Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi was even more puzzled, but he suddenly heard some other sounds within this strange cry. The sound seemed to be…

“Old Lin, we’re surrounded…”

Lin Yi was stunned, his eyes narrowing into a slit in real-time.

He slowed down his eating speed, listening intently to the strange sounds Wei Liang was making, and then he gradually became certain that the sound was indeed saying—

“Glug urgh mumble burp gurgle squawk (Old Lin, we’re surrounded)…”

“What… the… heck?!” The moment he understood, Lin Yi couldn't help but make a slight tactical lean back, adopting a ‘grandpa-on-the-subway-looking-at-his-phone.jpg’ expression, with only one thought in his mind—

A bizarre skill!

It's another damn bizarre skill!

And so, Lin Yi didn't know what he was thinking, took a deep breath, and suddenly increased the speed at which he shoveled rice into his mouth, mixing half a mouthful of air with each bite, also starting to make sounds as he ate—

“Gurgle wah squawk squawk squawk (Yes wah I’m feeling not so good wah)!”

Whether it was out of respect for Lin Yi's understanding of this encrypted communication skill, or for some other reason…

When he heard Lin Yi's words, Wei Liang was visibly stunned for a moment.

Then, an encrypted conversation began to emerge…

“Squawk squawk gurgle damn gurgle squawk… (These guys aren't here with good intentions, Old Lin, I feel like we're going to be done for here…)”

[—(Considering the suspicion of padding the word count, the onomatopoeic words in the following encrypted conversations, except for a very few key sentences, are all omitted and replaced with parentheses to write the encrypted parts of the sentences. Everyone should imagine the blurry image of eating soup dumplings while talking, because it has to be 'encrypted', so imagine it a little more exaggerated than usual) (I'm so kind, sob sob sob)—]

Lin Yi quickly comforted him: "(Liangzi, I know you're panicking, but don't panic yet…)"

“(Sob sob sob…)” Wei Liang revealed an expression with two lines of clear tears flowing from the corners of his eyes, “(Old Lin, how did you know I’m panicking like crazy right now?)”

“(Old Lin, Old Lin, do you think it might be those weirdos from the classroom who came to the cafeteria to eat?)”

His mouth was like a chestnut-frying machine, the rice mixed with air creating an illusion that made people think he was frying chestnuts.

“Oh?” Wei Liang's words made Lin Yi feel both surprised and chilled. If it weren't for this reminder, he would have forgotten that those guys might also appear in the cafeteria!

The stiff figures standing like tombstones immediately appeared in Lin Yi's mind, but he immediately shook his head—whether it was them or not, he couldn't think about this matter!

“(Don't think about them anymore, Liangzi! Eat first! We can't be sure who's sitting next to us right now!)”

He was afraid that Wei Liang would also start to think wildly, so he quickly spoke to dispel his thoughts.

“(Then what do we do now?)” Wei Liang asked. Lin Yi gritted his teeth and continued the encrypted conversation: “Squawk squawk. (Eat first.)”

But Wei Liang didn't understand this pronunciation for a moment, so he repeated in confusion: “Squawk squawk?”

Lin Yi affirmed: “Squawk (Yes).”

“Squawk you ma squawk, urgh mumbo jumbo ah wah!! (Squawk you ma squawk, I don't understand, hey!!)”

Wei Liang was confused, an angry little expression popping out on his forehead, and he continued to angrily say: “Urgh gurgle a bunch you damn sacrificial gurgle a squawk?! (I said so much and you just replied with a squawk?!)”

Lin Yi was stunned.

「So Liangzi didn't understand this time…」

「But that's right, the shorter this kind of bird language pronunciation is, the less you know what it's saying…」

So he said seriously: “Squawk—Squawk—(Eat—Rice—)”

“(Eat rice?)” Wei Liang was slightly stunned, then couldn't help but say, “(Wow, come on, Old Lin?)”

“(How can I eat rice at a time like this! How thick-skinned does someone have to be to eat so deliciously?)”

Lin Yi, who was eating heartily, paused in his shoveling motion.

“…”

The air suddenly solidified.

“(Cough cough cough! Well, you continue, you continue… I didn't mean anything against you… )” Wei Liang quickly said, and then also frantically shoveled a few mouthfuls of rice to show his agreement.

Lin Yi ate a mouthful of rice seriously, then continued to puff up his cheeks and said: “(Remember the cafeteria rules? During meal times, ‘Do not pay attention to any communication requests initiated by strangers around you’!)”

Wei Liang's eyes lit up, as if he had grasped some inspiration: “(Wow, come on, are you saying… we ignore them, just like we did in the classroom?! )”

“(Remember when you were hiding under the desk? Put your attention on eating, you eat first, don't pay attention to them!)”

“Slap!” Wei Liang slapped his thigh: “(Old Lin, I seem to have understood! But what about you?)”

