Chapter 1903 U: Beyond the Big Event (VII)

The atmosphere in the wooden house was tense to the point of freezing.

First of all, the four people are standing with Schiller facing the door. In other words, Schiller is at twelve o'clock, and to his left, at three o'clock, is the clown, and opposite him is at six o'clock. It was Kitty, the phantom cat, and to his right, at nine o'clock, was Carol.

If you look at the rules of the game and start throwing matches clockwise from the twelve o'clock direction, then Schiller is first, the clown is second, Katie is third, and Carol is fourth.

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

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

From this point on, Schiller throws the match in, and he has won. Then the clown who throws the match second will also avoid the fate of being eliminated. Finally, it is Katie, and Carlo is in fourth place. You will definitely be eliminated.

So from this point of view, this is a completely unfair game. The first person to throw will not be eliminated, but the last person will definitely be eliminated.

If the last person doesn't want to be eliminated, then he must hope that someone will not throw three matches in the first three laps, so that it is not a certain death situation in the last lap.

The upper limit of match throwing is three. If the other three players have less than three matches left in the last round, Carroll will still be eliminated.

Because their shooting position is before Carroll, as long as they have less than or equal to three matches in their hands, they can all throw the matches in before Carroll, and Carroll will still be eliminated.

In other words, if Carol wants not to be eliminated, she must let the three people in front of her have four or more matches in the last lap. In other words, she must find a way to let the other three people in the final round. During the first three rounds, make at least one skip or throw one less match in each round so that they have at least four matches left.

Carol felt very angry, and she shouted out her thoughts truthfully: "What kind of bullshit game rules are these? Does it all depend on luck?! Whoever is in the last place will be eliminated, so what is the purpose of this game?" Why is it necessary? Just choose the last person to enter the room and eliminate it!"

The clown picked his ears and seemed very impatient, but Schiller nodded politely to Carol and said, "Madam, I think you should think about why it is a match."

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

"Yes! Matches can ignite open flames of charcoal. You heard what he said. Everything in this house is made of wood. If you make the fire too big, we will all be burned to death!!!"

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

Carol was stunned again, but this time she reacted and shouted with a ferocious face: "Anyway, if I play normally, I will definitely lose, so I will skip all the previous rounds, so that no one can survive when the brazier rises." !”

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

"Because this is unfair to me!" Carol raised her voice and said, "How about we change places?"

Katie murmured and stopped talking. Everyone could see that being in fourth place was a natural disadvantage. The others could win as long as they played according to the rules of the game. Only fourth place, if they continued according to the normal rules, She will definitely lose.

Katie took another look at the brazier on the table. It was a semicircular brass brazier. There was a very narrow edge on the top edge of the brazier. There were four holes on it, and four iron chains came from the ceiling. Hang down and tie the brazier through the hole.

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

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

Katie is a white woman, but she has a relatively petite figure, with a height of only 168cm. She is not very conspicuous among the same group of white women.

She didn't completely raise her head to look at the ceiling, because that would be too much 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 opposite her The doctor was taller, Katie guessed he might be 187-190cm.

And because Schiller was standing directly opposite her, Katie could clearly see the distance between his head and the roof. Using the head-to-body ratio estimation method, the height of the ceiling should be around 260cm.

Then we calculated the height of the table. It was said that the table was more like a bar counter. When Katie stood upright, the tabletop just reached her chest, which was almost 1.2 meters high.

Jumping over the brazier once will raise the height by 30 centimeters, and Carol has a maximum of three chances to jump over, which means that the brazier can rise up to 90 centimeters, so 120 centimeters plus 90 centimeters is only 210 centimeters, which is still half a meter away from the height of the ceiling.

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But the current situation cannot be seen in this way. Carol is the last one to throw a match. There are three people in front of her. If each person throws three matches, it is conservatively estimated that the flame will be lit when the second throws.

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 basin. 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, then at the end of the fourth round, the house would be on fire.

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 in time, she should still have time.

No, that's not right. Katie looked around and found that the wooden house had windows. The air flow here was good. 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 the remaining time is enough, but it's just throwing a match. How long can it take? Katie thought.

Even if the house is on fire in the second round, the remaining few people throw matches at the fastest speed, and they will finish throwing them in less than 10 seconds. Then Carol will definitely lose, right?

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 one must not leave the table within 1 meter, but she didn't know whether the 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, each person 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 ash, 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. If you aim a little, you should be able to throw a match in.

"Oh, I forgot to say that before I became a weirdo who robbed a bank, I worked as a clown in the circus for a while. It was because I threw darts too accurately that I was kicked out of the circus by the boss." The clown relaxed his body sideways, his elbows on the table, and pouted his lips and said, "As long as the fire can't burn, 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 are eliminated, hahahahahaha!"

Carol's facial features became extremely ferocious.