Global Games: Old Chess Players

Chapter 54
7 years ago, Iceland, Dupivogur.

"Teacher, do I draw well?" The girl turned her head, her snow-white hair swaying slightly.

"It is difficult for people who cannot perceive emotions and empathize with others to draw good paintings. No matter excited emotions or depressed emotions, they are all things that can stimulate creativity." The teacher looked at the drawing board and remained silent After a long time he said:
"You have talent, but your pen is not endowed with any emotion, so the height you can reach is limited, and you will stop at one point. Give up, you are not suitable for painting."

"I see," she said.

The teenage girl left school, opened the door of the house, and stared blankly at her mother, who was paralyzed by alcohol and sleeping on the floor.

"I only have you, Yuri, father abandoned us, that bastard."

"I only have you, can you understand me?"

"I'm really in pain."

The mother's face was ferocious, and her eye sockets were deeply sunken. She suddenly grabbed the girl's school uniform by the collar.

"I don't understand."

The girl replied like this.

"Why can't you understand that you are always indifferent, always have this expression, why do you have such indifferent eyes, are you really my daughter?" the mother yelled.

The wine bottle hit the ground and shattered.

"I'm sorry, Mom," said the girl.

"You are a monster without emotion, you were not born by me at all." The mother wailed.

"I'm sorry, Mom, I'm a monster." The girl's eyes were numb.

"Can you do it alone?" Mother asked wearily, "Can you live, Yuri?"

"Alone is fine."

"That's good."

Mother hung the rope from the ceiling.

"I don't understand." The girl opened her mouth slightly.

Mother twisted the rope into a circle and tied it up.

"I don't understand." The girl lowered her head.

The mother puts her neck in the noose.

"I'm not alone." The girl covered her ears.

Mother kicked the chair off from under her feet.

"I'm not alone." The girl lowered her eyes.

The mother's face was flushed, and the horrible veins showed on her neck.

"I'm not alone, I can be alone"

The mother gave up resistance and gradually lost her intuition.

"Understanding, really, is so difficult."

Sirens, loud sirens, annoying sirens.

footsteps.

Rapid footsteps.

The girl opened the door.

The police made a noisy voice: "I'm not dead, but I can still be rescued, hurry up!"

The policeman cast a surprised look at the girl.

"Why did this child...mother hang herself in front of her, and she was expressionless?"

"What a deformity."

"Could it be related to her?"

"No, it's an obvious failed suicide."

"But no matter what, this child is too strange. Why is her hair white?"

2025, April 12.

Early morning, Iceland, Reykjavik, Central Hospital.

[The second round of dungeons will start at noon, and there is still 4 hours of preparation time. All players are requested to prepare before then and purchase the required items in the Evolution Coin Store. 】

The system prompt sounded in the ears of the white-haired girl.

Yuri slowly opened his eyes, and in front of him was the familiar ceiling.

She was having nightmares again, the same nightmares as always.

She brushed her snow-white hair behind her ears, and glanced out of the window with her clear eyes. The sky was shrouded in a ray of pure pink-purple morning light. Looking away, she could see the famous Perlan Tower in Reykjavik.

The appearance of the Perlan is like a transparent crystal ball. This huge sphere is embedded in the center of the Icelandic capital, and it is brightly lit at night.

Yuri recalled a person's face in his mind.

It was also early in the morning, at the ski resort in Hokkaido. The boy walked towards her slowly through the snow and fog. His dark brown eyes made people feel gentle, but mysterious.

"Mom." Yuri lowered his eyes and said softly, "I've made friends."

"Here it is, the stone statue of the queen."

Immediately afterwards, a familiar voice sounded, which even made Yuri wonder if he was hallucinating.

She raised her head in a daze, and looked at the unexpected guest in front of her.

A boy wearing a black hoodie and a hood fell off the back of a noble and elegant stone statue.

"That's too awesome. The window was actually pierced through. The window wasn't broken at all."

The boy patted the dust off his body, as if talking softly to the stone statue:
"I said, no wonder when you used 'Hundred People Slash', I couldn't see the trajectory of your movement at all. It turned out that you really teleported, jumping from the first floor to the third floor of the ward."

Queen of Stone?
Teleport?

Yuri stayed where he was.

With a clear and rational mind like hers, it is inevitable for a moment to think that she has not woken up and saw hallucinations.

The boy in the hoodie said: "By the way, the stone statue of the queen, you should go back to the chess library first, otherwise I will be seen later, and my identity will be exposed."

As his voice fell, the stone statue disappeared in an instant.

In the room, only You Rui and him were left.

"Yo, what a coincidence." The boy in the hoodie raised his frozen right hand, "I just wanted to take a walk, but I didn't expect to meet you."

Familiar dialogue.

Yuri recalled that she also had such a conversation with the person in front of her at the ski resort in Hokkaido, and her brain slowly recovered from the short circuit.

"Walking in Shangshi City, I can get here." You Rui put his hand on his chin and said in a cold voice:

"This is not a walk, it's already a 'sleepwalking'."

She answered the same thing again, same as then.

