Chapter 929: Chapter 883: Resurrection Round!
[Since I can’t distinguish between east, west, north, and south, I have to use front, back, left, and right instead. The room in front seems safer, the room in front of that seems fairly safe too]
[Oh no, this time I’m unlucky and can’t see further away]
This was what the pen-shaped real-time repeater wrote when Guigu used it for the first time.
The "safe room in front" mentioned above is the room that Hao Laoshi entered after he went on the field.
He used the pen-shaped real-time repeater before Hao Laoshi went on the field to determine which square around him was safer.
The second time he used the repeater was after Hao Laoshi entered the Honest Square.
Hao Laoshi entered the Honest Square in the third round. In this round, the two pieces from one group were very close to Hao Laoshi’s room. At that time, one group’s pieces had already passed through four empty rooms consecutively, and at the start of this round, Guigu rolled a two. Actually, this round, if he let Hao Laoshi move straight forward two steps, he could enter the empty room where one group’s two pieces were located.
But he didn’t dare to do this. Having gone through so many things, he deeply understands that some people in this world are scarier than ghosts.
Moreover, one group’s two pieces had consecutively passed through four empty rooms, making Guigu subconsciously feel that these two people were not easy to deal with.
So he made Hao Laoshi take a turn and walk downwards, unfortunately ending up in the Honest Square, and to find out the number of steps Hao Laoshi reported to the ghost, he used the pen-shaped real-time repeater for the second time.
After the third round ended, it coincidentally met the instance repair, so the pen-shaped real-time repeater recorded the repair matter as well.
[Ghost: How many steps will you move in the next round?]
[Honest man hesitated for a while and said: One step]
[Hmm? Why did all the ghosts in the surrounding rooms run away, let me see what’s going on. Ah! There’s an announcement, turns out it’s a maintenance announcement, the current instance really isn’t durable, up until now this pen has encountered two instance repairs]
[Signal block, location interrupt]
[Pretty woman said: What’s going on? Pretty woman also said: Can you still open group chat? I seem to be unable to open even my game panel. Pretty woman continued: How do you evaluate the other three groups?]
[XX said: Group two has low intelligence, group three is devoid of luck, group four is barely hanging on]
[Iron Pot Stewed Chicken scratched his butt in the room]
The above is the content the pen-shaped real-time repeater wrote the second time it was used.
Quite a bit of content, through this record, Guigu learned the number of steps Hao Laoshi chose, he can use the bonus drawn before the start to specify to move only one step in the next round.
Besides Hao Laoshi’s choice and the maintenance announcement, as well as the meaningless location interrupt, the second time he used the pen-shaped real-time repeater, it seemed to record the dialogue and actions of other group members.
This time the pen-shaped repeater recorded three players: one was the pretty woman, the other was an unnamed XX, and the third was Iron Pot Stewed Chicken.
Among these players, it seems only Iron Pot Stewed Chicken is a genuine player’s name, the other two use aliases.
In this segment of content, what Guigu cares about is the "group chat" mentioned by the pretty woman.
He can see on the board that one group’s two pieces move together, and in this record, the pretty woman and XX clearly had a conversation, so Guigu can basically conclude that the pretty woman and XX are one group’s two pieces.
And it seems like the people in one group have this "group chat" thing, possibly able to communicate with their Chess Player.
This made Guigu feel that one group’s people are organized and likely hard to deal with, so in the next round, he continued to let Hao Laoshi walk downward.
After walking downward in the fourth round, Hao Laoshi entered the empty square. Guigu was originally happy, but then he discovered that the Honest Ghost would always follow the player’s moves until the player dies.
So in this round, even though he entered an empty square, the piece still has to bet with the Honest Ghost on how many steps to take in the next round.
Besides using the pen-shaped real-time repeater again, Guigu has no other way to know the number of steps Hao Laoshi reported.
[This is your third time using me, after this use I have to rest for a week]
[Hao Laoshi said: One step]
["What is one plus one equal to?" "I don’t know"]
[Ghost showed a painful expression: "One...plus one...equals two"]
["Where is one?" "I don’t know."]
[Ghost fainted]
[Passerby A: Cheating! They’re cheating!]
[Xu Xingcheng is confirming coordinates]
[Iron Pot Stewed Chicken (self-talk version): Next round is the fifth round, I’ll activate Shared Death Square...]
[No, I can’t take it anymore, I have to complain, I really want to see who the idiot is that doesn’t even know one plus one equals two, how can there be two idiots in a room who don’t know one plus one equals two, let me look hard]
[Haha, got a look! Eh—]
[It’s that person, the doctor who saw me completely before! I need to stay away from him, so scary, so scary!]
