"I understand now!" Lin Yi's heart lit up, "It's not that the Chef in the green apron disappeared, but there was an issue with that layer!"

Wei Shan's eyes were full of perplexity, focusing on one question: "So, do we still pour our heart out to the Chef in the green apron?"

Lin Yi's lips twitched slightly, "Let's keep that plan, but first see if I can get some tomatoes."

He had guessed something; the layer, where the Chef in the green apron resided, might have been affected by the impact of the explosion at the Number 10 dining window, hence it couldn't penetrate this layer so clearly.

"So, has the Chef in the green apron been weakened as a whole, leading to the cafeteria's better recovery?" He speculated.

"Classmate, what would you like to eat?" The Blue-aproned Chef couldn't help but ask as Lin Yi seemed a bit absent-minded.

"Tomato meat sauce spaghetti..." Lin Yi blurted out, but immediately realized it wasn't quite right; this is the Blue-aproned Chef, don't mess up, absolutely don't, so he quickly corrected, "Uh, no, I mean, no tomatoes, I'll have the beef strips instead!"

He casually ordered a few dishes, and the Blue-aproned Chef served him the meal with the spoon.

Throughout the process, his focus wasn't actually on the Blue-aproned Chef; even if they served him any tomato dishes, he would eat it nonetheless.

His attention was entirely on the Chef in the green apron by Wei Liang's side.

He watched as the Chef in the green apron stealthily exchanged Wei Liang's yogurt like before, and this time, Wei Liang had no reaction at all.

"Has Liangzi started eating tomatoes now? Was it on purpose or by accident?" Lin Yi pondered with confusion.

But soon it was his turn to swipe his card.

He slowly fetched his Student ID card from his pocket.

As the Student ID card appeared, those malicious and greedy gazes in the darkness began to emerge once more, and he used this moment to inversely penetrate his perception outwards.

Out of everyone's attention, a sneer crept onto his face... So, you've seen me, very well, I... have also seen you!

In the darkness, shadows began to appear in his perception, some were Blue-aproned Chefs, some were Pseudo-Human students, and some were nocturnal species hiding deeper in the shadows unseen.

All of these things were concealed in shadows, and by the weakening of light and shadows, different layers formed in Lin Yi's vision and perception.

Now he naturally understood that those students with mental abnormalities had their consciousness passively penetrated the layers, observing things they shouldn't have, which caused the mental anomaly.

The depth of contamination and cognition determines the breadth of the visual field and the degree of sanity that can be maintained.

The eerier the creatures that are closer to being "human", the more they reside in the shallow layers, whereas the ones that deviate more from "human" are hidden deeper in the layers.

And the sound made by the nocturnal species squeezing the layers while moving inside sounds like "sha sha sha, sha sha sha".

He swiped the card unhurriedly, then returned the Student ID card to his pocket.

Until now, those eyes filled with malice, greed, and frenzy finally dissipated and stopped fixating on him.

But he had already locked onto those units.

After swiping his card, he was about to carry the tray away but he paused for a moment.

Looking at the tray, silently sitting there was a box of yogurt, causing him to frown tightly.

Curiously, he glanced at the Chef in the green apron.

The Chef in the green apron was slightly stunned and also looked at him.

The two just stared at each other through a nearly non-existent layer.

Lin Yi's intention was clear, where's my tomato?

What's up with this? Not giving me tomatoes instead of yogurt?

But the Chef in the green apron tightly grasped the tomato in his hand, as if making some kind of resolute decision.

Lin Yi grew more confused, wasn't distributing tomatoes part of the mechanism?

However, as he stared longer, Lin Yi began to feel the Chef in the green apron seemed somewhat familiar.

"Oh, gosh!" Lin Yi exclaimed, "I remember now!"

"Isn't this the same Chef in the green apron from yesterday?!"

"Old acquaintance, damn!"

Lin Yi was pleasantly surprised but also quickly realized why the Chef in the green apron wouldn't give him tomatoes—it was probably because he had been too aggressive the day before, leaving a shadow.

However, although he might have been a bit at fault, didn't the Chef in the green apron have any fault?

Why are you still holding up?

Lin Yi furrowed his brows, then grabbed the yogurt and exchanged it for the tomato from the Chef in the green apron.

The Chef in the green apron was visibly dumbfounded, almost manifesting a human-like expression on his otherwise non-human face.

He looked at the yogurt in his hand, then at the tomato in Lin Yi's hand, silently setting down the yogurt, he began fetching a tomato from within himself.

Seeing this familiar action, Lin Yi's tightly knit brows relaxed all at once.

Right!

Now it's just right!

Now it's entering the correct cycle!

So he started taking tomatoes from the Chef in the green apron's hand, which gradually turned into a rather subtle robbing of tomatoes.

The Chef in the green apron, who had no color in his face to begin with, turned completely ashen.

A moment later, Lin Yi returned triumphant, sitting down with his meal and a tray filled with tomatoes.

Wei Liang casually handed his over, then when he saw Lin Yi's tray, his lips couldn't help but twitch hard, "If I had known you'd be like this, I'd have been a good guy."

"Each moment is different!" Lin Yi chuckled, it seemed this fellow Liangzi was also beginning to gradually accept the information he had completely blocked out before!

Could it be that Wei Liang, in the last two days, would show a different performance?

You know, last time, Wei Liang had also "lost his memory" in the last two days.

At that moment, Lin Yi heard some commotion seemingly coming from over at the dining window.

The source of the commotion was Wei Shan.

"Everyone else has one, why am I the only one missing it?" Wei Shan stubbornly insisted, reaching out towards the Chef in the green apron, demanding tomatoes.

This bullish look made Lin Yi's scalp tingle, even making him feel the "Dining Hall Rules" were just for show.

If the "Dining Hall Rules" had expressions, at this moment they'd surely have a confused black meme face: really guys, do you even need the rules like this?

The Chef in the green apron's sinister smile vanished completely, what's going on these days?! It couldn't distribute as many tomatoes in a few months as it did now, and it's been drained by these people!

When Wei Shan saw it wasn't giving any tomatoes, he was utterly dissatisfied and forcefully penetrated the layers to grab the Chef in the green apron's hand, then plunged his hand into its chest, and shortly after, Wei Shan extracted a tomato.

He smirked slightly, "So stingy."

Having said that, he left, taking the tomato.

Bereft of the last tomato, the Chef in the green apron stood frozen on the spot, maintaining his final posture, seemingly encapsulated in time, with a petrification trend quickly spreading from within, soon enveloping his entire form, transforming him into a chef sculpture.

Wei Shan glanced at the petrified Chef in the green apron, turned around and walked away.

But as he turned, the edge of his tray accidentally knocked against the edge of the chef sculpture.

Once Wei Shan moved away, a minor crack appeared on the sculpture at the impacted area, and beneath the crack, there seemed to be a hint of… blue.

This change, of course, was captured by Lin Yi's current perception, and once Wei Shan sat down, he asked, "Wei Sang, did you say it was intentional just now?"

"Are you talking about the chef?" Wei Shan asked.

Lin Yi nodded, seeing Wei Shan admit directly, he asked plainly, "Can it turn back into a Blue-aproned Chef?"

Wei Shan didn't think much and directly replied, "Just like a Sneering Angel turning back into a human, it requires specific conditions."

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