“(I'm eating too, but I need to review it! To make sure my idea is correct!)”

“(Okay, okay, okay, it's still you, Old Lin!)”

So he stared at the food, trying to empty his mind and not pay attention to the people around him.

But his eyes immediately welled up with tears.

He found that although he had understood, he didn't seem to have understood much.

In Lin Yi's words, it was: as if understanding.

Because using the same method of staring at a table leg to stare at the food…

It simply didn't work!

At least the table leg was a leg, but this plate of food… it was just a plate of food!

This was obviously not a solution, so he hardened his heart and silently chanted in his heart:

「Stockings stockings stockings…」

「Beautiful feet beautiful feet beautiful feet…」

「Licking licking…」

He quickly entered the state…

“Slurp slurp slurp…”

…

Lin Yi, who was eating rice, felt that Wei Liang seemed to have settled down.

Immediately afterwards, the intermittent sound of "slurp slurp" began to drift over from there.

Lin Yi could imagine Wei Liang eating with relish just by hearing the sound, so he calmed down.

However, for some reason, listening to Wei Liang's eating sounds, a strange thought couldn't help but pop up in his mind:

「Liangzi is clearly focusing on eating, so why does it give me such a lewd feeling? Strange, really strange…」

「Let's ignore Liangzi, no matter what he's doing, it's good that he's started to focus on eating…」

Lin Yi controlled his breathing and slowly exhaled.

He didn't actually want to continue eating with Wei Liang.

When something like this happened, the right thing to do was to leave as soon as possible.

But when leaving the cafeteria, there were still rules to pay attention to—

First, after finishing the meal, the plate needs to be placed in the plate collection area.

If they hadn't finished their meal, they would have to pour the food away, and the cafeteria rules state: 【Pour the unfinished food directly into the recycling bin, do not pack it to take away. If an employee asks if you need to pack the food, or accuses you of wasting food, please ignore them. Remember, no cafeteria employees will appear in the student dining area】.

So, in order to prevent triggering the unnecessary trouble of an employee asking if you need to pack the food, or accusing you of wasting food, it is necessary to eat the plate clean.

Furthermore, he encountered the chef in the green apron, and Wei Liang stepped on that chef's face, causing his right shoe to be stained with ketchup.

In this way, when they left, they were bound to trigger another rule: 【When leaving, if you find that you are being watched by a green apron employee, and he starts to move quickly towards you, please judge whether to go to the [Student Passage] or the convenience store based on your own position.

Before you enter the [Student Passage] or arrive at the convenience store, do not stop, do not look back, do not respond to his calls, even if you feel he is about to catch up with you.

After leaving the cafeteria, please take off your clothes as soon as possible and check if there is any ketchup on your body. If there is, throw the clothes into the nearest trash can (note that you must throw them into the trash can, do not litter).】

This was a complete yet coherent set of rules. Initially, Lin Yi didn't quite understand why eating in the cafeteria would inexplicably lead to being covered in ketchup. But judging from Wei Liang's reaction, getting ketchup on oneself was often unintentional.

And once you were covered in ketchup, you would be chased by the chefs in green aprons when you tried to leave.

However, as long as you didn't fulfill the condition of "leaving," you were relatively safe.

Besides this, the cafeteria rules stipulated not to interact with any strangers. If you had to interact, do so only with familiar companions and focus your attention on them.

But at this critical juncture, Wei Liang was already somewhat panicked and showing signs of overthinking.

Therefore, Lin Yi couldn't determine whether using encrypted communication to hold Wei Liang back was good or bad for him. He could only try to shift his attention to eating first.

Moreover, the cafeteria rules themselves weren't difficult to follow. As long as you adhered to the rules, eating a meal shouldn't be a problem.

Secondly, they had taken the blue bus into the campus yesterday. Aside from eating a little something before departure, they hadn't eaten anything since then.

And Wei Liang, because the old driver had reopened an old route, and because the cafeteria food was indeed something he missed, had only brought a little food, which he had eaten on the bus when he was bored…

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If they didn't finish this meal, and then encountered similar abnormal weather to yesterday during dinner, they would basically have to wait until lunchtime again.

Eating one meal every three days.

No way, no way, it's already 2023, is there still a time when you can't get food?

That would be too miserable for Wei Liang, the returning customer and old driver.

In addition to this, there was another sentence written before the cafeteria rules:

[Your correct action in the cafeteria should be: enter the cafeteria on the first floor through the [Student Passage] to queue for your meal, and immediately return and leave the cafeteria via the [Student Passage] after finishing your meal.

As long as you abide by this rule, you will safely solve the problem of food and clothing during your experience.]

So Lin Yi was first using his own method to bring Wei Liang back to this rule.

However, this rule was too idealistic. Lin Yi couldn't be sure whether they would be helpful after looping back to this rule.

