Rules-related weird stories: 4016

“Ew ~ ~ ~” Lin Yi rubbed his arms, which had broken out in goosebumps.

Thinking of the green-aproned chef in the cafeteria who was eyeing him like a tiger watching its prey, and the blue-aproned chef who secretly swapped milk for tomatoes when people weren't looking, he decided to not think about the cafeteria auntie for now.

No, he didn't want to think too much about anything right now.

After leaving the sunlight, he just wanted to be a salted fish.

But he already knew some things, and he felt that even if he wanted to be a salted fish, there would be some indescribable external factors that would come and flip him over for no reason.

Like the cafeteria that had inexplicably disappeared just now.

Under the sun, walking on the road, without sea breeze or fog, and yet… the cafeteria just disappeared without any warning?

He shook his head, buried the thought in his heart, and then entered the student passage with Wei Liang.

Before entering, he looked up at the sign for the passage.

After confirming that it was the [Student Passage], he felt a little more at ease before walking in.

The moment he stepped into the student passage, Lin Yi's hair stood on end—a sense of unease seemed to be born from the void and fell upon him.

This was the second time he had entered the student passage, and he hadn't felt this way the last time.

His muscles tensed slightly, and under the illumination of the fluorescent lights in the student passage, he locked his gaze on the exit ahead, while closely following Wei Liang's pace.

This time, he clearly felt differently than he had when he came at noon.

When that strange feeling fell upon him, even the fluorescent lights in the passage, which symbolized safety, could not give him enough security.

His hearing seemed to become more acute, and he could hear his own even, slightly hurried breathing, the sound of his feet stepping on the steps in the passage, and… the sound of some kind of frost spreading along the walls, "Crack… crack…"

His pupils shrank slightly, his scalp tingled slightly, he tried not to think about anything, and he began to shift his attention from hearing to sight.

The sound of the frost spreading gradually disappeared, but out of the corner of his eye, he noticed some faint white marks on the walls of the passage, like wisps of white mist emerging from the cracks in the walls.

“Crap…”

He shivered and quickened his pace to rush out of the student passage.

Wei Liang was startled by his speed: "What's wrong, Lao Lin?"

“Hungry.” Lin Yi offered a natural excuse.

He ran faster and faster, and soon rushed to the exit of the student passage.

But at this moment, he saw a figure standing at the exit of the student passage.

It was a cafeteria worker wearing a white chef's uniform and square hat, with a blue apron, his arms crossed over his abdomen, leaning forward slightly, like a hotel doorman.

“The blue-aproned chef?”

Lin Yi was a little surprised, but a question immediately popped into his mind—the cafeteria rules said that cafeteria staff would not appear in the student dining area, but there was still a distance between the end of the passage and the entrance to the student dining area.

What should he do if a blue-aproned chef suddenly appeared at this time?

“Ignore it.”

When in doubt, choose to ignore it first.

He quickened his pace and rushed out of the student passage.

“Too fast, too fast! Lao Lin, damn it, you swam for an hour and you're refreshed, right?” Wei Liang cursed as he followed, “Can't you take care of a handsome guy who's been practicing gymnastics with a hunk for forty minutes?”

“Liangzi, hurry up, the sun is going down, let's go eat!” Lin Yi shouted back at the end of the passage, wanting Wei Liang to ignore the existence of the blue-aproned chef.

At the same time, he glanced at the student passage.

The fluorescent lights in the student passage were always on, and the soft, orange-yellow light gave a sense of security no matter how you looked at it.

There were no traces of frost spreading on the walls of the passage.

“Damn it!!” Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, “Auditory hallucination! Visual hallucination!”

He realized that he had just experienced those strange fantasies that defied common sense again, and if he had paid more attention to his hearing or sight, he might have fallen into some kind of crisis he had encountered before.

