Global Games: Old Chess Players

Chapter 220 "Your boy... has grown taller."

Sistoria smiled slightly, and the huge golden pendulum slowly rose from behind her to the sky, swinging violently from side to side, just like Big Ben at noon, spreading out the bells that resounded throughout the world.

As the pendulum swayed, circles of mercury light like ripples fell to the entire volcanic valley, covering all the still things, including Ansen deer.

His face was cold, his body could not move, but his mind was constantly thinking.

……pendulum.

...Historia, is the name of the principal's time-traveling chess piece.

Her ability is related to the pendulum.

I must write it down, maybe I will draw related chess pieces in the future.

An Senlu had judged through super intuition before that the time-traveling chess piece was the principal's "infinite advanced chess type".

Now, he has selected the stone statue of the queen as the "infinite advanced chess type", so he is naturally not sure whether he will be able to obtain the ability to travel through time like the principal in the future.

No matter what, An Senlu didn't plan to leave a way out for himself.

For him, this timeline is the only chance left for him.

If you lose, the world will be destroyed.

Win, usher in new hope.

While An Senlu was thinking, his body was gradually engulfed by the mercury light scattered by the pendulum, as if immersed in a deep silver ocean, and his mouth and nose were blocked by solidified liquid.

[Chess type "Ansen Deer" has released a skill-time retrospective. 】

bored...

So what is this chess piece used for...

An Senlu quickly lost his breath, his eyes darkened, and his consciousness fell into a coma.

After an unknown amount of time, he raised his heavy eyelids.

What came into view was a rooftop. An Senlu supported his swollen forehead, a pain that seemed to be torn apart filled his mind, forcing him to cheer up.

He stared blankly ahead, unable to take his eyes off.

There is no doubt that he is very familiar with this rooftop. This is the high school grade teaching building of Shangshi High School. When the union stronghold was still in Shangshi, he often chatted with the crows and the others here.

It was dusk, the sky was pale yellow and ultramarine blue, and the thick gray fog drifted in the town, covering most of An Senlu's vision, so that he could only see the scene inside Shangshi High School clearly.

The school seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, lizard-like moss crawled everywhere, and the steel school sign at the entrance was covered with a layer of thick black rust. The rust spread ferociously, and even the walls around the school sign were Infected by it, it was exaggerated as if it was submerged in mud. At this time, the four characters "Shangshi High School" mounted on special materials on the plaque were completely invisible. They were either blurred to almost transparent, or covered by rust .

"...What's the situation?" An Senlu murmured in a low voice.

This scene is not like a hallucination, not like a scene woven by the system, every detail impacts his senses, constantly reminding him that this is real, not fake.

Every time An Senlu came back from the dungeon, he would immediately confirm the situation in Shangshi City. He was very sure in his heart that the school could not become like this overnight.

Intuition and thinking complement each other, allowing him to come to a conclusion very quickly—here...maybe the distant future.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind, interrupting An Senlu's thoughts.

He turned his head abruptly, staring at the principal and the girl next to the principal - Hystoria. The expressions of these two were very calm. The girl played her mouth with a playful smile on her face.

The corner of An Senlu's mouth twitched slightly, and after a long silence, he asked:
"Old principal, why did you go?"

"Dead." The principal said lightly. He touched the pocket of his suit jacket, as if he wanted to get a cigarette, but the pocket was empty, with no cigarette or lighter.

Sistoria took out a cigarette from somewhere, and handed it to the principal with a smile: "The last cigarette in your life, enjoy it..." After a pause, she said quietly again: "Oh no, strictly speaking , we are no longer human.”

died?

Not human anymore?

"Hey, hey, what's going on?" Anson Lu said incoherently, "You stood in front of me, you stood in front of me, you told me you were dead, the stinky old man is used to pretending to be a ghost, right?"

Now that the principal is dead, who is standing in front of him?Why he has the ability to drag him to the future is too bizarre, and the development of things is far beyond his imagination.

"The me you see now is just an individual constructed by the system based on my previous 'thought and behavior patterns'."

The principal took the girl's cigarette, swallowed it, and explained: "She is the same, just treat us as machines."

"...Then what are you going to do?" An Senlu lowered his head.

"We still have 2 minutes. During these 2 minutes, you can ask us everything you want to know." The principal said slowly.

