CSGM - Chapter 29
Chapter 29: The Deduction Begins
Ren Zhi, Luo Yangtian, and the others vehemently protested the Director's cunning and deceitful behavior, but their protests were futile.
As the saying goes, "When you're under someone else's roof, you have to bow your head." The Director was the tyrant of this show, and his words were all tyrannical clauses-utterly shameless.
They could only resign themselves to the Director's impromptu question, silently praying that it wouldn't be too difficult.
Luo Yangtian was especially worried. After all, he was standing at the very front, and he really didn't want to be eliminated!
All his hopes were pinned on Chu Xi.
At the Director's command, an assistant brought him a small stool.
The Director took out a handful of coins, scattered them on the stool, and pointed to show Chu Xi. Then, he picked up a book to use as a screen, blocking the coins from view.
The Director reached into the pile of coins and grabbed a handful. He then raised his hand, clenched into a fist, and asked Chu Xi:
"In that pile of coins just now, there were one-jiao, five-jiao, and one-yuan denominations. Guess the total value of what I'm holding in my hand."
The other members were stunned when they heard this, shocked that the Director could ask such a brazenly shameless question!
The Director's sandbag-sized fist was clenched tightly. No one had seen what he grabbed, so how the hell was anyone supposed to know how much money he was holding? Did he think Chu Xi had X-ray vision?
Li Xiling, always frank and outspoken, couldn't help but say, "Old Fox, you're going too far! If you want to eliminate us, just say so. Who knows how much money you grabbed? Do you think Chu Xi is a mind reader?"
Luo Yangtian threw his head back and let out a desperate cry, "Ah-!"
The Director chuckled, a treacherous expression of a petty person who had gotten their way plastered on his face.
"This is a golden apple question. If you answer incorrectly, the hammer will swing toward you."
Ren Zhi sighed. "You said this was a quiz, but in the end, we have to rely on luck."
Chu Xi's gaze, however, remained fixed on the Director's clenched fist.
At the same time, she also stared at the book that was blocking the coins.
She thought for a moment, as if trying to guess how much money the Director had grabbed.
But she didn't answer immediately. Instead, she said, "Director, why don't you check how much you grabbed first? Otherwise, after I give my answer, you'll still have to verify it."
The Director, however, was very certain. He kept his hand tightly clenched and said, "No need to look. Just guess."
Chu Xi tilted her head and asked, "You're not going to secretly loosen your grip and drop the coins back if I guess correctly, are you?"
The Director smiled and raised his fist a little higher, away from the book serving as a screen, and vowed, "You can rest assured about that. I absolutely won't. If you guess correctly, I will definitely not cheat."
The Director waved to a cameraman, and another camera pushed in, moving behind the Director.
He loosened his tightly closed fingers just a little, allowing the camera to see the money he was holding.
The moment the live stream viewers saw the money in the Director's palm, the chat exploded with "Holy shit."
【Fuck, so treacherous!】
【I'm speechless. Director, you really know how to set a question!】
【You old scoundrel, you just don't want Chu Xi to get it right, do you? This is insane. He took out a pile of coins to grab from, but he's hiding a banknote in his hand. It's a pure setup.】
【666666, misleading, huh? Making everyone think he grabbed a bunch of small-change coins, but he's actually hiding a 10-yuan bill. Who could possibly guess that?】
【The dog Director knows how to screw people over. Chu Xi has been trapped this time. It's over, she's done for!】
【Director, you're so scheming, if they remade a palace intrigue drama, they'd have to cast you as the lead!】
This move was unexpected for the audience. Even though they knew the Director's tricks ran deep, they never imagined they ran this deep!
To mislead Chu Xi into answering incorrectly, he had resorted to such a dirty trick.
He had deliberately laid out a pile of coins, pretended to grab a handful, and then asked Chu Xi to guess the amount. Any normal person with a normal thought process would guess he was holding a certain value in coins. Who would have known that what he was hiding in his hand wasn't coins at all, but a banknote!
This made the viewers in the live stream cry out in unison: How sneaky!
He had framed the question to lead to the wrong answer from the very beginning. How could anyone get this right?
