Rules-related weird stories: 4016

But just as he started moving, a loud crash of metal pots and pans echoed in his ears.

"Window 10, order up!"

"Damn it, not again?!"

Even though Lin Yi had been mentally prepared, the commotion at Window 10 was far worse than at noon.

He didn't even need to look to know that more than one green-aproned chef was crawling out from there!

At the same time, he sensed a chilling aura rising rapidly behind him.

The green-aproned chef, who had been clinging to him like a bone-deep curse, was finally baring its sharp fangs at him!

"Damn it!"

Lin Yi roared under his breath, unleashing a terrifying burst of speed, and charged out with the athletes.

But after running for a short distance, he realized that the athletes weren't heading towards the student cafeteria's exit at all!

"They're heading for the other corridors!"

Lin Yi instantly realized that if he followed them and entered another corridor, his situation would likely be no better!

He looked ahead and quickly spotted the student cafeteria's exit diagonally across from him.

His mind raced, and he immediately came up with a contingency plan. He continued to accelerate and charged towards a support pillar in the cafeteria.

Just as he was about to crash into the pillar, he maintained his speed and grabbed the edge of the pillar with one hand…

With a "squeak—" sound, Lin Yi felt a strong tearing sensation in his arm. The terrifying speed gave his body extraordinary momentum, and under the force of this power, the tension from the sudden pull exceeded his arm's capacity.

"Hisss—Damn it, that really hurts! Hold on!"

He gritted his teeth, tensed his muscles, and used the momentum to complete a drift turn!

"Whew—"

Not only that, but under the acceleration produced by the centrifugal force, he gained even greater launching speed.

Ignoring the intense tearing sensation in his right arm, he immediately lowered his center of gravity and adjusted his direction. He pushed his body's coordination to the limit at that moment, and he shot out like a cannonball, quickly increasing the distance between himself and the green-aproned chef, and immediately charged towards the student cafeteria exit.

"I shook it off!"

"Hahaha…"

Lin Yi laughed inwardly, but before he could get too excited, the green-aproned chef actually grabbed the corner of the pillar with its hand, just like him, and flung itself out using inertia!

But the green-aproned chef was even more ruthless than Lin Yi. After turning around, a "crack crack" sound came directly from the sleeves of its chef's uniform, and accompanied by a "crack!" sound, its arm actually snapped off completely at the shoulder, clinging tightly to the pillar, while the rest of its body shot towards Lin Yi's back like an arrow released from a bow!

"You damn monster!" Feeling the chill and the sound of wind breaking behind him, Lin Yi roared in his heart.

But he was still ahead of the green-aproned chef, and based on the current situation, the green-aproned chef would definitely not be able to catch up to him.

He focused his gaze on the exit of the student cafeteria. He only had one goal—the exit!

The distance between him and the plastic curtain was rapidly closing. In the blink of an eye, only ten meters remained!

Ten meters… five meters! Four meters!

He sprinted frantically; escape was right in front of him!

Three meters! Two meters!

One meter!

He reached the entrance of the student cafeteria!

The green-aproned chef seemed to have lost its balance due to the loss of its arm, which led to it losing the opportunity to catch up with Lin Yi.

Just as Lin Yi rushed into the exit of the student cafeteria, the corner of his eye keenly caught some figures—it was the four athletes who had been running in front!

As they rushed out, the four athletes, like Superman, pulled open the zippers of their clothes and put their clothes on inside out—turning them into the athletes' signature blue and white sportswear.

After rushing out of the cafeteria, they very skillfully grabbed a baseball bat from who knows where, and immediately stopped, turned around, and used the momentum to fiercely smash the face of the green-aproned chef who was chasing after them…

Because it was only a glimpse from the corner of his eye, Lin Yi only saw this short clip.

His attention was all on the exit of the student cafeteria in front of him.

But just as he was about to rush out of the student cafeteria, his vision, through the plastic curtain, saw a chef wearing a blue apron, standing elegantly at the exit of the student passage…

Lin Yi: "!!"

The blue-aproned chef in front of him was the one he had seen when he came to the cafeteria through the student passage!

