I Have Yet to Become a Doll Today

Chapter 829: Chapter 829 Probability

Bai Youwei spread out the map she had drawn for everyone to see.

“We’ve been walking for so long, and now we’ve figured it out. There are a total of twelve horizontal rooms. If we label them with numbers from 1 to 12, the Minotaur last stopped at number 2, and we are now in number 12.

Assuming the Minotaur doesn’t move while eating, it would have to move at least 8 spaces to catch up with us.”

Bai Youwei pointed at the position of the teleportation point with her finger.

“Logically, this is a distance which the Minotaur could never catch up. However, there are an unknown number of teleportation points in the maze. If I were the Minotaur, I would choose a position not far from each teleportation point and predict the players’ movement, then select the corresponding teleportation point.

So, to avoid being caught by the Minotaur, we must meet two conditions.

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First, avoid all teleportation points;

Second, avoid all dead ends.”

Chen Hui hesitated and said, “But now… we are both near a teleportation point and close to a dead end…”

Bai Youwei thought for a while and said, “We need to move one space west now, then head north. If this maze is a 12X12 square, then we only need to move forward nine times to reach the end.”

“Are you sure it’s 12X12?” Du Lai asked.

“I’m just saying it’s a possibility,” Bai Youwei said. “Whether it’s mazes or games, they usually favor regular shapes, and the most common is the square. Now we know there are 12 locks, 12 keys, and precisely 12 horizontal rooms. If there are also 12 vertical rooms, then this maze is likely a square.”

Leonid asked, “What does knowing it’s a square do for us?”

“It doesn’t do much.” Bai Youwei lowered her eyelids and said softly, “At least when the Minotaur is chasing us, we won’t be forced into a dead end.”

“But…” Chen Hui hesitated, “if we want to confirm this… we’ll have to walk into a dead end at least once more.”

They had already encountered two “corners.” To prove the maze was a square, they still needed to confirm one more “corner.”

And walking into a “dead end” made it very easy to be cornered by the Minotaur.

Bai Youwei thought about it and said calmly, “There’s no other way. Even though we know we shouldn’t walk into dead ends, to determine the location of each key, we need to search every room in the maze.”

“Then let’s go,” Shen Mo said indifferently, “Let’s get out as soon as possible.”

Bai Youwei looked at him and said, “We will go west.”

The group moved one space to the west, and as they were about to move on, Du Lai saw a key in the western stone chamber. They moved forward another space and obtained the sixth key.

“I’m starting to believe this maze could be 12X12,” said Du Lai.

Asarina asked him, “Why?”

“Because the chances of encountering a key are high,” Du Lai replied with a slight smirk. “If there were as many as a thousand rooms, or even ten thousand, the likelihood of finding a key by luck would be almost impossible, right? But if it’s 12X12, there would be a total of 144 rooms. Excluding the teleportation point rooms, the odds of finding a key… might be around 10%.”

“Is 10% considered high?” Chen Hui couldn’t help but ask.

Du Lai smiled and asked her, “Do you know about the lottery?”

Chen Hui nodded, “I know, what about it?”

“The lowest prize in the lottery, the fifth prize, has a cash prize of 5 yuan, and the odds of winning are about 6%,” Du Lai explained. “Our chances of finding a key are much higher than the odds of winning the lottery.”

Bai Youwei held the key and thought for a moment, saying, “We need to go back and place the key in the stone chamber west of the teleportation point.”