Chapter 34 Employee Channel
Lin Yi saw this, but it was hard to comfort him.
Wei Liang's sneakers are the Fei Kun limited edition jointly launched by Feiren and famous idol trainee Ai Kun. There is a very distinctive Ai Kun dribbling logo on the tongue, and on the side of the sneakers is Ai Kun's iconic iron mountain move.
When you put on these shoes and shake your feet, the movements of the iron mountain support seem to come alive.
Wei Liang shook his feet intentionally or unintentionally.
But now this pair of jointly-branded limited-edition sneakers is about to be retired.
With full of reluctance, Wei Liang walked behind Lin Yi with his head hanging down, and followed Lin Yi to the employee passage.
At this time, the sun was just right outside the passage. When the two of them walked under the sunshine, they felt like they were wrapped in a warm current.
The staff passage and the student passage are on the opposite side of the canteen. It is dozens of meters from the exit of the student passage to the exit of the staff passage. You need to walk along a small slope along the floor tiles and go around the side of the canteen.
The sloping roadside is covered with dense camphor trees, and sometimes there are street lamps arranged in the gaps between the trees.
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
12:48.
"It's already 12:48?"
He frowned slightly, still remembering that it was just past 12 o'clock when he queued up, but he didn't expect that more than 40 minutes had passed in a flash.
“But I shouldn’t be considered ‘in the cafeteria’ now, right?”
Lin Yi thought about it for a moment.
"But..."
"Although the canteen's opening hours are from 10:40 to 13:20 at noon, if you want to be more stable, you'd better throw away your shoes and get lost at the speed of light!"
He swiped. After taking a few glances at the nearest street lamp, I saw the street lamp numbers painted with white paint: "Canteen-002", "Canteen-031", "Canteen-014"...
"Sure enough, the order is still wrong." He muttered in his heart and continued to walk towards the employee passage.
But just as he was passing by a certain shaded area of a certain camphor tree, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing in the forest.
The feeling of being watched fell on him silently.
The chill came and he shivered subconsciously.
At this time, Wei Liang's voice suddenly came from behind him:
"Old Lin."
Lin Yi was startled, and his back suddenly straightened up.
But he didn't answer the voice. He didn't know whether to turn back, so he gritted his teeth and quickened his pace towards the employee passage.
"I rely on you, Lao Lin, please slow down, wait, I'll wait, I..." The voice suddenly became urgent, "I feel so gloomy, something doesn't seem right on this road, why don't we walk under the sun!"
"This is pretending to be the same!" Lin Yi felt bursts of pressure.
He took a deep breath, then gritted his teeth and rushed down the slope, heading straight for the employee passage.
"Hey, I'm here!" Wei Liang's voice became urgent.
"Da da da da..."
A series of rapid footsteps sounded behind Lin Yi. Lin Yi's hair stood on end, barely blowing in the wind.
After rushing down the slope and running for a distance, he quickly arrived at the entrance of the employee passage.
He ignored the sounds behind him and the strange gaze. After confirming the location of the trash can, he quickly squatted down and began to take off his shoes.
But the moment he took off his shoes, his eyes subconsciously looked at the ketchup stained on the shoes.
He was slightly startled.
After being stunned, he was shocked.
"Huh? This——"
Lin Yi couldn't believe what he saw. The piece of ketchup originally stained on his shoes had now turned into a white solid substance.
"This is?!"
He rubbed his eyes, and looked closer, and found that this white thing seemed to be...
"Gypsum?" He narrowed his eyes, "Isn't this ketchup? When did it become plaster?"
He remembered that it was ketchup...
No, wait, is it really ketchup?
He recalled...
Had he actually noticed anything on his shoes before?
"It seems like... no?"
"Is there...?"
He looked at the plaster-like substance on the shoes and fell into a brief state of confusion.
At this moment, Lin Yi never noticed that the floor tiles under his feet had a slight twist...
It was like the lines of a python.
An indescribable sense of crisis enveloped quietly.
It was obviously a clear day with the sun high in the sky, but when Lin Yi developed cognitive impairment, the whole world seemed to be distorted by his chaotic state.
The shadow of the avenue covering half of the road slowly crawled towards Lin Yi with the twist of the floor tiles...
