Chapter 28 This place seems a bit uneven
X May 7, 2023, 11:53, student cafeteria on the first floor of the cafeteria.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang followed some students and queued up in front of the meal purchase window.
The dining window of the student restaurant is located directly in front of the entrance of the restaurant. The style of the window is a bit like the huge transparent glass used in hospitals to collect medicines. There is a gap below to allow the entry and exit of food trays.
There is an eye-catching number affixed to the glass of each window. The style is a red circle with a number. From left to right, they are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
The No. 1 meal purchase window and the No. 5 meal purchase window are respectively in the two corners of the student restaurant. They are dimly lit but have the largest number of people queuing up.
Lin Yi watched curiously, and then discovered that there were no meal purchase windows No. 6 to 9 on the first floor of the canteen.
"The dining window No. 6 and No. 9 are on the second floor." Wei Liang seemed to understand Lin Yi's problem and explained.
"Oh." Lin Yi nodded, responding to Wei Liang's words.
He and Wei Liang lined up at the No. 3 meal shopping window. This row was almost the middle line of the canteen, with the brightest light, giving them a sense of security.
After Lin Yi finished his response, he glanced at the long queue, then lowered his head and closed his mouth.
After what happened just now, he understood that there was another source of danger in the student cafeteria that was not recorded in the cafeteria rules - the environment.
Or, light.
The canteen rules clearly state:
【The lighting in the student cafeteria area is turned on 24 hours a day. Do not enter areas without light.
Stay away from the darkness of the canteen.
Once the lights in the student restaurant flicker, please immediately! immediately! Leave the cafeteria through the [Student Channel] at all costs!
The canteen with lights out is different from the classroom, there is no safe area! 】
Obviously he wrote it very clearly, but he was still almost in danger just now. If Wei Liang hadn't awakened him, he would have sunk into the unreasonable abyss.
And he also discovered that the gap between reality and imagination is as huge as the difference between clouds and mud.
Only when you enter the canteen in person will you understand what the rules mean.
Sometimes, when you understand the meaning of the rules through personal practice, it may be too late.
But trying to understand the rules just by reading the code is too absurd.
This canteen, but as far as the current student canteen is concerned, due to lighting problems, the light intensity here is almost the same as that in the evening even though it is daytime.
Dim light filled the entire restaurant. One side of the restaurant had slanting light and shadow, like dusk, while the other side had no light at all, like a dark blind spot.
Only the incandescent lamp struggled to emit light, illuminating the canteen area clearly, but this light also gradually dimmed from the middle to the surroundings.
At the edge of the area, there is brightness where there is sunlight, while areas where there is no sunlight can only retreat into the shadows.
Such an environment reminded Lin Yi of a place - the corridor of the teaching building.
· Same incandescent lamp...
· Same shadow...
· Same "light flicker" mentioned in the rules...
· Everything is so similar.
But the difference between the cafeteria and the teaching building is that the shadows in the cafeteria are really deep.
If the teaching building is only a small corner that is not illuminated by the light, then the canteen is a huge area that is not illuminated by the light.
Furthermore, with the shift of sunlight, this area is active.
Now at noon, the shadow area is the smallest. Once it reaches evening, the No. 1 meal purchase window and No. 5 meal purchase window may be covered.
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched slightly.
"If it is really after 20:00, then there will only be a small area illuminated by lights in the canteen..."
【Stay away from the darkness of the canteen, and do not enter places without light! 】
· "The subject of "Don't enter"... is not just "people", but also... "attention"!"
· "Damn... it means you can't even fly!"
· "This is too harsh!"
· And...
"Although the canteen turns on incandescent lights 24 hours a day, there are uncontrollable factors such as "lights flickering" and even "extinguishing"!"
"A canteen with lights out..."
"A canteen with lights out..."
h "A canteen with lights out is different from a classroom, there is no safe area! 】
Lin Yi shuddered subconsciously and quickly suppressed his thoughts, not daring to continue thinking in the entire direction.
