I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 763 Bronze Chessboard
"Rhythmic speed is the speed of advancement!"

"Rhythm adjustment is just rolling the dice!"

"But its dice are different from the usual dice. Random events will appear on its dice."

"The random event we just encountered was that the otter encountered a piece of driftwood, which stopped one dice roll."

"But what's the point of stopping a roll? It only slows us down."

"In a single player game, slowing down movement is pointless unless..."

"There are competitors, or there are corresponding timings!"

The merry-maker, who had extensive experience in gaming, immediately guessed the rules of the game and quickly began to look around, trying to find the "competitor" or the corresponding timer.

Sure enough, it found it not long after.

"over there!"

Through the hazy green light on the chessboard, you can see a hollow bronze sphere in the distance. The green light spots in the sphere are constantly dissipating through the hollowing and becoming less and less.

"That should be the timer. When all the light spots escape, it means the time is over."

As the merrymaker was speaking, the roulette wheel in the sky began to spin once again, and this time it stopped at a new pattern.

"Skip this rhythm adjustment."

The grid under his feet did not change at all, and the bronze mask did not emit any green light. Just as it said, it skipped this advance.

The light in the timer was still slowly ticking away, and Mo Ling didn't know what would happen after the time was up. He looked around and didn't find any door leading to the next floor.

"Does it mean that I must play this bronze chess game to reach the next level?"

Why did Bronze suddenly start playing games with himself?
Mo Ling looked up at the motionless bronze mask in the sky, his heart filled with confusion.

After a while, the roulette wheel started turning again.

It seemed that the time for each rotation of the roulette wheel was fixed, about once every two minutes. This time, the roulette wheel stopped on the pattern of a big tree.

The big tree was lush and leafy, and there were many small animals around it. There was a heart growing on the trunk of the tree, and there was an eye in the center of the heart, which looked quite strange.

Seeing the strange big tree, Mo Ling had a bad feeling again. He wondered if he would encounter another bad random event.

The voice of the bronze mask sounded again:
"Rhythm speed, none."

"Rest and recuperate, and be prepared for hard work."

"Skip this rhythm adjustment and double the rhythm adjustment next time."

"..."

After hearing what the Bronze Mask said, Mo Ling breathed a sigh of relief. This was not a bad random event. If the next rhythm adjustment could get a good rhythm speed, the profit would be greater after doubling.

The merrymaker at the side listened carefully to the words of the bronze mask, looked at the various patterns on the roulette wheel, and said excitedly: "It seems that this is a game based purely on luck. Good, good, I like this kind of game that doesn't require any brains."

As the Rejoicer spoke, he tried to walk out of the grid under his feet, but was blocked by an invisible barrier.

"You can't jump out of the grid under your feet, which prevents cheating."

"But why are there patterns on the grid under your feet? What does it mean?"

The grid under Mo Ling and the Joyer's feet was very large. On it was carved a cobra with its head and tail connected. The snake was biting its own tail. The snake's body was fat and looked a little stupid.

As he was studying the pattern under his feet, the roulette wheel started spinning again.

Click!

The roulette wheel froze on a pattern of a flock of geese, which seemed to be migrating across a huge swamp.

The voice of the bronze mask sounded again.

"The rhythm speed is extremely fast."

"The wild geese fly south, and they come back again."

"This time the rhythm is adjusted to reverse."

"..."

fall back?

Hearing what the Bronze Mask said, Mo Ling and the Joy-seeker were stunned. The rhythm speed was still "extremely fast", so wasn't that accelerating backwards?

The last time the roulette wheel was randomly adjusted to double, doesn't this mean we're going straight back to the starting point?
Bad luck...

“Maybe there will be some punishment after we return to the starting point.”

As Mo Ling was thinking, the eyes of the bronze mask emitted green light, shining on the chessboard.

The ground began to move again like caterpillar tracks, trying to push the two men backwards.

But at this moment, the squares under his feet suddenly reflected green light, and the fat Ouroboros pattern suddenly began to rotate.

Then, an astonishing scene happened. Just as the entire chessboard was moving backwards, the Ouroboros square under the feet of the two people actually went upstream and rushed forward. After a while, it rushed a long distance.

"What's going on? Shouldn't we retreat?"

The revelers nearby also didn't understand and shouted to the mask in the sky, "When playing games, the rules must be explained clearly! What does this mean?"

Unexpectedly, the mask in the sky actually began to explain.

"A foolish snake bites its tail in its mouth, advancing to retreat, retreating to advance..."

"On this square, the direction of the rhythm adjustment is reversed."

Reverse...Hearing this, Mo Ling immediately understood.

First it went backwards, then it reversed, and naturally it became forwards.

Two negatives add up to a positive, after gathering two negative events, you actually get a positive return in the end!
Mo Ling didn't know whether this was good luck or bad luck. Judging from the results, he had made a lot of progress, so he should be considered lucky.

The roulette wheel in the sky began to spin again, and this time it stopped on a pattern of an elephant.

"Rhythm speed, slow."

"Be steady and proceed step by step."

"This rhythm adjustment is not affected by the chessboard squares."

"..."

This time, the green light emitted by the bronze mask seemed very heavy, pressing directly on the chessboard squares under the feet. The patterns on the squares were suppressed before they could reflect the light.

It seems that the patterns on the roulette wheel and the patterns on the grid also have a mutual restraining effect.

The hollow sphere in the distance continued to emit light spots, and the roulette wheel continued to rotate at fixed time intervals.

"go ahead."

"Back off."

"pause."

"Random teleport."

"..."

The patterns on the roulette wheel are all kinds of strange, and most of them are unique. The grids under your feet also play various strange roles, sometimes turning danger into safety, and sometimes having side effects.

Just like that, when the light spot in the hollow sphere was about to run out, Mo Ling and the Joyer reached the finish line.

There was a picture of an ancient door on the grid. The door was open and there was a spiral halo mark inside the door.

The bronze mask was still floating above the chessboard, overlooking the two of them.

Seeing that they had reached the end, two green lights shot out from those eyes and shone on the gate of the grid under their feet.

When illuminated by the green light, the gate actually slowly broke away from the plane and stood up, turning from a carving on a bronze piece into a real thing.

"Rhythm speed, none."

"qualified."

"..."

As the voice of the bronze mask rang out, the gate instantly burst into an incomparably gorgeous rainbow of light.

(End of this chapter)