Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Originally, upon hearing that voice, Vehicle Green Chef felt something was off. Then, seeing Lin Yi's face, which closely resembled "his own," it was completely dumbfounded.

What's going on?

It seemed to be thinking, 'I am Lin Yi, so who is this imposter?'

But at this moment, Lin Yi swiftly snatched the two "root hairs" from its hand. Upon contact, he reclaimed the portion of his will "lodged" within its body, along with the arm he had tampered with, which he also detached.

Immediately afterward, before Vehicle Green Chef could react, Lin Yi, with a bit of ash on his fist, punched it back into the other passageways.

“I…” Vehicle Green Chef, watching the passageway exit recede into the distance, revealed some human-like struggle due to excessive anchoring.

“I am Lin Yi… as long as… I reach… that place…”

“I…”

It crashed heavily to the ground, greeted by the green-bibbed chefs who had finally caught up, panting and puffing.

These green-bibbed chefs surrounded Vehicle Green Chef, all wearing their signature eerie smiles, but at this moment, each green-bibbed chef's face seemed to express something.

"So you're the one calling yourself Lin Yi?!"

"Weren't you pretty slippery with your movements just now?"

"Yell a little louder!"

It was unclear who struck the first blow, but soon it was impossible to tell which hand was attacking Vehicle Green Chef, the main goal being to disable its mobility first.

But as they were hitting, one of the green-bibbed chefs seemed to realize something terrifying and retreated to the side.

“Ash… ash…”

All the green-bibbed chefs scattered in an instant, then, as if they had seen a ghost, they threw Vehicle Green Chef into another passageway.

As if to say, "Die far away!"

…

October 23, 2023, 12:23 PM, in front of the entrance to the other passageways.

After dealing with Vehicle Green Chef, Lin Yi immediately glanced at the time on his watch.

Then, he gazed into the other passageways with interest, his eyes full of anticipation.

After just a few glances, he felt that the two "root hairs" in his hand seemed to be undergoing some kind of malignant qualitative change, so he wanted to rush back to the teaching building.

These two "root hairs" were actually the raw materials he planned to use to construct a "puppet."

Primitive puppets often only require simple construction.

His original plan was to use his own perception as a link to sneak a portion of his will into a green-bibbed chef's body. When it reached the green-bibbed chefs' gathering place, he would launch a surprise attack, kill one or two green-bibbed chefs, and then use their corpses as raw materials.

After all, since it would take some time to go to Green Forest Belt anyway, spending some time dealing with green-bibbed chefs was the same – of course, originally he had to go to the Barren Land to get extraordinary materials, and Green Forest Belt was a necessary route. But now that Kuai Kuai had taken care of the extraordinary materials, there were naturally more choices for the remaining material acquisition.

Moreover, judging from his understanding of non-human units, the "material level" of green-bibbed chefs seemed to be much higher than that of Pseudo-human Sculptures.

So he arranged this scene, but he didn't expect the green-bibbed chefs' base to bring him far more surprise and fright than expected, forcing him to try to collect some higher-level, more disgusting materials.

Then, he also injected a small amount of soul ash into Vehicle Green Chef's body, trying to squeeze out the last bit of its value and use it to ignite the other green-bibbed chefs.

But just a few steps after he turned around, the Vehicle Green Chef that he had thrown into the other passageway was thrown back out.

Seeing Vehicle Green Chef struggling to get up from the ground, Lin Yi knew that the plan to set fire to the green-bibbed chefs had failed.

“Alas, the one who tied the bell must untie it.”

Lin Yi sighed helplessly, walked over and pressed down on the green-bibbed chef, grabbed it by the back of its neck, and dragged it along the ground like a kitten.

The green-bibbed chef kept struggling, trying to break free from Lin Yi, but under the sunlight, its own power was suppressed extremely severely, and Lin Yi's sky-blue aura, like a rainbow piercing the sun, suppressed it fiercely.

Lin Yi, holding the two disgusting "root hairs" under one arm and dragging the green-bibbed chef with the other, began to stride towards the teaching building.

Before he had walked far, the green-bibbed chef began to turn into a blue-bibbed chef, and its will floated out like a double exposure in a layer. Before long, its body began to turn white, and its shadow-like will also began to fade and annihilate.