He gathered his thoughts and followed Wei Liang, his eyes falling on Wei Liang's heels, and he silently moved forward with the team.
Suddenly, a plain voice, with a hint of questioning, sounded in his ears:
"Classmate, are you in line?"
Lin Yi was slightly startled, and then heard "classmate" several more times.
After confirming that the other party was really asking about him, he moved his eyes away from Wei Liang's heels and slowly moved along the blue-gray patterned floor tiles of the student restaurant towards the source of the sound.
But the moment he turned his neck a little, a pair of legs wearing black shoes and white pants came into the corner of his eye.
his field of vision widened as he turned, and the skirt of a dark green bib appeared in his sight...
His pupils shrank violently, and a strong sense of crisis instantly surged out of his heart, sweeping over him like a storm.
Article 10 of the canteen rules suddenly came to his mind:
【While queuing up to buy food and eating, do not ignore any communication requests from strangers around you. If you are traveling with someone else, please focus on communicating with them and ignore any unusual situations around you. 】
"Fuck!!!" A huge word "fuck" came out of Lin Yi's mind, and then bounced on his forehead with a flick and a tap.
But fortunately, after a night of "pull-and-pull" with the wrong classmate, Lin Yi has become a different person.
Although his physical strength was already somewhat exhausted, at this moment he tensed up with strength squeezed out from nowhere.
Just like a robot whose action instructions were suddenly deleted, his movements suddenly froze.
It’s as if the pause button has been pressed forcibly.
Theoretically speaking...he has not yet responded to the "communication request" sent by the other party.
"Gulu..."
Lin Yi tensed up, his throat rolled slightly, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.
Although a long night of sleep and the early frights made him feel exhausted, at this moment, under the whip of a strong sense of crisis, his brain began to act like a windy tractor again, black smoke bursting out, and roaring...
"Canteen Rules! Classroom Building Rules! Damn! Classroom Building Rules are no longer useful!"
"What the hell are there other rules?! Notice board? Student Rules? Yes, yes! Student Rules!"
"Student Code!"
Codes burst out in his mind like a spurt!
Soon, in addition to the previous one, he directly locked in two more rules, one from the "Student Code of Conduct":
【The canteen currently only has 9 food purchase windows open, and the employees in each window are wearing blue bibs. If an employee in a green bib shows up to recommend the latest dish (especially spaghetti bolognese), ignore him. Remember, there is no ketchup in the cafeteria, so be wary of any food that uses ketchup as a condiment. ]
The remaining one comes from the "Canteen Code":
[Canteen employees have uniform clothing. They wear white chef suits and blue bibs, and wear name tags.
All cafeteria employees will stay in the employee activity area and meal purchase window, and will not appear in the student cafeteria area. Once you find an employee in the cafeteria area, please ignore him. 】
With no time to think about the connections among the rules, Lin Yi first substituted the current situation into the code and made the first wave of temporary emergency analysis.
He has no time!
Because according to the canteen rules, canteen employees will not enter the student canteen area at all!
Furthermore, there is absolutely nothing in the canteen! without! have! green! color! Wai! pocket! of! kitchen! division!
Even the green bib does not exist!
"All the employees in the canteen are chefs in blue bibs, and they also stay in the meal purchase window No. 1 to 9!"
"So this guy in the fucking green bib is... what is it?"
As soon as this idea came to his mind, he smashed the thought with a hammer of psychic storm.
Thinking about this problem in front of this idiot is the biggest fucking problem in itself!
This face was so pale that it looked like it was covered with a thick layer of foundation. The eyebrows were curved, and there was a standard smile on the face that seemed to be made after precise calculation.
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XMay 7, 2023, 12:02.
The student restaurant on the first floor of the cafeteria, meal purchase window No. 3, in a long queue like a dragon, the chef wearing a green bib lay upright on the ground like a log, stretched his neck and put his face in front of Lin Yi's line of sight.
