Chapter 53 "Other" Channel
But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something!
He stared at the notice board, and then before his whole body became weak and weak, he jumped on it like crazy.
He fell heavily to the ground, and his body could not even make the final leap!
But he grabbed the pole of the sign.
"Catch... Got it! Got it!!"
"Drink——"
He burst out the last bit of strength and dragged himself under the pole of the sign.
He hugged the pole tightly with one hand, and then put the other hand into his pocket!
He groped for a while and finally found a thick booklet.
He tried his best to control his trembling hands, took the pamphlet out of his pocket, and then opened the last part-the campus map tremblingly.
Before his vision was completely dimmed, he found the location of the notice board and the canteen on the map——
"That's right! That's right!! The canteen is here! Right here!"
He slowly moved the map away from his eyes, as if he was scratching off the anti-counterfeiting ink on a scratch-off ticket.
The scenery behind the sign reappeared in front of him.
The cliff disappeared, and a square canteen lay quietly in the afterglow of the setting sun.
The canteen is always there.
The canteen is always there.
And he was still holding the sign pole.
Lin Yi's tense body suddenly relaxed, and he felt that the heavy burden that had been weighing on his body instantly dissipated.
He let go of the pole and lay down on the road paved with clear-grained cobblestones. He looked at the normal, innately regular and logical world in front of him and breathed a long sigh of relief.
He breathed heavily, letting the air mixed with the earthy fragrance tell him that the crazy, depressing and twisted world just now, full of extreme malice towards him, was just a hallucination of his!
That indescribable feeling of horror disappeared completely along with his breathing.
Until that feeling completely disappeared, he was extremely convinced that he was back, that he was really back.
"I found it! I found it!"
"My idea is right! It's right!"
"The reference is relative, the twisted pebbles have already It can no longer be used as a reference, and the only real sign that has never been distorted is the absolutely correct reference!"
Under the gaze of Wei Liang's incomprehensible eyes, he covered his face and laughed.
"Hahahahahahaha..."
He laughed so loudly that he was tired.
Then, he saw the golden sky and yellow clouds. Under the clouds, was Wei Liang's face looking down at him with a thick look of confusion.
?」 He was stunned on the spot, and these two words came out of his mouth.
Wei Liang looked down at him with confusion on his face: "Ah, it's me, what the hell happened to you just now?"
"Uh... just now..." Lin Yi sat up again, holding on to the ground, taking a deep breath, blowing off the dust on the campus map, carefully folding it up and putting it at the end of the student rules, and put it back in his pocket.
Then, he looked at Wei Liang and said seriously: "You definitely don't want to know what I just experienced."
He stood up holding on to the pole of the notice board.
Looking at Lin Yi's embarrassed and weird look and strange behavior, Wei Liang's expression changed from puzzled to very serious. After maintaining a very serious expression for three seconds, he finally shrugged his shoulders, frowned and asked with concern:
"Old Lin, are you... okay?"
"What you did just now was very strange. Strange."
"Oh?" Lin Yi also showed some curiosity about his behavior just now, "In your eyes, what did I just do?"
Wei Liang wanted to say a few flirty words, but the atmosphere did not allow it, so he said seriously: "You just fell behind me, and then inexplicably bumped into the sign."
"Your appearance shocked me. If I hadn't reacted quickly and stopped my hand, you would have taken half of my combos today."
Lin Yi's mouth twitched when he heard it: "Uh... I was like that just now? No, I mean... just like that?"
Wei Liang held his forehead and said speechlessly: "No, what else do you want? You don't know what to do?"
Lin Yi lowered his eyes and looked at the cobblestone road under his feet.
The roads are normal.
He looked around again.
The surroundings are also normal.
"So... what happened just now?"
"Hey, never mind, never mind!" Wei Liang waved his hand, then hammered his chest, interrupting his thoughts, "Let's do the work, let's do the work!"
