Chapter 328 Lao Mo and the Store Owner

Chapter 328 Lao Mo and the Store Owner

Chapter 328 Lao Mo and the Store Owner
Looking at Lin Yi who suddenly fell asleep in his arms, the boss's face looked a little unnatural at first, and then this unnatural look disappeared like melting ice and snow, and was replaced by a sigh of helplessness and relief.

She helped Lin Yi up and put him on a seat beside her.

"Boss, Lin Yi...?" Li Huiyuan also noticed Lin Yi's problem, but the boss appeared too suddenly, otherwise she would have gone to support Lin Yi.

The disappearance of the Forest of Dead Steles and the pseudo-human athletes, and the disappearance of all the aura in the dome, all meant the end of the "feast". Not only did Li Huiyuan come out of her dry eating state, but the other athletes also recovered.

"He's fine, he just... ate too much." The old man said, "It's still early, let him rest here for a while. If he wakes up early, let him leave the gym. If he wakes up late, let him stay and help us."

The boss said this and raised Lin Yi's hand.

"Come here and hold his hand."

"Ah? Oh~ OK~" Li Huiyuan quickly came over and took Lin Yi's hand, "And then, Boss?"

"Just hold it like this, make sure some of his limbs stay in contact with you, and then wait for him to wake up."

"Oh..." Li Huiyuan responded.

"I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. Xia Lian, you and Hui Huizi should look after Lin Yi together. Don't leave him alone."

Xia Lian nodded quickly: "Okay."

The boss turned and left. At this moment, the physical education teacher's loud voice also rang out under the dome:

"All the students on the second floor of the stands, listen up!"

"As a physical education teacher, I cancel the three instructions issued!"

"You can open your eyes now and follow the guidance of the gym teacher to stay or return to the gym!"

Wei Liang, who was on the second floor of the stands, opened his eyes when he heard the command, looked around, then stood up and walked down the stairs.

He saw Lin Yi sleeping on the first floor of the stands, but did not go over. Instead, he shouted from a distance: "Xia Lian! Hey~ here~ look at me~"

Xia Lian rolled her eyes and walked over to Wei Liang: "What are you doing?"

Wei Liang said, "I have to follow the teacher's instructions and go back to the gym. Is Lao Lin okay?"

"He's soundly asleep, what could possibly happen?"

"That's good, that's good..." Wei Liang seemed relieved, and then said, "Then you tell Lao Lin, I'll go to the gymnasium and wait for him first."

"Go, go..." Xia Lian waved her hands impatiently, her eyes seemed to be saying, I told you not to follow us just now, now you need a middleman to pass on a message.

Wei Liang touched the back of his head guiltily, then walked into the emergency passage.

At this moment, there were already several physical education teachers standing at the safety passage. They were "screening" the experience students' stay or departure according to the boss's arrangement. Wei Liang easily passed their screening and returned to the gymnasium.

As the trainees left, the water on the playground slowly disappeared as if it was seeping into the ground. The dome of the giant dome began to open to both sides, as if a crack had appeared in the sky, and the light in the sky fell down along with the misty dust.

The dome opened, and the sky was dim. Judging from the light, it was already late. Purple and red clouds were floating in the western sky, and the setting sun was already above the mountains, like a poached egg about to be taken out of the pot.

God, it's getting dark.

And Lin Yi was still sleeping.

In a corner of the stands, art students were still sitting. Although they were participating in the "feast", their presence was very low. If you didn't look closely, you wouldn't even notice their presence.

What is strange is that, except for the time when the art students entered as "guests" at the beginning, until now when the "feast" is over, no one has had any communication with the art students.

……

Time passed quietly, and looking out from the open-air area of ​​the dome, the sun had set and night had fallen.

The cold evening breeze blew, mixed with some chill after the rain, falling like dusk, making people feel a little chilly.

Li Huiyuan shivered and couldn't help but stroke her arm, frowning slightly: "It's so cold... Why hasn't he woken up yet?"

