AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 178 - 82: The Cafeteria Auntie with Blue and Green Bibs is the Same Person_2

Chapter 178: Chapter 82: The Cafeteria Auntie with Blue and Green Bibs is the Same Person_2

But once you have taken the tray, please go directly to the utensil recycling area and put all the food into the recycling bin, then head to another window to get food.

In this process, remember his employee number and inform your homeroom teacher after you return to the Teaching Building.]

"Keywords, don’t remind, discard, remember the number, then inform the homeroom teacher."

Before this, Lin Yi had not figured out the logic in the first sentence, subconsciously thinking that something bad would happen after reminding.

But now, he understood.

"Only the problematic Cafeteria Auntie would serve food containing the Tomato Element, and she herself is in the state of ’knowing she has a problem’ and ’believing she doesn’t have one’...

He thought of the homeroom teacher.

The homeroom teacher who kept writing [I am the homeroom teacher] must be in the state of ’knowing she has a problem’ yet trying to convince herself with an iron will that she doesn’t have one...

One way the homeroom teacher used to strengthen her self-awareness, to anchor her identity, was by continuously writing [I am the homeroom teacher].

Lin Yi couldn’t help but sigh with a sense of deep reverence.

He didn’t know about the Cafeteria Auntie, but it might be related to her pathologically asking students if they ordered ’Scrambled eggs with tomato’.

The Cafeteria Auntie’s self-awareness might need other’s help to stabilize, and the cafeteria rules didn’t specify what the students ’should do’, only what they ’shouldn’t do’.

"So the purpose of not reminding is to protect the Cafeteria Auntie, lest our reminder becomes the last straw that shatters her perception of reality."

"And discarding it is to protect ourselves from being contaminated by food with the Tomato Element."

"As for the rule about reporting to the homeroom teacher... considering that the chef delivers meals for the homeroom teacher, notifying the homeroom teacher in advance is to let her prepare herself by knowing who the problematic chef is."

"I’ve finished, Young Master Tian."

’Clap, clap, clap...’ Tian Bufan couldn’t help but applaud.

"This time, you spoke exceptionally well." Tian Bufan said with a smile, "I encountered the same situation at dinner, and what you said almost coincides with my own speculation."

"We don’t need to discuss this point anymore, now let me speak."

Lin Yi said, "Okay."

Tian Bufan then said, "Since you just mentioned the problem with the Cafeteria Auntie, let’s discuss the issue of ’employees’ next."

"Cafeteria employees, excluding the ’Convenience Store owner’ who may or may not fall within the scope of cafeteria employees, let’s just talk about the chefs with blue and green aprons."

"First, we can be clear on one thing, chefs with green aprons definitely indicate abnormality."

"However, chefs with blue aprons cannot fully represent normality."

"Secondly, according to the cafeteria rules, no chef should be in the Student Cafeteria, plus the issue you mentioned concerning the Cafeteria Auntie, and that one rule in the cafeteria rules—"

"[If you accidentally violate the above rules, please exit through the Student Passage immediately and enter the Staff Passage at once, and seek help from the staff in blue aprons or Security Guards, before asking for help you must show your Student ID card.]"

"Putting these together, we can draw one conclusion—normally, in the cafeteria, the only people we can trust are the normally behaving chefs in blue aprons at the food window."

"Apart from them, all other chefs are problematic."

"The abnormal cafeteria staff that may appear include... "

"One, chefs in blue aprons who like to stuff tomatoes into others’ food or replace someone’s milk with tomato juice."

"Two, chefs in green aprons who lurk in crowds and stare at us."

"Three, chefs in blue aprons and in green aprons who appear at the utensil recycling area."

"And... four, chefs in green aprons who crawl out from food window number ten."

"These four types."

"However, even though the chefs in green aprons who have shown clear malice towards us, I still can’t deduce what their purpose is."

"Is it just to attack us or is there another motive? These, I still don’t know."

