Rules-related weird stories: 4016

This tomato was exquisitely fresh and plump, seeming to radiate a fresh aura and a faint fragrance, but in Lin Yi's eyes, the outline of the tomato was blurred, as if it had some kind of afterimage behind it.

And the thing in that afterimage was clearly a heart.

"Damn it."

Lin Yi cursed inwardly and decisively withdrew his gaze.

But the other party laughed and said, "Are you hungry? Would you like to eat some of my food?"

Before the words had faded, Lin Yi heard the sound of a plate sliding across the table. His heart tightened, but he immediately realized that the other party was not coming for him but for Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan looked at the plate in front of her, and her hair stood on end.

In the plate before her was a plate of spaghetti with tomato meat sauce and a whole tomato.

Her pupils contracted slightly, and her gaze moved upward subconsciously, looking at the person sitting opposite her.

Apart from the unnatural pallor of his complexion, the person looked no different from a normal exchange student.

If one had to say something, he was wearing glasses, but whether it was the reflection of the lenses or something else, there seemed to be a cold, pale gold color in his eyes.

"An art student? No… not a normal art student!" Lin Yi had a subtle feeling and immediately judged that this guy was not an art student like Mu Daxian, but something of the same kind as the strange art students who appeared at the school gate during the thick fog…

The strange art student glanced at the table with a smile that was not a smile, but his gaze seemed to penetrate the table, looking at something beneath it. A stiff, unnatural smile appeared on the corner of his mouth:

"Heh… if you don't want to eat, you don't want to eat, why bother being like this?"

He dragged the plate back in front of him, picked up the tomato, took a bite, and then poured the tomato juice onto the spaghetti that already had a lot of tomato sauce.

"By the way, your actions… will only speed up your journey."

After he finished speaking, he began to gobble it up.

Li Huiyuan did not answer his words, but slowly drank her yogurt, as if she could never finish the small carton.

Beneath the table, her fists were clenched tightly, and her slightly long nails had already pierced into her palms.

It was with this pain that she had managed to twist her will back.

But this was indeed not a solution.

Blood seeped from the wounds in her palms, emitting a faint bloody smell. When the first drop of blood fell onto the floor, Lin Yi suddenly felt as if his heart had been struck by something…

"Thump!"

Lin Yi, who was focused on eating, suddenly felt a palpitation.

Immediately afterward, the world before his eyes suddenly twisted, and the black and white photo-like exposure quality once again occupied his vision. The table in front of him became transparent black and white lines, and his vision penetrated the table, seeing a hint of green aura!

That green aura came from a drop of blood on the ground.

It was Li Huiyuan's blood!

Li Huiyuan's blood, like a signal flare in the night, released a "clearly visible" green mist, which gathered into green powder particles like pollen and spread out.

Immediately afterward, some of the inhuman students who were dining in the student cafeteria all became still, then turned their heads in unison, casting their gazes at Li Huiyuan.

Then, some of the inhuman students began to rise from their tables, like stiff puppets, and began to approach their table.

These inhuman students were surrounded by a faint circle of green mist, which he had been unable to observe before.

But Lin Yi now had no time to worry about the details, and immediately looked at Li Huiyuan.

As soon as he looked, he immediately noticed that blood was slowly seeping from the palm of her hand. This blood presented a clearly visible green color in his vision and was constantly exuding a green mist.

"The blood of the contaminated… inherently has a strong attraction for the Night Walkers!"

Lin Yi instantly reacted, quickly shoveling down the last bite of rice, then picked up the plate and left the table.

"Li Huiyuan, come with me!" he shouted.

Li Huiyuan quickly followed, and the two went one after the other towards the dish return area.

Those inhuman students also changed direction and chased after them.

Only that strange art student was still sitting at the table, slowly eating his spaghetti with tomato meat sauce.

Suddenly, the strange art student seemed to sense something, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

"Oh my… truly 'dogged by good luck'!"

He ate the last bite of spaghetti with tomato meat sauce, then slowly stood up, staring at the backs of Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan, revealing a森冷的 smile.

