Chapter 194 Sudoku
The consequence of ignoring Yu Zhiyi's advice was that they saw a ghost.
Moreover, this ghost also has a serious illness.
What kind of ghost would make someone do arithmetic?!
That's right, it's an arithmetic problem!
Moreover, these weren't regular arithmetic problems; they were given fill-in-the-blank questions.
The female ghost drew a frame in mid-air, dividing it into 81 equal squares on all sides. The task was to add different numbers from one to nine to each square, so that each 3x3 grid, each row, and each number sequence contained different numbers from one to nine.
Most importantly, with 81 spaces, it only gives a maximum of three numbers in each small 3x3 grid, and some even only give two numbers.
Who the hell can fill this out?!
If you can't fill it out, the female ghost will whip you.
The location of the whipping is random; sometimes it's the hand, sometimes the buttocks, and sometimes the back.
A spanking is a bit better; there's a lot of flesh in the buttocks, so although it hurts, you can bear it and it will pass.
It's unbearable to pull your hands and back away, especially your back.
One slap and a spray of blood – a massive action.
The one who was most seriously injured in the arena was Young Master Zhang, because he considered himself clever and was a successful candidate in the county-level imperial examinations this year, almost reaching the level of a Jinshi. He thought he was extraordinary and that dealing with a mere female ghost's question would be a piece of cake.
The consequences were naturally dire; of the dozen or so people present, he vomited the most blood.
Young Master Zhang also vomited blood, but his condition was better than that of Young Master Zhang; he was actually whipped the most on his buttocks.
Miss Su's hands were hit the hardest.
Looking at her bloodied hands, Miss Su broke down: "Just kill me already! This damn question is so hard, who can solve it?! I think you just don't want us to leave!"
"You can make things difficult for them, but why make things difficult for me? Knowing I'm a woman, how could I possibly solve such a problem?"
"Shut up!"
A sharp, angry shout mixed with a rough edge rang out, and Miss Su was lifted into the air.
A hand that defied the laws of nature grabbed her neck. All the onlookers could see was Miss Su's eyes rolling back in her head, but they couldn't see where the owner of the hand was.
The female ghost was furious: "You're a woman too, how dare you belittle women like that?!"
"A woman like you who looks down on women is more despicable than men!"
"Uh...uh...uh..."
Miss Su felt as if her neck was about to break. She wanted to say something, but she couldn't make a sound at all. She could only wait for death in despair.
At that moment, her regret reached its peak.
If she had known that Yu Zhiyi was really so effective, she would never have gone against that woman today! If she had left the young master sooner, she wouldn't have encountered such an outrageous situation.
Unfortunately, there's no going back in life.
Just when she thought she was about to die, she heard a clear and beautiful female voice.
The woman's voice recited words she couldn't understand. Although the words were obscure, when they reached her ears, she felt as if she were hearing heavenly music, and her drowsy consciousness regained some clarity.
The next second, the female ghost's hand, as if burned by something, suddenly released her neck.
Miss Su landed on the ground.
None of the young master and the group of men stepped forward to help him up; they simply looked in the direction from which the sound came from with surprise and doubt.
As Yu Zhiyi entered the woods, she saw ten pairs of eyes staring at her.
"Mrs. Du!"
Young Master Zhang exclaimed in surprise.
At this moment, he still had the same unruly demeanor he had when he had eight days left, and his mournful face perfectly revealed the fear in his heart.
The young master wasn't overly enthusiastic, but he did breathe a sigh of relief: "You woman, you knew we'd encounter this, why didn't you come sooner?"
Instead of thanking Yu Zhiyi for her help, he complained that she was late.
Yu Zhiyi: "..."
Before she could say anything, Hongluan couldn't help but chime in: "What kind of trash can are you? How can you hold so much? She clearly warned you a long time ago, but you didn't believe her. You neither asked her to exorcise the ghost nor went home to take refuge. You insisted on coming here to die. Who's to blame?"
Yu Zhiyi was ashamed of her own words when it came to Hongluan's sharp tongue.
Just as Yu Zhiyi accepted the Duke's money to come and save people, Hongluan happened to go back to check on the work progress of the Yiluan Charity employees. Upon learning that Yu Zhiyi was going to exorcise a ghost, she curiously followed her.
The young master had never been spoken to like this before, especially not by a woman. His face immediately turned ashen: "How dare you! Do you know who I am? How dare you speak to me like that?!"
Hongluan sneered, "I don't care who you are. Since you need my sister's help to survive, you'd better straighten your attitude. Don't think you're someone special before you've even had a sip of horse piss. If you're so arrogant, why don't you use your status to intimidate the female ghost? Or do you not want to?"
Yu Zhiyi silently gave a thumbs up.
Hongluan proudly raised her head.
Young Master and the others: "..."
This woman must have eaten gunpowder!
Yu Zhiyi glanced calmly at the person who had been slapped quite hard: "Although I was paid to rescue you, I have no obligation to take you out. At worst, I'll just earn a little less."
Her gaze swept across the faces of everyone in the room. Her voice was still ethereal and pleasant, yet it sent chills down one's spine: "Anyone who still can't see their own situation will stay here forever and do math problems with the female ghost."
Everyone: ...
The young master's chest heaved violently with anger.
But when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.
I heard that the woman even severed ties with the Yu family, who had raised her, just like that, fearing that Yu Zhiyi would really abandon her, so she could only keep quiet.
Although he kept his mouth shut, dissatisfaction and anger shone through his eyes.
Yu Zhiyi never cared if someone hated her, as long as they didn't bother her, she didn't care how much they hated her in their hearts.
She turned her head and looked in the direction of the house.
The sky above the forest was pitch black, the dense foliage obscuring the view and making it impossible to see anything beyond the woods.
All that could be seen was a pattern formed by black resentment in mid-air.
The pattern is strange; it has eighty-one squares.
Many of the squares contain numbers.
Seeing Yu Zhiyi staring at the mass, the young master couldn't help but sneer: "Master Yu, you should focus on catching your ghosts! As for this problem, don't waste your energy. If your husband were here, he might be able to solve it."
Yu Zhiyi took his words as a string of words.
Since Yu Zhiyi appeared, the female ghost has stopped talking.
Seeing Yu Zhiyi staring at the blank spaces, she finally couldn't help but speak up and explained the pattern of solving the problem.
Yu Zhiyi seemed to be deep in thought.
"This question is interesting."
Hongluan exclaimed in astonishment, "Sudoku?"
Yu Zhiyi asked curiously, "Did you study this before?"
Hongluan touched her nose: "I guess so."
She explained, "Sudoku is about finding the right numbers. In each 3x3 grid, each row, and each sequence of numbers, you need to find all nine numbers without repeating any of them."
"It's not exactly easy, but it's not exactly difficult either. Sigh, if it were a Sudoku game on a mobile phone, it would be easier, since it only gives you so few numbers."
The Sudoku game on mobile phones allows you to select a single number, and then other identical numbers will appear.
In this way, we can use the process of elimination to find the positions of other identical numbers.
If we relied solely on the human brain to label these things, it would be incredibly exhausting.
Yu Zhiyi humbly sought guidance.
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