Who gave you permission to travel through time with Earth?

For example, the second characteristic of chess pieces is "inspiration".

"Two of the sixteen chess squares can be swapped with pre-marked rooms outside. The timing is currently uncertain, but such a powerful ability must have limitations."

"According to the normal line of thinking... they should exchange with the forward base, lay traps, gunpowder, and even guns in advance, and catch the enemy off guard the moment the soju appears."

"Even without this museum, I would still choose this tactic as my main strategy, but now the scope of operation is much larger. The rules of some rooms can be manipulated to the point of killing the players."

"And if it were me... I might choose a different approach."

On the second floor of the museum, Fang Jin tapped his temples in thought, a smile unconsciously creeping onto his lips. He found this intense exchange quite interesting.

Behind Fang Jin, one of his three followers had died, and the other's hand had been severed at the root. He gritted his teeth and squeezed the severed flesh together to forcibly stop the bleeding.

Each exhibition hall has a different theme. Although they are all essentially various kinds of puzzle rooms, the level of the theme determines the difficulty and bias of the levels, which is something that cannot be predicted by humans.

The theme Fang Jin and her group entered was "fish." The moment they stepped into the room, they were faced with a whirlpool where piranhas were kept. A man with a restless pace couldn't stop his car and fell into the pool, where he was eaten to death.

The piranha pool slowly closed, but the entire room was a pool of different kinds of killers, which suddenly opened up on the floor according to different time patterns, swallowing passersby whole.

"Actually, the solution isn't that difficult. Just spend ten minutes watching two rounds and figure out the pattern of the pool openings. All you need to clear this room is time."

"But the vortex pool that opens the door to kill is a challenge. Their reaction time alone is enough to eliminate most people. There are also flying fish and mudskippers. They can even leap onto the floor to kill people. Once they are injured, it will be very troublesome."

"That's how Brother Da Shi was injured; his wrist was severed at the root by the flying fish's wing."

"...I see, no wonder you spent so much time."

Jiang Yu leaned against the armrest, looking at Fang Jin with sympathy. Fang Jin's brows trembled slightly. He really hadn't expected that Jiang Yu would pass through the exhibition hall even earlier than him... and that no one was injured or killed?

"...Is the theme you guys encountered BabyBus?"

Fang Jin couldn't help but swear. He had actually tried his best to retain these followers for the sake of the upcoming challenges that might require a large number of new members, and the actual results were quite satisfactory.

However, compared to Jiang Yu's speed and survival rate, this was far inferior, and the Weaver's combat strength was not particularly outstanding, which naturally made Fang Jin curious about the exhibition theme that Jiang Yu encountered.

Or was she let off the hook by the headquarters? Does the headquarters still recognize her as a scavenger? Then, can Fang Jin... really be considered to have completely betrayed Chen Yuanqing?

"I don't know."

"I don't understand... What do you mean? You've lost your memories of what happened in the exhibition hall?"

"No, no, I'm pretty sure I haven't lost my memory. My impression of the whole thing is uninterrupted, but we don't know how we got through the first exhibition hall."

Jiang Yu said somewhat uncertainly, recalling what she encountered after pushing open the door. Confusion flashed in her eyes, as did her followers, who were also confused most of the night.

"All I saw was a hazy mist, which smelled sweet and cloying. The ground seemed to be black. After the door closed, I was lost in that space."

"At first I thought it was a maze theme, but there were no traps along the way. After everyone groped around for a while, someone in the group grabbed something, and after pulling it open, we appeared on the second floor."

"A sweet fragrance mingled with the mist? What kind of sweet fragrance? Is there anything comparable?"

Fang Jin asked, "This is really illogical. How could a dungeon possibly approve of such a hasty way of clearing it?" Jiang Yu frowned and pondered, but after a long while, he couldn't find a good example, so he had to honestly say:

"It was a sickeningly sweet smell that doesn't exist in any food or flower. I've only smelled it in two places, and I wouldn't even remember it if it weren't so pungent."

"Deep in the debris field, near that corpse... and on Chen Yuanqing's body."

"..."

...The smell of a dying star? The smell of a falling object? The falling object has a perceptible smell?

But why would it appear in humans?

Fang Jin had a rough idea of ​​what was going on, since the system had given a hint from the beginning that this was an incomplete copy of an incomplete world, and that problems were the norm; it would be abnormal if it were flawless.

This mechanical house is not complete either. The three-story building does not retain all its original size. Some rooms, including facilities and themes, have been destroyed in the collapse, so there is naturally no exhibition hall.

Jiang Yu and his group were probably lucky; they picked a room without a theme. The museum's rules allowed for mistakes, so they were sent directly to the second floor of the mechanical room.

"...Are fools sometimes lucky?"

"What did you say?!"

Although this still cannot clear Jiang Yu of suspicion, since Tianxiang's statement came entirely from her, and she could make up whatever she wanted, at least there was an explanation.

Fang Jin only kept this possibility in mind, then stopped caring about it and quietly waited for the other players from the liquor club to gather. So far, only nine players had gathered and chatted on the second floor.

After all, apart from Jiang Yu who used cheats, he was still among the first to arrive. Most of the remaining players had not yet left the exhibition hall, so Fang Jin and the others could not directly attempt the second level.

……

Ten minutes later, several people emerged from the other six rooms one after another. Most of them were injured, some even seriously injured to the point of near-disability, which gave a glimpse into their experiences in the exhibition hall.

As for the others who were with them, they are all dead. Those who survived until now are either lucky, or they climbed out by using other people's corpses to make a ladder... or both.

"Poor people...they are all pitiful people who deserve to die."

Fang Jin sighed, but the situation was actually better than he had expected. All eight rooms that had been opened had people walking out, and two of the exhibition halls even had more than one person.

Although the traps set in the trap room are extremely dangerous, they are by no means without leaving players with the slightest chance of survival. This is an ironclad rule that the system must adhere to no matter what when setting up the dungeon.

...except for the last one.

"The iron shield... he couldn't get out?"

"Were they completely wiped out?"