Chapter 109 Ouch, My Shoelaces Fell Off
Chapter 109 Ouch, My Shoelaces Fell Off
"As for other avenues, we will analyze them slowly once we find clues."
"But beware of any blue-bibbed chefs who aren't at windows 1 through 9."
Hearing this, Lin Yi could not help but nodded seriously: "I understand, if you are undecided, just ignore it."
"If you can't ignore it, kill it." Wei Shan added in a low voice.
Kuai Hongji smiled sinisterly, but clasped his hands in front of him, and rarely did he refute Wei Shan.
Wei Liang covered his ears and followed them silently. He didn't say anything and didn't do anything along the way. He was as obedient as a Chihuahua who hitchhiked and had no sense of existence.
When walking out of the student passage, Lin Yi looked down at the time.
7: 20.
"Everything is fine."
He quickly passed where the blue bib chef was standing.
Although she was clearly not in his field of vision, he still clearly had a feeling of "passing by" - the kind of cold gaze that made him feel like a thorn in his back.
As they passed by one by one, the chef in the blue bib stood with his feet facing the student passage like last time, but his upper body began to twist slowly like a puppet.
He looked at Lin Yi, Tian Bufan and the others as they passed by him one by one.
Suddenly, when Kuai Hongji passed by him, golden sparks suddenly surged in his eyes, which had been empty all along.
Then, a pale, skinny hand stretched out from his white chef's robe and grabbed towards Kuai Hongji like lightning.
A cold light flashed across Kuai Hongji's eyes for a moment, but he was suddenly grabbed by Wei Shan's arm and pulled away from the attack range of the blue bib chef.
"You bastard, haven't you eaten? Why are you walking so slowly?" Wei Shan said sarcastically.
Kuai Hongji shook off Wei Shan's hand: "It's unnecessary."
"Tsk!" Wei Shan snorted, lifted the plastic curtain and walked into the student cafeteria.
Kuai Hongji didn't say much and walked into the student cafeteria.
Wei Liang was the last one in the group to enter the student cafeteria. He remained silent throughout the whole process and only let go of his hands that were covering his ears after entering the cafeteria.
When he lowered the plastic curtain, he glanced outside the student cafeteria and saw that the signature smile on the chef's face in the blue bib had curved upwards, his hand still in the reaching motion, and he looked eerily weird and evil.
Wei Liang swallowed and silently withdrew his gaze.
When he turned his head back, he suddenly saw a face almost right in front of him.
Wei Liang was startled so much that his pupils contracted and his body tensed up suddenly. He saw a chef in a green bib with a wooden expression and distracted eyes moving behind him like a ghost without him knowing when.
It appeared too suddenly, appearing out of thin air in the gap between Wei Liang lowering the plastic curtain, turning his head to take a look, and then looking back again.
At this moment, the air seemed to freeze, and Wei Liang's nose was almost touching its nose. Not to mention that Wei Liang could also smell the bloody, disgusting and foul breath escaping from between the teeth of the chef in the green bib...
But even in this eye contact, Wei Liang seemed not to see it. His sight seemed to penetrate the face of the chef in the green bib and focus on Lin Yi and his group behind it.
At this moment, if he took one more step forward, he would bump into the chef in the green bib.
But if he didn't move forward and chose to go around the green bib chef, it meant that he saw the green bib chef.
Although you only need to ignore it, but deliberately dodging means that there is no such thing as complete ignoring...
He seemed to be stuck in a dead end.
The chef in the green bib raised the corner of his mouth slightly, revealing his iconic weird smile in front of Wei Liang.
At this moment, Wei Liang still took a step forward...
"Ouch, why did my shoelace fall off?"
He suddenly stopped walking, bent down, and started tying his shoelaces.
The chef in the green bib was slightly startled, and then he twisted his body in an unreasonable way like a twist, and then pressed the back of his head against the floor tile, and then slowly reached in front of Wei Liang...
But at this moment, Wei Liang tied his shoelaces and stood up.
"Fuck, Lao Lin, don't walk so fast! Wait for me!"