Lin Yi quietly listened, then nodded, and hesitantly said, "I encountered a chef in a green apron at the Gymnasium."

"Hmm," Tian Bufan replied calmly, making Lin Yi feel uneasy.

"Isn’t... You just ’hmm’ and have nothing else to say?"

"I am thinking," Tian Bufan responded, but considering Lin Yi’s feelings, he still shared his thoughts, "What you said... is highly unreasonable."

"But I did encounter it, saw it with my own eyes, experienced it firsthand, and... it was the Boss who helped me out of the situation."

Tian Bufan said, "You should know that the Gymnasium is the stronghold of the sports department, which as a ’positive’ unit, should inherently deter the Pocket Chef, a clearly ’negative’ unit."

"Moreover, with so many Sports Students guarding the entrance of the Gymnasium, it’s impossible for the Pocket Chef to just break in."

Lin Yi also recalled the scene previously in front of the Cafeteria — Xu Shunkang, armed with a baseball bat, had a natural advantage over the Pocket Chef, not to mention a group of Sports Students stationed at the door of the Gymnasium.

"So what you mean is...?" he asked.

Tian Bufan fell silent for a moment before his voice slowly rose, exuding an extreme calmness that was chilling: "Unless... the Pocket Chef was ’born’ from inside the Gymnasium."

"From... ’inside’ the Gymnasium?!" Lin Yi gasped.

This statement from Tian Bufan filled him with a chilling terror.

How could the safest place, the Gymnasium, possibly "produce" a Pocket Chef?!

"This... this is too bizarre, isn’t it?"

Tian Bufan’s tone was terrifyingly calm: "’Bizarre’? That’s only based on the unknown."

"This only shows that there is an extremely special link in the transformation pathways of the Pocket Chef."

"However, since you were targeted by the Pocket Chef inside the Gymnasium, you should be careful... The Gymnasium might not be safe for you anymore."

Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat.

"Also... what’s with that ’Boss’?"

"Um..." Lin Yi narrated every detail of encountering the "Boss" to Tian Bufan without holding back.

After listening, Tian Bufan couldn’t help but smile: "I didn’t expect your newly recognized ’Boss’ to be so righteous."

"Yeah... haha..." Thinking of the Boss’s divine intervention, Lin Yi couldn’t help but scratch his head.

From an angle Lin Yi couldn’t see, Tian Bufan glanced at him.

"Let’s talk about the food service windows and area division now," Tian Bufan said, "The food service windows, actually, there’s nothing much to say, the key is the tenth food service window."

Lin Yi spoke: "I was curious before, you also saw the tenth food service window, then why weren’t you chased by the Pocket Chef?"

"How do you know I wasn’t chased?" Tian Bufan countered.

In Lin Yi’s mind, he immediately pictured Tian Bufan with a stern face, running, with a bizarre Pocket Chef trailing behind him cackling...

Bufan, Bufan I can’t live without you, Bufan... cackle cackle cackle...

Nothing else, just a sense of contrast.

"Pfft—" Lin Yi couldn’t help but burst out laughing, the bed shaking inadvertently from it.

The more he tried to stifle his laughter, the more severe it became, finally, amidst Tian Bufan’s stone-faced silence, he let out a series of old-fashioned train-on-tracks-like "clang clang clang..." of laughter.

"The tenth food service window..." Tian Bufan finally spoke.

Lin Yi gradually stopped laughing and perked up his ears to listen.

"The tenth food service window, its information is ominous, even though people are lining up, I seriously doubt if it truly is a ’food service window’ after all."

"Assuming it is a food service window, then, what food does it provide?"

"Obviously, those non-human classmates are more interested in food containing Tomato Element on our trays."

"If they could get their hands on Tomato Element dishes, then why would they covet ours?"

Lin Yi suddenly spoke up: "Young Master Tian, do you think... could the tenth food service window be a Convenience Store?"