Chapter 82: 0 points for a blank paper
"To put it in a more profound way, it's probability theory. To put it simply, it's about finding patterns." Li Ziyue sat on a chair. "If you observe these 36 numbers, you will find that '65', '13', and '22' are often tied together, but this is not absolute. Occasionally, there will be accidents."
He pointed to '21' and said: "After the data increases, accidents are no longer accidents."
"For example, we counted the numbers after 3 and found that after the dice rolled 3, half of the events turned to 4, and the remaining 1, 2, 5, and 6 divided the other half, and the same goes for other numbers."
"The reason you are confused is very simple. 3 is not always followed by 4. There are other uncertain numbers that interfere. After you form a regular judgment, you will quickly deny yourself."
He Jianshan stood by silently, looking embarrassed.
[The first wave of attack selection for the seventh round has begun. Please enter the number of your choice below. The countdown is 10 seconds]
[10]
[9]
"You are the director." Li Ziyue slightly turned his body, "You choose."
He Jianshan gritted his teeth slightly in annoyance, and remained silent until the last two seconds before entering the number '4'.
Li Ziyue glanced at him casually and said nothing.
The 3D dice on the screen swayed, and finally the side with the number 4 faced up.
[Choose correctly and successfully resist a wave of monster attacks]
He Jianshan was stunned.
"Next, choose '1'."
This time he hesitated for only a second.
[Choose correctly and successfully resist a wave of monster attacks]
"What next? What to choose?"
He Jianshan was somewhat overjoyed, but Li Ziyue's expression became heavy.
“…3.”
The 3D dice finally stopped, and the number facing up was 1.
[Choose wrong, strange beasts will attack from the north]
"Northern..." He Jianshan's face turned pale instantly, "No... Why? Are you..."
He looked at Li Ziyue fiercely and roared out of control: "You were right the previous two times, why did you choose wrong this time! Did you do it on purpose..."
Before he could finish his words, Zhang Lian grabbed his neck with a cold face.
"I always think it would be better if you were a corpse." Zhang Lian's eyelashes drooped, and his eyes were dark.
He Jianshan should be thankful that Li Ziyue was present at this moment.
After Zhang Lian let go of his hand, He Jianshan leaned against the corner of the table and coughed for a long time before he caught his breath. He looked so weak that he looked like he had just been through the gates of hell.
He didn't dare to look up at Zhang Lian now.
Zhang Lian really wanted to kill him just now, he was not joking.
Li Ziyue rubbed his temples and coughed twice.
"The final number on the dice is uncertain. I said before that the probability of choosing the right one is only one in two." Li Ziyue took a breath, "And the probability is not complicated. If we can find the probability, we can completely resist the attack of the alien beast... There is no need to go to great lengths to set up the alien beast in the copy..."
[The fourth wave of attack in the seventh round has started. Please enter the number you choose below. The countdown is 10 seconds]
"My choice for the fourth round is '3'. You can believe me or not, because my answer is only the most likely scenario and does not represent..."
"……I know."
He Jianshan stood up with difficulty and entered 3 on the system.
[Select Correct]
He then breathed a sigh of relief: "...I'll trust you again."
Li Ziyue pursed her lips and said, "Choose 4 again."
The final number is "5".
[Choose the wrong one, and a strange beast will attack from the sky]
Li Ziyue remained calm and said, "Choose 6 at the end."
"How should I choose?" He Jianshan got it wrong twice out of five choices. His temper exploded again and he spoke without thinking. "I think you are just talking nonsense. Didn't you figure out the probability behind the numbers? How come you got it wrong so many times?"
Li Ziyue raised his eyelids slightly: "I feel a little sympathetic to the person who brought you here. What was it about you that attracted him so much that he turned you into someone who couldn't understand what people said..."
His student quality of not swearing made him hold back the last two words.
"Isn't it clear what I have explained to you? The data is here. If you don't believe me, you can choose for yourself. After all, you are the director. I don't have the responsibility to find the correct answer for you."
"A reminder, in the last 5 seconds, there is still a chance of successfully resisting if you enter a number, and a blank paper will result in 0 points."
He Jianshan's eyes were gloomy. He stared at the system screen, his fingers trembling, and finally entered 4.