At this moment, the dragon's chant that could shatter the eardrums resounded through the sky, and the ground trembled violently. The king standing at the top of the biological chain slowly lifted the thick fog, revealing its majestic figure like the Tower of Babel.

Its wings are like a vast and endless curtain, almost covering half of the sky of the small town. The entire Shangshi High School is covered by deep shadows, and no light can pass through the dragon's wings.

It covered all the light, and just a slight vibration of its wings was enough to set off a burst of cracking sound, and all the clouds and mists in the town were swayed, even the sky trembled, the space was shattered, and Shangshi City seemed to become a city. The air battlefield between the two great powers was broken, countless missiles exploded in the air, and the strong wind howled and swept across the ground.

It is getting closer and closer to Shangshi City, the face facing away from the sun is shrouded in gloomy shadow, the huge erect pupils are shining in the darkness, the expression is as ferocious as the devil king on the [-]th floor of hell, and as lonely as The king who dominates the world is like Pangu who created the world in Chinese mythology, Zeus the supreme god who ruled all things in the world in Greek mythology, and Odin who created the earth and human beings in Norse mythology.

The entire city was collapsing, with Xuelong's body as the center, tens of millions of violent steam gushed out one after another, and the airflow from the flapping wings pushed the steam to sweep in all directions.

In front of such giants, everything loses its due color, and all creatures must meet the king of the world with the most humble and sincere attitude.

Only Anson Lu didn't bother to look back.

He knew what was behind him...it was the snow dragon, the snow dragon that would descend on Tokyo, Japan in June of 2026, a monster that would ruin the principal's world into a mess.

For decades, it has trampled on human civilization day after day, and no grass will grow wherever it goes. Now the Shangshi City in China will also become its playground.

"Chess player, I haven't seen it for a long time." Sistoria smiled, "Our old friend."

"Yeah...it has become bigger, even bigger than before." The headmaster raised his head, his deep eyes reflected the snow dragon that was higher than the sky, and lit the smoke with a lighter.

As the snow dragon landed on the ground, there was a loud noise like a nuclear explosion, the air suddenly cooled down, and the loud noises of buildings collapsing followed one after another, followed by thunderous dragon chants.

An Senlu's ears were so shocked that he was about to lose consciousness, but he still didn't turn his head. He just raised his brown eyes and stared angrily at the principal's face, unable to say a word.

He clearly knew in his heart that the person in front of him was not the principal, but just a data body generated by the system based on the principal's information, but his mood was still very complicated.

"Don't worry, we know no less than our own body. The 'principal' and I have at least a 90.00% similarity. Whether it is memory or personality, they are highly overlapped." The principal said unhurriedly, " And the remaining one percent is beyond the scope of the system."

"Isn't your skill going back in time? How did you drag me into the future?" An Senlu asked in a low voice.

"Some permissions and loopholes have been exploited. There is no need to ask about these. It is too long to explain, and time is limited."

"I still have a lot of things I want to ask you."

"I know."

"Why did you do those things to Yuri?"

"I was doing an experiment at the time, trying to see if I could artificially create a 'sequence player'."

"...you're such an asshole."

"At least I succeeded. Both Yuri and Uesugi Asuka were sequence players created by me, and they should have died early in the first round of dungeons as ordinary people."

"Tell me, how can I save Yuri?"

"I don't know, maybe I have a chance after defeating that snow dragon."

"...Don't you feel disgusted?"

"From an onlooker's point of view, the chess player did nothing wrong, it's just that you have subjective emotions and it's hard to judge what he has done objectively and rationally." Sistoria explained with a smile on his face.

The principal took a deep breath of cigarettes and said nothing, his suit jacket swaying slowly in the wind.

"Then tell me, what about the other two Icelandic girls who died, were they just guinea pigs you used for your experiments?"

"Three to be exact, the other has no father and no mother, in the orphanage, no one knows she died."

"So, you should explain." An Senlu's voice was hoarse and weak.

"I first came to London in 1888 to experiment with the ability to travel. As you know, I did some wrong things. I should not have killed Jack the Ripper in advance." The principal said, "Anyway, since I committed Wrong, then I need to make up for it, the death of those three girls is the sacrifice I made to prevent the 'Law of Time and Space' from getting out of control."

