Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi glanced at his palm, then at Li Huiyuan's hand.

After their hands separated, the green mist no longer seeped out from Li Huiyuan's side.

"This is really damn weird… is that green mist treating my hand as an outlet?"

However, what made Lin Yi feel even weirder was Wei Liang.

A simple sentence like "Separate your hands" allowed him to notice these details; he didn't believe it wasn't intentional.

"Damn, what are you looking at? I've already covered my ears, what more do you want me to do? Do you want me to grow another hand to cover my eyes too?"

Wei Liang, seeing Lin Yi looking over, immediately became agitated and retorted directly, then pouted, shrank his neck, and muttered quietly, "It's really hateful! It's only been a few days since school started, and already a girl is following him around, not even thinking of bringing his good buddy along! His buddy is still in the theoretical stage!"

"Liangzi, what are you muttering about?" Lin Yi's voice came from the side.

"Muttering my ass!" Wei Liang roared like a fire-breathing dragon, startling Lin Yi.

"Stop lying to yourself, your hand is leaking secrets," Lin Yi said speechlessly, wondering what was the point of Liangzi covering his ears; was he just deceiving himself?

He turned to look at Li Huiyuan and continued, "Keep talking, what's wrong with it?"

Li Huiyuan lowered her voice and said, "It wants me to find the convenience store…"

Despite having guessed it in his heart, Lin Yi's pupils still trembled slightly when he heard Li Huiyuan say it herself, and countless thoughts about the blue-aproned chef from 'As In' instantly surged in his mind, but now was not the time to waste time dwelling on this issue, so he hurriedly said, "How did it say it, roughly?"

Li Huiyuan didn't need to organize her thoughts and said directly, "It wants me to find the convenience store, and before 'they' notice me, go to the convenience store immediately, and it also said that the convenience store is in the cafeteria, in a place without lights but with sunlight."

The language was extremely concise, but the information was relatively complex and a bit mysterious.

If it had been a day ago, Lin Yi would have pondered something, but now he just nodded slightly and pondered briefly: "Sounds… a bit interesting, did it say who 'they' are?"

"It didn't say," Li Huiyuan shook her head, "But I guess it's the Nightwalkers."

Lin Yi pondered slightly, then glanced at the student cafeteria: "Perhaps there are not only Nightwalkers, but also… those green-aproned chefs."

Li Huiyuan's heart trembled, and she instantly recalled the horror of being chased by the green-aproned chefs, her face immediately turning pale: "Do you think… they might be waiting for me in the student cafeteria?"

"I can't guarantee they aren't; I haven't figured out their mechanisms yet… All I know are two things: the first is that they will try to put things containing tomato elements in our food, and the second is that they will chase us when we leave."

"But Lin… I don't have my student ID anymore; in your words, my safe state is uncertain."

Lin Yi pursed his lips slightly: "Let's play it by ear; at least what the blue-aproned chef and the homeroom teacher said is consistent, so we should first find the location of the convenience store."

A "place without lights but with sunlight" seemed very mysterious, but it wasn't difficult to find.

The only danger was that when searching for the shadowy area, they shouldn't have unnecessary hallucinations and fall into another layer.

Li Huiyuan was bound to fall into another layer; the key was that he shouldn't fall into another layer with her.

Although he believed that his perception had been expanded and extended, and his newbie village had expanded a bit, this expansion was not enough in this crisis-ridden environment.

For example, the layer at the swimming pool in the gymnasium; every time he thought of it, he could feel a little palpitation.

And that non-existent road; he had first stumbled back in a mess on that road.

"Otherwise, why don't you guys go in first?" Seeing Lin Yi lost in thought, Wei Shan suggested.

Lin Yi glanced at Wei Shan in surprise; he had originally planned to ask Wei Shan about the Nightwalkers while waiting for Tian Bufan to arrive, but now the blue-aproned chef's suggestion to Li Huiyuan seemed more urgent.

