Global Games: Old Chess Players

Chapter 121 "Even if it just shows me a glimmer of hope, that's enough."

On January 1, at dusk, teachers' dormitory in Shangshi City.

As the sun sets, the afterglow shoots obliquely into the dormitory through thousands of gaps in the grid windows like an arrow, bringing a bit of the atmosphere of setting sun and scorching clouds.

An Senlu suddenly thought of something and said:

"Speaking of which, Asuka, what are the things in your mall?"

"What?" Uesugi Asuka said casually.

"Exclusive items sold in the mall, every special sequence has it?" An Senlu looked at her.

"Oh, they're all passive skills, the ones that add attributes or regeneration."

"Can you become stronger without brain stacking attributes?" An Senlu blurted out, "It's so convenient, it's a special sequence for idiots."

Uesugi Asuka's voice cooled down, "Say it again, who is the idiot?"

"Hey, the sequence of chess players in the old days is too stupid. A fool can be number one in the world." After An Senlu finished speaking, he turned to look at Chu Qimo, "Mr. Chu, what do you sell in your mall?"

"A series of data that strengthens the dark sky."

Chu Qimo wiped An Qiong with a cloth, and said calmly: "Besides, my attributes are bound to An Qiong. If its attributes improve, I will also get certain rewards."

"That's great. In this sequence, a weapon is given at the beginning, and it can be brought to the later stage." An Senlu envied, "Unlike me, I don't have a weapon or equipment."

Asuka Uesugi cast her gaze away, and said puzzledly:

"They're all chess players now, aren't chess pieces just your equipment and weapons?"

"It makes sense, but I always feel that something is missing, and I feel very insecure." An Senlu curled his lips.

Ritsu Urushihara flipped the pages of the book with his slender fingers, and said without any waves in his voice:
"Mr. Lu, you should ask your enemies if they can feel a sense of security when facing your army of chess pieces. It would be too much to complain about these problems."

An Senka looked at Ritsu Urushihara, and asked lightly:
"Speaking of which, Crow, what else is in your mall?"

"I told you, it's a secret." Ritsu Urushihara smiled.

"Get out!" An Senlu looked at Yuri, "What about you, Icelandic girl, what series of exclusive products do you have in your mall?"

"Skill."

"Skill?"

"I bought it as soon as I got it." Yuri said lightly, "It's very expensive, about [-] evolution coins."

More than 3 evolution coins?
That's true, the evolution coins saved in the first three rounds of dungeons are almost the same amount, no wonder her skills haven't changed much.

"No wonder." Anson Lu thought deeply, "I see that your play style in the first three rounds of dungeons has not changed, and you haven't bought a piece of equipment. I almost thought that I was the only one who could buy serial products."

"What kind of equipment does a sequence player need, and ordinary occupations need it?" Uesugi Asuka held her chin and flipped through the new Weekly Shonen Jump manga, and said in a disdainful voice:
"Also, the key is that all the defense equipment in the mall is rotten, and the best one only adds 200 health points! There is also a weight attribute, which is completely useless!"

"200 points of life is also very high, okay?" An Senlu looked at Asuka with disdain, his face full of expressions - "Can you understand, penguin!".

"Please, those serial players in the law enforcement team don't have any equipment." Uesugi Asuka turned her head and said contemptuously:
"Moreover, they still rely on the Evolution Foundation. The Foundation's game understanding is at the forefront. This is not a disguised explanation-for sequence players, equipment is of no use at all."

Urushihara Ritsu said quietly: "It's not like that, the equipment made of rare materials is still useful."

"Huh?" An Sen Lu was taken aback, "No, this game can also create equipment?"

"Mr. Lu, if you can't build it, what do you think is the purpose of collecting materials for ordinary professional players? Is it simply selling them for evolution coins? That usage is too monotonous?"

"How to build it?"

An Senlu called out the mall panel, but did not find the option to build equipment.

"The top 1000 cities in the global rankings will open a forge for equipment during the holidays, where ordinary players use materials to create equipment." Crow said.

Anson Deer scratched his cheek and said disappointedly:
"Oh, it's the top 1000 cities in the world. I said it's no wonder there are no cities in Shanghai."

At this time, he already wanted to say goodbye to Shangshi City in his heart, but as a city where he stayed during the holidays, as long as the principal stayed here, then Shangshi was the safest place.