"Ha... I knew that in a certain sense, you are really an out-and-out bastard. You don't think you have killed enough people? Cousin, crow, those sequence players, they all..."

The principal interrupted him: "That's enough, what else do you want to ask? It's pointless to just vent your emotions, and there's no time left." At this point, the principal glanced at his watch, and they had to leave with more than 30 seconds left here.

"In the past three months, you have been acting with me?" An Senlu's eyes were covered by jet-black strands of hair.

"That's right..." the principal said angrily, "I still have to wear contact lenses, grow a beard, and do some facial adjustments in the hospital. Otherwise, with your kid's observation skills, I might be exposed all at once."

The time is almost approaching zero, and the world around the three of them is falling apart. The roar of that snow dragon is so magnificent, as if it is an epic song that cannot be erased. Every time it lifts up the city, every time it crashes into a building, it seems to be tearing apart human beings. last chance of survival.

Stolia didn't take it seriously, and hummed softly, "London bridge is falling down...falling down...falling down, My fair lady."

The sweet and brisk singing voice mixed with the ferocious dragon chant, which made An Senlu unable to tell which was real, which was illusory, or both were real.

This world... is simply too contradictory.

"After so many years, you still like the song "London Bridge Falling Down" so much." The headmaster sighed and looked away at her.

"After all, the first time I met a chess player was in the dungeon in London." Sistoria put his hands behind his back and smiled slightly, "I heard this song there."

"If I had known you were so annoying, I wouldn't have taught you how to sing."

"Chess player, I'm not so stupid that I can't learn a song."

With the last six seconds left, An Senlu's face became more and more complicated, his hands trembled slightly, and he didn't know if it was his own fault or under the influence of Xue Long, the whole city trembled really badly.

"Answer me..." He stared at the principal, and said almost word by word: "I mean, the bullshit you tell me every day when you come to play chess with me...is it all fake?"

The principal was silent for half a second, then slowly raised his head, staring at An Senlu with deep eyes.

He took off the cigarette in his mouth, and the depths of his cloudy eyes were turbulent. He seemed to have a lot to say, but time didn't allow it, so in the end...he just left a sentence lightly.

"Your boy... has grown taller."

At this moment, the snow dragon swung its tail, and the violent wind passed by, completely submerging the figures of An Senlu, the principal, and Sistoria into the brutal snow-colored deep ocean.

When Ansenlu opened his eyes again, he was still in Noboribetsu Hell Valley in Hokkaido.

The headmaster has disappeared, and the red-tide chess game "Lorenzo" controlled by the computer AI Hu Qiu is still looking at him with a murderous intent.

[According to the effect of the skill "backtracking time" of the chess type "Ansen Deer" - the scene goes back three rounds, and you get the right to draw two chess pieces. 】

When the system notification sounded, Lorenzo disappeared, replaced by the ghost general and Donald Duck who appeared in the first round reappeared.

Hu Qiu didn't have a single chess piece in his hand.

The same is true for Anson Deer, because he returns to the initial round, so of course he doesn't have any pieces in his hand.

However, under the influence of the principal's "backtracking in time" skill, An Senlu was able to draw two more chess pieces than Hu Qiu, and these two chess pieces determined the victory.

"According to the effect of 'backtracking in time', draw two chess pieces from the chess library." Ansen Lu said in a deep voice.

After the words fell, two chess shadows appeared around his shoulders, and the phantoms bloomed with crimson light.

An Senlu didn't even look at it, and ordered directly:
"Arrange two Akashio-level chess pieces, Asuka Uesugi and Yuri."

The next moment, when General Ghost was fighting Donald Duck, a meteorite made of ice suddenly fell from the sky, and it violently smashed down, crushing the bodies of both of them.

bang——

At the same time, the red dragon descending from the sky flapped its awe-inspiring wings and rushed to Hu Qiu's front. It swung down with fiery claws, easily crushing Hu Qiu's head, and spewed out a ferocious mist of blood.

[Congratulations, you defeated the computer AI "Hu Qiu" in the chess game, you have passed the trial of the third-tier old chess player, and you are about to return to reality. 】

The torrential rain in Noboribetsu Hell Valley slapped the boy's cheeks. Ansenlu slowly raised his head, looking at the gray sky with a gloomy expression, and the principal's last words were still echoing in his mind.

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