"No, no, Ryoko reminded me to look at the shoes. I remember it very clearly. It was obviously ketchup at that time!"
Lin Yi recalled it.
"That's ketchup!"
He firmed up his idea - it was indeed ketchup before, but now it has turned into a gypsum-like substance.
When his thoughts were no longer confused, that indescribable feeling turned into a wisp of breeze and dissipated...
"Hu——"
The breeze blew across Lin Yi's face. He did not notice or realize that the ground under his feet had a slight distortion...
He took off his shoes, looked at the plaster-like substance on the shoes, and couldn't help but tap the ground lightly.
"What a surprise." Lin Yi couldn't help but smacked his lips, "Ketchup can actually turn into plaster, I'm laughing so hard...wait a minute!"
"Wait, wait, wait!!!!"
He suddenly thought of something, and he almost jumped up from the ground.
"Ketchup!"
"Is this made from ketchup?!"
A picture flashed through his mind - the trash can in the teacher's office!
He remembered that there was a lunch box stained with a dark red substance in the trash can!
He remembered that the trash can was placed in a dark corner of the office, so he didn't see clearly what it was at the first time. He only remembered that it was a dark red viscous substance. Now it seems -
"It's ketchup!!"
"So the head teacher has eaten food containing tomato elements!"
"Yesterday?!"
His memory began to flash back at the speed of light, and he thought of the scene where the security guards led the group of chefs walking in the fog with chains.
He thought of the green bib chef mixed in with the blue bib chef team!
The chef was holding a lunch box containing spaghetti with tomato meat sauce in his hand!
And the first destination or passing point of that team is exactly - the teaching building!
Clue after clue suddenly intertwined in his mind. He, his roommate and Wei Liang rushed out of the team as they approached the teaching building, and then entered the teaching building.
It seemed that they arrived before the security guards, but in fact it took them almost half an hour just to cross the distance between two street lights to reach the teaching building, and it took them more than 20 minutes to walk down the stairwell to the basement.
If the security guards and the chef walked regardless of the thick fog, they would arrive at the teaching building far ahead of them. In addition...the teacher's office of Class 2, Group B, is actually the only one on the first floor. You only need to walk up the steps to reach it.
So——
"Before I met the head teacher... the chef in the green bib delivered the tomato sauce pasta to her first!"
"She... ate it?!" Lin Yi's pupils trembled. He recalled the eerie sense of confinement and weird jet lag when he entered the teacher's office last night. He didn't know for a moment whether the source was the tomato sauce in the trash can or... the head teacher?
But no matter what, the uncomfortable sense of oppression brought to him by the head teacher was undeniable.
"Although it's cold... but there's no hostility, unlike those wrong classmates and weird chefs..."
"Strange, weird..."
Lin Yi shook his head and slowly put away this thought - now that he was under the sun, he dared to think more.
"If you are on your way, you still have to go back to the classroom and write down some of your latest ideas on sticky notes."
Sticky notes are a good thing to prevent yourself from missing things. Write down the notes and turn them over every night before going to bed, which can have the effect of "reviewing the past and learning new things".
It is true that you can write a note anywhere, there is not much to be particular about, but writing it on the spot on the road like this...
Even though it is under the sun, it is a bit bolder.
The classroom is better.
At least during this period, the classroom is a relatively safe "stronghold".
But when he mentioned the classroom, Lin Yi immediately thought of the white plaster-like substance under the podium and the traces of plaster that were dragged all over the floor in the classroom.
"If the white gypsum-like substance is transformed by ketchup when it encounters the sun, then in other words, last night, something dragged the ketchup in circles in the classroom?"
"And the ketchup..."
Lin Yi's mind was filled with one messy inspiration after another. There must be a lot of connections between these inspirations, but he couldn't connect them all at the same time.
He could not deduce where the ketchup entered the classroom.
He only had a vague guess, but there was no evidence to prove that ketchup was related to "that thing".
He took a deep breath and did not intend to continue thinking about this issue.
"Old Lin! Are you hiding from a ghost?!" At this moment, Wei Liang's voice sounded from behind him, and then a hand was put on his shoulder.
