Chapter 30 Circuit Master
Jiutong shouted, "After all this talk, how do we bet?"
Jia Zizai motioned for everyone to wait while he went to the compartment of the store and rummaged around for a long time. He then came out holding a wooden box of about 15 or 16 inches in size. The surface of the box was covered with densely packed double-ended electrical sockets, probably about eighty or ninety in total.
Jiutong wondered, "What are you doing?"
Jia Zizai put the box on the table. He looked at everyone's puzzled eyes and explained, "I made this when I was selling rechargeable flashlights at the night market. There are 40 sockets in total, but I have the final say on which sockets are powered." Then he pulled out a bunch of wires with clips and demonstrated to everyone: the wires coming out of the power sockets were all at the bottom of the box. Whichever clip he clamped on the wire would connect to the power socket. There were only 10 clips for the 40 sockets.
Jiu Tong became more and more confused and asked, "What are you trying to do? Are you competing with me in installing circuits?"
Jia Zizai said angrily: "Let me compete with you in touching the switch! Each of us will take two wires and plug them into the switch. The one who dies of the electric shock will deserve it, and the one who survives will be the winner!"
Everyone was shocked. They didn't expect Jia Zizai to be so weird and perverted when he became cruel.
Jia Zizai added, "You don't have to worry about unfairness. I gave all the electric clamps to Zhenhua, and she can arrange them as she pleases. Only she knows which switch has electricity. You won't suspect her of cheating, right?"
Jia Zhenhua really cried at this moment. She shouted, "I won't do it! I can't live if either of you dies."
Jia Zizai shouted, "You have to do it even if you don't want to! If you keep procrastinating, there will never be an end to this matter!"
Zhao Weiming shuddered and said, "Damn, this guy selling fake goods is so cruel. This is Russian Roulette!" Russian Roulette is a deadly game that often appears in movies. A bullet is loaded into a revolver, and the two gamblers pull the trigger at their own heads one by one. No one knows when the gun will go off. It's not just life that is at stake, but also people's nerves.
Jia Zhenhua picked up the box and was about to throw it to the ground, crying, "I won't let you gamble!"
Jiu Tong snatched the box and put it away neatly. The man with a ferocious appearance said gently, "Your brother is right. If we keep dragging it out, it will never end. If one of us is destined to die, then it depends on God's will."
Jia Zhenhua cried and kept shouting, "I won't do it, I won't do it."
Jiu Tong was at a loss, and suddenly saw Zhao Weiming standing next to him. He gritted his teeth and said, "If she doesn't do it, you will do it!"
Zhao Weiming was startled and asked, "Me?"
Jiutong stuffed all the clips into Zhao Weiming's hands and said to Jia Zizai, "Do you have any objection to letting this brother do it?"
Jia Zizai said lightly: "It doesn't matter."
Jiutong patted Zhao Weiming on the back and said, "Go ahead, find a place where no one is around and don't let anyone see you."
Zhao Weiming trembled and said, "I... this is going to cost someone their life!"
Jiutong said: "It's all for the sake of killing people. Go quickly, you are stupid. If I die, you don't have to pay your gambling debt."
Jia Zizai chuckled and said, "Little brother, just agree to it. I'll give you some advice. If you want to see results quickly, install all 10 clips. If you want something more exciting, install fewer. But I have to warn you not to play tricks. If the two of us fumble around for a long time and nothing works, we'll take it out on you."
Zhao Weiming looked at Zhang Nianzu , but Zhang Nianzu just nodded to him.
In the end, the desperate Zhao Weiming could only pick up the box and the clip and go into the compartment. When he came out after a long time, the box had been packed, but it was unknown how many clips were packed and where they were packed. There was only one wire exposed at the bottom of the box, which was the main power supply.
"I plugged it in." Jia Zizai plugged in the power supply. During this time, he had quickly twisted . He said to Jiutong, "You choose first."
Jiutong picked up a random deck.
Jia Zizai asked again: "Who will come first?"
Jiutong said: "I won't be polite with you, I'll go first."
Jia Zizai said: "Okay, then you go first."
Jiutong held the two wires in his hands and inserted them into the first socket until almost all the wires were eaten up without any damage.
