Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Liangzi!" Lin Yi quickly spoke, stopping Wei Liang's movement.

He quickly came to Wei Liang's side, then grabbed a box of milk, replacing Wei Liang's tomato with it, and said, "Your box doesn't have a straw, switch to this one."

Wei Liang was stunned, then looked at the milk on the tray with confusion: "Huh... I forgot I took milk if you didn't say so. But I'm really something, I've actually developed the habit of subconsciously taking milk, ahaha..."

He smiled embarrassedly, then picked up the tray.

But his words startled Lin Yi--although Wei Liang's tomato was stuffed into his hand by the chef in the blue apron, he still put it on the tray himself.

But Wei Liang had no impression of this at all, even taking it for granted that he had forgotten.

Wei Liang's tomato was like this, so... what about his milk just now?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the milk on his tray again.

But this look...

「I… WTF？」

Lin Yi's pupils suddenly shrank, only to see that there was no milk on his tray at all, only a bright red tomato.

The surface of the tomato was subtly bulging and contracting, as if it were a heart that was "thumping" and beating.

「When did this happen？」

In this brief moment, he felt a strong sense of confusion, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether he had "recognized" it wrong at first glance, or... the milk had been replaced by this tomato at some unknown time!

「Damn it…」

He didn't bother to recall and explore what was going on with the tomato, so he quickly came up with a plan, "casually" grabbed the tomato, and then naturally put it back in the pile of milk.

At the same time, he shook his head and muttered: "Hey... I almost forgot that I haven't been drinking milk lately, I didn't expect to accidentally take it, it's really too easy..."

After speaking, he very naturally picked up the tray, and then silently caught up with Wei Liang's pace, and the two walked side by side.

Lin Yi couldn't help but slander in his heart: 「Damn it... It's just a meal, why do I feel like I'm about to become a double agent？」

「If every meal is like this, three times a day, it's hard to guarantee that my mental state will always be good…」

…

May 7, X023, 18:08, first floor of the cafeteria, student restaurant.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang had been wandering around the student restaurant with trays for almost five minutes, but they couldn't find the figure of the sports student at all, which made Lin Yi have to doubt his judgment--would the sports students who came in from other passages eat in the student restaurant?

Or, do other passages not lead to the student restaurant?

Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but realize that this seemed to be the problem!

Students need to swipe their student ID cards to get meals, but sports students don't have student ID cards!

Since they don't have student ID cards, of course they can't swipe their cards!

"It seems that we can't ask the sports students for help..." Lin Yi said softly.

Wei Liang said with a serious expression: "Ask Xu Shunkang where they eat next time we meet them. It's as difficult as asking the gods when we need to find them at a critical moment..."

"Then let's find a place to eat first," Lin Yi said.

"Hey, Lao Lin, wait a minute!" Wei Liang said in surprise, "That muscular hunk over there, I seem to have seen him in the gymnasium!"

He pursed his lips, signaling Lin Yi to take a look.

Lin Yi immediately looked over, but found that it was a well-built student, but he was wearing relatively casual clothes.

He was immediately a little disappointed: "That's not a sports student, right?"

Wei Liang denied: "No, if I remember correctly, he should be a sports student, but I don't know why... he didn't wear sports student clothes."

"Ah?" Lin Yi asked in confusion.

Wei Liang said again: "Look at the few people around him. If I remember correctly, I saw a few of those people at the entrance of the gymnasium..."

"Don't you have any impression at all?"

"When we first arrived, they were standing there with baseball bats like a group of punks."

Wei Liang's words instantly evoked Lin Yi's memory. He immediately recalled it. As a result, this recall suddenly found that the originally somewhat blurred memory suddenly became clear like constantly increasing pixels.

The appearance of those sports students guarding the entrance of the gymnasium also began to become clear...

"Four," he suddenly said, "The four people next to him are indeed sports students."

"Gah?" Wei Liang said in surprise, "You... how did you suddenly remember it?"

Lin Yi was stunned: "I don't know... it's just that kind of sudden memory flashback, I can't explain it either."

"However, they were wearing blue and white sportswear in the gymnasium, and even when they entered other passages, they were wearing sportswear. Why did they change into casual clothes when they were eating?"

"Could there be something else hidden here? Are you sure we're still going to find them?"

Wei Liang hesitated immediately when he heard this.

"Or, should we not talk to them first?" He hesitated, and his thoughts twisted a bit in the direction of ingenious skills, "We won't say anything, just eat next to them like those weird guys eat next to us."

"When they're done eating and about to leave, we'll follow immediately."

"Then, if it's the same way, we'll follow behind them and hitch a ride with their team for a while. If it's not the same way, we'll run away immediately if we see something wrong! What do you think, Lao Lin?"

Lin Yi simply thought about it, then pondered: "Now that it's like this, we can only take it one step at a time."

He glanced at the sky outside the cafeteria with some worry.

Today, there was no heavy fog like yesterday, so the sun was setting a little later, but even so, it would be dark in ten minutes or so.

「Darkness…」

Thinking of this, Lin Yi narrowed his eyes.

