Chapter 57: Athletes without sportswear
Chapter 57: Athletes without sportswear (1100 words more!)
"Liangzi!" Lin Yi quickly spoke up and stopped Wei Liang's actions.
He walked quickly to Wei Liang, grabbed a box of milk, and replaced Wei Liang's tomato with it, saying, "Your box doesn't have a straw, so try this one."
Wei Liang was stunned, then looked at the milk on the plate in confusion: "Eh...if you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten that I took the milk. But I'm really stupid, I have actually developed the habit of taking the milk subconsciously, ahahaha..."
He smiled sheepishly and picked up the plate.
But his words scared Lin Yi instead - although Wei Liang's tomato was stuffed into his hand by the chef in the blue bib, it was actually put on the plate by him.
But Wei Liang had no recollection of this at all, and even took it for granted that he had forgotten it.
This is what Wei Liang’s tomatoes look like, but…what about the milk he drank just now?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the milk on his plate again.
But this look...
“I… fuck?!”
Lin Yi's pupils suddenly shrank, and he saw that there was no milk on his plate, only a bright red tomato.
The skin of the tomato was still swelling and shrinking slightly, like a heart beating "boom, boom".
“When did this happen?!”
In this brief moment, he had a strong sense of confusion. He couldn't tell for a moment whether he had made a mistake at first sight, or... the milk was replaced by this tomato at some point!
"Oh shit……"
He had no intention of reminiscing or exploring what happened to the tomato, so he quickly thought of a way out and picked up the tomato seemingly "casually", and then naturally put it back into the pile of milk.
At the same time, he shook his head and muttered, "Oh... I almost forgot that I don't drink milk recently. I didn't expect that I took it by accident. It's really convenient..."
After saying that, he picked up the plate very naturally, then silently caught up with Wei Liang's footsteps, and the two walked side by side.
Lin Yi couldn't help but complain in his heart: "Damn it... It's just a meal, why do I feel like I'm about to become a double agent?"
"If I have to engage in such intrigues every meal, three times a day, it will be hard to keep my mental state in good condition..."
……
May 023, X5, 7:18, first floor of the cafeteria, student restaurant.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang had been wandering around the student cafeteria with their food trays for nearly five minutes, but they couldn't find any sports students at all. This made Lin Yi doubt his own judgment - would the sports students who came in from other passages come to the student cafeteria to eat?
Or do the other passages not lead to the student cafeteria?
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but realize that this seemed to be the problem!
Students need to swipe their student ID cards to get meals, but sports students don’t have student ID cards!
Since I don’t have a student ID, of course I can’t pay with a credit card!
"Looks like we can't ask the sports students for help..." Lin Yi whispered.
Wei Liang said with a serious expression: "Next time you meet Xu Shunkang, ask them where they eat. When you need to find them at a critical moment, it will be as difficult as asking a god for help..."
"Then let's find a place to eat first." Lin Yi said.
"Hey, Lao Lin, wait a minute!" Wei Liang asked in surprise, "I think I've seen that muscular guy over there in the gym!"
He pursed his lips and motioned Lin Yi to take a look.
Lin Yi looked over immediately and found that it was a strong student, but he was wearing relatively casual clothes.
He was immediately disappointed: "Isn't that a sports student?"
Wei Liang denied it, “No, if I remember correctly, he should be a sports student, but I don’t know why he…is not wearing sports student clothes.”
"Ah?" Lin Yi asked doubtfully.
Wei Liang continued: "Look at the people around him. If I remember correctly, I saw some of them at the entrance of the gymnasium..."
"You have no impression at all?"
"When we first arrived, they were standing there like a bunch of delinquents with baseball bats."
Wei Liang's words instantly evoked Lin Yi's memories. He immediately tried to recall them, and suddenly found that the memories that had been a little fuzzy had become clearer, as if the pixels were constantly improving.
The faces of the athletes standing guard at the entrance of the gymnasium also began to become clearer...
"Four." He suddenly said, "The four people on the side are indeed athletes."
"Huh?" Wei Liang asked in surprise, "How come you suddenly remembered it?"
Lin Yi was stunned: "I don't know either... It was just a sudden memory flashback, I can't explain it."
"However, they were still wearing blue and white sportswear in the gymnasium, and even when entering other passages. Why did they change into casual clothes when eating?"
"Is there any hidden secret here? Are you sure we should still go looking for them?"
Upon hearing this, Wei Liang hesitated.
"How about we just not tell them first?" He hesitated, and his thoughts turned to tricky tactics. "We won't say anything, and just eat next to them, just like those weird guys eat next to us."
"When they finish eating and are about to leave, we will catch up immediately."
"Then, if it's convenient for us, we'll just follow them and follow their team for a while. If it's not convenient for us, we'll run away immediately if we see the situation is not good! What do you think, Lao Lin?"
Lin Yi thought about it briefly, then said thoughtfully: "Now that it has come to this, we can only take it one step at a time."
He glanced at the sky outside the cafeteria with some worry.
