58: Chapter 27 Student Cafeteria_2 58: Chapter 27 Student Cafeteria_2 Lin Yi heard this, and couldn’t help but gaze absently toward the Student Passage again, as if reminded of sothing…
But this ti, before he could delve into his thoughts, Wei Liang started shaking him vigorously by the shoulders.
“Hey hey hey, we’re talking serious stuff here!
What’s with the zoning out again?” Wei Liang’s voice carried a hint of annoyance as it echoed around Lin Yi.
Lin Yi quickly pulled himself together and then said, “Liangzi, I noticed sothing in the Student Passage…”
“Dirty stuff?!” Wei Liang instinctively interjected, “Damn, I knew there was a creepy vibe in the Student Passage!”
He jumped three feet high, suddenly channeling his inner drama king, striking a pose like sothing straight out of a “prival Oddman superheroes’ beams of light”, dodging left and right, lively as the chief of Huaguo Mountain.
“Please, dial down the drama, will you!” Wei Liang’s antics sowhat dissipated the eerie atmosphere surrounding Lin Yi, who covered his face in resignation and said without words, “There’s moss in the Student Passage!”
“Tsch~~~” Wei Liang waved his hand dismissively, “It’s deep in the woods, isn’t it normal to have moss?”
“But…”
“Oh c’mon, don’t get all superstitious!” Wei Liang pushed Lin Yi towards the Cafeteria, “Let’s eat, let’s eat, why overthink it, can moss turn into demons or ghosts and jump out to kill people?”
“Hey hey hey…” Lin Yi, unable to resist Wei Liang’s insistence, entered the Cafeteria.
“Moss?” Wei Liang glanced back at the Student Passage, pondering, then suddenly shivered, “Hey Old Lin, sothing just occurred to !”
“What is it?” Lin Yi asked.
Wei Liang hesitated, then said, “I slipped in the dorm the other day.”
Lin Yi: “…”
‘Please…
how did you even rember that because of this?’
Wei Liang added, “It made rember the ti I slipped on moss on the dorm’s stairs.”
Lin Yi’s movents suddenly stiffened.
But Wei Liang quickly reassured, “Don’t make that face, I an, there’s a lot of moss around this campus.
Don’t overthink it!
As long as it’s not abnormal weather, just don’t run around outside the dorms and you’ll be fine!”
Yet Lin Yi’s gaze flickered, his thoughts swirling.
His first instinct was…
‘Damn…
there’s moss on the dorm steps too?’
He and Wei Liang had completely different “perspectives”; the moss that was commonplace to Wei Liang looked trendously problematic to him!
‘But then…
Liangzi slipped on the moss and till now, nothing happened…’
‘Maybe I really “shouldn’t overthink it”?
Not thinking might be a safer approach, but he always felt there was a flaw in that approach.
He even started to worry about Wei Liang.
So things seed can’t be avoided by simply “not knowing about them.”
Like…
the heavy fog.
He followed Wei Liang through the wind curtain at the Cafeteria’s entrance, entering the first-floor Student Cafeteria in a daze.
The breeze from the wind curtain revived Lin Yi, who quickly checked his watch.
11:45.
Then, he finally diverted his attention and began to survey the environnt of the Student Cafeteria.
…
May 7, 2023, 11:45 AM, S City University Cafeteria, first floor.
Lin Yi stood at the entrance of the Cafeteria, observing the environnt of the Student Cafeteria.
The Student Cafeteria occupied a space of a few hundred square ters; on both sides of the entrance were two symtrically placed dish return stations, followed by a large area equipped with blue plastic chairs.
After a brief look around, Lin Yi noticed that there seed to be an issue with the lighting in the Student Cafeteria, possibly due to the Cafeteria’s geographical position itself which might have prevented any direct natural light from entering.
The only source of light was from the Student Passage.
Thus, even though it was noon, the Cafeteria appeared sowhat dim.
Even the nurous incandescent lights hanging from the ceiling like stars could only ensure a limited area was well-lit.
Lin Yi looked to his left, where rows of incandescent lights converged like a fading dashed line, stretching into a dark space.
So close, yet so far.
It gave him the eerie illusion of staring into the abyss, where one misstep could plunge him into it.
Lin Yi’s body suddenly swayed forwards and backwards.
A feeling of being off-balance enveloped him, making him feel light-headed, as if he were about to fall into that dark expanse.
