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Chapter 8 Hangs up in less than a second
Of course, what Locke wrote in his notebook is not a math homework, but his own lottery research, the purpose is to win the lottery.

There are many large-scale lotteries with great influence in the United States, such as Powerball, Mega Millions and other lotteries. However, these lotteries have a wide range of distribution, and they have been designed by special personnel, and even many mathematics experts have been invited as consultants. Locke Working alone, it's hard to find the loopholes.

But the lottery in the United States is very popular, and there are various types. Each state and each region has its own small lottery. The playing methods of these lotteries are different, and not all of them are logical.

Especially for some newly issued lotteries, the gameplay is new, unlike those large lotteries that have been verified for a long time, the probability of finding loopholes through mathematics is higher.

As long as mathematical calculations are carried out by studying the rules, there is a chance to increase the theoretical winning rate from only one in ten million to one in thousand, greatly increasing the winning rate, and then buying all these thousands of copies according to the results, theoretically. Guaranteed jackpot.

There are even mathematicians who specialize in this kind of thing, and it has been in the news. Even if it is successful, it is still a legal income. It just spreads, and most of them will be blacklisted by these lottery issuers.

Of course, we also need to beware of some publishers cheating, such as delaying recording and broadcasting to announce the results. If you encounter such direct behind-the-scenes cheating, accurate mathematical calculations will be in vain.

Locke's IQ is sufficient, and he is proficient enough in mathematics. After buying something in a convenience store and getting a lottery ticket as a bonus, the idea of ​​using mathematics to calculate the lottery came to mind.

The dense data in the notebook are all the lottery data he collected, as well as the records of mathematical calculations.

He has almost researched a lottery that was newly issued less than a year ago. As long as he buys the planned 3000 or two hundred lottery tickets, his chance of winning will reach [-]%.

He is now doing the final recalculation to ensure that his calculations are not wrong. This step must be cautious, because all his current savings are only enough for him to make one attempt.

As for the homecoming dance, it does have a lot of appeal for students of this age, and even Peggy asked him about the homecoming dance at lunch.

"I don't think you'll be able to find a dance partner." Lip smiled and said to Peggy, "No one wants a nine-year-old girl to be their dance partner."

"So can someone like you find a dance partner?" Peggy said without changing her expression, causing Lip to put on a mask of pain in an instant.

"There's nothing I can't win, it's just a dance." Locke said while simulating the calculation of the lottery in his mind, "I didn't want to participate in this homecoming dance at all because I had something to accomplish."

Super high intelligence allows him to easily do two things at once.

"I really don't know why you refused Mandy's invitation." Lip said: "You will ruin my plan."

"Your plan has never been successful." Locke said without hesitation: "If you want to pick up girls, you'd better sort out your image first, and restrain your eyes from looking at girls.

Listen to people's persuasion, eat enough, you see, Kevin has already found a prom partner. "

Kevin is also a member of the Mathematics Olympiad competition team. According to the students, he is a 'nerd' like Lip.

This title is unpopular in American high schools. It is an alternative title with weird behavior. The chance of chasing girls is almost zero.

But he is a very active person. He listened to Locke's advice, coupled with his perseverance, and his level of obedience continued to improve in the process of failure. He finally managed to get out of the order and became the envy of Lip. .

On the contrary, Lip is a guy who usually talks eloquently, but he often becomes clumsy when facing girls, and his image is not good enough, so he is still a single dog until now.

"Did you reject Mandy because you found a partner?" Peggy looked at Locke without paying attention to Lip.

"I don't plan to go to the homecoming dance. Maybe I will try when I have the opportunity, but there are too many things to be busy now. My research is at a critical moment, and I don't have time to deal with it."

"But Mandy will be graduating next year. If you miss this time, you won't have the opportunity to invite her to the homecoming dance." Lip continued to persuade.

"Don't worry, the high school campus will never lack young and beautiful girls, and there will be opportunities in the future." Locke said.

"But you have perfectly avoided these opportunities." Lip felt a little frustrated.

Without Lip, for Locke, the most important thing now is to complete the review of the lottery calculations to ensure nothing goes wrong.

The homecoming dance didn't change because of Locke's absence. It was as lively as the previous dances, except that when Locke went to Mandy's house for tuition the next weekend, she hadn't gotten up yet.

Locke didn't care, anyway, the time counted from the time he arrived at Mandy's house, he was indispensable for tuition fees, and Mandy's house was not short of this money.

Mandy's tutoring fees make up the last gap in the funds he needs to buy lottery tickets, and he can't wait to try it.

Time passed like this, after school that day, according to the calculated results, after buying the lottery tickets needed, I went back to the dormitory, opened the system panel, and planned to try the meditation battle that appeared before.

This is a way of brain training, basically sitting cross-legged for mental training, imitating a confrontation with an opponent in the mind, so as to improve one's resilience in actual combat.

This is a special ability that suddenly appeared in the system after he synthesized multiple fighting skills into comprehensive martial arts. However, he still needed to complete the lottery calculation a while ago, so he put it aside for the time being. Now is the time to try it out.

He directly launched the meditation battle, and soon felt that his eyes went dark, as if his soul had left his body.

When I could see things clearly again, I found that I was already in the middle of a dilapidated village, surrounded by a faint mist, and the wind swept past from time to time. I looked down at myself and found that my clothes hadn't changed.

He moved around a bit, and found that it was no different from reality. At this time, a man in a strong suit slowly walked out of the fog and stood not far in front of him.

At the same time, a message appeared in Locke's mind: Muay Thai boxer, Muay Thai intermediate.

Obviously, this is an opponent set according to Locke's skill level, and it's not an exaggeration that a fighting master came out directly.

Locke took a stance carefully, and the boxer on the opposite side remained silent, and also assumed a classic Muay Thai stance, staring at Locke with a pair of cold eyes, full of blood.

As the wind blew past, the two slowly approached. Locke stared at each other firmly, choosing a way to deal with it in his mind.

In the first official battle, Locke didn't want to take the initiative to attack. He was planning to see the opponent's way first, and then try to deal with it, but he was surprised when he saw that the opponent suddenly disappeared.

But soon, the memory brought by mixed martial arts made him understand that the opponent adopted a unique pace, moved quickly into the blind spot of his vision, and then rushed to his side.

The whole process seemed to be a teleportation, which made Locke unable to react for a while.

In such a short period of time, Locke couldn't think of how to deal with it, and couldn't even judge the opponent's position quickly. He could only tentatively throw a punch in one direction, hoping for luck.

The next moment, he felt a pain in his neck, and then there was the crisp sound of bones breaking. The picture of the last scene in his mind was still retreating in the opposite direction, pulling away the distance from himself, and withdrawing his posture with a gloomy expression.

When his eyes went dark and he came back to his senses, Locke found himself reappearing in the dormitory.

Sitting there in a daze for a while, Locke's face was embarrassed. If the time for the two parties to approach cautiously was not counted, starting from the opponent, he would hang up without holding on for a second.

The short fight made Locke understand that his eyesight, reaction speed, skills, and even the psychological quality of the battle were significantly different from the opponent's, and the fight was not much different from a sandbag.

(End of this chapter)