Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Chapter 242: Strange Skills and Ingenious Tricks - "Washing Machine"

When Lin Yi used the corner of his eye to peek into that dimly lit area of shadow, he actually had the illusion of seeing a sea of people.

His eyelids twitched violently, and the feeling of frame skipping became increasingly clear. Then he discovered that the group of people craning their necks gradually faded, like a series of illusory afterimages floating above the line that was "silently waiting."

It looked as if everyone in that line had experienced a soul departure, creating multiple overlapping images.

"Let's go, Lao Lin." Wei Shan patted him on the shoulder, drawing his attention back.

Lin Yi shuddered and retracted his gaze.

"Damn it, I'm being an idiot..." he cursed inwardly, "There's no one there... There's no one there... There's no one there..."

The group of five found a spot under the lights and sat down.

They began to eat their porridge in silence.

"Overall, the cafeteria feels much more off than yesterday," Tian Bufan said, picking up a fried dough stick and taking a bite.

"Yes, and..." Lin Yi said.

"No 'and'," Tian Bufan interrupted. "Save the 'and' until we're out of the cafeteria area. Also, tell us the rest of your dream then."

"Hmm... alright, it's indeed not suitable to talk about it here," Lin Yi said softly, glancing around.

"You can continue to observe, but... time is running out, so limit yourself to 'observing'," Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi was slightly startled, thinking that Tian Gongzi must know that something had just happened to him...

It made sense, Tian Bufan's intuition was just lower than his. Even if Tian Bufan couldn't sense it so clearly, he would still have some vague feeling. Moreover, he also had some "strange movements," even Wei Shan had noticed it. Tian Bufan, who was sitting next to him, couldn't possibly be completely unaware.

So, while sipping his porridge, he peeked out from the edge of the bowl and through the gaps in his bangs, looking like a sneaky squirrel.

But as the saying goes, looking at people through a crack in the door distorts their appearance, and looking through the edge of a bowl and the gaps in your bangs is no better.

However, just as he was trying to quietly observe that line again, several inappropriate figures intruded into his field of vision.

They were several blue-aproned chefs moving sideways like ghosts. Their flat, unfocused gazes seemed to be looking at the air, giving off a strong sense of eerie indifference.

But Lin Yi's focus was not on this, but on... the afterimages!

He discovered that behind these blue-aproned chefs, there were actually outlines of human figures floating like afterimages, just like... the two cafeteria aunties who had been dealt with before!

"Chef-0391" and "Chef-0154"!

And the current blue-aproned chefs were all like them, no, not just like them, but even more so, seeming even more... humanized.

Lin Yi also noticed that the human-shaped outlines behind the blue-aproned chefs were actually emitting some hissing green aura!

Among them, there were also several blue-aproned chefs located in the dimly lit area, whose aprons were so difficult to distinguish from a distance due to the distance and lighting, whether they were dark blue or dark green.

"There really is a conversion path between blue-aproned chefs and green-aproned chefs!"

He lowered his head and continued to drink his porridge, but he gradually felt something was wrong. When he finished the porridge in his bowl and reached for the fried dough stick next to him, he suddenly seemed to sense something, and inexplicably glanced at the alloy plate under the bowl...

"Shua — —"

A pale face was reflected in the alloy plate!

The person was wearing a square hat, with a bloodless face, as pale as a white stone sculpture. A white stone eyeball had no expression, just quietly standing behind Lin Yi, looking down at his back.

When Lin Yi saw its outline, a flash of light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and then he consciously turned away his gaze to prevent eye contact.

"Fuck..."

Lin Yi's body stiffened, and the chopsticks holding the fried dough stick accidentally trembled, and the fried dough stick immediately slipped from the chopsticks.

"Ouch — —" Lin Yi subconsciously exclaimed, but it was too late to catch it. But at this moment, another exclamation sounded in his ear.

"Emma!"

Wei Liang on the other side quickly picked up the plate and met the fried dough stick, easily catching it.

"Awesome, Liangzi," Lin Yi couldn't help but exclaim.

"Need you even ask... Eh! Eh — —?" Wei Liang supported the plate and stood up, but he didn't know what he stepped on, and slipped. His entire center of gravity suddenly lost its balance, and even the plate was accidentally bumped away. "Ah, fuck, fuck, fuck..."

