Chapter 28 This land seems a bit uneven
Chapter 28 This land seems a bit uneven
X023年5月7日，11:53，食堂一楼学生餐厅。
Lin Yi and Wei Liang followed some students and lined up obediently in front of the food window.
The meal purchase window of the student cafeteria is located directly inside the cafeteria entrance. The style of the window is a bit like the huge transparent glass used to pick up medicine in a hospital, with an empty space at the bottom to allow plates to enter and exit.
每一个窗口的玻璃上都贴着醒目的编号，样式就是一个红色的圆圈加上数字编号，从左到右分分别是1、2、3、4、5。
Meal purchasing window No. 1 and meal purchasing window No. 5 are located in two corners of the student cafeteria. The light there is dim, but there are the most people queuing there.
Lin Yi watched curiously, and then found that there were no windows for purchasing meals from 6 to 9 on the first floor of the cafeteria.
"Meal purchasing windows No. 6 and No. 9 are on the second floor." Wei Liang seemed to see through Lin Yi's problem and explained.
"Oh." Lin Yi nodded, responding to Wei Liang's words.
He and Wei Liang lined up at window No. 3, which was almost the middle line of the cafeteria, with the brightest light, giving people a full sense of security.
After Lin Yi responded, he looked at the long queue like a dragon, then lowered his head and closed his mouth.
After what happened just now, he realized that there was a source of danger in the student cafeteria that was not recorded in the cafeteria rules - the environment.
In other words, illumination.
The canteen rules clearly state:
[The lighting in the student cafeteria area is on 24 hours a day. Do not enter areas without light.
Stay away from the dark areas of the cafeteria.
If there is a flashing light in the student cafeteria, please leave the cafeteria immediately! Right now! At all costs, use the [Student Passage] to leave the cafeteria!
The cafeteria with lights off is different from the classroom, there is no safe area! 】
It was clearly written, but he almost fell into danger just now. If Wei Liang hadn't woken him up, he would have sunk into that unfathomable abyss.
He also discovered that the gap between reality and imagination was as huge as the difference between heaven and earth.
Only when you enter the cafeteria in person will you understand what the rules mean.
Sometimes, when you understand the meaning of the rules through personal practice, it may be too late.
But it is ridiculous to expect to understand the rules just by reading the code.
This cafeteria, but as far as the current student cafeteria is concerned, because of the lighting problem, even though it is daytime, the light intensity here is almost the same as in the evening.
Dim light filled the entire restaurant. On one side of the cafeteria, the light and shadow were slanted, like dusk, while on the other side there was no light at all, like a pitch-black dead corner.
Only the incandescent lamps struggled to emit light, illuminating the cafeteria area, but this light gradually dimmed from the center to the surrounding areas.
When you reach the outermost area, there is brightness where there is sunlight, and there is no sunlight where there is no sunlight and it can only retreat into the shadows.
Such an environment reminded Lin Yi of a place - the corridor of the teaching building.
The same incandescent lamp...
The same shadow...
Also mentioned in the rules is the “flash of lights”…
Everything is so similar.
But the difference between the cafeteria and the teaching building is that the shadows in the cafeteria are really too deep.
If the teaching building is only a small corner that is not illuminated by light, then the cafeteria covers a huge area.
Moreover, with the shift in sunlight, this area is active.
It is now noon and the shadow area is the smallest. Once it reaches evening, it may cover the meal purchase windows No. 1 and No. 5.
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched slightly.
"If it really is after 20:00, then the only area left in the cafeteria is the small area illuminated by the lights..."
[Stay away from the dark areas of the cafeteria and do not enter places without light! ]
"The subject of 'Do not enter'... is not just 'people', it also includes... 'attention'!"
"Damn it... I mean you can't even touch a bird!"
"This is too harsh!"
and……
"Although the cafeteria has incandescent lights on 24 hours a day, there is still the uncontrollable factor of 'lights flickering' or even 'going out'!"
"A cafeteria with the lights off..."
