Global Games: Old Chess Players

Chapter 164 “Since we say goodbye in the summer, let’s meet again in the autumn.”

February 2, morning, corridor between carriages No. 4 and 5.

The sky was clear, and the winter sea breeze, carrying a moist and cool breath, passed through the corridor windows, caressing the cheeks of young girls and lightly moistening their clothes.

Five lazy figures passed through the corridor, two girls in front and three teenagers in the back. Their target was Car No. 3, where the sequence of events occurred.

Ansen Lu put his hands behind his head and said disdainfully: "Crying Baolong, can you remember better next time? Just because of your wrong sentence, we moved all the fish in the aquarium carriage out of the water tank.

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"Isn't there a problem with your quality?" Asuka hugged her elbows and snorted coldly.

"It would be better to say that there is something wrong with my thinking." Yuri also commented sharply. She did not expect that because Asuka told the wrong car where the sequence of events occurred, the three of them went through Car No. 11 (the Aquarium Car).

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"Just say they are mentally ill." Asuka sighed, thinking of the mess in Car No. 11: the fish tank that fell to the ground, and the salmon jumping around on the ground, she felt very complicated.

The most outrageous thing is that in order to trigger a hidden event, the Anson Deer summoned the floating fish in the tank and let it enter the reservoir to interact with those marine animals. The ending... ended with the floating fish in the tank evolving into a shark and eating all the fish in one bite!

"The heads of these three guys are so out of line! Especially Chu Qimo, I originally thought he was the only normal boy in the union." Asuka whispered.

"Everyone is abnormal..." Yuri responded in a low voice, "That's why we are a weird family."

"Okay, even you think so." Asuka held her head against a headache.

Urushihara Ritsu took a sip of coffee and said slowly: "Miss Asuka, this is clearly your problem. If it weren't for your mistake, we wouldn't have confirmed it to that point."

Chu Qimo carried his sword bag and nodded, "At least after you discovered the mistake, you should have contacted us earlier through the friend panel."

"I'm really sorry, the friend panel is disabled in the first part of this dungeon." Asuka curled her lips.

"Okay, everything is over." Qi Yuanlu threw the disposable drink cup into the trash can in the aisle. "The key point is the sequence of events in Car No. 3, which profession among us belongs to."

"Car No. 3 is the library car." Yuri was deeply impressed by this. It would be better to say that she had hyperamnesia and she couldn't forget it even if she wanted to.

"The library carriage, of course, must belong to an old chess player." President Lu was inexplicably confident.

"Lu Jun, I know you are in a hurry, but don't be anxious now. The answer will be revealed later."

"Crow, how long have you been drinking this cup of coffee?"

“It’s not about the quantity of coffee, it’s about drinking it for a long time.”

"Drink a cup of coffee all morning, and let us know if we are sick."

Soon, after passing through Car No. 4, which was decorated with national costumes of various countries, and crossing the corridor with the sea breeze blowing and white flags waving, the five people arrived at Car No. 3.

This carriage is fifty meters long, with an aisle in the middle and rows of bookshelves on both sides. Books from all over the world are gathered here. The classification of the bookshelves is very detailed and complete. It can definitely be called a place for reading.

Good news for lovers.

Even Urushihara Ritsu and Yuri, who read very much, often see unfamiliar works on their bookshelves.

The important thing is that the player's eyes have built-in language translation capabilities, so there is no need to consider the translation issue at all - the game system will use the most advanced and contextually appropriate technology to translate the text in the book, and the effect is perfect.

"So." Ansonlu narrowed his eyes, "Where is the sequence of events you mentioned?"

Asuka Uesugi put her hand on her chin and looked around.

Soon, she walked to the fifth bookshelf on the right, stretched out her white hand, and held the fifth book in the fifth row. It was an autumn-yellow book with the pattern on the cover - dusk, fallen leaves, walking on the road.

Two back views of the path in the forest.

Anson Deer took a closer look and saw that the title of the book was "Snowy Autumn Day".

"It should be this book. After I picked it up, a sequence of events was triggered." Asuka said calmly.

You Rui was looking around, observing the other books in the library carriage. She was not very interested in the sequence of events; Chu Qimo had the sword bag he had just removed on his back. The incident happened in a place like this, and there was probably no need for a fight.

