Chapter 74.2 - The law: A fool cannot survive. (2/2)

“First cut one-fifth of the cake, then what remains is four-fifths of the cake. Slice the remainder in half to produce two-fifths. Stack those two-fifth slices then cut them in half again to produce one-fifth servings.”

The god also answered this immediately, without hesitating. Du Ze felt Xiu’s hand tighten. He turned to look and saw that Xiu seemed to be a bit speechless, as though this was an unexpected answer. Because they were in the BOSS stage now, Du Ze didn’t want to ask Xiu about it.

“Eh, you can answer it so quickly? This clever thief thought about it for a long time.” Hearing the god’s answer, Enoch grabbed his short hair and said: “You could also kill one person with a slice then cut the cake into four pieces – “

… What a vicious riddle!

The first two questions were easily answered by Soth. Antonio gulped down a lot of wine then stepped forward and leaned over to touch Honey’s hair.

“This old man will ask a riddle that is based on Honey’s.” Antonio took a deep breath. Even with his cheeks flushed from the wine, his eyes were clear. “There are three gods. Their names are ‘True’ ‘False’ and ‘Random.’ You don’t know which god is which. The True god always speaks the truth; the False god always tells lies, the Random god will randomly say truth or lies. You need to find out which god is which. You can only ask three yes-no questions and you can only ask these questions to a god. The gods can understand you but they will only answer in their own language. In their language, ‘yes’ and ‘no’ are ‘da’ and ‘ja’ but you do not know which is which.”

When Antonio had finished speaking, the whole group was silent. The riddle fused the puzzles of “unknown language,” “truth and lies,” and “randomness.” For the first time, the god was deep in thought, and Du Ze was on tenterhooks.

As the minutes ticked by, Du Ze looked nervously at Soth who had pulled out paper and pen and was drawing a logic tree. It was nearly ten minutes, but before the time was up Soth smiled and said: “That’s a good question. I almost ran out of time.”

The god lifted his hand and the paper he wrote on flew into Antonio’s hands.

“That’s my answer.”

Antonio read the paper in his hand then sighed and waved to Xiu. “This old man is helpless. He could only help you come to this point.”

Xiu nodded his thanks to Antonio. Du Ze was still trying to think of countermeasures. His head hurt because he couldn’t think of a way to beat this BOSS. Now the situation is bad because even the most promising member of their group, the first Mage God, has not been able to ask the god a question he can’t answer. Other than Xiu, the remaining members of the group are merely cannon fodder. Bart can be regarded as useless this time. Du Ze decided to try his luck first.

As Du Ze walked up to the god and pressed on his headphones, he suddenly froze – why does he have to come up with a difficult riddle like Antonio did? His greatest strength does not lie in that but in his identity as someone who crossed over to this world.

He thought of a question that no one in the world could answer.

Absolutely no one

The god saw a black-haired youth looking up at him with a cold expression on his face.

“What is the true essence of this world?”

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Translator’s Note:

Antonio’s riddle is called “The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever.” You can google it if you like. I’m sorry I can’t explain it here since it’s super difficult. I’m very bad at riddles. I knew the answer to Honey’s riddle but I couldn’t answer Enoch’s.

Last chapter I asked the readers why they thought Xiu had saved the gold team. Well, here we have our answer: Xiu did it to get Antonio to join them. Clever!