Survivorship Bias

    The countdown begins.

    Five minutes is more than enough for An Wu Jiao, but this time the challenge is not something he can complete alone, which is annoying.

    He stood there, with an uncooperative and unhelpful attitude, watching them busy. Josh hadn't figured out how to do it, but was very anxious about the non-stop countdown, "Anyway, let's ask first, don't stay."

    So he pulled Wu You and brought it in front of the robot.

    "Which of us has the larger number?"

    The robot did not answer immediately, but seemed to be very sluggish, stopped for a few seconds, and then said: "The number of player Josh is higher."

    "Is it much bigger?" Wu You asked.

    The robot emits an alarm sound, and a red × appears on the head display.

    "Players are prohibited from descriptive questions about numbers."

    "Okay." Wu You did not continue, "Then you are older than me now."

    "Yes." Josh hurried to find Shen Ti again, but Shen Ti had already paired with Nan Shan at this time, and was about to ask, so Josh had to go to Yang Erci and found Yang Erci and Zhong Yirou already paired. Nan Shan and Zhong Yirou seemed to be even more unable to stand after they went up to the third floor. They didn't even have the strength to ask questions, and their reaction speed became very slow.

    Josh had to come to An Wujiao who had been silent.

    "No blame, let's go and ask whose number is bigger." Josh was a little anxious.

    An Wujiu raised his chin, "Look, how much time is left now."

    I just asked a question, found a few people, waited in line, and only 4 minutes and 14 seconds left.

    "How did it go so fast?"

    An Wujiu smiled and deliberately sighed, "Five minutes is a little too much, how come it is so little."

    "The efficiency is too low." Josh himself understood.

    He looked at the other people, and they only knew who was the bigger and who was the smaller. If you want to sort them uniformly, the most stupid way is to ask someone who is smaller than yourself, and then go to See if anyone else is smaller than the smaller one, and keep touching. The best result is that every person you meet is smaller than the last smaller person, so it goes straight down.

      People compare again.

    There are many people who can pair up, but there is only one robot. If this goes on, time is obviously not enough.

    Josh understood this and became more anxious. "But if we don't complete this challenge, we will be disqualified from continuing the game.

    An Wujiu raised his eyebrows, he was clearly in the middle, but he didn't look like he had anything to do with him.

    "You shouldn't be looking for me, you should look for the green-eyed guy."

    "You mean Shen Ti?" Qiao hoped to look in Shen Ti's direction and see that he was being dragged by others, like a tool person who had no emotion but was only compared, and looked Know nothing.

    An Wujiu smiled, "He's pretending to be stupid."

    "I can't see him pretending to be stupid. You go to him and I'll teach you how to say it."

    Waiting in line for the result made Shen Ti a little annoyed. There is no paper or pen here, and the others can only dictate the order of memorization, reciting them over and over again, causing him a headache.

    His arm was suddenly pulled, Shen Ti turned around, it was Josh. Shen Ti didn't say anything, just raised his eyebrows and said to him, "Is there something wrong?"

    Josh looked a little embarrassed, but because of the time, he said it directly, and said it quickly, "I have nothing to blame to tell you, he is still very cold now, if you Continue to play stupid, and he will take off your pants too."

    Shen Ti looked at him, An Wujiu raised his index and middle fingers, pointed at his eyes, then at him, making a "watching you" gesture towards him.

    Shen Ti glanced at the time, 3 minutes and 43 seconds, then sighed and clapped his palms at everyone.

    "Don't ask."

    "Time is running out." Wu You said.

    Shen Ti didn't pay attention to what he said, and repeated, "Don't ask, come here. Everyone come first and stand in a line casually."

    "Whatever?" Josh was puzzled.

    Although Wu You usually doesn't deal with him, she still does it, dragging Nanshan who has no strength, and Yang Erci also helps Zhong Yirou.

    In the end, An Wu Jiu was still pulled by Shen Ti by his wrist.

    The seven of them stood in the following order:

    Shen Ti - An Wujiu - Josh - Wu You - Nan Shan - Zhong Yirou - Yang Erci.

    The moment she stood still, Shen Ti said to the robot, "Please compare our sizes two by two, starting with me and An Wujiu, then An Wujiu's Josh, and so on. , tell us the answer."

    "This is considered a pairing, no more than two people."

    The robot heard the instructions and did as Shen Ti asked.

    He came to Shen Ti and An Wujiu, "The number of players Shen Ti is bigger."

    Hearing this sentence, Shen Ti immediately grabbed An Wujiu's arm and forcibly changed positions with him, before the robot had time to move.

    Then the robot moved to the right and came between Shen Ti and Josh after the exchange, "The number of player Josh is bigger."

