Chapter 36 Pebbles and Moss [First Order Request! ]
Chapter 36 Pebbles and Moss [First Order Request! ]
"Throw it away! Throw it away quickly!" Lin Yi roared, and threw the shoes in his hand into the trash can with all his strength.
Wei Liang on the side also successfully threw away his sneakers.
“Gulp! Gulp!”
The sneakers fell into the trash can.
"I'm going to let go, hold on!" Xu Shunkang shouted as he slowly withdrew his strength.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang took advantage of the situation to steady themselves, and retreated step by step through the employee evacuation passage, eventually leaving the disaster area that was covered by the sound waves.
They retreated all the way to the slope, near the signboard in front of the cafeteria, and then Lin Yi and Wei Liang sat down on the ground exhausted.
"Thank...thank you!" The two of them thanked while panting.
As they looked at Xu Shunkang standing in the sun with a baseball bat on his back, they felt a sense of reverence in their hearts, as if they were looking up to a god.
Xu Shunkang waved his hands, breathed a sigh of relief, and then angrily scolded: "You two are really something, you are so hesitant to throw something away."
"If I hadn't predicted your movements, wouldn't you be doomed?"
"Can this be predicted?" Lin Yi was greatly surprised. He still remembered that not long ago Xu Shunkang was standing alone at the entrance of the cafeteria and no one could get in.
Then in the blink of an eye he ran over to rescue them.
"Not only did he predict it, he also rushed over to save us. Love it..." Wei Liang echoed.
Xu Shunkang raised his eyebrows slightly and looked down at the two embarrassed guys, one with one barefoot and the other with both barefoot.
"Do I need a reason to save people? I want to save them, so I came here."
Xu Shunkang smiled, rolled up his trouser legs, squatted down, and sat down on the steps next to Lin Yi and Wei Liang.
"By the way, how did you predict that we were in the employee passage?" Lin Yi asked curiously.
Xu Shunkang pointed to his bare feet.
"Your shoes have something on them that shouldn't be on them, so you have to throw it in the trash can. Is that even a question?"
"But...you haven't read the cafeteria rules, how would you know...?"
"Stop, stop!" Xu Shunkang shook his head and sneered, "Who told you I haven't seen it?"
"Before I became a sports student, I was just like you."
"It's just that I don't have to follow the cafeteria rules now."
Xu Shunkang pulled out the baseball bat from behind and weighed it gently in his hand.
His eyes were sincere, as if he was an ancient knight wiping his beloved sword.
"No need to comply?" Lin Yi was shocked and thought about something.
"Although...I still want to thank you for saving us."
"Don't thank me. My ears are getting calluses from listening so much." Xu Shunkang picked his ears.
Lin Yi couldn't help but ask again: "But... since the canteen rules state that things stained with ketchup should be thrown into the nearest trash can, why is the trash can placed so far away?"
Xu Shunkang shrugged: "You'll have to ask the people in the cafeteria about this."
Lin Yi was silent for a moment, then said, "The employee passage... is too dangerous."
Xu Shunkang shook his head and asked, "Why do you think the canteen rules set such strict opening hours?"
Lin Yi was stunned and asked, "You mean... the situation just now is one of the crises that will be encountered if you stay in the cafeteria for too long?"
"So the cafeteria's opening hours don't actually refer to the cafeteria building, but the entire cafeteria area?"
"But... now is not the time..."
He glanced down at his watch.
13: 08.
"It's only 13:08, how could we be in danger?"
Xu Shunkang asked back: "It's not possible to be in a classroom that claims to keep the lights on all night after 18:, but the lights are turned off, right?"
"And doesn't the cafeteria's rules state that you shouldn't go to the employee passage under normal circumstances?"
"But...the trash can is over there?" Lin Yi said that I didn't want to go there at all.
Xu Shunkang nodded: "The trash can is over there, but I guess you didn't throw away the trash right away. For some reason, you stayed at the door of the employee passage with the trash for a while, and then you heard that sound wave, right?"
Seeing that Lin Yi didn't say anything, Xu Shunkang knew that he was right.
"Oh yeah, let me make a blind guess... Did you notice that the ketchup disappeared from the area that was stained with ketchup and turned into plaster powder like this?"