"I'll wait here with him for Young Master Tian and see if Yin Bi comes to have dinner," Wei Shan glanced at Wei Liang.

Wei Liang quickly raised his hands above his head, surrendering: "Hey, hey, hey… I don't want to be alone with him; why don't we go in together? I'll eat mine and find a table to sit down first; you guys do your thing, and we won't interfere with each other."

Lin Yi glanced at his watch.

16:10.

It was 16:01 when they entered the student passage; after walking through the passage and discussing for a while, the time was about right.

And the dinner meeting time he and Tian Bufan had agreed on was no later than 18:30…

There were still about two and a half hours left.

Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan, and Li Huiyuan tried her best to force a smile at him, as if saying she would listen to him.

Lin Yi sighed quietly and decided to follow Wei Shan's suggestion and take Li Huiyuan to the student cafeteria to find the convenience store first.

Just as he made his decision, he seemed to hear the blue-aproned chef's low voice again, only this time, it was clearer than before:

【Go to the convenience store quickly…】

【It's too late… it's going to be too late…】

【Hurry…】

Lin Yi's heart trembled suddenly; he couldn't tell from the literal meaning whether the blue-aproned chef was saying "It's going to be too late" or "It's going to be over."

"Let's go!" Lin Yi decisively grabbed Li Huiyuan's hand and walked towards the entrance of the student cafeteria.

The corner they were in was very close to the entrance of the student cafeteria, but just these few steps, he felt a slight discomfort as soon as he moved, as if something was coming towards him.

This feeling usually came from behind, but now it was coming from the front, which was very wrong, like…

Lin Yi suddenly focused his gaze on the plastic curtain.

It was as if something was hiding behind the plastic curtain, staring at him.

The student cafeteria, with the plastic curtain as the boundary, could almost be considered two layers; the scene seen from behind the plastic curtain, no matter how normal, was just an illusion.

It was like drawing a lucky bag; only when it was opened would you know whether it contained a deceptive trinket or a deceptive big thing.

He glanced at the sign at the entrance of the student cafeteria, confirmed that there was no problem with the entrance, and then reached out and slowly lifted the plastic curtain.

A cold aura permeated directly from the gap where the plastic curtain was lifted…

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes instantly, and the momentum of lifting the curtain and stepping into the cafeteria in one go slowed down as a result.

As the plastic curtain was lifted, the empty scene behind it was revealed in front of Lin Yi.

"No?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, but the killing intent, like a sword hanging overhead, became even more pronounced.

"No… No, that's not right!"

Lin Yi sensed something and his gaze fell on the floor tiles inside the student cafeteria.

The fluorescent lights inside the student cafeteria were always on, and at this moment, in the shadows formed by the interlacing of the fluorescent light, a clump of shadow was clearly visible above his figure…

A chill instantly ran down Lin Yi's spine, then surged into his brain: "Above!"

The instant he realized the problem, a strong urge to look up welled up in his subconscious, but another force of will held his neck down as if he were suppressing a gun.

He didn't enter the student cafeteria, but after lifting the plastic curtain, he forcibly stopped in place in an awkward posture.

He was separated from the student cafeteria only by the boundary line drawn by the plastic curtain.

The scene seemed to freeze at this moment, and time seemed to solidify at this moment.

Then, suddenly something dripped down from above him, falling at his feet with a "splatter," breaking the silence.

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Lin Yi shifted his gaze downward and saw a pool of viscous, ketchup-like substance on his feet.

His pupils contracted slightly.

"Splatter…"

Another drop of this substance landed on his feet.

Lin Yi remained motionless.

However, because he braked too suddenly, even with the tendency to decelerate, Li Huiyuan still crashed into his back unexpectedly.

But Lin Yi, who should have been knocked into the student cafeteria by Li Huiyuan's inertia, stood firmly in place like an old tree with complex roots, and his seemingly thin body unexpectedly withstood all the weight.

Li Huiyuan suddenly found Lin Yi's back very cold.

