AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 988 - 459 First Conspiracy_2

Chapter 988: Chapter 459 First Conspiracy_2

Wei Shan still couldn’t be at ease staring in Lin Yi’s direction until Tian Bufan patted him on the shoulder, and his tense body slowly began to relax.

"Let’s go." Tian Bufan said lightly, leaving without another word.

Kuai Hongji gave a sinister smile, "Fatty, don’t waste your efforts meaninglessly."

Disturbed by Kuai Hongji, Wei Shan immediately became agitated, his irritable temper flaring up instantly, "Then I’ll save my strength to tear you apart!"

"Oh, I’m so scared!" Kuai Hongji said with a sinister grin, then followed Tian Bufan like a skinny horse.

Wei Liang held a notice board, glancing at Lin Yi, then at Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji, and finally at Wei Shan.

He pondered for a second, then decisively set off after Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji, "Wait up, slow down, I haven’t got on the bus yet!"

...

May 10, Year X023, 11:56, cafeteria area, on the cobblestone path leading to other passages.

"...That’s how it is. Old Mo has always been taciturn, but yesterday he suddenly said a lot before leaving..." The blue-aproned chef rambled on about everything related to Old Mo as he led Lin Yi along.

As he spoke, his neck suddenly twitched unexpectedly, like a part got stuck, then he continued talking.

When he reached a crucial point, he couldn’t help but sigh in frustration, with an expression of pain as if he couldn’t understand why Old Mo did what he did.

[Lin Yi...]

Yet, just as the blue-aproned chef was speaking, Lin Yi suddenly heard a voice that seemed ambiguously distant or near calling out beside his ear.

[Lin Yi...]

The voice rang out again, as if it wafted from nearby...

Suddenly, he felt something, and sharply turned to look in the direction of the sound... the cafeteria’s basement floor.

That calling voice was coming from there.

But this kind of calling voice was exactly the same as the one he heard in the Student Passage, how could the voice from the cafeteria’s basement floor spread there?

Unless it’s...

"Layer Penetration?"

As he thought of this, the contents of the Dining Hall Rules flashed like lightning in his mind: [At any time, do not pay heed to strange noises coming from the cafeteria’s basement floor, even if you hear it calling your name.]

So after all this time, is this the "calling voice from the cafeteria’s basement floor"?

"Then did I bloody ’heed it’ not too long ago?!"

"Damn..."

Lin Yi thought to himself, could it be that I forcibly "adapted" to the problem that arose after violating the rules?!

"Or perhaps, given my own level of contamination, I might have already overridden this rule..."

The blue-aproned chef continued to ramble about something related to Old Mo, but Lin Yi noticed that every time he turned to look at him, his gaze would scan over Lin Yi’s backpack, and then there seemed to be a glint in his eyes.

It was strong but restrained.

Suddenly, the blue-aproned chef’s neck twitched again without warning, yet he seemed unaware of it, continuing to speak.

"...so, did Old Mo really... encounter some mishap?" Finally, the blue-aproned chef asked this question.

As he asked, his voice trembled uncontrollably, but Lin Yi’s perception was incredibly sharp, and his "Field of View Insight" didn’t need to see the target from the front to observe their emotional details.

He noticed that while the blue-aproned chef spoke with a trembling voice and a tilted stance, there was an extremely strong sense of "excited anticipation" hidden beneath the facade of "anxiety and fear"...

Old Mo’s departure seemed to have brought the blue-aproned chef immense joy and excitement.

Something was off, very off... Lin Yi scratched his forehead silently, and as he scratched his head, his eyes slowly turned to a brilliant golden color.

He enhanced his "Perception" to "Field of View Insight." _{free.webn\ove(l)(.)c(o)m}

"Buzz..."

His vision slightly distorted, and he immediately saw the overlapping shadow behind the blue-aproned chef—a sinister-looking chef in a green apron!

That green-aproned chef, draped over the blue-aproned chef like a translucent veil, had a sinister and malevolent appearance, its cold eyes fixed on the backpack of Old Mo behind Lin Yi, emitting an eerie green glow all over.

That green-aproned chef seemed to manipulate the blue-aproned chef like a Puppet Master, with countless strands of material connecting it to the blue-aproned chef, influencing every action of the blue-aproned chef, though the actions appeared somewhat awkward.

Finally, guided by it, Lin Yi arrived at the entrance to another passage.

Just as the blue-aproned chef attempted to lead Lin Yi inside, Lin Yi came to a halt.

The blue-aproned chef paused, his face twitching in an unnervingly rigid manner, "Why... why did you stop...? Come with me, quickly..."

He didn’t understand why Lin Yi had stopped and could only beckon to him, like an eerie doll in a horror movie.

Lin Yi remained silent, bending down slowly and picking up an arm from the ground, presenting it to the blue-aproned chef.

"Look at you, you’re so excited you even dropped your hand..."

The blue-aproned chef was momentarily stunned, his eyes fixated on the arm in Lin Yi’s hand, his expression frozen.

"You..."

Just as he opened his mouth, his neck unintentionally twitched again.

Lin Yi, seeming as if he hadn’t noticed anything amiss, handed the arm over to the blue-aproned chef, but did not cross the boundary into the other passage himself.

The blue-aproned chef was in a daze for a moment, then silently extended his intact hand to take his own arm.

But just as he grasped the arm, Lin Yi suddenly exerted strength and yanked him out of the other passage!

The green-aproned chef realized something was wrong and decisively had the blue-aproned chef let go, but its "control" inevitably had a delay, and that delay was enough for Lin Yi to achieve his goal.

When the blue-aproned chef was pulled out of the other passage, Lin Yi grabbed his collar, turned and executed a back throw, hurling him out.

"Thunk!"

The blue-aproned chef traced an arc through the air before landing heavily on the uneven cobblestone path.

The impact seemed to disrupt the green-aproned chef’s control over the body; through "Field of View Insight" and perception, Lin Yi saw the blue-aproned chef struggling to get up with difficulty in its own layer, but the physical blue-aproned chef was still thrashing on the ground, resembling a puppet tangled in strings.

"What are you doing?" the blue-aproned chef snarled at Lin Yi while struggling, but his limbs were so uncoordinated that he couldn’t even manage to stand.

Lin Yi did not approach the blue-aproned chef, instead watching from a short distance, observing both him and the overlapping specter of the green-aproned chef.

Then, he toyed with the arm in his hand, lost in thought.

"In the cafeteria, blue-aproned chefs and green-aproned chefs are distinctly separate. I’ve only seen such overlapping on the Cafeteria Auntie there..."

"What exactly is this green-aproned chef’s state?"

He harbored some suspicion that the guy before him might be a blue-aproned chef subjected to severe contamination.

Just like contaminated experience students who emit green powdery particles from their bodies, and those severely contaminated with extremely unstable spirits, the green powdery particles are even more intense.

So is it possible that these green powdery particles are actually an incomplete form of observation?