Chapter 144: Blue Bib Chef's Chapter
Chapter 144: Words from the Blue Bib Chef
Lin Yi withdrew his gaze from the outer wall of the cafeteria and looked around.
The cafeteria area was already full of experience students, those who knew each other and those who didn’t were all crowded together. There were quite a lot of people, and they were all waiting for the cafeteria to open like hungry chicks.
Although the cafeteria was not closed, no one dared to enter the student passage in advance. Everyone waited at the entrance of the student passage and was very well behaved.
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
15: 59.
There is less than a minute left until the cafeteria opens.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a pleading voice not far away. The voice was intermittent and drifted to his ears with the wind.
The sound...came from another passage.
Lin Yi looked in the direction of the voice and saw a girl slumped at the entrance of another passage going down the mountain path. She tried to grab Xu Shunkang's sleeve, begging for something bitterly.
"That girl...?" A strange look flashed in Lin Yi's eyes. He recognized her. That girl was Pan Jian's female companion. She was also the one who said in the morning that digital cameras were something that carried an ominous sign.
Lin Yi quickly grasped some information from the pleading voice. Basically, the girl was very scared and felt terrified and uncomfortable with life on campus. She hoped that Xu Shunkang could take her to the student cafeteria through other passages. She also said something like "she only trusts athletes" and "please ask athletes to help her"...
Lin Yi sighed inwardly. This person was just extremely nervous in the morning, very sensitive and fearful of the outside world, but after a day, she has become somewhat neurotic. Although she still holds a student ID, her will seems to have been destroyed.
"Hey, she wouldn't have skipped breakfast and lunch, right?" Lin Yi suddenly realized that he met Li Huiyuan and Pan Jian yesterday when he returned to the classroom after dinner.
And before that, when he returned to the classroom from the gymnasium, he hadn't seen them yet!
That is, they didn't have dinner... and this morning, only a limited number of people went out for breakfast, and some people didn't even see the sun today.
Then... in Lin Yi's impression, that girl didn't seem to have left the classroom.
"So, this is her first time eating in the cafeteria since she entered the school? And it's her first time in 24 hours!"
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes suddenly.
Although the rules for experience students do not explicitly stipulate that students must eat in the cafeteria once within 24 hours like the rules for art students, but... judging from Wei Liang's last visit, there will definitely be problems if he does not eat in the cafeteria all the time.
After realizing this, Lin Yi suddenly felt a little curious about this girl, and wanted to know what would happen to her next... a sense of anticipation.
"Perhaps... we can observe the boundaries of the rules from her perspective."
"etc!"
Just when he had this thought, a sense of panic suddenly flashed through his mind.
This feeling of panic was not because he had sensed something again, but a reaction to his self-awareness: "Just now... I actually felt like I was watching a mouse in a laboratory with her?!"
He no longer had any sympathy for the girl whose layer was extremely unstable. Instead, he was filled with thoughts like "Let's see what will happen to this girl next" and "Let's see how she will be polluted."
He felt a surge of panic and uneasiness about the indifference and cold attitude that emerged in his subconscious mind towards the life and death of others, followed by a surge of fear and horror.
“Is this really what I think?”
"Could it be that I was shocked by what Mr. Tian said about 'using others as chess pieces to test the rules', and then some similar thoughts came to my subconscious mind?"
At this moment, the sports students in front of other passages did not intend to bother with the girl anymore. They simply ignored her and entered other passages. Then, the girl got up from the ground in a mess, and as if she had made up some kind of decision, she gritted her teeth and followed the sports students into other passages.
But before she could enter other passages, she was impatiently kicked out by a sports student. Then, from a distance, Lin Yi could hear the sports student's abuse: "Don't you understand what people say? If you are a student, go to the student passage! Get out!"
After the girl was kicked out, her emotions exploded and she fell to the ground and burst into tears.
Li Huiyuan also noticed the situation over there, and some empathetic micro-expressions suddenly appeared on her face, but just when some thoughts came to her mind, Lin Yi's words stopped her like cold water poured over her head: "The clay Buddha can't save himself when crossing the river, so don't meddle in other people's business."
"It's time, let's go in."
He glanced at his watch.
16: 01.
A minute passed because he wasted it observing the girl.
In just one minute, some of the experience students around Lin Yi had already entered the student passage.
After Lin Yi finished speaking, Li Huiyuan nodded obediently and followed them into the student passage.
Just as he entered the student passage, Lin Yi suddenly felt something, looked towards the west, and then couldn't help but narrowed his eyes.
The sun seems to be lower today than it was at the same time yesterday. It’s only 4pm but it’s almost the same as 5pm yesterday…
He stepped into the student passage, climbed the stairs under the light of incandescent lamps, and walked to the end of the passage.
But before he had walked far, he found Li Huiyuan covering her eyes with her hands.
"What's wrong with you?" Lin Yi asked.
Li Huiyuan hesitated and said, "Nothing, I just feel that the lights here are a bit dazzling."
"Ah? It's dazzling?" Lin Yi looked around the passage in surprise, then nodded, "It's a bit dazzling."
He lied.
The incandescent light now was not much different from yesterday, but it seemed to be a bit dazzling to Li Huiyuan...
He had not thought of this, because the incandescent lamps in the teaching building were lit at 18:00, the same as the street lamps in the campus, while the incandescent lamps inside the student passage were always on 24 hours a day. But now they were about to reach the student cafeteria, and as long as they found the canteen, there would be room for maneuver, so there was no need to tell this matter and make Li Huiyuan more flustered.
A moment later, the exit of the student passage was in sight.
Lin Yi suddenly felt something touching his palm, so he subconsciously retracted his hand and dodged it.
