Zhou Lin - Chapter 171 Crack

The next two questions that Masako asked did not jump too much, nor did she take unnecessary risks. She just approached the final answer step by step. After all… she was not in a hurry.

Therefore, after the two questions, Masako only confirmed that the answer written by Sakaki is a book, and is an ancient book; if nothing else, her next question will be to confirm this book In which language the book was originally written.

Unlike Masako’s steady and steady strategy, Sakaki took the initiative to walk to the edge of danger because he knew very well… Masako’s answer was much harder to guess than his. If he asked the question using a normal logical chain, it would be impossible to guess. The other person guesses the answer faster.

Therefore, when Masako once again chose Don’t shoot and let the other party ask a question, Sakaki asked: Is the word you wrote three words in Chinese?

Yes. Masako still seemed very calm when she responded. After answering, she continued with a smile, After confirming that it is a medical term, should we simply give up the general logical chain and start to conquer it from the perspective of words? Ha… Interesting, no one has tried this method before, and I would like to see if it is really more efficient than ‘normal questions’.

Then you’ll just wait and see. Sakaki said, picking up the gun again. Now, it’s my turn. As he said this, he pushed out the revolver of the pistol, started to spin it again, and was turning the gun again. He quickly snapped it back before stopping, I choose three.

Since he chose four in the previous round and observed that if the next round was not rotated, there would be bullets, he could only choose three.

When he finished speaking, Sakaki had already aimed at his temple and pulled the trigger twice.

No bullets were fired.

It seems that the God of Gambling has not abandoned me. As soon as Sakaki put down his gun, he picked up his chopsticks and took another bite of food.

His hands were steady and his expression was relaxed, showing no fear or nervousness at all.

In the whole room, only Solid, who was sitting behind him, saw…the boy’s legs hidden under the table were trembling.

Hey… Seeing that Sakaki was not that scared, Masako curled her lips in displeasure and said, Congratulations to you, then. She hesitated for a moment before continuing, I sincerely hope that the wheel The next shot is still an empty gun, otherwise the game will end hastily before you even show your face of defeat.

Then I’m afraid I’m going to disappoint you. Sakaki replied calmly, The more you say this, the more I would rather die than show my panic and fear to satisfy you. He paused, Then he said, Anyway, now that I have fired two shots, it’s time for me to continue asking questions… He obviously had already thought about what he wanted to ask, and said quickly, The first character of the word you wrote, it Is the pronunciation of the beginning on the first line of the Chinese Pinyin initial consonant list?

Masako’s expression changed.

This kind of question from Sakaki was something she had never seen before, and she quickly realized… the power of this kind of question.

In the twenty-third century of this universe, Chinese and English have already become global languages ​​with a penetration rate close to 100%. Anyone who has received formal education has learned the initial and final consonants of Chinese Pinyin.

However, for this kind of extremely basic knowledge, most people maintain a level of as long as they can see the table, they can pronounce every sound, but even if they can’t see it, they can’t write it down .

It can be said that Chinese Pinyin is not only the first thing people learn in the formal education system, but also the first thing people give back to the teacher… Since there is almost no Pinyin assessment after the first grade, On the contrary, this part of the content has become something that everyone knows only a little about and is easily ignored.

At this moment, Sakaki used this most basic thing to launch an offensive.

Masako couldn’t possibly say that she didn’t know what a consonant was, and she had no reason to refuse to answer.

yes.

Unfortunately, Masako’s answer was sepsis. The initial consonant b in the first word sepsis is the first consonant in the first line of the initial consonant list.

Taking a step back, even if her answer is not sepsis, the Pinyin initial consonant list only has three lines in total. Among them, each line is divided into two intervals, and each interval has three to four initial consonants… In other words, use Sakaki’s method of asking requires only three questions at most, and the answer can be locked within the range of three to four initial consonants.

Then… the second question. After getting the answer, Sakaki immediately continued to ask, The first character of the word you wrote, its initial pronunciation is in the first line of the Chinese Pinyin initial consonant table. On the first range?”

Yes. Masako could only answer truthfully.

In this way, through two questions, Sakaki narrowed the range of the initial consonants of that word to the four sounds b, p, m, and f.

Masako silently calculated an account in her mind. If Sakaki continues to ask this question, the next question will focus on the initial b, and then it will ask about finals and what sound; the final list is a little more complicated. , but according to the principle of half points each time, the sound ai can be locked within three to five questions, which means that with up to five questions, Sakaki will know that the pronunciation of the first character is bai .

