Don't follow the rules

Chapter 449: Haojiu Home Furnishing City (Twenty-Five)
Humanoid body?

Ning Yao's pupils shrank slightly.

Liang Feng was still explaining frantically under Bai Yunyou's accusing eyes: "He is not a living person, he is not a living person!"

"It's like a prosthetic limb, can you understand? It's just a complete human body."

"But they have not yet activated. They have no life, no consciousness, and no identity. They cannot be called 'people'. They are just 'humanoid bodies'."

"It is said that they were jointly researched and manufactured with a biological company. They were not kidnapped living people. There is no crime. They are just products produced on the assembly line."

"But no matter if they are alive or not..." Yu Min glanced at Liang Feng timidly, "It doesn't sound like what you are doing is legal..."

Gao Yang was amused by Yu Min who was hiding behind him: "Sister, we have a time loop and a biohazard here, and you are still thinking about your labor law?"

Yu Min was weak in the knees but firm in the mouth: "Whether it's labor law, criminal law or magic, we have to abide by the basic law."

"Where are those plain goods you mentioned?" Ning Yao did not join in their jokes and asked in a serious voice, "Are they in the living room?"

"..." Liang Feng shut up again.

"Yes," Yu Min popped out from behind Gao Yang, "Since you can use labels to disguise us as this product, doesn't that mean that the area you are responsible for also has humanoid bodies?"

Gao Yang stretched his neck and looked around: "If this thing is put on display for sale, it must be very scary and eye-catching, right? But I have searched the living room area many times, how come I haven't found it once?"

Ning Yao poked Bai Yunyou's shoulder with his fingertips, motioning her to continue.

Bai Yunyou: "Xiao Feng, don't hide it."

Liang Feng showed a defeated expression: "Alas... I'm not hiding anything, I'm not hiding anything, with you here, I can't hide anything at all."

She raised her head and used her eyes to signal everyone to look in her direction.

Everyone obeyed.

But what they were looking at was just a family of three pushing a shopping cart. They were very ordinary, with a loving father and filial son, a loving couple, stable emotions, smooth movements, and there didn't seem to be anything unusual.

Yu Min whispered in shock: "You said this family is a commodity?! Don't you call them living people?!"

Without Xiaobai's urging, Liang Feng explained quickly this time: "Demonstration status, not activated."

"There are many humanoids in demonstration mode in this mall. They have been given fixed routes and movement instructions and have no self-awareness or thinking. These demonstration bodies are wearing yellow tags, and customers who choose them can scan the code and take them away."

"In order to demonstrate more functions of such products, the mall will also appropriately activate some of the bodies, give them red tags, and let them take on more complex demonstration work. The activated part will have higher intelligence and self-awareness, and basically belong to half of the mall's employees. Customers cannot take them away directly."

"If a customer selects a red-label body, they cannot take it away directly. They have to scan the code and go to the pickup area to pick it up. In fact, the operation is the same as other red-label products."

"As for the creepy scene you imagined with a large number of humanoid bodies piled up, I have nothing to hide for them. It does exist, but it is not in the business area of ​​the mall, but in the pick-up area."

After Liang Feng finished speaking, everyone fell into a brief silence.

"How much?" Ning Yao suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Liang Feng was confused by the question.

Ning Yao repeated: "How much do you sell your humanoid bodies for?"

Liang Feng's reflex arc finally connected the signal after a long five seconds: "You, you, you want to buy it?"

"Brother, why did you buy this?" Gao Yang also had a look of surprise on his face.

Yu Min had some bad associations: "Could it be that you want to... buy it and try it?"

Ning Yao put his hands on his hips and said, "What are you talking about? Can't I just ask?" Bai Yunyou replied cautiously, "Others may ask out of curiosity, but when you ask... it's hard not to think that you are asking about the price of the ingredients."

Seeing everyone looking like frightened birds, Ning Yao had no choice but to give up. He waved his hand magnanimously, turning the topic of the price of the body over, and the four of them breathed a sigh of relief.

"Even if there are humanoid bodies for sale here that can solve the problem of our identity disguises, there has been no substantial progress on the issues we discussed before," said Ning Yao.

"Although Sister Feng has successfully operated a round, we are still 'reunited' now."

He tilted his head and said, "From Sister Feng's expression, she really doesn't understand the principle behind this, so we can only rely on our own reasoning for this part."

"So, everyone, let's brainstorm, shall we?"

Silence spread between them, and with it came awkwardness.

"Sorry, I really can't think of it." Yu Min gave up first. "I'm going to reveal my cards. I'm just a fool."

"Then I will too..." Gao Yang said immediately, but was glared at by Ning Yao and shut his mouth.

Ning Yao was very disappointed: "You don't have any clue? You are really the worst class I have ever taught."

Liang Feng retorted unconvincedly: "You are awesome, just think about it."

"I can't think of it." Ning Yao still kept his hands on his hips, his neck stiff, looking unreasonable and angry.

Yu Min taunted, "Well, wait for death."

Bai Yunyou came out to smooth things over: "Since none of us are high-IQ reasoning players, why don't we take action first and collect more clues. Xiaofeng, you can also list the doubts you encounter in your daily work. We will check them one by one, and we will be able to piece together a rough outline."

Ning Yao raised an eyebrow: "What is this? A sea of ​​questions?"

Bai Yunyou smiled and said, "It's not a tactic. I just hope everyone has something to do instead of standing around blaming each other."

"No one has a clue right now, so why not just follow Xiaobai's suggestion?" Liang Feng stood on Bai Yunyou's side without objection.

"I agree!" Gao Yang quickly agreed.

"I don't object either." Yu Min also said.

Ning Yao looked around and said, "So I don't need to express my opinion, right?"

Liang Feng looked coldly: "Then do you have any better suggestions?"

"No."

"Then do it."

"Ok."

Liang Feng replaced the two red doorplates that Ning Yao had broken, and everyone finally pushed their own carts and left this "temporary camp".

"First of all, where are we going?" Ning Yao asked, hugging his manta ray pillow.

"I want to go to Xiaofeng's employee lounge." Bai Yunyou said before anyone else spoke.

"Well, I'm not being selfish. I just think that this area that is only open to employees should contain more details and clues than the area open to us..."

"It doesn't matter if you have selfish motives~" Ning Yao smiled charmingly, "Since Xiaobai has spoken, let's go to the staff lounge first~"

Liang Feng seemed a little hesitant, but in the end he didn't say anything to refuse: "Come with me."