Survivorship Bias

Chapter 27: equivalent replacement

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The countdown began.

Five minutes is more than enough for An Wujiu, but this time the challenge cannot be accomplished by himself, which is annoying.

He stood where he was, with an uncooperative and unhelpful attitude, watching them busy. Josh didn't figure out how to operate it, but he was very anxious about the countdown time, "Anyway, let's ask first, don't stay here."

So he pulled Wu You and brought him to the robot.

"Which of the two of us has a higher number?"

The robot didn't answer right away. Instead, it seemed to be very slow. It paused for a few seconds before saying, "Player Josh's number is bigger."

"Is it much bigger?" Wu You asked.

The robot sounds an alarm, and a red × appears on the display on the head.

"Players are prohibited from asking descriptive questions about numbers."

"Okay." Wu You didn't continue, "Then you are older than me now."

"Yes." Josh hurried to find Shen Ti again, but Shen Ti had already paired up with Nan Shan at this time, and was planning to ask, so Josh had no choice but to go to Yang Erci, and found that Yang Erci and Zhong Yirou had already paired up. After Nanshan and Zhong Yirou went up to the third floor, they seemed to be even more unable to stand. They didn't even have the strength to ask questions, and their reaction speed became very slow.

Josh had no choice but to look for An Wujiu who had been silent all this time.

"No fault, let's go and find out whose number is bigger." Josh was a little anxious.

An Wujiu raised his chin, "Look, how much time is left now."

I just asked a question, found a few people, waited in line, and the time was only 4 minutes and 14 seconds.

"How did it go so fast?"

An Wujiu smiled, and deliberately sighed, "It's not a lot in five minutes, how come it's so little."

"It's too inefficient." Josh himself understood.

He looked at the others, and he only knew who was bigger and who was smaller. If he wanted to sort them uniformly, the most stupid way would be to ask someone who was smaller than him, and then try to see if there was anyone else who was smaller than him. The smaller one is still smaller, and then continue to touch. The best result is that everyone you meet is smaller than the last smaller one, so you will be ranked directly.

But obviously, this situation is an extreme case, and there will inevitably be a situation where a person's number is greater than the previous smaller one. In this way, the previous larger person has to be compared with this person again.

There are many people who can pair up, but there is only one robot. If this continues, the time is obviously not enough.

Josh understood this, so he became more anxious. "But if we don't complete this challenge, we will lose the qualification to continue the game.

An Wujiu raised his eyebrows, he was clearly in it, but he acted like he had nothing to do with him.

"You shouldn't be looking for me, you should be looking for the guy with the green eyes."

"You mean Shen Ti?" Qiao hoped to look in Shen Ti's direction and see him being dragged by other people, like a tool man who has no feelings but is only used for comparison, and seems to know nothing.

An Wujiu smiled, "He's pretending to be stupid."

"I can't see him pretending to be stupid. Go find him and I'll teach you how to say it."

Waiting in line for the results made Shen Ti a little annoyed. There is no paper and pen here, and other people can only dictate the order they remember, and recite it over and over again, which makes him have a headache.

His arm was pulled suddenly, Shen Ti turned around, it was Josh. Shen Ti didn't speak, just raised his eyebrows and said "what's the matter" to him.

Josh looked embarrassed, but because of time, he said it directly, very quickly, "Wuwu wants me to tell you that he is still cold now, if you continue to play dumb, he will kill you." Take off your trousers."

Shen Ti looked at him, An Wujiu raised his index finger and middle finger, pointed to his eyes, then pointed to him, and made a gesture of "watching you" towards him.

Shen Ti glanced at the time, it was 3 minutes and 43 seconds, then sighed, and clapped his hands at everyone.

"Don't ask for now."

"Time is running out." Wu You said.

Shen Ti didn't pay attention to what he said, and repeated, "Don't ask, come here. Everyone come here and stand in a row."

"Whatever?" Josh was puzzled.

Although Wu You was always at odds with him, he still did as he did, and even dragged Nan Shan, who had no strength, and Yang Erci also helped Zhong Yirou.

The last An Wujiu was still dragged by Shen Ti by his wrist.

The seven of them stand in the following order:

Shen Ti - An Wujiu - Josh - Wu You - Nanshan - Zhong Yirou - Yang Erci.

The moment he stood still, Shen Ti said to the robot, "Please compare our sizes two by two, starting with me and An Wujiu, and then An Wujiu's Josh, and tell us the answer."

"This can be regarded as a two-two pairing, there are no more than two people."

The robot heard the instruction and did as Shen Ti requested.

He came in front of Shen Ti and An Wujiu, "Player Shen Ti has a larger number."

Hearing this sentence, Shen Ti immediately grabbed An Wujiu's arm and forcibly changed places with him, before the robot could move.

