Great Qin Xiuxian Biography

Chapter 17
"Bah!"

A drop of wax dripped from the wax candle holder on the chandelier, and the wax dripped down, just falling into the puddle in the middle of the tomb.

Under the bloody firelight, the water surface in the puddle was rippling, reflecting the wax candlestick.

Pale hands, palms up, fingers trembling slightly, curled up slightly.

"Wang... that brother!" Fang Fangmei wanted to call Wang Mang just now, but when he thought of the other party's good looks and Hei Zhichang beside him, he immediately changed his words, "Did you really solve the problem?"

"En!" Wang Mang nodded, "Someone just said that this is a question of truth and falsehood. This type of question only needs three steps."

"The formula for these three steps is: first find, second go around and third return."

"One search, two detours and three returns?" Pang Ruonan looked at Wang Mang's tiger mask suspiciously, with a searching light in his eyes.

"That's right!"

Wang Mang nodded, using a sword as a substitute for writing, the sword moved away from dragons and snakes, and carved three columns of Chinese characters on the wall.

First column: Li, Zhang, Wang, Lu, Deng.

The second column: perverts, gamblers, drunkards, bald ghosts, cheeky ghosts.

The third column: the short and fat man, the big man, the white-faced scholar, the tall and thin man, and the bald man.

[PS: You can follow Wang Mang's explanation and write and draw on paper. If you don't like it, you can skip the reasoning process. 】

After engraving the three columns of characters, Wang Mang continued:

"The first step is to find contradictions. From a logical point of view, we can find that the words of the little ghost Wang and the little ghost Deng are contradictory, and the words of the little ghost Zhang and the little ghost Lu are contradictory."

"As mentioned in the title, if there are two little devils who tell lies, then the one who tells the lie must be one of the two pairs of contradictions. And there is one of each pair of contradictions."

Wang Mang waited for everyone to digest, and then said, "The next step is the second step, to bypass the contradiction."

"Since the kid who told lies is among Zhang, Wang, Lu and Deng, then kid Li must be telling the truth!"

"Little ghost Li said: I hate the pervert king the most, and the cheeky ghost didn't lend me any money."

"This shows that the little ghost king is a pervert, and the cheeky ghost didn't borrow money from him. This is the truth." Square eyebrow's square eyebrow raised, and he said, "I figured this out before!"

"Hmm! You're smart!"

Wang Mang made a perfunctory sentence, and connected the "king" in the first column with the "pervert" in the second column with a dagger.

"The last third step is to return to the contradiction."

"Let's first look at the contradiction between the little ghost king and the little ghost Deng."

"The little ghost king said: Only the little ghost Zhang lends money to the little ghost Li to gamble, and I am a poor-faced scholar."

"Little ghost Deng said: The little ghost king is a white-faced scholar. Although the little ghost Zhang is a big man with cheeks, he is very stingy and didn't lend money to the little ghost Li."

"The translation of these two sentences is:"

"The little ghost king said: The little ghost king is a white-faced scholar—launch——little ghost Zhang borrowed money from little ghost Li."

"Little ghost Deng said: The little ghost king is a poor-faced scholar, and little ghost Zhang didn't borrow money from little ghost Li."

"So, did little ghost Zhang borrow money from little ghost Li?"

"No loan! The kid Li told the truth!" Pang Ruonan's eyes flashed, staring at Wang Mang's tiger mask.

What to do, I really want to take off the mask!Pang Ruonan was ready to move.

"Well, I learned to answer quickly."

Wang Mang made a joke, looked at the time, there was still time.Just as he was about to continue speaking, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the finger on the candle holder on the chandelier.

"Huh? Illusion?" Wang Mang hesitated for a while, then continued, "Since the little ghost Zhang didn't borrow the money from the little ghost Li, then what the little ghost Deng said is true, and what the little ghost king said is false."

"Combining with other information in the two people's words, we can get: the little ghost king is a pervert and a white-faced scholar."

"Little ghost Zhang is a big man with cheeks, a ghost with cheeks, a big man."

"Little ghost Li is a gambler."

Wang Mang connected the corresponding lines.

"In the same way, little ghost Zhang said: If little ghost Deng is bald, then I am tall and thin. Little ghost Lu said: Little ghost Deng is bald, and I am tall and thin."

"The translation is:"

"Little ghost Zhang said: Little ghost Deng is a bald man—push out—little ghost Zhang is a tall and thin man."

"Little ghost Lu said: Little ghost Deng is bald, and I am tall and thin"

"It has already been deduced that the little ghost Zhang is a big man, so what the little ghost Lu said is true." Pang Ruonan responded actively, "Then, the little ghost Deng is a bald man, and the bald man is actually a bald ghost!"

