At the beginning of the bazaar, there were many hurried footsteps on the grass and cobblestone path. The air was filled with hushed chatter and tension. However, ten minutes after the bazaar started, the crowd became like a flock of confused sheep without a shepherd. They gradually slowed down and did not know what to do next.
As the hints were very simple, everyone had already walked through all six stalls. Almost everyone, like Lin Sanjiu, realized the same problem.
"Stall 1's teaching material needs to be exchanged with the underwear from stall 6, the underwear from stall 6 needs to be exchanged with the wall clock from stall 4, the wall clock from stall 4 needs to be exchanged with the car GPS from stall 3, and the car GPS from stall 3 needs to be exchanged with the 'Snow in February' from stall 5 …"
The middle-aged woman in the pink dress had a pretty good memory. Surrounded by a few evolved humans, she counted her fingers and sorted out the items in the stalls one by one. "Stall 5's' February Snow 'needs to be exchanged with stall 2's shoes, but the shoes from stall 2 have already been bought!"
"Isn't this a closed loop? The only opening is the pair of shoes …" the tall man in his forties said.
"We can only exchange for the shoes if we get them?" The black-haired girl said with a frown, "But even so, we can only get one item …"
The more they talked, the more questions they had. They couldn't come to a conclusion. The wife raised her voice and asked the stall owner, "Hey, how much did you sell the shoes for?"
"A Special Item," the stall owner answered with a grin, "The Rarity Level has to be between 6 to 8. It's the kind of item that will hurt when you have to part with it."
"I'm confused," the skinny teenager sighed, "There are only three winning items, but the hint points to six different items. And only the person who bought the shoes can exchange for one of them … What is going on? What should we do? "
Lin Sanjiu had pondered over this question a few times. Unfortunately, she had left most of her higher consciousness in the "100,000 Worlds Shifting Dream" and only had a little bit of "transportation money" left. Hence, she couldn't use the Mimicry Grand Prize now.
"Yeah, didn't you say there are three winning items?" The husband of the couple said anxiously, "Out of the six items, three of them are definitely wrong. But this still hasn't solved the problem of the shoes … "
"Who took the shoes?" The man in his forties or fifties was finally anxious, "Who took it, stand out! Otherwise, you'll be discovered when you're exchanging items! "
Although this dungeon did not encourage violence, it did not forbid it either. The person who took the shoes naturally would not stand out in front of everyone and become a target. As expected, everyone looked at each other with an innocent expression. No one said a word.
"At least they have the upper hand …" Lin Sanjiu thought.
If the man wanted to buy something, he would have to start with "Snow in February" from stall No. 5. Bohemia was still standing beside stall No. 5 with her arms crossed like a dog guarding a bone. When the man walked toward stall No. 5, she immediately turned around and snatched "Snow in February" from him.
"Are you finally going to start exchanging items?" Bohemia looked askance at him and asked.
Lin Sanjiu, who had kept one eye on Bohemia, reacted immediately. The moment Bohemia finished her sentence, Lin Sanjiu rushed to the side of stall number 5. When the other posthumans saw Lin Sanjiu moving, they surrounded her from afar. They stood a few steps away from the man, and all of them had their eyes on him.
Someone asked in a low voice, "What's going on? Why are you all surrounding him? Does he have a shoe? "
"No, I just … I just want to have a look." The man lowered his eyelids as if he had done something wrong and didn't dare to look at anyone. He glanced at stall No. 5 from afar.
"If you have a shoe, hand it over and we will figure out a way. If you don't have a shoe, stand further away, "the man in his forties or fifties said in a deep voice," If there's a misunderstanding, it won't be good if we start fighting. "
Regardless of whether the man had a shoe or not, he was too eye-catching by loitering in front of stall No. 5.
The same thought appeared in both Lin Sanjiu and the man's mind at the same time. Of course, the man wouldn't believe in the excuse of "we'll figure it out together". He waved his hand and retreated. Before he turned around and left, he looked at stall number 5 for the last time and frowned slightly, as if he couldn't find anything.
"Is there something wrong with stall No. 5?"
Stall No. 5 was urging Bohemia to either pay or put down the book. Lin Sanjiu looked around the table, but she couldn't find anything. The pillow, the briefcase, the stationery set, the half bottle of perfume, and the book "Snow in February" was put back to its original place. Everything was the same as when the stall owner gave him the hint.
Thinking of the hint, the voice of stall No. 5 rang in Lin Sanjiu's mind, "Which month has 28 days?"
Lin Sanjiu shuddered and realized that she had made a mistake. If it weren't for the fact that there were so many people watching, she would have slapped herself on the head.
