Click-click

After a few seconds of silence, the girl's cheeks moved.

After swallowing the dry bread in her mouth as well, Patricia's serious expression did not lose the embarrassment she deserved:

"I'm more sensitive to digital things because of my personal habits."

"I see it......"

Ronald nodded.

Obviously, how can someone who can calculate the number 70 hours, 50 minutes and 24 seconds so quickly not be sensitive to numbers?

But that's it.

Neither of them could break the deadlock in the air for a moment.

Truth be told, a brute who can't think is not going to be like them.

The current situation......

It's like two tactical theory experts who are suddenly thrown into the battlefield where bullets are flying, and then these two guys begin to study the tactical layout of the commander here on the spot.

It's outrageous.

“......”

Click-click

It wasn't until they had finished eating their food that they got up from their chairs silently, and 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 analyzed it directly:

"Since the known time zones are all fan-shaped, and the area is surprisingly consistent, then the innermost position of their starting point should also be the same place."

"This is most likely the source of the temporal chaos."

"That's right." Patricia nodded, turned around and walked towards the station, "The four areas we inspected have a total angle of 60°, which means that there are 24 time divisions like this......"

With that, Patricia fell silent suddenly.

There seemed to be something thinking in his eyes.

And follow in the footsteps of the girl.

Ronald is also aware of what this number may represent.

“24......”

When it comes to time, it's easy to think of 24 hours in a day.

Could it be that there is such a division of regions, that there is something occult about it?

"I see!"

As soon as Ronald began to think, Patricia beside him suddenly spoke.

With affirmation in her eyes, she said in an extremely confident tone:

"These 24 zones symbolize the 24 hours of the day."

"4 minutes 48 seconds, 9 minutes 36 seconds, 14 minutes 24 seconds ......"

"4 minutes and 48 seconds equals 288 seconds."

"And break down these times into multiples of 288 seconds, and then add them up according to the law of increment, until the twenty-fourth time of 1 hour, 55 minutes and 12 seconds, that is, 6912 seconds, the total time is 86400 seconds."

"That's all day!"

“......”

Ronald was stunned.

This girl......

It can't be some particularly powerful mathematician in this world, right?

Although this level of math is not difficult, it definitely takes a lot of time for ordinary people to calculate.

Not to mention that in less than three seconds, Patricia calculated the results and discovered the patterns.

“......”

Noticing Ronald's surprised look at him, Patricia's cheeks flushed.

But the scene soon faded away.

In a blink of an eye, the girl returned to her previous confident appearance, with a little apology in her expression:

"Makes you laugh and hear this kind of indifferent thing."

"We Nicklaus people are always obsessed with strange things."

"Don't say that." Ronald immediately waved his hand, indicating that he understood Patricia's love for mathematics, "Mathematics, the language of truth, has never been a strange thing. ”

"This kind of information, maybe it will help us later."

“......”

Patricia didn't respond next, and Ronald continued.

But from this moment on—

Something in her eyes had changed.

If it was said that in order to leave this time warp realm before, Patricia looked at Ronald with the eyes that were just ordinary partners.

So now, there is a friend in it.

————

Just like before, the change in time of the station could not affect the Ronald two.

Barely hindered, they made their way to the inside of the station.

The innermost part of the fan, the very center of all 24 time zones, is the office building of the Brenwich train station.

Standing in front of the building where he works 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 she left today had not changed, Martina was still shivering in the cold winter wind, and there was not much movement in the office building.

The cycle of time is still in effect here, and this is the most direct proof of this.

At this time, Patricia on the side asked Ronald for advice, after all, the other party was a staff member of the train station and was much more familiar with the terrain than herself.

"Ronald, shall we go to the first floor or the second floor first?"

“......”

The position of the time dividing line was simulated in his mind, and Ronald's eyes immediately shifted from the second floor to the first floor.

"Let's go to the first floor, it's unlikely that there is a problem on the second floor."

That's how confident Ronald is.

After all, no matter how perverted the mastermind is, it is impossible to hang on the lamppost extended by the wall on the second floor to make trouble, right?

And Patricia, who was beside him, didn't ask much, and walked into the office building together.

Walking down the whitewashed aisle of the train station, Ronald's colleagues greeted him.

"Alas, Ronald?"

"Hello."

"Who is this......?"

"My friend."

"What do you want the key to the storeroom for?"

"There was a bit of a problem with the timetable this morning, so I went to the database to check the records."

“......”

Send away the inquiries of several colleagues in turn.

Ronald led Patricia to the data room warehouse on the first floor.

There is a lot of paper material to record information, and all kinds of documents have been piling up in the room since the day the Brenwich train station officially opened.

If this incident is the work of the Magic Book.

To find a problem in this number of documents, it is also a physical work.

The intersection of the timeline was in front of him, and Ronald twisted the key to the data room and inserted it in the lock.

Click-

The door opened.

Seeing that everything in front of him was still calm, Ronald reached out and pushed the door open.

Outside the office building, the winter sun could barely bring light into the room, so the two of them could see the scene inside even when they stood in the doorway.

The neatly arranged shelves are piled up with papers, and the old paper materials are stained with gray dust on the yellow cover.

Although occasionally people come here to store or consult documents.

But the dust and the stuffy air are the real owners of this room.

Standing at the door of the reference room, Ronald and Patricia did not dare to step into it.

Because it's right in front of you—

The space in the data room is divided into 24 sectors.

At the moment, they are exchanging places frequently in a clockwise direction!