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The fat man suddenly remembered that when he first woke up, the girl in the other cage had mentioned that the two cages were connected by the same rope running through a pulley.
So, when one side moved, the other could feel it.
In other words, it was like a balance scale, with the two cages acting as the pans and the people as the counterweights above.
At first, both cages were stationary, indicating they were of equal weight.
Now, with nearly a kilogram of gold bars added on this side, the balance had tipped and started to lean toward the fat man. Consequently, his cage began to descend slowly.
If the balance wasn't restored immediately, the cage would continue to drop until it reached its limit.
The fat man looked up at the ceiling.
Though it was somewhat unclear, he estimated it to be about three meters high, meaning there was three meters of space for the cage to rise.
He then glanced down.
Below the cage was a hydrochloric acid pool, a pool capable of dissolving bones, and it was less than two meters from the bottom of the cage! Before the girl's cage could reach the top, his cage would already be fully submerged in the hydrochloric acid pool.
The fat man now understood that this game was not simply about answering questions to earn gold; it held a much deeper meaning.
Whoever answered correctly would gain gold but would ultimately die in the hydrochloric acid pool.
That was why the game's title was "Brawl for Gold"!
The fat man broke out in a cold sweat.
At that moment, the bunny girl posed her second question, which was still quite simple.
"I heard that a silly turtle fell into a deep well and now needs to climb out. However, this turtle is quite foolish. It can climb 4 meters in one hour but then must rest for an hour during which it slides back down 2 meters. The well is 10 meters deep. How many hours will it take for the silly turtle to climb out? The answering begins!"
Despite feeling anxious, the Fat Man tried to think: The turtle climbs 4 meters and slides down 2 meters, which means it can ascend 2 meters in two hours, averaging one meter per hour. Since the well is 10 meters deep, it would take ten hours.
However, this answer was incorrect.
For the final 4 meters, the turtle only needs one hour to reach the top of the well without needing to rest afterward. In other words, the actual time required is the six hours spent climbing the first 6 meters plus one hour for the last 4 meters.
The correct answer should be seven hours.
The Fat Man arrived at this conclusion, but he hesitated to speak up.
If he answered correctly this time, the reward of gold would only hasten his descent.
"Damn it, seven hours!" exclaimed the girl in the cage opposite him.
"Congratulations, that's correct!" shouted the Bunny Girl. "Congratulations to this young lady for winning the second batch of gold rewards in this event."
The gold clinked as it fell into her cage, and the girl laughed joyfully.
The Fat Man felt no regret about losing the gold to her.
He sensed that his cage's descent had halted and then slowly began to rise. He took a deep breath but suddenly froze.
He realized something was wrong.
This didn’t make sense. Under normal circumstances, the Fat Man's cage should not be rising; it should have stopped descending and remained stationary.
Now that both he and the girl had answered a question correctly and received a batch of gold prizes each, their cages should have reached a state of approximate balance.
In this situation, the friction between the rope and the pulley would prevent relative movement between the cages, meaning that the Fat Man's cage should remain still rather than gradually ascend.
Unless the weights of the golden prizes from the two rounds are completely different!
Now, the fat man's cage is rising, indicating that the girl opposite has received a greater weight of gold than what the fat man received in his first round.
From this deduction, if the weight of gold awarded for each question is different, then the key to obtaining gold and surviving until the end is to ensure that the opponent receives more gold than oneself.
Greedy people will perish; this is the essence of this quiz competition.
So, how can this goal be achieved?
Before the fat man could think too much, the bunny girl began to pose another question.
"A bottle of soda costs 1 yuan. After drinking it, you can exchange two Empty Bottles for another bottle of soda. Now, you have 20 yuan. What is the maximum number of bottles of soda you can drink? The answering starts now!"
This question is incredibly simple. The fat man calculated with his fingers: with the initial 20 yuan, he could buy 20 bottles of soda. After drinking them, he would have 20 Empty Bottles, which could be exchanged for 10 more bottles. After finishing those 10 bottles, he would have 10 Empty Bottles to exchange for 5 bottles; after drinking those, he would have 5 Empty Bottles to exchange for 2 more bottles, leaving him with 1 Empty Bottle. After finishing those, he would have 3 Empty Bottles to exchange for 1 more bottle, leaving him with another Empty Bottle. Finally, he would have 2 Empty Bottles to exchange for yet another bottle; after that, he would be left with just 1 Empty Bottle, which couldn't be exchanged anymore.
So in total, he could drink: 20 + 10 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 39 bottles of soda.
He couldn't answer hastily because he hadn't grasped the trick of this game yet.
Fortunately, the girl on the other side remained silent.
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