If only Chu Xi could see the live stream comments right now. The viewers couldn't help but want to spoil it for Chu Xi, to warn her not to fall for this sneaky Director's trap!
Ahhhhhhh, the viewers were getting anxious, but it was impossible for Chu Xi to see the comments. They could only watch helplessly as Chu Xi was kept in the dark, deceived by the Director.
My heart aches for Chu Xi!
Chu Xi's fingers gently stroked her chin as if she were contemplating something.
The Director urged her to answer quickly, but she just smiled.
Chu Xi began her deduction. "Are you really holding coins in your hand? I doubt it. I don't think you're that honest… You used the book to block the pile of coins. Was it because you were afraid I'd notice that the number of coins on top hadn't decreased? And you deliberately made that gesture of grabbing money. In reality, that was to mislead me, wasn't it…"
Chu Xi spoke slowly, a mocking smile playing on her lips.
The Director's face was expressionless, but inside, he was panicking like crazy.
Chu Xi could even guess that? No way! Stay calm, he told himself. I can't lose my composure and reveal a flaw.
"Before you put the screen down, the coins you showed me had a large surface area, which means their value is small. But given your style, Director, would you really be that kind? Deliberately leaking clues to me? Heh… impossible. Therefore…" Chu Xi's pace slowed, and she exposed him with each clear word-
"The coins I saw just now weren't a clue at all, but a misdirection. You did it to mislead me, to make me think you were holding coins in your hand, and low-value ones at that."
The row of members to Chu Xi's left stared at her, their faces full of question marks, as if they were listening to her tell some fantastic tale.
Huh?
Chu Xi continued with a smile, "Also, Director, your fingers are clenched so tightly. If you were holding coins in your fist, you wouldn't need to be so careful. Unless… you're holding a banknote, an unfolded one, that's larger than your palm, and you're worried I'll see its color through the gaps in your fingers."
The Director discreetly swallowed, but his face remained tense, his expression unchanged.
Little did anyone know, his inner world was already collapsing!
This person, Chu Xi, not only had a good memory, but she was also this observant. He hadn't even realized he was giving off these tiny clues, yet she had seen them all!
And her deduction was simply too bold.
He had never imagined that Chu Xi could think of so much!
He could only repeat his urging to Chu Xi, "I'm giving you a final 30 seconds. If you don't answer, it will be considered an incorrect answer."
But as it turned out, the sound of his voice was rushed by Chu Xi's pressure, and it trembled involuntarily.
As an actress, Ren Zhi instantly and keenly sensed the emotion hidden in the Director's tone.
She only spoke with that kind of speed when she was playing a criminal with a guilty conscience, and she would urge the other person to quickly give an answer about something.
Ren Zhi's pupils dilated. She stared at the Director and said, speechless, "Director, you really are full of tricks."
But what she hadn't expected even more was that Chu Xi's seemingly wild deduction was actually true!
Chu Xi's observation was so incredibly detailed; she had seen through all of the Director's tells.
Ren Zhi quietly glanced at Chu Xi, a wave of astonishment surging through her heart like a tidal wave.
With 30 seconds left, Chu Xi said:
"100 yuan is definitely impossible, it's too big, you'd be afraid you couldn't hold it. 1 and 5 yuan are also impossible, the amounts are too small, you'd have to guard against me guessing correctly by a fluke. Among the remaining banknotes, I'll just guess one randomly. Let's see how my luck is."
The Director stared nervously at Chu Xi. At this moment, it was as if he were the one about to give an answer and be judged right or wrong!
Chu Xi let out a soft laugh. "10 yuan."
That quiet voice was like a small pebble dropping into the ocean, stirring up monstrous waves.
The live stream chat went wild with screams.
【Counter-kill!!】
【Holy shit, she's a god, a god, a god!!! Chu Xi! You! Are! My! God!!!!!】
【This round of deduction is called the 'Make the Director's Smile Disappear' trick!】
【Who gets it? Every single word Chu Xi just said made my blood boil!!!】
【Awesome! When I was listening to her deduction, all the hairs on my body stood on end!!】
And who didn't feel that way? The viewers' thoughts were all more or less the same. A moment ago, they were dying to break through the screen and tell Chu Xi that the Director had set a trap for her, that he wasn't holding coins!
