Don't follow the rules

Chapter 519: Haojiu Home Furnishing City (Ninety-five)
"We're here," Ning Yao stopped, "but there's nothing here."

He stood in an open area. The darkness around him had quietly receded, replaced by bright lights from unknown light sources.

Ning Yao waved his hand as if fanning away a fly, and the black fog lingering around Gao Yang dissipated. Gao Yang was suddenly exposed to the light. He couldn't help but blink exaggeratedly, and it took him a while to adapt to the new environment.

"Brother, where are you coming from?" Gao Yang rubbed his eyes. "Is this still China?"

"I'm here, I'm here, and I haven't left the building yet." Ning Yao put her hands on her hips, looking around and had no time to look at him.

"Is that so?" Gao Yang said in a drawn-out voice, as if he understood, but he quickly asked, "So what are we looking for?"

"You are looking for death."

A voice sounded from behind. She came suddenly and was very close. The breath from her mouth almost blew on Gao Yang's ears.

"Oh! Damn!" Gao Yang was so scared that he ejected on the spot.

They both turned around and saw that the unexpected person was Liang Feng, whom they hadn't seen for a long time.

"Sister Feng?!" they both said in unison.

Liang Feng smiled: "Do you still recognize me?"

"Of course we have to. No matter who we forget, we must not forget Sister Feng. Come, let's put away the knife first..." Gao Yang smiled widely, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead while coaxing Liang Feng gently to put away the knife in his hand.

Liang Feng looked the two of them up and down, then obediently put away the knife. "I thought you were dead... and gone." She said calmly.

"You wanted to say 'dead' just now, right?" Gao Yang asked.

Liang Feng lied with his eyes open: "No."

Ning Yao came over: "Hey?"

Liang Feng rolled his eyes: "What's wrong?"

"You are actually a human?" Ning Yao looked very surprised.

Liang Feng's fist hardened again: "You're not even cursing in a roundabout way."

"No, no, no, don't get me wrong." Ning Yao waved his hand. "What I meant was that I was surprised that you could enter such a deep place in Home City with your original human body. I thought that the you who appeared here should at least be a humanoid copy of you."

"Is it very internal?" Liang Feng raised his eyebrows. "This is the signing hall where unlucky customers become temporary quality inspectors. It is almost the outermost area - because the contract rules require the responsibility of sensing all products and customers, so it is wrapped in the outer layer of the entire building."

"What..." Ning Yao was stunned, and then retorted, "Impossible, I remember when I triggered the quality inspector easter egg, I was in a very cramped space. I couldn't move around or make big movements. I could only lower my head to check the rules in my hand. It wasn't such an open place at all."

Liang Feng shrugged. "That's because we're worried that customers who trigger the Easter eggs will waste their time looking around. So after customers enter the hall, the rules restrict them to a narrow cubicle of less than one square meter, so that you can get straight to the point and avoid unnecessary complications."

Ning Yao seemed to be thinking: "Since this is the quality inspector signing hall, and you are an employee, why are you here?"

"The mall has been closed for a long time~" Liang Feng took out the list, "I am just fulfilling the last task of the day."

"Does the district stockist's job also include organizing the merchandise in the signing hall?" Ning Yao asked.

"Of course not all. There will inevitably be goods left behind by careless quality inspectors in the signing hall. I am responsible for picking up the ones on the first floor." Liang Feng said.

"Oh." Ning Yao nodded.

So here is——

"First floor?!" Gao Yang suddenly screamed.

Liang Feng scratched his ears in disdain: "What a fuss."

Gao Yang couldn't hide his excitement and panic: "So this means we can leave Home Furnishing City from here, right? We got out by taking advantage of a loophole last time, so we won't be caught and taken back to those model rooms again this time, right?"

