PFRG: Chapter 158

“Captain, please ask some phantom brothers to come out and clean up. Please tell everyone how hard they worked.”

The first time was new, the second time was familiar. Ji Xingque ran errands between the lobby and the kitchen. Then he pulled up a chair to rest after the business was over. Seeing Chi Ting really call a few phantoms out, his eyes moved around between the other team members, who hadn’t reacted. He looked puzzled. “What is going on? I saw that everything went well today. The revenue should be quite a lot. Why are they all like this?”

He looked at Lu Nanling and said, “Brother Lu, is today’s sales bad?”

Lu Nanling replied, “No, the daily sales are pretty good. Even if it is placed among all the teams, it should be far ahead today.”

Ji Xingque was even more puzzled. “Then why…”

Hua Qianmei slapped Ji Xingque on the face. She pushed the noisy guy aside, slowly looked around at the others, and sighed helplessly. “Xiao Lu, didn’t you say that the food reserves for today were very sufficient? How come you still killed three customers in the end? It isn’t that I can’t run an illegal store, but this type of low level mistake shouldn’t happen to you. Come on, tell me honestly. Has your bad premonition that is more effective than a crow’s mouth come true again? At this pace, will we have to kill all the customers on the last day?”

“I’m sorry, I made a wrong prediction. But… cough.” Lu Nanling lowered his voice slightly and expressed his protest. “I don’t have a crow’s mouth.”

Hua Qianmei smiled. “Sometimes your premonition is more unbearable than a crow’s mouth.”

Lu Nanling: “……”

He was unable to refute this statement, so he forced the topic back. “You are right about this. The previous prediction has indeed come true. According to the situation in the previous few days, the new demand for incense is about 1.5 times the highest number on the previous day. Therefore, the purchase quantity I set yesterday should theoretically be completely fine. There should even be a lot of surplus. But the final result is that the number of new incense suddenly increased to 3 times tonight. The consumption of other incense also increased significantly. This led to the result of insufficient inventory in the end. Of course, if the team next door encounters the same situation, their inventory is only slightly less than ours. The situation they encounter should be much worse than ours.”

Lou Yueren smiled. “Comparing the misery of others? Thank you, this statement is indeed comforting.”

Ji Xingque said, “Brother Ren, you really are…”

After being glanced at, he swallowed down the words ‘bad character’ that were on the tip of his tongue.

Chi Ting was about to laugh as he listened to their conversation. Then he noticed Lu Nanling looking at him and immediately understood what this person meant.

He naturally knew they were waiting for him to make the final decision. He stroked the stone on his chest with his fingertips and asked, “So if we continue with the current situation, it will probably be a matter of time before we completely lose our memory?”

Lu Nanling nodded. “Yes.”

Chi Ting chuckled. “It is just the difference between losing one or two memories, right?”

Lu Nanling didn’t avoid this question. “If the demand growth every day is the same as today, I’m afraid we will all have to stay in this instance in the end.”

This was undoubtedly a very serious conclusion.

Chi Ting touched his chin. No one else said anything during his long period of thinking until he finally raised his eyes again.

This time, the final conclusion was given in a concise manner. “Then let’s harvest all the sales that can be harvested based on the maximum number of people allowed to lose their memory. In any case, we should strive for a higher ranking as much as possible while ensuring the safety of the team.”

Lu Nanling had been waiting for the captain’s reply. He smiled slightly seeing this result. “I think so too.”

Chi Ting glanced at him with a mixture of anger and amusement. “You clearly already have an idea in mind every time, but you still make me waste a lot of brain cells.”

The two of them smiled at each other, but Ji Xingque, who was standing next to them, looked confused. “Captain, your conclusion sounds very complicated. What exactly do you mean?”

“What I mean is…” Chi Ting waved his hand to signal for Ji Xingque to come over. After getting closer, he directly grabbed the person and said, “Come on, you can give me your recorded video first. The most critical procurement task tonight will depend on you and Xiao Lu to complete. Come on.”

Upon hearing this, Ji Xingque handed over the camera very consciously and blinked. “You are giving such an important task to me and Brother Lu? Captain, you trust me so much!”

Chi Ting smiled. “Yes, don’t worry. I trust you as much as I trust Xiao Lu.”

He watched Ji Xingque leave happily all the way. After turning around, he was caught off guard by Lou Yueren’s half smiling gaze, and choked a bit. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Nothing. I just think you are so cute when you are fooling that little kid without changing your expression or heartbeat.” Lou Yueren couldn’t help laughing when he saw Ji Xingque’s resolute expression as he left. “It is just, poor Little Bird. I wonder how he would feel if he knew the main reason his captain trusts him is because he is simple-minded.”

Chi Ting glanced at him noncommittally. “As long as someone with nothing to do doesn’t come over to remind him, he probably won’t know.”

Lou Yueren raised an eyebrow. “I understand. I will keep my mouth shut and not remind him.”

