Don't follow the rules

Chapter 451: Haojiu Home Furnishing City (Twenty-Seven)
Liang Feng didn’t have the key, and neither did Ning Yao, but this didn’t pose a problem for him at all.

After all, even the solid wooden doorplate made of Hainan Huanghuali can be easily broken like a biscuit, so no one is worried that this thin metal cabinet will cause any trouble to Ning Yao's claws.

Crunch!
The iron cabinet door made a teeth-grinding metallic scraping sound, but the interior of the cabinet did not bring the expected shock when it was opened.

Yu Min covered her eyes and dared only to peek through her fingers: "What's it like? What's inside? Are there stacked and packaged dead bodies, or pickled severed limbs hanging?"

"There is no such thing..." Gao Yang turned sideways, "You can see for yourself."

"I dare not, I dare not!" Yu Min covered her face and shrank back.

Xiao Bai patted Yu Min's back soothingly: "It's okay, it's okay. The cabinet is empty. There's nothing in it."

The cupboard was empty, but that was hardly good news.

Ning Yao tilted his head as if thinking: "Sister Feng, how many stockists are there in your living room area?"

Liang Feng replied: "From our company's internal app, there should be nine employees in the same group as me, but we have never met, so I can't be sure if there are really nine people."

"Nine people," Ning Yao repeated. "There are also nine lockers here. Logically, there is no possibility that I just happened to open an empty locker."

Liang Feng was also somewhat bewildered, and simply replied to Ning Yao's question blankly: "Logically speaking... all the cabinets should indeed have owners."

Ning Yao could only reach out to another cabinet door: "I apologize in advance. I will be completely uncivilized today."

Crunch!
He simply opened the doors of all the metal cabinets.

"All... why are they all empty?!" Liang Feng was shocked.

Ning Yao spread his hands: "It's obvious that you are the only employee using this so-called 'employee lounge' for tally clerks."

"But, but," Liang Feng was a little at a loss, "It's impossible for me to be alone. The living room is so big, and there are 9 model rooms in addition to various shelves. I can't take care of them all by myself even if I work myself to death."

Yu Min said, "What about the personal belongings of the other stock clerks? Is your rest room actually one per person? Then I have to withdraw the accusation that your boss is stingy, he is really generous."

"I don't know..." Liang Feng didn't know how to refute.

Xiao Bai patted Liang Feng on the back and said softly, "Don't worry, Xiao Feng, let's go over it again: You said the living room area is very large, so there must be multiple tally clerks to take care of it, right?"

"correct."

"You've never seen the other tally clerks, but you're sure there are nine of them working together to manage the living room area?"

Liang Feng gradually calmed down and nodded confidently: "I can't be sure that there are 9 people, but I am sure that there are definitely more than one of them."

Xiao Bai encouraged: "Xiao Feng, think about it again, is there any other employee lounge besides this one?"

Liang Feng said: "Yes, but those are rest rooms for other types of workers. There is only one rest room for the stockers in the living room."

"Have you gone in to confirm?" Yu Min interrupted.

Liang Feng answered hesitantly: "Well... I haven't been there myself, but I often see cleaners or security guards going in and out of their own employee lounges, and the employee code states that lounges for different types of work are not shared, so other tally clerks can't go to those lounges."

Progress is stuck again.

"What about the others?" Ning Yao asked with his hands on his hips.

"If you ask me, who should I ask?" Liang Feng bared his teeth at him.

"Well..." Gao Yang suddenly raised his hand, "I have a bold guess."

"Speak." Ning Yao approved. Gao Yang rubbed his hands: "I came to this conclusion based on the objective evidence now. Is there a possibility, I mean a possibility... that Sister Feng is the only stock clerk in the living room area?"

"Impossible." Liang Feng denied it without even thinking about it.

"Sister, please listen to me..." Gao Yang said weakly.

Xiaobai held Liang Feng's hand and smiled apologetically at Gao Yang: "You continue."

Gao Yang: "What we are saying is, as a home furnishing mall, their inventory already has 'humanoid bodies', which are beyond normal human cognition, so can't we assume that Sister Feng has been copied?"

Liang Feng: "Copy?"

Gao Yang gestured with his hands: "Copy, or clone? After you joined the company, your company quietly cultivated a group of copies of you in a corner that you didn't notice, to work with you to manage this floor. And you are the only living person among this group of stockers, so there are only your items in the lounge, and the other copies only need to lie back on the shelves after work."

Liang Feng opened his mouth, wanting to complain about something, but he didn't know where to start.

Yu Min once again took on the role of mouthpiece: "Is this what it feels like to have too many complaints but no words to say?"

Gao Yang blushed a little: "What's wrong? Although it's a bit sci-fi, I think it's also a very reasonable reasoning! If you are good, tell me one."

Ning Yao waved his hands helplessly: "First of all, I commend your imagination, and this can indeed explain the problem of the empty cabinet, but there is still one problem that has not been reasonably explained."

Gao Yang: "Any other questions?"

Ning Yao: "Liang Feng not only did not meet other people in the lounge, she did not meet other people during her entire work period. If it is a setting like 'clone', at most it can only fool customers who are not familiar with this place. Liang Feng herself will meet other clones in her normal work anyway."

Gao Yang's entire body visibly withered. "Well, I was just overthinking it."

goo goo~
After he finished speaking, Gao Yang's stomach made a loud gurgling sound, which made his ears turn red.

"Thinking consumes a lot of energy. I'm a little hungry... and it's time to eat." He explained haltingly.

Liang Feng sighed slightly: "It's understandable that it took so long. Fortunately, there are customer dining areas on each floor of our home furnishing mall. While the mall is still open, I can take you to have some midnight snacks."

Night snack?

Yu Min and Gao Yang looked at each other in confusion, then looked at Ning Yao tacitly.

Ning Yao stared at Liang Feng: "We haven't had dinner yet."

Liang Feng was slightly surprised: "How come we haven't even had dinner yet? Didn't we find the dining area?"

Ning Yao: "No, it's just dinner time now."

Liang Feng: "You usually have dinner at eight o'clock?"

Ning Yao looked at Liang Feng thoughtfully: "It's six o'clock now."

"What a joke?" Liang Feng took out his inventory list in disbelief and switched to the time page.

"I said I remembered correctly, it's 8:30 at night now." She showed the time to everyone.

"Did time pass so quickly?" Gao Yang touched his stomach with some suspicion. "I am a firm believer in three meals a day. How could I have missed today's dinner without realizing it?!"

"No, there's nothing wrong with Gao Yang's biological clock," Ning Yao said, "It should be six o'clock now, exactly."

"It's your timing that's the problem." He turned around and said to Liang Feng seriously.