AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 483 - 215 The Story of Old Mo and Mu Daxian_2

Chapter 483: Chapter 215 The Story of Old Mo and Mu Daxian_2

Having crossed those steps, he had moved from the other passage over to this side of the Student Passage!

Lin Yi immediately thought of another matter—twice, after he had put away his tray, he was chased by a chef in a green apron.

The first time, Xu Shunkang had appeared out of nowhere and with a home run swing, he had smacked the chef in the green apron back with his baseball bat;

The second time, another Sports Student appeared, using a baseball bat to break the hand that the chef in the green apron had reached out from the plastic strip curtain...

What he had been neglecting was another detail, that being, neither Xu Shunkang nor that Sports Student had come from the side of the Student Passage!

After Xu Shunkang had finished what he was doing, he had very obviously walked away in another direction, heading toward the entrance that led to the other passage.

And on those occasions, he had always been in a hurry to leave, never paying attention to the direction the Sports Student had left in.

"So, these layers can communicate with each other to some extent?"

"Like diving and surfacing?"

"So... those chefs in the green aprons who crawled out from Meal Window 10, they are, to some extent, on a similar layer as the one Old Mo is on, and can only harm us when certain special conditions are met?"

"Like... a key item containing ’tomato-related elements’?"

"That doesn’t seem quite right..."

"Maybe I’m wrong, and it’s actually something else that I’m not aware of?"

Lin Yi was contemplative; if other areas in the campus also had this characteristic of the Cafeteria, with multiple layers intersecting, then wouldn’t that mean there would be many... unknown routes?

For example...

"Like the road that leads to the Gymnasium, could it fork into a different path?"

As Lin Yi pondered these questions, Old Mo had already treated Mao Feiyang’s injuries, and then Mu Daxian had bid farewell to Old Mo, taking Mao Feiyang back toward the area on the other side of the passage.

"Mu... Da... Xian..." Old Mo slowly began, calling after Mu Daxian’s retreating figure.

"What is it?"

"Be careful..." Old Mo said with utmost seriousness.

Mu Daxian was slightly startled, then narrowed his eyes, "Have you discovered something?"

"No..." Old Mo shook his head slowly.

Mu Daxian did not speak, only squinting his eyes into a slit. He then nodded solemnly, "I understand. Stay alive, see you next time."

"You too..." Old Mo said, "I don’t have... many friends... you’re... one of them..."

...

When Mu Daxian returned with Mao Feiyang to the section of the area between the other passage and the Student Cafeteria, the shattered morning light sprinkled down, illuminating the cracks in the brick walls with a splendid gold, while the inside of the Cafeteria was still not lit.

"It’s daylight." Mu Daxian said.

"Yeah, finally daylight!" Mao Feiyang also let out a long sigh of relief, but then he noticed Mu Daxian frowning, "What’s wrong, Brother Xian, is daylight bad?"

"Daylight is good, but we don’t need it to get light so quickly." Mu Daxian spoke gravely.

"Ah?"

"The entrance to the Convenience Store appears at the boundary between light and dark. If it’s broad daylight, it will be very difficult to find."

"The boundary between light and dark?"

"Put simply, it’s the area of the Cafeteria that isn’t lit by artificial light but is touched by sunlight."

Mao Feiyang was quick to respond, "That would be by the wall next to the window?"

"’Window’, an interesting concept." Mu Daxian said with a half-smile, picking at his brow and leaving Mao Feiyang somewhat confused.

But somehow, he was suddenly reminded of the window he had seen in the stairwell of the Teaching Building...

"An interesting concept,"

There were no windows in the stairwell, yet he saw...

Could it be the cafeteria...?

Hiss... Mao Feiyang involuntarily took a sharp breath.

"Are you born in the year of the snake, or are you a vacuum pump? Having survived under the Sneering Angel, there’s no need for such a fuss," Mu Daxian said disdainfully.

Mao Feiyang pursed his lips and was silent for a while before he continued, "Brother Xian... what happened to that Old Mo just now?"

Mao Feiyang was actually very curious about Old Mo’s story, as he seemed like a pseudo-human, and even when he first saw Old Mo, there was a chill down his spine.

If eyes could deceive, intuition could not.

There was a breath emanating from Old Mo that made him fearful, especially when Old Mo held a kitchen knife in his hand.

That kitchen knife... was bizarre. It looked like an ordinary meat cleaver, and its edge wasn’t even visible, yet as if it were endowed with magic power, it managed to scrape away his supernatural ability bit by bit.

Now looking at his own arm, the wound had zipped up, leaving only a faint trace.

"Old Mo, huh..."

Mu Daxian looked towards the direction of the Student Passage, his eyes reflecting a hint of reminiscence.

"Old Mo is one of the few people in this campus whom I truly respect," he said.

Hiss—ugh! Mao Feiyang was about to gasp again, but remembering Mu Daxian’s earlier reaction, he quickly clamped his hand over his mouth like lightning.

"But I feel like you don’t show much respect for him, meow..." he said with a slip of the tongue.

Mu Daxian gave him a sidelong glance, "Respect isn’t something you wear on your lips."

It was not yet 5:40, and the cafeteria hadn’t opened. Perhaps moved by the scenery or lost in contemplation, Mu Daxian spoke to Mao Feiyang or perhaps to himself, "I met Old Mo quite early on..."

"Back then, he was just an ordinary chef, and I was a no-name Karami ’Experience Student.’"

"At that time, he had nothing but his kitchen knife, and all I had was my good looks..."

Mao Feiyang: "..."

Mu Daxian continued, "The first time I met Old Mo was on a day engulfed in mist... If I remember correctly, it was during the 63rd Grey Mist Invasion..."

"It was when I had just joined the school, on September 5th of the year 21. I don’t remember what time it was exactly that night..."

"I just remember that after dinner, when I left the cafeteria to return to the Teaching Building, I got lost due to the mist halfway there."

"The lights hadn’t come on yet, and since I felt I had only taken a few steps away from the cafeteria, I tried to run back according to my memory. Then it started to rain on the way..."

"Since it wasn’t 6 p.m. yet, and the mist was really thick, I didn’t dare to get close even when I saw a streetlight."

"The only option at that point was to follow the Student Guidelines, seek shelter in the nearest building immediately, and the cafeteria was the closest building to me."

"But even though it was just a few steps away, I just couldn’t find the cafeteria..."

"And the pseudo-humans from the Green Forest Belt began to emerge and surround me—I didn’t know about the concept of pseudo-humans at the time, I just knew they were something inhuman..."

"I didn’t dare to make any rash moves, so I just squatted there staring at the cobblestone road..."

"All I could see in my eyes were cobblestones; I could even see a whole world in them, but I quickly became confused. I could feel those pseudo-humans surrounding me, like a myriad of tombstones erected beside me."

"They were chanting something akin to the Iron Law of the Night Watchman from their mouths, like some bizarre deity reciting scriptures filled with heresy, as if they were about to conduct a spiritual transition for me right there..."

"When I was about to lose my mind, those tombstones shattered as if they were being chopped up like vegetables. By the time I came to my senses, Old Mo had already appeared beside me, descending like an angel...

"I remember clearly, at that time Old Mo was wearing a black oily apron, holding the same kitchen knife he is holding now, and his white chef uniform was entirely covered with tomato sauce..."

"His expression was very cold, completely different from the numb look you see on him now... If I’d been a woman, I would have pledged myself to him then and there."