Chapter 24: The Sign in Front of the Canteen
Chapter 24: The Sign in Front of the Canteen
S市大学食堂的午间开放时间是10:40~13:20，但上午的课却要上到11:00才结束。
Despite this, there is still plenty of time left for students to eat lunch.
X023年5月7日，11:02，林异和魏亮先后踏出了教室。
The moment he walked out of the classroom, Lin Yi's heart suddenly palpitated. He subconsciously looked back at the classroom and the door frame.
It was clearly just the distance of a door, but Lin Yi had a strange feeling in his heart - it seemed that as long as this door was closed, the entire classroom would be isolated from the world.
Inside and outside the door seem to be two different worlds.
He looked down at the surroundings. The gray-white walls of the corridor were paved with tiles carved with exaggerated patterns, like the reliefs carved under stone bridges in villages in ancient times to suppress evil spirits, which gave him a strong sense of cult.
He looked ahead and saw the doorplate of Group B Class 1 clearly visible in front of the teacher's office, and behind it was another teacher's office and the doorplate of Group B Class 3.
Although there is some distance between classes, it is not so far that I couldn't see them after walking for so long like last night.
He looked at the environment near the classroom door again, then narrowed his eyes and squatted down.
There was a substance similar to the sculpture fragments near the podium on the ground at the entrance of the classroom, and there were also a lot of hardened fragments scattered around. It seemed that the security guards had done a lot of harm last night.
But what puzzled him was that there were stairs outside the corridor. If he remembered correctly, it sounded like the security guard should have rolled down the stairs with the unidentified creature yesterday, but there was no sign of damage on the entire staircase.
"With a body size like that of a security guard, and a thick chain, it's impossible for the stairs to remain intact even if he rolled down with a bucket of water, let alone an unknown creature."
"At least there should be some scratches..."
He seemed to be thinking about something, and suddenly remembered the scene he felt in a trance last night.
When the thick fog rose, the entire campus seemed to be covered by a quilt, so dim that even the moonlight could not penetrate.
The teaching building corroded by thick fog in that environment was like a ship lost in the vast sea under the fog on a moonlit night.
There seemed to be a deep ocean under the stairs, and the security guard seemed to have fallen into the ocean with that thing.
"But... this feeling is just a 'feeling' after all. Could it be that there is something strange under the thick fog? This is too absurd... Impossible."
He shook his head. How could a situation that almost overturned reality happen to him?
At this moment his eyes fell on the door of the teacher's office, and then his expression suddenly froze.
"Subverting reality..." He didn't know what he was thinking of. He suddenly hesitated and murmured, "...Is it really impossible?"
"If that's not possible, then what's going on with that stairwell?"
His eyes were fixed on the door of the teacher's office, but his gaze was unfocused.
He thought of an incident that happened to him that subverted reality.
A known:
[After arriving at the teaching building, they first saw a notice board, and then followed the instructions on the notice board to enter a stairwell. They walked down the stairs in the shape of the Fibonacci sequence for 20 minutes, then turned left and arrived at the door of the classroom office.]
且：
[After entering the teacher's office and obtaining a student ID and the building rules, the first door after turning right out of the teacher's office is the door to Class 2, Group B.]
So please ask:
[What is the spatial relationship between the stairwell and Class 2 of Group B? ]
There is no need for brainstorming. Just judging from his cognition can give a very subversive answer:
"The door to the stairwell is the door to Class 2, Group B!"
"If we use the teacher's office as a reference point, the positions of these two things overlap!"
"Fuck!" Lin Yi couldn't help but spit out sweet words, "How the hell is this possible?!"
Illogical!
What logic is this? There is no logic at all!
Just as Lin Yi's head began to buzz with thoughts, Xu Shunkang's voice came from the classroom door: "So...what happened last night? Seeing how you look now, I am becoming more and more curious."
Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang walked out of the classroom and stretched themselves in the sun: "Sunshine is still good! It's warm and I feel full of energy!"