Either, like walking on that road to the gymnasium, his eyes opened and closed, and he stepped onto a non-existent road;

Or, like just now, he didn't know what was going on, and he lost the "coordinates" of the cafeteria, falling into some kind of strong and unknown crisis, his brain was in chaos, and he almost suffocated and fell.

Or… a third unknown situation different from the above two situations occurred.

But fortunately, this time he held himself back.

“Coming, coming!” Wei Liang rushed to his side, “Let's go, let's go eat!”

Wei Liang seemed to have not noticed the blue-aproned chef at all, took the lead, and then pulled Lin Yi into the student dining area.

There was a sign indicating the entrance and exit at the main entrance of the student dining area. Before entering, Lin Yi checked it again before lifting the plastic wind curtain and walking inside with Wei Liang.

Passing by the dish return area, Lin Yi observed the blue-aproned chef outside the student dining area from the reflection of the alloy shelf, only to see the blue-aproned chef slowly turning around with a relatively slow and stiff movement, his empty and lifeless eyes seemed to be watching them all the time.

At the junction of the student dining area and the student passage, the afterglow of the setting sun fell down, so quiet that even the blue-aproned chef's shadow was gone.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang followed the old rules and lined up in front of window No. 3 to buy food.

There were many more people eating dinner than lunch, and the cafeteria was densely packed with heads.

Lin Yi glanced at the time on his watch.

17:33.

“Half past five… I hope I can finish eating and leave before the sun goes down.” Lin Yi thought to himself.

He and Wei Liang moved forward slowly with the line, chatting casually.

This time, Wei Liang ordered food first. He pointed at the dishes inside through the glass window, which was an effective way to avoid disputes with the cafeteria auntie because she made the wrong food.

I won't name the dishes, I'll eat whatever you give me even if it's wrong.

This was Wei Liang's textbook-style food-buying method.

However, this time, something unexpected still happened.

When the cafeteria auntie was helping Wei Liang to get food, a look of doubt suddenly appeared in her eyes.

Then, her hand suddenly didn't shake so much, and she neatly scooped a spoonful of vegetables from a vegetable grid on the side, and then asked Wei Liang:

“Student, I didn't pay attention, did you order this green pepper beef just now?”

Lin Yi looked over Wei Liang's shoulder, and saw that the cafeteria auntie's spoon was full of… scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

But he found that there were no scrambled eggs with tomatoes in the vegetable grid at all, only green pepper beef.

A look of doubt appeared in Lin Yi's eyes, and a thought popped into his mind, did he see it wrong? Was it green pepper beef, or… scrambled eggs with tomatoes?

Just as this thought popped into his mind, he suddenly realized that this might not be the cafeteria auntie making the wrong food, but rather the cafeteria auntie having a certain cognitive bias about the food!

Is it green pepper beef or scrambled eggs with tomatoes?

Lin Yi didn't want to think about this question for the time being, because whether it was green pepper beef or scrambled eggs with tomatoes, it was no longer important.

What was important was that when the scrambled eggs with tomatoes appeared in the spoon, no matter what dish the cafeteria auntie gave, it was a food "containing tomato elements"!

When Lin Yi realized this, Wei Liang was already stunned, looking at the full spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

But soon Wei Liang grinned and smiled, he said with a smile: "Ah, yes, yes… it's this dish, Auntie, please give me some more."

The cafeteria auntie thought for a while, a strange light flashing in her eyes, she repeatedly confirmed: "Student, do you really want this… green pepper beef?"

Wei Liang frowned and said: "Auntie, I said yes, please hurry up and give it to me, I'm starving!"

The cafeteria auntie narrowed her eyes, and then said: "Okay, okay, then young man, you eat more…"

As she said that, she scooped the spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes into the plate, and then stretched the spoon into the green pepper beef and scooped out a spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and spread it on the rice.

