Volume 2: Living with Ghosts Chapter 023 Question
From the title of Yue Lao, we can see her role. I think it is to select someone from this village to serve as a matchmaker for their future interactions with the women in the village. After all, their current identity is a blind date from the men's village, and they are not familiar with the women in the village. The Yue Lao they are about to select can play the role of a middleman.
With the appearance of such a person, the difficulty of their pursuit will inevitably be improved. Both men and women will not be too embarrassed. To put it bluntly, this Yue Lao is just a light bulb. But no matter what, the appearance of Yue Lao will reduce the difficulty of their pursuit, but the task will naturally not open a back door for them. Although it reduces the difficulty of pursuit, it will immediately make up for this difficulty in choosing Yue Lao. This is also the reason why once the Yue Lao they choose is a ghost, they will be directly wiped out.
Knowing that the matchmaker was not an easy choice, the crowd did not respond immediately. They were all wondering which way would be safer. After all, if they made the wrong choice, they would be dead!
Zhang Fengyu carefully recalled the hints of the task in his mind. The hints gave two ways to choose the matchmaker. The first one was to roll the dice. Although they didn't prepare any dice rolling tools, it was thought that after they chose this method, the task would directly create a dice rolling tool. Perhaps the tool was playing cards, dice, or a wheel...
The advantage of this selection method is that as long as the matchmaker they choose is a human, the number of ghosts will not change. As for the disadvantage, it is completely based on luck to make a random selection, and no one knows how high the chance of winning is. As for another way to select the matchmaker, its advantage is that it is feasible. Even if they can only ask one question, at least what the question is is decided by themselves. As for the disadvantage of this method, the number of ghosts will account for half of the number of people, which increases their difficulty in distinguishing in the future.
After all, the mission did not clearly specify the number of ghosts, making it difficult for them to make a choice. But if they think about it carefully, it is not difficult to guess the approximate number of evil ghosts.
"The second method is to ask questions, but only one question is allowed. If the executor chooses the second method, the number of ghosts will account for half of the number of people."
It is not difficult to draw a conclusion from these two sentences, that is, the number of evil ghosts is less than 50%, that is, less than 50. With this conclusion, combined the harsh conditions of choosing this method, it is not difficult to think that the number of ghosts and humans should be quite different. Otherwise, if the number of humans and ghosts is not much different, then there is no difficulty in choosing this method. Therefore, Zhang Fengyu conservatively estimated that the number of evil ghosts is only about 30%.
Zhang Fengyu felt his legs tremble a little. Although he had a range of ghosts in his mind, this kind of choice did not mean that if there were more people, the randomly selected matchmaker would definitely be a human. Even if there was only one ghost and there were as many as ninety-nine people, if the luck was worse, the only remaining ghost would life was the cost, unless the probability was 100%, it would have no reference value at all.
Turning his head to look in the direction of Wang Lin and the others, Zhang Fengyu couldn't guess which way Wang Lin and the others would choose in the end. But he had already made up his mind. He would choose the second way to choose Yue Lao, even if this way would cost a lot. But compared to the first way of leaving it to fate, he would rather take his fate into his own hands, not to mention that he had never been right in gambling on luck.
Although Zhang Fengyu had made up his mind, the final choice of this multiple-choice question was not decided by him alone. If he was the only one who chose to ask, and the other three chose to roll the dice, then his choice might just follow the crowd. After realizing this, Zhang Fengyu suddenly became impatient: "Can everyone choose a matchmaker, or can the four of us only choose one?"
Zhang Fengyu wanted to ask Wang Lin and the others for their opinions, but when he thought about the mission that gave them the identity of coming to the village to find a wife, he gave up the idea. After all, how could he choose a wife by himself without consulting others? When these women didn't know them, any bad impression might violate the customs of the village, and cause trouble in the subsequent pursuit.
The current situation is just like the blind date shows on TV. Any subtle performance of the male guests will affect the female guests' favorability towards them. They are now equivalent to the male guests, and those women are the female guests who are observing and evaluating them.
Just as Zhang Fengyu was eager to know the other people's plans, Chen Ping, after careful consideration, also decided to choose Yue Lao by asking. Captain Wang Lin also made up his mind and decided to ask in the same way as Zhang Fengyu and Chen Ping.
