Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lao Mo was gone.

Lin Yi repeatedly confirmed it several times before finally accepting this fact.

No wonder he always felt that something was not quite right along the way; it turned out that Lao Mo was gone!

When Lao Mo was around, although there was a creepy feeling in his heart, the entire student passage was relatively normal, but now that Lao Mo's existence was lost, the entire student passage had changed for Lin Yi.

This change might not be felt by ordinary people, and even Tian Bufan didn't seem to notice it, but Lin Yi felt it.

This was an indescribable change, but he always felt a little awkward in his heart.

It's like the trees outside your window are blooming, but one day after a rainstorm, all the flowers fall. At first, you won't feel anything wrong when you see the tree, but once you realize that the flowers once existed, you will feel awkward no matter how you look at a bare tree.

Before he could think about Lao Mo's affairs, or what was going on with Wei Liang's ghostly appearance after he lifted the plastic curtain, some changes in the student cafeteria immediately attracted Lin Yi's attention.

First of all, there was the problem of lighting.

The illumination range of the incandescent lamps in the cafeteria had obviously shrunk, and only the middle three of the five food purchase windows were open, while the leftmost No. 1 window and the rightmost No. 5 window were plunged into shadow.

But even so, there were queues in front of all five food purchase windows.

However, Lin Yi could now feel the aura of those queues. Whether it was at the No. 1 window or the No. 5 window, all the people queuing up were not "people", but pseudo-humans.

If he felt it more carefully, he could classify them as being between "new pseudo-human experience students" and "pseudo-human sculptures."

"That's right! If I had to say it, the 'smell' on those people who were abducted by the pseudo-human art teacher and art students seems to be very similar to them…" Lin Yi's eyes twitched. "Could those 'people' be some units that are in urgent need of 'identity certificates'?"

The art student's code of conduct mentioned that if you find a student ID card while staying overnight in a classroom in the teaching building, you can collect them and hand them over to the art teacher…

And these people queuing up don't seem to be really eating, but… hunting.

Lin Yi didn't know if his guess was correct, because when he swiped his card before, he could clearly feel some "malice" and "negative emotions" from the surrounding dark areas. Now that he thought about it, perhaps these emotions came from them.

In addition to the two queues and the lighting problem in the cafeteria, Lin Yi also noticed that several chefs in blue aprons seemed to have left the food purchase windows and entered the student cafeteria.

That's right, chefs in blue aprons, not chefs in green aprons.

Strangely, so far, he had not seen any chefs in green aprons, and the performance of those chefs in blue aprons was somewhat like that of chefs in green aprons.

They moved around the cafeteria like ghosts. Although their bodies were blocked by others, normal people would have some shaking or up-and-down movements when they walked, but those chefs in blue aprons didn't.

Their movements were like floating, just like the abbot in 《God of Cookery》.

And he didn't know if it was an illusion or something else, but Lin Yi always had a creepy feeling in his heart, feeling that those chefs in blue aprons always glanced at him from time to time.

This feeling was like someone chanting in his ear—Oops, you dare to offend the abbot, you're doomed!

"Lao Lin…" Wei Liang rubbed his arms and whispered, "Have you guys felt that the cafeteria is a bit gloomy today… There's no one around here!"

"It's indeed a bit weird," Lin Yi nodded.

Wei Liang continued, "Especially these No. 1 and No. 5 food purchase windows, there's actually no one queuing up. What do you think, Lao Lin?"

"Yes, yes… wait, what?!" Lin Yi was carefully observing his surroundings, and was about to nod when he heard Wei Liang and Tian Bufan's words. Suddenly, he felt a chill down his spine, and his whole body shivered subconsciously. "N-no one?!"

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, not daring to turn his neck too much, only daring to move his eyeballs left and right, and looked at the No. 1 and No. 5 food purchase windows again.

And this time, he couldn't help but discover that everyone queuing at the No. 1 and No. 5 food purchase windows had all turned into those sculptural new pseudo-human experience students he had seen at the lampposts before…

Those sculptural students with incomplete limbs and bodies, with faces covered in dirt and grass clippings, their eyeballs white and indistinguishable from flesh and blood or stone, all turned around expressionlessly, turning their faces towards Lin Yi.