Xu Shunkang raised the baseball bat covered with plaster powder.
"And then you were wondering in your little head whether it was ketchup or plaster that got on you? And then after all that hesitation, you ended up in this situation?"
"How did you...?" Lin Yi looked at Xu Shunkang in amazement. Xu Shunkang was right about everything he said.
Xu Shunkang waved his hand and slowly wrote four characters: "Commonplace."
"Uh……"
"So... staying outside the employee passage for too long can also be dangerous?"
"correct."
Lin Yi was surprised and asked, "You actually answered directly?"
Xu Shunkang pointed at the sun hanging high above his head and said, "The sky is clear and bright, what are you afraid of? On the contrary, you should be careful when the time comes. Don't cross the line with your imagination. Don't blame me for not reminding you when something happens."
"Uh...Okay, thanks for the reminder."
"So the right thing for me to do is to throw away the garbage and leave the employee passage immediately without looking back, right?"
Xu Shunkang nodded: "Yes, and if you are confident in your skills, I suggest you shoot from a distance, as long as you can make sure it falls into the trash can."
"But if you don't throw it in, the situation will be very embarrassing... You don't want to hear that sound again because of picking up something, right?"
"I understand." Lin Yi said.
"I'm glad you understand. Well, I've rested enough, so I'll leave first." After Xu Shunkang said this, he grabbed the baseball bat and stood up.
"Oh, right..." He suddenly thought of something, turned half of his face to look at Lin Yi and the others, and reminded them, "Don't forget to attend the physical education class this afternoon."
"Physical education class!" Lin Yi quickly looked down at his watch.
13: 10.
He remembered that the physical education class was from 14:30 to 15:30 in the afternoon.
"Senior Xu!" Lin Yi shouted.
Xu Shunkang turned around: "What?"
"We'll follow you to the gym now, and then wait at the gym entrance until the gym class starts before going in, okay?"
Xu Shunkang thought about it, then replied: "Okay...but I don't recommend you do that."
"Why?" Lin Yi asked puzzled.
Xu Shunkang glanced at the bat in his hand, then grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
"Because... this road is not easy to walk on now."
"Just go back to the classroom for lunch and arrive fifteen minutes early. Don't be too early or too late."
"So particular? But the curriculum doesn't seem to mention that much..." Lin Yi secretly took note of this.
Based on experience, Xu Shunkang's opinion is correct.
"See you this afternoon." Xu Shunkang left with a handsome back, carrying his bat. "Sports students are so cool!" Wei Liang couldn't help but admire Xu Shunkang's back.
"It's a bit cool." Lin Yi also nodded.
His thoughts gradually came back to normal, and he couldn't help but mutter, "Speaking of which...shouldn't there be employees in the employee passage? Why is there such a strange sound?"
Wei Liang said without thinking: "Wife cakes don't necessarily contain a wife."
Lin Yi was speechless when he heard this.
But as soon as his mind calmed down, he felt that slight pulse in the soles of his feet again.
The vibration came from the employee passage.
"No...that's not right! The source doesn't seem to be the employee passage!" Lin Yi sensed something and turned his gaze towards the underground floor of the cafeteria.
From his perspective, the employee passage was divided into two, leading to the back of the first floor of the cafeteria and the underground first floor respectively.
And the unusual noise obviously came from the underground floor of the cafeteria.
But the cafeteria's underground first floor looks closed from the outside, and the employee passage is the only visible passage connecting to it!
"So that means... the cafeteria's soundproofing is very good."
Because of the terrible noise coming from the underground first floor, the sound waves alone made him and Wei Liang standing at the entrance of the employee passage unbearable...
The rules about the cafeteria's underground first floor emerged in his mind:
[At any time, do not pay attention to any unusual noise coming from the cafeteria's basement floor, even if you hear your name being called.
It is forbidden to go to all areas inside the cafeteria except the student dining area, especially the underground first floor of the cafeteria. 】
There aren't many rules, just one, but it takes up an entire section of the cafeteria's rules.
"Ignore it", "No access allowed"...
“But, please, there’s no need to ban people from going there, okay? That earthquake-like noise would be enough to dissuade everyone from going there, right?”
Lin Yi murmured helplessly in his heart.
