Train to Another World.

Chapter 67 The game begins

The older woman also laughed and said, “This situation was taken into consideration when the game was first designed. As you can see, we are all weak women.

I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. Even if the four of us tried our best, we couldn't get even one serving of food, so we have another way to exchange food."

"Can you tell me more about it?"

"We can exchange food for additional time on our sentences."

“How long is a serving of food worth?”

Talking about the sentence, the older woman's expression became a little unnatural: "One serving of food is worth ten years."

“Can it be exchanged unlimitedly?”

"No, we have been here for ten years, but we still have twenty years left in our sentences. Assuming we can live to be a hundred, we will subtract the remaining sentences and our current ages.

After rounding off, the food we can redeem is: five portions, five portions, six portions, and seven portions. "

Li Zhuoguang glanced at the faces of the four women in front of him, then looked at the prison uniforms they were wearing. His expression was no longer cynical as before, and began to become a little serious: "So you only have 27 copies at most? Then I only need to get 29 copies to win?"

The older woman shook her head. "Those fitness equipment are specially made. Even if the four of you are top athletes with physical strength far beyond that of ordinary people, you absolutely cannot collect 29 portions of food by running and gain an absolute advantage."

Li Zhuoguang complained in his heart, "That's because you don't understand the extent of my physical strength. Besides, I have a secret weapon..."

The older woman added, "Besides, we don't have twenty-seven copies."

"Any idea?"

"We rely on the food we get in exchange for the extra time in our sentences, and each person can only get one portion in exchange for a sentence reduction of the same amount, which is ten years. The extra portion, and the portion we won, can only be exchanged for one year of sentence reduction each."

"Oh, so, in order to ensure that you don't lose money, each of you can only exchange one. Together with the ones you already have, there are eight in total. If you exchange one more, you will lose money.

I only need to collect ten to win. No, if you bite the bullet and exchange one more, you can get nine.

If the odds are 9 to 10, and 9 wins, the 10 shares you win can be exchanged for 10 years, which can just offset the extra share, and you can earn another year. Then I need to collect 11 shares to ensure that you will lose money regardless of whether you win or lose. "

The older woman nodded. “Now that you’ve thought of this, the real game has begun.”

"A real game?"

The older woman said, "I have just said that this road is called the 'Road of Careful Calculation'. Not only has the food you obtain been calculated, but even your physical strength has been calculated.

I know that your first exam tested physical strength. The average physical strength level of you who passed the first exam was calculated at the end of the exam. Your average physical energy consumption in the second exam, as well as the recovery gained from rest and meals last night, have also been calculated.

As I said, these treadmills are specially made. According to the calculated average level, the amount of energy each candidate is allowed to consume in this stage is only enough to get one portion of food, while ensuring that he or she can complete the rest of the journey.

If you want to get more food, the mileage requirement will double. So even if some of you have much more physical strength than the average of this group of candidates, after getting the second portion of food, the remaining physical strength will definitely not be enough to support the rest of the journey.

That is to say, you and us can only exchange one portion of food each, which adds up to eight portions, just like us, without losing money. If you want to gain an advantage in numbers, someone must make a sacrifice. "

Li Zhuoguang stroked his chin. This game was a one-shot game. If one wanted to move forward, one had to pay ten portions of food no matter what. And in order to ensure the next supply, one had to win more portions of food in one game.

According to the rules of the game, the more food you put on the table, the greater your chances of winning.

However, the loss line of both parties is eight portions. According to the analysis of game psychology, when faced with this situation, most people tend to bet more food within the loss line. It is easy for both parties to bet eight portions. However, there is another rule in the game. If both parties bet the same amount of food, both parties lose and all the food on the table will be destroyed. This rule effectively avoids the situation where both parties bet on the loss line.

Li Zhuoguang finally understood the true meaning of this game. This game was indeed a game of gambling, but the chips of the game were never food and physical strength. What was put on the table on both sides was people.

In fact, it is very simple to win, that is sacrifice. This game is about who is more ruthless. The more sacrifices you make, the greater the chance of winning. The prisoners who sacrifice will have their sentences increased, while those who sacrifice on your side will fail the exam.

As for robbing the other party of their food, haha, the woman has been emphasizing from the beginning that the four of them are weak women who cannot use physical strength to exchange for food. Now that Li Zhuoguang thinks about it, it is hard not to believe that the other party is using hints to induce him to use violence to snatch food.

As for the consequences of using violence, Li Zhuoguang didn't believe that the person who could design such a thing would leave such a stupid cheating loophole.

Li Zhuoguang rubbed his temple with a headache. Compared with him, the path chosen by the protagonist and his group in the original book was simply a simple one.

We are relatively lucky here, as the four of us are a team, so we only need to play against the outside world. If we encounter four individual players teaming up to clear the level...

There's no hope. Come back next year.

Moreover, from the beginning, Li Zhuoguang noticed one thing that made him feel that it would not be so easy for him to win. And if his guess was true, simply winning the game would only make him feel uncomfortable.

"I just have one last question."

"Excuse me."

“Did you design this game?”

The older woman shook her head. “No, it was designed by Mr. Liber, the warden of the Trap Tower.”

Li Zhuoguang was silent for a moment: "I have finished asking questions, let's start the game."

The woman on the other side heard this and nodded towards a camera. Immediately, a huge curtain fell, dividing the entire space in half, and no one could see what was happening on the other side.

There was a flash of lightning on the curtain. Upon closer inspection, the entire curtain was made of thin metal wires and must have been electrified.

Li Zhuoguang briefly explained the situation of the game to everyone, then turned to Wei Changfeng and said, "You don't have enough physical strength, so just stay aside and rest."

Wei Changfeng agreed with an unpleasant look on his face. Ever since he joined Li Zhuoguang's group, he had been eager to make a contribution, but unfortunately his own strength was too poor. It seemed that he had no chance this time.

Li Zhuoguang directly activated the iron armor that he and Qin Daniu carried with them. Without anyone controlling it, the iron armor could still complete relatively simple tasks.

Comparing physical strength? Can a human compare with a machine equipped with an Ark reactor?
When the two iron armors got on the treadmill, Li Zhuoguang discovered a problem because they accelerated slowly.

Li Zhuoguang got on a treadmill and tried it himself. He finally understood what the special treadmill that the woman emphasized was.

To start a treadmill from a standstill, the user needs to hold the handrail and use a lot of force to start it, and it is not easy to increase the speed.

This means that once the treadmill reaches the ideal speed, you need to keep running. If you stop to rest and then restart, it will inevitably cause a waste of physical energy.

This design will make the cost of resting during the journey higher, but even this has been taken into account, which shows that it is indeed "careful planning".

But this means nothing to Li Zhuoguang.

Li Zhuoguang and the two battle armors occupied three treadmills. Although Qin Daniu and Xiong Facai were also very strong, there were only four treadmills, so they took turns to use one to run and recover their strength.

(End of this chapter)