Chapter 52: Cafeteria Mystery
Chapter 52: Cafeteria Mystery (All of them must be subdued!)
"hiss……"
Lin Yi, realizing this, couldn't help but take a breath, and his heart seemed to skip a beat at this moment.
His pupils shrank slightly, and the school building quickly enlarged in his eyes...
But the teaching building is actually fine. What is really wrong is the green belt surrounding the teaching building.
The setting sun was tilted slightly, and the afterglow was shining down. A thin mist was rising from the green forest belt, like a huge steamer.
A gentle breeze blew, and the branches in the green forest belt swayed. The leaves in the forest rustled and rustled, as if something was crawling among the branches and would pop out at any time.
Lin Yi thought of something, and then put his hand on Wei Liang's shoulder. Just as he was about to call Wei Liang...
"Oh shit!" But Wei Liang was shocked by Lin Yi's sudden action.
He dodged half a body length as if by reflex, raising his arms subconsciously, presenting a posture that allowed him to launch an attack at any time.
But when he realized that it was Lin Yi who patted him, the powerful momentum that was like a sword drawn from its sheath quickly collapsed like a deflated ball.
"Lao Lin? Why did you suddenly call me? Damn, you almost scared me to death!" Wei Liang let out a long sigh and stared at Lin Yi with wide eyes, "Hey, hey, hey, why aren't you talking?"
He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Lin Yi.
Lin Yi was not distracted, but just looked at Wei Liang in disbelief. His hand remained frozen in the air, patting his shoulder, and he had not yet recovered from what had just happened.
The Wei Liang just now gave him a feeling that he was a completely different person in the brief moment. He even doubted whether Wei Liang would launch an explosive attack if he didn't see him.
After all, the momentum was so damn strong.
"Liangzi...you still said you don't know martial arts?"
Wei Liang's mouth twitched slightly, he shook his hands, coughed a little embarrassedly, and then said: "You look at my martial arts... I was obviously bluffing just now!"
Seeing Lin Yi saying "I don't believe it" in his face with a strange look on his face, he had no choice but to spread his hands helplessly and then resumed his previous stance.
"If you don't believe me, just watch for yourself..."
He started to move, mumbling some tricks while moving. Lin Yi listened carefully and found out that it was -
"Huang bites and starts! AAA...follow the nine injuries and then the eight injuries...one, two...step back and dive...then follow Qin Yueyang...I'll AAAAA..."
Wei Liang's "combo" was so smooth, as if he had practiced hard day and night for two and a half years, but... Lin Yi gradually realized that this was not the arcade combo from the King of Fighters? !
His expression gradually distorted, and then turned into an old man in the subway looking at his phone.gif...
This combo is cool and fancy...but isn't it fake?
"I'll finish the move!" Wei Liang took a deep breath before finishing his move. "This is how the combo works. If you insist, help me imagine some special effects, and then you'll feel really powerful."
"If you want, you can imagine that I added a 'Hyakushiki Onisaki' at the end... I used to combo with people like this when I was a kid."
The corners of Lin Yi's mouth kept twitching. He always felt that Wei Liang was hiding the fact that he was a peerless master.
But when I think about how this peerless master almost ran away with that fake female teacher the moment he entered the campus yesterday, I feel a sense of dreamlike contrast...
"Okay, okay, tell me what happened just now. If nothing happens, go and have dinner!" Wei Liang touched his rumbling stomach.
He was too embarrassed to tell Lin Yi that when he went to the second floor of the gymnasium with the intention of practicing gymnastics with a beautiful gymnast girl, he bumped into a gymnastics giant and was caught by the giant and practiced for more than 40 minutes...
Compared with Lin Yi, he felt that all his good luck today had been transferred to Lin Yi.
Lin Yi put his hand on his shoulder, then looked towards the green forest belt and said in a serious voice:
"Liangzi, give me a hand. If I feel sleepy, give me a hand."
"Uh, Old Lin, what are you going to do...?" Wei Liang suddenly realized something and subconsciously wanted to follow Lin Yi's gaze, but Lin Yi stopped him.
"Don't look at it yet!"