Before the words had faded, almost all the fluorescent lights in the cafeteria flickered for a moment…

Lin Yi, who had just arrived at the dish return area, was shocked by this strange phenomenon and subconsciously wanted to look up to observe the fluorescent lights, but he restrained this impulse and observed the fluorescent lights through the reflection of the plate.

He saw that all the fluorescent lights in the cafeteria were flickering erratically, and the speed was extremely terrifying, as if the energy supporting their illumination was affected by some irresistible factor, becoming intermittent.

[Once the lights in the student cafeteria start flickering, please immediately! Immediately! Leave the cafeteria through the student passage at all costs!]

[The darkened cafeteria is different from the classroom; there are no safe areas!]

The content of the cafeteria rules flashed in Lin Yi's mind. At the same time, almost all the exchange students and physical education students who had taken off their blue and white striped tracksuits began to evacuate the student cafeteria at all costs.

But Lin Yi stood in front of the dish return area, contrary to normal, as if he had thought of something, and hesitated to put down the plate.

"Lin, Lin, classmate, we should go quickly!" Li Huiyuan anxiously tugged at his sleeve.

"Don't rush, don't rush, don't rush…" Lin Yi murmured to himself, maintaining the posture of "wanting to put down the plate but not putting it down", his sharp eyes like a hawk constantly scanning his surroundings.

Li Huiyuan was anxious, and a layer of sweat hung between her beautiful hair. She didn't know what Lin Yi wanted to do, but shouldn't they follow the cafeteria rules and run away immediately?

Did Lin Yi want to break the rules?!

Impossible!

In her impression, Lin Yi was definitely not that kind of person!

Suddenly, Lin Yi's spirits lifted, and a flash of light seemed to pass through the depths of his deep eyes: "Found it! Come with me quickly!"

Lin Yi immediately dropped the plate, then grabbed Li Huiyuan's hand and rushed in a direction completely opposite to the exit of the student cafeteria!

"Classmate Lin! You're rushing in the wrong direction! The direction is wrong!" Li Huiyuan shouted anxiously, but her body was very honest, and she had no intention of being a drag on Lin Yi, letting Lin Yi manipulate her and running faster and faster with him.

At this moment, Lin Yi's confident and arrogant laughter still echoed in Li Huiyuan's ears: "That's right! That's right! That's it! I found it!"

Li Huiyuan's heart trembled, as if realizing something, and quickly looked in the direction Lin Yi was running.

Inside the student cafeteria, the ceiling lights were flickering erratically, creating large areas of alternating light and darkness.

The direction Lin Yi was sprinting towards was the location of the No. 1 food purchase window. When the lights in the cafeteria started flickering, that area became unlit but still illuminated by sunlight.

In that brief quarter of a second of flickering light, a shadow of a door suddenly flashed on the originally blank wall, like a double exposure!

The door was small and open, with a shelf next to it displaying some snacks.

There was also a small chair beside the door, but no one was sitting on it.

A small round sign hung on the door, clearly reading:

"Cafeteria Tuck Shop (Open)".

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Seeing this, her mind exploded like a mushroom cloud!

"A… tuck shop?!" Her pupils contracted violently, and her heart trembled incessantly.

Lin Yi… actually found the tuck shop?

How did he do it?

"I told you, don't give up!" Lin Yi's eyes seemed to be fixed on the tuck shop, and the force with which he held Li Huiyuan's hand increased, a hint of resolute determination appearing on his not-so-defined face.

He knew his deduction was correct when the tuck shop appeared!

[Once the lights in the student cafeteria start flickering, immediately! At once! Leave the cafeteria through the student passage at all costs!]

That's right! That sentence is correct!

However, there is another rule in the cafeteria rules!

[The cafeteria has a tuck shop, but it is not recommended to enter for shopping unless necessary.]

[Due to its location, the tuck shop can serve as a student passage for you to leave in necessary situations, but to do so, you must purchase at least one item in the tuck shop.]