Jia Zizai smiled and said, "I'm lucky, it's my turn now." He marked the socket that Jiutong had tried with a marker, and said, "Then I'll just try it in a random order." As he said that, he inserted the wire into another socket far away from the previous socket, and it was fine.
Jia Zhenhua stared with her eyes wide open. She felt tormented every time someone put an electric wire into the socket. Her eyes were full of pleading and despair, and she didn't know what to do.
Zhao Weiming was sweating profusely. In fact, he did think about not installing any clips, but unfortunately Jia Zizai pointed it out in advance, and this kind of thing could not be solved by a draw. Then he discovered something else - now even he forgot where he installed the clips just now, those sockets were so densely packed that it was really hard to identify them.
Zhang Nianzu asked him quietly, "How many clamps did you install?"
Zhao Weiming glanced at him blankly, not wanting to say anything, and just raised a finger secretly.
Jiu Tong and Jia Zizai tried two sockets each, but nothing worked.
Jia Zizai said: "It seems that this little brother is kind-hearted. He probably only installed one with power. Otherwise, according to the one-fourth probability, we should have decided the winner by now."
No one paid attention to his witty remarks, and Jiutong's hands became a little stiff at this time. After he and Jia Zizai tried a few more times, there were less than 30 sockets left. Even if there was only one socket that was powered, it would only take minutes to get the result.
At this time, the door opened and someone poked his head in and said, "Boss Jia, is I busy?" It was the owner of the shop next door who came to chat with Jia Zizai.
Jia Zhenhua waved desperately as if she had found a life-saving straw, "Boss Wang, come quickly!"
Boss Wang saw Jia Zizai and another person standing far away, looking down at the wooden box and pointing at something. He smiled and said, "Playing Gobang? You guys play, we'll talk later." Before he finished speaking, he left again...
With this little episode, Jiu Tong wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "If I die, it doesn't matter if my son doesn't have my last name. You will treat Ah Zhen and the child well, right?"
Jia Zizai said: "Don't worry about it, I am the child's uncle!"
As he spoke, Jiutong tried another socket. Although there was no electricity, he involuntarily lowered his body a few inches and sweat began to pour down his forehead.
Zhao Weiming whispered: "It seems that Jiutong's psychological quality is not good."
Zhang Nianzu patted Jia Zizai on the shoulder and said, "Boss Jia is so courageous."
Jia Zizai said calmly: "I'm not brave, but I'm doing this for the people I care about..." He was halfway through his words when his body suddenly twitched violently.
"Brother!" Jia Zhenhua was horrified and stood up to rush forward.
Jiu Tong pushed her away at the critical moment, then threw himself on Jia Zizai, and then the two of them twitched together, with the amplitude of the muscles on their faces exactly the same.
"Jiu Tong!" Jia Zhenhua rushed up again, and Zhao Weiming quickly hugged her around the waist.
"Don't stop me, I won't live anymore!" Jia Zhenhua screamed.
At this time, Zhang Nianzu bent down and unplugged the power cord.
The two men entangled with each other suddenly separated, each fell a long distance away, and then their limbs twitched from time to time. Zhao Weiming helped Jiutong up. Jiutong was confused for a long time as if falling into clouds and mist before he said: "Am I dead?" If he could speak, then he was fine.
Zhang Nianzu grabbed Jia Zizai's clothes and lifted him up. With a hissing sound, he was not lifted up, but his outer shirt was torn, revealing a colorful, close-fitting circuit suit covered with circuits...
Once this thing was revealed, there was no need to say anything, even Jia Zhenhua knew what was going on.
Jia Zizai is cheating.
Jia Zhenhua shouted sternly: "Jia Zizai!"
Jia Zi was actually awake at this moment. He opened one eye, glanced at everyone, and then closed it again. His face flushed as he muttered, "You better let me die."
Zhang Nianzu opened his right hand that was holding the wire and found that there was a thin circuit board stuck in his palm along the cuff of his shirt, which meant that even if the wire in his hand was electrified, the current would flow through the circuit board into the insulating suit on his body. Jiutong rushed to Jia Zizai and tore his shirt open, sighing as he tore it open: "Damn, what you sell to others are fakes, and what you prepare for yourself are all real materials. Look at this base, it's really strong, look at this wire, it's really thick..."
