Global Collapse

Chapter 878 I don't ask for updates on the same day, month, and year, but I do ask for updates to be delayed on the same day, month, and year.

While Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan were still discussing the motives of Group Three, Group Four had already begun to take action.

Perhaps realizing the abnormality of the three groups' actions, the four groups of players hesitated for a long time before making their choice this round.

The best way to defend against a three-team attack on the four teams is to move the pieces back to the vicinity of the four teams' initial rooms to protect the players.

However, the pieces cannot enter rooms they have already entered. To return to the vicinity of the initial room, they cannot go back the same way; they can only take a detour or go straight to the room where the three sets of pieces are located for a duel between the pieces.

However, for some reason, the four groups of players did not make this arrangement. In 007's report, Gu Mian learned that the four groups' pieces had moved down one space and had not moved back.

All four groups of pieces have finished their moves, and the intermission has begun.

“The motives of Group Three are so obvious, I think the player in the initial room of Group Four should also understand Group Three’s intentions.” Liu Ruyan pondered the movements of Group Four’s pieces in this round. “If I were the player in Group Four, I would immediately send a piece to the room where Group Three’s pieces are located, and eliminate the opponent before they can eliminate me.”

This was indeed the optimal solution for all four groups of players, but he didn't do it.

There are two possibilities.

“It’s possible that the fourth group’s chess player is a very strong person who is confident that he can defeat the third group’s pieces within a minute,” Liu Ruyan thought. “However, judging from the class selection in this instance, the optimal solution should be to leave the person with the highest IQ in the initial room to be the chess player and arrange the route. During the preparation, the third and fourth groups quickly made class selections. I think they should have decisively left the person with the highest IQ in the room as the chess player.”

"If that's the case, then the players in those four groups are both highly skilled and quick-witted. Such people are rare in the game." Liu Ruyan described the people she had met. "Anyway, among the people I know, those with high intelligence are the bespectacled, frail pretty boys, while those with high combat strength are the big guys who are heavy but only know how to eat."

Gu Mian felt that she seemed to be implying something about Chu Changge and the fat man.

Liu Ruyan continued, "Of course, there may be another reason why Group Four doesn't let its own pieces directly attack Group Three's pieces. That is, the piece that Group Four currently has is powerless, and sending it to attack others is tantamount to sending it to its death."

Gu Mian nodded. Judging from the movement patterns of the four groups of pieces in the previous rounds, it can be seen that the players of the four groups are avoiding letting their pieces meet other players, so there is a high probability that the opponent's pieces are weak.

Speaking of which, the honest ghost he encountered in the previous square of the fourth group is still following the fourth group of pieces. He wondered what the outcome was. He continued to check the message 007 posted in the group.

"Honest ghost... once he catches up, he won't leave?" 007 in the initial room stared intently at the squares where the four sets of pieces were currently located.

This time, the four sets of chess pieces entered an empty room, which is quite rare. This should be the first truly empty room since the start of the dungeon.

Of course, the honest ghost we encountered in the last round also entered this square along with the four sets of pieces.

The four groups of pieces clearly answered the correct number of moves in the previous round, and the empty spaces containing the four groups of pieces display the information that the pieces answered honestly and won the reward.

However, after this message was displayed, the cells that were originally empty changed into honest cells, and the information in the cells became the description of the honest cells.

[In this room dwells an honest ghost who refuses to be deceived. Each chess piece entering the room must answer within one minute how many steps it intends to move in the next round. In the next round, the honest ghost moves alongside the chess piece. If the answer matches the number of steps to move in the next round, the piece receives a reward from the honest ghost; if the answer differs, the piece is killed by the deceived honest ghost.]

007 read the description carefully again, and finally pondered the sentence "In the next round, the Honest Ghost will move with the pieces."

"Is that so?" 007 looked again at the squares where the four groups of pieces were located in the previous round. The squares were originally honest squares, but because the honest ghosts left, the squares changed from honest squares to empty squares.

It seems the honest ghost will follow any piece it encounters until the piece dies. After the honest ghost leaves its original room, the original honest squares will become empty squares due to the ghost's loss.

Group Four had incredibly bad luck. They stepped into a trap right from the start, and their second piece was then stuck with something like the Honest Ghost.

007 knows that the pieces in all four groups are now completely caught in a gambling situation. Every round, he needs to gamble with the honest ghost on how many moves he will make next.

He'll die if he answers wrong even once, so how many times in a row can he answer correctly?

007 thought that the pieces in the fourth group would probably die in the next three rounds, with a one in two chance. The probability of answering correctly for three rounds in a row was already very small.

This time, the four pieces stepped into an empty square. What would happen if it stepped into another square with a ghost or a teleportation-like function room? It entered an empty square this time, but it probably won't be an empty square next time. Then we'll know what happens when the honest ghost enters other squares.

At this time, Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan from the Arithmetic Ghost also learned about the matter between the four sets of chess pieces and the Honest Ghost.

"It's a ghost that can move. If you answer correctly, you get a reward for the number of steps you move in the next round. It's like having a ghost who gives you money every round." Liu Ruyan recalled the attributes of the Honest Ghost.

"You only make money if you bet right, and you die if you bet wrong," Gu Mian corrected her.

