Don't follow the rules

Chapter 448: Haojiu Home Furnishing City (Twenty-four)
Bada
The cut plastic bracelet fell softly to the ground, making a deflated sound. This slight noise would hardly attract anyone's attention amid the noisy mall broadcast, but to Gao Yang's ears, it was like a thunderclap.

"What! Are! You! Doing!?!" Gao Yang was frightened by Liang Feng's sudden snip. He covered his bare wrist in panic and screamed like a chicken with its neck strangled.

"Don't worry, this is part of the plan." Liang Feng put away the scissors without changing his expression and took out a yellow label.

At first glance, it looks like one of the most common labels in shopping malls, but if you look closely, you can immediately find its difference - this label is missing a corner.

"This is..." Ning Yao asked.

As Liang Feng spoke, he put the yellow label with a missing corner on Gao Yang's wrist and said, "When you open a business, it is inevitable that there will be some losses. For completely scrapped and unusable goods, the sorter needs to cut off a corner of their labels to avoid mixing them with other recyclable goods, and then throw the missing corners of the goods into the trash can near the employee room, and then throw them away when the garbage truck is full."

She smiled slightly: "One cart, exactly four barrels."

Yu Min smacked her lips and said, "You want us to pretend to be scrapped goods and leave here according to the scrapping process?"

"That's right." Liang Feng confirmed her guess.

Gao Yang looked at the yellow label on his wrist with doubt: "Will this work?"

"It's okay. That's how I pushed you out before." Liang Feng said.

Hearing this, everyone showed joy on their faces, except Ning Yao.

"No." He said coldly.

"If you really succeeded, why would you meet us now?" Ning Yao pointed out the crux of the problem sharply.

Liang Feng was also stunned. He opened his mouth but couldn't say anything to refute. He just stammered to explain: "I really sent you out like this before. I pushed the cart with my own hands, and I watched you leave the mall gate with my own eyes... But I, I really don't know why you showed up again..."

Ning Yao continued, "And what's a little suspicious is that my current goal is not to escape from this home city, but to find my lost teammates. Why did the 'me' in the last round agree to follow you out directly?"

Liang Feng replied: "You said you had no signal inside the mall and needed to go outside for help, or to seek help from the headquarters, but you didn't elaborate, and no one dared to ask. This is all I know."

Ning Yao's tense shoulders relaxed a little: "This answer does fit my logic. It seems that you are indeed 'Liang Feng'. You really succeeded in the last round."

"You still thought I was not 'Liang Feng' until just now?!" Liang Feng asked in disbelief.

Ning Yao spread his hands: "Of course, after all, your appearance is too suspicious. What if your soul is corrupted by money and you become a lackey of the capitalists, and you pack us up and send us directly to the garbage incinerator for cremation? I am very scared to death, so I must ask a few more questions~"

"Who do you think is a lackey?"

"Forget it, Xiao Feng, just figure it out. Don't fight with him." Bai Yunyou hurriedly stopped him, fearing that Liang Feng would offend Hannibal.

"Hmph." Liang Feng was still afraid. Since Xiaobai had given him a way out, he didn't say anything else. He just glared at Ning Yao angrily.

"Let's get back to the point," Ning Yao once again took control of the conversation. "What we need to figure out right now is not how to get out, but since you've already sent 'us' out, what's the matter with our 'reunion' now?"

He said: "If this logic is not clear, I am afraid that it will be like what I said before, both of us will fall into an endless cycle. We will keep meeting Liang Feng who has returned, and Liang Feng, you will keep meeting us who have left."

Liang Feng, who was about to cut off Yu Min's bracelet, hesitated: "We should really think about it in the long run."

Gao Yang: "Hey! Don't mess with me!"

Yu Min tried to suppress her laughter: "Why are you yelling? Xiaobai also cut her bracelet." Bai Yunyou also comforted her: "Don't worry, I'm here with you."

"How can they be the same?" Gao Yang said with a crying voice, "She doesn't have a product tag on her. She is still a customer. What am I? I am a product now! And a scrap one at that! I feel like I will be swept away by the cleaning staff any minute..."

Ning Yao also came over with some curiosity: "Speaking of which, your operation of labeling people won't show an error in the system?"

Liang Feng did not answer, but quickly pursed her lips, her eyes flickering, her face unable to hide her thoughts at all. Anyone who saw her would know that she was deliberately avoiding Ning Yao's questions.

"Oh? Looks like I got to the point." Ning Yao clapped his hands.

"No, nothing, that's not the point." Liang Feng turned his head away.

"Xiaobai!" Ning Yao shouted as if throwing a Poké Ball, "Go!"

Bai Yunyou immediately held Liang Feng's hand: "Xiao Feng, are product labels also secrets that cannot be told?"

"That's right..."

It has to be said that Ning Yao felt her pulse very accurately. Liang Feng was simply unable to resist Bai Yunyou's pleading and coquettishness.

She sighed quietly, "Although this is internal information that should not be made public, it is not a secret that cannot be told. It's just that this secret will not benefit you much. Not only will it not advance the plot, but you may also lose your judgment because you are too scared."

Ning Yao raised his hand: "I am brave, you can just tell me."

Yu Min raised her hand: "You are brave, but you don't have enough brains. What's the point of telling you alone? Why don't we talk about it together?"

Gao Yang also raised his hand weakly: "I think I have the right to know..."

"Here, look." Ning Yao put down his arm. "The people's will is in favor of you. Sister Feng, you better tell the truth. Confession will be rewarded with leniency~"

"Xiao Feng~" Bai Yun shook Liang Feng's arm.

"Okay, okay, if you insist." She finally relented.

Everyone sat in a circle on the sofa in the living room again, with their hands on their cheeks, listening carefully to Teacher Liang's explanation.

"First of all, the system won't report an error when I tag people, because... this kind of product exists in this mall."

"Wait a minute," Gao Yang couldn't help but interrupt, "Why is the opening so explosive? Is it what I understood? Maybe I'm hallucinating a little bit?"

"I'm not hallucinating. It's just what you understand. People are also a commodity in this shopping mall." Liang Feng said in a low voice.

Yu Min was shocked: "You, you are still engaged in human trafficking?!"

"Xiao Feng you..." Bai Yunyou covered his mouth.

Ning Yao, who always makes a fuss over trivial matters, was unusually silent this time, and listened to the other party's story in a rare quiet manner.

"Don't be so impatient, just listen to me first. We do have a type of commodity called 'people', but it should not fall into the category of 'human trafficking' as you conventionally understand it." Liang Feng hurriedly explained.

"They are not alive, but they are certainly not dead either. It should be said that they are still in a state of not being activated. Perhaps we can call this product... 'humanoid body'?"