"It seems to be." The boy said lightly, "Shangshi City and the capital of Iceland are a bit far away."

this person.
What the hell are you talking about.
Yuri stared at the boy's face under the shadow of the hood.

An Senlu slowly lifted his hood, revealing a face flushed from the cold and a pair of dark brown eyes, "I'm here to add you as a friend, and I'll give you a travel pass by the way."

"Travel pass?" Yuri was puzzled.

"Here you are." An Senlu breathed out a white breath, and sent a trading panel to Yuri, "Take it, the ticket to the new world."

Even if there are no friends, players can conduct face-to-face transactions, so he is not in a hurry to add friends.

[Player An Senlu initiates a trading panel to you, the item he asked for: none, and the condition he gave: a travel coupon. 】

Yuri looked at the trading panel, and asked puzzledly, "What?"

"The ticket to the new world that allows you to leave Iceland and those idiots. The simple and warm city of Shangshi welcomes you." An Senlu leaned against the wall, put his hands in his coat pockets, and his voice was distorted with coldness:
"I'm going to Iceland, it's really cold. How can it be colder than Hokkaido?"

Yuri said softly, "I don't understand."

An Senlu scratched his cheek, sighed and said, "Didn't you say that I am your friend? If I am a friend, I will come to play with you. By the way, I will help you get rid of those strange uncles who use you as a tool."

"why?"

"Your mother is dead. The dungeon was done a few days ago. The dungeon took place in New York, USA." An Senlu threw a mobile phone in his pocket to Yuri.

Yuri stretched out her slender white hand to catch the phone.

She looked at the screen of the mobile phone, which was an authoritative death list published globally, and her mother's name was on the list.

"Irena"

Yuri's hands froze in place, and she whispered a string of names, both familiar and unfamiliar.
"I know that your mother sold you to the Icelandic government seven years ago as a research material." Ansen Lu's dark brown eyes stared straight at Yuri, and he said in an extremely calm voice:
"She is an out-and-out scum, so she died and deserved her death. You don't need to stay here because of her and continue to work for those rotten politicians. That's what I know."

thoughts.

It looked like it was about to explode.

mind.

It was so painful it was about to tear apart.

The Icelandic girl lowered her eyes, and her eyes were covered by snow-white strands of hair.

She couldn't even say a word, her eyes as clear as the aurora were extremely dazed at this moment.

"what should I do?"

"In the limited time, live the life you should live." Anson Lu said, "I will form a union in the future, and everyone will be weird, so you won't be just my friend."

"friend."

"Yes, friend." An Senlu said slowly:

"Although there are only me and the crow now, we will slowly find other people in the future, at least staying among us, it's better than you staying paralyzed in the hospital bed all the time."

Under the shroud of morning light, Yuri's emotionless eyes seemed to be bewildered for the first time.

"They'll come to me," she said, "and then you'll be in trouble."

It is impossible for the Icelandic government to let go of the few special sequence players.

Especially her, she knows how much she is valued by the country.

"Well, well, I'm the number one player in the world, now and in the future." An Senlu wiped his neck with his hands, and said nonchalantly:
"They come to one, I dry one, it's not a big problem."

He spoke very lightly, as if he was joking with an old friend, but he seemed serious.

Seeing that Yuri didn't respond, An Senlu coughed and added on his own:
"Well, although my global combat power ranking is only NO.11 now, it doesn't affect my buddy will become the number one sooner or later."

"You're really weird." Yuri said.

"Everyone is weird, including Urushihara Ritsu, who is simply the weirdest of weirdos." An Senlu complained:
"You know, that idiot suddenly made a video call to me the night before yesterday. When I answered the call, I found this guy standing on the bridge railing of the Tokyo Bay Bridge. It was so outrageous that I almost poured water on it."

His voice stopped abruptly, because Yuri's words interrupted him abruptly.

"I'll go with you."

Her voice was clear, without a trace of emotion, but seemed very firm.

An Senlu was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained: "Okay, then use the travel pass to come to Shangshi City, enter the instance in Shangshi, and you will return to my hometown in the future, not the capital of Iceland."

"how about you?"

An Senlu took a deep breath, black lines appeared on his forehead, and said cursingly:

"My travel pass is about to expire, and it will go back automatically in a few minutes. The transmission time limit is 24 hours. I got lost in Reykjavik for a whole fucking 22 hours. It's all because of the map given by that idiot Crow."

Halfway through his speech, his figure had disappeared in place.

The travel coupon can only take one player to the destination for 24 hours, and when the time limit expires, it will automatically return to the original city, so Ansenlu has been expelled back to Shangshi City by the system.

Yuri stayed for a while, she tilted her head slightly, and there was a hint of amusement in her voice:
"Are you an idiot?"

She clicked [Confirm] on the transaction panel that was about to disappear.

[Through the transaction, you have obtained a travel coupon from the player Anson Lu. 】

From outside the ward, there was a sound of hurried footsteps, as if someone had noticed the movement inside.

"Use the travel coupon." The Icelandic girl paused and said tentatively, "Shangshi City."

[Travel coupons have been used to go to the city—Huaxia Kingdom, Shangshi City. 】

　7000 words today

　　Seeking to follow up——

　　
　
(End of this chapter)