Compared to the three people's ideas, Zhang Feng had no idea at all. He had too many concerns. If he had to make a choice, he would choose the method of dice, because he didn't believe that he could analyze it correctly, so he might as well give it a try and try his luck. Zhang Feng had already made the plan of burning his boats, but after all, the situation had not developed to that point, so he planned to wait and see.
The four people at the four corners of the square did not dare to ask loudly, so they nodded to each other, indicating that they could start making their choices.
As the captain, Wang Lin naturally had the right to speak first. After taking a deep breath, he said loudly to the hundred women in front of him: "I choose the way of asking!" Because he was afraid that the other party could not hear him, Wang Lin repeated it three times before stopping.
Following Wang Lin's words , Chen Ping and Zhang Fengyu also gave the same reply. Hearing that the three had chosen the same method, Zhang Feng naturally chose this method as well. So far, the four of them chose to select Yue Lao by asking.
After hearing everyone's choices, the hundred women in the center of the square finally started talking to each other, but because they were a little far away, they couldn't tell what they were discussing. And they were in no mood to pay attention. Just imagining a hundred hideous ghosts talking and chatting together was enough to make them feel creepy, let alone seeing it with their own eyes!
The exchange among the hundreds of women lasted only a short time, and then the square returned to its previous silence.
Suddenly, No. 1, who had talked to them before, said, "The four of you decide who will raise this question. Remember, there is only one chance, and the minority must obey the majority!"
"Choice! Choice! It's a fucking choice again!" Hearing the word "choice" again, Zhang Feng cursed like crazy. Of course, he couldn't make a choice, so he simply turned his head to where Chen Ping was and bet on Chen Ping. Of course, Zhang Feng didn't know what Chen Ping had done to him just now, otherwise he would never trust Chen Ping so much.
Zhang Feng gave the right to choose to Chen Ping, Zhang Fengyu gave the right to Wang Lin, and Chen Ping, after a brief thought, also gave the right to ask to Wang Lin. The minority obeys the majority, so Wang Lin will speak for several people to choose the matchmaker.
Zhang Fengyu chose Wang Lin because of his trust in him. Although he had not been in contact with Wang Lin for a long time, Wang Lin had helped him a lot. Wang Lin was calm and responsible, and he was much more reliable than the sinister Chen Ping. Although he had a certain analytical mind, compared with Wang Lin and Chen Ping, his mission experience was far from enough, so what he could think of was naturally limited. On the other hand, Wang Lin was able to survive so many missions, so he had his own strengths, but Zhang Fengyu did not expect Chen Ping to choose Wang Lin.
Chen Ping chose Wang Lin because he valued the fact that Wang Lin was married. Chen Ping thought that Wang Lin, who was married, naturally understood women better than he, a layman. And this question was about women, so Chen Ping felt that Wang Lin was more suitable than himself.
Chen Ping's analysis can be said to be very comprehensive. If one question is used to distinguish between humans and ghosts, then this question must be sharp and can be answered by most unmarried women. Ghosts and humans are completely different after all. Even if the mission is to hide them perfectly, there must always be a flaw left deliberately for them to escape. And this flaw is the basis for them to distinguish between humans and ghosts!
Wang Lin once asked his wife the same question he was about to ask. He believed that this was a question that any woman could answer.
"What do you think love is!!!"
Wang Lin asked loudly, so Zhang Fengyu and the other two could hear it clearly, and they were all very satisfied with this question! Compared with men, women have a greater vision and understanding of love.
After Wang Lin asked the question, the hundreds of women were silent for a while, and then they answered one by one according to the numbers on their waists. During the process of these women answering, Zhang Fengyu's powerful memory came in handy, and he remembered every woman's answer in his mind without any error.
Zhang Fengyu wanted to remember the voices of these women, but they all answered with the same voice, which was extremely sharp and impossible to distinguish. Combined with the fact that these women were wearing exactly the same clothes and had faces that looked like evil spirits, plus they were sitting so their heights could not be distinguished, and the fact that they all had the same voice, it was obviously for one purpose - to make him unable to remember the physical characteristics of these women.
