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Chapter 884 Resurrection Match!
Since I can't distinguish east from west, north from south, I'll have to use front, back, left, and right as substitutes. The room in front seems safer, and the room in front of that seems relatively safe too.

Oh no, this time I'm out of luck and can't see any further.

This is the content written by the pen-shaped real-time repeater when Guigu first used it.

The "safe room in front" mentioned above is the room Hao Laoshi entered after he came on stage.

Before Hao Laoshi took the field, he used a pen-shaped real-time repeater to determine which of the surrounding squares was safer.

The second time Hao Laoshi used the repeater was after he entered the Honesty Class.

Hao Laoshi entered the Honesty Grid in the third round. In this round, the two pieces of the group were very close to Hao Laoshi's room. At that time, the pieces of the group had already passed through four empty rooms. At the beginning of this round, Guigu rolled a number of two. In fact, if he had let Hao Laoshi move two steps in a straight line, he could have entered the empty room where the two pieces of the group were.

But he dared not do so. Having experienced so much, he had come to a profound understanding that some people in this world are more terrifying than ghosts.

Moreover, the two chess pieces in the group passed through four empty rooms in a row, and Guigu subconsciously felt that these two people were not to be underestimated.

So he told Hao Laoshi to turn a corner and go downhill, and unfortunately he ended up in the Honesty Grid. In order to find out the number of steps Hao Laoshi had reported to the ghost, he used the pen-shaped real-time repeater for the second time.

The third round ended just as the instance was undergoing maintenance, so the pen-shaped real-time repeater also recorded the maintenance.

[The ghost says: How many steps will you advance in the next round?]

The honest man hesitated for a moment before saying: One step.

[Hmm? All the ghosts in the surrounding rooms have run away. Let me see what's going on. Ah! An announcement has appeared. It's a maintenance announcement. These days, dungeons are really unreliable. I've already encountered dungeon maintenance twice.]

[Signal jamming, location services interrupted]

The pretty woman said: What's going on here? She then said: Can you still open the group chat? I can't even seem to open my own game panel. She also said: What's your opinion of the other three groups?

[XX said: Group Two has low intelligence, Group Three has lost its luck, and Group Four is barely surviving.]

[The little chicken stewed in an iron pot scratched its own butt in the room.]

The above is the content written by the pen-shaped real-time repeater during the second use.

There was a lot of information. From this record, Guigu learned the number of steps Hao Laoshi chose, and that he could use the bonus he drew before the start of the game to specify that he would only take one step in the next round.

Aside from Hao Laoshi's choice and maintenance announcement, and that ambiguous location interruption, it seems that the second use of the pen-shaped real-time repeater recorded the conversations and actions of other group members.

This time, the pen-shaped repeater recorded three players: a beautiful woman, an unknown XX, and a chicken stewed in an iron pot.

Of the three players, only "Iron Pot Stewed Chicken" seems to be a legitimate player name; the other two use pseudonyms.

In this passage, Guiguzi is concerned with the "group chat" mentioned by the beautiful woman.

He could see on the chessboard that two pieces in a group moved together. And in this record, the beautiful woman and XX clearly had a conversation, so Guigu could basically conclude that the beautiful woman and XX were two pieces in a group.

It seems that the group has something called "group chat," which may allow them to communicate with the players in their group.

This made Guigu even more convinced that the group was well-organized and difficult to approach, so he continued to let Hao Laoshi move down in the next round.

After the fourth round, Hao Laoshi entered an empty space. Guigu was initially happy, but then he discovered that the Honest Ghost would follow the player until the player died.

So even if a piece enters an empty space in this round, the piece still has to gamble with the honest player on how many moves it will make in the next round.

Aside from using the pen-shaped real-time repeater again, Guigu had no other way to know the number of steps Hao Laoshi had reported.

This is the third time you've used me. After this, I'll need to rest for a week.

[Hao Laoshi says: One step]

"What plus what equals two?" "I don't know."

The ghost showed a pained expression: "One... plus one... equals two."

"Where is 'one'?" "I don't know."

The ghost fainted.

[Passerby A: They're cheating! They're cheating!]

Xu Xingcheng is currently confirming the coordinates.

[Iron Pot Stewed Chicken (Soliloquy): The next round is the fifth round, time to activate the shared death card...]

[I can't take it anymore, I have to rant! I really want to see who that idiot is who doesn't even know that sums of numbers equal two. How can there be two idiots in one room who don't even know that sums of numbers equal two? Let me see for myself!]

Haha, I saw it! Uh—

It's that person, the doctor who saw me naked before! I need to stay away from him, it's so scary!

