The Second Coming of the Myth: I have obtained the blood of the Candle Dragon

Chapter 7 Loops
In the square, Su Lin asked the crowd to clear a space for him, and he wrote and drew on the ground with an iron badge, explaining to everyone.

"So, if we want to clear all the customs, we need to change our thinking, unite, and use the same box-opening scheme."

Having said this, Su Lin raised his head and glanced at the prisoners present, "Let me ask first. I don't mean to offend, but I want to know if any of you can't count?"

No one stood up, so Su Lin smiled and said, "That's good, we can continue."

He can summarize the optimal solution to this game and let everyone understand how to pass the level, but he has no time to teach the death row inmates how to count.

Sure enough, the tasks given by Shan Hai Game were not fatal. Otherwise, if there were fifty illiterate people here who couldn't understand numbers, and a few of them were mentally retarded, he would really be blinded.

He has already drawn a pattern on the ground, a total of 96 squares representing boxes, drawn in eight rows and twelve columns, and marked with numbers from 1 to 96.

"In order to facilitate everyone's understanding, I simply numbered the boxes. In fact, it doesn't matter whether the boxes are numbered or not. If not, everyone just needs to number them in their hearts in order from left to right in the room. "

Su Lin continued: "My plan is like this. After each of us enters the room, we start to open the box represented by our own number."

As he said that, he placed his sign on the pattern of box No. 39 on the ground, "Suppose I get lucky and draw No. 39 directly, and it will pass naturally. If not, for example... well, I will draw No. 8." Number [-] came out."

He pointed to the number on Xiao Gang's chest, "Then I can help Brother Xiao take it out, so Brother Xiao will pass."

The atmosphere at the scene became weird, and some people looked at Su Lin with dangerous eyes.

Su Lin spread his hands and said, "Just kidding, brothers, don't be so nervous. Since it's a game, you should relax and play and have fun."

As a result, more strange looks came to the eyes. Many death row inmates felt that this fair and handsome young man was mentally abnormal. This was a game that related to his own life and death. How could he relax and play?Still having fun?
Su Lin changed the subject, turned his sign over and placed it on the No. 8 box, "After the No. 8 is opened, I will open the No. 8 box. Assuming that the No. [-] box has been opened..."

He glanced at the badge of the girl who was squatting next to him and listening carefully, "Well, let's go to No. 76, then we will open the box No. 76, and so on, until we find our own number."

"What if you don't find it?"

A prisoner on death row couldn't help asking.

Su Lin looked relaxed, "Then it's a failure. Hurry up and start the next round again."

The three old strangers present, except Xiao Gang, all looked thoughtful at the application. They obviously didn't understand the meaning behind Su Lin's arrangement of this box-opening strategy. Xiao Gang felt his head was itchy and was too lazy to think about it.

"Excuse me, is there any benefit to looking for it this way?"

The male college student asked, he felt as if he had grasped something, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

Su Lin smiled mysteriously, "Of course, theoretically speaking, as long as our numbers meet certain conditions in the random distribution, then we will definitely be able to find our own numbers."

"why?"

The plain-looking female stranger asked, this is a matter related to her life. She must understand the principle and agree with the feasibility of this plan before she can believe Su Lin.

Su Lin was very familiar. Under the surprised gaze of the girl beside her, he stretched out his hand to her chest, and then grabbed... her breastplate, "Lend me for it."

Then, before the male college student could react, he took his badge again and looked up at Xiao Gang.

Xiao Gang was very conscious, even though he didn't know what Su Lin wanted to do, he cooperatively took off the badge and handed it to Su Lin.

Su Lin placed Xiao Gang's name tag on box No. 8, "Going back to the previous simulation, I opened No. 39 in Box 8, No. 8 in No. 76, and No. 76 in No. 44... …”

As he said that, he picked up his number again and put it in box No. 44. "At this time, I opened my number in box No. 44, and I passed the level. What's interesting is that according to the instructions I opened the box, Zi Lun, the number in box No. 44 at this time points to the box where I originally started. Did you find anything?"

"A cycle has been reached!"

The male college student exclaimed, "I understand. The advantage of this is that as long as your number is in the loop, the number pointing to the box you started to select must be your number!"

Su Lin snapped his fingers, "Bingdog."

Not to mention the death row, and the strangers were still confused, Xiao Gang asked: "Brother Su, what if my number is not in the cycle?"

Su Lin smiled and said: "Don't worry about this. In this game, if you open the box in the way I said, there is only one possibility that your number is not in the cycle, and that is your number is placed in the box. In the box corresponding to the number, you can find it the first time you open the box.”

He raised his badge and drew connecting lines between the boxes on the ground. "As long as the number you open the box for the first time does not match the number of the box, then the number plate in the box will inevitably point to the next box, and the next box will point to the next box." Pointing to the next box, this line segment can only end in one way, and that is to return to the original starting point, forming a loop.”

"Then if the newly opened box contains the corresponding number, wouldn't the cycle stop?"

The girl asked timidly.

Su Lin cast a caring look at the other party, "That's impossible, because the reason why you want to open a new box later is because the number corresponding to it has already been opened by you in the previous box."

The girl realized that she had asked a stupid question, and blushed so much that she wanted to dig a hole in the ground.

"So... as long as you select the box corresponding to your own number and open it in this order, your own number must be in the loop. I understand this, but there are many ways to arrange the 96 boxes randomly. The cycle can be long or short, if you fail to reach the end of the cycle in the limited 48 opportunities to open the box, wouldn’t you be unable to find your own number?”

The female alien frowned and asked.

The words of the female stranger are also a question that many people who understand Su Lin's plan are thinking about. Su Lin's sequential unpacking plan is that you can only find your number at the end of the cycle. What if the cycle is too long?
"Boy, you've been talking for a long time. At first glance, it sounds very interesting, but what kind of sure-win method is this? Depending on the length of the cycle, there is still a probability of losing. I feel that if I open half of the boxes randomly, the success rate is even higher, right? "

A death row prisoner yelled from behind, pointing out that Su Lin's approach was not a surefire way at all.

Originally, many death row prisoners really thought the plan was very subtle after they understood the principle of the cycle, but when they were pointed out about the length of the cycle, they realized that the number of times they searched was limited, and this was not a must-win at all. Law.

After this point was pointed out, many death row prisoners became impatient again, and various voices came and went one after another.

"Quiet! My brother hasn't finished yet!"

Xiao Gang roared, that tall figure and fierce muscles immediately shocked many people.

Su Lin stood up and stretched his waist, because his legs felt a little numb after squatting for a long time, so he put his hands on Xiao Gang's shoulders to support him, "Brother Xiao trusts me quite a bit, my plan is indeed necessary. The winning method, as long as everyone listens to me, you can go out today, and if you are quick, you may win on the first try."

He glanced at the condemned prisoners present, not in the slightest intimidated by the eyes of these menacing men, but felt that Shanhai Game was an interesting place.

"But it seems that if you don't explain clearly, you brothers seem unwilling to cooperate, so I will say a few more words."

Su Lin smiled and said, pointing to the pattern on the ground, "In order to avoid it being too difficult to understand, I will explain it from the first grid by analogy."

He looked at the male college student quizzically, "Let me ask you, if we now want to build a cycle with a length of 96, 96 numbers, and put them in the first grid, how many options are there?"

(End of this chapter)