Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Noon," Lin Yi replied calmly.

Wei Liang: "…"

"So…" He looked at Lin Yi with a strange expression. "You told me to run quickly at noon because of this? Not because those weirdos surrounded us?"

"More or less…" Lin Yi nodded. "Speaking of which, haven't you been trying to avoid this kind of thing? How come…"

The corner of Wei Liang's mouth twitched slightly: "The green guys are already bumping into my face, how can I avoid it? I'll just understand this small part of it, anyway, it's within the rules…"

"So how did you run at noon?"

Lin Yi replied without thinking: "By running hard."

"Running… hard?" Wei Liang said suspiciously, "Just saying, can you speak like a normal person?"

Lin Yi said: "Just forcibly running. I ran in front, and he chased behind. If I had been caught…"

"Then it would have been 'hehehe'?" Wei Liang interjected.

Lin Yi: "…"

「Please, can you have a bit of a tense atmosphere after surviving a disaster?」

Lin Yi was speechless, but when he thought that Wei Liang had brought it up, he suddenly understood.

After all… this is very Wei Liang.

"That's not right…" Wei Liang said in confusion, "I remember that at noon, the dish return area was manned by a chef in a blue apron, right?"

"You're right." Lin Yi affirmed, "That blue hat didn't chase me. What chased me was from window number 10…"

He suddenly realized that things related to window number 10 might be something Wei Liang didn't want to know about yet, so he changed his words: "A green hat popped out from somewhere else. There was a distance between him and me. He chased me, and I was almost caught by him at the end."

"If Xu Shunkang hadn't appeared, I might have been injured."

Speaking of this, a dynamic hallucination subconsciously appeared in Lin Yi's mind—

At noon, when he rushed out of the student cafeteria, he was scratched by the green apron chef, and then blood flowed from his wound. The blood first turned into ketchup under the sunlight, and then the ketchup transformed into a white plaster-like substance…

「This?!」

He shook his head, dispelled the hallucination, and suddenly came back to his senses.

「Damn… why would I have such a strange association?」

Wei Liang naturally didn't know what Lin Yi was thinking. Hearing this, he suddenly understood: "No wonder Xu Shunkang came looking for us so accurately later. So you little brat attracted the ghost… uh, no, attracted him."

"Thanks to you, otherwise we would have all been done for by the trash can…"

"So you're saying that at noon, the distance was far, and you could run away if you ran hard, but now the distance is too close, and you can't run hard even if you want to?"

Lin Yi replied: "Yes, that's one aspect."

"How fast do these green apron guys run?"

"I feel… it's not a speed that a normal person should have. Slow start, fast acceleration, like there's a turbocharger on their butt."

Hearing this, Wei Liang pondered slightly: "So your plan is…?"

"If hard doesn't work, then come soft." Lin Yi said in a deep voice, "I guess he's already got his eye on us. It's not realistic to just leave like this… But I found that the green hats will wait until the person is about to leave the cafeteria before attacking."

"Let's eat first, fill our stomachs, and take some time to think of a solution."

Wei Liang hesitated: "Do you think, can we not sit down after getting our food, and then circle around in the student cafeteria… Since there are those weird guys in the student cafeteria, there should also be sports students, right?"

"Didn't Xu Shunkang help you at noon? If we can find him, we should be able to be saved, right?"

"Or that big, long-legged boss you just met?"

"Didn't the sports students come in through other channels? They must be eating in the student cafeteria too, right?"

Lin Yi thought for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't think it's very realistic."

"The cafeteria rules say,

【During the queuing and dining process, do not pay attention to any requests for communication from strangers around you. If you have companions, please focus on communicating with them and ignore all abnormal situations around you. 】

So, I feel that if we look for them in the cafeteria, they probably won't help."

"If it were us, would you believe the sports students if they came looking for you while you were eating?"

Wei Liang said: "Not necessarily! Sports students don't read the cafeteria rules, so they shouldn't need to follow them, right?"

"Moreover, the cafeteria rules say 'any strangers'. You, the boss, and Xu Shunkang aren't strangers, right?"

"I feel like we can try to find them." Wei Liang looked at Lin Yi. "What do you think?"

Lin Yi was silent and thoughtful upon hearing this.

He glanced down at his watch.

17:59.

「The street lights in the campus are about to turn on, it seems… we probably won't have a chance to leave the cafeteria before sunset…」

He sighed and looked out of the cafeteria.

But as soon as he raised his head, he found the green apron chef standing in the crowd in front of him, looking at him gloomily with his head lowered. There was no expression on his pale face.

「Damn!!」

His pupils shrank slightly.

「As expected, I've been targeted!」

He was shocked, but as the queue in front of the dining window moved forward, the green apron chef who had appeared in his field of vision suddenly disappeared.

「This…?!」

The ghostly figure made him wonder if he was seeing things. Then, he suppressed the idea of looking for the green apron chef and glanced outside the student cafeteria again.

The light outside the student cafeteria had gradually dimmed, and the embers of the setting sun were spread at the exit of the student cafeteria, like the last sparks of a burnt charcoal flying.

