"You really have some nerve, Liangzi, risking your purity just to play the fool."

"What playing the fool?! Bullshit! Don't even think about insulting the intelligence of the devout followers of the White Silk Lolita Cult!"

"Scram, scram, scram! I'm asking you, when I spaced out on the first evening, was it like what just happened to her?" Lin Yi pointed at Li Huiyuan.

"Huh? Spaced out? Like her? Ah ha? Aba aba... I don't know anything, I just saw you dozing off and gave you a pat, I don't know anything else!"

"..."

"Alright then!" He stood up speechlessly, brushing the dirt from his clothes, "Alright, let's go."

10:40 came, and the cafeteria opened.

Seeing that Wei Liang was tight-lipped, Lin Yi knew there had to be something fishy going on, but since Wei Liang wouldn't say anything, he didn't press on to avoid inadvertently breaking Wei Liang's delusional "false sense of security."

He then strode into the Student Passage.

Seeing this, Li Huiyuan hurriedly followed.

Perhaps it was the excellent midday sun combined with the presence of a great devotee of the White Silk Lolita Cult that made this trip through the Student Passage unusually smooth; they reached the exit in no time.

Li Huiyuan didn't find anything abnormal about "getting through the Student Passage uneventfully," but Lin Yi secretly heaved a sigh of relief, thinking it had been a long time since things had gone so normally...

"No, wait... what do you mean 'it's been a long time'? This is actually the first time it's been so normal..." Lin Yi corrected himself with tears in his eyes.

Just as they were about to exit the Student Passage, Lin Yi thought of something and pretended to glance casually, his gaze nonchalantly sweeping over the exit of the Student Passage.

As he lowered his head, a sharp light flashed in his eyes beneath his black hair.

"Damn it..." Lin Yi cursed silently, "Just as I thought, he's still there."

That familiar figure stood at the end of the Student Passage like a lovelorn statue, hands folded at the lower abdomen, a standardized, stiff smile on his face, his eyes scanning over each student coming out of the passage.

The blue-aproned Pocket Chef had appeared there again.

Lin Yi always seemed to see him, yet inexplicably could not catch sight of him; his existence... was like a bizarre mirage, making it impossible to confirm whether he was "present" or "absent."

It was a strange quantum state, which Lin Yi internally defined as "Ru Zai".

This "Ru Zai blue-aproned Pocket Chef," had always given him a feeling similar to that of inhuman entities, radiating a terrifying sense of horror all over, yet not causing him the strong discomfort and unease that he felt around other non-human entities.

Even the other chefs in the cafeteria were not as mysterious as this "Ru Zai" state of the blue-aproned Pocket Chef.

Lin Yi still couldn't deduce from the effective information provided by the regulations the division of the cafeteria staff, but this "Ru Zai" blue-aproned Pocket Chef appeared to be a unique link in the chain.

Unfortunately, Lin Yi hadn't witnessed it attacking non-human students, or he would have had more conjectures.

...

On May 8th, X023 year, at 10:45, Lin Yi and his two companions exited the Student Passage, walking past the blue-aproned Pocket Chef, then stood Under the Sun.

As Lin Yi passed by it, he could distinctly feel its body twisting in an unhumanlike manner again, its hand reaching out slowly towards them as if trying to grasp something.

But the "speed" it displayed was just too slow, and since its feet didn't leave the spot from the beginning to the end, it never managed to touch Lin Yi and his group.

Lin Yi casually moved to a spot away from the blue-aproned Pocket Chef and closer to the entrance of the Student Cafeteria. He then leaned against the wall and crouched down to the side, quietly waiting for Tian Bufan and Wei Shan to arrive.

According to the plan, their meeting place was here at noon, and the latest they would wait was until 11:30. If Tian Bufan and Wei Shan hadn't arrived by then, they would need to hurry to have their meal and leave the Cafeteria.

"Classmate Lin, aren't you going in to eat?" Li Huiyuan asked, puzzled.

"I'm waiting for someone, you can go ahead and eat if you're in a hurry."

"I... I'm not that impatient," Li Huiyuan shook her head, but although she said this, her glances towards the food service window betrayed her thoughts.

At 10:47, Wei Shan emerged from the Student Passage, and after a brief greeting with Lin Yi, he stood by his side like a bodyguard.

Noticing Li Huiyuan's presence, Wei Shan squinted at her for a few moments, then rubbed his nose and asked Lin Yi, "Is she the cannon fodder you found?"

Lin Yi's eye twitched: "Cannon fodder, what cannon fodder?"

Wei Shan suddenly shut up, knowing better than to speak further, leaving Lin Yi completely puzzled.

In the following while, as a large flow of students passed through the Student Passage into the Student Cafeteria, Lin Yi remained in his unobstructive spot. While waiting for Tian Bufan, he pretended to look around, observing the behavior and expressions of many Experience Students, and occasionally glanced at the "Ru Zai" blue-aproned Pocket Chef.

And during this time, a moment that made his heart skip a beat occurred.

He noticed that the vast majority of Experience Students seemed completely unaware of the blue-aproned Pocket Chef's existence, while a few who passed by it showed a faint discomfort but likewise failed to notice its presence.

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