AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 311 - 144 The Upside-Down Green Pocket Chef_2

Chapter 311: Chapter 144 The Upside-Down Green Pocket Chef_2

"Let’s go!" Lin Yi decisively took Li Huiyuan’s hand and headed for the entrance of the Student Cafeteria.

The corner they were in was very close to the entrance of the Student Cafeteria, yet during this short walk, he began to feel slightly uncomfortable, as if something was coming straight at him.

This feeling, which "normally" came from behind, now approached from the front, and it was very wrong, as if...

Suddenly, Lin Yi’s gaze fell on the plastic wind curtain.

It was as if there was something hiding behind the plastic wind curtain, staring at him.

The Student Cafeteria was divided by the plastic wind curtain, with the inside and outside seeming like two different layers. What one saw through the wind curtain into the cafeteria was often nothing more than an illusion.

It was like drawing a fortune bag, where only after opening it would you find out whether it contained a deceiving trinket or a major deceit.

He glanced at the sign above the entrance of the Student Cafeteria. After confirming there was no problem, he slowly lifted the plastic wind curtain.

A cold breath seeped straight out from the gap created by lifting the plastic wind curtain...

Lin Yi squinted his eyes instantly, and the action of lifting the curtain and stepping into the cafeteria, which had begun fluently, also slowed down considerably.

As the plastic wind curtain lifted, the empty scene behind it was revealed before Lin Yi.

"Nothing?" Lin Yi couldn’t help but squint his eyes, but the sense of a sword hanging over him became even sharper.

"No... No, that’s not right!"

Lin Yi had a premonition and his gaze fell onto the floor tiles inside the Student Cafeteria.

The incandescent lights inside the Student Cafeteria were always on, and at this moment, within the interlacing shadows of the lights, he could clearly see a cluster of shadow right above his own...

A chill ran up Lin Yi’s spine and surged towards his brain, "Above!"

The moment he realized the problem, a strong impulse rose within his subconscious to look up, but another will within him pressed down on his neck like suppressing a gun barrel.

He didn’t enter the Student Cafeteria but stopped in his tracks in a tricky position right after lifting the plastic wind curtain.

Between him and the Student Cafeteria, there was only the boundary drawn by the plastic wind curtain.

The scene seemed to freeze at this moment, and time seemed to solidify as well.

Then, suddenly, something dripped from above right in front of him, "Plop," it landed by his feet, disturbing the quiet scene.

Lin Yi looked down and saw a puddle of viscous, tomato-sauce-like substance on the ground at his feet.

His pupils shrank slightly.

"Plop..."

Another drop of that substance fell to his feet.

Lin Yi stood still.

However, because he halted so abruptly, even though he was slowing down, Li Huiyuan still bumped into his back unexpectedly.

But Lin Yi, who should have been knocked into the Student Cafeteria by Li Huiyuan due to inertia, stood his ground firmly, like an old tree with complex roots. His seemingly frail body bizarrely withstood all the weight.

Li Huiyuan suddenly realized that Lin Yi’s back was very cold.

It wasn’t the kind of cold produced by falling through layers, but rather the coolness that came when sweat seeped through to the clothes and was absorbed...

Li Huiyuan felt her heart skip a beat, vaguely sensing something was off. At the same time, she also saw a drop of tomato sauce sweep past Lin Yi’s front, then fall to the ground.

"Don’t look up!" Lin Yi’s deep voice rang in her ear.

But it was already too late. Li Huiyuan’s will was not as strong as his, and nearly as soon as she saw the tomato sauce, she uncontrollably, dizzily, and subconsciously lifted her head to look towards the source of the tomato sauce...

The scene before her eyes almost drove her mad.

She saw a green Pocket Chef hanging upside-down from the plastic air curtains of the Student Cafeteria, his body folded and twisted like a gargantuan human spider.

At that moment, the creature dangled right above where Lin Yi had stepped forward, its head slowly peeking over the doorframe, unabashedly revealing a mix of greedy, bloodthirsty, and longing evil emotions on its face.

Merely at a glance, Li Huiyuan could not determine how it was hanging there, but the eerie posture was chilling to the bone.

It was eating a tomato, which it normally couldn’t afford, the thick tomato juice dripping from the corner of its mouth to its forehead, then slowly down the chef’s hat, and finally dropping to the floor with a "plop"...

Suddenly, the nostrils of the human-spider-shaped green Pocket Chef flared slightly, then, as if it had caught a whiff of an intoxicating scent, it closed its eyes, the corners of its brows moving slightly, revealing an expression of indulgence.

Then, it suddenly opened its eyes, aiming a piercing gaze straight at Li Huiyuan’s face.

Li Huiyuan’s breathing abruptly caught, and she instinctively tightened her grip on Lin Yi’s hand, which was already getting cold.

The green Pocket Chef’s eyeballs were initially fixated on Lin Yi’s face, but his gaze was scattered, unfocused, until Li Huiyuan peeked her head out from behind Lin Yi. Only then did the creature’s eyeballs start to roll.

Immediately afterward, those two eyeballs seemed to have a mind of their own, focusing on Li Huiyuan’s face after the first one, with the second one following suit.

"Li... Hui... Yuan...?"

Its throat moved slightly, producing a dry voice.

Li Huiyuan’s pupils slowly dilated, the vision in front of her gradually warping. In that world of collapsing light and shadows, and distorted lines, she seemed to see the green Pocket Chef, whose facial muscles were writhing and twisting into another familiar form... Herself?

"Li Hui... Yuan..."

"Li Huiyuan..."

The green Pocket Chef uttered strange sounds, calling out Li Huiyuan’s name, but with an even more bizarre intonation...

Li Huiyuan felt as if she realized something, her body shaking uncontrollably.

Suddenly, it changed the topic, saying:

"My name is Li Huiyuan... My student ID is X0230507046..."

"My name is Li Huiyuan... My student ID is..."

The green Pocket Chef murmured, the voice like the pained roar of countless insects entangled in the wind, its twisted and obscure syllables resembling the chantings of gods and demons, washing away sanity, bringing chaos, and swirling around Li Huiyuan’s ear...

At the same time, its eyes slightly curved into a strange crescent shape, and its mouth stretched to the ears, the face resembling Li Huiyuan, but even more eerie and enigmatic, emanating an indescribable sense of horror.

Li Huiyuan’s face turned deathly pale; she could feel Lin Yi seemingly calling out to her, but she was unable to respond. The voice of the green Pocket Chef, reciting her name and student number, drowned out Lin Yi’s voice, leaving her confused mind incapable of much thought.

Just as she felt she was about to be done for, suddenly a voice rang out, like a muck truck rampaging wildly through the wilderness, crushing through the storm of agony, shattering both Lin Yi’s calls and the monstrous chant of the green Pocket Chef, emerging from behind her—

"Hey, wait up, Old Lin, goddamn it, wait for me!"

As the voice rose, a lean figure passed by her and Lin Yi... it was Wei Liang.

"Eh heh, knowing to wait for me, that’s a good bro!"

Wei Liang snatched the plastic air curtains from Lin Yi with a grin: "Old Lin, you’re really something, lifting half a curtain like a sissy. Let me handle it!"

Before Lin Yi could utter a word of warning, Wei Liang yanked at the plastic air curtains, but, hindered by the head of the green Pocket Chef hanging upside down, he couldn’t lift the curtains any wider, no matter how hard he pulled.