Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Could those green powder particles, in essence, be a kind of green afterimage?

Every deeply corrupted person has their will vaguely leave their body, but because their initial perception and vision levels were insufficient, they can only see some auras?

It's like looking through a steamy bathroom glass; the person inside only appears as a patch of flesh-colored powder particles...

This is one of Lin Yi's conjectures, and at this moment, he is trying to verify this hypothesis through observation.

Before this, he had never encountered a green-aproned chef in normal weather; every time he met one, it was either indoors or already dark.

Although the weather isn't great now, and the light isn't strong enough, it's still the first time he's seen a green-aproned chef exposed to sunlight without immediately petrifying.

It's too magical.

He can't help but want to study it.

But as time passed, the blue-aproned chef gradually stopped struggling, collapsing like an exhausted ox, and the green-aproned chef's afterimage also began to become somewhat blurred in the sunlight, as if it would disintegrate at any moment.

"It seems it still can't withstand sunlight... But because the body appears as a 'normal' blue-aproned chef, it can briefly appear in sunlight."

This kind of mobility is similar to the principle of a carp spirit losing its magic power when it leaves the water, but still being able to move on land for a while.

As the green-aproned chef was annihilated, the body faintly began to show some petrification tendencies.

But just then, Lin Yi suddenly thought of something: since the body of the pseudo-human sculpture can be used as material for constructing a "puppet", then the body of this blue-aproned chef is also a viable option!

Thinking of this, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly had a burst of inspiration, coming up with a plan that felt pretty good... a cunning scheme.

He took a deep breath, found a relatively sunny spot near the blue-aproned chef's body, squatted down, and then released his sensory tentacles, extending them little by little towards the body...

His sensory tentacles quickly came into contact with the blue-aproned chef, and then, like X-rays, he incorporated the body into his perception.

"Oh, his body, as expected..." Lin Yi was slightly startled, discovering that the blue-aproned chef's body was indeed no longer a purely flesh and blood body, but was composed of a framework similar to a human skeleton, coupled with some viscous substances similar to the Night Walker species, like a clay figure made by a handmade blogger.

Under the sunlight, the "clay" properties were weakened, resulting in a dissolving trend.

But there was still a part that retained the characteristics of muscle fibers.

"It's 'transformation'!"

This is the transformation, or "screening," mentioned by the convenience store owner, Old Mo, and others. After transcendent substances contaminate the human body, they will spread wildly in the human body like a virus. If you can withstand it, you will "evolve and ascend"; if you can't, you will "corrupt and fall"...

Thinking about it, he had gradually transformed bit by bit, and now, other than having a human appearance, he was no longer related to humans in any other way.

"Eh... come to think of it, this blue-aproned chef is actually similar to me, except that he's far behind me in many ways."

He has a golden skeleton and ashen flesh; compared to him, this blue-aproned chef's body is like a bone wrapped in flour, trying to pass itself off as a fried chicken leg.

His sensory tentacles comprehensively analyzed this body, and then his will began to penetrate into the body, gradually taking over the green-aproned chef's control of the body.

The whole process was like a hacker intrusion, overwriting the underlying control code.

By the time the green-aproned chef realized something was wrong, the control of the body had completely fallen into Lin Yi's hands, and it was squeezed out like a soul.

Even more strangely, the green-aproned chef itself was unaware, only looking around in horror, only knowing that it could no longer control the body, but not knowing that the reason was because of Lin Yi.

Lin Yi silently influenced it, just as he had once been silently influenced... The boomerang when he entered the school hit Lin Yi's eyebrow, but at this moment, Lin Yi did not connect these two things together.

"The timing is about right..."

He injected the sky-blue aura in his body into the arm of the blue-aproned chef in his hand, then slowly stood up, walked to the blue-aproned chef's side, pressed the arm back on, and then slowly retreated.

