Chapter 108 I killed it
Chapter 108 I killed it
X023年5月8日，7:14。
The dawn light shone down from the clear sky, casting mottled golden light on the cobblestone road.
Lin Yi and his group left the dormitory area in a mighty procession, walked through the thin mist, and entered the cafeteria area.
When passing the boundary of the area, Lin Yi observed the street lights on the dividing line again.
I saw that the numbers on the other street lights were very messy, but the two closest ones were indeed "Dormitory Building-001" and "Canteen-001".
The moment he entered the cafeteria area, Lin Yi clearly felt the cool sensation of passing through the water curtain again.
"The area contained in each building on campus seems to be an independent space." He suddenly felt emotional and couldn't help but sigh, "It feels like... every building is an isolated island drifting on the sea, far away from each other, but closely connected by the cobblestones covered with street lights on the campus."
Tian Bufan looked at him in surprise, then nodded silently: "Every building on the campus may exist on an independent layer."
"All buildings are independent and connected to each other. Whether individually or as a whole, their layered structure is very complex."
"Speaking of which..." Lin Yi looked at him curiously, "Mr. Tian, when did you come to eat yesterday?"
"It was about this time." Tian Bufan said, "I joined the team of sports students who stayed overnight in the classroom and went to the cafeteria to have breakfast."
"What happened to those weird art students and inhuman classmates?"
Tian Bufan said: "Some were taken away by the sports students, and some escaped."
"Escape...Escape? Wait, I can understand escape, but what does take away mean?"
If you can't beat him, just run away. There's nothing shameful about that. And judging from the ridiculous speed of the superhuman classmate who appears and disappears at will, as long as you are determined to run away when the lights are turned off, you will definitely be able to escape. But what does it mean to take him away?
Arrest?
Tian Bufan shook his head: "I don't know either. Some of the sports students took them away at dawn, and the others went to the cafeteria."
"I couldn't go out to see it until 7:40."
"Oh... okay." Lin Yi nodded slightly, "Then Wei Sang and Kuai Kuai, what about you guys?"
"Eat when you should, drink when you should." Wei Shan was frugal with words, but he was extremely angry. "If anything dares to come to me, I will tear it into pieces!"
"Barbaric." Kuai Hongji sneered and shook his head.
Lin Yi stopped Wei Shan, who was about to get angry again, and asked hesitantly: "Did you meet the chef in the green bib?"
Wei Shan glanced at Tian Bufan and saw that Tian Bufan was looking at the surrounding environment without any other expression, so he said:
“I didn’t have breakfast either, but when I was leaving after lunch, a chef in a green bib came up to me.”
"With your skills, you should have been able to run away, right? Did he chase you..."
"I killed it." Wei Shan said coldly, with murderous intent in his eyes.
Lin Yi's face changed, and his original question "Did he chase you out of the student cafeteria to deal with you" instantly became a dud.
He opened his mouth, but his brain didn't work out at first.
"No... can a cuckold be killed?"
"I don't know if I can kill it." Wei Shan said, "But I feel like I killed it."
Lin Yi's mind flashed back to the scene in his dream where Wei Shan fought back against his inhuman classmates.
That explosive kick really seems to be able to break granite...
"Are you hurt?" he asked with concern.
“I don’t know.” Wei Shan shook his head, “But I feel very strange… After I took action against them, it was as if I was entangled by something.”
"I hate this feeling... They make me angry - although I've always been angry, I've never been this angry... When I see them, I want to tear them apart, just like... I want to tear that bitch apart."
He pointed at Kuai Hongji.
"Hehehe, Fatty, don't involve me in such stupid things." Kuai Hongji smiled grimly.
But Lin Yi on the side was puzzled: "This...?"
Wei Shan's situation seemed completely different from his...
According to his speculation, after seeing the non-human classmates, one would fall to a lower level due to cognitive distortion, but Wei Shan did not seem to have such a change.
