AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 118 - 55: The Cafeteria Auntie with No Name Badge (Extra 1000 words!)

Chapter 118: Chapter 55: The Cafeteria Auntie with No Name Badge (Extra 1000 words!)

"Noon," Lin Yi replied calmly.

Wei Liang: "..."

"So..." he looked at Lin Yi with a strange expression, "You told me to run fast at noon because of this? Not because those off guys were surrounding us?"

"Pretty much..." Lin Yi nodded, "By the way, haven’t you been trying to avoid this topic? How come..."

Wei Liang’s mouth twitched slightly: "The green guy smashed into my face, how could I avoid it any longer? I might as well understand a bit of this small part, it’s within the rules anyway..."

"How did you run at noon?"

Lin Yi replied without thinking: "Just sprinted."

"Hard... sprint?" Wei Liang asked skeptically, "Can you talk in ’The Human World’ terms?"

Lin Yi said: "It’s just forcing my way through, I ran in front, he chased behind, and if he caught up..."

"Then it’s hehehe?" Wei Liang interjected.

Lin Yi: "..."

"Please, can’t you show a bit of post-escapade tension?"

Lin Yi silently said in his heart, but then he understood since it was Wei Liang who brought it up.

After all... that’s very Wei Liang.

"That’s not right..." Wei Liang said puzzledly, "I remember at noon, wasn’t there a chef in a blue apron at the tray return area?"

"You’re not misremembering," Lin Yi confirmed, "The guy in the blue hat didn’t chase me. The one who chased me came from 10..."

He suddenly realized that Wei Liang might not want to know about window number 10 yet, so he changed his words: "A green hat popped out from somewhere else. There was a distance between us; he chased me, and in the end, I barely escaped being caught."

"If Xu Shunkang hadn’t appeared just in time, I might have been injured."

Saying this, Lin Yi’s mind involuntarily conjured up a vivid phantom vision—

At noon, as he was rushing out of the Student Cafeteria, he was scratched by a chef in a green apron, and then blood flowed from his wound. Under the sunlight, the blood first turned into tomato sauce, and then the tomato sauce transformed into a white plaster-like substance...

"What?!"

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

"Damn... How could I have such strange thoughts?"

Wei Liang naturally did not know what Lin Yi was thinking and, upon hearing him, suddenly realized: "No wonder Xu Shunkang later found us so accurately. It was you, kid, who led the ghost... ah, no, who led him over."

"Thanks to you, otherwise, we might have ended up beside the trash can..."

"So you’re saying, at noon, with the distance, we could run but now, the distance is too close to sprint away?"

Lin Yi replied: "Right, that’s one aspect."

"How fast do these green apron guys run?"

"I feel like... their speed is not what normal people should have. Slow at starting, fast at accelerating, like there’s a turbo strapped to their backside."

Wei Liang, after hearing this, pondered briefly: "So what’s your plan...?"

"If force won’t work, let’s be flexible," Lin Yi said in a deep voice, "I reckon he’s already got his eye on us, so simply walking out now doesn’t seem realistic... but I’ve noticed that the green hat only attacks when the person is about to leave the cafeteria."

"Let’s eat first, fill our stomachs, and meanwhile, delay a bit to think of some plan."

Wei Liang hesitated: "You think, after we get our food, we might not sit down right away, but walk around inside the Student Cafeteria... Since there are those right guys in the cafeteria, there should be Sports Students as well, right?"

"Didn’t Xu Shunkang help you at noon? If we can find him, we might be saved, right?"

"Or that tall Boss you just recognized?"

"Sports Students took a different path to come in, so they must be eating in the Student Cafeteria too, right?"

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

"The Cafeteria rules state,"

[During the queue to buy and while eating your meal, do not engage with any strangers trying to initiate conversation. If you have companions, focus on conversing with them and ignore all anomalies around you.]

"So, I feel like finding them in the cafeteria, they are mostly unlikely to help."

"If we were eating and Sports Students came to us, would you believe them?"

Wei Liang said: "Not necessarily! Sports Students don’t read the Cafeteria rules, so they probably don’t need to follow them, right?"

"Moreover, the rules mentioned ’any strangers.’ You’re not strangers to the Boss, or to Xu Shunkang, right?"

"I think we could try looking for them." Wei Liang looked at Lin Yi, "What do you think?"

Lin Yi, upon hearing this, took a moment to think in silence.

He glanced down at his watch.

17:59.

"The lights around the campus are about to come on. It looks like... we don’t have much chance to leave the cafeteria before the sun sets..."

He sighed and looked out of the cafeteria.

But just as he lifted his head, he saw the Pocket Chef in green apron standing in the crowd in front of him, tilting his head darkly and staring at him, his pale face devoid of any expression.

"Crap!!"

His pupils contracted briefly.

"I’m indeed being watched!"

He was shocked for a moment, but as the queue at the serving window moved forward, the Pocket Chef in green that appeared in his view suddenly vanished.

"What...?!"

The ghost-like figure made him doubt for a moment if he was seeing things, then he suppressed the urge to look for the Pocket Chef in green and took another glance outside the Student Cafeteria.

The light outside the Student Cafeteria was already dimming down, and the last embers of the sunset lay at the exit, like the final sparks fluttering from burnt-out charcoals.