"I, I didn't mean it." Carol said in a panic: "I just didn't throw it accurately."
"Heh." The clown slapped the table hard, sneered and said: "I think you don't believe us at all, and you want to leave a way out for yourself. You want to use burning the house as a trump card, and you are worried that we won't light the fire, so you
I just took advantage of my trembling hand and made a mistake to create opportunities for myself!"
"What did you say?! You bastard, how could I do that?! I, I am actually...who let this damn rule make me so nervous?!"
"Look, look, I'm starting to find reasons from the rules again." The clown bared his teeth, looked around, then crossed his arms and stared at Carol sullenly and said, "We shouldn't give this stupid woman a chance.
She never considered other people's feelings from the beginning to the end. I think we should stop here and play according to the original rules."
Carol's eyebrows stood up in anger, but as soon as she counted the matches in her hand, she lost her confidence again.
She just threw in a match, and according to the rules, she could throw in two more, but it was useless.
Schiller and the clown just threw two sticks, and they have 8 sticks left in their hands. If she and Katie both throw 3 sticks, there will be 7 sticks left in their hands.
So in clockwise order, after this round of throwing, several people are left with 8, 8, 7, and 7 sticks respectively. After the abolition of the guessing rules, there will be another round, which will be 5, 5, 4, and 4. After another round, there will be 2
, 2, 1, 1, then Schiller throws two, the clown throws two, Katie throws one, and Carol will still be eliminated.
At this stage of the situation, Carol still cannot guarantee that anyone will have 4 or more pieces left in their hands. If the rules are abolished now, she will still lose.
So, she took a deep breath and used her little patience to explain: "Believe me, I really didn't mean it. I was originally a superpower, but now that superpowers are no longer allowed, it is difficult for me to be so accurate."
You have to control your limbs, and besides, as long as no one jumps over it, the fire won't burn the house."
The expressions of the other three people were noncommittal. Carol gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and said, "Then I'll throw two of them in, okay?"
Schiller sighed lightly and stood up again and said: "Well, there is no point in being harsh. In fact, if there are still a few rounds, no one can guarantee that he will not miss. The fire will always be lit, just like Carlo
As Ms. Er said, it doesn't matter if the brazier doesn't rise."
Carol glanced at Schiller with some gratitude. After throwing the two matches, Schiller turned to guessing with the clown.
Katie stared nervously at the two men's movements. She wanted to know if Schiller and the Joker had agreed on any secret code to determine the type of punches they would throw.
After the last round, she had the fewest matches in her hand, which meant that her advantage was now the greatest. If she could beat the Joker and Carol again, she would be sure to win.
This time the clown came out with scissors again, but Schiller came out with paper. After Schiller lost, the clown showed a big smile and said: "You have to choose to skip, my friend."
Suddenly, the other two people opened their eyes wide.
But the clown only showed a scary smile.
Carol and Katie both wanted to know if Schiller would abide by the rules and continue playing. Schiller hesitated for a moment and then sighed and took away his hand on the match.
Carroll felt very confused. Losing the opportunity to throw three matches meant that Schiller's chance of winning was cut in half. But he was bound to win, so how could he allow himself to fall into this situation?
If it were up to me, I might as well just turn my back and stop playing. It’s not the organizer’s rules anyway. If I throw it in forcibly, I won’t be punished. More importantly, I can use this to threaten the clown and make him take back his decision. But what about Schiller?
Didn't do anything.
"I'll skip it," Schiller said.
A soft sound of "ta da da da" came from the top of the ceiling. Several people raised their heads, and the chain began to tighten slowly and gradually began to rise.
As mentioned before, the chain itself is relatively loose, so when the brazier was raised for the first time, it did not reach a height of 30 centimeters from the table, only about a dozen centimeters away, and the flames in the brazier did not burn very high.
This made Carol feel relieved. If Schiller was the one with the biggest disadvantage now, then she didn't want to die together. If she could win, why would she kill herself?
But watching the brazier rise slowly, Katie became more and more certain of her suspicions - the biggest evidence was the brazier's chain.
This brazier is not very large. The diameter is estimated to be only 30 to 40 centimeters, and it cannot exceed half a meter including the edge. However, the way of fixing the brazier is very strange.
Many people have seen in movies and TV shows that castles that use braziers often use three chains to hang the brazier up. This is because this is a simple piece of physics knowledge. The triangle is the most stable. No matter how bad the chain is, the brazier will be suspended.
Concentrate it on one point at the top so that the sides can also form a triangle, which is more stable.
But this brazier is not like that. It is hung by four chains, and the four chains are straight up and down, completely parallel. This is not the way ordinary braziers should be hung at all.
What's even more obvious is that the two sides of the square formed by connecting the points of the four chains are parallel to the player, and the two sides are perpendicular to the player. It is equivalent to the square being placed squarely on the table, with a square in front of each side.
Players, while the four corners point to where no one is.
Parallelograms are inherently unstable, and there must be a reason for this peculiar hanging method.
Carol also looked at the braziers that were gradually moving away from the table, thinking about these braziers. When they were placed on the table, she didn't feel anything, but once they were suspended, some weirdness would be magnified.
She didn't think of any force analysis, she just thought the brazier looked weird. If you say it was hung with four ropes, then why not make it a square one? Such a small round pot is still useful.
