135: Chapter 135 The White Chessboard

[Type: Plot Requirement]

[Can be taken out of the dungeon: No]

[Effect: There are always night owls who use various excuses to coax the lovely counselor into issuing this leave slip, thereby achieving their goal of staying out all night.]

Seeing the item information, Chen Mo understood.

This is for the Dorm Manager, and the reason is simple: to allow for openly leaving the Dormitory at night.

So...

Staying in the Dormitory at night is safe and won't be attacked by ghosts, is that false?

Actually, what should really be done is to leave the Dormitory at night.

Because Chen Mo cracked the Beans game.

At this moment, the wax covering His Majesty the King automatically melted, and His Majesty the King's true form appeared before everyone's eyes.

"I! I've finally recovered!"

His Majesty the King stretched out his hands, squeezed his face forcefully, and tugged at his beard.

That rugged face, the prickly stubble, he hadn't experienced it for decades.

He was extremely happy, directly taking one of Chen Mo's hands and gratefully said, "Sir, if you are willing, then from now on, you will be my Chief of Staff!"

"What the hell?"

Everyone was astonished upon hearing this.

You just cracked a Beans game, and you want Chen Mo to be your advisor?

Isn't that a bit too hasty?

No wonder it's recorded in many Western novels.

A cunning scoundrel who played a few small tricks for His Majesty the King became the Imperial advisor after performing a few small things.

Even more outrageous...

In some fairy tales, a certain king was even deceived by a tailor.

He told him that the clothes were incredibly beautiful, but their beauty could only be seen by intelligent people.

And so... the king paraded naked through the streets.

Seeing a group of Villagers mocking him, the king only thought that these Villagers were all fools.

No wonder they were all just a bunch of low-class people.

In reality, the king was the truly clever one!

"Okay!"

"What?"

Unexpectedly, Chen Mo actually agreed, and very readily.

"Then, Mr. Chief of Staff, there may be more challenges for you to solve in the next three days. You must help me."

"As long as we get through these difficult three days, all my soldiers will recover. By then, we will lead the army to attack, cross the Chu River, and kill everyone in Daming Palace!"

After saying this, a halo flashed before their eyes.

When they opened their eyes again, Chen Mo and the others were already back at the entrance of the toy store.

The difference was...

At this moment, Chen Mo was already holding the crystal ball in his hand.

"It seems it can be carried around. We don't need to specifically go to the toy store entrance. As long as we solve the king's puzzles on time, we can get items for nighttime travel."

Chen Mo showed everyone the reward he had just received: the 6 leave slips.

"So... we must go out at night to look for clues. What day and night can provide us are different," Meng Zhou analyzed.

After completing the King's Exhibition Hall, there was still half an hour left.

It only takes 10 minutes to walk from the toy store back to the grotto.

Chen Mo decided to go to the Devil's Exhibition Hall again.

However, since the King's Exhibition Hall was hidden so deeply, the Devil's Exhibition Hall must also be hidden in some secluded place.

Lu Chengfeng returned to the previous manhole cover.

He lifted it open and saw a swirling, smoke-like darkness constantly changing inside.

A pair of red eyes suddenly opened in the darkness, accompanied by chaotic cackling.

"Hmph hmph hmph! Come on! Outsider!"

A pair of thick, powerful hands instantly reached out, grabbed Lu Chengfeng's waist, and dragged him into the darkness.

Chen Mo and the others immediately rushed over, looking into the unfathomable darkness at the bottom of the well.

"Officer Lu, he..." Su Qing picked up the police cap left on the ground, her mood complex.

"Maybe he's already been eaten by a ghost. Alas... he might have found some unusual traces near the sewer," Jiang Xinyi sighed.

"People shouldn't die during the day; that's the rule of the Thriller Game. My suggestion is... we jump down and see," Meng Zhou said.

"Chen Mo, what do you think?" Xu Xiaoman looked at Chen Mo, who was deep in thought.

