PFRG: Chapter 118

The moment the content of the rules appeared on the screen, the barrage in Song Xuefeng’s live stream room was already scrolling eagerly.

[Oh my god, so this place isn’t necessarily a real gas station?]

[How to distinguish between real and false within five minutes?]

[In fact, there is the stupidest and simplest way.]

[What, what?]

[Ahem, didn’t they say that he has to tell the true from the false within five minutes? Doesn’t this mean that as long as he stays here for five minutes, we will definitely know?]

[…It is a rotten test method. You are really smart.]

[Hehehe, it is okay. After all, our Brother Song will definitely like this method, right?]

[Gah, don’t say it. Look at Song Xuefeng, he really seems ready to…]

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, Song Xuefeng stood in front of the bulletin board and silently looked up at the sky. No one knew what he was thinking about. He scratched his head lightly, and his eyelids drooped. He looked like he really didn’t want to take a step forward. He continued to read the rules slowly.

Such a slender figure was stretched out by the lights cast by the surroundings. In such an empty and silent environment, it exuded an indescribable weirdness.

Song Xuefeng’s way of not changing his expression even if the sky was falling made Ji Xingque’s heart beat wildly with anxiety. If it wasn’t for the restrictions, he would’ve really wanted to rush to the scene to cheer up Old Song.

But Ji Xingque had developed a good habit. When faced with a completely uncertain situation, the first thing he did was to always seek advice from Chi Ting.

The man was right beside him. He immediately pulled Chi Ting’s sleeve without any hesitation and asked, “Captain, is it really okay for Old Song not to confirm the authenticity of the gas station?”

“Oh, it’s fine.” Chi Ting was quite calm. “Old Song has always been very sensible.”

Ji Xingque suspected that he was having an auditory hallucination. “When you say someone who is sensible, do you mean Song Xuefeng?”

“Hmm.” Chi Ting responded without looking back. Then he added very naturally, “You are also very sensible.”

Ji Xingque was obviously happy after hearing this, but Yue Ren couldn’t resist the operation of this master of balancing things and laughed loudly.

Seeing Ji Xingque’s sharp gaze, he waved for Ji Xingque to come over and took the initiative to show kindness. “There is indeed no problem with this operation. Come on, I will tell you why.”

Ji Xingque wasn’t good at using his brain, but he wasn’t stupid. He pursed his lips in dissatisfaction with Yue Ren’s obvious attempt to conceal his sneer. But he didn’t say anything and just moved away.

Yue Ren didn’t wait for this person to come closer. “Look, the two rules we have now give time limits. One is that you aren’t allowed to stay in the gas station for more than eight minutes. The other is that you need to confirm within five minutes if you are in a real station or not. This involves a very serious time planning issue. After all, eight minutes isn’t too long. If you really use five minutes to verify the authenticity of the gas station then the remaining time…”

Ji Xingque touched his chin. “Then it is only three minutes? That is a bit short, indeed.”

Yue Ren snapped his fingers in satisfaction. “That’s it. You get it.”

Ji Xingque obviously didn’t quite understand. “That isn’t right. Even if the time is tight, what if you are indeed in a fake gas station? If you can identify it in a short amount of time, wouldn’t it be much safer?”

Yue Ren continued to pull the man closer, expressing his disapproval without disguising his opinion. “You can’t say that. Sometimes, people have to make choices. In such a critical situation, you insist on gambling on the probability that you can quickly complete the judgment operation. Isn’t this a bit too risky?”

Ji Xingque’s expression was still suspicious. “So that is the case… is it?”

He might not be very good at this type of reasoning, but he always felt that something was wrong.

Wasn’t it also gambling on luck to simply give up verifying the gas station? Why could they gamble on that but not this? Did the legendary probability theory involve this?

Chi Ting was standing nearby and overheard the conversation between the two of them. Seeing that Yue Ren was about to trick Ji Xingque, he slapped the man on the arm without any hesitation and said to Ji Xingque, “Don’t listen to him. The reason is very simple. This rule exists to confuse players. It doesn’t make any sense whether it is enforced or not.”

Yue Ren had gradually found the fun of playing with Ji Xingque during this period of time. It was interesting, but he still had to let go of the person under Chi Ting’s signal.

He obviously had no way to deal with this behavior of protecting a child, so he could only lean back on the chair next to him, shrug innocently, and watch Chi Ting take the child back.

After hearing what Chi Ting said, Ji Xingque realized that he had been tricked by Yue Ren again. He glared at the man angrily. He might still be angry, but he didn’t give up looking for an answer. “Captain, do you mean that this rule is fake?”

Yue Ren laughed and chimed in, looking like he also wanted to hear what Chi Ting would say. “Yes, Captain. Is this rule fake?”

“The rule isn’t fake. It just doesn’t need to be considered…” Chi Ting glanced at Yue Ren, who was obviously watching the show again. Under Ji Xingque’s eager gaze, many ways of analysis quickly emerged in his mind. In the end, considering the capacity of Little Bird’s brain, he gave up and said concisely, “You don’t need to understand the specific content so clearly.”