He remembered Xu Shunkang saying:

「Night is their home field」.

Who are they?

Those weird classmates.

Perhaps…

「Also includes… the green hats？」

He suddenly thought of something, and his eyes lit up: 「Could it be that the green hats at night have some special 'mechanism'? Even they can't resist it？」

After a simple recollection, he discovered a new detail--when Xu Shunkang helped him intercept the chef in the green apron at noon, he didn't actually enter the student restaurant.

Xu Shunkang stood at the exit of the student restaurant like a door god, but--he never stepped into the cafeteria from beginning to end.

Moreover…

Xu Shunkang's eyes were not right when he first looked at him, as if he was carrying some killing intent, but later he changed for some unknown reason, and then he let him pass.

「Wait… could it be because he saw me holding the 'student ID card' in my hand？」

A piece of information exploded in Lin Yi's mind--the cafeteria rules say that when you find strange noises coming from window 10, you must hold the student ID card in your hand as soon as possible, and then escape from the student restaurant.

Could it be that the sports students are squatting at the door, waiting for abnormal situations to happen and stand up, and only "normal students" holding student ID cards can leave the cafeteria at that time?!

「Do sports students also recognize people like this？」

「So the gymnasium locker uses 'student ID card' to swipe, instead of swiping 'gymnasium rules'?」

Even the existence of the waterproof card holder seems to be explained. There is nothing better than inserting a student ID card into the waterproof card holder to show your identity at a glance!

The more this is the case, the more Lin Yi can feel the importance of the student ID card.

He already dared not imagine how dangerous it would be if he lost his student ID card.

While thinking about this, he sat down on a seat next to the sports students.

He used chopsticks to move the food around, checked to make sure there were no tomato elements mixed in, and then quickly ate it.

While eating, he thought about the two sentences Xu Shunkang had said.

【Night is their home field.】

【Daytime is our home field.】

Obviously, the combat effectiveness of sports students is greatly affected by the environment, or... everyone's strength is similar, but daytime and night each have some special bonuses, which will weaken and amplify certain traits.

「Night… or, the night accompanied by rain and fog？」

At one moment, he even had a feeling that even if he could really find Xu Shunkang in the student restaurant, Xu Shunkang might not help him like he did at noon.

Xu Shunkang, from beginning to end, only expressed his kindness to him, but there was not a single bit of saintly heart mixed in with the kindness.

This can be seen from the fact that Xu Shunkang subconsciously tightened his baseball bat when he found him charging towards him.

「It's really strange… why did so many dense details suddenly appear in my mind？」 Lin Yi muttered in his heart. He felt that his memory had always been in some strange state.

Sometimes, there would be a brief disconnect, like losing a few seconds of memory.

Sometimes, there would be a sense of detachment, as if he had spent a long time in another world, only to return and find that only a minute or two had passed on his watch.

And sometimes… he would recall things that had only caught the corner of his eye with incredible clarity.

He felt that some uncontrollable change was happening to him.

Perhaps this change had begun when he first stepped into S City University, and he hadn't noticed it then, but as time went on, he could increasingly sense this subtle shift.

Just as Tian Bufan had said, he might be “adapting” to something.

But…

“What exactly am I ‘adapting’ to?”

“Why does Young Master Tian know more than I do myself?”

“Could it be that I told him something, but… I myself have forgotten?”

He thought of many things at once, but the more he thought, the more confused he became, and he finally gave up trying to figure it out. He decided to ask Tian Bufan properly when he got back to the dormitory in the evening.

He continued to shovel rice into his mouth, and glanced at Wei Liang again.

Wei Liang was scarfing down his food like crazy, as if as long as he wasn't dead, he could maintain this carefree attitude towards everything.

He sighed, but believed that his decision was correct.

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Decisiveness was necessary, because the more critical the moment, the more hesitation would cause him to miss more opportunities.

The most crucial thing now was just one thing—finish eating and then escape the cafeteria area.

He shoveled the rice and dishes into his mouth, and the entire meal proceeded without too many mishaps.

He guessed that this was perhaps because they really hadn't come into contact with anything related to tomatoes this time, and of course, it couldn't be ruled out that it was because they happened to be sitting next to the sports students.

Suddenly…

One of the sports students finished eating and got up, and then all the surrounding sports students got up as well.

“Oh ho?! They're leaving!”

Lin Yi and Wei Liang exchanged glances at the speed of light… uh, Wei Liang was still shoveling his green pepper beef rice.

He kicked Wei Liang's foot.

Wei Liang quickly reacted, stuffed all the rice into his mouth in one gulp, and then straightened his back.

“Let's go!” Lin Yi said in a low voice, and after saying that, he picked up his plate and resolutely followed the sports students' movements.

Wei Liang also quickly pulled himself out of the plastic dining chair.

The process of going to the dish return area was unusually smooth. Throughout the entire process, Lin Yi didn't even feel that strange sensation of being watched, nor did he feel any ominous premonition that made his spine go cold and his hair stand on end.

But the more it was like this, the more he felt that something was wrong. The student cafeteria shouldn't be this quiet.

