Chapter 1916 U Transcendence Event (VII)

Chapter 1890 U Beyond Event (VII)

The atmosphere in the cabin was so tense that it froze.

First, the four people stood with Schiller facing the door, that is, Schiller was at exactly twelve o'clock, and on his left, that is, at exactly three o'clock, was the Joker, opposite him at exactly six o'clock was the Phantom Cat Katie, and on his right, at exactly nine o'clock, was Carol.

According to the rules of the game, if you start throwing matches clockwise from twelve o'clock, then Schiller will be the first, the Joker will be the second, Katie will be the third, and Carol will be the fourth.

Just after the rules were introduced, a small pile of matches suddenly appeared in front of the four people. After Carol picked up the matches, she found that there were exactly ten.

This is a very simple math problem. Assuming that in order to win, everyone throws three matches in each round, then after Schiller finishes one round, everyone has seven matches left in their hands. After the second round, everyone has four matches left in their hands. After the third round, everyone has only one match left in their hands.

From this point on, Schiller throws in the match, and he has won. Then the clown who throws the second match will also avoid being eliminated, and finally Katie, and Carol, who is in fourth place, will inevitably be eliminated.

So it seems that this is a completely unfair game. The first person to throw will never be eliminated, but the last person will inevitably be eliminated.

If the last person does not want to be eliminated, then he must hope that someone will not throw three matches in the first three rounds, so that he will not be in a dead situation in the last round.

The upper limit of the number of matches thrown is three. If the other three people have less than three matches left in the last round, then Carol will still be eliminated.

Because they started before Carol, as long as they had less than or equal to three matches in their hands, they could throw all the matches in before Carol, and Carol would still be eliminated.

In other words, if Carol wanted to avoid being eliminated, she had to make sure that the three people in front of her had four or more matches in their hands in the last round, that is, she had to find a way to make the other three people skip at least once in the first three rounds, or throw one less match in each round, so that they could have at least four matches left.

Carol was very angry, and she shouted out her thoughts truthfully: "What kind of shitty game rules are these? Is it all based on luck? Whoever stands at the end will be eliminated, so what's the point of playing this game? Isn't it enough to just choose the last person to enter the room and eliminate him?!"

The clown picked his ears and seemed very impatient, but Schiller nodded to Carol politely and said, "Ma'am, I think you should think about why it's matches."

Carol was stunned, and she instinctively looked down at the brazier filled with charcoal, and her eyes fell on the thin matches in her hand, and suddenly she shouted.

"Yes! Matches can ignite the open flame of charcoal. You heard him say that. Everything in this room is made of wood. If you make the fire too big, we will all be burned to death!!!"

At this time, Katie whispered beside her: "But as long as no one jumps over, the brazier will not rise, and it will not burn the ceiling."

Carol was stunned again, but she reacted at this time and shouted with a grim face: "Anyway, if I play normally, I will definitely lose, so I will jump over all the first few rounds, so that no one will survive if the brazier rises!"

Katie looked at Captain Marvel in shock, and said: "Captain, what's wrong with you? How can you..."

"Because this is unfair to me!" Carol raised her voice and said: "How about we switch positions?"

Katie murmured and stopped talking. Everyone can see that being in the fourth place is a natural disadvantage. The others can win as long as they play normally according to the rules of the game. Only the fourth place will lose if she follows the normal rules.

Katie looked at the brazier on the table again. It was a semicircular brass brazier. There was a very narrow edge on the top edge of the brazier. There were four holes on the edge. Four iron chains hung from the ceiling and tied the brazier through the holes.

The bottom of the brazier was a flat surface, so it was very stable when placed on the table. When the brazier was placed on the table, the chain was loose and not completely straight.

Katie looked up at the ceiling again. Without measuring tools, estimating the distance out of thin air might have errors, but fortunately she had her own height as a reference.

Katie was a white woman, but she was a petite type. She was only 168cm tall, which was not very conspicuous among the same group of white women.

She didn't look up at the ceiling completely, because that would be too big and too eye-catching. She glanced at Captain Marvel next to her with her peripheral vision. Carol was much taller than her, roughly estimated to be 180cm, and the doctor opposite her was even taller. Katie guessed that he might be 187-190cm.

Because Schiller was standing directly opposite her, Katie could clearly see the distance between his head and the ceiling. Using the head-to-body ratio method to estimate the height of the ceiling, she determined that it should be around 260cm.

Then the height of the table was calculated. It was more like a bar counter than a table. When Katie stood up straight, the tabletop was just at her chest, which was about 1.2 meters high.

Jumping over the brazier once would raise her 30 centimeters, and Carol had only three chances to jump over at most, which meant that the brazier could rise up to 90 centimeters. Then 120 centimeters plus 90 centimeters would only be 210 centimeters, which was still half a meter away from the height of the ceiling.

