Chapter 919: Chapter 876: What Is 1 Plus 1?
In the fourth round, 007 rolled a one.
Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan only moved one square before stopping. However, this time the room was finally not empty. It seems the instance’s previous "emergency repair" was quite effective.
Gu Mian encountered the first ghost since entering this instance.
[Arithmetic Square]
[What does 1+1 equal? The floor of the room is evenly divided into sixteen squares, and each square is filled with a number, randomly chosen from one to nine. Please have the chess piece in this room remember all the numbers in the sixteen squares within half a minute. The numbers in the squares will disappear after half a minute. There is a ghost in the room who loves math problems, and it will give out a number next. Please choose two of the blank squares, whose original numbers add up to the ghost’s given number.]
[You must answer within one minute after the ghost poses the question. If you successfully list the equation, you will receive a reward; if you fail, you will lose your life.]
There is also a countdown at the top of this room. At this point, the 30-second countdown has already started.
The rooms on the chessboard are all square, and this room’s floor is divided into sixteen squares by black lines, each with a number written on them.
The two squares right beside Gu Mian’s right foot are adjacent ones.
But instead of continuing to look at the numbers in the squares, he turned his head to search for the ghost in the room.
It took quite a while for him to find that ghost—it was shivering in the corner of the wall. If you didn’t look closely, you wouldn’t have seen it.
Gu Mian stepped over the two ones under his feet and went over to pick up the shivering ghost from the corner.
"Oh dear," Liu Ruyan showed an expression of enjoying the thrill, "not gentle at all, look how scared you made it."
"Do you know where the Evil God is?" Gu Mian threw the ghost in his hand onto the ground. Finally encountering a living thing made it possible to conduct a severe interrogation.
The Arithmetic Ghost sat down on its butt between the two ones in fear, shaking its head as if it didn’t understand what Gu Mian was talking about.
"The ghosts here probably don’t know where the person you’re looking for is either. After all, his previous actions were all sneaky, and even if he came into the instance, he wouldn’t let anyone know." Liu Ruyan believed the ghosts here had no idea the Evil God had entered this instance.
The Arithmetic Ghost was very grateful to Liu Ruyan for speaking fairly on its behalf, nodding fervently.
Could it be that nothing useful can be obtained from the mouths of these ghosts? Gu Mian didn’t hold much hope about interrogating ghosts to find the Evil God’s location. If it was already widely known that the Evil God entered this instance, he would have been kicked out long ago.
Looks like I’ll still have to rely on exploring the chessboard myself. But the chessboard is so big, who knows how long it’ll take to find the Evil God.
And who knows where the treasure chest hidden on the chessboard is. If other players find the treasure chest and end the instance, it wouldn’t be good.
"Do you know where the treasure chest is?" Gu Mian asked the ghost on the ground again.
Hearing Gu Mian inquire about the treasure chest’s location, the Arithmetic Ghost’s eyes lit up, probably thinking Gu Mian wanted to leave after taking the treasure chest, which would free them from their suffering.
Then its eyes dimmed again, because it also didn’t know where the treasure chest was, and couldn’t help Gu Mian quickly end this instance.
At this point, 007 was tightly watching the chessboard.
Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan had been in the Arithmetic Square for over two minutes already, yet the square still hadn’t shown information about the chess piece successfully passing through or failing. In previous instances, chess pieces’ success or death would always be displayed in the square.
Earlier, the chess piece from Group Two had already finished its move, stepping down into the tired square and pausing for one turn in the next round.
It was now Group Three’s turn to move, but there still wasn’t any information showing up in Gu Mian’s room.
Not only 007 but also other Chess Players from different groups were watching Gu Mian’s room.
"This Group One must be cheating, right? They started off with two pieces moving together and both pieces landed on empty squares for four consecutive turns. I suspect the instance’s emergency repair was triggered because it detected Group One’s cheating and corrected their progress. Now he’s been in that Arithmetic Square so long without result, even though it should only take a minute and a half tops to remember the numbers in half a minute and produce an equation in a minute. It’s been over two minutes already."
Beside the chessboard of Room Two’s initial starting point, the Chess Player from Group Two was loudly complaining to the people around him.
The left side of Group Two’s Chess Player’s face was bruised blue, and there were scratches on the right, obviously having experienced a fierce battle.
The person next to him was no better off. Their entire right eye was bruised black from being punched hard.
"Better focus on where to move next round instead of worrying about other groups. They might have drawn the blessing that all four consecutive rooms were empty ones. Didn’t we draw an incredible blessing too?" I’m the Handsomest in the World rubbed his blackened right eye socket and glared at Passerby A.
He got pulled into this instance out of nowhere while walking, and discovered the other two were strangers. They didn’t know each other, could only see from the player panel that one was called Passerby A, and the other was Iron Pot Stewed Chicken.
After understanding the special instance’s rules, the three of them fought to secure the position of Chess Player since the safest person is the Chess Player. Not knowing each other, none of them wanted to die.
The fighting continued until the countdown reached its limit, and the instance randomly decided the Chess Player and the first and second pieces to play. Passerby A was the lucky one chosen as the Chess Player.