Wei Liang burst out with powerful core strength, directly stabilized his body with his other foot, trying to keep his butt steady on the chair, while using both hands to grab the plate.

But whether intentionally or unintentionally, he grabbed the plate every time, but never held it steady. The plate kept flipping in the air like a wheel...

The outrageous thing was that every time the plate flipped, a corner would scrape against the sculpted blue-aproned chef behind Lin Yi. And theoretically, such an impact would make the plate bounce away, but Wei Liang's every "unable to catch the plate" would make it balanced, "rotating in place"...

The plate was like a wheel rolling over the blue-aproned chef's face. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't know how much force was involved, but the blue-aproned chef's face was visibly covered with cracks, and finally, with a "crack," it shattered...

"Caught it, caught it!" Wei Liang also "just happened" to stabilize the plate, and also used the bottom of the plate to block all the debris, so that none of the residue from the shattered blue-aproned chef's head splashed onto the table...

Wei Liang gasped for breath and placed the plate in front of Lin Yi. The fried dough stick in the plate gently swayed.

The confused fried dough stick hadn't reacted to what was going on with the "washing machine" operation just now, and was picked up by the even more confused Lin Yi and sent into his mouth bit by bit...

Lin Yi glanced at the shadow in the alloy plate. The headless sculpted blue-aproned chef waved his hands in an extremely stiff motion, touched the position of his head, but didn't feel anything...

"Liangzi..." Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang with a face full of disbelief.

Wei Liang was panting and supporting his knees. Seeing Lin Yi's shocked expression, he couldn't help but proudly made an electric pony motor motion: "How is it, is your brother's core strength awesome?"

"Awesome..." Lin Yi said while biting the fried dough stick.

Wei Liang said proudly: "Do you think my 'S City Rich Women's Directory' is for nothing? Theory needs to be combined with practice!"

He patted Lin Yi on the shoulder earnestly.

"Your directory is real..." Lin Yi was a little speechless, thinking that your core strength is certainly great, but even greater is the judo-like technique of borrowing strength like a washing machine, right?

You didn't mention a word about this super kill!

But Wei Liang suddenly realized something, and his face suddenly changed: "Oh no, not good!"

He quickly clutched his abdomen, looking at Lin Yi with a cautious expression: "I almost forgot your sexual orientation is a bit abnormal... You, you, you... Old Lin, my XP is normal! I like white silk lolis... Black silk mature women aren't bad either. My electric little motor is reserved for them, you, you, you... Don't get any ideas about me!"

Lin Yi: "..."

"Get lost, get lost, get lost!"

Lin Yi took a big gulp and finished the remaining fried dough stick.

At this moment, Tian Bufan on the side said, "Are you all finished eating?"

"I'm finished," Wei Shan said.

"Yeah." Kuai Hongji nodded.

"Finished eating long ago. Let's hurry up and leave!" Wei Liang also said.

Tian Bufan patted Wei Liang's shoulder: "If you're finished, take us to the convenience store to buy something?"

"Easy, easy..." Wei Liang was still in a state of elation, then suddenly jolted. "Wait a minute, what did you say?!"

"Go to the convenience store, hurry up," Tian Bufan urged.

Wei Liang's face immediately fell, and he said with a bitter expression: "What convenience store? I really don't know where it is..."

"Then I'll put it another way. However you bought things last time, buy them the same way this time," Tian Bufan said, and before Wei Liang could complain, he added, "This cafeteria is getting weirder and weirder. We should all prepare some food, right?"

"In case we really can't come to the cafeteria one day, at least we can fill our stomachs with something."

"Uh... what you said does make a lot of sense." Wei Liang looked embarrassed. "But to be honest, although my method is currently foolproof, it's hard to say if it will work this time..."

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"If it's hard to say, then don't say it. Just get started," Kuai Hongji said with his arms crossed and a sinister smile.

"Okay, okay... I'm really defeated by you guys." Wei Liang then got up and cleaned up the table. "Then you guys follow me!"

Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Wei Liang with anticipation, thinking that after waiting for so long, he could finally see Liangzi's operation with his own eyes.

