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Chapter 885 Oops
Gu Mian had a premonition that Group Two would be resurrected, so he wasn't surprised when 007 sent him this message.

Liu Ruyan had also felt that something was wrong with Group Two for a long time: "I thought their whole group was dead, but when it was their turn, the countdown didn't skip. But when all the pieces in Group Three were dead, the countdown skipped directly."

"Perhaps it's related to the bonuses drawn by the second group. I wonder if the dungeon will explain this to the players in the other groups."

"Let's wait and see what message 007 will send. She hasn't made a move since notifying us that Group Two has been revived." Liu Ruyan leaned against the wall and waited.

Inside the initial room, 007 is watching a large amount of new content appear on the screen.

After the second group revived, these new elements appeared on the chessboard.

[The second group triggers the 'Desperate Measures' bonus for all members]

【Desperate Measures: When the group draws this bonus, the square where the piece is located will become a non-existent "Shared Death" square on the field during the fifth round of the game. The entire group will then enter a three-round "Feign Death" state, unable to act during these three rounds. After the "Feign Death" state ends, the entire group will revive. Upon revival, the player who initiated the move can see the location of treasure chests on the field. Pieces in "Shared Death" squares will be teleported to random rooms. Afterward, each round, the piece can only move one space in the direction chosen by the player who initiated the move, but each square it enters will become an empty square (except for the initial room and treasure chest room). After a piece leaves a square, that square will become a "Shared Death" square.】

Each time you enter a square, it becomes a safe empty square, and after you leave, the empty square becomes a shared death square. This is practically an invincible buff that benefits everyone else at the expense of others, even more invincible than Gu Mian, and it can even see the location of treasure chest squares.

Fortunately, this buff has a time limit.

This effect lasts for nine rounds. If the dungeon is not finished after nine rounds, all members of that group will die.

Nine rounds, with only one step allowed per round. This means that Group Two must get the treasure chest within nine steps, or the entire group will die. This time, it's a real death.

Nine moves can actually cover most of the chessboard, but if the pieces in the second group are reborn in a remote corner, and the treasure chest is in the opposite corner, then it's hard to say.

007 stared at the screen, wanting to see where the pieces in Group Two would respawn.

She watched as the little figure representing the second set of pieces disappeared into the shared death square and then reappeared in another square.

007 looked at the current positions of the second set of pieces. They were very close to him, in the third square below the initial room of the first set. No one had entered this room before, but after the second set of pieces respawned inside, the room's information quickly changed to [empty square].

She quickly calculated which rooms she could reach in nine steps from this location.

The chessboard is 8x8. The two pieces can move almost all the squares on the board within nine moves from their current position, except for two squares that they cannot move to: the two squares above and to the left of the starting room number three.

In the first round, all three groups move upwards, so the information about the squares immediately above the initial rooms of the three groups is already displayed on the chessboard. These are the "good" squares, and the treasure chests are not in these squares.

Excluding the square where there is no treasure chest, the only square that cannot be traversed in the second group is the one on the left side of the initial room in the third group.

007 thought the dungeon wouldn't be so cruel as to put the treasure chest in the only inaccessible slot in the second group.

The pieces in group two have been revived for almost a minute now, but they haven't made a move yet.

"Is the player hesitating?" 007 frowned. "Aside from the squares on the left side of the three initial rooms, the second group can go anywhere. Why are they still hesitating?"

Just as she was pondering, the pieces from the second group finally moved, and she saw them move one square toward her.

The room where the chess piece was just now immediately changed from an empty space to a shared death space, while the room he is now in has become a new empty space.

The pieces in group two are now only one square away from the initial room where 007 is located.

"The second piece is very close to us after it respawns. We can meet it by moving two steps to the left and then one step up." Gu Mian looked at the message sent by 007 in the group.

007 has just sent everything he saw on the screen to the group and informed them of the second group's movements.