‘Damn!’ Lin Yi cursed inwardly, exerting all his strength to shift his center of gravity backwards.
Then he actually felt as if his head weighed a thousand pounds, dragging his staggering body backwards, through the wind curtain and plastic door strips of the Cafeteria entrance, until he finally fell to the floor with a thud.
Behind him, the soft light from the Student Passage’s incandescent bulbs spread out, dispelling the icy sensation radiating from Lin Yi’s core and shattering the terror that the dark abyss had conjured.
Lin Yi gasped violently, his forehead covered with sweat.
A gust of wind blew in from the Student Passage, leaving him feeling a chill down his back—it was soaked with cold sweat.
“Old Lin…
Old Lin…
I…
damn…” A panicked and urgent voice rang in Lin Yi’s ears.
The voice seed to drift over from a very distant place.
His gaze detached from the depths of the Cafeteria and then he saw Wei Liang’s face, which gradually magnified.
He saw Wei Liang’s mouth moving, but he could only hear intermittent sounds faintly around him.
“Old Lin…
Old Lin…”
“Old Lin!
Old Lin!”
As his attention returned, the sounds by his ears also filled out instantly.
It was then that he felt a sense of picture quality and sound channel alignnt…
“Old Lin, are you okay?” Wei Liang anxiously grabbed his hand, trying forcefully to pull him up from the ground.
Lin Yi stood up with the help of Wei Liang’s strength, then gasped deeply, “Liangzi, I…”
Wei Liang waved his hands repeatedly, interrupting, “You still say you’re not weakened?
Fainting from dizziness just because you skipped a al?
And, damn it…
why are you so heavy!”
“I…” Lin Yi glanced at the Ti on his watch.
11:49.
He was about to say sothing when his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of the previously pitch-dark corner of the Cafeteria, and then suddenly he was stunned.
What dark corners could there be in the Student Cafeteria?
Within the reach of the incandescent light, there was only a dimly lit wall, on which tiles similar in shape to the relief in the Teaching Building were pasted, and nothing else.
“Just now…”
He was a bit muddled.
Just now, he clearly saw an abyss that was pitch black; how could it now…
be normal again?
“What exactly was that place?”
Just as he thought of this question, a long-lost, strange yet familiar sense of fatigue suddenly spread from the bottom of his heart!
When cognition beca disordered, the abyss spread from the bottom of his heart!
A naless terror enveloped him again in an extrely short amount of Ti!
“Damn!” Lin Yi suddenly realized sothing, but he no longer had any way to reverse his current train of thought!
The creeping sense of horror chilled him to the bone!
“Snap!”
At the crucial mont, a hand heavily landed on his shoulder.
Just like waking from a nightmare, Lin Yi jerked and then blinked his eyes, finding himself standing in front of the plastic door curtains at the entrance of the Cafeteria.
“How did I not notice you were so frail before?” Wei Liang sighed helplessly, “I always thought Kuai Kuai was the gloomiest among you guys, but turns out you are the weakest one.
Not good, young man!”
Lin Yi unusually remained silent at this ti, with only one thought in his mind—
“Damn, I was careless!”
“It’s not that you can think freely during the dayti, but only Under the Sun can you freely think!
In places without the sun, you cannot think beyond certain limits!”
Xu Shunkang was absolutely right, one should think only Under the Sun, yet he carelessly confused “clear skies” with “Under the Sun”!
In the Cafeteria’s Student Cafeteria, although there was light because it was dayti, it was essentially different from the concept of “Under the Sun”!
Lin Yi also realized this the mont that indescribable sense of terror enveloped him, but had Wei Liang not awakened him, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
He looked towards Wei Liang.
Under Wei Liang’s duckbill hat, there were so dishevelled strands of hair; after a night spent cultivating immortality, he now looked lethargically lazy.
Yet even so, it was a laziness full of sunlight.
He
glanced at his watch again.
11:50.
“Less than a minute has passed since then?” Lin Yi was shocked internally, but this ti he restrained himself from thinking further on this matter.
He shook his head and quickly caught up, “Hey Liangzi, wait for , I’m coming!”
As Lin Yi chased after Wei Liang, a person slowly walked out from the dark corner he had originally been watching.
It was a chef dressed in a green apron, his body stiff like a marionette, slowly turning around, then fixing his gaze on Lin Yi.
He lifted his feet and slowly walked towards Lin Yi…
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