Don't follow the rules

Chapter 455: Haojiu Home Furnishing City (Thirty-one)

"It's really a very 'street literature'..." Liang Feng held his forehead helplessly.

"First of all, I have to affirm your imagination. Secondly, I have to break your fantasy. I didn't enter any inexplicable loop. I feel that my time is very smooth, without repetition or lag. In fact, except for meeting you today, I haven't even encountered any strange things in all these days."

"If I'm stuck in a time loop, and the mall's time flows in unison with the outside world, then I'm always going to run into this situation where, for example, 'customers come in for breakfast in the evening,' right?"

"No." Ning Yao answered firmly.

"what?"

His self-righteous look blocked Liang Feng's subsequent questioning.

While Liang Feng was stunned by the criticism, Ning Yao shook his finger confidently and said before she could speak: "You won't meet customers in the morning at night because you don't realize the difference between morning and evening. There are no clocks or daylight here, and you can't find anything that can indirectly determine the time. This makes your perception of time completely dependent on the equipment uniformly distributed by the company."

"To your consciousness, time just flows smoothly past six o'clock. When it reaches eight o'clock, you will naturally become the Sister Feng in the room. You will not feel that you are repeating things in a certain time period."

"Of course, I'm not sure if your consciousness is updated in real time. Maybe if we analyze it with you now, it is being stored synchronously in Sister Eight O'clock Feng's memory."

"Look at the bright side. As long as we discuss a plan to break the impasse with you, all the Feng sisters after six o'clock can participate in the action."

"If your memories are not updated in real time, you may have to wait until the day's work is over and all the Sister Fengs of all time periods are combined into one before you can recover all your memories of today."

"They are updated in real time." Yu Min interrupted.

Gao Yang: "You know this again?"

Yu Min was too lazy to pay attention to him and said to Ning Yao, "When Sister Feng No. 3 first found us, didn't she say that she had taken us out once? We haven't seen her, so it must be in our future. She can only remember it in her past. Our appearance was accidental to Sister Feng. If it's not a memory that is updated in real time, then the people who divide the time periods here are not gods who can predict the future?"

"That makes sense." Ning Yao agreed deeply.

Ning Yao clapped his hands lightly and continued, "If that's the case, then it will be much easier. Sister Feng, let's give up your plan of taking the garbage truck out..."

Liang Feng, who had been interrupted, could not hide his shock at this moment: "You guys know about the garbage truck?! How is it possible?"

Ning Yao pointed to the door of the lounge: "Sister Feng No. 3 told us."

This time Liang Feng finally believed Ning Yao’s nonsense.

Among this temporarily formed escape team, the "Garbage Truck Escape Plan" could definitely only be planned by an internal employee like her. Only she knew all the details and feasibility behind this plan, but she was very clear that she had not told anyone, including Xiaobai.

Could it be that what Ning Yao said was true?
Is their reasoning also true?
Is there really more than one self in this home furnishing city?
But this...

"...This is unscientific." Liang Feng's CPU completely stopped working, and he could only weakly utter this rebuttal that he himself had no confidence in.

Ning Yao: "You've already sold humanoid bodies for capitalists, and you still care whether the timeline overlap is scientific or not?"

"I didn't..." Liang Feng choked again, "I didn't sell that. That's not my responsibility."

"Okay, okay, then let's just pretend that this isn't a world that talks about science." Ning Yao raised his hands high. "Now! It's street literature!"

"Great!" Only Yu Min agreed with him. "Ahem." She awkwardly retracted her hands that were waving along with Ning Yao.

Liang Feng wiped his face, decided to ignore these crazy details, and returned to the topic: "If...if your idea is right, then what do you think we should do next? If the person in the lounge is really me, I think Xiaobai should not be in danger for the time being. What plan do you have? We can take this time to sort it out."

"Sister Feng is so generous." Ning Yao smiled.

"According to our previous speculation, each Feng Jie in different time periods has her own [time zone]. I want to first confirm how large your time zone coverage is and how far we have to be away from you to not be affected by your time zone."

Liang Feng: "I will cooperate, how do you test it?"

Ning Yao pointed in a direction: "Go along this road and retreat as far as possible, but it is best not to disappear from our sight. At the same time, we will open the door of the lounge and visually estimate how far you retreat before Xiaobai reappears."

Liang Feng looked in the direction he pointed: "Main road? If we want to ensure the vision of both sides, wouldn't it be more convenient to take the road perpendicular to the door?"

"Vertical orientation does make it easier for us to see each other, but I have two considerations. One is to avoid the rule of 'two Liang Fengs cannot meet' disrupting our observation; the other is that I am worried that changes in the rooms and roads may occur at any time and separate us unexpectedly."

"You know, the quality inspector game is still going on, and new changes may happen here at any time."

"And the main road is the only route that doesn't change!"

The four of them said in unison.

"Okay." Liang Feng acted quickly and decisively. Now that she had figured out the situation, she didn't say any more nonsense and immediately began to slowly retreat.

Gao Yang quickly opened the door of the lounge. Yu Min stood in the middle, looking back and forth nervously.

"Don't be nervous~" Ning Yao yawned, "Xiaobai and Sister Feng and No. 3 are still inside."

"I've been concerned about this for a while now," Yu Min asked, "Why do you number Sister Feng starting with number two? What about number one?"

Ning Yao scratched his head and said, "It's like this. Number One just enrolled in school and is now in school. The headquarters told me not to bother him too much. The most important thing for him at his age is to study."

Yu Min: ???
Yu Min was stunned. There were so many confusing things in the other party's short sentence that she couldn't think of a suitable way to complain for a moment.

Just after Ning Yao confused Yu Min with a word, Sister Feng No. 2 probably retreated to a suitable position, and voices gradually sounded in the lounge.

"Xiao Feng, you said you wouldn't be angry anymore~ Then let's go out and take a look?"

"I wasn't angry at all..."

"Okay, okay, our Xiao Feng has the biggest vision~"

"Eh? When did you open the door?" Xiao Bai blushed a little. "You...didn't hear anything?"

Ning Yao smiled brightly: "No, I'm deaf-mute."

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