In the world of strange rules, abstract and complex, [infinite]

Diep Tich's first reaction was not to go. Because at the time when she was almost captivated by the blue eyes, she still clearly remembered the look in Hu Miao Miao's eyes from the mirror. Without knowing what Hu Miao Miao was thinking at that time, she didn't want to get too close to this person.

But the last time she went to the bathroom was two or three hours ago, and in the situation where she wasn't sure what she would encounter in the second floor or how long she would stay, going to the bathroom in the first floor was a wise choice for her.

More importantly, the basic rules clearly state that "Please do not go out alone, and be careful of having companions on the way."

In the same group with only two female students, only she could accompany Hu Miao Miao to the girls' restroom.

Diep Tich pondered for a moment.

Aside from not being able to go out alone, the only rule on the odd-numbered bathroom floors was to use tissues on herself. This meant that as long as she used tissues on herself, regardless of whether Hu Miaomiao was unlucky or had already been contaminated, it would be very difficult to use other rules to harm her.

Of course, Hu Miao Miao could also not say the basic method to directly kill her. However, if that were the case, her identity would undoubtedly be exposed, and at that time, her teammates would not be able to let her go for their own safety.

So...

Diep Tich smiled kindly and harmlessly: "Okay, let's go together." He lowered his head and rummaged through his bag, took out a pack of tissues, and waved them around in his hand, "I brought a few packs myself, it's very safe."

While speaking, she intentionally or unintentionally glanced at "Zhang San". Xiao Leng noticed something and his eyes stopped.

Seeing this, Ho Mieu Mieu just let off steam: "That's great!"

The two of them thus left together as friends. Just like any other shopping mall, the restroom was set up in a specially designed small passageway on one side of the mall.

Walk five or six meters, and you will see the women's restroom door.

The layout of the restroom here is very standard, the first thing to enter after entering is the sink, mobile phone and other public facilities. Ye Xi carefully checked around, but didn't see any extra rules in the restroom.

Going inside, the entire space is divided into two parts on the left and right, each side has a narrow alley, each alley has four spaces on the two sides, there are squatting positions and seats.

Diep Tich chose a squatting position on the outermost side, pushed the door open first, carefully checked it, and felt that there was nothing unusual before going in.

Hu Miao Miao was about to go into the adjacent room, but was called back by her: "Wait?"

"Huh?" Hu Miao Miao stopped, Ye Xi pushed the door open with one hand, and calmly said: "The rules say that you don't need to act alone, insurance is available, we take turns going to the bathroom."

A flash of realization flashed through Hu Miao Miao's eyes: "Okay!"

After speaking, she followed the instructions and waited outside the room. Ye Xi still pushed on the door with one hand, keeping the door open five or six centimeters. When Hu Miaomiao entered the room, she also did the same thing.

But the bathroom was still too quiet, so quiet that they could hear the faint dripping sound of the faucet. The two girls couldn't help but start to wander, sometimes Ye Xi's brain filled in that it wasn't the dripping sound, but blood dripping down. Sometimes she felt Zhang Yan staring at her from a certain corner, like... like he was on the roof, revealing a ferocious smile.

"Numb..."

Diep Tich shivered and rubbed his arms, feeling goosebumps rising through his clothes.

Across the room, Hu Miao Miao heard her voice and suddenly raised her head: "What's wrong?!"

"It's nothing, it's nothing!" Diep Tich laughed, "I scared myself, thinking of some scary things."

Hu Miao Miao: "... Don't say thank you!"

A few seconds later, Ho Mieu Mieu walked out of the room, both of them seemed to have pressed the fast forward button, quickly washed their hands, and ran away as if running to the bathroom.

The moment the door opened, the air before his eyes was clear and fresh, and even the air seemed to be much fresher. Ye Xi gasped for breath twice.

Hu Miao Miao was similarly amnestied: "I just felt like Zhang Yan was staring at me from the other side of the room... Ha ha ha ha ha, scaring yourself is the most terrifying thing!"