At this time, Sakaki will not necessarily ask in the order of first tone, second tone, third tone, because of the condition of three characters, medical terminology, the pinyin of the first character is bai Next, most people will immediately think of words such as leukemia, albinism, white blood cells, white coat, etc., so they are likely to directly ask does this word have a second sound?

And the answer is not, at this time… People who have just imagined several three-character words starting with white blood, after being told that the sound of white is wrong, will most likely immediately think of the fourth tone. The word septicemia at the beginning, then septicemia comes to mind.

To sum up, theoretically speaking, in extreme cases, Sakaki may be able to directly guess the answer within seven questions; even if he is optimistic, Sakaki can definitely confirm the first answer within ten questions. The word is pronounced in the fourth tone of bai – after determining this word, any next word guess may directly hit the answer.

Different from the logical deduction method of guessing the whole word through the definition, Sakaki’s guessing method of using pinyin to get close to the answer is to uncover the literal meaning of each word one by one to explore the answer, which completely bypasses Various traps and knowledge blind spots in the logical deduction method, and can ensure that every problem must have certain meaning and progress.

This is almost an unstoppable method, just like when guessing an English word, someone uses the question Is the first letter A to find out what each letter in the word is one by one, and finally Spell out the answer; people who use this method don’t even need to understand the meaning of the word, and they can still guess it correctly… However, this method can be faster or slower depending on the method of asking.

Take guessing English letters as an example. The stupidest guess is to guess from A to Z, which requires up to 25 guesses. But if you start with a guess like is this before or after M?, it will save a lot of trouble; The method Sakaki uses when guessing pinyin is undoubtedly a more efficient method.

This is also the first time Masako has felt the pressure of being chased in this guessing roulette.

Your expression is a bit subtle. Sakaki is also a top gambler after all. He noticed the slightest muscle tremor on Masako’s face at a glance, According to this trend, the initial consonant of your first word should be ‘b’ right?

Who allowed you to ask the third question in a row? Masako seemed a little unhappy.

You’re going to choose second anyway, right? Sakaki began to provoke his opponent, trying to expose his weaknesses.

Masako looked at the gun on the table and continued: Yes… I still choose second.

Then just answer my third question. Sakaki pressed further with a proud expression.

Yes. Masako’s response was concise and concise. She said no more because she also began to worry that something would really be revealed.

Yeah. Sakaki nodded, Then it’s my turn. He picked up the gun again, I’ll choose four again.

After that, he pushed out the revolver of the pistol again, confirmed the position of the bullet, and put the revolver back intact.

At this moment, Solid, who was sitting behind Sakaki, couldn’t help but have some doubts in his heart: Why does he still choose four? Judging from the situation of the question, he should be a little ahead. As long as he keeps it like this, he will always be with the other party. If you choose two, you can press your opponent with zero risk… But if you choose four, it means giving the opponent two problems first. Then it depends on your luck. If you are not lucky… If the bullet is in the next round, then again You have to choose three and gamble your life.

Solid’s idea was correct. Logically speaking, Sakaki had a chance of winning without shooting himself in the head if he kept choosing two from this round on, but if he chose four, he had a high chance of suffering a loss.

In fact, when Sakaki opened the wheel to check just now, it was indeed confirmed that… the next shot will really go off; that is to say, when it is his turn next time, he will have to choose three again.

Huh… I escaped another disaster. On the other side, Sakaki showed an expression of relief after seeing the bullet. He breathed a long sigh of relief and said to Masako, Come on, you can ask two more questions. Problem.

But Masako did not rush to ask questions, but smiled and said: What? Listen to this, you have to choose three in the next round?

Yeah, who made the next shot happen to have bullets. Sakaki told the other party the real information.

Hmph… Masako snorted coldly and continued, That’s it… Then I can only sincerely pray that you will encounter two empty guns in a row next time you turn the chamber, otherwise I won’t be able to continue enjoying it. This is a tension I have never experienced before.”

I don’t know why, but after hearing this, Sakaki burst into laughter and hit the table with laughter.

When Masako saw this, he showed a little anger: Is there anything funny?

Yes. Sakaki continued, But if I don’t tell you, can we continue the game?

Masako took a sip of the drink angrily, as if to calm down the unknown fire, and then asked two questions in a row, narrowing the scope of the book written by Sakaki to Chinese works and dating before the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Although she was really getting closer to the answer, she was still at a disadvantage compared to Sakaki’s method.

Fortunately, in Masako’s eyes, this is no longer a problem, because she is completely sure that in the next round of Sakaki’s turn, Sakaki will definitely die.