As he spoke, Wei Liang walked to the shelf under the notice board, grabbed a copy of the canteen rules and put it in his pocket, and then walked straight towards the entrance of the student passage.
Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang's back, his brows gradually furrowed.
He suddenly thought of something and looked down at his watch.
17:20.
He narrowed his eyes.
I don’t know if it was because he was wandering on the edge of madness and chaos. He felt that he had just experienced an extremely long and obscure period of time.
But this period of time was only 3 minutes.
“It’s too short...”
Short and long, just like...eternal time was cut into a slice, and he fell and sank in that slice.
…
X May 7, 2023, 17:21, in front of the canteen sign.
Lin Yi took a copy of the canteen rules from the shelf over the notice board and put it in his trouser pocket, then stood there and looked at the canteen carefully and carefully again.
His expression was extremely focused and solemn, as if he wanted to imprint the appearance of the cafeteria into his soul.
After watching like this for more than ten seconds, he realized that he was really going to fall behind, so he quickly raised his feet to catch up with Wei Liang's back.
However, after he crossed the signboard and took only a few steps, the vague feeling of resistance that he had almost forgotten began to scratch his body gently like a claw protruding from the shadows.
He stopped and turned his attention to the canteen again.
He felt that this cafeteria... might be different to him.
In other words, he has become different about the canteen...
In the setting sun, the canteen is stained with a thin layer of red, like the towers that have been baptized in wars in the old times, rooted in the deep pits.
The mountains and forests around the canteen are like maple trees planted all over the mountains and plains, glowing with a faint red light. The evening wind encourages the mist to crawl out of the mountains and forests, and flow towards the location of the canteen little by little.
"Huh? There is fog on the first floor below?"
Lin Yi suddenly noticed that the first floor below the canteen was built in a pit, so it had already accumulated a layer of fog...
It was as if someone had pushed the fog out of the forest and driven it into the first floor below.
"Is it because of the geographical location?"
He narrowed his eyes, but his reason told him not to think about this problem from a "normal" perspective.
“Let’s finish the food first and discuss this issue with Mr. Tian in the evening.” His intuition told him that in Tian Bufan’s “cognition”, there must be more secrets that he didn’t know and needed to know urgently.
Hence, he ran after Wei Liang's back.
But he found that Wei Liang was standing not far from the entrance of the student passage, looking at something not far ahead.
"Liangzi?"
Having gained some experience, he did not pat Wei Liang on the shoulder, but called him first.
Wei Liang's body trembled, as if he was interrupted by someone's voice while he was thinking.
"Old Lin, I'm fine." Wei Liang said.
"Ah? What happened to you just now?" Lin Yi asked back.
“Emm…it’s okay, nothing happened.” Wei Liang confirmed.
He paused, then shook his head and said: "Even if there is, it has nothing to do with us, you can see for yourself..."
Lin Yi immediately looked in the direction of Wei Liang's finger - he saw only twos and threes of classmates holding their heads together, walking at a leisurely pace, walking into an unmarked passage.
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched hard: "Other passages?"
He suddenly understood the meaning of Wei Liang's words and quickly looked away.
"I was careless, I should have walked with my head down like before!" Wei Liang muttered in a low voice, his tone full of regret, "This time I saw something more!"
Lin Yi didn't pay attention to what Wei Liang was muttering. The content of the canteen rules immediately came to his mind:
【Students entering and exiting the canteen should take the student passage to the restaurant on the first floor (there are clear student passage signs at the entrance and exit of the passage). Do not use the staff passage, let alone the passage without any signs.
If you find someone entering a passage other than the student passage, and there is a security guard nearby, you can inform the security guard immediately, or you can choose to ignore it. 】
At this time, it is undoubtedly better to choose to ignore it.
But when he looked back, he suddenly realized one, no, many problems.
First of all, while having lunch, he watched Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang enter the canteen through other passages.
According to the gym rules, he got another piece of information: sports students do not have student ID cards.