"..." Ye Xi heard her words, the image already appeared in her mind, goosebumps rose again. Goosebumps make the skin itch and numb, this kind of uncomfortable but indeed awkward feeling instantly attracted Ye Xi's attention, but she still noticed a slightly unusual scent.

Sweet pear flavor, lingering floral scent, fresh and elegant, intoxicating...

Diep Tich's whole body trembled with electric shock, suddenly grabbing Ho Mieu Mieu: "Perfume!"

"Ah?" Hu Miao Miao, who was blabbering on and on about her own brainstorming, was stunned, her expression blank, "What perfume? There is none?"

"Perfume taste... There is perfume taste..." Diep Tich's heart beat faster, he stopped breathing, pulling Ho Mieu Mieu, unable to help but explain, he turned around and walked in circles.

Ho Mieu Mieu was confused by her: "What are you doing!"

Diep Tich gritted his teeth: "Go to the stage."

Rule 8: The cosmetics area does not sell perfume. If the counter staff recommends perfume to you or you smell perfume, please turn around and leave immediately and report to the front desk staff. The front desk staff will handle it for you.

The shopping mall in front of the imported glass platform is not far away, and the direction they originally wanted to go to the escalator is opposite, the distance is not considered close at all.

Ye Xi thought of the terrifying scene after Zhang Yan came into contact with the perfume, every nerve was tense, feeling that this distance had reached a level that made people bold. Moreover, she didn't know if it was an illusion, but she felt that although she had gone very far, the sweet pear perfume still filled her nasal cavity, not dissipating.

Finally seeing the figure in front of the stage, she rushed forward in two steps: "Hello, may I ask..."

"Hello, I am very pleased to serve you." The staff member in front of the stage raised his head, it was a handsome white boy, with a polite smile on his face, but Ye Xi immediately choked up.

He wore a white shirt with a blue tie.

Basic rule number 6: This business provides a uniform dress code for its employees, all of which are suits with red bow ties (women) or red ties (men). If you see an employee wearing a blue bow tie or tie, please do not believe anything he says and stay away immediately.

Hu Miaomiao, who was being dragged along by Ye Xi, also noticed this point at the same time: "Blue tie..." She said in a low voice, and at the same time, she turned around and grabbed Ye Xi, intending to drag Ye Xi away.

"Hello?" The worker and waiter still smiled at Diep Tich, "May I ask what's the matter?"

This sudden and unexpected occurrence made Diep Tich's brain go crazy. Not only was he unable to react, he even became startled when he heard the sound.

After about four or five seconds, the other party slightly narrowed his eyes, and once again said with a questioning tone, "Hello?" At that moment, Ye Xi suddenly got startled and hurriedly opened his mouth: "Hello, we just smelled perfume..."

"Is that so." The worker wearing a male student's expression relaxed, the trace of danger that was not easily detected in the depths of his eyes also dissipated, "Please come with me, I will take you to a safe place."

"Okay..." Diep Tich suppressed her fear and nodded. Seeing him walking out from the side to the front of the stage, she tried to calm down and catch up with him.

"Are you crazy!" Hu Miao Miao looked shocked.

Diep Tich took out the shiny paper with rules from his bag and silently pointed to the second countdown.

Hu Miao Miao focused her eyes on it, it said: 9. This shopping mall staff is professional and polite, but does not like to "want to talk but stop". If you take the initiative to start a conversation with a staff member, please continue, do not interrupt or leave directly.

Hu Miao Miao was startled for a moment, her thin lips tightly pursed. Although she understood Ye Xi's actions, she still did not lower her fear when facing the workers.

The worker led them towards the shopping mall, there was a small passageway in the same location as the restroom. After entering the passageway and continuing forward five or six meters, the worker stopped and stood in front of a door, making a very standard "Please" gesture.

"This is the makeup area's dedicated resting area, please come in and rest for a while, then you will be away from trouble."

Diep Tich heard his scalp numb.

In the hand of the makeup kit division area rule number 3 clearly written: Because the shopping mall inside has dining area but also rest area, the clothing area also has seats but also sit down, the makeup kit area does not set up rest area. If you see the rest area, please ignore it. If you accidentally enter the rest area, please quickly think of a way to leave.

