Chapter 22: Black and White Puzzle (4)

“You mean, we have to get all the chess pieces to pass the level?”

Faced with Qiao Linlin’s question, Qi Ming hesitated for a moment, but still nodded, “Almost, but I’m not sure. But anyway, we don’t know the rules now, it’s always better to get the chess pieces first.”

Qiao Linlin snorted, played with her curly hair, and asked with a smile: “In this case, do you want to join us?”

Oh, team up.

“That’s fine with me, but I have a teammate, I have to ask her.”

Qi Ming subconsciously looked at Bai You, wanting to ask her opinion.

But he saw her squatting in the corner, drawing with a marker pen that she didn’t know where she came from, and the white square under her feet was covered with messy handwriting.

Huh? What’s this for?

Qi Ming was about to walk over when he was suddenly stopped by Qiao Linlin.

“Hey, I didn’t ask her. I asked you, will you join us?”

Qiao Linlin glanced at Bai You in the corner and said with a smile, “I see you two don’t know each other. A little girl like that would be a burden to bring along. What’s the point? Yi Chen and I cleared the elite mission in the last dungeon.”

Lu Yi Chen beside him also said the same thing.

“Brother, we are all men. I understand what you are thinking. But you can bring a girl anytime. It doesn’t matter if you bring one.”

“But platinum items are not so easy to get. I don’t need to say more about how expensive they are now, right?”

Platinum items are actually items issued by the system after clearing elite missions.

There is only one elite reward item for each dungeon, and only players who clear elite missions for the first time can get it. Moreover, as the level of the dungeon increases, the quality of the items will also increase.

Qi Ming had never seen what the props looked like or what effects they had, but he had heard that the price of platinum props was hyped up to six figures.

Qi Ming pursed his lips and did not agree immediately. Instead, he looked hesitant and asked with some doubt.

“But, you don’t have any information, how do you know that the platinum reward of this copy is still there? What if someone else has cleared it first?”

Qiao Linlin chuckled.

“Then I was lying to you. I said that because I thought you wanted to get something for nothing.”

She said, then changed the subject, “But we didn’t get any information in the dungeon.”

Qi Ming was even more confused, “So…?”

“If you can’t get information in the game, then of course you got it from outside the game.”

Lu Yichen smiled mysteriously and said nothing more, “I can only tell you that this dungeon is called [Black and White Puzzle]. The current exploration level is 0%. We are the first batch of players to enter this dungeon.”

“The rest will be told to you after you join us.”

Lu Yichen confidently extended an olive branch to Qi Ming, firmly believing that Qi Ming would join them.

No one can resist the temptation of huge amounts of money.

They have been observing in the black and white space for a while. A completely indifferent idiot and a weak little girl do not meet their standards.

Only a silly boy like Qi Ming is more suitable. He is easy to control and is just right as cannon fodder.

Qi Ming blinked.

Outside the game…

This doesn’t mean cheating, does it?

“How about it, have you thought it through?”

“…”

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The circles on the ground became more and more, and the complex layers were superimposed on each other. Only some messy tracks could be barely seen. Bai You’s head twitched, and she couldn’t sort out her thoughts at all.

For a long while, she rubbed her eyebrows and sighed repeatedly.

Hearing footsteps coming beside her, Bai You threw the pen a little angrily, and complained in frustration: “Qi Ming, I can’t play chess, can you?”

Because the voice was a little muffled when squatting and talking, it couldn’t be heard, and it sounded a little aggrieved and complaining.

“Why is this thing so difficult?”

Calculating the steps of playing chess, she was confused. She had never been interested in chess and Chinese chess since she was a child, and she didn’t even know the rules very well.

Bai You was staring at the messy endgame on the ground, so she didn’t notice why Qi Ming didn’t speak for a while. She was thinking about how to break the game.

The number of the three special chess pieces is 2, and the boy only has one [Knight] in his hand, which means that the other one will be chosen from the remaining eight doors.

But before opening the door, no one knows what the chess piece behind the door is. Bai You feels that with her luck, it is completely a dream to want to bump into [Knight] from the one in eight possibility.

She can’t guess right for one quarter of the multiple-choice questions, so she might as well forget about one in eight.

Then what should be considered is: how to eat [Bishop] with a weak [Pawn] without injury in the absence of [Knight].

…This is a difficult problem.

Bai You pursed her lips tightly and quickly calculated the possibilities in her mind. As long as she can touch the opponent’s bottom line, it is possible…

“Promotion.”

Bai You was slightly stunned when she heard this strange voice.

She looked up and saw the boy who got the [Knight]. She didn’t know when he came over. It seemed that he had been there for a while, staring at the endgame on the ground.

She did want [Pawn] to upgrade to other chess pieces to eat [Bishop], but…

Bai You looked at the messy and outrageous chess game she drew on the ground and was shocked for a moment. He could actually see her moves?