The corner of Wei Liang's eyes twitched fiercely, his lips wriggling slightly, his mouth shape seemed to be saying—"Oh, I Cao Ni Ma…"

“Liangzi…” Lin Yi suddenly felt a cold sweat for Wei Liang, he didn't know if Wei Liang had noticed, he wanted to remind him, but he didn't know how to open his mouth.

At this time, Wei Liang suddenly turned to him and said: "Lao Lin, you also hurry up and get your food! I'll swipe my card and wait for you first."

"Ah? No…" Lin Yi was thinking about what to do when Wei Liang had already taken the plate full of scrambled eggs with tomatoes from the cafeteria lady's hand, and then went to the card swiping machine and swiped the card using the same method as at noon.

Wei Liang stood to the side with the plate, silently watching Lin Yi, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Student, what would you like to eat?" The cafeteria lady had already grabbed a new plate and gave Lin Yi an inquiring look.

"Please give me some of this, this, this, and… this." Without thinking, Lin Yi pointed to the dishes behind the glass, but avoided the beef with green peppers.

The cafeteria lady responded and began to serve the food.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and observed her every move.

The cafeteria lady was a slightly plump middle-aged woman, wearing the standard white chef's uniform for cafeteria employees, and a blue apron.

On her chest, she wore a white acrylic name tag, almost identical in style to the homeroom teacher's name tag, with thorny vine edges and gold lettering in the middle.

He silently noted the cafeteria lady's name tag number:

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"Chef - 0391"

"Number 391?" Lin Yi was a little surprised. If the numbers were assigned sequentially, then this cafeteria lady was the 391st?

The staff turnover in the cafeteria… seems to be very high.

Just then, he noticed that the cafeteria lady had almost finished serving the food, and when she was serving the last dish, a look of doubt appeared in her eyes again.

He heard her mutter to herself, "What was the last dish again…?"

Her eyes moved back and forth over the food compartments, her hand holding the spoon trembling slightly. Suddenly, she thought of it: "It seems to be this!"

She reached for the beef with green peppers…

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes instantly—he definitely didn't order beef with green peppers.

But the cafeteria lady didn't scoop up the beef with green peppers, but instead scooped up the dish in the next compartment.

Yu Xiang Rou Si (pork with garlic sauce).

Lin Yi watched the whole process. He saw the cafeteria lady scoop up a spoonful of Yu Xiang Rou Si, shake the spoon, and then the Yu Xiang Rou Si on the surface of the spoon slid off, revealing most of a spoonful of scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

The cafeteria lady looked at Lin Yi and asked, "Student… I didn't notice just now, did you order this Yu Xiang Rou Si?"

She bent over slightly, raised her face slightly, and grinned with a very normal smile, but from a different perspective, it looked like an old hag was shaking a spoon full of blood, staring with eyes that showed half of their whites, and smiling sinisterly.

When Wei Liang was getting food, Lin Yi didn't have time to observe and think, but when it was his turn, he felt a chill emanating from the cafeteria lady, directly hitting his heart.

At this moment, he suddenly realized what Wei Liang's actions meant, and he quickly said, "Yes, yes, that's the dish, hurry up, Auntie, I'm a little hungry!"

Seeing this, the cafeteria lady simply scooped the food onto the plate.

Lin Yi reached out to take the plate.

Just as he received the plate and the cafeteria lady released her hand, he heard the latter's slightly trembling, somewhat morbid greeting in his ear: "Student… you ordered scrambled eggs with tomatoes, right?"

Lin Yi shuddered and looked up.

Whoa!

The cafeteria lady's face was right in front of him—she didn't know when she had climbed onto the food compartments and plastered her entire face against the thick glass of the serving window, staring at Lin Yi with wide eyes.

Her features were distorted and deformed by the glass, showing a kind of insane infatuation and madness, completely different from her appearance when serving food earlier.

"That's… scrambled eggs with tomatoes, it's scrambled eggs with tomatoes! It's scrambled eggs with tomatoes, right, student?"

This abstract and crazy scene made Lin Yi shudder and feel a strong sense of discomfort.