If you really want to build equipment, you can fly to a big city with a travel pass, but it is estimated that you will have to wait in line for a long time.

"However." Ritsu Urushihara paused, and said, "It's true, as Ms. Uesugi said, sequence players have very low demand for equipment, and ordinary professional players need equipment to make up for the shortage."

"More defensive equipment is a good thing." Anson Lu shrugged, "You think, when we fight against the law enforcement team, every time we either kill the opponent or be killed by the opponent, it will be different if we have defensive equipment."

"At least in the early stage of the game, the influence of defense equipment is not very great. It should be instant-killed or will be instant-killed." Chu Qimo wiped An Qiong, put the sword into the sword bag, and said slowly:
"Not only that, wearing anti-wear will slow down the movement, and the battle changes rapidly. What I need more is the explosive speed to deal with danger, so I gave up the anti-wear."

"So that's the case, Teacher Chu has a good opinion."

An Senlu gave a thumbs up, and completely gave up the idea of ​​buying defensive equipment—he has no money anyway.

"It's just a personal opinion." Chu Qimo replied lightly.

"By the way, everyone should be at the second level now." An Senlu asked again: "Has your sequence skills changed? Did someone take off secretly without telling your teammates?"

After An Senlu finished speaking, he stared at Asuka Uesugi blankly.

"Of course there is." Uesugi Asuka paused, "But, I won't tell you."

An Senlu turned his head and looked at Yuri silently.

"Trouble." Yuri said, "Next time."

An Senlu turned his head and glanced at Ritsu Urushihara without expectation.

"This is also a secret." Ritsu Urushihara put his finger in front of his lips.

An Senlu turned his head and looked at Teacher Chu as if he was dying.

Chu Qimo carried the sword bag on his back, and introduced unhurriedly:

"After being promoted to the second level, the three states of 'Short Sword', 'Long Sword', and 'Great Sword' each have one more skill. In other words, I now have a total of six sequence skills."

"Oh, that sounds amazing!" An Senlu nodded in confusion.

"I'm off to practice swordsmanship. Goodbye everyone."

Chu Qimo lowered his eyelids, stood up, and walked out of the dormitory with his sword bag on his back.

An Senlu waved at his back, "Goodbye, Teacher Chu~"

"It's so pitiful, have you finally met someone you can bully?" Uesugi Asuka asked with her mouth covered.

Anson Deer said solemnly:
"I hope we can have more people like Mr. Chu in our Hell Beacon. Did you hear that? Chu Rixiang, Chu Yuanlu, Chu Rui, and then we can directly change the name of the union to 'The Truman World'!"

".absurd."

".idiot."

".Fool."

An Senlu narrowed his eyes, "Who likes to stay with you heartless guys, I'd better find Xiaomei to play."

Uesugi Asuka said angrily, "Don't call Juliu 'Xiao Mei', or you will be rubbed by him sometime."

"I'm number one in the world, I can call it whatever I like, for example."

An Senlu played with his mobile phone and said casually, "Cry, Bao, Dragon."

"Huh? Who do you say is."

"Farewell."

An Senlu closed the door of the dormitory and slipped away resolutely.

While walking towards the rooftop, he used the panel to send a message to Juliu.

[Anson Deer: Where are you? 】

[Juliu: Chicago, I have a tavern to manage, so I won't go to Shangshi. 】

[An Senlu: Oh, I'll go find you for a drink? 】

[Juliu: Do you still drink? 】

[An Senlu: I don't know, my chess kind does, and the stone statue of the queen likes to drink. 】

[Juliu: You can come here, the address has been sent to you. 】

[An Senlu: I'm free to go there. 】

An Senlu turned off the panel, leaned on the railing of the roof, his eyes looked into the distance, and the wind blew across his cheeks.

"When will this kind of life end?"

He murmured, "Everyone is going to be bored. After half a year, after defeating the world boss, there won't be another world boss. Does the evolution game have to last forever?"

The game system did not mention whether the evolution game will have its finale after the crusade against the white dragon that descended on Tokyo in June, or whether it will continue.
The sky was covered in a reddish sunset glow, and the setting sun was about to dip below the horizon.

