Chapter 27 Student Restaurant

Chapter 27 Student Restaurant

Chapter 27 Student Restaurant
Lin Yi stood on the highest step at the end of the student passage, facing the passage that was dotted with incandescent lights like stars. His eye sockets contracted and beat regularly as if he was breathing, and his pair of torch-like eyes were vacantly focused on an unknown place.

At this moment, countless thoughts flashed through his mind, and his eyes seemed to be rolling with countless information.

Moss likes shade and moisture, and its growing environment needs to be kept moist and dark.

If the dense fog and rainy nights in the mountains were the only factors that created the environment for moss to grow, then there couldn't be no moss outside the passageway...

The current situation is that in the cafeteria area, only the student passage and the underground first floor have moss, while there is nothing on the flat ground between the student passage and the underground first floor!

Lin Yi thought of the village where he lived as a child.

The steps and stone bricks along the river are covered with moss due to the changing water levels during the rainy season, but the areas above the water level are dry and moss-free.

If you compare the steps to the student passage, you will understand why the moss in the student passage grows to the end of the steps...

That's because the student passage is often flooded.

Why is there no one outside the student passage?

Because the water came up from the underground floor.

But there was no moss on the ground of the underground first floor, only on the walls...

that is because……

Water doesn't exist!

"So...either some kind of wet creature crawled directly from the basement floor over the tiles into the passage!"

"Or... there is a non-existent water that often floods the student corridor and the underground first floor... just like a tide!"

Both of these are extremely crazy guesses, especially the second one!
As for the first one... considering that he had encountered some kind of indescribable terrifying creature in the thick fog yesterday, it would not be unacceptable even if this thing exuded a lot of water.

And it's not just one person, but a group of them. They hide in the thick fog, roaming at night, with no idea of ​​their motives or purpose...

"Is it something deep in the mountains? Or something else..."

Lin Yi thought of the security guard.

The first and only time he saw the security guard, he remembered that the security guard was not only wrapped in an iron chain, but also holding a baseball bat in his hand that looked like it was made of plaster.

No, it's not so much a baseball bat as it is a mace that looks like a baseball bat.

"Wait! Wait?! That bat..."

Lin Yi's mind flashed back to the moment he first met the security guard. The plaster baseball bat in the security guard's hand...

"That bat isn't made of metal. In essence, it's... some kind of sculpture!"

"A sculpture that looks like a mace!!"

"No, no, no... The student code states that all sculptures on campus are busts and are kept in the Art Building... So what the security guard has is just a simple plaster product and does not fall into the category of 'sculpture'."

Lin Yi found that he had been thinking too much. Not only was it too much, but it was also messy. These things that appeared in his mind like a flash of inspiration had no logical or unified organization. They were more of a kind of imagination and conjecture, and were not of sufficient reference value.

He took a deep breath.

"There is a second guess..."

"A body of...non-existent water."

It flooded the student passage like a tide, then receded and never came back again. Under the repeated flushing of water, moss grew all over the passage.

This is an absolutely irrational guess!
But this is the only answer Lin Yi can think of based on the current environment.

The reason was not empty talk. It was precisely because when he observed the thick fog spreading up the steps of the teaching building twice during the thick fog last night, he had a feeling that the teaching building was like a ship lost in the foggy deep sea under the moon.

In his ears, he seemed to hear the sound of waves and the song of distant sirens...

He also felt that it was a visual, auditory and mental hallucination.

But the strangely growing moss seemed to remind him that if his vision was true, then the cafeteria, like the teaching building, would be washed by some kind of water wave at some point in time...

Lin Yi tried his best to recall the scene of observing the steps down the corridor when he left the classroom. Unfortunately, all his attention was focused on the white powder, and he didn't notice whether there was moss on the steps at all.

But even if he had seen the moss at that time, without the bizarre distribution pattern like the cafeteria, he would not have had too many thoughts.

But now it was different. If he returned to the classroom and found moss on the steps in the corridor, it would be enough to provide a little evidence for this almost outrageous guess.

Especially - when the security guard used the chain to pull the creature off the podium and it rolled down the stairs, it was impossible for the surrounding stairs and the ground to be without a single scratch!
And if... they fell into the water, then everything seemed to make sense!

Thinking of this, he lost his appetite even for eating. If he had not eaten only half a roll of biscuits in nearly 12 hours, he really wanted to go back to the teaching building and see if there was any moss on the steps!

"Lao Lin, Lao Lin! Are you okay?" A hand was waving in front of Lin Yi's eyes like a windshield wiper.