He didn't answer any of the cafeteria lady's words, and walked to the card swiping machine with the plate.

He swiped the card cleanly and walked over to Wei Liang.

"Liangzi, are we…?" Lin Yi winked at the dish return area.

"Hehe he, you found out!" Wei Liang smiled smugly, shook the plate full of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and said, "Let's go, let's throw away the garbage!"

Cafeteria Rule No. 8:

[When purchasing food, if you find that an employee wearing a blue apron has put food with tomato elements in your meal, please do not remind them that they have made a mistake (the word "do not" has emphasis).

But after you receive the plate, please go directly to the dish return area and pour all the food into the recycling bin, and then go to other serving windows to purchase food again.

During this process, please remember their employee number and inform the homeroom teacher after returning to the teaching building.]

This was exactly what Lin Yi had just realized. The cafeteria lady's behavior was not only related to Rule No. 7: [When purchasing food, do not argue with employees because they have served the wrong food. Remember that as long as it does not contain tomato elements, it is safe to eat.], but more importantly, it was linked to Rule No. 8.

But because there were only a few seconds to confront the cafeteria lady, it was almost impossible for anyone to react in an instant.

Like Wei Liang and Lin Yi, they both hesitated for a while before thinking of it.

"Let's go." Lin Yi responded.

So the two walked side by side towards the trash recycling area.

But this time, as they walked towards the dish return area with their plates, one student after another along the way slowly turned around and generously cast their eyes, full of longing and greed, on them.

No, not them, but… on the plates in their hands.

The target was the scrambled eggs with tomatoes!

Sasha sasha… The student restaurant suddenly became crowded, with students leaving the line or standing up from their seats, all ultimately and uniformly fixing their gazes on the plates in Lin Yi and Wei Liang's hands.

Sasha sasha…

One figure after another, like walking corpses, slowly approached them…

"Damn, what the hell is this…" Wei Liang pursed his lips and used the sound of wind escaping from the corners of his mouth to send an encrypted message.

Having the experience of the first encrypted conversation, Lin Yi quietly said, "I don't know either. It looks similar to last time… Last time we had ketchup, which attracted their attention."

"Last time?" Wei Liang's calves trembled, and he couldn't walk steadily. "But this time we don't have ketchup, do we? Damn, could it be that scrambled eggs with tomatoes also count?"

"Of course it counts…" Lin Yi muttered.

Upon hearing this, Wei Liang rolled his eyes and almost passed out on the spot. After finally recovering, his hand trembled again and almost dropped the scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

"Damn… If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have shown off just now and let the cafeteria lady fill it up with scrambled eggs with tomatoes." Because of fear, Wei Liang's trembling voice was full of magical flavor.

"I thought you had discovered the secret and deliberately had the lady fill the plate to attract my attention!" Lin Yi said seriously.

Wei Liang wanted to cry but had no tears: "Is this the first time you've met me? Do I look like someone with that much scheming?"

Lin Yi: "…"

"Anyway, we should be fine if we follow the rules and throw it away, right? Let's not worry about what these people are thinking." He comforted, "They wouldn't suddenly attack for this little bit of scrambled eggs with tomatoes…"

"Don't don't don't! I'm going to kneel down and beg you, can we please not make any more damn flags at this time?" Wei Liang's tears were about to burst out, and his voice was filled with a strong cry.

Lin Yi quickly and tactfully shut his mouth and silently led Wei Liang… and a group of crazy and fanatical tomato lovers, towards the dish return area.

But just as they were only three tables away from the dish return area, Lin Yi suddenly stopped.

A chef walked out from some corner, silently standing beside the dish return area.

He stood there elegantly and calmly, but his eyes were fixed on the scrambled eggs with tomatoes on the two's plates.

"To throw it away without taking a single bite… isn't it a bit too, was · ting · food?"

He slowly walked away from the dish return area, the dark green apron seeping eerily in the light.

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