[Hotel Check-in Notice] [Rule One: Every night after seven o'clock, please do not leave your room. However, if you hear knocking, it is a staff member delivering food, so you may open the door to receive it.] [Rule Two: The cleaner has recently taken leave and is not here. Please keep your room clean and tidy.] [Rule Six: If you hear sounds coming from the toilet in your room, that is normal. But if the sounds continue, please check whether any fixture has been damaged.]
Three rules that seemed unrelated actually had connections between them.
An inn that required guests to keep their rooms clean and tidy most likely did not like its guests engaging in any shady practices inside their rooms. If placing apples and lighting oil lamps in the game were still within the permitted limits,
then pouring liquor onto the floor had probably already gone beyond the rule about keeping things clean and tidy.
For a moment,
Wan Ling and Li Xin could not even tell whether they had triggered Rule Two or Rule Four. Or perhaps both had been triggered at the same time.
"If we do nothing after receiving dinner, some anomaly should also appear in the toilet."
"But it won't threaten our lives."
"According to Rule Six, if the sounds from the toilet continue, we can go in and check whether a fixture has been damaged. In other words, entering the bathroom in that state is safe."
Wan Ling analyzed.
"Rule-based Anomalies must be judged according to normal reasoning, while breaking through them requires abnormal reasoning."
Li Xin shook his head and said, "We happened to reverse the two. Without realizing it, we used abnormal reasoning to judge the situation, yet tried to solve the problem with normal reasoning."
Even he