Like two rows of humanoid tombstones.

Giving Lin Yi the illusion of a circle of encirclement, as if he had returned to the heretical choir.

Gradually, the edges of his peripheral vision began to distort, and the humanoid tombstones began to twist slightly like swaying seaweed…

"F*ck!"

Lin Yi felt a chill down his spine. He blinked his eyes sharply and shook his head at the same time, and those treacherous auras immediately collapsed quietly again.

"Huff, huff, huff…" He was frightened and gasped for a while, and then re-examined the shadow areas. This time, the distorted humanoid tombstones had indeed disappeared, but the pseudo-humans were still there, and he could still see pseudo-humans queuing up…

"I've already pulled my vision back, and I can still see people?!"

"Could it be… those pseudo-humans really exist? But only I can see them?"

"But if only I can see them… then do they exist in reality, or are they in my imagination?"

What is real?

What is fake?

"Or…" A look of disbelief began to appear in Lin Yi's eyes. He put his hand on his head, his pupils slowly fluctuating, "Or… is there some unknown existence trying to tamper with my cognition and then anchor over from some strange layer…"

"W-what should I do?"

Lin Yi's body gradually became cold. Although he was in the cafeteria, under the illumination of the incandescent lamps, he felt as if he was in the midst of a heavy snowfall in the desert north.

There was light, and a trace of warmth, but this rough half-warmth could not resist the icy torrent at all!

What was even more terrifying was that the half of warmth was also quietly dissipating…

He seemed to see the surrounding world losing its color, gradually turning from a soft and somewhat full brilliance to a pale and weak gray.

As his vision changed, he felt the strands of coldness quietly spreading out from some kind of void like strands of hair, slowly approaching him.

These things were intertwined and entangled, like strange tentacles, enveloping Lin Yi little by little…

Lin Yi felt his scalp tingle, and goosebumps appeared all over his body. At this moment, he seemed to have some kind of strange induction, and he actually heard some hissing sounds made by candlelight being whipped by a strong wind.

His body was ramrod straight and stiff. He didn't raise his head, but he heard the rubbing and clanging of metal chains from above.

The white incandescent lamp above his head seemed to have transformed into a chandelier hanging from iron chains at some unknown time. The chains collided and clanged in the wind, creating an unsettling tinkling sound.

A sudden gust of cold wind, like a mist, swept in, carrying a faint, smoky, hoarse call…

It sounded like the pronunciation of something like "Wash~ Teeth~," "Wah~," as if an old woman whose vocal cords had been gouged out was struggling to call out some strange words…

Lin Yi couldn't understand it at all, but he still felt a strong sense of resistance and discomfort from within. It was as if he was being summoned by an inconceivable and incomprehensible existence. The voice didn't make him feel fear; it was peaceful, almost bewitching. But his body was already covered in goosebumps. By the time he realized it, he was drenched in sweat, his face pale, and his lips were trembling.

"I am Lin Yi… Boss… Li Huiyuan… Xu Shunkang… Mu Daxian…"

Lin Yi repeatedly went through the figures that had left a deep impression on him in his mind, recalling the scenes that could cause violent fluctuations in his positive emotions, such as the boss's explosive and coordinated figure, Li Huiyuan's cute uniform and pink girly dress, Mu Daxian's heavenly violent holy profession scene, Xu Shunkang's home run posture under the Milky Way baseball…

Gradually, his thoughts were drawn out of the boundless fear bit by bit in this way. The calling sound in his ears began to disappear first, and then the warm feeling returned to his body. Then, the color began to return to his vision.

It's just that this kind of color always lacks a bit of flavor, like when snorkeling, you are about to surface but are stuck just below the surface of the water, only able to expose your face.

Awkward.

An indescribable awkwardness.

But the only slightly better thing was that he had at least returned to a relatively normal and safe layer.

And this trip to drop the layer was only because of the fluctuation in his cognition in an instant.

He looked down at his watch.