What kind of person is this?

The boy lowered his eyes and looked at the chess game, and he said what she was worried about.

“It’s a good idea, but it’s a pity that the opponent is too strong. If you rush forward without cover, you will just die in vain.”

Being pointed out the shortcomings, Bai You had a headache and simply gave up, “Then how do you think we should solve it?”

The boy half squatted down and placed a white chess piece on the chess game. The small [Knight] was isolated in the middle of the bishop, perfectly blocking all attacks.

“That’s all.”

Bai You blinked.

She knew this was the best solution, but he showed her the chess piece, which meant…

“What’s OK?”

Qi Ming suddenly leaned in and interrupted: “What are you talking about? You are sneaking around together. Is there anything I can’t listen to?”

“Nothing.”

Bai You pushed his head away coldly, “Too close, stay away.”

“What did you say to them for so long?”

Qi Ming tilted his head and muttered: “They saw my extraordinary intelligence in the crowd at first sight, so they wanted to recruit me to be their teammate.”

He clicked his tongue twice, “But I don’t want to follow this couple. Who wants to rush to smell the sour smell of love? I don’t have this problem.”

“What else?”

Qi Ming blinked and said in surprise: “How do you know I have something else to say?!”

“…”

Bai You quietly took out a small round mirror from his pocket and shone it towards his face.

It’s not her fault for reading faces. Qi Ming’s smug expression of “I have information, ask me quickly” is so obvious that anyone can tell.

“Oh my god, you have so many things, markers and mirrors. Is your bag the same as Doraemon’s?”

Qi Ming chuckled, looked back to see that Qiao Linlin and the others had already left, and then continued.

“I don’t know how they got the information from outside the game. They only told me that this dungeon is called [Black and White Mystery], and we are the first batch of players to enter. The current highest exploration level is 0%.”

Bai You was slightly stunned, “Cheat?”

“You think so, right? I said that the dungeon is isolated from the real information transmission. They can get information from the outside, so they must be cheating.”

“I just don’t know if it is transmitted in real time. It’s boring to play a decryption game with cheats.”

Qi Ming curled his lips, disdaining such behavior from the bottom of his heart, “But they seem to cheat just to get platinum props to sell for money. This game lets them play, and they finally understand.”

Bai You silently made a note of this.

When the dungeon is over, these cheating IDs will be blocked, and the dog system will be upgraded. It’s okay to fail to connect to the signal several times, and even the cheats cracked by the players can’t be found.

It’s really the worst of the worst in the system, isn’t it embarrassing?

“By the way, what is this painting?”

Qi Ming frowned deeply, staring at him in thought, “Let me take a look… Um, Mona Lisa with a pearl earring?”

Bai You: “?”

What a mess.

“This is a chess game.”

“…Are you sure?”

Qi Ming expressed deep doubt and did not believe it at all, “Except for this white spot, I can’t see any place that looks like a chess piece, and you said a chess game, what about the chessboard?”

“So don’t tease me, what exactly did you draw, is it a scream? It looks about 70% similar, I didn’t expect you to have some achievements in the painting world, and you can even make such a world-famous painting…”

“Yes, you guessed right, yeah.”

Bai You swallowed his anger and agreed perfunctorily.

While Qi Ming was mumbling and studying the “world-famous painting”, Bai You picked up the [Knight] chess piece and handed it back to the boy leaning against the wall.

“Your stuff.”

The boy lowered his eyes and looked at her outstretched hand, but did not take it.

He smiled, his pure black eyes were clean and clear, and with his fluffy hair, he looked like a soft little animal without claws and teeth.

“Can I use it as a token of my loyalty?”

Bai You was not surprised that he would say such a thing. When he took out the chess pieces to solve the chess game, she knew that this would happen.

“Okay. But I’m not sure I can pass it, so I can only do my best.”

But what made her very curious was why the boy chose her to form a team instead of the young couple?

And he trusted her so much to give her [Knight]?

“Maybe… because your ‘painting’ is more to my liking? I quite like it.”

As if seeing the doubt in Bai You’s eyes, the boy’s eyebrows curved and answered.

“I haven’t introduced myself yet. I’m Shi Ye.”

Bai You nodded slightly. Just when he was about to say his name, he suddenly felt dizzy.

The things in front of her eyes suddenly became blurry, and Shi Ye’s face in her sight was unclear. He seemed to be smiling…?

She didn’t know.

The black and white space was shattered into pieces, and a dozen doors were randomly pieced together. Her consciousness dissipated, and she couldn’t think, until everything went dark in front of her eyes, and she couldn’t see anything anymore.

[Welcome to the dungeon——]

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No one urged me to update, so I couldn’t get excited to write (sigh)