"Let's go drop off the plates first." Wei Liang seemed to be teaching someone step by step, leading Lin Yi and the others to the plate return area first.

Then, without any extra actions, he neatly put down the plate.

This action alone shocked Lin Yi.

Wouldn't this attract the green apron chefs' attacks?

Sure enough, as soon as Wei Liang put down the plate, the sound of metal pots and pans falling to the ground echoed from the shadowy area next to window #3. The green apron chef at window #10 spotted Wei Liang's figure at this moment and recklessly squeezed out of the shopping window.

But Wei Liang was not in a hurry at all. Instead, he waited in place for Lin Yi and the others to return their utensils.

"Then it's time to buy things, let's go." Seeing that everyone had dropped off their utensils, Wei Liang simply observed the current position and then slowly walked towards the shadowy area near window #5...

Lin Yi's heart was pounding. Wasn't that window #10?

"Liangzi, that's..."

He wanted to remind him, but he immediately reacted.

"That's right! That is indeed window #10, but it's also... also a place 'not illuminated by light but with sunlight'!"

The cafeteria was built with a north-south orientation, and the internal purchasing windows were arranged in an increasing sequence from left to right. When the sun set, the afterglow of the sunset from the west, that is, window #1, shone in, directly illuminating window #1.

And in the morning, naturally, it shone in from the east, that is, window #5!

But the problem is, window #10... is also over there!

Moreover, in this way, the positional relationship between Wei Liang and the green apron chef was not a chase in the same direction, but a head-on collision. Wasn't this like throwing oneself into the arms of the enemy?

Just as Lin Yi was confused about this, he found that Wei Liang was not walking straight over there. Instead, he walked a distance towards the exit of the student restaurant, and then, after being illuminated by the sunlight outside the window, he adjusted his direction and walked towards a certain position.

Lin Yi's eyes lit up, exclaiming "wonderful!"

"Liangzi is walking along an area that is 'at least illuminated by either sunlight or incandescent light'!"

But it's really strange. Lin Yi pondered for a moment. When he sorted out this condition, it felt familiar, as if he had encountered it somewhere...

It seemed like... the Art Building Rules?!

Lin Yi scratched his head, and a series of rules rolled through his mind. Finally, that one emerged!

That's right, there was indeed a similar rule in the Art Building Rules—

【When you are active in the castle, please make sure you are within the range of natural light or at least a candlestick.】

"Could it be that this also applies here?!"

When you are looking for the convenience store, please make sure you are within the range of natural light or at least an incandescent light?

"Even if it applies, Liangzi said that he came here in a straight line last time and never explored the campus. How does he know this?"

"Could it be based on the intuition of 'ingenious skills'?"

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

The mysteries in Lin Yi's heart were intertwined, and he couldn't figure it out for a while, so he simply didn't think too much about it and just followed Wei Liang.

At the same time, five green apron chefs squeezed out of window #10 one after another.

The food outlet of that purchasing window was very narrow, less than twenty centimeters, so it was very difficult for each of them to squeeze out. Each of them stretched themselves, twisting their bones and deforming their bodies, like a rubber man.

After landing, they quickly approached Lin Yi and others, while bouncing back and reshaping their bodies to resemble human figures. Then, like a fish shuttling in the water, they quickly moved through the darkness like ghosts.

Lin Yi sensed the distance between them, and his heart beat faster and faster.

He couldn't help but want to urge Wei Liang to walk faster, so as not to be caught up by the green apron chefs, but seeing Wei Liang's calm and composed pace, he suddenly stopped talking.

He chose to believe in the gold content of Zhuge · Wei · Liang, but he inevitably and uncontrollably sensed the existence of the green apron chefs...

The distance between them was getting closer and closer, closer and closer...

At one moment, he could even hear the green apron chefs' calls mixed with eerie laughter in his ears, and he could also feel the approaching wind, his back began to seep cold sweat, he clenched his fists, and the muscles of his upper body gradually tightened...

He wanted to fight back.

Or rather, his subconscious burst out with the idea of fighting back.

But at this moment, Wei Liang suddenly exclaimed: "Oh no!"

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