A few seconds later, after answering the two questions, Sakaki picked up the gun and quickly rotated the barrel before pointing the gun at his temple again: Well, as you can see, I will choose three in this round. …”

That’s what he said, but he still didn’t fire.

Huh…what? Are you scared? Masako thought the moment she had been waiting for had arrived, Don’t hold on if you’re scared. There’s nothing wrong with showing your true nature.

But Sakaki responded unhurriedly: Before I shoot, I still have a few words to say.

Did you have a premonition that you were going to die, so you wanted to leave a last message? Masako smiled, Okay, I’m sure.

Unexpectedly, Sakaki’s next sentence after putting down the gun was: Actually, with your ability, if you had proposed playing some pure probability games with me, such as roulette, you would have won easily… …But you are too proud, and you insist on playing this game with me that slowly forces the other party into a desperate situation. You want to see how ugly I am, and you want to prove…that I am nothing more than a mediocre gambler.

What are you talking about? Masako responded calmly, Are you implying… that I cheated with my powers?

This is not a hint, but an explanation. Sakaki continued.

Oh? Masako crossed one leg, as if he didn’t believe it, Then I want to hear how you made something out of nothing.

She was confident that her tricks would never be seen through.

Your ability is to ‘use specific words to make certain bad things that have a certain probability of happening become 100% likely to happen’. To put it more simply, it’s… a crow’s mouth. Sakaki continued.

Masako’s self-confidence was shattered so quickly, and she didn’t expect it.

To be more specific, whenever you use the sentence pattern ‘sincerely…otherwise’, the part of the content in these two words that has a chance of failure will definitely fail. Sakaki didn’t care about the other party’s reaction. , just minding his own business and continued, I’m not sure whether your ability is ‘as long as you use such a sentence pattern, it will be activated’, or whether it requires you to ‘actively activate, but you must use this sentence pattern when activating’, But what I am sure of is…so far, you have used this ability on me three times in this guessing roulette.

Sakaki stretched out his first finger and said: The first time was when I chose ‘Four’ for the first time. At that time, you didn’t think I would pose any threat to you, but you didn’t want me to pass the observation The position of the bullet gained too much advantage in the next few rounds, so you said you ‘sincerely expected the bullet in the runner to be more than three shots away from me’, and as a result, I opened it and saw that the bullet was in the next round.

He stretched out a second finger: The second time was after I chose three; seeing that I didn’t die even with two shots to the head, and didn’t show the embarrassment you expected, you then I think…I am probably the type of person who won’t panic even if I get shot. So, you lost motivation to crush my spirit and wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible, so you I said the words ‘I sincerely hope that the next shot of the wheel will still be empty’, so…if I choose another one, I will die immediately.

Finally, Sakaki stretched out his third finger: The third time, just now, when I was ahead of you in asking questions and chose four again, you felt the danger of defeat for the first time in this game. Then you no longer care about so much, and just use the sentence I sincerely hope that I can encounter two empty guns in a row after the next reload, trying to kill me in this round when I am forced to choose three.

At this point, he paused for a few seconds, and then said: Actually, the second time you used this sentence pattern to speak, I felt a little strange. Based on the process of the game, I was already suspecting that you used a certain sentence pattern. It’s a special ability… The purpose of me choosing four for the second time is to further test your ability. Otherwise, it would be fine if I imitated you and kept choosing two from that round on.

You just asked me what’s so funny? I just laughed… After I chose four, you immediately said that sentence a third time, letting me completely confirm what your ability is, and that’s it. .”

Snap—pop—pop—

Masako started to applaud Sakaki. Of course, this was not an encouraging applause.

Masako’s smile came back during Sakaki’s narration, and that cold smile looked particularly charming on her girlish face, Sakaki-kun, the story is well told, but it’s a pity… you have no evidence. .”

Yeah. Sakaki tilted his head and spread his hands, This is also the most troublesome part of your ability… Even if you openly use it to cheat, others can’t prove anything.

Then what should you do now? Masako’s tone was like a kindergarten teacher educating a three-year-old child.

Ha…I understand, I understand. Sakaki smiled bitterly and put the gun against his temple again.

This is what happens at the gambling table. Accusations without evidence are just nonsense, nonsense, and cheating…

A gambler like Sakaki can lose, but he can’t lose with dignity, so he still has to shoot when he should.

Click——

The first shot didn’t go off.

But there was a second shot.

boom–

Sure enough, the shot was fired.

Sakaki no illusion, blood splattered on the spot.