At this moment, he still maintained the posture of placing his hands on his lower abdomen and pointing his toes towards the inside of the student passage, but his upper body was twisted more than 90 degrees in an extremely strange and distorted posture, aiming that stiff face with a standardized smile at Lin Yi.

Even his empty eyes seemed to be looking at Lin Yi.

Lin Yi's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinholes, and there was only a huge "?!" symbol on his head!

But this only happened in an instant, and the duration was only that fleeting glance.

Before he could react, he crashed through the plastic curtain with a "bang", and with strong inertia, continued to crash towards the not-so-right blue-aproned chef…

"Crap!!" Lin Yi felt a chill in his heart. Although he didn't know what was going on with the blue-aproned chef, the fact that his body could be twisted into that kind of spiral shape was 100% abnormal!

Wouldn't he be walking right into his trap by crashing into him like this?!

He was extremely anxious but helpless, but—

When he rushed out of the plastic curtain, with the lifting of the plastic curtain that blocked his vision, the blue-aproned chef who should have been standing at the exit of the student passage, as if he had been suddenly erased, completely disappeared without a trace!

The blue-aproned chef had disappeared into thin air!

In addition to being shocked, Lin Yi's brain had no time to react, and his body fell and slipped to the ground under the action of inertia.

"That chef… is gone?!"

He propped himself up from the ground, and the strong tearing sensation in his right arm instantly spread throughout his body, causing the corners of his mouth to twitch.

But he suddenly realized something—when he rushed out, the plastic curtain fell down, and then…

Then there was no then!

The green chef who was chasing after him seemed to be gone?

Otherwise, with its speed, it should have rushed out of the plastic curtain immediately.

But it didn't.

Not only didn't it, but even its figure couldn't be seen at all through the almost transparent plastic curtain.

Lin Yi, standing outside the student cafeteria, looked inside through the plastic curtain from the outside, and couldn't see the green-aproned chef who was originally chasing him at all. Even the cold aura on the green-aproned chef's body seemed to have been cut off by the plastic curtain and couldn't be transmitted at all.

When he was inside the student cafeteria earlier, looking out through the plastic curtain, he could still see a fleeting glimpse of a blue-aproned chef. But after he came out, he couldn't see the blue-aproned chef anymore…

Two situations of "originally seeing but then not seeing" seemed the same, yet also seemed completely different…

They began to create a conflict in Lin Yi's perception, causing a subtle distortion in his cognition.

For a moment, he couldn't tell if the blue-aproned chef was a hallucination or if he really existed.

He also couldn't quite tell if the green-aproned chef… had really been chasing him?

He felt a bit dazed. He looked at the ground, the incandescent light shining from the student cafeteria was somewhat blurred, and his shadow was distorted and menacing.

He felt a surge of confusion. Could the green-aproned chef be his hallucination?

He was being chased by a shadow, but the shadow couldn't hurt him?

Otherwise, how could he explain the existence of the green-aproned chef, who was putting intense pressure on him but never actually harming him?

He stared at the plastic curtain of the student cafeteria. In the incandescent light, he couldn't see anything unusual. There were no extra marks on the smooth pillars. Everything seemed as if nothing had happened.

「 Strange… 」

「 It's really too strange… 」

He narrowed his eyes and moved closer, almost not believing what he was seeing.

Suddenly—

「 Whoosh— 」

The plastic curtain was violently lifted, and a pale hand reached out from within without warning, tearing towards Lin Yi's face!

「 Holy crap! 」

Lin Yi stared intently at this pale hand, where even the blood vessels were clearly visible. His pupils instantly contracted to the size of mung beans.

Seeing the hand rapidly enlarge in his vision, a powerful force suddenly erupted from his core, propelling his legs to push off the ground fiercely, pushing his body back a bit.

「 Swish! Swish! Swish! 」

The pale hand grabbed several times in succession, all missing. From behind the plastic curtain came the morbid roar of the green-aproned chef: “Tomato! Tomato!! Tomato!!!”

“Tomato, you son of a b*tch!” A low roar sounded, and a baseball bat fell from the sky, smashing heavily onto the pale arm!