Ansenlu stared at the book in Asuka's hand and raised his eyebrows: "Huh? So what about the sequence of events?"

"you guess?"

"It looks like" Qi Yuanlu shrugged and guessed, "It needs to be opened."

"Yes, you guessed it." Asuka said, "Are you ready?"

"I suggest you stop talking nonsense. Life is limited." Anson Deer yawned.

"oh."

Asuka Uesugi frowned slightly and opened the book "Snowy Autumn" in her hand.

The next moment, the system prompts rang in the ears of the five people in the car. The cold sea breeze suddenly came, blowing their silhouettes greedily and cruelly, and the whole car went cold.

[Event Name: Snowy Autumn Day.]

[Event description: Within three minutes, read the book specified in the event and accurately answer five questions about the contents of the book. 】

[Event requirement: A specific sequence of players is present (player presence is detected, sequence name - Snow Country Walker). 】

[Limited number of participants: two persons]

[Note: During the event challenge, the two players will block outside sounds. Moreover, the other players cannot enter the car and cannot interfere with the challenge in any way]

[Number of times that can be challenged: 0/1 (if you fail, you will not be able to perform the sequence event again)]

"Lu Jun, it seems that both of us made the wrong bet." Seeing this, Qi Yuanlu said calmly, "This sequence of events belongs to the 'Snow Country Walker'."

"However, other people can also participate, they just need Yuri to be present." Ansonlu shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly: "Let's see what the rewards are."

"Snow Country Walker." Asuka Uesugi raised her eyebrows and looked at Yuri, "It means that one of the two players must include Yuri. It doesn't matter who the other one is."

Yuri's face was expressionless, and he seemed to have no disturbance in his mood. He just looked at the event panel quietly.

[Event reward: 10,000 experience points; randomly select a player who participated in the event to obtain the skill - Time is Like Falling Leaves (players receive a certain damage bonus, and damage skills from any channel can take effect. The closer to May, the more

(The skill will disappear at the end of May).】

As the "event reward" was displayed on the panel, the five people were silent for a few seconds, with a thoughtful look on their faces.

This reward can be obtained by anyone, as long as the event is completed.

However, the content of the event is very demanding. To read a book in three minutes, you have to answer five questions correctly. In Ansonlu's knowledge, there are only two people in the union who can complete this event: Crow and You.

Rui.

Urushihara Ritsu has a short-term memory developed through extensive reading and deliberate practice - try your luck, maybe you can read the book in three minutes and answer the five questions correctly.

For Yuri, the nature is different - Ankaches Syndrome has given her a super syndrome, a photographic memory, and it is not a problem to read a book in three minutes.

Ansonlu glanced at the words 'Countdown' on the panel again. The sea breeze ruffled his hair, and the messy and dark strands obscured his eyes.

He opened his mouth slightly and was silent for a moment.

"Sure enough, it's Yuri's incident." He finally said.

"Isn't this nonsense? The sequence names are all listed." Asuka was speechless.

"This skill sounds very powerful, but the World Boss will only come in June. This skill will disappear in May, and it will not be useful at all by then." Chu Qimo commented briefly.

"Sure enough, the book cannot be opened." Asuka Uesugi showed the book "Snowy Autumn" in her hand, "Unless you select people to participate in the event, this book will be like being stuck with glue and cannot be opened at all.

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"If you can't look ahead, there's no such thing as cheating," Chu Qimo said.

Qi Yuanlu looked around at everyone, "So, who will participate in this event?"

Ansonlu raised his eyebrows and said without thinking: "Crow, your short-term memory is comparable to Yuri's. Three minutes is too little. You two can work together."

"If you have to say it, Miss Yuri can do it alone." Qi Yuanlu shrugged and said calmly: "Logically speaking, it is not my turn to perform at all."

"That's true." Asuka put her hands on her hips, "Then it's the same for everyone. Yuri can complete this matter by himself."

"That's right." Chu Qimo nodded, "It doesn't make much sense for anyone to read it, because there is only one book, and it is impossible for two people to read it separately, and the reading efficiency will not be improved; and in terms of memory, no one can compare

Better than Miss Yuri."

