on the moss and fell, and she's fine so far..."
"Is it really "don't think too much"?"
Not thinking may be a safe method, but he always feels that there are certain loopholes in this approach.
He was even a little worried about Wei Liang.
There are some things that cannot be avoided simply by "not understanding" them.
For example...thick fog.
He followed Wei Liang in a daze through the wind curtain at the entrance of the cafeteria and entered the student restaurant on the first floor of the cafeteria.
The cool breeze blowing from the wind curtain woke up Lin Yi. He quickly cheered up and took a look at his watch first.
11:45.
Then, he distracted his attention and observed the environment of the student restaurant.
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X May 7, 2023, 11:45, S city university cafeteria, first floor.
Lin Yi stood at the door of the cafeteria, observing the environment of the student cafeteria.
The student restaurant has a space of about several hundred square meters. On both sides of the door are two symmetrical tableware recycling points, and then there is a large area of well-matched blue plastic dining chairs.
After briefly looking around, Lin Yi found that there seemed to be some problems with the lighting in the student cafeteria. Perhaps there was something wrong with the location of the cafeteria itself, so that there was no direct light coming in at all.
The only place for lighting is over the student passage.
Hence, even though it is noon now, the restaurant looks a little dark.
Even if there are a large number of incandescent lamps arranged like stars on the ceiling of the restaurant, they can only guarantee the light in a small area.
Lin Yi looked to the left, and saw rows of incandescent lights converging like gradual and converging dotted lines, extending into a dark space.
very close, yet very far.
There is a strange illusion that you are staring into the abyss, as if you will fall into it if you are not careful.
Lin Yi's body suddenly shook back and forth.
A feeling of shifting center of gravity suddenly enveloped him. He felt top-heavy and had a strong premonition that he was about to fall into the darkness.
"Damn!" Lin Yi secretly spat, using all his strength to move his center of gravity back.
So he really felt that his head weighed a thousand pounds, and he drove his body to stagger back, passed through the wind curtain and plastic curtain at the entrance of the canteen, and then fell to the ground.
Behind him, the incandescent lamp in the student passage shed soft light, dispelling Lin Yi's cold feeling that spread from the depths of his heart to his whole body, and shattered the terrifying devouring feeling brought by the dark abyss.
Lin Yi panted violently, his forehead covered with sweat.
A gust of wind blew in from the student passage, and he felt a coldness on his back - it was actually soaked in cold sweat.
"Old Lin...Old Lin...I...fuck..." A panicked and urgent voice sounded in Lin Yi's ears.
That voice seemed to be coming from an extremely distant place.
His eyes were drawn away from the depths of the canteen, and then he saw Wei Liang's face gradually enlarging.
He saw Wei Liang's mouth moving, but he could only hear some vague intermittent sounds in his ears.
"Old Lin...Old Lin..."
"Old Lin! Old Lin!"
As his attention returned, the sounds in his ears suddenly became more substantial.
Only then did he have a feeling that the picture quality matched the sound track...
"Old Lin, are you okay?" Wei Liang grabbed his hand anxiously and struggled to pull him up from the ground.
Lin Yi stood up again with Wei Liang's strength, and then gasped: "Liangzi, I..."
Wei Liang waved his hand to interrupt: "You kid said you don't have kidney deficiency? You're so hungry that you feel dizzy without eating? And, damn... why are you so heavy!"
"I..." Lin Yi glanced at the time on his watch.
11:49.
He wanted to say something more, but from the corner of his eye he suddenly caught a glimpse of the dark corner of the restaurant just now, and he was suddenly startled.
Are there any dark corners in the student restaurant?
The incandescent light can only see a dimly lit wall, which is covered with ceramic tiles similar in shape to the reliefs in the teaching building. Other than that, there is nothing else.
He was a little confused.
I saw a bottomless abyss just now, why do I have to be normal now...?
"What is... over there?"
Just when he asked this question, a long-lost, unfamiliar yet familiar feeling of exhaustion suddenly spread from the bottom of his heart!
When cognitive confusion occurred, an abyss spread in his heart!
An indescribable sense of terror enveloped him again in a very short period of time!
"Damn it!" Lin Yi suddenly realized something, but he had no way to reverse his thinking at this moment!
The feeling of terror came quietly, making him feel cold all over!
At the critical moment, a hand hit him heavily on the shoulder.
As if coming from a nightmare, Lin Yi twitched suddenly, then closed and opened his eyes, and found himself standing in front of the plastic curtain at the entrance of the canteen.
"Why didn't I notice that your body and bones are so weak before?" Wei Liang sighed helplessly, "I always thought that Kuai Kuai was the most yin-y among you, but I didn't expect you to be the weakest. You can't do it, young man!"
Lin Yi was silent at this moment, which was rare. He only had one thought in his mind -
"You're so careless!"
"It's not that you can think at will during the day, but you can think at will under the sun! You can't think about things beyond the line where there is no sun!"
Xu Shunkang is absolutely right, you need to go to the sun to think, but he accidentally confused "sunny day" with "under the sun"!
Although there is light in the student dining hall of the cafeteria during the day, it is fundamentally different from the concept of "under the sun"!
Lin Yi also figured this out at the moment when the indescribable feeling of terror enveloped him, but if Wei Liang hadn't woken him up, the consequences would have been disastrous.
He looked at Wei Liang.
There are some scattered hair under Wei Liang's peaked cap. After staying up all night to cultivate, he now looks lazy.
Even so, it is just lazy and full of sunshine.
He
He looked down at his watch.
11:50.
"Less than a minute has passed just now?" Lin Yi was shocked, but at this moment he restrained himself from thinking about this issue.
He shook his head and followed quickly: "Hey Liangzi, wait for me, I'm coming!"
Just as Lin Yi was chasing Wei Liang, a man slowly walked out from the dark corner where he was originally looking.
It was a chef wearing a green bib. His stiff body was slowly turning like a puppet on strings, and then his eyes fell on Lin Yi.
He picked up his steps and slowly walked towards Lin Yi...
In view of everyone's positive feedback, as an excellent author, he will never be stuck in the 4,000-word update, so I will release a few more words in this chapter and then... break the chapter.
(End of this chapter)