Chapter 435: She Turned Her Head, and Didn't Speak

There was about three minutes left until 【Eternal Kingdom effect ends】.

Shu Renjun looked at Qiu Yinong.

'She is immobilized. Even if she uses the Wheel of Time later, it should pull her and Chen Ran back to the decryption of the first square grid.'

'But the time is very short, the two of them have probably almost completed the decryption.'

'Unless they intentionally delay to change the time when the Wooden Men turn their heads, creating a different future compared to this timeline.'

'But, it's meaningless.'

'Because, whether the two of them decrypt it or not, Hua Changsheng will wait for Eternal Kingdom to end.'

'Therefore, whether Qiu Yinong uses the Wheel of Time or not is meaningless here.'

Thinking of this.

'Cui Yu's Golden Mouth and Jade Words can make people hear the truth as lies.'

'That's also meaningless. After all, Hua Changsheng will only wait for Eternal Kingdom to end next. Even if someone lies, she won't perform Judgment, because as long as she judges, she might be tricked into lying.'

Shu Renjun set his sights on Lin Xuan, the only one who might use a skill.

'Spatial transfer? Player swap?'

'If transferred to a space with the same time flow, it's also meaningless.'

'Therefore, it can only be a player swap.'

Thinking of this.

Shu Renjun used his cigarette butt to make a Marking on the floor of the Secret Room.

'As long as this mark disappears, it means I've been transferred to a space with a slow time flow.'

As time passed.

Everyone seemed to be thinking, but besides Hua Changsheng preparing to use her skill, the others had no intention of using theirs.

…

In the cross-space chess game.

Shu Renjun looked at Chen Ran, who only defended and didn't attack in his piece placements, and couldn't help but frown.

"Giving up?"

However, the next moment, Chen Ran flicked away all the pieces the two had just placed one by one, leaving only the pieces they placed during their previous post-match analysis, as well as the white piece Shu Renjun placed on the Tianyuan position.

"Ghost Whisperer·Wheel of Time," Chen Ran said smilingly.

Shu Renjun smiled without a word: "This skill is not bad. Every time you're about to lose, you can take back your moves and start over."

Of course, in the Secret Room, this symbolized Qiu Yinong using the Wheel of Time to return to five minutes ago right when Hua Changsheng was about to use her skill.

"It's useless. No matter how many times you repeat it, the ending will be the same."

"Unless Lin Xuan transfers you and Qiu Yinong to a space with a slow time flow, where you quickly clear the stage, understand what the next decryption is, and then have Lin Xuan transfer the two of you back to the original space."

"This way, you recast Eternal Kingdom and quickly clear the stage with Qiu Yinong."

"At the same time, you also need to trick a lie out of Lin Xuan and have Cui Yu judge him to death."

"You and Qiu Yinong clear the stage, and Lin Xuan dies. Only Hua Changsheng and Cui Yu will be left in the Secret Room, and Cui Yu will take Hua Changsheng down with him."

"However, there is a problem here. If Hua Changsheng doesn't actively participate in the game, she will only be forced to participate after two hours. By that time, you'll be in a chaotic state and unable to recast Eternal Kingdom, so she can still use Forced Settlement."

Yes, no matter how one looked at it, it was a dead end.

However, Chen Ran remained silent. He just focused on placing his pieces, still placing them in their previous positions.

Seeing this, Shu Renjun also stopped talking and placed his pieces in their previous positions.

It should be noted here that Chen Ran's piece placements could be different from last time, because Lin Xuan could inform the Chen Ran in other spaces about the current situation in the original space.

And the Chen Ran in other spaces could think and strategize on behalf of the real Chen Ran.

But Shu Renjun was different. Whatever position he placed his piece in during the previous timeline, he had to place it in the same position in this timeline.

After all, he was an amnesiac.

However, what was strange was that Chen Ran's subsequent piece placements were exactly the same as in the previous timeline.

And Shu Renjun's piece placements couldn't be changed, therefore...

