Chapter 449 Yoghurt for Tomatoes
There seemed to be some food residue left on those dining tables, but upon closer inspection, the food residue seemed to be still squirming and twisting, like snake meat that had just been decapitated and skinned off, and was still twisting by relying on nerve signals.
Some of the soup-like leftovers had green fluff floating in them, and the overall appearance was a turbid gray color. There were also some black floc floating on the surface, as if something was rotting inside.
In the dining window at the end of the restaurant, the door that had been closed was opened and was hidden there.
Through that door, it seems that you can see more weird scenes, such as a ghostly green light like the underworld, a dark red viscous liquid flowing on the floor, twisted and crawling pieces of meat, and from time to time, there is the "clang, clang, clang, clang" sound of some iron chains in the wind...
In the thick and sticky darkness, it seems like something is struggling desperately, trying to break free from it.
Lin Yi stood in the middle of the restaurant, and could still feel that countless pairs of eyes were watching him in the darkness. All the units lined up in the shadows were looking at him, but when he glanced around, those units seemed to have never moved, lining up stiffly.
A large number of units lined up in the area without light, and only a small number of people lined up in the area with light. They kept their heads silent and just followed the team and squirmed forward, hoping to get food earlier.
There is a feeling of fear permeating these people. Lin Yi knows that these people are "authentic" experience students, easily consumed materials on campus - university life experience (experiencers).
When he got into the queue, there was no one behind him. The queue he was in seemed to be blocked. Those students who later entered the student cafeteria all queued up to the "only" meal purchase window - No. 4 meal purchase window.
He realized this, but did not stop it. He just continued to look around boldly, observing everything in the canteen and watching the various changes today.
For him, this student restaurant really has something new every time he comes there.
He turned his gaze to the dark area where there was no one. It was an area that was clearly prohibited from entering according to the "Canteen Rules". It was also the area where he felt a strong sense of suffocation the last time he observed it.
Now that his will and body have been improved in all aspects, he feels that he can try to observe the area again.
Of course, the only problem is that he is alone now, and if he does something wrong, no one will tell him the truth.
Hence, after looking at it, it is better to stop at the point.
He carefully released his perception, and the invisible ripples spread out like ripples, extending towards the dark area.
"Howl..."
As soon as the sensory tentacles penetrated into the shadow area, an ethereal and strange whistling sound appeared in his mind...
The next moment, a faint feeling of dizziness came to his mind.
His steps staggered slightly, but this still did not have much impact on him.
His body is still silently advancing forward with the queue of meal buyers.
In the darkness, his perception captured intermittent ethereal murmurs. It was unclear whether the voice was male or female. It looked like a boy and a girl, and it also seemed like a mixed call. It had a sense of familiarity like the voice of the old Montenegro demon in A Chinese Ghost Story.
Even so, such a voice still exudes a strong and beguiling flavor, grabbing Lin Yi's sensory tentacles like an invisible palm, and then dragging his perception bit by bit into the dark abyss... …
The ethereal sound echoed in the darkness, like the wind swirling in the tunnel and the snow drifting in the passage, cold, lingering and unpredictable.
Suddenly, a ray of dim light fell into the dark abyss, and the abyss was suddenly painted with a touch of color.
Lin Yi keenly captured some traces of the abyss.
At that moment, he seemed to see some mottled and old blue stone bricks, some giant yellow-brown bricks, and some damp inner walls covered with moss, as well as the faint sound of water flow, and some... the sound of waves.
There is also...the intermittent calling.
Come to me
Endless whispers emerged from the abyss, hovering on his forehead and lingering in his ears like a magic voice.
A feeling of weightlessness came over him, as if he was about to fall into the dark abyss.
But Lin Yi was no longer what he used to be. He held his forehead and shook his head, freeing his will and eliminating the shackles of weightlessness.
The endless darkness was still spreading behind him, trying to grab his body like tentacles spreading out of the void, but he ignored it and left them all behind him by simply following the food shopping queue forward.
The darkness faded away like a tide, and soon it no longer bothered Lin Yi, but a thought flashed through Lin Yi's mind.
He seemed to know what corresponded to the dark area...
"It's the well."
The well of the Art Building!
Stone bricks, moss, waves, calls...
Everything seems to connect everything with the well.
But Lin Yi felt that this was just a connection brought to him by some kind of environmental perception, rather than a real connection between the layers.
How about using Lao Mo’s level of layer jump and jump directly from here to that ancient well?
As soon as this idea came out, Lin Yi suddenly fell into doubt again.
Perhaps...it's not like that?
He should not reject this conjecture right away.
What if it’s true?
There is indeed a connection between the layers, but the "original apostle" is buried deep in the ancient well. Lao Mo can indeed jump there, but wouldn't that mean that he would be packed and delivered directly to his door?
It must be safer to jump to the coastline one more time!
That's true... Lin Yi wiped a cold sweat on his face.
Besides, Lao Mo may not have known about the well. He also used the air waves of the "Temple" and the escort of Night Watchman-02 to spy on the existence of those areas. Lao Mo would definitely not be able to get through without knowing anything about it.
Then again...
As the last line of defense for the campus, how does the cafeteria have anything to do with the ancient well in the art building?
Is there really a connection between the layers, or... is it simply because his will was influenced by the Master and connected with the Art Building, so many areas are directly connected to the Art Building or clues related to the Master?
He could faintly sense that the Master was penetrating into his subconscious through the secret pattern. This influence was silent, even surpassing his habits and instincts, always digging a hole for him inadvertently and bringing him a little "surprise".