Then, the robot moved to the right, between Shen Ti and Josh after the exchange, "The player Josh's number is bigger."

This time, Shen Ti did not ask An Wujiu to exchange with Josh.

The robot moved to the right and came between Josh and Wu You, "The player Josh's number is bigger."

Shen Ti immediately said to Wu You, "Wu You, change seats with Josh."

Wu You did as he did, and Josh moved to the right. At this time, the robot happened to be at the position where Josh and Nanshan were after the exchange. "The player Nanshan has a bigger number."

Shen Ti didn't speak, so Josh didn't move either.

The robot continued to move to the right. Comparing Nanshan and Zhong Yirou, "Player Zhong Yirou has a bigger number."

Their order was also not asked to be swapped.

Finally, the robot stopped in front of Zhong Yirou and Yang Erci, "Player Zhong Yirou has a bigger number."

"Yang Erci, exchange with her." Shen Ti said.

As instructed, Zhong Yirou came to the far right of the team. At this time, after a series of seamlessly connected questions, 53 seconds passed, and the order of the teams on the field became:

An Wujiu—Shen Ti—Wu You—Josh—Nanshan—Yang Erci—Zhong Yirou

Shen Ti immediately said, "Robots, let's start with An Wujiu."

The robot returns to the far left, "Player Shen Ti's number is bigger."

Move right, compare Shen Ti and Wu You, "Player Shen Ti's number is bigger."

Wu You is very smart, and he took the initiative to change places with Shen Ti.

The robot moved, comparing Shen Ti and Josh after the switch, "The player Josh is bigger."

Then, the robot keeps moving to the right and keeps comparing, but the results of the comparison are the same as those of the previous round, and no one needs to exchange.

Nearly a minute passed.

"Robots, let's start with An Wujiu for comparison."

"Is it better?" Wu You asked.

Shen Ti glanced at the time, "One last time, just to be on the safe side."

The robot did so, and he compared from the far left to the far right of the team, without any need to exchange positions.

50 seconds left on the countdown.

"Just in this order, increasing from left to right." Shen Ti said.

"The player is sure to submit the result?"

"Sure."

The countdown stops at 47 seconds, and the result is submitted. After a while, numbers appeared above each of them.

An Wujiu is 5, Wu You is 32, Shen Ti is 178, Josh is 456, Nanshan is 1209, Yang Erci is 4622, Zhong Yirou is 8999.

Their order is from largest to smallest, there is nothing wrong with that.

"Congratulations on completing this small challenge. Please choose left or right directions."

Two holographic projection signs appeared in front of their eyes, the one pointing to the left said [Return Service], and the one pointing to the right was [Order Service]

An Wujiu noticed that, apart from the sliding doors on the left and right sides, the wall they entered the third floor was facing a small wall, which should be the same as the rainbow gate of the circus theater downstairs. The door of the large room in the middle of the zigzag.

"Left, or right?" the robot asked.

Josh was a little puzzled, what about ordering and returning, "Then...or just choose to order, isn't it a bit strange to directly look at the return service?"

They just sloppily chose which side to order.

"Wait a minute." An Wujiu raised his hand, "Can we separate?"

The robot turned around, aimed at An Wujiu, and replied: "No, once the players make a decision, they can only act at the same time."

Shen Ti laughed, walked over and hooked his shoulders, "You just die and get rid of our hearts."

An Wujiu glanced at him, smiled back, and pushed away his hand on her shoulder.

The sliding door on the left rises slowly, finally revealing the passage inside, which is different from the previous corridor. The walls in this passage are completely made of steel, which feels like a space capsule, but the internal structure is not four or four. The corner corridor of the square rectangular parallelepiped is a columnar extension, like a pipe, going in obliquely.

"Please come in."

The corridor is relatively narrow, and at most only two people can stand side by side. At the top of the tunnel, there is a built-in sensor light every 30 centimeters. As soon as the first two people stepped in, the lights lit up one by one, making circles of cold white halos on the ground, like some kind of welcome ceremony .

An Wujiu and Shen Ti waited at the end. Shen Ti looked at the corridor, without warning, he thought of the stage of the theater on the second floor, An Wujiu on the stage was locked in a birdcage, black velvet covered his figure.

At this time, An Wujiu was not idle, answering Yang Erci's questions one after another.

"You're just a college student?" Although Yang Erci only turned his face slightly, he could clearly see the suspicious expression, "Then did you participate in any project as a clinical volunteer when you were in school, and be a test subject?"

An Wujiu frowned.

Yang Erci showed an extraordinary interest in the strange phenomenon in himself.

She must know something.

"I haven't participated."

Yang Erci was a little skeptical, "Really?"