There was not as much fog today as yesterday, so the sun set a little later, but even so, it would be dark in less than ten minutes.
"It's getting dark..."
Thinking of this, Lin Yi narrowed his eyes.
He remembered Xu Shunkang saying:
"The night is their home ground."
Who?
Those students who are not right.
perhaps……
"Does it also include... cuckolds?"
He suddenly thought of something, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Could it be that the cuckold at night has some special 'mechanism'? Even they can't resist it?"
After a brief recollection, he discovered a new detail - when Xu Shunkang helped him intercept the chef in the green bib at noon, he actually did not enter the student cafeteria.
Xu Shunkang stood at the exit of the student cafeteria like a door god, but - he never set foot into the cafeteria from beginning to end.
and……
At first, Xu Shunkang looked at him with something wrong in his eyes, as if he had some murderous intent, but later for some unknown reason his attitude changed and he let him pass.
"Wait... Is it because he saw the 'student ID' in my hand?"
A piece of information suddenly exploded in Lin Yi's mind - the cafeteria rules stated that if you hear an unusual noise coming from window No. 10, you must immediately hold your student ID in your hand and then escape from the student cafeteria.
Is it because the sports students will crouch at the door, waiting for something unusual to happen and then stand out, and then only the "normal students" with student ID cards can leave the cafeteria? !
"Do sports students recognize people this way?"
"So the gym lockers use 'student ID' instead of 'gym rules'?"
Even the existence of the waterproof card holder seems to have been explained. Nothing can better prove your identity at a glance than inserting a student ID card into the waterproof card holder!
The more this happened, the more Lin Yi felt the importance of his student ID.
He couldn't imagine how dangerous it would be if he lost his student ID.
While thinking about this, he sat down in the seat next to the athlete.
He used chopsticks to stir the food, checking to make sure there was no tomato mixed in, and then he quickly started to pick it up.
While eating, he was thinking about the two sentences Xu Shunkang said.
【Night is their home ground.】
【Daytime is our home ground.】
It is obvious that the combat effectiveness of athletes is greatly affected by the environment, or in other words... the strength of all of them is about the same, but day and night each have some special bonuses that will weaken or amplify certain characteristics.
"Dark night... or, a dark night with rain and fog?"
At a certain moment, he even had a feeling - even if he could really find Xu Shunkang in the student cafeteria, Xu Shunkang might not help him like he did at noon.
From beginning to end, Xu Shunkang only expressed his kindness towards him, but there was no trace of chastity mixed in his kindness.
This can be seen from the fact that when Xu Shunkang found that he was charging towards him, he subconsciously tightened his grip on the bat.
"It's really strange... Why are so many dense details suddenly emerging in my mind?" Lin Yi muttered in his heart. He felt that his memory had been in some strange state.
Sometimes there is a sense of blackout, as if a few seconds of memory have been lost;
Sometimes you will have the feeling of being detached, as if you have been in another world for a long time, but when you come back you find that your watch has only been running for a minute or two;
Sometimes... for some things that I only caught a glimpse of, my memories are extremely clear.
He felt that some uncontrollable changes had taken place in him. Perhaps this change had begun when he entered S City University, and he did not notice it at the time, but as time went on, he could increasingly perceive this subtle change.
Just as Tian Bufan said, he might be "adapting" to something.
Can……
"What exactly am I 'adapting' to?"
"Why does Mr. Tian know more than I do?"
"Did I tell him something, but...I forgot it?"
He thought of many things at once, but the more he thought about it, the more confused he became. In the end, he gave up thinking about it and decided to ask Tian Bufan when he returned to the dormitory at night.
He continued to eat his meal and glanced at Wei Liang again.
Wei Liang was eating very fast, and it seemed that as long as he was alive, Wei Liang could continue to do things in this heartless manner.
He sighed, but thought that there should be no problem with his decision.
Decisiveness is necessary because the more critical the moment, the more opportunities he will miss if he hesitates.
The most important thing now is to finish your meal and then escape from the cafeteria area.
He ate his food vigorously, and the whole meal went smoothly without any unexpected problems.
He guessed that this might be because they really didn't touch any tomato-related elements this time. Of course, it is not ruled out that it was because they happened to sit next to the gym students.
Sudden……
One of the athletes stood up after finishing his meal, and then several other athletes around him all stood up.
“Oh?! We’re leaving!”
Lin Yi and Wei Liang exchanged words at the speed of light... uh, Wei Liang was still eating his green pepper beef fillet rice.
He kicked Wei Liang's foot.
Wei Liang reacted quickly, swallowed all the food in one breath, and then straightened his back.
"Let's go!" Lin Yi said in a low voice. After that, he picked up the plate and decisively followed the actions of the athletes.
Wei Liang also quickly got out of the plastic dining chair.
The process of going to the plate recycling area was unusually smooth. During the whole process, Lin Yi did not even have that strange feeling of being watched, nor did he have any ominous signs that made his back cold or his hair stand on end.
But the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. The student cafeteria shouldn't be so quiet.