At this time, a bird flew over the tall tower in the city center, spread its wings and flew high until it hit an invisible wall and fell powerlessly to the ground.

"Gaba!"

The different-dimensional kangaroo rushed out of the chess field without hesitation.

It has quick hands and feet, and quickly pulled out the chimeric mechanical wings from the pocket of the different dimension, loaded them on its shoulders, and then shot straight at the falling bird at a terrifying speed.

"Officer Kangaroo, you are really an animal protection ambassador." Anson Deer held his chin and stared quietly at the back of the kangaroo.

He didn't even tell the kangaroo to come out, it rushed out by itself, and stepped on shit luck, pulled out its mechanical wings, otherwise it could only watch the bird fall to the ground dryly.

"Oh!"

The kangaroo equipped with mechanical wings was unimaginably fast, like a blue aurora, it shot towards the little bird, catching its body with both hands.

At this time, the use time of the mechanical wing also expired.

10 second time limit.

It's just such a cheat, the kangaroo police officer will never pay the technology fee.

At this moment, seeing the kangaroo holding the bird, it was about to hit the ground from a high altitude.

An Senlu looked at this scene, and said calmly, "King Guardian, recall the different-dimensional kangaroos."

The sound fell, and the different-dimensional kangaroo appeared next to it with a "whoosh--", it spread its hands, and lowered its eyelids in pity: the little bird was still dying, and its wings spasmed violently.

An Senlu looked at the sky, took out the only remaining bottle of "Nano Quick-acting Medical Spray" from his pocket, and threw it to the different-dimensional kangaroo without even looking at it.

"Take it."

"Gaba!"

The different-dimensional kangaroo took the bottle of spray, nodded gratefully, and used the spray to treat the bird's injuries—its wounds healed quickly, and it was able to fly into the sky again.

Constable Kangaroo's serious eyes were glowing with afterglow.

[Dimensional Kangaroo's favorability towards you: 45 points → 85 points]

"Kangaroo," Ansen Lu turned his head, squinting at the different-dimensional kangaroo, "I will say it one last time, without my permission, you are not allowed to come out of the chess library."

"Gaba!"

Officer Kangaroo saluted and disappeared in place.

An Senlu stared at the bird that flew away, and after a long period of trance, he opened the friend list and clicked on the chat panel with Lorenzo.

[Anson Deer: Pope, do me a favor, as if I owe you a favor. 】

[Lorenzo: What do you need? 】

[An Senlu: I need you to ask Gu Qiu to help me find all the documents about "Ancaches Syndrome" in the official Icelandic database. 】

【Lorenzo: You are for that Icelandic girl? 】

[An Senlu: Yes, for her. 】

After An Senlu finished typing, he stared at the chat panel quietly, but Lorenzo's message did not pop up for a long time.

The young man's eyes turned, and the setting sun dipped below the horizon at this moment, taking away the light that sprinkled on the earth. In the distance, thousands of households were lit up with dots of fire, and in the dark night, it looked like a brightly lit big ship.

Ten minutes later, Anson Lu was about to close the panel when a message popped up.

[Lorenzo: I read it again, and her experience is indeed very sad. 】

[Lorenzo: However, it is still the same. It is absolutely not allowed to publish this document to the outside world. It cannot cause the majority of people to fall into turmoil because of one person. Otherwise, it is equivalent to you betraying my trust, and our cooperation ends here. End. 】

[Lorenzo: Also, there will be no next time. 】

After the last sentence, Lorenzo sent a densely packed document, with the Icelandic official seal on the upper right corner of the rough document.

An Senlu raised the corners of his mouth slightly and moved his fingers.

[An Senlu: Well, it won't be announced. 】

After An Senlu finished typing, he clicked on the document, his dark brown eyes moved, looking at the photos on the document.

The white-haired girl was sitting on the bed in the ward, looking out the window.

When she was reading in the ward, her eyelids were lowered, and her clear eyes were focused on the words in the book.

She looked like she was watching TV in the ward. The latest Nintendo game commercials were displayed on the TV screen. Characters such as Pokémon, Mario, and Zelda were fighting fiercely on TV.

She looked like she was drinking water in the ward, her snow-white hair was hanging down in front of her eyes, covering her forehead.

Capital dragged her onto the stage. She wore a plain white dress and was regarded as a 'super-memory genius'.

