Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Lin Yi paused for a moment, then, as if something occurred to him, his brows suddenly relaxed. He picked up his plate and moved a few steps to the side, then put down his backpack…

He unzipped the backpack and began to put the tomatoes in, one by one. He was a little disgusted by the tomatoes that had touched the food, so he didn't put those in.

The eerie smile on the green-aproned chef's face stiffened slightly. Its neck stretched forward a little like a turtle's, and in its hollow, lifeless eyes, an emotion completely inconsistent with its underlying logic appeared for the first time—confusion.

But it still mechanically reached into its chest and slowly pulled out a tomato.

When Lin Yi finished packing the tomatoes and turned his head, he saw that the green-aproned chef had actually prepared another tomato.

“Hiss…” Lin Yi gasped, leaning back in a tactical retreat. Without taking the time to properly admire the green-aproned chef's “humanized” mechanism, he reached out and took the tomato from the green-aproned chef's hand, then silently stuffed it into his backpack.

The green-aproned chef was stunned by Lin Yi's divine reach, his jaw dropping. If there had been a referee at that moment, it would definitely have raised its hand and shouted that Lin Yi was cheating. But it didn't have time to mobilize its limited intelligence to think about the problem, so out of habit, it continued to reach for tomatoes.

It pulled out two more tomatoes in this manner, both of which were intercepted by Lin Yi. When it tried to pull out more, it couldn't manage to get any out.

Seeing this, Lin Yi remained silent. He simply stood up and, under the gaze of the green-aproned chef's completely uncomprehending eyes, reached into the green-aproned chef's chest and began to feel around for tomatoes inside its body…

Lin Yi's movements seemed casual, but in reality, his perception had been enveloping the green-aproned chef the entire time, especially when his hand reached into the green-aproned chef's chest.

Because these tomatoes, although taken from the green-aproned chef's body, were not hidden in its chef's uniform, but rather in its body—in its chest cavity.

And at this moment, the green-aproned chef's chest cavity was empty except for bones. No, to be precise, there was still one last tomato—the green-aproned chef's heart.

Lin Yi looked at the green-aproned chef with a smile, then grabbed its heart.

The moment the heart was grasped, the eerie smile on the green-aproned chef's face completely disappeared, replaced by an unprecedented look of horror.

When Lin Yi's actions broke its own logic, it instinctively felt fear of death for the sake of survival.

「So… you can also feel fear.」

Sensing the green-aproned chef's fear, Lin Yi's perception was like having caught a delicious meal, feeding back a joyful emotion into his soul.

Faced with the green-aproned chef's fear, he actually felt a pleasure akin to tasting something delicious…

He suddenly shivered, never having imagined that he would taste “fear”!

「What… what's wrong with me?」

He felt a little scared—scared because he had performed inhuman actions that violated his own understanding.

He adjusted his emotions and quickly began to remove the heart in front of the green-aproned chef.

But as he tried to forcefully remove the heart, the blood vessels in the green-aproned chef's chest suddenly seemed to come alive, turning into countless sharp vines with barbs, all coiling towards Lin Yi's arm in unison.

And its ribs also closed tightly like a barbed animal trap, trying to break Lin Yi's bones directly.

At this moment, the green-aproned chef transformed from the eerie tool man who handed out tomatoes into a humanoid, mobile arm-breaking maniac from a horror movie.

If it had been Lin Yi from a few days ago, his arm would have been broken and his body torn apart by such an attack, but now he had already undergone a complete transformation.

The rib trap pierced fiercely into the muscle fibers of Lin Yi's arm, but when it touched his bone, it emitted a dull sound—「Clang!」

The green-aproned chef was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting to kick a steel plate, but it did not give up. With an eerie sneer on its face, it continued to exert force.

Finally, a "crackling" sound came from its body, as if bones were beginning to shatter…

“Hehehe…” Lin Yi gritted his teeth, a wicked smile appearing on the corner of his mouth. He naturally felt the sensation of bone shattering, but unfortunately, it was not his bones that were cracking.

