Chapter 34 Staff Passage
Chapter 34 Staff Passage
Seeing this, Lin Yi didn't know what to say to comfort her.
Wei Liang's sneakers are the Feikun limited edition jointly launched by the Feiren brand and the famous idol trainee Aikun. There is a very distinctive Aikun dribbling logo on the tongue, and an Aikun's iconic iron mountain leaning action on the side of the sneaker.
When I put on these shoes and shake my feet, the movements of the Iron Mountain Backrest seem to come alive.
Wei Liang shook his feet intentionally or unintentionally because of this.
But now this limited edition sneaker is about to be retired.
With a feeling of reluctance, Wei Liang walked behind Lin Yi with his head down, and followed Lin Yi to the staff passage.
The sun was shining brightly outside the passage at this time, and the two of them walked under the sun, feeling as if they were wrapped in a warm current.
The staff passage and the student passage are in opposite directions of the canteen. It is several dozen meters from the exit of the student passage to the exit of the staff passage. You need to walk along a small slope along the floor tiles and go around the side of the canteen.
The sloping roadside is covered with dense camphor trees, and sometimes street lights are arranged in the gaps between the trees.
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
12: 48.
"It's already 12:48?"
He frowned slightly. He still remembered that it was only a little after 12 o'clock when he started queuing. He didn't expect that more than 40 minutes would pass in a flash.
"But I shouldn't be considered 'in the cafeteria' now, right?"
Lin Yi pondered for a moment.
"but……"
"Although the cafeteria's lunchtime opening hours are from 10:40 to 13:20, if you want to be safe, you should just throw away your shoes and get out of here as fast as possible!"
He glanced at the nearby street lamps and saw the numbers painted with white paint: "Canteen-002", "Canteen-031", "Canteen-014"...
"Sure enough, the order is still messed up." He muttered to himself and continued walking towards the employee passage.
But just as he was passing by the shade of a camphor tree, he suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blowing through the forest.
A feeling of being watched fell silently upon him.
The chill came over him and he shivered subconsciously.
At this moment, Wei Liang's voice suddenly came from behind him:
"Old Lin."
Lin Yi was startled and his back straightened up suddenly.
But he did not answer the voice. He didn't know whether he should turn back, so he gritted his teeth and quickened his pace towards the staff passage.
"Damn it, Lao Lin, slow down, wait for me, wait for me..." The voice suddenly became urgent, "I feel it's gloomy, this road doesn't seem right, how about we go under the sun!"
"This is such a convincing act!" Lin Yi felt a wave of pressure.
He took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, rushed down the slope and headed straight for the staff passage.
"Hey, I'll help you!" Wei Liang's voice became hurried.
“Da da da da…”
A series of hurried footsteps sounded behind Lin Yi, and Lin Yi's hair stood on end, almost fluttering in the wind.
After rushing down the slope and running for a distance, he soon arrived at the entrance to the employee passage.
He ignored the voice behind him and the strange gaze. After confirming the location of the trash can, he quickly squatted down and started to take off his shoes.
But at the moment of taking off his shoes, his eyes subconsciously looked at the ketchup on his shoes.
He was slightly startled.
After being stunned, he was shocked.
“Hmm? This—”
Lin Yi couldn't believe what he saw. The ketchup on his shoes had turned into a white solid substance.
"This is?!"
He rubbed his eyes, leaned closer to observe it carefully again, and then found that this white thing seemed to be...
"Plaster?" He narrowed his eyes. "Isn't this ketchup? When did it become plaster?"
He remembered it was ketchup...
No wait, is that really ketchup?
He recalled...
Did he actually notice what was on his shoes before?
"It seems... not?"
“Is there…?”
He looked at the plaster-like substance on his shoes and fell into a brief state of confusion.
At this moment, Lin Yi did not notice that the floor tiles under his feet had a slight distortion...
Just like the patterns of a python.
An indescribable sense of crisis quietly enveloped me.
It was a clear day with the sun high in the sky, but when Lin Yi developed cognitive impairment, the whole world seemed to be distorted by his confused state.
The shadow of the tree-lined avenue that covered half of the road slowly crawled towards Lin Yi as the floor tiles twisted...
"No, no, Liangzi reminded me to look at the shoes. I remember it clearly. It was clearly ketchup at that time!"
Lin Yi recalled.
“That’s ketchup!”