Suddenly, he noticed that Wei Liang's footsteps behind him had changed...
It turned into a rustling feeling.
"Depend on……"
"Liangzi?" He asked tentatively, "Are tomatoes delicious?"
"Delicious..." From behind came Wei Liang's dull, dry reply without any emotion.
The chill down his spine that had not appeared before suddenly emerged at this moment, like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, soaking him all over and freezing him to the bone!
"Shit... is it a hallucination? Or... is something fucking wrong again?!"
There was no way Wei Liang could touch the tomato, his was milk!
So the correct answer is... "What tomato, are you fucking crazy?" or something like that.
He glanced down at the tiles beneath his feet.
The ceiling of the cafeteria was covered with rows of incandescent lamps. The light emitted from the incandescent lamps at different angles would produce shadows at different angles, and Lin Yi quickly found one of the shadows from among the many illusory overlapping shadows.
A shadow wearing a chef's hat.
Behind him was not Wei Liang, but a chef.
It is impossible to tell from the shadow whether it is the chef in the blue bib or the chef in the green bib, but no matter which chef it is, according to the cafeteria rules, he cannot appear in the student cafeteria area.
He looked at the back of the athlete in front of him, and then realized that there was nothing wrong with the athlete's back.
“So what’s going on here…?!”
"In front of me is a normal student cafeteria, and behind me is... an abnormal student cafeteria?"
"I've become the dividing line between normal and abnormal?!"
"Lao Lin, it seems you haven't eaten your tomatoes?" "Wei Liang" behind him asked.
But this time, Lin Yi didn't dare to answer.
Because the words he spoke just now were a "communication request" from him, but the words the other party spoke now were "communication requests from any stranger", and he could not respond.
He then lowered his head and silently followed the sports student to the plate recycling area.
But when he looked down, he found that the carton of milk on his plate had been replaced again with... a tomato!
This tomato that can't be shaken off is haunting him like a curse!
But he was convinced that it was not tomatoes, but milk.
If it was Tomato, then from just now on, that group of weird guys would have emerged from every corner of the student cafeteria, and then gathered around him like human tombstones, revealing those crazy eyes, staring at his every move.
But from the beginning till now, he has not had such a feeling.
"Come on, this is milk! This is milk! This is milk! Damn the tomatoes!"
He cursed in his heart, moved his eyes to the back of the gym student, and then looked down again. The tomato on the plate had indeed disappeared, and the box of milk, which had not been touched, was standing upright on his plate again.
"Ha, a mere trifle." He sneered arrogantly.
"Lao Lin, why don't you speak?" "Wei Liang" behind him asked again.
"Talk like your sister."
"Don't scare me, Lao Lin!"
"Look back at me!"
"Ah!!! What is this?! Ah... Lao Lin! Lao Lin... I, I..."
"Damn, there's so much drama..." After seeing through the green bib chef's trick, although Lin Yi was still very nervous, he was much calmer than before.
"Could this be... what Mr. Tian said, 'within the scope of cognition'?"
Because you have "accepted" this fact and "understood" the other person, you are fearless because you know both yourself and the other person?
At least - the relationship between the two should remain like this until he puts down his plate and prepares to leave.
As for the real Wei Liang... it was impossible for Lin Yi to not worry, but considering that he had narrowly escaped death on the way to the gym and in front of the cafeteria sign before, and Wei Liang was still alive and well, he felt that it was unnecessary to worry about Wei Liang.
His Wei Liang is not on the same level.
Even though he was targeted by the cuckold again, Wei Liang might be walking on the street with a plate in his hand and nothing happened.
Instead of spending this much free time, you might as well think of ways to save yourself.
He calmed himself, ignored the shouts of "Wei Liang" from behind him, and focused his attention on the athlete and the shadow.
Soon, the athletes walking in front of him stopped in front of the plate recycling area. They threw away the leftovers in the plates but did not take any further action.
He was slightly stunned, and cried out in his heart: "Not good... there is an explanation!"
He noticed that all the athletes were in the same pose—just one step away from fulfilling the concept of "putting down the plates and preparing to leave."
He was startled and suddenly realized something, so he quickly followed and made the same move - he entered a "like putting" state where he was about to put the plate down, but had not completely put it down.
The four athletes all looked at him in surprise, and then the muscular man in the lead began to count down quietly:
"Three, two, one..."
"put!"
“Clang—”
Four "clang" sounds overlapped almost synchronously, with one "clang" sound being half a beat late.
Then, the four athletes burst out with an unprecedented terrifying speed and rushed towards the exit of the student cafeteria.
"Oh my god!" Lin Yi's scalp exploded, but Thor's emoticon appeared in his mind, "I knew it!!!"
He quickly grabbed his student ID and started running as fast as he could.
Add 1100 words for the leader "Yuanyue Yuqinghui" (Meower)!!
I still owe more than 6000 words (more than 5000 words from Miaoer + 555 words from No. 1000 Street Light)... [Working hard to pay off the debt! ]
(End of this chapter)