Global Games: Old Chess Players

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

January 11, at dusk, Shangshi City, teachers’ dormitory.

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

Ansen Lu suddenly thought of something and said:

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

"What?" Uesugi Asuka said casually.

"The exclusive items sold in the mall are included in each special sequence, right?" Ansonlu looked at her.

"Oh, all they sell are passive skills, the kind that add attributes or regeneration."

"Can you become stronger by stacking attributes without thinking?" Ansenlu blurted out, "It's so convenient. It's a sequence only for fools."

Asuka Uesugi's voice became colder, "Tell me again, who is the idiot?"

"Hey, this sequence of chess players in the old days was too brainless. Even a fool could be the best in the world." After An Senlu finished speaking, he turned to look at Chu Qimo, "Teacher Chu, what do you sell in your mall?"

"A series of data that strengthens the Dark Dome."

Chu Qimo wiped An Qiong with a cloth and said calmly: "Furthermore, my attributes are bound to An Qiong. As its attributes increase, I will also receive certain feedback."

"It's great. This sequence gives you a weapon at the beginning, and you can carry it to the later stage." Anson Deer was envious, "Unlike me, I don't have a weapon or equipment."

Asuka Uesugi looked away and said in confusion:

"We are all chess players. Aren't the chess pieces just your equipment and weapons?"

"It makes sense, but I always feel like something is missing. I feel very insecure." Ansonlu curled his lips.

Qi Yuanlu turned the pages of the book with his slender fingers and said without any waves:

"Lord Lu, you should ask your enemies whether they feel safe when facing your army of chess pieces. It would be too much to complain about these problems."

An Senlu looked at Qi Yuanlu and asked calmly:

"Speaking of which, Crow, what else do you have in your mall?"

"I said, this is a secret." Qi Yuanlu smiled.

"Go away!" Ansonlu looked at Yuri, "What about you, Icelandic girl, what kind of exclusive products do you have in your mall?"

"Skill."

"Skill?"

"I bought it as soon as I saved up." Yuri said calmly, "It's very expensive, about 30,000 evolution coins."

More than 30,000 evolution coins?

That's true. The amount of evolution coins saved in the first three rounds of dungeons is almost the same. No wonder her skills haven't changed much.

"No wonder." Ansonlu said thoughtfully, "I see that your playing style has not changed in the first three rounds of dungeons, and you haven't bought any equipment. I almost thought I was the only one who could buy serial products."

"What kind of equipment do serial players need? Are they only needed by ordinary professions?" Asuka Uesugi held her chin while flipping through the new Shōnen Jump manga weekly, and said in a disdainful voice:

"Moreover, the key point is that all the defensive equipment in the mall are terrible. The best one only adds 200 points of health! It also has a weight-bearing attribute, which is completely useless!"

"200 health points is pretty high, right?" Anson looked at Asuka with disdain, and the expression on his face read - "You penguin, can you please stop showing off your understanding!".

"Please, those serial players in the law enforcement team don't have any equipment." Asuka Uesugi turned her head and said contemptuously:

"Moreover, they still rely on the Evolution Foundation. The Foundation's game understanding is at the forefront. This shows in disguise that for sequence players, the equipment is of no use at all."

Urushihara Ritsu said quietly: "That's not to say, equipment made of rare materials is still useful."

"Huh?" Ansonlu was stunned, "No, you can also build equipment in this game?"

"Lu Jun, if you can't build it, do you think that for ordinary professional players, what is the purpose of collecting materials and simply selling them to exchange for evolution coins? The usage is too monotonous?"

"How to build it?"

Anson Deer summoned the mall panel, but failed to find the option to create equipment.

"The top 1,000 cities in the global rankings will open a forge for making equipment during the holidays, where ordinary players use materials to make equipment," Crow said.

Anson Deer scratched his cheek and said disappointedly:

"Oh, it's one of the top 1,000 cities in the world. I think it's no wonder Shangshi isn't there."

At this moment, he already wanted to say goodbye to Shishi, but as a city where he stayed during the holidays, as long as the principal was still here, Shangshi was the safest place.

If you really want to build equipment, you can use travel coupons to fly to big cities, but you will probably have to wait in line for a long time.

"However." Ritsu Urushihara paused and said, "Indeed, as Ms. Uesugi said, serial players have very low demand for equipment, and only ordinary professional players need equipment to make up for their shortcomings."

"It's a good thing to have more defense equipment." Ansonlu shrugged, "Just think, when we fight against the law enforcement team, every time we either kill the opponent instantly or are killed instantly by the opponent, it would be different if we had defense equipment."

"At least in the early stages of the game, the impact of defensive equipment is not very great. You will still be killed instantly." Chu Qimo finished wiping the dark sky, put the sword into the sword bag, and said slowly:

"Not only that, wearing protective gear will slow down my movements. Things are changing rapidly in battle. What I need more is the explosive speed to deal with dangerous situations, so I gave up the protective gear."