Suddenly, he noticed that Wei Liang's footsteps behind him had changed…

They had turned into a “shasha” sound.

“Damn…”

“Liangzi?” he tentatively asked, “Is the tomato delicious?”

“De… licious.” Behind him came Wei Liang's dull, dry, emotionless reply.

The feeling of his spine going cold, which hadn't appeared before, surged up at this moment, washing over his head like a bucket of cold water, drenching him and making him feel ice-cold!

“Damn it… Is it a hallucination? Or… is something fucked up again?!”

There was no way Wei Liang could have touched a tomato, he had milk!

So the correct answer should be… something like, “What tomato? Are you out of your mind?”

He looked down at the floor tiles.

The top of the cafeteria was filled with rows and rows of incandescent lights, and the light from the incandescent lights at different angles would produce shadows at different angles, and Lin Yi quickly found one of the shadows from among the many illusory overlapping shadows.

A shadow wearing a chef's square hat.

He wasn't followed by Wei Liang, but by a chef.

He couldn't tell from the shadow whether it was a blue-apron chef or a green-apron chef, but no matter what kind of chef it was, according to the cafeteria rules, they couldn't appear in the student cafeteria area.

He looked at the backs of the sports students in front of him, and then realized that there was nothing wrong with the backs of the sports students.

“So what's going on here…?!

“The front of me is a normal student cafeteria, and the back of me is… an abnormal student cafeteria?”

“Am I… the dividing line between normal and abnormal?!”

“Lao Lin, it seems like you haven't eaten your tomato?” the “Wei Liang” behind him said.

But this time, Lin Yi didn't dare to answer.

Because speaking just now was him issuing a “communication request”, while the other party speaking now was a “communication request from any stranger”, and he couldn't respond to it.

So he lowered his head and silently followed the sports students towards the dish return area.

But as soon as he lowered his head, he found that the carton of milk on his plate had been replaced again and again with… a tomato!

This tomato that he couldn't get rid of was clinging to him like a curse!

But he firmly believed that it wasn't a tomato, but milk.

If it were a tomato, then from just now, those strange guys would have emerged from every nook and cranny of the student cafeteria, and then gathered around him like humanoid tombstones, showing that crazy look in their eyes, staring at his every move.

But from just now until now, he hadn't felt that way at all.

“Don't mess around, this is milk! This is milk! This is milk! To hell with the tomato!”

He cursed in his heart, moved his gaze to the backs of the sports students, and then looked back down. The tomato on the plate had indeed disappeared, and the carton of milk that hadn't been touched was standing upright on his plate again.

“Heh, petty tricks.” He sneered arrogantly.

“Lao Lin, why aren't you talking?” the “Wei Liang” behind him asked again.

“Shut your sister's mouth.”

“Lao Lin, don't scare me!”

“Look back at me!”

“Ah!!! What is this?! Ah… Lao Lin! Lao Lin… I, I…”

“Damn you, what a drama queen…” After seeing through the green-apron chef's trick, although Lin Yi was still very nervous, his mentality had become much calmer than before.

“Could this be… what Young Master Tian said, within the ‘scope of cognition’?”

Because he had “accepted” this fact, because he “understood” the other party, he was fearless because he knew himself and his enemy?

At least—before he dropped the plate and prepared to leave, the relationship between the two should have been maintained in this state.

As for the real Wei Liang… it was impossible for Lin Yi not to worry, but considering that whether it was on the way to the gymnasium or in front of the cafeteria notice board before, he had gone through life and death, while Wei Liang hadn't lost a single hair, he felt that worrying about Wei Liang was superfluous.

His Wei Liang wasn't even on the same layer.

Don't look at the fact that he was being targeted by the green hat again, but maybe Wei Liang was walking on the road with his plate and nothing was happening to him.

Instead of having this free time, it's better to think of a way to save himself.

He calmed himself down, ignored the calls from the “Wei Liang” behind him, and focused his attention on the sports students and the shadow.

Soon, the sports students walking in front of him stopped in front of the dish return area. They dumped the leftovers in their plates, but didn't take any further action.

He was slightly stunned, and secretly cried out in his heart: “Not good… something's up!”

He found that all the sports students were posing in the same posture—just a little bit away from satisfying the concept of “dropping the plate and preparing to leave.”

He was suddenly shocked, and suddenly realized something. He quickly followed suit, posing in the same action—entering a state of “as if releasing” where he was about to put down the plate, but hadn't completely put it down.

The four sports students all looked at him in surprise, and then the leader, a muscular man, began to count down softly:

“Three, two, one…”

“Release!”

“Clang—”

Four “clang” sounds were nearly simultaneously superimposed on each other, and one “clang” sound was slightly half a beat later.

Then, the four sports students suddenly exploded with unprecedented terrifying speed, and took off their legs and rushed towards the exit of the student cafeteria.

“Damn!” Lin Yi's scalp exploded, but a Thor meme appeared in his heart, “I knew it!!!”

He quickly grabbed his student ID in his hand, and then also ran wildly on his toes.

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