He took easy steps and easily stepped over the chef in the green bib who had twisted his body into a pretzel and lay on the ground, trying to attract his attention, and then walked towards Lin Yi and the others.
The green-bibbed chef froze in place, totally unable to comprehend what had just happened.
When Lin Yi heard Wei Liang's call, he looked back from the queue at the meal purchase window No. 3. This glance instantly made them aware of the presence of the chef in the green bib, and their hearts instantly rose to their throats.
"Liangzi, you...?!"
"My shoelaces were loose, and I almost fell behind when I tried to tie them!" Wei Liang said this, but all the muscles in his body began to relax, and sweat was pouring down his forehead, looking like he had survived a disaster.
He waved his hands repeatedly, hinting to Lin Yi that he had indeed been intercepted by the chef in the green bib: "Don't mention it, don't mention anything... I have a few tricks in my life, but they are just trifles, not worth telling others."
Lin Yi also breathed a sigh of relief for him. He couldn't help but elbow him and scolded him with a smile: "You use so many idioms. Are you going to take the postgraduate entrance examination?"
"Damn it, Ryoko can't hide it anymore. Under the pressure of the situation, he really exposed some extreme operations!"
"But what about the green hat? Why did it appear without any warning? I didn't have any premonition at all?"
"Its target is Liangzi? Or... Liangzi triggered some mechanism of its?"
When Lin Yi just started to think about these questions, a feeling of being watched sprouted in his heart.
This feeling was a bit long-lost for him, but despite this, it was still extremely familiar.
"Is this what I'm being watched for?"
"Hehe, it has a bit of the flavor of the inhuman classmate mechanism." There is no doubt that the green-bibbed chef who was staring at Wei Liang just now shifted his attention to Lin Yi when Lin Yi thought of it.
As the green-bibbed chef looked at him, Lin Yi gradually began to sense that cold, eager, and vicious feeling, but he did not show much abnormality. He simply thought of the scene of the boss's flying kick in his mind and diverted his attention away.
During the ordering process, the chef in the green bib floated around them like a ghost, but after being ignored for a while, he walked away silently and began to look for other targets.
The breakfast in the cafeteria of S City University includes white porridge, noodles, buns, fried dough sticks, etc. Without being sure of the ingredients in the meat buns, Lin Yi chose a fried dough stick, an egg, a bowl of porridge and a cup of soy milk.
What’s outrageous is that the breakfast fruits provided by the cafeteria include cherry tomatoes.
Lin Yi and the others silently avoided the cherry tomatoes and chose a portion of yogurt.
During this time, the blue bib chef who liked to replace yogurt and tomatoes when no one was paying attention appeared again, but he had a separate tomato in his hand instead of using cherry tomatoes to replace their yogurt.
There weren't many people queuing for breakfast, so it only took them 5 minutes to buy their breakfast. By the time they sat down with their trays, it was already 7:27.
Lin Yi glanced at the outside of the student cafeteria. Up to now, people who looked like students had been coming in one after another to line up.
"When the sports students come to the cafeteria, they seem to take off their sportswear." Lin Yi took a bite of the fried dough stick, "I wonder if this is required by the sports student rules."
"Most likely." Tian Bufan peeled the eggshell slowly. "Anything that has something in common is almost always part of the law."
Lin Yi nodded: "Speaking of which, should we have a general direction for exploration? For example, what should we explore first?"
Tian Bufan took a sip of soy milk and said, "I have a preliminary plan, but it doesn't apply to you. As for you, I have a suggestion in a general direction."
Lin Yi put down the fried dough sticks: "Tell me quickly."
"Didn't you dream about Maozi and him going to the art building? Then use the round-trip route in the art student code you saw in your dream as a clue to find something related to it."
“As long as there are enough fragments, even if you can’t piece together a complete picture, you can at least piece together a rough outline.”
"Then, we'll wait until we meet again to coordinate the information."
"The experience period is seven days in total. I estimate that seven days is the average number of days from zero pollution to exceeding the pollution threshold."
"Because for people who are not polluted, theoretically it is no problem to experience it for any number of days, so the seven-day limit is very intriguing, and it is very likely what I guessed."