Finally, the green-bibbed chef seemed unable to maintain its form any longer. The shadow collapsed into green powder particles, and its body turned into a pure white plaster sculpture.

Lin Yi casually threw it to the side of the road, clenched his palm, secret patterns floated within his palm, sky-blue aura intertwined, and a baseball bat formed.

He gripped the baseball bat and swung it at the blue-bibbed chef's sculpture.

“Bang!”

The green-bibbed chef sculpture shattered into countless small stones, rolling all over the ground.

Lin Yi crushed them one by one, and with a gust of wind, the sculpture fragments scattered like chalk dust without a trace.

Lin Yi tightened the two "root hairs" under his arm and quickened his pace towards the teaching building.

Just as he was returning from the road on the other passageway side to the proper road in the cafeteria area, he discovered that someone was standing at his route point, seemingly having watched him for a long time.

That person was wearing a somewhat dirty school uniform, and their figure gave him some familiar feelings. Taking a closer look, he discovered that it was Zhao Lingxiao, who had only separated from him in the early hours of the morning.

Seeing Zhao Lingxiao, Lin Yi was slightly stunned, but he didn't intend to greet her. He just coldly bypassed her, holding the two "root hairs".

This Zhao Lingxiao had deceived him with a pitiful appearance as soon as they met, mixing a lie into every ten sentences, directly misleading his first impression. She was not someone easy to get along with, and he had to keep his distance.

This was the experience Lin Yi had summarized after spending a night with her.

Seeing Lin Yi treat her like air, Zhao Lingxiao immediately frowned, but it was only for a moment. Her brow relaxed, replaced by a hint of anger.

“Hey, hey, hey, why are you like this, ignoring people directly? That's too rude, right?”

She stepped onto the cobblestone road and chased after Lin Yi, launching into a barrage of words without explanation, her pitiful face filled with a mix of delicate and angry expressions.

Lin Yi remained silent, only focusing on hurrying along.

Seeing this, Zhao Lingxiao held her breath and followed behind Lin Yi.

After walking at a brisk pace for about ten minutes, Lin Yi quickly entered the teaching building area, and Teaching Building B appeared not far away.

He glanced helplessly at Zhao Lingxiao, who was like a plaster, and sighed: “Please, you've been following me all the way.”

"I followed you all this way just to get a single word from you, didn't I?" She put her hands on her hips, questioning him with indignant dissatisfaction.

Lin Yi said your acting is not bad, but it's a lot worse than last night: "Are you done?"

"Not yet!"

But Lin Yi seemed to not hear her at all, and just said lightly: "If you're done, then goodbye, see you."

"Hey!" Zhao Lingxiao followed again, chasing after him, "You're too heartless! We've worked together, can't you even say a word?"

She quickened her pace, rushed in front of Lin Yi, spread her arms, and blocked him: "Hey, has anyone ever told you that you're like a heartless scumbag from Baldi's Basics?!"

Lin Yi felt a trace of annoyance towards this persistent woman, and frowned, asking: "So Zhao Lingxiao, what do you want?"

"I saw you smash a chef's sculpture... To be precise, I saw the whole process." When Zhao Lingxiao said this, her eyes were full of excited brilliance, with a kind of Lin Daiyu's spirit shining brightly, charging towards the Heavenly Palace, "So handsome!"

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes: "Get to the point."

He didn't believe that this woman would be infatuated, let alone come to him for no reason. After all, they originally had nothing to do with each other, but Zhao Lingxiao deliberately approached him, which was too suspicious.

Could it be for the "Root"?

It's not impossible... So should I strike first and just kill her? Lin Yi subconsciously pondered for a moment, but immediately rejected it.

The other party is, after all, a person, and hasn't shown any malice. If I really attack her, will it bring unnecessary trouble?

Forget it, better to avoid trouble...

In principle, he can't attack Zhao Lingxiao for the time being—but if Zhao Lingxiao affects his work, then even if it's a principle, I'm afraid he can only put it aside for the time being.

Zhao Lingxiao seemed to also notice Lin Yi's sense of alienation, and felt that she couldn't muddle through anymore, so she restrained some of her acting skills, shrugged her shoulders, and confessed: "I saw that thing in your hand, it's very strange, but it's very similar to some transcendent substances used to study star secret patterns that I saw in textbooks, so I wanted to come over and take a look..."