When the baseball bat slammed into the pale arm, a transparent ripple-like pattern quickly appeared on the area where the arm and bat made contact.

This ripple was a bit like the way essence spreads on a face in a skincare commercial. The green-aproned chef's arm immediately showed some strange petrification phenomenon. In just a few breaths, the entire arm turned into a white plaster-like object…

Fine cracks quickly appeared under the baseball bat, followed by the sound of 「 crack… bang! 」. The plasterized pale arm snapped!

The whole process actually happened in an instant. From Lin Yi's perspective, it was just the green-aproned chef reaching out from the plastic curtain to grab him, and then having his hand directly broken by a baseball bat.

As the arm broke, Lin Yi clearly saw its cross-section!

It was a kind of indescribable appearance that Lin Yi had never seen before, an appearance that felt inexplicably terrifying and disgusting upon seeing it.

Beneath the skin of the broken white plaster-like limb was a large patch of viscous tomato sauce-like substance, fading from scarlet to white. They enveloped countless unknown particles, wrapped around a pale bone that looked like it was scraped from plaster.

Apart from the bone-like substance, this interface simply couldn't make people associate it with an arm. It was a mixed creation of ancient heretical art and future abstract style. Just seeing the tip of the iceberg of its essence made people feel dizzy and nauseous, a feeling of inexplicable disgust and vomiting rising in their stomachs.

That bone was precisely the humerus of the green-aproned chef that had just been broken by the baseball bat. But Lin Yi's memory and cognition simply couldn't provide effective feedback to what he was seeing. There was only a kind of instinctual horror, stimulating his nerves along with the cold air of the floor tiles.

The breaking of the arm and humerus caused the green-aproned chef to let out a shrill scream. It quickly retracted the remaining part, and after the plastic curtain fell back into place, there was no more movement.

Lin Yi looked at the plaster arm that had fallen at his feet in shock, his mind racing without being able to sort things out.

But with the closing of the plastic curtain, the two worlds seemed to be cut off from each other. That kind of terrifying feeling slowly receded like a tide, and Lin Yi felt an unprecedented sense of security.

But although the shocking scene had passed, what made him even more shocked, fearful, and unbelievable was the completely illogical space inside the student cafeteria!

Because the plastic curtain was transparent, it was impossible for anything hidden behind the plastic curtain to have no shadow. But the green-aproned chef's arm just protruded out of it so abruptly!

It was as if the front and back of that plastic curtain were two different student cafeterias!

What he saw was only what he saw, and the student cafeteria he entered after lifting the plastic curtain… was not the same at all!

「 This… how is this possible?! 」

He felt that his cognition had been challenged once again. If even what he saw with his own eyes was not necessarily true, then what exactly was real?

Just then, the person next to him patted him on the shoulder.

“Are you okay, classmate?”

Only then did Lin Yi notice his existence.

This person was precisely one of the PE students who had been sitting next to him earlier, and also the person who had left through the unofficial exit of the student cafeteria on the other side. At this moment, he had already changed into blue and white sportswear, holding a baseball bat in one hand and reaching out to him with the other.

“Thank you.” Still in shock, he reached out and grabbed the hand.

The other person exerted a little force and pulled him up from the ground.

“You're welcome.” The other person patted him on the back and glanced at his sneakers. “You're one of the boss's people, so it's only right to cover for you.”

“Uh…” Lin Yi was slightly stunned.

But the PE student didn't exchange many pleasantries with Lin Yi. He bent down and picked up the plaster arm on the ground, then glanced at the sky, frowning and muttering, “Damn it, it's too late, looks like I'll have to take it back to the gymnasium to deal with it…”

“What exactly is that thing?” Lin Yi looked at the plaster arm, finding it hard to imagine that this thing had been smashed off from the body of a green-aproned chef who seemed to be a “living being”.

And at the moment of fracture, the “living being” instantly became an inanimate object.

“You'd better not understand this thing.” The PE student weighed the plaster arm and looked at Lin Yi seriously, saying, “Here… knowing too much will become a curse.”

Today I'm not in good shape, so I can't add any more. I'm sleepy, going to sleep…