"That is to say, Maozi theoretically has seven days of safety. Of course, this time may be a conservative value. Once the pollution worsens, it may not last for seven days."
Tian Bufan stopped here and took a sip of porridge.
Lin Yi seemed to be thinking about something. He originally had a vague plan in his mind, but after listening to Tian Bufan's words, his thoughts instantly became clear: "Okay, let's do it."
"Remember, the premise of exploration is to abide by the rules." Tian Bufan reminded again and again, "For things written in the rules, before the underlying logic of its formulation is clear, try to comply with the requirements from the 'literal meaning'."
“When it comes to opinions about rules given by others, you must keep your own guesses and judgments.”
"If it is something that is not mentioned in the code or by others, try to think conservatively in order to maintain your own safety."
"Okay." Lin Yi nodded.
"And one last thing... Remember, rules are dead, but people are alive. Don't let the rules force you into a dead end."
"Ok?"
"Anyway, 'being alive' is the most fundamental core." Tian Bufan raised his head and drank the last sip of soy milk. "This soy milk tastes okay. I'll go get another bowl. Do you want one?"
"I don't need it." Lin Yi had no mood to enjoy breakfast. Worried about Mao Feiyang, he just wanted to have a quick breakfast and fill his stomach.
Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji were also eating their breakfast.
Kuai Hongji's breakfast was even lighter than Lin Yi's, but Wei Shan took six meat buns alone.
Wei Liang was eating silently on the side. When Lin Yi and Tian Bufan were chatting, he seemed to have shut himself off.
But before Tian Bufan came back, someone ignored everyone and sat in the seat vacated by Tian Bufan.
Lin Yi and Tian Bufan were sitting face to face. Seeing this, he couldn't help but look over. However, when his gaze just moved up and fell on the other person's plate, he was stunned for a moment.
I saw that the other person's plate was full of cherry tomatoes.
Lin Yi's scalp suddenly felt numb, and it seemed as if a chill was rushing out from the top of his head.
He did not continue to look up, but slowly lowered his gaze. The other party ate cherry tomatoes, so he must not be an experienced person. It is better to have less trouble than more, so he decided not to look at each other for the time being.
He then lowered his head to his porridge and took another bite of the fried dough stick, but his eyes fell on the smooth metal surface of the alloy plate, trying to use the mirror reflection to peek at what was sitting opposite him.
But the dinner plate is not a mirror after all. Even if there is a reflection, the lines are distorted like a funhouse mirror. However, he still saw some outlines of the other person, and... the other person was wearing some green clothes.
"It's a polluter, but it's not a 'cook', and it doesn't have the aura of a non-human classmate... It should be a unit in the art building."
Despite this, Lin Yi still couldn't confirm the other party's exact identity, because he remembered that the art student code stated that normal art students could eat tomatoes under certain circumstances, but Lin Yi didn't know what exactly that situation was.
But what is certain is that the person sitting opposite is probably somewhere between a "normal art student", a "weird art student", and "someone like a 'sailor suit girl'".
He had heard Xu Shunkang say that girls in sailor suits were art students, but perhaps with Xu Shunkang's level of cognition, he could not know the more detailed division of art units like art students like Mu Daxian.
Just as he was guessing, the guy opposite stuffed a small tomato into his mouth and started chewing it.
As he put them into his mouth one by one, the unique smell of tomato juice soon spread out, but Lin Yi knew that "tomatoes are hearts", so he soon smelled some bloody smell that made him nauseous...
"Tomato-type elements are indeed flesh and blood elements... tomatoes are hearts, so what are cherry tomatoes?"
If it were a day ago, he would have probably already started to fall through the layers due to distorted cognition and fallen into some kind of deep darkness when this thought came to his mind.
But now, only the expression on his face changed slightly.
Since he had already overwritten his cognition, when this thought came to his mind, all his thoughts went smoothly and effortlessly as if it were a natural process.
The good news is that the ear examination did not show otitis media, but the bad news is that it was neurological tinnitus and I was a little deaf... Oh... Oh...
(End of this chapter)