Wang Mang let Pang Ruonan talk, and continued to connect, and the rest of the answer was clear at a glance.

"Little Guilu is a drunkard, a tall and thin man."

"Little ghost Li is a gambler, a short fat man!"

Pang Ruonan stared at Wang Mang, his eyes lit up again and again: If this guy is good-looking, he can make friends.

"Great! Thank you!" Everyone looked at Wang Mang and said gratefully.

"It's a quarter of an hour!"

The voice of the exam elf sounded at the right time, and it was full of good words and sentences.

"You must not have the heart to harm others, and you must not have the heart to guard against others."

"Humans and ghosts have different paths, and each has its own order."

"Little ghosts are hard to deal with, villains are hard to raise."

"The mean is the pass of the mean, and the noble is the epitaph of the noble."

"A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall."

"Congratulations, you have passed the level perfectly!"

"Please enter the teleportation burst, and teleport later."

"yeah!"

"awesome!"

"Thank you!"

Everyone looked at Wang Mang and thanked him.

"You're welcome. Let's quickly enter the teleportation array..."

Wang Mang waved his hand and was about to greet everyone when he suddenly looked at the chandelier on the top of the tomb. The five waxy fingers of the candle holder in the chandelier trembled a few times and clenched into fists.

Can dead things move?

Wang Mang saw clearly this time.

"Pfft!"

The blood-red flame in the palm of the wax candle holder popped, and the melted wax under the flame splashed out.

"careful!"

Although Wang Mang didn't know what it was, he felt great fear for no reason and avoided the drop of wax sprayed by him.

"Crack!"

The wax hand candlestick made a fist with five fingers and opened it quickly, the flame flickered, and the melted wax splashed again.

"Ah! What is so hot!" A boy reached out and touched his neck, "What is this? Wax?"

The boy rubbed the wax on his finger, but the finger began to melt and fall off like wax.

"What, what's going on here? I, I..." The examinee raised his head in confusion and fear, "Help me!"

wow~
His whole body melted like a wax figure thrown into a furnace!
"do not want!"

"help me!"

Blissful to extremely sad, in the blink of an eye.

"What the hell is this!" Fang Fangmei threw away the big sword in his hand, just now the big sword blocked a drop of wax, unexpectedly the big sword melted like wax.

"Strange—" Zhang Pingfan pulled Wang Mang up in horror, "Wang Mang, run away!"

"Ah! Help me!"

"do not want!"

"Don't leave me behind!"

……

There were endless screams in the tomb, and only seven out of ten people ran back to the teleportation array.

"help me!"

"Don't abandon us!"

"Help!"

The examinee who had lost his human form rolled and struggled on the ground, and soon turned into a human stick made of wax.The pale wax, the pale human stick, melted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"No!"

Suddenly, a group of black shadows ran out from the human stick, tall and thin, with a wine gourd hanging from his waist.

It was that Jiu Gui Lu!

"No! I'm not running away! I'm not running away! Help me!"

"Master Ghost!"

"Ksitigarbha King Bodhisattva!"

"Lord Yan!"

"Old Ghost Zhou!"

"Save me!"

Just as the drunkard Lu left the human stick, the ghost body that had turned into black mist melted like wax.

"No! I'm a ghost! I'm a spirit body! How could I die like this..." Amidst the screams, Jiugui Lu completely melted into a puddle of wax juice, and then evaporated and disappeared.

Wang Mang breathed with difficulty, restraining the trembling of his whole body, and looked at the six people around him.

The faces of the six people were pale, and they all stared at the direction where Jiu Gui Lu disappeared, their eyes full of horror.

Where did the drunkard come from that classmate?
Also, what's that wax that melts ghosts?
This is the fear of the unknown and the boundless oppression.Everyone finally turned their attention to the pale wax candlestick on the top of the tomb.

"What the hell is this candle holder?"

"What the hell did Zhang Pingfan say before? Obviously, he knows something."

"What kind of ghost can melt ghosts?"

Wang Mang's thoughts changed sharply and he forced himself to calm down.

"Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, Yin evil five element seal!"

Suddenly, a bang sounded in the tomb, and Zhou, the ghost stuck to the wall, jumped down from the wall, swiping a golden hoe in his hand towards the candlestick on the chandelier.

A white light flashed, and Wang Mang and others teleported away.

　PS: For the two pairs of contradictions in the article, I chose the simplest contradiction relationship of hypothetical propositions.One is a sufficient condition and the other is a necessary condition.Middle and high school students should have been in contact with it. If you don’t understand, you can ask the teacher.

　　Meh~ Please kiss, please follow up, please collect.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)