Half a minute later, a plump Soul, the owner of the pocket dimension, and an apple were still lined up in a row. They had not been eliminated.
"The third round is about to begin," Bohemia turned to look at Lin Sanjiu nervously. "What should we do now? Two of the balls on our side are already visible to him … "
"I know."
As they spoke, a new ball appeared behind them.
For the owner of the pocket dimension, Lin Sanjiu's balls were: Underground Tunnel (Warrior), Empty Chair, Unknown (New Ball).
For the owner of the pocket dimension, other than the Soul and the apple, Lin Sanjiu's balls were: Unknown (New Ball), Bacteria, Unknown.
This time, when the two of them turned around and found that their new ball contained a young girl, Bohemia was neither angry nor upset. She just let out a long sigh.
"Sometimes, a person has to accept his fate," Bohemia said as she stared at the new ball. She sounded like she had aged more than ten years as she stared at the new ball. "So what if I lost a little Potential Growth Value? If I had been more open-minded, I wouldn't have ended up like this …"
Lin Sanjiu looked at Bohemia, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "Is this what you mean by 'a dying man's words are kind'? We haven't been forced into a corner yet. "
Bohemia looked indifferent. "Is that so?"
"Yes."
"Then, please explain to me. Other than the empty chair, which he will never choose, we will definitely die no matter which of the other two options he chooses. Isn't this a desperate situation?"
"I have prepared for this round," Lin Sanjiu said calmly.
Lin Sanjiu's expression remained calm, "I can't guarantee that we will survive this round, but I have set up a trap for him. That trap will at least give us a chance to survive."
Bohemia's face turned gloomy. Lin Sanjiu's words did not inspire her confidence at all. She snorted and took out a handful of snacks from her pouch. There were raisins, cashews, and chocolates. Lin Sanjiu had no idea when she had stuffed those snacks into her pocket.
"Do whatever you want," Bohemia said as she stuffed the snacks into her mouth as if she was trying to make up for her regret. "Anyway, I am mentally prepared."
"… You can also eat something." "After all, you don't look like you're going to die. Instead, you look like you're going to win. That should be enough to confuse him."
Bohemia chewed on something with a crunching sound.
Under the doubtful gaze of the owner of the pocket dimension, Lin Sanjiu chose a "cat litter box" and placed it into the "girl's" ball "without any hesitation.
Other than the third ball that had just entered, there were no other balls for him to spy on. However, this time, the owner of the pocket dimension hesitated for some reason before he raised his voice and said, "Spy on the third ball."
The speed at which Bohemia put food into her mouth increased. Her cheeks were bulging and her eyes were watery. It was obvious that she did not enjoy the food at all. Even Lin Sanjiu couldn't help holding her breath as she stared at the thin mouth of the pocket dimension's owner.
After a few seconds, he finally said, "… I choose the one in the middle."
The ball in the middle was the empty chair.
Bohemia was stunned. She couldn't believe what she had just heard. When she came back to her senses, she sprang to her feet. Tears and snacks rolled down her cheeks. Fortunately, she remembered to cover her voice with her higher consciousness. She asked anxiously, "What happened? Why did he avoid the dead ball and open the one that he could see? "
Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. Then, she exhaled and said, "You know that the remaining two balls are the dead ball, but he doesn't know that."
"I know. But —"
That breezy smile bloomed on his face again.
Lin Sanjiu shot a glance at the owner of the pocket dimension, who had a sour expression on his face. Then, she pointed a finger at Bohemia, "This is the first dark rule that I noticed. It's about the duration of the disguise."
"Duration …?" Bohemia frowned and thought for a while. Then, she suddenly exclaimed, "Yeah, he didn't say how long the disguise would last!"
"He purposely brought us to play the test round. It wasn't out of kindness or because he had to fulfill his duty. There were traps everywhere in the test round. Since there were too many situations and too much information to process, he managed to omit some of the key rules that we didn't notice. If you think about it, many of the rules are unclear, right? So, as long as the ball is not opened, the disguise will last forever. "
"But, what does that have to do with him choosing the empty chair?" Bohemia was still confused.
"Have you forgotten?" Lin Sanjiu reminded, "He peeked at the empty chair in the first round, right? Even though he saw it, the owner of the pocket dimension couldn't be sure if it was real or just a facade. "
Bohemia listened to Lin Sanjiu.