Suddenly, through the glass of the student cafeteria, he saw a blue apron chef standing there in the initial welcoming gesture, but the direction of his face was where he was now.

This blue apron chef has been watching him ever since he entered the student passage?!

Lin Yi felt his limbs go cold. In just the time it took to eat a meal, he had gained the attention of both the green apron chef and the blue apron chef?!

He just wanted to ask, what virtue and ability did he have, what the hell kind of virtue and ability did he have?!

He silently withdrew his gaze.

Then, continuing Wei Liang's words, he said: "We can look for them… but we must reserve enough time for dining and leaving."

"Let's look for them, and if we can't find them, then forget it."

Wei Liang breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest: "That's good, that's good. I was really afraid that you would insist on your own way."

"Don't worry, Liangzi, We're a team." Lin Yi patted Wei Liang on the shoulder.

The two followed the queue and moved forward slowly.

Before long, they arrived at the dining window this time.

The first floor of the student cafeteria has a total of windows 1 to 5. In order to avoid window 3, they skipped windows 2 and 4 and lined up at window 1.

The staff member in charge of serving food at window 1 was still an aunt. This time, Lin Yi was in front of Wei Liang. Before serving the food, he specially looked up and down at the cafeteria aunt's clothes.

The cafeteria aunt was wearing a uniform white chef's uniform, with a blue apron, and the number on her name tag was…

Wait, no… Lin Yi suddenly widened his eyes, and his heart skipped a beat.

「No… where the hell is your 'name tag'?!」

Lin Yi felt like cursing.

「Please… this is only the second day, and it's only been 24 hours since I entered the school! Can you guys be a little more normal?」

"Student, what would you like to eat?" the blue apron cafeteria aunt asked.

Lin Yi looked at her with some hesitation. Although he didn't feel anything abnormal, he was very clear that people without name tags should never be trusted.

Wei Liang also looked at Lin Yi with some confusion, but he didn't urge Lin Yi. Instead, he quietly glanced at Lin Yi first.

When he found that Lin Yi was not "dozing off" as before, he felt a little more at ease. He also understood that at this time, any unusual behavior of Lin Yi had a reason.

So he secretly glanced at the cafeteria aunt.

From his perspective, the upper body of the cafeteria aunt was very normal, but the lower body was very stiff, as if… it was inconvenient to move.

Wei Liang felt a chill in his heart, but he immediately took a deep breath and told himself that the cafeteria aunt was just having difficulty walking… that's all.

Lin Yi was not in a hurry to respond to the cafeteria aunt's words, but pretended to be thinking, pretending that he had not yet decided what to eat.

The cafeteria lady couldn't help but urge, "Young man, you're holding up a long line, and you haven't decided what to eat. There's a bunch of people waiting to get their food! Why don't you just grab something quick? How about this green pepper beef?"

As she spoke, she scooped up a spoonful of green pepper beef, gesturing for Lin Yi to take a look.

Lin Yi glanced at it. It was indeed green pepper beef, but he had a premonition—it might be green pepper beef now, but after a quick flip of the ladle, a glimpse of scrambled eggs with tomatoes might be revealed.

Sure enough, the cafeteria lady's wrist twitched, and the top layer of green pepper beef began to peel away, vaguely revealing a hint of scarlet, tomato-like food…

A sense of foreboding slowly spread out. Under the influence of this feeling, Lin Yi even felt that the light inside the serving window had become a little dimmer…

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But the cafeteria lady didn't seem to realize the problem.

He quickly glanced at the incandescent light inside serving window number 1. If the incandescent light flickered, he would immediately grab Wei Liang and sprint out of the student cafeteria.

But the green-aproned chefs, who were watching them like tigers eyeing their prey, might directly attack them. At this distance, they basically wouldn't be able to escape.

But when he looked at the incandescent light, he found that there was nothing wrong with it.

"Phew…" He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that there was no problem with the incandescent light…

So he withdrew his gaze, thinking about how to get his food without going through the cafeteria lady. But when his gaze shifted down again, he suddenly noticed… the cafeteria lady wasn't alone.

Behind the cafeteria lady, there was another person hidden, a person who looked exactly like the cafeteria lady!

And this cafeteria lady had a badge pinned to her chest with the words "Chef-0154" engraved on it, but at the same time, she was also wearing a green apron!

"Two identical people! Standing there like a double exposure?!"

Lin Yi's eyes widened, and a cold draft hissed in his heart.

"What's going on?" He suddenly shuddered, then blinked his eyes sharply.

After this blink, the green-aproned cafeteria lady he had seen a moment ago suddenly disappeared…

This strange visual hallucination was like being punched in the eye, causing color differences and double vision.

He shook his eyes and looked at the cafeteria lady again—no badge!

"Still no badge!"

"Then what the hell was that 'Chef-0154' just now?"

Visual hallucinations couldn't be to this extent, right?

"Hey, are you going to get your food or not?" Lin Yi's dawdling annoyed the student behind him, who couldn't help but urge, "If you want to eat, then eat. If not, get out. Don't you think other people want to eat too?"