But the worker in front of him kept smiling and waited for their reaction.

Hu Miao Miao and Ye Xi pulled each other's hands and started to tremble. She softly said to Ye Xi: "We can't go in... Let's go..."

Diep Tich stood still without moving his feet. In a few short seconds, his mind was filled with thoughts.

First of all, she cannot leave directly. On the one hand, leaving directly means interrupting the conversation with the staff member in front of her. This is against the ninth rule of the basic rule, "If you take the initiative to start a conversation with a staff member, please continue. There is no need to interrupt or leave directly."

On the other hand, smelling the perfume and wanting to go first is also a rule of thumb. The matter has not been resolved yet. Although she currently does not feel anything unusual, it is not good to directly leave and let it develop further.

But if according to the worker's clothes, entering the rest room seems to violate the third rule of the subdivision.

Diep Tich was frustrated to discover that the three rules caused a chain reaction. Even though she had a tool to verify the truth of the rules, she was completely unable to solve this problem.

After a short silence, Diep Tich made up his mind, reached out to push the door open, and walked into the resting room.

"Miss Gu?!" Hu Miao Miao looked like she was about to faint, but as usual, she was a worker and smiled slowly: "Later, a staff member from the rest area will come to serve you, please wait a moment."

After he finished speaking, Hu Miao Miao hesitated at the door for a moment, then had to go in: "How dare you?!"

Ye Xi deeply retorted: "Because we already clearly know that there is a problem with the perfume, we didn't want to turn into Zhang Yan, we have to seize every opportunity to solve the problem. As for how the dialogue will be interrupted in front of the workers and staff, we don't know very well, I also don't want to take the risk."

Hu Miao Miao: "It's the resting area..."

"The rules say, the makeup area does not have a rest area, if you see it, please ignore it." Ye Xi paused, "But there is also a sentence at the back —— 'If you accidentally enter the rest area, please quickly think of a way to leave'."

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Hu Miao Miao heard as if she was in a fog, "So what?"

"So this explains, entering the rest area doesn't necessarily mean a dead end, there is still a chance to leave, as long as we don't wait too long it will be fine." Ye Xi tried to calmly explain while feeling panicked.

She explained, according to the rules it was established, but if the rules were fake, then the sentence "If you accidentally enter the rest area, please quickly think of a way to leave" was "He", moreover, he would definitely die.

But if that was the case, she was now in a desperate situation where she was certain to die, so Ye Xi once again began to use the dog to prove that there was no inevitable rule, and she could only go one way to the end.

After waiting for a few seconds, Diep Tich felt that the worker who had just brought the staff must have gone far away, so he went towards the break room door, thinking of sneaking away.

She thought about it seriously, assuming the two rules of the lounge were true, the summary would be "Entering the lounge can solve the danger brought by perfume", but "Staying in the lounge for a long time will cause new dangers".

So if she has come but not stayed long, it should be that relatively stable "intermediate value".

Moreover, from the moment she entered the break room, she could clearly feel the lingering sweet pear scent in her nasal cavity dissipating.

The door had just opened a crack when a voice came from not far behind: "Madam, hello."

"..." Ye Xi stiffly turned around and looked at another staff member. He was wearing a uniform suit from the mall, and also had a blue tie. He seemed to have come out from the back of the break room. He was smiling as he looked at Ye Xi: "There is a return counter here. All personal items can be returned. After returning them, you can come here and sit down to rest. I will go get you some drinks and snacks."

After saying that, he maintained an unchanging smile, waiting for Diep Tich's reaction.

Diep Tich took a deep breath, behind him he grabbed the door latch, his hands tensed: "No, I..."

But the staff member stepped forward: "Please come this way."

"..." Diep Tich did not dare to refuse too forcefully, afraid that the other party would suddenly turn into some kind of monster that would eat her. She could only helplessly let go of the handshake and follow the other party to return it to the counter.

A few meters outside, Xiao Leng understood Ye Xi's meaning after that, originally thought that Hu Miao Miao would have something unusual, but from the beginning to the end, Hu Miao Miao was following Ye Xi's arrangements, so the time waiting outside was just waiting.

