Chapter 936: Chapter 888: Everyone Look, Chapter 888!_3
Until she noticed that Group Two’s pieces were dallying when entering Group One’s initial room, only going in after Group One’s Chess Player was ready, it didn’t make sense.
And it didn’t make sense that Group One’s Chess Player, who was clearly prepared early on, hadn’t killed the defenseless Group Two pieces, either.
But if the treasure chest was in the room to her left, then it all made sense.
After Group Two’s false death and resurrection, the Chess Player discovered the treasure chest in the room to her left, but Group Two’s reincarnated pieces couldn’t reach there, so during that round of reincarnation, the Chess Player hesitated for a long time, pondering how to move a piece into that unreachable square.
He figured it out.
Although it seemed as though the reincarnated pieces from Group Two couldn’t reach the room to Anzhi Tianlan’s left, upon closer thought, it wasn’t entirely impossible.
As long as a piece on the field dies within three steps after resurrection, Group Two could send a second piece from No. 2’s initial room toward her, taking six steps to reach the left square, making it nine steps altogether.
However, the squares that the reincarnated pieces from Group Two entered would all become empty squares, with no danger to the pieces.
And the only room on the field that wouldn’t turn into an empty square was each group’s initial room, which also contained the most dangerous thing in the instance — other players.
So Group Two’s Chess Player placed his hopes on Group One’s Chess Player.
The square three steps upward from Group Two’s reincarnated piece led directly to No. 1’s initial room. As long as the piece could be killed within No. 1’s initial room, in the fourth round Group Two could send the remaining piece toward her to grab the treasure chest.
This is why Group Two had previously engaged in so many abnormal delays; everything Group Two’s Chess Player had done was to make it easier for Group One’s Chess Player to kill their own group’s pieces.
But Group One’s Chess Player was very smart. Upon perceiving Group Two’s Chess Player’s abnormal behavior, they understood their intention and definitely deduced the treasure chest’s location as well.
To prevent Group Two from obtaining the treasure chest, Group One’s Chess Player intentionally did not kill Group Two’s pieces, merely incapacitating them.
As long as the old piece lives, Group Two’s new piece cannot enter in the fourth round. Currently, Group Two has no hope left.
"What kind of people are they...," Anzhi Tianlan looked at the board and suddenly laughed.
She initially thought the most foolish Group Two, in desperation, conceived a plan to kill teammates to swap pieces. Group One’s Chess Player was even more like a ghost, deducing Group Two’s plan solely from their delays.
If Group Two were any dumber, not considering whether Group One could best their pieces and not give them preparation time, by letting their pieces enter the initial room at the start of the round, Group One’s Chess Player might have been tricked into killing Group Two’s pieces.
Truly, cleverness may overreach itself.
But upon further thought, isn’t that true for herself too?
The treasure chest was actually in the room adjacent to their initial room on the left. If only they’d moved a piece left at the start, they could have won right from the start.
Yet, would she, knowing nothing, have moved left? No.
Even if she repeated it ten times, she would resolutely choose to go up.
The direction at the start wasn’t made arbitrarily; once she entered the instance, she understood the competitive relationship between the other three groups and her own. Going up was because the fourth group was easier to kill.
Upper groups killing lower groups is easy, lower groups killing upper groups is hard.
From the start, she’s aimed at eliminating the other groups, starting with the easier ones, so no matter how many chances she’d have, she wouldn’t go the more challenging left at the start.
This is truly the unpredictability of the world.
No... is it merely unpredictable, or did the instance designer do it intentionally? It seems like when the instance designer placed the treasure chest and designed the instance, they also considered the personalities of each player.