But the numbers on the last round of dice rolls were just as Li Ziyue had expected.
6.
[Choose wrong, strange beasts will attack from the ground]
He Jianshan collapsed on the soft chair, his whole body cold.
[All six rounds of selection are over. Success 3 times, failure 3 times. At night, strange beasts will attack from the direction where the defense failed. Players are requested to prepare for defense.]
Night strikes?
Li Ziyue's eyebrows moved slightly.
According to the probability of the dice rolling, the probability of an alien beast attacking is 63/64, and players basically cannot avoid fighting with the alien beast.
Li Ziyue clicked on the data review of the previous six alien beast attacks and made multiple comparisons.
To sum up, we can conclude that attacks by alien beasts are templated.
The number and attack strength of the alien beasts in each round were highly similar. In the sixth round, all the players were about to die, but why didn't the alien beasts suffer any losses?
Is this another... cycle?
The system did not give any reminders about the rounds of monster attacks, and there were no obvious changes between each round. It can be guessed that the attacks will not stop as long as all the players are not dead.
What is the way out? What is the role of the few hours between "choice" and the arrival of night?
Is it just used to prepare players to defend against strange beasts?
Wouldn't that mean we are falling into the trap of the obedience system: choose → player prepares → strange beasts attack → choose → player prepares → strange beasts attack...
Knowing the conditions is not enough.
Li Ziyue rubbed his brows lightly: "Did you see anyone else in the director's office..."
When I looked up, I saw He Jianshan huddled in the corner, looking extremely depressed.
"...Forget it." Li Ziyue didn't know what to say for a moment.
If you think about it carefully, the whole incident won’t have much impact if you ignore He Jianshan.
[Even if the director is so funny, he can be ignored]
[It actually does have an impact. After ignoring it, the speed of pushing the copy has obviously increased.]
Li Ziyue turned around and said, "Before the night comes, let's search the zoo thoroughly. The copy must be hidden..."
“Knock, knock.”
The girl poked her head out from the door a little nervously: "Sorry to bother you."
Li Ziyue turned his gaze away, his eyelashes trembling slightly.
This girl...has he met this girl before?
Yao Yuntao held an old and incomplete picture album in her arms.
"Perhaps, you need this? But I showed it to the director before," Yao Yuntao hesitated, "and he said he couldn't understand it."
Li Ziyue: “…”
At this moment, he felt from the bottom of his heart that he had wasted too much time on the main storyline.
"You guys..." He struggled with his words for two seconds, and finally said, "Thank you for your hard work."
A bad leader is more painful than a strong enemy.
Most of the fonts on the album had melted into a black mist, and people guessed the overall content based on the few words and images that were barely understandable.
[Strange Beast: A monster born from the union of a healthy human and a mutant animal]
[Combination Hotbed: The environment is seriously polluted, and people are prone to mutating into zombies. Zombies cannot combine with alien beasts. The hotbed exists for combination, and people in the hotbed will not be disturbed by the environment.]
So that's how it is. Only with supplements can there be a continuous supply of resources.
It seems that if we want to completely stop the attacks of alien beasts, we must start from the source.
"Thank you," Li Ziyue's lips curled up unconsciously, "You've been a great help."
Yao Yuntao raised her head shyly, her eyes falling on Li Ziyue's profile, with curved corners of her eyes.
Exactly the same as before.
During the time when Li Ziyue dominated the top of the scoreboard, almost all players were discussing who this person was.
Some people rumored that he was unruly, cruel, and arrogant.
However, this is far from the real plum.
He's already at a high position, respected by all players, but if you do Li Ziyue a small favor, he'll sincerely thank you.
There were many players who had won the first place in the points list, and there were also some who were smarter and stronger than Li Ziyue.
But there was no one like him.
Later, when Yao Yuntao met Li Ziyue again, he was already down and out.
He lost his sharpness and his smile, and went from being dazzling to falling into the mundane world. When he looked up, he saw nothing but malice all around him.
In this case, it would be reasonable for him to fall into a vortex of cynicism and self-destruction.
This reviled person, while bleeding all over, brought back a small flower that had nothing to do with the mission to the NPC child in the dungeon.
