Chapter 56: The friend’s eyes
clicked—
after a few seconds of silence, the girl’s cheeks moved.
After swallowing the dry bread in her mouth, Patricia's serious expression did not lose the embarrassment she deserved:
"Due to personal habits, I am more sensitive to numerical matters."
"I see it."
Rona De nodded.
Obviously, how can someone who can calculate the number 70 hours, 50 minutes and 24 seconds so quickly be insensitive to numbers?
But here we go.
Neither of them could break the deadlock in the air for a while.
To be honest, even a barbarian who can't think would not be like them.
The current situation
is like two experts in tactical theory who were suddenly thrown into a battlefield with bullets flying everywhere. Then these two guys began to study the commander's tactical layout on the spot.
Just outrageous.
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Click, click -
they didn't get up from their chairs silently until they finished eating the food on their hands, then walked to the trash can together, and threw away the trash stiffly.
Looking at the trash can in front of him, Ronald shook his head slightly.
He chose to forget the embarrassment just now, and simply started to analyze directly:
"Since the currently known time areas are all fan-shaped, and the areas are surprisingly consistent, then the innermost position of their starting points should be the same place."
"This is very likely the source of time chaos."
"That's right." Patricia nodded, turned and walked towards the station, "The total angle of the four areas we checked is 60°, that is There are a total of 24 time divisions like this."
At this point, Patricia suddenly fell silent.
He seemed to be thinking about something in his eyes.
And follow the girl's footsteps.
Ronald also realized what the number might represent.
"24"
involves time, and it easily reminds people of the 24 hours in a day.
Could it be that there is some mystical meaning to this kind of regional division?
"I know!"
Just as Ronald started to think, Patricia beside him suddenly spoke.
With certainty in her eyes, she said with great confidence:
"These 24 areas symbolize the 24 hours in a day." "
4 minutes and 48 seconds, 9 minutes and 36 seconds, 14 minutes and 24 seconds."
"4 minutes and 48 seconds ." A second is equal to 288 seconds."
"And break these times into multiples of 288 seconds, and then add them up according to the increasing rule, until the twenty-fourth times 1 hour, 55 minutes and 12 seconds, that is, 6912 seconds, the total time That's 86,400 seconds."
"That's a whole day!"
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Ronald was stunned.
Isn't this girl
some particularly powerful mathematician in this world?
Although such a level of mathematical operations is not difficult, for ordinary people, it definitely takes a lot of time to calculate.
Not to mention that in less than three seconds, Patricia calculated the results and discovered the rules at the same time.
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Noticing the surprised look in Ronald's eyes when he looked at her, Patricia's cheeks turned red rarely.
But this scene quickly disappeared.
In the blink of an eye, the girl returned to her previous confident look, with a little apology in her expression:
"I made you laugh, hearing such insignificant things."
"We, the Nicklaus family, are always obsessed with this. Some weird things."
"Don't say that." Ronald immediately waved his hand, showing that he understood Patricia's love for mathematics. "Mathematics, the language of truth, has never been a strange thing. "
This kind of information may help us in the future."
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Patricia did not respond to Ronald and continued the conversation.
But from this moment on -
something in her eyes changed.
If it were said that in order to leave this time distortion field, Patricia looked at Ronald as an ordinary partner.
So now, it has the meaning of friends.
——Just
like before, the change in time of the station cannot affect Ronald and the two.
With almost no obstruction, they arrived inside the station.
The innermost part of the fan shape, which is the center where all 24 time zones are separated, happens to be the office building of Burrenwich Railway Station.
Standing in front of the building where he worked every day, Ronald looked back and forth.
From this position, he could even see the corridor outside the conference room on the second floor.
The scene when he left today had not changed at all. Martina was still shivering in the cold winter wind, and there were not many people walking around in the office building.
The reincarnation of time still works here, which is the most direct proof.
At this time, Patricia on the side asked Ronald for advice. After all, he was a staff member of the train station and was more familiar with the terrain than she was.
"Ronald, should we go to the first floor or the second floor first?"
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Simulating the position of the time dividing line in his mind, Ronald's eyes immediately turned from the second floor to the first floor.
"Go to the first floor. It's unlikely that the problem is on the second floor."
Ronald was so confident.
After all, no matter how perverted the mastermind behind the scenes is, he can't hang on the lamppost extended from the wall on the second floor to cause trouble, right?
And Patricia beside him didn't ask any questions, and walked into the office building together.
Walking down the stuccoed aisles of the train station, Ronald's colleagues greeted him.
"Oh, Ronald?"
"Hello."
"Who is this?"
"My friend."
"Why do you want the key to the warehouse?"
"There is something wrong with the timetable this morning. I'll go to the database to check. Record."
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He dismissed the inquiries of several colleagues in turn.
Ronald took Patricia to the data room and warehouse on the first floor.
A large amount of paper materials recording information are stored here. From the day Burrenwich Railway Station officially opened, various documents began to accumulate in the room.
If this incident was caused by a magic book.
Finding problems from such a number of files is also a physical job.
The intersection of the timelines was right in front of him. He took out the key to the data room and inserted it into the door lock. Ronald twisted it slightly.
Click -
the door opened.
Seeing that everything in front of him was still calm, Ronald reached out and pushed open the door.
Outside the office building, the winter sunshine could barely bring its light into the room, so the two of them could see the scene inside while standing at the door.
There are piles of documents on the neatly arranged shelves, and the old paper materials are stained with gray dust on the yellow covers.
Although occasionally people come here to store or review documents.
But dust and stuffy air are the real masters of this room.
Standing at the door of the data room, Ronald and Patricia did not dare to step inside.
Because right in front of you -
the space in the data room is divided into 24 sectors.
At this moment, they are frequently exchanging positions with each other in a clockwise direction!
[Thanks to the book friends for helping to catch bugs and correct mistakes. Thank you very much! 】
(End of this chapter)