“Correct!” Feng Yu said in an excited voice.
Then he said, “Congratulations on solving the first riddle! I never thought that someone would be able to solve this riddle, but it seems like you really are a smart one.”
When they heard this, all of the elders couldn’t help looking at Lin Fan with shocked looks.
They never thought that this answer would actually be correct since they were confident in their answer.
At the same time, they couldn’t understand just how it was possible that they were wrong.
After all, no matter how they thought about it, it should have been a 50/50 chance between their door and the other door after the third door was eliminated. It shouldn’t have mattered which door was chosen in the end.
lightsΝοvεl ƈοm Lin Fan saw the looks on their faces and could guess what they were thinking.
Since Feng Yu was still talking about random things, as well as praising him for solving it, Lin Fan took the time to explain this Monty Hall problem to them.
It was a mistake to think of the remaining options as two options.
The reality was that it was still three different options and each of the options was considered one out of three.
So by choosing only a single door by not switching, your chance was actually one third instead of two thirds by switching to the other door.
So the correct answer was to switch doors.
But in this cultivation world where math wasn’t as developed, it wasn’t that easy for them to understand this.
“Why would it be two thirds when there are only two doors to choose from in the first place?”
“Why would the other door still count in this scenario when you know that it doesn’t have the prize behind it?”
“It should only be one door no matter how you look at it.”
The elders didn’t seem like they could be convinced, but there was nothing that Lin Fan could do since this was just how the question was.
But they stopped arguing since it was time for the second question.
Feng Yu had finished with what he had been saying and had moved on to the next question.
“Now, it’s time for the second question. Since you got the first question, I’m sure that you’ll be able to solve this second question just as easily.”
As he said this, there was a faint smile that appeared on his face.
It was almost as if he knew that this was a lie.
And it showed when he asked the question.
“What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, three legs in the evening, and no legs at night?”
The moment that he finished saying this, there was only silence that followed.
All of the elders looked at Feng Yu like he was crazy since they couldn’t even begin to imagine the creature that actually did this.
Feng Yu just revealed a smile like he had already expected this even though this was just a recording. He then said with that smile, “You have five minutes to solve this riddle, please make the best use of your time.”
Then without another word, he took the same stance as before where he just stood there staring off into space.
The elders all had shocked and confused looks on their faces as they didn’t know what to do.
After all, they couldn’t even begin to fathom what the answer to this question was.
The only one that had a different expression on his face was Lin Fan.
He had a very strange look that was very far from being confused, but he was certainly shocked as well.
That was because this was also another question that he recognized from his past life.
This was a famous riddle from literature that had been asked in many different forms, but it seemed that Feng Yu had used the original form.
This was the riddle of the sphinx.
This was the riddle that had been asked of Oedipus.
Since he recognized this riddle, naturally Lin Fan also knew the answer.
But before that, he could only think of a single thing.
From the transforming robots to the Monty Hall problem to this sphinx’s riddle, all of these things seemed to be pointing to one thing.
If the system was answering him, he would have already chewed it out…
It was clear that Feng Yu was also a transmigrator that had been sent to the same world as him, but it seemed that he had died for an unknown reason.
Was it because he was a transmigrator or was it something else?
Lin Fan couldn’t help feeling worried as he realized this fact.
It was fine if it was something else, but if he died because he was a transmigrator, didn’t that mean that there was something targeting transmigrators in this world?
If that was the case, would he be the next target?
At the same time, did that mean that there were many other transmigrators that had also been sent to this world?
These were the doubts that Lin Fan had since he saw those mechanical lights all the way back then.
He had buried them since there were things that seemed to explain it, but now he couldn’t help feeling doubtful again.
Could it be that the mechanical continent was a place that was created by a transmigrator?
He couldn’t help feeling like he needed to take a trip to that continent to see or else he would never be able to settle this curiosity.
“This system…it runs away at the most convenient time.” Lin Fan said in his mind, but the system didn’t respond.
Since he had asked about Feng Yu yesterday, the system had been silent the entire time.
It seemed like the system was checking something, but Lin Fan knew that it was just avoiding him.
Since it was avoiding him, he couldn’t do anything.
When it was done, it would naturally come and tell him what the results were.
Until then, he just needed to earn Feng Yu’s inheritance.
He was certain that Feng Yu would have left some clue to any future transmigrators that came after him if he was a transmigrator.
So he needed to see Feng Yu’s inheritance and find those clues.
While the elders were still looking at each other with confused looks, Lin Fan walked forward towards the tablet.
The elders all turned in his direction, but not a single one of them stopped him.
He had already gotten the first question right, so could it be that he also knew the answer to this question?
If he did, that was good since none of them had a single idea what the answer would be.
Something that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, three legs in the evening, and no legs at night…just what could that be?
If it was just the first two, they could understand that it was most likely something that stood on all fours in the morning and stood up in the afternoon. But it was the three legs part that confused them.
They couldn’t understand how anything could have three legs…
There were no creatures that had three legs as far as they knew and then there was something about having no legs at all.
The elders were completely stumped by this puzzle.
Seeing him lift the stylus to write on the tablet, Senior Brother Ying came forward to ask, “Sect master, what is your answer?”
Lin Fan looked at him and saw that all of the elders were looking at him with expectant looks, but he didn’t say anything in the end as he just turned around to write something on the tablet.
They all reached their heads forward a bit to see what he was writing and they found that his answer was…
Man.
Man?
How could man be the answer?
Not to mention three legs, men didn’t even walk on four legs.
So how could that be the answer?
But it was already too late for them to change the answer. Not to mention that they didn’t even have an answer in the first place, so they could only go with Lin Fan’s answer.
After the light disappeared, Feng Yu started moving once again.
This time, he wasn’t as calm as before as he turned in their direction before saying, “You…you actually got it right?”
When they heard this, the elders couldn’t help being shocked as they looked at Lin Fan.
They never would have thought that Lin Fan’s answer would actually be correct.
After all, they couldn’t think of any way that his answer would be correct.
Lin Fan just gave a sigh and shook his head when he saw this.
It wasn’t that he was looking down on them, but rather it was strange seeing the reactions of people who didn’t know these riddles.
If this was Earth, almost anyone on the street would have been able to get this answer since this was quite the well known riddle.
Though even if they didn’t know the answer to the riddle, just having phones would be more than enough for them to check the answer to the riddle.
It was different from this technologically backwards cultivation world.
Lin Fan just ignored them and focused on Feng Yu, but Feng Yu still seemed like he was shocked by this.
When he saw this, Lin Fan couldn’t help revealing a bitter smile.
This Feng Yu really liked to play around…
This was a recording after all, so he had recorded this in expectation of someone getting the answer correct.
But then again…someone who used famous riddles like this would act in such a manner.