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Chapter 892 Life is tough, Lanlan sighs

It's still an empty room.

After Liu Ruyan opened the door, she showed Gu Mian behind her what was behind the door.

There was nothing behind the door. 007 said in the group that he had rolled a 1, so Liu Ruyan only needed to take one step.

Gu Mian looked at the empty room behind the door. Three rooms in a row were empty. It was probably true, just as Liu Ruyan had said, that the dungeon had issued an order for Ghost to help 007 kill someone, so Ghost ran away.

This time, the instance didn't pause maintenance again to bring all the ghosts back to work. Did they feel it was unnecessary? Or were they simply unable to pause the instance again?

"Is it still an empty room?" Hao Laoshi peeked out and watched Liu Ruyan step into the room.

Although he had just listened to Gu Mian and the other person's long-winded explanation, he still didn't understand why Gu Mian had stopped here this time. He could only marvel at how Gu Mian now dared to directly violate the dungeon rules, as if the game version was more advanced than when they last met.

After leaving the room, Liu Ruyan thoughtfully closed the door, while the one-minute countdown above the door frame continued.

This is Gu Mian's countdown. After the player makes a choice, the pieces must move according to the player's choice within one minute.

"Is it really okay to stop here?" Hao Laoshi stared nervously at the countdown timer above the door frame; the number had already dropped to "thirty."

"There might be a problem."

"Huh?" Gu Mian's answer surprised Hao Laoshi.

"When the countdown ends, my head might suddenly explode and splatter blood all over your face."

Upon hearing this, Hao Laoshi subconsciously took two steps back and swallowed hard: "You're joking, right...?"

Meanwhile, the players in the other groups also noticed something unusual about Gu Mian's situation.

"Still empty pieces. Now Group A has encountered three empty pieces in a row, just like at the beginning." Gui Gu watched Group A's every move in front of the chessboard. Encountering several empty pieces in a row might be surprising to others, but it was quite common for Gu Mian.

After Group One finishes their task, it should be Group Two's turn...

The piece from Group Two entered Group One's initial room a few rounds ago. It seemed that the player from Group Two wanted the piece to kill the player from Group One, but what Guigu found strange was that the player from Group Two hesitated for a long time before letting the piece enter the first initial room, which gave the player from Group One in the room ample time to prepare.

However, based on the subsequent situation, Guigu realized that the real goal of the second group of players was probably not to kill the first group of players with their pieces, but to use the first group of players to kill their own pieces, thereby reaching the only square that the second group of players could not reach.

"The treasure chest is in the left-hand square of room number three," Guigu muttered to himself. After realizing which square the treasure chest was in, some ideas arose in his mind.

At that time, Hao Laoshi was not far from the treasure chest, and the group seemed to have no intention of going to get the treasure chest but instead went in the opposite direction.

He could have easily sent Hao Laoshi directly towards the treasure chest area. The rewards from the treasure chest area in this special instance would definitely be plentiful, and the dozens of people outside were still short of food and resources.

Guigu knew that Gu Mian was a regular on the compensation list, and that this amount of resources meant nothing to them.

However, if Hao Laoshi is to go and get the treasure chest, he will have to pass through two unknown squares, and it is unknown what dangers may be involved.

Guigu hesitated for a few seconds between Hao Laoshi's safety and resources, but ultimately chose Hao Laoshi's safety.

Guigu knew he wasn't very smart, but he also understood that human life was always more important, especially since Hao Laoshi had family waiting for him outside.

He used to believe that intelligence was innate, and that some people who weren't intelligent could never develop a quick-witted mind no matter how hard they tried. When everyone was still alive, he always liked to follow others, and when faced with something that required thinking or using his brain, he would look to Hanshan for help.

Later, fewer and fewer people remained around, and Hanshan died.

In the end, all the familiar faces were gone, leaving him all alone. He had broken down and despaired in the darkness, but when dawn broke, he still had to wipe away his tears and go into the dungeon.

He knew that there were still dozens of ordinary people outside who had gathered together, and these people needed someone to lead them.

In subsequent dungeons, he had no one to rely on and could only desperately rack his brains, forcing himself to think of a way out of the dungeon.

As he went through each copy, he found that his thinking had become more flexible and he was smarter than before.

It was then that he realized that people can become smarter through training.

As Guigu looked at the chessboard screen in front of him and recalled the past, he suddenly felt that the group's movements were not quite right.

"How much time has passed? Why is there still one piece in the same group still sitting in its original square?" He frowned, looking at the group of pieces that were still on the same square as Hao Laoshi. "The countdown has already ended, hasn't it?"

At this moment, Anzhi Tinglan in room number three also stared at the cubicle where Gu Mian was with a puzzled look.

In this round, only one of the two pieces in a group moved forward, while the other remained in place.

"What's this group of chess pieces doing now? Have they had their fill of comfort and want to commit suicide?" An Zhitinglan was already used to the various behaviors of this group of chess pieces so far, but doing something that was clearly against the rules still puzzled her.

Looking at the set of chess pieces that remained stationary in the square, she felt as if she had vaguely grasped something, but then the thought in her mind dissipated like ripples on a lake.

Just as Anzhi Tinglan was wondering, the pieces in the second group moved.

The piece in group two is still alive, which is quite remarkable. But judging from its movement speed, it's not far from being eliminated. However, this piece in group two is quite clever; knowing that it moves slowly, it climbs to the middle of the room in advance to avoid not being able to reach the door within a minute when it's its turn to move next round.

The pieces in the second group are moving very slowly now. It seems that the player in the second group has given up and has no interest in planning the path for the pieces, so he keeps letting the pieces move to the right.

However, since the second set of pieces has moved, it means that the player in the second set has already made a choice. Obviously, the countdown for the first set of pieces has passed before the second set of pieces can make a choice.

Anzhi Tinglan looked again at the square where the group of pieces hadn't moved: "Not dead?"

No death messages came from the squares; the group of pieces that hadn't moved was still safe and sound with the other four groups of pieces.

Looking at this group of chess pieces that blatantly violated the rules but could never be killed, An Zhitinglan almost sneered.

Who exactly are these chess pieces? They've been different from everyone else from the very beginning.

First, it entered so many empty cells in a row, then failed to do arithmetic in the arithmetic cell but was unharmed, and now it is directly violating the dungeon rules and intends to stay in one cell for a long time.

Anzhi Tinglan almost suspected that the other party was an insider from the instance, who came in specifically to humiliate and ridicule ordinary players like them.

However, not everything goes according to the wishes of Group A. At least Group A is the group furthest from the treasure chest in the entire game, separated from the treasure chest by a whole diagonal distance.

“However…” An Zhiting frowned as she thought of this.

The player in that group was clearly no ordinary person; he had definitely figured out the location of the treasure chest, but why did he move the pieces in the opposite direction?
Damn it, no laziness allowed!