He confirmed his idea - it was indeed ketchup before, but now it has turned into a plaster-like substance.
When his thoughts were no longer confused, that indescribable feeling turned into a breeze and dissipated...
"call--"
The breeze blew across Lin Yi's face. He was unaware of it, and had no idea that the ground beneath his feet had been slightly distorted...
He took off his shoes, looked at the plaster-like substance on them, and couldn't help but tap the ground lightly.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The plaster-like substance clung to the shoes like solid steel, and the entire pair of shoes seemed to have turned into hard stone.
"This is really weird." Lin Yi couldn't help smacking his lips, "Ketchup can actually turn into plaster, it's so funny... Wait!"
“Wait wait wait!!!”
He suddenly thought of something and almost jumped up from the ground.
"Ketchup!"
“Is this made of ketchup?!”
An image flashed through his mind - the trash can in the teacher's office!
He remembered that there was a lunch box stained with dark red substance in the trash can!
He remembered that the trash can was placed in a dark corner of the office, so he didn't see clearly what it was at first. He only remembered that it was a dark red sticky substance. Now it seems -
"It's ketchup!!"
"So the homeroom teacher has eaten food containing tomato elements!"
"yesterday?!"
His memory began to flash back at the speed of light, and he thought of the scene where the security guards were leading the group of chefs through the fog with iron chains.
He thought of the green bib chef who had mixed in with the blue bib chefs!
The chef was holding a lunch box containing spaghetti with tomato and meat sauce!
And the first destination or stopover of that team was exactly - the teaching building!
All the clues suddenly intertwined in his mind. He, his roommate and Wei Liang rushed out of the team when they were close to the teaching building, and then entered the teaching building.
It seemed that they arrived earlier than the security guards, but in fact it took them almost half an hour just to cross the distance between two street lights to reach the teaching building, and it took them more than 20 minutes to go down the stairs to the basement.
If the security guard and the chef ignored the thick fog and walked, they would reach the teaching building much earlier than them. In addition, the teacher's office of Class 2 of Group B was actually the only one on the first floor, and they could reach it by just walking up the stairs. So -
"Before I saw the homeroom teacher... the chef in the green bib got there first and delivered the spaghetti with tomato and meat sauce to her!"
"She... ate it?!"
Lin Yi's pupils trembled as he recalled the eerie feeling of enclosure and strange time difference when he entered the teacher's office last night. For a moment, he didn't know whether the source was the ketchup in the trash can or... the head teacher?
But no matter what, the wrong feeling of oppression that the head teacher brought to him was unquestionable.
and……
"The homeroom teacher's eyes glow! Pfft, pfft, pfft... God damn, they glow. The homeroom teacher's eyes are the same color as the security guard's, but... they give me a very cold feeling!"
"It's cold... but it's not hostile, unlike those weird classmates and the weird chef..."
“Strange, strange…”
Lin Yi shook his head and slowly put away the thought - only now, under the sun, did he dare to think about it more.
"I'll have to go back to the classroom later if it's convenient, and write down some of my latest thoughts on a sticky note."
Sticky notes are a good thing to prevent yourself from missing something. Write down the notes and look through them every night before going to bed. This can have the effect of “reviewing the old and learning the new.”
Of course, you can write notes anywhere, there are no particular rules, but writing on the spot like this...
Even though it was under the sun, it was still a bit bold.
The classroom is better.
At least during this period of time, the classroom is a relatively safe "base".
But when it comes to the classroom, Lin Yi immediately thought of the white plaster-like substance under the podium and the plaster marks on the floor of the classroom.
"If the white plaster-like substance is the result of ketchup encountering the sun, then that means something was dragging ketchup around the classroom last night?"
"And ketchup..."
Lin Yi's mind was filled with chaotic inspirations one after another. There must be a lot of connections between these inspirations, but he couldn't connect them all at once.
He couldn't figure out where the ketchup had entered the classroom.
He had a vague guess, but no evidence to prove that ketchup had anything to do with "that thing."
He took a deep breath and decided not to think about it any further.
"Lao Lin! Are you fucking hiding from ghosts?!" At this moment, Wei Liang's voice sounded behind him, followed by a hand on his shoulder.
Wei Liang leaned half of his body out from beside him, supported his body and panted heavily, and said indignantly: "What's wrong with you? I called you for a long time but you didn't reply to me?"
