A flash of inspiration suddenly crossed the little fox's mind.
He immediately took out his wallet, which contained his ID card. This was not his ID card from the real world, but his ID card in this current spatial world.
Let alone his, even the ID cards of the other three, Ye Tiancheng, had not been carefully examined by anyone because there had been no use for them so far.
The little fox took out his ID card and upon closer inspection, immediately noticed the difference.
On his ID card, his photo was on the right, identical to his face. The left side displayed his personal name, and his date of birth. Although not entirely accurate, as the little fox was not a true human and his birth date could not be normally ascertained, Ye Tiancheng and the others had processed an ID card for the little fox, which did have a date on it.
The date of birth on this ID card was the same as on the little fox's original ID card.
It also showed gender, but no ethnicity.
The section that should have displayed the address was gone, replaced by "District," followed by "Xiao Jing City District One."
The ID number at the bottom was completely different from reality.
The first part of the ID number consisted of the letters in the fourteenth and fifteenth positions, followed by a decimal point. After the decimal point was the ID number, only seven digits. The little fox's ID number had four zeros at the beginning, with the last digit being 163.
Flipping to the back of the ID card, in the upper left corner, there was a strange blue-purple patterned icon. Next to it were the words "Xiao Jing City Citizen ID Card." There was no issuing authority or expiration date indicated, but below it was a QR code and a line of small text.
"Xiao Jing City Citizen Notice and Rules."
Upon seeing these, the little fox immediately called out to everyone, "Quick, check your ID cards. I mean the ID cards in this space."
The others, hearing this, took out their own ID cards to look.
They were all generally similar, but for their respective ID cards, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox both had four zeros at the beginning of their ID numbers. Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping, however, had two zeros at the beginning of their ID numbers, and one had only the first digit as zero.
Most people knew that in the real world, each part of their ID number had a specific meaning. So, in this spatial world, what was this ID number based on?
Ye Tiancheng thought for a moment and said, "Could the difference in ID numbers be because we come from different districts?"
Nie Chongyang shook his head, refuting Ye Tiancheng's statement.
He said, "It shouldn't be because of that. Although Ye Tiancheng and the little fox are both citizens of District One, and their numbers have a certain pattern, Liang Ping and I are both from District Thirteen, and we can't find any pattern in our numbers."
The little fox casually remarked, "If this is ranked by the number of citizens, it would be a bit terrifying."
Everyone looked at the little fox at once.
The little fox was startled and quickly corrected himself, "I was just talking nonsense. It shouldn't be like that. Even if it were ranked by population, they wouldn't let us cut in line, right? It should be sequential, so there shouldn't be zeros at the beginning of our ID numbers."
However, after considering it, the few of them felt that this possibility could not be entirely ruled out, but they thought that perhaps the reference point was not just the total number of citizens, but also related to their respective districts.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox were both in District One, which might be a more special VIP district with fewer people, hence the zeros at the beginning of their ID numbers. That was also possible.
Liang Ping looked at his ID card several times before saying, "How about this, let's first look at that Citizen Notice and Rules?"
The others thought it made sense, so they took out their phones and scanned the QR code on their ID cards.
A webpage quickly popped up on their phones, displaying something like a city government website. The "Citizen Notice and Rules" section was in a very prominent position. Upon clicking to view it, they saw a large number of dazzling regulations.
There were a great many regulations, but despite this, Ye Tiancheng and the others had no choice but to read them.
In the real world, even with such notices and rules, and laws, unless one was working in a related field, no one would voluntarily read and memorize every single rule.
Only a minority were willing to read them.
But in this strange place, these regulations would contain a lot of information.
After Ye Tiancheng and the others had carefully studied them, they discovered that this so-called Xiao Jing City was a city filled with all sorts of rules. In fact, it could even be said that the world seen by different citizens might be different.
Apart from some regulations that were very close to reality, which were the rules that citizens had to abide by during the day and were basically not worth much attention or study, Xiao Jing City citizens had some basic rules that they had to follow.
These were absolutely non-existent in the outside world.
These regulations included prohibiting certain specific citizens from going out at night, requiring them to stay in their residences, and not allowing them to sleep outdoors. They also required citizens to strictly adhere to the special rules of various places they visited.
When special rules conflicted with citizen rules, citizens should make their own judgment based on the location they were in, deciding which rules to follow.
