Chapter 53

"What on earth does this thing mean?"

Huang Bai frowned, looked over at Lan Bai, shook his head and asked.

Hongbai was still fiddling with the gun in her hand. She was in a good mood. When she heard the question, she came over with a smile. After taking a look, she realized that she was not interested, shook her head and said, "I don't know."

Huang Bai whispered: "This is too perfunctory."

He pulled the corner of his mouth and looked at Jongin. Jongin blinked and said, "I don't know about that either. But I think the person who wrote these words may have lost his mind. We'd better not trust these things completely, nor disbelieve them completely."

Huang Bai nodded thoughtfully, paused, and suddenly realized, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "You don't need to tell us this, we know it too. Besides, the current situation is not the time for us to trust you wholeheartedly."

Jongin nodded.

Huang Bai realized that what he said just now didn't seem to be well said, and quickly made amends: "I didn't mean to say that you are not trustworthy."

Jongin nodded. Huang Bai wanted to explain something, but Jongin smiled and said, "Actually, I can understand why you don't trust me. After all, you and I didn't come here together, and we didn't know each other before. You are more familiar with each other, so it's normal that you don't trust me that much. Moreover, this is not an environment where we can quickly establish a trusting relationship with each other."

Huang Bai nodded and relaxed a little: "Now that you know, that's great. I was worried that you would feel sad and angry because of this."

He smiled at Jongin.

Jongin smiled and said, "No, I know you guys don't mean any harm."

If you had it, you wouldn't have come here on your own. You should have asked your enemy to send it to you.

This sounded a bit unlucky, but Jongin didn't say anything.

Lan Bai finished reading the paper, frowned, hid his face again, borrowed a wet tissue from Hong Bai, and was wiping his hands when the door next to him suddenly opened. A middle-aged woman walked out with a pitch-black background behind her. She closed the door as soon as she came out, as if she wanted to block the road in front and behind and not let the people on the opposite side go out.

Huang Bai was a little nervous, Hong Bai was a little excited, and Lan Bai, as always, looked at the middle-aged woman calmly, not realizing that she had a powerful weapon, and asked, "Can we leave now?"

The middle-aged woman shook her head: "No, no, no, you can't leave now."

Lan Bai asked: "Why? Didn't we say before that we can't stay in this room for more than five minutes!"

He glanced at the wall clock and said angrily, "It's almost five minutes! Do you want to kill us, or do you think the rules you made up don't matter and therefore don't count?"

The middle-aged woman shook her head: "Of course my rules apply, but you can't just leave like this. You broke the rules."

When she said this, her face looked a little gloomier than before. Even under the bright lights, there were shadows in her eyes, making her look eerie.

Huang Bai became more and more nervous. He stepped back a little and hid beside Lan Bai.

Hongbai became alert, ready to draw his weapon and attack the middle-aged woman at any time.

The middle-aged woman smiled and said, "Relax, I'm just a cafeteria worker. I won't do anything to you. You are living people. How can I do anything to you? Not to mention killing you. There are no dangerous equipment here that can kill you instantly. Besides, it's your fault for breaking the rules. You just need to correct it, and I will apply to let you go."

Huang Bai asked: "What rules? What rules did we break?"

The middle-aged woman's face turned dark. She stared at Huang Bai and asked, "Didn't you break the rules? What do you think this place is? The cafeteria is to provide food to guests, but the guests who come to the cafeteria must also eat the food here!"

Hongbai said angrily, "Nonsense! There is no such rule at all. We have never seen such a rule either outside or here."

The middle-aged woman was calm and composed: "It didn't happen before, maybe you didn't see it, but there is indeed such a rule here. I don't need to deceive you. Anyway, you are already very anxious to go home. What good is there in deceiving you? No. It will only make you emotional and cause you to misunderstand me and attack me. I am not that stupid."

Kohaku asked, "So what do you want to do?"

The middle-aged woman replied, "It's very simple. I will take you to the lounge inside the nearest cafeteria. You stay there for a while and I will find the cafeteria manager for you. If he agrees to let you leave, I will open the door for you. If he disagrees, you have to think about your mistakes and correct them. Then I will apply again. If he agrees, you can leave."

Hongbai frowned and said impatiently: "What a hassle!"