"That's it. Thank you, Teacher Chu."

Anson Deer gave a thumbs up and completely gave up the idea of ​​buying defensive equipment - he had no money anyway.

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

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

After Ansenlu finished speaking, he stared at Asuka Uesugi expressionlessly.

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

Anson Deer turned his head and looked at Yuri silently.

"Trouble." Yuri said, "I'll do it next time."

Ansenlu turned his head and glanced at Qi Yuanlu without any expectation.

"This is also a secret." Qi Yuanlu put his finger in front of his lips.

Ansen turned around and looked at Teacher Chu as if he was dying.

Chu Qimo shouldered his sword bag and introduced slowly:

"After being promoted to the second level, Dark Dome in the three states of 'short sword', 'long sword' and 'giant sword' each has one more skill. In other words, I now have a total of six sequence skills."

"Oh, that sounds awesome!" Ansondeer nodded in confusion.

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

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

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

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

Anson Deer said seriously:

"I hope our hell beacon can have more people like Mr. Chu, you hear me, Chu Rixiang, Chu Yuanlu, Chu Rui, then let's just rename the union 'The Truman Show'!"

".absurd."

".idiot."

".Fool."

Ansonlu narrowed his eyes, "Who likes to stay with you heartless guys? I'd better go and play with Xiaomei."

Asuka Uesugi said angrily: "Don't call Yuliu 'Mei', otherwise you will get slapped by him."

"I'm number one in the world. You can call me whatever you want, for example."

Ansonlu was playing with his mobile phone and said casually: "Cry, Bao, Dragon."

"Huh? Who do you think it is?"

"Farewell."

Ansonlu closed the dormitory door and ran away decisively.

As he walked towards the rooftop, he used the panel to send a message to Iulius.

【Anson Deer: Where are you?】

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

[Anson Deer: Oh, shall I go have a drink with you? 】

[Yulius: Do you still drink? 】

[Anson Deer: I don’t know how to play chess. I know how to play chess. The stone statue of the Queen likes to drink. 】

[Yuliu: You can come over, I sent you the address.]

[Anson Deer: I’ll go over when I’m free.]

Ansonlu turned off the panel and leaned on the railing of the rooftop, looking into the distance with the wind blowing on his cheeks.

"When will this life end?"

He murmured, "Everyone must be bored. After defeating the World Boss in half a year, there won't be another World Boss. So will the evolution game have to last a lifetime?"

The game system has not mentioned whether the evolution game will have its finale after defeating the white dragon that descended on Tokyo in June, or whether it will continue.

A pale crimson glow enveloped the sky, and the setting sun was about to sink below the horizon.

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

"Gaba!"

The extradimensional kangaroo rushes out of the chess field without hesitation.

With quick hands and feet, it quickly pulled out the chimeric mechanical wing from the extra-dimensional pocket, loaded it onto its shoulders, and then shot straight at the falling bird at a terrifying speed.

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

He didn't even ask the kangaroo to come out. It rushed out on its own, and even stepped on some bad luck and pulled out its mechanical wings. Otherwise, he could only watch the bird land dryly.

"Bang!"

The kangaroo equipped with mechanical wings was incredibly fast. Like a blue aurora, it shot towards the little bird and caught its body with both hands.

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

10 seconds time limit.

It's such a cheat, Officer Kangaroo will never pay the technology fee.

At this moment, I saw the kangaroo holding the bird and about to smash it to the ground from high altitude.

Ansenlu looked at this scene and said calmly: "King Protector, recall the extra-dimensional kangaroos."

As the voice fell, the extradimensional kangaroo appeared next to him with a "whoosh". It spread its hands and lowered its eyelids with pity: the little bird was still dying, and its wings were spasming violently.

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

"Catch it."

"Gaba!"

The extradimensional kangaroo took the bottle of spray, nodded very gratefully, and used the spray to treat the bird's injury - its wound recovered quickly and it was able to fly into the sky again.

Officer Kangaroo's serious eyes glowed with the afterglow.

[Interdimensional Kangaroo’s favorability towards you: 45 points → 85 points]

"Kangaroo," Anson Deer turned his head and squinted at the extra-dimensional kangaroo, "I say it one last time, you are not allowed to come out of the chess library without my permission."

"Gaba!"

Officer Kangaroo saluted and disappeared from the spot.

Anson Deer stared at the flying bird. After being lost in thought for a long time, he opened the friend list and clicked into the chat panel with Lorenzo.

[Anson Deer: Pope, do me a favor and treat it like I owe you a favor.]