    This time, Shen Ti did not ask An Wu Jiao and Josh to exchange.

    The robot moved right and came between Josh and Wu You, "The number of player Josh is bigger."

    Shen Ti immediately said to Wu You, "Wu You, change seats with Josh."

    Wu You did as he did, and Josh moved to the right. At this time, the robot just came to the position of Josh and Nanshan after the exchange. "The number of player Nanshan is even higher."

    Shen Ti didn't speak, so Josh didn't move either.

    The robot continues to the right, comparing Nan Shan and Zhong Yirou, "Player Zhong Yirou has a bigger number."

    Their order is not required to be swapped either.

    Finally, the robot stopped in front of Zhong Yirou and Yang Erci, "Player Zhong Yirou has a bigger number."

    "Yang Erci, exchange with her." Shen Ti said.

    As instructed, Zhong Yirou came to the far right of the team. At this point, after a seamless series of questions, 53 seconds have passed, and the order of the teams on the field becomes:

    An Wujiu - Shen Ti - Wu You - Josh - Nan Shan - Yang Erci - Zhong Yirou

    Shen Ti immediately said, "Robot, let's start with An Wujiu."

    The robot returns to the far left, "The number of player Shen Ti is bigger."

    Move right, compare Shen Ti and Wu You, "Player Shen Ti has a bigger number."

    Wu You is very smart, and she took the initiative to change positions with Shen Ti.

    The robot moves, compares Shen Ti and Josh after transposition, "Player Josh is bigger."

    Then, the robot keeps moving to the right and comparing, the results of the comparison are the same as the previous round, and no one needs to exchange.

    Almost a minute passed.

    "Robots, let's start with the comparison."

    "Is it better?" Wu You asked.

    Shen Ti glanced at the time, "One last time, just to be on the safe side."

    The bot did just that, comparing it from the far left to the far right of the line, without any need to swap positions.

    50 seconds left in the countdown.

    "In this order, increasing from left to right." Shen Ti said.

    "Player sure to submit results?"

    "OK."

    The countdown stops at 47 seconds and the result is submitted. After a while, numbers appeared above each of them.

    An Wujiu is 5, Wu You is 32, Shen Ti is 178, Josh is 456, Nanshan is 1209, Yang Erci is 4622, Zhong Yirou is 8999.

    Their order is from largest to smallest, nothing wrong.

    "Congratulations on completing this little challenge, please choose left or right direction."

    Two holographic projection signs appeared in front of them, the one pointing to the left said [Return Service], and the one pointing to the right was [Order Service]

    An Wujiu noticed that, except for the sliding doors on the left and right sides, the large and small wall opposite the door to the third floor should be the same as the one in the Circus Theater downstairs. Like the rainbow gate, it is a door that enters the large room in the middle of the zigzag.

    "Left or right?" the bot asks.

    Josh was a little confused, what kind of order to return, "Then... or choose an order, isn't it a bit strange to see the return service directly?"

    They chose the side of the order so hastily.

    “Wait a minute.” An Wujiu raised his hand, “Can we separate?”

    The robot turned around, aimed at An Wugui, and replied, "No, once the players make a decision, they can only act at the same time."

    Shen Ti laughed, walked over and hooked his shoulders, "You die and get rid of our hearts."

    An Wujiu glanced at him, smiled back, and pushed away the hand he put on his shoulder.

    The sliding door on the left slowly rises, finally revealing the passage inside, which is different from the previous cloister. The walls in this passage are completely made of steel, and it has the feeling of a space capsule , but the internal structure is not a corner corridor of a boxy cuboid, but a columnar inward extension, like a pipe, slanting inward.

    "Come in."

    The corridor is relatively narrow, and at most two people can only be side by side. At the top of the aisle, there is a built-in sensor light every 30 cm. As soon as the first two people stepped in, the lights turned on one by one, creating a circle of cool white halos on the ground, like some kind of welcoming ceremony. .

    An Wujiu and Shen Ti are waiting at the end. Shen Ti looked at the corridor, without warning, he thought of the stage of the theater on the second floor, An Wu Jiu on the stage was locked in a bird cage, black velvet covered his figure.

    An Wu Jiu was not idle at this time, and answered Yang Erci's questions one after another.

    "You're just a college student?" Although Yang Erci only turned her face slightly, her skeptical expression was clear, "Then did you participate in any project as a clinical volunteer when you were in school, as a subject. "

    An Wujiu frowned.

    Yang Erci showed an interest beyond ordinary people in the strange phenomena in herself.

    She must know something.

    "I didn't attend."

    Yang Erci was suspicious, "Really?"

    The light of the corridor shone on An Wu Jiu's clean face, it was hard to tell the truth from the words that this face said.