In short, there were all sorts of messy and strange rules and regulations.
It was likely that those wearing uniforms were also restricted by rules, which was why they acted that way. And since they enforced them so strictly, it was likely that if the rules were truly broken, it might lead to some unpleasant consequences, even endangering their lives, which was why everyone was willing to abide by them so strictly and voluntarily.
After reading through them, the little fox said, "I have a feeling that the citizens who are not allowed to go out at night might be like us, coming from outside. As for other citizens, whether they are human or not, it's hard to say."
From their experience last night, it could be inferred that this so-called Xiao Jing City likely had a considerable proportion of non-human citizens.
Thinking about it this way, it made them even more unwilling to hope that the so-called ID number was related to the population of Xiao Jing City, otherwise, it would mean how many non-humans they had to face every day.
Moreover, most of these non-humans probably didn't have any goodwill towards them, did they?
Even thinking pessimistically, perhaps some victims who had stumbled in here were initially special citizens who couldn't go out at night, but later, due to some experiences, they might have been transformed into other citizens and became those who could go out at night?
Looking at the situation last night, if there were people who could go out at night, they would definitely not be ordinary people.
Liang Ping asked, "What should we do now? We can't get out, and with these rules, we don't know how long we can last. We also need to find a way to leave here, and we need a direction."
Nie Chongyang thought for a moment and said, "Although it's not easy to get into the university, we will definitely have to go in and take a look sooner or later. However, we don't know how we can get in."
The little fox said with clenched fists.
"There are always more solutions than problems."
Ye Tiancheng was the one who made the main decisions, and everyone was waiting for Ye Tiancheng to speak before acting.
Ye Tiancheng dared not act rashly. He considered it carefully for a long time before saying, "Although this is not ideal, in special times, we must use special methods."
"We might have to find a way to observe people entering and exiting the university. We shouldn't choose those who are too conspicuous, and then try to look at their ID cards to see if we can sneak into the university by taking someone else's ID card. If, as long as we get an ID card and change into a uniform, we can sneak in, and the entry detection mechanism cannot verify if it's us, then this method would work. If it's confirmed that it won't work, then we'll find other ways."
Wearing enemy uniforms and infiltrating enemy lines was a common tactic during wartime.
This was indeed a reasonable tactic.
The little fox said, "If that's the case, we should choose groups with more people so that our faces are not easily remembered, such as teachers and students. Smaller groups would be easily exposed."
"Moreover, if we can borrow someone else's identity, the identity we borrow must also match our appearance."
The term "borrowing identity" could be considered a polite way of saying it.
To put it crudely, it was stealing, impersonation.
Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping were not so pedantic. These were indeed special times, so they also agreed with this opinion.
Nie Chongyang said, "It's worth trying. Being able to sneak in with a smaller cost is a good thing."
He thought for a moment and then said again, "Nie Chongyang and I are not suitable for pretending to be young. Let's see if we can find the identity of a teacher. Ye Tiancheng, you and the little fox can pretend to be students, which is more suitable."
After all, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox had always pretended to be students to sneak into schools.
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox had no objections.
Ye Tiancheng thought for a moment and said, "Then let's do this. We'll set it like this for now. If this plan is feasible, we'll do it. However, it's not suitable to act now. I see fewer and fewer teachers and students entering and exiting the school. We should also try to match our physique when choosing targets. The current range of choices has greatly reduced."
"When there are more people entering and exiting the school at noon, we'll try to see. Then, after a period of time, pretending to return to school normally should be more appropriate and safer."
After considering it, the other three unanimously approved the plan.
The little fox then asked Ye Tiancheng, "So, what should we do before we sneak into the school?"
Ye Tiancheng pondered and said, "Why don't we go to other places first and see what the rules of this city are like?"
If they were to go to places that didn't take too much time, it wasn't impossible.
It was just that Ye Tiancheng and the others had coincidentally never been to places with special rules, which was why they hadn't discovered this on the first day.
Or, it couldn't be said that they hadn't.
Strictly speaking, their workplaces should be places with special rules. However, during the time they entered and exited these places, they were in a special period of memory confusion and had no opportunity to notice or trigger these points.
Things like informing about rules, except for places like amusement parks where you had to buy a separate ticket or something each time, would only remind people of the rules when they first entered.