Patricia looked at Ronald first, and then at the vendor.
Without thinking for too long, the girl accepted the food.
Sitting on a bench on the platform, the two began to eat.
The cheap food sold on the train platform cannot compare with professional restaurants, nor can it be compared with the craftsmanship of Ronald's landlady.
Not to mention the poor packaging, the taste is definitely not much better.
But neither man nor woman care about such details.
The two of them finished the food quickly and then moved their eyes to the end of the train platform.
Next, continue to examine the scope of time distortion, starting from here.
"Okay, let's get started."
Ronald patted his sleeves and stood up from the bench.
Thinking that the items at the station would be traced back in time after leaving him, he did not intend to run to the trash can, so he directly placed the food packaging bags on the bench.
Immediately, he walked towards the station track.
"This time, let's test it from the platform first."
Looking at Ronald's back, Patricia also stood up from the bench.
She thought for a while and finally threw the garbage into the trash can a few meters away before following it.
Still use the method you just used.
The two began to cooperate.
The law of time has not changed. But using the 14 minutes and 24 seconds line as the base point, it took the two people nearly three hours this time to accurately measure this new straight line.
The result is out——
This way of dividing time distortion is a structure that becomes narrower toward the inside and wider toward the outside. Considering that the overall scope of influence of time distortion is a circle, this is the most typical fan-shaped section.
But there are always two sides to things.
The time-distorted area was successfully confirmed again, and the troubles that followed were highlighted.
In the area between 4 minutes and 48 seconds to 9 minutes and 36 seconds, one point can basically be measured in 5 minutes.
As for the line between 9 minutes and 36 seconds to 14 minutes and 24 seconds, it takes nearly ten minutes to measure each time.
If this method continues, the time spent by the two people here will become more and more exaggerated. Although it is not as scary as the doubling algorithm of placing meters on the chessboard, it will eventually turn into a tug of war between the two of them.
.
"..."
"Patricia, I don't think we can continue to waste time like this."
After measuring the last point of the line, Ronald immediately said to the girl next to him:
"If this continues, we will only spend more time and energy on repetitive work."
"We can't afford it."
After hearing Ronald's words, Patricia immediately thought about it.
The doubts in the girl's eyes quickly stabilized, and she suggested with a somewhat worried tone:
"Then let's change our strategy."
"From here on, we proceed with a three-point testing method."
"Test only three points on a straight line from near to middle to farthest."
"After all, there are previous examples where both lines are straight lines, so the result can be determined without any problems."
"That's the only way."
Ronald nodded and agreed with Patricia's statement.
Why couldn't he hear the other party's concerns?
If you want to get an accurate answer, you must go through repeated attempts. Otherwise, the test results are likely to have problems, or some potentially important details will be missed during the process.
But this is reality after all!
Reality requires compromise.
With just the two of them, lengthy testing was not an option.
Even though there was no shortage of food and water at the station, the two of them couldn't afford it.
Assume that the time in the station is not synchronized with the outside world.
Then it's okay for two people to disappear for one day, or two days for them to disappear.
But any more...
Because of their mysterious identities, they are bound to cause a lot of trouble.
Or to put it another way, if they continue to stay in this time-chaotic area, will something happen to them?
The three-point-once test method is already the limit.
Confirm next course of action.
Two people soon...
No, I can't say it's very fast.
Even using this method, the time it takes to measure points one by one begins to gradually increase.
After only measuring three time trajectories, a feeling of fatigue emerged in my spirit.
"..."
"The next 28 minutes and 48 seconds..."
Looking at the platform behind him, Ronald recited this number silently in his mind.
This number is only 6 times that of 4 minutes and 48 seconds.
So far, they have obtained a total of 4 time zone division trajectories.
But it took another three hours!
The total angles of the four sectors are only 60 degrees.
Even if we put aside the rest and extra time lost by the two of us, it would still take more than three days to test all time zones of the station.
Wuwuwu——
哐珰哐珰——
The neighing sound of the Dongfeng came from behind again. Ronald looked at Patricia walking towards him and said:
"Stop it first."
"Um."
Patricia nodded, she also understood the problem the two of them were facing now.
Out of some unspoken tacit understanding, the two returned to the place where they first met on the platform.
This time there was no need for Ronald to carry food for two people by himself.
They walked to the vendor together and each picked up a piece of food, then returned to the bench and sat down at the right time.
Immediately, the vendor shouted to the two people who had not paid:
"You two, you haven't paid yet..."
Wuwuwu——
哐珰哐珰——
Dongfeng is here again.
On the bench at this moment, the garbage bag that Ronald had thrown down had completely disappeared under the effect of time update.
The brand new bench is exactly the same as before.
But this time during dinner time, Ronald and Patricia did not want to be silent like last time.
The two began to discuss the matter.
Ronald was the first to speak:
"If we don't sleep and don't make any mistakes in the next test, then about three days..."
"It's 70 hours, 50 minutes and 24 seconds."
Before Ronald could finish speaking, Patricia spoke out a precise number. There was no hesitation in her affirmative eyes. She was very sure that this was the correct number.
"But it actually takes into account the perceived turnovers and the breaks."
"With the working efficiency of the two of us, the actual cost will be at least more than 5 days."
"..."
"It's too long."
"That's right."
After two seconds of silence, the two admitted their current troubles together.
After swallowing a mouthful of dry bread, Ronald was about to continue discussing this issue, but he was suddenly stunned.
He noticed a problem.
"..."
"Patricia...?"
"What's wrong?"
Looking at the girl's puzzled expression, Ronald wiped his nose with his hand first, and then said with a stiff expression:
"This... doesn't seem to be a scientific experiment."
"Do we two need to be so rigorous in verifying the accuracy of the data?"
"..."
The act of chewing food stops momentarily.
The expression on the girl's silent face also froze.