Chapter 433: Chess of Life and Death! (2)

Post-match analysis:

Lin Xuan's six spaces:

1: Slow time flow.

2: Slow time flow.

3: Normal time flow.

4: Original space.

5: Fast time flow.

6: Fast time flow.

(Mentioned in the lower level of the scrapyard.)

Time returned to a few minutes ago.

In Hua Changsheng's Instance, everyone was waiting for the effect of Eternal Kingdom to end.

30 seconds.

20 seconds.

10 seconds.

Eternal Kingdom effect ended!

"Ghost Whisperer·Magic Cube World!"

The moment Lin Xuan used his skill, all six people in the Secret Room disappeared.

Five of them were transferred to Space Number 1, which had a slow time flow.

Lin Xuan transferred himself to Space Number 2, which had a slow time flow.

Because the time flow was slow in Space Number 1, Hua Changsheng hadn't pointed her gun at the ceiling yet, so she couldn't use her skill immediately.

When she realized something was wrong, she immediately pointed her gun at the ceiling, but it was already too late.

Lin Xuan used his skill again, transferring her to Space Number 2, which had a slow time flow.

Her arm dropped down again. When she realized something was wrong, she pointed her gun at the ceiling again.

Lin Xuan transferred her again.

He delayed the time by transferring her multiple times like this.

Finally.

Hua Changsheng was transferred back to Space Number 1.

Seeing this, in Space Number 1: Qiu Yinong pointed her gun at the ceiling and used her skill.

"Ghost Whisperer·Wheel of Time."

Everyone who had just been transferred over was pulled back to five minutes ago; in other words, pulled back to the original space.

That is, Space Number 4.

Because Lin Xuan was in Space Number 2 and not in Space Number 1, he wasn't affected by Qiu Yinong's Wheel of Time.

In Space Number 2: Lin Xuan used his skill.

"Ghost Whisperer·Rubik's Cube Universe."

He transferred the Lin Xuan from Space Number 3 to the original Space Number 4.

So, after the above operations ended.

In the original Space Number 4, there were:

The real Hua Changsheng, the real Shu Renjun, the real Chen Ran, the real Cui Yu, the real Qiu Yinong, and a fake Lin Xuan. Among these six people, the first four were affected by the Wheel of Time, meaning they had no memory of being transferred, nor did they have any memory of Lin Xuan using his skill.

Lin Xuan in Space Number 2 continued to use his skill: "Ghost Whisperer·Rubik's Cube Universe."

In Space Number 4: the real Chen Ran, the real Qiu Yinong, and the real Cui Yu were swapped with these three from Space Number 3. The real became fake.

Ending here.

Six true players:

Chen Ran, Qiu Yinong, Cui Yu, and Lin Xuan were all in Space Number 3, where time flowed normally.

Hua Changsheng and Shu Renjun were both in the original Space Number 4.

The composition of the original Space Number 4 was: the real Hua Changsheng, the real Shu Renjun, a fake Qiu Yinong, a fake Lin Xuan, a fake Chen Ran, and a fake Cui Yu.

2 true, 4 fake.

Moreover, the two true players still had the effect of the Wheel of Time on them.

Then the question arises: how long ago was the "five minutes ago" that the Wheel of Time sent them back to?

Let's analyze it.

Timing from the end of Eternal Kingdom's effect.

0 seconds: Lin Xuan uses his skill.

10 seconds: Hua Changsheng wants to use her skill.

She is transferred again by Lin Xuan.

20 seconds: Hua Changsheng wants to use her skill.

She is transferred again by Lin Xuan.

30 seconds: Hua Changsheng wants to use her skill.

She is transferred again by Lin Xuan.

This was Lin Xuan delaying time, repeating the entire process who knows how many times.

Let's assume 50 seconds.

The 50th second after Eternal Kingdom ended. Qiu Yinong uses the Wheel of Time.

They return to five minutes ago.

At this time, there were still 4 minutes and 10 seconds until 【Eternal Kingdom effect ends】.

When the 4 minutes and 10 seconds ended, Hua Changsheng immediately used her skill:

"Ghost Whisperer·Super Modeling."