The pen-shaped real-time repeater abruptly stopped recording here, and the last chance was thus used up.
Even if the pen-shaped real-time repeater did not write "that person’s" name, Guigu knew who he was.
This special item used to be Han Shan’s special item, back when Han Shan used it near "that person," the pen-shaped real-time repeater would use such a tone to keep "that person" at a distance.
It would call "that person" a terrifying doctor, saying "that person" saw everything about it.
"Gu Mian..." Guigu looked at the notebook’s contents, slowly uttering a name.
It’s been such a long time since they separated after the last train instance, he never saw Gu Mian again.
During this period, many people came and left from his side, and from time to time, he would see announcements in the game about instances collapsing, knowing those were probably Gu Mian’s work.
As long as the game keeps publishing instance collapse announcements, he knows Gu Mian is alive and seems to be living quite large.
The world is so vast that even if both are alive, he didn’t expect to meet this old friend again.
Unexpectedly, he actually ran into him today. If Group One’s pawn is Gu Mian, then the previous dense blanks and the "ghost fainted" phenomenon, which only happens in fairy tales, wouldn’t be strange.
If it’s Gu Mian, letting Hao Laoshi follow him isn’t a bad choice.
In this record, there are two more pieces of information.
[Xu Xingcheng is determining coordinates] seems somewhat related to last time’s [signal blocking, location interrupted] when using the pen-shaped real-time repeater.
However, he doesn’t know who Xu Xingcheng is, assuming he might be a player from Group Two or Three.
Another is Iron Pot Stewed Chicken’s soliloquy.
[Iron Pot Stewed Chicken (soliloquy version): The next round is the fifth round, going to activate the Shared Death Square...]
At that time, the fifth round hadn’t started, and Guigu couldn’t understand what this Iron Pot Stewed Chicken meant.
Until the fifth round started, and Group Two actions led them into the Shared Death Square, he realized this Iron Pot Stewed Chicken seemed to have known earlier that a group would enter the Shared Death Square in the fifth round.
In the fifth round, he saw on the board it was Group Two entering the Shared Death Square, thus speculated this Iron Pot Stewed Chicken is a player from Group Three.
But he couldn’t be completely sure, always feeling Iron Pot Stewed Chicken seemed to have some backup plan.
Now the seventh round has ended, realizing Group One’s pawn is Gu Mian, he kept letting Hao Laoshi follow Gu Mian for the recent few rounds.
But he can’t keep following forever; after the eighth round ends, the Kuibu Square effect of both groups will vanish, and thereafter he and Group One’s Chess Player can’t continue rolling the same steps.
Guigu rubbed his left forehead tiredly, "Where is the treasure chest..."
His left forehead’s skin, along with the area around his left eye, bore burn scars, and his left eye had some vision damage due to the burns.
Guigu squinted his left eye, carefully examining the grid on the board: "The assigned step bonus can be used one last time; after using the last bonus, the rolled steps will be random. It’d be great to find the treasure chest quickly."
Just as he squinted, looking at the board, the two pawns of Group One started moving on the screen again.
Seeing Gu Mian and the beautiful woman take a step forward, entering the square below.
"This room is the second Room 605; I wonder if the Evil God would be in here." Gu Mian said while opening the door and walking towards it.
After entering, he saw something familiar appear in the room.
[Honest Square]
[Do you plan to move one step or two steps next time?]
Having already seen the rules of Honest Square, Gu Mian didn’t continue wasting time reading further.
Another Honest Square, speaking of which, he also had an Honest Ghost following him, although this Honest Ghost hadn’t spoken since it’s been following him, never politely asking, "Do you plan to move one step or two steps next time?"
The Honest Ghost in the new room did give Gu Mian a sincere invitation.
Perhaps it hadn’t clearly seen the faces of Gu Mian and Liu Ruyan as they just entered.
"Do you plan to..." The new Honest Ghost swaggered closer to Gu Mian, seeking a sincere answer, but as it approached, it noticed another Honest Ghost following the newcomer, its colleague.
However, this colleague was now curled up in a tiny ball, seemingly terrified.
The new Honest Ghost finally realized something, its expression stiffening, turning to look at the person beside it.
After seeing the person’s face, it said nothing and, like its colleague, curled up into a tiny ball, the two ghosts nestling together like a pair of twins.
"This square has no shadow of the Evil God either," Liu Ruyan pondered, "I think you’re right—the Evil God, if looking for you, would actively seek you out as much as possible, rather than passively hide in a room waiting for you to find him."
While Liu Ruyan was speaking, 007 sent a message in the group chat.
[007: Group Two has resurrected]