Then he saw two people from the restroom walking towards the escalator meeting point, he was a little relieved, but halfway there they suddenly turned around and went in a circle.

Tieu Lanh's eyes were slightly dazed, but he did not blindly follow.

He walked around the restroom first, confirming that there was nothing unusual about the restroom, then followed their route towards the escalator and walked a similar distance, still not encountering any unexpected events, before saying to the remaining three team members, "One of you come and go to the front of the platform with me to ask them what's wrong, the remaining two can wait for me, and can go upstairs first."

"..." Chu Ying stared intently at the big boss in front of him, "Is there option C?"

Tieu Lanh: "What choice C?"

"For example, we will go find them together with you." Chu Ying did not need to think.

Tieu Lang frankly and sincerely said: "I only saw them go to the front stage, I don't know what the problem is, if they go together, they will probably be annihilated."

But Chu Ying thought about it clearly: "If you leave, the remaining people will probably be exterminated!"

After going through the twists and turns just now, he clearly saw that in his team, Sun Qiran had no feelings, Huang Fengfan only knew how to stick to the rules, and Hu Miaomiao didn't seem to have any opinions, and the reason he was able to survive to the Rule Realm was completely due to good luck.

The only people who can truly analyze the rules are Zhang San and the female student called Gu Chao.

If neither of them were there, Zhou Ying suspected that even if the three of them just stood there motionless, they would all die without knowing why.

Tieu Lanh frowned slightly, looking at Ton Ky Nhien and Hoang Phong Pham: "Where are you guys?"

Ton Ky Nhien hesitantly said: "I can..."

Hoang Phong Pham: "I listen to the commander."

"Okay." Tieu Lanh said, the four people organized themselves and walked in front of the stage.

In the middle of the room, there were two cabinets stacked next to each other, each with its own key, arranged together to form an "n" shape, occupying a total area of about 3 square meters.

Diep Tich checked around and didn't find anything obviously wrong, so he chose a cabinet on the 17th floor, locked the key for half a turn, and carefully opened it.

The cupboard was also very clean, divided into two levels. The upper level had a large space and could hold quite a few things. The lower level seemed to be a special place for storing shoes. Currently, a pair of brand new disposable slippers was placed there.

Diep Tich also did not plan to change shoes, but out of caution, still took the shoes out to look at, conveniently lowered his head to look at the deep inside of the cabinet.

Then she discovered: There was a piece of paper inside.

At first glance, it was an A4 piece of paper, folded into three pieces, placed on the first shelf of the slippers, close to the wall of the counter. This side facing out should be the reverse side, no writing could be seen, it was pure white without any blemishes.

Perhaps because her nerves were too tense, she reflexively wanted to share this news with her only companion, but before she could open her mouth, a general rule electric light flashed in her mind.

"7. Posted in public areas (such as gymnasium walls) the rules are for everyone to see, appearing in your private area within the rules do not easily expose to others, unless you completely trust the other party or think it is necessary to expose."

She obviously doesn't trust Hu Miao Miao enough. As for whether or not there is a need for an exhibition, at least she has to see it to know.

Diep Tich did not say anything, but still reached out to touch that piece of paper.

There won't be anything suddenly in the drawer that will bite her, right?

—— While she was thinking nonsense, her fingertips had already smoothly touched the page.

Because he thought of that general rule, Diep Tich cautiously glanced to the right while taking it out.

The counters on the upper floors are all odd numbers. On her right, Hu Miao Miao is using the 19th number to return the counter. Because her cabinet door is open right now, it just happens to block the two people, forming a pretty effective barrier.

Diep Tich silently opened the page and saw what was written on it:

"Resort guests rules:

1. The staff here are trustworthy, and at the same time, they can also provide effective protection for you. If they invite you to stay in the lounge, you can accept the invitation;

2. Personal items can be placed at the return counter, commercial purchases can be placed at the return counter, and small purchase vouchers do not need to be placed at the return counter;

3. Staff will not take the initiative to have any limb contact with you, please also try your best to avoid having limb contact with staff;

4. The resort will provide you with all kinds of snacks, please feel free to eat, but will not provide any drinks, please bring your own drinks."