But the current situation could not be seen in this way. Carol was the last one to throw a match. There were three people in front of her. If each person threw three matches, it was conservatively estimated that the flame would be lit when the second one was thrown.

Katie looked at the structure of the brazier. She was not sure whether the unique design of the brazier was to gather the flame, but she knew that there were so many charcoals in the brazier. Once the flame was ignited, it would not take long for the flame to rise high.

If the height of the flame exceeded 50 centimeters, the house would be on fire at the end of the fourth round.

Katie thought again that even if the house was on fire, it would not burn so quickly. As long as she finished the fourth round of the game, she should still have enough time.

No, that's not right. Katie looked around and found that the wooden house had windows. The air flow here was good and it was not completely closed. The rules only said that charcoal was not allowed to be taken out of the brazier, but it did not say that other means were not allowed to make the flames burn more vigorously.

In a situation where she was bound to lose, Carol could only grab the life-saving straw of burning the house to threaten others and let them throw fewer matches. Then she would definitely use various methods to make the fire burn more vigorously and higher, such as blowing with her mouth, fanning with clothes, etc.

In this way, the house may burn earlier than expected, and it is even possible that the fire will burn in the second round.

But there is enough time left. It's just throwing a match. How long can it take? Katie thought.

Even if the house was on fire in the second round, the remaining few people threw the matches at the fastest speed, and it would take less than 10 seconds to throw them all, wouldn't Carol still lose?

Wait, Katie frowned and thought and found another suspicious point. When the brazier was pulled to the highest point, which was about 2.1 meters, it was above everyone's head, especially since she was short, the brazier would be 40-50 centimeters above her head.

Katie looked around and remembered that the rules said that you can't leave the table within 1 meter, but she didn't know whether this 1 meter was counted from the edge of the table or from the cylinder supporting the table.

If they counted from the edge of the table, they would have some room to move, but if they counted from the cylinder, everyone would have less than half a meter of space left, basically no room for maneuvering.

The rules didn't make it clear, so no one dared to take the risk, not even Katie. If she took a step and was eliminated, she would be wrongly killed, so it was difficult for Katie to retreat.

But if she didn't step back, the fire basin would be directly above her head, and the fire basin was a hemisphere with an edge. In this case, it would be very difficult to throw the match into the fire basin, which was almost equivalent to standing directly under the basket and letting the basketball go into the basket in a normal way.

Katie suddenly realized that this game was not good for her either. She was the shortest among the four. If Carol chose to die together and skipped all the first few rounds, the fire basin would be pulled higher and higher, and the possibility of her not being able to throw the match in would increase.

Although the rules did not specify what the consequences would be if she threw the match but didn't throw it in, Katie didn't dare to take the risk. What if the match fell to the ground and she was eliminated? What if the match was lit but fell on the wooden floor?

Although Katie thought very quickly, she immediately spoke to comfort Carol: "Captain, don't say that, we won't abandon you, there must be a fair way."

Suddenly, the clown snorted coldly, and he said in a voice that was floating above the vocal organs: "You idiots, do you think that as long as you throw a match in, the flame will definitely be ignited?"

He supported his hands on the table, stared at the brazier gloomily and laughed twice, raised his eyebrows, took back one hand, wiped his lips with the base of his palm, and then pointed to a corner of the brazier and said: "See that piece of charcoal? Yes, it's the charcoal on the right that is pressed underneath. That piece of charcoal is obviously about to burn out. As long as I can throw the match on it along the gap between the pieces of charcoal above, it won't be so easy to ignite it."

Hearing this, Carol and Katie both looked at the place where the clown pointed, and really found a piece of charcoal with a slightly different color from the other charcoals.

The surface of this piece of charcoal does not have so much grayish-white floating dust, the color is darker, and the two ends do not turn slightly red with the air flow, so it does not look very hot.

It is pressed under three overlapping cylindrical charcoal pieces, but it is not completely covered. There is a small opening in the middle and on the left side. If you aim at a certain point, you should be able to throw a match into it.

"Oh, I forgot to mention that before I became a weirdo who robbed a bank, I worked part-time as a clown in a circus for a while. I was kicked out of the circus by my boss because I threw darts too accurately." The clown relaxed sideways, with his elbows on the table, and pouted his lips and said, "As long as the fire can't be lit, it doesn't matter how many times you jump."

"You damn lunatic!" Carol cursed angrily. Just as she was about to say something, the clown covered her ears and shouted, "I can't hear you, I can't hear you, I can only hear your screams when you were eliminated, hahahahahaha!"

Carol's facial features became very hideous.