【Lorenzo:What do you need?】

[Anson Lu: I need you to ask Gu Qiu to help me hack out all the documents about "Ankache Syndrome" in the official Icelandic database. 】

[Lorenzo:.Are you doing it for that Icelandic girl? 】

[Anson Deer: Yes, for her. 】

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

The young man's eyes were wandering, and the setting sun was sinking below the horizon at this moment, taking away the light that was shining on the earth. In the distance, thousands of houses were lit up by dots of firelight, like a brightly lit ship in the dark night.

Twenty minutes later, Anson Deer 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 as before. This document is absolutely not allowed to be released to the outside world. You cannot cause most people to fall into turmoil because of one person. Otherwise, it will be equivalent to you betraying my trust, and our cooperation will end.

Finish.】

[Lorenzo: And there is no next time. 】

After finishing the last sentence, Lorenzo sent a dense document. The rough document had the official seal of Iceland in the upper right corner.

Anson Lu slightly raised the corners of his mouth and moved his fingers.

[Anson Deer: Well, it won’t be announced. 】

After Ansonlu finished typing, he clicked on the document and moved his dark brown eyes to look at the photos on the document.

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

She looked like she was reading in the ward, with her eyelids lowered and her clear eyes focused on the words on the book.

She was watching TV in the ward. On the TV screen was an advertisement for the latest Nintendo game, with characters such as Pokémon, Mario, and Zelda fighting fiercely on the TV.

As she was drinking water in the ward, her snow-white hair fell in front of her eyes, covering her forehead.

Capital dragged her onto the stage. She was wearing a plain white dress and was regarded as a "super-amnesic genius".

The officials dragged her onto the operating table. She was covered in bandages and treated as a "research specimen."

Her eyes were so indifferent from beginning to end, and there was never any other expression on her face.

From the beginning of the document to the end of the document, she spent every day in a similar environment, either in a narrow ward or on various stages, facing the spotlight and camera, with pale cheeks and indifferent expression,

A cold voice.

Day after day, year after year, in the same ward, snow fell countless times. The branches outside the window broke and grew again, and the leaves fell and grew again. The girl grew up slowly in this narrow room, and her snow-white

Her hair was getting longer and longer, hanging down from her shoulders and touching her waist, and the books she read were piling up more and more, filling several bookshelves in the corner of the room.

Then, she met you in Hokkaido.

Just because you casually said "We are friends", she regarded you as her only friend, as if you were an irreplaceable existence.

Extremely ironic.

"Is it so cold at night in Shangshi?"

Ansonlu's eyes were obscured by dark strands of hair. He exhaled a white breath and unconsciously wrapped his scarf tightly with his hands.

From this official document, there are still no clues about a cure for Ankache syndrome.

It's just mentioned in the document that after the first two children with Ankache Syndrome died, their parents kept silent about it.

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

This may be a breakthrough.

The parents of the first two patients seem to have some clues, and one of them is still alive in the dock village of Duppivogur in Iceland.

"Use travel voucher, destination, Dupivogul." Anson Deer said.

At this time, Asuka Uesugi pushed open the iron door, 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.

"Where are the people?"

She put her hands on her hips and looked confused.

Night, East Iceland, Dopivorgur.

This dock village is located in a remote place with few pedestrians and a small population. Tourists traveling to Iceland will not choose such a rare place. However, the scenery is very clean and just walking in it makes people feel comfortable and like a village.

An oil painting.

The ice surface of the village reflects the aurora in the sky. The blue and blue aurora are so beautiful that it is so beautiful that it takes your heart.

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

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

This is a small wooden house with a fresh and unique shape. The architectural style of Dupiwogur 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 boiling milk, and the faint fragrance of milk comes out.

The man's appearance is much more weathered than the photo on the document.

But Anson Deer recognized that this was the person he was looking for.

According to the documents, Khaki was the first patient with Ankache Syndrome, who died nine years ago; the man was Khaki's father, named Jeff, and he was 49 years old.

"Boom"

Ansonlu gently knocked on the door twice.

"Dong dong."

The man put down the pot and walked quickly.

"What's the matter?" Jeff put his hand on the edge of the door, his expression a little strange - at this hour, it was not an ordinary thing for a Chinese to come to visit.

Anson looked into Jeff's eyes and said in a sincere voice:

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

"Bang!"

The sound of the door closing interrupted his words.

Jeff's door closed quickly and hard.

Anson Deer's face twitched slightly, and there was light in his eyes.

He could easily tear this man apart and extract the information he wanted, but he just suppressed his violent mood and took a deep breath of cold air.

He held the door open and whispered:

"Mr. Jeff, I know you feel 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 Ankache Syndrome. I just want to know if I have a chance to save her."

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

"Let me beg you."

The door opened.

Jeff stared at Anson's face in silence, putting his hand on the door, as if gesturing for him to enter the house.

"Thank you." Anson Deer said softly.

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