But the sign in front of the cafeteria clearly stated: [It is prohibited to enter the cafeteria without your student ID card! 】
Reported, but... nothing happened to them! "
"This... does it mean that sports students can not abide by the canteen rules?"
He thought that Xu Shunkang had specially emphasized that he did not need to follow the canteen rules.
"Or... the people walking in the student passage are "students", and the physical education students no longer belong to the scope of "students", but belong to "others", so they use "other passages" to enter the cafeteria?"
"Or..."Does it really mean that "students are not allowed to enter the cafeteria without their student ID cards"?"
< br/> "Because only students have student ID cards."
"So the sports students do not abide by the canteen rules, or in other words, they abide by another set of rules for entering and exiting the cafeteria... Maybe it has something to do with other passages."
But..."
Those who took other passages just now are not all sports students.
Physical school students wear uniform blue and white striped sportswear, even the eldest student is no exception.
But those people just now... were obviously not wearing sportswear.
Lin Yi briefly recalled the appearance of those people and found that they did not have the energy of physical education students, and they were also somewhat different from those classmates who went to physical education classes together.
They gave him a strange feeling, as if they were dull and numb because they had been thinking about the problem, or they seemed in a daze because they had been hit by some kind of blow.
Generally speaking, they are obviously not normal.
He thought of the girl wearing a sailor uniform with a hairpin he saw at noon. He remembered that the girl also walked through another passage.
And that girl...belongs to the group of people who followed the fake female teacher away in the mist!
“They are not sports students, and they are not normal students, but they still need to go to the cafeteria to eat!”
“Can you go to the cafeteria to eat without a student ID card?”
“Wait! So... people without student ID cards can enter the cafeteria through other channels, while "students" with student ID cards enter the cafeteria through the "student channel"! "
"Student ID! Student ID?"
Lin Yi thought of something in an instant, and a picture suddenly flashed in his mind. When he obtained the student ID and the rules of the teaching building, the head teacher told him very seriously:
""This is your student ID. Remember to keep it well. If you lose it, please come to me as soon as possible."
"This booklet is the "Classroom Code of Conduct," just read it slowly when you get to the classroom."
"Remember, for your own safety, both the student code and the building code must be followed. At any time, if you encounter two conflicting rules, then make your own judgment based on your current identity and environment."
I am the one wearing this badge with the number "Class Teacher-B2-039" "And you, Lin Yi, are not my students. My students are the ones holding the student ID card in your hand."
"So remember my words, from now on, please keep your student ID card. You can talk about your student ID card with others, but do not put it in other people's hands at any time."
It is obvious that in this school, identity is not as simple as it appears on paper - it is not as simple as he predicted at the beginning.
【The school will continue to provide you with corresponding help to solve your troubles until you get your student ID card back or confirm that you are unable to get it back. 】
During the seven-day experience period, Lin Yi will spend his time as a "student". Once he loses his student ID card, he will no longer be a "student", but..."other people"!
So the three channels to enter the cafeteria actually correspond to three identities - normal students with student ID cards, "employees" with ID badges of employees in the cafeteria or campus, and "others" without any identification!
And "other people"... this broad and vague concept seems to be terrifyingly complicated.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of the heavy echo coming from the depths of the employee passage, the kind of echo that even Xu Shunkang seemed to be affected to a certain extent.
Could it be that when someone whose identity does not match the passage comes to the wrong passage, it will cause that kind of terrifying mutation?
"That's probably the case!"
Lin Yi recalled the physical appearance of the aunt who cooked food in the cafeteria. In his established impression, let alone the aunt in the cafeteria, even if she walked into the employee passage, she would probably get a slap in the face before leaving.
If a specific "identity" could not be protected to a certain extent in corresponding situations, then he couldn't understand why the cafeteria aunt could enter such a scary employee passage.
Unless she is not a human being.
(End of this chapter)