"Then, let Miss Yuri decide who will come." Qi Yuanliu said as he took out another bottle of drink from somewhere, which was bottled Nescafe coffee.

The taste is average, but it can satisfy his caffeine addiction.

Yuri heard their words and put down the book he was looking at.

"What?" she asked in an emotionless voice.

"Choose someone to be your teammate." Asuka said.

After Yuri heard this, she was silent for a moment. She turned her cheek and stared at Anson Deer with her clear eyes unblinkingly.

Anson Deer didn't speak, he just put his hands into his pockets and curled his lips.

"As expected." Crow smiled.

"Then let's go outside and wait first." Chu Qimo said, "While the incident is ongoing, other players cannot enter the carriage."

Asuka Uesugi was the first to step out of the carriage. She handed the book "Snowy Autumn" to Yuri and said without looking back:

"come on."

Soon, the three of them walked out of the car.

Anson Deer shrugged and asked, "Why choose me?"

"With you next to me, I can calm down."

"Okay, then I won't disturb you while you read. Try to read as quickly as possible. The system only gives you three minutes."

"good."

Yuri raised his white hand and reached out to touch the event panel; Anson Deer also stretched out his hand and touched the panel, and their hands were very close.

[Number of players: 1/2]

[Number of players: 2/2]

[The players who have been confirmed to participate in the event are - Ansenlu (former chess player), Yuri (Snow Country Walker), the sequence of events has officially begun, and the permission to open "Snowy Autumn" has been unlocked. 】

[Please read within three minutes. Questions will start after three minutes and the book will disappear.]

Ansenlu and Youri were standing against the wall of the carriage. Youri opened the book and lowered his head to read. Ansenlu was staring at the ceiling quietly, occasionally glancing at Youri from the corner of his eye. Her snow-white hair covered her profile.

Can't see her expression clearly.

However, she should be quite serious.

Ansonlu estimated from the thickness of the book - this book has about 200 pages. According to the system requirements, 200 pages can be flipped through in three minutes, which means that more than one page of content needs to be read per second.

Yuri moved her clear eyes, and every time she read a page, she stretched out her white fingers and quickly turned to the next page. Later, she turned the pages faster and faster, turning the pages just after a glance.

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Ansonlu heard her say that she didn't like reading like this. Even if she had a photographic memory, she still hoped that she could be immersed in the process of putting every line of text into her mind, instead of just one page at a time.

Inject undigested knowledge into it.

[Reading countdown: 2 minutes and 33 seconds...]

[Reading countdown: 2 minutes and 20 seconds...]

[Reading countdown: 1 minute and 10 seconds...]

Ansenlu remained silent and did not want to disturb her. The challenge of the sequence event was only once, and it would be gone if he failed. Yuri was very competitive and did not like to lose a game where he could not play again.

[Reading countdown: 55 seconds...]

In a state of high concentration, she didn't say a word, just quietly flipping through the book, while the waves lapped slowly on the train track, and the cries of seagulls filled her ears.

[Reading countdown: 20 seconds...]

At this point, Yuri's reading progress is nearing the end. She has read more than 180 pages, and there are only a dozen pages that she needs to solve.

However, her fingers suddenly stopped. This was on the page near the end. The girl's beautiful eyes were like the aurora in Iceland, silently staring at a line of text.

Ansonlu turned his head and wanted to ask her what happened, but after thinking about it, he decided not to.

Following her gaze, he also saw the line of text - [We have gone through winter, spring, and summer together, but autumn has always been something out of my reach.]

[Reading countdown: 9 seconds...]

[Reading countdown: 8 seconds...]

Time was still passing, and when Ansenlu was about to speak to remind him, Yuri took the lead. She opened her lips slightly and said in an emotionless voice: "It's okay."

Then, she turned to the next page and read the remaining pages very quickly.

At the same time, the countdown has come to an end.

[Reading countdown: 0 seconds...]

[The question-and-answer session will begin next.]

The five questions raised by the system are - 1. When did the boy and girl in the book meet. 2. Where did the boy and girl in the book ski for the first time. 3. In Nice, France, the two looked at each other.

What did the boy say when we were in the Mediterranean? 4. Why did the girl give up her plan to ski in Norway? 5. What was the ending like at the end of the book?