There were only four rules, so Diep Tich quickly remembered the main information, folded the paper again, and stuffed it back into the drawer.

Then she took out the shopping slip and the lipstick she had just bought and put them into her side bag, and her handbag was still on her body. At the same time, she used the "respect" from the worker in the uniform to put the lipstick shopping bag back into the counter.

So that must be a relatively safe method.

Diep Tich closed the cabinet door. After much effort, Ho Mieu Mieu also saved some good things and locked the cabinet door.

The two of them did not speak for a moment, and in the same dead silence, they walked towards the tea table not far away. The staff member in charge of entertaining them was already waiting there, which put an end to Ye Xi's idea of directly pushing the door open and leaving. Ye Xi had no choice but to go over and sit down, his eyes lowered, quietly watching the staff member place the things on the small tea table in front of him.

Used for drinking water, lemonade, peanut melon seeds, sweet potato chips...

Although the rules separate snacks and drinks, saying snacks are safe and drinks are not, at first glance the level of credibility is very high, but she still doesn't dare to touch it.

The staff seemed to see her nervousness and opened their mouth to comfort her: "Madam, please relax, the break room will not be contaminated by 'him', you were contaminated outside, here it will also be eliminated."

Diep Tich suddenly raised his head to look at him.

This was the first time she heard someone from the Rule Realm directly mention "him", and even mention "pollution". Although she was still on guard in her heart, she still couldn't help but relax a little.

The staff continued: "This place is equivalent to a safe room, under his control. If you request, you can stay here forever, and when it's time to get off work, I have a way to safely take you away."

"Really?" Hu Miao Miao's eyes lit up, excitedly grabbing Ye Xi, "Why don't we just wait here and see? It's good to be able to leave anyway."

Diep Tich was actually moved for a moment.

The first rule of the lounge counter was "The staff here are trustworthy, and at the same time, they can also provide effective protection for you. If they invite you to stay in the lounge, you can accept the invitation." When she saw this rule just now, she was very conflicted. She felt that this was a trap. If she really agreed, she would never be able to leave.

But now the staff member in front of her said that she was scratching the itch and because of this rule of patching pimples, she knew that not only could she stay here to avoid danger, she could also leave safely.

Unfortunately, as a student with a good score in the information system, she already had a sharp enough sense and the ability to quickly and clearly understand logic. In order to deal with sudden situations in interviews, being able to adapt to the situation was also a rigid skill for her.

Diep Tich smiled and glanced at him: "No, there are still companions waiting for us outside, we should leave." After saying that, she stood up, and couldn't help but explain herself as she once again walked towards the return area.

"Madam?" The staff member's expression changed and he blocked her way. Although the distance was really close, he was very careful to avoid any contact with her.

Diep Tich glanced at him indifferently, judging in his heart: The remaining third rule is real.

She cannot contact the staff, but for some reason, the staff cannot touch her either.

That also means, the other party should not suddenly turn into a monster to eat her!

Hu Miao Miao beside her had a cold face, staring at the staff, her tongue was not good: "What are you doing? Saying this place is safe is a lie? Seeing that we have to leave, you have to restrict our freedom? Is making us stay here to sacrifice to 'him'?!"

After being repeatedly questioned aggressively and threateningly, the staff member's expression stiffened and his tone weakened: "No, ma'am, you misunderstood. I really am not 'his' ally. I only want you to stay here out of goodwill."

"Then let us go!" Hu Miao Miao looked like she was in the right and wanted to fight. She aggressively approached the staff member, looking like she wanted to fight.

Seeing this, Diep Tich's eyebrows jumped, but he took half a step back, not paying much attention to Ho Mieu Mieu's excitement, only ensuring that he and the maintenance staff in front of him would not have any contact and a safe distance.

"I unintentionally denied your kindness." She smiled and met the staff's gaze, "But I want to ask, are you also considered a worker at this shopping mall?"

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