He shook his body, then turned his gaze to Lin Yi, waiting for his answer.
Lin Yi retracted his thoughts, glanced at him, and asked curiously: "If you are so curious, why did you leave yesterday? Why don't you just stay and take a look?"
Xu Shunkang said without comment: "I personally want to stay and see it, but there is no other way. If I don't leave..."
"Ahem!" Xie Huayang slapped his scalp and reminded him, "Don't talk nonsense!"
Xu Shunkang shrank his neck, then smiled and said, "I almost said too much... Anyway, we have to leave, but I'm still very curious about the situation on the scene."
Lin Yi curled his lips and said, "If I knew the situation, how could you see me today?"
Xu Shunkang was stunned, but immediately understood what Lin Yi meant. He couldn't help but touch the back of his head and said with a smile, "You're right! It was me who was careless! Hahahaha... Let's go, let's go to the cafeteria to eat together!"
"Are you guys going to eat too?" Lin Yi asked.
Xie Huayang said angrily: "Damn it, Fatty Xu pretended to be cool and gave all the cookies to you. If we don't go to eat, are we going to stay and eat the table?"
Lin Yi was speechless.
Wei Liang came over to smooth things over and said, "Okay, okay, let's go together, but let's be frank, we'll each use our own cards!"
Xie Huayang sneered: "Hey you, I have plenty of money in my card."
Wei Liang didn't say anything. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but the student rules stated that one should not hand over the student ID to other people.
……
X023年5月7日，11：12。
Lin Yi glanced at the time, walked down the steps of the teaching building, and headed to the cafeteria along the route marked on the map.
Walking on the cobblestone road, Lin Yi carefully paid attention to the location and number of the lamp posts at the passing points, and took out the map to compare them one by one.
Then he discovered that the numbers and positions of the lamp posts on the ground were exactly the same as those given on the map.
But this is where problems arise.
"Since the location information is exactly the same as on the map, it means that the distance from the school gate to the teaching building is not long...but I actually walked for a long time."
"And after the fog rose yesterday evening, the distance between street lamps was obviously different from that on the map. Even their positions seemed to have changed..." Lin Yi thought about the problem as he walked.
"Are some street lights not on? Like the lights in the classroom, they will go out?"
Thinking of this, he shook his head again.
"It shouldn't be like this."
"The fact that the lights in the classrooms flicker and go out is written in the building rules. And the student rules clearly state that 'all the street lights in the campus will be on after 18:00', so there is no such thing as lights going out!"
"So what's going on?"
He frowned, he couldn't figure out the problem no matter how hard he tried.
The reason was not that the logic was wrong, but that the situation he encountered in reality conflicted with the rules, making the whole problem more subtle...
And there is another question that has been bothering Lin Yi, that is this one:
【After 18:00, the street lights on campus will light up. At this time, you can find the street light closest to you and walk along the street light in the direction of decreasing numbers. You will meet the security guard.
Please follow the security guard until you reach the building on the map, and leave the security guard before other students find you. 】
Just keep walking along the street lights in the direction of decreasing numbers and you will meet the security guard.
Judging from the map of S City University attached to the teaching building rules, the layout of street lights on campus is completely chaotic. For example, "Teaching Building -017" is surrounded by "Teaching Building -016" and "Teaching Building -012", and the positional relationship between them is completely opposite.
If you really walk in the direction of decreasing street light numbers, you will probably go insane.
Lin Yi was walking and thinking, when he suddenly found some strange traces on the cobblestone ground. Then he stopped and squatted down.
"What's going on, Lao Lin?" Wei Liang asked.
Lin Yi squatted on the ground and looked at the gap between the pebbles, frowning and said, "Liangzi, look, is there any plaster powder here?"
"Ah?" Wei Liang exclaimed and quickly looked down, only to see that the gaps between the cobblestones were filled with hardened white plaster-like substance, as if someone had rubbed plaster on the cobblestone road.
This plaster-like substance was scattered in the cracks of the cobblestone ground, extending to the end of the road.
When Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang saw Lin Yi's discovery, they just glanced at the plaster-like substance indifferently and said nothing.
The four of them walked towards the cafeteria.
When Lin Yi saw such substances along the road, his face darkened immediately. Even under the sunlight, he still felt a cold feeling.
He didn't know how it was formed, but a very uncomfortable feeling was planted in his heart at this moment.
After walking and stopping for a while, at about 11:12, the silhouette of a building appeared behind the green belt in the distance.
According to the map, that is the cafeteria of S City University.
Since S City University was built around mountains in the suburbs, the ground not only tends to slope, but some of the flat mountains were directly dug out and the teaching buildings were built relying on the mountain terrain.
The cafeteria is in a similar building.
The cafeteria looks like a two-story building from a distance, but it actually has three floors.
Due to the location of the mountain, the floor that Lin Yi saw with his naked eyes was actually the second floor of the cafeteria, which could only be reached by stairs or elevator.
The overall appearance of the cafeteria is very popular. It looks like a long box embedded in the mountain, and then partially painted with orange-yellow paint full of school style.
However, due to its attachment to the mountain, the walls of the cafeteria are covered with vegetation, and even the windows cannot be opened in some areas.
"We're almost at the cafeteria, Lao Lin, how long have we been walking?" Wei Liang asked with concern.
Lin Yi glanced at his watch and said, "So far, I have walked for 10 minutes. It looks like I will be able to reach the cafeteria in about 15 minutes."
"Yeah, it's similar to the way I walked back then." Wei Liang nodded.
Lin Yi's mind moved: "What do you mean? You didn't take this road at that time?"
Wei Liang's eyes flashed with doubt, and then he said uncertainly: "I can't remember it clearly, but it seems that there is a slight discrepancy... But it may also be my 'Mandela Effect', so I remembered it wrong."
Lin Yi nodded silently and said nothing.
X023年5月7日，11:16，林异四人来到了食堂前。
On the way to the cafeteria, there is a huge and eye-catching sign. The content on the sign is very simple:
【Canteen opening hours:
5:40~8:00;
10:40~13:20;
16:00~20:00】
Next, there were four rows of warnings with strong exclamation marks:
[It is forbidden to enter the cafeteria outside of opening hours!
It is forbidden to enter the cafeteria in abnormal weather!
No entry to the cafeteria without a student ID!
Please abide by the canteen rules in the canteen area! 】
In addition, there is a line of small print:
[For details of the canteen rules, please see the shelf below. Before entering the canteen, please make sure you have read the canteen rules to understand the relevant content. You can also bring the canteen rules with you in case you forget the rules, but please return the canteen rules when you leave the canteen and come back here. ]
This huge billboard was stuck in the ground like an archway for exorcising evil spirits. The four warnings seemed ordinary, but in such an environment, they had a somewhat strange flavor. They clearly had a sense of alarmism, but Lin Yi didn't find it strange at all.
He walked closer to the sign and saw a large piece of "Canteen Rules" on the shelf below the sign.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang followed the instructions on the sign and picked up one each.
Just as Lin Yi was about to flip through the pages, he found Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang standing aside, indifferent.
"Don't you want to watch it?" Lin Yi asked puzzledly.
Xie Huayang was too lazy to talk, so Xu Shunkang said with a half-smile: "Just read it, we won't read the "Canteen Rules"."
"Then...how about carrying one with you?" Wei Liang handed over two copies of "Canteen Rules".
Xie Huayang slapped his hand away and said impatiently: "Stop talking so much nonsense, just watch it quickly. If you keep wasting time, you won't have enough time to have a meal."
"Alright, alright, alright...don't be angry, don't be angry." Xu Shunkang smiled and dispelled Xie Huayang's displeasure, and quickly said, "Anyway, just watch it. We'll wait here for you to finish watching before we leave together."
Although he talked about the "Canteen Rules", his eyes avoided it from beginning to end.
Thanks to the book friend "Fleeting Phantom" for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)