AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 309 - 143: Words from the Blue Apron Pocket Chef_2

Chapter 309: Chapter 143: Words from the Blue Apron Pocket Chef_2

Today’s sun seemed a bit lower than at the same time yesterday; it was only four in the afternoon but nearly resembled the previous day at five...

He stepped into the Student Passage, ascending under the glow of the incandescent lights, heading toward the corridor’s end.

But he hadn’t gone far when he noticed Li Huiyuan shielding her eyes with her hand.

"What’s wrong?" Lin Yi asked.

Li Huiyuan hesitated, "It’s nothing, just the lights here seem a bit dazzling."

"Ah? Dazzling?" Lin Yi looked around the passage in surprise, then nodded, "They are a bit dazzling."

He was lying.

The incandescent lights were actually not much different from yesterday, but it seemed these lights were already too dazzling for Li Huiyuan...

This hadn’t crossed his mind, as the Teaching Building’s lighting hours and that of the campus street lamps both started at 18:00, while the Student Passage was lit 24 hours a day.

But they were about to reach the Cafeteria now, and finding the Convenience Store would provide some leeway, so there was no need to mention this and cause Li Huiyuan further anxiety.

Moments later, the exit of the Student Passage was before them.

Suddenly, Lin Yi felt something touch his palm, and he instinctively shrank his hand, avoiding the object.

"Classmate Lin... could you, hold my hand?" Li Huiyuan asked weakly from beside him, feeling a sense of being watched that made her subconsciously reach for Lin Yi’s hand, but his instinctive evasion had been complete.

Lin Yi realized something and then held Li Huiyuan’s hand.

Li Huiyuan’s hand was still smooth and soft but felt somewhat icy cold. When he took her hand, she gripped his tightly, as if clinging to a lifeline.

"Are you scared of that blue Pocket Chef at the exit of the passage?" Lin Yi whispered.

Li Huiyuan nodded, "It’s been staring at me since a while ago..."

"Don’t worry, let’s avoid it and not go near that area," he suggested.

"Okay."

...

Soon, they reached the exit of the Student Passage, and this time, the ’Ru Zai’ blue Pocket Chef did not have its usual characteristic smile but was staring intently at Li Huiyuan with widened eyes, even reaching out towards her before she got close to the exit.

"Ignore it, let’s go!"

Lin Yi, holding Li Huiyuan’s hand, hastened their pace, bypassing the ’Ru Zai’ blue Pocket Chef from the other side of the passage.

However, just as he was about to leave the Student Passage, he suddenly heard a low, dry voice at his ear.

At the same time, Li Huiyuan’s pace halted abruptly, and the hand they were holding tensed up.

Lin Yi felt as if he was gripping a stone; the moment it tightened, instead of pulling Li Huiyuan, he was instead pulled back by her!

"Li Huiyuan? Li..." he turned around and saw that Li Huiyuan had already turned her head to look at the ’Ru Zai’ blue Pocket Chef!

"Damn!" A chill suddenly shot through his scalp like frost.

But before he could ponder whether Li Huiyuan’s change was "voluntary" or "forced," the dry voice that had reached his ear suddenly became clear...

[Go... to the Convenience Store...]

[In the cafeteria... without lights... under the sun...]

[Go find... before they set their eyes on you... hurry... to the convenience store...]

[Hurry...]

Lin Yi looked at it in astonishment but noticed it was staring into Li Huiyuan’s eyes, its lips stiffly moving yet producing no sound—yes, the blue-pocket chef was speaking, but no sound was coming out!

Its words seemed to exist in some special frequency band, like a "private" audio message sent to Li Huiyuan, but for some reason, he had "eavesdropped" on it midway.

It was just like... he had understood the sounds and curses emitted from beneath the writhing flesh of the nocturnal species at some strange moment...

He tried pulling Li Huiyuan, then found that her body seemed rigid, and her hands were still cold as before, but they didn’t release that chilly breath.

A few seconds later, Li Huiyuan shifted her gaze away from the stare-off with the blue-pocket chef from Ru Zai, and then looked at Lin Yi with a very strange expression, shocked, "Classmate Lin! Just now, it... let’s go aside and talk..."

"Okay." Lin Yi didn’t argue, holding Li Huiyuan’s hand and catching up with Wei Liang and Wei Shan, back to the same corner where they had waited for Tian Bufan at noon.

Once they stopped, Lin Yi asked, "What were you about to say about it?"

"Wait a minute!" Wei Liang’s expression was very serious, as if he had witnessed a terrible disaster, frightening Li Huiyuan terribly.

Li Huiyuan quickly shut her mouth and looked earnestly at Wei Liang, thinking to herself that indeed there were hidden dragons and crouching tigers around Classmate Lin, and this Wei Liang seemed to be another big shot, wondering what astonishing secret he would reveal next, and...

And Li Huiyuan saw that Lin Yi’s expression had also turned grave, indicating that this Wei Liang was profoundly mysterious, not showing his hand unless necessary, but once he did, it must be an explosive start.

However, she didn’t really understand Lin Yi and Wei Liang, nor did she know that Lin Yi’s serious expression was because he anticipated Wei Liang was about to say some preposterous nonsense.

Sure enough, Wei Liang spat out disdainfully, grinding his teeth: "Words aside, can you separate your hands first? There are people coming and going, it’s not like you to be holding hands like this!"

Having said that, he then covered his ears.

An ellipse floated above Lin Yi’s head; he had foreseen Wei Liang was going to talk nonsense, but he didn’t expect the angle of the nonsense could be so tricky.

Upon hearing this, Li Huiyuan also felt a bit embarrassed and let go of Lin Yi’s hand.

However, just then, Lin Yi suddenly noticed that faint wisps of extremely thin, white mist were emerging from Li Huiyuan’s palm.

He looked closely and discovered a hair-thin scar in Li Huiyuan’s palm lines, which shockingly resembled the scar on her back, only that the scar on her back emitted green mist, while this one was emitting white mist. No, this white mist was a type of contamination, visually resembling mountain mist, but essentially... it was still green mist!

Moreover, this scar almost overlapped with her palm lines; if he hadn’t just noticed it when they let go of each other’s hands, he wouldn’t have seen it at all.

But Lin Yi reflected for a moment and realized this was not coincidental, but rather forewarned.

He thought back to when he had been holding Li Huiyuan’s hand, each time her unstable state caused layers to fall, her palm would become extremely cold, and now it seemed, was it emitting green mist back then?

"Wait, where is this mist drifting?!"

Lin Yi suddenly widened his eyes. The green mist floating from Li Huiyuan’s palm... its final destination... was it his own palm?!

In his palm, a thin wisp of barely visible green mist was lodged, slowly dispersing but also wriggling crazily, as if trying to burrow into his palm...

"Damn! What the hell?" Lin Yi almost lost it, instinctively shaking his hand.

With that shake, the already thin green mist dispersed on the spot.

"So when holding hands with Li Huiyuan, was the green mist in her palm trying to burrow into mine? Why? Could it be because I’m marked by the Green Mist Mark? That can’t be right...?"