The current wave of perception may be that Master Ji is digging a hole for him.
Thinking of this, he came back to his senses and continued to follow the team forward.
But this time, when he was walking forward, a big face suddenly appeared in front of him, occupying his entire field of vision.
The face of a chef in a green bib, which was so pale that there was no blood at all, with a weird smile, as if he had given himself a green bib that was illuminated from bottom to top.
Green bib chef, late but here!
Lin Yi was startled, but calmed down immediately.
The first time he saw the green bib chef, he would be startled, and the second time he would be startled as well, but now, he just said "oh" and passed by.
"Classmate, would you like to try the newly launched set meal... Dry noodles with tomato meat sauce?" The chef in the green bib made a dry, lengthy and somewhat eerie voice.
The surrounding students were so frightened that their bodies tensed up and they subconsciously squeezed closer to the front of the team.
Lin Yi did not pretend to ignore it, he just glanced at it lightly, and then withdrew his gaze.
There is nothing wrong with every song, every post, and every content. Look at them one by one!
The green bib chef was not annoyed when he saw this, he just continued to pester him like a fly, and kept selling him dry tomato meat sauce noodles.
Soon, it was Lin Yi's turn to cook. He ordered a few dishes at random, and then looked at the cafeteria lady wearing a green bib in the food purchase window, and ordered him a dish with tomato elements with extremely skillful movements...
"Chef-0256"... He silently wrote down the name tag of the cafeteria aunt, then took the plate without caring, and silently came to the credit card machine.
He covered the side with the identification information with his palm, and then slowly took out his student ID card.
The result was just like this, but even the few experience students who had prepared their meals before and had not gone far, all shuddered and turned to his position as if they had caught some kind of breath.
The actions of those experimental students really startled Lin Yi. He just felt that something was wrong with those people, but he did not expect that something was already so wrong.
The result is such a simple test, and they all leaked the information.
"But these should be the new pseudo-human classmates...when were they transformed?"
"Could they be people who encountered unusual weather at night and came to the cafeteria to avoid danger according to the principle of being near?"
According to the "Student Code of Conduct", the first choice in the cafeteria area is the cafeteria. However, if that time is not the opening hours of the cafeteria written on the notice board in front of the cafeteria, a time conflict will occur.
In that case, just entering the cafeteria will violate the rules.
The correct approach should be the "rujin" mentioned by Wei Liang - go to the door but don't go in.
I was hiding under the eaves, and you asked me if I was in the canteen. I was there, and you asked me if I had gone in. I didn’t.
Rujin.
Those experience students may have been killed after breaking the "Rujin" state.
Of course there is another possibility, that is, they did do that, but they saw something they shouldn't have seen, and they directly dropped the layer and were killed.
Lin Yi's mind was racing. He swiped his card silently under the gaze of countless fiery and greedy eyes, then put away his student ID card and came to the yogurt.
He picked up a box of yogurt and slowly put it on the dinner plate.
A chef in a green bib appeared next to him out of nowhere, and while he was "not paying attention", he replaced the yogurt in his hand with tomatoes before putting it on the plate.
Hence, Lin Yi put a tomato on his plate.
Lin Yi suddenly "noticed" that there was an extra tomato on his plate. He frowned slightly, and then he realized that it was yogurt that he hadn't taken yet.
So he picked up another box of yogurt and put it on the dinner plate.
The chef in the green bib had a crooked look on his face and secretly replaced it for him.
Lin Yi remained silent and just kept repeating this action.
The green bib chef just followed silently...
Not long after, Lin Yi ate the pile of yogurt.
hhhhmmmm... To be precise, it turns all the yogurt into a green bib chef's tomato.
He exerted force with one arm and held a plate of tomatoes in the other hand. He was still invincible... Oh no, he was still calm and composed.
Finally, after Lin Yi finished pounding all the yogurt, he silently looked at the hand of the green bib chef.
The green bib chef's feet were already full of yogurt...
Lin Yi pursed his lips, held the plate with one hand, leaned over to pick up a box of yogurt from the ground, and put it towards the plate...
This time, the yogurt was placed on the plate.
Lin Yi's movements were slightly stagnant.
He pursed his lips, as if he wanted to pick up the yogurt again, and then see if the green bib chef wanted to change it...
The green bib chef made no move.
Lin Yi remained silent and just looked at the green bib chef silently. His eyes seemed to be saying, do you want to stop thinking about it? Get another tomato?
Unexpectedly, the green bib chef didn't buy it at all, and just looked at Lin Yi like this.
Lin Yi did not move his eyes away, just staring at the green bib chef.
The green bib chef’s gaze also did not shift.
Eye facing each other.
The green bib chef was startled for a moment. He seemed to have thought of something. The few remaining IQs that were above the instinctive mechanism began to push his brain to operate slowly.
But soon, Lin Yi seemed to trigger another mechanism of it, and it began to show a symbolically evil and weird smile, and slowly handed out a tomato.
The corners of its mouth did not move, and it still had that ear-to-ear smile, but its hoarse and deep voice slowly floated out: "Classmate...chifan..."
Before he could say the word "eggplant", Lin Yi reached out and took the tomato from its hand.
Lin Yi was overjoyed, he had said there was such a mechanism...
Green bib chef: "???"
Lin Yi took the tomato and put it on the dinner plate, but looking at the mountains of tomatoes on the dinner plate, he couldn't help but frown.
It seems, seems, maybe... I can’t let it go!
(End of this chapter)