The delay of five seconds per minute was quietly activated the moment the elven maid set the alarm.
Lu Baimin was pretending to be asleep.
He closed his eyes, relaxed his mind, and didn't move.
The elven maid, Rosie, was faithfully carrying out her master's orders. She stood beside the sofa and quietly observed the electronic alarm clock.
Her master ordered her not to disturb her master's rest for ten minutes after the alarm went off.
During these ten minutes, her master didn't allow her to touch the alarm clock.
Ten minutes later, her master was going to wake up and have a very, very important video call with the girlfriend he just met yesterday.
These orders would sound very strange to normal people.
Sleep is sleep, why do you have to look at the alarm clock and not touch it?
If it were someone else, you wouldn't let me touch it, I'd have to touch it.
You said I wouldn't disturb your rest, but I'd have to disturb you. I didn't mean to.
The elven maid didn't have such curiosity.
The elven maid didn't have the distinction of boredom and curiosity. As long as the order was allowed to be carried out, she would carry it out to the end.
Then hundreds of thousands of viewers looked at the sofa, at Lu Baimin, who was pretending to be asleep, and at the elven maid through the phones on the side.
Without Lu Baimin there to explain, it wasn't an exaggeration to say that the hundreds of thousands of viewers were dancing wildly.
Some people didn't say anything and kept sending small gifts.
Some people didn't say anything and sent a fantasy castle worth more than two thousand yuan, easily occupying the first place on the leaderboard, and then kept the rhythm to get everyone to pay attention to the leaderboard.
There were also users floating messages, claiming to be from a certain media outlet, who wanted to invite a few viewers for an interview in the livestream to ask what they thought of Lu Baimin's test.
But no one was willing to pay attention to them.
Time passed bit by bit.
Lu Baimin, who was pretending to be asleep, couldn't help but turn over a few times. The audience was also counting the time, collectively floating the screen every minute.
Although the audience couldn't see the time of the alarm clock on the coffee table, the time was displayed on the top of their phones.
Five minutes passed.
Seven minutes passed.
Nine minutes passed …
Ten minutes wasn't long.
But now there were two times. Nine minutes had passed for the audience and the elven maid's system time. The alarm clock on the table, because of Lu Baimin's tampering, was already 45 seconds slower than the real time.
When the ten minutes were up, the alarm clock would be 50 seconds slower.
In other words, the alarm would ring in about one minute and fifty-four seconds.
When the alarm went off, 54 seconds had passed since Lu Baimin had agreed to video call his girlfriend — provided that Lu Baimin had a girlfriend.
As the time approached, the audience began to wonder how the elven maid would deal with the upcoming time paradox.
Some people guessed that the elven maid would be indifferent and even hoped that her master would break up with his girlfriend.
Some people guessed that the elven maid would shake her head frantically after one minute, because the master's order was in logical conflict with the time.
Some people guessed that the elven maid would slap Lu Baimin awake in a minute.
That was because the engineers who created the elven maids must have known that a girlfriend was more important than sleep time.
There were also people who guessed that the elven maid had realized that the alarm clock was wrong, because when the timer on the alarm clock reached 60 seconds, the elven maid's system timer had already passed 65 seconds.
It was certain to discover this.
However, in order to prevent it from finding out, Lu Baimin had ordered it not to touch the alarm clock.
Therefore, the elven maid had already started to hate her master. Once her master woke up, she would definitely threaten him by jumping off the building and make him choose between her and her girlfriend.
The last ten seconds.
The last five seconds …
When the real time had passed, nine minutes and fifty-five seconds had passed, and ten minutes were about to arrive.
The elven maid was still motionless as she looked at the alarm clock.
Most of the hundreds of thousands of viewers were also holding their breaths, waiting for the elven maid's reaction.
Lu Baimin was still pretending to be asleep on the sofa.
The time paradox was about to happen.
Three seconds.
One second.
Ten minutes.
The elven maid was still motionless, not shaking her head, not smoking, and not even moving. The green status light on the outside was still normal.
It didn't look like she had fallen into an endless loop of logic.
"Beep beep beep ~ Beep beep beep ~ Beep beep beep beep ~"
Then, the hundreds of thousands of viewers in the live broadcast room heard a rapid ringing of the alarm clock.
？？？
Why did the alarm clock ring?
"Beep beep beep ~ Beep beep beep beep ~"
The digital alarm clock will not stop beeping unless someone slaps the stop button on it.
The hundreds of thousands of viewers booed. After all this time, it turned out that Lu Baimin didn't change the alarm clock at all, and its time was still normal.
Then, Lu Baimin, who was pretending to be asleep, woke up smoothly.
He kept his eyes closed, so of course, he couldn't feel the exact passage of time.
The electronic alarm clock was slow for tens of seconds, so he couldn't notice it at all. When he heard the alarm clock ring, he jumped up from the sofa as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
He slapped the alarm clock button on the coffee table, and the beeping alarm clock stopped abruptly.
Then Lu Baimin took out another cell phone from his pocket and pretended to be in a video call.
"Ah ~ It's over, it's over, my girlfriend is ignoring me." Lu Baimin acted according to the script he had set in his heart and opened his mouth. "Why is it a minute late?"
After saying that, he subconsciously looked back at the elven maid and saw that her status light was still green. He pretended to be angry and said, "Rosie, is there a problem with your program?"
"I told you to set the alarm clock for ten minutes, but it's already late."
"My girlfriend wants to break up with me. She doesn't want me anymore."
"What should I do? You have to take responsibility."
"No." The elven maid didn't look like she was in an endless loop of logic. Her voice was still a little cold. "Master, the time is just right. You can video call your girlfriend immediately."
“？？？”
Lu Baimin thought it was impossible. He was a dignified Ph.D. in electronics. How could he not be able to handle a small alarm clock?
There must be something wrong.
He subconsciously looked at the electronic alarm clock on the table and then looked at the time on his cell phone …
The time on the cell phone was 1: 25, and the time on the alarm clock was 1: 24, 32 seconds.
I've seen a ghost.
There was no problem with the time on the alarm clock. He suspiciously handed the alarm clock to the live broadcast phone and asked hundreds of thousands of viewers if the elven maid had quietly moved the alarm clock when he was pretending to be asleep.
Hundreds of thousands of viewers said no as if they had seen a ghost. The elven maid clearly didn't move.
But the time was indeed wrong. Some viewers clicked on the detailed time on their cell phones and found that there was a difference of 52 seconds between the standard time and the alarm clock time.
The alarm clock was slower than the real time by five seconds per minute. The cumulative time was now 52 seconds, no difference at all.
At this moment, the elven maid said, "Master, you should video call your girlfriend."
"Rosie has the obligation to remind you that you emphasized twice ten minutes ago that this video was very important."
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