Chapter 31 Brainstorm

Chapter 31 Brainstorm

Chapter 31 Brainstorm
Lin Yi was even more puzzled, but he suddenly heard some other sounds from this strange cry, and that sound seemed to be...

"Old Lin, we are surrounded..."

Lin Yi was stunned, and his eyes narrowed into slits immediately.

He slowed down his eating speed and listened attentively to the strange voice coming from Wei Liang. Then he gradually confirmed that the voice was indeed saying -

"Keliwumubeigululuguala (Old Lin, we are surrounded)..."

"Fuck... shit?!" The moment he understood, Lin Yi couldn't help but make a slight tactical backward move and an expression like an old man on the subway looking at his phone.jpg. In his heart, there was only one voice -

Strange tricks!

Another fucking trick!

So, Lin Yi didn't know what he was thinking. After taking a deep breath, he suddenly increased the speed of eating rice. At the same time, half a mouthful of rice was mixed with air, and he began to make noises while eating.

"Guguwa guagua gua (yeah wow I don't feel so good wow)!"

I don't know if it was out of respect for Lin Yi's mastery of this unique skill of encrypted communication, or for some other reason...

When Wei Liang heard Lin Yi's words, he was obviously stunned for a moment.

Then, an encrypted conversation began to emerge...

“Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack… (These guys are not friendly, Old Lin. I feel like we’re going to die here…)”

[——(Considering the possibility of using water characters, all interjections such as jiligulu in the encrypted call will be omitted except for a few key sentences. The encrypted part of the sentence will be written in brackets instead. You can imagine the scene of someone eating soup and talking indistinctly. Because it needs to be "encrypted", the imagination is a little more exaggerated than normal) (I am too conscientious)——]

Lin Yi quickly comforted him: "(Liangzi, I know you are panicking, but don't panic yet...)"

"(Wuwuwu...)" Wei Liang showed an expression with two lines of tears flowing from the corners of his eyes, "(Old Lin, how do you know that I am in a panic now?)"

"(Lao Lin, Lao Lin, do you think it's possible that those weird guys in the classroom came to the cafeteria to eat?)"

His mouth was like a machine for roasting chestnuts. The rice mixed with air in his mouth made an illusion that chestnuts were being roasted.

"Oh?" Wei Liang's words made Lin Yi feel shocked and chilled. If it weren't for this reminder, he would have forgotten that those guys might also appear in the cafeteria!
Lin Yi's mind immediately flashed with those stiff figures standing like tombstones, but he immediately shook his head - whether it was true or not, he couldn't think about it!
"(Don't think about them for now, Liangzi! Eat first! We are not sure who is sitting next to us yet!)"

He was afraid that Wei Liang would also subconsciously start to have wild thoughts, so he quickly spoke up to break up his thoughts.

"(What should we do now?)" Wei Liang asked. Lin Yi gritted his teeth and continued the encrypted call: "Guagua. (Let's eat first.)"

But Wei Liang didn't recognize the pronunciation for a moment, so he repeated in confusion: "Guagua?"

Lin Yi affirmed: "Quack (right)."

"Quack ni quack, um me ti dong ah wah!! (Quack ni quack, I don't understand!!)"

Wei Liang was in a mess, with an angry expression popping up on his forehead. He continued angrily: "Um, gu gu, what a fucking sacrifice gu yi gua?! (I said so much and you only gave me a fucking gua?!)"

Lin Yi was stunned.

"So Ryoko didn't understand this..."

"But that's true. The shorter the bird language is, the less clear it is..."

He then said seriously: "Gua-Gua-(eat-meal)"

"(Eat?)" Wei Liang was slightly stunned, then couldn't help but said, "(Wow, isn't that right, Lao Lin?)"

"(How can I eat at a time like this! What kind of person can eat so deliciously?)"

Lin Yi, who was eating happily, stopped eating.

"..."

The air suddenly solidified.

"(Ahem! Well, just continue, just continue... I don't mean anything against you...)" Wei Liang said quickly, and then took a few mouthfuls of rice to show his agreement.

Lin Yi ate a mouthful of rice seriously, and then continued to speak in a puffy voice: "(Do you remember the canteen rules? During the meal, 'Do not pay attention to any communication requests from strangers around you'!)"

Wei Liang's eyes lit up, as if he had grasped some inspiration: "(Wow, you mean... we don't care about them, like we did in the classroom?!)"

“(Remember when you were hiding under the desk? Just focus on eating, eat first, ignore them!)”

"Pa!" Wei Liang slapped his thigh: "(Lao Lin, I think I got it! But what about you?)"

“(I eat it too, but I need to review it! Make sure my thoughts are correct!)”

