Survivorship Bias

Chapter 19: Killing decisions

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Hearing An Wujiu's conclusive conclusion, Rabbit laughed.

"Oh? Then I'll wait and see."

"I'm afraid you won't be able to wait for the hero who comes to save you, or if he comes and sees your death... how beautiful it is."

The voice of this rabbit always makes An Wujiu have some wild guesses. It seems that he is not just an NPC, he will interact according to people's reactions, and even has a very strong personality, extreme, rebellious, likes to see the pain of the player when he is tortured, and the fear of dying.

Is this really just an ordinary NPC

The immersion in ice water caused An Wujiu's legs to become numb, and his body also became stiff, the feeling of numbness spread from his lower limbs to his fingertips.

But he still stared at the long silk in front of him, staring at the process of water soaking the fibers in the cold silence.

Just pressing the button directly is a very risky gamble.

He is betting that his companions outside can create a continuous water-free period of more than 22 minutes and 30 seconds for him. Now that the first person has woken up, the second one has just started. Counting it up, there are only five 5 minutes at most.

The button must be pressed at this time for him to have a chance.

In fact, even if there is no water cut-off period, he can also adjust the height of the silk strips according to the rising speed of the water level, and maintain the previous submerged state, but the error in doing so is too large, and his fault tolerance is only plus or minus 3 seconds That's all.

The practice was so dangerous that he needed the full 25-minute water-free period possible to complete the challenge.

Along the long silk, the water climbs up little by little.

He felt cold, the hypothermia was paralyzing his heart, continuously slowing the efficiency of his brain. An Wujiu could only keep breathing and rubbing his arms to keep himself warm.

The rabbit was still talking to him, with a very kind tone, "Do you need scissors? I can provide them for you. I can cut the silk strips to the length you need."

"No need." An Wujiu coldly refused, "Don't treat the player as a fool."

As soon as the conditions of the different thicknesses of the long silk come out, it is clear that it is telling him that the water absorption speed of each part of the silk strip is different. The thinner part of the water climbs faster, and the thicker part is much slower.

Even if it is cut in half, and one end of the two halves is put into water at the same time, the time for complete soaking is inconsistent, and not both are 10 minutes.

This uneven texture makes this challenge impossible to time in equal parts.

Still, it's not impossible to figure it out.

In fact, there is no need to cut it at all, and one end is placed on the water surface, and it takes 20 minutes to completely soak.

You can put both ends in at the same time, it is still the same silk strip, but because the two ends absorb water together, the time will be halved, and it will take 10 minutes.

An Wujiu raised his head, the long silk that was wet at both ends was already wet a lot, and the wet heights of the two sides after being folded in half were completely different, confirming his guess.

"Well, I'm obviously kind, but you don't appreciate it. Then I'll just wait for the good news."

Half of the shoulder was hammered hard, and the pain felt like a hand with sharp nails, forcibly pulling back his willpower to escape. The numb upper body can move slightly, but the legs still seem to be frozen.

However, from Wu You's perspective, he was punched hard by Shen Ti, and this guy was holding An Wujiu's waist right now, and An Wujiu was leaning against his arms.

It made him want to swear, but when he saw this scene, he was stalked back.

Seeing that his eyes had returned to their previous state instead of being obsessed with the stage, Shen Ti gave him a wink. Wu You couldn't understand Shen Ti's wink and frowned.

"What are you doing..."

"Cough," Shen Ti coughed twice, and said to "An Wujiu" who was hugging him, "He really doesn't know how to repent."

"An Wujiu" raised his head in confusion, glanced at Shen Ti, then followed Shen Ti's gaze to look at Wu You who was sitting on the chair.

He said softly, "You lied to me too."

Wu You instantly realized something was wrong.

He pursed his lips.

"I... I don't have it."

Anyway, let's argue first.

After he finished speaking, he saw Shen Ti behind "An Wu Jiu" roll his eyes to the sky.

What about you? Wu You thought.

"An Wujiu" in front of him sneered, with disappointment in his eyes, "Do you want me to tell you one by one what you have done?"

Yes…

Wu You didn't know how to act, he was born with a poker face, his facial nerves were not developed enough, and he was still performing without a script, his five senses felt twitching even when his facial features were released.

"I, I know I'm sorry for you, I hope you can forgive me."

Just finished speaking, Shen Ti rolled his eyes again.