Ansenlu didn't speak or look at Yuri, but just observed her with his peripheral vision - he knew Yuri quite well. If she wasn't sure, she would just put her hand on her chin and start thinking.

Yuri closed the book and hid the book and his hands behind his back.

She lowered her eyes, her snow-white hair swaying gently in the sea breeze, and her answering voice was as soft as a mosquito buzzing in her ears.

"December."

"Hokkaido."

"You can cover my eyes so that I can't see, and maybe I won't be sad."

"Skiing becomes boring because that person is no longer around."

"On an autumn day, in the snowy forest and on the elevated corridor, they held hands and chatted."

She answered the five questions one by one, fluently, but her voice was so low that Ansonlu could hardly hear what she was saying, and she seemed not to want him to hear.

[Sequence Event——Snowy Autumn has been completed.]

[Event evaluation: SSS level (flawless)]

[The two players who participated in the event have obtained 10,000 experience points; in addition, the sequence player "Snow Country Walker" has obtained the time-limited skill-"Time is like falling leaves".]

A few seconds later, Ansonlu shrugged his shoulders and gave a thumbs up to the Icelandic girl next to him: "Perfect, she is worthy of being the super-amnesic girl in our weird family. She really finished reading a book in three minutes!

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Yuri didn't speak. The book she hid behind her slowly disappeared, like falling snow, melting into the palm of her hand. She didn't look at it, but there was a cold touch in her palm, which was fleeting.

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"What's wrong? The book is so beautiful and has endless aftertaste?" Ansonlu asked.

Yuri still didn't speak, just lowered his head. The train passed an island and entered a tunnel. The world suddenly darkened, and all the light was swallowed up by this tunnel.

Only the rumbling sound of driving still rang in my ears.

The dim light on the side wall of the tunnel shrouded the cheeks of the boy and girl. Time seemed to pass very slowly. Anson Deer stood beside her quietly, saying nothing.

As the train approached the end of the tunnel, a beam of light from the sky shone in, seeming to pierce this dead world.

The sea breeze blew the girl's snow-white hair.

Yuri's little face was shrouded in a faint halo.

A line of tears slipped invisibly from the corners of her red eyes. She stretched out her pale hand from behind and gently stroked the tear stains on her cheek. Her expression was a little puzzled, but she was still generally expressionless.

Ansenlu looked at her blankly.

Is this, tears?

Will a person who lacks emotions cry?

During the ten years recorded in that Icelandic document, no matter how depressing her life was, she never shed a single tear from beginning to end.

I never cried once.

"Autumn." Yuri said softly, her clear eyes seemed to be covered by a layer of mist.

"What?" Anson Deer asked blankly.

"I will walk with you through winter and spring, and when summer comes, I will say goodbye to you." She said, "Autumn is something out of reach for me."

Ansenlu was stunned for a long time, somewhat speechless, her throat seemed to be stuck with something, the sudden sea breeze faded away, and the snow-white hair fell down, covering her eyes.

But the Icelandic girl's eyes were still filled with tears, and her snow-white skin was stained by water.

Ansenlu knew what he should say, but his thoughts were really confused, and the Yuri in front of him was very strange - a man who could not feel sadness, but shed tears.

His brown eyes were lowered and his hair was messy in the wind. The two of them were silent in the quiet carriage. No matter how loud the roar of the train was, it could not cover up the silent thoughts.

After a long silence, Anson Deer raised his head and said somewhat incoherently:

"Farewell is actually not something to be afraid of."

Yuri still lowered her head and put her hands behind her back. She stood there like an ice sculpture, her snow-white hair swaying in the wind, gently tickling the tips of her snow-white ears.

"Yuri, since we will say goodbye in the summer, then..." After a pause, Ansonlu took a deep breath and said softly: "Let's meet again in the autumn."

At this moment, the train left the tunnel and entered the sea again. The surging tide slammed into the tunnel violently, the roar of the engine seemed to tear people's eardrums, the bright sunshine burned the sea, and swarms of sea birds flew across the sky.

The ground is sprinkled with white feathers.

Under the snow-white hair, there was a flickering light in the girl's mist-shrouded eyes.

"Okay," she said, "see you again in the autumn."

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