"I can't be sure either, but since the sewer can be opened, it proves that there must be clues hidden inside."

Before Chen Mo could finish speaking, a ghostly hand suddenly reached out and grabbed Chen Mo's ankle.

Su Qing immediately stepped forward, hugging Chen Mo's waist, trying to hold him back.

However, the ghostly hand's strength was unstoppable, and the two instantly fell into the bottom of the well.

Xu Xiaoman slid forward, using all her strength to grab Su Qing's ankle, but she was also instantly dragged in.

The three of them thus disappeared into the chaotic darkness.

Meng Zhou and Jiang Xinyi stepped back two paces, maintaining distance from the manhole cover.

Meng Zhou gulped hard and asked, "Little Jiang, what... do you think? Should we go in?"

"Don't think you can call me by my nickname just because it's just the two of us here. We're not friends anymore."

Upon hearing this, Meng Zhou secretly dug his nails into his palm.

"You're right! I was too deluded. I just wanted us to be like when we were kids."

"You know, I don't have many friends, only you," Meng Zhou said sincerely.

"Don't talk about childhood. I just want to get out of here safely now. If you could use your brain more, I'd be eternally grateful."

With that, Jiang Xinyi took a few steps forward and voluntarily jumped into the darkness.

"Hoo... hoo..."

Only Meng Zhou was left at the scene, his chest heaving up and down.

He gritted his teeth.

But soon, emotion was suppressed by reason. He shook his head helplessly.

Finally, he also delved into the darkness.

Clutched tightly by the two girls, Chen Mo couldn't move in mid-air, only praying they would stop screaming.

Xu Xiaoman and Su Qing screamed in terror as the three of them continuously darted through the dark tunnel, following a green will-o'-the-wisp ahead.

The will-o'-the-wisp always maintained a distance of 10 meters from them, serving as their only guide.

The surrounding darkness occasionally transformed into various ghostly faces, stretching their necks to appear before them and scare them.

"Damn it!"

Chen Mo suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm.

He turned his head and saw Su Qing biting his arm.

Xu Xiaoman was even more extreme, directly reaching her hand into his armpit and pinching Chen Mo's armpit.

And even pulled out a few hairs.

After traversing through layers of underground space, the area ahead suddenly brightened.

The three flew out from the end of a slide and landed neatly on a White Chessboard.

"No, why did you bite my arm?"

"I'm sorry, Chen Mo! I was so scared that I originally wanted to bite my own hand, but I bit the wrong one."

"Let's just keep making mistakes then," Su Qing blinked her eyes.

"Ahem."

Chen Mo raised his arm and saw a clear row of bite marks on it.

"Alright, next time I'll prepare a prosthetic limb for you."

"And you."

Upon hearing this, Xu Xiaoman immediately bowed 90 degrees and said.

"I'm sorry, Chen Mo, I was wrong!"

Such a sincere and standard apology template made Chen Mo too embarrassed to complain.

"Lu Chengfeng!" Chen Mo shouted the other person's name, crossing his arms.

Walking on this White Chessboard, its edges were hollowed out, and looking down, there was bottomless darkness.

Falling from here would surely result in injuries that even plastic surgeons couldn't fix.

Chen Mo and the two girls turned back, returning to the center of the chessboard.

His foot suddenly kicked something, which rolled along the smooth chessboard, making a crisp "clinking sound."

Chen Mo bent down and picked up what he had just kicked.

It was a shining glass bead.

Inside the glass bead, there seemed to be an embedded biological specimen.

Just like some glass beads contain things like "centipedes, spiders, butterflies."

Bringing the glass bead closer.

Chen Mo squinted one eye to look carefully and found a small person embedded inside the glass bead.

He flipped the glass bead over.

Chen Mo's breath suddenly hitched!

A wax figure modeled after Lu Chengfeng was trapped inside this thumb-sized glass bead.