The chess game between the two once again reached exactly the same state as the previous timeline.

The black pieces once again headed towards a dead end!

"Ghost Whisperer·Wheel of Time." Seeing it was a dead end again, Chen Ran took back his moves again.

"Could it be that you want to find the answer through the process of constantly losing the game?"

Chen Ran didn't speak, he just...

Focused on taking back his moves.

…

Meanwhile.

In Hua Changsheng's Instance.

"Ghost Whisperer·Super Modeling!"

"Ghost Whisperer·Wheel of Time!"

Just when Hua Changsheng wanted to force a Settlement.

She was pulled back by Qiu Yinong.

As time passed.

"Ghost Whisperer·Super Modeling!"

"Ghost Whisperer·Wheel of Time!"

Hua Changsheng wanted to settle again.

And was pulled back by Qiu Yinong again.

Logically speaking, as long as Hua Changsheng used her skill, she would throw Qiu Yinong into the Triple-Layer Simulation, rendering her unable to use her skill.

But don't forget...

There was also Lin Xuan. When Hua Changsheng threw away the Qiu Yinong in this space, Lin Xuan immediately transferred over another Qiu Yinong. This Qiu Yinong used the Wheel of Time, which not only forcefully pulled back the Qiu Yinong in the Triple-Layer Simulation but also reversed time to five minutes ago.

It was simply shameless.

And so, in the cross-space chess game, Chen Ran and Shu Renjun played the identical chess game over and over again; in Hua Changsheng's Instance, the three people were also looping in an extreme tug-of-war.

As if it would never end.

It was like a logical loop where no one could deal with anyone else. If Lin Xuan and Qiu Yinong didn't recast their skills, they would die, and Hua Changsheng was capable of using her skill to force a Settlement, but she had no memory in the infinite loop. Therefore, she didn't know that she could have used her skill to force a Settlement a long time ago.

As for Shu Renjun, he wanted Hua Changsheng to escape this logical loop, but he also had no memory, and Hua Changsheng wouldn't believe his words anyway. Just like this, the six people in the Instance reached a strange equilibrium.

An infinite loop!

…

In the cross-space chess game.

"Ghost Whisperer·Wheel of Time."

Chen Ran took back his moves again. Shu Renjun lit a cigarette and chuckled softly: "You've already taken back your moves eighteen times..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was shocked to see that this time, Chen Ran was different from before.

He actually flicked the white piece he had placed on the Tianyuan position completely off the chessboard!

Immediately after.

Chen Ran pinched a black piece from the chess bowl and was about to place it on...

The Tianyuan position!

"My placing this piece on the Tianyuan position is not to humiliate you, but to tell you..."

"You have no moves left to play!"

Smack! Chen Ran firmly slammed the black piece onto the Tianyuan position, enunciating each word:

"You, have, lost!"

Hearing this, Shu Renjun frowned, a trace of confusion flashing in his eyes: "Impossible, it's just a simple cyclical repetition, how could you win..."

Suddenly, his next words seemed stuck in his throat, unable to be spoken.

In Shu Renjun's Instance, as the Instance BOSS, he stared fixedly at the chessboard.

He smiled, and as he smiled...

During his life, when he killed his mother, he didn't shed tears.

Coming to Hell and facing endless torture, he also didn't shed tears.

But at this moment, two streams of clear tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes, running down his cheeks, and dripping onto the unknown areas of the Instance.

He murmured: "I... lost to... my... self?"

This stab was named: Heart-killing. As if coming from the River of Time, specifically stabbing at people's hearts.

During his life, he killed his mother and was executed by firing squad, so he lost to himself.

After death, he likewise lost to himself.

Shu Renjun reached out and touched his tears, looking at his hand: "Did I... regret it?"

These two streams of tears were named: Regret. As if coming from the River of Time—it was a sunny afternoon, his hands tightly gripping the iron wire, and that woman who was being strangled by him to the point of suffocation...

She turned her head, looked at him, and didn't speak.