Wearing four chains?
But at this moment, the clown staggered as if he was drunk. His elbow on the table pressed down, causing the table to shake.
"What are you doing?!" Carol yelled angrily.
But the next second, she was a little shocked as she saw the brazier being shaken by the shaking table, and the flames above it suddenly became bigger.
In an instant, Carol realized a terrible fact - pushing the brazier is the real way to play this game!
And the person opposite me is a madman!!!
Carol could feel the cold sweat on her palms almost immediately. Her legs went weak, and her arms were resting on the table, unable to exert any strength. She gritted her teeth and held in her breath, trying to push the brazier directly to the opposite side.
That madman's face.
But just a second before she took action, the clown crossed his arms and said with a smile: "You must have never studied mathematics or physics, right? If you push it now, the other side of the brazier will hit the table."
Carol's movements paused. Although she did not understand any theoretical data, she could still imagine the scene.
These four iron chains are firmly fixed on the edge of the brazier through small holes, but there are no pulleys to ensure that the brazier will not tip over. If you want to push the brazier, you must not touch the hot lower half. You can only push the edge with your hands.
But if the downward force is too much, this side of the brazier is likely to hit the table, causing the charcoal to scatter.
Although there was a strong brazier burning in the wooden house, the air was extremely cold. They began to realize that the real gameplay of this game, throwing matches, was just a cover. After the flames were lit, it was another push-hands game.
No wonder the rules limit activities to within one meter of the table. Going out of bounds is considered a violation. If this is really a simple math game, there is no point in delineating boundaries.
Essentially, you are trying to find a way to push the brazier onto someone else, either smashing it out of bounds, or making him have to go out of bounds due to avoidance. As long as one person is eliminated, the remaining three will automatically win. This is the fastest way to win.
Methods.
But no one dares to take action now, because the brazier is not high enough, and if it hits the table and knocks over, it will be all over.
Katie thought she had seen through it early. Schiller had actually realized the nature of the game long ago, so he formulated such rules because he knew that the advantages in the match-throwing game were useless.
But in this case, can't you just choose to skip it twice and then start pushing? Why do you need to formulate such a complicated rule?
Katie was a little puzzled, but the clown had already asked her to guess the game.
Katie was distracted by thinking, and forgot to observe the clown's punching pattern, so she casually pulled out a cloth, and the clown pulled out scissors again.
The clown picked up three matches and threw them into the fire, and then began to move his wrists, as if he was going to push the brazier into the face of this damn stupid woman as soon as this round was over.
Katie saw Carol's hands shaking when guessing. She tried her best to concentrate on watching the changes in the muscles of Carol's hands. The next second, she won with fists!
Katie cheered in her heart, but she could also see the current situation clearly. No one took action now because the position of the brazier was not good. Maybe someone would take action first as soon as the brazier went up, and another person
Suffer.
Therefore, you must not skip it in your own round, because if the brazier rises in your own round, although Carol and the Joker may push each other, what if Schiller on the opposite side takes action?
Katie saw the structure of the brazier clearly, and she knew that this structure was most conducive to people on the opposite side pushing each other, and it would be difficult to push at an angle, so the person on the opposite side should be the most wary.
Katie took a deep breath, swallowed, took out three matches and threw them into the brazier. The flames burned even more intensely.
She estimated in her mind that there was another opportunity to take action, and that was the temperature of the brazier.
The temperature of this brazier was not low when it was put down, and there was a lot of red-hot charcoal in it, but after the open flame was lit, it was different after all.
Although this is an unrealistic game, anyone with some common sense knows that the brazier will get hotter and hotter. Not only will it burn the person who is hit, but the person pushing the brazier will also be burned.
It seemed that it was the next round, and Katie thought that the next time it was the clown's turn, he would definitely knock Carol out. This was Schiller and the clown's plan.
Carol turned around and played guessing games with Schiller. This time, Schiller won. Schiller nodded to Carol and said, "Two matches, ma'am."
Carol did not relax at all. She threw two matches into the fire pot with a pale face. Then it was Schiller's turn to play guessing with the clown. Schiller won again and threw three matches into the fire.
Finally it's the clown's turn.
Katie repeatedly thought about the guess in her mind, and found that both Schiller and the clown had their eyes on her. She felt more and more that her guess must be correct.
And she also mastered the clown's punching rules. From the beginning to the end, this madman could only use scissors.
"rock-paper-scissors!"
Katie's rock defeated the clown's scissors.
"Choose skip!"
"I skip it!"
The firelight as the brazier rose reflected Carol's astonished face. He pressed one hand on the belly of the brazier and pushed it with all his strength.
"Bang!"
A figure flew backwards, while Carol still stood there in shock, staring dumbfounded at Katie who was thrown away by Schiller.
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"
Katie covered her chest and chin, which had been burned and peeled, and let out a sharp scream.
But Carol noticed that what came out of Katie's wound was not blood, but some disgusting black-gray mud.
"Contestant-Clayface violated the rules and crossed the line, and will be eliminated by execution!"
"Bang!"
Countless pieces of mud splashed away, and what was left in the center of the explosion was no human tissue at all, just a pool of mud that gradually collapsed.
Carol was stunned.
"What exactly is going on??!!"
Blindly guessing that someone has no knowledge at all.