Sliding and kneeling so quickly... you might as well let him beat you.

"Forgive?" The fake An Wujiu still had a smile on his lips, "How much I believed in you back then, who would have thought that you were his capable subordinate, and everything you did was for experiments and to satisfy your selfish desires! You Have you ever thought about how I feel?"

who is he? Wu You didn't understand.

experiment? Selfish desires...

"I… "

"Don't listen to him." Shen Ti made a cold but gentle look. Although he still doesn't quite understand how these two characteristics can be combined, it can be seen from some clues before that this should be It is the appearance of the A01 that the false innocence in front of him likes.

"I will kill anyone who deceives you."

Wu You instantly showed a confused but terrified expression.

Without any discussion, Shen Ti kicked Wu You to the ground with one kick. It was his leg that was kicked. In order for him to recover quickly, Shen Ti had to try a little harder.

Probably because this strength is too real, "An Wujiu" has more trust in Shen Ti. Shen Ti didn't stop, he took this opportunity to directly attack Nan Shan next to Wu You, and pushed him to the ground.

"These people deserve to die."

Hearing Shen Ti's pretentious tone, Wu You was about to be laughed at, but he couldn't say anything at this time, he didn't want to be strangled to death by this impostor.

Really, where did Brother Wujiu go? He was puzzled.

The back of Nanshan who fell to the ground was hit hard, and his whole body suddenly became awake. Most of the original chaotic feeling disappeared in an instant, but his hands and legs were still a little numb.

But soon, Shen Ti's foot kicked his leg, making him feel immediately.

Nanshan, who fell to the ground, supported his elbows and wanted to get up, but his strength was not enough, so he could only pull another chair beside him, trying to borrow his strength, but Zhong Yirou, who was sitting on the chair, was too light and in a state of brainwashing unconscious , just like that, was directly pulled off by Nanshan on the ground, and the chair fell backwards to the ground with a "boom".

This can be regarded as saving Shen Ti's effort, and he is too embarrassed to attack girls.

There were the last two left, Shen Ti was still the same old way, clamoring to avenge "An Wu Jiu" and kicked Josh down.

The expressions of the three of them gradually changed from lax to clear, but their bodies were still weak.

Just when Shen Ti was having trouble with how to wake up the last Yang Erci, "An Wujiu", who was watching coldly from the sidelines, spoke.

"Don't touch her yet."

"An Wujiu" came to the brainwashed Yang Erci, stared at her face, his eyes were cold, and there was a strange smile on his face, one hand grabbed Yang Erci's chin fiercely.

"I want to ask her, was the original experiment successful? Was it smooth?"

Wu You felt weird.

The "An Wujiu" in front of him is completely different from the one in the previous video and recording, and he is not as friendly as the children in the shelter wrote on the cards, on the contrary, he looks like a lunatic.

The experiment in his mouth is probably the experiment of those children.

Is it because he has been kept in the dark, and later learned of the crimes committed by his father, brother, friends, and even himself, so he went crazy

And as an NPC, he doesn't know that breaking the "brainwashing" mechanism is pain, and indulge Shen Ti's "revenge", I'm afraid it's really a lunatic's setting.

Shen Ti, a dead liar, has been tossing around for so long, probably because he wants to get more information from this NPC so that he can deal with the next floor.

But this kind of cliché is so scumbag, Wu You felt goosebumps all over his body.

"An Wujiu" stood up, turned around, and faced Shen Ti, the smile on his face softened again, as if he was really looking at the person he loved the most.

But what Shen Ti who was standing opposite was thinking in his heart, don't look at me like this with An Wujiu's face.

"You just said that you will kill those who deceive me..." His voice was very soft and weak, and the moving lips reminded Shen Ti of the last blood-red sunset in the sky.

As the setting sun faded, the love in his eyes also condensed, "What about you?".

The white long silk that was soaked in water at both ends was almost completely soaked.

Just a little bit, An Wujiu stretched out his hand to touch it to confirm the degree of wetness, and then started to prepare for the next step. He pulled out the blue long silk, adjusted the height of the buckle, and put the blue long silk and The previous red long silk is stretched into a single vertical downward state, the top end is stuck on the buckle, and the bottom end is downward, close to the water surface.

When the white long silk was completely soaked to the naked eye and no part was still dry, An Wujiu pulled the new blue long silk to the bottom just enough to dip into the water.