Moreover, the real problem he was worried about was whether these people surrounding them would disperse after they finished eating and left the cafeteria…

What if these people had their eyes on them?!

At the thought of the threat posed by these people in addition to the chefs in green aprons, Lin Yi instantly felt a surge of crisis. For a moment, he was also puzzled.

How did it feel like he was stacking a bunch of debuffs on himself just by eating a meal?

Therefore, he still needed to think one step further on this basis, and try to eliminate unstable factors, in order to allow him and Wei Liang to successfully escape the current situation.

So he took a deep breath, his eyes gradually firm, as if he had made some kind of determination:

「Before, my thinking deviated from the course, and Liangzi helped me pull it back several times. This time, leave it to me…」

「Lin Yi, ah, Lin Yi… you've been thinking about it all the way, you've almost figured out the boundary of this part of the rules, now it's all up to you!」

「Don't overthink it now!」

He slowly shoveled the rice, pricking up his ears to listen to the movements around him.

The speed of his heartbeat began to slow down.

His mind began to calm down.

His thoughts began to become clear.

「Although both the cafeteria and the teaching building mentioned the keyword 'ignore', there are still some differences in the details.」

「This may be related to the cafeteria's opening hours…」

「The cafeteria's opening hours are from 5:40 to 8:00 in the morning, 10:40 to 13:20 at noon, and 16:00 to 20:00 in the evening. From a time perspective, they all intersect with the period when the building has sunlight.」

「In addition, entering the cafeteria is prohibited under abnormal weather conditions, so as long as you enter, you can usually assume that it is a sunny day.」

「Precisely because of this, the danger brought by the cafeteria environment can be simply summarized as [Do not enter areas without light] and [Stay away from the dark areas of the cafeteria].」

「Because [The cafeteria with the lights off is different from the classroom, there are no safe areas], so from another perspective, the student restaurant area, which is sunny and has lighting, is a safe area.」

「Precisely because of this, neither the chefs in green aprons nor the chefs in blue aprons who left the purchase window did anything bad to me.」

「Didn't the chefs in green aprons notice me?」

Lin Yi expressed suspicion about this, which can be answered by the chefs in green aprons asking if he needed tomato meat sauce spaghetti in the foggy weather.

The chefs in green aprons are different from the strange students, they can "see" people.

However, Lin Yi did not "respond" to their "request for communication", including the chefs in blue aprons who left the purchase window, it was the same.

Precisely because he did not respond, he did not enter into some kind of mechanism of theirs.

「The cafeteria chefs don't know if there is a killing mechanism, but I assume they do, and one of the triggering conditions should be 'response'—at least in a safe period!」

「And the safe period…」

Without considering the pursuit from the chefs in green aprons when leaving, the conditions for satisfying the safe period are initially judged to be two: one is sunny days, and the other is lighting.

The first condition does not currently exist, and the second…

After the lesson in the teaching building, Lin Yi did not dare to vouch for the lighting ability of the cafeteria's incandescent lights.

The statement in the cafeteria rules that 「Eat the food on the plate as quickly as possible and leave the cafeteria」 is correct, but… Lin Yi always felt that there was still something wrong.

Perhaps… obeying the rules themselves is a very difficult thing?

The whole process, from him telling Wei Liang to eat in silence to "verifying" his own thoughts, seemed to have gone through a long brainstorming session, but in reality, it was just a matter of shoveling a few mouthfuls of rice.

He silently shoveled rice, and finally finished the remaining rice in less than a minute.

But at the moment when he implemented the clean plate action, his sight inadvertently saw a horrifying scene from the shiny alloy plate.

This transparent alloy plate reflected the surrounding scenes like a mirror, and through this picture Lin Yi found… at this moment, he and Wei Liang were surrounded by people.

None of these people were eating, all of them uniformly cast their eyes on them.

「This Nima's…」

It was okay if he didn't notice it, but once he did, Lin Yi's scalp instantly went numb. The countless gazes carried countless sinister and despicable emotions such as infatuation, bloodthirst, madness, greed, and desire… like a mountain stone weighing a thousand pounds, pressed on his body, pressing him almost to suffocation.

“Liangzi, have you… finished eating yet?!” Lin Yi gritted his teeth and asked in an almost low growl.

“No more, no less, just finished eating!” Wei Liang's reply came from the opposite side.

Lin Yi took a deep breath, calmed down for a moment, and then said: "Count to three, follow me!"

“Okay!”

“Three…”

“Two…”

“Wait, wait, wait… Lao Lin, Lao Lin!” At the countdown to two, Wei Liang's trembling scream full of fear and panic came from the opposite side.

“Damn it!!! Fuck! Fuck! Lao Lin!! Lao Lin!!”

“There’s… there’s something! Licking my shoes!!!”

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