10 Years! Do You Know How I've Spent These 10 Years!

It was quiet.

The town mayor's house was exceptionally quiet.

Three people were thinking, and the red-clothed ghost was waiting. It was clear that she wanted the answer to this question more than she wanted to kill a few people.

Xiao Xiao whispered, "Could it be five ghosts? After all, five shots were fired. No matter how you reason, this number won't change."

Cheng Shaofeng was secretly delighted. If it weren't for the need to maintain the dignity of a lord, he would definitely have high-fived Xiao Xiao and said, "Great minds think alike."

Brother Hat shook his head decisively.

"That's not right. It's also possible that one shot didn't kill the child, and then another shot was fired. After all, the problem doesn't state that the hunter will definitely kill a ghost with one shot. We can't add conditions ourselves, and judging by the current situation, this isn't a problem that can be solved that simply."

Xiao Xiao felt a little dejected upon hearing this and tilted her head, continuing to ponder.

Cheng Shaofeng was also startled!

Brother Hat made a valid point! He had inferred using conventional thinking, adding the condition that one shot could kill a ghost, which was clearly incorrect. From a logical reasoning perspective, it was very sloppy.

'Good thing I didn't say anything just now. Otherwise, I would have been trapped here playing a BDSM game with this female ghost. I really don't want to be an undead knight.'

Brother Hat had some ideas in his mind, but not enough for him to solve the problem.

Suddenly, Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up!

She glanced at Cheng Shaofeng and the red-clothed ghost, then quietly leaned over to Brother Hat's ear and said something.

"Brother Hat, if we can't figure it out, we can go find someone to help! I heard that someone named Shadow Night God on your forum has pretty strong reasoning skills?"

Brother Hat was also delighted upon hearing this.

"Right! How could I forget about that! It's all this game's fault for being so realistic, like I've actually time-traveled."

"Xiao Xiao, support me!"

Brother Hat sat down, propped his chin with his hand, striking the classic pose of "The Thinker."

He closed his eyes.

He took off his helmet and opened his phone.

"Shadow Night God is impossible. It's better to rely on a knocked-out Kogoro Mouri."

Brother Hat scrolled through his contacts and found the phone number of his high school classmate, Feng Yi, and dialed it.

"Officer Feng! Urgent matter! Please quickly help me look at a logic puzzle!"

Ten minutes later.

Brother Hat opened his eyes in the Wasteland.

He stood up, looked at the red-clothed ghost floating in the air, a confident smile on his lips, and patted Xiao Xiao on the shoulder, "Don't worry, it's handled."

He then said to Cheng Shaofeng, "My Lord, watch this!"

"I know the answer to this question! It's 3 ghosts!"

Seeing Brother Hat begin to perform, Cheng Shaofeng acted as their translator on the side.

Red-clothed ghost: "Why?"

Knowing the answer was meaningless; it was just a few numbers, and they could guess it. The reason behind the answer was what mattered.

Brother Hat paced three steps to his left and three steps to his right: "Actually, the key to this problem lies with those 50 extremely intelligent hunters. When they are intelligent enough, they will know the most correct course of action, and they will also know that other intelligent people will definitely follow the same method."

"Let's assume there is one ghost in the town. Then, on the first day, after the hunters whose homes had ghosts took a walk and found that the other 49 people's homes were normal, they would naturally know the ghost was in their own home. That night, they would shoot and kill their own child. So, when there is one ghost in the town, gunshots will be heard on the first night."

"What if there are two ghosts? The two hunters whose homes have ghosts go out for a walk and see 48 normal families and 1 family with a ghost. Their first reaction is that the hunter they see has a ghost in their home. Based on the previous deduction, they would assume that the hunter they saw with a ghost would shoot their own child that night, so they wouldn't shoot. Both hunters with ghosts in their homes think this way, so no one shoots on the first night. By the second day, the two hunters whose homes have ghosts would know that there is more than one ghost in the town, but they only see one. So, the other one must be in their own home. Therefore, on the second night, both hunters whose homes have ghosts will choose to shoot."

The red-clothed ghost asked, "Then why wouldn't the other hunters suspect their own homes? They saw that no shots were fired on the first night. Wouldn't they think there's a ghost in their home on the second day?"

Brother Hat laughed: "Haha! First, we need to know that these 50 hunters are all extremely intelligent people. From the perspective of the 48 hunters whose homes are without ghosts, they see 47 normal families and 2 families with ghosts outside. Based on the previous deductions, they know that when there are 2 ghosts, those two hunters will not shoot on the first night, and they will shoot simultaneously on the second night. So, when they see 2 ghosts, they are waiting for the gunshots on the second night."

"Speaking of which... what if there are no gunshots on the second night? The hunters who see 48 normal families and 2 families with ghosts outside will realize that there are not just two ghosts in the town, but three! The other one is in their own home! So, on the third night, these hunters will shoot and kill their own children!"

"In other words, when there are 3 ghosts in the town, the hunters will shoot on the third night. As for the other normal hunter families, from their perspective, when they see 3 ghosts outside, they will know through the deductions of the first two paragraphs that the first and second nights were peaceful, and gunshots will only occur on the third night. If there are no shots, it means there's a fourth one in their own home."

"By extension, however many ghosts there are, the hunters will shoot on that many days!"

"The number of ghosts depends on when the shots are fired, and has nothing to do with how many shots were fired! It could be that some hunters take two shots to kill the ghost or problems like that."

"Therefore! The answer to this question is that there are 3 ghosts in the town!"

The red-clothed ghost floating in the room was stunned, then excitedly shouted into the air:

"Yes, that's it! The answer is 3 ghosts! The reason is..."

After the red-clothed ghost repeated Brother Hat's answer, four silver-white energy chains that bound it appeared in the surrounding air.

Crack, crack...

As if triggering some mechanism, the four chains shattered into pieces and fell to the ground, disappearing into nothingness, leaving only a transparent crystal ball on the ground.

The red-clothed ghost let out a piercing laugh.

"Hiahiahia~ I finally solved this problem! Do you know how I've spent these 10 years I've been sealed away! I haven't dared to rest for a single day! My ancestors were all illiterate wanderers, and after becoming a ghost, no one dared to teach me. You actually locked me up here with a stupid logic puzzle. Aren't you trying to kill me!

Hahaha! You perverts from Duoyu Academy! You never expected this! After 10 years, your own student has released me! Hiahiahia!!!"

The Red-clothed Ghost in the middle broke free from its restraints, pierced directly through the house, and flew towards the sky.

Cheng Shaofeng: (O_O;)

Brother Hat: (¬_¬)

Xiao Xiao: (＠_＠;)

All three were utterly bewildered.

Brother Hat looked at the Lord and said to Xiao Xiao in a low voice, "Although I don't understand what this Red-clothed Ghost is saying, it seems there's more to its story."

Xiao Xiao: "If we help it escape, will we get a reward?"

Cheng Shaofeng's mouth hung open as he listened to what the Red-clothed Ghost had just said.

At this moment, only one thought echoed in his mind: "Son of a bitch!"

This Red-clothed Ghost was actually sealed here by someone from that Duoyu Academy! He had just pretended to be from Duoyu Academy, thinking he was so impressive, but now he was taking the blame for someone else!

"You two, forget about the reward for now. We'll talk about it when we get back. We might be in bigger trouble now!"

Cheng Shaofeng turned to flee, and the two behind him quickly followed.

"Where do you think you're going, you perverts from Duoyu Academy?"

A stunningly beautiful woman in red leaned against the doorframe of the mayor's house with one hand, looking at Cheng Shaofeng and the other two with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.