Even though he said so, Chi Ting always felt that this outspoken guy would go and tease Ji Xingque if he was in a good mood. He glanced at this face repeatedly and simply threw the beads in his hand, directly tying the two wrists tightly together. Then he stood up with great relief. “The cleaning is almost down. Let’s go upstairs and get ready for rest.”

Today, everyone was very clear about all the processes.

Leaving Lu Nanling to make the purchasing arrangements for tonight, everyone went back to their rooms to wash up and prepare for another severe test that evening.

Chi Ting came out of the bathroom to find that Lou Yueren had already finished washing up and was waiting in the room. He was looking down at something very seriously.

Chi Ting took a quick glance and felt that the thing in the man’s hand looked familiar. Then he remembered that it seemed to be his diary, so he walked over quickly.

Unexpectedly, Lou Yueren seemed to be very focused and alert. Before the outstretched hand got close, he had already lifted the notebook in his hand to the side and dodged. “Why do you want to grab things as soon as you come out?”

Chi Ting lowered his eyes and looked at this person. “You’ve read it so many times. Why do you keep flipping through it?”

“I’ve read it so many times because Captain Chi’s memo is too short. There are only two pages, so it is hard to read them slowly.” After avoiding it, Lou Yueren leaned back on the pillow behind him and smiled lazily. “As for why I keep reading it, it is naturally because I like it. Next, I don’t need to repeat what my favorite content is, right?”

Chi Ting said sincerely, “…I was wrong. I find that I still lack a certain understanding of the extent of your shamelessness.”

“Thank you for your compliment.” Lou Yueren laughed. He turned a few more pages with a lingering feeling. After he read it again, his playful expression finally subsided a bit. “Chi Ting, can I confirm something?”

“Hmm?”

Lou Yueren shook the notebook in his hand. “You only wrote a few simple pages. It shouldn’t be because you plan to save yourself to the end, right? From the looks of it, it seems that you really have absolute confidence in yourself after losing your memory.”

Since the crisis of amnesia was inevitable during the instance process, it was undoubtedly crucial to decide who would carry out this task and who would be safely left behind to carry out the final guidance work.

This was also the reason why Ji Xingque and Lu Nanling were asked to charge into battle tonight. The former was simple-minded, and it didn’t make much of a difference whether he lost his memory or not. He was easy to control. The latter was due to this extraordinary brain power. Even if he fell into a state of losing his memory, he could definitely calculate his current situation clearly and get back into the right state.

The unknown was indeed the scariest thing.

Amnesia meant bringing people into a state of complete unknown.

At the end of this instance, it all depended on how many people in a team could withstand the unknown.

In general, the least effective solution was to let those who could perfectly integrate into the team, even if they had no memory, to do as much purchasing as possible.

In an abbreviated manner: queueing amnesia.

Chi Ting had no intention of hiding it from Lou Yueren, but he hadn’t expected this person to deduce it based on the contents of the dairy alone. There was a moment of silence before he sighed helplessly. “Yes, very confident. After the two of them have adapted to their amnesia, I will be ready to take on the next one myself.”

He looked up and accidentally met the other person’s gaze. He couldn’t help smiling. “Why are you looking at me like that? Of course, I can do what my teammates can do. Whoever is suitable will take over. This is the old tradition of the Dawn team.”

There was a short silence before Lou Yueren spoke casually, “With such a good tradition, why don’t you think of using me? After all, I have more experience than any of you. If we are talking about the right person, I am more suitable than you, right?”

Chi Ting’s expression was a bit complicated. “You really don’t know yourself well.”

Lou Yueren: “.”

Chi Ting took the notebook from Lou Yueren’s hand and put it back in his pocket. “First of all, if you still remember the first time we met, you would realize how difficult it is to gain your trust. I might have your strictly encrypted handwritten diary this time, but you must admit that you are indeed the most uncontrollable person among all people in terms of personality. It will definitely save more effort for you to lead me than for me to lead you.”

Lou Yueren didn’t comment on this statement. “Secondly?”

“The second point really isn’t a convincing one. It is mainly due to selfishness.” Chi Ting looked at Lou Yueren steadily before speaking. “I haven’t experienced it, but losing memories is a terrible thing no matter how you think about it. I really don’t want you to experience it a second time.”

The surroundings seemed to become quiet as the final sound came out.

At this moment, these memory fragments that had been restarted again and again in the instance seemed to be pierced together into countless pictures.

Among them, the tall and slender figure in front of the windows of the empty apartment building looked particularly lonely and indifferent.

In that period of time with no past and no future, only darkness was left.

The expression on Lou Yueren’s face was blank for a moment. Then his lips gradually curved up. “Can I understand that you are feeling sorry for me?”

“Yes, I feel really bad.”

Perhaps even Chi Ting didn’t realize how gentle his eyes were at this moment. “So, I feel sorry for you. Please feel a bit sorry for me. If you don’t bring out all my teammates when we finally pass the instance, you will be finished.”

Lou Yueren was feeling moved when he was caught off guard by the threat. His expression stiffened for a moment before he burst out laughing.

After a long time, he managed to utter another sentence. “You are really… Okay, I got it. I promise to complete the task, my team leader.”