After the arm was pressed on, Lin Yi also retracted the will that had penetrated into the blue-aproned chef's body, so that the green-aproned chef began to regain control of the body.

At the same time, because it was "fully limbed" again, under the control of the green-aproned chef, the blue-aproned chef slowly figured out what to do.

After rolling around on the ground for a while, it finally stood up, covered in dirt, and then, as if its soul had left its body, took somewhat stiff steps, walking little by little towards the other passages.

Its eyes were dull, its movements were wooden, and every step was somewhat awkward, as if it had lost its mind for a while.

It seemed to have completely forgotten about the things related to Lin Yi, and no longer remembered to extract Old Mo's information from Lin Yi or steal Old Mo's backpack. It just walked past Lin Yi like a walking corpse, slowly walking to the entrance of the other passages.

Lin Yi didn't say a word, just watched the green-aproned chef control the body and move slowly.

He only had one thought in his mind—the cunning plan had succeeded!

His will was still attached to that body along with the entanglement of the sensory tentacles, but he had shrunk this consciousness, lurking like a parasite, and at the same time, he had overwritten the green-aproned chef's perception of him... making the green-aproned chef remember nothing.

But under the drive of instinct, the green-aproned chef still controlled the body to return to the cafeteria, just like lost lovers will always walk on a familiar road in a daze.

Thus, the green-aproned chef controlled the body containing Lin Yi's consciousness, entering the other passages little by little...

When the green-aproned chef crossed the boundary of the other passages, Lin Yi was still a little nervous, but when his consciousness really followed this body into the passage, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's really feasible..."

For Lin Yi, just this alone meant that half of his plan had already succeeded.

The other passages and the student passage are clearly both ways to enter the cafeteria, but the environments are completely different. Compared to the water-seeping environment in the student passage, the walls here are covered with moss, and some snot-like viscous liquid faintly seeps from the brick seams. Some of the mucus even sticks to the edges of the steps. If you step on it, it feels no different from stepping on glue. Even the blue-aproned chef avoided some of it.

Occasionally, stepping into a patch of slime, the blue-bibbed chef's shoe would drag out many slender threads, like pulling taffy.

Upon entering the tunnel, the blue-bibbed chef's bib seemed to react like film, transforming imperceptibly into a green-bibbed chef, while the green-bibbed chef, who had been like a ghostly double, completely "returned to the source," merging into this body.

At this moment, its body and mind were entirely "Green-Bibbed Chef."

However, it still felt somewhat uncomfortable, wiggling its arms and twisting its neck a few times, but it couldn't detect anything unusual.

So, it continued forward.

"Drip…"

"Drip…"

"Drip…"

As it walked forward, slime began to drip down from the tunnel's ceiling. The tunnel was lit by incandescent lights, but these lights were covered in shadow-infused slime, some resembling swallows' nests on rural ceiling fans, others like beehives on old tree branches.

The light throughout the tunnel was dim, as if trapped by the slime.

But even in such a tunnel, there were many figures.

Among them were the athletes, some of whom had already turned their school uniforms inside out, while others were still taking off their clothes as they walked.

They seemed accustomed to the environment of these other tunnels, showing no signs of distress, and even when they saw the green-bibbed chef, they merely frowned slightly.

There was a faint, elusive odor in the other tunnels, a ghostly smell that drifted around, and if you happened to inhale it, it was like taking a whiff of industrial glue, leaving a sour, astringent taste in your throat.

Besides that, there was also a strong metallic, bloody smell in the tunnel, like licking a rusty iron nail on the seashore after cutting your tongue, your nostrils filled with the combined scent of rotten seaweed and old blood scabs…

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As it walked, a cold, damp sensation brushed past the green-bibbed chef. The almost empathetic sensation also seemed to brush past Lin Yi's earlobe. His perception extended outward, and with a "turn," he seemed to glimpse some eerie figures. His attention swept across the wall, and the moss that covered it suddenly revealed scale-like纹理纹理, only to return to its smooth surface in the blink of an eye…

"This tunnel… feels like the intestines of some creature…" Lin Yi mused.