"I don't know..." Xia Lian shook her head slightly. "Looking at this state, I'm afraid he won't wake up for a while. But from what the boss said, he will probably wake up before the night ends. Let's wait a little longer."

"Hmm..." Li Huiyuan pursed her lips, then wanted to take off her school uniform and put it on Lin Yi.

Xia Lian gently stopped her from doing this and shook her head, "Don't do this, these are our clothes...'athlete's clothes'."

Li Huiyuan was stunned at first, then she immediately understood. She hesitated for a moment, then put her thighs together and put Lin Yi on her thighs.

"This should be better..." Her face was a little red, and her heart was beating fast. She seemed to be guilty, but when she felt Lin Yi's even breathing, she calmed down.

She held Lin Yi's hand with one hand and placed the other hand on his body, feeling Lin Yi's body temperature. From time to time, she stroked him like petting a cat, using friction to make him feel warmer.

Xia Lian looked at Li Huiyuan and smiled: "You seem to care about him very much."

Li Huiyuan's face flushed for a moment, then she smiled calmly: "Are you concerned?"

"Do not you think so?"

"I don't know either... He was very concerned about me before. Compared to that, what I have done is nothing."

Xia Lian curled her lips and said nothing.

But Li Huiyuan muttered to herself: "Lin Yi... is a bit hypocritical. Although he always talks about cannon fodder, he doesn't do it at the critical moment..."

"He helped me a lot, and I don't know how I can help him... whatever I can help is good..."

"Your relationship... is really strange." Xia Lian looked at her and said.

"Is it weird?" Li Huiyuan lifted her hair that had fallen down because she was looking down at Lin Yi, and looked at Lin Yi who was breathing evenly, and murmured, "Not weird, right?"

……

May 023, X5, 9:19, cafeteria area, end of the student passage.

Somewhere in a hazy area where the boundary between light and shadow could not be distinguished, Lao Mo was frozen there like a sculpture. He maintained the posture of a thinker, his eyes seemed to be looking at the petrified light bulb in his hand that he got from Lin Yi, but they also seemed empty and lifeless, and it was unknown where his eyes were focused.

At a certain moment, his body suddenly trembled, and then he seemed to sense something, and his empty and somewhat distracted eyes gradually gathered a little light.

He stood up straight and looked in a certain direction on the campus. In that place, the rolling fog was like smoke coming out of a boiling pot, rolling hideously and covering half of the turbid night sky. After a moment, he slowly moved and slowly came to the entrance of the student cafeteria, lifted the plastic curtain and walked in.

“Wow…”

When he opened the plastic curtain, it was as if he had uncovered a corner of some turbid territory. The cold wind rushed in from the cracked area along with him, disturbing those gloomy and evil things...

After he entered the student cafeteria, all the chefs in green bibs shuddered violently. They, who had been wandering in the cafeteria like ghosts, trying to seduce the students, now restrained their devilish and strange tones and retreated to the dark area not covered by the lights.

The shadow at the meal purchase window No. 10 quickly closed the window, as if it had never existed.

Some pseudo-human art students who were having dinner seemed to be shrouded in an inexplicable atmosphere. They lowered their heads and shrunk their necks, covering their sight like covering their ears and stealing the bell, as if as long as they didn't pay attention to Lao Mo, Lao Mo would not sense them.

All non-human units were terrified and faced with a formidable enemy because of Lao Mo's sudden appearance.

But Lao Mo's attention was not on them at all. He seemed not to care about these guys at all.

He walked back and forth in the student cafeteria without stopping, quickly found the location of the canteen, and walked in without hesitation.

Looking at Lao Mo's figure disappearing into the half-open door of the canteen with a gray mist of light floating in it, all the units that "saw" Lao Mo breathed a sigh of relief, especially some pseudo-art students, who were already sweating profusely and their limbs were trembling.

In the canteen.

Lao Mo looked around and kept moving back and forth in the shelf area. He seemed to be looking for something, but there seemed to be nothing in the shelf area that could make him stop.