Lin Yi drew his attention back and saw Wei Liang, whose face was filled with panic.

"Liangzi, what's wrong with you? Why are you so flustered?"

Wei Liang heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Lin Yi come back to his senses, and then said contemptuously: "What's wrong, Fatty? Why are you still crying thief?"

"Isn't it because of you that I'm panicking?"

"What happened to you just now? Are you running up and down the stairs like crazy? You made me run around with you, and I was exhausted!"

Hearing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but look at the student passage with his eyes downcast, as if he had thought of something again...

But this time, before he could start thinking, Wei Liang pressed on his shoulders and started shaking him.

"Hey, hey, hey! Let's talk about business! Why are you distracted again?" Wei Liang's voice sounded in front of Lin Yi with a bit of annoyance.

Lin Yi quickly collected his thoughts and said, "Liangzi, I found someone in the student passage..."

"There's something dirty?!" Wei Liang answered subconsciously, "Damn it, I was wondering why there was something so shady in the student passage!"

He jumped three feet high, and suddenly became a dramatic figure, posing like the first-generation Ultraman with the Spacium Ray, shooting left and right, as agile as the leader of the Flower-Fruit Mountain.

“Please don’t be so dramatic!” Wei Liang’s gesture dissipated the strange atmosphere that was entangled with Lin Yi. He covered his face helplessly and said speechlessly, “There is moss in the student passage!”

"Tsk~~~" Wei Liang shook his hands, "Isn't it normal to have moss in the deep mountains and old forests?"

"But……"

"Hey, stop being suspicious!" Wei Liang pushed Lin Yi towards the cafeteria. "Eat, eat, why are you thinking so much? Can moss turn into a monster and jump out to kill people?"

"Hey hey hey..." Lin Yi couldn't stand Wei Liang's strength and entered the cafeteria.

"Moss?" Wei Liang looked back at the student passage, thinking about everything, and then suddenly he shuddered, "Hey, Lao Lin, I thought of something!"

"What's the matter?" Lin Yi asked.

Wei Liang hesitated for a moment, then said, "I slipped in the dormitory before."

Lin Yi: “…”

“Please… How did you think of something like this when you fell down?”

Wei Liang added: "I remembered that last time I stepped on moss on the steps of the dormitory and slipped."

Lin Yi's movements suddenly froze.

But Wei Liang quickly comforted him: "Don't make that expression. What I want to say is that there is a lot of moss on this campus. Don't think too much! As long as you are not running around outside the dormitory in abnormal weather, nothing will happen!"

But Lin Yi's eyes flickered and his thoughts surged.

His first reaction was...

“Damn… there’s moss on the dormitory steps too?!”

He and Wei Liang have completely different "perspectives". The moss that Wei Liang is accustomed to is a huge problem in his opinion!
"But... Ryoko slipped on the moss and is fine now..." "Do you really mean 'don't think too much'?"

Not thinking might be a safe method, but he always felt that there were certain loopholes in this approach.

He was even a little worried about Wei Liang.

Some things cannot be avoided by simply “not understanding” them.

For example...thick fog.

He followed Wei Liang in a daze, passed through the wind curtain at the cafeteria entrance, and entered the student cafeteria on the first floor of the cafeteria.

The cool breeze from the wind curtain woke Lin Yi up. He quickly perked up and glanced at his watch first.

11: 45.

Then, he diverted his attention and observed the environment of the student cafeteria.

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May 023, X5, 7:11, S City University cafeteria, first floor.

Lin Yi stood at the door of the cafeteria, observing the environment of the student cafeteria.

The student cafeteria covers an area of ​​about several hundred square meters. On both sides of the entrance are two symmetrically located tableware recycling points, and then there is a large area of ​​neatly matched blue plastic dining chairs.

After a quick look around, Lin Yi discovered that there seemed to be some problems with the lighting in the student cafeteria. Perhaps there was something wrong with the cafeteria's geographical location itself, so that no light could shine in directly.

The only place with light is the student passage.

So even though it was noon, the restaurant looked a little dim.

Even though there are a large number of incandescent lamps arranged like stars on the ceiling of the restaurant, they can only ensure light in a small area.

Lin Yi looked to his left and saw rows of incandescent lights converging and extending into a dark space like gradually changing and shrinking dotted lines.

Very close, yet very far.

There is a strange illusion that one is staring into the abyss, as if one will fall into it if one is not careful.

Lin Yi's body suddenly swayed back and forth.