Immediately afterwards, he pulled down the other end of the red long silk that was originally soaked vertically, so that the red long silk became soaked in water at both ends.

After doing all this, his object of observation shifted from the white long silk at the beginning to the current red long silk.

Fortunately, so far, there has been no water flow. Corresponding to the current timing, this means that at least three companions outside are awake.

You must all wake up.

"It's a bit boring to watch you play games."

The rabbit's voice reappeared, obviously trying to interfere again.

"Hey, with such a beautiful face, why can't she show a frightened expression? The appearance of pear blossoms with rain is so fascinating."

This kind of bad taste is really disgusting.

An Wujiu still had a cold face, deliberately maintaining his deep breathing frequency, resisting the discomfort caused by the lowering body temperature.

"Is there nothing you care about? For example... your family? Don't you think of them, no, when you think of them in danger, will you be so calm?"

Hearing this sentence, An Wujiu frowned, he raised his head, and glanced at the tops of the surroundings.

"Are you looking for me?" The rabbit giggled, his voice was high-pitched, and then sank after a while, "I'm everywhere."

"Who are you? What do you want to do?" An Wujiu said coldly.

"Don't be so anxious, the game has just begun." The rabbit's tone was full of contempt and provocation, but also full of smiles, "Do you know what is the most precious treasure in your body that has not yet been mined?"

An Wujiu calmly stared at a certain place on the ceiling, as if he was confronting the person behind the scenes. He had a strong feeling that he must know something.

"It's the malice that gushes out wildly in your bright moments, and your conscience that runs out of control and overflows in dark moments."

"Human beings are all the same. Their extreme emotions are mostly anger, fear, fright, pain... the same and boring." The rabbit smiled softly, "You are different, different from everyone else, your extreme emotions are the rarest. of."

"I'll wait and see."

His tone was crazy, and the words he said were abnormal, as if An Wujiu saw another form of the altar.

If this rabbit is really an important behind-the-scenes hand in the altar, then what are these people who entered it for money and desire

The thoughts of escape were quickly pulled back by reason, An Wujiu took a deep breath, and once again faced the long red silk that should have been stared at continuously.

At this moment, there is only a short section left that has not been soaked, and it will soon.

"You must be very suspicious of what I said now, but you will know soon." The perverted rabbit leisurely said what An Wujiu cared most about.

"If you still want to see your family members, such as... sister? Just work harder and survive."

An Wujiu stood quietly in the glass cover, without saying a word, just staring at the long silk in front of him.

He was so cold that his chest hurt even to breathe.

This unknowable and invisible future is more chilling than the icy water.

The water at both ends of the long silk gathered little by little along the fibers, and finally, it gathered before An Wujiu's eyes, soaking the entire red long silk.

An Wujiu didn't think too much, and directly adjusted the long silk that was originally vertically downward in one direction so that both ends were downward, and placed both ends on the water surface so that they were soaked at the same time.

The last time.

The faces of those companions outside emerged in his mind. Although this was a personal battle, they all chose to believe in him and follow him.

Everyone must survive.

"I did deceive you."

Shen Ti didn't change his face, facing "An Wujiu" whose mood had changed, his eyes sank, causing Josh who had just woken up to misunderstand, thinking that it was some strange confession or confession scene.

"But my feelings are not fake." Shen Ti took a step closer to him, his blue eyes were like a pool of water, "You can hate me, but I can't lie to you anymore, the truth is the truth."

Wu You resisted rolling his eyes, thinking about why this guy could use such an affectionate and sincere expression to say a lot of things he had heard and said to an NPC who looked exactly like An Wujiu without knowing anything. Didn't hear the same nonsense.

No one can do it except him.

The "An Wujiu" in front of him is not like Wu You who knows the truth, he doesn't know anything, looking at the person he loves deeply, he frowned tightly, "Do you think I will forgive you for saying this?"

"I said, I don't expect your forgiveness." Shen Ti continued to approach, and finally stretched out his arms, and embraced "An Wujiu" who was still somewhat resistant, and gently implemented another meaning to him. of hypnosis.

"I regret it, please give me another chance."

"Let's get out of here and live somewhere where no one knows us, shall we?"

"An Wujiu" in his arms seemed to be shaken.

Wu You, who pretended to be unable to move, fell to the ground, his eyes were still looking at "An Wujiu", he saw hesitation and emotion flashed in those eyes full of hatred.