Not the kind of cold caused by a dropped texture, but the kind of cold caused by cold sweat seeping out from his back and then being absorbed by his clothes…

Li Huiyuan's heart skipped a beat, vaguely aware of some abnormality. At the same time, she also saw a drop of ketchup pass in front of Lin Yi and fall to the ground.

"Don't look up!" Lin Yi's low voice sounded in her ear.

But it was too late. Li Huiyuan's will was not as strong as his. Almost as soon as she saw the ketchup, she uncontrollably, confusedly, and subconsciously raised her head and looked at the source of the ketchup…

The scene before her eyes almost drove her crazy.

She saw a chef in a green apron hanging upside down on the plastic curtain of the student cafeteria, his body folded and twisted like a giant humanoid spider.

At this moment, it was hanging directly above where Lin Yi was about to step forward, and its head had slowly protruded past the door frame, undisguisedly displaying various evil emotions such as greed, bloodlust, and desire on its face.

Li Huiyuan couldn't judge how it was hanging with just one glance, but its bizarre posture still made people shudder.

It was eating tomatoes that it usually couldn't bear to eat. The viscous tomato juice flowed down its mouth to its forehead, then slowly flowed down along its chef's hat, and finally "splattered" onto the ground…

Suddenly, the humanoid spider-like chef in the green apron twitched its nostrils, then closed its eyes and moved its eyebrows slightly, as if it had smelled some intoxicating scent, revealing a look of enjoyment.

Then, it suddenly opened its eyes and stared straight at Li Huiyuan's face.

Li Huiyuan's breath suddenly stagnated, and she subconsciously grabbed Lin Yi's already somewhat cold hand.

The green apron chef's eyeballs were originally facing Lin Yi's face, but his eyes were extremely scattered and not focused at all. It wasn't until Li Huiyuan poked her head out from behind Lin Yi that his eyeballs began to roll.

Immediately afterwards, the two eyeballs seemed to have their own thoughts. After the first eyeball had focused on Li Huiyuan's face, the second one followed suit.

"Li… Hui… Yuan…?"

Its throat rolled slightly, making a dry sound.

Li Huiyuan's pupils slowly dilated, and the world before her eyes gradually distorted. In that world of collapsing light and shadow and twisted lines, she seemed to see the green apron chef grinning at her, the muscle lines on its face wriggling and intertwining, slowly turning into another appearance…

And that appearance was extremely familiar, like… herself?!

"Li Hui… Yuan…"

"Li Huiyuan…"

The green apron chef made a strange sound, like the painful roar of thousands of insects entangled in the wind. The twisted and obscure syllables were like the sounds of gods and demons, washing away reason, bringing chaos, and lingering in Li Huiyuan's ears…

At the same time, its eyebrows and eyes curved slightly, forming a strange crescent shape, and the corners of its mouth were also stretched to the roots of its ears. That face looked like Li Huiyuan, but it was even more bizarre and elusive, revealing an indescribable sense of horror.

Li Huiyuan's face turned pale. She could feel Lin Yi seemed to be calling her, but she couldn't respond. The sound of the green apron chef reciting her name and student number drowned out Lin Yi's voice, making it impossible for her chaotic brain to think too much.

Just when she felt like she was about to die, a voice suddenly sounded, like a dump truck rampaging wildly in the wilderness, piercing through the storm of pain, crushing Lin Yi's call and the green apron chef's terrifying demonic sound, and ringing behind her—

"Oh, come on, Lao Lin, wait for me!"

Along with the sound, a not-so-strong figure crossed her and Lin Yi's body. It was… Wei Liang.

"Hey, you know to wait for me, good brother!"

Wei Liang snatched the plastic curtain from Lin Yi with a smile: "Lao Lin, you're so girly when you lift the curtain. Let me do it!"

Without waiting for Lin Yi to remind him, Wei Liang tugged at the plastic curtain, but because the root of the plastic curtain was blocked by the green apron chef's upside-down head, he couldn't pull the plastic curtain open any further no matter how hard he tried.