Wei Liang's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't help but want to remind Lin Yi to get his food.

But Lin Yi's forehead was already covered in a layer of sweat.

The food at window number 3 just now was strange, but at least it was made by "Chef-0391." But the food now… he didn't even know if it was being served by a human or a ghost!

Moreover, since he realized that there was something wrong with the cafeteria lady, he hadn't "accepted" "any communication requests" from her. He was watching, observing, but he just wasn't responding to the cafeteria lady.

Suddenly, he noticed that the light in serving window number 1 had dimmed again…

Then, a chill spread from the bottom of his heart…

He shuddered violently. His keen intuition told him—something was wrong!

Just as this information flashed in his mind, he suddenly noticed that the door behind serving window number 1 was open.

"!!!" His heart went cold.

He clearly remembered that during normal lunch hours, window number 3 was completely closed!

That is to say… something had indeed entered and exited serving window number 1!

At this moment, he felt like someone was watching him in his field of vision—it should be in the corner of his eye!

He focused a little and concentrated slightly. The next moment, he was so frightened that his soul almost left his body.

He discovered that a chef wearing a green apron was squatting in the cafeteria lady's shadow. The green-aproned chef was curled up there, like the little boy in The Grudge, with his head lowered, yet casting an extremely indifferent gaze on him.

Staring at him intently.

"Holy crap…!"

Lin Yi was so frightened that his back turned cold and his limbs went numb. He staggered and almost lost his balance, but fortunately, he managed to grab the windowsill of the serving window in time, so he didn't reveal any abnormalities.

Listening to the increasingly noisy urging sounds in his ears, and looking at the cafeteria lady without a badge and that strange green-aproned chef, Lin Yi suddenly had an idea. He shouted to the cafeteria uncle who was preparing cutlery behind serving window number 1, "Hey, that uncle over there! Can you help me get some food?"

The cafeteria uncle shuddered and trotted over as if he had been granted amnesty. Then, he took a new plate and asked, "What would you like to eat?"

Lin Yi quickly glanced around.

Blue apron, badge number "Chef-0105."

Apart from being a little anxious and impatient, there were no problems.

He quickly pointed, "Just those three."

"Oh, right, don't flip the ladle."

The cafeteria uncle stiffened, then said helplessly as he served the food, "I have to flip it… Young man, eat quickly."

With that, he flipped the ladle.

Just as he was flipping the ladle, Lin Yi noticed that the green-aproned chef, who had been curled up in the cafeteria lady's shadow, had somehow climbed onto the food grid. He took out some scrambled eggs with tomatoes from somewhere and reached out to put them into the serving spoon.

The cafeteria uncle didn't notice her at all, but his ladle-flipping technique skillfully avoided the scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

He scooped the food onto the plate and handed it to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi breathed a long sigh of relief and took the plate.

He whispered urgently to Wei Liang, "Liangzi, quickly get a serving too!"

Wei Liang was startled and subconsciously said, "Hey, I don't eat beef!"

"Then order something else quickly! Hurry!" Lin Yi said.

"Oh, oh, oh…" Wei Liang quickly ordered his meal.

The cafeteria uncle didn't disappoint and quickly gave Wei Liang a serving of food. Throughout the entire process, Lin Yi stared intently at the green-aproned chef, and when he saw that she had tried to add scrambled eggs with tomatoes several times but failed, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that Wei Liang had received his plate, he finally felt completely relieved and walked to the card reader, swiping his student ID like drawing a sword.

But as soon as he turned his head, he suddenly noticed that a box of milk had been placed on his plate.

His movements instantly froze…

He recalled in a flash whether this box of milk was something he had subconsciously picked up after swiping his student ID, or…

His eyeballs slowly rotated, and the corner of his eye caught sight of a pair of leather shoes, white trousers, and… a blue apron.

The blue-aproned chef who liked to swap out milk at noon had appeared here again!

And this time, he took the initiative to place a box of milk on his plate!

But…

"Doesn't he like to add tomatoes? Why isn't he following the routine this time and putting milk instead?"

"I remember you like to drink milk… Don't forget to drink it," the blue-aproned chef reminded him, with a professional smile on his face.

"Damn it…!" Lin Yi cursed inwardly, but still didn't give any response to the blue-aproned chef's words.

The blue-aproned chef wasn't unhappy either, just quietly looking at his face.

"It's okay… as long as it doesn't contain tomato elements, it's fine," Lin Yi said in his heart. During this time, he repeatedly confirmed that the milk had no problems before planning to walk to the side first.

But just at this moment, Wei Liang swiped his student ID and then very carefully used both hands to carry the plate.

But just then, Lin Yi happened to see that the chef wearing the blue apron suddenly and unexpectedly stuffed a tomato into Wei Liang's hand.

Wei Liang, who had been maintaining vigilance, didn't even realize that he had grabbed a tomato!

Not only did he not realize it, but he also very naturally put the tomato on the plate and then went back to carrying the plate.

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