Suddenly, he felt that the projected light suddenly dimmed.
He looked up at the sky and saw a large cloud that had emerged from the side of the mountain at some point in time and was moving slowly, about to block out the sun.
It was just an ordinary cloud, but when Lin Yi thought that a large shadow was about to be cast, he stood up from the ground all of a sudden.
In view of what happened in the cafeteria, Lin Yi has now become somewhat alert to dark areas.
"Liangzi, have you rested enough? Let's go too!" Lin Yi took out the cafeteria rules and put them back under the notice board next to him.
"Okay!" Wei Liang did the same.
The two left together.
The moment he crossed the sign in front of the cafeteria, Lin Yi had the same strange feeling as at the beginning.
It was as if the entire cafeteria was covered by a huge invisible glass cover, and this signboard was inserted in front of the glass cover.
When they passed the sign, they entered the cafeteria representative area.
When they left the signboard, they returned to another area.
This area suspended in the building can perhaps be called...
"'Campus'?"
For some reason, this name popped up in Lin Yi's mind.
……
Following the map, Lin Yi and Wei Liang crossed an area filled with incorrectly numbered lamp posts and gradually walked towards the teaching building.
Suddenly, Lin Yi couldn't help but see the cobblestone ground again, and the white powder filling the gaps between the pebbles.
"This is……?!"
He remembered seeing such white powder on his way from the teaching building to the cafeteria in the morning, but he didn't pay much attention to it at first.
But now, he knew that this white powder was most likely transformed from ketchup...
When he realized this, he instantly felt a strong sense of discomfort.
“Shit… I was walking on a road covered with ketchup?!”
He felt his legs stiffen, and the cold air seemed to turn into a pair of invisible tentacles, which drilled out from the cracks in the cobblestone road and climbed up his legs, making his stiff legs even colder.
As the sun was obscured by clouds, gusts of cold wind blew in from the green belts surrounding the cobblestone road.
He seemed to feel countless greedy gazes filled with malicious emotions, as if a group of deviant classmates were hiding in the bushes and spying on him.
He felt unable to move, as if he was in an ice cellar.
He gradually felt the ice-water mixture in the ice cellar spreading up, and a feeling of suffocation was about to drown him.
But this time it was different. Just when he felt that he was having difficulty breathing, his whole body suddenly trembled...
"Hu--" He took a deep breath, as if he wanted to pump all the air around him into his body.
Then he began to breathe heavily.
When he came to his senses, his back was already soaked with cold sweat.
He looked at the cobblestone road under his feet with somewhat dazed eyes.
The pebbles were still pebbles, but the white powder always gave him a strong feeling of nausea and discomfort.
He glanced down at his watch.
13: 20.
"The cafeteria is closed." This thought suddenly popped into his mind.
He shuddered and quickened his pace towards the teaching building.
Wei Liang glanced at Lin Yi's back in confusion, then looked at the cobblestone road.
"Huh?" He frowned and looked at the place where Lin Yi was standing when he stopped to catch his breath.
This is a cobblestone road, and there are naturally a few pebbles where Lin Yi is standing.
Normal pebbles are oval in shape, but he saw several pebbles that were twisted and deformed.
Like a pair of gummy bears lined up together and gently pulled by someone.
"Strange." He muttered, but didn't pay much attention to it and followed Lin Yi's pace.
The teaching building is not far away. Although the light is not very good, the three-story four-story design of the teaching building can still be clearly seen during such a day.
When Wei Liang followed him, he found that Lin Yi was standing in front of the steps of the teaching building, motionless like a piece of wood.
"Old Lin, what's wrong with you?" Wei Liang went over and patted Lin Yi on the shoulder.
He pulled his hand back abruptly.
"Holy crap! It's so cold, like an ice cube?!"
He quickly looked at Lin Yi, and then he found that Lin Yi was staring at the steps in front of the classroom with a pale face and his eyes wide open. He didn't know what he thought of horrifying things, and he was so frightened that he was sweating coldly.
Wei Liang vaguely heard Lin Yi mumbling in a dream:
"moss……"
"how come……?"
“There really is moss…”
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(PS: I was not satisfied with this chapter no matter how I wrote it. I deleted it several times, from 0:00 to 4:00... I hope you like it.)
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