Lin Yi originally nodded and looked at the floor tiles, but the chef in the green bib actually forced his face in front of him, causing a forced stare!
"WTF?!"
Lin Yi's pupils, which had already contracted, shrunk to the size of a pinhole at this moment!
How can he be so virtuous and capable as to think that this guy can actually perform such an anti-human operation!
"Please! There are students queuing up everywhere, how the hell did you find a way to lie down?!"
His eyes met, and an extremely cold air came from between his internal organs, and then rushed back and forth in his body.
He felt that the light around him seemed to have dimmed a lot...
This guy not only appeared in front of him, but... he happened to be lying in his shadow!
"Classmate, the cafeteria has recently launched a discounted meal. Every new student has a chance to enjoy the latest dish in the cafeteria for free - spaghetti with tomato meat sauce. Do you want to try it?"
The chef in the green bib opened his mouth. His gentle and standardized smile did not make Lin Yi feel comfortable thinking. Instead, he felt as uncomfortable as countless bugs crawling on his body.
Lin Yi's face instantly turned pale, and an indescribable feeling of fear exploded in his mind. His body trembled subconsciously, and his limbs were stiff and cold.
At this moment, there was one last thought in his mind:
"Ignore it!"
"Absolutely! Absolutely! Ignore it!"
"Just pretend he doesn't exist at all!"
He let go of his attention, so that although he was eye-to-eye with the chef in the green bib, his eyes gradually became empty.
This is a trick that is widely circulated but few people can learn and put it into practice. It was learned by Lin Yi without a teacher when he was distracted in math class.
The most profound part of this unique skill is that it can give people the illusion of thinking deeply while looking at the writing on the blackboard, but in fact the main body has already wandered away.
That’s what he’s doing now.
Sure enough...
In the extreme situation, once he does this, the effect will be far more powerful than thinking about the beautiful legs in black stockings!
Time just stood still...
A layer of fine beads of sweat gradually appeared on Lin Yi's forehead. He suddenly realized that although his stunts were powerful, there were times when his eyes felt sore, but the opponent...he was so paralyzed that he seemed unable to blink at all!
"Damn...how should I let him know that I didn't notice him at all?"
Just when Lin Yi was gradually showing signs of decline and felt that he was about to be exhausted mentally and physically, Wei Liang's urging voice came from the front of the team:
"Old Lin, what are you doing? Come up quickly, there is such a big space behind. Everyone is waiting impatiently! "
"Oh, your legs are not weak, are you?"
Wei Liang rushed to Lin Yi helplessly, grabbed Lin Yi's hand and dragged him to the front of the team.
"The savior has appeared..." Lin Yi's eyes were empty, but his heart was ecstatic.
Immediately afterwards, he found a foot appearing out of thin air, stepping on the face of the chef in the green bib, stamping out the other person's eyes like stepping on a cigarette butt...
Lin Yi was startled, only to hear Wei Liang's voice continue to come to his ears...
"Oh shit, Lao Lin, be careful, the ground seems a bit uneven..."
In just such a moment, Lin Yi pulled out his eyes like a knife, his empty eyes refocused, and then followed the flow of people in front of Wei Liang who followed closely.
Just now, because he and the chef in the green bib were looking at each other, the team in front of Lin Yi walked up a little bit. Wei Liang found that Lin Yi was not following, so he turned around and called him.
It seemed that there were too many people in line, so Wei Liang did not see the chef in the green bib.
Seeing Lin Yi being taken away by Wei Liang, the chef in the green bib did not show any change in his expression.
He slowly climbed up from the floor tiles, his frighteningly white face still had the same crooked eyebrows and a normal smile.
The difference from before is that there is an extra shoe print.
He slowly turned his stiff body like a puppet, and his eyes gradually shifted from Lin Yi's body to Wei Liang's body.
He looked at Wei Liang's foot that stepped on his face.
At some point, there was a drop of dark red sticky substance on the soles of Wei Liang's shoes.
Like ketchup.
(End of this chapter)