"Dingle, ring, ring!"
"Dingle, ring, ring!"
The alarm clock sounded alarmingly on the radio in the dormitory.
Anxi was shocked and sat up from the bed. She glanced at the time on her phone.
Six o'clock.
Morning self-study time starts at seven o'clock, and the official class starts at eight o'clock.
During this time I have to wash up and have breakfast.
An hour is too much, not too much, not too much. In short, we must act quickly.
Anxi climbed out of bed.
There is no bathroom in the dormitory, and because of the rules, you cannot go to the public bathroom on each floor to wash up outside the hours of 6 to 11 pm.
Therefore, during this collective vacation, the school installed simple washbasins in each dormitory.
Gu Bai had already finished washing when the unified alarm clock rang.
An Qian and Shen Yunjia had just gotten up and could only see her back leaving the dormitory.
"I wonder how the food in the cafeteria tastes." Shen Yunjia wiped his face with a towel and looked expectantly and worriedly at the bungalow building not far away from the window.
Anxi put the toothbrush back in place: "As long as it doesn't contain any strange ingredients or random stew."
An Qian and Shen Yunjia washed up and left the dormitory. Zhang slept late every day and just got up and brushed his teeth.
There were already many students on the way to the cafeteria, and most of them were looking down at the "Campus Code" in their hands. An Qian and Shen Yunjia were no exception.
There are buildings with various functions in the school. Classrooms, dormitories, canteens, and playgrounds each have their own rules. You must review them all the time to ensure that you do not remember them wrong.
Anxi and the other two opened the "Campus Rules" to the chapter on the cafeteria.
【Yunhui Middle School Canteen Rules】
[1. The opening hours of the canteen are:
6:00-7:30 am
12:00-1:30
6:30-8:00 pm
You are not allowed to enter the canteen during the rest of the time, and the canteen will not be open. If you see the canteen open during the rest of the time, please ignore it and do not talk to the staff in the canteen. 】
[2. Food in the canteen cannot be taken out and must be eaten in the canteen. 】
[3. The chef does not know how to make desserts. If you see desserts in the cafeteria, please ignore them and do not take them. 】
【4. You must eat all the dishes you choose by yourself and do not share them with others. No one can. 】
[5. If you accidentally get a dessert, please finish it immediately and do not take other dishes. If you have already taken other dishes, please throw them away immediately. 】
[6. The teachers’ dining area and the students’ dining area are separate. You will not see teachers in the dining area. They are not teachers. Do not listen to anything they say, and do not talk to them. 】
The rules in the cafeteria don't seem too difficult. As long as you eat well and don't waste, you can avoid most of the rules, but I don't know what it will be like in practice.
An Qian and Shen Yunjia stepped into the cafeteria.
As soon as you enter the door, you will see a row of meal windows on the left. At the end of the window, you can grab free soup and some simple snacks.
Different meals are displayed in each window. Steamed buns, pancakes, and sandwiches are quite a combination of Chinese and Western dishes. Of course, these are not all dishes that are normal to Anxi.
Some windows sell some dishes that are incomprehensible, such as the fish babies that are most common when working in restaurants. When I saw it again this time, its head had been completely cut off and was floating in the ramen. The visual effect was very scary.
Others include grilled eyeballs on skewers and hand cakes that look like lizard tails.
Anxi looked around and honestly chose the normal food she saw at the beginning. She didn't dare to take more, just in case the filling of the food would be some strange meat.
The canteen is covered with white tiles and looks very clean and tidy.
An Qian and Shen Yunjia went to line up separately. After buying, they found a table and sat down to eat.
Both of them only took a small amount of food, and they were worried that there would be pits waiting for them to fall into the seemingly normal food.
Anxi nervously picked up the bun in her hand and took a bite. She only bit the outer skin of the bun.
Looking at the shredded cabbage in the bun, Anxi breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Yunjia took the pie and some pickles. After taking a bite, she didn't find anything strange mixed in it.
"Eat quickly, it's already half past six."
Anxi turned on her phone and looked at the time.
"Um."
The two of them were lucky this morning. They didn't encounter desserts that shouldn't exist according to the rules, and no so-called teacher came to talk to them.
Anxi was just so happy.
A figure she was familiar with but didn't want to see flashed across the door of the cafeteria.
Ruan Bailing.
"That seems to be someone I met at the board game store."
Shen Yunjia also saw the figure at the door of the cafeteria. She pointed at the door, and Ruan Bailing also happened to look back at the two of them.
Next to Ruan Bailing stood the man in leather who hated Anqian since her lighter was snatched away. Behind him stood the timid girl who was in the same camp as Ruan Bailing at the board game store.
This was the result after the system increased the chance of meeting players who had passed the level together. She met two people who hated her deeply.
Anxi looked at the trio.
This dungeon shouldn't require confrontation between players, but with the temperaments of Ruan Bailing and the leather-clad man, it's hard to guarantee that they will take the initiative to cause trouble for An Qian.
Shen Yunjia was a little worried: "Let's finish our meal quickly and leave the cafeteria early."
And the other side.
Just as An Qian had guessed, Ruan Bailing had already started thinking about bad ideas when he noticed An Qian and the others.
She wandered around in front of every window, but did not go to get food, until a row of milk tea appeared on the free soup table.
The milk tea looks normal, with a lot of pearls added to it. The four words "Yunhui Middle School" and the school's school emblem are printed on the lid of the cup.
"Fang Yi, go get a cup of milk tea."
Ruan Bailing ordered the timid girl named Fang Yi behind him.
Fang Yi was shocked when she heard her name and looked at the milk tea on the stage: "This, this is considered dessert. The rules say you are not allowed to have dessert."
"It's okay, just don't eat it and give it to her after you get it." Ruan Bailing looked at An Qian, his eyes full of calculations.
Fang Yi retorted in a low voice: "It's not a question of whether to eat or not...the rules say you can't take it...and you can't share what you take with others..."
Ruan Bailing frowned: "What are you talking about? If I say it's okay, it's okay! Are you looking for death? Do you still want me to protect you?"
Of course Ruan Bailing knew the rules, but she didn't care at all. It wasn't her who did it anyway.
"..."
Fang Yi suddenly turned off the fire, but she just looked down at the milk tea in front of her, motionless.
"You don't listen to Sister Ruan's orders?" The man in leather took a step forward and put a knife against Fang Yi's waist. The sharp tip of the knife immediately pierced Fang Yi's school uniform and stabbed her flesh.
Fang Yi grimaced in pain, but did not dare to make too much noise.
The man in leather jacket threatened and said, "You can do whatever I ask you to do! It's just breaking two rules and you won't die! But if you don't do it, I won't be lenient."
In rules-based dungeons, not only breaking a rule will result in a certain death, but breaking some rules will only cause mental pollution. However, when the mental pollution reaches a certain level, the result may not be better than death.
"I..." Fang Yi's eyes were filled with tears. On one side was the fear of the rules, and on the other side was the threat from Ruan Bailing and the man in leather.
"Go quickly!"
Ruan Bailing pushed Fang Yi, and Fang Yi staggered forward, reaching for the milk tea with trembling hands.
