Rules-related weird stories: 4016

But the important thing right now isn't that, it's to eat first. Any problems can be kept inside until after we've eaten and left the cafeteria!

"Alright, alright, let's eat first," Lin Yi interrupted Li Huiyuan and Wei Liang's staring contest.

One of them was saying, 'Even without black technology, I'm still well-endowed, okay?' and the other was saying, 'Then prove it, you bitch!' So one said, 'I'll prove it, come here and I'll crush you,' and the other said, 'I'm not interested in middle-aged women...' balabala...

Sometimes Lin Yi really didn't understand why girls cared so much about other people's opinions of their figures. It's like everyone drinks bubble tea, some like boba, some like coconut jelly, some like double boba... It's obvious that everyone likes different things, so why do they care so much about how much boba they put in?

He shook his head and lifted the plastic curtain to enter the student cafeteria.

The others followed.

...

May 8, X023, 11:06 AM, first floor of the student cafeteria.

As soon as they entered the student cafeteria, Tian Bufan said, "I'm going to check out the cafeteria lady at window number 3. You guys pick one of windows 2, 4, or 5 and line up together. After you get your food, find a nearby table and sit down. Just wait for me to come over."

The cafeteria lady "Chef-0391" at window number 3 has issues, and the cafeteria lady "Chef-0154" at window number 1 is a chef in a blue apron without a name tag, but behind her is a chef in a green apron with a "Chef-0154" name tag. In short, they all have problems.

But Tian Bufan couldn't be everywhere at once, so he chose to check out window number 3 first.

"Then be careful."

After Lin Yi finished reminding him, he led Wei Shan, Wei Liang, and Li Huiyuan to line up at window number 2.

However, although window number 2 and window number 3 were adjacent, there was still a considerable distance between the two lines, so it was unrealistic for Lin Yi and Tian Bufan to have a quiet conversation.

So he closed his mouth and took the opportunity while waiting in line to briefly observe the surroundings.

After his perception was enhanced, his control over the safety range of the student cafeteria also improved somewhat.

"Li Huiyuan, don't look around. Just stay firmly between me and Liangzi. Wei Shan, you line up behind us."

"That way, the four of us will be in a line, with familiar people in front and behind. If any figures appear to talk to you on the left or right, ignore them, understand?"

"Okay... I understand," Li Huiyuan replied softly, quickly lowered her head, and focused her attention on the heels of Lin Yi's shoes to avoid moving her gaze.

But just as she lowered her head, she suddenly discovered that between herself and Lin Yi... a chef in a green apron was lying there, starting from who knows when!

This green-aproned chef was twisting his legs and waist like a snake, with the back of his head pressed against the ground, his face facing upwards. His crazed eyes were wide open like dead fish eyes, staring straight at Li Huiyuan, and the smile at the corners of his mouth was stretched to the roots of his ears.

"Hello, classmate~"

The green-aproned chef slowly waved his palm, greeting Li Huiyuan in a strange posture.

Li Huiyuan froze on the spot like a stone. Her whole head was buzzing, and she was so frightened by the green-aproned chef that she lost her ability to think for a moment.

"What are you standing there dumbly for? Hurry up and go, isn't your stomach going to scold you?" Wei Liang couldn't help but nudge her, urging her impatiently.

With this nudge, Li Huiyuan directly lost her balance and fell forward, but with this nudge, her originally stiff limbs seemed to come alive again. Under the coordination of her body's own coordination, she subconsciously took a big step to steady her staggering figure.

And this step happened to cross over the green-aproned chef.

Her mind was still muddled, as if she understood something but was still confused... She subconsciously wanted to think about something, but was immediately interrupted by Wei Liang's scolding voice from behind: "Hey, why is this ground so uneven..."

Wei Liang was tripped by the green-aproned chef's face again, and he stumbled and bumped into Li Huiyuan's back, then quickly jumped up and said repeatedly, "Sorry, sorry, I'm a story, uh, no, I didn't mean to... uh, that, that, I mean... I mean, Wei Shan, be careful, this ground is a bit uneven!"