"You really think so?"

"Yeah." Shen Ti nodded, even though he hugged him, he wasn't very close, just hugged him empty, and patted his back lightly with his palm.

"I've seen the place, we can leave tonight."

Hearing this sentence, "An Wujiu" leaning on Shen Ti's shoulder couldn't help asking, "What about him?"

Shen Ti thought it should be their father, but still asked, "Who?"

"The counterfeit." His voice was once again tinged with hatred, and he parted a bit, looking at Shen Ti, "The counterfeit who wants to replace me, he is fake, only me... I am the real one."

He kept repeating the word counterfeit.

Shen Ti didn't speak, and was silent for a second. Having never been in close contact with him, he raised his hand, held "An Wujiu"'s cheek, and smiled gently at him, "I know."

Wu You had never seen such an expression on Shen Ti's face before, it was so real that he felt terrible. If he hadn't known about it, he would have misunderstood, thinking that Shen Ti in front of him really loved "An Wujiu" deeply.

Shen Ti's left hand caressed "An Wujiu"'s ear and side face affectionately, the other hand supported his chin, gently lifted it, forcing his eyes to meet his own.

"I love you so much, of course you can tell at a glance."

"An Wujiu"'s eyes were full of moist tears, which were not yet falling, so beautiful that it moved people's faces.

Unfortunately.

Wu You was in a daze for a moment, he saw that Shen Ti's posture was still intimate, his right hand supported "An Wujiu"'s chin, and his left hand stroked the top of his head, but in the next second, Shen Ti pushed his right hand inward to the left, and his left hand controlled the head to Pushing outward, exerting force suddenly, the speed is astonishing.

With a clicking sound, "An Wujiu", who was still able to speak, collapsed like a ribbon facing Shen Ti, and Shen Ti just stretched out his hands and took it.

"It's a pity that you are a fake."

Shen Ti let go of his hand, and let the fake An Wujiu fall to the ground.

Wu You frowned, "Is he dead?"

This had a great impact on him, Shen Ti was always making jokes in front of them, and when it was difficult to be serious, this was the first time he saw Shen Ti being so decisive.

He was obviously acting very vigorously just now, but he didn't know what happened, and suddenly killed someone.

Nanshan glanced at "An Wujiu" on the ground, closed her eyes, and began to recite the reincarnation mantra silently.

On the contrary, Zhong Yirou, who was awake, answered Wu You, "It should be, if this movement is too strong, it may cause damage to the neck joint and the high medulla oblongata, which is very dangerous and almost fatal."

Shen Ti showed no emotion, just stepped over the corpse, walked to the stage, and said to Zhong Yirou who was behind him without looking back, "Pain can break hypnosis, try to wake up Yang Erci."

Zhong Yirou responded, seeing that Shen Ti came to the stage to get the black velvet cover. She was not physically strong, and she didn't know how to "wake her up" when she came in front of Yang Erci.

Yang Erci should be in a hypnotized state at the moment, looking at the stage with empty eyes, without a trace of emotion on his face, like a perfect sculpture.

"Don't scold me when you wake up." Zhong Yirou murmured weakly, starting to knock on Yang Erci's leg, not like beating someone, but more like a massage, and then moved his gaze up to her shoulder after the knocking was over Hit it a few times.

"Isn't that okay..."

Zhong Yirou looked at Yang Erci's face for a few seconds, then stretched out his hand.

Pinch her cheek.

It is estimated that this opportunity will never come again.

Thinking of this, Zhong Yirou stretched out her other hand, squeezed her face with both hands, and pulled her out.

Until the prank target raises his hand to hold her evil hand.

"What are you doing?" Yang Erci's cold voice came out, but it was slower than usual.

"It's nothing." Zhong Yirou quickly withdrew his hand and stroked his beautiful curly hair, "I... I'm saving you. If you don't believe me, ask them."

Wu You put on a face and said, "At least she didn't really beat you."

Zhong Yirou kept squatting, unable to get up, but Yang Erci, whose face was pinched by her, finally helped her up.

"Stand still."

In a blink of an eye, Shen Ti had already tied the fake An Wujiu's body to the chair, he ran towards the stage again without explaining anything to the others.

"where did you go!"

Shen Ti didn't look back.

Only the last dry part of the long blue silk was left, and the wet water was visible to the naked eye from both ends inward, eroding every inch of fiber.

until the last territories are captured.