The pen-shaped real-time repeater stopped recording abruptly here, and the last chance was used up.

Even though the pen-shaped real-time repeater didn't write down "that person's" name, Guigu knew who he was. This special item used to be Hanshan's special item. When Hanshan used it near "that person," the pen-shaped real-time repeater would use this tone to tell "that person" to stay away from him.

It would call "that person" a terrible doctor and say that "that person" saw itself naked.

“Gu Mian…” Gui Gu looked at the contents of the notebook and slowly uttered a name.

It's been such a long time. He hadn't seen Gu Mian since they parted ways on the train dungeon last time.

During this time, many people came and went in his life. He would also see in the game announcements from time to time that another dungeon had crashed. He knew that those were probably all Gu Mian's doing.

As long as the game continues to announce instance crashes, he knows that Gu Mian is still alive and well, and seems to be thriving.

The world is so big, even if both of them were still alive, he couldn't expect to meet his old friend again.

Unexpectedly, he actually encountered it today. If the piece in the group is Gu Mian, then the dense empty spaces and the "ghost fainting" that only happens in fairy tales would not seem strange.

If it's Gu Mian, having Hao Laoshi follow him would be a good choice.

There are two other pieces of information in this record.

[Xu Xingcheng is determining coordinates] seems to be related to the [signal jamming, positioning interruption] that occurred the last time he used the pen-shaped real-time repeater.

However, he didn't know who Xu Xingcheng was; he thought he might be a player from Group Two or Group Three.

Another one is a monologue about stewing chicken in an iron pot.

[Iron Pot Stewed Chicken (Soliloquy): The next round is the fifth round, time to activate the shared death card...]

At that time, the fifth round had not yet started, and Guigu did not understand what the "iron pot stewed chicken" meant.

It wasn't until the fifth round began, and the second group entered the shared death grid after their actions, that he realized that this "iron pot stewed chicken" seemed to have known all along that one group would enter the shared death grid in the fifth round.

In the fifth round, he saw on the board that the two groups had entered a shared death square, so he guessed that the "iron pot stewed chicken" was a player from the third group.

But he wasn't entirely sure; he had a feeling that there was something fishy going on with this stewed chicken in an iron pot.

Now that the seventh round has ended, after realizing that Gu Mian was the piece in his group, he has been having Hao Laoshi follow Gu Mian in recent rounds.

But you can't just follow along like this forever. After the eighth round, the effect of the two groups' small squares will disappear, and he and the player in the same group can't keep rolling the same number of moves.

Guigu rubbed his left forehead, feeling a headache coming on: "Where exactly is the treasure chest...?"

He has burn scars on the left side of his forehead and around his left eye, and his left eye is also somewhat blurry due to the burns.

Guigu squinted his left eye, carefully studying the squares on the chessboard: "The bonus you draw for a specific number of moves can only be used once. After using the last bonus, the number of moves you roll will be random. I hope we can find the treasure chest as soon as possible."

Just as he was squinting at the chessboard, two pieces in one group on the screen began to move again.

They saw Gu Mian and the beautiful woman take a step forward and enter the lower cubicle.

"This is the second room 605. I wonder if the evil god is in here." Gu Mian said as she pushed open the door and walked towards it.

Upon entering, he saw familiar elements in the room.

Honesty

[Next time, will you take one step or two steps?]

Having already read the rules of honesty, Gu Mian didn't waste any more time reading the rest.

Another honest character. Speaking of which, he also has an honest ghost following him around. Although this honest ghost has never uttered a sound since it started following him, it has never politely asked, "Would you like to take one step or two steps next time?"

The honest ghost in the new room extended an invitation to Gu Mian to be honest.

Perhaps it hadn't seen Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan's faces clearly yet because they had just come in.

"May I ask who you will be next time..." The new honest ghost swaggered closer to Gu Mian, wanting an honest answer, but as soon as it got close, it noticed that there was another honest ghost following behind the newcomer, its colleague.

However, this colleague curled up into a small ball, seemingly very scared.

The new honest ghost finally realized something, and it stiffly turned to look at the person next to it.

After seeing the face of the person next to it, it didn't say anything, and like its colleague, it shrank into a small ball. The two ghosts leaned against each other like twins.

“There’s no sign of the evil god in this room either,” Liu Ruyan pondered. “I think you’re right. If the evil god wanted to find you, he would take the initiative to find you, rather than passively hiding in a room and waiting for you to come to him.”

Just as Liu Ruyan was speaking, 007 sent a message in the group chat.

[007: Team Two is back!]

Damn it, we're seventeen minutes late! Let's just pretend nothing happened!