Chapter 430: The Commander

After saying a word, Saturday, Luo Shiyi, and Qiu Sixteen also cast strange glances at Qi Xia.

If it were someone else, Qi Xia's words would be enough for a few of them to refute it, but Wang Ba was an exception, everyone in the "cat" could not be bullied by outsiders, but no one wanted to speak for Wang Ba.

"Am I sowing discord...... Qi Xia nodded, "Okay, even if I follow your train of thought, there are a few questions I want to ask you." ā€

"What's the problem?"

"First, every time we send out teammates, even if we can bring back "food", it will be a maximum of three, how can we ensure the "satiety" of the five of us?"

"I'm ......" Wang Ba's eyes rolled, "This is just my plan in the early stage, and I will send two people each time in the later stage!" ā€

"Two people?"

"yes, if both of us succeed, we will get six fruits per round, and even if we fail, we will have three." Wang Ba emphasized, "I don't believe that our luck will be so bad, the two "rats" were all caught by cats. ā€

"But as far as we've seen, there are only four fruits in a room." Qi Xia squinted his eyes and said, "The first time the rat can take three fruits, from the second visit to this room, he can only take one at most, and even if the probability of failure is not considered, both of them can get back the fruit, then it is at most two, but we still have five people, who do you decide to let "starve to death"?" ā€

"What's more......" Qi Xia said again, "we can't be sure if the rest of the room has four fruits. ā€

After hearing this, Wang Ba stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and after thinking about it carefully, he realized that this was indeed a problem.

"I—I'm thinking about it on the fly! It's definitely not that perfect, so we're talking about it! After Wang Ba finished speaking, he looked at the rest of the people, as if hoping that someone could speak for him, "I just want to try to keep my teammates alive, isn't this the right starting point?" ā€

"That's the second question I want to make." Qi Xia said, "Send a single 'rat', if he doesn't come back, where are you going to rescue him?" ā€

"Cat House!" Wang Ba said, "Is there a problem? ā€

"No problem, but what if he's controlled by the Mousetrap?"

"This ......"

It occurred to Wang Ba that the "rats" controlled by the "mousetrap" in the rules of the game would be locked in the room until their teammates came to rescue them or were taken away by the "cat".

"As it stands, we're locked in various rooms when the cat is active, how do you know if our teammates have been taken by the cat or trapped in the room he's searching for?" Qi Xia stretched out five fingers and said, "The fifty percent probability is wrong, do you have to guess?" Once you guess wrong, there will be a chain reaction, and it is very likely that you will lose your teammates in the next time, and we have to choose to go to the "rescue", and the probability of success of each "rescue" is only 50%, do you dare to bet? ā€

Hearing that Qi Xia directly threw out a lot of analyses in such a short period of time, Wang Ba's face gradually sank.

"Good...... Only...... No matter how much you think...... "Wang Ba gritted his teeth and said, "even if you are better than me...... So what are we going to do? ā€

"Since you can't help it, then you can only obey my command." Qi Xia said, "In the first round, we directly sent four people to 'search', and the goal was four random rooms. ā€

"Four ......?" Saturday felt a little confused, "Tsk, one person or five people, I can understand what it means...... But what is the meaning of the "four"? ā€

"We rats need a 'conductor'......" Qi Xia said, "This game has a typical blind spot, due to the Prisoner's Dilemma, each of our rats will lose contact with the others after entering the room, so we can't confirm what is happening in the other rats' rooms, which will make it difficult for us to make decisions from the second round onwards. ā€

"What, tsk......?" Saturday was stunned for a moment, "Prisoner's dilemma? ā€

"Yes, if a rat doesn't come back the next day, we can't tell where to go to "rescue", and the gopher has long thought of this, so he wants us to "rescue each other", and he knows that whether we succeed or fail, it is not a good thing for us." Qi Xia said, "Fortunately, you are a mature team, if we are all strangers, there is a situation of "some people want to save and some people don't want to save", it is estimated that it will be more complicated. ā€

Luo Shiyi was silent for a while after hearing this, and asked, "Then what do you mean by "commander"......"

"We need a rat that doesn't take any action to take care of the whole picture." Qi Xia said, "This 'rat' is the eye of all of us, and it is also the center console of all of us, responsible for keeping an eye on the cat's every move. ā€

"Huh?" Several people were stunned at the same time, this sentence made them feel weird, but they couldn't say what was weird.

"Wait, wait a minute...... "Wang Ba was the first to speak, "isn't it...... What does he think of the cat's activities? According to what you say...... If you want to know all the movements of the "cat", you can only stand in the corridor outside to see which room he enters, but there is no standing in the corridor at all in the three behavior options of our "rat". ā€

As if he hadn't heard anything, Qi Xia quickly moved his gaze away from Wang Ba's face, and then asked the others, "Did anyone ask some questions with brains?" ā€

"You ......" Wang Ba looked at Qi Xia angrily, "you answered me!" ā€

"That ......," Qiu Sixteen also felt unreliable, "Suppose someone can really stand in the corridor and stare at the cat...... But how can this "rat" act as a "conductor"? ā€

"That's easy to say." Qi Xia replied, "If we change to another team, we can exchange information after returning to the 'Mouse House' the next night, but we naturally have a more convenient way......

After Qi Xia finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Saturday: "As long as Saturday is here, we should know the whereabouts of the cat as soon as possible." ā€

"Tsk, ...... with "transvoice"?" Saturday frowned, "I've never used Transsonic in a game...... I don't know if this will be a problem......"

"Question ......? I would like to know what are the specific restrictions of your "Transsion"? Qi Xia said, "Can you talk to the four of us anywhere?" ā€

"Tsk, that's not the ...... That's right. Saturday nodded, "So I'm here to be the 'conductor'?" ā€

"Nope." Qi Xia shook his head, "Whoever is in charge can do it, as long as you can talk to the 'commander', you can theoretically spread the news to all of us." ā€

Saturday nodded in understanding.

"We chose one person to stand in the hallway every night as the 'conductor', and the remaining four all set out to search for food." "The Commander's task is to determine which room the cat has entered, who has taken it with them, and then the remaining rats will rescue them in the second round. ā€