Why is this?
He doesn't understand.
"Is my guess wrong... or is my guess not rigorous enough? Or is there something special about Weisang?"
He felt a little dizzy, but since Wei Shan seemed to be fine, he felt relieved for the time being.
"Kuai Kuai, what about you?"
Kuai Hongji shook his head: "I'm not in danger."
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, then looked away.
His expression was serious, but he was actually a little nervous inside. When his teammates stood near him, the disparity was too obvious.
"Well, I guess I'm the only one who has a narrow escape, right?"
Putting aside the situation and just talking about his experience, even Mao Feiyang who was trapped in the art building was not as outrageous as him.
Five minutes later, everyone arrived at the sign in front of the cafeteria.
The cafeteria has a glass-like magnificence in the morning light, and the octagonal cage-like building shape, surrounded by thin mist, gives people a feeling of fusion of Tang Dynasty and modern architectural styles.
If we ignore the exaggerated passages around it that are contrary to its architectural style.
After picking up a copy of the cafeteria rules from under the notice board, Lin Yi did not rush to the student passage, but looked at other passages first.
After communicating with Tian Bufan, he had more opinions about other passages. At this point, some people in gym clothes were walking into the passage sparsely.
He did not see the girl in the sailor suit this time, but that was normal. After all, their concepts of time were different, and in a sense, the girl in the sailor suit could not even be classified as an "art student".
At least, that was the case up to the point before he left the dream.
"Should I call them 'they' or 'them' now?" This thought popped up in Lin Yi's mind involuntarily.
After staring at the other passages for a while, he glanced at the employee passage.
But he hadn't seen any employees in the employee passage for several times. Finally, his eyes lingered on the trash can for a moment, then he silently retracted his gaze and walked towards the entrance of the student passage with Tian Bufan and the others.
"Everyone be careful, this student passage is a bit weird." He said, fearing that Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji didn't hear clearly his conversation with Tian Bufan last night, so he briefly explained his experience.
Tian Bufan said: "What you are talking about should be the situation when the fog fills the entire passage. When the place is full of fog, you can't see the end, and it will feel like a 'Penrose ladder effect'..."
"But there isn't much fog now, so it shouldn't be a big problem... But since you said so, everyone should remain vigilant."
"Ah."
A group of people entered the student passage.
The incandescent lights in the student corridor were always on, and with the sun out, the originally thick fog had almost dissipated, leaving only a thin layer floating on the steps like dry ice.
When several people were walking in the student corridor, they felt like they were climbing up the stairs of a fairy mountain in the clouds.
Lin Yi silently observed the walls inside the student passage. The weird feeling was so strong when he came here for the first two times that he didn't observe it carefully. Now that the discomfort has faded a lot, and Tian Bufan and the others are also there, which gives him the opportunity to observe while walking.
"The wall tiles here seem interesting." Halfway through the walk, Tian Bufan suddenly said this, then stopped on the current steps, slowly walked to the wall in front of him, and began to observe quietly.
Lin Yi was attracted by Tian Bufan's behavior and moved closer.
The inner wall of the student passage is a kind of uneven wall, just like the stone road under the bunker that was formed after being polished by time. The arc-shaped dome also gives people a sense of déjà vu of an air-raid shelter.
After fog filled the student passage last night, traces of outflow appeared on the inner wall of the passage, and even the steps underfoot were covered with a thin layer of water.
But now there was no sign of flowing water, as if the water flow encountered yesterday evening did not exist at all.
Approaching the wall, Lin Yi suddenly discovered that these bumpy walls seemed to have traces left by humans, as if they had been chopped by a knife or an axe, and then smoothed out in one line.
Tian Bufan reached out and gently touched the wall, frowning slightly.
"Did you find anything?"
“There were some traces of patterns or symbols on the wall here, but unfortunately they have been polished away.”
"Maybe it was caused by the water flow." Lin Yi briefly described what happened yesterday evening.