"(Okay, okay, it has to be you, Lao Lin!)"

He then stared at the food, trying to clear his mind and not pay attention to the people around him.

But he immediately burst into tears.

He found that although he had understood, it seemed that he had not understood much.

In Lin Yi's words, it is: enlightenment.

Because I stare at the food the same way I stare at the table legs...

This simply won't work!

After all, the table leg is at least a leg, but this plate of food...it is just a plate of food!
This was obviously not a solution to the problem, so he made up his mind and said to himself:

"Stockings, stockings, stockings..."

"Beautiful feet, beautiful feet, beautiful feet..."

"Lick lick..."

He quickly got into the state...

"Slurp, slurp, slurp..."

……

Lin Yi, who was eating, felt that Wei Liang seemed to have calmed down.

Then, the sound of "slurping" began to float over from that side intermittently.

Lin Yi could imagine Wei Liang eating with gusto just by listening to the sound, so he calmed down.

However, for some reason, when he heard Wei Liang eating, a strange thought came to his mind:

"Liangzi was clearly concentrating on eating, so why did he give me such a vulgar feeling? It's weird, really weird..."

"Don't worry about Liangzi for now. No matter what happens to him, since we have started to focus on eating, that's fine..."

Lin Yi controlled his breathing and exhaled slowly.

He actually didn't want to continue eating with Wei Liang.

When something like this happens, the right thing to do is to leave as soon as possible.

But there are rules to be aware of when leaving the cafeteria -

First, after finishing your meal, you need to put the plate in the plate recycling area.

If they haven't finished their meal, they will have to throw it away, but the cafeteria rules state: [Unfinished food should be poured directly into the recycling bin and is not allowed to be packed away. If any employee asks you if you need to pack up the food or accuses you of wasting food, please ignore them. Remember, all cafeteria employees will not appear in the student restaurant area].

So, in order to avoid triggering unnecessary troubles such as employees asking you if you need to pack up your food or accusing you of wasting food, it is necessary to eat your plate clean.

Moreover, he encountered the chef in the green bib, and Wei Liang stepped on the chef's face, causing ketchup to get on his right shoe.

This way, when they leave, another rule is bound to be triggered: [When leaving, if you find that you are being watched by the green bib employee and he starts to move quickly towards you, please judge whether to go to the [student passage] or the canteen based on your position. Do not stop, do not look back, and do not respond to his call until you enter the [student passage] or reach the canteen, even if you feel that he is about to catch up with you.

After leaving the cafeteria, please take off your clothes immediately and check if there is ketchup on your clothes. If there is, throw the clothes into the nearest trash can (note that it should be thrown into the trash can, not thrown anywhere.]

This is a complete and coherent rule. At first, Lin Yi didn't quite understand why ketchup would get on his food while eating in the cafeteria. But judging from Wei Liang's behavior, ketchup on his food was often unintentional.

And once you get your hands on ketchup, you will be chased by the chef in the green bib when you leave.

But as long as the "leaving" condition is not met, it is relatively safe.

In addition, the cafeteria rules stipulate that you should not communicate with any strangers. If you need to communicate, you should communicate with acquaintances who are traveling with you and focus on him.

But at this critical juncture, Wei Liang was already a little panicked, and was beginning to have wild thoughts.

Therefore, Lin Yi couldn't be sure whether using an encrypted call to hold Wei Liang back was a good thing or a bad thing for him. He could only help him divert his attention to eating first.

Besides, the canteen rules themselves are not difficult to follow. As long as you follow the rules, there will be no problem in having a meal.

Secondly, they entered the campus yesterday on a blue bus, and except for a little food before departure, they have not eaten anything until now.

Wei Liang also brought only a little food with him because the old driver was reopening the old road, and he missed the food in the cafeteria, so he ate it in the car when he was bored...

If they don't finish this meal and encounter abnormal weather like yesterday before dinner, they will basically have to wait until lunch again.

Eat one meal every three days.

No way, no way, it’s already 023, is there still a time when we can’t have food to eat?

That would be too tragic for Wei Liang, a repeat customer.

In addition, there is another sentence written before the canteen rules:

[Your correct behavior in the cafeteria should be: enter the cafeteria on the first floor from the [student passage] and queue up for your meal. After finishing your meal, immediately return to the cafeteria via the [student passage].

As long as you abide by this rule, you will be able to safely solve the problem of food and clothing during the experience. 】

So Lin Yi first used his own method to bring Wei Liang back to this rule.

However, this rule was too idealistic, and Lin Yi was not sure whether it would be useful after they came back to this rule in circles.

Besides, the issue he was really worried about was whether the crowd that had gathered around him would disperse because they had finished their meal and left the cafeteria...

