136: Chapter 62 “There’s No Way I Would Let You In”_2 136: Chapter 62 “There’s No Way I Would Let You In”_2 “He?
She?
Or…
it?” Lin Yi inquired, “Is it the chef wearing the green apron?”
The homeroom teacher showed no surprise when Lin Yi mentioned the chef wearing the green apron: “It seems you’ve also encountered Green Skin…”
A slight twitch appeared at the corner of Lin Yi’s mouth.
This green apron chef, the boss calls him Green Hat, the homeroom teacher calls him Green Skin…
can’t there be a more unified name?
“Not only did I encounter it, but it also wanted to treat me to a tomato…
I ignored it,” Lin Yi said.
“Ignoring it was the right choice,” the homeroom teacher replied, “Green Skin usually cannot cause physical harm to those who hold a Student ID card.”
Lin Yi was slightly taken aback, then asked, “What about…
if it was before one has received their Student ID card?”
Upon hearing this, the homeroom teacher suddenly froze, but she quickly composed herself: “You encountered Green Skin yesterday?
That’s impossible, absolutely impossible!”
“Why is it impossible?” Lin Yi asked, puzzled.
The homeroom teacher stared at him intently, lowering her voice, “You received your Student ID card yesterday at 20:05, so you couldn’t possibly have been to the cafeteria…”
“The only places in the campus where Green Skin appears are few, so you almost certainly met it on ‘campus’—you, did you encounter the meal delivery team led by the security guard?”
Lin Yi said in surprise, when he mentioned his encounter with the green apron chef, both the boss and the homeroom teacher immediately speculated that he had security around him.
Could there be some hidden mechanism associated with the green apron chef?
“Indeed, it was within the security guard’s meal delivery team that I encountered the green apron chef…
But, is there a problem?”
The homeroom teacher’s expression turned more serious: “The problem is too big…
A newcomer who doesn’t yet have their Student ID card shouldn’t have caught the attention of Green Skin…”
“You…
you…” She looked at Lin Yi, her eyes narrowing to reveal a cold golden glow, but it quickly dissipated, “your own case…
is not insignificant.”
She returned to her desk and flipped through the folders, rustling until she reached Lin Yi’s page.
“It shouldn’t be, it shouldn’t…” She perused the thin sheet of paper back and forth as if trying to find some astonishing secret between the lines, “Someone with sensitivity as high as yours applying to be an Experience Student, the school, the company should never have let you in!”
“What exactly is going on…
what on earth is happening?”
“How is this different from sending you to your death?”
“Huh?” Lin Yi’s eyes narrowed instantly, and his heart skipped a beat, thinking he might have been flagged by Kuai Kuai’s words.
[Seven days, thirty thousand, enough to buy your life.] These words spoken by Kuai Hongji to Mao Feiyang were now like a flag stuck in his own back.
The homeroom teacher’s expression suddenly became distant, her face paling slightly, “No, this direction…
it’s not for me to consider!
How vexing, could it be that the company’s executives have done something to the campus?”
“You!” She turned to Lin Yi, her tone urgent, “Last night, you didn’t fully comply with what I told you, did you?
I mean…
blind obedience?”
Embarrassment appeared on Lin Yi’s face, and he sheepishly replied, “I…
let my mind wander a bit, nearly got into trouble, but overall, I complied.”
The homeroom teacher let out a long sigh of relief, yet she said something that confused Lin Yi, “You shouldn’t have complied blindly…
I don’t know what you were thinking, but since you survived the night, whether it was luck or something else, it proves that you didn’t do anything wrong.”
“For someone with sensitivity as high as yours, blindly following orders would only lead you into an abyss, whereas maintaining sufficient ‘thinking’ will keep you alive.”
Lin Yi was very perplexed; he had not expected that his confession of non-compliance would be met not with scorn or mockery from the homeroom teacher, but with…
“You did the right thing?”
This was completely contrary to his expectations.
Could it be that the homeroom teacher was tailoring her advice to each individual’s needs?
The rules that apply to the general public, don’t they apply to him?
So, what’s the point of adhering to them?
The homeroom teacher seemed to notice Lin Yi’s issue and explained, “Are you pondering the code of conduct?”
Lin Yi was momentarily stunned, then nodded his head.
The homeroom teacher said, “Following the rules comes with a prerequisite, and that is you must first fit into the demographic the rules are intended for.”
“Do you remember what I told you yesterday?
Within different status regions, you need to abide by the corresponding part of the code of conduct based on your current status…”
“And the so-called code of conduct isn’t the ‘sole truth’ but rather the simplest form of ‘behavior’ that the company has summarized based on years of experience,” she explained.
“The higher your sensitivity, the less you should rigidly adhere to this ‘superficial’ stuff.
You need to find the logic behind the rules.
Only then can you truly achieve ‘safety’.”
Seeing Lin Yi silent, the homeroom teacher thought he didn’t understand and randomly pointed to one of the Teaching Building rules, explaining, “Take this for example…
‘Do not go to Teaching Building D Block,’ ‘Do not go to the fifth floor of the Teaching Building.’ These two rules.”
“Clearly, the Teaching Building only has three blocks and four floors, so why mention D Block and the fifth floor specifically?”
“This is meant for people with high sensitivity.
It’s a reminder for you to think about the issues here because you will definitely encounter such situations under abnormal weather conditions.”
“It’s not that you run into it, but that it comes for you.”
“Moths flying into flames are indeed foolish, but a fire that moves itself in front of the moth is even more dangerous.”
“But if you can identify the rules of the fire, you can avoid danger to some extent.”
“Observe the rules, understand the rules, and then…
you can use the rules to leave this place.”
The homeroom teacher’s words shocked Lin Yi, and her advice given today was completely opposite to that of Xu Shunkang!
Xu Shunkang advised him not to think, but the homeroom teacher insisted he must think!
The difference here was— the homeroom teacher considered him a person of “high sensitivity.”
“High Sensitivity…?”
If “high sensitivity” led to those bizarre “Traversal” experiences he had without warning, then the homeroom teacher was not wrong.
And Xu Shunkang’s advice not to think, which he gave unwittingly, was also correct for a “normal Experience Student.”
So…
both were right.
But now, he ought to listen more to the homeroom teacher’s opinion.
“So…
what exactly is Green Skin?” Lin Yi asked for the first time, his question pressing, “Can only those with high sensitivity see them?”
He subconsciously looked towards the office door, not knowing if that thing was still at the entrance.
“Green Skin…” The homeroom teacher organized her thoughts before speaking, “According to internal company data, the Pocket Chefs contaminated in blue aprons transform into those in green aprons; this is currently the only known method of Green Skin creation.”
“However, various signs indicate that Green Skins do not all come from the transformation of blue apron chefs; their emergence is still a mystery.”
“So even though their origin lies in the cafeteria, they could theoretically appear in many places on campus…”
“When you encounter one, try to flee or seek help from someone in the sports department.
Do not attack it on your own…”
“It is fragile, but its contaminative nature is extremely high.
Once contaminated…” The homeroom teacher paused here, glanced at her own badge, sighed deeply, and said in a low voice, “…there’s a high probability that there’s no saving you.”