Wei Liang leaned out half of his body, supported his body and panted heavily, saying angrily: "What's the matter with you? You haven't responded to me even after calling me for a long time?"
Lin Yi was slightly startled.
Having experienced so many strange calls from behind, coupled with the dark wind blowing in the forest, he naturally assumed that it was not Wei Liang's voice for the first time.
I didn’t expect that my prediction was wrong.
But facing Wei Liang's bright eyes, coupled with the sad emotion "I can follow you, like a shadow chasing the light" that moved deep in his eyes, Lin Yi didn't know what to say for a moment.
But he clearly didn't know what to say, but when he opened his mouth, Top Burnt Flower blurted out without thinking:
"That's what... the slope was too steep, I couldn't stop the car for a while."
Wei Liang was stunned.
Wei Liang was stunned again.
Wei Liang looked at Lin Yi's serious eyes that said, "That's the truth, you and I don't have to argue." He blinked again and again.
He looked down at the slightly worn soles of his Feikun limited edition sneakers, thoughtfully, and then said:
"This slope... is indeed a bit steep."
"And it's a bit of shoe polishing."
Lin Yi: "..."
"Ahem."
"Yeah, I feel the same way." Lin Yi smiled wryly and touched the back of his head, then walked to the trash can with his shoes.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a faint tremor.
From under the soles of his bare feet.
He was slightly startled.
Immediately afterwards, a vague sound suddenly spread from the air.
The sound came from far and near. It was very light at first, but soon it became as loud as the beating of a heart.
Finally, it turned into a heavy sound like a drum!
This huge sound floated from the depths of the employee passage, and there seemed to be substantial sound waves floating in the air.
"Boom!"
"Boom!!"
This sound was so deafening that Lin Yi felt that his internal organs were faintly resonating.
His complexion began to turn rosy;
His blood began to boil;
His heartbeat began to beat with this rhythm.
「什么鬼啊？！」
员工通道里传播出来了一种恐怖的压迫感，如果说绿色围兜厨师和不对劲的同学带来的是一种阴恻恻的诡异感的话，现在的这种擂鼓声就是一种正面的恐怖感。
It is as if some indescribable giant creature dormant in the abyss of a foreign land is waking up!
No!
Can't even wake up, but...snoring!
"Old Lin! Old Lin, I can't fucking stand it. What kind of noise is this? I feel so uncomfortable!!" Wei Liang covered his ears tightly, but he couldn't resist the sound of the drum.
This is not a sound at all, but a sound wave, a powerful sound wave that shocks the body and mind!
"Throw...throw away the shoes! Then go! Quick!" Lin Yi's eyes were slightly bloodshot, and he clenched his teeth and growled.
"Okay, okay!" Wei Liang took off his shoes with difficulty and held them in his hands.
The two gritted their teeth, resisting the erosion of the sound waves, and approached the trash can with difficulty.
The distance between the trash can and them is only three to five meters, but even the distance of three to five meters seems to be separated by a big river, which is difficult to cross!
"Damn! I rushed out of the canteen, I didn't expect to end up here!" Lin Yi felt a deafening feeling in the impact of the sound waves, and he could hardly stand still.
Wei Liang was not much better than him. The two of them stumbled around like a pair of fitness losers hesitating on a treadmill.
At the critical moment, Lin Yi suddenly felt something pressing on their backs, pushing him to the trash can.
"Hmm...?!" Lin Yi was slightly startled.
"Idiot, why don't you throw something away? I won't talk about you again, but you two." A dull voice sounded behind him.
Xu Shunkang was carrying a bat covered with gypsum powder on his back. He pushed Lin Yi with his left hand and Wei Liang with his right hand. He pushed them both and sent them to the trash can.
"Fuck, why are you in a daze? Do you think I'm a light weight? I can't hold it for long!"
Xu Shunkang's forehead was bursting with veins, and the golden light washed away in his eyes. The sound waves cut through his body like a knife, and clearly traced the muscle lines under the sportswear.
It will be released tomorrow, which is a bit rushed. I haven’t written any comments about the release, nor have I saved the manuscript, but I plan to stay up late to write the first chapter for release, so my sleeping friends should be able to read the first chapter when they wake up tomorrow morning. I'll write some more comments on the launch soon~
(End of this chapter)