Chapter 29 "Being Watched"
Chapter 29 "Being Watched"
After being dragged away by Wei Liang, Lin Yi blended into the queue.
"Old Lin, let me tell you, the food in this cafeteria is delicious. There are a few dishes that are basically must-order. Come, come, let me recommend them to you..." Wei Liang's voice came slowly.
After blending into the crowd, Lin Yi found that the discomfort that had enveloped him before had subsided a little.
But despite this, he still felt like he was walking in a quagmire, as if something was grabbing his feet.
He followed Wei Liang to the food window, but when he looked at Wei Liang, he unexpectedly felt an... uncomfortable feeling from Wei Liang.
This feeling is as thin as a gossamer, but extremely clear. It feels like there is a trace of egg white in clear water, a change from zero to one.
Lin Yi was slightly startled, but immediately realized something, and a chill immediately rose in his heart: "Liangzi...something's wrong!"
He looked at Wei Liang, who at this moment was still recommending the special dishes in the cafeteria to him.
He said there were a few dishes that he couldn’t stop thinking about after he had eaten them last time, and he had to eat more this time.
"It looks like there's nothing wrong..." Lin Yi stared at Wei Liang's back, his brows gradually furrowed, "But there is definitely a problem!"
He looked Wei Liang up and down, and suddenly found an inconspicuous dark red sticky stain on Wei Liang's shoes.
"Eh? That's... ketchup?!"
Lin Yi's eyes lit up, but then his scalp went numb. The chill in his heart instantly turned into a stream of air that seeped out from the top of his head, almost causing his blood pressure to become unbalanced!
"But when did Liangzi get ketchup on her?"
He was just wondering, but suddenly an idea flashed in his mind and he immediately reacted -
"That kick!"
"Ryoko just stepped on that guy in the green bib!"
"So it was from his face?"
"But that guy has white foundation all over his face. Where did he get the ketchup from?"
The image of the chef in the green bib slowly emerged in Lin Yi's mind, but he immediately shook his head, breaking his memory and dispersing the image that was about to emerge like pumping water with his hands.
He felt a surge of horror - he couldn't think about such things in a place without sunlight!
He then looked at Wei Liang's heels and finally confirmed that only the shoe that Wei Liang wore the green bib chef's shoe had a little ketchup on it, while the other foot was still clean.
He heaved a sigh of relief: "Now that we have found the problem, it will be easy to solve."
Without further ado, he planned to tell Wei Liang immediately, but at this moment, the classmate in front of Wei Liang finished ordering his food, and it was Wei Liang's turn next.
Wei Liang came forward, stretched out his hand, and pointed at the plate through the window glass: "Auntie, please give me this, this, this... and this, thank you!"
The cafeteria auntie responded and skillfully took the spoon to serve the food. Then, in front of Wei Liang, she used the locking skill "Soul Three Tossing Spoon" that every cafeteria auntie has, and tossed a full spoonful of meat into three pieces of crispy bones, which she placed on the grid of the plate.
Wei Liang's eyes twitched when he saw this, but considering that eating without a spoon would be somewhat detrimental to the soul, he gritted his teeth, smiled, took the plate, and brought it to the card machine.
“Oh, right…” Just as Wei Liang was about to swipe his card, he suddenly looked back in a cool and handsome manner, revealing his profile, then glanced at Lin Yi and said coolly, “I almost forgot that there are some tips for swiping a card in the cafeteria.”
At this point, Wei Liang staggered because he realized that Lin Yi was not looking at him at all.
"Oh my god! Lao Lin, Lao Lin, Lao Lin..."
"Ah?" Lin Yi, who was observing today's dishes, was stunned. "What what?"
Wei Liang repeated what he had just said, and then said, "Because the canteen rules say that student ID cards should not be shown to the public, I came up with this card swiping method—"
"Old Lin, watch carefully. I will only teach you this move once!"
While chatting and laughing, Wei Liang put his hand into the nearby pocket of his crotch... and took out his student ID with an extremely showy movement. Then he swiped the student ID across the card machine as easily as a dragonfly skimming the water.
As if a legendary wandering swordsman was tearing the night sky apart with his blade, a hasaki echoed in the air.
