Chapter 920: Chapter 876: What Two Numbers Add Up to Two? (2)
Since things have reached this point, it’s no good to continue internal strife. We can only grit our teeth and keep going.
However, I’m the Best in the World looks down on Chess Player Passerby A, thinking that Passerby A moves haphazardly on the board, without any plan or basis.
Though the board is a total mystery to him, if it were him playing, he wouldn’t know where to move either, but that doesn’t stop him from looking down on Passerby A.
However, Group One is indeed somewhat strange.
Thinking about it, he looked at the positions of Group One’s two pieces currently on the board. He guessed that Group One probably drew some bonus that allows two pieces to be on the board together, but the two pieces must be bound together.
But thinking carefully, this bonus seems useless. If two pieces are always bound together, what’s the difference from having one piece on the board? It also loses the chance for a second piece to enter the board.
Moreover, if two pieces move together, it’s easy to end up on two separate grids, where one of the two would have to die.
Perhaps the four empty squares that Group One encountered at the beginning are also bound to the bonus of having two pieces come on together?
Two pieces come on bound together, and the first four squares will definitely meet empty squares. It must be like this, I’m the Best in the World speculated about the bonus Group One received in his heart.
But Group One’s two pieces have stayed in the arithmetic square for too long. Now, Group Three is about to move, and still no result has come out in the arithmetic square.
I’m the Best in the World looked at the square where those two pieces currently stood.
By this time, the numbers on the floor of Gu Mian’s room had long disappeared, and the room echoed with the mechanical voice saying "Please give the numbers".
The Arithmetic Ghost trembled as it got up to continue its work, shakily raising a hand to signal "two."
A hoarse, unpleasant voice came from its mouth: "Two, please select two squares such that their original numbers add up to two..."
The mechanical repetition in the room finally stopped with this, and at the same moment, a one-minute countdown appeared on the ceiling.
Now that the ghost has given the number, Gu Mian has to provide an answer within a minute.
This is simple, just add one and one; just now, under its rear were two ones, it was confident that Gu Mian definitely saw the two ones under its rear, Gu Mian would surely give the correct answer!
The Arithmetic Ghost was very confident about the number it gave. Just as it was looking forward to the future with full hope, Gu Mian looked toward Liu Ruyan beside him.
"What plus what equals two?"
"I don’t know."
The Arithmetic Ghost, which had just stood up, opened its mouth wide and nearly fainted again.
It raised its two withered hands, using one hand to signal a "one", like a kindergarten teacher teaching children, it explained earnestly to Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan: "One... plus one... equals two."
"Oh, so that’s how it is!" Gu Mian realized suddenly, then turned to Liu Ruyan, "Where’s one?"
"I don’t know."
This time, the Arithmetic Ghost really rolled its eyes and fainted.
[The piece failed to produce the equation in the stipulated time, it has... has... has not produced the equation in the stipulated time]
At this moment, I’m the Best in the World finally saw changes in the room where Group One’s two pieces were, the arithmetic result came out.
"Wait, what is this?" His upper face wrinkled, puzzled as he looked at the information appearing in the room, "What do you mean... has not produced the equation in the stipulated time? This sentence was already said before, does it need repeating?"
The second half of the sentence should be "already dead," right?
Group One’s pieces should have died for failing to produce the equation.
I’m the Best in the World continued watching the arithmetic square, waiting for the announcement of the pieces’ death inside.
But what he was expecting never happened, the two little figures inside seemed lively.
"Damn ghost." he shouted.
"Damn ghost!" Passerby A beside him also shouted, "They’re cheating, I’m going to report them for cheating!"
At this time, Group Three’s pieces had finished moving, and it was the turn of Group Four’s pieces to start moving, but neither of them paid any attention to Group Four’s pieces moving, they were too busy intensively discussing what happened in the arithmetic room.
"The pieces of Group Three moved up again." Gu Mian looked at the information sent by Liu Ruyan in the group.