Liu Ruyan glanced at the math ghost who was still unconscious on the ground. She saw that the math ghost was secretly peeking at them through a crack in its eyelids, but quickly closed them tightly after Liu Ruyan noticed it.

"The rule in this room is that if you can't calculate the answer, you'll die. Are you dead now?"

not dead.

"Is it because the ghost in this room is kind-hearted that it took pity on us and let us go?" Gu Mian said, looking at the math ghost lying on the ground.

The math whiz pretended to be unconscious without moving, his eyes tightly closed.

Gu Mian calculated her position on the chessboard and the four rooms 605. From her current position, she only needed to move one more step down to reach the first room 605.

Is an evil god inside?
"Did you see that? The two pieces in group one of the arithmetic squares are still moving. How come they're not dead yet?" Passerby A in the initial room of group two was still staring intently at the arithmetic square where Gu Mian was, completely puzzled.

It's been so long past the time limit for answering the questions, and the ghosts inside still haven't killed them? They could at least have killed one of them, but the two inside still look alive and kicking.

Passerby A noticed that the two figures representing chess pieces in the arithmetic squares would occasionally shift their positions.

Even the world's best player was completely baffled. He thought it was incredibly strange that these two pieces were on the field together at the start of the game, then encountered four empty squares in a row, finally finding a square with a "ghost" (or "wild card"), but now the time limit for the ghost had clearly passed, yet both pieces were still unharmed. He really wanted to see what had happened in the arithmetic square, but unfortunately, he couldn't.

"Let's keep the 'Iron Pot Stewed Chicken' away from those two in Group One. I feel like we're getting too close to Group One right now, and running into those two isn't a good thing." The world's best player is extremely wary of those two pieces in Group One.

Actually, their pieces are closer to the fourth group's pieces now, but I, the best player in the world, have seen that the fourth group has been tainted by the Honest Ghost, and I know that the fourth group won't live much longer, so I'm not afraid of them.

As for Group 3, they are far away from Group 3 right now, and it seems that Group 3 has no intention of moving their pieces towards them, so let's ignore Group 3 for now.

"Okay, let me see how to move next round. Sigh, which square is the treasure chest hidden on this chessboard? All four of us have moved so many times and we still haven't seen a trace of it."

"We've only moved a few squares, which is less than a quarter of the way there. But I guess the treasure chest is in the middle. It can't be too close to the four starting rooms so we can get it easily."

Just as the two were talking, the halftime break ended.

The fifth round begins.

This time, 007 rolled a one.

Gu Mian moved down one square as she wished, arriving at the square containing the first room, number 605.

The evil god is not here.

Not only did they fail to see the evil god, but they were also fitted with strange props on their feet.

The moment Gu Mian stepped into the room, she felt her feet sink. Looking down, she saw that a pair of heavy shackles had been put on her without her noticing, and Liu Ruyan next to her was in the same situation.

There are no ghosts in this room; it's a functional cubicle.

“Step by step,” he said, looking at the panel in the room, “you can only move one step forward each time for the next three rounds.”

The three groups had entered this square before, and they never expected to run into it again. They also never expected that they would have to wear shackles to enter this square.

I don't know who designed it, but it's full of wicked humor.

Because the footrest was too heavy, it was difficult for Gu Mian to take big steps. Now she could only move around slowly, which made Liu Ruyan laugh at her.

But she herself wasn't much better off; she moved around like a caterpillar.

Gu Mian also carefully examined the shackles on her feet, trying to find some clues from the evil god, after all, this was one of the four 605 rooms.

But he couldn't find any clues from the shackles; it turned out to be just an ordinary pair of shackles that restricted their movement.

The pieces in group two have already started moving, and 007 is watching their movement paths from the chessboard.

This time, the second group of pieces moves to the right.

He stepped forward into the trap square, but the two sets of pieces did not stop there. Instead, they continued forward to the next square and stopped. It seems that the two players rolled a two this time.

"I didn't land on a trap square. I'm pretty lucky," 007 thought to himself, watching the movement of the two groups of pieces.

But she soon realized that the pieces in the second group were better off staying in the trap squares.

She saw an introduction appear on the square where the second set of pieces were now located; it was a square that had never appeared before, a square that left people speechless.

[Shared Death Principle]

Wow, you've found the most dangerous square on the chessboard!

[Those who cannot be born on the same day, month, and year may die on the same day, month, and year! There is a vengeful ghost in the room that curses everyone who stays in this square; the cursed person and their entire group will die together.]

“What…” 007 looked with difficulty at the introduction of the Co-Death Grid.

There are even grids like this; if a piece gets stuck in one of them, the entire team dies.

While 007 was still in shock, the piece in the shared death square had been crossed out and its color had darkened.

This means death.

Looking at the second initial room in the lower left corner, we see that the two little figures in the second initial room have also died.

The change happened so fast that 007 couldn't react in time.

The three groups of players in the lower right corner were clearly also caught off guard. The second group of players had already made their moves, and it was now the turn of the third group. However, the third group remained silent, clearly shocked by the newly formed shared death square.

It wasn't until almost a minute had passed that 007 saw the three sets of pieces make a move.

The three sets of pieces moved up one space again, and this time it was a coin space.

Oh no! Is Gugu going to collapse?! No way!