[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-three-towers-game":3,"chapter-three-towers-game-three-towers-game-chapter-1169":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Three Towers Game",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1098256,1431,"Chapter 1169 - 364: Fierce Struggle","three-towers-game-chapter-1169",1169,"\u003Cp>The game of Three Towers Company has officially begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the bosses of the four groups have been selected, everyone else received a number between one and twenty-nine, excluding the bosses themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The area where Wen Xishu is located is Zone C, so the employee numbers for Wen Xishu’s team are c01 to c29.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own number is c00.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The first day is about to begin. Countdown, five, four, three, two, one...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zero.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The electronic screen suddenly made a ding sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, a calendar appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first day began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one felt something was off; everyone sat at their assigned workstations according to their numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, their computers displayed the tasks they were to complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell is this?\" said c01, Li Weiwei.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that it? It seems quite underestimating,\" said c02, Clark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If this is our task, it doesn’t seem too bad. At least it’s very, very simple,\" said someone from Tang Zhe, c03.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was someone Wen Xishu had noticed earlier, who showed no interest in choosing the boss and was even yawning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The speciality of Tang Zhe is calculation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this time, the task is arithmetic problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems like each of you is the same, arithmetic problems.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the tasks presented at each workstation were arithmetic problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Wen Xishu did not feel like a boss but more like an examiner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Survivors in the apocalypse may not be academic geniuses, but being able to do some calculations is quite easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu quickly inspected everyone’s computers and discovered a problem...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tasks each person needed to complete were actually different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is it adjusted based on everyone’s computational ability?\" Wen Xishu quickly concluded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, c22, a Black man named Turte, has a talent for running fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is said he lived in a primitive tribe, chased by beasts daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to its primitive nature, his tribe was scarcely affected by the apocalypse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turte isn’t dumb, but frankly, arithmetic isn’t his strong suit, so his tasks mostly consisted of single-digit addition and subtraction, and they weren’t traditional numbers but shapes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were so simple that almost anyone could solve them easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But conversely, c03, a young man named Tang Zhe, had much more difficult problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arithmetic ability was on par with that of mathematicians worshipped as gods, soaring in the skies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Tang Zhe was calculating missile trajectory. Those symbols looked like whispered pollution when Wen Xishu glanced at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even he, as a boss, couldn’t make sense of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus Wen Xishu came to a conclusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difficulty was dynamic; there were no unqualified employees here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each employee could complete their assigned tasks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Employees just needed to maintain their pass rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, the work had a pass rate requirement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three Towers Company seemingly scanned every person; they clearly grasped everyone’s computational power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, slacking off was difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You might think arithmetic is simple, but work demanded accuracy and efficiency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accuracy couldn’t be below ninety-five percent, and efficiency required finishing a question within the prescribed time; unanswered questions couldn’t exceed five percent of the total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this setup, if Wen Xishu could choose, having twenty-nine Turtes would be far better than twenty-nine Tangs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because, for Turte’s tasks, he could solve them at a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Tang Zhe’s tasks, he couldn’t solve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a boss could help employees... then Wen Xishu could certainly help Turte solve all problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this thought was also wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the first day of the thirty-day interview journey, at noon. After three hours in the morning, everyone had completed a fair number of problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Xishu was surprised to find... the number of problems each person faced was completely different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though Tang Zhe’s tasks were infinitely more complex than Turte’s... the number of problems Tang solved was also not proportional to Turte’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the displayed progress was the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourth hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turte had already solved two hundred problems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Tang Zhe was still on his sixth problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet everyone’s progress showed thirty-three point three three three percent and so on...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One-third, I understand now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The number of problems isn’t fixed, nor is the difficulty; as long as you solve them seriously, without errors... the only metric is time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In other words, four hours have passed, marking one-third progress.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It implies that each person’s daily workload amounts to twelve hours.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Wen Xishu suddenly understood the range of ’not difficult but not easy either.’\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the simplest arithmetic, doing it continuously for over a dozen hours, makes it very easy to err.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in the day, when he was younger, Wen Xishu encountered a challenge booth, where you got fifty bucks for a single chance. If you could count from 0 to 200 without mistakes, maintaining a smooth speed, you would win two hundred bucks. Only kids could participate in this game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was essentially betting on \"stability.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the watchful eyes of many, and with hints from the boss, the kids attempting the challenge would often make mistakes due to nervousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is definitely not difficult, perhaps even very simple, but the repetitive, tedious process often leads to errors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are indeed many challenging and daunting tasks in this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But truly... there are quite a few tasks that are neither difficult nor easy, where the main challenge is overcoming monotony and fatigue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relatively speaking, math could already be considered less tedious.\u003C\u002Fp>",901,"2026-06-03T11:13:06.473Z","2026-06-03T11:13:13.662Z",1,"novelbin.me","e63c756d3bceabd859592970af25cac1500225a15ddd9b619ce44b67053dbdf3","three-towers-game-chapter-1170","three-towers-game-chapter-1168",1179,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthree-towers-game-cover.jpg"]