AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 990 - 460: Entering Another Passage_2

Chapter 990: Chapter 460: Entering Another Passage_2

Lin Yi said nothing, merely watching the chef in the green apron manipulate the body to move slowly.

One thought filled his mind—sneak attack successful!

His will, tangled with the tentacles of perception, continued to cling to that body, but he retracted this consciousness, lurking like a parasite, while overwriting the chef in the green apron’s cognition of him...making the chef forget everything.

Yet, driven by instinct, the chef in the green apron still controlled the body to return to the cafeteria, just as a separated couple would, in a daze, walk the path that was once familiar.

Thus, the chef in the green apron maneuvered the body, which contained Lin Yi’s consciousness, bit by bit into other passages...

When the chef in the green apron crossed the boundary of the other passages, Lin Yi felt a slight tension, but as his consciousness truly followed the body into the passage, he secretly let out a sigh of relief.

"It really is feasible..."

For Lin Yi, just this much meant half of his plan had already succeeded.

The other passages and student passages were both ways into the cafeteria, yet the environments were starkly different. Compared to the damp walls of the student passage, here the walls were covered in moss, and the gaps between the bricks subtly oozed a viscous fluid like mucus. Some of it even stuck to the edge of the stairs, and stepping on it felt no different from stepping on glue; even the chef in the blue apron avoided it.

Occasionally stepping on the slime, the chef in the blue apron’s soles would drag out long strands like silk.

Upon entering the passage, the apron of the chef in blue seemed photosensitive, invisibly transforming into the chef in the green apron, and the once ghostly overlapping image of the green apron chef fully "returned to the original spirit," merging into the body.

At this moment, its body and soul were completely those of the "chef in the green apron."

Yet, it still felt something was amiss, twisting its arms, and twisting its neck, but couldn’t feel any abnormality.

So it continued forward.

"Drip...drip..."

"Drip...drip..."

"Drip...drip..."

Moving forward, slime also started to drip from the top of the passage. The passage was lit by incandescent lamps, but the lamps were coated thick with shadowy slime, resembling swallows’ nests in rural ceiling fans or wasps’ nests on old tree branches.

The entire passageway was bathed in dark light, as if wrapped tightly by lamplight.

Nonetheless, there were many shadows visible in the passage.

Among them were sports students, some wearing their uniforms inside out, while some were still in the process of undressing as they walked.

They seemed quite accustomed to the environment of other passages, showing no unusual emotions, not even at the sight of the chef in the green apron, only slightly frowning.

An elusive strange smell lingered in the passage, drifting about like a ghost, and breathing it in unexpectedly was like inhaling industrial glue, leaving the throat with a sour stinging taste.

Moreover, there was a strong scent of iron, like licking a rusty nail at the coast with a slit tongue, the nostrils filled with a mix of rotting seaweed and stale blood...

As the chef in the green apron continued, a certain clammy sensation grazed it, the nearly equal empathy felt by Lin Yi, as if a brush against his earlobe. His perception extended out, swiftly glimpsing some eerie figures when he turned "around," and on the moss-laden wall surface, scale-like patterns emerged momentarily before smoothing out...

"This passage... like some sort of intestine..." Lin Yi mused.

Continuing, the chef in the green apron turned unexpectedly, causing most of the shadows in the passage to vanish.

An unfamiliar, sinister chill engulfed Lin Yi’s perception, making him instinctively want to pull back.

Lin Yi quickly controlled his emotions, assessing the current state, understanding the green apron chef was still within other passages. However, that turn felt as though he traversed a certain layer, leading him to instinctively believe he had exited the other passages.

The chef in the green apron began to move, but Lin Yi sensed it was not "walking" but more like "gliding."

He instinctively checked the state of the chef’s body, a tingling sensation prickling his scalp instantly.

The chef’s legs had vanished, replaced by a mochi-like substance, squirming across the ground, propelling the chef’s body forward—like a ray gliding over sandy seabeds or an octopus moving forward with alternating suckers.

With this movement, a "shh shh shh, shh shh shh, shh shh shh..." sound emanated from beneath it.

Lin Yi was unable to discern his location, but it no longer felt like the cafeteria.

"Could there be another layer beneath the cafeteria, the very layer where the chef in the green apron resides?"

"The convenience store owner must also be aware of this, right?"

Winding around, amid the persistent "shh shh shh" for about three to five minutes, the green apron chef halted.

Lin Yi promptly released his perception, finding that the chef in the green apron arrived at a place filled with gray mist, an eerie atmosphere pervading the entire environment.

Soon after, he picked up some bizarre sounds, gentle clinking akin to clattering pots and pans, along with seemingly other noises...

"Huh? This sound...?"

Lin Yi was puzzled, wondering how he could hear kitchen noise in such a netherworld place.

"Huaxia Culinary College is Shaolin Temple’s kitchen?"

Hell’s Kitchen?

"Come on, that’s not a funny joke!"

Lin Yi cautiously extended his perception outward...

He first perceived a jagged stone pillar, riddled with irregular honeycombed holes, the bane of trypophobes. The holes seemed to secrete, squeezing out some viscous substance—like... tomato sauce.

Occasionally, a green apron chef would come to collect some tomato sauce and leave, prompting Lin Yi to muse that these green apron chefs seemed quite busy...

His perception continued to expand, soon reaching a stone wall—yes, stone, not a brickwork place.

"By the looks of it, this seems to be a place carved out of a mountain..." Clearly, it wasn’t within the cafeteria, leading Lin Yi to surmise that the chef in the green apron either took a secret path or traversed layers.

Layer transitioning, although an arcane study, has varying degrees of difficulty. Like Old Mo’s transition from campus to the Art Building, it is surely less challenging than the chef in the green apron’s plunge and rise within the same region, possibly even within the same spatial veneer and essence.

After all, the reality layer where the Art Building initially existed was near the "Scandinavia" Peninsula in Northern Europe. Although exiled by the Original Apostles, it barely related to Huaxia. Yet, through layer transition, Old Mo managed to escort him there.

No wonder the convenience store owner mentioned how tricky it is without coordinates, especially for transitioning to an unknown global layer.

On the flip side, doesn’t that mean the convenience store owner could fly worldwide with coordinates?

"Hiss... what a 91 exploring convenience store owner..."

Despite his banter, Lin Yi’s perception continued to spread.

But as his perception widened, the unfolding scene increasingly unsettled him.

"Seriously, are you cooking?"

"Damn it, are the chefs in green aprons working so hard?!"

"I’m amazed! Give me a break; you’re not even human anymore, yet still slaving away?!"

"Indeed, the mysteries of the world suggest 99.99% of workers serve the less than 0.001%!"