"Oh." Wei Shan's steady and heavy voice came from behind.

The green-aproned chef had just been crossed over by Li Huiyuan, and then kicked in the face by Wei Liang. His head was kicked to the side, and before he could recover, he suddenly felt a dark shadow covering his vision...

Wei Shan casually took a step, ruthlessly stepping on his face...

This step fell as if a heavy mountain fell from the sky, directly flattening the green-aproned chef's head...

The green-aproned chef didn't seem to feel any pain, but his eyes revealed a strong sense of confusion...

Then, his head瘪了some at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if the surface of a hard rubber had been stepped down one or two centimeters.

During this process, I don't know how many people in the student cafeteria stopped eating, and then turned their eyes and slowly turned to Wei Shan's side.

Especially some of the students sitting at the tables in the dark corners of the cafeteria that were not covered by the lights or the sun.

At this moment, these people all cast their gazes on Wei Shan... More precisely, on Wei Shan's feet.

Wei Shan also seemed to feel this feeling of being filled with flags, the corners of his mouth slightly raised in an arc, and between his teeth was a cold and low rumble, "Feff feff feff," as if an engine was roaring.

"Wei Shan, be careful not to fall behind," Lin Yi's reminder came from the front.

"Feff... Got it." Wei Shan's smile slowly faded, and the wild and rampant aura in his body also slowly subsided.

He stepped on the green-aproned chef's head and walked past as if stepping on air. At the end, he frowned and said to Wei Liang, "I think the ground is quite flat. Are your shoes uneven?"

Wei Liang didn't intend to argue with Wei Shan about this topic at all, and directly affirmed Wei Shan's statement: "Then it should be that my shoes are not flat. Hey, the shoes provided by the school are mostly of poor quality. Maybe they're unglued. I'll take a look later..."

Only Li Huiyuan remained silent, pursed her lips tightly, and silently followed Lin Yi.

And that green-aproned chef, as if his head had been nailed to the floor tiles, didn't make any extra movements, just twisting his body and lying there, twitching from time to time...

The cafeteria auntie at window number 2 was perfectly normal. After ordering, Lin Yi used his lightning-fast card-swiping technique to scan his student ID, confirmed the purchase, picked up his tray, and stepped aside to watch Li Huiyuan order.

Because the cafeteria auntie was fine, Li Huiyuan's ordering process was also without issue.

As she prepared to swipe her card, some of the "people" in the queue around her turned their gazes, staring intently at the student ID in her hand.

Her card-swiping action was neither fast nor slow, just the normal speed for someone paying. Yet, in those few seconds, Lin Yi seemed to sense intense, aggressive impulses spreading through the air!

This feeling was like an increasingly violent tide, constantly crashing against the floating bridge on the shore, threatening to destroy it at any moment.

"Put your card away!" Seeing that Li Huiyuan hadn't realized the gravity of the situation and was about to confirm the information before putting her card away, Lin Yi quickly said in a low voice.

Li Huiyuan's mind was actually in a state of high alert. Hearing Lin Yi's words, she was immediately startled, but despite that, she quickly put away her student ID.

As soon as she put away her student ID, the wave-like sense of crisis that had been constantly crashing over them slowly subsided.

Before Li Huiyuan clicked confirm, Lin Yi glanced at the card reader's screen.

【Name: Li Huiyuan】

【Student ID: X0230507046】

「X0230507046…」He narrowed his eyes, musing to himself, 「It seems that at least 46 people enrolled yesterday…」

Then, he withdrew his gaze and was about to carry the tray and take Li Huiyuan to a seat when he turned around and suddenly noticed a tomato the size of a fist had appeared on his tray.

The instant he saw the tomato, his mind suddenly went dizzy for a moment, and a bizarre image flashed before his eyes!

The scene was like a frame skip in a previously "existing" image. Then, the tomato was abruptly replaced by a bloody heart, its surface covered in dense blood vessels, emitting a revolting, bloody stench.

His eyelids twitched violently.