What a pity, brother!

Your bones don't seem as hard as mine!

Lin Yi gritted his teeth and twisted his arm violently. The Bone Golden Body activated, like a steel bar plunged into a thorn bush, shattering all the sharp barbs!

Immediately afterwards, azure blue aura roared out from his hand, like a sharp scalpel, cutting off the blood vessels near the green-aproned chef's heart.

With a forceful grab, he plucked the tomato out.

The connection between the heart and the flesh was severed, and the green-aproned chef's eerie smile froze on the spot. The next moment, its body convulsed violently, and at the same time, thin green mist and white powdery particles began to spew out of its body.

Soon, as if having made eye contact with Medusa, a strange petrifying light wave was generated from its chest cavity, petrifying its flesh into a gray-white plaster-like substance bit by bit.

And this petrification trend, like an indiscriminate attack, began to envelop Lin Yi's arm, which had not yet been pulled out of the green-aproned chef's body.

This mist was like a rapidly spreading virus. Once enveloped by it, one would probably be infected with this toxin and ultimately not escape petrification.

Lin Yi didn't panic at all. He silently recited a few times in his heart, 「This is just a tomato… This is just a tomato…」, and then began to withdraw his arm from the green-aproned chef's chest cavity.

And when his palm was pulled out from under the green-aproned chef's chest, on his palm was a fresh… tomato covered in some dew.

This tomato was as fresh as the one the green-aproned chef in the gymnasium locker room had given him.

He silently put the tomato into his backpack and then put it on his back.

Then, he turned his head to look at the green-aproned chef who had been nagging in his ear, constantly promoting the so-called new product “Tomato Meat Sauce Dry Noodles”.

This green-aproned chef glanced at him, then silently turned his head and walked aside…

Lin Yi pursed his lips and muttered that the tomato he had in hand had slipped away. Then, he picked up his plate and walked straight to the plate recycling area, followed the rules to throw away the food containing tomato elements, and then changed to another line, going to the side of the line at window number 4 and silently lined up.

Lin Yi's actions were, to him, merely "ordinary basic operations," but they were noticed by all the normal and abnormal entities nearby.

Watching Lin Yi calmly scoop away the green-aproned chef's tomato, turning the green-aproned chef into a dead statue, all the other green-aproned chefs' gazes towards Lin Yi changed, becoming filled with immense dread and fear.

This was the most primal fear a hunter displayed towards a newly advanced apex hunter after becoming prey.

As for those pseudo-human students, although they still showed a strong desire for Lin Yi's student ID and a strong impulse to "divide and devour Lin Yi," their gazes towards Lin Yi were much more reserved, as if afraid of being targeted by Lin Yi in return, becoming cautious and no longer so unrestrained.

But there was one exception.

That green-aproned chef who promoted tomato meat sauce mixed noodles to everyone he met.

It had just escaped from window number 2 and arrived at window number 4, then completely unexpectedly, Lin Yi, after finishing his meal, also came to window number 4.

As soon as Lin Yi walked up, that green-aproned chef subconsciously and sneakily approached: "Student… want to try this new product, tomato meat sauce mixed… mix… mix… mix…"

Speaking to this point, the green-aproned chef suddenly realized that the person in front of him was actually Lin Yi, that killer who had returned, and his face instantly became extremely colorful, filled with a "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" expression. Its few remaining shreds of intelligence frantically tried to remedy its suicidal behavior, and finally, its desire to survive prevailed—

"Sorry to bother you… student… enjoy your meal…"

It silently retreated.

What a joke, promoting tomato meat sauce mixed noodles was business, but if the tomato in this tomato meat sauce mixed noodles was the one from its own chest, then this would be hell's kitchen.

It could still distinguish between promoting with its life and taking its life to promote.

So this time, Lin Yi easily stood in line and arrived at window number 4, and then under the blue-aproned chef's stir-frying operation, he got a simple meal, swiped his card, and found a place to sit down.