An Wujiu touched it, immediately raised his hand, and pressed the last red button.

"This is the 22 minutes and 30 seconds you calculated? Are you sure?"

An Wujiu stared at the long silk in front of him.

"Sure."

The rabbit smiled where he couldn't see, "Okay, I will announce the correct answer for you."

A picture appeared in the dim field of vision in front of him, it was the moment he pressed the red button, the upper right corner displayed the timer starting from 0, and the picture played at a very fast speed, until finally An Wujiu pressed the button for the second time .

At the moment of stopping, the static figures showed the result—22 minutes and 32 seconds.

The result is within a three-second error.

An Wujiu breathed a sigh of relief, his tense muscles relaxed.

He was not wrong, although the texture of the long silk is not uniform, so it cannot be divided by length.

However, the time required for complete wetting can be divided.

At first, let both ends of the white long silk enter the water, and the other end of the red long silk enters the water, so that when the white one is completely soaked, it is exactly half of the time that one end is completely soaked in water, that is, 10 minutes.

At this time, the red long silk was also soaked for 10 minutes, and the remaining dry part originally needed 10 minutes, but at this time, the red silk was also soaked in water at both ends, and the time was shortened by half, and the time can be counted as 5 minutes.

At the same time, put the third, which is the blue long silk, and wait until the red one is completely soaked, that is, when 5 minutes have passed, the blue originally needs 15 minutes to get wet, but at this time it is changed. Entering water at both ends cuts the time in half, so that getting fully soaked becomes a 7.5-minute task.

10 minutes plus 5 minutes plus 7.5 minutes, for a total of 22 minutes and 30 seconds.

"Congratulations. I didn't expect that you didn't even have the slightest joy of succeeding in the challenge."

"The reward will be issued to you now, congratulations again, don't worry about being electrocuted to death."

As soon as the rabbit finished speaking, the four electrodes on the top of the glass device retreated out of the glass wall and finally disappeared into the device.

"However, you are now facing a bad news. Your so-called companions are waking up one by one, and the water cut-off period they created for you is almost over."

Cold water poured down the top pipe again, faster than before.

"Hurry up and save some air for yourself."

No matter how Shen Ti checked, he couldn't open the floor under the birdcage.

The first time he entered the game, he felt extremely anxious.

Seeing that he couldn't open it, Yang Erci tentatively said, "Maybe it's not there."

Too much time has been wasted.

Now An Wujiu doesn't know exactly where it is.

Shen Ti stood up, and he looked around the entire theater, finally, his gaze stopped at the huge curtain behind him.

When he drew back the curtain and entered the completely dark backstage, he found lights appearing around him. Wu You followed behind him into the curtain, but strangely, he couldn't find Shen Ti's figure, behind the curtain was only a small backstage, nothing.

Shen Ti walked forward alone, and soon, he heard the sound of water flowing, and saw a lonely chasing light not far away, quietly hitting a huge glass cover filled with water.

In the water was An Wujiu who had passed out. Hair loose, rippling in the water.

Shen Ti saw the huge card in front of him, with joker drawn on it, and a heavy hammer under the card, he picked it up, walked over, and slammed it hard on the closed glass cover.

With just one click, the glass shattered, and water flowed out continuously.

Shen Ti bent down, his movements subconsciously became more careful, he stood outside the shattered glass cover, hugged the unconscious An Wujiu horizontally, and shook him gently.

"An Wujiu? An Wujiu..."

The shaking caused An Wujiu, who had not been drowning for a while, to choke out water, coughed a few times, and then slowly opened his eyes in Shen Ti's arms.

woke up.

But at this time, An Wujiu has changed.

His brows that were frowning because of choking were slowly loosened, his slender and fair neck was slightly tilted back because of the hugging posture, his Adam's apple rolled ambiguously under the snow-white pattern, his eyelashes were stained with fine drops of water, blurred and frivolous .

Staring at Shen Ti's eyes, An Wujiu's moist lips curled up slightly.

"Who allowed you to hug me?"

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The author has something to say:

Finally wrote blackening!

I forgot to mention that the question about soaking in silk was inspired by an interview logic question often asked by major Internet companies, but the original question is about burning rope~ It is indeed compared with the idea of pouring water from several buckets mentioned by many treasures in the comment area yesterday Similar, logic questions are almost the same