The light from the corridor shone on An Wujiu's clean face, and it was difficult to tell the truth from the words spoken by this face.

But what An Wujiu said was indeed true.

Not only did he not have any trace of participating in the experiment in his memory, nor did he have any signs of separating good from evil.

If he has had it before, at least he has the memory of the first attack. He lost his memory after entering the altar. The memory before the game exists, but he doesn't remember that he will have a mutated personality.

Reminiscent of being trapped in the glass cover before, that rabbit seems to know his situation of separating good from evil.

These things tie together in a direction that is not yet clear.

But it must not be accidental, nor is it natural.

"Could it be that after he entered the altar, it was too dangerous, so this situation was triggered for self-protection." Wu You, who was walking in front, asked.

"It's difficult." Yang Erci said, "It is almost impossible for such extreme characteristics to form without external causes."

The subtext in her words is that she suspects that there has been human manipulation.

Josh also found it very strange, "Self-protection? Surely not, the state before Wugui protects all of us, and that state will not stimulate the mechanism that needs protection at all."

"That's right." When Yang Erci mentioned the project, Wu You felt a little uncomfortable and thought of some experiments.

But An Wujiu denied it, did he really not participate

Everyone chatted hotly.

An Wujiu followed behind, his wrist was suddenly grabbed, and he was forced to stop. He knew it was Shen Ti, he had been pulled too many times, and he even remembered the feeling of being grabbed by Shen Ti's wrist.

An Wujiu lazily turned his face away, the eyelashes under the cold light cast long shadows on the lower eyelids, "What do you want to ask me?"

His ending sound is a bit frivolous, in fact, even in the state of integrity and kindness before, when An Wujiu spoke to him, he would still have some small raised ending sounds, very slight, but very special.

An Wujiu waited, thinking that Shen Ti also wanted to ask some questions related to his volatile temperament, and felt bored.

"I want to ask, if the teleportation magic is real and you come out of the birdcage on the right, what would you do?"

This question came out of nowhere, An Wujiu was inevitably stunned, and soon laughed again.

"You are really strange."

Is there any point in this question

"What will I do..." An Wujiu held Shen Ti's wrist with his backhand, pressed his thumb on the tendons of his wrist, his eyes glanced up, then fell back to Shen Ti's blue-green pupils, and raised his eyebrows.

"Why should I tell you? Is there any benefit?"

Shen Ti looked directly at him without evading, "I will give you whatever benefits you want."

"One benefit is not enough. In short, transfer me 3,000 points first, and I will think about the rest later." An Wujiu lion opened his mouth. Originally, he just wanted to have fun, but Shen Ti transferred him directly.

"So generous." An Wujiu smiled, "Okay, let me tell you, what will I do... I guess I will check if there is any problem with the birdcage. Then see what the rabbit says, whether it wants me to come down."

"What if he lets you down?" Shen Ti asked again.

"Hey, this is the second question." An Wujiu reminded.

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Ti transferred another three thousand, which made An Wujiu stunned.

Just such a broken question, is it really worth so much money

This guy's money is too easy to earn.

"Okay, after I come down... At that time, I was still the same as before. I guess I walked by your side. Didn't I walk together before?"

Shen Ti's heart skipped a beat.

This is different from what he expected when he met the fake An Wujiu. He originally thought that the real An Wujiu would not come towards him, but he made a wrong prediction.

Maybe it was a kind of disbelief at work, so he couldn't help asking, "What about your current state?"

An Wujiu laughed out as if hearing a joke.

What is the difference between now and before? It's obviously him.

"Even in the current state, I will be the first to find you." But he gave a rather bad reason.

"I'm going to come to you, snatch your chair away, and sit by myself."

Shen Ti looked into his eyes and the lips that curled up when he smiled.

At this moment, a kind of complex emotion that he had never experienced in his heart, his heart rate accelerated, and the pulse in the grasped wrist was beating vigorously.

Just because of An Wujiu's words "I will come to you", he unexpectedly burst into a strange jump of joy.

Shen Ti couldn't figure it out.

After An Wujiu finished answering the question that didn't mean much to him, all he could think about was how to get this guy Shen Ti.

He collected all the memories about Shen Ti in his mind, thinking that he wore a strange mask back then, played rock-paper-scissors with himself, ate candy like a child, had an oral period, and liked to learn tongues.

But he wants death wholeheartedly, and he is not greedy for money. When he thinks about it carefully, he doesn't seem to care about anything.

That…

"Ah, I thought of a benefit." An Wujiu glanced at the other people who had already walked in front, and then looked back at Shen Ti. His speaking speed slowed down again, his lips opened and closed lazily, and the edge of his teeth grazed the tip of his tongue.

The voice is very soft, only breathy.

"How about let me kiss you?"