Chapter 917: Chapter 875: Your Employee Has Run Off With a Train Overnight
There is danger in the two separate grids only when two or more pieces enter the same room.
The pieces of Group Two are moving individually, so for them, the two separate grids are no different from empty spaces.
However, if Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan enter this square...
Well, it still wouldn’t be dangerous.
refocused his thoughts and continued observing the movements of other groups on the board.
After Group Two moved into the two separate grids, Group Three began to act, but since their pieces landed on a tired square last round, they had to skip this turn.
The square where Group Three’s pieces were displayed the words "Turn Skipped."
Group Four quickly began to act. In the last round, the first piece of Group Four unfortunately stepped into a trap square at its first move and died, so this round, they dispatched the remaining piece.
Moving down was a trap square, so the chess player of Group Four wasn’t foolish enough to let their last piece repeat the mistake. This time, the piece moved one square to the left.
The new square entered by Group Four’s piece was also a two separate grids; if multiple enter, only one would survive.
looked at the positions of Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan, then at the position of Group Four’s piece; they were already very close, with only two squares in between.
If they continue to advance like this, they would encounter each other in the next round.
All pieces from Group Four had acted, and now it was another minute break.
described the specific situation of this round in the group chat with Gu Mian and asked for their opinions.
[007]: Do you want to meet the people from Group Four?
The people from Group Two don’t seem to want to move this way, but Group Four might.
also remembered that the Evil God had once appeared as a player, so there’s a possibility the Evil God was among these groups’ players. Meeting players from other groups might be beneficial.
[Gu Mian]: Let’s stick to the original plan and head to Room 605. If there’s indeed something special among the players, he should seek me out.
thought that made sense too.
At this moment, Liu Ruyan sent a message in the group chat.
[Liu Ruyan]: Did no one from the other groups encounter an empty square?
[007]: Yes, I find it strange too. It’s like all the empty squares are clustered around us...
The third round was about to start. I wonder what will happen this round. Surely Gu Mian can’t end up on an empty square again in the third round?
had long known that Gu Mian wasn’t lucky, and had even speculated whether Gu Mian would enter a "certain death square," but she didn’t expect Gu Mian’s luck to be so extraordinary this time, landing on empty squares every step.
No, maybe it wasn’t luck at all...
While 007 was thinking, the countdown for the minute break ended.
The third round began.
reached out to tap the dice on the left side of the screen; the electronic dice spun vigorously for about ten seconds before stopping.
The number one was displayed on it.
"This time, only one step." 007 arranged for Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan to move one square to the right, making them just one square away from Group Four’s pieces on the right.
She soon saw the two little figures representing Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan move one square to the right, and then an introduction appeared in the square they were now in.
[Empty Space]
[Surprise! No shock, no awe... What is going on here? Why are there so many empty rooms? I remember it being different here.]
At this moment, Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan stared in silence at the empty room before them.
After a while, Liu Ruyan suddenly spoke: "Did you manipulate it?"
"What could I have done? I just encountered this instance today." Gu Mian spread his hands.
"Then it must be the Evil God who meddled."
At this point, both saw the introduction of the empty square sent in 007’s group chat, which, unlike the previous three, included a curse in its description.
Judging from the curse in the introduction, Gu Mian roughly understood that these empty squares shouldn’t originally have been empty, suggesting someone had tampered with them.
He nodded: "It must be the Evil God who did it."
The situation with Group One was so bizarre that people in the initial room of other groups stopped to watch the spectacle of four empty squares lined up on the chessboard.
thought the chess players of the other three groups were probably accusing Group One of cheating now.
Despite the accusations, actions couldn’t stop.
After a minute, 007 saw Group Two pieces move one square down, entering a tired square and having to skip the next turn.
Then it was the turn of Group Three to act.
This time Group Three rolled a two, and their pieces moved two squares up.
Fortunately, they rolled a two because the first step landed on a trap square, and 007 saw the piece’s little figure pause noticeably before running to the next square like a flash.
The content of the next square then appeared on the chessboard.
[Kuibu Square]
[Without small steps, there can be no journey of a thousand miles. Hey, you, yes you, your steps are too big!]
[Pieces remaining in this room can advance only one step for the next three rounds]
This Group Three was truly unlucky, starting the game in a tired square and having to skip a turn, then stepping into a Kuibu Square, forcing them to advance only one step per turn for the next three rounds.
It seemed that in this instance, Group Three was even unluckier than Gu Mian.
After Group Three finished their movement, it was Group Four’s turn to take action.
Group Four’s pieces advanced two squares. If they continued moving left, they would reach Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan’s current square.
But apparently, the people of Group Four weren’t eager to meet Gu Mian and moved only one square to the left, sticking close to Gu Mian’s square before heading down instead of continuing left.