But while they couldn't give Chu Xi any spoilers, Chu Xi had figured it out all by herself!
What do you call that? Ah, right… all roads lead to Rome!!!
Chu Xi was the god-tier teammate who could get on their wavelength!!!
Nothing could excite a crowd more than living up to their expectations!
【If she had rushed to guess the number of coins, she definitely would have been wrong. But she was so calm, she actually looked for flaws and deduced the truth first!】
【Can someone tell me if this is scripted? Is Chu Xi's IQ really this insane??!】
【To the person asking if it's scripted, look at the Director's face. It's completely fallen. Do you think it could be scripted?】
【Chu Xi is calm, highly observant, and most importantly, she's skilled at all kinds of 'counter-kills.' The Director picked the wrong person to mess with this time, hahaha, he shot himself in the foot again.】
【Looks like I can't cheat in the future. My wife Chu Xi is so smart, she'll definitely find out. I'll just be faithful to her.】
【Did you know that because of what you just said, Chu Xi had to comfort me for an hour tonight?】
【Draw your sword, love rival, Chu Xi is mine!】
【My biggest misunderstanding of Chu Xi was once thinking she was just a pretty face with nothing inside. But now, I'm already a Milkshake.】
Well damn, Our Restaurant might as well be renamed The Chu Xi Fan Recruitment Chronicles.
With just a few sentences, she had left the Director, the audience, and the other members completely stunned.
With that mysterious power of observation and logical reasoning, did Chu Xi spend her childhood playing detective games every day?
When the Director helplessly opened his palm to reveal the blue 10-yuan banknote, Luo Yangtian suddenly gasped.
The look in his eyes as he gazed at Chu Xi was filled with an admiration that had reached its peak!
Even Xiao Han stood by silently, pondering for a few seconds with a complex expression, wondering if Chu Xi was really smarter than him.
Li Xiling was even more excited, jumping on the spot and eagerly inviting, "Chu Xi, hey Chu Xi, let's become sworn sisters! I'll have your back from now on. I'll invite you to be a guest on my national tour!"
That was so satisfying, truly so satisfying! Seeing Chu Xi render the old fox Director speechless, Li Xiling couldn't describe how much she admired her.
Heh-tui! The Director bullied people every day with his authority, his mind more full of schemes than a honeycomb has holes. Now he's finally met his match, right? Just watching this felt so vindicating!
Ren Zhi let out a soft breath and nodded slowly, admitting to Chu Xi, "I'm impressed."
Chu Xi's IQ was very high; it definitely wasn't the kind of thing she just boasted about.
Ren Zhi actually hadn't expected that on top of her first-class memory, her skills in observation and deduction were also far ahead of the curve.
Just as everyone was immersed in the thrill of Chu Xi's "counter-kill" against the Director, he suddenly picked up a megaphone and announced:
"Li Xiling, eliminated."
Ah…? What?
Everyone snapped back to reality, looked over, and fell silent.
After looking down, Li Xiling also fell silent. She tugged at the corners of her mouth, her smile freezing…
In her excessive happiness just now, she had been jumping around and had jumped out of the designated circle on the floor!
"Ah-!!!" Amidst a long howl of extreme joy turning to sorrow, Li Xiling was pulled off the stage.
Now, only five members were left at the answering positions. The five-star luxury hotel was gone.
But the live stream chat wasn't filled with accusations, only laughter.
【Hahahahahahahaha, Ling is truly miserable.】
【LMAO, Li Xiling, you truly are a game black hole. You really know how to play.】
【Li Xiling: What? Chu Xi turned the game difficulty back to easy? Then let me add some difficulty.】
【Dying of laughter, Ling is responsible for all my laughs today!】
【Just finished feeling pumped up from watching Chu Xi, and now my stomach hurts from laughing at Ling!】
【Chu Xi: My native language is speechless. Can't carry them, I really can't carry them.】
Because the golden apple question was answered correctly, the giant pendulum was pushed back a distance of three points, and the scores on the two scoreboards were reset to zero again.
Chu Xi watched the giant pendulum swing back and forth twice, observing silently, secretly calculating something.
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