The tuck shop can serve as a student passage for you to leave at "necessary moments"!

What is a "necessary moment"?!

This is a judgment based on the current situation of the person following the rules. Lin Yi believes now is a "necessary moment", then it is a "necessary moment"!

So—

"Once the lights in the student cafeteria start flickering, immediately! At once! Leave the cafeteria through the student passage at all costs! In necessary moments, the tuck shop can also serve as a student passage for you to leave, but to do so, you must purchase at least one item in the tuck shop!"

「What! The hell! Is this called top-level understanding?!」

「This is top-level understanding!」

Lin Yi laughed wildly in his heart, unable to suppress the excitement he felt for his deduction. This feeling of dancing on the edge of a knife, racing against death, no, against unspeakable and strange things, actually gave him a peculiar sense of stimulation.

A kind of… restless excitement and trembling sensation.

Just then, a dark figure suddenly flashed in the quarter of a second when the lights went out, like a ghost!

The figure was invisible, as if it existed in another world, but it was indeed approaching them!

Lin Yi's hair suddenly stood on end, and a strong sense of crisis instantly enveloped him. The world behind that double exposure… unknown, gloomy, mysterious, terrifying, full of strange aura, as if gathering countless unspeakable things!

Intuition told Lin Yi that the figure was not an ordinary night-dweller!

Compared to a night-dweller, it was more like… that humanoid outline that was eyeing him covetously in the hidden area of the teaching building!

「Could it really be it? Did it follow me to the cafeteria?!」

「How is that possible?」

The frequency of the lights flickering increased, and some of the lights in the distance went out completely. Part of the student cafeteria was submerged in darkness, like a giant ship sailing in a black ocean under the night suddenly capsizing, and the cold poured into the cabin, beginning to devour all areas!

「Pfft, pfft, pfft…」

One by one, the lights went out erratically. The originally bright student cafeteria suddenly turned into a chessboard filled with traps. Lin Yi, pulling Li Huiyuan and running on the black and white squares, was like a knight leading a princess fleeing for her life. Sometimes the lights in front suddenly went out, so he had to detour some distance.

The short straight-line distance suddenly ran out of the tension of the Bayinbuluke Death Rally.

And when Lin Yi inadvertently glanced at those areas that had lost their light, it was as if he saw an unfathomable abyss. The dark area seemed to be a cave cut out by an invisible hand with a black curtain, capable of devouring all life that attempted to cast its gaze upon it.

He seemed to hear a strange and familiar drumbeat from it, like the sound of a huge heart slowly beating as it supplied blood.

He instantly reacted. This seemed to be… the sound from deep in the basement of the cafeteria!

This dark abyss, could it be connected to the first floor and basement of the cafeteria, or is it…

After the layers fall, the first floor of the cafeteria… is the basement of the cafeteria?!

The moss outside the basement of the cafeteria flashed through his mind at the speed of light. He thought of the moss in the student passage, the scene of thick fog permeating the student passage…

Ocean!

Could it be the ocean?!

That non-existent ocean surged from the basement of the cafeteria, pushing the white mist to submerge the student passage, and then… poured into the student cafeteria!

The night-dwellers crawled out of the sea, their distorted figures stretched out like dried corpses soaked in water, turning into walking dead, occupying the entire cafeteria!

「Boom—」

Lin Yi shook his head violently, deleting these "unrealistic" images from his brain, then took a deep breath and rushed towards the tuck shop, tightly grasping Li Huiyuan's hand!

Suddenly, a light directly in front of him went out with a "pfft" sound, and the space in front seemed to be cut off by a black cubic pillar of light. Lin Yi twisted his muscles and slammed on the brakes, actually stepping out of the feeling of reining in a horse on a cliff!

At the same time, he felt that in the dark cube only three centimeters away from him, a dark figure appeared like a ghost!

It was that humanoid spider-shaped chef in a green apron!

Thanks to book friends "Twilight Mystery", "Lin Skylark", and "Absurd Robot" for their rewards!!