A feeling of shifting center of gravity suddenly enveloped him. He felt top-heavy and had a strong premonition that he was about to fall into the darkness.

"Fuck!" Lin Yi secretly spat and used all his strength to shift his center of gravity backward.

So he really felt that his head weighed a thousand pounds, causing his body to stagger backwards, passing through the wind curtain and plastic door curtain at the cafeteria entrance, and then fell to the ground with a plop.

Behind him, the incandescent lights in the student corridor cast soft light, dispelling the chill that radiated from Lin Yi's heart to his entire body and shattering the terrifying feeling of being swallowed by the dark abyss.

Lin Yi was breathing heavily, his forehead covered with sweat.

A gust of wind blew in from the student corridor, and he felt a chill on his back - it was soaked with cold sweat.

"Old Lin...Old Lin...I...damn..." A panicked and anxious voice sounded in Lin Yi's ears.

The sound seemed to come from a very far away place.

His gaze withdrew from the depths of the cafeteria, and then saw Wei Liang's face gradually getting bigger.

He saw Wei Liang's mouth moving, but he could only vaguely hear some intermittent sounds.

"Lao Lin...Lao Lin..."

"Old Lin! Old Lin!"

As his attention returned, the sounds in his ears suddenly became fuller.

Only then did he feel that the picture quality and the sound track matched...

"Lao Lin, are you okay?" Wei Liang grabbed his hand anxiously and tried hard to pull him up from the ground.

Lin Yi stood up again with the help of Wei Liang, and then gasped: "Liangzi, I..."

Wei Liang waved his hands to interrupt: "You said you don't have kidney deficiency? You're so hungry that you feel dizzy after not eating? And, you... why are you so damn heavy!"

"I..." Lin Yi glanced at the time on his watch.

11: 49.

He was about to say something when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the pitch-black corner of the restaurant from the corner of his eye and was suddenly stunned.

Where are the dark corners in the student cafeteria?
Within the reach of the incandescent light, there was only a dim wall covered with tiles in a similar shape to the reliefs on the teaching building. Apart from that, there was nothing else.

"Just now……"

He was a little confused.

I clearly saw a bottomless abyss just now, how come now... everything seems to be normal again?

“What on earth is that…over there?”

Just as he asked this question, a long-lost, strange yet familiar feeling of fatigue suddenly spread from the bottom of his heart!
When his cognition became confused, the abyss spread in his heart!
An indescribable sense of terror enveloped him again in a very short time!

"Damn it!" Lin Yi suddenly realized something, but he had no way to change his current thinking!
The feeling of terror came quietly, making him feel cold all over!
"Snapped!"

At the critical moment, a hand patted him heavily on the shoulder.

As if coming out of a nightmare, Lin Yi twitched violently, then his eyes closed and opened again, and he found himself standing in front of the plastic curtain at the entrance of the cafeteria.

"Why didn't I realize that you were so weak before?" Wei Liang sighed helplessly, "I always thought Kuai Kuai was the one with the heaviest yin energy among you, but I didn't expect you to be the weakest one. You can't do it, young man!"

Lin Yi was silent for the first time, and there was only one thought in his mind -

"I was so damn careless!"

"It's not that you can think freely during the day, but you can think freely under the sun! You can't think about things that go beyond the line when there is no sun!"

What Xu Shunkang said was absolutely right. To think, you have to go under the sun, but I accidentally confused "sunny day" with "under the sun"!
Although there is light in the student dining hall of the cafeteria because it is daytime, it is fundamentally different from the concept of "under the sun"!

Lin Yi also realized this at the moment when he was enveloped by an indescribable sense of terror, but if Wei Liang had not woken him up, the consequences would have been disastrous.

He looked at Wei Liang.

There were some messy hairs under Wei Liang's baseball cap. After staying up all night to practice Taoism, he now looked lazy.

Even so, it was just sunny and lazy.

etc.

He looked down at his watch.

11: 50.

"It's been less than a minute?" Lin Yi was shocked, but at this moment he restrained himself from thinking about this question.

He shook his head and quickly followed: "Hey Liangzi, wait for me, I'm coming!"

Just as Lin Yi was chasing Wei Liang, a person slowly walked out from the dark corner where he was originally looking.

He was a chef wearing a green bib. His body was stiff and he was turning slowly like a puppet. Then he set his eyes on Lin Yi.

He picked up his feet and slowly walked towards Lin Yi...

In view of everyone's positive feedback, as an excellent author, I will definitely not get stuck on updating to 4000 words, so I will add a little more words to this chapter and then... stop writing.

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