    But what An Wujiu said is indeed true.

    Not only did he have no trace of participating in the experiment in his memory, but there was also no sign that he would separate good from evil.

    If he has had it before, at least he has the memory of the first attack, his amnesia was after he entered the altar, and the memory before the game exists, but he does not remember that he will mutate his personality.

    Reminiscent of being trapped in a glass cover before, that rabbit seems to know his state of separation of good and evil.

    These things come together in a direction that is not yet clear.

    But it must not be accidental, nor natural.

    "Could it be that after he entered the altar, it was too dangerous, so this situation was inspired, for self-protection." Wu You, who was walking in front, asked.

    "It is very difficult." Yang Erci said, "It is almost impossible for such extreme characteristics to be formed without external causes."

    The subtext in her words was to suspect that there was some human manipulation.

    Josh also felt very strange, "Self-protection? Surely not, the state before blameless protects all of us, and that state will not stimulate the mechanism that needs protection at all."

    "Yes." When Yang Erci mentioned the project, Wu You felt a little uncomfortable and thought of some experiments.

    But An Wujiu denied it, did you really not participate?

    The conversation was hot.

    An Wujiu followed behind, his wrist was suddenly grasped and forced to stop. He knew it was Shen Ti, and he had been pulled too many times, and he even remembered the feeling of being caught by Shen Ti's wrist.

    An Wujiu turned his face lazily, the eyelashes under the cold light cast a long shadow on the lower eyelid, "What do you want to ask me?"

    His ending is a little frivolous, in fact, even in his upright and kind state, An Wujiu would also have some small upward endings when speaking to him, very slight, But very special.

    An Wujiu waited for a while, thinking that Shen Ti also wanted to ask some questions related to his uncertain temperament, and felt bored.

    "I want to ask, if that teleportation magic was real and you came out of the bird cage on the right, what would you do?"

    This question is inexplicable, An Wujiu was stunned for a while, and soon laughed again.

    "You are so strange."

    Does this question make any sense?

    “What will you do…” An Wujiu held Shen Ti’s wrist with his backhand, put his thumb on the bones of his wrist, glanced up, and then fell back to Shen Ti’s blue-green eyes Hitomi, raised her eyebrows.

    "Why should I tell you? Is there any benefit?"

    Shen Ti looked directly at him without escaping, "I will give you whatever benefits you want."

    "One benefit is not enough, in short, give me 3,000 points first, and I'll think about the rest in a while." An Wujiu lion opened his mouth, originally just wanted to play, but Shen Tizhen did not expect Directly to him.

    “It’s so generous.” An Wujiu smiled, “Okay, let me tell you, what will I do...I guess it’s just to see if there is any problem with the bird cage. Then see what the rabbit says, yes I don't want to come down."

    "What if he let you down?" Shen Ti asked again.

    "Hey, this is the second question." An Wujiu suggested.

    As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Ti gave him another 3,000 yuan, making An Wujiu stunned.

    Just such a broken question, is it really worth so much money?

    This guy makes too much money.

    "Okay, after I get down... I'm still the same as before, I guess I'll walk by your side, we didn't go together before."

    Shen Ti's heart moved.

    This is not the same as what he expected when he encountered the fake An Wugui. He originally thought that the real An Wu Jiu would not come towards him, but his prediction was wrong.

    Maybe it was a kind of disbelief at work, he couldn't help but ask, "What about your current state?"

    An Wu Jiu laughed as if hearing a joke.

    What is the difference between now and before, it is obviously him.

    "Even in my current state, I'll be the first to find you." But he gave a pretty bad reason.

    "I'm going to walk up to you, grab your chair, and sit by myself."

    Shen Ti looked at his eyes, and the lips raised when he smiled.

    At this moment, there was a complex emotion in his heart that he had never seen before, his heart rate increased, and the pulse between his wrists was beating vigorously.

    Just because An Wujiu said "I will come to you", he unexpectedly showed a strange excitement.

    Shen Ti couldn't figure it out.

    An Wujiu answered the question that didn't mean much to him, but all he thought about was, how to fix this guy Shen Ti.

    He collected all the memories of Shen Ti in his mind, thinking that he was wearing a strange mask, playing rock-paper-scissors with himself, eating candy like a child, having a craving period, I like to learn tongues.

    But he is desperate for death, and he is not greedy for money. When he thinks about it carefully, he doesn't seem to care about anything.

    Then…

    “Ah, I thought of a benefit.” An Wu Jiu glanced at the others who had already walked in front, and then turned back to Shen Ti. His speech slowed again, his lips parted lazily, his teeth brushing the tip of his tongue.

    The sound is very light, only airy.

    "How about letting me kiss you?"