"I didn't expect there to be such a bonus." Liu Ruyan pondered the bonus that Group Two had drawn. "After being reborn, they have to finish the dungeon within nine rounds, or the whole group will die. It's the eighth round now, and Group Two has already acted in this round, so they have eight more rounds to act, which means they have to get the treasure chest before the sixteenth round ends." "The player in Group Two can already see the location of the treasure chest slots. Maybe they can get the treasure chest before the sixteenth round ends. We don't have much time left." As she spoke, Liu Ruyan looked towards the room where Group Two's pieces were located. Of course, there were still many walls between them, so Liu Ruyan couldn't see Group Two's pieces.

Gu Mian thought about the general information of the chessboard: "The square where the second set of pieces revived can be used to traverse almost all the rooms on the board in nine moves, except for the two adjacent rooms of the third set of initial pieces."

These 007s had already been mentioned in the group chat, but Gu Mian still mentally rehearsed it.

"The square above the third set of rooms is the 'tiring square,' meaning only the room on the left hasn't been revealed yet." Liu Ruyan pondered the movement path of the second set of pieces. "This round, it moved upwards, getting closer to our starting room. Could the treasure chest be near our starting room?"

Liu Ruyan thought it wasn't impossible. Before the official operation began, she thought that after the instance learned that Gu Mian had arrived, it might block the door with treasure chests, so that Gu Mian could leave the instance as soon as she opened the door at the start.

In the first round, they moved to the right, and there was no treasure chest in the room on the right. Now, judging from the movement direction of the second group of pieces, the treasure chest might be in the square below their initial room.
Seemingly sensing Liu Ruyan's thoughts, Gu Mian said, "After the second piece was reborn, the players in their group hesitated for too long."

If the treasure chest is in the square immediately below the first set of rooms, then based on the respawn positions of the two sets of pieces, you can reach it by simply moving up two squares, without needing to plan a route at all.

However, the players in the second group almost used up their entire minute, seemingly hesitating about something.

"Now the third group is also dumbfounded. In order to prevent their own pieces from entering the shared death square and harming themselves, they deliberately killed two of their own pieces. But in fact, the shared death square is a new one, and it will be displayed on the board." Liu Ruyan said.

Besides the shared death square triggered in the fifth round of Group Two, all the rooms that Group Two moves through afterward will also become shared death squares, and these will all be displayed on the chessboard.

Just as the two were talking, a door appeared on the wall next to them, and Hao Laoshi came in.

Hao Laoshi has no access to group chats and cannot communicate with the outside world, so he is unaware of what has happened.

What he's worried about now is the bonus from the first move: "After this round, the bonus from the first move will be gone. I'm afraid that in the next round, the points we draw will be different, and then we'll be separated."

Gu Ming thought about the locations of the other two 605 rooms. If he hadn't miscalculated, he would need to move three squares to the right and then one square down to reach the third 605 room.

The pieces in the second group of three squares in the right room have now crossed the water. One step to the right is a "good tired square" where you stop for one turn. Two steps to the right is a "trap square" where the specific trap is unclear. Three steps to the right is a "mutual death square" created by the second group.

Hao Laoshi said that the bonus their group received was three times within a specified number of steps, and Gu Mian didn't know how many times Gui Gu had used it.

In the two rounds that Chengshi followed Hao Laoshi, Guigu must have used a buff. I don't know if he used it the third time. If there is another chance, Hao Laoshi can still be in the same square as him in the next round.

Finding the evil god within the next eight rounds is no easy task, and Gu Mian began to reflect on whether searching one chessboard at a time like herself was too inefficient.

But if Gu Mian didn't do that, she wouldn't be able to drive an excavator over and tear down all the walls here.

Unfortunately, he couldn't communicate with Guigu. Guigu's "pen-shaped repeater" might be able to record the location of the evil god.

Just as Gu Mian was pondering the possible location of the evil god, a door appeared in front of her.

The ninth round has begun.

Gu Mian pushed open the door and walked into the next room. This was a jackpot, but this time 007 rolled a two, so he and Liu Ruyan did not stay in this room, but instead passed through the jackpot and entered the next room.

The trap square that has already killed two pieces has arrived.

After the two entered the room, the information about the trap grid appeared in front of them.

Nothing happened!