When Wei Liang put away the blade, everyone around him looked at him.
The air suddenly became quiet and the atmosphere froze for a moment.
Even Wang Weiliang felt the awkward atmosphere. He put away his student ID and pulled the brim of his baseball cap with his hand.
"Di-"
The card reader made a crisp sound, breaking the awkward atmosphere, and a row of small words popped up on the interface of the card reader:
"Name: Wei*..."
"Student ID: X023＊＊＊＊＊96."
Wei Liang coughed dryly, stretched out his hand and clicked to confirm, then took a box of free milk from the box next to the card machine and said to Lin Yi: "Old Lin, I'll go find a seat first! You can take your time to serve the food!"
After saying that, he wanted to get out of the crowd and escape from this awkward atmosphere.
But when Lin Yi thought of the ketchup incident, he quickly stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, Liangzi, wait for me, I have something to tell you!"
"Oh no, it's a big deal. Let's talk about it later!" Wei Liang picked up the dinner plate, wishing he could bury his face in it, and then squeeze through the crowd to escape the scene.
But just as he took a step forward, a gust of cold air suddenly climbed up along the soles of his feet like a poisonous snake, causing his steps to suddenly stop.
"?!"
Wei Liang seemed to have a premonition of something, and his pupils contracted for the first time since he entered the campus.
He slowly took back the step he had taken, then held the plate with one hand, touched the back of his head, looked at Lin Yi and said, "Okay, then I'll wait for you, but hold on tight, I'm afraid there won't be room for you later."
While Wei Liang was speaking, he pursed his lips and pointed at the few empty seats in the student cafeteria with his eyes.
But just as he scanned the empty seats, he saw a chef sitting upright in one of them, silently looking at him and Lin Yi.
A corner of her bib peeked out from behind the dining table, as green as a green lantern in a mausoleum.
"Damn..." Wei Liang cursed in his heart.
At this moment, Lin Yi's voice sounded in his ears.
"Right away, right away!"
As early as when Wei Liang and several other classmates were ordering food, he had already observed the environment inside the food window.
First of all, each meal purchasing window is in an independent space, the meal purchasing windows are not connected to each other, and there is only one entrance and exit.
Inside the food purchasing window, there is a long row of food served on alloy racks. The dishes are indeed rich and there is a lot of choice.
Secondly, there were three staff members dressed as chefs wearing blue bibs inside the window. One of them was the cafeteria lady who was responsible for serving meals to the students, and the remaining two seemed to be arranging plates and other utensils.
The three employees worked without interfering with each other, and there was no communication even when passing plates and utensils.
From the time he could observe the meal purchase window until now, everyone in the window seemed to focus all their attention on what he was doing.
Lin Yi was worried about Wei Liang, so he ordered one meat and two vegetables. After finishing his meal, Lin Yi took the plate from the cafeteria lady, walked to the card machine, and reached for his student ID card in his trouser pocket.
But the moment his hand touched the student ID, a long-lost cold breath suddenly enveloped him.
His movements froze slightly.
He slowly took out his student ID. During the whole process, he kept his head slightly lowered and glanced around with the corner of his eyes.
At this moment, he suddenly discovered that some of the students who were originally sitting in the student cafeteria and having a meal suddenly sat up straight at this moment, and then turned their eyes to him, focusing on his hand that was in his trouser pocket and held his student ID.
The intersection of countless gazes, like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue, intertwined together, made Lin Yi feel an unprecedented sense of nausea and vomiting.
At one point he could even feel the emotions contained in those gazes.
Cold, greedy, vicious, eager, crazy... and bloodthirsty!
Lin Yi felt like he was holding a bag of dynamite in his hand, which would explode once he took it out, so these classmates looked at him like that.
I also felt that I was holding a delicious delicacy in my hand, and once I took it out, it would cause these classmates to plunder it crazily.
He had a strong sense of crisis in his subconscious. No matter what he did, it seemed that as long as his student ID was exposed, it would cause a huge riot.
At this moment, Lin Yi truly understood the words in the cafeteria rules:
【Don’t let your student ID card appear in public.】
Wei Liang's action a moment ago suddenly appeared in his mind...
Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and at this moment he seemed to have comprehended the highest swordsmanship.
He took a deep breath, pressed his palm against the student ID, and clasped the corners of the ID with his thumb and four fingers, then pulled it out at lightning speed...
At this moment, Lin Yi, the Sword Saint, was possessed and swung his student ID card in a void sword move. It passed through the card reader like lightning, then turned back and put it back into his trouser pocket!
"call--"
Lin Yi slowly exhaled and loosened the five fingers that were tightly holding his student ID.
The sinister gaze, like a venomous snake, retreated like the tide as his hand separated from the student ID card.
Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief and slowly put down the huge stone in his heart.
Even so, he was already covered in cold sweat.
At this moment, the card swiping machine made a crisp "beep" sound, as if responding to his supreme card swiping swordsmanship.
Then, a row of small words appeared on the card machine interface:
"Name: Lin*."
"Student ID: X023*****98."
Seeing that both his name and student number were correct, Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief, clicked to confirm, then took a box of free milk and prepared to pick up his tray and leave.
But just as he grabbed the milk, he suddenly felt that the square milk carton had lost its edges and corners, and had a round feel.
He was slightly stunned, his eyes rolled around, and his gaze moved extremely stiffly to his hands.
"?!" Lin Yi's heart was shocked.
There was no milk in his hand, it was clearly a ripe red tomato!
He loosened his grip as if he had been electrocuted, and the tomato slipped and fell back into the milk box.
But just as the tomato fell, another hand reached out and caught it.
A chef wearing a blue bib stood next to the card machine at some point, holding a tomato in one hand and his eyes fell on Lin Yi.
"Be careful, classmate. The tomatoes will get smashed if they fall down." The chef in the blue bib gave people a completely different feeling from the chef in the green bib. He did not have that indescribable sense of horror, but was more friendly.
Lin Yi was about to respond when a rule suddenly came to his mind:
[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 a staff member in the cafeteria area, please ignore him.]
Ignore!
Ignore again!!
Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, thinking to himself that he had almost been deceived by the chef in the blue bib and fell into his trap!
He then silently picked up the plate, without getting the milk again, and walked straight towards Wei Liang.
"Hey, classmate, you haven't got your milk yet. Milk in the cafeteria is free, don't miss it!" The chef in the blue bib was still kindly reminding.
But Lin Yi walked even faster.
"Old Lin?" Wei Liang greeted Lin Yi quickly when he saw him coming.
Lin Yi ignored Wei Liang's call. He lowered his head and tried to keep his eyes as low as possible. When passing by Wei Liang, he lowered his voice and said, "Liangzi, let's go! Follow me! Don't worry about anything!"
Wei Liang was shocked, and although he was a little confused, he decided to do it on the spot.
At this moment, the chef in the blue bib called out from behind him: "Classmate, are you guys together? Your friend dropped a box of milk, bring it to him!"
As he spoke, he put a hand into Wei Liang's field of vision and slowly handed him a box of milk.
There was no way Wei Liang would take the box of milk. He was still frightened after what happened just now. Now when he saw a hand handing him the milk, his scalp went numb and the chill that shone through his head almost knocked off his baseball cap.
"Fuck your mother, stop it!!!"
Wei Liang felt so sad that he couldn't even cry. He quickly caught up with Lin Yi.
Looking at the fleeing figures of Lin Yi and Wei Liang, the chef in the blue bib stood there silently, holding the milk in one hand and the tomato in the other.
"You don't drink milk...or eat tomatoes?"
He muttered, his voice dry and stiff.
Suddenly, he grabbed the tomato to his mouth, opened his mouth wide and took a bite.
“Puchi——”
Tomato juice sprayed all over his face, but he didn't even blink.
“Quack! Quack! Quack…”
He stared at the backs of Lin Yi and Wei Liang, chewing the tomato bite by bite, tomato juice slowly flowing out from the corners of his mouth...
Scarlet, sticky...
Like blood plasma.
Thanks to the book friend “流年似黑月*？？*？纷飞” (sorry, I don’t know if it’s a symbol or something that I can’t type, only *？) for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)