As soon as he sat down, he buried his head and ate ravenously, but just as he was about to get up, someone carrying a plate sat down beside him and said softly: "Student, student… I beg you, can you save me…"

Lin Yi glanced at him, and golden light flickered in his eyes, instantly seeing the thin green aura permeating from his body.

Lin Yi wasn't a newbie anymore, and he immediately saw that this guy was heavily contaminated, so he took out the "Student Handbook" from his pocket, signaling him to abide by the rules and find his homeroom teacher, and then picked up his plate and prepared to go to the dish return area.

But that intern student stubbornly pleaded for help: "Please help me… I don't know what to do… Can you take me away… I beg you…"

Lin Yi pursed his lips, without showing mercy, and decisively turned around and walked towards the dish return area.

It wasn't that he didn't want to save him, but that he couldn't either.

For that intern student, the best way was to find the homeroom teacher, not to find him.

Who was he?

A super contamination demon king, a walking humanoid ash apostle, the disaster level of following him was no less than embracing pseudo-human sculptures and fraternizing with them in the foggy zero hour…

Don't blame me, kid, I'm doing this for your own good.

Following me won't do you any good.

Lin Yi was extremely self-aware.

But that intern student obviously didn't understand Lin Yi's deep meaning. He looked at Lin Yi's back, his eyes filled with resentment, and then, he silently sat back at the table, restraining his fearful emotions, trembling, and slowly eating his meal…

Lin Yi put the plate in the dish return area, and then looked towards window number 10.

Window number 10 didn't disappoint him. The familiar "light clanging" sound rang out, and then, a green-aproned chef twisted his body and crawled out, like a bizarre creature, and began to pounce towards Lin Yi.

Its speed was extremely fast, as if a shadow merged into the night, constantly shuttling through the shadow area. In just a few breaths, it had already arrived in front of Lin Yi.

Lin Yi frowned slightly. When the green-aproned chef was moving in the darkness, he didn't panic, nor did he turn around and run, but just quietly observed.

Then he discovered that the green-aproned chef was to the darkness as the grinning angel was to the layers, a kind of indescribable similarity during the shuttle.

"Could it be compressed space?"

A guess popped into Lin Yi's mind.

The layers of the campus could be stretched and twisted under abnormal circumstances, so under certain logic, could they also be compressed?

"Could the green-aproned chef compress the distance between it and its prey by relying on its hunting instinct?"

Lin Yi's perception tentacles were released, and dense grid lines instantly filled the entire student cafeteria, and he also clearly "saw" that in the position where the green-aproned chef was, the grid lines were indeed denser, as if they were compressed, and when the green-aproned chef shuttled through a certain area, the grid lines behind it returned to normal.

"It's such a simple principle?"

Lin Yi found that he easily understood the green-aproned chef's shuttle logic.

Seeing that Lin Yi was unmoved, the smile on the green-aproned chef's face became even more intense, and its sharp claws suddenly protruded to within half a meter of Lin Yi's face.

At this time, Lin Yi's "Advanced Perception" erupted, and everything around him seemed to freeze as if time had stopped. Lin Yi felt the spatial lines that were stirred together by the green-aproned chef, and glanced at the looming convenience store portal at the junction of light and darkness. With a thought, he directly "stepped" onto the grid lines (spatial lines) around the green-aproned chef…

When the green-aproned chef approached him, it compressed the vertical lines, causing the horizontal lines to expand, and Lin Yi stepped on those horizontal lines.

The subtle changes in the spatial level could not be perceived by the green-aproned chef. Its shuttle was just a formalized movement and transportation, and it didn't understand the underlying spatial logic like Lin Yi.

So in the real student cafeteria, when the green-aproned chef rushed in front of Lin Yi, Lin Yi's whole person suddenly stretched and expanded like a flexible glutinous rice ball. The green-aproned chef had clearly grabbed towards him, but he and the green-aproned chef were like the tortoise in Achilles' paradox, never able to reach each other…