Genius Club.

Chapter 26 Reasonable or unreasonable

Gao Yang lit a cigarette and explained to Lin Xian:
"If Argentina really beat France in the penalty shootout... then we shouldn't bet on Argentina winning when buying lottery tickets! We should bet on a draw!"

"Why?" Lin Xian's eyes were clear and he knew nothing.

"Is such that……"

Gao Yang danced and gestured:

"A football match consists of three parts: regular time, overtime, and penalty shootout."

"If the winner is decided in regular time, the game is over immediately."

"If the regular game is a tie, that is, the score is the same, then it will go into overtime to determine the winner."

"If the game is still tied after extra time, we'll go into a penalty shootout, with each team taking turns to take penalties until the winner is decided!"

"[The standard for determining a win, loss or draw in football lottery is based only on the results of the game during regular time!]"

At this point, Lin Xian understood:
"I understand. Since it has come to a penalty shootout, the previous games must have all been draws, so I would naturally buy a draw when buying a lottery ticket."

Gao Yang gave Lin Xian a thumbs up:

"You learn really fast! You're a natural at football betting! Come buy some together! The odds of a draw are very high!"

"Buy some, brother! Isn't it okay if you lose, it's mine? I've made 70,000 or 80,000 yuan from you before. This time, if you win, it's yours, and if you lose, it's mine!"

Gao Yang forcibly dragged Lin Xian into the store.

Finally, under Gao Yang's constant persuasion, Lin Xian bought a football lottery ticket worth 3 yuan, betting on a draw between Argentina and France.

Lin Xian was not a gambler and did not want to buy so much. But Gao Yang got carried away and took Lin Xian's phone and paid with his face.

Gao Yang bought 6 yuan in a single bet, and Lin Xian was forced to buy 3 yuan.

The odds of a draw are 3.7
In other words...if Argentina and France really tie in regular time, Gao Yang can get a prize of 22 yuan and Lin Xian can get a prize of 11 yuan.

……

3 points in the early hours.

The game started again amid Lin Xian's yawns.

The Argentine team played very fiercely.

A penalty kick was scored shortly after the start of the game, and then another goal was scored later.

The game time reached 80 minutes, Argentina led 2:0!

Gao Yang was sweating profusely:

"What's going on, Lin Xian? This is different from what we agreed on! Unless the French team is a god, how could they score two goals in just over ten minutes?"

however!
Gao Yang's voice had just fallen!

France's main player Mbappe scored a goal directly!
Before Gao Yang's howl could be heard out of the window, Mbappe scored another goal!
Scoring two goals in a matter of seconds! Even football articles don’t dare to write like this!

“OO ...

Gao Yang once again turned into a human mop, writhing on the floor like a maggot, muttering to himself as if he was summoning some evil god, and he couldn't even speak human language!

finally……

Argentina won the match on penalties.

Messi held up the long-awaited World Cup trophy.

Gao Yang also held up the lottery ticket with a prize of 22 yuan and rushed towards Lin Xian.

"Father!"

"roll!"

……

After a struggle, Gao Yang finally calmed down and began to analyze:
"Looking back now... your dream seems a little abnormal! If it was just a prediction of Argentina's victory, it wouldn't be a big deal."

"But you accurately predicted that the game would be a draw in the regular period, a draw in the overtime, and that the winner would not be decided until the penalty shootout..."

"Let me think about it."

Gao Yang was deep in thought there, and Lin Xian was also thinking with his chin in his hand.

Currently.

[If we make a rough judgment, it can now be basically confirmed that my dream is the real future world 600 years later. ]

But he always felt that there was still a lack of decisive evidence.

It is illogical to conclude that dreams are the real future world just because the results of football matches were predicted accurately.

When I was buying lottery tickets just now, many of my fellow golfers in the lottery shop were laughing and saying that they had made a fortune from betting on sports this year and had won several games in a row.

One old man even won seven times in a row and was ready to pay the full amount for his Haval.

There are only three possible outcomes in football betting: win, lose, and draw.

Even if it is pure guessing, there is a chance of guessing correctly for several games in a row. Isn't this ironclad evidence that the dream is the real future world?

"Actually, Lin Xian, I still can't believe that your dream is real."

Finally, Gao Yang raised his head and said seriously:

"Even if you predicted three games in a row correctly, there are too many irrational phenomena in your dream. To be honest, it's hard for me to imagine that it's a real world."

"I remember you said that time in your dreams never moves forward? It's always fixed on the same day?"

Lin Xian nodded:
"Every time I dream, it's an identical cycle... The person who died yesterday is still standing in the same place today; the friend who played well with me yesterday has forgotten everything today; the leaves always fall in the same place, never a single detail is wrong... I feel like I'm watching a repeating movie every day."

"In fact, there are still many unclear aspects of this dream. For example, the level of technological development in the dream is almost the same as it is in 2022. How do you explain this? Do you believe that life 600 years from now will be the same as it is now?"

Gao Yang was also very confused at this time and was scratching his head.

"Stop! Stop!"

Gao Yang signaled Lin Xian to be quiet.

Then he ran into Lin Xian's bedroom and took out a piece of white paper and a black pen:

"It's too confusing, too confusing... How about this, let's sort out our thoughts! Then we can determine what your dream is all about!"

"How do I do it?" Lin Xian asked, stretching out his hand.

Gao Yang handed Lin Xian a piece of paper and a pen, motioning him to sit down:

"Like you said, dreams are different from reality. Dreams don't need to be reasonable and orderly, but the real world is different! The real world must be reasonable, orderly, and true and verifiable."

"So, now let's summarize the unreasonable parts of your dream together! List them one by one!"

"If these irrational places really cannot stand up to scrutiny, are self-contradictory, and have inconsistent logic... then it can definitely be said that your dream is just a simple dream! Everything is just a coincidence!"

Lin Xian took the pen and nodded. It was indeed a good idea. It could also be considered a kind of reverse reasoning.

"Okay, each of you write your own, and then we'll summarize it and discuss it."

Lin Xian lowered his head and wrote the title on the white paper——

[Irrational phenomena in dreams]

……

After putting pen to paper, Lin Xian wrote as if possessed by god.

He had long felt that there were too many bugs in dreams, but he had previously thought that since it was a dream, the unreasonableness would actually be very reasonable.

But now the idea has changed. If we want to link the dream world with the real world...

Those unreasonable places seem even more unreasonable!
(End of this chapter)