Chapter 926: Chapter 882: Just Pretend Something Happened
There are rumors that if you encounter a bear in the wild, playing dead can make the bear lose interest and save you from danger. It’s unclear who brought this trend into the Low-Dimensional World, but it has become widely spread among various ghost groups.
Of course, in the Low-Dimensional World version, the story’s protagonist is not a bear but Gu Mian.
Legend has it that if you unfortunately encounter Gu Mian in an instance, just quickly lie down and play dead to save your life.
The previous Arithmetic Ghost did this, and now the Question and Answer Ghost is doing the same.
At this moment, the Question and Answer Ghost has completely lost the composure it had when Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan first entered the room. It sprawled on the ground carelessly, rolling its eyes before "dying," striving to make its death more convincing.
The drawing tube in the Question and Answer Ghost’s hand also fell to the ground, and the notes inside scattered all over.
Gu Mian picked up these notes one by one, revealing many absurd questions.
For instance, questions like "Is your dad male or female?"
There are some normal ones, like "How many squares have you moved since the instance started?" and "How many player groups are there on the field?"
And some extremely difficult ones, the one Gu Mian just drew belongs to the extremely difficult ones, others include questions like "Are you male or female?"
Gu Mian contemplated the question about his gender, feeling uncertain if he could answer it correctly if he drew it.
Gu Mian considered pocketing all the other notes and leaving only the extremely difficult "Are you male or female?" in the drawing tube for Hao Laoshi.
Although Gu Mian will still be here when Hao Laoshi enters the room, there’s no guarantee that after he leaves, the Question and Answer Ghost won’t regain its vigor and pressure Hao Laoshi. Gu Mian wasn’t worried about the Two Ghosts in the previous room harming Hao Laoshi, because once Gu Mian left, Hao Laoshi would be the only one left in the room, not triggering the Two Ghosts’ killing conditions.
He doesn’t carry anything handy to kill ghosts right now, so he can only exploit a bug to let the Question and Answer Ghost ask Hao Laoshi this difficult question in front of him, ensuring no ghost will settle scores after he leaves.
"We’re very close to the second Room 605," Liu Ruyan pondered their current location, "If I remember correctly, one more square forward will reach the second Room 605."
Gu Mian nodded: "I can’t be certain that the Evil God is tracking in the four Room 605s, but the probability is higher."
Because of the rule "The Chess Player cannot allow the chess piece to enter a room the piece has already entered," they should let 007 choose an S-shaped route for them, where every square is explored, moving down after reaching the end of a row.
This ensures every room is searched, leaving no fish in the net.
Of course, since there are other groups also helping explore the rooms, they can skip rooms already explored by other groups.
However, reality doesn’t always align with ideals.
If they really progress using an S-shaped route, aiming to cover every square, other groups might find the treasure chest before even half the squares are searched, or Gu Mian might find it himself.
That’s why Gu Mian laid out routes for the four Room 605s, aiming to quickly reach the rooms most likely to contain the Evil God, reducing potential squares with treasure chests.
"Have you considered the Evil God might be hiding in the treasure chest?" Liu Ruyan asked, "Waiting for you to open it, then jumping out to surprise you."
Gu Mian also considered this possibility, but if the Evil God isn’t in a treasure chest, finding it first means they can’t stay in the instance to continue searching for the Evil God.
"Anyway, it’s just our two groups left. The Chess Player from the fourth group seems to want Hao Laoshi to stick with us, his action goes after ours, unless Kuibu Square’s effect disappears and the fourth group keeps rolling a two and we keep rolling a one, allowing him to surpass us," Gu Mian analyzed, though he thought the probability was low, given his luck it wasn’t impossible.
If Hao Laoshi really goes ahead of them, Gu Mian can’t ensure his safety.
"I want to see the Evil God, and he wants to see me too. Sometimes I wonder if he’s really hiding in a square, waiting eagerly for us to find him, or should he proactively seek us?" After all, the limitations of the chessboard game are severe, players inside can’t explore freely.
informed them in the group chat that the entire second group didn’t skip turns this round either; it delayed two minutes before the third group acted, and the third group delayed a minute, now it’s the fourth group’s turn.
As Gu Mian read the message in the chat, a room door appeared on the wall beside him, and Hao Laoshi walked in.
When Hao Laoshi opened the door and entered, Gu Mian could still see the Two Ghosts huddled in the corner of the previous room, maintaining a crouch with hands on its head. It sneaked a glance in their direction as Hao Laoshi entered Gu Mian’s room, about to close the door behind him. Upon noticing Gu Mian watching, it quickly turned its head back, pretending nothing happened.
Right, when Hao Laoshi came to Gu Mian’s room, the door connecting this room and the previous one would open, and the Two Ghosts maintained their corner squat likely fearing that Gu Mian might tell on it when entering, causing Gu Mian to return and beat it up.