Officials dragged her onto the operating table, where she was covered in bandages and treated as a 'research specimen'.

Her eyes were so indifferent from the beginning to the end, and there was never a different expression on her face.

From the beginning of the file to the end of the file, she spent every day in a similar environment, not in a narrow ward, or on various stages, facing the spotlight and the camera, with pale cheeks, indifferent expression, cold voice.

Day after day, year after year, in the same ward, the snow fell several times, the branches outside the window broke and grew again, the leaves fell and grew again, the girl grew up slowly in this narrow room, the snow-white Her hair was getting longer and longer, hanging down from her shoulders and reaching her waist, and she was reading more and more books, filling several bookshelves in one corner of the room.

Then, she met you in Hokkaido.

Just because you casually said "We are friends", she treats you as the only friend, as if there is something irreplaceable.

Extremely ironic.

"Is the night in Shangshi so cold?"

An Senlu's eyes were covered by jet-black strands of hair, he exhaled lightly, and unconsciously wrapped his scarf tightly with his hands.

From this official document, there is still no clue of a cure for Ancaches Syndrome.

It's just mentioned in the papers -- after the first two children with Ancaches died, their parents kept quiet about it.

No matter what means they used to negotiate, they failed to provide any substantive clues-they seemed to be hiding something, but the Icelandic officials couldn't force it out, so they gave up and shifted their target to Yuri.

This may be a breakthrough.

The parents of the first two patients seemed to hold some clues, and one of them was still alive in the Icelandic dockside village of Düpivogur.

"Use the travel roll, destination, Dupivogur." Anson Deer said.

At this time, Uesugi Asuka pushed open the iron gate, walked into the rooftop, opened her lips lightly, and was about to say something to Ansenlu, when Ansenlu's back disappeared and merged into the dim night.

"What about people?"

She had one arm on her hip, looking confused.

Dupivogur, East Iceland, at night.

This pier village is located in a remote place with few pedestrians and a small population. If tourists come to Iceland to travel, they will not choose such a rare place. However, the scenery is very clean. Just walking in it makes people feel comfortable, like a oil painting.

The ice surface of the village reflects the aurora in the sky. The aurora intertwined with blue and blue is beautiful and breathtaking.

Ansenlu put his hands in the pockets of his coat and strolled in the village shrouded in a faint halo. His eyes looked around, and he was a little curious about where the Icelandic girl spent her childhood.

According to the address information in the file, he quickly found the door.

This is a log cabin with a fresh and unique shape. The architectural style of Dupivogur is generally the same. It is simple and clean, giving people a refreshing feeling.

The door is ajar.

In this wooden house, there is a lonely man who is boiling milk, and the faint fragrance of milk comes out.

The appearance of the man is much more vicissitudes than the photos on the file.

But An Senlu recognized that this was the person he was looking for.

On the documents, Khaki was the first patient with Ancaches syndrome, who died nine years ago; the man was Khaki's father, Jeff, who was 49 years old.

"Boom"

An Senlu knocked on the door lightly twice.

"Dong dong."

The man put down the pot and walked over quickly.

"What's the matter?" Jeff put his hand on the edge of the door, with a strange expression - at this hour, it is not unusual for a Chinese person to visit the door.

Anson Lu stared into Jeff's eyes, and said sincerely:

"Mr. Jeff, I want to ask you something about your daughter."

"Oh!"

The loud bang of the door closing and opening interrupted his words.

Jeff's door closed fast and hard.

An Senlu's face twitched slightly, and there was light in his eyes.

Obviously, he could easily tear this man apart and force him to obtain the information he wanted, but he just suppressed the violent outburst and took a deep breath of cold air.

He leaned against the door and said in a low voice:
"Mr. Jeff, I know your heart is very heavy. Maybe you don't want to hear these things again in your life."

"But do you know Yuri? Like your daughter, she also suffers from Ancacia syndrome. I just want to know... Is there any chance I can save her?"

"Even if it just makes me see a little hope, that's enough."

"I beg you."

The door opened.

Jeff stared at Anson Deer's cheek in silence, and put his hand on the door, as if beckoning him to enter the house.

"Thank you." Anson Lu said softly.

　Thank you for your monthly tickets, subscriptions, and rewards.

　　Friends push.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)