"Mr. Lin...can you hold my hand?" Li Huiyuan beside him asked weakly. She just felt uncomfortable as if she was being stared at, so she subconsciously reached out for Lin Yi's hand, but Lin Yi subconsciously dodged as much as he could.
Lin Yi realized something and took Li Huiyuan's hand.
Li Huiyuan's hands were still smooth and soft, but a little cold. When he held Li Huiyuan's hand, Li Huiyuan held his hand tightly, as if she was holding a life-saving rope.
"Are you afraid of the chef in the blue bib at the exit of the passage?" Lin Yi asked in a low voice.
Li Huiyuan nodded: "It has been staring at me since just now..."
"Don't worry, we'll go around it later and avoid passing through the area around it."
"it is good."
……
They soon arrived at the exit of the student passage, but this time, the chef in the blue bib did not have the familiar iconic smile on his face. Instead, he stared at Li Huiyuan with wide eyes. Before Li Huiyuan got close to the exit, his hands, which were originally folded on his lower abdomen, were stretched out towards her.
"Never mind it, let's go!"
Lin Yi held Li Huiyuan's hand, quickened his pace and walked out from the other side of the passage, bypassing the blue bib chef of "Ru Zai".
However, just as he was about to walk out of the student passage, a low and dry voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
At the same time, Li Huiyuan's steps suddenly paused, and the hands held by the two suddenly tightened.
Lin Yi felt that his hand was grabbing a stone. In the tense moment, instead of pulling Li Huiyuan, he was pulled back a step by Li Huiyuan!
"Li Huiyuan? Li..." As soon as he turned around, he saw that Li Huiyuan had turned her head to look at the chef in the blue bib!
"Damn!" A chill suddenly stung his scalp like frost.
However, before he could start to think about whether Li Huiyuan's change just now was "subjective" or "passive", the dry voice that had reached his ears before suddenly became clear...
[Go to...the store...]
[In the cafeteria...without lights...under the sun...]
[Go find them... before they target you... go to the store...]
【Go quickly...】
Lin Yi looked at it in surprise, only to find that it was looking into Li Huiyuan's eyes, its lips moving stiffly but no sound came out - yes, the blue bib chef was speaking, but no sound came out!
Its words seemed to be in some special layer band, like an audio clip "sent privately" to Li Huiyuan, but for some reason he had "eavesdropped" on it in the middle.
Just like... at some strange moment before, he understood the communication and curses coming from the squirming skin of the nocturnal creatures...
He tried to pull Li Huiyuan, and then found that Li Huiyuan's body seemed to be frozen, and her hands were still as cold as before, but she did not release that kind of cold breath.
A few seconds later, Li Huiyuan withdrew her gaze from the blue-bibbed chef of "Ru Zai", then looked at Lin Yi with a very strange expression and said in shock: "Student Lin! Just now, it... Let's go to the side first..."
"Okay." Lin Yi did not refute. He took Li Huiyuan's hand and caught up with Wei Liang and Wei Shan, and came to the corner where they were waiting for Tian Bufan at noon.
After standing still, Lin Yi asked, "What did you want to say about it?"
"Wait a minute!" Wei Liang's expression was very serious, as if he had seen a terrible disaster, which scared Li Huiyuan.
Li Huiyuan quickly shut her mouth and looked at Wei Liang seriously. She thought to herself that there were indeed many hidden talents around Lin. This Wei Liang seemed to be another big shot. She wondered what shocking secrets he would reveal next. And...
Moreover, Li Huiyuan discovered that Lin Yi's expression also became solemn. This showed that this Wei Liang was hiding very deeply. If he didn't make a move, it would be fine. But once he made a move, it would be an explosive start.
But she didn't know Lin Yi and Wei Liang at all, and she didn't know that Lin Yi's serious expression was because he predicted that Wei Liang would say something outrageous next.
As expected, Wei Liang gnashed his teeth and said disdainfully: "That's all we can say, but can you please separate your hands first? There are so many people coming and going here, and I haven't seen you two holding hands like this!"
Then he covered his ears with his hands.
A string of ellipsis floated over Lin Yi's head. He predicted that Wei Liang would say some nonsense, but he didn't expect that the angle of this nonsense would be so tricky.
Upon hearing this, Li Huiyuan let go of Lin Yi's hand a little embarrassedly.
However, at this moment, Lin Yi suddenly discovered that extremely thin wisps of white mist were emerging from Li Huiyuan's palm.
When he looked closely, he found a scar as thick as a hair in Li Huiyuan's palm lines. This scar was exactly the same as the one on her back, except that the scar on her back was emitting green mist, while this scar was emitting white mist. No, this white mist was a kind of pollutant. It looked like mountain fog to the naked eye, but in essence... it was still green mist!
Moreover, this scar almost overlapped with the lines on her palm. If he hadn't noticed it just when she let go of her hand, he would not have noticed it at all.
But when Lin Yi thought about it, he found that this was not a coincidence, but a sign that had been foreshadowed.
He thought about the time when he was holding Li Huiyuan's hand. Once Li Huiyuan became unstable and started falling, his palm would become extremely cold. Now it seems that the green mist has been coming out since that time?
"Wait, where is this mist...going?!"
Lin Yi's eyes suddenly widened. The green mist floating out of Li Huiyuan's palm, its final destination... turned out to be his palm? !
There was a thin green mist hovering in the center of his palm. It was dissipating, but it was still moving crazily as it dissipated, as if it was trying to get into his palm...
"Fuck?! Hey, you fucking bastard!" Lin Yi almost broke down and shook his hands subconsciously.
With this flick, the already thin green mist dissipated on the spot.
"So when I held hands with Li Huiyuan, the green mist in her palm tried to get into my hand? Why is that? Is it because I was marked by the green mist mark? That's not possible, right...?"
(End of this chapter)