AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 177 - 82: The Cafeteria Auntie with the Blue and Green Bibs is the Same Person

Chapter 177: Chapter 82: The Cafeteria Auntie with the Blue and Green Bibs is the Same Person

"It’s all to target those non-human classmates."

"Once you inform the Security Guard, they should enter through other passages. If they find non-human classmates, they are likely to deal with them just as they dealt with the sculpture last night."

"Moreover, if the Transformation Pathways I’ve deduced don’t have any major issues, then they may exhibit characteristics similar to sculptures when their layers are disturbed. For example, when they’re attacked by a Security Guard, the blood from their wounds might turn into tomato sauce, and their limbs may become plaster-like... and other such illogical transformations."

"Therefore, to prevent cognitive issues after we witness such things, the Cafeteria rules include the following sentence:

[If you choose to report to the Security Guard, please leave the Cafeteria immediately after doing so. Do not stay behind or be curious about the Security Guard’s subsequent actions.]

"The point is to leave promptly after we make the report, so we don’t see things we shouldn’t."

"As for information about the passages, I haven’t found anything else for now. How about you? If not, let’s continue discussing the staff issue."

"No... wait, there is something else!" Lin Yi was about to say there wasn’t, but then he remembered the trash can placed at the entrance to the Staff Passage.

Of course, he wasn’t going to talk about the trash can, but rather the horrifying sounds coming from what seemed to be the Staff Passage leading to Cafeteria’s basement level.

However, after he finished, Tian Bufan regretfully said, "I’ve noted this point, but I haven’t obtained any information related to the Cafeteria’s basement level or the Gymnasium’s basement."

"Before I find the corresponding pathways, I must maintain sufficient reverence for these places."

"But since you mentioned trash cans, I do have some thoughts."

"As for trash cans..." Lin Yi pondered, "trash cans should be a tool for recycling food containing Tomato Element. Their final destination should be the Cafeteria. Placing it near the Staff Passage may be for the convenience of the Cafeteria staff to take it away."

"Eh! If that’s the case..." Lin Yi’s eyes suddenly lit up, "could the Cafeteria’s basement level be the area where they handle the Tomato Element?"

Tian Bufan said, "It’s possible."

Lin Yi surprisedly said, "Young Master Tian, you weren’t like this before."

Tian Bufan was slightly taken aback: "What?"

Lin Yi paused: "Nothing."

As he stared at the ceiling, he narrowed his eyes—

"Young Master Tian’s information channels... there’s definitely something wrong!"

Tian Bufan, lying on another bed, furrowed his brows slightly and remained silent: "..."

"So... shall we continue?" he asked.

The voice of Lin Yi came from the diagonally opposite bed: "Of course, let’s continue."

He glanced at the time.

23:01.

"There’s another hour..."

"Regardless of what Young Master Tian’s information channels are, at least the things he’s certain of are not problematic."

"Having said that, we must now talk about the food issue in the Cafeteria." He left the trash can topic there, and even Tian Bufan didn’t have much to comment, which meant the problem was either that simple or there was a lack of information.

Tian Bufan said, "Meal windows, food, staff—these three points are interrelated. Share your thoughts, and I’ll see if I can add anything."

"Okay," Lin Yi agreed, and while recalling the issues in the Cafeteria, he continued, "I’ve only been to the first floor of the Student Cafeteria so far."

"The Student Cafeteria has six meal windows, numbered one to five and a hidden number ten meal window in a dark area without lighting."

"I’ll talk about the problem with the tenth meal window in a moment. Let’s first discuss the first few."

"In the five meal windows I’ve seen, each one consistently has three chefs wearing blue aprons."

"If there is a fourth chef, that chef must be wearing a green apron." This was something Lin Yi noticed when he was repeating his meal ordering, "And I believe that the chef with the green apron must be transformed from the one with the blue apron."

"I don’t know if it’s my imagination or something, but at one meal window, I saw two Cafeteria Aunties who looked exactly alike, one wearing a green apron and the other a blue one."

"The one in the blue apron had no badge but was serving food; the one in the green apron was wearing a badge but was adding Scrambled eggs with tomato into the dish served by the Cafeteria Auntie in the blue apron."

"From the beginning, I had an intuition that they were the same person."

"And just now, I became even more convinced of this judgment."

"They are the same person, but due to Contamination, they have fallen to an abnormal layer, and the Cafeteria Auntie in the green apron that I saw is the state exhibited by the blue apron Cafeteria Auntie in that unusual layer."

Tian Bufan, lying in bed, couldn’t help but smile faintly at Lin Yi’s conclusion.

He didn’t interrupt Lin Yi, giving him time to think and speak.

Lin Yi was indeed in a state like "answering a test" where he thought and spoke simultaneously: "The rules in the Cafeteria have clear regulations about this issue."

"[When ordering a meal, if you notice the employee in the blue apron adding food with Tomato Element to your dish, please do not remind them they’ve made a mistake.