God's imitator

Chapter 445 Hiding the Box

Since neither party needed to take these wealth vouchers with them, He Xiaojun couldn't see the specific details of the remaining wealth vouchers in the box.

He could tell that something must have gone wrong again, and that he had unknowingly fallen into the other party's trap, but he couldn't figure out exactly what the problem was.

Even though he only took 9 boxes, the different face values ​​don't necessarily mean he'll lose.

And even if they lost, the gap shouldn't be this big.

He Xiaojun returned to the lounge once again.

Soon, another game began.

This time, He Xiaojun's role was that of an "audience member," which gave him a much-needed breath. After two consecutive high-intensity games, his brain had been completely overloaded, and he finally got a chance to catch his breath.

During these 20 minutes, he can enter the audience room to check out other people's strategies and think carefully about where the problem in the previous game went wrong.

……

After entering the audience room, He Xiaojun looked around and saw that all the players were "reversed".

In a prominent position in the room, there is also a sign displaying the current number of wins.

[Wins in the upright position: 9]

[Number of wins for the reversed team: 5]

Upon seeing this result, He Xiaojun couldn't help but feel somewhat ashamed.

Clearly, he contributed two of the wins in the upright position, which is why the reversed position is significantly behind.

If he had managed to win those two games, the score would have been 7-7, which would have been a draw.

The audience didn't engage in any special interaction, since speaking wasn't allowed in the room; the only way to communicate was by holding up signs, which was too inefficient.

Most players use this time to think about strategies and have little desire to communicate.

After the "Fool's Game," the 14th community did agree on a special code for the game, but the problem was that the audience members in the "Tarot Game" room could not speak.

Moreover, due to the distinction between "upright" and "reversed" positions, only about one-third of the viewers from the same faction are in the viewer room at any given time, making it difficult for He Xiaojun to quickly find players from the same community.

So he could only choose a seat and sit down to watch the game while trying to figure out what went wrong in the last round.

Five minutes later, He Xiaojun understood.

He hid a large box filled with 1000 wealth vouchers!

"No, that's not right. Numerically speaking, he even hid two..."

Although He Xiaojun couldn't figure out exactly what the arithmetic sequence prepared by the 'King' was, or how many wealth vouchers were in each box, he could still roughly calculate it through the difference.

He Xiaojun, as the "thief," obtained 811700 wealth coupons. He clearly remembered that at least five of the nine wooden boxes contained coupons with a face value of 1000.

Among the remaining 13 wooden boxes on the 'King's' side, there should have been many small-denomination coupons of 100, yet they still reached a wealth value of 1343700.

The gap between the two sides is as high as 532,000, which absolutely cannot be explained by mere luck.

A single wooden box can hold a maximum of 5 bundles of wealth coupons, which would amount to 50 yuan if each coupon is worth 1000 yuan. Considering that He Xiaojun took many high-value wooden boxes, to achieve this disparity, hiding only one wooden box filled with 1000-yuan wealth coupons would not be enough; two boxes would be necessary.

But the biggest problem is...

What if He Xiaojun happens to take away the two wooden boxes filled with 1000 wealth vouchers?
Wouldn't the emperor, as a wise man, be at a huge disadvantage?

Or perhaps the "Emperor" made some arrangements to drastically reduce the probability of He Xiaojun obtaining those two large boxes...

He Xiaojun had already figured out the reason.

"It's still about weight!"
"Although I told myself to take the wealth vouchers from these wooden boxes as randomly as possible, I actually didn't..."

"After learning about the 'weight' information, I still subconsciously took it into account when choosing a box, even though I wasn't very aware of it myself."

"Because most of the wooden boxes I opened shared the same characteristic: the heavier boxes usually contained wealth vouchers worth 100, so their actual value was lower; the lighter boxes mostly contained wealth vouchers worth 1000."

"When I first opened 'The Fool' and 'The World,' it conformed to this rule, and afterwards, this subconscious concept was constantly verified and reinforced..."

"No, it should be said that the situation in the 'Fool' and 'World' boxes is not a coincidence. In most boxes, the ones with more denominations contain 100-denomination coupons, while the ones with fewer denominations contain 1000-denomination coupons."

Therefore, lighter boxes are generally more valuable.

"After I realized the key factor of 'weight,' I subconsciously equated 'light' with 'high value.'"

"So, it's not a problem that I took a lot of light boxes. If the 'Emperor' just wanted to confuse the judgment by putting all the boxes with more cards in the same 100-denomination box, then my total wealth would definitely be higher."

"However, the 'Emperor' anticipated this possibility, so he placed 1000 coins in each of two very heavy boxes filled with wealth vouchers!"
"I don't know if I've ever touched these two boxes, but even if I did, I would probably subconsciously give up because of their weight."

"Unless I can anticipate the other party's prediction in advance..."

"No, that doesn't seem to work either."

"Let me go through it again from the beginning..."

"The 'Emperor' box likely uses an arithmetic sequence based on the number of 'wealth coupons' in the 22 boxes. Boxes with more coupons use 100-yuan coupons, while boxes with fewer coupons use 1000-yuan coupons. Of course, there are some exceptions, such as the 'World' box which contains 109 coupons, which is a little over a bundle. This is a relatively small number of coupons, but it uses 100-yuan coupons."

"But in general, it conforms to the common rule that 'the lighter the weight, the higher the value'."

"After that, the 1000 denomination was used in the two boxes with the most sheets."

"In this way, I, as a 'thief,' have two choices:"

"Either prioritize the lighter boxes to get a higher face value, but this will almost certainly mean missing the two most valuable boxes."

"Either prioritize choosing the heavier boxes, which may give you a chance to get the two high-value boxes, but the other boxes are all 100-dollar boxes, which will be of very low value."

"Moreover, if we use the first strategy of choosing 10 out of 22, the probability of finding these two high-value boxes is not high."

"The second strategy could theoretically open 20 boxes to check, but under the illusion of weight, it is easy to guess wrong and fall into a greater disadvantage in terms of quantity."

"In short, with this setup, the probability of a 'thief' finding those two large boxes is not high."

"And all those actions the 'Emperor' had before, whether it was pretending to be a novice, deliberately highlighting the 'weight' factor, or reminding me to pay attention to the time... were all probably to cover up for those two hidden boxes..."

(End of this chapter)