AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 532 - 239: The Ashen Colored Passage

Chapter 532: Chapter 239: The Ashen Colored Passage

Lin Yi’s face turned dark with fury, "Die for me!"

"Oh my God! Are you trying to silence me by murder~~~~~~" Wei Liang raised his hands high, looking like he was about to flee for his life.

Watching Wei Liang’s retreating figure, Lin Yi fell into deep thought.

According to the rules, that life-saving method of clutching the Student ID card and silently reciting one’s identity information might work for ordinary Experience Students, but it wasn’t good for those whose spirits were somewhat unstable or who had exceptionally high inspiration because it could be "overheard" by nocturnal species and Pseudo-Humans.

However, the method of using uniquely human desires to anchor one’s human identity that Wei Liang suggested didn’t have this flaw at all.

Using human desires to anchor one’s identity as a person was indeed an advanced form of anchoring.

It felt like embracing both culture and vulgarity, where coarse words carried the most refined logic, simplifying complexity and returning to simplicity.

And Wei Liang had taught him this very method quietly as soon as he sensed something was wrong on the first night!

It was like a greenhorn just starting in the world and receiving a rusty iron rod from an old beggar, only to find as the plot developed that the more advanced the stages, the more formidable this rusty iron rod became...

Is this the value of second round War God Zhuge Wei Liang?!

Had he been scheming right from the start?

All those times Liangzi said he wanted to hang onto my coattails, was it sarcasm, hinting at me to frantically cling to his?

Lin Yi suddenly felt an epiphany, but then his face turned bitter again. Liangzi, that rascal... his skills were all "Exclusive Passive Skills," and without a critical moment, you simply wouldn’t know what cunning moves he had...

Lin Yi decided to discreetly observe Wei Liang at the first opportunity, even if Wei Liang was just picking his nose, he had to ponder the deeper implications.

Wei Liang, walking ahead, suddenly felt a chill down his spine and knew without looking that he was being thought about by Lin Yi. He couldn’t help but touch his behind, his steps becoming slightly unnatural.

As they continued walking, the notice board in front of the Cafeteria came into everyone’s view.

From a distance, it seemed as if a cloud of gloom hung over the Cafeteria, with a peculiar fluctuation in the air as if directing all the bizarre auras towards that place.

"That’s right..." Lin Yi said. "There must be something wrong with the owner of the Convenience Store. I went there with Li Huiyuan earlier and found that there were no Student Souvenir Coins at all in the Convenience Store."

"And when Maozi and Mu Daxian went there, all the Student Souvenir Coins had already been put away, I suspect the Convenience Store’s owner did it, but I have no evidence..."

Tian Bufan asked, "In your dream, did you see the Convenience Store’s owner?"

"No." Lin Yi shook his head. "...The status of the Convenience Store’s owner seems very high. I even suspect he’s not a normal person."

"Young Master Tian, do you think that not seeing the Convenience Store’s owner might actually be a good thing?"

"It’s hard to say," Tian Bufan replied. "What happened afterward? Since they didn’t get any Student Souvenir Coins, how did Mao Feiyang and Mu Daxian return?"

"The Grey Mist appeared from within the Cafeteria, pursuing Mu Daxian and Mao Feiyang all the way into the Convenience Store. Mu Daxian let Mao Feiyang go first, then somehow managed to get a lot of Student Souvenir Coins and then..." Lin Yi briefly explained the ’Cicada Shedding its Shell’ plan, "...just like that, they successfully returned to the Art Building in the early hours of this morning."

"This Mu Daxian is indeed interesting..." Tian Bufan said, glancing at the Cafeteria that had come into their view. He stopped discussing Mao Feiyang and Mu Daxian and continued, "Seeing the Student Passage reminds me of that ’Ru Zai’ blue apron Pocket Chef."

"Old Lin, with so many chefs turned into statues, do you think that would affect those in blue aprons? Could the chef statues not solely be of those in black aprons, but perhaps of other colored apron chefs as well?"

Lin Yi paused, then said: "I forgot to mention... that ’Ru Zai’ blue apron Pocket Chef was originally a black apron chef. It seems he anchored himself as blue to prevent Experience Students with unstable mental states from seeing his black apron, which would cause cognitive distortion."

"Also, he is the close friend of the black apron chef mentioned by Mu Daxian, known as ’Old Mo’."

Since Lin Yi hadn’t spoken about Old Mo previously, he then shared what he knew about Old Mo and the mysterious relationship between Old Mo and the Cafeteria.

"...Leaving aside the Convenience Store’s owner who may or may not have had issues, Old Mo is the last line of defense for the Cafeteria."

Tian Bufan nodded slightly: "If we can communicate with this Old Mo, we should be able to get a lot of information."

"I don’t recommend doing that." Lin Yi shook his head. "Old Mo’s ’Perception’ methods seem quite peculiar; it’s hard to say he won’t suddenly turn on us."

"Hmm." Tian Bufan nodded in agreement.

The group arrived at the notice board outside the Cafeteria when suddenly they heard Wei Liang, who was in front, let out an exclamation.

"What’s wrong?" Lin Yi hurried forward.

"The Cafeteria’s rules are gone!" Wei Liang was searching under the notice board, "Damn, there’s not even a hair here!"

Lin Yi quickly joined Wei Liang in the search.

"True enough, they’re gone! Has the Cafeteria removed the rules?" Wei Liang wondered aloud.

"Wait, there’s some paper scraps here!" Lin Yi reached into the shelf and pulled out the paper scraps hidden there.

It was a completely rain-soaked piece of paper with the faint print of "catching up to you," "leaving the Cafeteria," and other such phrases.