What if these guys are targeting them? !

When he thought about the threat posed by this group of people in addition to the chef in the green bib, Lin Yi suddenly felt a surge of crisis and was puzzled for a moment.

Why does it feel like a lot of debuffs have been piled up on me just in the time it takes to eat?
Therefore, he still needs to think one step further on this basis and try to eliminate unstable factors so that he and Wei Liang can successfully escape from the current situation.

He then took a deep breath, his eyes gradually firmed up, as if he had made some kind of resolution:
"My thoughts have strayed off course before, and Liangzi has helped me get back on track a few times. Leave it to me this time..."

"Lin Yi, Lin Yi... You've been thinking this through, and you've almost figured out the boundaries of this part of the rules. Now it all depends on you!"

"Don't think about crossing the line now!"

He ate his meal slowly, listening to the sounds around him.

His heart began to beat slower.

His mind began to calm down.

His thoughts began to become clear.

"Although the keyword 'ignore' is mentioned in both the cafeteria and the teaching building, there are still some differences in the details."

"This may have something to do with the cafeteria's opening hours..."

「食堂的开放时间，在于早晨的5:40~8:00、中午的10：40~13:20吗，以及傍晚的16：00~20，从时间点上来讲，都与建筑物拥有光照的那段时间有交集。」

"Plus, we are prohibited from entering the cafeteria during abnormal weather conditions, so whenever we enter, we can usually assume it is a sunny day."

"That's why the dangers of the cafeteria environment can be simply summarized as "Don't enter areas without light" and "Stay away from the dark areas of the cafeteria."

"Because [the cafeteria with lights off is different from the classroom and there is no safe area], from another perspective, the student cafeteria area on a sunny day with lights on is a safe area."

"That's why neither the chef in the green bib nor the chef in the blue bib who left the window did anything bad to me."

"Didn't the chef in the green bib notice me?"

Lin Yi expressed his doubts about this, and the answer was found when he was asked by the chef in a green bib whether he wanted pasta with tomato meat sauce in foggy weather.

The green bib chef is different from his classmates who are not right, he can "see" people.

But Lin Yi did not "respond" to his "request for communication", and the same went for the chef in the blue bib who left the food window.

Precisely because he did not respond, he did not enter into any of their mechanisms.

"I don't know if the cafeteria chef has a killing mechanism, but I assume they do, and one of the triggering conditions should be 'response' - at least within the safe time period!"

"And during the safe period..."

Without considering the pursuit from the green bib chef when leaving, the initial judgment is that there are two conditions for satisfying the safe period. One is a sunny day and the other is lighting.

The first condition is not a problem at the moment, but the second one...

After the lesson in the teaching building, Lin Yi did not dare to guarantee the lighting capacity of the cafeteria's incandescent lamps.

The canteen rule of "clean your plate and leave the canteen as quickly as possible" is correct, but... Lin Yi always feels that there is something wrong.

Maybe... following the rules itself is a very difficult thing?

The whole process, from when he asked Wei Liang to eat quietly to when he "verified" his own ideas, seemed to have been a long brainstorming process, but in fact it was just the time it took to eat a few mouthfuls of rice.

He concentrated on eating and finally finished the rest of the meal in less than a minute.

But at the moment when he was carrying out the "Clean Plate" action, his eyes inadvertently saw a horrifying scene from the shiny alloy plate.

This transparent alloy plate reflects the surrounding scene like a mirror, and through this scene Lin Yi discovers... at this moment, he and Wei Liang are surrounded by people.

None of these people were eating; all of them cast their eyes on them in unison.

"What the hell..."

It would have been fine if he hadn't noticed. Once he did, Lin Yi's scalp instantly went numb. Those countless eyes filled with madness, bloodthirstiness, madness, greed, desire... and countless other sinister and despicable emotions, were like a heavy rock pressing down on him, almost suffocating him.

"Liangzi, have you... finished eating?!" Lin Yi clenched his teeth and asked in an almost growling voice.

"Not more, not less, just enough to finish!" Wei Liang's reply came from the other side.

Lin Yi took a deep breath, calmed down for a moment, and then said: "Count to three, and come with me!"

"it is good!"

"three……"

"two……"

"Wait wait wait...Old Lin, Old Lin!" When the countdown reached two, Wei Liang's trembling scream filled with fear and panic came from the opposite side of Lin Yi.

"Fuck it!!! Damn it! Damn it! Lao Lin!! Lao Lin!!"

"There's...something! It's licking my shoes!!!"

Thanks to book friends "Yuanyueyuqinghui" and "Book friend 20230411180533658" for their rewards! !
This chapter has 4500 words. Don’t say I update late. I just want to write as much as possible...

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