Continuing on, the green-bibbed chef took a turn somewhere, and most of the figures in the tunnel disappeared.

An unprecedented, eerie chill enveloped Lin Yi's senses, making him instinctively want to retreat.

Lin Yi quickly restrained his emotions and observed the current situation. He knew the green-bibbed chef was still in another tunnel, but that turn seemed to have crossed some kind of layer, leading Lin Yi to intuitively believe that he had left the other tunnels.

The green-bibbed chef began to move, but Lin Yi didn't feel like it was "walking," but rather "sliding."

He subconsciously sensed the green-bibbed chef's physical state, and immediately his scalp went numb.

He saw that the green-bibbed chef's legs had disappeared, replaced by a mass of mochi-like substance. This substance wriggled continuously on the ground, propelling the green-bibbed chef's body forward, like a ray gliding along the seabed or an octopus moving by alternating its suckers.

Accompanying this movement was a "shasha, shasha, shasha…" sound from beneath it.

Lin Yi couldn't determine where this was at all, only feeling that this environment no longer resembled the cafeteria.

"Beneath the layer where the cafeteria is located, could there be another layer? And is this other layer where the green-bibbed chef is?"

"The convenience store owner… should also know about this, right?"

After twisting and "shasha"-ing for about three to five minutes, the green-bibbed chef stopped.

Lin Yi released his senses in real-time, only to find that the green-bibbed chef had arrived at a place filled with gray mist, the entire environment permeated with an eerie feeling.

Then, he captured some strange noises, a "clink, clang, clatter," like the sound of pots and pans colliding. Besides that, there seemed to be some other sounds…

"Ah? This sound…?"

Lin Yi was a bit puzzled. How could he hear kitchen noises in such an underworldly place?

What, is "The China Culinary Arts Institute is the Shaolin Temple's kitchen" really a thing?!

Hell's Kitchen?

Please, this joke isn't funny!

So, Lin Yi cautiously released his senses outward…

First, he sensed a craggy stone pillar, its surface covered with irregular honeycomb-like holes, a true blessing for trypophobes. The holes seemed to be secreting some kind of viscous substance, like… ketchup.

From time to time, some green-bibbed chefs would come over to collect some ketchup and then turn around and leave. Lin Yi thought, these green-bibbed chefs are quite busy…

His perception continued to spread, and soon he came into contact with a stone wall—yes, a stone wall, not a place paved with bricks and tiles.

"Judging from this, this place seems to be carved out of the mountain…" Then, without a doubt, this isn't in the cafeteria. Lin Yi speculated that the green-bibbed chef either went through some secret passage or crossed a layer.

Although crossing layers is a profound and unfathomable skill, it also has its levels. The kind of leap that Lao Mo made from the campus to the art building must be more difficult than the kind of submersion and emergence between the same area, or even the same space's outer and inner worlds, that the green-bibbed chef is doing.

After all, the original reality layer where the art building was located was near the "Scandinavian" peninsula in Northern Europe. Even if it was banished to another layer by the first apostle, it still had little to do with China. But relying on layer leaps, Lao Mo managed to bring him over.

No wonder the convenience store owner said it's hard to do without coordinates. After all, it's about leaping to an unknown layer on a global scale.

But on the other hand, doesn't that mean the convenience store owner can fly anywhere in the world as long as he has the coordinates?

Hiss… what kind of 91 porn star convenience store owner is that…

Complaints aside, Lin Yi's perception continued to spread.

But as his perception expanded, the situation here made him feel more and more uneasy.

Wait, are you guys really cooking?

Are the freaking green-bibbed chefs that hardworking?!

I'm really screwed! Please, you're not even human anymore, so why are you still working like mules?!

As expected, the secret of the world is that 99.99% of the mules serve less than 0.001% of the people!