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Chapter 117 - 54 - s "They don’t eat... What about you?" _2

Chapter 117: 54 Chapters "They don’t eat... What about you?" _2

Lin Yi stared at the dish return area, yet his peripheral vision kept the chef in the green apron in sight.

"His target is the scrambled eggs with tomato! Just like those shady guys behind him!"

Lin Yi pinpointed the crux of the problem and carefully turned his head, whispering to Wei Liang, "Liangzi, I’ve figured out the problem."

"Damn, do you even need to figure it out? Old Lin, I just got mentally prepared, don’t tell me you got it wrong!" Wei Liang whined.

"I should be right."

"’Should be’? Whatever, I’m all in with you!"

"Good, let’s dump this food and then go get another portion..."

"Okay...huh? Wait, get another portion?!"

"If there’s a chance, we definitely need to have dinner, right? Don’t rush, just follow me. If there’s any trouble, we’ll run together. Follow my cues."

Wei Liang instinctively glanced at Lin Yi’s eyes but before he could see Lin Yi’s face, he first noticed the chef in the green apron, his mouth smiling but his eyes crazily greedy and sinister.

He silently lowered his head.

Well, better to watch his feet and act accordingly.

...

Under immense pressure, Lin Yi approached the dish return area. Before he could get settled, the chef in the green apron eagerly approached.

The chef forsook his elegance, moving around Lin Yi and Wei Liang like a nimble fox, his creepy face shifting back and forth between two plates, almost sticking itself onto the scrambled eggs with tomato.

His mouth open, his tongue licking around the bottom of his lips, drool dripping down.

"Yes, yes, this is the flavor..." He closed his eyes, greedily inhaling the aroma of the scrambled eggs with tomato, his eyebrows almost flying off his forehead.

"Just to throw it away... such a waste, such a waste..."

He muttered to himself, but made no move to actually touch it.

Seeing Lin Yi about to dispose of the food, he quickly reached out, "Such a waste, such a waste, give it to me, let me do it... let me do it!"

Lin Yi silently handed him the plates.

His eyebrows raised in delight, his eyes curved like crescents, his smile stretching ear to ear, displaying a wildly obsessed expression.

But just as he was about to grab the plates, Lin Yi, with a swift maneuver like a cameraman in an Indian movie, jostled the plates up and down, cunningly evading the reaching hands.

"You...?" The chef in the green apron turned around briskly, extending his neck to follow Lin Yi’s motion.

Lin Yi reached the dish return area and dumped all the food into the trash bin, then, as if to ensure it was completely clean, he banged it forcefully several times.

While Lin Yi was doing this, the chef in the green apron slowly turned around with a gaze full of intense malice, staring menacingly at Lin Yi as if he intended to flay him alive.

Lin Yi could distinctly feel a chill racing up and down his spine. Throughout the process, he observed the chef in the green apron’s every move through the vague reflection of the metal shelves.

If the chef in the green apron showed any hint of action, he was ready to bolt out of the Student Cafeteria at a moment’s notice.

However, the chef in the green apron did not attack him; he merely stared, showing a tendency to pounce at any moment, yet he did not take any real action.

Lin Yi placed the plates back on the metal rack and slowly shifted away.

Wei Liang followed swiftly, perfectly mimicking Lin Yi’s actions with disposing of the food, and then quickly copying Lin Yi’s movements.

Until they walked past the chef in the green apron, his attention remained unfocused.

He leaned over the leftover food bin, reaching in to retrieve the scrambled eggs with tomato.

"Tomato... my tomatoes..."

He finally managed to pick up some of the scrambled eggs with tomato.

He was about to bury his bizarre and ferocious face into the scrambled eggs with tomato.

The corners of his mouth oozed stringy saliva, yet he never ate the scrambled eggs with tomato.

Holding the scrambled eggs with tomato in both hands, he shuddered continuously until all the eggs slid back into the food recycle bin, leaving only the tomatoes in his grasp.

Only large tomato slices remained.

It cradled the tomato slices, gazing at them with a devout and crazed expression, as if beholding a fine piece of art.

Gradually, it turned its gaze upon the surrounding crowd and in a tempting voice, sinisterly asked,

"They don’t eat... how about you?"

The crowd before it had already gathered several stupefied and dazed students.

The pupils of these students were dilated, their eyes devoid of spirit as they staggered along, swaying step-by-step toward the chef in the green apron, guided as if by some instinctive sense of smell, blindly searching for the scent of tomatoes.

Eventually, they found the tomatoes in the hands of the chef in the green apron.

"Swish!!!"

Their dilated pupils suddenly focused, and they stared intently at the tomatoes, a foolish smile gradually appearing on their expressionless faces.

They bowed their heads like animals, then extended their necks to lick and devour the tomatoes from the hands of the chef in the green apron.

"Slurp... Slurp... Slurp..."

Those students devouring the tomatoes also faintly exuded a pale golden glow in their eyes.

While they devoured the tomatoes, their skin gradually lost color, and from their pores faintly emerged some white powder particles.

Meanwhile, the chef in the green apron greedily sucked in the air, drawing all these white powder particles into his nostrils through his breath.

"Heh... heh... heh heh heh..." The chef in the green apron watched this scene with wide-eyed glee, a chilly golden gleam also flickering in his eyes.

Gradually, it cast its gaze upon Lin Yi and Wei Liang, muttering, "Tomatoes... delicious tomatoes... heh heh heh..."

...

As Lin Yi, who was rejoining the queue with Wei Liang, recalled the moment he brushed past the chef in the green apron, he couldn’t help but squint his eyes.

He felt not a sliver of warmth from the chef in the green apron; passing by him felt like walking past a lifeless stone.

And when they turned back, they inevitably encountered those odd students again, but these people simply ignored them, charging toward the chef in the green apron instead.

Lin Yi was certain that their target was also the scrambled eggs with tomato.

From this, it was clear...

"What normal people would desperately avoid, ’tomatoes’, seems to exert a fatal attraction on these odd individuals!"

"Yet tomatoes... seem to resemble hearts?"

"Tomato sauce will turn into plaster..."

"Tomatoes are hearts..."

"So... is tomato sauce some kind of mixture of heart blood?"

A series of deductions suddenly sprang into Lin Yi’s mind...

And then he broke out into a cold sweat.

Not because the deductions startled him, but because he realized that unconsciously, he had actually "accepted" the "concept" that tomatoes, hearts, blood, and plaster were somehow interconnected!

If it were last night, the realization of this connection would certainly have led to some sort of fainting spell.

But now... nothing was amiss, and damn it, he was even a bit hungry and thinking about eating!

"Old Lin, what do we do next?" Wei Liang whispered.

"We’ve been targeted by Green Hat." Lin Yi whispered back.

Upon hearing this, Wei Liang jumped up: "Damn! Why did you still let us come back to eat? Isn’t this delivering ourselves to them?"

Lin Yi quickly added, "Don’t be scared, based on my experience, Green Hat will only attack us when we leave the cafeteria, didn’t you see there were no issues just now?"

Upon reconsidering, Wei Liang nodded: "Sounds about right... wait a minute!!"

"Where the hell did you get that kind of experience from?!"