AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 62 - 62 29 “Being Watched”_2

62: Chapter 29 “Being Watched”_2 62: Chapter 29 “Being Watched”_2 “?!”

Wei Liang felt a premonition; his pupils, for the first time since he entered the school area, constricted slightly.

He slowly retracted the step he had taken and, holding the tray with one hand, touched the back of his head and said to Lin Yi, “All right, I’ll wait for you, but hurry up, I’m afraid there won’t be any seats left.”

As Wei Liang spoke, he pursed his lips and gestured with his eyes toward the few empty seats in the Student Cafeteria.

But as his gaze swept over those empty seats, he saw a chef sitting upright on one of them, silently watching him and Lin Yi.

The corner of an apron peeked out from behind the table, ghastly green like a lantern in a tomb.

“Damn…” Wei Liang cursed silently in his heart.

It was at this moment that Lin Yi’s voice rang in his ear.

“Right away, right away!”

Lin Yi had already observed the interior of the food service windows while Wei Liang and a few other classmates were ordering food earlier.

First, each food service window was in a separate space, the windows were not connected to each other, and there was only one entrance and exit.

Inside the food service windows, there was a long row of food stored on alloy racks, offering a rich variety of dishes for selection.

Secondly, there were three employees decked in blue aprons inside the window; one of them was the Cafeteria Auntie, responsible for serving students, while the other two seemed to be arranging trays and utensils.

The three employees worked independently, without interfering with each other, and even when they passed trays and utensils, there was no communication.

From when he began observing the food service windows until now, everyone inside had seemed to focus all their attention on their tasks at hand.

Worried about Wei Liang, Lin Yi casually ordered one meat dish and two vegetables.

After getting his food, Lin Yi took the tray from the Cafeteria Auntie’s hands and walked over to the card reader, reaching into his pocket for his Student ID card.

But the moment his hand touched the Student ID card, a long-absent chill suddenly enveloped him.

His movement stiffened slightly.

He took out his Student ID card very slowly, all the while lowering his head and scanning his surroundings with his peripheral vision.

At this moment, he realized abruptly that some of the students who were sitting in the Student Cafeteria and eating had suddenly straightened up, then turned their gazes simultaneously toward him, focusing on the hand that was reaching into his pocket, touching his Student ID card.

The convergence of countless stares was like the flickering tongues of vipers, intertwining, instilling an unprecedented chill in Lin Yi.

At one point, he could even sense the emotions contained within those stares.

Cold, greedy, malicious, desirous, mad…

and bloodthirsty!

Lin Yi felt as if he were holding a packet of dynamite in his hand, which would explode the moment he took it out, which was why these classmates were staring at him.

It also felt as though he was holding a delicious delicacy, which would trigger a frenzied scramble among the classmates the moment he revealed it.

His instincts brimmed with a strong sense of impending crisis; it seemed that no matter what he did, the exposure of his Student ID card would set off a huge commotion.

At this instant, Lin Yi profoundly understood the words in the cafeteria rules:

[Do not let your Student ID card be visible to the public.]

The actions of Wei Liang from moments ago inexplicably flashed through his mind…

Lin Yi’s eyes brightened as if he had grasped the ultimate sword technique.

He took a deep breath, pressed his palm against the Student ID card, and tightly gripped its corners with his thumb and fingers.

Then, with lightning speed, he whipped it out…

In that moment, Lin Yi, like a possessed Sword Saint wielding the Void Sword Technique with his Student ID card, streaked over the card reader and swiftly tucked it back into his pocket!

“Phew—”

Lin Yi slowly exhaled a breath, releasing his tight grip on the Student ID card.

The sinister stares retreated like the tide as his hand and the Student ID card separated.

Lin Yi secretly heaved a sigh of relief, as if a great weight had been lifted from his heart.

Nevertheless, his body was drenched in a cold sweat.

Then, the card reader chimed with a crisp “Beep—” as if in response to his supreme swipe technique.

Immediately afterward, a line of small text appeared on the card reader’s display:

“Name: Lin *.”

“Student ID: X023*****98.”

Seeing both the name and the student ID were correct, Lin Yi breathed a long sigh of relief, pressed to confirm, then grabbed a box of free milk, ready to pick up his tray and leave.

But just as he reached for the milk, he felt the squared edges of the milk carton becoming rounded, a strange, curvaceous sensation in his grip.

He paused slightly, his eyes rolling stiffly as his gaze moved to his hand in a very rigid manner.

“?!” Lin Yi’s heart jolted.

In his hand was not a milk carton at all, but a ripe, red tomato!

It was as if he had touched an electric wire; he immediately let go, and the tomato slipped from his grasp, dropping back into the crate that held the milk.

But the moment the tomato fell, another hand reached out and caught it.

A chef wearing a blue apron had appeared next to the card reader at some unknown time, holding the tomato, his gaze falling on Lin Yi.

“Be careful, student, the tomato would splatter if it falls,” said the chef in a blue apron, who, unlike the chef in the green apron, didn’t exude that indescribable sense of horror but seemed quite friendly instead.

Just as Lin Yi was about to respond, he suddenly remembered a rule:

[The cafeteria staff should all remain within the employee activity area and the interior of the serving windows, and will not be found in the student cafeteria.

If a staff member is found in the cafeteria, please ignore them.]

Ignore!

It’s ignoring, again!!

Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat, cursing at how close he had come to falling for the trap set by the chef in the blue apron!

So he quietly carried his tray and didn’t try to get the milk again, instead walking directly towards Wei Liang.

“Hey, that student, you have yet to take your milk, the cafeteria offers it for free, don’t miss out!” The chef in the blue apron was still kindly reminding.

But Lin Yi quickened his pace even more.

“Old Lin?” Wei Liang saw Lin Yi approaching and hurried to greet him.

Lin Yi ignored Wei Liang’s call, keeping his head down as much as possible.

As he brushed past Wei Liang, he spoke in a lowered voice, “Liangzi, go!

Follow me!

Don’t mind anything else!”

Wei Liang was startled deep down, although it was all very unclear, he chose to follow suit on the spot.

At that moment, the chef in the blue apron’s voice came from behind him, “Students, are you together?

Your friend dropped a box of milk; you should give it to him!”

With those words, a hand reached within Wei Liang’s field of vision, slowly offering a carton of milk.

How could Wei Liang take that carton of milk?

He was still unnerved from what had just happened, and now, seeing a hand extended with milk, he felt goosebumps all over, and a cold chill that could almost flip his cap off.

“Fuck this shit, stop messing around!!”

Wei Liang cried internally, greasing his heels and hurriedly catching up with Lin Yi.

Watching the two figures of Lin Yi and Wei Liang fleeing in panic, the chef in the blue apron stood silently in place, one hand holding the milk and the other gripping the tomato.

“No milk…

not eating tomatoes, either?”

He muttered to himself, his voice dry and stiff.

Suddenly, he brought the tomato to his mouth and took a big bite.

“Pfft—”

Tomato juice splattered all over his face, but he didn’t even blink.

“Gua!

Gua!

Gua…”

He watched Lin Yi and Wei Liang’s retreating backs, chewing on the tomato, tomato juice slowly dripping from the corner of his mouth…

Crimson, viscous…

Like plasma.

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