"I already know the rules, why didn't I see them until now?"
The next second after she realized the truth, she spread out her [Higher Consciousness Scan]. All the items that were out of her line of sight due to the distance and angle were now clearly displayed in her mind.
The Pocket Dimension Creature seemed to have sensed Lin Sanjiu's gaze. Every time Lin Sanjiu "looked" at a stall, the stall owner would look up from under the awning and smile at Lin Sanjiu.
The hints for stall No. 1, No. 2, and No. 5 were the first ones Lin Sanjiu asked. They were, "Some of us know, some don't, but we will know if we ask and answer", "I carry you forward, what am I?", and "Which month has 28 days?".
The second hint was from stall No. 6. "Although it is always with you, you may not be aware of it. You may not see it at all." Other than the brand new underwear, there was nothing else on the table that matched the description of the hint.
Among the remaining stalls, the hint from stall No. 3 was, "I tell you to come and go, what am I?". There was a car GPS device among the items on the table.
The hint from stall No. 4 was, "As you turn forward, I grow up." Everyone agreed that the answer must be a wall clock.
As Lin Sanjiu looked at the items, her [Higher Consciousness Scan] suddenly returned to stall No. 3.
"Found it."
"Bohemia," she murmured, "you stay here, and don't move. The man who has exchanged his shoes must come, and he can only come to the fifth stall to exchange his goods."
"I'm here," Bohemia grumbled. "Where are you going?"
"It's not a good idea to just stand there. Let's go take a look and ask around. Maybe we will find some new clues." Lin Sanjiu explained to all the faces that turned to look at her. Then, she walked to stall No. 3 with a calm expression.
When she stood in front of the stall, she could feel that there were people behind her who stopped after two steps. Some of them craned their necks to see what she was going to do. Some of them seemed to agree with what Lin Sanjiu said, so they hurried to other stalls and repeated the search process. As for the man who refused to say anything, he ran straight to stall No. 3. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't want to alert the others, he would have run to stall No. 3.
Lin Sanjiu ignored him. She reached out and picked up the logbook with the number "2022" printed on it.
"It's very new," the Pocket Dimension Creature lady seemed a little sad. "It's only a month into the new year, and I've only used it to write a month's work schedule. I didn't expect that I wouldn't be able to use it anymore."
"Is it because the apocalypse is coming?"
Lin Sanjiu opened the logbook and heaved a sigh of relief. The logbook was printed according to the year, and every month and day was printed on the inside. She was right.
Lin Sanjiu's "What's the price?" and the man's hurried "You're mistaken" rang out almost at the same time.
Lin Sanjiu gestured for the stall owner to wait. She turned around and smiled at the man who had just walked into the stall. "How did I get it wrong?"
"The answer given by this stall should be the car's GPS …" The man's voice grew softer as he spoke, "If you don't believe me, you can ask the stall owner …"
"Do you still think that you're the only one who noticed the problem?" Lin Sanjiu asked in a low voice.
The man was stunned and didn't say anything.
"You and I both know that," Lin Sanjiu said in a very low voice so that she wouldn't attract attention, "We have overlooked a blind spot."
The Pocket Dimension Creature lady had said at the beginning that the hints given by the two stalls all pointed to the same item. This meant two things. First, there were three stalls where the winning item matched the hint could not be found. Second, the item found had to match both hints at the same time.
"Based on this logic, we can now find an item that matches the hint at every stall, and that item only matches one hint. This means that none of the items we've found so far is the real prize winning item."
The question "Which month has 28 days?" was also very misleading. The question was neither "which months have 28 days" nor "which month only has 28 days". Therefore, it could have two answers. The standard answer was naturally "every month has 28 days", but it could also be "February" or any other month because February did have 28 days.
Hence, when people saw that there was only one book, "Snow in February", that matched the hint, they wouldn't doubt it at all.
"But, if the correct answer is' there are 28 days in every month ', then none of the items in stall number 5 can match the description," Lin Sanjiu explained softly as she flipped through a few pages of her work log. "Coincidentally, the diary on stall number 3 is related to 12 months, and it can indeed 'point to the left and right' … The winning item is, without a doubt, this diary."
That man really didn't know how to hide his thoughts. Even though he didn't say anything, his expression had already betrayed all of his thoughts. Lin Sanjiu looked around. When she saw that no one was paying attention to them, she lowered her voice and said, "I can let you have this item. I can even help you raise the money to buy it. As for my request, you already knew it. "
'This man should agree now that I can get such a huge benefit just by opening my mouth and answering a question, right? '
The man's face was about to become crooked as he argued with himself.
"I … I don't know the answer to your question," Lin Sanjiu said.
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