"No."

"Why?"

"No means no, you'll die if you look at it too much." Lin Yi earnestly advised, "Listen to my advice, the water here is too deep, you can't handle it."

"My teacher said, Confucius once said, 'If you glimpse the Dao in the morning, it's okay to be killed in the evening.'" Zhao Lingxiao gritted her teeth and insisted, "I'll die if I die, I still want to see it."

The corners of Lin Yi's mouth twitched fiercely. [Isn't it, sister, Confucius said is Confucius said, what's with this weird Chinese-to-Chinese translation?]

And what's with this fanatical feeling of not wanting even her life just to take a look? Are you the real fanatic?!

"I'm putting the ugly words first, the weight of some contaminations is not something a person can bear. If you want to see, then see, but you're responsible for the consequences."

Lin Yi left a sentence, turned around, and hurried towards the steps of Teaching Building B.

He still had to go find Kuai Kuai, and really didn't have much time to waste words with Zhao Lingxiao here.

Seeing this, Zhao Lingxiao's eyes were full of joy.

Lin Yi took all of this into his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh faintly. He always felt that Zhao Lingxiao had some of the temperament of a "Mist-Piercing Light Seeker". Normal people who saw the corpse-pile form of the "Root" in his hands, those with slower reactions would have their cognition collapse early, and those with faster reactions would run away as if they had seen a ghost, how could they still stick to him.

But Zhao Lingxiao not only stuck to him, but also seemed very interested.

Was he the only one who thought this thing was disgusting? It's like holding so many broken corpses...

So she followed beside Lin Yi, chattering non-stop like a little magpie.

"Where did you find this thing?"

"Didn't you say you saw everything?"

"I only started watching when you were beating up that green-aproned chef. I had just finished eating and was about to leave, and then I heard some movement, and when I turned my head, I saw you violently beating the green-aproned chef..." Her tone was sincere, with a feeling of "I saw Chang Wei beating Lai Fu."

"Okay, I'm not interested in these things." Lin Yi interrupted Zhao Lingxiao and continued on his way.

"Although you're not interested in these things, I'm interested in yours! Tell me about it!"

"I won't tell you."

"Oh, you're such a hateful person, impossible to reason with! Or, you tell me where you got it, and I'll tell you where my clothes came from?" Zhao Lingxiao grabbed the corner of her clothes and opened it for Lin Yi to see.

"I'm not interested." That's what he said, but Lin Yi still took a look.

He remembered that Zhao Lingxiao's clothes were also dirty and tattered, just not as outrageous as his own avant-garde tattered openwork style, but now, although they were a bit dirty, they weren't torn at all.

What's going on?

"Are you interested?" Zhao Lingxiao exclaimed, "Let's exchange information!"

"I'm not interested." Lin Yi walked on in silence.

Zhao Lingxiao pouted, somewhat dissatisfied: "Okay, okay, consider it my apology! These clothes are actually from those classmates who have already died."

"Are you a devil? Licking bags even onto your body?" Lin Yi was about to say, but when he thought that his own behavior of taking Pan Jian's digital camera also belonged to the category of licking bags, just not as perverted as Zhao Lingxiao's.

"They're already dead, keeping their clothes doesn't make any sense. What's wrong with me making use of waste?" Zhao Lingxiao said frankly, "Besides, some clothes are almost petrified, it wasn't easy for me to find this set."

Truly a little devil with a smiling face and a dark heart... Lin Yi secretly commented in his heart.

The little devil followed up and asked: "So where did you get those things?"

"..."

"If you don't want to say, then forget it." Zhao Lingxiao pouted, and suddenly said again, "Then can you tell me what you're going to use them for? Their characteristics are constantly flowing away, you should be processing them soon, right?"

"The teacher said that for this kind of meat secret pattern material, freshness is very important. Only when it's freshly fresh can you get the highest quality."

Lin Yi's mouth twitched: "Is your secret pattern teacher a chef?"

"You know that too?" Zhao Lingxiao blinked, "Although she never admitted it, the things she makes are really delicious."

Lin Yi felt like he couldn't continue the conversation. As soon as he opened his mouth, Zhao Lingxiao would follow his lead and continue.