He finally stopped at the shopping terminal.

"I don't have time to play hide-and-seek with you. I know you're back..." He suddenly spoke, his speech speed was normal, more like a normal person than when he was chatting with Mu Daxian, but he was talking to the air, "...Boss."

As soon as he finished speaking, the interior of the entire store seemed to distort. Light and shadows were in chaos, and the shelves were twisted like swaying seaweed.

Lao Mo's shadow was also stretched out under the light from behind him.

Gradually, another figure appeared slowly, and judging from the position, it was right behind Lao Mo.

"Can I turn back?" Lao Mo asked.

"It depends on you." The voice of the convenience store owner sounded slowly.

His voice was very calm, without too many emotional fluctuations, and all you could tell was that it was a magnetic male voice.

Lao Mo thought for a moment, then turned around slowly.

The next moment, a hint of sadness flashed across his eyes: "Boss, you..."

"Don't be sad, this is inevitable..."

Lao Mo was silent for a moment, and wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the shop owner: "You don't need to think too much about my business, just tell me your business, why do you come to me?"

Lao Mo said, "I'm going to the art building."

"Once you leave the cafeteria, your strength will rapidly drain away. You are courting death."

"I know, but I have to go..." Lao Mo said in a low voice, "I don't have many friends, and that kid is one of them. If he dies, I will be very sad."

"He would be sad if you died."

"But I'm already dead. Now I'm just a lingering ghost with a remnant of will... I also know that I'm just a puppet that you use to guard the city. Now that you're back, I think I should fight again for my last will..."

"So do you have a plan? If you just keep fighting to the death, it means you're not making any progress."

"I don't have a plan... You know, all plans are empty. I can only deal with it according to the "framework", keep the direction of a major event, and the rest is all improvisation. But..." He glanced at the light bulb in his hand, "I won't die there... That's why I came to you. I can't do this move by myself."

The store owner stared at him, and the entire store seemed to be twisted into a dough stick, and even Lao Mo's body seemed to have become a part of the dough stick.

There was silence all around, and finally a sighing sound was heard in the darkness.

"I understand……"

As the sigh fell, a wisp of gray flame pierced through Lao Mo's body.

What was strange was that after being burned through, the charred parts of Lao Mo's body immediately revived, turned into tender granulations of flesh, and then began to heal by wriggling and twisting.

In just a few breaths, Lao Mo stood there as if nothing had happened.

"Thank you..." Even though his chest was burned through by the convenience store owner, Lao Mo was not angry at all. Instead, he thanked him.

"When you get there, give a message to the Night's Watch for me... and bring me some loot."

"it is good."

"In that case, go ahead, but I still have to remind you... their invasion will reach its peak during the nights of today and tomorrow. You must be well protected, otherwise even if you reach the Art Building, it will be of no use."

"Don't worry about that. I've already found a guarantee." Lao Mo turned the light bulb in his hand around and said, "I'm leaving now."

The store owner did not respond, but the originally distorted store gradually returned to normal, and the light and shadows were no longer weird.

The convenience store was empty, and it seemed as if the owner did not exist at all.

Lao Mo walked to the exit of the store, and seemed to have thought of something. He turned back and took a bed sheet from the shelf. Then, like a thief buying for free, he grabbed a bunch of biscuits and water from the shelf. After packing them all up, he left the store like a snail...

……

X023, 20:03, at the signboard in front of the cafeteria.

Lao Mo's figure flashed past the signboard, and no one knew where he went after leaving the store. There was an extra bag behind him, even more than before.

He came to the "Canteen-001" lamppost without stopping, and his eyes swept across the entire campus like a radar. In the vast fog, it seemed that nothing could escape his insight.

Finally, his gaze fell in the direction of the gymnasium.

"found it……"

He muttered something, stepped from the cafeteria area into the gymnasium area, and then disappeared in two or three steps onto the cobblestone road that was already shrouded in thick fog.

(End of this chapter)