"Hey!" Wei Liang was startled and his body trembled violently. His neck, which had just been twisted halfway, was pulled back by him. "Okay, okay, okay, then you be careful, I'll help you keep watch..."
"Okay." Lin Yi nodded and began to shift his attention to the green forest belt.
But he felt that Wei Liang seemed a little reserved, so he comforted him: "Liangzi, don't panic, I'll just take a look."
"You said the same thing in the classroom last time!" Wei Liang couldn't help but say.
"Then I can't just stare out a foggy day this time, can I?" Lin Yi retorted speechlessly, "Do you think I'm Storm Girl?"
"Damn it, stop inserting flags!" Wei Liang widened his eyes in anxiety.
"Give me a few seconds to observe, and then go eat!" Lin Yi said seriously, and then closed his mouth.
He looked at the greenbelt and found that the thin mist lingering in the woods, although it floated out from time to time, was immediately evaporated under the sunlight.
However, as he looked deeper into the greenbelt, the light and shadow gradually changed from dim to pitch black.
The sun's afterglow was cut into mottled and sparse pieces by the branches and leaves, and scattered in the foggy green forest belt.
Looking from afar, it looks like a person sinking to the bottom of the sea looking up at the blue sky, and then seeing one blurry beam of light after another between the sea and the sky.
I can't tell whether it's the sky or the sea.
“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”
The wind blew, the mist rolled gently, and it seemed as if a figure was wandering deep in the forest.
“Sh ...
The rough sound, like a stone being dragged on the ground, floated to his ears intermittently like an auditory hallucination.
A faint and chilly feeling wanders deep in the greenbelt, gathers in the darkness, and shuttles through the shadows...but it never crosses the greenbelt.
The light of dusk formed a clear boundary around the teaching building.
Lin Yi withdrew his gaze from the green forest belt.
"I've finished reading it." He said to Wei Liang, "Let's go and have dinner."
Wei Liang was surprised and asked, "You didn't take a nap this time?"
Lin Yi thought about it and said hesitantly: "Maybe it's because... it's not dark yet."
He glanced at his watch.
17: 00.
"It's 17:... and we're standing in the sun, so... everything is normal so far."
He glanced west again.
In the western sky, there was a gorgeous sunset that dyed half of the sky red, like a huge wave spreading out above the mountains.
"The weather is much better today than yesterday. If we eat quickly, we might be able to leave the cafeteria before the sun sets."
"What a coincidence, I thought so too." Wei Liang said seriously, "But the weather in the mountains is unpredictable at night, and the temperature difference between day and night is quite large. I wonder if it will be foggy when I return to the dormitory later."
Lin Yi nodded slightly.
The two walked towards the cafeteria while chatting.
…Mist lingered in the green forest belt, and a breeze blew through the treetops, clearing away the thin mist…
Deep in the greenbelt, there were some slightly stiff footsteps. A row of terracotta warrior-like figures, dragging their heavy steps and bodies, slowly moved towards the edge of the greenbelt...
The soles of their shoes rubbed against the gravel ground, making a low, harsh friction sound.
“Sh ...
……
X023年5月7日，17：16。
Lin Yi and Wei Liang walked along the cobblestone road filled with randomly lit street lights, and after more than ten minutes they arrived at the area in front of the cafeteria from the teaching building area.
Along the way, they also met many classmates who were in a hurry and seemed to have no other problems except that they were extremely nervous.
However, when Lin Yi saw the sign in front of the cafeteria, he was suddenly nailed to the spot as if he was cast under a spell!
He looked at the sign in front of him, a hint of fear in his eyes.
His limbs felt slightly cold, and beads of sweat began to appear on his forehead.
His pupils seemed to be able to breathe, expanding, contracting, expanding, and contracting again...
His eyes were fixed on the area behind the sign…
He...didn't see the cafeteria!
Just like he didn’t see the gymnasium in the teaching building area, he now didn’t see the cafeteria!
However, to get from the teaching building to the gymnasium, you need to walk a few steps after passing the signboard and then overlook the foothills from a certain angle.
And the cafeteria... should be right behind the signboard, there's no need to take any detours!