[The cafeteria with lights off is different from the classroom. There is no safe area! ]
Lin Yi shuddered subconsciously and quickly suppressed his thoughts, not daring to continue thinking in that direction.
He gathered his thoughts, followed behind Wei Liang, his eyes fixed on Wei Liang's heels, and silently followed the team to move forward.
Suddenly, a calm voice, with a hint of inquiry, sounded in his ears:
"Classmate, are you in line?"
Lin Yi was slightly stunned, and then heard a few more words of "classmate".
After confirming that the other party was probably really asking him, he moved his gaze away from Wei Liang's heels and slowly moved along the blue-gray patterned floor tiles of the student cafeteria towards the source of the sound.
But just as he turned his neck slightly, a pair of legs wearing black shoes and white pants caught his eye.
As his vision widened, a dark green apron hem appeared in his sight...
His pupils contracted violently, and a strong sense of crisis instantly surged from his heart, sweeping over him like a storm.
Article 10 of the cafeteria rules suddenly popped up in his mind:
[While waiting in line to buy food and eating, do not pay attention to any communication requests from strangers around you. If you are traveling with someone, please focus on communicating with him and ignore any abnormal situations around you. ]
"Fuck!!!" A huge word "fuck" popped up in Lin Yi's mind, and then danced on his forehead, stepping on the left and right strokes of the word.
Fortunately, after a night of "pushing" with the wrong classmates, Lin Yi has become a completely different person.
Even though his physical strength was already somewhat overdrawn, at this moment he didn't know where he squeezed out the strength from, but he actually tensed his body.
Just like a robot whose action instructions were suddenly deleted, his movements froze abruptly.
It was as if the pause button was pressed forcibly.
Theoretically speaking...he has not yet responded to the other party's "communication request".
“Gurgle…”
Lin Yi tensed his body, his throat rolled slightly, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty.
Although he was exhausted from not sleeping all night and the shock he had earlier, at this moment, under the whip of a strong sense of crisis, his brain began to roar like a tractor, emitting black smoke and roaring...
"Cafeteria rules! School building rules! Damn! School building rules don't apply now!" "What the hell are the rules?! Signs? Student rules? Yes, yes, yes! Student rules!"
"Student Rules!"
One rule after another burst out of his mind like a gusher!
Soon, in addition to the previous one, he directly locked on two more rules, one of which came from the "Student Code":
[The cafeteria currently only has 9 food purchase windows open, and the employees at each window are wearing blue bibs. If an employee in a green bib recommends the latest dishes to you (especially tomato meat sauce noodles), please ignore him. Remember, there is no ketchup in the cafeteria, so be wary of any food that uses ketchup as a condiment.]
The remaining one comes from the Canteen Rules:
[The canteen staff have uniform clothing. They wear white chef suits and blue bibs and wear name badges.
All canteen staff will stay in the staff activity area and inside the meal purchase window, and will not appear in the student cafeteria area. If you find any staff in the cafeteria area, please ignore them. 】
Without having time to think about the connections between the various rules, Lin Yi first substituted the current situation into the rules and made the first wave of temporary emergency analysis.
He doesn't have time anymore!
Because according to the cafeteria rules, cafeteria staff will not enter the student cafeteria area at all!
Besides, there is no chef in the cafeteria who wears a green apron!
Even the green bib didn’t exist!
"All the staff in the cafeteria are blue bib chefs, and they are still at the purchase windows 1 to 9!"
"So what is this guy in the fucking green bib?"
As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, he used a hammer of mental storm to shatter the thought.
Thinking about this idiot’s problem in front of him is the biggest problem in itself!
"Don't think about it!"
"Don't look at it!"
"don't want……"
"classmate."
A voice suddenly sounded, and a face came into Lin Yi's sight.
The face was so pale as if it was covered with a thick layer of foundation, with curved eyebrows and a standard smile on the face that seemed to have been precisely calculated.
