〖One-Minute Case Solving〗The Person Who Ran Away
Detective Mosquito is an expert marksman. One day, while on patrol, he discovered a group of seven small thieves. When Detective Mosquito shouted loudly, the seven thieves ran for their lives! Acting decisively, Mosquito pulled out a revolver with six bullets and shot at the legs of the thieves! The thieves who were hit fell to the ground, but a few of them managed to escape while the detective was reloading. How many thieves escaped?
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There are two. A rotary pistol needs to retain one round to shoot, just like a revolver. So, two ran off and five fell down.
1 person, changing bullets indicates that all the handgun bullets are used up; if all 6 bullets hit, it counts as 1 person. (Unless you tell me that a mosquito handgun only holds 1 bullet)
Let's have 4 people run away~~ Because one person has two legs, six bullets equal three people~ Even one leg can run, right (purely personal thought)
(Alright, the ranger used to always pass by without speaking; after all, there are many experts, where would a novice like me have a chance to shine? This time I'll give it a try, and making a mistake might actually be a good thing. Xiao An…) A revolver? That's what people commonly call a 'revolver,' right… A revolver is a chambered gun (I think that's the term? Not entirely sure, I remember 'rifled,' but that refers to firearms with gunpowder, and there's also 'smoothbore'…). In other words, firing it requires a 'hammer' (the part at the back of a handgun you can press). Its mechanical principle is that the hammer strikes the back of the bullet, and the kinetic energy from the impact converts into internal energy within the bullet, igniting the gunpowder, causing an explosion, which then produces kinetic energy, propelling the bullet out. Also, due to the design of the gun, after the trigger is pulled, besides the hammer striking back, the 'cylinder' holding the bullets rotates one notch. After this 'scientific' analysis, my conclusion is actually what others thought of from the start: a person got away. Six bullets, one sharpshooter; these two hints, combined with the analysis, make it quite clear: although a revolver can only fire one bullet at a time, its mechanical operation shows us that it can be 'fired continuously,' but this 'continuous firing' doesn't mean mechanically discharging multiple bullets at once, rather manually pulling the trigger in succession. Maybe for an ordinary person, hitting all six people would still be impossible, but the premise here is—he is a sharpshooter.
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