"7:08"

Judging from the fact that he was already in line, his time seemed to be very plentiful, but… it was completely insufficient.

"Your breathing was very unstable just now. Did you find anything strange again, Old Lin?" Standing beside him, Tian Bufan noticed something unusual and spoke out.

"Young Master Tian, did I space out just now?" Lin Yi asked, panting.

"No," Tian Bufan said. "You have been walking forward with us all the time. At most, you just glanced to the side, right?"

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"Just glanced?!" Lin Yi was shocked. He vaguely seemed to have captured some inspiration, which seemed to be related to "time," but it was vague and unclear.

Fearing that something would go wrong again and he wouldn't be able to pull himself back, he stopped thinking about it and followed the team forward.

"Wei Sang, are you behind me?" he asked.

"Yes," Wei Sang's steady voice sounded from behind him.

"Was there anything wrong with me just now?"

"…" Wei Shan was silent for a moment, "…Sort of."

Lin Yi: "…"

"Keep up, don't fall behind. We'll talk later," Wei Shan said.

"Okay," Lin Yi nodded slightly, took a deep breath, and continued walking forward.

7:12.

Wei Liang and Kuai Hongji arrived at the food window.

"You go first," Kuai Hongji said faintly, then stepped back behind Wei Liang.

"I don't mind you ordering first…" Wei Liang said softly.

Kuai Hongji didn't speak, looking at him coldly.

"Okay, I'll go first then," Wei Liang shrugged.

"Auntie, get two hard-boiled eggs… Ah, no, no, no, don't want eggs. Get a bowl of thin porridge, and two fried dough sticks. I'm fasting recently, can't eat meat, sin, sin."

Wei Liang took the food tray and retreated to the side after swiping his card with his old technique.

Kuai Hongji glanced at the food window, narrowed his eyes, and then said coldly: "Same as him."

"Me too," Tian Bufan followed after Kuai Hongji finished ordering.

When Kuai Hongji swiped his card, Lin Yi glanced at the card swiping machine.

【"Name: Kuai Hongji" 【"Class: Class 1, Group A" 【"Student ID: X0230506094"】

"As expected, it's Class 1, Group A…" Lin Yi thought to himself.

It was his turn to order, and the cafeteria aunt in the food window asked: "Young man, what do you want to eat?"

"I…" Lin Yi glanced inside the food window, his pupils slightly condensed, "Same as him, thin porridge with fried dough sticks, two, thank you."

The cafeteria aunt glanced at him, then lowered her head to prepare the food, muttering softly: "The sales of porridge and fried dough sticks are really good today…"

"Do you want pickled mustard tuber?"

"No, thank you, Auntie."

Taking the food tray, Lin Yi also withdrew his gaze at the same time.

At this moment, he understood why Wei Liang had changed his words in time, even bringing out "fasting."

Because there was no "normal food" other than porridge and fried dough sticks in the food window…

The hard-boiled eggs looked like stones, and the pickled mustard tuber was full of gray-white stone granules.

And what made him feel terrified was that the cafeteria aunt didn't show anything was wrong at all, just like a normal person communicating with them.

But a normal person couldn't possibly not be able to tell the difference between stones and food, right?

Arriving at the card swiping machine, Lin Yi silently took his hand out of his pocket.

At this moment, the feeling of being stared at was once again "perceived" by him with incomparable clarity.

He quickly swiped his card. When his name and student ID appeared on the card swiping machine, the corner of his eye flashed like lightning across the shadow area closest to him. He saw that the team in that area was indeed like finding baby birds in a nest, smelling the taste of insects, stretching their necks and looking at him.

But as he put away his student ID, those people's attention also followed and retracted.

However, the truly bizarre scene appeared at this moment.

Their bodies actually showed a feeling of frame skipping.

More accurately, from Lin Yi's perspective, everyone in that team actually showed a slightly mosaic-like frame skipping feeling at this moment.

And an even weirder scene was yet to come…

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PS: I discovered a problem today, it's not that I always cut off chapters, but that this book is too easy to cut off chapters… It's too easy to pick a point to cut off a chapter… (Don't hit me)