【The tomato is a heart.】

This information suddenly occupied his brain, instantly replacing the tomato with a heart in his perception.

A cold wind slowly blew across the back of his neck, gently reaching his ear, as if a venomous snake was coiling around his body, slowly crawling to his ear, and then whispering in a bewitching tone, "Taste it… this delicious tomato! Hurry and taste it…"

「Right… this is a tomato.」 Lin Yi thought to himself.

「This is a tomato.」

He emphasized this cognition once more.

He lightly shook his head, and the heart disappeared, the tomato reappearing on the tray in its place.

「Phew…」 He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. A quick glance from the corner of his eye revealed a chef in a green apron standing close to him, promoting the tomato in his ear.

"Eh, why is there a… box of milk?" He deliberately feigned surprise, reaching out to grab the tomato. "Eh, I don't drink milk! Here, you take it!"

As he spoke, he grabbed the tomato and put it on Li Huiyuan's tray.

But as he picked it up, he "accidentally" bumped the slightly raised edge of the tray, and the tomato slipped and fell to the ground…

「Splat!」

The tomato hit the ground and burst open. The tomato juice splashed within a limited range, avoided by Lin Yi's feigned surprise… The remaining splattered juice was not a threat.

Li Huiyuan was stunned by Lin Yi's actions. She was about to say something when she suddenly remembered the cafeteria rules regarding tomatoes and quickly closed her mouth.

At the same time, Lin Yi grabbed a box of milk from the milk pile next to him and put it back on her tray: "Eat what to supplement what."

These four simple words instantly scattered the thoughts that had subconsciously sprung up in her mind. Staring at the box of milk, her entire face flushed red: "Are you being polite?! I'm not that small anymore! I don't need any supplement!"

But Lin Yi had achieved his purpose and didn't care what she said, heading straight for the dining table.

Li Huiyuan immediately gritted her teeth and followed angrily.

Wei Liang, who had just finished getting his food, saw this scene. His gaze shifted from the tomato to the milk, then to Li Huiyuan. His expression immediately became serious as he muttered, "Old Lin, this kid, switches back and forth between serious and unserious, not bad, not bad…"

At that moment, the chef in the green apron took out another tomato from who knows where and silently placed it on Wei Liang's tray.

But just as it released its grip, Wei Liang suddenly muttered, "Hey, who the hell spilled food here?!"

Cursing, he dodged the tomato that Lin Yi had "accidentally dropped" and, "completely unaware," moved his tray away, causing the tomato that the chef in the green apron had just released to fall to the ground again…

「Splat!」

The tomato turned into a broken tomato again, causing the corners of the green apron chef's mouth to twitch violently. Then, heartbroken, it knelt down…

"Tomato… my tomato… the tomato I couldn't bear to eat…"

Its hands trembled as it held the tomato, and its frighteningly crazed eyes showed neither infatuation nor pain.

Soon, its body also began to tremble. It looked at the two tomatoes in its palm, as if a child's favorite Ultraman toy had been smashed by someone else.

The juice flowing from the broken tomatoes seemed to carry a powerful allure, attracting the attention of one gaze after another. Some "people" were so drawn to this scent that they stopped eating the food in their mouths. They seemed to have forgotten everything, staring痴痴 at this scene.

Even more extreme, some rolled from the side of the table to the ground, then crawled over like mindless beasts, their eyes fixed on the broken tomatoes on the ground, drool dripping from the corners of their mouths…

At the same time, Wei Shan also swiped his card in a violent, lightning-fast manner and began to walk back with his tray.

But as if he hadn't seen the green apron chef kneeling on the ground holding two broken tomatoes, he stepped on the hand holding the tomatoes. The two broken tomatoes instantly turned into crushed eggshells, the tomato juice 「bia squeak」 splashing everywhere, mainly splattering all over the green apron chef's face…

Thank you to book friend "琳skylark" for the reward!!

PS: Given that recent new readers have been complaining more and more about the opening, I plan to spend some time going back and adding more of the hints that should have been given—I didn't have enough experience when I started the book, but now I feel like I can operate on it.