Chapter 927: Chapter 882: Just Pretend Something Happened (Part 2)
Although the rules state that the Chess Player can’t allow the pieces to enter a room they have previously entered, these rules can’t trap Gu Mian; only walls that can’t be broken can restrain him.
If there were tools to break the walls, Gu Mian would have been like the person who stole light from the wall, creating large holes in every room’s walls.
Liu Ruyan looked at what 007 posted in the group chat: "Don’t you think it’s strange? Group Two was completely dead for a full two minutes before it was Group Three’s Chess Player’s turn to act."
Each group can only delay time for a maximum of two minutes per round, as the Chess Player has one minute to make a choice and the pieces have one minute to enter the door after it appears.
So even if trying to delay time, a group can only delay for two minutes.
Yet Group Two was clearly completely dead, but the pieces and the Chess Player still retained a one-minute countdown; Group Three obviously only had the living Chess Player’s one-minute countdown, and the pieces’ countdown was directly skipped.
"Why did Group Three’s pieces’ countdown get skipped after they died, but Group Two’s entire group’s countdown wasn’t skipped?" Liu Ruyan frowned as she looked at the information in the group chat, "One possibility is that Group Two isn’t completely dead."
When Group Two died, there was no death prompt in the square, just that the pieces turned dark and didn’t act in subsequent rounds; they initially inferred Group Two’s complete death from the Shared Death Square information.
"What’s wrong?" Hao Laoshi looked sincerely at the two, having just come to Gu Mian’s side upon entering the room, now puzzledly listening to Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan’s conversation, with a fainted ghost at Gu Mian’s feet that scared Hao Laoshi so he stayed a bit further away.
"Guessing whether Group Two’s people are really dead," Gu Mian explained to him.
Right, he still needed to get Hao Laoshi to answer the question.
Thinking about it, Gu Mian kicked the ghost at his feet: "Get up and get to work, come and ask this newcomer your question."
The Question and Answer Ghost remained motionless, dutifully pretending to be dead.
Gu Mian kicked it again: "If you don’t get up, I’ll make you truly dead."
Upon hearing this, the Question and Answer Ghost got up with a speed as swift as lightning and picked up the lottery box that had rolled to the side. It looked at the box with grievance, inside which was only one slip of paper left.
No need to randomly ask any question now, with rapid speed it spoke to Hao Laoshi: "Next, I will ask you a question, after answering you will receive a reward of 50 Game Coins."
The setup changed, with answer time allocated, and it wouldn’t say answering wrong meant death. However, the remaining question was hard to get wrong.
"Are you male or female?" The Question and Answer Ghost asked this question face ashen, tone without any fluctuation.
Hao Laoshi was muddled by this question, only stammering out "I am male" after several seconds.
"Haha, knowledgeable person, congratulations on answering correctly, here is your 50 Game Coin reward, please keep it safe." The Question and Answer Ghost mechanically recited the words following the "haha," then died again.
Hao Laoshi looked down at the Question and Answer Ghost pretending to be dead on the ground, never having seen such a distressed ghost before.
Just then he suddenly thought of something and looked up at Liu Ruyan.
Seeing that Liu Ruyan wasn’t looking this way, he spoke softly to Gu Mian: "Why are the people around you so scary? In the last room, I mentioned to you about Liu Ruyan’s friend being an arsonist, but then you left before I finished."
"Continue."
At this moment, Liu Ruyan looked over at the two of them, scaring Hao Laoshi into shrinking his neck and daring not to speak further.
Liu Ruyan, however, didn’t mind: "What’s there not to say? Speak, I didn’t do the thing anyway."
Hao Laoshi stared at Liu Ruyan for a while longer, seeing her genuinely unconcerned, he continued: "She witnessed her friend set fire and kill a family of three, it was still a society ruled by law at the time, she... just watched people die with her own eyes and didn’t report it."
"When?" asked Gu Mian.
"What?" Hao Laoshi didn’t understand what Gu Mian was referring to.
"When did the fire happen?"
"This," Hao Laoshi scratched his head, remembering Liu Ruyan mentioning it to him, "seems like... eight years ago. Yes, it was eight years ago."
Eight years ago...
Gu Mian raised his head, aligning it with the time of the fire at Xie Ping’an’s home, Liu Ruyan and Chu Changge both mentioned to him that a fire broke out at Xie Bi’an’s place eight years ago, after which everyone thought he died, yet unexpectedly he reappeared in the global game.
Gu Mian had never known the cause of that fire before.
Now he learned from Hao Laoshi’s mouth, it was arson, and moreover, it was Liu Ruyan’s friend who set the fire.
"I remember you said the fire happened shortly after you came to this world," Gu Mian turned to Liu Ruyan.
"Yes," Liu Ruyan nodded, waiting for Gu Mian’s next question.
"What are you talking about?" Hao Laoshi scratched his head, not understanding, what’s meant by just coming to this world not long ago?
The two didn’t talk to him.
When the fire happened, Liu Ruyan had just come to this world not long ago, what kind of friends could she have made at that time?
Probably only a few Guardians.
Gu Mian had long suspected this, just never been able to confirm.
It’s clear Xie Bi’an is aware of the arsonist’s identity, judging by his usual attitude.
"I know a lot more, won’t you continue asking?" Liu Ruyan was quite keen on revealing the truth, previously wanting more than once to tell Gu Mian about the incidents with Xie Bi’an.