"He opened the watermelon in the first round. Since he saw the movement of my eyeballs, he thought that the disguise was in the watermelon. So, he didn't peek at it and just opened it. Even though we did disguise the watermelon as the poet, the poet didn't have a chance to appear. So, he lost a chance to confirm whether the disguise was in the watermelon or not. "
The owner of the pocket dimension slowly moved two steps forward, his eyes locked on Lin Sanjiu's lips.
"After I deliberately misled him and told him that I saw through the movement of the eyeballs in the test round, he naturally suspected that we had used the same trick twice. If the disguise in the first round was not in the watermelon but in the empty chair, doesn't that mean that the empty chair was just a facade? Based on this thought, he opened the empty chair. "
Lin Sanjiu suddenly chuckled. She turned her head and looked into the eyes of the owner of the pocket dimension.
"Just now, I told you that I saw through the trap of the eyeballs. I was trying to lead you to the first round," Lin Sanjiu suddenly withdrew her Higher Consciousness. Her voice was clear and gentle, "When your focus changed to 'where is the disguise in the first round?', as expected, you were blinded by a leaf."
The fat on the face of the owner of the pocket dimension jiggled a few times, and he smiled.
"I'm not in a hurry," he said slowly, "I have plenty of time. If you guys are eliminated, you will really die. If I'm eliminated, I can come back. So what if I let you guys survive another round? Do you think you can escape from the next round? The final victory of this game is still in my hands. "
"Is that so?" Lin Sanjiu tilted her head. Her innocent and natural expression was completely different from her usual temperament. "But, I also found the second hidden rule of this game."
Bohemia could not care less about her temperament. Her eyes lit up, "What is it?"
"Prying is just a distraction. It can't help us get any useful information. Instead, it will only confuse our judgment with ambiguous information. Think about it. Is there any difference in the final probability of winning if we use Prying and if we don't use Prying? "
Lin Sanjiu smiled, "So, in the second hidden rule, the way to win the game is not to use Prying, but to find the common point."
"Even if we find it, we can't eliminate it," Bohemia immediately became depressed again, "We still don't know what the elimination condition is."
"Yes, I know."
There was a moment of silence in the pocket dimension.
The owner of the pocket dimension and Bohemia's eyes were wide open. They stared at Lin Sanjiu, not wanting to miss a single word she said.
"Isn't that bacterium very big?" Lin Sanjiu crossed her arms and said. Suddenly, she raised her voice and said, "I'm not going to use Prying anymore. I'm going to open the bacterium."
Bohemia's neck stiffened as she slowly looked at the bacterium ball.
The thing that fell from the ball wasn't big, but both of them had good eyesight. They could see what it was the moment it fell to the ground. To Bohemia, it was another strange thing that she didn't know what it was. Lin Sanjiu chuckled and looked at the owner of the pocket dimension, "Windows?
XP? This version is very old … It seems like you died in the pocket dimension and became a pocket dimension creature many years ago. "
The owner of the pocket dimension shrugged his shoulders.
"So what? Even if you open a thousand balls, those that can't be eliminated with me will still stay here. "
"You're right. After all, you guys aren't three rolls of toilet paper."
Lin Sanjiu's words came out of nowhere with a smile on her face. The owner of the Pocket Dimension's face turned pale in an instant, and Bohemia was so shocked that she jumped in fright.
"Could it be …" The owner of the pocket dimension suddenly opened his mouth. The first half of his sentence was a little incoherent, "Could it be that you — Impossible. You are just bluffing."
"What are you trying to say?" Lin Sanjiu's smile grew wider, "Could it be that I've discovered another trap you set in the testing station? Could it be that I've found a way to make you eliminate three balls in a row? "
Even Bohemia could smell the victory in the air. She leaped to her feet and grabbed Lin Sanjiu's elbow. "What? What? Tell me! Tell me now!"
"Why did the testing station end after only two rounds? Was it really because he was impatient? "
Lin Sanjiu stared at the owner of the pocket dimension and explained to Bohemia without turning her head, "Of course it's not like that. After the male construction worker appeared, he urged us to end the testing station and start the game … Why? "
She paused for a moment and said softly, "Because if we continue, we might find out that the construction worker is different from him. We can't eliminate three balls in a row."
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