Ji Xingque blinked slowly. “…Okay, Captain. I won’t ask any more questions then.”

His complete obedience to his captain instantly suppressed his doubts. He stood back in front of the screen and observed Song Xuefeng’s progress.

He really wanted to know, but the captain since there was no need to know. Therefore, he wouldn’t try to find out.

For Ji Xingque, it was enough to know that Old Song would be absolutely fine.

Yue Ren was originally very curious about how Chi Ting was going to explain things to Ji Xingque. He didn’t expect Chi Ting to send him away with just a few words.

He lowered his eyes slightly and his gaze fell on Ji Xingque, remaining fixed there.

He had to say that this guy was really cute sometimes.

Of course, it was probably because this picture was purely used on Captain Chi that he felt it was cute. It wasn’t just cute, but to some extent, overly reliable.

Chi Ting successfully sent Ji Xingque away smoothly. He was a bit relieved when seeing that Ji Xingque really didn’t continue to ask.

The moment he looked up, he happened to catch a glimpse of Yue Ren. He raised an eyebrow slightly, walked over, and asked, “What are you thinking about? Are you going to say that I slapped your arm painfully?”

He thought it would be very reassuring to have such an unconditionally convinced teammate around him.

A silent answer floated through his mind. Then when he met Chi Ting’s gaze again, the corners of Yue Ren’s mouth twitched slightly before he showed a smile. “You have no tender, protective feelings at all. It does hurt a lot. But if you want to ask me what I’m thinking, it is naturally the same question as before. Why is that rule deliberately designed to confuse players? Do you want to explain it to me? Captain, don’t you think it is necessary for me to understand it in depth?”

During the brief eye contact, Chi Ting didn’t hide the scrutiny in his eyes. However, seeing that Yue Ren was still smiling and had no intention of changing his words, he also smiled slowly and asked instead of answering, “Are you sure you don’t know?”

The slightly elongated tone was enough to make people taste a subtle threat.

After a few seconds of confrontation, Yue Ren withdrew his gaze without comment and compromised tactfully, “Watch the game, watch the game.”

Chi Ting glanced at the figure before shifting his gaze back to the surveillance screen.

Some of the logic was indeed a bit too troublesome to explain to Ji Xingque, but he was sure that Yue Ren was definitely aware of it.

Why was it a false rule? The answer was actually very simple.

If this gas station was fake, leaving directly when the tank was already empty would only result in the car running out of gas before finding the next gas station. In this way, combined with the rule that stopping and getting off the car halfway wasn’t allowed, the only outcome waiting for the player was death.

The mere fact that players were forced to ‘trigger the death rule’ was enough to violate the instance design principles of this unlimited world. Therefore, they could only say that the first rule in the employee code of conduct was true, but its significance was limited to wasting people’s time. The assumption that ‘there might be fake gas stations’ that the players were induced to make was false in itself.

This meant there was indeed no problem with the choice Song Xuefeng made without hesitation.

As for whether Old Song was simply too lazy to move or had already figured out the details, Chi Ting was more inclined to the latter.

Others might not understand it very well, but Chi Ting knew that Song Xuefeng, who was usually unmotivated and always lay down whenever possible, would definitely be an existence that no one, including him, could ignore once Song Xuefeng became serious.

In short, as long as Old Song didn’t actively seek death, no one could do anything to him, including this instance in the unlimited world.

After all, what happened on the day of sacrifice wasn’t so easy to encounter.

Out of complete reassurance, Chi Ting looked at the content of the employee code of conduct that Song Xuefeng was observing. His expression was very relaxed.

There were six rules in total, starting from the first one they saw earlier.

……

Please familiarize yourself with the operation mode of the gas station as soon as possible and provide customers with perfect service content.
The gas station only accepts red and blue vehicles. Please ignore customers in vehicles of other colors and you don’t need to serve them.
Those driving red and blue vehicles are our VIP customers. Please serve them wholeheartedly. Even if you have to work overtime and stay overnight, you must serve at least one customer and ask them to leave a five-star review before you can leave work.
To ensure service quality, work clothes aren’t allowed to be taken off during work.
Do not communicate with customers during work. If you must speak, you are only allowed to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no.’

……

Each of these rules did seem to be written for gas station employees, but it was obvious that by the sixth rule, things were getting weird.

Song Xuefeng continued to read on and finally saw the last piece of content.

In order to minimize communication, please try not to let them know. The best option is to hide first.

So there were actually other people in this gas station, or to be more precise, NPCs or monsters?

It wasn’t known if it was a psychological effect, but for a moment, he felt a chill running down his spine as if someone was secretly watching him.

Song Xuefeng’s numb expression finally relaxed a bit when he thought that his every move since entering the gas station might be closely watched by an unknown existence in the dark.

Finally, a relieved smile slowly appeared.

Wasn’t it better to put the important content in the first line instead of making him read through them one by one?

There was a staff member here. Did this mean he needed to play hide-and-seek?

Well, forget it. In order to get off work earlier, he had to reluctantly take this seriously.