The middle-aged woman smiled wryly: "There's nothing we can do about it. Who made you break the rules?"

Lan Bai asked: "What rules do you think we broke?"

The middle-aged woman looked at him and said, "You seem to be a reasonable person, how come you don't even understand something like this? It's clearly your fault, why are you asking me? I don't know."

Hongbai yelled, "Since you don't know, then you are making things up. Don't talk nonsense!"

The middle-aged woman sneered: "I am not."

She asked, "Do you think I don't have machines for testing electronic products here? If you take out that kind of machine, you won't have any chance to refute it. I advise you to think it over before you speak. It's a very powerful, very sensitive, and very expensive machine. Once it's taken out, none of you can escape. Don't try to deceive yourselves. I'm just giving you some face now."

The middle-aged woman paused and said with a smile, "After all, a group of young men and women secretly violated the rules, wasted food, and made trouble in other people's cafeterias. It would not sound good if people spread the news, right?"

Hongbai snorted coldly.

The middle-aged woman continued, "Oh, that machine is huge and a little troublesome to move, so I won't use it for now. It's not that I don't know how to use it. If I take it out, any wire on your body might be found out. I won't be polite then. If you don't take off your clothes and lift up your clothes to show me, I won't believe that you don't have any electronic products."

Huang Bai muttered: "Originally you also thought we violated the rules, why do you have to say it so high-soundingly? As if you would change your mind after taking it out. You had the same idea originally, so has there been any change? No. There is no difference at all. I think..."

He paused, thinking that if he continued, he might get beaten, so he stopped talking.

But you can still tell from his expression that he is angry.

The middle-aged woman glanced at him, turned away nonchalantly, opened the door, and said to the people behind her: "Five minutes are almost up, follow me."

She led everyone to the lounge.

After opening the door of the lounge, you will see a black, white and gray decoration style, with a sofa, a coffee table, a water dispenser and cups.

The windows here cannot be opened. There seems to be a layer of cheap, thin blue sky and white cloud cellophane pasted on the back, tightly attached to the outer layer of the window, so that people inside cannot see the real sky and ground when looking out, as if there is a layer of blurry mist between them.

Everyone frowned and felt a little uncomfortable.

The middle-aged woman turned and left: "If you feel thirsty, get some water yourself. If you feel hungry, press the red button on the wall and other staff will bring you hot, fresh food on a plate. When they come, they will knock on the door, usually four times. When they knock on the door, don't open it, as it's easy to hit the person outside. They don't like outsiders and don't want to see you."

Kohaku asked, "What would they do if they saw us?"

The middle-aged woman replied: "They will get angry, but you don't want to know what they will do when they get angry. Being beaten and scolded is easy enough."

After saying that, the middle-aged woman left the lounge.

Hongbai paced around the lounge, angrily saying, "Are we going to be caged here? I don't want to! I'm not happy. I hate her."

Lan Bai said: "We all hate her, but hating her is useless."

Hong Bai angrily said, "She is so disgusting. Damn it, how did such a person survive to this day?"

Huang Bai whispered, "I don't understand either."

Kohaku looked at him immediately. "Right? As expected! We all had the same idea, which proves that person is really abnormal."

Lan Bai said: "It's better not to say these things. What if they find out?"

Hongbai shouted, "What? They can still kill people?"

Lan Bai said: "Maybe we won't be able to get out."

Huang Bai quickly said, "Then don't talk about it. I still want to go home."

Hongbai glared at him and said, "You are just a wallflower."

Huang Bai lowered his head.

Jongin found a new note in the gap of the sofa and said to everyone, "Do you want to see it?"

People gathered around.

Content of the note: We can't get out, I hope someone can get out. The one knocking around is obviously a ghost. How could it be a human? I won't be fooled. I ate the food here and I saw the truth. Everything has become different. No one would have thought that there are rats everywhere. I don't know how they got here. My companion is missing. I want to go find him. He must still be in the cafeteria.

Content on the back: I saw him, he was lying on the chopping board, and when he was cut, he turned into a duck. After being processed, he turned into a mouse. The green peppers were cabbage worms, and they were wriggling on the ground. It was all like this. All the food in this cafeteria is like this. The things here are simply inedible, unless you never leave here. I hope this thing can be seen by others and not move forward.

The last sentence is written overlapping the other sentences.