Lin Yi was slightly stunned.
After experiencing so many incidents of strange calls coming from behind, coupled with the whistling wind blowing through the woods, he naturally assumed at the first moment that it was not Wei Liang's voice.
I didn't expect that my prediction was wrong.
But facing Wei Liang's piercing eyes, and the tragic emotion in the depths of his eyes that said "I can follow you, like a shadow chasing the light in sleepwalking", Lin Yi didn't know what to say for a moment.
But he clearly didn't know what to say, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the top-notch nonsense came out without thinking:
"Well... the slope was too steep and I couldn't brake for a while."
Wei Liang was stunned.
Wei Liang was stunned again.
Wei Liang looked at Lin Yi with a serious look that said "this is the fact, there is no need for us to argue", and blinked again and again.
He looked down at the slightly worn soles of his Feikun limited edition sneakers, thinking for a moment, and then said:
"This slope... is indeed a bit steep."
"And it's a bit of a shoe-in."
Lin Yi: “…”
"cough."
"Yeah, that's how I feel too." Lin Yi touched the back of his head with a wry smile, then walked towards the trash can with his shoes in hand.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a slight vibration.
From beneath the soles of his bare feet.
He was slightly startled.
Then, a faint sound suddenly spread from the air.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
“Boom…”
The sound came from far away and was very slight at first, but soon it became as loud as a heartbeat.
"Boom!"
“Boom!!”
The sound became louder and louder, and the vibration became stronger and stronger.
In the end, it turned into a heavy sound like beating a drum!
This huge noise floated from the depths of the employee passage, and it seemed as if materialized sound waves were floating in the air.
"Boom!"
“Boom!!”
The sound was so deafening that Lin Yi felt that his internal organs were resonating faintly.
His complexion began to grow ruddy;
His blood began to boil;
His heartbeat began to follow this rhythm.
“Gudong!”
“Gudong!”
“Gudong…”
Lin Yi gradually felt his heart beating in his chest, and the hot blood in his body seemed to begin to boil and run wild, wanting to break out of his body!
“What the hell?!”
A terrifying sense of oppression spread through the employee passage. If the green-bibbed chef and the weird classmate brought a sinister and weird feeling, then the current sound of drums was a positive sense of terror.
It was as if some indescribable giant creature lurking in the abyss of an alien land was waking up!
Do not!
I couldn't even wake him up, but... he was snoring!
"Lao Lin! Lao Lin I can't fucking stand it anymore, what is this sound, it's so uncomfortable!!" Wei Liang covered his ears tightly, but he was simply unable to resist the sound of the drums.
This is not a sound at all, but a sound wave, a powerful sound wave that shocks the body and mind!
"Throw...throw away your shoes! Then go! Quickly!" Lin Yi's eyes were slightly bloodshot, and he growled with clenched teeth.
"Okay, okay!" Wei Liang took off the shoes on both feet with difficulty and held them in his hands.
The two of them gritted their teeth, resisted the erosion of the sound waves, and approached the trash can with difficulty.
The trash can was only three or five meters away from them, but this distance seemed like a huge river, making it difficult to cross!
"Damn! I rushed out of the cafeteria, but I didn't expect to die here!" Lin Yi felt a deafening sensation from the impact of the sound waves, and even his steps were almost unsteady.
Wei Liang was not much better than him. The two of them stumbled around like a pair of fitness losers hesitating on a treadmill.
At the critical moment, Lin Yi suddenly felt something against their backs, pushing him to the trash can.
"Hmm...?!" Lin Yi was slightly stunned.
"Idiot, why don't you throw the thing away? I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about both of you." A flat voice sounded behind him.
Xu Shunkang was carrying a baseball bat covered in plaster powder. He pushed Lin Yi with his left hand and Wei Liang with his right hand. He took on two people at once and sent them to the trash can.
"Fuck, what are you staring at? Do you think I can do this with ease? I can't hold on for much longer!"
Veins bulged on Xu Shunkang's forehead, and golden light flashed in his eyes. The sound waves cut through his body like a knife, clearly outlining the muscle lines under his sportswear.
It will be released tomorrow, a bit rushed, I haven't written any comments yet, and I don't have any drafts saved, but I plan to stay up late to write the first chapter, so my friends who are asleep should be able to see the first chapter tomorrow morning. I will write some more comments later~
(End of this chapter)