And now, he didn't see the cafeteria!
“Fuck, something’s wrong with me?!”
The dense beads of sweat collided and gathered, turning into a bean-sized bead of sweat, sliding down from his brow bone along the bridge of his nose, all the way to his chin, and then dripping down...
His pupils kept trembling, and his senses and vision had some kind of morbid distortion, and the light and shadow seemed to be in some strange disorder...
"Why is the cafeteria gone?"
"Isn't the cafeteria behind the sign?"
"Did I remember it wrongly?"
A hint of doubt appeared in his eyes. He subconsciously thought about this question and had a hint of doubt about where the cafeteria should be.
“No, no, no, no!!”
"I came to the cafeteria to eat lunch at noon!"
"Behind the sign is the cafeteria! There is a [Student Passage] leading to the cafeteria!"
"Yes, yes, yes! That's right!"
He took a deep breath and realized that he had some confusion at this point in the cafeteria.
But when he realized this, he immediately began to confirm the position of the cafeteria in his heart with a firm will.
"The cafeteria is right in front of me!"
"The cafeteria is right in front of me!!"
“Damn it!! The cafeteria is right in front of me!!!”
Although he was absolutely certain that the cafeteria was right in front of him, there was nothing behind the sign!
The mountains are still there, the breeze is still blowing, the trees are scurrying between the mountains, and the setting sun is dyeing the forest with ashes.
The only thing is… the cafeteria that was supposed to be there is nowhere to be found!
No—not only the cafeteria is gone, but also the student passage!
The road is gone!
Nothing is left!
Lin Yi suddenly discovered that the signboard was standing on a cliff!
"Depend on……"
“What the hell…?!”
“When did this happen…?!”
He looked down at his watch.
17: 17.
"Time...is moving normally! Then where am I? No no no...you can't question my location!"
"I'm right in front of the cafeteria!"
"I'm right in front of the cafeteria sign!"
"I'm not going anywhere! I'm right here!"
"I... I'm here! I must be here!"
Even though Lin Yi told himself with absolute certainty, the distorted light and shadow kept impacting his vision. His brain produced a dizzy feeling, and he found that he was losing his sense of gravity!
He wanted to stabilize his cognition by closing his eyes and concentrating, but he immediately thought of the scene in which he walked on that non-existent road because he closed his eyes and breathed in the sea breeze. He clenched his teeth tightly and refused to close his eyes no matter what!
But the consequences of not closing your eyes came immediately.
He seemed to feel colorful spots of light floating on the pebbles under his feet. The oval shape that followed the laws of physics was strangely distorted...
An indescribable strong visual conflict, as if imposed from the void, or as if rushing out from his heart, constantly eroded his will.
He felt a little short of breath, he felt a little short of oxygen...
The feeling of suffocation accompanied by the visual conflict fell on him, causing his feet to go weak and he stumbled and was about to fall.
At the critical moment, he suddenly thought of something!
"Reference object!"
[If you can't find the numbered street lights right away, keep your head down and look at the ground below you, looking for any reference points that will let you know you're still on the road. If you find that the ground is twisting, stretching, or changing in any way that doesn't make sense, hold your student ID and map tightly in your hands, and keep reminding yourself of your name and student number.]
"The student code of conduct mentions a reference that lets me know I'm 'on track'!"
The situations are very different and cannot be copied blindly, but - this point of reference should be the only way to redeem oneself!
At the critical moment, Lin Yi's thoughts raced, and countless ideas emerged from his brain like a dam opening to release floodwaters!
And now, he needs to find a way to determine his position in a very short time -
Before you get lost in this twisted and unknown world!
Before I lose the ability to breathe due to the distortion of my senses and suffocate to death!
Before your spirit collapses and goes crazy due to collapsed cognition!
"Reference reference reference..."
"cobblestone?!"
The pebbles under my feet have long been twisted and cannot be used as a reference at all!
"Reference object!!"
“Where the hell is this damn reference—?!”
He realized that his vision was beginning to become blurry, his will was beginning to become blurred, and he was about to lose his last bit of sanity!
Thanks to "book friend 20230310234923836" for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)