However, the effect of the Wheel of Time on her hadn't ended yet, so she didn't know she had been transferred. From Hua Changsheng's perspective, the other five were all real.

Therefore, she used Forced Settlement, killing all five people. The five who died were: the real Shu Renjun and the four fake players from another space.

…

The focus of the entire process was that Lin Xuan had to move first, but Hua Changsheng would definitely have memories of him using his skill. Therefore, Qiu Yinong had to use her skill to erase her memories, and the Wheel of Time couldn't affect Lin Xuan. Only in this way could Lin Xuan pass off the fake as real.

This led Hua Changsheng to believe that the five people in the Secret Room were all real, when in fact, only she and Shu Renjun were real. The other four were all fake, which was why Shu Renjun was bound to die.

There is a question here.

Judging from the game of chess played across space between Chen Ran and Shu Renjun, Shu Renjun used the Distance-Free space before his death to tell Hua Changsheng about Lin Xuan and the others' operations.

Why didn't Hua Changsheng delay for 50 seconds, wait for the Wheel of Time to end, and recover her memory?

It was meaningless.

One: She didn't trust Shu Renjun. After all, Shu Renjun was bound to die, and he wanted to turn the tables. Therefore, Shu Renjun's words had zero credibility to her.

Two: There was no need. She couldn't transfer the real Chen Ran group of four back anyway.

So, after Hua Changsheng could use her skill, she returned to the dungeon's Third Secret Chamber and immediately forced a Settlement without hesitation.

The result of the Settlement was:

The real Shu Renjun, dead.

The fake four, also dead.

This was the answer given by Lin Xuan.

Answer result: Protected himself, incidentally protected Chen and Qiu, and killed Shu Renjun.

It was an 【Upper】 tier answer.

But to achieve 【Extraordinary Performance】, he still had to kill Hua Changsheng.

To kill Hua Changsheng, Cui Yu might be the key. After all, with Shu Renjun already dead, Cui Yu could only choose to perish together with Hua Changsheng.

This was the reason why Lin Xuan protected Cui Yu.

In Lin Xuan's view.

He could use the Wooden Man game to group Hua Changsheng and Cui Yu together. If Cui Yu chose to commit suicide, then Hua Changsheng would die.

But it wasn't that simple.

Before his death, Shu Renjun used the Distance-Free space on Hua Changsheng, so he definitely left a backup plan.

Simply put, when the 50 seconds ended for Hua Changsheng later, she would realize that everything Shu Renjun told her in the Distance-Free space was correct.

Since Shu Renjun knew that Hua Changsheng would sooner or later realize what he said was correct.

That meant, reminding her was just Shu Renjun's way of gaining her trust. Therefore, what Shu Renjun really wanted to tell her in the Distance-Free space was how to prevent Lin Xuan from achieving 【Extraordinary Performance】.

Namely: Protect Hua Changsheng from dying!

Then, Lin Xuan's exam was not only not over, but an uninvited guest had joined.

And, this uninvited guest was very strong.

Although Shu Renjun was already dead, before he died, he had already deduced how they would kill Hua Changsheng, and told her this deduction in the Distance-Free space.

Lin Xuan definitely couldn't answer 【Extraordinary Performance】 on his own, therefore...

Chen Ran had to step in!

So, it seemed like it was about how Lin Xuan wanted to trick Hua Changsheng to death, but in reality, it was a game of chess between Chen Ran and Shu Renjun.

To be exact, it was a game of chess across time and space between the current Chen Ran and the dying Shu Renjun, to see whose calculations were deeper.

…

In the cross-space chess game.

Chen Ran pinched two black pieces, playing with them in his hand. Seeing this, Shu Renjun smiled: "Not bad, you have two chess moves to play."

"One: Use Eternal Kingdom to clear the path, making all five of you return to the original space to continue playing the Wooden Man game with Hua Changsheng."

"Two: Use the Wheel of Time to clear the path, forcing time to return to before the Settlement, pulling Hua Changsheng from the dungeon's Third Secret Chamber back to her Instance to trick her into lying."