Chapter 912: Chapter 872: Not a Pigeon, Just Not Updating_2
"It’s a Dungeon Entry Ticket." Fatty looked at the chessboard supported by two big leaves.
Since the chessboard had already fulfilled its function, it was gradually becoming transparent and, within a few seconds, disappeared from the sight of everyone.
"The doctor has been pulled into a special instance again," Fatty thought about the item description he had just seen, "The introduction stated that when the number of chessboards reaches four, the special instance will open."
They only had one here.
"This thing was grown from the seeds given out at the Fierce Ghost Exhibition, and quite a few players had entered the exhibition instance before. There should be three other players besides Gu Mian who grew the chessboard using the seeds. Now, the four groups of players holding the chessboards have entered the instance together." Chu Changge had come over behind Fatty, also having seen the introduction before the chessboard fully disappeared.
Fatty thought Gu Mian had been somewhat busy lately: "But the doctor just returned from Paradise World yesterday."
"But I just left Paradise World yesterday!" Meanwhile, Gu Mian, who had entered the instance, echoed the same sentiment.
He, 007, and Liu Ruyan were currently in a closed room with walls on all sides, with a huge game panel in front of them introducing the instance.
[Chessboard Game]
[Introduction: A chessboard comprised of sixty-four rooms, each room holds surprises or shocks waiting for you, enjoy to the fullest]
[Number of Participants: 12 players (four groups)]
[Task: Players divide themselves into Chess Players or Chess Pieces, one player per group acts as Chess Player giving orders in the initial room, the remaining two as Chess Pieces who explore other rooms, with the first group to find the hidden treasure chest on the chessboard claiming victory]
looked at an electronic chessboard in the center of the room.
The electronic chessboard was waist-high, screen facing upwards, vibrant-colored screen was comprised of sixty-four square grids forming a square, horizontally eight rows and vertically eight columns.
Each of the four sharp corners of the chessboard had a number.
The number in the top left corner grid was "1," with small letters below—"This is your initial room"
In their "initial room," there were also three small human symbols.
attempted to move slightly, discovering that the small human symbols in the grid moved slightly with her.
From the top left corner, moving counterclockwise downwards, the three subsequent corners were numbered 2, 3, 4, each numbered corner grid also with three small human symbols, suggesting the four corner grids represented the initial rooms of the four groups of players.
She saw that the small human symbols in the other three numbered grids were also moving, seemingly familiarizing themselves with the environment here.
Gu Mian also saw the chessboard in the center of the room: "Do you remember the Fierce Ghost Match Three instance, it also had sixty-four rooms, with a display screen similar to this."
However, the Fierce Ghost Match Three instance took place in a building, it was vertical.
While the current instance occurred on a chessboard, it was horizontal.
Though horizontal and vertical differed, Gu Mian still suspected the programmers who designed these two instances made similar maps probably out of laziness.
Gu Mian encountered the rehydrated Evil God on that map too.
Speaking of which, Gu Mian remembered the room where the Evil God was located back then was "605"
The Fortune-teller had prophesied outside for Gu Mian, saying he would reunite with the Evil God in this instance.
Gu Mian considered the room number "605."
"I also feel that this instance map is somewhat similar to the Match Three instance," 007 nodded, "The Fortune-teller said she predicted you would encounter the Evil God in this instance, do you think he’s in 605 again this time?"
There was that possibility, but it wasn’t entirely certain.
Moreover, this time the map didn’t label each chessboard room with a room number, only the four numbered corner rooms were numbered.
It’s possible to use vertical columns and horizontal rows to determine the location of the nonexistent "Room 605," but the chessboard has four edges, making it hard to determine which edge is "Floor One." If each edge is assumed to be Floor One in turn, there would be four "Room 605s."
Also, the Evil God might not be in Room 605, Gu Mian remembered he often disguised as a player, running around in instances.
Thinking about it, Gu Mian glanced at the electronic chessboard in front of him, some people from the other three corner rooms were gathered discussing something, while others explored the room, could the Evil God be among them?
Just like the Match Three instance, unexplored rooms were hidden, and their conditions couldn’t be known from the chessboard, nor could one anticipate the "surprises" or "scares" quoted in the introduction, requiring personal exploration.
"This is..." This was 007 noticing an electronic dice on the left side of the screen, but it differed from standard dice, only having one and two dots.
"It’s the Chess Player’s tool," Liu Ruyan observed the game panel, "Below are the rules for this chessboard game."
[Chess Player Rules: Chess Players cannot leave the initial room; each round they’ll roll the dice, with the rolled number determining the steps for Chess Pieces, each room counts as one step; each round begins with Chess Player in Initial Room No. 1 rolling first, after executing chess piece’s moves, the next Chess Player rolls, rolling order follows initial room number; Chess Player decides advancement direction, having five hundred seconds per turn to think; Chess Player cannot allow chess pieces to enter previously entered rooms; at one time, each Chess Player may only have one chess piece outside the initial room on the chessboard, when the first chess piece is defeated the second may begin movement (unless specified otherwise)]
Glossing over this exhaustive list, Gu Mian felt he was reading some convoluted rule tale, unable to leave the room nor enter previously entered rooms.
Thankfully, the Chess Pieces rules were extremely simple and could be read in one glance.
[Chess Piece Rules: You are merely a useless chess piece, with no rules to abide by, just remember not to linger in any room for more than ten minutes]
Gu Mian suspected the ten-minute rule was designed by programmers to accelerate game progression, preventing Chess Pieces from halting in fear and staying excessively long in a room.
"Such lengthy Chess Player rules." 007 scrutinized the long list, frowning.
"Simply summarized, Chu Changge should be the Chess Player, the Fortune-teller works too." Gu Mian summarized.
Chu Changge had a good patience, might even summarize and analyze all those rules, and then infer the location of the task "treasure chest."
If the Fortune-teller were the Chess Player, it’d be simpler, picking directions by directly predicting, she’d be invincible in this instance.
Unfortunately, neither of them was present.
After reading through the "Chess Player Rules" and "Chess Piece" rules, new content popped up on the game panel.
[Supplement: All displacement-type, teleportation-type special items are disabled in this instance]
[Before the game starts, players may draw one random booster]
[The game begins in five minutes, please players confirm identities quickly]
Finally, the exhaustive introductions concluded.
Simultaneously, Gu Mian observed a five-minute countdown appearing at the top of the display, upon ending, the chessboard game would officially begin.
Beside the countdown was a "Draw Booster" button.
"This booster is like a newbie gift pack when starting a game," Liu Ruyan spoke, "It can slightly lower the difficulty of a tough game."
But the button was too simplistic, stimulating Gu Mian’s mind into recalling "Slash 99999" game pages.
This button definitely shouldn’t be pressed by Gu Mian, if he pressed it who knows if he’d draw a bomb booster, instantly detonating the room with all three of them inside.
Time pressing, they decided 007 would press.
had good luck, drawing the booster [Enemies Never Meet]