"Even though it's a loophole, I'm taking you out of the scope of the game. After you leave, you're no longer [customers] and the previously signed agreement will automatically become invalid. Even if you come back, you'll patronize the game as a new customer. There's no need to worry about being involved in the previous game - you just need to be careful not to be hired again. When you re-enter the game, you'll automatically inherit the results of the previous game, and the punishment you escaped will also continue," Liang Feng explained.

"That's good, that's good, I can finally rest assured." Gao Yang patted his chest, turned his head and said happily, "Then let's go?"

"Leave for nothing!" Ning Yao said unhappily. "I haven't finished my work yet. If I don't leave, you can't leave either!" "Brother..." Gao Yang was about to cry.

Liang Feng said seriously: "What exactly are you going to do?"

Ning Yao: "I've said it many times, I need to find someone."

Liang Feng: “Bullshit.”

"Hey hey~" Gao Yang quickly inserted himself in between the two of them, trying to interrupt.

Liang Feng waved Gao Yang away: "Seeing you speak so confidently, I thought I remembered it wrong, so in order to confirm my memory, I checked the surveillance camera after closing time. The surveillance camera captured it very clearly. From beginning to end, you entered the furniture city alone. You don't have any teammates at all. Who are you looking for?"

Ning Yao rolled his eyes: "I'm too lazy to talk to you."

Liang Feng sneered: "You think I care about you? If Xiaobai hadn't asked me to take care of you before he went home, you two would be dead now."

"Oh my~ Our sister Feng is really capable," Ning Yao said sarcastically, "I really believe it."

Seeing Ning Yao leave with a sarcastic remark and then turn around and pull Gao Yang away, Liang Feng was not angry, but just lightly tapped the list in his hand.

Snapped!
It was as if all the spotlights on the roof of the stadium were turned on at once, the entire venue was completely illuminated, and everything in the signing hall was clearly visible. Gao Yang was so frightened that his neck shrank and his eyes closed unconsciously.

Ning Yao was not disturbed, but he also stopped.

Right at their feet and sides, countless translucent commodities slowly revealed their shapes under the strong light, floating up and down, but they had no substance and looked like dead jellyfish.

"What are you doing?" Ning Yao asked.

"Help you see the road ahead clearly." Liang Feng's words had hidden meaning.

"I have my own eyes." Ning Yao was not grateful.

Liang Feng commented: "There are two eggs under the eyebrows, and they can only blink but not see."

"Puff" a distant, cold, and very indecent suppressed laugh came from Ning Yao's mind.

Ning Yao turned around helplessly: "Sister Feng, I really have something important to do. Since this is the outer space of the Home Furnishing City, it is not the place I am looking for. Can you please let us in?"

Liang Feng held the list in his hand and said, "To be honest, we have no grudges against each other. I have no intention of stopping you. It's just that I have responsibilities that I have to fulfill in Home Furnishing City. You can do whatever you want, but you can't really endanger the company."

Ning Yao was about to say something mean, but suddenly he noticed the difference in her words: "Home Furnishing City? Company?"

“You don’t care about the life and death of one or two home furnishing cities, but you need to protect the company that actually owns the home furnishing city?”

"You didn't sign a contract for Home Furnishing City. Are you an employee of the company?"

Liang Feng pursed his lips: "I'm a tally clerk."

"Okay, no matter who you are, I won't bother with you about this." Ning Yao became very easy to talk to.

He smiled and said, "If you are from a higher-level unit in Home City, I can understand why you can keep your human body and move freely in the strange stories."

"I'm just a little confused. Aren't they the Ghost Story Mutual Aid Alliance? Why would they recruit human employees?"

Liang Feng: "This is not something you should understand here. What you need to focus on right now is the road ahead."

The road ahead?

Ning Yao glanced at the translucent goods floating in front of him and said, "Are these things some kind of trap?"

"These are the orphan products with a high degree of danger that we tallyers need to sort out. In fact, it is basically these products left behind in the signing hall that cause me to work overtime every night."

"So?"

"I say they are more dangerous."