It was also evening, and the setting sun spread into an orange-yellow color. Li Ziyue's lips curled up into a small arc, and his trembling hands, which could not be controlled, gently rested on the top of the thin child's head.
A white daisy was pinned against the child's reddening ear.
"Happy birthday." He slowly moved his hand down and paused, "My hands are dirty, so I won't help you tidy up your clothes."
At the same time, most of the players were celebrating another child's birthday in the castle. Only Li Ziyue remembered that there was a poor little orphan in this slum alley.
Yao Yuntao wanted to get closer but was rejected by Li Ziyue.
"Don't get involved with me," he lowered his head to wrap the bandage, "They will torture you too."
"If I can't protect you, I will feel very guilty."
"Just think of it as my sake. Don't feel pity or kindness towards me. It will hurt you."
As dusk approached, Li Ziyue turned his back to the last bit of sunlight, with a cracked wound still on the corner of his mouth, and a nonchalant smile on his face.
Somehow, Yao Yuntao recalled the first time she met Li Ziyue. At that time, he was full of the unbridled arrogance of a young boy, with a pure white folding fan wrapped around his palm, and there was always a circle of players around him who were looking forward to him completing the dungeon.
Infinite flow copies have never been a problem for him, it is more like a game of life.
Victory comes easily, but it is also like fireworks that bloom in the night sky in an instant.
The light quickly faded, the followers faded away, and the person who was once the most calm and confident now huddled in a corner, healing his wounds alone.
A tiger in dire straits is bullied by dogs.
"Don't worry about me, and don't cry for me."
"You look like my senior," Li Ziyue handed her a tissue, with a gleam in his eyes.
He smiled softly: "She always thinks I'm fragile, but I'm not..."
The words choked.
What did Li Ziyue want to say at that time?
…
"Tonight, the monsters will attack from three places: the sky, the earth, and the north. There are hotbeds in the six directions. We'd better eliminate all the hotbeds tonight. Delaying it for too long will not do any good to the current situation."
"There aren't that many people left," Zhang Xingzhi shook his head. "These six locations are far apart, and it's snowy outside, with scattered exotic beasts all around. Even if Liu Yuche can deal with both the hotbeds in the sky and on the ground at the same time, the entire operation will require at least five people."
"The remaining players are more or less injured. They can barely defend themselves against attacks from alien beasts with the weapons provided by the institute. It would be difficult to ask them to take the initiative to attack."
Li Ziyue also knew this.
"Let me think about it."
Li Ziyue found the "Review" area in the office operating system and unexpectedly discovered that the system actually stored images of alien beast attacks.
"This link provides a lot of information," Zhang Xingzhi shrugged, "He Jianshan, so much information is placed in your office, but you know nothing about it. It's really miserable for those who follow you."
He Jianshan lowered his head and froze, as if he didn't hear Zhang Xingzhi's ridicule.
Li Ziyue clicked on one of the clips to play.
There was a meaningless snow fog at the front of the video. After an unknown amount of time, only a few shrill animal howls were heard, and black spots that kept rising and falling appeared in the white snow in the far distance.
The dot grew bigger and bigger, revealing the appearance of a strange beast that was a combination of a human and an octopus spider.
Sticky spider silk entangled its tentacled mouth, and with the help of the silk, it moved in the wind and snow at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people.
The light in the video became brighter and brighter, and for a moment the night seemed as bright as day.
Where does the light come from?
Li Ziyue frowned slightly.
"Wait," Liu Yuche's eyebrows twitched slightly, pointing at a tiny point and saying, "Enlarge this area to the maximum."
That was the farthest point that could be monitored. When zoomed in, it was just a blurry black layer, with countless strange beasts crawling out of this black layer.
And in the very center of the black layer, a faint brightness can be seen that is incompatible with the darkness.
Zhang Lian was silent for a while, then cut out that part of the video and performed image simulation splitting.
The simulation results show that the square black layer has almost no width and is a 2D long film that exists in real life.
"Outrageous... The dungeon is really fun," Zhang Xingzhi shook his head, "What's the purpose of this 2D setting?"
Li Ziyue lowered his eyelashes and thought for a moment: "It helps us solve the problem."
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