Because they reached the Kuibu Square last round, for the next three rounds, Group Three could only move one step forward each time. This time, they moved one step forward into the Gold Coin Square.
Having read the information sent in the group chat by 007, Liu Ruyan also realized something was off: "Group Three hasn’t changed direction from the start, they’ve been moving upwards."
"You noticed it too, Group Three’s Chess Player has been controlling the pieces to go towards Group Four’s initial room." Gu Mian calculated the distance between Group Three’s pieces and Group Four’s initial room, only two squares, but one of them is a trap square.
"Can pieces enter the initial room?" Liu Ruyan squinted her eyes.
"There’s no rule that says pieces can’t enter the initial room, on the contrary, I believe this instance even encourages pieces to enter the initial room."
"To make the players kill each other, Group One’s Chess Player manipulates the pieces to enter another group’s initial room and kill the Chess Player there, greatly reducing the competition." Liu Ruyan speculated on Group Three’s motive, "Group Three’s Chess Player is very smart, they must have realized this from the beginning."
"That’s why you speculate that if Renle Mountain is in this instance, he is most likely in Group Three, but Group Four initially went downwards as well, just had bad luck and hit a trap. The second piece from them walked towards us and bumped into us, which is why it turned. We can’t therefore say that Group Four’s Chess Player didn’t think of killing other room’s Chess Players from the start."
Gu Mian shook his head: "You’ve killed before, and you know killing is an exhausting affair."
Liu Ruyan paused, not knowing why Gu Mian brought up this topic about herself.
"Yes, very exhausting." Liu Ruyan recalled, "Even killing someone who’s asleep is unlikely to be a one-hit kill, it requires repeated heavy strikes to completely kill someone."
"Killing someone unprepared is hard like that, let alone killing someone who is already prepared. Seeing as Group Three’s piece is about to reach its initial room, I believe Group Four’s Chess Player will not stay unreactive, even a fool would guess the intention by now, they would prepare early, making the killing even harder."
"Right." Liu Ruyan was somewhat confused, not understanding why Gu Mian was telling her this.
"Group Three is smart, they chose the right direction to make killing easier." Gu Mian thought about the board layout and instance rules.
"Compared to Group Four, who decisively chose positions during preparation, clearly it’s easier to deal with Section Two where people are wrestling with each other. But Group Three didn’t choose to go towards the initial room of Section Two, instead, they chose the colder and more difficult Group Four. When Group Three made their first move, the piece heading right from Section Two’s side had already been teleported away, so it wasn’t a case of fearing encounter with Section Two’s pieces on the road;
"Heading towards Group Four’s room, is also the cleverness of Group Three’s Chess Player. If Group Three’s Chess Player sent their pieces towards the left to kill in Section Two’s initial room from the start, they would encounter the situation we discussed, Group Three’s pieces have to go through a difficult process to kill the Chess Player in Section Two’s room, maybe failing even after ten minutes, or even getting killed in return."
"Killing in Group Four’s initial room isn’t that hard?" Liu Ruyan frowned.
"Yes, it’s very easy for Group Three’s pieces to kill the Chess Player in Group Four’s room. You remember the rule where each round, the Chess Player must roll the dice according to the room number? After a group’s pieces finish moving, the next group’s Chess Player has to roll the dice within a minute;
"When Group Three’s pieces enter Group Four’s initial room, it’s Group Four’s Chess Player’s turn to roll the dice."
"Group Three’s Chess Player wants to use the rule to kill the Chess Player in Group Four’s room." Liu Ruyan understood, "No need for the tough fights we talked about before or risk return killing, just suppress Group Four’s Chess Player for a minute, preventing them from rolling the dice in time, and then Group Four’s Chess Player violates the rules and gets erased, so it only takes a minute to easily kill the Chess Player from Group Four."
But if Group Three sent their pieces to the left towards Room Two, to kill the Chess Player there, it won’t be this easy.
Because they can’t use the dice-rolling countdown to kill the person in Room Two.