……
X023年5月7日，12:02。
In the student restaurant on the first floor of the cafeteria, at the meal purchase window No. 3, in a long queue like a dragon, the chef in a green bib lay on the ground straight like a log, stretching his neck and putting his face close to Lin Yi's sight.
Lin Yi originally nodded and looked at the floor tiles, but the chef in the green bib actually forced his face in front of him and forced a look!
“What…?!”
Lin Yi's pupils, which had already shrunk, shrank to the size of a pinhole at this moment!
How could he have imagined that this guy could do such an inhumane thing!
“Come on! There are students lining up everywhere, how the hell did you manage to lie down?!”
As their eyes met, an extremely cold air emanated from between his internal organs and then rushed back and forth in his body.
He felt that the light around him seemed to have dimmed a lot...
Not only did this guy appear in front of him, but... he was also lying right in his shadow!
"Student, the cafeteria has recently launched a discount package. Every freshman has a chance to enjoy the cafeteria's newest dish for free - tomato meat sauce pasta. Do you want to try it?"
The chef in the green bib spoke, and his gentle and standard smile did not make Lin Yi feel comfortable thinking. Instead, he felt uncomfortable as if countless bugs were crawling on his body.
Lin Yi's face turned pale in an instant, an indescribable sense of fear exploded in his mind, his body trembled subconsciously, and his limbs became stiff and cold.
At this moment, there was one last thought in his mind:
"Ignore it!"
"Absolutely! Absolutely! Don't pay any attention to it!"
"Just pretend he doesn't exist!"
He cleared his mind, so that although his eyes met with the chef in the green bib, his gaze gradually became empty.
This is a unique skill that is widely known but few people can learn and put into practice. Lin Yi learned it without a teacher when he was distracted during a math class.
The most profound thing about this skill is that it can give people the illusion that they are looking at the blackboard and thinking deeply, but in fact the subject has already been wandering in the sky.
That's what he's doing now.
really……
Under extreme circumstances, once he does this, the effect will be far more powerful than just thinking about the beautiful legs in black stockings!
Time just stood still...
A layer of fine beads of sweat gradually appeared on Lin Yi's forehead. He suddenly realized that although his unique skills were powerful, there were times when his eyes became sore. But the opponent... he was so paralyzed that he seemed not to even blink!
"Shit... How can I let him know that I didn't notice him at all?"
Just when Lin Yi was beginning to feel weak and exhausted, Wei Liang's urging voice came from the front of the team:
"Lao Lin, what are you doing? Come up quickly. There's so much empty space and people are waiting anxiously behind you!"
"Oh, you're not going weak, are you?"
Wei Liang rushed to Lin Yi helplessly, grabbed Lin Yi's hand and dragged him to the front of the team.
"The savior has appeared..." Lin Yi's eyes were empty, but his heart was ecstatic.
Then, he found a foot appeared out of nowhere and stepped on the face of the chef in the green bib, extinguishing the other's eyes like stepping on a cigarette butt...
Lin Yi was startled, and then he heard Wei Liang's voice...
"Oh shit, Lao Lin, be careful, the ground seems a bit uneven..."
In just that instant, Lin Yi pulled his gaze out like drawing a sword, and his empty eyes refocused, then he followed the flow of people in front that Wei Liang was following closely.
Just now, because of the eye contact with the chef in the green bib, the team in front of Lin Yi moved forward a little. Wei Liang found that Lin Yi did not catch up, so he turned around and called him.
It seemed that there were too many people queuing, so Wei Liang did not see the chef in the green bib.
Seeing Lin Yi being taken away by Wei Liang, the chef in the green bib did not show any change in expression.
He slowly climbed up from the floor tiles, his frighteningly pale face still had those curved eyebrows and a standardized smile.
What’s different from before is that there is an extra shoe print.
He slowly turned his stiff puppet-like body, and his gaze gradually shifted from Lin Yi to Wei Liang.
He looked at Wei Liang's foot that had stepped on his face.
A drop of dark red sticky substance appeared on the sole of Wei Liang's shoe at some point.
Like ketchup.
(End of this chapter)