Tian Bufan said: "Running water will indeed erode the landform, but how many years does it take for dripping water to wear away the stone?"
"So what you mean is... this was erased artificially?"
Tian Bufan shook his head and said, "It's unlikely to have been erased artificially."
"If you want to erase the symbols artificially, why not just choose other materials when building? And wait until the building is completed before erasing it?"
"Maybe... the people who built it and the people who erased it are not the same people?" Lin Yi speculated.
"You can keep this guess." Tian Bufan said, "I have other guesses."
"What guess?"
"Another guess is that flowing water has indeed eroded the landforms here. You just said that you heard the sound of water when you left yesterday..."
"Not only did I hear it, I stepped on the water."
"So the water flow is real, there is another layer here, and when that layer starts to fall, water will seep through the wall."
"Combining the ways to enter and exit the cafeteria mentioned in the cafeteria rules with your previous conjecture about the "non-existent water", we may be able to come to a conjecture that the student passage will be flooded during certain periods of time."
"The canteen is open for dinner from 16:00 to 20:00, so this time period is most likely after 20:00, when it was dark and there was abnormal weather, so the layer began to fall and water flowed into the channel."
"The water flow rate at that time may be far beyond our imagination, thus achieving the effect of friction against the wall."
"This..." Lin Yi showed a look of surprise. He was shocked that Tian Bufan could always think of so many things.
"Of course this is just a guess."
"There are two guesses. One is that it was caused by human factors, and the other is that it was caused by the layer... In comparison, I hope it was caused by the layer." Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes. "Let's go. Let's not waste time. Let's go have breakfast."
Although the inner wall of the student passage had some peculiarities, it did not take up too much of the group's time. After a quick look, they walked together towards the exit of the student passage.
When he saw the exit, Lin Yi suddenly felt a familiar feeling in his heart, which made his spine chill.
He knew that the person who would greet him in front would be the chef in the blue bib with the iconic evil smile on his face.
He looked up and saw the chef in the blue bib at the end of the student passage.
This was a very strange guy. Lin Yi could sometimes see him and sometimes not.
The guy was standing in the blank area between the exit of the student passage and the entrance of the student cafeteria. Lin Yi could not see him only when he was in that blank area. As long as he left the blank area, he could see him no matter whether he was inside the student passage or in the student cafeteria.
It seems that the purpose of the existence of this blue bib chef is to make Lin Yi doubt the reality and illusion of reality.
"咈..." Wei Shan let out a long breath in a low tone. He looked at the chef in the blue bib with strong hostility, with the corners of his lips slightly pouting, like a vigilant and extremely restrained wild beast.
"Wei Sang, can you see him too?" Lin Yi asked.
"We can all see it." Tian Bufan said calmly, "Don't worry about him, follow the rules and just ignore it."
Wei Shan nodded and looked away.
"Do you know what that thing is?" Lin Yi asked Tian Bufan.
If it were someone else, he might not ask questions, just like the night before yesterday when he accidentally and subconsciously asked Xu Shunkang about the basement of the teaching building, which made Xu Shunkang's face change drastically.
At that time, he had no concept of "cognition" and "layers", but now it is different. He knows that if he asks athletes questions that are beyond their cognition, it may harm them, but Tian Bufan is different.
The scope of Tian Bufan's "cognition" is a mystery.
But Tian Bufan shook his head and said speechlessly: "I am not a god, Lao Lin. My information also comes from the analysis and observation of abnormal phenomena. It is not that you ask a question and I can know the answer by counting on my fingers."
“The chefs in the cafeteria are a relatively complex group. Although they are only differentiated by blue bibs and green bibs, the details of their division may be much more complicated than those of art students.”
"Just remember that a chef with a blue bib is not necessarily normal, but a chef with a green bib is definitely abnormal."
My cold is almost healed but the tinnitus seems to be worse. I’ll make an appointment to see a doctor tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)